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The Huron Expositor, 1917-08-24, Page 1USIt, ETTER IN QUAL LWT TIME eig el the g o 111 Co y not made her to e and in Our Ptrh:4ps. You HAve•...Notie- That all British Manufacturers of Cloths have been notified that no more pure wool cloth is to be made during the war. Every yard of cloth manufactured must contain at least 40 per ent. cOtton. Fortunately for -Ahis neighborhood we have stored up a goodly quaneaty of the pure wools in cloth and in made up garments, and eariy buyers are sure to secure their re- quirements in clothing and underwear. Please make note that we say " early buyers " this means those who buy now -for there is such a scarcity in the mar- kets of the pure wool class of goods that after present stocks are exhausted there'll be nothing but the! adult- erated to be had. 0 int ese c edit 10P deserve its rent - ec nen of one tyles ve the vexing `ifor any wants t) dress oderate cost Coat Now practically Made for iooks it, erial right in weave or. shapelines a 4ua es, 3ho Goods Our Pure Wool Suitings Await your inspection, We posi- tively guarantee the quality and color. We guarantee Workman- ship of only first grade, and mil - prices exceptionally low. Fine ‘Prey Worsted Suits,niade to measure •Fme Indigo dye Serge Suits,made to measure Fine Black Suits,made to measure . Fancy. Brown Worsted Suits,made to measure Fine Fall Overcoats Fine Trousers, made S25.00 to $30.00 ;8,00 to $35 $28.00 to $35.00 $25.00 to $35.00 $22.00 to $30.00 $ 6 50 to S 9.00 Roa0.--to-Neai "Suits Of Choicest Pure Wool Goods Blues and Blacks Greys and Mixtures e Other Lower Grade Boys' Ready to Wear $15.00 to $20 00 $16.00 to $22.00 $14.00 to $20. $10.00 to S13.50 $ 5.00 to $ 8.50 NewFallRaincoats That are Waterproof alio 11.0 Mistake The raincoats are so designed now that the style of the garment and material from which they are made, produces a garment suitable for wearing upon any occasion, when an overgarment is required. We can please ali comers from our large and well selected stock ot New Coats. The Fawn Para - Grey and Mixed Tweed patterns.... $10 to 14 8 to 15 Greig Clothing Co SEAFORTH The Story of The Huron Expositor. its reputation was not by a (By P. 0. Well in Printer and Pub- ("Wash.' hand-preas. eTo keep from Fisher.) the common -place, the motive power A.UGUST 24, 1917 The "big" advertisemi font paid more I suppose you're well acquainted with pro onately Than.* smaller one. Mrs. Rivers. They live next door to T town vseeklY TiVoluted differ-- my home and her son, Elwyn, who ently. Above it is Toinetnd out that was killed *in action last yer was a great friend of mine and a school chum. It is hard to think of these poor chaps but after being out here for the Wharfdale press was sup- you simply have to harden yourself and trust in God for safety and strength to carry it through. Be- fore closing let me once again ex- press ray deep appreciation of your ness some few years ago. He has Most sincerely, yours, been ill ever since Jaauary last. Mr. FRANK G. SMITH Hill is survived by his widow and_ a behisid the 13ay trottaog mare to keep family of tluee sons and one daugh- WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? ter: Pte. 'Edwin B. Hill, of the idist from freezing. In the warm weather he went to sleep. The horse kept the Dear Expositor, -I would like to nilon Battalion, England; Fred . of Ottawa; Albert ri . Hill, of Edmonton, and Mrs. F. W. Andrews c f -A happy family re -union was held at the home of Mrs. David Campbell, in Wingharn, All her children are visitink her, ramely: Robert, of Ingersoll; David, of To- ronto; Jas. of Great Valls; Mo.; Mrs. Annie Dunbroole Cleveland; We. liannah Therm -as, Cleveland: - Mrs. :Maggie Hodgins, Cayley, Alta.; Mrs. The junior apprentice and other ap- plied by a single hOrse-power, located prentices join the maddening throng in a circular built shed. This shed was of a big city at 5.ne. ; at 8 a: like the British Empire, The sun ':nr. • the "p.d." shadows Past -the never sat on it for a moiment. In Vine recorder on the 'steenth story winter it was edoler inside than Well - 'composing room doer. Memory re- ington street bridge -hi Ottawa is on calls the daily moveniets of a "p.d." the outaide. In :gamer it was an back in. 1876. • • idi5a1 resort. The "rad." had to walk The frontier town !streets did not known even kerosene lamps,. and the main street was bordered with black ash stuinps. The "p.d." of that date started work each (morning at 6.45 on the woedpile,swept out,shovelled snow, set a galley of brevier, wound up on the wood pile at 6:15 p.m. The ealary-never will forget it -$1.50 per week. Pleatiant quarters, were those six 25 -cent pieces. - Of course