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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-11-17, Page 8Christmas uarter. 1 h_— Tho rapidly cooling' welcher is are- minder that w ilit•er is corning and with it the swift Approach of the holiday sea son. We are now within the Christ• utas quarter and the few flakes o'fseow oeeasionally fiutteriug through the air bring with thele many pleastuit hopes. �r��ttS�►r-t�77��5t1-I�r�(��TC� igg� - BOYS . es. gnpT. 3gVERAL i1LV U ryOD BO S I D GIRLS y = + - § + Within a few miles 'around 'feel like giving an occasional sbout in the thought of what may possibly come to fill the pooket or enrich the rooms be .fore the•year closes. Wo have thought of them and provided many months ago. Just now some of the goods are commencing to Make theirappearance in; cases of different sizes. We will have lots of them this season—our Stock is generally pretty:full but "BIDE A WEE" and you may look through the door and see counters, shelves and stands literally groaning (as the tea meetings say) with their ' large display, Dull times will not daunt us -the goods will be hare, and we hope -the custom ors. �.R+icic DOr�.1 DOWN! DOWN! Go the Prices in 'FLIES E s AT Tho Big BaiikTtliit q ' ii The stock is too large andmust be reduced. We can save you 25 to 40 per cent on your Jackets and give you the newest and most beautiful stock in Western Ontario to select' from. Ail bright new fashionable goods. No old ,second hand mantles marked at fabul- ous prices abul-ous>prices to catch the unwary, oh no, sve don't do that. We say: see our jackets before buying; they are all beauties and cheaper than old fashion- ed goods that have to be made" over before you can wear them. 3°. h® Stewart. LOCAL JOTTINGS. TENGSc Beady market is found for all, the wood %seining into town, Something special in mons nobby over coats at the Big Bankrupt Store. The careful reader of uewspaners can learn more in a year than most sholars do in thefr,grcat libraries. Big Eliza, a mountain of flesh weigh in„ 72), pounds presents herself at Moore's Musee, Toronto, this week Do you want a Sealette Jaeket-25 per cent below regular prices is 'what you will pay at the Big Bankrupt Store. The premises recently ;vacated by Mr. E. Ponied. are undergoing repairs and the new bakery will be opened up shortly. The funeral sermon of the late Wm Perkins was preached in James Street Methodist chureh,by Rev A. L, Russell on Sunday. A stove standing in. front of Me- Donell's tin shop was backed in by a farmer with a heayy wagon on Tues- daybadly S and mashed. t, paysfor The ADVO D o $01. 00 v cATEfromnow to Jan, 1st,1894,to new subseribore. Sub. scribe at once and reap the benefit. Mr. Stephen Powell has purchased from Mr. Ileo. Dyer the property known as the "club." Mr. Powell intends to greatly improve the place. Price, we understand, was $400. Over Koats for men and boys all at prices that are away down low at the Big Bankrupt Store. The Easterbrook Steel' Pen Co., 26 John ,Street, New York, are offering $1,00000 in Prizes for Poems on East- erbrook's pens. : Send them postal for j for careers of crime and vice. Parents J. W. Broderick has removed to Mr. Southeott's Store 4 doors north of the post office and has purchased from Mr. Grieve his fine stock of clothes, tweeds and linings at a rate on the, dollar, and big bargains will be offered. The subscriber has also nurehesed a banksupt stock "of boots and shoes a very nice stock. A few of those seal and persion lamb caps left also a lot of fur capes and storm collars and a choise lot of teas are very cheap give the cheap sale a call. No trouble to show goods. Exeter Nov. 17th J. W. BRODERICK Some of our local sports made a field" day of it on Thursday last (Thanks giving Day). On the return home that evening we heard of the many spoils of the chase Foxes by the score, quail galore, with no end of rab bits. So far, however, we have not seen anything to confirm such reports. Generally we receive a peace offeriug but eventhat has failed at this office, a n to put in an appearanoe. party Ons. pa - left all the game in a log, so "Deas., says. The carcass of a goose found 2i miles south of the village, tells a different tale,` however -what say you "Coon." The Woodstock