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NEWS TOPICS OF WEEK
fraportant e'er is Which Have
Occurred °r -ed Dt r'iinrg the Week:,.
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WEDNESDAY -
Italy h`ms, been invaded- b•y refugees'
from Serbia
Only tllrpe,. ArXt; i rittiers„ were
vortaididelDire Anzac Withdrawal.
James Sp eakman{,,Xaresictent of the
lllaiteti Farmers ers; of Alberta, died at
Calgary,
W. J. McCracken,: e'E Montreal, a
well -!known artist, was found lifeless-
in bis; studio
President Wilson sent CoI_ House
to Europe with secret messages to
the American eayoys:.
G=ezrerai Sir Ian Hamilton, it was
{
announced, will riot return; to the
eastern theatre of war,.
An Athens despatch says that a
British anbmariae has sunk the
Germans steamerLeros and other
craft ins'tbe Sea of Marmara.
Mine Captain McFarIane was in-
stantly !tilled, and A. MacDonald had
hie feet kraaEly shattered by a blast
from a missed hole in the Cobalt
Cornet mine. -
The National Liberal Advisory
Coxsrreti, to consist of fifty- members,
has been constituted as an outcome
of the conference called by Sir Wil-
frid Laurier at Ottawa.
Thos. L. Willson of Ottawa, elec-
trical engineer, who discovered acety-
l'ene gas, invented the acetylene gas
buoy, and discovered a chemical fer-
tilizer, died at New York.
A deputation from the Ontario
Education Association asked the Act-
ing 3firzister of Education for im-
portant amendments in the proposed
teachers' pension scheme.
Many Greek wgmen and children
have been massacred by Turks at
Moskonissia, in Asia Minor_ A
number- of survivors have reached
!kTTityl'ene in sailing boats, bringing
word of the slaughter.
u.'J±UJ SDAY.
Giral'f, Man., carried local option
London will return to the ward
system on New Year's Day.
J_ S. Thomas, long engaged in
piano- manufacture, died at Guelph.
Sir Archibald Murray will com-
mand the British troops at the Dar-
danelles
pyre li'trrzdred and eighteen wound-
ed Canadian soldiers returned by the
'Pretarian.
A3 member of Henry Ford's peace
expedaion died at Christiania of
pn eumonia.
r alaue1' E. ILL House,wifl visit the
nationve Europe as I"resitiertt Wil-
son's confidential agent..
The Italian Consular Agent for the
Niagara it trct char
es that e
m
1a
-
ers Importune Italians to remainxe
Canada.
Tile Ivfilitia Council has arranged
for turkey and plrem padding fox air
the Canadian troops in Canada and
izn EngIaed..
Creat Britain has permitted the
exportation of Iogwood from Jamaica
to the united States, provided Can-
ada is cared for.
Local' option and a Hydro by-law
areabsorbing pnbiiu interest in Sar -
t i a to the,exelesion of other munici-
pal election issues.
General Bertram, formerly head
of
has, old Shell Comtuittee, it is
said, resigned'' female the Imperial
Munitions Board recently organized,
of which Tre was deputy head.
Mrs. Edward Webb of MiddIe-
march, while deranged as a result of
continued ill-healtha jumped to her
death from the top of the windmill
on the farm in sight of her husband
and three daughters, one of whom
was to be married fast evening'.
ICr'RIWAY.
The British Iosses at the Dardan-
elles were stated to total 112;921.
The Secretary for India said Aden
was in reo danger from Turk incur-
sions.
Dr. H. T. Stannage Boyle of Trin-
ity College has been appointed Prin-
cipal of Ring's College, Nova Scotia.
Lieut --Colonel W. T. I1cMulien of
Woodstock has been authorized to
organize an Oxford Battalion, the
168tk.
Automobile license feee are to be
increased and the revenue from them
in Ontario will then approximate
500,00 0.
The big Japanese liner Yasaka
Marti was sunk without warning in
the Mediterranean Sea by an enemy
submarine.
The first Sunday of 1916 ?ins been
set apart by the Government as a
special day of prayer is or Great. Brit-
ain and her allies.
E. L. Baugh of Montreal was
found guilty on the charge of con-
spiracy to wrongfully prosecute Col.
G. A. Stinson, a Toronto broker.
B. A. Tawksley, a close friend and
adviser of the late Cecil I31aodes, died
in London Tuesday, it is announced.
Mr. Hawlssley was a trustee epi the
will of Mr. Rhodes.
