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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1906-11-09, Page 44 " 1111111111111111111101111110111100111111111111111.1 ,TYLISIi...OATS FOR WOMEN AT 4110411 10.001110111 SA, TU R DAY MORNING of this week you can buy at this store ne of the most stylish Coats sold this season, o for TEN DOLLARS. 'Six idifferent styles to choose from, in the long,.tloose coat, made from the very newest check tweeds, velvet collars, strap - pings and button -trimmed, The same style and quality of coats are being sold now in most stores at MM. Saturday morning any size 32 to 42, at TEN DOLLARS Children's Caats $2.5o to $4.93 A dozen or more new styles in children's long coats, lined and unlined,colors of navy, red, brownsgre3r and green, trimmed with velvet and buttons, sizes to fit girls 5 to 15 years of age.. OA fit 'Extra good value at $2.50 $3.00 to :• Oris 0i) A STOCK OF GOOD •FURS. • We have a good stock of Furs this season, at prices much lower than ordinary. • This week we opened a lot of new Sable Ruffs and Caperines, which are exceptional value. We'll be pleased to have you look them over, if you are thinking of buying Furs this season. Fur Ruffs, in German 'Otter, Oppossum, Sable, . Fox, Mink, Marmot, Astrachan. ete„ fin Price , $5.75 to V 1 %AMU Fur Ruffs, in half -a -dozen different designs, made.- • from selected Sable skins, the heft values to be had at $10.50 $18.00 $20.00 te Caperioes, in Astrachan, Opossum, Seal, Mink, ltlarniot, etc., all w ith largestotin colla,rs, ^ ' Prices • • $4.50 to tPLU'iUU Great Values in Astrachan Coats: Better values in Astrachan 'Coats we never did see. We have them in plain Astrachan, also with Sable -or Mink, Marmot collars. Lelleths1 28 Inches, lined with satin. Prices .. $4.00 to 40 00 Ad.starvasromysiza rwo Millinery Specials for Saturday. Trimmet.1 Hats. at $2.95• Half -a -dozen or more pretty lints, in • Almost.- any • if the leading shades, trimmedwith wingSs $2'95 i1uilh, etc. Special at ... .. . • ... . • Trimmed Hats. at $3.o. A dozen very stylish hats, in • emy shade • exCePt white, and trimmed with wings, ete, in better eo gn (11141ity than the above, special Saturday ..... Od iJIJ • PI& Ogti•?'").% It would be wise if Thanksgiving day was on a fixed date, and .tho suggestion of the Ottawa Citizenthat it he fixed for t•he third week of • October every year, and on Monday instead of Thurs- day, is a sensible suggestion. • 2. Ahout live hendred of Hon My 1,016 nit joritv are said to be Con- servative votes, the owners of them having become disgusted with the shabby treatment of air Fielding by the Conservatives down there. Before the Text Book COmmission, W..1. Gage admitted having instigated the issuing 0114 writ against the Minis- ter of Education to restrain hirn from using certain copyright selections in readers which the (+age firm were un- der contract to publish. The Wiarton Canadian (Conserva- tive inanfhlly admits the North Brum result thus : "Say, hnys, we're licked -and we're I irked good and hero -- over 400 ---and it 'serves us right. The party made 0 II 1 iStak P ; the candidate made a mistake-snd the 'ASS said the better, r on folk get ready for the general election.' Some papers pretend to think that Hon. Mr. Hyman should resign the seat for London. That is no the gen- ti men t of t he people of London. Speak- ing to a Hamilton Man theuther day, a very prominent London Conserve- tive ridiculed the suggestion. Mit Hyman's resignation Is not, he says, desired by the London Conservatives. They know well that if Ma Hyman'a supperters were guilty of wrongdoing, there WAS jUSt as midi and serious wrongdoing in the effort to defeat And he is stronger now than ever hi the affection of London people, They e• et want enother•election, least of a 1 to fight Hyman, who is the beet man London ever sent to Parliament, -.Hamilton Time. ' i14!"-ta THE CLINTON NEW gRA. GRAND TRUNK RsVslitAt Near -by Health Resorts. A few (ley' at the nsinerel springs ()1 $t. Catharinee, Mt, -Clemens and Preston, lase benefited the health of hundreds. Nothing is equal to the treatment, Best et hotel fteconiroodation, at moderate wee. • Secure tickets at G.T,R, Town, office, and avoid delay at depot. ' _R. RUMENS, Town Agent. 