Beild House Country Inn & Spa


July 1909
Local News	First crossing of the English Channel to Dover Castle	International News
July 1 1909 Ex-Mayor John Nettleton, Mr. H. E. Nettleton and Mr. Raymond Nettleton arrived home on Saturday last after spending three months touring the continent. Ex-Mayor Nettleton did not forget his friends and on Monday presented Police Magistrate Hogg, Mayor H. A. Currie, Town Clerk Duncan, Town Treasurer Knight and Chief Wilde with a handsome silver mounted walking cane as a souvenir of his trip. It is needless to say that the recipients were greatly pleased, not only with the handsome presents, but the general thoughtfulness that prompted the gifts. EDITORIAL COMMENTS Truly the people of Collingwood are patient and long suffering and our Board of Trade sleepeth. Collingwood is now a way station on the Grand Trunk Railway System, and not the faintest protest has been heard since the changes were made. The oldest and most dilapidated coaches on the line are good enough for Collingwood and Meaford people who travel up and down the line all the year round, but the most luxurious appointments are hardly comfortable enough for the occasional tourist en route for the wilds of Muskoka or the rocky inlets of the Georgian Bay. Somebody ought to get after Superintendent Tiffin with a club. WARNING Boys and girls are hereby warned against trespassing on lawns and gardens, destroying or picking flowers, shrubs or fruit. This also applies to adults Parties found guilty will be severely punished. Jas. Wilde, Chief Constable	July 25 French aviator Louis Bleriot (1872 - 1936) makes first crossing of the English Channel to Dover Castle. He won a 1,000 pound prize given by the London Daily Mail. His Type XI monoplane flew at an average speed of 39 miles per hour to make the crossing of 23.2 miles in just under 36 minutes. Check Back Monthly for Updates Under Notes and Comments The awakening of Islam is a favorite topic now-a-days. Its phases are many and varied. Changes are taking place that are revolutionary in their character. The old order of things seems to be passing away. The influence of western ideas is being felt in many surprising and even startling ways. The world looks on with wonder as it is justified in doing for there are 180,000,000 people called Mohammedans. And movements which gain strength in centres of Mohammedan power are quite likely to spread with rapidity throughout the entire domain of that faith. A man may know his wife like a book, but he can't shut her up like one. RUSH TO THE WEST July 24 Year's Homestead Entries Show Large Increase A dispatch from Ottawa says: The homestead entries in the west for the first five months of this year totaled 13,109, an increase of 2,607 as compared with the corresponding period of last year. Fire and Police Committee Meeting A meeting of the Fire and Police Committee was held in the Council Chamber on Wednesday evening last, to take up Dr. Clemes charges against Chief Wilde of being intoxicated when seen leaving the Grand Central hotel between 12:30 pm and 1:30 am on Saturday June 26.	July 2 Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch succeed in combining nitrogen from the air and hydrogen from coal to make ammonia Click Here for Fritz Haber Biography Carl Bosch Biography July 3 Niachos Stavros, Greek shipping magnate, is born July 8 First official evening baseball game is played in Grand Rapids, Michigan defeating Zanesville 11 to 10 July 12 Curly from the "Three Stooges", Joe DeRita is born Click to visit the Three Stooges Official Website. July 12 16th amendment to the U. S. constitution is approved giving power to government to tax incomes
INTERNATIONAL - July 27 Orville Wright tested the first U. S. Army's airplane flying himself and a passenger for one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds over Fort Meyer, Virginia July 28 Malcolm Lowry writer of "Under the Volcano" is born		July 15 Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park home runs
		July 30 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military airplane in the army July 1909 Imprisoned Suffragette Marion Dunlop refused to eat. Prison officials, afraid that she might die and become a martyr to her cause, released her. Soon after, so many suffragettes had adopted the same tactics that prison authorities began force feeding the women. Mary Leigh to;told her own story of being force-fed in the September 1909 edition of "The Suffragette". The hunger strike was one of the most formidable weapons in the arsenal of suffragettes in Britain and America Click to View July Recipe - Greece Learn about some of Collingwood's history with Historian Bill Barclay Daily at 11:00AM, Bill will accompany guests on a historic walk within the downtown core of Collingwood.