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LOCAL DOINGS.
,Several Valentine partiee were held
last eveuing,
31r. ltobt. MeFalle is. out again after
4, few days nines*. r
T. F.,„ tiandford shipped two cars of
horsed to Winnipeg en Friday.
• G. Dyer commenced his du-
ties of assessing in towli uu Tuew14t7.
MIN Austin Hewett, bathers bas etc-
cepted a position with Mr. A. Ileetings.
Little Mary Merlock was (mite ilt
part `of kat week but is now well
s.gain.
1_ The oldest resident ot Mitchell, Geo.
Retvee, died there on Friciariset„ at
the age of 96 years;
Miss White and Itre, 'Wickwire eu.
tertaine4 nutuber cd. lady, friends
Wednesday aftern.0011,
Mzss Gladys Bissett, daughter of Mr.,
W. J Dissett entertamed a number of
her little friende on Wednesday night,
Rev. Malett, son -it -law of Dr. Ban.
non, has accepted a ealkto the Mitchell
,Methodist church. He .is now etation-
"ed at Ohatham.
We aTe offering „apecial value* in
Suitings.„' Coatinga fetid Pantings this
mouth tn order to rusike root» for
Spring Good* •
Stiltings made to orderThr $1.0
and $12. n
Over Coatings made to order
, for' t$9 and upwaxds.
.Pantings made. to order to
$2.50 and
Wi, TAMA
Merchant Tailor.
Exeter, - Ontario
411.1MINIIP
The recent cold snap and the good
sleighing emnbined nicety to the end
that a good supply of ice has been se.
eured by the local dealers.
Mr. John Bartner has accepted a
'situation with Mr. T. E. Handford in
the place of Mr. Pete Colensao who is
now employed by the Ross Taylor Co.
Mr. Ben-Oliel, won the medal for
oratory in the college contest held in
Toronto last year. Don't fail to hear
him next Monday evening in the Opera
Hotness Locals -- Red Them
If you leant fars )-ententher
• ving 20 per cent. oil: •
Silloa 4ca spool at iDhariton's Fair.
Lneal Stationery, neW style, up to
te Howey's Drug Store.
f You want to See the lovely Chanti,lly
-Rose dinner Set at 'Stewart's, .
INIentine post -cards. at -Charlton'
F;tir 3 for 5 cents.
Wh"y experiment When Cole's Ceti&
Cure is guaranteed to cure your cough.
. .
Just (played a. shtpntent of No. 1 qual-
ity Lino/ezons, al/ the newest deigns at
Stewarts; Daily Star and 'other ieading Can-
- Our speCtality. family receipts dis- adieu newspapers. • s
penseci with careend accuracy at • It is pleasure to note that St. Val-
poiels Drug store. entine's day is still, kept in remelts-
.' Stewart is showing the finest range . of brrtnce, but, happily, by exchanges of
Boye and .318n,sfine shirts in ail tha ,neu, pictures of moye, or less beauty, rather
patterns. been in vegne for several Year"
House. .
,
Mrs. H. 'Wendland; who underwent
an operation at the hospital, London,
last week is reported to be improving
nicely and it is expected she will be
able to return home scion, •
During 1905 the 'rural population of
Middlesex county decreased by 1,8,72.
Parkhill went from 1,413 to 1,400; Luc -
an 820 to 805; Bidclulph 2,250 to 2,135;
and McGillivray 2,860 to 2,730..
• The Stephen and Usberne Agricul-
tural Society'has decided to hold a
grand cefebrationsin-Exeterssins-May
24th. What form the celebration will
take has not yet been decided upon.
Don't forget the Oriental Entertain-
ment on Monday •evening.
Recorn-
mended hisrhly by the Toronto Mail
and Empire, Teronto Globe, Montreal
.than of such ridiculous things as have
'wanted,• Mr; WaxesDavidsons of London, was
Girls to learn the Millinerysduties to in town on Monday and disposed of
begin about the 2n4 weeks. in March. his village property here on Andrew
Apply at once.—j. Al."St4wart, street to Mr. Ws, M. Blatchford of
mini/wry A tices waed. • ' town. The money consideration was
. '
otos wanted to learn iiiinery ,Apa little over seven hundred tiollats.
• at once at Jones & CI. k's ,stere, - Mr. J. A. Gregory left Monday last
'for. London where he joined Mrs.
