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Feb. 3 --.Death of JOHN of GAUNT,
k'ive foosired and twenty -nice
years ao, on the tlyd February. Iti9fr,
John of Gaunt, Duke of I nnea:Ler,
died -at the t a of 510. •
Ile was the fourth eon of (Sing
Edward 111 and Queen Philippa, of
Ilaineull, and was horn in the city
of Ghent in the month of March
1240, during hi. father's expedition
to Flanders. Ghent was then spelt
Gaunt, and he thus derived the name
by which he is commonly known, At
the age of ninetee; he married his
cousin Blanche, who was the heir-
ess of Henry, Duke of Lancaster and
through whom he subsequently ac-
quired the rich and important Dueny
of Lancaster, which made him the
most powerful lord in England, but
for years he refrained from taking
any proinulcnt part in the affairs of
the realm.
In 13G6 he joined his celebrated
elder brother, Edward, who is known
in history as the Black Prinee,iu the
war which was being waged on be-
half of Pedro the Cruel, and in the
following year he was in the thick
of the Sight at the Battle of Najera,
which resulted in Pedro being placed
upon the throne of Castile. Three
years later, when King Pedro had
been murdered and the Black Prince
had been compelled to return home
on account of ill -health, Jolm was
placed in command of the British
army fighting in France. He had
then lost his first -wide, and he mar-
ried Pedro's daughter in whose right
he assumed the title of King of Cas-
tile.
Soon afterwards he was recalled
to England, which was in a state of
chaos owing to the dotage of Edward
Ill and the bad health of the Black
Prince, and then became the virtual
ruler of the country. He was all-
powerful, but extremely unpopular,
and it was the hostility of the lead-
ers of the Church which caused him
10 OW protector eel e't ie-
t.ien of Jelin Wycliffe, liffe, tl'u reformer,
in who h capacity he rendered u
r:rent ,review to the (11.11:W of the l• -
formation in Evland at. its ineee
ion.
When Richard II, who w•a hi:;
arphety and the son of the Black
Print!, succeeded to ths English
throne on the death of Edward 111,
the ,youthful sovereign was loyally
supported by John of Gaunt, but his
lack of success in handling military
campaigns in Scotland and in France
increased his unpopularity and led
to quarrels with the King, who, to
got riff of him, supplied him with an
army in 1386 to make an attempt to
secure the throne of Castile. The
campaign proved a failure, and nn -
ally John abandoned his claim anil
married one of his daughters to his
successful rival, henry Prince of the
'Asturias.
On his return to Eng1nnd John e. -
gain figured in the affairs
of the State, and he was mainly re-
sponsible for securing peace at home
and effecting a trace with France.
He was given the :bikedom of Aqui-
taine, ono of England's possessions in
France, and he spent a few years
there, but his government proved a
complete failure, and when he re-
turned to England in 1396 he re-
tired into private life. It was then
that he. married his third wife, Cath-
erine Swynford, who had been his
mistress for several years, and whose
sister was the wife of Goffrey Chau-
cer. It was this close relationship
which secured for the father of Eng-
lish poetry the friendship and power-
ful patronage of John of Gaunt, a
circumstance which rendered inval-
uable service to the establishment of
English literature,
The Duke was buried in Old St.
Paul's Cathedral, where all traces of
his tomb and monument were des-
troyed in the Great Fire of London
in 1666.
THOMAS R. SOMERVILLE James Spindler, Duluth, Minn.; and
Mrs. William Mathews, of Camila.
DIES, AGED 93 YEARS The remains will be forwarded to
Lucknow for burial, leaving by C.N.
IR. here tomorrow morning with in-
terment in the afternoon in Lucknow
Cemetery.
Cargill's "Grand Old Man" Pioneer
of Huron County.
Cargill, Jan. 29 -Thomas 13. Som-
erville, Cargill's "grand old man,"
died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. W. A. Mathews, here on Friday
night at the ago of 93 years and
three months. Death was due to a
paralytic stroke.
Thomas Bennet Somerville was
born in Dumfermine, Scotland, and
came with his parents to Canada in
1841, the :family settling first at Dun-
das, Ont. Ten years later they re-
moved to St. Helen's near Goderich.
The deceased and his brother
James erected the first sawmill and
gristmill in the County of Huron. He
came to Cargill in 1907 In 1863 be
was married to Jean Mitchelson, of
Shipton, Quebec, who predeceased
]tine 43 years ago. Ile was the last
surviving member of a family of 10.
A brother, the late James Somerville,
represented West Bruce in the Fed-
eral House for many years.