14. The thinton DieW Eva CLINTON, ONT., NOV. 9, 1900 • Republican Victory. Conadian interest in the Atnerican Congressional elections on Tuesday, centred largely in the coetest for New York State, between Hearst and Hughes, which resulted in the elec- tion of the latter by a substantial maj- ority, • Hughes was the Republican ctntlidate. While Ileargi was the Democeatic neminee, he stood foe a great deal mere than Democratic pur- poses, being °pertly repudiated bY Democrats of prominence, becauee of his pronounced socialist views. A uifthioraire ; yet he denounces thein; he is a publisher of nearly a dozen in- finential papers, butt all are of .,the -"yellowest" or most, sensational kind: While some of Hearsts views are sound on general princieles his defeat was a good thing, becaose the ascen- • dency of such views as he holds and promulgates are dangerous to the wel- fare a the state. The elections generally were favor- able to the Republican party. . . .. Federal Eximfd (Wye Referring to a recent article in these . columns in ref:ermine' to Federal expert, dituee, the Toronto Sun says "No matter whether the comparison • be with the United States orwith out own record, the present scales of ex- penditure at Ottawa - is sufficient to 3uetify alarm on the part of all those who have areal concern in the corm - 1• _ 1 try's.welfare.• . . • . . We do not believe the increased. ex- . . penditure 'Should cause any • alarm Whatever. In a county like Canada the expenditure must of necessity -in- creases The Sun points out that our • expenditure oil the 'Mounted Police has doubled in nine years. Well, sup- posingit has, is there room for :Saying the increase has not been justified? '- Growing. as Canada is, there is a 'thousand and one Ways in which the. expenditure will grow, in spite of ef- forts to check it, arid no government,. Liberal or Conservative, den ever •keep the annual expenditure where it was a few years ago. Canada, sea,sstatio- ing still then; To -day it is growing by leaps and .hpuuds. • • • _..:___ . . • Hon, Mr. Fieldingie offlaial Majority in Queen's and Shelburne was 1016,- • and Mr. Teltnie's, in: North Brace, Wes 471. -There will not be a protest in -either case. . • :The Montreal Stay, Conservative, says :--It wes a tactical mistake on , REY, DR..IlteLRAN SAYS iARE *EU TO BLYVII For some time it has been expected that the Presbyterians, as a congrega- tion, would have to bid adieu to their pastor, who has spent forty years of active service in this place, and, and so it came that his lebors amongst San - day, Nov. 4 rebthr,eught. to close on Sune In the morning he based his remarks on Nowhere -10 t 29.32; strange to say, this was the first sennou he preached to his people forty years ago. He handled his subject grandly, consider- ing his failing, health and voice. . In the evening be was greeted with an immense audience, the other churches. having closed their doors for the occasion. His subject was chosen from Phil. 1 : 27, which was very ap- propriate to the occasion, giving thetn. sound advice. In conclusion, be gave a brief Outline. of his call to the Blyth and 13eigrave eharges in 1866, after which he Wise called to Blyth as his -onlY charge,L where he has labored ever since. The following figures will show the extent of his labors, and his grand success as a pastor :- Communicants on roll in 1866.. 68 Gain in forty years 683 Total Loss in 40 yrs by death, removal ig No. on roll to date 880 Baptisms . during 40 years-, 582 Marriages It ses • Deaths of.commOnicants 226 " infants & adherents 847 Average net gain per year in church rnenibershm ...... , 7 •• On Monday evening as social was i held' : everybody went n for a pod time, and tried to hag their retiring pastor and his tainilr enjoy them- selves, for the last time among this people. After they had partaken of the good things provided by the ladies, they adjourned to the body of the church, where • their pastor and wife were invited to take part in the pro- gram -an address to the Doctor being read by Mr. A. Elder, and a presenta- tionm; _ade by Mr, A. McNally, as fol- lowsDialsn Pasmors.