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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1887-11-18, Page 8antOlt VI I ttIDA ', NOVEMBER 18, 1887. LOCAL. NOTICES. ' *T uaintiittY f Hendoelt Lumber for sal o. � Splendid Bosse and Lot for St, a in Uheap MANNING ds SCOTT, Clinton. SCROQL CHILDREN.—Aa Boon as yto get lave gents, sail down to the NEW ERA. O'U?s and get a ruled SCRIBBLER. BEESLEY'S hIIi,LINERY EaPORICpf— aigee department assorted Great Bargainnuosiery and Gloves. CHANGE IN BUSINESS.—Groat clears,` Rale of 1'drniture from now till 1st Jan., • ,H. Rloods must be sold. A. A. BENNET:e Qed No Furniture Store, Clinton, S . PALLISER a CO'S Secret Bend Teas are giving great satisfaction; you should try them. Mr `White informs us they have just received a large quantity which has been Well bought.-Sge advertisement, PAINTING I SSONS.—Miss Bose Nimina, Nv11q has some pupils to whom she gives in- utructions in painting, would be pleased to enlarge the class, and invites any who are desirious of taking lessons to call at her • bow) on Maple Street. (Z011t11i E011I0. 1:tR GE0.E. PAY, who has not been .home at Christmas time for 2I years, expects this year to eat his Christmas dinner with his parents in St. Catha- rines. THE woollen mills at Palmerston were burned down on Friday.. They were owned by Mr T. Waterhouse, a -brother of Mr Waterhouse lately em- ployed in Clinton Woollen mills. MRs CARTER, late of Goderich .'township, has bought a lot on Town - fiend St. from Mr H. R. Walker, (to the rear of where Mr Walker lives) and will next year erect a house • thereon. ;b. Me. W. H. BEESLEY has rented the House on Victoria St., near the Rat- tenbury, owned by Mr Grigg. There ie nothing significant in this, as Will vows he is not going to get married just yet. MR ARCHIE BUCHANAN, (son Of Mr D. Buchanan, Clinton,) has re- _cen.tly been placed in charge of an engine on the C. P. R., having one of the best runs from Winnipeg. on Saturday, when Mr Clintonians do well wherever they go.'Magistrate Powell, on behalf of Mr Cook. ad- mitted the offence. A fine of $50 and costs was imposed. I itl:sts T. I : Coosa NE, of Taw ie An awfully Mean feeling takes pos.1 visiting b,er:aunt, Xis W. MQKewen. aesei.Qn of a.irlan When he gets left by Mit es._ -i vf3�, of Grp '-'*, spent a railway tra% ,sad that xvaa felt >C,awyer Morton, Qf Wiagiiam, t�nnday ch' hie son -t' ilfr I when the last train going north left S'walfiele, hitlllinClinton the other night; he had ME ANGvo In. •',o• Stratford, the cousolation of knowing,however, called on a fe.. cf. 4 ,d .riends here that he wadin good company as long last week. as he was here. Miss Jr.; ..c: d.to whir) I .C,,EIOi r NOTEE3--Mr Dinsley refused is Co,. , . tater sitioa the a good offer for his corner lot on Dry ,scoda Passer. Monday. Mr Higgins will enlarge Ms 3.110 ' oxTh.e• ieitte.l ,ne new his house on Victoria St., next year. hour rest ag i I , '.ed 1 by Mr We have a letter criticising the course W. Grfe.a, King t . of the ScottAct officials,but have with - AT, 'dr P.Brennan'.e .ale,L Hullett, held its publication for prudential a fa .i ,.a• a since,aP4t,e of Tyne filly, reasons. The tax collector has gath- th o ye s, . old, sols for $100, ered up a couple of thousand dollars thwe MAYORWHITEHEAD returned from could tall; wer would be pleased ifd. gather a couple of hundred. Ottawa on Saturday, but goes away Mr T. C. Huber. of Berlin, brother of again this week, to Winnipeg. Mr E. Huber, Londesboro, has pur- MR W. STEEP left for California chased the glue factory in that town, oti Monday afternoon last, and ex• from Mr Fennel. Mr Hill, of Eg- pects to reside there permanently. mondville, has moved to town. Mr MR JAMES STEvENS, of the base Armstrong, customs collector, is back line, believes in comfort and is,there• at his duties. Mr Sharman and wife, fare, putting in a hot-air furnace. or Goderich, spent Sunday in town Mr Davis has the contract. , with their son, Mr G. A. Sharmau. Mite W. KITT has exchange her Saturday was one of the liveliest days property on Victoria St. South, with Clinton has experienced, far some time. Miss Agnes Cook leaves next Mrs Kennedy, for her property on week for Essex Centre, where she James St. receiving some considers purposes residing. County Council tion in addition. will met on Thursday, Dec, lat. The INSPECTOR PAISLEY laid informa- Hayes Theatrical Company is billed tion against Mr James Moore, for a to appear here next Tuesday. Ex - second offence under the Scott Act, amination for candidates attending and on Tuesday the latter plead guilty the Model School, will commence on and was fined $100 and costs. Manday, 12th December next. This MESSRS STANBURY, of the London mild weather bas been very accept - road, are stall feeding about eighty