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itiestryals•,
The Presbyterian congregation have
put a Inoue into the mouse.
A. Mol;wen and Atiii Jesite router are
re•eagap•d to tout) in Blnevelo eohool
Ilex` seat'.
Mn. J. J. Moser and little daughter,
Marearet, of Hamilton, are visiting at
Win. 14«a, r's,
Mrs Haney retuned k home o utned to he h in
0
Torten t, after visiting her esti, Geucgu
Haney, a tine village
Lieu Isabel Sanderson returned Immo
to Toronto, after visiting her father here
for about three mAetbs.
Miss Ina Thomas took her little cousin,
Miso einriol 'Wog, who has spent gnibn a
Ulna with her grandparents, Robert
paean and wife, back to bee home in
Grams Valley.
The fix mill is eat down until the
wet weather is past. Tho men from
other towns who have been working in it,
went hone the beginning of this week, to
stay till wanted.
A union Thanksgiving service will bo
held in the Methodist church on Thanks-
giving morning, at eleven o'clock. Rev,
W. J. West will preach. TheMsthodiets
and Presbyterians intend holding anion
sorvioeo on Thanksgiving day in retire,
the 1'es'pyterien minister prettching in
the Methodist ehureh and vice versa.
Coley. worth.
Cncacn Orr:Nixo.—The now brick
church erected by the Presbyterians of
Molesworth and vioiniby was formally
dedicated for Divine worship on Sunday,
the 14th inst. Rev. R. J. M. Glassforcl,
of Guelph, preached able sermons morn-
ing and evening, and Rev. W. Cooper fu
the afternoon. At the morning service
the church was filled to overflowing with
people of all denominations, who wore
delighted with au eloquent sermon deliv-
ered by the reverend gentleman, who took
for his text Rev. 2:10. At the afternoon
and evening services, despite the rain, the
church was again well filled. The tea.
meeting ou Monday evening, although the
weather was very unpropitious, was ex-
ceedingly well atteucled, the speakers bo.
ing ;he ouly parties ,vho did not turn out
as expected, Those present were the
minister, Rev. G. E. Ballantyne, Rev. W.
Cooper, of Listowel ; Rev. Mr. West, of
Bluevale; and Rev. Mr. Fenner, of Trow-
bridge, each of whom made very good
speeches, Excellent music was provided
by the choir at all the servicee. Total
proceeds of opening services, $204. Moles.
worth stn now boast of ono of the pret-
tiest little ehtrebos in this district. The
work reflects great credit on the contract.
ors, who wore : For carpenter work and
painting, 11. G. Wilson, of Brussels ;
brickwork and plastering, Robb. Blow, of
Gordo ; stonework, Goo. Nash, Gerrie.
The leaded glees windows wore supplied
by the Hobbs Manufacturing Co., of Lou-
don, while the Brinker Hardware Co., of
List.;cl, attended to the heating, The
total oust has been about $4,000. W. E.
Binning, of Listowel, was the architect.
On Wednesday evening following u most
enjoyable time was spent at the children's
gathering, in connection with which the
year! Hoopla and children of the Sabbath
school Initialled the lull program in au
interesting and pleasant manner, to the
delight of all, Last Sabbath tltemorning
service was conducted by Rev. J. Ross,
B. A., of Brussels, who took as his sub.
jeot "Christ the Light of the World."
To his instructive address olose attention
was given by a large, appreciative audi-
ence. Rev. D. B. McRae, of Cranbrook,
who preached in the evening, 'took as his
subject Psalm 84, 10. His earnest coun-
sel and advice was received iu the kindly
way it WAS given. Total receipts from
all these gatherings amounted to over
$250.00. During these meetings inauy
were heard expressing themselves as do -
lighted with the beauty, completeness
and artagemenb of the different parts of
the edifice. The pastor and managers
aro to bo congratulated.
Lia:towal.
Wm. Bright and faintly have removed
to town from Arthur.
The looal huntsmen have returned from
Muskoka, and venison is now plentiful.
W. J. Ray has returned home from
his trip to England. He had n rough
passage back.
