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The Brussels Post, 1894-2-2, Page 44 r THE BRUSSELS POST FEB 2, 1891 New Advertisements, Tiooalet–Pr. Ayer• Looa}s--J, G, Skene, nPb arde, oda �•1, C. li L e 1 Bolding up shoes—Good Bros. • Dull for Sala—Angus Lamont, Clearing Sale --H, F, atIoAllioter, Ii,etiring from Business—Wm, Simpson, Obeeee Faotory Meeting—Barris Sr McLaughlin, ,13.e cifiltti5sels 1,ast, FRIDAY, EBB. A, 1894. SV al ton, Rev. 11,1r. Woods, of Wingham, proaohed in St. George's church last Sunday after. nom The Ladies' Missionary Association of Duff's church mold their monthly meet- ing at the manse on Friday evening of Baits week. Tea served from fi to 8 o'clock when a good program will follow. Rev, W. Ottewell, of 13elwood, was Visiting among his former parishioners here tine week. The Walton people were pleased to meet him again. An A, 0. U, W. supper was given at the home of 13. H. Ferguson on Wednes- day evening of this week. After partak• ing of a repast, in which oysters formed a prominent part, an adjourmneut was made to their Hull, where the broom trophy, won by Welton lodge for the largest increase attained in Huron Co. during the past year, was presented. D. of Belwood, J.tate.C.Morr Morrison andlocalto-lent gave an excellent program, which was well enjoyed by all present. Walton A. 0. V. W. is a live institution. R. T. or T. Cm1E1T.—A splendid we. cert was given in the schoolhouse on he R. of T. Arc ie Hislop auspices occupied the chair in his accustomed happy manner and preserved the most excellent order throughout the following long but interesting program t-1blonth organ and bones, W. Neal and E. Fisher ; song, "Mary Ann come is," Prof. Hawkins; violins, Beat Bros., •; dialogue, "Lawyer's advice," McFadzean Bros.; Mouth organ and organ, Mr. and Mrs. McCune.; Beading, "Pedagogue's trials," W. A. Kerr ; song, "Learning McFadden to waltz,' Prof, Hawkins; mouth organ and auto -harp, Mr. Bricker ; Scotch reading, "The Christmas goose," tries Smillie ; Duett, "The milkmaid," Was •Dennison and W. Pollard; dialogues, "Bridget's investment," Walton Co. ; song, Mies mulligan pie," Prof. Hawkins ; recitation,"The demon drink,' Annie Gardiner ; duet, "Silvery melodies," the biases mc0alla ; violins, Best Bros. ; dialogue, "The imposter exposed," Oran - brook Co. ; solo, "Sweet Nellie Baan," Lizzie Smith ; speech, lir. Allan ; music, arr. Bricker ; recitation, "The Widows daughter," Thos. tmFadzean ; sung, "my little bunch of roses," meek lest ; read- ing, "Wash day at ora. Caudle's," Prof. Hawkins violins, Best Bros. ; music, VV. Neal and and E. Fisher ; song, "He Met in it," Prof. Hawkins ; dialogue, one Darkie Artist," Messrs. Smith, AtrnBan arid Ferguson tiviolins', ns r Tied t Bros. The National anteu brought the profit am to a QIQBA. The Royal Templare are to be congratulated on the success of their concert as the Morn was tilled to doors,the the amount realized bolas in the vicinty of 020.00. IIU�)'ICII Pna11t41tS' DIIPI'itA4 I1It 1\SU5 l.scI* c0g4t'.tat11:, The 21st annual meeting of the motn. bare of this Company wee hold in the Township Hall, Gerrie, on Friday after. noon, Janeary 19th, 1894, Tbere was a large attendance. The retiring directors, Jno• R. Miller and Edward Bryan, were re.elepted and the other odicer of the Company are the same as last year. From the annual reports, whiner were road and adopted, we give the following particulars;—The number of policies ie• sued during the plot year was 716, and the number in force ab the end of the year 2,984, inelring $4,898,010, being an increase of $162,800 in the amount at risk and 76 in the number of policies in force. The essesements oolleoted amount- ed to $8,820.711 and the losses paid amounted to $6,164.82. The year closed with a oath balance of $2,078.80 in the treasury. The total agitate of the Com- pany amount to $202,971 08 and the li- abilities are $70.64. It will he seen from the above figures that the Company is doing a growing and etre business, Perth County. James Jones, of Mitchell, bas been ap- pointed County auditor of Perth, and J. W. Cull has been appointed High sohool trustee of Mitchell. At the annual meeting of the North Perth Agricultural Society, recently held at Stratford, it was deoided to bold only a one day show this year. The financial statement showed a deficit of over 8600. T. 0. Currie, of Strathroy, who has been chosen the Patron's candidate for the Commons of West Middlesex, resided at one time in Blanchard and still owns a farm on the 10th line. He was at one time a minister of the Methodist New Connexion. Hon. Thomas Ballantyne of Stratford, bas received a letter from Denver, Col., notifying bim that hire. Ballantyne is in a very weak state. It is likely that Mr. Ballantyne will leave for Denver at once to remove the invalid to New Mexioo, where the climate is warmer. Anwner, ItlbsTrtao•—The annual meeting of the Blanchard Mutual Fire Insurance Company was held in the township hall with the President, Mr. Sanderson, in the chair. The directors' report was very satisfactory to the members present sod the auditors' report, presented by Mr. Burns, shoved an increase of bus), nese over any former year in the total amount of insurance. The retiring arm. tors were Messrs. Sanderson, Dinsmore, and Leslie, and were all re-elected. At a subsequent meeting of directors Mr. San• derson was re-elected President ; Geo. B. Webster, Vice -President ; P. S. Arm. strong, Secy.