The Brussels Post, 1916-7-20, Page 1VOL, 45 NO, 3
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, THURSD4 Y, , U.LY 20, 1g16 W. 11. A'ERR, Proprietor
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Moncrieff
Mies Ina JFioliay passed the High
School Entrance examination, We
wish lien continued success.
Mise Miter Peet, of Hamilton, is re-
newing old friendships at Moncrieff.
We are always glad to see Mina.
The Girls' Patriotic Association
here sent 810.00 to the Hospital unit.
They are to be eompliutenLed on
their zeal,
Jas. 0, and Joseph McKay and their
better halves motored to. Sarnia on
Jaly8th, retni ping ou tire Oth. It is
a flue trip.
i.eadbury
Haying and raspberry picking is the
order of the day,
Quite•a 'lumber from around here
epenbJulyl2th at Olinton and Palm-
erston..
Bethel Methodist church people are
having splend weather for their out-
door services.
Mrs. Harriett M. Waters; Detroit,
is spending a few months holidays
with her sister, Mrs. .Ioha McGavin.
Mies Jennie Oliver, Grey, visited
her friend, Mise Jennie McGavin and
while there• they together epee t a very
pleasant holiday at, Bayfield, Goderich
and other pointe,
Molesworth
Nellie Brown, Jean McDonald and
Annie Spence passed the Entrance
Examination. They wrote at Brus-
sels. The former Look Honors.
A Red Cease Garden Patty, under
the auspices of the Women's Institute
will be held on the School Grounds,
Molesworth, Friday evening of next
week, 28th Inst, Tea served from 6 to
8 o'clock. Interesting program in
which Ethel Decimetre and vocal
talent ft= Listowel, Trowbridge,.
Got rie, Jamestown, Oranbrook, Ethel
and Molesworth will take part. A
Foot Ball match will be played frau
7 to 8 o'clock•, A good time is as-
sured, so be sure and attend,
Seaforth
A Grand Fair of the Allies Nations
in aid of the 161st Battalion, will be
held in Victoria Pack, Seaforth, Wed-
nesday, August 2nd. Mayor Stewart
has proclaimed Civic Holiday for the
day and the 0ontmittees have arrang-
ed a splendid program of Sports, Base
Ball matches, Dancing, big Oalithnm-
pian Procession, Banda, floats, drill.
corps, school children, societies„ fun-
niest of clowns and deacons. Hand-
some prizes will be awarded. Victoria
Palk will be a veritable Midway with
the booths of the Allies. One grand
blaze t,f light. Biggest spectacular
event of the year, Dennerstration of
five proLrcllun and water fight by the
Seamen Five Departirreut, Garden
Party and Baud Concert, drills and
dancing itt the evening. Surae big
day. Scan a bill for further ptirtieu-
Jars and additional attractions,.
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Belmore
Mrs. G. 13rantner left on Tuesday
for the Weat.
• Mise Lillian Irwin is spending this
week at Sauble Beach,
D. J, and Mee, Weir, Teeawater,
visited friends here on Monday.
Mrs, A. Stewart left for an extend-
ed trip to the West on Tuesday.
Miss MViyrtle Galloway was at Tor-
onto and Niagara Falls last week,
W. H. and Mrs. Irwin teetered to
Wiegham'Sunday to hear the Orange
sermon.
Sacrament will be observed in the
Methodist church hone on Sunday at
11 a. tn.
Misses Blanche and Olive Hall,
Teeewater, are visiting their grand-
parents, Joseph and Mrs. Hall.
Mee. M. Harkness and daughter,
Nellie, have moved into their new
house here. We welcome them to the
burg.
The Women's Institute will hold
their annual monthly meeting at the
home of Mrs, John Duffy on Satur-
cordiaily, invitedAtolattend embers are
Jamestown
Jas, and Mrs. Wright, Ethel, Sun-
dayed at the home of the latter's
parents, Jno. and Mrs, McLennan,
let Con. Grey.
James and Dies. Jackson returned
to their home, Mitchell, Monday
morning after spending a few pleasant
days at the home of their daughter,
Dirs. J. J. McOutcheon, 2nd Con.
Grey.
