HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1917-5-24, Page 44 •THURSDAY. MAY 24, 1917
THE SIGNAL - GOIIERIC1I ONTARIO
ExtraordinaryValues in
Men's Suits at
$12.00
ADE in good strong tweed in black and white
pinhead check.-- These suits were carriedover
from last year and are selling at last year's
prices -they are worth very much more now.
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating --we sold
one to a man last year andheliked it so well and it gave
such good satisfaction that he came and got another
just the same this year. This should be sufficient proof
of their goodness.
Sizes 34 to 40
PRICE $12.00
WALTER C. PRIDHAM
AGENT FOR
20th Century and Art Clothing
Borsalino Hats Headlight Overalls
Eyeglasses
SHOULD BE (AVER VERY
CAREFUL ATTENTION
Perfect -fitting Spectacles and
Rye glasses can be obtained telly
at an establishment where the
utniost care is exercised in every
departmenL
Vou are invited to call upon me
for OPTICAL SERVICE, with the
fell reilization of absolute security
in the selection of your glasses.
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OP OPTICIAN,
EMT At 711f POST tHrtgt
"OW /OS f GUELPH. Oatly
EXCURSIONS
King Edward Cafe
(110METHING NEW,'
The weather is now cool. People
coming to town can be served
Hot Coffee, Tea or Cocoa at 5c
Meals also served 35c
Mesa prices paid for butter and egg..
The best barn in town for stabling.
Joseph Murray
THE GODERICH MARKETS.
WILUNKSDAT May '23.
Oats, per bush 311 to .75
Barley poi bush 1.10 t.o 1.11'.
Peas. per bush 209 to 2.25
Bran. per Wit 41E11' t.0 41141
Shorts. per ton 46 ill to 14.51
Wood. per load 6.09 to 6.50
Dairy Butter. per lb .37 to .111
Creamery Butter .43 to
Lori. fresh, Per 60z 41 to
Cattle. butcher.' choice. per cwt. 9.50 1.0
Cattle. butchers' medlual.per owl &AO Oto
\ Rage.Everrisslikt. Per el" WO Ma
Sheen Pelts 1.111 to
.45
.14
3.75
I 1.50
SAO
KIS
7.00
MAY 8th TO OCTOBER 30th
Every
TUESDAY
TRURSDAY'S STEAMER
" Great Lakes Routes"
Oilmen servinesee
Your Funny) Is In the West
The feeble wanes hare put Western
Canada cm tt,a map There ars sat
thousands of acres waiting for the man
veto rents • nor's and proeperity. Take
whentaus al Les Rates and travel via
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Canadian Pacific
District P ger Agent
Toronto. Ont
Moruu•e. 'ley 21
Mr. J. C. Mom, of Aseumption Col-
lege, esendwich, visited at the home
of Mr. J. C. Deltoti on Sunday.
Misa Elizabeth Maksrthy bag re-
turned to her home here after spend-
ing a couple of nuouths in Goderich.
Mr. A. hi•rtin brought hie car home
lest Thursday frotu (ioderich, where it
was undereoing repairs. The motor
has been thoroughly overhauled and
Aaciie now has practically a oew ma -
hod b,en bearing pessimistic proph-
ecies of ninety days of dry weather,
but the rain of last Saturday war a
good beginning. .t thick cement -like
crust bad formed on the ground over
the gratin that bad 13, en in very long,
through which the delicate sprout of
the grain would have bad diffluulty in
penetrating, but the deluge of Satut-
velue to production.
MONTREAL'S 27,5T BIRTHDAY,
St. James' Catholic` ,Caithedral,
.Montreal. '
ONTREAL is proud to, eelebrate
its 275th birthday th a year.
On May 18th, 1642, ul de
brought Ms little flat-bottomed in -
mace to anchor close to the site
lected by Samuel de Champlal
thirty one years previously, and the
new sett tempo* WINK formally dedi
thiteti toy Pere outman.
etreets and stately buildings. aim
lion of nearly three-quarters to too
li00; headqUartera of most 1,1 the
great banking companlea and le 'the:
world-wide enterprise, the Pan..ni,t,
Pacilr Railway. lint all this co -qv: -
fro the landing of Maigenneio, am.
hie 'atesociatee in May. 1642
The !eland of Monlrpal was vi,itcti
By Jacques Cartier in and near.
ly a hundred years passed hero... an•
other white man ram.. On the
of May, 161L Samuel de Champlain
landed with another Frenchman and
an Indian. He geerns to have explor-
Hi the shore line SP far as the Rapids,
but finally decided that the best place
for a settlement Was a little strip of
meadowland, to which he gave the
name of Place Royale. Incidentally.
it was de Champlain who first vivo.
cated the cuttlne of what ta now the
rename Canal. In 1600.
Thirty years later. plane were per-
fei ted for the foundtng of the goble-
t...tit, which Was called in advance,
UHL-Marie do Montreal for Monet -
royal. Do Malweineuve was ati-
Mated loader of the little party
consisting of about • score of people.