Ladies ieantinyjrclioice line of wide Gregory. After a few days in London
en`fereirdetseseatiiiiiii for, coriet covers at they will'leave for their home in Norjeh
Stara's-es Battleford, Sask. During the past two
Weeks Mr. Gregory had been confined
to the house through illness.
If you, want to here the most inter-
esting and edocative entertaitonent of
Jbe'season- Come to the Opera House
next.-*buday evening. •
. Stewart has. 2-eeetvecl rcouje of
bkcle. dress goods, all the npui tveaves.
)114s, PranIc Triebner and two claui4h-
. Willie Arrnstrong an • two tasters
enjoyea a swift ride CIO,Wn Main street
Thursday afternoon. "Teddy" man-
aged to keep the heirseon thesoad and
to avoid colliding with other rigs, '. un-
til thebeast was stopped 'in front of
the residence of 'Joseph Cobbledick.
huO nova esiiiege Wae done,
.itr34 Jaiisf and Minnie,. 11.Aft 4.9141 Ainsler, engineer for the
• tattled a heather' of friends on Thylvis tiYunets'of nurort, has tendered his
, day evening, t being Mrs, Trieoner's
- birthday,. The cottpany are loud in
, their pritia4 for the kind ;hospitality
- shown thentsby'Mr. and Mrs. Trieb-
tier and family. At midnight a dainty'
.--4luncheon swasseeved after which the
guests repaired to their' respective
homes, wishing Mrs. Triebner many
happy returns of the day.
At the. ,Durham Cement meeting
held I Toronto last week it was de-
_ s..,eiscleil to keetithe plant at Darhanze al-
Arm.
resignation, to take effect. June 15th
next. 'During his long l teem, Mr. Ans-
ley has carried out many imptirtant
and permanent improvements in the
way of bridges for the county, several
of which' are in this neighborhood.
On Thursday evening a team of Ito*.
ey players was picked oparound town.
They drove to Hensell and there en-
gaged in a .friendly game .with the
O.H.A. team of th.at place. The final
result was 13-3 in favor of IlenSall.
thongb many were in favor of moving Our boys went into the genie without
it to Port Colborne,Much heateddia.
elusion took place regarding the man-
agemenfor the 'Works, whether the
plant sheolcl be moved. The election
of directors" resulted as folityvvs:—W.
IT.onylo, M. P. P., Cannington;
Gil-
bert- McKechnie, Durham; R. IL Me -
Williams, Owen Sound; A. P. McLaren,
• iL P. Stratford; Valentine Ratz, M.
P., Parkhill; S. F. 31eltay, Woodstock;,
- C. Dyer, St. Thomas; while 1. A.
Cline, Stratford; J. Cobbledick, Exeter.
and J. W. Stott, Listowel, were rear,
ed from the board. - '
DON'TThisVotDW,. ITH
.11'n nownrs
• CHERRY CORDIAL.
ONLY 26 CENTS AT
ITO WEY'S
DRUG STORE, EXETER.
.„
Good Winter
We like to show our goods to the
pan who thinks he cannot be ple'asetl.
Anyone can suit the fellow who is
amity satieiled, but it takes good
workmate...elite honest materials and
the best of tailoring experience to suit
the really
Careful Dresser,
001 and be convincethat we have
the best of goods, we do the best of
iwoOk and tit you mit eheaper than any
Other place in tovrm
Order you Suit and Over
coat now.. '
of 0
practice and the result is not surprising.
• Rev. Wm. Baugh of Rippen , occu-
pied the pulpit of the James, street
church on Sunday last in the absence
.of the pastor, Rev. Going, who was at
Kippen. Rev, Baugh preached inter-
esting sermons, that of the evening
on ',The Religion of Christ and Bow
Attained,'? being particularly strong.
On Monday everting tame thirty-five
of the members of the Main street Bp -
worth League went to Ilensall to visit
the League of the Methodist church
there. The visitors took charge of the
meeting and, rendered a very pleasing
program, after which they were treat,
ed to refreshments by the Hensall so-
ciety. An enjoyable evening tine spent
At the ineetintt tif Quarterly Official
Board of the Main street church on
Thursday evening last, on motion of
D. A. Ross and H. Hooper, a vote of
thanks wits tendered to W. O. Huston
for the faithfni services he had render-
ed the church as , ,member of the
board for the past few years, and the
board wished him "God -speed" where -
ever hp may deeide to live in fixture.
