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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-10-08, Page 4Page 6 THE W1NGHAM 0.ctober 8th, 1914 APPOINTMENT OF PREMIER Pyne. Most inauspicious in many respects Ls the opening of the Hearst regime. The chief difficulty comes from adverse Criticism in the ranks of the Conserva- tives themselves. Some of the Gov- ereMent papers look upon the new era ttot as a Ilearet administration so much as a Cochrane—Hearst regime. It Seema to be an admitted fact that the appointment of a successor to Sir James Whitney instead of being made I democratically by a caucus of the Con- servative memberof the Legislature. was arranged from Ottawa. Even the Toronto News, (Conservative) excuses this on the ground that Sir James' Whitney himself always regarded the Conservative party in Ontario as part of a national organization." This is not fair to Sir James Whitney's deserv- ed reputation for independence but it is a line of defense made necessary by the embarrassing position in which the Government is now put. The World and the Telegram, both Conservative, are out -spoken in their protests against the interference from Ottawa. The former refer k to Cochrane's nominee (now Prime Minister) as a "putty" man and the latter exclaimed "Surely the members of the Ontario Legislature are big enough to resent meddlingfrom Ottawa. Of interest equal to the appointment of Prune Minister is the disappearanee of Sir Adam Beck from the Cabinet. Gloss it over as the Government is un- doubtedly trying to do it is easy to see that public opinion throughout the Province is suspicious. Cochrane has always been regarded as a "corpora- tion" politician. Indeed, the Telegram says openly that at Ottawa "He has been more of a hindrance than a help to the Hydro Electric policy." It is this man's nominee, this man's "VridaY," who is now Prime Minister. Does this not go a long way to explain Beck's absence from the new Government? Sir Adam to -day is only a private mem- ber. His influence is that much reduc- ed and this curtailment of his power is unpopular with the people. Hon. W. J. Hanna, formerly the chief man in the the lime light and the acknowledged successor to Sir James Whitney when the latter would retire, is sadly out of the maelstrom these days. The "Proudfoot" and "Snider" investigations have made a big chance for the Provincial Secretary, a change which must to him be most unwelcome. NEW PREMIER ELECTED. It was officially announced Thursday night that Hon, W. Hearst. minister of lands, forests and mines, in the Whitney Government, and the youngest member of the cabinet, was summoned to Gov- ernment House, and asked by the Lieutenant -Governor to form a new government. This disposes of the vexed question as to who is to succeed the late Premier Whitney. Mr. Hearst will continue as Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, and the only change in the personnel of the cabinet is the appointment of Finlay G. McDiarrnid, member for West Elgin. to the portfolio of public works, made vacant by the defeat of Dr. J. 0. Reaume, in the recent election. Hon. I. B. Lucas, provincial treasurer, suc- ceeds Hon. J. S. Hendrie, the new Lieutenant -Governor on the Llydro- Electric Commission. Sir Adam Beck is no longer a mem- ber of the Government without port- folio, his dropping out being at his own request on the reorganization of the Government, his wish for a long time having been to devote his whole atten- tion to the hydro -electric development with which his name is so prominently associated. The new premier has represented Sault Ste Marie since 1908, and en- tered the eabinet in 1911, in succession M Hon. Frank Cochrane, Who, at the last Dominion election, entered the Bor- den cabinet, Hon. Sir Adam Beek will eoatinue eh Armen of the Hydro -Electric Power Cammission. Hon. 1. B. Lucas wi I take the position on the Hydro -Electric C immisaion that the act requires to be filled by a member d the execUtive The new Cabinet will be as follows: Prime Min.ster and President of Ex- ecutive Council—Hon. W. II. Hearst. A ttorney Generel -tIon..f