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Vol. 33. No, 21
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1., 1904
New Advertisements.
Looal—Robt. Shaw.
Ooming—T. P. Smith.
Lcoal—D. Ewan & Co,
Just a few daye—J. G. Jonas.
350 reward—G. A, Deadman.
Light Shoes—I. 0. Rioharde.
Bylaw No. 230—Twp. of Grey.
Selling below ooet—A. MoDonald.
Ladies' blouses—McKinnon & Co,
Early Xmatt buying—F. R, Smith,
Holiday problems solved—Jae, Fox.
Millinery bargeine— Mises Habkirk.
Jewellery of quality—H. L. Jaokoon.
County Coupoil election—F. S. Scott,
3y7.t:Jtrici1r .e)x st
I3elr_rave.
Leet Sabbath Rev. Mr. Wella, of
Ethel, preached in the Methodist church
here. Rev, Mr. Jooeeoocopied the pal.
pits on Ethel.airooit,
Finlay Auderecn, of East Wawanoob,
will build a big bank barn next season.
He hae the Baud and atom, now ready and
will have the timber on the ground this
Winter.
1 ail.
Eyestrain
relieved by glasses
r
Eyestain rarer
comp nles very bad
sight.
The ',nearly perfect"'
eight in Its effort to
secure "perfect eight,•
usually produces eye.
train and suffering.
We remove eyestrain
by perfecting the
sight.
wawa i•m
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'Dirs. T. ?Fletcher
uciaeasdific axed
,Graduate Optician,
BRUSSELS
A number from thie locality were at
Bruseela on Friday of 'ma week attending
n301 Huron Liberal Nomiuetiug Convert.
tion. A. Htelop, M. P, P. was the
choice,
During the past Summer A. Nicholson
& Bome, of the Bodmin Lime Works, had
a enooesetol eeaeoo burning 18 tiling, or
about 12,000 bushels of limo, All wee
disposed of, The proprietors have abut
down for the Winter but filled up the
Milne first eo a0 to be in readineeo for an
early eturt next Spring.
Ca rot .Itbt•oole.
There ie talk of eome probable changes
of property in this locality.
Jacob Long offers the store recently
vacated by by A. McNair to rent,
The evangelistic genius • are still fn
progress in the Melhodiet church here.
Next Sabbath afternoon Rev. Mr,
Irwin, of Westminster, will 000upy the
pulpit of the Methodist church Oranbrook
at the usual hour.
There will be same building done again
next Summer in this vicinity by oeverel
farmere. For may homes and fine barns
Grey township i0 coming well to the
f
root.
A redaotion Dale ie being held at A.
MoDooald'e store here to retinae the
goods owing to hie reoent purobaae of A.
MoNair's large °took. Hie advt. may be
read in thie issue of THE PORT,
A letter from Jacob Schnook, of
Hrqueim, Washington Territory,
brother to Wm. Schnook, 16th 000.
Grey, Au net of Elma, and Otto, of
this 100ality, eaye they recently captured
an elk that dressed 600 pounds and n
bear that sealed 450 pounds. It is 14
yeare einem Mr. Schnook went Weet and
THE GOLDEN CLOCK
New Goods
For
Christmas
IN SILVERWARE AND
LADIES' AND GENTS' WARE.
CoMA ;MD SHE PEEN.
Repairing a Specialty and Batie-
faction Guaranteed.
W. F. STRETTON,
JEWELER.
J. G. JONES,
JEWELER limmmi
Just a Flews Days
Left to dee ide what the Xmas memento will be, and provid-
ed Tewelry seems to be the most desired of all, why not let
us have the favor of your consideration, if even to get the
credit that our stook and prices should be a revelation to
you. Should the article of your choice be found here, we
will gladly lay it away till you require it.
See our New Souvenir Pins.
Also some very special Ormolu Gold and
Cabinet Clocks.
Repairing a Specialty None too Difficult
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Choice Stock of
ROBES, RUCS
&C., &C.
•
A fine range of Robes, Best in the market, has been
opened up consisting of :-
-BLACK GALLOWAY—SASKATCHEWAN
—GREY GOAT GRIZZLY BEAR
and MOUNTAIN BEAR.