An explosiort of aeetylene gas occur-
red on the nsoroing of Feb. 7, at Souris,
Man., in the Xing Edward Hotel, be-
ing run by W. J. Ilawkehave, son of
ltirs. Wm, lIawksbaw of town. For-
totuttely rio Iterson was hurt. It is
thought there was a leak in. the pipe
between the gelling and the floor, awl
that fso meone trying to locate it, cahsed
the explosicm. The windows in ths
room above were blown oat and the
floor and walls badly ',damaged, while
the plaster was ktiocked of the ceiling
beheath, and the walls throughout
the' building badly erteked. A fire
started but was extinguished before
much damage. 'Mord received here
since statea that the damage was not
115 great as above stated.
Several Exeter curlers drove to 'len-
sell on Monday aril engaged in a grime
with the enviers of that, village, The
following is the result. giving the
nanleff of the skips of the respective
%inks only:
Exeter en sail
IVittir 11 F. Srnallscombe 16
11 Ituston 6 C. McDonell 15
JAI. Grieve' n 11. nonthron 11 Mies Mny Wood MO Tanidon
r
Store ti4 relit after March 15. Next "
door to Posteffiee, Apply to Aline D.
Jane.
Mies Mable Barrowe gave a eleighiug
party to a reinibe'r of her youug friende
sie Wednesday eveuing.
The Ven. Avagideacon Young, D. p.,
will, prat in the Trtt Memorial
church next ionlay stening.
We iinderstand Mr. wiles Beverley.
of Reuse% has leaeed the Opera Rouse
Block for it term -audits tnoving in a
stook of farniture etc., and will open
up fer buoinees ou Mareh• let,
Division eourt its being held in the
Town Hal' as we go to press, but as
the eatiess have not been completed we
refrain trot commenting thereon,
judge nott,, a Goderich o.pteSisling.
Few peeple of town were wakeful
enough ou Thursday' night last to see
the eclipse iif the moon. Anybody
knows that rit was caused by the alma
dOW Of this giddy old, 'earth falling up.
on the tnoett,' that is, the suit, (sera'.
and moon were directly in line. Short-
ly before one o'clock the eclipse begets,
At 3,30 the moon was hidden. At 5.40
the phenomenon was ended. Fewer
Kill were the 'number who saw the
Apish.
DeAlea's College Girls and Salliyao's
Concert Company, who recently corn.
bitted forces, opened an engagement
in the Opera House here on Thursday
night of last week. The company is
rualting,a tour of Ontario for the pur-
pose of advertising the Irish Profess-
or's famous remedies, consequently
only a well admission fee is charged
the ilrst few nights. The, company Is
above the average in their entertain-
ments and are pleasing their audiences
every evening. They put on 4 differ-
ent program. every night of glean;
'wholesinne and -.highly entertaining
performance. The Irish Comedian is
particularly good in all his numbers
And evokes roars of laughter at his
every appearance. The various musi-
cal selections are highly. entertaining,
particularly those of the bell ringing
which brought forth' continued and
loud applause; The dog show is an
interestingfeature and is watched with
a great deal of interest.. The per-
formances' wind up with a laughable
farce comedy, of well directed talent.
The out -door selections by the Lady.
,Banclare-listenect towith uiuch iileas-
ure. , . °
The Masquerade and racing'carnival
on Monday night was a success. A
large number were present as spectat-
ors, ordinary skaters and competitors
In costumes. The costinnes were many,
and varied, and at times the judges
had difficulty in determining to whom
prizes should be given. The following
are the contests -and the narcies•of the
winners: Best'Lady's,Comie character„ ,
Miss L. U Liston; best Gentleman's COW-
issebasacter, Victor Sanders; best Fan-
cy Dressed Gentleman, Frank Weeks;
beat Country Cou 1 , Miss M. Walters
and Fred Walters; best 14oeal take -off,
A. Dayinati; best Small :Boy in Cos-
tume, G. Hordon. Mile Race, al;
terf3.*
Woks' Forecasts for Vet). runry.
A regular storm period falls:on the
20 having its center on the. lith. 4.
look at the storm diagram for rebru-
ary-showe that Earth's Vernal equinox
and a consbine disturbances of Mercury
and Ven us, all unite in their perturbing
influences at this s.period. There is
every reason to believe that 'Bente of
the hardest storms, and most severe
weather for the Winter, will set in at
this Period and continue with little
intermissions, for ,the remainder ot
FebruraY And into March. Change to
',rising barometer and colder will follow
up the storms from the northwest,
but storminess and rough, threatening
weatherwill-continue, blending the
.storns periods into a prolonged spell of
stormy, disagreeable weather.