Mies Lena Hutohieon of this town has
been engaged as teacher of No. 8 eohool,
Wallace, for 1808.
Mayor Scott has about entirely re•
covered from his lengthened Masa, and
is daily gaining ebreugth,
J. S. Gee has purchased the Osborne
store property adjoining his own store on
the West aide. Ib is a three etory,briek
building.
Mr. Green is making arrangements
with Mr. Meyer to supply power to oper-
ate the electric light plant till Spring,
owing to the lateness of the sawn for
erecting a power house.
Rev, Dr. Beavis, of Hamilton, conduct.
ed the anniversary eerviees in the Con•
gregationel ohurah on Sunday and de-
livered a feature on Monday evening on
"The popular heroes of to -day."
Eli Snelling's driver had a narrow es.
cape from having a broken leg. While
crossing the bridge on Bismarck street a
plank broke through and the leg became
fastened. The broken plank had to be
sawn off before it could be extricated.
The animal got off with a eoratohed and
bruised limb.
George A. Fraser, ledger -keeper in the
Bank of Hamilton here, was waited up.
on by a number of his friends at the
Arlington hotel, it having been learned
that he had been traneferred to the Sim-
one branch of the Bank, and was made
the recipient of an address and a gold.
headed one, as a teebitnonial of the ea.
teem obis uumoroue friends in town,
Tho oecasion of the departure of W.
H. Carroll from Listowel, where he has
for ovor n year past noted me toper in the
Bank of Hamilton, was seized upon by
the baleen men of the town and a few
friends to show thole appreciation of hie
aaonntcdatiug manners and business -like
ability in his offteinl capacity, and of hie
many admirable qualibioe of a social
nature. An address was preeeobed to
him a000mp esied by a gold chain, lookeb
and pill.
An unexpected "drop" took plane at
Kidd's livery on Monday evening of last
week, but whioh very fortunately did nob
seriously affoot the value of the ten
hones in the barn at the time. The
rear part of the atablo, a femme structure
wag set up on poste genie 8 oe 10 feet
above the potted, the horn staile being
in tale part. The poste had latterly got
out of peependioular, and 011 Monday an
porta (rave way end the etraotatro, with
horses Ltlid ennead n n, dropped to the
ground. fortunately the building re.
mained intact, otherwleo the ten horses
that worn in at the time would doubtless
have been killed or seriously injured. It.
T. Iiirl l and hie men were in the beck
part of the stable when it gave way, bet
made their escape by running into the
front, which 10 rt solid brink eIrnobure,
Not a Itoree le the stable received a
scratch
The building has been Ja
akod
up into Its former position and planed on
a aurer foundation for the future.
A3i g'tin.
Blyth scut out 20 oar loads of freight
wash before last.
So far this season 2,300 hnrrele of
apples have been shipped from Blyth
0tablon.
Blyth still etioke to the long businnes
Mauro, the stores keeping open to 8 o'clock
oe later.
While digging a grave ab the Union
cemetery ou Monday of last week, Rich-
ard Sellars ran arose a live garter snake
11 feet long.
The Standard has removed to its new
and more commodious quarters on Dins.
ley street, nearly oppoeibe the Presby.
terian ehurolt.
A. S. Dieltson and W. W. Sloan left on
Wednesday morning of last week for Kin.
tnoky and Mississippi and will combine
business and pleasure.
The evening Service in the Presby-
terian church was withdrawn last Sab-
bath evening, owing to the anniversary
services being held in the Methodist
church.
St. Andrew's church Sunday ecbool
will give an entertainment on the evening
of Doo. 20th, and Trinity °beech Sunday
school will hold a Christmas tree in the
Indavtry hall on the evening of Deoember
22nd.
ANNivicnskuv.—Tho seventh anniver-
sary of the Methodist church in thio
place was celebrated last Sabbath and
Monday and, despite disagreeable weath-
er, was on par with its predooessors—a
genuine success. Rev. B. Clement, of
Clinton, occupied the pulpit on Sunday
and gave two splendid sermons, the
evening one on the text "Where art
thou ?" being especially noteworthy.