•Treas.; R. Beattie and John Burns, auditors ; W. F. Sanderson and P. S. Armstrong, representatives to Underwriters Association ; Wm. Webster, inspeotor of engines. A court of the Canadian Order of Ver• esters it to be instituted in St, Marys in the near future, .. T.11, Rave, John S. McIntyre and doe. Nagle have been appointed License Com• misatonere:or South Perth for 1894. A. young man named Carleton, of St. Mary's, was arreeted at London by De,' beolive Rider on a charge of obtaining money and goods . from parties in Oil Springs and Enniskillen on false proton' nes, 000stable Baokue, of Oil .Springs,. took him west on the evening train, Tabelligenpe reanlned St. Mary's Tues• day of last week of the death of Dr. Thos. E. Guest, eldest son of the late T• B, Guest. The sad event occurred at de• oeaeed's residence at Virden, Man., a few hours previous to the receipt of the tele. grain. The remain% were brought to St. Marys for interment, Huron County, Samuel Sanders, of Stephen, was nom• Mated by the Patrons at Hensall on Wednesday of last week for the South Riding of Huron, An Egmondville correspondent says :— ''Oce of the harrowing tales of the ter- rible destitution among the people of the neighboring republic is related by it resi• dent of thio village, who hoe lately bean in Northern Michigan. The father of a famine•strioken family applied to a store• keeper for acme floor to feed his starving children, but was refused beoauae he bad no money, but, driven to desperation, he snatched a twenty five pound cook and ran home, followed olossly by a polios - man, wbo, on entering the destitute home, found the famished children de- vouring the rate flour in handfuls. To the credit of the otneer, be left the family to their repast and went and paid the merchant for the flour." The friends of Miss Adelaide Williams, of ]i'ordwieb, Elaron County, are feeling very ansnoue as to her whereabouts. Up to a week ago Miss Williams lived with her father, who is a retired merchant, re siding at Fordwioh, but lately 61r. Wil• hams married for the second time, and a week ago Miss Williams went to Toronto intendirg to eeoare a position as a door sable and support herself. She had been stopping with a friend, Mrs. S. G. Tidy, 120 Bolton avenue, and on Bator• day morning left there, stating that she intended to pay a visit to a friend, Mies Mary Allen, a lady medioal student resit], ing at 482 Parliament street. Since then she has not been sees or heard oE. Miss Allen soya that the missing girl did not visit her on Saturday, as she intended do• ing, nor has she heard from her. No conjecture can be made as to the cause of her disappearance, as she was not an. quainted in Toronto, and when she de• parted from Mrs. Tidy's she left all her clothes and belongings there so that she evidently intended returning Brookville Conservatives on Saturday nominated R. J. Icily for the Legis. littera. Mies Sarah Forrest, a Public Sohool teacher, of Toronto, was drowned fn the bay on Saturday. With several com- panions she was in a boat that was caught and crushed between ice floes, the others were rescued. (. assu(a1aIa la'IB'fly>^t, Alexander 1lfayeeak and John P0000k, two old. reaideuts of London Out„ are dead, the former aged 90, Parte Webers aro 9 Ya1! wed tos sell at the meat market, They are seeking liberty to open shops about the town, The Ontario Jockey Olub's race meet• ing will begin TUesday, May 92, and the Qnsen's. Plate will be run for_on the open• ina day, Tho British OgIUmbia Legislature has decided to ask the Dominion Government to increase the poll tax on Chinese from $80 to $100. 0. J, Coleman, a brother • of Bev, R. Coleman, boated near Perth, broke through the ice on Eingston harbor and was drowned. The town of Rineardine has under oon. sideration a eoheme to purobase the water -works and eleotfk) Light plant that etre in service in that town. Hastings County Oomnoil passed a resolution deolaring that all of!