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JOURNAL 7 Fenian Raid Veteran Wm Craig, 102, Dies Veteran Canadian Author and Lawyer Tom Mclnnes Dies TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1951. Dr. F. Routley Of Red Cross Dies at Toronto TORONTO. Feb.

13 CF Dr, Frederick William Routley, National Commissioner of the Canadian Red Cross Society since IMS, died in hospital here yesterday. i- A native of Dr. Routley had lived in Maple, for more than 40 years and had been associated with hit nn. 7 VANCOUVER, 13 Thomas' R. E.

Mclnnes, one of the last of a prominent group of writers developed in young Canada, died in a nursing home here Sunday. He was 83. Born -in. Dresden, October 29, 1887, he was best known for his lusty, good-humored, often sophisticated verse, written from the same generation as Sir Charles G. D.

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I the Canadian Red Cross Society since 1921. As National Commissioner he i directed the work of the organ-I ization across Canada and was 1 responsible for rts major under-! takings during World War II. He received hia early educa-j tion in Lindsay and Was graduated from the University of Toronto in medicine, in 1907. Dr. Routley took a post-graduate I course in London, England.

AX MINSTER STAIR CARPETING VALUES One of th oldest and beit knoWQ residents of the diitrlct, William Craig died last night io his 103rd year. Mr. Craig, in more than a century of living, had been active until recently, and lea than a month ago celebrated Jii 102nd birthday. Mr. Craig i birthday oh January 15 had become an Institution in Ottawa and aince hU 100th birthday had become almost a civic affair in which the nly as well as the King and Queen paid tribute to him.

He died at the home of his sun, Archie Craig, of City View, whore he had been residing. A life-long resident of the district, he was born at Merivale in 1849 Mr. Craig was the last surviving fighting man of the second Fenian Raid which took place in 1870 when an invading force from the United State was repulsed at Trout River, Que. For his courage in this border battle he was awarded the Queen Victoria Medal. He returned to Merivale where he lived quietly as a farmer, always taking an est in the progress of his com- munity and his church.

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WILLIAM CRAIG. rounding churches were present to honor him. On his birthday last month at a reception held at the home of his daughter Mrs. D. H.

Baker, also of City View, Mayor Goodwin paid his respects to the centenarian, as did also officials of the British North America Orange Order of which he was a life member, and of the Nepean Branch of the Canadian Legion which made him a life member a few years ago. Members of his family who survive, are two Archie and Alonzo C'raiK. and the two daughters, Mrs. Davidson, and Mrs. Baker, all of City View; aUo 27 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

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Finished with exclusive 8-coat finish on sturdy felt base. Marble effect in brown and grey with contrasting borders. In 1908 he set up practice in Maple. Thirteen years later he gave up private practice to become director of the Red Cross Ontario Division. Under his leadership the: division expanded in many fields and it was during his term of office as director that the outpost hospital service in isolated communities of North-em Ontario was organized.

At the request of the League of Red Cross Societies, Dr. Routley spnt part of 1828 in Paris as temporary medical director at the headquarters of the societies. A month after the start of World War II he went to England to direct the establishment of the Canadian Red Cross overseas organization in advance of the arrival of the first Canadian troops. He was a founder of the York County Medical Society and the first president of the Canadian Hospital Association from 1930 to 1934. He had been honorary secretary of the Ontario Hospital Association since 1924.

He was a Fellow of the Academy -t Medicine and was also a member of the Rotary, the United Church, the Masonic Order, Canadian and Empire Clubs. He is survived by his widow, the former Gertrude Fry, whom he married in 1908; a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Kennedy; and four brothers, Frank, James, Al and Dr. Clarence Routley. Funeral service will, be held at 2.30 p.m.

Thursday in the United Church at Maple with burial in the Maple cemetery. Private Funeral Held For Mrs. Ida M. Symers The funeral service of Mrs. Ida May Symers- was held privately Monday in the Fred N.

Garrett chapel and was conducted by Rev. Serson Clarke. Interment was in the family plot in St. James cemetery, Hull. Mrs.