-Looking back over the long period of forty years in which you have been pastor of St. Andrew's church, Blythslarings to our mind the many trials you Wave endured and the marty difficulties you have solved. Considering these, it is gratifying to know that your departure from a.mong us carries with it the best -wishes of the congregation. For our welfare • you have %bored the best part of your life, and we vill now part,with a Cher- acteristic of the Presbyterian, timely, "few words," The good seed sown by you has been blessed,and from com- paratively srnall beginnings St, An- drew's has grown,under your nainistry and the Divine blessing, to be a goodly bradch. Our meeting to -night is in- tended for,a pleasant dine of social in- tercourse, in Which we desire our es- teemed pastor and family to share to the fullest extent. The .fabt that Dr. McLean was ordained. inducted, and held the pastorate of St. Andrew's. chnrch, Blyth. for forty • years, the only charge he nassever had, is some• thing unique in .he • ministry, and speaks v0111/flea for the pastor, and, we may add, for the pastor's wife'. We are pleased to know that .Dr. McLean andfamily are going to reside only IL short distance from Blyth, and the old congregation looks forward to Many :pleasant re -unions in the future. 1Ve beg you ro accept, this expression of the good wishes of St. Andrew's con-. gregation; with the ' eccompanYing cheque for $500. Signed on hellish of the cohgregation, D. B. McKim/Os , •J. A. Asegfe§oer Rime Somees JOHN BRIGRA:At AND MON'ALLY A. ELDER. The Doctor made a'short but very effective reply, in which he thanked all of his friends and Members for the kindness they had al ways. shown him. and his best wish wee that he would be spared • to . see them • as often as it was convenient for them to meet. He hoped that St Andrew's church would •always retein her god& na,me. the pert of the •••Ponservatives, •Irem. a • Another featura:of the occasion. ,was party - VA& of Nioiv, to the gathering together of the Werrien'e Fieldihg. It did not requfre a very great deal of political sagacity to fore - See a very decided victory .for the Fi- nance Minister., We do not know what grounds the Ottawa correspondent of • the .New York Post , has for his .opioion, out he. mitY riot be .far astray when he says,: "While members of the. GOvernmen t . have not taken .the public into their confidence regarding the nature of the pi enosed tariff changes, certain indi- cations! point to the probability thati. the revision will be toward a lowering rather than a raising of the tariff." . • sessaieseessais Hon.. Mr: Emmerson, Minister of. ' sRaiiways, ' spoke before, the , Ottawa'. Canadian Club on Saturday .aftertoon on "The ,Intercolonial, Its Aims: and itS Rosette." ! f,:he - Minister said that News • Notes • abbn Goddard of Hamilton was killed by tottehing a live wire. • . Ir is feared that all the crew of the bark Adeone on -Richibmito Bar, N. B.; twelve or fourteen men, have perished: Jc sspielf Grenier, charged with rob- bing his employers at Montreal, is itt. leged to have lost large sums of money in Toronto bucket shops, • . - The annual Government report of the Women's Farm Institutes, just is. sued,- shows . rapid development. Aso:hist 7,018 members last year there are 10,404 now, 1,420 meetings bave in- creased to 2,112, the district Institutes from SO to 75. and the branch institutes froni 208 to 203: - • Thompson, A convict from Stouy Merin tem Penitentiary, told a remark - Able story at the Dcyle murder trial at N melee, Man Ile said Doyle arranged with others to put the principal Crown witness out of the svey, and the regie- tretion of Weiless' mune after his murder at the Battleford Hotel wits also the work of Doyle's- aceomptices. Ditri»g the season whieh is &Awing last year' the intercolonial had a sur- plus, and that it would have anotheil one