Instead of a lea•meeting o gathering was
held on Monday evening. The pastor,
Rev. Mr. Rigsby, officiated in a very
happy mauuor as chairman and intro-
duced the speakers, woo were Rev. S. J.
Alfie, of Brussels ; W. II. Kerr, of Tun
Poste, Brussels ; and Be,, Mr. Clement.
Excellent and most suitable music was
supplied by the chorale choir, with Miss
Jamieson he organist and Mr. Smith
lender. Rev, Mr. Allis also favored the
audience with a Bolo entitled "Building
for Eternity.'' The female' results
were worthy of Blyth Methodists and
amounted to about $101, which only
leaves a balance of about $50 to wipe out
all indebtedness of their neat and well
appointed church, The building oat
30,000. Henna plants were arranged
within the altar railing. Votes of thanks
to the speakers and choir brought a very
enjoyable gathering to a conclusion,
Morris.
Aire. Thos. Rnese'l is still poorly.
Township Council met last Monday.
Snow fell heavy on Monday evening of
this week.
Ed. Micklejohn is home from Manitoba
arl
u,e looking well.
Fall plowing has been kept up ns late
as Monday of this week,
Jas. B. Wilkinson and wife, of Haaan-
aba, arrived hams on Nov. 3rd.
Neither Taxa Poste nor Herald showed
up at Sunshine oe Saturday last.
Mise 13. Jaokoon has returned home
from an extended visit to 8olmeeville.
dire. Goo. W. Proctor, of the 4th lino,
was very ill last week, but is improving.
Sabbath School Xmas tree entertain-
ment is Johnston's'churchon Cbristmae
eve.
Harry Fear has returned from the
Prairie Province, maoh pleased with the
oouhbry.
Baster MOArter is siok with heart
disease, His friends hope soon to hear
of his speedy recovery.
Quite a number intend taking advant-
age of the cheap rate on the 25th—
Thanksgiving Day.
Wm. Wilkinson, 4th line, sold two
turkeys last week that weighed 81 lbs.
He received 98 ants apiece for them.
Wednesday evening of this week Wm.
Turvey and Mies Mary, daughter of S.
Caldbiolt were married. Particulars
later.
We are pleased to report that Mrs. Teo.
Manning is recovering nicely from her
illness and will soon, we hope, bo fully
restored,
Jae, Wilkinson hag a hen that keyed
an egg one day last week that measured
0} iuohee in oircumferenoe and 8i inches
in diameter.
We are sorry to state that Mrs. Ram-
say's health shows very little, if any im-
provement, but a change for the bottee
is earnestly hoped for by to large olrate of
friends.
SIMIAN D skxu.—The Seafortb Exposi-
tor of beet week says :—"Much regret
was felt on Friday morning last, on it
becoming known that Mrs. Larogne had
died ou that morning, Mrs. Laroque's
maiden name was Jane Ann Boyd, She
was a daughter of Moore Boyd, of this
town, and lived with him. She bad not
enjoyed the beet of health for some
months, but being of an uncomplaining
disposition, she made little of her illness,
and oontinued her usual household duties
until Thursday evening, when she be.
name suddenly and seriously ill, and de-
spite all that medial aid could do she
passed away the following morning. She
was 01 years of ago, and was much and
deservedly respected by all who knew
her. Mr. Boyd, her father, has been an
invalid for several years, being helpless
from rheumatism, and Mrs. Larogne batt
long been his principal attendant, and
her loving ministrations will be touch
miseed by him, and it will be diflioult to
get one to take her plane, tvltile she wilt
also be greatly missed by other members
of the fatuity. The remains were taken
to Blyth on Monday for interment in the
cemetery there.!' The lady referred to in
the abaci item to a sister to Mrs, John
Robb, 0th line. When Mrs. Longue
took go ill two physicians were tailed,
but altar consultation were unable to lo.
gate the lronblo, but thought something
had given way internally and treated de.
oeaeed for stoppage of the bowels. A
post mortem revealed the fact that death
was 0000eioned by the rupture of a tumor,
Er. Boyd has area to Mrs. Robbs,
Where he Will make his home.
