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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-9-9, Page 1avosmorcerumompswak TENTH YEAR. -527. EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1897.1 . C. II. SANDERS, EDITOR. FOUNT). A lady's hat and two pairs of gloves. Owner can hays same by calling at Mr, C. Snell's botcher shop and paying for this notice, ESTRAY CALVES. uThere Dame unto the premises of the un- dersigned, Lot4, Concession S, Stephen, five spring calves, Owner can Bayo same by prov- ing property and paving expenses. WsS. HUSTON, Oensralia.. THRASI•IING MAOFIINE OUTFIT FOR SALE. The undersigned offers for sale a splendid threshing machine outfit: Se arator, engine, and boiler, tank, etc, The whole ;outfit will be sold at a bargain and on easy torms. Ap- ply to TOHN SCHROEIIER, Dashwood. FARMS FOR SALE. MONEY TO LOAN. The undersigned has a few good farms for sale cheap. Money to loan on easy terms, JOEY SPAOI MAN, Samwell's Bloch Exeter, TENDERS WANTED. Tenders will be received by the Exeter Electric Light & Power Co. up to September 15 for concrete foundation of engine, brick- ing -in of boiler etc. Plans andspecifications may be seen at any time by applying to the manager. Lowest or any tender not neces- sarily aecepdect. R. C. C. Till ;iIAINS, Manager FARM TO RENT. — Lot i, concession 3, township of L?sborne, is offered for rent by the undersigned, It is one of the best farms in the township, con- taining one -hundred acres and has every convenience. This farm will be let to a good tenant for a term of years and possession to plow will bo given immediately. Apply to MAT. 15..ELLAND, Devon. Dissolution of Co -Partnership Notice is hereby given that the partner- shiplieretofore subsisting between ,us, the undersigned as carriage -makers and black- smiths in the Village of Crediton in the township of Stephen in the county of Huron Province of Ontario, has been this day dis- • solved by mutual consent. All debts owing to the said partnership are to be paid to Wm. H. Wenzel at the Village of Crediton aforesaid, and all claims against the said partnership are to bo presented to the said Wm, H. Wenzel, by whom the same will be settled. Tho business will be carried on by Wm. 13. Wenzel in future. Dated at the village of Crediton this Both day of August A.D. 18P7. Wi NzEt & DAr.ur MPLE SPECIAL . INDUCEMENTS. —IN— Builders' Hardware Table and Pocket Cutlery Cements Calcinced. Plaster Sporting Goods Cooking Stoves EXETER ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO., LIMITED. Notice of- Rates ntESIDEltiC1E L1t;11LT.1.L:G. Per Annum a night per x6 C. P. Main Hall $3 to 4.5c 1st Parlor 2 So 7-xo Extra Parlor 1 8o 1.2 Dining Room 2 75 1-3 I{itchen 2.75 1-3 Bed room z 75 2-5 Spare room 1 56 1-6 Cellar, S C. P. go 1-5 C031Ili ERCIAL LMELTS. Per x6 C. P. per Annum or 1k cts. per night r to 5 5 to I0 IO to 15 15 tO 20 20 tO 25 25 and over ti4 50 4 4o 4 2t)) 4 10 4 00 3 90 WIRING• General practice has proved it .more satisfactory for the con- sumer to own everything within his walls. The above moderate rates are on this basis and in order to secure them the following nominal wising charge is made with lamps complete : Cleat—suitable for stores fP1 3o per light Concealed '° " residences, 5 7o ii 'ro be paid iu ten equal monthly install- ments. Or 71 25, r 6o cash on starting of lights. Any special information may be obtained from the undersigned, R. C. C. TRETYI'AINE, Man, Our prices are away down for cash. CINE US A CALL, fl. Biso & SO. • • EXETER • • iiiddulph , Miss Hulday Culbert, who was sue• cessful in gaining a second class cer- tificate in Lucan. High School, is now attending the Model School in Goderich. Mr. Arthur Belly, of Carlisle, is vis- iting friends in Lucan and Biddulph.. Ailsa Cram Bowman n ria m evil o nil este Mrs. ig he out Hay School Report The August report of S. S. No. 2, is asfollows Names are in order of mer- it. V -Milton Russell; IV—Sarah J. Northcott, Carrie Gould, H. M. Gould; Sr. III—W. R. Dougall, Gertie Harvey, J. R. Northcott; Jr. III—Alice Dougall, J. E. Gould, Luella Munn; 1I Cora Munn, Frankie Northcott, J. R. Munn; II Pari—Willie Gould, Willie Russell, Ethel Harvey; I Part—Mabel Dougall, Wilfrid Munn, Carl Brickwood. The best spellers in the monthly spelling matches were and V—M. Russell; Sr. III—G. Harvey ; Jr, III—A. Dougall Sr. II—C. Munn; II Part—W. Gould; I Part—M. Dougall. dislocating While Mr. Hugh an was threshing at Mr. Coli Stewart's, of East Williams, the `latte dog, a Scotch collie, which was huntingice in the mow. jumped into the cylinder, and was literally made into ince-meat, stopping the machine almostinstantly. Little damage was done pt to the dor.