this yeast He added that he might fairly say that the days of deficits on theintercolonial were • over, it is to be hoped that Mr, Emmersoti's entice, patine may 'then out Correct, Dr. Weldon, who was recently de- feated by Mr Fielding, Makes an' int - portant revelation. He declares that at the last Dominion general election he Was Waited. • Upon • by a number of the leading -Conservatives ot. the city of Halifax, and pressed to accept nom- ination for a Nova Scotia constituency. His reply was that he would not ac- cept unless they consented to run a clean election. To this proposition the leading Conservatives declined to to a close. .30 (X)lI emigrants arrivtel m agree, and though feeling confident lie Toronto ; it is estimated that 8,000 of could win, he refused the noininatithe time'? have been sent out to the farmers • of the Province. The wives and, fans - flies of A, 1111111bei? -a' last year's hood- Geovg6 0.1,Ahani, M.P. P., at panels. thaetlifidlnv-g the 81441111184', gitard had vide, in a Public address, suggests that met with .prosp.erity. the Dominion Government appoint a The Gue`pli Mercury presents this ootninission to investigate former elecs intelligence which is interesting and Mon methods arid the motile° work Welcome lneiillv : "Rey ' A. Y Haist, I pastor of the EiVan Meal Association of the Conservative party, If the Chureh at Stratford, Ont., has just Government dui this, end it • over sold his farm, section3; township 4 7, I reached the Patterson -Cameron elec. range 17, tear N'orth Battleforci. Seek, to Mr J Peters, thresher, for $10,000, tion in West Huron,there are a entre whieh cost him a year ago $7.50 per bee of 'Conservatives still in the riding eerie thus eleatinglI15.200 Mr Heist is who could give SOMe facts fully as bad well known in Reveler, whexe his friends will bepleased to hear of his as anything that has been reVealed at stieceSs.” Toronto. Forel n Missionary . Society, and the reading Of the following -address to Mts. McLean byeisies. Curtis, the pees- out:Wofl. being smade by Mrs. Vidor.; 1.30.4•R MRS. MDLEA:N. -As meinbers of the Women% Foreign Missienary Society of this congregation, we desire te express our deep.regret at ,your re- moval :from our midst. Since the birth' of our Auxiliary, during, its ten- der years of influicy, ,childhgodi girl- hood, even. to budding womenhood- for twenty years -you have watebed, worked,' planned arid -rayed.. As PresicientS you: have given it your best thought. and, strength ; your zeal, per. severance and tact have aided its growth and developMent. And we feel that whatever strength it now pos- sesses is largelydlle to its . careful nur- ture in earlier • years. Your removal wilt he a great loss to our Society,but we trust At vvill . be .an enrichment to another .Auxiliary, laboring for the same object -the advancement of the Master's kingdom. , May the good seeds which you have sown and wet. ered, these many years, bring an•ablin- .darit harvest to His glory, not Mily.in our Soeiety, but• even to the uttermost . parts of the earth, As .a. slight token of Der esteem arid aPpreciation of your labors be our little band, we would ask you te accept this secretary and chair. Wte trust they wiil serve as Simple re- minder's of the love of the givers: Signed on behalf of the Womeif s For- eign Missionary • Society of St. An- drew's church. • • - Mite, A. .Ermasi, Pres. Mits. 11, McCoststrxs, V. Pres. Mits. Ohirrig, Secy. • Mire. J. M. Ilasuslans, l'retie. ecirdially for their loving remembrance Airs. McLean made a few pleasant • remarks,: and thanked them all very towards her10 hae long stay sinning them, Among the visitors present • were Rev, Mr. Leckie of Londesboro, Rev, Mr. Hastie of Belgrave, Rev. Mr; Small of Anturn, and Rev Meesrs. Anderson and Hartley; with their wives. Stunt speeches were made by all in the way of mutual friendship, in wishing the reverend Doctor and his good family happiness and prosperity in their new home at Goderich, and also hoping that St, -Andrew's chureh as a body woulri. look forward to keep- ing their standard high as ever not letting the work of the different branches drag nor wither by the way. The discourses Were all listened to with rapt attention, after which the meeting %VIL4. brought to it clese with the benedic eon, everyone leaving with a feeling that brotherly ancl sisterly ist kinnin, a essdoes lot of good to man. Dr. MeLeen and fleetly left on 1,Ved- nesclity foe their tiew home in Goder- ieh, carrying with them a host of geed wishes for health and long age, • Nov. 9, ........