Regular monthly meeting of the
Women's Institute and Red Cross
Circle is to be held at the home of
Mrs. Peter Scott, Turn berry, on Thurs-
day, July 27th, at 2,30 o'olnck.
All those who have work finished
or unfinished as well are requested to
bring or send the same to the meeting.
More work will be given out to those
desirous of helping in the interests of
Red Cross. Lunch will be served by
Mrs. P. Scott assisted by Mrs, J. D.
Miller, usual fee of 10c. being asked
to help on the work of the Circle.
The ladles of Jamestown Women's
Institute and Red Chases Ci vele held a
Circle Tea at the (toms of Mrs. Geo.
Eckmier, Thursday Meet noon, July
1301, when a very enjoyable and pro.
fitable time was spent. 24 ladies were
present and spent their time in knit-
ting socks and hemming towels and
wash rags for the soldiers, 43 towels
and 12 wash rags in all being hemmed.
Lunch was served by Mrs. D. Mc.
Donald and Mrs. Eckmier and was
much enjoyed by all. A short pro.
gram followed and the ladies departed
to their homes well pleased with the
afternoon's work and social time.
SOUOOL REPORT.—Following is the
result of the weekly exacts. of the
pupils of S. S. No. 4, Gray, during the
past term : Jr.IV—EvaBalfour, Al
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plumes King. Sr, AEI—Willie Balfour,
Fred, McOutcheoti, Margaret Mc -
Ewan, Richard Jacklin, Evelyn Holt,
Edna Hamilton. Jr. III—Gertrude
Pay*, Sr. II -Fred. Sieling, Sibyl
King, Cecil Payn, Pearl Jacklin, Ben,
Hayden, Andrew Jacklin, Lily Jack -
lin, Tilde Bellingal, Jr, II—Katie
Jacklin, Mary Breckenridge, Edil.h
Jacklin. Sr, I—Peter Bnllingal; Roxie
Sieling, Clifford Jacklin. Jr. I --Ruth
McAllister, Maggie Hayden, Mary
Baliitigal, Clifford McAllister, Willie
Parks, Perfect in Arithmetic—Eva
Balfour, Evelyn Holt. Perfect in
Spelling—Eva Balfour.
JUAN E. OLOTTON, Teacher.
hue been living in Dungannon,: from
which place Lhe body wits brought for
burial, Mr. Young supplied the
Methodist churches on Walton circuit
for a couple of years and did excellent
work. Many here will 'Sympathise
with Mrs, Young in her bereave-
ment.
The memorial service last Sunday
morning in Duff's ehurch, for Sergt.
Richard Ouniiinghain, formerly of
this locality, who died in Flanders,
fighting for the Empire, on June 6111,'
1916. at the early age of 20 years, 5
niotrthe and 4dtiys, was a very solemn
and long to be remembered ems, Rev.
Mr, Lundy gave a most impressive
address in which the admirable
qualities of deceased were not lost
sight of. Jiro, McArthur sang an ap-
proptiate solo. Serge. Cunningham
belonged to the 18th Batt, and won
the distinguished conduct medal for
bravery in the trenches, Col, Wigle
under whom deceased served, said :—
"Sergeant Ounniugham is a
splendid soldier." His coolness
ander heavy bombardment and
in leading parties into "No
Man's Land" to erect wive entangle-
ments caused Col. Wigle to recoin-
mend him for the medal, which is
second in valve to the Victoria Cross,
The naines of Sergt. Cunningham and
Cleve McDonald, who laid down their
lives for Freedom's cause, will long be
cherisbed by the people of this com-
munity.
Grey
Ai les Maggie Richardson is home on
a visit from Brussels. -
Hay is a flne crop in most parts of
this township,
Miss Gladys MacQnarrie was the
guest of Mrs. H. A. Sabine at their
SOmtne' haute, Springbank,
Alvin Sabine, who has been holiday-
ing at the home of Mrs. E. MacQuar-
rie, has returned to London,
After August 1st Dr. T. T. McRae's
office will be found at his residence,
lately occupied by Dr. W. L. Holmes,
Brussels. Night calls answered now
at residence,
lilies Jennie Rands has accepted a
position nn the staff of Perth Ave.
School, Toronto, and will commence
work after the Summer vacation.