—A few days ago Burns, of California, who is vista re at Miss Lily Thompson's, while wheeling, fell from the bicycle, her kneecap. Greenway. We are having hot, dry weather. —Mr, Nat. Corbett and daughter, Sus annan, are visiting friends and rela- tives in Ottawa this week.—Mr. W. H. Hayter has bought the -English farm 111 acres for $3900. This is a valuable wheat and dairy farm, the soil being clay loam, good buildings, orchard and a beautiful flowing well.—A large number of the young ladies and men turned out last Monday eyening and cleaned up around the church for the harvest dinner. They improved the grounds very much. Granton While Mr. Baynes, sr., was driving his cow home on Sunday morning to be milked, she stopped on the middle of the railway crossing and refused to move one step farther. He applied his walking stick but she only seemed to brace herself more firmly on her feet. When Mr. Baynes looked along the track and saw a train approaching from the east he applied the stick more vigorously than ever but it was of no avail and he barely had time to step aside when the engine mored her sud- denly and landed her about fifty feet away a dead cow. Clandeboye. A very pleasing event took place ou Wednesday, Aug. 25th, when Eli Car- ter was married ,to Miss Rebecca A. Hodgins. of Biddulph. The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride's father, About seventy guests were present and after Rev. Mr, Brownlee had pronounced the final benediction on the happy couple a bountiful sup- per was partaken of by all present. The toast "Success and happiness to the bride and groom," was heartily re spouded to. After supper games and dancing continued till the " wee sma' hours " when the party broke up The newly wedded pair were the recipients of a beautiful lot of presents which it took several tables to hold. Con- spicuous among the presents were a splendid oak rocking chair, several pieces of silverware and articles of table service without number. Drysdale. What might have resulted in a seri- ous accident happened while Mr. H. Galbot was drawing his threshing machine into Mr, T. Sheritt's barn. The planks of the high gangway gave away letting the horses partly through. Help was soon on hand and with the aid of ropes the horses were soon lifted out of their perilous position, receiving only a few scratches and badly stiffen- ed for a,few days,—While Mr. N. Pat- terson was wheeling to Bayfield, he collided with a rig and burst a blood vessel in his arm, which will keep him from work for a few days, Hay Messrs. John Campbell and Wm, Brickwood have gone to Manitoba on the Harvest Excursion.—Miss Rundle, of London, was the guest of her grand- mother, Mrs: McGregor, for a few days last week.—Mrs. Wm. Brickwood has gone on an extended visit to Toronto. —Mr. and Mrs. John Mahon, sr , have returned from their trip to Buffalo and Brooklyn. --Mrs.. Alexander Munn and daughter, Bessie, are home from their visit to Buffalo.—Hiss Silvernail, of New York, and Miss Edith Darling, of Kirkton were the guests of Mrs. Wm. O'Brien for a few days last week.—An- other mach respected resident of this township passed away on Tuesday in his 74th year, in the person of William Curry who was born near New -Glas gow, Quebec, and came west when young, settling near Hillsgreeu where he died. About six weeks ago he was taken ill but was not confined to ..his bed till two weeks ago when he be came worse and gradually sank. He leaves a wife and six children, the youngest being 10 years old, to mourn his loss. Dashwood. Most every one observed Labor Day in the village and were laboring as. hard as they could.—Miss Katie Edig- hoffer is on the sick list. We hope soon to hear of her recovery.