#dials whose salaries are paid in whole or in part out of the county funds should be appointed by the County Oousoil, WrlliamDunbar, hobellissper and stook farmer, and Robert Oottingham, blank• smith, of Kinmonub, broke through the We and were drowned in Pigeon lake hast Friday night while driving hone from Peterboro' races. It is announced that Iter Excellency Lady Aberdeen bas vary kindly consent. ed to address a meeting of women et Lon - dos, ander the anspiose of the National Oogpoil of Women of Canada, on the 14th of Feb. next. This opportunity to hear and see the celebrated Lady of tho Gov. ernment House, will give pleasure to a very large number. W. Welsh, ex•reeve and grain merchant of Stoney Point, met with a flavor° aoof• dent nn Friday night of last week le try- ing to adjust a belt in his grain elevator. It slipped off the pulley and caught him around the neck. He was wound around the main shaft and made several revolu• tions before the engine could be stopped. His breast bone was broken, and the doc- torsentertain little hope of bis recovery. Toronto is verily the "City of Oharoh- es." There are within the corporation 197 places of wor,lnip, more than there are in either Buffalo or Detroit, and twice as many as there are in Montreal. The Anglicans have 42 churches, the Mothodiets 41, the Presbyterians 90, the Baptiste 19, the Roman Catholics 18, the Congregationalists 11, and other bodies 16. There are besides 26 mission houses carried on by he various denominations. J. Cunningham, an employee of the ,Montreal postoflioe, was arrested on Sat- urday by the Secret Servide Apenay. For eight years Cunningham hes bad the handling of uewspapers and parcels, The detectives found that be was selling cut- lery and other artiolee to second baud dealers at very low prices. Some of the artiolee were recognized by clerks em- ployed in a newspaper office as being prizes sent out by thein for competitions. Cunningham was arrested. Saturday morning before Judge Desuoyers Govern- ment officials made their depositions. The prisoner, who said he had been drinking, was brought before Judge Dag - las and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. The latest ftfd _ is a poverty saunas, 17very woman ,mnsb wear a Paljoe, and every manilla old Plothes. In addition gook one is lined 20 Vents if he or elle does not have a patch on hie or bar clothing and a prize itsgtv i to l9 ons wearing the poorest* clothing. A 'good shauoe for newspaper men to shine. A. 0.. Smith, of the Leper Hospital at Traoadie, N. If„ Into forwarded his an, unci report to the Minister of Agricul- ture. The report says:—There mre on the regl'ter to day twenty patients— eleven mules and nine females, Eleven of these are in the first or early stage of the malady, eix in the second and three in the third. or Amo stage. 'There were six deaths during the year, and four new 0115e5 were admilted, of these admitted two came from Lower Caragnet, one from Sbippeg*un parish and one from the parish of St, Isidore, all in the county of Gloucester, N. B. I have again to report Re I have reported for several years past, there ars none this year from Traoadie, I believe we have seen the last of the dis- ease here," The behavior of the in. motets, enye Dr. Smith, was good. Friends and relatives aro allowed to visit the poor unfortunates, bub as a general thing a leper's relatives look upon him when immured in the lazaretto Ate gone from them for ever, and seldom visit them. In the early obagee of the disease there is seldom muoh suffering beyond spume, resembling rheumatism, but near the close of life there is meets die• tress, particularly from ulcerated mouth, tongue and throat. The lepers are not in any settee prisoners, There were two escapes during Ube year, but both were brought back to the lazaretto, Grand Trunk If you want to Travel NORTH SOUTH EAST or WEST —TAKE THE— GraAna Trunk. For full particulate apply to J. N IKENDALL, G. T. R. Agent, Brussels, ETHER CAR MACE Having moved to a more con- venient stand, put in heavier power and some 110W machinery, 1 am now prepared to manufac- ture, on the shortest notice, Wagons, Carriages, Buggies, Sleighs, and Cutters. Bodies and all kinds of wood work Supplied. The Common Sense Clothes Dryer and the COBER CART. 1 also do Custom Planing, Match- ing and Moulding, 12 Horse Power En'"ine and Boil- er for Sale Cheap. JOHN COBER CARRIAGE' MAKER. ETIII,L, Dec. 80th, 1893. C ANNU it) W4 11 any' IVO'INTIVII\TO-3 'a StiteCtletrifslt To Clear out the balance of Winter Goods a Clearing Sale has been Inaugurated and During its Continuance plo °pyre It is not by Sensational Advertising that we expect to draw the Crowds to our Sale but by the Corn- manding Influence of such offerings as may be found in our large stock. Speaks with no Uncertain Voice at D. C. Ross'. Special : err -sins will ere( 1 Frieze, Beaver, Melton and Nap Overcoatings, Tweeds, Worsteds, Serges and Pantings. Great Value in Underclothing. Rubber and Melissa Waterproof Coats. fiats, naps, Shirts, Collars, Ties, Braces, IQse, Gloves, liamd,kerchiefs, &c., &c., all come unser the Pruning Enife. ALL CLOTH BOUGHT FROM US WILL BE CUT FREE OF CHARGE. Latest Fashion Plates. All our work Guaranteed to give Satisfaction: 200. Tell Your Neighbor about this Salo. • Kfifi9,,, r.. K Fashionable Tailor and Gents' Outfitter.