J. Foy. AiLlister of Educetion Hon. R. A. ab"lircf. Frankland demon» s•trates Mat COD LIVER OIL generates more bodpheat than anything dsa'. f;COT1"S Emlif,SION° the pure ell is so prepared that the Mood prate from every drop. nitile it fortifies throat- end hinge you 'kr* tradOCt to acid' lamas c,rfeet; 'gibe thilter ittla 1 elittedi eti#111#: W(6 scOrrs EMI.t ott Harr ono orcon. and irm.th ki tooti off -cot. 3 Statartril/TES. TO ENJOY WINTER Provincial Secretary—Hon. W. J. Hanna. Nlinister of Agriculture—Hon. J. S. Provincial Treasurer—Hon. I. 13. Lucas. Minister of Public Works -Finlay G. McDiarmid. Minister Without Portfolio—Hon, R. F. Preston. witexEr. En. Stewart McKercher has returned from Saskatehewan, A Patriotic "At Home" was held in the town hall last Tuesday evening. Miss Hazel Hamilton, Gorrie, spent Sunday with Miss Lizzie Rutledge. Two rinks of Harriston bowlers en- joyed a game here on Tuesday after- noon, I. Darst and family have moved to Mrs. O. Smith's residence on Howlck street. Geo. and Mrs. Allen returned on Thursday from a visit with relatives at Ottawa. • Miss )3ryans. Brussels, spent the past week with her cousins, the Misses Kitchen. C. and Mrs. and Alvin and Mrs. Hemp- hill, Hensel', spent Sunday with T G Hemphill. Presbyterian church anniversary on Sunday, llst inst. Rev Mr Cooper, 31t Forest, will preach. BRUSSLS W. Holmes, of Walton locality, was kicked in the face and his jawbone brok- en by a young colt yesterday. It was closed up in a box stall to wean it and the proprietor was bending over the manger, when the foal turned and kicked viciouely at him. William Strachan and Jack and Charlie Leckie have returned to the university at Toronto, and Bob Warwick is of to the School of Practical Science for hs second year. One of the biggest and best fall fairs ever held here took place on Thursdiq and Friday. As both days were fine, the inside and outdoor departments were of a high order, and very few items in the big prize list lacked com- petition. Clinton Ki:tie Band supplied an excellent program of music, and athletic sports, speeding events, school drill, eta., filled in Feday afternoon. In addition to the judging of the ex- hibits. Receipts at the gate were $750 and with other credits will total about $1,200. Concerts were given both evenings in the skating rink by the London Concert Company. Not a drunken man was to be seen. 31ent'on is made of this because there are no hotel licenses granted in Brussels. and this was the first big day since the licenses were cut off. East Huron teachers will convene here Thursday and Friday for their annual convention. T. G. Shillinglaw is president and G. W. Holman secre- tary -treasurer. A car of live poultry was shipprd from Brussels recently. NEWS NOTES. The season's operaticns began at Clinton evaporator and a staff of 2) people is now pushing the apples through. Harold. the five-year-old son of Thos. and Mrs. Consitt, of Hillsgreen, is dead at his home following an operation for appendicitis. Dr. A. J. MacKinnon, one of Zurich' leading physicians, was married to Miss Matilda Johnston, eldest daughter of R. R. Johnston of the Dominion Houle. TIME IN_PALESTINE It ts So Erratio That Making a Train Is Quite a Peat. In Jerusalem town time and train time are different, forty minutes differ- ent, And both are 'variable. Train offi- cials say the train leaves for jaffa at 6:40 o'clock lia the morning, but 6:40 o'clock by train time is 1:20 o'cleck by town time. One morning when we were stinting for Egypt ;we ordered our carriage for 7 o'cock. Arriving at the station at 7:15 o'clock, We found the train gone and the station. empty. At last was routed out an official. "Where.% the train?" We demanded. "Gone, messieurs." "Gime? You've changed the hour of the train, then?" "Non, non, Messieilts. The train leaves ta the same hotir ewe* but the time has -changed. Yesterdai 6:40 o'clock train time wee 7:20 o'hlock town time. Today 6:40 o'clock train time is 7 o'clock Mont lime. Zit), no" --and he 'United pattonizinglY—"the train alWaYs leaves at the same hour; our trains never chartge.