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Lccithti** lim? I 4 DUNCAN. B. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 22. 1915. VdI. XV., 15th Year, No. 16. Egg-Laying Contest Results The Pollies Boy Drowned Discussion on Half Holiday Score Another Snccess Presumably Fell From Council Are Beady to Act When Shopkeepers Cowichan Itetains Two First. Places.—Pro in Dnncari Brjê Agree— Estimates Unsettled duction Good in Both Classes A distressing drowning fatality oc- .Cowichan ttmed ont en . .. Troughton and Mr. Townsend con- enrred on Friday last resulting in the The city council was unpble to The.Utett rerelM of the •••W greet the "WIS FoUiea” on the« aec- ;urred in this. death of a little IndUn boy. Matthew make progress on the estimates dur- voder the toperriaion of the . » ond viait to the Opera House, Dun The clerk explained that the Shops James Elliott, aged 6. solT of Mr. and devoted in committee to Exhibition Groonda. Victoria B. C.. Oôber ID. »M,to October can. last Saturday night. There was Regulation byUw required three- Mrs. John Elliott, who live on t sideration on Monday ao entirely diBerenf prog ramme from quarters of the shopkeepers to be in Comiaken reserve, near the old Me night last, and therefore a special egg* laid from October 10. 1914, to April 9th, 1915. that of .the preriprevious week, and, meeting of the finance committee, reeeptiott. accorded, church. Taonhalcm. CUM l.-Noa.wel«htVarietfaa, to a p«- which the remainder of the council Council bad pass led artiste's Early on Friday the father w. MonthU Total will be present is to be held today whatever measures wei asked by the away to SahtUm and the mother le necessary Pen Owner and Breed , P ~ Cowichan Bay. leaving Jacob Statsum 1 p.m. It is quite possible that the merchants, provided number of petitioners obtained. 18 L..M. Roia, Cowichan, B. C. White Leghoma ............. in' charge of their three children. estimates will receive some alteration •ring up their own personalities that For the repeal of the byUw the peti 5 E. W. Eatridge, Dnncan. B. C. White Leghoma ........>... About 8 a.m. Jacob, leading the two before next council meeting. t is smalt wonder that The Leader tion of more than half of any one 13 H. A. Hincka..Langford Station, B.C. White Leghoma... mgex ones—a boy and girl —by the Proceedings were enlivened by report last week gave the credit-due receipt of a petition asking that trade was required. 3 KoktDah Pooltrr Ranch. Cowichan, B. (L W. Leghoma.. Henry Anatie to one named E. V. id. walked with them over the 9 R. W. Chalmera. Thnima, W. Kootenay, B.C, :V{. Legh ’a. “ ■ ' ‘ ■ be repealed Young, whose name appeared on the keepers < 10 G. O. Petoley. R.MJ>. 1, Doncan, B.C.. White Leghoma.. programme, bnt who has not been Co.. L. present bylaw which orders that the 4 None Broa, Cowichan. B.C, White Leghoma ................... here. Hed^ Anatie has now made They had almost crossed when the and Smithson, E- Potts and Cowichan shops shall be closed from I p.m. to 16 A Unaworth, Sardia. B.C.. White Leghpmg.. himaelTsufficiently well known in tears boy toW Jacob in EnglUh that there Merchants, Ltd. The three firsl-namei! 12 p.m. on every Saturday in the - White I • • in the and laughter. He it was who sang also sent in letters asking that thei months of May to September, inelu- “Merry and Bright" like a tme Ar- Jacob does not undersUnd English. names be deleted as they had signed ve, they had the remedy in their 404 cadUn and who kept all Scottish wit- He is old and deaf and has i lame leg. 379 under a misapprehension. ivn hands. neuea moaning in hia skit on Harry Consequently it was some time be- Had their names stood, the clerk Light for AIL Laoder. ifore he comprehended the situation. reported, the petition was abortive, Some slight progress was made to Many regreted the absence of Phyl Standing on the bridge, he saw the not sufficient signatories of any o wards extending electric current out lis Davis.,while welcoming H. Napier boy being carried down stream, saw class were represented on it. It side the city. North Cowichan council Moore, a bumorona reciter and ven him get his footing on a I therefore impossible for the council notifying the city thst Councillort triloquist. and Eleanor Hmrriaon. The ten feel from the banje. and 1 take any action. Palmer and McKinnon bad been ap- songs of the last-named appear to be yards down stream, • then saw him ' Against Saturday. [pointed a special committee to meei apprecUted by a greater number else overborne by the current and swept Mr. W. M. Dwyer said there was,the