Ait9ThweZeVitwisho '');uy from' ' cat* alegue
houses in the cities will be interested
in the following: When yours cata-
logue comes from the mail order house,
reit until you get home before rernov-
mg the 'wrapper; then wait untiLafter
sapper, when the chores are •done,
draw an easy ehtur to the table Where
the light will shine full on the page,
put On your glasses so that no hTar-
gains may escape your eye, and settle
down for an hour of quite enjoyment.
What a wonderful book it is, to be
sure—wonderful in what it does not
contain as well res, in what it does.
We miss some things we should be
glad to see. Whereis theft. offer to
pay cash or exchaege, good fs for your
butter, eggs, hay and grain? How
niuch do they pay for cattle sheep and
hogs? How much taxes will they pay
for improving roads and bridges, for
the eupport of the poor of the eountry,
for the expenses of running the bust-
hess of the town And' country? On
what stage is their -offer to contribute
money or services in the establishment
and maintenance of a church or Sun-
day school for the improvement of the,
moral tone of your community? What
line of credit will they extend to you
when your crops are poor and money
gone, when through illness or misfor.
tune you are not able to send them
eash with order for your hardware,
dry goods, etc.? .Where is their offer
to coutribute to any demonstvation on
a . holiday? In what department do
they explain to yon the increased val.-
ue of your property X; a result of tract.
ing with them? If tits the catalogue
you find these questions anewereci to
your entire satisfaetion, bring these
answers in ana most town merchante
will turn to farming and let the towns
go to grass. Under such conditions
no towri\Js needed further than tofurn.
ish avail*. station, express office and
postoffice, a f which might be cov-
ered with otter f. If you buy of catn.
logue houses thit k over the above ser-
I°uT8h1Ya applies es! 1"s" of PeoPle.
There ate kinse-inerchants and others
in town.who, when they watit a little
printing done, send to a city office for I
it, and gee nothing better thatt can be
turned out in theiv (nen offices. At the
f43ME3 time they expect the load papers
to be. puffing up their business and the
town generelly ht a thousand different
Mre. Malloy ietu1.ues1 Saturday from
a visit to Toronto.
• Fred Cole spent a few days in
Strati's' a last week.
Miss Mabel Piper of London is
ihga.t her home Isere.
Mise Dorringtoo 41)11'MWS MeLsettn
speut Sas:inlay in London.
Mr. John Norry of Tilbury spent
Suudey here with Mot Norry.
Mr. 'Wm. Monent of Guelph spent
Sunday with hie parental here.
Mr, and Mo. Cliartera, of Egraoml-
ville, are visiting Mr. Geo. McLeod.
Licenee Inspector Torrence, Clinton,
wasin WWII On OtaCittl duty:, Tueeday.
Eilher of Brantford ut vieiting
her sister, Mot Abe Dearing, Stephen.
Miss Bente White of Tilsonburg is
the guest of MOW Beatrice Rolm:won.
Miefs Storey of Uxbridge was , the
guest of her niece, Rise DorritigtOntleet
week. •
Mre..A.rchie 31cralls of Bidthilpit is
the giiest.of her wseousin, Miss Maud
licalgin ,•
Miss Lydia Queue° went Saturday
to London to attend the wholesale
millinery openings.
Misses Effie and Ruby Treble spent
Sunday in Loudon, the guests of their
sister Mrs. A. Evans.
Miss Hall, after a pleasant visit here
the gliest of Mrs. (Dr.) Amos, returned
to Brantferd Thursday.
Jas. Bawdeu who is attending busi-
ness college at .0hathrtin is home to
attend the funeral of his mother.
Mr. Dans A. Sanders attended a
dance given 1)3' the Forest City Glee
010 at London on Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Shapton attend.
ed,the funeralof the latter's coustn,
Mr. Thoruaa Amy, in Goderich on
Friday.
Miss Alice Dawe of London was the
guest of Mrs. Collins and Mrs.
E. Treble for a °few days, returning to
her home Tuesday, .
Miss Luelle holmes, who has spent
the past two weeks the guest of Mise
Pearl Rollins, has Jetornetl tO her
hoine in Dorchester,
• itrid Mrs. R. McFalls are visiting
in Stratford and Delhi, the guests of
their dinighters Mrs S Mulcahy and
Mrs. I. R. Bissett, this meek.