•,......4,40••••....„, / Church Chimes I ip44,4•0,04,•••••••••••...... ONTARIO ST. On Sunday Morning next Rev. Dr. Potts, of Toronto will preach, and on Sunday evening, Rev. Mr. McCanius. of Listowell, both in• the interest of • the Educational fund, . At the meeting of the Quarterly Board on Monday evening, the follow- ing persons were elected etewards J. Gibbings, A. Hooper, J. Taylor, L. Tyndall, 14'Livermore, Ira Johns end IL (kWh. John Gibbings was re-el- ected Recording Steward, Rey. Ur. McCamus will preach at Turner's on Sunday afternoon. WESLIrr Mr, Norman jolliffe will take cheep of the choir on the 25th Nov. Rey. Dr. Briggs, of Toronto, has consented to conduct the anniversary services of thechurch, at afuture date. Rey, Mr. McCaw's, of Listowell. will preach next Sunday morning, and Rev. Dr. Potts, of Soronto, in the evening, both in the interests of Edu- cation. . The bazaar and supper to be held in the Town Hall, on ursclay evening inext, under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Societe', promises to be an inter• esting affair, and will:doubtless be well attended. At a meeting of the Quarterly Board, on Tuesday, the following were re-elected Stewards :-Messrs Lough, Doherty, Chant, Southcombe, Tyndall, Hodgens, W. Cantelon, W. R. Lough. • was re•eleeted Recording , Steward, and P. Cantelon and F. H. Hodgens, Auditors. BAPTIST ANNIVERSARY SERvIOES.- The An- niversary services in i heBaptistchurch on Sunday -were all that meld be de- sired. The weather was ideal, and the congregations were good, especially in the evening, when the church was crowded. The musical numbers by the choir were both attractive ana worshipful, Rev. Mr. Fitch, of Wing - ham, who is an able speaker always, was at its best, and the congregations hearn him with delight. Wingharn is fortunate in having a. young rnan of such marked ability, and we predict for him a field of muchgreater influ- ence in thei fatore : he s too • strong and stirring az personality to he alloW- ed to remain in arelatively small place. Financially, the results were not quite Hp to the mark, but when the returns are all in, this will no doubt be reme- died. . The pastor will preach next Sunday morning and evening. The Baptist pulpit was filled most acceptably last Lord's day by Rey. W, D. Magee of Clinton-Wingham Ad- • vance. On Friday evening the R 3 13; U. of the Baptist church will have a, meet ins- in the' interests of Foreign Mis- sions. Miss R. M. Stovel, of Mount Forest, Director of Mission Circles for the Walkerton Association, will give an address on "Mission Work in In- dia." Service begins at 8 o'clock, A program �f music' and readings will also be given, An offering to defray expenses will be taken. . • ST PAUL'S our on, s, representing the menis hers of the A.' Y. PA. drove• to Sea - forth, on Wednesday evening, where they Were entertained by the members. of the A. Y. P. . A., of St Thomas ehuech, They had a right good time. -• . • ' ' WILLIS On Sunday evening next Rev. Dr. , Stewart will deliver en address in Hohnesville Methodist Church, in the • interest of the better observance of the Lord's Day, Rey. Mr. Swann will take his work here. • The' Guild will .meet on Monday eyehing next, Subject "Au eyening with Longfellow."A. musical pro- gram will be rendered; the selections being from Longfellow. . In addition to a • well rendered anthem by the choir on Sunday even- ing last, Miss Lily Coats, Mrs .Came - hell, Mr Cook and W Glenn Campbell, sang a beautiful unaccompanied t t 1.1"'sh was 'highly appresiat- (a" . Tt isexpeeted thaa Mrs... Curry, (cont1ilt0) whn is ' T g 111 town