In religion he was a Baptist and in
politics a Liberal of the old school,
who supported his party with un-
swerving loyalty up to the end, Mr.
Somerville, with faculties unimpaired
dospito his advanced age, was able
to discuss political questions of the
day, as well as questions of national
importance, without the slightest di-
fficulty up to a -short time ago.
He is survived by two sons and
seven daughters, Robert Somerville,
Kamloops, -B. C.; Horace, Andlang,
Alta.; Miss Mary Somerville, Roch-
ester, N. Y.; Miss. Belle, Toronto;
Nies. William Moody, Elora; Mrs.
Thomas Halliday, Hamilton; Mrs.
Harvey Anderson, London; Mrs,
Cocks putt
Frost & Wood
FARM
IMPLEMENTS
and a full line of Repairs
will be carried at the
POPE Ma.chihe
Shop
Agent Brussels
MISS CLARA FERGUSON
DIES IN NURSING HOME
Clinton Girl Had Distinguished War
Record Before Entering Christie
Hosiptal at Toronto.
(Monday's Toronto Globe)
A young woman who was- held in
the highest esteem by all members
of the nursing profession and a large
circle of friends has been removed
by the death of Miss Clara Ferguson,
who passed away on Saturday at tate
Sister's Nursing Horne, Christie St.
Hospital, where she was employee.
A native of Clinton, Ont., Miss
Ferguson, who was in the prime of
life, had a distinguished war record
A member of the Queen Alexanara
Imperial Nursing Service, she served
in France from 1016 until the end
of tho war. Her services brought
recognition in the form of the Mons
j Star, the General Service Medal and
the Victory Medal, while she also
; possessed the Queen Alexandra Rib-
bon and Badge. Before becoming
attached to the stuff of Christie St.
!Hospital last August Miss Ferguson
was identified with the Stratford
Hospital and - the Toronto General
Hespital. This- is the first death a-
mot>g' the nurses at Christie Street
Hospital l during the last six years.
A claughtcr of the late Mr. and
MN. Janes Ferguson, of Clinton, nu -
ceased is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. William Carter and Mrs, James
Cardwell, both of Clinton, and a cou-
sin, 0. W. Rhymas, of Burlington.
The funeral took place at Clinton on
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock fol-
lowing a service at the Presbyterian
church.
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NO GAELIC STUDENT
AT QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY
Kingston, Jan: 23 -Queen's is
hunting in vain for a Gaelic -speaking
student. Even with a $40 prize of-
fered by the into M. C. Cameron, M.
P., of Godoricb, as an incentive, it
has been impossible to find anyone
'mepa'ed to tackle 800 lines of the
good. old Scottish text in Gaelic.
'carts, and for the third year in sac-
tossion the prise gods unewarded.
THE BRUSSELS POST
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Parties
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dais+lin Io r711)iUfi,'+e , .::15411 11,i2';, in t;'itC$('l ;
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earl gall front a;SI,,I iu :ti?:;c 11 In their (.es,
!gime, serving of rn als optional. i''or partir'-
ulars write new to 'Tourist Service, 21 G'Vvatt
St., London, Ont.
Why Canadians Should
Burn Canadian Coal
(This is the second of a special
series of three articles on "Why
Canadians Should Uurn Canadian
Coal?' Iligh School students in all
paints of the Province are now study-
ing the question in order to enter in
the Produced -in -Canada Committee's
Essay contest The material in these
three articles will be of very great
value to local students writing on
the sul'eet i.
Fifty-two million dollars is the
bill which we, in Ontario, pay every
year for the coal we buy from the
United States to heat our homes.
This includes the cost of the coal
and the freight charges to bring it
up here.
This huge sum of money goes out
of Canada every year ana very little
of it ever cones back.
If it were possible for Ontario to
substitute our own Alberta domestic
fuel for that which we now buy from
our neighbors, all this money would,
of course, stay in Canada.
Undoubtedly, it would have a
very important effect on the coun-
try's prosperity. The money which
goes to pay for a ton of coal is
split up in a dozen different ways.
Part of it would go to the dealer
who sold it and he int turn would
divide up his share for wages and
similar items. Part of it would go
to the railroads to pay the freight
charges on bringing it from the
)nines, This, too, would be divided
up in a great many ways and a large
part of this share would be used to
pay railroad men's wages along the
entire line over which the coal was
hauled. Finally, part of it would go
to the mines in Alberta from which
it was originally bought.