able—particularly to the man with a head of cattle, having disposed of all low wood pile, and his neighbor's their heavy stock. They shipped 300 under lock and key. It is reported sheep from Brucefield, last Friday. that a woman in town is seeking a MR THOS. CALBICB:, of Holmes -divorce from her husband on the ville, left here on Tuesday by the roue nd ssels of desl3udget, sion.led Neelin, of, afternoon train, for Wichita, Kansas, the Seaforth Sun, where in town on where he purposes residing in future. Tuesday. Mr James Steep leaves Thus Canada continues to lose some for Winnipeg today. Mr John Far - of her best young men, quharaon leaves this week for Cali - MR W. H. SIMPSON has disposed of filrnia. It is rumored that Mr Archie his stock of boots and shoes to Mr H. McKee is on his way back from that Plumsteel, who will add a stock of $tate. Mr Bryden, of the gravel road, general dry goods thereto in the is very ill, and only faint hopes are spring, carrying on the present busi- entertained of his recovery. Mr John nese in the meantime. Ford, employed at Irwin's storehouse, THE adjourned case o Mr Nilson was closing a window in the upper Cook, of Varna, for violation of the Part of the building on Monday,when he fell and hurt himself pretty badly. Scott,Act, came up before the Police The Entrance Examination to the High Sehools of the county, will be held on Dec. 21-22-23, at Clinton, Seaforth and Wingham. Mr Rob.W. Coats has put telephone connection with his house. Advertise your stray cattle in the NEN ERA ; the small sum of $1 will, insure three insertions, which will be sufficient to find them. Clinton and Wingham are by long odds, the most enterprising towns in this county. — Wingham Advance. As we go to press one day earlier this week than usual,we are without much of our usual outside correspondence. Mr John Boles is veiy low. SETTLED IN TOWN—Mrs Griffiths, of Tiverton, a daughter of the late John Stephenson, has taken up her residence in town. Mrs James Brown- lee and family, of the base line, have also taken up their residence in town. ON information laid by Inspector Paisley, A. McAllister, of Dunlop, appeared before the Police Magistrate, on Monday,admitted a second offence against the Scott Act, and paid a fine of $100. The case was to have been tried at Goderich, but he saved costs by coming here and pleading guilty, A REWARD of $250 has been offered by the municipality of the town of Norwich for, the apprehension of the assailant of Mies McMurchie, school ,teacher in that village, and Reeve McMurchie, of Clinton,. and his brother, add the same amount to the offer. A good case for a skilful do- tective. SUDDEN DEATH.—The announce- ment of the death of Mrs McGee, on Friday morning, (wife of Mr W. Mc- Gee, late book keeper at the Organ Factory) was a surprise to our towns- people, as no one knew of her being in poorer health than usual. As a matter of fact she had not been in good health for some time, although able to be around, being subject to heere.Slieepse...w.hich_¢asthe-can se -of - - her death. She was only 21 years of age, a neice of Mr W. Doherty and her death is the second in the same family inside of two months. v. SOMETHING ACCOMPLISHED. — 'While some opponents of the Scott Act are continually asserting that no good has been accomplished by its operations, some former hotel keepers are giving a contradiction to the as- sertion by advertising that •their houses are now run strictly as tem- perance houses. We are willing to •assume that the hotel keepers are honest in that statement, and we ask any one, opponent or otherwise, if this 'is nota point gained in favor of temperance and morality. Then, others have closed up their houses entirely,and quit the business. While "the Act has not accomplished all that was hoped for, it has certainly done and its supporters have, no reason to feel discouraged. A HEAVY SUIT. --The new Ex chequer Califf o Canada eoinineneed` itq first sittings on Monday last. The aecend case that will come before it is one of especial interest to Clinton- ians. It is an action brpugbt by Jos. Whitehead, contractor, and Mayor of this town,against the Dominion Gov- ernment for half a million dollars for breach of contract. It appears that Mr Whitehead obtained from the Dominion Government a contract for constructing a portion of the Cana- dian Pacific railway in section fifteen in the Lake Superior district. While the contract was pending the railway was handed over by, the Dominion' Government to the -Canadian Pacific Railway Company, who refused to recognize the contract made with Mr Whitehead by tits Government, Mr,a genuine snare, Whitehead now brings action against the Government. The case is likely THE LATEST SWINDLE. — One swindle on the farming community is hardly exposed before