She is a fine teacher and has met with
splendid success.
Many old friends of Duncan and
Mrs. Taylor in this township were
very sorry to hear of het devise last
Monday at her home in Brussels.
She had a wide circle of acquaintances
who wilt sympathise with the be-
reaved. •
Last week the frame of Chas.
Knight's hank barn, 9th Con., was
raised and it is now sided in. It will
put the proprietor in good shape to
ewe for bath hay, grain and stock.
We hope it may often be filled to the
peak of the roof.
Richard Lees, M. A., of Peterboro,
was visiting his cousins, Archie and
Miss Hislop and other relatives and
friends in this locality last week. He
was a Pointer resident years ago but
has followed teaching for a number of
years and made a great success in bis
profession, Mr. Lees and family
usually put in the Summer vacation
at Olornn, Ont.
Wm. McCartney, a Fortner resident
of this township, writing THE PosT
Ott July Mit says :—We are having
very warm weather since the last
days of June and grain is coning
along fast. Wheat is starting to head
cat. P tspeats ca pretty good for
crops where land has been properly
prepared. Mr. McCartney's farm Is
near Milestone, Sask. He paid his
subscription to TEE POST up to.
Ootober 1010
Monday morning of this week
David Dickson .died at the Immo of
Mrs. Elias Dickson, Lot 12, Con. 11,
dropping dead in the yards while at-
tending to the cows. He was as well
as usual and was in his 82nd year,
Deceased had lived with his sister-in-
law for malty years and was an in-
dustrious than. Three sisters sur-
vive :-1111.8. Handsome, in the II. 8,
Mrs. Dickson, Niagara Falls : and
miss Knape. The funeral took place
Wednesday afternoon, interment be-
ing made at Brussels Cemetery. Rev.
J. L. McCulloch, Ort»nbrook, conduct-
ed the service.
Walton
Rev. and Mrs. Lundy left this week
for Streetsvi)le and other points where
they will spend a well earned holiday.
Corp. Bert. Dennison is now in the
Kitchener Hospital, Brighton, Eng
land, where he is making favorable
pl ogress.
Jas. Humphries, of Herbert, Sask.,
was here this week on a short visit to
the olcl home. He WAS East ou a busi-
ness trip.
. There was no service in the Metho-
dist church here last Sabbath but the
regular preaching service will be held
next Sunday
Alderson, wife and fnmily.
who recently was promoted as 0. P.
R section foreman, to Flati horn, vin
Hamilton, spent their vacation with
the latter's parents in W'Valtot.
On acrnnnt of Settforth Fall Fair
being set for the sante date as the
Walton and Divtnnc
t School Fair the
ed nrs
latter hoe been changed to sed
l nV
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day, Sept.20th All ii,tet'asted should
make note of the change.
For the next two Sabbaths the ser-
vices itt Duff's rlunrh will he in charge
of Rev. Mr, Balluttyne, London, a fOr-
rner pastor. The renethting Sundays
of the pastor's vacation Rev. Mr. Mc-
lean, of Whitby, will occupy the mil.
pib.
Capt. A, Watt, of New York, spent
a week at the home of Robb. Conus,
McKillop. He is taking a cargo of
coal oil back to Slutttgluti, 'China.
The visitor is it cousin of 1\h', Cnutte,
and lea most interesting gentleman
to meet.
BURIED. AT CLINTON.—At the Clin-
ton Cemetery ;Tuesday Santee Young
was buried. Me. Young was born in
Goderich Township and for a number
of years conducted the bttsinees of
shoemaking in Clinton andafter-
Wattle at Lncknnw. Some twelve
years ago when there was a scarcity
of ministers in London Conference he
left his, business and took up the
Work of the ministry and was quite
successful and during the last year he
North Perth Eye election
REEVE J. A, MAKINS
Defeated Conservative Candidate, a
well known and respected North
Easthope farmer.
F. W. HAY, M. P. 1'.
LISTO W EL
Elected by a majority of 667.
Morris
Mrs. (Dr.) W. L. McOutcheon is a
welentue visitor at her parental home.
illiss Viola Boy, Port Albert, is
visiting her cousin, Miss Margaret
Clark, 5th line.