So that the money which Ontario
people used to buy Canadian coal
hvotild be spread out all over
the Dominion in a very short time.
It would be kept in circulation and
add an important suns to the amount
of money in general circulation.
There is another very important
thing to consider just at this point.
The people of the west buy a great
deal of their manufactured goods
from Ontario and the east. If they
had more money, they would buy
more goods. And if Ontario bought
western coal, they would have more
money in the west to buy Ontario
goods.
When we pay $52,000,000 a year
as a result of our coal bills, it means
much more than simply sending that
huge ruin of money to a neighboring;
country. If that money had stayed
in Canada, it would be in general
circulation,
MONEY CIRCULATES
Economists have figured that, on
rule average, a dollar changes hands
ten times in a year. You spend it
incl the man to whom you paid it,
spends it again. It goes to some one
else, and he spends it. Here is an -
nether endless chain, as a matter 05
fact.
So that if that $52,000,000 which
" we spend every year on coal and
freight, had stayed in Canada, it
would he spent ten times during a
year. In other words, a total amount
of money which circulated in Canada
during the year would be $52,000,-
000 more than it would have been
if we had imported our fuel,
There are only approximately nine
and a half million person in Gamma.
By simple arithmetic, we see that
every man, woman and child in Can-
ada spends, on the average, about
$54.62 less in a year than he or she
would have spent if Ontario bought
and burned Canadian coal.
There is another very interesting
way to look at it. Supposo that On-
tario bought one million tons of coal
`from Alberta in a year. If we also
suppose that he average cost is ten
doliars a ton, this 'Means ten million
dollar, s.
That is ten (million dptlars of now
•
business in Canada. That would
means $1500 a year jobs for 0006
more men in this country.
Let us save what would ;happen to
the money these then would earn,
Suppose that the economists are ex-
aggerating when they say that a
dollar would turn over ten times in a
year -and it is most unlikely, that
they are over -rating it. But let ns
be very conservative and say that
it only changes hands three times.
Then as a result of these 6600
new jobs, there would be twice that
many more men needed in Canadian
industries and in agriculture to sup-
ply the things this first group would
need That is, one million tons of
coal would mean 19,998 new jobs.
But a million tons of domestic
coal is only a quarter of the amount
Central Canada uses every year. So
that if we bought our entire supply
at home, it would mean jobs for al-
most 80,000 then.
Statisticians tell its that the av-
erage family in Canada is four per-
sons. That would mean, as far as
this discussion is concerned, that
every one of these new jobs would
stand for a new family or rour peo-
ple.
In other words, if we bought our
coal in Canada, we would be build-
ing a city of 320,000 people in this
country. If all the results were
confined to one spot, that is exactly
what it would mean.
But as long as we are buying our
coal outside Canada, on the other
hand, we are building up this city
somewhere else and taking the money
away from our own development.
LISTOWEL CHILD
DROWNED IN RIVER
Four -Year -Old Son of Mr. and Mrs.
O. Walker the Victim - Playing,
Goes Through Ice -Body Recover-
ed Soon After the Accident.
Listowel, Jan, 26 -William, the
four year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ormey Walker, lost his life in the
river here about 11 oclock this morn-
ing.
William was playing along the
river with other children when he
fell into the icy water. His play-
mates ran to alarm his parents and
the mother of the boy appealed to
Henry Opfer, who was in the neigh-
borhood on his rounds delivering
milk, Mr. Opfer ran to the river
sand waded into. the cold water,
searching amid broken ice for the
child. At first his search was un-
avaiding, but following the stream
down some way to where there had
been firmer ice he found the body
under another lot of floating pieces. •
Carrying the body, Mr. Opfer tan
to the boiler room of the P. K. Mills
where doctors were soon at work en-
deavoring to revive the little victim.
Although the medical hien worked
over the child for about two hours
their efforts were unsuccessful.
The section of the river at the
• point were the drowning occurred
!does not readily freest, over because
of water constantly running into the
strearn from the P. K. Mills. It is
supposed that the Walker boy got
to the centre of the river where the
rice wa shin and broke through into
the water.
BRUCE COUNTY.
Kincardine Citizens' Rand is rais-
ing funds to purchase now suits.
George Wilson, son of Mrs. Thos.
Wilson, formerly of Ripley, and a
brother of Mrs, James Farrell of
Con. 6, Heron Township passed a-
way at Breeden Hospitals, on Man -
day, Jhuh, 2. The deceased who is
survived by his wife, was born in
Huron township and lived here prior
to go'itsg West, Re was a successful
farmer at 'Oarndutf
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For good, sound Basswood
Bolts, cut 21 inches long,
will pay $4 per cord al mill.