another crops up. Here is the latest. Two or three men hays been travelling through a neighboring county, carrying with them ben's eggs. They inform the farmer that they have a new variety of fowls, the stock of which' they de- sire to increase. They will sell him the eggs for $2,50 a dozen and make a contract guaranteeing to purchase every chick hatched and living for six weeks at $5 each. The eggs have been dipped into boiling water before their delivery, and can be warranted not to hatch any $5 chickens, but the $2.50 is sure to be promptly eollected before the eggs are left. MR FRED NICHOLS, of Toronto, (well known as an active Conserva- tive and Secretary of the Manufact- urer's Association) was in, town this week, canvassing manufacturers to take space in the permanent exhibition it s proposed to establish at Toronto. We did not learn what success he met with. THE hotel keepers of the county met here on Tuesday to consider mat- ters pertaining to the trade. The qquestions of workipg.ter the .repeal .of. "ihE;" Scott Act next spring: and the closing of the hotels; are said to have been among the matters diectiseed, We know nothing as to the decision arrived at. THE Nipomo, Cal., News of last. week, refers to a late Clintonian as follows :—" A two story frame build- ing will be erected immediately by Mr E.Kenney upon the lot purchased by him, opposite the new block, on Tefft avenue. Mr Kenney will put in a first class stock of groceries. He has been in the grocery business ex- clusively for 21 years in the East. He will bringhie family." GET UP A DEBATE.—Wingham is forming a Mock House of Commons, Seaforth has an active Young Liberal Club, Goderich generally has some sort of a debating society,and Clinton has any amount of speaking talent lying around loose. Why not arrange for some public debates with any or all of these places. They would be -vers interesting, and good to the parties interested would come out of them. BURGLAR SCARE. — On Tuesday night about 12.30 the, residents of a certain house; on Victoria St., were awakened by an alarm of " burglars." One young lady heard a noise as of someone raising awindow, and pro- ceeded to awaken her room compan- ion, and the two went boldly through .the house, armed respectively with a button hook,Iarge darning needle and a pair of Indian clubs. The search was, hoteever, fruitless, it being a false alarm, whereon the two noble young ladies retired. again to rest. The young ladies now talk of buying a revolver and being in readiness for to be an interesting one, and we are assured by those who know that Mr. Whitehead's claim is a god one. There are very few of our townspeople but will be exceedingly pleased to see him get judgment against the govern- ment, for they know that whatever, money is recovered will be used to advance the material interests of the town. CANNOT BE FRIGHTENED.—Quite recently, while Inspector Paisley was up in the north-western section of. the county serving Scott Act papers, it became necessary for him to re- main over night ata hotel in the vi- cinity. His presence was known in the village, but he did not anticipate any trouble. The room Lo which he esas alloted for the night had no lock on the door, so he placed a chair up against it, and calmly retired to rest, ' with one eye open." Along about midnight he was awakened by a noise in the hall, and beard a couple of men talking in subdued tones, one asking " Where the devil will we find that damned Scott Act Inspector." Paisley was nbt at all alarmed, but shouted out that "if it was the In- spector they were after they would find him in this room," and jumping out of bed he slipped on his pants in „.ai twinkling.uickly pulling the w4 door open',Paisley ran his revolver up ,against the face of one of tilt men and asked what he wanted. This was a reception the fellows had not antici- pated, and they tumbled over each ethern their efforts to bank out of -+remarking at the same time only doing it for a Local. Church Chi Ails. Rev. Mr Odery, or Hamilton, will preach in Rattenbury St. church, on Sunday next. The union thanksgiving service in the town hall commences at 11 o'lcock sharp, on Thursday morning. Rev. W. W. Sperling exchanges with Rev. D. Rogers, of Londesboro, next Sabbath, and will fill all the batter's appointments. - A special thanksgiving service will be held in Rattenbury St, Methodist church, this (Thursday) evening, at 7:30, n hen Rev. Mr Hill, of Stouff- eine, will preach. On Monday morning last the Rev. C. E. Stafford, of Mitchell, formerly of Holmesville, received a telegram from Chatham stating that Mrs Staf- ford's mother had died the day pre- vious. This was the first intimation they bad received of the lady's illness. At the quarterly official meeting of Rattenbury St. Methodist church,last 'Thursday, Dr. Williams was re -ap- pointed recording steward, and the following stewards were chosen :— Messrs W.and P.Cantelon,H.Stevens, L Dodds, W: Doherty and J. C. Stev- enson. The following were appointed on the S. S. Committee :—Messrs J.C. Stevenson, John Jackson, W. Taylor, James Young and H. Stevens. There was a good attendance at the meeting of Rattenbury St. church Home Circle, on Tuesday evening,and a number ofnew names were enrolled. The programme was as follows :— Solo, .Dr. Williams`Stood on the Bridger; 1I ff S.