—Plush and Wool Rugs, a very Choice lot.
—In Horse Blankets a largo stock is carried and sold
at Close Prices.
Trunks and Valises of all kinds:
Repairing Promptly Attended to.
J. DONALDSON
Sign of
the
Horse's Head
10 years einoe he wag 11ome. He ie time,
keeper for a big Lumber 0o, and has
500 acme of land of 111e own,
nine vale.
The 81 aura farm of Jno. Diemen t,
adjoining Bl0evale, has been sold to
Wm. Mundill, near Belmore, for $4,600,
Mr, Diament now lives in Toronto.
F. S. Bnott, Brnasele, put the eale
through,
Monday morning of this week Mre,
John Fortune, of the 10th coo., Torn•
berry township, passed away at a good
old ego. She had been poorly for some
time. The funeral took plane to Wrox-
eter oemetery on Wednesday.
Je,rnei towoo.
There wee a lively ekarrying about
with the rather nnexpeoted fall of o*ow
this week.
Misses Ontt and McKelvey bave oom-
pleted their work as Bible Booioty col.
lectors on the let line of Grey.
Rufus and Lemuel Jaoklin have re-
moved from We locality. The former in
engaged ail drayman at Galt and the
latter has gone to Humilton. We wish
them well in their new homes.
P. 3, McDonald, contractor and builder,
wbo rented his farm not long ago, will
probably remove to Brueeele eo as to be
more easy of muse. He hae juet comm
pleted the new planing mill walla for P.
Ament, Brueeele. The dry kiln and
other work will be pushed if weather
permite.
Archie Forrest, of Thessalon, Algoma,
arrived here on Saturday last and will
likely epend the Winter here. Itis about
20 yeare since Mr. Forrest went North.
He does quite a lumber bueinesn, Mise
Marion Forrest, who was vieitiO3 in
Algoma for about two month', o0me baok
with her brother. She enjoyed her visit
very much.
The fnnerul of the late Alex. Soott took
plane from the parental reeidenoe 011
Sooday afternoon and interment was
made at the oemetery on the Boundary.
The remain° were aoaompanied from the
West by hie wife, mother and an old
friend in the person of Andrew Lamont,
formerly a resident of Grey. Mre. Soott
le sinoerely eympathieed with in her
bereavement,
%V roxe ter.
Jae. Paulin hes been on the sink list
the lag few weeke.
Frank Mitchell and family have re-
turned from tbe West.
Rev. L. Perrin and Rev. A, MoNab, of
Walton, exchanged pulpit', on Sunday
last.
Miee Stewart, of Brueeele, wag the
guest of Mies Jude Roberteon on Sam
day.
Mrs. N. J. Robinson has returned from
Oakville where ehe was attending a
brother who was eerionely ill.
39111e0 Smith, of Galt, and Wm. Smith,
of Hamilton, attended the funeral of
their brother, the late Oliver Smith on
Monday.
W. NI Robinson is fn London this
week, where the Huron Synod meets for
the purpose of electing a new Bishop to
take .the plane of the late Bishop
Baldwin,
The Westminster Guild of the Presby-
terian obareb intend holding a eooial
evening next Friday, when the .Rev. J. J.
Haetie, of Belgrave, will give an address
on "Evangeline."
The remains of Alex. Scott wbose
death occurred in Saskatoon last Monday,
arrived here last Friday night, and the
funeral tools plane on Sunday afternoon
from the residence of hie father, Peter
Soott, of Tnrnberry. Deceased, wbo wee
quite a young man, only in hie 27th
year, bad been nick for only a few weeke,
and it was thought was recovering nicely
after an operation, for an abuse, when a
Budden change took plane and he lingered
only a few daye. Mnah eympathy is ex
preeed for the parents, brother end
eietere of the dammed, also hie young
wife, formerly Misa Nettie Smith, of
this village, to whom he had been
married about seven months.
OBIT,—The death moaned at eleven
o'clock last Friday morning of one of
Wroxeter', most respected residents in
the person of Oliver Smith. Although
Mr. Smith had been ailing for the past
two yeare, still hie death, coming as it
did after scarcely a weeke'a illoeee, wee
a great shook to his relatives and friende.
