• Out of Verdun comes an • Not even the DEVIL, as idea for a new TV show. Burns pictured it, could pre- ■Well call it “Have Gun, Will The Glengarry New vent our forefathers reaching Travel to Green Valley”. ONE OF CANADA’S AWARD-WINNING WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ■ this Eden we call Glengarry. VOL. LXVIII — No. 5 ALEXANDRIA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29th, 1959 SINGLE COPY 7o Reached 90th First Testing For Three Verdun Youths Foiled In Attempted Date Last Friday Robert Rurns Penned Poem Formerly of Laggan, Mrs. R. Brucellosis Area Armed Rohhery At Green Valley D. MacLeod marked her 9<Hh In Support of Migration birthday last Friday, Jannary Almost Complete Three Verdun youths appeared in pointed a gun at him and someone " 23rd. Mrs. MacLeod now re- Editor’s Note—We were not aware until Sunday, the 209th anni- ^Magistrate’s Court here, Tuesday, said: “This is a stickup and we sides in Montreal, and her ”1710 (first test for a Brucellosis versary oS the birth of Robert Bums, January 25th, 1769, that the writings and were remanded for one week mean business.” Siren To Sound daughter. Miss Martha Mac- Free Area is almost complete in of the bard included a poem pleading the cause of the Highlanders who without plea. “That’s (fine but I mean business Leod, 3555 Linton Ave., enter- Glengarry. Lancaster, Chaxlotten- wished -to eanlgrate to the wilds of Canada hi search of Liberty. Their court appearance resulted too, and I’m not scared of guns”, tained at a Tea on Sunday, to burgh and Lochiel townships have “Address of Beelzebub to the President of the Highland Society” from a bizarre attempted armed said the proprietor as he lunged for As Mothers March mark the event. been covered, and Kenyon is half was written June 1st, 1786, the year two shiploads of Highlanders left done. Already some 30-day retests Scotland to settle here In Glengarry. One was the “MacDonald” which robbery of a Green Valley home, the three would-be robbers. Glengarry sends belated are being made on herds that had reached Quebec later in that year and whose 500 passengers came to Sunday evening, which had all the The trio scattered with Mr. Lajoie Monday Night greetings. elements of a TV farce, even to a on their tails. “Two of them head- reactors. j settle at St. Raphael. As of January 16th, 1,184 herds revolver which shot blanks. ed for the fields and one nmde for ’The fire siren is to sound at seven 'Though written in 1786, this .poem is remarkable in that it was not h^ been tested in Glengarry, a One of the youths was 15 and will their car”, he explained. o’clock next Monday night to signal published until Fetoniory, 1818, some 22 years following the death of total of 31,437 cattle. There were appear in juvenile court. The other, the start of the one-hom blitz for Alex R. McDonald Burns, iwhich took place in July, 1796. In it he is protesting vigoroitaly Shoeless, he darted out onto the 233 reactors, 267 questionable and two were 16. the March of Dimes campaign. against the conditions under which the poorer members of the Highland highway and grabbed' for the driver 128 infected premises. Compensa- clans were forced to live, and to escape from- which so many were The home of Alcide Lajoie, 34, just as he was pulling away. During that hour from 7 to 8 p.m. some 30 marching mothers hope to Dies At 80 tion to date amounts to $14,642 with endeavoring to migrate to Canada. Beelzebub, of course. Is the DEVIL. was the scene of the attempted “But I couldn’t stop him . when an extra $268.13 for two animals visit all homes in town in the an- A widely known and respected We reprint the poem here in the belief many other lovers of Bums robbery. The family was just about the car picked up speed I fell to the that had to be “tanked”, condemned nml canvass for funds to finance resident of ; the Passlfern area have been unaware of its connection wl-th their early forefathers. to sit down at the supper table highway”, he said. as unfit for beef. activities for the Rehabilitation ■throughout almost all his lifetime, when the first knock at the door The percentage of reactors is well Mrs. Lajoie had meantime tele- Foundation for Poliomyelitics. Over- Alex. R. McDonald died Sunday in was heard. Mrs. Lajoie answei'ed, below one percent, but more than Address of Beelzebub phoned Police Chief Bd Dupuis all objective for Ontario is $650,000. Hotel Dieu, Gfornwall, w'here he had to find two men wondering “which here, and after alerting Provincial 10 percent of herds showed Infec- TO THE PRESIDENT