will render a solo at the eervice next, San - day evening. Huron Presbytery will meet at Brucetield on'Tuesday. Rey Mr McKinnon, Port Elfin, formerly of town, hie gond on e rip • west, end Mre McKinnon is Visiting • with hee son, Mr 9. .e1eKtimon, 01 1)10 Collegiate staff. , • The annual meeting of the Meshy- terial Society of Huron, will be. -held :11.131Aseefields on Teesday of next week, for which an exeellent • pA•ogram has been melded. Mesa.: B. Jaclison, .Of Boston, will continence &series of Gospel Lectures on the Tithernacles in the hall over •Nimen'S Cafe,. eommencing Slinday. Nov, lith; et 7 p. 01.. and Tfiesday and Thursday nights at 8 ; also an address to Christians•Siinday. afternoon at 3. .- Rev. Ir. Northgraves, of.. Se:if:nth, Wes in town tie • 'Wednesday. Be is. bow in his 5011 year iif chntch work being the second oldest in the Diocese, and up to a recent dote has . done the work that usually falls to the lot of a, priest. As editor of the Catholic Re- norcl.,he is regarded as (Inc 'of the most forcible of writers. • , Rev, Mr. Kerne.y.' who comes . from' Diocese of Ottawa., has been appoint- ed Rector of the cherehes .et Summerhill and Middletons. •HO is endeavoring' to secure a house in eaten, and will likely etiter on his duties a week froin Sunday next. On the way here one ofhie horses got bad- • tyinjured bv the -shunting of the ears 8.1 Sharbot Lake, and will not be fit for use for some time. Mr. Kerney is an old Ituroinen, having attended Clinton Collegiate scme years ago, when, les Imnie was neer Itrussels, Rev,..T. C, Pomeroy, B.A., of Pine River, pie -Ached anniversary seevices in the Methodist church, Ripley, on Sunday. Owing . to the disagreeable weather!the attendance i1 t t,he morn- ing service tvas not as large AS it would otherwise have been, .In the evening the church was IThed by a very atten- tive congregation, who listened to a very able sermon, delivered with won- derful force, Mr. Pomeroy is the ohl• est active minister in Canaille having • 'been 53 yeers in the 'ministry. -Ripley Express, Some New Books The Dotor (ready soon)... anznar $1.$$ •The Scottish clans and their tartans, with notes x.50 The Roosevelt Bears • • 1,50 The Adventures cif Billy Topsail, ...Oxman145 The Silver IVtaple....Ketth„. ........... . p4t*.4.p.p!nbS4 1,25 The Undertow...Knowles ,.„ 1.25 Puck of Fook's ....ZipZing 1.50 Fairest Girlbood....Ran,geter 1,50 Fenwick's Career.... Ward f.so Feloubet's and Arnold's Notes; also Gist of Lesson, for x907. Cooper's 13ook Store. --C L I NT 0 N - t. Persona/ Not es 4s If those b natty us 4: ;hes fi ives or riend Troydd annonnoefit°i °a° in a town re! 44.4* visiting R44++44444++44444+44. Dr, Chisholm, M. P, was in town en Monday. Mr. Albert Turner is away on a second prospecting tour to Cobalt Mrs II. 0. Bell, of Wingha,m, was visiting Clinton friends this week. • Miss Mary Agnew, Wingha,m, is visiting friends in Clinton this 'week, • Miss Wiseman went to Zurich, on Tuesday, to mime a typhoid patient. Mr. T. Horsley, of Goderich, is spending a few days with his parents here. Mrs. James 1VIcMath, who was visit- ing friends at Locknow last week, has returned home, The Misses Smith, of con. 15, Goder- ich Tp., spent Sunday at -the home of Mr. Joseph Richardson, Stanley Tp. Mrs. Heyslop and little daughter of Detroit, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. McBrien, of town, went home • this week. • Ed Shepherds Who has been in the . west for a couple of Months, returnea home last week, considerably improv- ed in health, . Miss Sara Nesbitt, who has been at- tending atthesick room of Rev Father St,roeder, Zurich, returned to Clinton a few day's since. , Mr. Colwel, who has been west all Auinmer, has returned home, but con- tracted a heavy cold which has con- fined him to the house. Mr. E. Butt and son returned from . the west on Friday ; he says that al - •though times are good there, collec- tions are hard to make. Mrs. J. T. Clark; and 'daughter, of Toronto, are visiting at the home ot Mr. T. Jackson, Jr., Mrs. Clark and Mrs Jackson being sisters, Mrs. A. R. Plunanier,_of