a weekly newspaper could not evolute without a "p .d," any more than it coold get along with- out an editor Dr a ghost. The "p.d." had to evolute the wood pile, the ed- itor the exchanges.. One used the buok saw, the other the scissors -a cutting proposition so to speak. But to the evolution of the town weekly. This weekly was fourided by a Premier of Ontario, G. W. Ross. His partner was the rate William Luxton, founder of the Winnipeg -Free Press and others. This particular weekly did not ev- olute with a "Wash." hand press. A strong box was inade up of ha.rd wood, clamped with Strong iron bandsathe forms set &side, and dis- patched down the rail track in a box ear attached to the fast express that did the 24 miles in 60 minutes. On the top flat of a three story sky- scraper this town 'weekly evoluted, and took in subcriptions at $1.50 per, printed quarter sheet sale bills at $3;50 per hundred, and helped the country along in ether ways. Lux- ton wanted to go west and stopped at Godericiclong enough to lose his pile, and George Ross went to West Middlesex and took up his original occupation of teaching the young how to master Sangster's fractions and Campbell's red covered readers. The paper was nurchased by two Canadian boys, idescendante of the good Scotch stwk that cut the woods fromi the township of Dtraitries. a portion of Yorkshire, England, good! presses were built, and are still Mint. The two young men bought a Wharfdale. It was carried bit bY bit to the toe story of the three stern' skyscraper, The power *as fitrnished on spending, but is considered en ideal spot. -Mr. Byard Hill, of Clinton, pass- ed away on Monday morning of last week, after a somewhat lengthy ill- ness in his 73rd year. The deceased was born in Trafalgar township, Hal- ton ceunty, on January 19, 1845. He came with his family from Esquesing towdehip to Clinton eleven years ago and for several years conducted a grecery business there, but owing to failing health he gave up the buss- Wharfdale's impression action clicking like a Winchester. ,:Occasionally the horse blanket veould-geninto the cogs of the horsepower; and the Wharfdale would stop its clicking, the horse would look hp at the."ped.", the -fore- man rap on .the window, and the "pl d ," would fill that old shed with . vapor . and hotter words than Dante every thought of when he wrote the "Inferno." The *WS that piloted the horse around that circular shed were many. Siis of them. have since published papers of, their own, an- other is managing editor of one of America's greatest -dailies, one veill have a "seat" in the British Columbia cabinet. The entangling of the horse - blanket in the cogs jolted them_ out of their dreams and fteenialiecl someiwith an eloquence that has made their ora- tory famous. Meantime the circula- tion grew. The horse -power had to give way to the steam engine. The boiler was up- right like its owners, and. the steam. guage told the truth. The fpreman was exacting in this respect. About every hour he "blew out" the water gauge, so that the steam gauge would not put one over on him. Aeroplan- ing was not aniong the discovered sciences, and he had no 'desire to visit the "soft and fleecy clouds thitt look soft as carded wool" and take the shingles with him. Another column was added to each page. ef t'he paper, which was dressed in brevier and non- earied. The type was never bigger The biggest type used in the ad. pag- es was pica Gothic, and the paper carried a -lot of adyeetising at highest rates. Like the Carson City Enter- prise of Mark Twainis dayi and the New York Herald exfsthe elder James Gordon Bennett, big sq.& was taboo- ed. This town weeklywaa the neatest thin printed on news -stock this t we have we'll hold," is al- right for bielledog but he hae been knoven• to jt and. i'pen- by' the -strong atees of a big ;groloree ewe: man that would mike Jack Johnson'a ,811110 boy accurately treaeed the best look like those of a ten year old-- half of a brick on the right spot. A He was . strong -and odorized the Scotch tenier will hang on and -never same way. Even in those days "a- say a `word about it, brick or El0 bolishing the bar" was a daily °CCU- brielks. The Scotch brothers reduced; pation, and the abolisher got a lot for the price- from $1.50 to $1. There his money. The colored gentleman goes the "doxology." Perhaps this did a lot of abolishing, particularly was because the govenunent of that about publication day. The editor's day reduced the postnge somewhat. brow wrinkled. The "p.ds." who There was -no other Aason.