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I:laving decided to begin business in
Brussels we announce to the general public
that we will open up a stock of Staple Dry
Goods, Tweeds, Clothing, Hats,
Caps, Etc., in the Garfield House on
AY,
OVS 2,
As we purchased this stock at a low rate
on the dollar we are in a position to give
some Startling inducements. To establish
and introduce ourselves to the people we will •
Sacrifice this stock for the next Thirty
Days. If you are thinking of purchasing
Dress Goods, Overcoats, Suits or any kind of
Dry Goods we extend you a cordial invitation •
to call and inspect goods and prices.
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butter and Eggs taken same as Bashi
R. Jewitt spent a day shooting. He
got some small game and in the oveniug
horsed two deer. W. Forrest also spent
a day hunting. He had the misfortune
to lose hie hound.
Clover threshing comes next in order.
Jno. Kirkoonnell, formerly of Morris, baa
purchased a new machine and ie ready
for business. Arrangements can be made
with Thos. Miller, jr., 5th line.
Joseph Smillie, of the 1st line of
Morris, had eleven turkeys stolen last
Friday night. The traoks in the snow,
in the field where the turkeys were, shoty-
ed that the person oe persons, who stole
them, Dame in a wagon.
Two well known men while looking for
work a few evenings ago, left their horse
and rig at a certain gate. While they
were in the house the animal took!), stroll
all alone and was found near a certain
swamp. A few articles got shaken out
but were found again. The night was
very dark, so they say.
Mise Maggie Pollock, clairvoyant,
clairandient and psychological test
medium, returned to Buffalo on Monday
of last week. She bad been suddenly
called to her home hero on account of the
serious illness of her sister, who ie now
so far recovered as to permit of her re.
turn. During Miss Polloolt's stay she
waited on a great many people who flame
to consult her, and a number were dieap•
pointed at not seeing her. We hope she
may return shortly and remain for a time
at leash giving us an opportunity of con -
suiting her asla medium.
Moserisbfi,uk.
Robert Messer bee moved into hie
oomfortable new brick residence. We
wish him and his good lady many years
of prosperiby, but wander what use they
have for such a big hones,
Peter Moffatt is hauling stone for the
foundation of a new bank barn ho intends
ereobiag next season. It will be 50x00
feet and have all the modern improve.
meets, such tis oemoub floors, mengore,
coo.
A Tlx•xor True.—Tlutreday evening of
laeb weak about twenty-five relatives and
friends of D. II. Moffatt assembled at his
comfortable residence for a night's en.
joyment. Prof. Skilling and wife, of
Teeewater, and Andrew Gray end daugh-
ter, of Bluevale, sapptfed a choice pro-
gram of vocal and instrumental esiso-
bone, the former being largely the songs
of Soubland. Messrs. Skilling and Gray
on the violins and Mies Gray at the piano
gave some beautiful mesio. The Irish
solos of Mr. Skilling and rho acetic Bongs
of Mr. Gray were splendidly rendered.
Mies Gray is possessed of a charming
voice and takes a foremost place among
the vocalists of the County. An elegant
supper wag served at midnight, to which
nobody appeared backtvara in Doming
forward. Parlor games, social eat and
rebarsale of olden days filled in a most
enjoyable evening and people were sorry
when the hour of departure came. A
hearty vote of thanks was passed to the
musicians and also to the genial hoeb and
hostess for theirenerous hospitnliby.
The oonoluding number on the program
wee "Dave's a jolly, good fellow, which
nobody can deny."
A. Sutherland, a West Gwillinmbttry
farm band, Cell dead while at %thrashing.
0. B. Ball, Q. 0., of °Woodstoolc, is or-
ganizing a company to go to the Klan.
dike in Mao Spring. A number of Nor.
Vi boli people are taking stools in it.
The Ronald
Fills Engine works,
BRUSSELS.
We are prepared to do any kind of
Machine Repair Work
with dispatch and on very Rea-
sonable Terms.
When wanting anything in
the line of Engines and Boilers,
stationary or portable, we would
be glad to have you ask us for
quotations as we think we can
save you money.