David Spectra, of Belgrave, is able to
he out delving after his long illness.
He's it wonderful than for his years.
After August let the office of Dr.
T. T. McRae, Brussels, will be at his
resiclenre, reoently occupied by Dr.
a ered
W. L. Holmes,answered
Night ht ettlla
at rite home NOW.
D'Ihappy ATRI11tnNI AL.—A Very al pp event
took place at the home of Mts. D. W.
Campbell, 1st line Morris, on Wednes-
day, July 5th, when her daughter,
Miss Mabel C. became the bride of
Robb. H. Johnston, a prosperous
young farmer of East Wawanosh.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
D. Petrie, at 32 o'clock anon, on the
lawn, under an arch, of evergreens
and ferns, in the presence of 'a few
invited guests, Bride looked beauti-
ful in ai dress of white brocaded sills
and satin with bridal veil and tarry
ing a bognet of roses and ferric and
was given away by her brother J. A.
Wedding
Lohengrins
March Was played by Mies Beatrice
Armstrong, Brussels. 'Miss Edna
Campbell, sister of the bride, acted as
flower girl, After congratulations
the happy company sat down to a
daintily prepared wedding, dinner.
The bride received a large number of
beautiful and useful presents, Mr,
and Mee. Johnston left on the after.
noon train from Winglram for Lon-
don and Niagara Falls, the `bride be.
ing dressed in -a navy blue tailored
shit and white hat. The young couple
will take up housekeeping on the
groom's farm in East Wawanosh and
they will have the best wishes of a
large circle of friends.
Earl Anderson, 5th line, who went
to Fergus last week to be operates] on
for appendicitis is doing nicely and
we hope will soon be n. k.
Myra Gray and Wesley McCutchenn,
of No. 4, pupils of Miss McNabb, were
among the successful students at the
recent Entrance Examinations. Edna
McCall, of Button's school, also passed,
taking Honors.
E. R. Mooney and child, of Wey-
burn, Sask., were visitors at Jon, and
Ivies. Mooney's, 5th line, The former
is a nephew being- a son of the late
ex -Reeve Henry Mooney, a former
well known resident.
Goon STOCK;.— Messrs, Shureie &
Sharpe, disposed of 3 thoro'bred
Yorkshire sows during the past week
to James Armstrong and sons, 0th
and 10th pens., Grey. Two of them
were 5 months old and sold at $30 00
each and one other 31. months brought
$25.00, The purchasers have secured
prime stock,
Cranbrook
Mrs. A. J. Helm spent the week -end
in Listowel,
Next Council meeting will be held
in Long's Hall here on Wednesday of
next week.
Evelyn Baker and Ross Hunter
passed the Entrance Exatulnatiou, the
furrier taking Honors.
Last Sabbath Rev. Mr. Craik, of
Walton, preached in the Methodist
church here, Rev. Mr. Powell, for-
merly a pastor, will occupy the pulpit
next Sunday afternoon.
Ethel
Cranbrook Garden Party Tuesday
evening was the magnet to a good
many in this locality.
Grey Council will hold its next
meeting on Wednesday, 26th inst., at
Long's Hall, Orattbrook,
Mts. (Rev.) McKelvey and Miss
Irene, Duugaenoin, are renewing old
friendships is Ethel and Trowbridge,
Rev. J. W. Johnson, S. S, acd &ins.
Cole and T. and Mrs. Dougherty were
at Olintne for the 12Lh, making the
trip in the former's ear.
Our orchestra and some of our vocal
talent will take part in the program
of Molesworth Red Gross Garden
Party on Friday, July 28th.
This week A H. McDonald, who is
.Master of St. John's A. F. & A. M.
Lodge, Brussels, is attending the
Masonic Grand Lodge at London.
We are sorry to hear that Telford
Keifer and son, Wilfrid, \Vest of
Ethel, are both ill with typhoid fever.