city represenutives and arrangt CUM IL-Wd^ VarlMiai,rin hfadt to a pea. where than in Duncan. avray. He w»» powerless to help him. considerable diversity of opinion eon-1 matters. The city's committee wH. B. C. Htlliam's UHiala aoond pi ' It is supposed that the boy, Mat thew. followed Jacob with the other ceming this petition. cial, hut he creates a world wher c comm children when they started lor a walk opposed to the Saturday revels in lightriicarted mdlody. with Mr. Poole; Dryer ’s warningv tha Md. that, walking along the top rail half holiday as it was detrimental to pUno stories of songs and their sing the machinery is being damaged b: #the bridge; he ovcrbalaneed and town. At the same time time he the maehinei ers, of how to tomppse a waits, from the floor. .comiceded the principle of the half flying dust f the form of areally practicallove song III in. sh is needed. The streets commit holiday and would, subscribe finish tbonld take, were gems of their kind. To the RcMne. will, this week, consider the <fut other day but Saturday. Victor Dyer set the house scream problem and iu abatement. A lette Jaeol I to the reserve and His grounds for this id were ing in hit impersonations. Old tongs from Mr. E. G. Smith emphasiaei 33 P.S............. Umpman. ........................ Uw Conrta........................ Victoria... B-C,........ S-CReda..C-Reda.. T* ailed ii*^n became new <gain. wnicie Bard him the need for some speedy action- the public market had started. This self twirled thq cane before us. They set out in a canoe and found the child about half a mile down the engaged ibe attention of farmers and sprinkling or oil on streets where th Millicent Ward had a rovipg com- ■traffic warranted it Bream. He had then been in the others, who. after attending it, did It 123 472 mission, ranging among other things D. W. Bell’s letter sets thre about one and a half hours, and, their shopping. Again, when times 12B' ' 424 from a. sermon in Glasgow were good, there were a number of committees busy. He claims that h tional drama and 'ragtiute effort, the îpite all efforts, was quite dead. 111, 419 small camps tributary to the mills. to free water since fh Uier In coUusion with "B.C." ■' An inquiry was held by Dr. H. I For the men employed there Saturday mains run through the centre of hi he good wihe-has been left to the Stephens, R.N, on the same after- evening was the only time when they lot, states that the electric light poi last. The billboards telMto untruths is where his garden fence should b- could come to town. of Anne Loehead and her soprano Dwyer said that Duncan lost and would like the darkness of Evan voice. She sang “A Bonnie Blue ev. C. A. Dockstader conducting the trade last year. He could trace it in street to be illuminated by a strei •Kerchief." then-“Dawn" and "My The Indians of the district met all s own bumness. light Hero" cs. ^he needed all Sidewalki and Stniutioa S. ,3. of the funeral expenses. Their spon Thnnday Year Ronnd. jng" not Mr. James Rutledge cited instances The cost of Yord road sidewal price of eggs for month. 24.1c. Temperature, highest 82 de- wherein the foibles of the modern taneous contributions are indicative of their generosity when a fitting op of trade lost, of former visitors going ..as reported as $524. of which tf ems; lowiIt 34- degrees;_______ mean-.......... S42 degreet. The weather, on the-whole, vandevDIe stage were mereilesily ~ elsewhere. He staled that the out city pays one-third and the interest* has been very favourable. From the 19th to the 28lh of March, ideal posed by the whole company. portunity b afforded for iu exercise. ' «weatber prevailed. During this period the th'emaometer registered- past side stores near Duncan doubled their owners the balance. The debentui bjdaw covering it was read a thii 70 degrees every day. On the 2Ist 82 degrees in the shade was recorded. Saturday night business last summer. lime. Thr tax bylaw. 1915, was intn Raia fell on six days, and there were practically only two dnll days.. He advocated a half holiday Thursday all the year round. People duced an« advanced one stage. The iponth’s production by both classes was very good. In 0«ss L Mount Prevost did not come into town as frequently The sanitary committee thinks th only one pen failed to rdach the century Mark, and in Class II the same Easter_CoDcert in winter as summer. Employers householders and the city will bene; thing happened. A record was made by pen 38. which laid seven eggs in one day on two separate occasions last month.

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