OF'THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY road leads to Cornwall”. Alexandria sub-dl-vision CWL is in been undergi^ng treatment for the Police at Lancaster he drove to the tion, and there will have to be [The “Address of Beelzebub” made its first appearance in the A few minutes later ànother rap charge of the blitz in Alexandria p.iist six months. He was aged^ 80. scene. Corporal J. J. Trudel and 30-day re-tests on these until the ■ Scots Magazine for Febrnarj', 1818, printed from the manuscript of was heard at the door. ■and householders are asked to leave Constable L. A. Millar of Lancaster Mr. McDonald piayod an active disease has been entirely eradicated. Bums, and headed thus:—“To the Right Honourable the Earl of This time the 165-pound, grader OPP, investigated and one of the porch lights on and dig deep when part in the life of his community. J. Y. Humphries, ag. rep., expects the marching mothers call. Breadalhane, President of the Right Honourable the Highland operator answered the door him- youths was picked up shortly after He was a former reeve of Kenyon the county will be declared a Bru- Society, which met on the 23rd of May last, at the iShakespeore, . self. at the Bro'wn House. The other On completion of the drive the township and had served on Coun- cellosis Free Area “about grass Covent Garden, to concert ways and means to frustrate the designs , Three “young-looking” men stood two were taken into custody Mon- canvassers will gather in the coun- cil for several teims. He served time”. of five hundred Highlanders, who, as the society were informed by •on his doorstep. One of them day at Verdim. cil chamber of the Public Utilities many years . >as a trustee on the Mr. M , of A s, were so audacious as to attempt an escape building to assess results. Alexandria High School Board prior 35-Years Service from their lawful lords and masters, whose property they wtere, by to forming of the new area; had emigration from the lands of Mr. M’Donald, of Glengarry, to the been secretary of his local school With Ford At ■wilds of Canada, in search of that fantastic thing. Liberty.”] Cathedral Parish Has Cleared Off Dancing Contest ■board for many years and had been active, too. In many farm organiza- tions. Possessing a quiet, friendly Detroit Marked $102,000 Debt Since 1951 At Glen Nevis disposition he had made many On January 22nd, Ford Motor St. Finnan’s Parish, Alexandria, . His report touching on the debt The January competition of the friends who regret his passing. Company of Detroit, honored Angus Long life, my lord, and health be yours, L. MaoDerinld for 35 years of serv- Unseaithed by hungered Highland boors! has cleared off in the jlast eight Clearance of $102,046.20 since 1951 Highland Dancing Society was held The late Alex. R. McDonald was years a debt of $102,046.20 incurred i showed that $73,^1.06 had been in Glen Nevis on Saturday night. born at Lot 2-6th Kenyon, a son of ice with that company. At a testi- Lord, grant nae duddie,! desperate beggar, in repairing and renovating the ■spent on complete re-decoration of It was judged by Gerald Bataille of Rory McDonald and his wife, Janet monial dinner, Mr. MacDermld was Wi dirk, claymore, or rusty trigger, Cathedral, Alexander Hall and the the Cathedral’s Interior, re-pointing Montreal. Cameron. He spent some years in presented ■with an engraved gold May twin2 auld Scotland o’ a life cemetery. All of this sum except of the walls, repairs to the roof, new ’The best dressed competition ■was Western Canada and the U.S. as a watch. She likes—as lambkins like a knife. $25,000 paid by the diocese toward equipment and beautifying of the Introduced for the first time with young man, but most of his life was Both Mr. MacDermld and his Faith, you and A s were right complete redecorating of the Cathe- grounds. Of this debt the parish all of tile daU'Cers entering. Elaine spent in successfully operating the wife, Catherine (Gill) McDonell, of To keep the Highland hounds in sight. dral, was raised in the parish and had paid $48,271.06, the diocese MacDonald placed first followed by family farm. Bridge End, former Glengarrians, I doubt na, they wad bid nae better ; is in addition to current operating $25,000. Patricia MaoGillis and Isobel Rozon. are well known In this district. Then let them ance out owre the w’ater; expenses through the years since A brother, John, who resided with They have two boys, Dwane, who Another $20,613.26 had been spent Results of the dancing were as him, predeceased him last October, Then up amang thae lakes and seas 1951.