Mrs. Wm Wilson, who spent few
days of ha
t 'week here, returned on
Friday to Petrolea where she With Mr,
Wilson will reside in future.
—Mrs. Alex Ross, of Livingstone, N.
Dak., wise has been visiting her sister.
Mrs. R. H. Collins,. started her home-
ward journey Tuesday morning.
Mr.. E. .1. -Aitken and. wife (Nee Em.
ma Delve) of Brandon, Mans are
among the Westertrvisitore spending a
few weeks in town with friends.
Aitken is among those who have Pros -
in the West and cap now rest on his
oars.
Additional Locals on page 2.
T. Hawkins & Son's
DWARE and
SEED STORE.
--
Nails; Glass, Oils, Cements
Eavetroughing,
Heating and Plumbing
And you will find it is the ch.eape4 spot in town
AWKINS SON.
Clalrvoyant-Psychic Medical
Examination Free
Having pttrchased the stock of W. 0, Huston, and de-
siring to reduce the same before removing it to our ware-
.
rooms,: we will 'offer the entire stock of Furniture, comprising
itchen, Dining Room,
Bed Room, Drawing
.
and Hall Furniture'
also many odd Ocoee and Rockers; at a great reduction.. '
Cali and see the many bargains:. we offer.
INSON
Puneral Dirs:)otors.
By DR. 1i. F, BUTTERFIELD, of
Syracuse, N.Y. Relieving in clairvoy-
ance or not, there PA no gainsaying the.
fact that the doctor can explain the
soarce'and cause of your disease either
mental or physical and has restored to
health and happiness many helpless
invalids all their lives. Send lock of
hails name, age and stamp to
,PR. E. P. 13UTTERFIELD, •
• • '
uaI it
irst
lace
We know that we tia,ye to hold fast
to quality to hold fast to trade. Mins
causes us` to exercise the greatest care
in the Selection of wheat used in the
marrufacture of our Family Flour
".STAR." , The quality supported
bkreasonable prices.
Only $2.25 per cwt. at the Mill:
'
We have large quaistities cif feed. for
.Sale,at close prices.
ExaTati, -ONTAttIO
•
The ext Two
- Clearing Sftle of Wralzilerettes
All -lines worth 124 Gents, now 11 yardsfor sLoa,
Odd Lines in „Men's Underwear
worti13,14 the egular way 60c.- to $L 0)aolee at 60c.
• Ohildre4's Jackets •
Itt Uletei's and Reefers ',1) half pri6e.
Come in and see our new stock of tadies' Collars and , •
Belts, also.Our new dress trimmings Sequin, Persian
' • effects and strappings.
A nice assortment of Ladies' Silk Blouses in cream
and black. - They are new Styles and fit perfectly.' -
Our stock. of Art Sateens for Comforterf3, Cushions, eW,
comprises the 'very choicest in patterns and. colorings. -,
TOILET
SOAP
Ifeadqualiers for the celebrated W. E. Sanford Clothing,
. Clearing- Out of -
n • LADIES'
UNDERWEAR
'
OPOttigt
(..)N TIIE FACE OF IT
ICS what it pretendet to be. It's gen.
nine and there isn't any better made.
'When it eomes to ,
SOAPS FOR FACE Tisn
you catt",t be too particular in bnyin
.Toilet soaps for thereto we reeornitnen
our medium priced, daintily perfumed
and give that velvety eoftness to the
akin that tallies so much admire. , Buy
ways. a box or a cake ea you like',
0. Anderson 13 • FrAl Bush 11 iiruy 1,18t,
Oltirio
A kreturn tnafeli is' expected expected this er at,ClintonMurphy 14fielting het, mot
'Ihrokut Elder, wee.
Sea Our Window Display,
*4104-
W. 8. govny,
e„i. and Optiebtne EXETF,It
Phone 0.
Women's Vests and Drawers, Fleeced lined regular price
50cettehitoclearat.....„.•... % . 00000 400
VirOnlieff Vests and Drawers, Natural Grey, tine ribbed
•, regular price 400 quality each for - . - Ofic
'Women's Vest and Drawers fine ribbed, large full Size reg.
ular price 35c each to clear at
Women'e Vests and Drawers very fine quality white or
grey, all sizes regular price 75e each to clear at, 68c
Women's Vesta and Drawer all wool in black, red or grey
regular price $1 eaelt to clear at. - - - - 79c
Children's Vests and Drawn in all Bizet; and all qualities at
prices which Will eeltevery Garment in a hurry,
SNELL 8v ROWE