John McDonald
Phoni 5913 WALTON
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Here axed T
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Another barerneter of the stat.•
of 9,'cstorn Canada's agrultur:I
progress is the stale of sehes1 !c•. e
in the Prairie Provinces ,vI el 111
1927 were the best on r cord. In
ell 480,408 acres wort• disposed of
for a total of $8,980,901, represent-
ing an average of $18.70 per acre.
The lowest price ola tine,l vies $7
nee acre and the highest $79.
Appointment was announced re-
cently of R. F. Angus to be assistant
superintendent of the C.P.R. Mont-
real Terminals. Mr. Angus, who
joined the Canadian Pacific Railway
as a clerk in 1919, is the grandson
of R. B. Angus, one of the creators
of the •system, and nephew of Sir
Vincent Meredith, chairman of the
Bank of Montreal.
Ten -year-old John Wyllie Bar-
bour travelled recently alone from
his aunt in Los Angeles to his
father in Glasgow, a distance of
about seven thousand miles, in care
of C.P.R. train and boat officials
from Chicago on. john thought aha
climate here was little different to
California and wore no overcoat or
had left it packed in his trunk, but
he changed his mind at Montreal
where he struck sub -zero weather.
He arrived safe and sound, and will
come back in the spring. g
A paradise for the outside camper
will be ready next summer when the
government finishes the new camp
ground in the Rocky Mountains
Park within half a mile of Banff, on
Tunnel Mountain. The camp, which
on its old site last July accommodated
11,553 persons, is specially popular
among prairie farmers between
seeding time and harvest. Charge is
only a dollar for a party for three
weeks, and running water, garbage
removal, dinner shelters, electric
light and even pay telephones are
provided for campers.
Around ten thousand snowehoers
and their friends will visit Montreal
on the occasion of the 20th anni-
versary of the founding of the
Canadian Snowshoers' Association to
be held in Montreal February 8-6.
The convention is international in
scope since it takes in the American
Snowshoers' Association with over
1,500 members in the states of New
Hampshire and Massachusetts, while
there are also representatives from,
the Manitoba Snowshoers' Associa-
tion and local bodies from all over
the province of Quebec.
Making his second visit to Can-
ada in 44 years, Seymour Hicks,
noted British actor, with his wife,
the equally well-known English
stage favorite, Ellaline Terriss, and
their daughter Betty, with a com-
pany of 26, arrived at Halifax this
month, played a week there and
three days at Saint John as the
opening phase of a four months'
tour that will embrace the whole
Dominion to Victoria and back. Mr.
}Belts travelled C.P.R. and will eon-
cluda his tour May 5.
The increased buying power of the
Canadian people and the surplus
funds in their possession for invest -
i nt in the last few years is ac-
counted for by the increased pro.
dilution of the Dominion, substantial
increments having been recorded
since 1923 and a new record made,
ac.•-,rding to estimates, in 1927. The
value of gross production in Canada
in 19211 was 84,9.61000,000; in 1924
it was $5,293,000,000; in 1925 $5,-
590,000,000 in 1920 $5,656,241,624
anal in 1927, according to the esti.
mate of the "Financial Post," $5,-
'M1,700,700. Production in 1927 ex -
c t'cler1 that of 1926 by approximate-
ly
$190,000,090aandth
li rht ai S9l3 by
3800,000 ,000.0" Agriculture accounted
lo-• 81,6d0.387,100: forestry $4149,-
401(110;fishing 819,291,000; trap -
1» 1 I(,5S,11U(); tni1111151 82(12,7110,-
000; el ctric power $103,19ii,000;
construction 8398.300,000, and menu-
fac,.uie•s ti,2,160,700,000.
PERTH COUNTY
Alexander Elliott, a highly respect
ed resident of Mitchell died 0100 a1
illness of a few days front pneumon-
ia, at the age of 80 years. Mr. 1;il:ott
was born in the Township of Logan
and 40 years ago retired from :farm-
ing and carne to Mitchell to live. In
religion he was an Anglican and in
politics a Conservative.
A loss of several thousand dollars
was caused by a fire that desroyod
en old ;rouse used as a garage by
Mrs. J. Gould, florist and gardener
at St. Marys. The origin of the
blaze is unknown, but it is thought
to have started by a shalt eircu,t.
The fire brigade had two streams of
water working soon after tihe alarm
but the high wind made it impossible
to save the building, which contained
a teeter truck and solve other equip"
merit.