They sot sail from Frani.. in a small
Neese& landing at Quebec on the
ata ny Moe. tiler@ th•y were warned
by Mentaliagny of tb• danger ef anni-
hilations by the Iroquois.
"It le my duty and my honor ta
Lierninton Square, Montreal. with the great C. P. R. Station in bacterium&
ery tree sere en Iroquois.- barre. and about a dozen farmers.
The long buffs tirm across the At artizans and laborers. A guard was;
!antic in hi. cockleshell of a boat had hurriedly set to watch the form*
f paths. Tenth were landed and set
rot daunted his cour ge
tit companions. nor did the elmost
equally perilous passage up the un-
( bartered St. l•wrence, which ecru
pied them ten days. He and, hie as-
sillelatee had their duty to do and
they went on and did it.
It was a beautiful afternoon when
they first sighted the Island. with the
forret-clad mountain rising steeply
arainst the sky. The pinnace. fetched
up by the tilde of a rivulet runniest
into the St. Lawrienee. There was a
sireteh of raeadowland along the
shore, with ratrims of flower' grow.
Ins amid th • grass and brightly col
tired birds darting to and fro 14.-
3ond the meadowland lay the forest
with who knew what merit. bidden
NILE.
TUESDA Y, May z2.
PROFITABLE If IIIITINOS. -The Farm-
ers' Club will bold its next meeting on
Friday evening, June let. Mr. Gotdon
Bisset will speak on "Dairying" and
in conneetion with that subject will
discuss the many Ines of Hydro -elec-
tric power. Mr. Bisset hes made a
'success of dairying in I plummet
of the work and will be able to give
very interesthig and valuable informa-
tion .on the subject. At the last
meeting Mr. Win. Young gave an ex-
cellent \address on "Heim Growing,"
geting intalkthe subject very thorough-
ly god set ng fot th many facts profit-
ablito GI intending to engage in
that branch, agriculture this year.
These practi men "who know
whereof they s ask" make the meet-
ings of decided advantage to those
who attend. Everybody welcome.
Mr. Richard Hebb is aeriously ill
with pneumonia.
Tn. calebratio ot •• others' Day"
on Sunday Ter interesting.
The ladies' choir • a tidbit ren -
Now is the time when you are doing the house-cleaning to change your rooms around and
get new Floor Coverings and new Window Curtains to brighten your home. Perhaps you need
a new Door Mat. We have them in rubber at $1.50, or in matting at $1.25.
JAP MATTING AND JAP MATS are just the thing for an inexpensive floor covering ftlf
the bedroom. It can be washed and brightens up like new. They come in all sizes from mats
to large rugs 3x4 yards.
CONGOLEUM. This is the coming universal floor covering. Start using it now. Beautiful
colored patterns in the latest designs and in all sizes from lx1 to 3x4 yards. We have a large
variety of patterns for you to choose from and it is a pleasure to show these beautiful floor
coverings.
WOOL RUGS that have been bought for so/time and can be had at prices that are not as
high as the wholesale price today. In all sizes, an in a large variety of patterns and colorings.
Let us show these values to you before making a choice.
Curtains and Curtain Muslins
Dainty Cretonnes and Sateens for side curtains, in all the newe•-,t and daintiest patterns and
colorings. Just what is needed to brighten up your room. Curtain materials by the yard, at a
range of prices, in Scrim and Madras. Lace curtains, from the low-priced ones for kitchens to
the more expensive lines for parlor or dining -room.
It a pleasure to show these goods
k/scrres.-Mr. and Mrs J. Bo
are spending a few days with ul
friends Min Minnie Demi visit-
ing Kingsbridge friends Mi A.
week -end with her patent«Mr. a
Chas. Robinson visited Myth friends
oil Monday Miss Gladys Jefferson
has returned home after a utionth's
visit with friends at Morristown
Mr B. Donnelly and Miss Lizide
Kearney visited at the hotne ot Mr.
6. Oreaves this week.... - Miss Rose
McGuire, of Toronto, celled un friends
ie this vicinity recently.
COI
ST. AUGUST
mosna
E.
May
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up, and the baggme and stores were
brought inshore. And then haying
provided for their immediate italety
and comfort, an altar was raised and
Divine Service was held.
The sun was sinking as Pere VI -
moot pronounced the last words of
his solemn exhortation and the fire-
flies were twinkling In tbeietands
about the meadow. The eolosists
(aught them and hung them In phial*
stoat the altar. where they gleamed
for k little tinie and then faded roe
epos the little rompany. having light-
ed watcher.* and strenwthesed their
guard, lay quietly doers tio alarm oar
the creamy slopes el what is nem
in its mysterious deeths. De am Plane Royale. From tie heroism ell
plain had teld them of tba palisaded those early remedies. te the heroism
town of Herbelega which stood open. of those who have inunortadned that
sits the pressen M.0111 University. • names of Ypres, reureistetta, Ofvessehy
De Mats was the fest te sod Vim; Ridge. le a lees way as
Gyring &aborts, followed by °oversew time tree& but it sheen that GM
Meartnagny Nisei Reisher, Pere VI spirit of Iklaid0111111111•11 sad them whiz
wear. 164116 Jima Munk Madame de belpeil te fooled nes al limb
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$100 Reward, $100.