The Empress of Japan brought to
Vancouver a cargo of more than 4,-
000 bales of sill.-, valued at more than
i:2,:200,0ee, the largest silk cargo
ever brought to that port.
The German prisoners of war at
Fort Henry refused 400 pounds of
turkey purchased for their Christmas
dinner, ordered it tallen away. and
sent for a load of geese instead.
The Montreal License Commission-
ers are at work already an the revis-
ion of the license list for 1916. Fifty
have to be cut off on May 1 from the
hate! fist, and fifty liquor- shops
must go..
SATURDAY.
Wiillarn Richardson, aged 21,' col-
ored, was instantly killed to -day by
W.
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Elly Reuss, a woman missionary of
the Seventh Day Adventists, has been
placed on. trial at Cologne on a charge
of treason fn having, incited members
of the army to defy discipline,
• Italy's war Christmas was a Bay-
less one, There were no Christmas
trees except in the hospitals for
the wounded soldiers, where the
ladies of the nobility distributed pre-
sents.
The. ,.his.tcrriad, ' revelyen, come
mending the British Ambulance
been
Corps at the Italian front, has
be
deeorated with the silver medal for
valor by; King 'Victor Enxmanuel for
gallantry.
It is reported from Bucharest that
the transportation of cereals from
Roumania to Germany and Austria-
Hungary uxlder the agreement re-
cently made between Roumania and
the central powers began to -day.
A committee, of which Paul Pain -
leve, French Minister of Public In-
struction, is the ehairman, has been
organized for the object of presenting
the City of Paris with a monument
in the form of a bas-relief in memory
of Miss Edith Cavell.
MONDAY.
Tlie French. Socialists declared
they would not link up with the Ger-
mans after the war.
Great Britain announced that two
monitors were not destroyed by the
Turks on the Tigris.
Major A. V. Becher of London, Me-
dical Officer of the 33rd Battalion,
died at Quebec of pneumonia.
'William Scott and William Barber
were found dead iu their room in
Toronto with the gas turned on.
W. R. Greenhalge, a well known
Great Lakes marine engineer, died
s'tddenly of heart disease at his borne
in Detroit.
The death at Southport, Eng., of
Venerable Archdeacon T. J. Madden,
Archdeacon of Liverpool since 1906,
is announced.
On Christmas morning a lire oc-
curred in the premises of Dole &
Son, North Bay 10 -cent store, which
was badly gutted.
More than 450 returned Canadian
soldiery are .in convalescent ho-zos
in Canada, while 250 more are being
medically attended at their homes.
Prince von Buelow, former Imper-
ial German Chancellor, who has been
in Switzerland for some time, left for
Germany Friday, accompanied by his
secretaries and stenographers.
TUESDAY.
A British member' of Parliament
said that a crushing indemnity
should not be imposed upon the
Germans.
At half -past five o'clock yesterday
morning the city of De Gracias, in
Honduras, was destroyed by an
eartheu ka _
ilitcilYr.- • .
airs. '.t,aos. Roberts, mother of Rev'.
Dr. Geo. O, Workman of Toronto,
passed away at her home in Grafton,
in her Seth year.
The Bishop
of Montreal strongly,
y
denounced New
Year's Eve revelry,
warning hotelmen not to go too far
in arousing public antipathy at this
time.
Mrs. 11. D. Alexander, mother-in-
law of Bishop Stringer of the Yukon
and of Dr. Waters, missionary in
Central India, died at her home in
Kincardine.
Vigorous resumption of the Aus-
tro -German submarine campaign is
evidence( by the announcement yes-
terday 4if the sinking of five vessels
of tine Allies and the firing of a sixth.
the Serbian
CreGeneral1 Popovie of
army;°who has just arrived in Italy
in charge of a batch of prisoners,
states that the Serbian army is prac-
tically intact, although it has lost
an enormous amount of material.
Representatives of fifteen societies
in Montreal, including the Chambre
de Commerce, Board of Trade, Cana-
dian Manufacturers, and Trades and
Labor Council, urged Premier Gouin
to save the city from the chaos at the
City Hall.
Will Debar Hulgars and Turks.
LONDON, Dec. 2 8. -King Constan-
tine has telegraphed to Emperor Wil-
liam saying that it would be impos-
sible to allow Bulgarian or Turkish
troops to cross the Greek frontier,
says The London Daily Mail's corre-
spondent at Athens, who had inter-
views with the Greek Ministers.