The Bank of Nova Scotia. Drafts
Promptly issued ---payable anywhere
charges moderate.
Do you occasionally wish to send money
out of town ? Step into any Branch of this
Bank and secure a Draft for the Amount -
as conveniently and with no more delay or
„tom j I formality than in buying an article in a store.
The Bank of Nova Scotia Drafts are pay-
able at par at any banking point in Canada,
and the scale of charges is very moderate.
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ESTABLISHED 1832
Capital $10,000,000 Reserve $19,500,000
Resources $245,000,000
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!ORANGE SECRETARY
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DETAINED BY POLICE
3
Leonard •Rowe Charged With Theft
of Grand Lodge Funds,
Done at
S. Holt Lot 1, Co ,13, Grey
Also at Henfryn Station
J ,-i s. Stevenson
Phone 4.2 -it
MAKE HIGHWAY PROVINCIAL.
Guelph, Jan. 25 -If a recommen-
dation embodied in Warden R. J.
Holtom's inaugural address, present-
ed at the session of the County
Council, is carried into effect, Wel-
lington will petition the Govern-
ment for the designation of the Elora
Road, from Maiden to Teviotdale, as
a Provincial highway. The ne-
Warden also recommends that ad-
ditional mileage of payment be con-
structed this year in various parts of
the county, in a general effort to im-
prove the roads.
A sensational culmination of some
days of probing into the accounts of
; the Orange Grand Lodge came with
I the arrest last Friday night of the
Secretary of the lodge, Leonard
Rowe, of Toronto, on a charge of
theft of some $15,000 of the lodge's
, funds. Rowe was taken from his bed
at 817 Beech Avenue, and locked
up He was detained over night
pending the securing of bail in
$25,000. The thefts are alleged to
have been extended over a period of
seven years, commencing in 1921.
!The officials of the lodge and the
authorities have been active for some
time in connection with suspected
shortages in the funds. About mid-
night it was decided to take immedi-
i ate action. Detectives Nursey and
McConnell proceeded to Rowe's Home
and took him from his bed to the
station. He is a married man of 41
years, with a 2 -year-old child.
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
OF THE
russels, Morris Grey
Telephone System
FOR THE YEAR 1927
RECEIPTS
Balance f^out 1926 $
Village of Brussels
Township of Grey
Township of Morris
Township of E. Wawastosh
Township of McKillop .. .
Township of ilullett
Telephone Rentals
Extension Telephones
Extension Dells
Tolls collected
Receipts, pay stations .
Moving Telephones
Sale, posts, wire, old cable
1139.66
2262.00
6185.00
3536.0.0
26.00
203.00
13.00
855.15
44.25
3.00
2314.10
130.40
7.75
120.50
Total Receipts $16844.31
ASSETS
Cash on hand ......$ 1411.73
Stock on hand .. 4354.36
Unpaid rents and tolls . . 2490.36
Value of System 92280.00
$100536.45
EXPENDITURES
Maintenance -
Batteries, wire, supplies.. $ 1528.79
Freight and cartage 27.54
Labor 899.00
Lineman's salary 1200.00
Operators' salaries 2699.62
Secretary and Treasurer 770.00
Commissioners' fees, &e 132.00
Clerk: rind Collectors liltini24.00
Auditors' fees 20.00
Dell. Cel. Co. long dist. tolls 1830.43
lnsuhauee and Taxes 89.90
Interest 286,48
Debentures and Coupons2315.05
Gasoline, oil, truek repairs 143.28
Livery hire 112.00
Hy.lro, power and light 60.33
McKillop Tel. Sys. tolls 61.96
Exp, postage, etaLion'y etc 115.75
Miscellaneous 75:89
Total Expenditure 1llaint.. $1189.1.92
Construction --
Cable, poles, wire, supplies$ 2842.20
Freight and cartage 118.23
Labor 348.70 •
Wages and exp, cable men 233.53
Total Expend. Construct..$ 3540.66
Totrl Expenditure .$16432.58
Balance on hand , ..$ 1411:73
LIABILITIES
Debentures $11460,38
Bal. Assets over liabilities 89076.07
$100536.45
G. II. Semis A. H. MacDonald, M. Black)
Treasurer, Secretary N.F.Gerry) Auditors
ANNUAL METING
The Annual Meeting will be hold in the Town Hall Brussels, on
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 14th. 1928, at 1.30 p. In., when reports will
be presented, Directors elected and other necessary business transacted.
A. %I, 16ItteDONALl , Secretary.