The deoeaeed was a very well known
boeineee man, having ran the planing
mill here ulnae hie removal from Brae.
sale some yeare ago, He leaves a wife,
two daugbtero, (Kiss Rode, and Mre.
Robert Rae, of Fleming, Aeoa), two eons,
(Peter and Orwin), as well ag an aged
mother in Brueeele and a large number
Ooming I
Coming I
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EYE SPECIALIST
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EXAMINATION FREJI,
Of brothere and eiders, all of whom were
present at the foneral, which tools place
Monday afternoon to the Wroxeter
cemetery, Tho long procession of
eurrowing oitfz nil that followed bine in a
funeral procession was a sterling tee*
mony to his reoord in life. The Rev. J.
Roes, of Brueeele, and Rev. L. Perrin,
conducted the facetal eervioee.
Platt et.
Rev. Mr. Jones, of Sulgrave, occupied
the palpit of 111e Methodist church here
Met Sabbath evening. IIe's an enthnof•
natio expounder of the gospel and gave a
good discourse.
The iron for Campbell's bridge, 2nd
con., arrived here last week. Hamilton
Bridge Go , has the contract, the super.
atrunter° coating $509. The bridge will
be placed tbie week,
Union Bible Society will be held in
the Methodist obareb next Sabbath
evening when addressee will be given by
Rev. Jno, Rose, B. A., and B. Gerry, of
Brossele. Robs, McKay will preeide.
Ethel contributed $30 last year.
Our well known villager, Township
Clerk Molntoeb, ie able to get about
once more, after a lay up from three
broken ribs. The accident boppened
in front of Wm. Love's, 9th oou, Mr.
Malotoeb bad gone for a drive with
Henry Kaye and the former was holding
the horse when two doge got into a mix.
up under the buggy which frightened
the equine. Mao. was pitched out on
the hard road with the above result.
After a lively hustle the borne wae caught
on the side road. It might easily have
been woree.
Walton.
Graham McIntosh, of Toronto, is a
vieitor et the Manse.
The Study close held each Monday
evening at Dnff'e menu is growing in
interest. There are 17 on the roil and
the Examination, will be held next May.
Rev. L. Perrin, B. A., of Wroxeter,
preached in Duff's church last Sabbath
and the pastor Rev. Mr. MaoNab, M, A.,
took the work at Wroxeter. Mr. Perrin',
earmone were appreciated.
CHunaa RE.00nNINc.—The Melhodiet
obareb, after being moved to the village,
hae been fitted up for 0000panoy, and
will be opened neat Sabbath. Rev, Dr,
Manning, of Clinton will reach morn•
ing and evening, 10,3 P0 and 7, and in the
afternoon at 2.80 a Ohildrele'e meeting
will be held, Revde. Manning and MaaNab
officiating. Suitable music will be
provided for all eervioee. Monday even
ing a tea meeting will be held, at whiob
a good program of moeio, epee0bee, eto.,
will be provided. Among the epeekers
will he Revile, Manning, Holmes, Conine,
and MacNab and W. 11. Kerr.
A correspondent from Zion appoint-
ment, Fullerton, writiog to the Mitchell
Advocate says :—The fowl supper and
social at Zion on Monday evening was in
every way a grand emcees. Such a
epleodid spread se woe served in the ball
bythe1 e Zion is veryseldom met
eels of o
with and the social held i0 the ohnxoh
after sapper wae equally as good. One
epeoiel texture which should be mentioned
wee the singing of Mrs. (Rev.) Baker, of
Walton, who, with her haebaod, was
present both at the Sunday eerviae and
Monday's social. She peanuts an ex-
tremely sweet and mellow soprano voice,
her high notes being taken with the
greatest ease, and in her rendition of
Emmet's Cuckoo song, we moot say elle
was exoellent and held leer audience
spellbound. Such eraalises ae Mre,
Baker are few and far between, and
should ehe ever be in this neighborhood
again we hope to have the pleasure of
listening to her well trained birdlike
*foe,
REBOLBTIONe OD SYMPATHY.—At the
Union Sabbath School Convention held
here Tuesday of last week, reenlotiooe of
sympathy were passed to Rev. I. M.