• But it had to substitute for the big colored was reduced. The circulation grew, man when he was full of abolish. but it dia not grow as -fast proportion - threatened to "jump cases." So it ately as it did when sold for the was up to the boss. dollar -and -a --half . A street 'crossed Mahe at right an- The eteam engine went t'o the scrap gles, It must have been a good street heap. Gasoline was substituted- Mr. for the town plotters named it Rogers' typograph supplanted two Previous "John." Later day plotters are not Journeymen compositors. always imbued with good intentions. to this eight were employed in -the On John street an office was built of corapoiiipg room, the latter included No. 1 white pine, painted drab, the bateninge of the upenght Planed bigger press did away with the the weed pile and the "p.d." A boards a contrasting -color.- The ef- Wharfciale and a- new brick heme feet was pleasing. •Press room, dont- housed the whole bunch. Some times posing room, editorial rooms and the the gasoline engine would "back fire," place where the cash trinkled through often it refused? to front fire, Be - were ion the ground floor. . The three tween a Rocky Mountain, canary and story skyscraper had 'done its work. a gasoline engine the difference is one The Whayfdale, wooden proof -press Plo* cutting machine, Joseph Hall ot long ears only. Both will "back fire" when they are wanted to do Gordon. press and a lot of type were something else. The gasoliner was mOved. Everything in its place, and a place for everything. Salt had declared "mule -de -combat," and elec- tricity was introduced, followed by been discovered. The town was one of Mr, Mergenthaler's inven- booming. Nine hotels and three ea - loons were somewhat reduced a few tions. Still the circulation grew. The publisher last year witheut any fifty cents on the price list -that is, blare of a ram's horn. put back the ty was three-quarters Scotch and the price alongside the -date line and their descendants, an eighth Irish, a at the mast head read "$1.50 per sixteenth English, and the last six- ;year in advance." The circulation -African. Two colored gentlemen teenth included everything except is around 4,000 paid -ups. The strong feature of this small were included in the last sixteenth. town- -w-eeldy is its rural correspond- trymen that the neighborhood was, • es admitted and. plates and borders was ence. Typographically the paper is not as teat as formerly. Big type 'unhealthy. He was "onto his job.' have done their worst. The white The detail above is neeessary. It is intended to make ,this story of evolution plain. The .chief diversion of the Scot. is to get 'away with oat- meal, followed by the shorter Cate - chism. These two diversions finished. vieekiy. Both brothers have passed to the! -The Hydro- Electric Commission he turns to his newspaper. The cir- silent. One hes in the valley of the ihas started operations to clean up the culation of the town weekly grew to 2,000, then up to 2,500, and on to Pueblo, Colorado. The other rests 1: West Shore Railway. Some repairs 3,000. Its present circulation is an- _ under a littre green hilliock on the to the culverts and the trestle at Port other story, but it enables the adver- banks of the Maitland River, a mile 1 Albert have been fi-nished and a light or so from Seaforth, Ontario, the •engine and flat cars will be used to tising manager to get the highest gather up the ties and rails. which rate quoted in Lydiatt's "What's frontier town of 1876. What" on a 1,000 inch contract. will be shipped direct to Nigara F. alis If Tuncen Macdougall purchased a FROM FRANCE , as they are loaded. The enimicipahe Since that time the Federal Govern- lsh, that item was "must.' It had was received recently by Mrs'. Thos. sold it. When it is all cleared up the dreeevehiveen nithueehy ment has placed restrictions upon the Durham calf from Tougald MacTar- The following letter of appreciation mtieosresetting tthheeyroaexdpveoeiltel -precedence over the best advertiser Srnale of Huntoon, Sask., but now sale will ng nearly $200,000, or about neturalization of memo os finemy ne- in the paper. The editor never went visiting at Stet:fa,. from Frank G. 50 per centi of the money guaranteed tionality, back on a subscriber. • Borders were Smith, of Seaforth, in acknowledge- to build theiroadr -The lives of Herbert Soper, of not tolerated laround advertisements . xnent of a parcel sent him at the _The coramittee of the eotmty eosin- Hamilton, and a compaeion who with him, were fishing from a rowboat in France, June 22 cil to whom was referred the question the bay, On Saturday afternoon, were When the editor had a surplus of loc- Dear Mrs. Smale,-just received a Children's Shelter for the county was of seeurbag a suitable building for a jeopardized by the careless handling al news, -which- was a weekly occur - parcel from my mother this afternoon in Goderich on