The other patients are about all right
again,
PASSED ENTRANCE.—We are pleas-
ed to note that the following pupils
passed the recent Entrance Examina-
tion to the High School,the names
being arranged alphabetically :—Ber-
nice Cole, Clifford Ferguson, Rneseil
Reenter and Geo. iticKee, 7 wrote,
The annual plc -sic of the Methodist
Sabbath School will be held Thursday,
27th lest„ in the grove Eget of the
village. it is free to all who wish to
attend, the only condition is that you
provide a basket to aid itt feeditlg Lha
hungry. A good program of fun will
dayof enjoymentis
be nit on and a
l
and old,
expected for both young a
that Miss
ppI to state t
We are pleased
Constance Purvis, Ethel, passed her
2nd grade Pianoforte exam., taking
Honors, and Miss Gristle Engle',
Ethel, passed the 211d gentle Piano
exam. successfully, ander the London,
Eng„ Conservatory of Music, They
wrote at Stratford. Both are pupils
of Miss Mae Wilkinson, Wo extend
congratulations to all concerned.
Fur the otolith of June: 470 boxes of
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cheese were made at our fttctt y and
were sold to the Ingersoll Peeking
Co, The last half of June was ship-
ped last week, Price was J01 cents,
This week 208 poxes of the fleet half of
:rely make • Were shipped to same
buyer, the price dropping 2 cents.
Frequent showers will be required to
keep up pastures, which have been
wonder'ftilly good this season.
Wet, C. Galla, au American traveller,
while repairing his own automobile near
'Staley, Qua„ Was strurlt tang instantly
killed,
ENTRANCE EXAMINATION REPORT
EAST HURON
The following is the list of success-
fulcaudidates at the recent Entrance
Examination in the Inspectorate of
East Huron itt their respective cen-
tree. The total marks obtainable
were 050 ; 300 were necessary to pass,
if 40 per cent were obtained in each
subject : 487 were necessary to obtain
honors. The regulations do not per-
mit the publication of marks but un-
successful candidates will receive
their marks in each subject;:—
BRIISSELS
The highest narks obtained at this
centre was by Margaret MeLauchlin,
who wade 505 ; Dorothy Holmes was
a close second with 663 to her credit,
Edythe Anes
Johnston Armstrong
Evelyn Baker (hon,)
Nellie Brown (hon.)
Harold Cardiff (hon,)
Bernice Cole
Nellie Crozier
Mynota Danford (hon.)
Clifford Ferguson
Evra Gray
D'layme Hall (lion.)
Vera Hall
Vivian .Harris
Dorothy Holmes (het.)
Ross Hunter
Russell Kreuter
Barry Lott
Edna McOall (boli,)
Jean McDonald
Wesley McOutcheon - -
Leslie McDonald
Ina McKay
George McKee
Gertrude McKenzie
lJargaret McLauehlin (hon.)
Sarah McLauchlio (hon.)
Flora McLean
Gertrude Miller
Madeline Ryan (bon.)
Marie Ryatt
Eva Scott
Esther Shortreed
Mary Shortreed
Andrew Simpson
Grace Thompson
Annie Spence,
CLINTON
• Willis Cooper stood first in the
town with 520 marks, while Dorothy
Marquis, S. S. No. 2, Hullett, stood
first in the country with 501 marks to
her credit.
Edna Alexander (lou.)
Willie Broadfoot
Win. J. Bell
Beryl Cooper
Earl Cooper
Willis Cooper (hon,)
Pearl Orich
Mary Flynn
Harry Ford
Flossie Gibbings
Agnes Glen
Grace Gliddon
Leslie Huller
Milton Holland
Zetta Jackson
Florence Jamieson
Hovatd Johns
Marino Jones (hon.)
Graze Ltmdesborough
Annie Lawrence
Hattie Livermore
Milrited Livermore
Dorothy th Marquis s hon,to
q (hon.)
Stewart blcBrisn
Alma Mc0orvie
Alta 141cOitrttiey
Winnie Nelson
Leslie Pearson (hon.)
Helen Ross,(hou.)
Dora Sohoonhals
Marie Snyder
Abbe Stewart
Mary Taylor
John Townshend (bon.)
irvirie Tebbutt
Clifford Tyndall
Agnes Walker
Leighton Walker
Edna West
1r.YtH
Hugh Blair
William Cook
John 1, Oowatt
Stewart Onwan
Ella Fear (hon.)
Charles lieggitt
Thomas I•iatuilton (hon.)