Webb, the past President, and to James
Bolger, who was to have read a paper, on
Magid in the eohool, at the Convention,
but owing to the deoeaee of his wife he
was enable to be present. Following is
a oopy of the resolution to Rev. Mr.
Webb ; DEAR SIn AND BROTHER,—We
have been inetrnoted by the Walton
Union Sabbath School Aeaooietioo, in
Convention assembled, to forward to you
an expreeeion of its shore and heart-
felt eympathy in the affiiation that bee
overtaken you. We are rejoined to learn
that some improvement hue token place
in your condition gnu your return to
London. It is our earneet hope and
prayer that He who i8 tbe healer of our
dieeaooe may bless every effort put fortb
for yonr•reoovery, so that, if it pleases
Him, "wbo death all thinge well," and
who makes "all thinge to work together
for good to them who love God," you
may be spared to render Him further
eerviae in the minietry of Rio gospel.
You were not forgotten when our Oon•
vention took plane—a Convenlioo over
Midi a year ago, it was expected you
would preeide. "Man proposes ; God
disposes," Whetber is the active work
of eerviae, or in the passive work of
suffering, we are Hie eervanto, and our
8e00i00 is well•pleaeing to Him. We
desire pereonally to assure you that if it
would please the Lord to go restore you
that you would be again able to perform,
ae in the paet, the functions of your
ministry. In the name of the Walton
Union Sabbath School Asenoiation, es
well as in our 0000 1.18411e0, we are with
all eympathy, and with every good wish
Very sincerely yonre,
ANDREW MAONAn,
11, SMITH BARER, Preeideut.
STAR FOOTBALLER BANQaETTED.—On
Wednesday 0088108 of lest week, the
young men and girls of Walton aeeembled
at the reeidenoe of Mre. L. MaDonald,
with the purpose of doing honor to Gin.
don MoDonald, whose brilliant work
white spuria* with the Galt Football
01011 in the U, 8, materially aided that
team in lending their viatorieo, When
all had gathered, Geo. Ferguson rend
the following addreee, W. G. Neal mak.
ing the presentation ;—
To Gordon McDonald :
Duo O0000 ono,—We, the boye df
Walton, have assembled (hie evening to
evidence our appreolation of the eaten•
tion you have drawn to, and the honor
you kava conferred aeon oar town by
the prominent part you have taken in
the repent triumphs' tour of the Galt
Football Olub in the United States, In a
eerie, or aenxtear Championship gem00,
two in St. Louie, and one in Obioage,
resulting in every inetenoe in brilliant
viotoriee for the Canadian teem. The
attention of the sporting world was
sttraoted, and it is our prido to point to
the particular feat that your mastery of
the game wag ananlmoaely atbuted by
all the reports of the matches, We are
proud that Walton hae produced a
player aoltoowledged by experts to be
one of the olevereet expouente of the
game in Ontario and as a memento of
your recent oreditable aobievemeot, we
present to you this ring, which we hope
you will long live to wear in memory of
the Walton boye. Signed on their behalf
JOHN W. MORItieON,
W M. G. Nate,
Geo. E. FRRaueoce.
The ring was a beautiful one, gold set
with opals. Gordon fittingly thanked
the donors and then all proceeded to
enjoy themselves in a eooial way. A
gorgeous spread, gotten up iu moat
elaborate style in which oyetere played
a oonepionone part, was partaken of at
midnight. After the banquet, F. O.
Neal, M. B , in a felioitene epeeeh, pro-
posed the health of the guest of the even•
ing, whiob was responded to on bib be-
half by J. W. Morrieon. Tonne were
thou proposed to "The Ladiee" and "The
Hostess," by Frank Shannon and
W. G. Neal, and reoponded to by Red
mond McDonald and John A. Mc
Donald, respectively. After a farther
tenet of m08i0 and song, the happy
gathering broke up, voting Mre. Me.
Donald as good an entertainer ail Gor-
don was a foot ball player.