Wo Have also on hand all
kinds of Repairs for Engines,
Boilers, Steam Fittings, and can
also execute any orders for Brass
work.
Niclele Plating a S(iecicrlty,
Ronald Fire Engine Works]
BRUSSELS.
611
New Dross Goods
In all the Latest Shades.
Dan Trimma.ngs
In Jots and Braids, all new.
Now Hosiery and Gloves
In all Shades and Bizos.
Mos' and Olds' Vndorwaar
Bolter and Cheaper than over.
Staple Goods.
A fall stook of Cottons, Oottonadoe,
Shirting, Flannels, Flannelettes.
GROCERIES.
My stook is complete—Tette, Cof•
fees, Spicas and Canned Goode.
►-B"WiII tot bo undersold.
J. G. Skene.
INT,i"=V2 ..i..dsri'°'t6:IVIliA°'INE.p3!VVAI:^,r:
OF
Ilas prevented us from giving our Grocery Department the prol:.:-
nellce in our acts. which it deserve t. A. specialty is made of
FINE E TEAS
wbiolt are imported rliroet from japan and Dayton. We are agents for the justly
olabrated
"Circle" r
and
1
Ce on Teo put i
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Y n the new perfection air -tight
canisters at '20e , 100 and 00e a lh,' Alto epoeial brand of Japau Tea,
"Toe Bird," at 25o a Ib, We have in sleek several other
lines of Teas from la a lb. op. Li
GENERAL -:- GROCERIES,
We keep a full stock of the best goods procurable.
Canned Corn, worth 8o for $0 05
Canned Peas, worth 10e, for 08
Canned Tomntoee, worth 10a, for 08
Baking Powder, l?i lb. Sealers 25
Baking Powder, 10o tins for 05
Corn Starch, worth 70, for 05
Globe Washboards, 2 for 211
0 dozen Clothespins for 05
2 gond Broome for 20
New Red Setlmon, a can 10
Large Saab Brush for 3d.
12 Barg Laundry Soup for 2fi
Jeremy Cream Bisnnite,'1'in Box lie
3 boxes Eddy's Diatthes for elite
Madam Roy's Complexion Soap, ocn•
tailing glycerine, witch hazel,
bnbtermilk, 3 oaks( In box, fortis
MoLaree's Imperial Cheese, elegant
goods, put up in Pateelal° Jare °'r.
All day and pro of the evening, until °toein;; time, there is opportunity for) ire
to save money at thin store.
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New • 1 Raisins, Currants,
Orange, Lemon and Citron Peels,
Fruits. Figs in Taps and Layers.
No' I Walnuts,
Almonds,
, r,'j,S'a 1 Filberts,
Shelled and Unshelled,
Peanuts.
Nice, Fresh
Pure Lard.
CROCK RY
Something well worth seeiiz i,
Dinner, Tea and Toilet Ware.
Jas. Ball a,; tt n
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Brussels
Leading
Clothiers.
Leaders in
Gents'
Furnishings.
Know a man to keep a good thing to himself I2
We haven't any regard for the man who doles_
When we put our $5.00 Overcoat on sale we knew
the snap would get all over the country without
spending the money to advertise them, some sizes
running low.
It will pay you to take a look at our
$6.00,
7,00, $8,00 Sc $10.00
OVERCOATS. They are snaps.
IY;ee ' bu;= Sj >= s '~zo- •, , . e.. i =v = T"+w=, ' i S e-d
He Wh'o Asks Timidly,
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l , ate, . -- '- .--. °,'•otY4" a - ,°i ,•"P• a, .`',: t.'',.d n
Therefore we are most positive in our statements -
We e want to sell you a Suit of Clothes—Not your neighbtw.
nor your second cousin, nor anybody but just YOU, We
ask you to buy of us because we offer you a strictly one..
price trade and the best ready-to-wear Clothing in Bilis-,
sels. If we can't prove It to you don't buy. If you are
thinking of getting a
Iur Coat or Fur gay,
it will pay you to look through our selection which is the
largest in town.
3oss & .Halliday,
CLOTHiERS, BRUSSELS,