--Palestine-C. J. Stevenson ; reading—"Self Education" —Mrs Detlor solo—" Little Faded Flower"—Mist' Jackson; C. H. S.— Martin Luther—Miss Sheppard ; reci- tation—" Useful Hints"—C. Hoare ; reading—" Chas. the 5th vs Martis Luther"—P. Cantelon ; quartette— Misses Jackson, Rumhull, Messrs J. Chidley, D. Dennison. THE JAMES ST. DIFFICULTY.—The Traffic Manager and one of the En- gineers of the G. T. R. Co. have been here during the past week for the purpose of interviewing the council in regard to the use of James St. The railway authorities°contend that the street was closed in 1858 by a by-law of the then village council, and that since that date they have held posses- sion. At the same time they seem willing to come to some amicable ar- rangement whereby another mode of ingress and egress may be had to the various properties affected by the street. It is to be hoped that any- thing like a law scrape will be avoid- ed, as that must inevitably result in expense to the town. We understand that the Committee appointed by the town council have submitted a scheme to the Company, which will met the requirements of the ease, and which is likely to be acceptable to the Com- pany. QOL& Fingering Yarns@ Photograph ;ALBUMS. Willis Church Y. P. C. A. The regular meeting of this associa- tion was 'held on Monday evening last,ia the lecture room of the church, Mr G. Swallow in the chair. The yery full attendance .of...the ..members together with their friends, gives promise of a most successful career fpr the association, Devotional exercises were engaged in, couducted by the chairman, after which the following business amongst other things was transacted :— The following ward - committees were appointed :— St. George's Ward—Misses Grant and Oliver, and Mr J. Hamner. St. John's Ward—Misses J. Mc- Doneld and H. Leslie, and W. Spaulding. St. James' Ward—Misses Sheppard and Josie Fair, and G. Swallow. St. Andrew's Ward—Missea A, Fair and Steep, and Mr E. Holmes. The duties of whom are to desist the executive committeegenerally in their business, and to attend to the inter- ests of the association and church in their several wards. The executive committee was in- structed to have the constitution and by-laws printed, and to distribute copies to the members. Mr J. Chidley, jr., vas appointed leader of music, and Miss Turnbull, organist. Upon completion of business the following programe was rendered :— Duet, Miss A. Jackson, Mr J. Chidley ; reading, Mrs Thos. Fair ; selettion, Mouth Organ Band ; solo, Miss A. Jackson ; readin ,Mists"Grant; Duet,Misses MacDougall and Straith; reading, Mr Jas. Scott; selection, Mouth Organ Band ; reading, Mr MacLean; quartette, Misses Turnbull and MacDougall, Messrs Spaulding and Chidley. The next meeting will be held on the 28th inat CHRIS. DICKSON, CLINTTON. BBY FITTING EDIT And the Figbtgoes o� WE GRASP THE SITUATION, BUT LET GO AN ALL WOOL TWEED FOR Air. Don't forget, 40c. We show a 10c. Dress Goocls, No one can beat. "We give no Chromos with it;" can't afford it. Look at the new BLANKETS just in. See the Bargains in GREY FLANNELS. Just here we give you an OVERCOAT at an awful sacrifice .k * * iK * * 8k * * 8k ** *,---�k � , k ** * * * 1k J )k 1k 8k ik 4k lk The MANTLE Department Is going full sway. Another case of' ULSTER CLom just in: Mens UNDERWEAR at VERY LOW PRICES. If you want Goocl CHEAP Goods, we can assure the pub- lic we can give you as good value as any house in the business. But we want to show you the goods to.con- vince yo.i, See through the stock, compare the prices and we are sure to convince you that what we say is true C.C.RANCE & CO, THE I. -IUB CLOTHIERS. A FINE SELECTION OF Canadian and lyn1orted Goods Always in Stock. C. C. RANCE & CO., TS E II'LYS OLO 'MIXERS, CLINTON GEO E PAY &COQ THE DRY GOODS EP'IPORIUffi OF CLINTON -gm'FURS=o- We show one of the largest' and finest stocks of High Class Furs in the County, and it is well worth while for every intending purchaser to come and see us. to Men's Persian Lamb, S. S. Seal, Beaver, Astrachan and Coney Caps. Mens Fur Goats; Mrts and Cloves. LADIES' S. S. SEAL, PERSIAN LAMB, ASTRACHAN and CONEY CAPS. 'Tidies FiTR COATS and SETS OUR STOCK IS THE FINEST THAT MONEY CAN <EURCHASE. JACKSON BROS., CLIN'I`C)N.