M. Gounaris, Minister of the Iiter-
ior, candidly confessed, according
to the correspondent, that he did not
know what would be done if the Bul-
garians or Turks attempted to cross
the frontier. Minister of Justice
Rhallis, on the other hand, was just
as emphatic in declaring that no
Turk or Bulgarian wdQild be permit-
ted to set foot on Greek soil. He re-
proached the Allies for obstinately
remaining at Salonica, declaring that
all of the difculties of Greece would
be removed if the Allies evacuated
Salonica.
Cow Sale
Jas. Ferguson, of Ingersoll, has In-
structed Thos. (Cameron to sell by
public auction at the METROPOLI-
TAN HOTEL, EXETDR, on. FRIDAY
DDC, '31st, at one p.m. sharp, the
followings 15 high geode Dutham
Cows of ,milking strain; 10 ,high;class
Holstein (Cows; a few, a -ye'a'r -old
beifers.j Six of the 'cows are ' just
freshened end the halm:fee coming in
in January, February and (March. As
Mr. Ferguson has 'always brought
,good elean sto* ¶and has .. ro'ved' him-
self reliable, parties in need of •cowa
;will do. well to attend (this dale,
Terms -Six months' credit on fur-
nishing approved joint notes; le dis•
count of six per cent per annum of t
3AS. FERGUSON, Prop.
'fKOS. 1C 4iMR1tON, Auctioneer.
Auction Sale
Of Velu'able two 'storey brick block
and choice business Bite in alae
V'r
e f 3:.xeter, Ontario.
lla e n
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The Executor of the Estate of the
late George Samwell will offer for
sale on the premises•on''Tueeday, Jan
nary .18th, 1910, at 2 o'clock ,p;,m.: the
property on the 'corner of Main sand
John Streets, Exeter, two stores of
which are now occupied by Jones
May., General 'Merchants, and the
third by Hugh Spackman, Hardware
Merchants The property is a most
desirable one, the oldest and,best hugi-
ness isite in a town which hais ug'
superior in Western Ontario. the
block is well built, well equipped sand
in goad repair with adequate storage
buildings at rear
The property will'be offered in two
parcels, according to occupancy..
Terms. -10 per cent cash, balance on
March 1.st, 1916, when possefssion giv-
en. Taxes 'sand Insurance propor-
tioned on March lst, For further
particulars and conditions of sale vali-
ply to
GLADMAN & STANBURY
Barristers, Exeter, Ont.
Solicitors for Executer.
FOR SALE—One good cow, extra
beef quality, eight years old, ;due to
freshen Dec. 10th; 1 heifer 3 years old
due Jan. 3rd; 1 purebred Shorthorn
bull 10 months old; 1 filly rising 4
years; 1 filly and 1 gelding rising 3
years old.. JOHN LEARY, Vromarty
POO., Lot 13, Con. 13, Ribbert; phone
544 Ribbert Line, 12-9-tittp
Where a, scientific preparation, con-
taining no habit-forming drugs, is
needed for worn and exhausted
nerves showing in the form ,of Neur-
algia, Insomnia sleeplessness, 'Rheum-
atism, Headaches, Anaemia, etc., be
sure •you get TARATE. There is no
other remedy "just as good." Fifty
cents at your druggist's, or by mail
from the Georgian Mtg. 'Co., Col-
lingwood, Ontario.
IF YOUR CHILD IS CROSS,
FEVERISH, CONSTIPATED
4
Look Mother! If tongue is coated,
cleanse little bowels with "Cali-
fornia Syrup of Figs."
Mothers can rest easy after giving
"California Syrup of Figs," because in
a few hours all the clogged -up waste,
sour bile and fermenting food gently
moves out of the bowels, and you have
a well, playful child again.
Sick children needn't be coaxed to
take this harmless "fruit laxative."
Millions of mothers keep it handy be-
cause they know its action on the
stomach, liver and bowels is prompt
and sure.
Ask your druggiet for a 50 -cent bot-
tle of "California Syrup of Figs," which
contains directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups.
Grand PrizeLContest
350 ENNIS & Co. PIANO FLEE
Manufactured by THE WILLIAMS PIANO Co., LIMITED, Oshawa, Ont.
Contest sold by the Business Boosters Limited, Toronto, Ont.
Would You
Like to Have
This
IN YOUR,
tIOME?
Just a Litttle Hustling
SAVE
YOUR
COUPONS
YOU Win
We Willl isiaic trade certificates with every purchase at our store. These certifico (ea represent one vote for each ONE CENT
of p rchase, and the p •I•son holding certificates representing the LARGEST NU.1:tl Ef.? (P; VOTES at the end of the contest , will rec-
eive this, b autitul•Pira'oi.) ABSOLUTELY FREE OF COST.