Wilmer Howatt
Dora tan tidy
Earl McElroy
Hilliard McGowan
Olive McVittie
Miley I. Potter
Edward Reid
Cora Skelton
Gladys Tainan
Jeered Tainan
Kenneth Taylor
Ira Toll
Margaret Tee win
Laurie 1Jttley
Carl- Wagner
Stephan White
Nettie Woodman
• WINGHAM
Catharine Adams
Ernest Agnew
Wilfrid Anderson -
I;iuth Anderson
Harty Angus
Rebecca Armstrong
Mar Armstrong (hon.)
Cora Baker
Sarah Brown
Mary Coultas (hon.)
James Liable
George Ferguson (hon.)
George Fryfogle
Harvey Haney
Mary Haugh
Florence Hinchcliffe
Leonard Jarvis
Percy Joynt
Lawrence Lennox
Charles Lloyd
Sant Lockridge
Maggie Montgomery
Edna Musgrove
Uldene McLean
Mae Passmore
Vera Procter
Joe Saint
Ernestine Sellers (hon.)
Roy Thomson
Graham Wray
FORD W IDE
Edwin Bolton
Edith Bunston
Mary Corbett
Bruce Edgar
Lawrence Gedcke (hon.)
Evelyn Martin
Robert Montgomery
Elsie McDermit
Thomas Shearer
Alice Spence
Vera Strong
Herbert Walkson (hon.)
Bernice Watters
WROKETER
Margaret Abraham
Lizzie Oethers
Wilbert Doig
Vera Gamble
Helen Gibson (bon.)
Rhoda Henning
Veva Huesto,
Marie Lovell
Eva McCreary
James McKe'cher
Hugh McLean
Win. J. Markley
Cecil Mines (hon,)
William Ort
Maty Pope
Raps Rasmussen
Viola Sharpie
Bertha Smith
Jean Young
SEAFORTH
The scholarship for the town goes
to Willie Laing, who obtained the re-
markably high total of 605 ; Harold
Coates and Ross Savauge each obtain-
ed 655, which to almost any ordinary
year would have landed the prize,,
For the country Ida Hogg stood Rest
with 538 to her credit, she is from
No, 4 McKillop,
Willie Aberhat't (hon.)
Leslie Bell
Lizzie Biutseh
Gertrude Camino (hon.)
Jessie Charters
Alfred Ohittenden
Harold Coates (bon.)
Arthur Deem •
Gordon Dick
Monica Eckert (hon.)
Robert Elgie (lou.)
Jack Forsyth
Frank Freeman (hon.)
Leslie Govenlock
Wallace Haugh
Willie Hays,
Wilfrid Hoegey (bon.)
Ida Hogg (hon.)
Mabel nogg (Iron.)
Reggie Kerslake
Willie Laing (Eton.)
Edna McGregor (hen.)
Ethel McKay (hon.)
Gladys McLean
Evelyn McGrath
Mildred McGrath
Leslie McKay
Mary McKay
Harold McKinley (hon.)
Grace McNamara
Alfred Moffat
Loretta Nigh (lion.)
Alvin Oka (hon.)
George Pinkney
Vino Rogerson
Ross Savauge (hon.)
Beulah S
ott a
Fergusus Somers(hon.)
James Sauter (hon,).
Cecil Smith (hon.)
Earl Smith (hon.)
Fred. Smith (lion.)
Charles Stodgill (hon.)
Joe Dantzer.
ed Mr, Piggott and commented upon
the wondeitul ability he displayed,
His business system was the subject,
of country -wide comment, it -being
said that he had accurate notes of
every business conversation be ever.
had, and that his figures were in veld
ably correct. He went to Hamilton
about 40 years ago, and devoted his
time to both railway and building
construetion. Be built the drill bail
and was also the contractor for the
City hull, 'three years ago he went
West on business, where he had
several large contracts, He built the
Gray Nuns' Hospital at Saskatoon,
and it was while there that he had the
stroke of paralysis which ferried his
retirement from active w ark.
Mr. Piggott was widely noted for
his straightforward honesty, as for
his great ability. He was keen and
far-seeing, light-hearted and thought-
ful of others, and in personal life was
a man of very flee qualities. He was
a life-long and consistent, member of
the Roman Catholic faith, a member
of St. Patrick's Church, Hamiltons, of
recent years, belonged to the 0. M. 13.