Wednesday of last of a motorboat. env were near the ence the slugs and leads were pulled and among the contents was a pair week and has decided to nreeommend bay side of the south pier when they out of the ads. and 'Puncan Macdoug- 11376 the "p . d . " has been connected observed the power - craft approache all's calf got the best of it. Since with not a few big dailies and week- ing rapidly, and they called to the lies, including two of his own, and he motorboat, but before they could row of sox which Mrs. Rivers knitted for the purchase of a property on West can truth -redly say without the least you. Please accept my thanks for be more suitable for the purpose than out of danger their boat was struck me from wool which was supplied by sUnet, which the committee feels will hesitation that the weekly paper of midship and cut completely in two this frontier t6wn is the only one horae a great deal, and much more so Clinton edge had been looked at but it the wreckage rolling under the- keei same. I appreciate a parcel from the St. Lawrence. Some buildings. in where the cash box did not dictate to when the contents contain something was delt that the cotmty town, where of the motor craft. Soper clung to the editorial and news column. The from a person whom I have not had the Children's Aid Officer resides and a piece of wreckage, while his com- columns were but 12 ems wide. In the pleasure of 1nm-wing. It is very seller "the children's court would be, ia panion caught the painter ci the mot - short, it is the ideal the publisher of encoiraging to know that our dear the. roper place for mit an 'instita- orboat and was pulled aboard. Sopa. 1917 is dreaming of and which ideal ones in Canada have not forgotten ekee The property in view will cost was taken aboard later. Captain their boys doing their duty in France. $500 more than the council. has decided' wealeeeed the eecideeite elem# that Lundy and Thomas Kelvengstoie wbo may be reached in a year or two. enquire through the columns of your widely circulated paper, who is re- sponsible for the oiling of the Eg- enondville street? Seaforth Cornell or Tuckersinith Council?. ONE INTERESTED HURON NOTES -The trustees of th.e MMer school 5th line of Morris, have engaged the services of Miss Noble as teacher for the coming teem at a salary of $600. She will commence her duties on Sep- tember 4th. -258 boxes of cheese the last half of 'July, has been sold by Silver Cor- ners cheese factory, Monarief, to C. H. Slawson it Co., Ingersoll, at 23% cents per pound. This was a great season for milk at the factory and the price is certainly large. -Mrs. H. Wilbee, who makes het home with her daughter Mrst P. Ament, in Brussels, pass'ed her 90th birthday on Tuesday of last week. She is wonderfully beight and eddy? for such im advanced age. -Prof. F. C. Bristowe who has so ably filled the position of organ- ist a Willis church, Clinton, for the past five years, has resigned to ac- cept a similar position in Knox church, Kincardine. Prof. Bristowe's resignation goes into effect in the course of a few weeks and the fam- ily will probably leave town in the early autumn. -While driving home from Wing - ham one Wednesday evening of last week, Mr. W. J. Adair, met with a painful accident. The rig driven by Mr. Adair collided witb, another rig and he was thrown from the bug- gy and his collar hone was badly broken. The accident comes at a bad time for Mr. Adair as he was in the midst of harvest work and this 'aceident will lay him off duty for some time. -The Gocierich Signal of last week oasis: nisderetatul the "inedletes" holidays ,each year, relieving one an- other so that each may have a short vacation annually, As doctors are "on the job" seven days a Week -to say nothing of •the nights -they seem to lie entitled to a few weeks off once h• while. One doctor in town hats not had two weeks' consecutive holi- dayS in thirty years." -Last Saturday afternon the fine bank barn on the farm of ifx. Alex. Neeb, Uwo miles south of Dashwood was totally destroyed by fire. Hey was being babied into the barn at the time and fire was. discovered in the hay MOW. It bad gained such headway that nothing could be saved. The cause is supposed te have been an overheated pulley or heating of the hay. The loss to Mr. Neeb -will be heavy. The bhilding aim contents were insured in the Hay ,Township Farmers Fire Insurance Cd. -The following from Goderich are enrolled at Hart House, Toronto for a course in massage prescribed' for those who wish to become qualified masseuses under the Military Hospi- tal Commission: Miss Myrtle Biehan, graduation the students will receive diplomas and will be distributed through the medical hospital -com- missions throughout Canada, in