(�r Jr eV.
A new ocean was placed in the home
of Alex. McKay, 16th oou. of Erma, last
week.
Mre. Alex. Stewart, 16th eon., who baa
been very ill, ie, we are pleased to say,
getting better.
Robert and Mre. MoDona'd were
vieitor, ab Goderioh and Colborne town-
ship last week.
Last Sabbath Rev, Mr. Jones, of Bel.
grave onnduoted the eervioee fu Union
appointment, Rev. Mr. Wells took his
work at Belgrave.
Wm. and Miss Mary MoBlain, of Tee -
coma, Brant Co., are renewing old
frie•ldehips in this towoahip. They are
son and daughter of Qaiotin MoBlain,
former reoidente of Grey. They are wel-
come visitors.
Will. MaDona'd, who has tp.nt the
past Summer touring the U. 3., is baok
again. He visited New York, Newark,
Bt. Louie, Chicago, &o. This Winter be
will buy a ear of horses and take them to
the Went next Spring.
Jamee and Mrs. Atkioeon and family
of Hamilton, were vieitor, during Thanks.
givingat Robert McDonald's, 9th non,
Mre. At kine n and Mrs. McDonald are
o
slaters. The vieitor woe a resident of
this locality before she married,
J. Avery, who left here some fifteen
yeare or so ago, was calling on several of
his friende on the 16th 000. thio week,
who were very pleased to see him Time
bone dealt very kindly with him and he is
the same genial, good hearted fellow as
of yore.
On Monday of tiffs week John A. eon
of Jno. Sparain 11011 eon., left for Vetoer.
iaeo, U. S., where he will take a course
in a eohool of Telegraphy, He is a steady
going young mac as well es a clever
student: and hie many friend', wish him
8000001.
Last week Councillor John Grant and
family moved from the old homestead,
14111 con., to the Jae. Mitchell farm,
13th con., which he pnrahaeed some
months ago. We wish them many
oomfortable, proepero0e and happy yeare
in their new quarters which will be much
more convenient to eohool end town.
The new steel 90 toot bridge over the
Maitland on the 9th eon„ was completed
last week by the Mitchell Bridge Oo.,
and a fine job was done, R. McDonald
finished the grading and tilling in at
opproaohee so that traffio was opened on
Thursday. Alex, D. Lamont's team was
the first one to canes it. Andrew Hielop
made a good jib on the cement abut
menta. The steel work out $1,598 00 ;
the ebutmente $1,436 ; and the approaoh•
es $140.
S. S. No. 4 of Grey hae decided to
hold a public Sohool Examination and
Entertainment on the day and night of
December 16th. The eohool 10 a 0paoioa0
building and every effort ie to be put
forth to aneommodate, as well KB enter.
ban, The came is a worthy one, as it is
to add.to the already exoelleut library
and to purchase a "Canadian Flag."
Accommodation for horses also le getter•
usaly given by the neighboring !armors,
eight'ot whom arelwithin halfa mile of
the school. Remember the date, Deoem•
her 16111, Jamestown School, Township
of Grey.
$30,000 BY Law.—In this week's issue
of Tan Pon is a Bylaw, provisionally
adopted by the township Connell, and
to be submitted to the ratepayere on
Mnnioipal Elootion day, providing
authority to the Council to ieene
debentures for $30,000 for the purpose of
erecting etoel bridges and cement abut.
manta. Debentures will ran 20 yeare
and bear interest at the rate of 4%. A
spatial rate of $2,207,40 will be noceeoary,
annually, to repay loan and provide for
the morning intereet. This year 4
bridges were built and the expense of
three of them borne by the rate levied
tbie Fall, the fourth contrect being let
after rate for year was struck and ooet
will have to be carried over to next year.
There ie little doubt but for eevcral
year', to oom0 bridge building will have
to be engaged in, several 01 the etluoturee
being repaired about as Inuit es they
are Worth, With the loan secured other
necessary work oou bo attended to as
well Dud the Max rate redacted Erma whet
it is this year. The electors ehenld read
and preserve A Dopy of the Bylaw,
dieeues it and thereby be in a post ion to
vote intelligently upon the proposal on
the 2nd day of January.