-4t is the tittle that titers itself, not the train. Messieliria" We sought the telegraph Made "To the steamer agent to Jaffa," We dictated. "Missed train. °andel pat, Sage on heat for Egypt. Wire date Of next Willing for Port Said" Thie Was turned into AOWerY Turkish and sent A reply came aeon. "Plenty of time. Your beet W111 waft tin tdMorrest ifternodn, for the Witter is te reach she Cannot land her pule* ear* 06 titritu loam Plenty of time If yon take the train tenterroirtwe-Skt. Wald Ifett. OMENS IN BASEBALL A LUALT nr a. Manager's Method of Turning a Su• perstition to Account. Writitg on baseball unittere in the ' • New York Tribune, John .1. McGraw has this to say about the superstitions of the players: "I recognize the superstitions of hall players. For example, hack in 1904, when Bowerman was •with the team, he came t% me one day and said: "'As I came in toclay I saw a teatu nr white horses driving Past the Polo grounds. That's a good sign. Watch me kill the ball this afternoon.' "He did. The belief in his supersti- I tiOn had given him confide:me.. Bow. 1 erman spread the tidings or the white horses around the clubhouse. The next day somebody else saw the white horses, 'so the day after. By the end of the week the entire team was hit- ting like a house on lire. They all be- lieved in the superstition, and it gave them confidence. One day my short- stop, Dahien, remarked: "'Funny those white horses always happen to drive past the ball park just when we are coming into the clubhouse. It's certainly lucky.' "1 heard him and couldn't keep back a sraile. On the day Bowerman told rae he had seen the horses I made up my mind that everybody else would see them as long as it helped their batting. So I engaged a man to drive past the Polo grounds every day. That Is a 'fact, and it shows the lengths to which a manager will go to cater to ball players' superstitions." Peculiar Experience With a Dead- ly Mexican Tarantula, ...r••••••,,w.•*•••••••• PENNED IN A DARK BEDROOM. • The Trying Ordeal Through Which a Woman Tourist Passed In a Hotel at Vera Cruz—Awaiting the Bite That Meant Madness and Then Death. The tarantula is mucla larger In Mer. leo than in Italy. His four pairs of fuzzy legs, his speckled bulging belly, bis abnormally fat head, armed with Vicious nippers and equipped with eight Oyes arranged in transverse rows, set- flce to fill you with a wholesome desire to give him the right of way without ado. Owing to the fact that he bas an un- welcome habit of leaving his own realm in the tropical vineto tnake sociable little visitations 5 the cor- ners of your bedroom it had always been my custom to search every nook and crevice of my sleeping room be. fore retiring for the night. Twice had I seen native laborers, peons, to the agony of death due to a tarantula bite. So it was not surprising that this creeping thing headed my Iist of the many dangers to be shunned in Mex- ico. I had just reached Vera Cruz from Mexico City, very tired, and decided to seek my room early in the evening, 7which, indeed, is the only safe and proper thing for an unaccompanied Woman in Mexico to do. That part of the diligencias in which my room was located was evidently undergoing re- pairs, for a pile of timbers was includ- ed in the furnishing of my apartments, No particular reason occurred to me :why I should investigate this lumber, and, little realizing that it might shel- ter lurking dangee, I dung my weary head on the dirty pillow. But as 1 lay quietly dozing off to sleep I suddenly, heard a soft little noise, which one might describe as a cross between a hum and a hiss. ,As a precaution against the many venomous things that creep and crawl even in the well beaten paths of ,Mex--- ico I bad made a careful study of the arachnids, to which class the tarantu- las belong. I recognized that soft un- ostentatious warning that announced a roommate as undesirable as one could well wish. Cautiously I stretched out my hand to see it by chance there were some matches on the little stand near my bed, with the result that I knocked the unlighted candle upon the floor. That was enough for my mettlesome