con- nection. with which experience shows that they do a very useful work in the treatment of certain cases. -Miss Grace Dickson, who for sev-• ral years has been in Oharge of the kinderga.rten department of the God- erich public sehools. has been ap- pointed to take charge of eimilar work at Dawson_ City, Yukon Ter- ritory and is now on her way to the famous city of the lflondike. She received a telegram on Saturday at Stratford apprising her of the ap- matter. The items fhom the corres-ipointment, returned to Goderich the ' same day and on IVIOnday left for line - is almost unknown in reading More news is given per column. than i ;Toronto, when she leaves via Van- pondents are run-in with dashes. in any paper in Canada, .daily or etiorp the motorboat was running -One of the outstanding figura; in the public life of Ontario and the City of Toronto for over half a century has been removed by the death of Mee George William Monk, reSred tor, agriculttnist and capitalist, who passed away after a brief illness at his summer residence, "Oakland", South March, Carelton County, Ontm on Saturday last. The deceased gen- tleman, who was of English ancestry. and a direet descendant of the famous George Monk, of Crom.well's dayst who afterwards became Duke of Albee merle, came from a well-known milli. tory family. He was the youngest child of the late Captain Joha Bene ning Monk, the first British army of- ficer to settle in Ottawa; grandson of the late Hon. G. H. Monk, formerly of the Royal Navy, afterwards a major in the Royal Fusiliers, and fin- ally a distinguished member of the bar and judge in Nova Scotia, great- grandson of the late Sir James Monk. Chief Justice of Lower Canada. -Walking through an open gang- way as the Niagara liner Cayuga T. G. Aniaon, London, ont.; mes. night, Albert Smith, fell into the Lou. Davis, Windsor, and Miss Mare who resides at home. It is over 30 years eince all the family were to- gether before. Mrs. Campbell is alraost 87 years of age and her many friends trust she may be spared health and happiness for many more was docking at Toronto last Sunday slip and was drowned. The tragedy will result in a searching investiga- tion by the authoritites, as the gang- way was apparently opened by some irresponsible person, and, according to the strict rule of the Canada Steamship Company, should have re - such pleaeant events as the one just resided in Winghtnet for 56 pears, d4 passed. The Campbell fanulr have enclia,inesdniciltohs,edwhuontiwlatsheahsteaoutm4er5 ytleoaxsek- of which have been happily spent in their present home on Minnie Street. A joint meetin;e of the Ladies' Aid and the Women% Missionary So- ciety was held in the lecture room of the Ontario street church, Clinton, on Tuesday afternoon of last week. It was something special in the way of a meeting as it was the last op- portunity of the two societies, d many other members of the confer gatfon to meet with two members, namely, Mre. Annie Beacom and Miss Sybil Courtiee. The former, who has been a member of both organiza- tions and a very valued member of the congregation, expeets soon to ta.ke 111) her .abode in Toronto, and Msss bringing the Courtice leaves this week to return , minutes succeeded he to resume her work in eonneetion hoar te the surface. Dr. P. O'Reilly with the Methodiet mission field in Japan. During the afternoon Mrs. Courtiee, on behalf of the ladies, pre- sented Mrs. Beacom with a handsome pearl brooch and Mrs. Kearns pre- sented Miss Courtice with a fountain pen and a writing portfolio. . -The Wingham Advance of las week says: "The village of Delmore becoming notorious 'for the genuine badness of the young lade growing np within its feeders. For borne months ther has been an epiderrde of thieve ieg and misci id in that tastrict and the matter can e to a climax last week when a val (mule watch was stolen tangled in the lines and she was drag- penter -working at Mr. Fhsair mi. al- en and an ear was almost torn front- lier head. Dr, Hyndman of Exeter, lagh's new house. The vest had been was called and found it, neeessary to left haefong riear the lemlien; an the put eleven snitches the torn ear. gang was suspected of the theft. He feund the ,giri badni bruised, ard Co: stable hempen, of Vl .nehain, vis - is considered, a miraele that she ited burg on Freley last • and essas aith bet life romeded up the bunch, and secured a confession from one of the members. KILLOP This lad admitted stealing the watch but said he had smashed it and thrown The Late Mrs. Rebert Gibson. it away. This story is not believed, There died in McKillop on 'Wednesday ,however, as another bigger boy hae August 15th, one of the <Meet rest - been seen with the time -piece in his dents of