The reader. of this paper will brzawiell
learn that there is at loast one d
orients has boast able to cure in a itestagas.
and that is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly la -
1. taken Internally and acts through the blood
on the !uncoil. surf/icor of the sy.tetn, thereby
the patient .trength toy building up the elm-
utwo and aseisting nature In doing its
work. The proprietors have ro much faith in
the curative powers of Bail'. Catarrh Cu.e
that they offer one hundred dollar. for any oars
that It fails to care. Seed 'for t testi-
toontate
Ohio Sold by ail dements. The -
SLY FPI.
TOttelDAY, May t2.
The Boy Scout fuovenient has t dien
hold of the young boys of town and a
large number of them are joining.
The number' of the boya are going to
make the suite for them and Miss
Weide McMillan has Keret] them an
acre of ground to plant with heans
and keep in cunditi m and they are to
have all they CW11 make elf it- So the
movement is going tsk have the ten-
dency of increasing pFoduction.
DEATH OF AR ULU Resiosav. -NI re.
Tunney, W110 had b.asn visiting with
her eon and daughter at Niegara Falls,
Ont.. for the peat few months, passed
away on ThuradAy. The remains
were brought to her home here on
Friday and on Pinot-day the funeral
took place. the interment being made
in the Westfield cemetery. Ttie de-
ceased lady had reached the advenced
age of eigtity year. and had been e
resident for a great many years of this
Tuft tiTudia's RovOONS.-One of the
worst windstorms that ever mimed
over here struck the town on Satur-
day morning from the Noutb, and Al-
though it leafed unly a few minutes it
especially to e Rural Telephone Go.,
putting seveu n of their lines out of
many of their poles. It will coin the
Company conseireable money to get
the &allege rs paired, hu,, they have a
gang of men et work this week. The
storm also eareled uff part of the roof
of the granust mit at the Agricultural
groinide, tweider snapping oft some of
tbe p.34s. ft also struck Phillips'
it out. In the afternoon a very heavy
thurgieroorin with rain passed over
the town.
PERSONAL AND (111INKRAL. - Mr. W.
Mont ray. an employee at the sawmill,
was Imily injured on the leg on Thurs-
day last. when a Isosird flew from the
RSA, and struck hint. He had to be
taken home in an suit)Luckily no
hones were broken Mewl -S. R. M.
Mackay and John Wawa' went by
mite to Shelburne on Sattirdey to vi -it
friend,. ...Mr. Wilbert Spafford, who
Excellence ks Within
While the smartIs and beauty of the oul'r_c_ray_Dottia
in complete keepin with its excellence within,jtis the inner
-Gray Dort that you tbould know thoroughly. ere, under
the surface, is beauty of another sort -the beau of sturdi-
ess and efficiency.
11 the Gray Dort's component parts are remarkable for
\ their unfailing dependability, simplicity, accessibility.
Thit4nd of excellence has opened the eyes of thousands of
moto ise men and women -and made them Gray Dort
owner!. It makes the Gray Dort a car that the whole fam'
can use and enjoy.
With all this quality, with complete equipment, with 'big -
car' refinements and conveniences, tbe Gray Dort is a
moderate priced car- --and it is a s remely good car
THE GRAY-DORT MOTORS, LIMITED, hathia, Ont.
F.O.B. Chatham;
Ont.
Completely
Equipped
Flear-de- Lys Roadster
same price
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• DESTRUCTION IN FRANCS..
Photographic evidence of German destruction in France. Many thousands of fru feCS
cnt down by the Teutons in their retreat to the "Hindenburg line."
ie employed by Gordon McKay & 0n.,i
of Toronto, le wending his two
weeks' holidays with his mother
here Mr. Roy 8Ims, of Tor-
onto, is spending this week with
his father here. The boys like to
roma to the oid rounty for their holi-
wart left on Monday for Toronto,
where the Doctor will attend the an -
W. Moore, agent for the MeLatigilten
Final convention of dentists
eat. mid ona Rev. Mr. Keine, of
londeehore, and another tn Rev. Mr.
Lundy, of Walton, lad week.
BENMILLER.
TUKSDAY. May 22.
Mies Ida Ortwein, of Zurich, and
Mrs.. Robt. Dick. of K.ppen, spent
a few days et the home of Mr. anti
A letter received from Pte. Rlwyn
Lang leo week stated that he woo
guard of a honih deprt heck of the
lines and bad not Wien snitch part in
the engragentent at Vinty Ride..
This Colharnis Farmers' (hob ore
holding a lawn social at the hone, of
Mr J. N. Kerni han on Thursday
af'tie boon- ilie ad-
dressed by Me. Roderick Maitanair.
Winnipeg, secretary of the Canadian
Council of Agriculture.
Millor's sale on Wednewilay last WWI
well attended and gond priees were
reelized. The brick hotel building woo
honght hy Reeve Young for We. aged
we onderstertil It is to he tented ever
to the township to he converted Into •
tilar 111011P, as the present eilymtue
hall is anything/ hut credite41411 nu.
proemial.. township.
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