0, Bowan, who hail been visiting
Mende on the 16th eon , has returned to
Ilia home near Mitchell.
Preliminary arrangements ere being
made by Union °hatch Sabbath School,
12th eon,, to hold their annual entertain.
meat. They will have a musical and
literary program and Ohrietmae Tree on
Thursday evening, 22nd lost,
The trustees of S. S. No, 6 have engag-
ed the eervioee of Miss Lizzie, daughter
of John McArthur, of Bruseela, as teach-
er for 1905 at a salary of $290. She is
at present attending eohool at Berlin.
We wish Miss McArthur names,. Mise
McDonald, the present teacher, will be
giving up the profession it is said.
Last Saturday Hugh and Will., sone of
James McKay, formerly of Monarirff,
now of Monkton, arrived bome from N.
W. T;, where they went laet March.
The boye have takeu up bomeeteade and
will return t0 the West next Spring.
Whether housekeepers will u0oompauy
them or not remains to be seen. Walter
McKay, another brother, who was West
ie also home.
(1oox EY,—On Nov, 16,h, Margaret
Dodd, relict of the late John Oothlin,
passed away on the homestead farm io
the fifth conoeesion of Elma, now mum
pied by her eon, Richard Ooghlin. She
wan in her eighlyeeventb year, and had
enjoyed good health up to within a few
weeke of her death, when her system
yielded to her advanced age, and ehe
went peacefully to her reward. The de•
oeased wee a daughter of the late Henry
Dodd, and was born at Brandon, Ireland,
io 1818. She wee married in Gork to the
late Jahn Coghlin with whom she came
to Canada in 1837, the year of the
Maokeozie rebellion. They first settled
in Kirtley township in the united counties
of Leede and Grenville, where they re
aided until 1853, and where several of
their children were born. In tbat year
the family Dame to the Qneen'e Bneh,
Mr. Ooghlin (eking up lots 19 and 20 in
the 5th 0000eseion of Elma, where they
cleared for themselves a home, exper•
ienoiug the triale of the early pioneer
daye, and where the deoeaeed bad resided
eootinuouely for over fifty yeare. Her
bu•band pre deceased her fourteen yeare
ago, having reached the advaueed age of
92 yeare. Longevity appears to have
been a characteristic of both ,idea of the
family, Mre. Oogh'in'e mother having
lived
nt'I ehe was 107years,and a sister
o t
died et 92. Of a family of fourteen
children, ten ere living, several of them
being among the most proeperone farmere
of Wallace and Qllma. The eons are
Henry and Charles, of Wallace; William,
in Manitoba ; Nathaniel, at Atwood ;
and John, Richard and George, in Elma.
The daughters are Mre. Geo. Grierson, of
Elmo; Mre. Edward Oampbell, of
Henfryn ; and Mrs. W. Beane, of this
township. The funeral took place on
Friday afternoon to Elena oemetery, and
was largely attended. Rev. J. H, McLeod
of the Anglican Church, Elma, conduct
ed the funeral service.
10$0 r retie.
Statutory Council meeting on Deo.
15th.
George Findlater hae returned from
hie trip in the N. W. T. Evidently he
thinks that the white man's land is the
beet,
Rev. 0. P. Wells delivered a very
inetruotive addreee on the subject of
"Education" to the Sunshine congre•
gation last Sunday afternoon.
The sale of young pante and horses,
annouooed to be held at James Bolger'e,
8th line, Friday afternoon of next week,
has been cancelled owing to other arm
rangemeote being made.
School Section No. 5 intends having an
entertainment on Deo. 20th, prnoeede to
be invested in a library for the intellectual
benefit of the scholars. The Idea is all
right and should be heartily backed op in
the neighborhood.
School section No. 3, known as the
Miller school, 5th line, will have Mise
Minnie L. Kerr, who is teaching at
Dungannon, as teacher for next year.
Mr.Montgomery, the present teacher,
will enter open the study of Medicine it is
said.