'LW- c .-rcr hc,l.tes are transferrable, and ifou are DOL interested 3 r.,. , rtiPif you '4!0;i .-s rt a friend.
til, • „ 1,J..,..t i- to interest you in our store We want a cha.nee to .i A/ t on that cxrt do better here than elsewhere. We do
W) 'xpeisx , o' ,wv 'r the heavy 'X :,nse of this contest through a great?r T.- 4,10'1x' +:5:i' i, , 1)1-1t through the difference in volume of
Im. ue,s Je Y ' , ' increase to m°.re thin repay us and,in the fill tll'' ,4. 1:4,', r end, arta giver yun, EVEN MORE for your
th • rli :he past
,.- ur pat t•twage; st,iel' thr"oi i l the nnrearits of rrur Gel a' ..' r 4: Wat
We can say you money op, l w•e can
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MOLSONS...,BA. ,N. Ki
CAPITAL' AND RESERVE:$8,800,000
96 Branches in Canada
A General Banking Business Transactedi
CIRCULAR ,LETTERS OF CREDIT
BANK MONEY .ORDERS
SAVINGSBANK DEPARTM
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roficrest iaJowed at highest current rate
W. 0. CLARKS, Manager, Exeter Branch
THE GANADIAlV' BANK.
OF COMMERCE
SIR EDMUND WALKER, C.V.O., LL.D. D.C.L., President
JOHN AIRD, General Manager. H. V. F. JONES. Ass't Generali bWannest:
CAPITAL, $15,000,000 RESERVE FUND, $13,5003008
SAVINGS BANK, ACCOUNTS
Interest, at the current rate is allowed on all deposits of $1 ant
upwards. Careful attention is given to every account. Small accounts .
are welcomed. Accounts may be opened and operated by mail.
Accounts may be opened in the names of two or more persons,\vnt1.►•
drawals to be made by any one of therm or by the survivor. BfiBt
Exeter Branch— H. J. WHITE, Manager
CREDITDN BRANCH — A. E. HUHN, Manager. '-' -}
CBGICE FARM FOR SALE BY
TENDER
Consisting of Lots 32 and West aa!f
33. North Thames Road, Township of
Fullarton, County of Perth; Ont, Lot
31 contains 121 acres on which there
is .arc up-to-date Stone Dwelling, Bank
Barn 36x90 and 34x50 Drive House
ane Hoa Pen 28x50; Silo 14x40; up-
to-date stabling, cement floors and lit-
ter carrier; 4 acre choice garden, 2
acre;, orchard 10 acres first-class hard
wood hush 55 acv"es in' grass, balance
ploughed ready for seeding.
West hall of Lot 33 contains 813a
acres on which there is an up-to-date
Wick dwelling, bank barn 40x90, frame
bah: of stone wall 36x58; '1 acre or-
chard 7 acres good hard wood, 14
acre: Ball wheat, 25 acres in grass, 'sal-
ance ploughed ready for seeding.
Tbese farms are situated in •>ne of
the ;finest localities in Ontario. Well
fenced and drained; never failing
spring well and clear off. weeds; •:on-
veni,ent to Baptist, Methodist end
Presbyterian churches and day rchool ;
336 mile from village of Russeldale, 7
mile_ from Mitchell. Possession 1st
March 1916. Terms -10 per :.ent, on
acceptance of tender, balance ,an Mar.
lst 1916, without interest. : ealed
tenders will be received ap to 1
o'clock p. m. an 4th day of January
1916, for the above mentioned :arms,
either separately or in ane block, by
Thos Cameron Auctioneer, R. A. 3,
Kirkion Ont. For particulars apply
to auctioneer or to John G. Roy on
the premises.
Blank forms far tenders can be had
by applying to Thos. Cameron.
Child Smothered by Sleeping Mother
TORONTO, Dec, 28. --When Mrs.
Grasso, 298le Manning avenue,
woke up at 6 o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, she found her three -months -old
baby, Annie, lying dead by her side.
The child was smothered when its
mother rolled on it in her sleep. She
notified Dr. Graham, College street,
who in turn notified Chief Coroner
Dr. Jukes Pohnson. After investiga-
tion the coroner was satisfied that the
child bad met death accidentally and
decided that an inquest was not.ne-
cessary.
Australian 1Vheat for Allies.