the township in the pereon of possession. The trip rope connected Mrs. Robert Gibson, who passed away enBtalyi 1,a ahs ds maiden name was Matilda Shannon. in her B3rd year. Mrs. Gibson'e the gang gete credit else for this She was born in Amagh, Irland, piece of vandalism. It isdtime for a 1824, and tame to this eowery in 1845 general cleaning up ia that neighbor- and lived for a number of years in the hood." Township of Chinguacousy, near To - ewes ronto. While there she was married CANADA. to Robert Gibson an'd settled in Cale- -William Klee, of Harailtom was don, but soon after they came to this hurled several feet when the motor county, ta.king up the farm in Me - truck -which he was driving was Killop, which she eontinud to re - struck by a Grand Trunk train at side, until her removal by death. Her Sherman Avenue crossing on Satur- husband predeceased her 47 years and day eveping. When pickd up, he was she was left with the care of a fern - in a semiconscious condition. He was ily of seven children. She proved a taken to the City Hospital where ex- Mad, loving devoted snother a,nd al - amination showed that no bones were though of strong constitution. ehe broken, but he was suffaing from was at times a great sufferer but bore shock. According to Klee the motor-. 1 all with a spirit of Chrietian. res - truck was proceding noith and the ignation and cheerfulness, that made train eastward and he drove on to the her preeence a joy in the home. Mrs: tracks into the path of the freight, Gibson had a rare capacity of devotion the gates being open and there being and faithfully and lovingly did she no watchman near. The truck was fulfill the offices of wife, mother and -Aliens to the number of 16,7d8 friend and was ever ready 'to study were naturalized in, Canada during within the circle of her assoeiation. the comfort and happiness of those . 31ta, 1915, aco,:rdine to the report She remembered with gratitude and the twelve months ended December year ended March 31st, 1916, which appreciation any kindly and helpful of the Secretary of _Slate for the fiscal ministration toward hereelf id al - day. Previous to the period. in ques- faculties until the time of her death. though she had atia.ined such a ripe was tabled in the Commons on Satur- ele age, she had the use oe all her Canadian citizenship. Among those Her religioue nature was warm and tion 253,400 ailens had been granted trians, 326 Germans, 188 Galiciansi was sacred and divine, we rnar*ked Saviour, and reverence fig all that rich and love for her Bible, and h r naturalized in 1915 were 1,810 Aus- 1-29 Hungarians, 58 Bulgarians, 19 featurOs of her eharaetnr, f.r her life 561 Japanese, 2,418 Russians, end upon earth leave,s behind eeeny tender gurks„ 135 Chinese, 1;592 Italians, 5 301 persons from the United. States. memories: She leaves to mourn hew loss two SODS and two sdaughters: Joseph and Mrs, 'Write -lit, of MeKil- lop, and Robert and Miss Martha, at home, who for so many years have attended constantly, and with such affectionate carnet° all the wants a a loving mother. Besides these there are t-wo surviving brothers, Mr. Solo- mon Shannon, of MeKillop, end Mr. Themes Shannon, of KillarileY, man., and ode sister,,Mrs. Barwich, throp, also seven grand children: Mr. Will Merdie, Mies •Elizalieth and Mies Bella Murdie, of Lucknow, a id Mrs. Robert Murdie, of Stratford; Mist; Tilly, a Ottawa and Mrs. White, of MeXillopewho also ministered so faith, fully to the one Who had been both mother and grandmother to bee. Tfie funeral Which was one of the la in this district took place on Augrest 17th, and was comitinet Rev. D. Carswell. The remains th rest 'beeide those of her. partmor in life in the E a age and married, was employed by the Canada Steamship Company, as a carpenter. He was returning from a Sunday trip to Lewiston. As an em- ployee of the company be 'was stand- ing outside the closed doorm separat- ing the passengers from the entrance to the gangway. According to wit- nesses he was last seen to walk through the gangway and disappear into the water. No one, however, saw the gangway gate lifted out of s plaee. After he disappeared be- neath the water Smith never came to the surface. Constable Jarvis, who was on duty at the wharf, was at- tracted by the.shout of warnhig. He seized a pike -pole and after about 8 was surnnioned and a pulmotor secure ed. Although. SMith WAS worked ov- er for almost two hours all efforts to resusitate him failed, and the body 'Naas removed -be the city morgue. USBORNE Serious Aecident.-Miss May Skin- ner, of this township, was seriously runaway. She was assisting in the harvest work by driving a field rake. The norse became frightened and ran away. Miss Skiimer's feet were en-