Symers died Friday at the home of her sister. Mrs. H. H. Allen, 499 Lyon street.

sight been failing somewhat and lately he had had to abandon his half-mile walks, and his attendance at Merivale United Church. Although failing somewhat this year he still found small activities to keep him busy and evinced no greater delight than to have some of his many friends call to read the newspaper to him. Both for him and his family it was a great occasion when he celebrated his hundredth birthday In 1949. On that Saturday afternoon, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Davidson, City iu.

tin cat In lha an4 DnnncDi ccc rnnnni nm Dim crrnniK His books include "A Romance of the "Lonesome Bar and Other "In Amber "Klentenberg of the Arctic" and "Chinook Son of the late Hon. T. E. E. Mclryies.

Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia in 1897, he started his career as a lawyer. He was called to the BC Bar in 1893. But he joined the Klondyke gold rush in 1898, though not as a prospector, lie was secretary to the Bering Sea Claims Commission and while in the Arctic began putting down impressions which later turned up in the form of poems and novels. In 1901, he was secretary of the BC Salmon Fisheries Commission. Later, in Ottawa, he drafted Federal laws dealing with Immigration and narcotics.

In 19T6 he went to China where he discussed railroad promotion with Sun Yat Sen. In the following year he obtained a concession to modernize transportation in Canton. Backed by Chinese capital, he tore down the ancient city wall to build a boulevard circling the city centre and widened other streets to make possible a motor-bus transit system. Civil wars interrupted this venture- in 1922 and he returned to Vancouver. He published several articles and books on the Orient.

He did not begin to write poetry until he was 40, but published several volumes of verse. He continued to write until shortly before his death. His last published work was "In the Old of My which came out two years ago. Some of his work still remains to be published. Mrs.

Samuel Cookson Dies in Hospital Mrs. Samuel Cookson, of 79 Park avenue, a of Ottawa since 1933, died Monday in hospital. She was in her 80th year. Mrs. Cookson, the former Barbara Plumb, was the daughter of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Plumb, and was born at London, Ont. Surviving, besides her husband, are five daughters. Misses Jocelyn Barbara. Rhoda, Beatrice May, and Del-ena Margaret Cookson, all of Ottawa, and Mrs.

Helen Audrey Thomson, of Habbaneyia, Iraq: two brothers, Joe Plumb, of Vancouver, and Harry Plumb, of, Binscarth, three sisters, Mrs. C. McDonnell, of Vancouver, Mrs. Dave Heddle, of Nelson, BC, aaal Mrs. T.

Thompson, of Binscarth; also two grandchildren. The body is at Hulse and Play-fair's from where the funeral will be held on Wednesday to St. John's Anglican Church for service at two o'clock. Rev. Terence J.

Finlav will officiate. Interment will be in Beech-wood cemetery. CHAMPION WOLF HUNTER. SUDBURY, Ont, Feb. 13 CM Andy Tyson claims the title of champion, wolf hunter of the Sudbury distrtcTioF 19S0, with 22 to Ms credit.

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SETS received the congratulations -of those who had come to honor him. Surrounded by most of his 48 descendants, and dressed in a dark suit and wearing the Queen Victoria Medal on his coat lapel he received more than 60 mem-bertf of LOL Number 83. of wnich he was a life member. The delegation presented him with a glass-handled cane bear ELASTIC tiiKD WINCHESTER. Feb.

13. (Special I Mrs. Jacob Dixon, one of Winchester's oldest residents and mother of J. L. Dixon, local businessman, died at her home on Church street Monday afternoon.

Born at Fournier. 89 ago. she was the former Maria Gates, daughter of the late Charles Gates and his wife, Mary Nicholson, both members of the earliest pioneer families to settle in Prcscott County. She first came to Winchester in 1894. when she and her husband operated a hotel here.

They then moved to Ottawa, and returned to this place when her husband established an undertaking and furniture business. She was a member of the Winchester United Church, and had been active in the work of the Women's Associations, the Red Cross and other women's organizations in the village. She was affectionately known as "Grandma Dixon" to all of the community. She was married 72 years ago, and her husband died in 1825. She was the last member of her family.

The funeral service, to be held on Wednesday at 2 p.m. at her home on Church street, will be conducted by the pastor of Winchester United Church. Rev. Norman J. Thomas.

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