—Several of our young ladies have been taking lessons on the bike and are getting on very nicely. We expect soon to organize a club here.—Rev. Eby left Tuesday for Tavistock to attend the Y. P, A. Con- vention to be held in that place on the 8th and 9th.—E. Brokenshire and S. Willert took in the games at Exeter on Monday. -,The tea -meeting in the public school on T'ridav promises to be a success.—Mr. Henry Neeb had a break down while threshing at Fred Baker's on Monday.—John Hoffman left Tuesday morning to attend the Toronto fair.—Miss Weber, of - Elmira, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Henry Wie- gand.—The new hotel here will soon be ready for oecupancy.—Several people from this section intend going to Lon- don fair:—Several farmers in this lo cality are through` with their harvest and are now busy with fall seeding. William Orton jumped from Brooklyn bridge, Thursday. tie Tuckersmith. Another of Huron's honored pioneers has been taken from this life, Mr. D. McDonald, of the London Road, passed peacefully away on Tuesday, having reached the great age of 92 years and 5 months. He was possessed of a splen- did constitution, and notwithstanding his advanced years, he was quite active and able to get around the farm every day, summer and winter, until about a month ago when he fell and broke his hip. From this injury he never re covered, the coo finement being harder for him tobear than the pain from the injury. He passed away full of years, and respected and honored by all.—On Tuesday another old resident passed away in the person of Mrs. Elliott. Fair- bairn, in her 64th year, Death was caused by cancer of the stomach, She married. Mr. Fairbairn and settled on the farm near Hensalt very early, where she died. She was a member of Carmel Presbyterian church. Deceas- ed leaves six sons and seven daughters, besides her highly respected husband, to mourn her loss. Brucefield The people of this vicinity were deep ly grieved on Sunday last on learning of the death of Mrs. Thomas Fraser, of the 3rd concession, Stanley, which had taken place on the previous evening. About three weeks previously, Mrs. Fraser had given birth to a young son. She seemed to get on remarkably well afterwards and was able to got up and go around. On Friday she took an at- tack of pleurisy, and not having fully regained strength to withstand a dis- ease of this kind, it did its work very rapidly, and not withstanding all that medical aid and most attentive nurs- ing could do, the disease gained the mastery so rapidly that she passed away on Saturday evening. Mrs Fraser was 38 years of age. She leaves a family of six children, the eldest of whom is about thirteen years and the youngest a baby boy of about three weeks. Her loss to her husband and to his young and interesting family is inestimable and the void that has been made in the once joyous home, can only be appreciated by those who have experienced a similar grief and loss. The most sincere sympathy that human heart can feel will be extended to Mr. Fraser and his little ones in this dark hour of their affliction and sorrow. Hay CO1111011 Council mot on Sept. 6th, all present. The sum of 569.75, expenses of the Aldsworth award Inas ordered to be paid and the several amounts as shown in the award to be charged against the respective parcels, on the collector's roll of 1807, in aceorclanee with the Ditches and Watercourses act. The following accounts of gravel will be placed on the C. It,—Die- 1, 03 cords; Div. 2, 85 cords; Div. 3, 25 cords; Div. 4, 15 cords. Robt. Carlisle, Wm. Cald. well, John Weide and Sam Spencer were appointed Commissioners for the centre road. The sum of $10 was granted towards the cleaning out of Zurich drain, the inhabitants of Zurich to raise a similar sum. The clerk was instructed to enter debenture rate of U. S. S., No.1, against lot N 2, L. 11. W.,,and lot N z 3, L. R. W., these 'lots having formed part of Union S, S, No. 1, at the time of Debentures were is- sued. By -Laws No. 8, 9 and 10 were duly passed. Contracts for hauling gravel on the centre road will be let by the Council at the Town Hall, on. Tues day, the 14th day of