MELBOURNE, Australia, via Lon-
don, Dec. 28.—A wheat deal just
completed with the British and
French Governments involves nearly
23,000,000 sterling, and the price is
above five shillings a bushel. A sale
has also been made to Italy. A cargo
for South Africa has brought the re-
cord price of five shillings and. five -
pence.
River Seine Rising.
PARIS, Dec. 28.—Sea. gulls which
rarely visit Paris are flying about the
Grand Palace this morning. Their
presence is attributed to the high
water of the Seine, which now has
risen nearly ten feet, covering some
of the wharves in the lowest part of
the rivorfrent.- , _
1 CENT ' `CASCARETS"
FOR LIVER AND BOWELS
Cure Sick Headache, Constipation,
biliousness, Sour Stomach, Bad
Breath—Candy Cathartic.
Nu odds how bad your liver, stom-
ach or bowels; how Much your head
aches, how miserable you are from
constipation, Indigestion, biliousness
and sluggish bowels—you always get
relief With Cascarets. They Im:mo.I
diately cleanse and regulate the stom,
ach, remove the sour, fermenting food
and foul gases; take the excess bike
Bron the liver and carry off the eei-
tttrptxtetl waste matter and poison
iron the Intestines and bowels. A
lib' -tient Xso:t froth your druggist Wilk.
OOP yozit irver and bowels clean;
Iitotnac1t sweet and head cleat for
ationthwySTItey Whit yi i 1e ybu Weep.
J. A. MASON
ARCHITECT
425 Dundas Street, London, Gnara iiO
teed cost of buildings; no extras; 1'1
years New York experience. limes urirx
2725,
Anyone intending to build `Fill! tI3
ell o write me. No charge for colo
sulat
C J. W. i KA L. N, 1V1. r. c.
425 RICHMOND ST., L®Ki)ONIa,
ONTARIO.
SPECIALIST IN
SURGERY AND ENlTO-UItIRABT3
DISEASES OP AND 'WOMEN:
D}1 G. F. ROULSTON, L.,D.S., MAO
DENTS rig!
Honor Graduate of ronto Usaivt
sin. Office over c.kson ''& f,•
ling's Law office. Closed Wethzecb
day afternoons. Phone Office ism
Residence 5b.
Lai. A. R. KININ L'., ke, D,A).,a
Honor Graduate of Toronto, U$
eraity
DENTIST ( 1 14+
Teeth extracted without psi& #
any bad effects. Office over Ghia
roan & Stanibury'e Office Maim oh
Exeter,
1 W, BROWNING !i& D., ,itf, /a10 '
• P. b, Graduate Victoria U>ti!
city Office and residence Dom,io
Labratory., Exeter, , c
Associate Coroner of Huron '-4y
D ICK'SON & OARIJING c• r1R4
Barristers, Solicitors Notaries ea*
veyanoene Com micsalone re, Sole ck i
for the Molsona Bank e.tc, c' 14
Money to Loan. at lowest ratepoi' 1.11
terest. ,44
OFFICE—MAIN STREET EXI3TZ*.•,y
I. R, Carling B. A; G. Hi, Dishsll
MONEY TO LOAM 1 L. I '
We have a large amount of Alla
ate funds to loan on farm an Yfrill
lags properties at lowest rats p1 imp
tercet,
GL'ADMAN & STANBUBI ! t
Barristers, Solicitors, Mi►ia 11
Exeter
Tae Usborne and filly:
Farmer's Mutual Fire:'
anee 6ompanl
Head Office, Farquhar, OIC
President , } ROBT. NOBRD4.
Vice. !'resident I PHOS, BAS
DIRECTORS I d1
WM. BRO,Cii , , WM. ROW
J. L. RUSSELL , J T. ALLISON}
AGENTS •
JOHN EC SSER y Exeter. agenrs`t Ulla
borne and Riddulph.
OLIVER HARRIS Munro agent fad
Uibbert lf'ullarton and Logan. - r
• W. A. TURNUU1 D '
Secy.Treas. Farttjuhar
GLADMAN & BTANl3UBX .„An,
Solicitors. Exeter.
THE SOLDIER WEIO LIVES OVEW.
AGAIN IN A NIGHTMARE, THII
AWFUL BATTLE SCENES, as .welb-
as the harassed business man, thee
tired society woman, and busy houseak
wife. whose nerves are graduall,v
wearing to shreds with their newer+
ending !duties, will eget quick'yand peri”
, nent ;relief fromTAI AI . Get
box for fifty cents tal'your drugglst -
tsr bye Mail froth the Georgian Atte;
,o, Collingweei , (hetax*