Blyth, who has been visiting around with friends ast for the pweek; Vt OD Friday be .join her husband who had gone • to S van Lake, Manitolae, • Mr. James Stevens spent Sunday with his son-in-law, Mr: Israel Taylor., Of London, who is just recovering from an attack of typhoid fever, thoogli not yet able to leave the house. •. • Miss Richardson, of -town, 'accom; panied by her niece. Miss Ethel -Smith, atid Miss Mary Richardson, of West Branch, Michigan, left this week to visit friends near Ethel. • C. Miller, ot the Canadian Soo ; Geo. Miller, of the American Soo ; and W. Foster, of Westmonot, Montreal; were here last week attend- ing the funeral of the late Mrs. Miller. •On Wednesday morning, Messrs F. Hodgens and wife,W. Jackson, Dr. Shaw, mild Jas. MeMurchie, ot Blyth, left to attend, the animal' Ticket Agents' ' Convention at Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Roy frelyer leit On Monday, foe the West, Where he goes as represen'tas tive of the ordered elOthing branch • for Hodgers. Bros. This enterprising .firee has a large, trade in the west; which it is determined to hold.' Mr. E. C. Toothe, of London the well known Conservatives. :lawyer whose' name figures in the London election case, was in town on Thurs- day last.presumably in connection vsith the investigation now going, on. W. Brown, second sea of MrseRobt Brown, 2nd of Hallett who is einploy- eel on the C. P.- R. running out from Calgarysis home on a visit. He was sent to Montreal dg. a 'delegate to the LocamotiveBrOtherhoods Convention'. Mr. W. Robb, who has. been spend- ing ..scene niOnthe with '• *relatives in Dakota,was:a-alit ng on his old 'Clinton friendslast week,.•and • reinaine'd "for the Baptist. anniyersary 011 Similey. Ile looks exeeedingly well, stnd will re- main with his son John, at Seaforth, for -the winter. • News' Notes. London Times warns United States ia, I earste t ough .beaten, is not crushed, • Liverpool Mercury advises Canadian benks to warn British investoreagahle Wild -cat schemes. • County Clippings. • Mr Thos Walker. of Turnberry has sold his farm to tar Peter McEwen at •$A500a • Miss Effie Wiliert, Dashwood, was thrown from a boggy and had her hip .broken. ' Mr. T. A. Beattie, of McKillop,1. tends opening up a livery stable in Walton. 111r John Sproat of Tuckersniith, in- tends moving to Seaforth to reside if he sells or rents his farm. The 100 acre farm of James Turnbull N i Lot 10, Con. 6, has been bought by George Brown, of Brussels. Mayor Tilt, Goderich, .has sold dairy business to John Forden, on the 4th concession of Goderich township. • Mr G. McIntyre, formerly of Wing - ham fell off a building at his home m Oek River, Man., recently and broke his right arm. Mr Stephen Lamb and Mr Thomas Simpson, Seaforth, have purchased a, livery business and Outfit La Stratford and. have already taken possession. Mr. Wna Bawden and Mr AL Mc- Donell, Exeter, left on Friday last for the old country. The object of their • visit is to purchase another lot of stal- lions. • .. , : Mr. William Dowson, of the leth . con., Stanley, has rented his farm to • : Mr, Asericle Brisson for one year. Mr and Mrs Dowson intend going West in the near future. •• i The apple pickers at J. W. Salkeld', Goderichtownship,picked out forty . or fifty Northern Spies that averaged 1 of a pound apiece in weight. • They were beautiful, speci- Last Saturdayafternoon Thomas C. „Wilson'a youth of nearly 15 years, left thehome of his aunt in. Jaines- town, and his whereabouts are not known. His relatives are anxious to hear of hire. • . ! To the great surprise of the citizens, : Mr .David Cantelon, for so' many Ot years'the Weet street baker, left Getl-,$) erich by the early train on • Moncia3-7 morning for Vancoueer B. C. He was .