September, at 7 o'clock p. m. The Council will also let contracts for the construction of ditch es under the " Aldsworth Award " on Saturday, Sept. 18th, at 3 o'clock p. m. Council ;will meet again on Mouday, Oct. 4thtat.l0 o'clock a in, Fame HESS, SR., Clerk. a Centralia ]Fresh car of lime arrived at Centralia on SEPT. 6TH C. W. SMITH. James McFalls and wife visited at Bryanston and vicinity this week,— Mrs. Handford and son, Ralph, who are on a visit to Manitou, Snowflake and Crystal City, Manitoba, write back tel- ling of their safe arrival in that prov- ince and found their friends and rela- tives in a well and prosperous state. They intend remaining three mouths. —Mr. and Mrs. Thos. E. Handford have returned from their trip to Grand Bend, Clinton and Goderich.-Dennie O'Brien and C. W. Smith wheeled to Lucan on Tuesday on a business trip.—Samuel Davis wheeled to Craig and Wm. Col- will to London, the balance of the club wheeling around town.—Mr. McIntosh representing P. McIntosh & Co., Toron- to, visited our village on Monday and made several large purchases of hay, etc.—Miss Maud Baynham left for Lon• don on Monday to fill a position with Mr. Purdon of that city.—A meeting of the directors of the cheese factory was held on Friday evening and the adyis• ability of operating the factory through the winter months was discussed. An- other meeting will be held later on in the same interests.—The residence of Mr. James Hodgins, of the 1st conces- sion of Stephen, was the scene of a very pleasant gathering on Wednesday, Sept, 8th, the occasion being the mar- riage of his daughter, Violet Evelyn, to J. F. Colwell, of the same township. The ceremony was performed about 9 o'clock by the Rev. Salton, of Centralia Methodist Church, in the presence of a number of the contracting parties most intimate :friends and relatives. The ceremony' over, all sat down to a dainty spread prepared for the occasion, after which a pleasant social time was spent. The bride was the recipient of many costly, useful and ornamental presents. 34e extend Congratulations to the happy couple and wish them every joy. and happiness this world affords. Stephen Council. The Council met in Town"Hall,Cred- iton, Sept. 6th. All present. Minutes read and signed. Mr. McKeever has permission to get enough 3 in. tile for about 23 rods along S. B. and to be charged to Council. G. Brown was ap- pointed Collector, same salary as last year, Dr. Wickett tendered in his re- signation as M. H. O., and it was ac• cepted. Canada Company having com- menced proceedings against this muni- cipality re a better outlet of Mud Creek Drain, it was moved by G. R. Hicks, seconded by J. Sherritt, that the firm of Meredith & Cameron be solicitors for Council.—Carried. Clerk to notify J. Barry to complete his gravel contracts as soon as possible; Council to meet again first Monday afternoon in Oct. The following orders were granted:— Ford Bros., gravel contract N. B, $13.50; G. Ford, work in pit, $1.88; Mr. Bloom- field, cul. London Road, $2.25; J. Salter, com , $S; S. Brokenshire, culvert 3 S. R. $2.50; J. Martine, com., $S; R. Hill, rep. bridge London road, $2 75; R. Davy, rep. S. B. 50 cts; C. Lochner, rep. plow and grader, $5; G. Clarke, gravel 51; Dr. Wickett's account, 538; J. Pollick, goods for McCann, $3.59; W. Hedden, brick bats, 52.50; R. Cobleigh, rep. 13th con. 51.16; 3, McLane lumber, GO cts; F. Geiser moving grader $1; H. Essery gravel contract 531,20; G. Hartle, sund- dries 53.50: H. Wing, goods furnished D. Young, 55.97 ; Taylor and others work S. B. $2.60; R. Armstrong, work on road and watching gap, 52; J Dal- zel gravel 558.15. C. PROUTY, Clerk. Farquhar, is busily engaged building a bridge across the Aux $auble river on the 4th concession north of Thames Road.