room- mate; he bad been personally insulted by the noise, and suddenly in the utter darkness, that black stillness which one feels in a strange room, I detected a sickening odor, the warning of the angry tarantula. • 1 strained my ears, to detect the soft, characteristic click that the male, the deadliest of the species, employs as a fancy frill to his malicious song. My blood chilled as I heard his muffled bum -click, bum -click, hum—apparent- ly not three feet away. I held my breath, incidentally my nose, and lay 1 wondering how long it would be ere I I should feel his big fuzzy feet sneaking up the side of my neck or before hie soft woolly body would light upon my I face. It was not at all comforting to ' remember that one of a tarantula's ec- 1 cent:lefties is to flnd his way to a point on the ceiling directly over the object of his anger and then to drop uncere- moniously upon his victim. It was the only time In my life when I longed for the bliss of ignorance. Would to heaven I had not studied this hideous horror of the tropics! But I had. Moreover, I had seen the awful effects of bis worse than fatal bite, whose work of destruction was merci- lessly long drawn out. If the bite of a male tarantula infects a large artery It throws the victim into a dreadful state of crazed nerves. The incipletit stages of the poisoning are tte. companied by accentuated melancholia, followed by a shattering of the mental- ity. On gradually absorbing the venom the unfortunate subject reels and raves in a mad whirl until he swoons front pure exhaustion. The tarantella, the graceful Italian dance eci ''. often de- scribed in musical literature, derives its name from this hideous poisoning. All this and more darted through my mind as I lay there in the darkness Wondering if I, too, were doomed to die like a dervish. As the night wore on the buzzing grew less seduloue. I lay mOtionless -during the thoudand years till dawn, which tame at last, a divinely soft, blue, shimmering shaft of light, whith made things faintly vis- ible Cautiously 1 drew myself up to a sitting posture and crated My neck In a searching survey about my chatnber of horrors. There, in torture worse than mine, bung my rckatimate, four Of his legs piniOned beniath the timbers. Where be sprawled, a Maimed bet angry pris- oner. HU eight eyes 'Winked me a /nil. Kant "Good inorning,"- and I forthwitli returned the complinsent with theslen. der shaft of My hatpitn—Nelv York Sun. DALTON'S EXPERIMENT, Showing What a Genius Can Do With Crude Apparatus. The great English chemist Dalton was a schoolteacher. Be worked with- out a laboratory and with crude ap- paratus, mostly made by himself from simple materials. Here is an example described in his own words: "Took an ale glass of a conical fig- ure, two and a half inches in diameter and three inches deep; filled it with water that had been standing in the room and consequently of the tempera- ture of the air nearly; put the bulb of the thermometer to the bottom of the glass, the scale being out of the water. • Then, having marked the temperature, I put the redhot tip of the poker half an inch deep in the water, holding it there steadily for half a rainute, and as soon as it was withdrawn 1 dipped the bulb of a sensible thermometer into the water, when it rose in a few seconds to 180 degrees." He thendetermined the temperature of the water at the bottord after five minutes, after twenty minutes and aft- er an hour and found that it rose grad- ually from 47 to 52 degrees. This elm -16 pia experiment proved that water. has the power to conduct heat, which had been denied by no less an authority than Rumford.