Sentinel Review says "A few days ago the Josh ' Simpkins company played in Woodstoek,and oue of the most attractive members of the company was billed as Miss Lottie Wright. She presented a ;handsome appearance and was sprightly as a cricket. Her manifold attraction seems. to have made a deep impression on the tender susceptibilities of a young gen- tleman in town, who says he is a Gov- ernment clerk, and he forthwith essay- ed to open up a correspondence with her: In a letter to this paper the pret- ty actress says: --You will find enelos• ed with this letter. a letter I received from one .of your town young gentle men, and I think he must be "a little out of his mind. I ant sure if he should see me off of the stage he would get his heart back again,for I am 35 years of age and the wife of Manager V. A. Foard.".The letter, which is of the or- dinary loye sick class, was also pub lrs4ed . PRESENTATION AND ADDRESS: -At' an open u]eetrng of the Royal Templars of Temperance, held on Monday even. ing last, Mr. Richard Gidley on resign- ing the treasurship of Lodge No. 207, was presented with a fountain pen as a taken of esteem and to show the lodge's appreciation of his seryices. The .following speaks for itself,— DJwc BRoraER GXDLr•.r, man who name was so closely associat We a reassombledtonightasB,ayalTemn with the story of the orphan child El- piers for the transaction of business of which yon are alwayhive' lling to share your len Loomas, and her struggle of over energies, as. shown in past. We are ttow a year with a wasting and trying dis. , as a society mere than six years in operation in this municipality, trying in various ways ease terminated on Sunday evening ( to gather into the emltlaee of total abstin- last at 9:30 o'clock.—Goderieh Star. enae, the young, middle aged and the aged, ' "Mr. Samuel Sweet, has disposed of his interest in the Exeter ADVOCATE to Mr. Dyer, who'is also an experienced Buy your foot woe} itt the Bi: sunrort,Iraeyu�eOrlsFJ. Bankrupt Store, there you get tiler All orders fore tide above Dye Works siraps, can be left with E. H. Fish. A pigeon shooting match in connect. sis,l; I,ist, ion with the Central Hacel and govern- Mrs. Hugh Spackman, who is being ed by the Exeter Gun Club, will take treated in Toronto, is, we are pleased place on Fri lay, Nov. 25th, Sides to learn, improving, will be chosen too shoot for a supper, wanted, 400 birds have been precured for the Never too late to mend. 5000 pairs of occasion. boots, and shoes that need repairing to The Clinton .News Record has under be left at the leading boot and shoe gone a c•han ;e, whereby Mr, W. T. store next door to the Post ofl:ice, Whitely has disposed of his interest to New Eiroeer;a' store. Mr. A. M. Todd, who has been one of The premises recently vacated by the proprietors since its firstissue, The Mr. Geo. Swallow -able in Fanson's. Record has always been a spicy and block, are undergoing repairs and im- newsy paper and deserving of a large mediately after its completion Mr. M. patronage. We wish our faiiond Todd Vincent will open up a full and corn - every prosperity in his undertaking. plete stock of groceries, &c,, Sze.: also Joseph Hogg, who for over a year an oyster parlor and lunch room in has been avoiding arrest under a war. connection. Mr, Geo, Hyndman will rant charging him with obtaining conduct the business, money under false pretense from one Shot A Deer, Willoughby Adams, was nabbed on Last Thursday, Messrs. Shipley and Sunday -morning, by constables Gill, Wise went for a deer hunt. On the Creech and Bissett. It will be remem- farm of Angus McDermott, towards forth the shootistsgoton track of loa Sea o s • d t a' the constable in , bore the Joe acted s plaeticle joke worked on young, Adams. real live game, Mr. Wise shot three The joke however had rather a serious times a distance of 42 rods,two of which ending for Mr. Hogg. I3e got off, we took effect in the neck of a fine three understand, by paying $15. year old doe, Several of our local sports Says the Parkhill Gazette,Review:- as a consequence, have since feasted. "In some towns the bell is rung be, on venison.