ENTERED INTO REnc.—On Sunday,
November 20th, at 4 o'clock in the after,
00011, at the home of Hugh Forsyth,
Frobisher, Manitoba, formerly of the 6th
line, Morris, Hannah Foraytb, beloved
wife of Albert MaOall, a former Morrieite,
bade Goodbye to thing', terrestrial and
entered into tbe Home celestial. She
had been poorly for the past two yeare,
the partioalar cause of death wan pleurisy.
Deceased was tbe eldest daughter of
Hugh Forsyth and wee united in mar.
riage too her now bereft partner needy
three yeare ago, They had no family.
Mre. MWWall was a bright, cheerful,
indaetrione woman wbo wee beloved by a
large circle of relatives and friende, and
her demise will be a source of einoere
regret. She wag 28 years, 6 mouths and
20 days old. The funeral took place on
Taeeday, 22nd alt., at 1 o'olook, from the
home of her father, to the Frobisher
oemetery. Mrs. IvloOall went West Inst
March. The many old Morrie friende
tender their sympathies to the bereaved.
IN LOVING MY1EM0ar,
The world has lost some of its beauty,
Por loved one bee passed away
From 11110 troublesome, woarlsome. laud,
To the realms of endless day.
She was beautiful in every way,
Obedient, and hind and fair,
Well fitted t0 dwell in the 3119.11810118
Our Saviour hae gone to proparo,
8he has soup to her rest, and her eonfl.lots
are o'er,
She is done with her Borrows and pain,
The trials of life which she patiently bore,
Shall never distress her again,
01 was hard to part with dear Hannah.
But her Father has called herhotno ;
And we'll try to assuage our sadness,
For vo more in tele cold world she'll roam.
She shall sleep, bat not forever
le that lonely foreign grave.
B loosed bo the 'Lord that taltetlt
Blessed be the Lord that gave.
The oirole is broken, ono dear Mae gone,
Missed day by day from its acoa0tom0d
plum.
But cleaned and perfected, saved by grace,
Ono more in heaven.
lu heevou there'll bo no more patting,
No nigbfug, for all will be fair;
Nappy thought, wo shall Mow ono another,
And with Hannah those manelone may
,bare,
W. H. KERB, Prop,
The farmers who have got their wood
cutting, grinding and straw cutting porn•
plated may congratulate them ielve8 so '
far as regards the onowy weather,
STOLE HONEY. --Ono night reoontly
Rome aweet-toothed brit email wailed
indtvideal went to Donald McLean'',
farm, 7th line, and helped thermally, 8 a
posoibly 25 lbs, of hooey from a hive a, d
thereby destroyed the colony of b es..
The honey•aatb8rer8 belong to G A,
Deadman, of Brnasele, and he bee tffered
a reward of $50 for the unseath,u et the
thief. We have heart' of peep a being
mean enough to take the oolmera frim) a
dead man's eyee but he is n0 meaner
than the party who robbed the bee have.
It is to he hoped the guilty one will be
located and an example made of him.
1110 ONss.—Bpeaking of big potatt:ea
Henry Johnston, of "Summerlui.d"
Farm, 5111 line, bad Northern Beauty
variety some of them meaeur,ng 9
inches long, 24 inches iu circumference;
with 40 eyes and weighed 2; pumas,
He grew 2 Swede turnips tbat weighed
311 )be. ; 4 others that scaled 524 lba.,
and 10, pipped out of two laude, that
weighed 127 pounds. With hie two
daughtere and one eon, 1118 oldest 13
years of age, they put 35 bnnitelo of
t0rnipoJoto the wagon, drove to 1118 pit
and unloaded in 9 winutee. Talk about
bustling that was going iteaa lively rate
and a record not amity beaters,
People We Talk About.
Herb. Cunningham has taken tt position
in Stratford.
Mise Maggie Stewart was visiting with
Wroxeter friende.
Mre;B• Gerry and Mrs. S. T. Plum
visited in Blyth this week.
W. H. Salter is baok from n trip
through the Western Staten.
Mies Ferguson, of Walton, was visiting
Mies Mabel Zimmer for a few days.
Mies Anna Hunter has gone to Allan -
lord, wbere she will spend eome time.
Mies Fannie Thompson is home from
Fergus where she bee spent the pant year.