—It is reported that the wedding bells will be ringing in our midst be- fore long. Hensall Harvesting is nearly completed in this section,—The new Foss -hiller block is roofed and plastered and will soon be ready for occupancy, TEMPERANCE MEETING --A very sue- eessful open meeting and entertainment under the auspices of the Royal Temp- ters was held in Coxworth's Hall, on Thursday eyening last. The hall was very well filled as in addition to the members of the local lodge and our citizens generally, the lodges of Cred- iton, Chiselhurst, Clinton and Exeter were well represented. The chair was occupied by Rev. J. S. Henderson who filled the position creditably to himself and with pleasure and profit to the audience as he invariably does. The speaker of the evening was Rev. Mr. Hobbs, of London, who delivered a very able address on the subject of temper- ance in general, He said among other things that he was pleased to be pres- ent and see such a large gatheriug of temperance workers and others inter- ested iu the good cause. Notwithstand ing the many discouragements with which temperance workers have to con- tend, he for one was not discouraged. He expected and hoped to live to see a prohibitory law on the statute books, Ile remembered the time when alcohol was considered an essential requisite to physical, mental, yes and even spirit- ual strength. The manual laborer, the student and even the preacher then considered it essential to the puttin,, forth of their best efforts, Wo have even now, so far passed that stage that when in any one of those spheres of la bor a man wishes to ex: el or wants to put forth a special effort he is as care- ful to abstain as he formerly was to in- dulge. He said that occasionally be met a man who confronted him with the Scripture argument in favor of moderate drinking, claiming that Jesus Christ made and sanctioned the use of intoxicating wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee. He said that he (the speaker) was outs hissed at in a public assembly for saying that "if any man could convince him that Jesus Christ made intoxicating wine at that feast then he (the speaker) was done with him (that is Christ) forever and he would repeat it again tonight. He said there is a wine which is sanctioned in' Scripture Find there is a is ine the use of which. is strongly condemned. Christ could not both approve and condemn the same thing and therefore he could not have made.or sanctioned the use of strong drink. Alcohol he said, does not exist in a free state of nature and therefore it is not a good creature of God. He asked the audience if it was reasonable to allow that Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, would create spontaneously that which nature took weeks to accomplish through the petri- faction and decomposition of organic substances. He told his hearers that they threw off their excreta and the disgusting mess resulting was called alcohol and men smacked their lips over it and thought it good. Here your scribe must take issue with Rev, Mr. Hobbs, of London, and will make bold to say that the statement not only sa- vored strongly of vulgarity but was false and unscientific and a worse pro- duct than that which the speaker so strongly condemns. Alchol, as is well known, is produced from sugars under the action of vegetable ferments such as yeast. The resulting spirit is eenar- ated and refined by distillation when it not only becomes one of the purest, but also one of the most usef',l agents in chemistry and the arts So far from being the "corrupting men" which the speaker claimed it itself will preserve perishable products indefinitely from decay, Continuing the speaker said that temperance has now reached a Thames Road. Mr. Thomas Russel is at present busily engaged building his silo;—Mr. Jno. Allison, sr., returned on Saturday last from a visit to Morden, Man. She reports a fine harvest in that part of the country. --Miss M. Horney was the guest of Miss Jennie Armstrong last Sunday.—Mr. P. Whitlock, who was under the care of a doctor last week, is now sufficiently recovered to resume his business.—Mr. T. Duncan left these parts for Mitchell on Saturday last, Mr. Wilbert Passmore returned home from Kippen, after spending a few days visiting friends in Exeter, he intends putting in a term at Clinton High School—Mr. Wm. McDonald, of Varna, visited his parents here on Sunday. (Tao late for last week.) Nearly all the farmers here have finished harvesting.