—News Record, tween seven and eight in the evening cheat) Publications. as a warning for all children to be at In union there is strength. Union home, a Judging from the number of also induces cheapness. As an illus - children who are nightly yelling en tration of this we are able to :offer the our streets and indnlgiug in swearing, ADVOCATE ono year, and Western, Ad - tobacco chewing and other viees, some 'eerier•, London, Ontario, for 1893, hat. such regulation is required here. •l'he ince of 1892, for only 81.50. ' The Ad- educati,,n of the street is ,the kind tie rtiser.for 1893 will con -Pain eight which hardens and prepares the youth Pages, of seven columns each, and is published weekly, at one dollar per annum. It is a clean paper for the home, and contains complete literary and news departments in every num, ber. Subscribe at once. Address, ADVOCATE, Exeter, Ontario. The Saturday Blade Is the greatest newspaper wonder of the age. It is four years old and has a circulation of over a quarter million copies a weak. The latest sensations and the most marvellous events are written up in the best style and fully illustrated Subscriptions received at 82 00 per year, $1.00 for six months, or 50 cents for three months. Special in- ducements to clubs. Sendfor free specimen copies, • 3ovs everywhere are making big money selling the Blade on .the streets. Write for panic nears. Address the publisher, . W. D. Boyce, 113,115 and 117 Fifth avenue, Chicago. -4t. Circulars explaining. keep your children in at night." Messrs.`Jaines Bissett and Welling- ton Johns captured the first fox of the season in this neighborhood on Thurs day- lase A beautiful specimen. of a fox, silver grey, was captured by Robt Sanders ou Saturday. PRESBYTERY or HunoN.—The Pres- bytery held its regular meeting here on Tuesday the :Stl]. inst., with the Moderator, Rev. J. H. Simpson, in the chair. Auditors were appointed to ex- amine the Treasurer's books for the year and report during the meeting, Rev- J. A. Hamilton, M. A. and W. M. Martin, B.D.. were appointed to address the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soci- etv of the Presbytery at their annual meeting in January. The clerk 're- ported that he had recieved no, cone inunieatien from the Maitland Presby- tery regarding the proposed union of Leeburn with Dungannon and . Port Albert when it was resolved. ; to reap- point the .committee with the addition of Revs. J. Anderson and 3. A Simpson and still correspond with the Maitland .presbytery. The committee' appointed arrangedan exchange of pulpits for thefpurpose of the delivery of mission- ary sermons reported the following interchange: Dr. ,Me.Donald and Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Musgrove and Mr. Mar- tin, Mr. Acheson and Mr. McLean, Mr. Mr. J.S. Henderson and Mr. Stewart, Mr. Simpson and Anderson, Mr. Car- riere and Mr. elc.Donald, Mr. Robert Henderson and Mr. Hamilton. It was agreed to adopt this report and to have the exchange take place not later than the end of the year. The clerk stated that the sum of $1700 was asked from this Presbytery for the Home Missions and $650 for the Augmentation Fund, whet it was agreed to commend these to the increased liberality of the peo- ple, Mr.. Simpson reported that he had declared the pulpits of Sayfieed and Bethany vacant and that the congre gations•have hid continuous supply since. Mederetion in a call to Bay field was held hi abeyance pending the contemplated re -arrangement of the field, The treasurers report, which was adopted, showed a balance in hand of $102. A suitable minute was adopt- ed by the Presbytery regarding the death of one of its members, Rev. Geo. Needham, of Egntondvilit,, who died' on Nov. 4th, 1892. The Presbytery appointed 11r. Musgroye:todeclare Eg• rnondvillc pulpit vacant and to act as moderator of sessions. The Presbytery agreed to hold its next place of meet- ing at Gederteh on the third Tuesday of January, at whit:h time and place the Presby Leri al Society- of the Woman's (Foreign Missionary Society will hold their annual meeting. It is said that the time is not far dis- tant when it will be impossible to tell whether a woman on the street is wear- ing the real sealskin or only a plush imitation. Some husban,ls have been waiting twenty five years for thattime to arrive. A small office lamp which had been turned too high : in