-• ' been in Goderieh 51 years ago. Mayor Tilt, GoderiOh, makes the announcement that be . will not be a candidate at the municipal elections next January. If his present plans mature,he will remoie to Detroit with. his familrearlynext Year.. . ' Mr. Peter Fisher, of the 3rcl. conCes- sion of Stanley left this week for Cali- fornia Where.he will likely :spend. the ' winter. Mr Fisher has not been en- joying good health for the pest two years and the doctors advised the change, ; • With sad, turprfSe cense the an- nounceineint Of the death 'of 'Robert SdMple, of Brussels, which took place ' • Wednesday afternoon •euite nxiex- pectedly.to• the family. He had been in failing health but able to be up. Mr Sample was in his 75th year.. .. • many ot our readers will learn with melancholy interest of the death of rs George Gartner, of Portage In Prairie,. Manitoba. The deceased lady was ud,tive of Seaforth, .a daughter of the litte Wm •Grassie, and a niece oF Mr Alex Spott, sr., and Mr•Wm. Payne Seaforth. Mr J 0 Morrison, One of the veteran Public., School teachers of Stincoe county, died on Saturday evening at • his home .near Allandale. •• Ile had • been suffering from paralysis for over : a year. The deceased was a brother of Mr 11M Morrison Sr., of McKillop toWnstiip, • The death Occiirred 05 Tuesday of Christina Sophia Stein, wife of the late Mr Claus Kruse, of Egmondville • at the age of 77. She is survived by three' sons, Richard Kruse ef brick- yard, Tuckersriaith, and Charles and Louie Kruse of Kruse Brea grocery iii Seaforth. • . • . Mr' Thos ()liver, whe has been a .• resident of Seaforth for a number of years left last week for Galt where he -intends to reside, On *Monday evens ing the einnloyees of the Robt BellEn- gine Ce. presented him with a, very handsome 801a watch as a souvenir of' the high esteem in which he is held by Iii s fellow workmen. • IVIrs Sames.Halls, an old and respects ed resident of Exeter, died very sod - t dents- on Friday last. She had been ' cernplaining for a few days but was :LbIC to go • around the house. Hee • daughter left her sitting in a chair and went up stairs. She was absent only • 111 few minutes. When she ietineed she found her mother sitting in the chair where she had' left her. but She was quite dead. nrWannyrrittigwhal! triemlivAngd•IttwBricisoletsisleySa to,- ' former iesident ot' Brussels.le that; morning in Gladstone, Man. Mr. Couslev, and family moved from Brussels last summer owing to Inc • • former being unfit foe his business and • a *moo Was thonglit advisable. 11:'wits Division Court Clerk. Express r Agent and held other officers of im- portance.. Ile WAS a -member of the ! A, F. St A. M. The United States •apple -.crop is es thiutted at 30,129 000 barrels. This is 12,025,000 barrels more than last Year Thorn:Lodi Seone of St Thomas is deact from injuries reeeived from ,a broken cable While repairing it ,wreek on the Pere Marquette Railway. • Police Magietrate Denison, notwith- standing thewillingness of Attorney - General Foy, refused to grant bail to Mr. Chas. McGill, fonder mat ager of the Ontario bank, Mr Sits M Henderson of 81 Thomas, ieceivdd 5 telegistin frets) Sundridge that his brother, David Henderson, 0110 01' a perty'of honters, had !wort ac- cidentally shot and killed, . An Indian named WollY 13eer, utho shot and killedsan,otlier •Indian named Wombadiska, WAS; 101/14 guilty of nnrcier nt Brariden and . see termed to he hanged December 21st, At high noon, Wednesday, the home 1 of Mr and Mrs Archibald VitingluthicWAS the scene of .5 very . pretty weddieg, when their second f daughter, (thriStink Wag Married to • g IVIrsDavid Robertson,. Rev. 17, Perry t officiating, • The estate of Hon. Jettnes eliher- I land pied suceession duties of $32,600,- • a President Roosevelt has dismissed rom the United . States nrfliy 141 dig - nice, an entire batttelion of eeleeed roop's, became of their failure to dis- lose the identity of some of their mon, iee who had been guilty of yibletiee ad Mender. At A well attended meeting of Esst Huron Liberel Assoeiation Executive, held Tuesday afternoon, it Was agreed i to fix Tuesday, Decteriber Ilth, as the Oslo of tee animal meeting of the As. sociationtor both the Dominion and Provinciel riditees, meeting to lie held in the Town Hall, Brussels. It was also decided to hold a nominating Cott- vention for the Conitnons stendard bearer at the sante titne and plate.