A. and the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Piggott is survived by his wife,
two sons and three daughters. The
sons are Joseph and Roy, both of De-
troit ; Mrs, John E, Gerety, Phila-
delphia ; Miss Regina and Miss Fran-
ces, at home ; also one brother, Rich-
ard, in Guelph.
Contractor M. A, Piggott Dies,
Michael A, Piggott, one of Hamil-
ton's best known citizens, died very
suddenly at his home, 157 Wentworth
Street South, on July 5th.
Deceased was a Canadian, born at
Guelph on June 14th, 1830, and was
sixty-six years old last month. He
was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Pig-
gott, of that city, Be spent his boy-
hood days
oy-hooddays there. When quite young
be went into the general contracting
business, his first innportaut work be-
ingthe building of the Guelph .:E
Goderich Railway. It was in cotinec-
tion with the litigation civet this con-
tract that Chancellor Boyd commend -
Provincial Bye Election in
North Perth
r. W. Hay, Liboralf , olCotod by Majority
oea7.
STRATFORD
Hay Makins
1 Avon 61 57
2 Avon 88 06
3 Avon09.... 58
1 Falstaff 59 65
2 Falstaff 60 61
3 Falstaff 57 44
1 Hamlet 75 50
2 Hamlet 72 04
1 Romeo .,.,, 79 48
2 Romeo 68 65
3 Romeo - 57 76-
4 Romeo 75 70
5 Romeo 88 65
6 Romeo 40 52
7 Romeo ,,......,, 52 41.
1 Shakespeare 46 37
2 Shakespeare 83 60
8 Shakespeare .11 30
4 Shakespeare 45 51)
5 Shakespeare 02 43
Totals 32.28 1122
Majority for Hay —106
AtORNINOTON
1 Orr's85 36
2 0.8 School 71 21
3 Newton 48 63
4 Carthage 41 68
5 013 School 76 26
6 Millbank 51 67
Totals.,,,,, .... ... 352 285
Majority for Hay —07
•
NORTH TASTr30PE
1 Rennie's 55 14
2 Township Halt ..., 107 21
8 41
tiers e t
8 Bu d r . 5 ,
4 Hampstead e2 1)
5 Gadehill ... „ 44 1.7
Totals 321 102
Majority for Hay --210
LISTOWEI.
1 Bistnark , 02 57
,
2 Gladstone ,,.. 61 02
3 Victoria ........... 44 41.
4buffet i tt 67 48
5 Lanedawne „ 57 20
Totals 291 287
Majority for Hay —54
MILVERTON
3. 124 85
Majority for Hay —80
WALLACE
1 Little's 38 6
6
2 Doan's .•..• . 62 43
3 Gowanstown 61 55
4 Gray's School ...,26 33
5 L. 0, 0. 13 12 21
0 Nelson's School ....,62 61.
Totals ... .. 251) 278
Majority for rMakins --10
HEMA
1 Trowbridge,..,. 25 06
2 B. School 48 40
8 Britton 84 61
4 Morrison's 48 81
6 Donegal 48 70
6 Monkton 53 64
7 Lamb's School ,.... ,,,-21 37
8 Atwood 74 54
Totals 340 449
Majority for Makins —108
Tnttlew
1 Gourlay's 36 28
2 L. PS, O L
t0
1 20
l 84 3.6
3 Gaia0ulo
n1 w lc 01) 88
4 RaeL
5 L. 3c 0 1 . 29
., :2:.
6 Brunne ............... `2a
7 1,13,n51.110714.
, 5, U,4 74
3 97 -
Totals ,- 409 3
MajorityforFlay—`LAO135: ItAJORI`.rtrt
Stratford104
N, Easthope 219'Elmo 1
M it ve'Lon. . ......... 89
Mornington - 68
Wallace . ............... ..... 16,
Listowel 84.....
880 119
Majority for Hay - —807
Pte. Kim. J. O'L+lelterty, a deserter
front the 14th Battalion et Valcartier
Camp, was inttantly killed" by striking a
bridge while making hisway to hosted
oar top of a train,