McDonell's. hardware store on Monday eyening be- came so intensly heated as to boil the oil within. Luckily it was noticed and distinguished in due time as much damage might have resulted. The little daughter of John Urqu- hart, Kirkton, who Swallowed a bean that found its way into one of her lungss and had an operation orforme d by three physicians without avail, threw up the bean in a fit of coughing and is now in a fair way of recovery. In one of the townships of Oxford it has already been decided to abolish the statute labor system and levy a road tax, instead. In East Zorra the elect ors will in January next be asked to approve a by law authorizing the adoption of the same course in that township. Mr. John Croaker who has been vis- iting among his friends in Manitoba for the past seven months, arrived home on Friday, night last. He also made a trip through 'North Dale., but was not 'favorably impressed with the country.; His friends in Manitoba are doing well. Do von know you can save money on millinery and mantles at the Big Bankrupt Store—try and see. Main street Methodist church anni- versary was held ou Sunday last. Rev John Scott, M.A., President of the Gueiph Conference, preached excellent sermons both ' in the morning and evening. The annual tea was not held. The contributions of the congre- gation amounted to about $90. At the next session of the Ontario Parliament a bill will be brought for ward with the object of amending the Municipal Act by making it necessary for a township, village or town to have 750 voters, freeholders and household ers, before it can be represented in the county council by a deputy reeve. At last death has come to the relief of Miss Laura Gordon, the young wo from the coil of intemperance and the strong destroyer -foul drink. Our efforts have been more or less successful and while some have wrecked on tho voyage, preferr- ing to take a course contrary to the direct- ournalist. The ADVOCATE romiseS tion of our chart, viz, the obligation which p if observed, would have eventually landed to be as ever a staunch Conservative sheet, and TSE LnAnna trusts it may always continue as it has in the past -a live, local newspaper.-St,Mary'i Leader: The Thanksgiving tea and recept- ion given to the adherents of the Triv- itt Memorial Church in the Town Hall, on Thursday evening last, was a suc- cess, both financially : and otherwise. After the good things had been dealt with, a very entertaining programme was carried. The proceeds amounted to $19.80. On Tuesday last young Glavin and his father were before Judge Doyle, the former charged with burglarizing a store in Shiplca, and the latter with having stolen goods in his possession. Owing to the absence of a crown wit nets the prisoners were remanded. Ira Lewis for the Queen, E. Campion for prisoner. A big vote ought to be polled at the municipal election as it occurs on .a. holiday, The statute says it must take place on the first Monday in Jab- uitry and, the notninationt a week be- fore. Christmas and New Yearn fall On Sunday, but will doubtless be cele, heated on the following Monclay,so that the nominations will practically be held on Christmas day and the gleet- ions on New Years day. them on the shore of piece and happiness, but while the few hays sank wo are pleased to record that there aro many yet abiding in the ship, whose determination from the beginning to breast the storms of the warf. You aro among the number, when first the ship was launched, you amongst its charter- ed members, its first official, you have hold at bay the time of storm, and with others given such council as you believed for the safety of ship and cargo. As an official you have been faithful and oil duty. Your pros- enee in the financial chair of this coaneil has always given prestige and power, Your fidelity to your vows., your increasing en. - deavnrs in Collecting its monies from Mem- bers in arrears and the condition your books have always presented thomsolves when placed in the hands of auditors in every instance, calling forth their approval. In leaving your office chair after tho expira- tion of six and a half years, we as mem-bora of the Order, feel that a slight token of ap- preciation should be placed in your hands and wo sincerely hepe