Mre. T. Fletcher and Mrs. W, H. Kerr
were visitors with Toronto Maude thio
week.
Mre, John Garter, Mill street, has been
quite,poorly bat we hope she will goon be
o. k.
. has one
to Tens.
Mrs. Ha a oft er e
M r
g
y
water, to visit her daughter, Mrs. D.
Fergneon,
George Cunningham, V. B., is in town.
He hae been employed in Wingham for
some montbe.
Mies Zelma Gerry, of Blyth, is a
vieitor at Oonnoillor Plum's, her male,
Tornberry street.
Mre. Griffith has not been enjoying her
usual good health of late bet we trust she
will soon be fully invigorated,
D. A. Lowry is working et his trade
in Torooto and ,bowing his skill to
bustle with the beet of them.
Jno, and Mre. Ament, of Millbank,
were renewing old friendships in Brueeele
during eportionofthe et week,
past
Mark Buchanan ie home from his
visit to the Northerly part of Ontario
and has resumed work for P. Ament.
H. Dation end family removed to
Berlin last Saturday where they purpose
making their home. We wish them well.
Mies Flo. Baobanan, who was home
from Looknow for Thanksgiving Day,
was accompanied by Mrs. Findlay, of
St. Helene.
Mre. D. A. Ferrier, of St. Helens, mite
visiting her parents, Thos. and Mre.
Lott, and bar crater, Mre, Wm. Miller,
of this looality.
Mre. H. Meboalf, who had beau visiting
her deter, Mrs. J. L. Kerr, for several
weeke, left for her home in Toronto, In
Tuesday afternoon.
The baby eon of Jonas and Mrs Beck.
er, John street, bee been seriously ill
during the past week but we hope the
little one will soon be better,
Mre, Arnott, of Ailanford ; Joseph
Clark, of Brantford, and Mr. and Mre.
Beattie, of Pine River, were guests at
Ino. Hunter's, John street.
Mre. George Brown, Mies Maggie
Brown, Russell mud Jae. Wright, the
latter of Dakota, were vieitor, with
friende at Clifford tbie week.
It is Raid Dr. and Mre. Graham may
spend the Winter in Outerio, possibly a
part of it in Brussels. They have been
in the West during the past Summer.
Geo. Marr, son of Joseph Mnrr, of
Brussels, is now a news agent on the G.
T. R, with headquarters at Stratford.
Hie run ie from Oweu Sound to Pott
Dover.
('11118011 PRIM EN.
Mr, Powell, of Huron College, Loudon,
will conduct the eervioee in St, John's
ohnxoh Brueeele, next Sunday.
Next Sabbath evening Rev. 0. P.
Wells, M. A., B. D., of Ethel, will
preach in Melville ohuroh, The pastor
will be at Ethel eddreseing a Bible
Sooiety meeting,
Job was the 0ubjeot of Rev. Jno, Rua'
'termor) loot Sabbath morning, a unlit .a-
ation of the theme of the previ. n0
Sabbath. In the evening "Whateoevet,
thy band findeth to do, do it with illy
might"wag the text.
Rev, '1'. W. Ooeeuo will preach Rrni-
verenry sermons on the Weeleninieter
circuit, hie charge before coming Ivo 0.
Hie pulpit will be filled by Rev. R. Ful-
ton Irwin, Of Weotmineter, an earnest
and successful pastor and a good preach-
er.
The pulpit of the Methodist obur^1f
000 oeoupied last Sabbath by It v.
Martin J. Wilson, B, A„ of Pteswe r,
wbo gave two excellent dimmers, s rat r
out of the beaten path, Hie text in h0
morning was Psalm 119 verse 160 t tai
St, John 18 and 37 in the evening. R v.
batr. Coeene preached Missionary stem lie
at Toeewater on Sabbath.
The result of the re wont in Notch.
Bimooe gives Leighton Mocertby 41
majority over Major Currie.
West Baron Coneervatfve 0011ve11tien
was held last Monday at Auburn.
Barrieter Dudley Holmes, of Wmghant,
Carried the convention 00 the 0oeoerva+
five standard-bearer for West titan,