—Youth's Companion. , The Conscientious Chinese Child. One of our missionaries, writing of a little girl in the school ander her care, says: "Last night Wah Noo told me she wanted to be 'a whole Chris- tian,' as she called it So we had a long talk and tried to think of all the wrong we had done that day and con- fess it to,each other. She counted these wrongs otp her fingers: 'I did not brush my teeth as you told we to do; I did act take off the lower sheet on the bed when I made It up, and I I know' I ought to always; I got angry with one of the girls at school; I did not use my soap when I took my bath; I did not try to do 'my example in multiplication; all the other girls did theirs wrong, so I thought I would too.' "—Cor. Christian Herald. • Poetry and -Punctuation. In his poem "Narcissus" Robert 13ridges, the EnglLsh poet laureate, has banished the comma entirely, so that a procession of adjectives may be tak- en, at the reader's option, as separate qisalities or as qualifying each other.. Thus one may call his hero "almighty Wondrous" or regard him as being both. Mr. Bridges' principles of punc- tuation are not obvious. He loves the exclamation mark, using it five times 10 the twenty-eight lines of the paella. and sprinkles dashes about with prod- igality. Be adopts the colon and does not slight the interrogation mark, While using now and then a full stop.— Chihago News. A Lucky Escape. "I owe my successtha hie to politica." "I waa not aware that you were a politician." "I'm not, but I thought / was once end got myself notninated for an office that, if it had been elected, Would haVe paid me about $1,600 a year. 1 was so badly beaten that I dropped politics forever and took up the besinese that had brought nie a fortune. It Makes we shudder when I remember that if I had been elected I might now be afraid of doing something that wOuld deprive ale of the ledging house vote."—Chi. sago Ilerald. Reckless. Mr. Sepleigh — No, I'm not feeling very' well, you know. 1 haver thought once or twice lately-- Mist, Keen-. Good gracious! And then you wondet why you at* feeling it You really should not do sUch reckless tbinge.-• Belton Tranisetiot. The itetert Coortsoue. Nell—That girl boa it linger in ever* thing. Belle—Yea, she' bed it in iteMe Inigagetnett rings yOu*d like to turve..4. Reltirnore Atneridan. God *IMMO* Men by landfall theta lopom their own reaontrelio-treivell ROM The Easiest Way, "I want the *ages of a Man; that'll! *11 I'm asking," stid the "Votes For Watneti" orator, "Then," said Man LS he *role to Meek, "I eontend It isn't a vote that the iadi wants. Ail Abe hes to do Is to get nitrated.* BRAVINO AERIAL ICINESS. • Easier For the Balloonist Than For the Man In an Aeroplane. I am often asked why the aereplane, Which has reached at its very highest a little over 18,000 feet, bringS back its aviator even from a much lower point, often almost exhausted with celd, when the balloenist floating for hours at a height of over four miles is not overcome by low temperature and hardly inconvenienced. The answer is simple. The aviator rushes opward from the earth, cutting his way In ascending spirals ever against the wind of his own swift flight and the roaring blast of his propeller. Be Is the epitome of action. He is man's supreme defiance or nature's precedents. The nervous strain is something fearful as the machine claws up the side of nothingness to. ward a mark in the heavens, invisible yet all compelling, the mark another man has set—the altitude record Out of sight of the waiting crowds, no longer even a dot in the sky, be may meet opposing air currents, bileding cloud banks that muffle him so that he cannot see the tips of his own wings. He may be forced to buck against ad- verse conditions se that be keeps cit's cling round and round ovith the baro- graph lashed to the side of the ma- chine scarcely moving, and then he thinks about the last man's mark and sets his teeth—and sets the mark high- er in the heavens. Be may come back so stiff with cold that he cannot stir from the seat, but a good deal of it will be due to. the in- tense nervous strain, for no one so au- daciously affronts gravitation and gets' away with itentirely unscathed. Mean- while the balloonist has been "wafted to .the skies," if not "on flowery beds of ease," at least on an air mattrese, with a gas bag going up In docile agreement with laws governing Clio expansion of gas. The carburetor freezes at a lower temperature than the balloonist's water bottles, because vaporizing liquid in itself produces cold. But I have had water bottles freeze In a