you will not estimate cur value of your services from the size of the gift. Yeti will please accept of this Fountain ren with our best wishes that you may ever be faithful in our noble temper- antocausoand when life with its earnost claims upon you shall torniinate you name may be inscribed in Heaven by the ]land of an unerring tutelar, at whose hand you shall receive tho reward of those only flat aro pronounced faithful, WVe,remain yours In L. II, F. Anvei!ctx coUNCIL 207, Nov.14.,'02, YoyalTomplars of1'omperance, The Apple crop. The four apple counties of Ontario this year are Bruce, Huron, Halton and Grey, among which Huron stand first and Bruce second. It is estimated that the returns to the fanners in these four counties this year will be from two and a half to three million dollars Shooting Match. The shootii,g match in connection with theMetropolitan Hoteatook place onth tit • Grounds Thanksgiving o F� 1 .G ou � Day. Messrs, J. Knowles, of Toronto, and J. Smith, of Crediton being the most successful competitors. A sweep- stake was entered into by seven of the shooters, which are indicated thus, a, and resulted according to scores. Fol- lowing is the 'score:- Ira Bice 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0-4 x E. Bissett 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0-4 t C Sheardown 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 11-9.x 4th J. Snaith 1 1. 0 1 1 1 1.1 0 1-8 x 2nd 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1-7 x 9rd 00'10001001-3 1 1.1. 1. 1 0 1 1.1 1-9x lst 00001001-01-3 13-. Vesper S. Eilber Tin o wles E. Fish' I. Handford 1 1 0 1 0 1 5 0 1 1-7' J. Acheson 0 0 1 0 1 i r t o 0-5 N. D. FIurdon 0 1 1'.0 1 1 01 1 1-7 f, Cudmore 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1'0 0-4 Sadden Death. The very sudden death of Jessie, be- loved e•loved wife of Mr. David Miller, caused deep regret throughout the town when the sad news became generally known Deceased has been a sufferer of asth ma:for .fifteen. long years and bore the affliction bravely. On Tuesday she was taken worse, but nothing serious was entertained, and did not retire that night but remained in a rocking chair until early morn, when one of the fam- ily was horror stricken to find her deed, and apparently had passed away without a groan. She was 63 years of age. Her remains will be interred in the Exeter cemetery to morrow (Fri- day). The bereaved family have ,our sympathy in this their irretrievable loss. r Ill S' h , Because,.I do all my Trading with 110 SElTiElile h PJI E X E R • They don't ask me a Price and then come down 0 THIRD. CARL � k.; i,¢�J Po t �� EVERY PERSON HOUL» BUY Di. ar1a1&rF La u Fi�1er. It is better than all others. TEN EAS*+ S WHY: 1. -It will not getout of order. 2.—It is cheaper than any other. Can. 3. -It will last five times as long as any ordinary lamp filler. czinc andtin. which forma mag- netic a itiszict non corrosive, S is .0 1 — it CO Cal] e 4.—Because Beb netic action and keep it from corroding. 5.—It will do the work in one-fourth of the time. 6.—It will not soil the floor and shelf. 7. -It never sweats oil. 8.—It gives you perfect control of the oil. 9. -It is always neat and safe. 10 -It will strengthen the lungs. This Can has been examined by experts and pronounced to be the best they ever saw. y9 Reliable and y. They' are wanted in every house where coal oil is used. The fastest selling article in the market. GOBBLEDIC & F LLM The cheapest line of fur goods ever brought into Exeter. Having secur- ed. a large e eonsin.en.t at We have the largest stock of (&Colid. Dress Goods x er, Eger Shown 1n Exeter. We are showing an Immense Stock German Mantles AT POPULAR PRICES. J. Spackman & C ofs. SAl1IW ELL'S BLOCK, EXETER. 11 11 11 1111 $ 11 We will give thepeo- ple of this vicin- ity the s dvant ge of in For our close buying. he next FEW WEEKS w will offer :eddies' Storm. Colla s Ladies' Boas " and Muffs at prices buno. to sell t it . hem The BEST VALUE in Children's Lamb Boas in the Trade. 11 : 11 1 1111 $ 1 1 11 1_ Come and get the first choice of these goods. We are also offering anything, o� in the Dr. Goods 'line at` the lowest Dry Cash rriee and will be pleased to show you through our store. No trouble to show Goods. ISA. g. & Cos,. J