—Mr. Thomas Rus- sel, of the Riverside farm, has been very unfortunate this year. Last. spring be lost his three colts and lately he lost a calf, a pig and a fine brood mare, altogether making a heavy loss. --Mr. Wm. Monteith and wife spent Sunday at Mr. J.. Hackney's --Messrs. E Harlton and A. Musser spent Sunday. at "Smoky Hollow," -Mr, E. Hewitt, of stage where we do not need to use the scripture argument in favor of total abstainence, as mortality statisticsa nd insurance rates allow 10 to 15 years and 15 to 20 per cent. in favor of total abstainers. He did not abuse the hotel men but stealing he said was a respect- able business compared to selling liq- uor. lie hated the traffie with an in- tense hatred. There was be said too much "love" now a -days and not enough hate. There could not be true love without hate. If we love God or man we wilt hate the enemies of God and man. He said that he often felt that he could rise from bed at two o'clock in the merning and just hate the liquor traffic. Referring to the enormity of the traflic in the ignited States he said that if all the liquor drinking in a year was collected together it would make a canal 4 feet deep, 14 feet wide and 120 miles long and that along the banks of this canal there are 700,000 drunkards every one of which have come from the ranks of the moderate drunkards, 70,000 of these die every year and it would take 70 acres of land to bury them, allowing 1000 graves to the acre. Ile concluded his remarks by singing a solo" Canada shall be free," Among the other speakers who took part in the evenine's entertainment and who all said excellent things and which we have not space to reproduce were, Revs. iiendereon, Waddell, Kerr and McKelve and Bro. L°,vis, of Crediton, and Bro. Clark of Exeter. The muhi.- cal part of the program was very credi- tably performed by members of the Crediton Lodge, There was al>o a most excellent recitation by Miss Mur Fek of the same place. At the close of the pro- gram a vote of thanks was t'bndere,d the visiting lodges and especially Cred- iton to Rev. Mr. Hobbs for his admir- able address and to all who helpwd to make the meeting a success. The meeting broke up by all singing' God save the Queen. A silver collection to defray expenses was taken at the deer but we haye not learned the amount of the receipts. Crediton Miss O'Connel, of Blyth, has been re. engaged as milliner at Messrs. Brown Preeter's.—Mr, and firs. Samuel Brown are attending Toronto Fair.—Mr. Chas. Either and bride, of Mayville, Mich., are visiting Mr. and Mrs, Christopher Eil- ber.—Miss Evelyn herr, after a pleas- ant visit of a month with friends and relatives in London, returned home last week.—The Rev. Mr, Schmidt and Miss Lavania Brown are attending the,Y. '. A convention at Tavistock this''v-erilr. —Mr Louis Roeding, of Zurich,- was here Sunday visiting his old friends.— The Misses Louisa Morlock and Carry '.. Faist are visiting friends at Morriston, —Mr. Wm. Riley, of London, spent La- bor day with his friends here.—Mrs. Ball, accumpanied by'aer daughter, of Goderich, visited he' daughter, Miss W. Ball on Sunday /tea. Monday.—The senior base ball clubs of Crediton and Exeter played a game on Labor clay. The score being 27 19 and an inning to spare, in favor of Exeter. (From another source) Our Senior baseball team visited Ex- eter Monday, and played a friendly game with the seniors of that town, which resulted in a victory for the home team by eight runs. Our boys are not in the least disheartend as they still think they can " whip " our friends of Exeter. Quite a number from here witnessed the game, and were a little disappointed at its result, but still re- tain confidence in the ability of our boys to beat them. One of the visitors' intended to return home with the " boys " but forgot the bus left at nine sharp. A little promptness next time, John, please. tost St, Marys: The other day Rev. Mr. Learoyd had a bad fall by tripping on the edge of the stone walk, striking his face and shoulder on the pavement and being badly shaken. CLEARING SALE OF SUMMER GOODS —AT TIE CHEAP CASH STORE, CREDITON For the next 30 days we will offer our Stock at greatly reduced prices to clear and to make room for a large purchase made for the fall trade. 14IO1.1EST PRICES PAID Fop FA aVI Pt ObTiGE, A CALL SOLICITED, inn 7