balloon, Often enough, and the , temperature bits been around zero. TIM ballast freezes, and, instead of sending it over the side from the scoop M a fine cloud, you have to break up the miss spARLING 'stony mass with a hammer lest a chunk WINGHAM BRANCH: A. M. SCULLY, Manager. timmormaszeniaramatammiswmrsormslEarcXESEENZSDNWSNEZMIZIZaD.S.. Bank of Hamilton Capital Authorized Capital Paid-up, Surplus - - - 0,000,000 3,000,000 8,750,000 ACCUMULATING CAPITAL The lack of Capital stands between many a man and the carrying out of a good business idea. Every young man on salary has the means of accumulating capital. Weekly additions of small amounts to a Savings Account in the Bank of Hamilton soon place him in a position of readiness for business opportunities. C. P. SMITH, Manager Winghain, Ont fall on somebody's head below. One clay when we were shiVering in the thickest or ulsters and drinking hot soup with a relish, we could. Wee ! looked over the edge of the basket and seen the farmers in Iowa having suns , strokes in the bayllelds—that is, if We bad 'recognized either smastroked or farmers, for at that height a man-' who is always biding under his hat - looks like a period on this page.—Assi anstus Post in American Magazine. s.-er.--te:rnss-rs Graduate of Toronto Conservatory of Music and Authorized teacher of Flet - her Music Method, Simplex and Kin. , dergarten. Pupils prepared for Conservatory examinations in Piano and Theory, , Theory taught by correspondence. classes. Re -Open Sep, 21 'Phone 165 DRAY FUSINESS ........••••••••116•11,01M1 Having purchased the Dray Business from Wm. Breckenridge, I am prepared to take care of business in this line. Your work will Is given careful and prompt attention. A share of your patronage solicited. f*.• 1.1•10111111.• Robt: McGEE Phone 10 ‹jir • warrAtArWs/co%/0.-tvitv Waxbitecteoreav's iv* 1Vt& *a 00/101kAalt,*4aAaoimilia Pleased Without Are the many Customers who are buying at The Merchants' Brokerage Co., Kerr's old stand. We have already bought three large stocks at forced sales at less than half of wholesale price and the big sale will swing along until the combined stock is clear- ed out People of Wingham and surrounding coun- try will reap the benefit of our buying, in the many bargain's we are offering. Following are a few of the lines giving you an idea of how we are cutting prices. Ladies' Dress Goods Regular 30c for 19c; reg. 75c for 38c; reg. $1 for 60c; reg. $1.50 for 98c. a Doubt Men's Suits , Reg. $18 to $12; reg. $15 for $10; reg. $10 for $7 Overcoats Reg. $16 for $8; reg. $12 for $6; reg. $10 sor $5 *. Underwear Reg. $1 for 79c; reg, 75c for 43c. Ladies' Jackets (half off reg. price. Largest stock of Furs at half price. We certainly shine in the Boot and Shoe line. A $5000 stock to choose from. Men's Women's, Boys', Misses' and Children's Shoes in light, medium and heavy stock. Men's $5' shoes $3.50, $3.75 at $2.48; Ladies $5, $3, $3.25 at $2.48; and all other tines at cut prices. See our 65c table. It Will surprise you. Groceries Best Granulated Sugar 16 lbs for $1.00; Golden Yellow Sugar, 17 lbs. for $1; 7 bars Comfort Soap 25c; 4 bottles extract 25c; Royal Yeast 4c; 2 10c pkgs Ammo- nia 15c; 15c Matches 12c; 40c Vinegar, per gallon, 30c; Sardines, per tin, 3c; Kippered Herring, per tin, 10c; Maple Leaf Salmon, per can. 20c; Corn Starch, 6c; Laundry Starch, 7c; Jelly Powder, 5c Brooms 25c; Lamp Glasses, 4c;' Dinner Sets reg. $15 for $8; Lamps, $4 for $1.19 Toilet Sets, reg. $5 for $2.98; Berry Sets, reg. $1 for 60c; Plates per doz 40c; Sauc- ers. each 2c; also large stock of china- ware at cut prices. The above are only a few of the many bargains we have to offer, Come in tnd see our stock. We take Butter 26c, lb., and Eggs at 26e. doz. 'weft, The MERCHANTS' BROKERAGE Co. thtt OW but Omit MO SOO # Prefer loft Wow Iminst Oft. KERR'S OLD STAND W!NGHAM trilf.-01114L 1,44111/4111,/%01‘4411•114%,111•44#11/11,441144%411411101,11,44,11AtoVilt ci THE DOMINION RANK SIR EDMUND R. oSLER MA, PRESIDENT, W. D. MATTHEWS. VIOE•PRESIDENT. ° C, A. BOGERT, General Manager,. 1 .........,..........„..---, Do Your Banking By Mail if you live at a distance from a branch of The Dominion panic, Deposits may be made—canh withdrawn—or any other Banking Business may be transacted by mail, just as easily as though one ' made a special trip to town for the purpose, A Savings Account may be opened in the name of two persons —man and wife, or two members of a family—so that either one can deposit and withdraw money from the same account. WINGHAM BRANCH: A. M. SCULLY, Manager. timmormaszeniaramatammiswmrsormslEarcXESEENZSDNWSNEZMIZIZaD.S.. Bank of Hamilton Capital Authorized Capital Paid-up, Surplus - - - 0,000,000 3,000,000 8,750,000 ACCUMULATING CAPITAL The lack of Capital stands between many a man and the carrying out of a good business idea. Every young man on salary has the means of accumulating capital. Weekly additions of small amounts to a Savings Account in the Bank of Hamilton soon place him in a position of readiness for business opportunities. C. P. SMITH, Manager Winghain, Ont fall on somebody's head below. One clay when we were shiVering in the thickest or ulsters and drinking hot soup with a relish, we could. Wee ! looked over the edge of the basket and seen the farmers in Iowa having suns , strokes in the bayllelds—that is, if We bad 'recognized either smastroked or farmers, for at that height a man-' who is always biding under his hat - looks like a period on this page.—Assi anstus Post in American Magazine. s.-er.--te:rnss-rs Graduate of Toronto Conservatory of Music and Authorized teacher of Flet - her Music Method, Simplex and Kin. , dergarten. Pupils prepared for Conservatory examinations in Piano and Theory, , Theory taught by correspondence. classes. Re -Open Sep, 21 'Phone 165 DRAY FUSINESS ........••••••••116•11,01M1 Having purchased the Dray Business from Wm. Breckenridge, I am prepared to take care of business in this line. Your work will Is given careful and prompt attention. A share of your patronage solicited. f*.• 1.1•10111111.• Robt: McGEE Phone 10 ‹jir • warrAtArWs/co%/0.-tvitv Waxbitecteoreav's iv* 1Vt& *a 00/101kAalt,*4aAaoimilia Pleased Without Are the many Customers who are buying at The Merchants' Brokerage Co., Kerr's old stand. We have already bought three large stocks at forced sales at less than half of wholesale price and the big sale will swing along until the combined stock is clear- ed out People of Wingham and surrounding coun- try will reap the benefit of our buying, in the many bargain's we are offering. Following are a few of the lines giving you an idea of how we are cutting prices. Ladies' Dress Goods Regular 30c for 19c; reg. 75c for 38c; reg. $1 for 60c; reg. $1.50 for 98c. a Doubt Men's Suits , Reg. $18 to $12; reg. $15 for $10; reg. $10 for $7 Overcoats Reg. $16 for $8; reg. $12 for $6; reg. $10 sor $5 *. Underwear Reg. $1 for 79c; reg, 75c for 43c. Ladies' Jackets (half off reg. price. Largest stock of Furs at half price. We certainly shine in the Boot and Shoe line. A $5000 stock to choose from. Men's Women's, Boys', Misses' and Children's Shoes in light, medium and heavy stock. Men's $5' shoes $3.50, $3.75 at $2.48; Ladies $5, $3, $3.25 at $2.48; and all other tines at cut prices. See our 65c table. It Will surprise you. Groceries Best Granulated Sugar 16 lbs for $1.00; Golden Yellow Sugar, 17 lbs. for $1; 7 bars Comfort Soap 25c; 4 bottles extract 25c; Royal Yeast 4c; 2 10c pkgs Ammo- nia 15c; 15c Matches 12c; 40c Vinegar, per gallon, 30c; Sardines, per tin, 3c; Kippered Herring, per tin, 10c; Maple Leaf Salmon, per can. 20c; Corn Starch, 6c; Laundry Starch, 7c; Jelly Powder, 5c Brooms 25c; Lamp Glasses, 4c;' Dinner Sets reg. $15 for $8; Lamps, $4 for $1.19 Toilet Sets, reg. $5 for $2.98; Berry Sets, reg. $1 for 60c; Plates per doz 40c; Sauc- ers. each 2c; also large stock of china- ware at cut prices. The above are only a few of the many bargains we have to offer, Come in tnd see our stock. We take Butter 26c, lb., and Eggs at 26e. doz. 'weft, The MERCHANTS' BROKERAGE Co. thtt OW but Omit MO SOO # Prefer loft Wow Iminst Oft. KERR'S OLD STAND W!NGHAM trilf.-01114L 1,44111/4111,/%01‘4411•114%,111•44#11/11,441144%411411101,11,44,11AtoVilt