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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1892-9-2, Page 5SEPT. 2, 1892 vaneaseissw :ltix..cl .esu. VPiugharee. E. Wollwood was the only candidate for a Teachers' Oerbi0oate at the recmrt examination here. Mise Gray, formerly of the Public eebool staff, Windham, has secured position as teacher at Elmira, N, Y. Before leaving for Buffalo Robb. Col- lier was preeented with a bible, prayer book and fountain pen by the tnembere of the Orange Lodge in this place. Charlie King, 18 years of age, in one day at the Wingham salt works, made 40 salt barrels, BO the previous clay and 80 the day following, the. 100 in three days. A large number of our townspeople attended the horse rapes eb Brussels last Friday. They were well satisfied with the sports, more especially with the 2;50 ram iu which Walter G., J. Swartz's horse won. . roaa11op. SUDDEN Dm g.—A very sudden death oeourred at the residence of George Mc- Olure, of the 4th con. of this township, on Wednesday of lust week. Mr. Mo- Clure'a eon James, a young man 27 years of age, was out in the orchard pioking apples, He came in and eat down on the doorstep beside his father and had an apple in hie hand and was eating it and talking to his father at the same time. While thus engaged he gave a oough as if a piece of the apple had stuck in his throat and clapping his hand to hie breast fell over on his side. Mr. Me - ()lure at puce raised him up, but he was quite dead, the vital spark having thus suddenly fled. Heart disease was, no doubt, the pause of death, He bad been in delicate health for several years and for the past few days had been com- plaining of a alight pain in his side, but was able to go about as usual to the last. The sad and sudden event is a severe blow to the parents and friends, for whom much sympathy will be felt. The remains were interred in the Maitland - bank cemetery on Friday. DZoloswor Ch. Miss Lillie Scott, of Bluevale, is visit- ing her friend in this vicinity, Mies Sarah Geddes, of Elora, is visit - with her cousin, Mrs. R. McKee. This section was visited by an unusu• ally heavy rain on Wednesday night. Miss Wright, of Morriebank, spent a few days last week with her friends around the village. A garden party will be held at the grounds surrounding the manse on Fri. day evening Sept. 2. Moet people would have finished har- vesting last week, but owing to the rain there is still some outstanding grain. The people connected with school section No, 18, Howiek and Grey, will give a pio•nio a week from Saturday. It will bo held in Mr. Robinson's grove, au excellent place for such occurrences. James Soots met with a serious acci- dent the other day. While passing over the railroad track his buggy was smash. ed by a passing train and himself badly injured. He is recovering, however, and people hope it will prove a warning to him. Tnie is not the first time that eerioua accidents have befallen the same man and in future happenings he may not escape so miraculously. Walton. Miss Ellie Hamilton is vieiting friends in Wingham. Mrs. Bennett er. has been very ill dur- the past week. Maes Allis Swallow has gone to To. ronto for a few weeks. John Ritchie has been ailing for a Ion g time and is still its a weak condition. Jae. MoKibbin, of Vanderbilt, Mich., paid a flying visit to hie parents this week. We see agreat manyof the ruesel B e boys every Suuday evening on their silent steeds. Miss Annie Ferguson has gone to Sea - forth to attend the Collegiate Institute there. Miss Mary MaPadzaan, who has been enjoying a holiday for come weeks, re- turned to Walton this week. Our popular teacher, W. Rae, has re. signed his osi ion here. He has accept- ed t. ed a school nearer his home. John McLeod purposes going to Uncle Sam's dominions this autumn where he will study medicine. Thos. Dennison and wife, of MoB:illop, are away on a holiday visit to relatives and friends in the Northern section of the Province. Jonathan Moore has leased his Morris farm for 5 yeare to Jas. Sholdioe, at $180 per annum. R. J. Moore will turn his attention to some other galling. Rev. W. Ottewell, wife and ohildren, ore vieiting friends in the vicinity of Wiarton. Mies Eliza Williamson and Master Wpllie Neal a000mpanied them. A largOongregation in the Methodist ohuroh was greatly pleased and instruct- ed last Sabbath afternoon iu listening to Rev. Mr. Salton, of Brussels, discoursing on Andrew and Peter. The collection went toward the Trust fund of the Brum sale ohuroh. Harvest is drawing to a close. Threshing machines are kept busy at present. Angus Shaw is home from a trip to the West. Miss Maggie MoNair, of Toronto, is home on a visit. Mrs. George Welsh has gond to Crys. tal City, Man., to visit her eon. Mise Lizzie Strachan has retuned to Teeswator to resume her duties as teach- er. Mies eloQnarrie who was home from Toronto for her holidays has returned to the Queen city. Wm. MoQuarrie has gone to Harris. ton where he will attend the High school with the intention of becoming a teacher. Cameron tiros., of Cranbrook, have started their flat mill. They have a large acreage of chola° flax this year and will do a booming bueinsee. WM. Knight has accepted the position of Mathematioal Master of the Belleville Collegiate Institute at a good salary. He commenced work last Monday. Jacob Krauter purchased the 100 ante farm belonging to the Hiram White estate, lot 19, oon. 11, paying $1800 for the same. It fs a bush lot. Hugh Oud. ningham has bought lot 19, oon. 10, be. ing another farm belonging to the same estate, John Brown be the present taw ant of this pilot). THE BRUSSELS POST Mise Irwin, who has hien vieiting at Riverside for some time, has returned to Toronto where oho oontemplatex staying until Spring, after which she intends re- turning to her home in Nowoaetls, Eng. land. This week Mise Lida Hall, Helen Turnbull, Ed. hill and Win. Turnbull, who passed bha Ord class Teachers' exam. inabion, go to the Model schools prepare• tory to beginning to teach the young idea how to shoot, We wish them suoeese. A young man named !Walter Wortley wag drowned in the River Thames at Woodetook Sunday afternoon while bath. ing. He had evidently gone in alone and was seized with °ramps. It was 6 o'clock before the body was recovered. The drowned man was employed by a farmer !mined Biolsle. The deceased was a son of Mre. Wortley, 16th con. Grey. Tho remains were brought home on Monday coming by train to Ethel. Interment took plane at Cranbrook cemetery on Tuesday. A.twooel. The masons have completed bricking Fred. Swftzer'e residence. A number from Atwood and looalily attended the races at Brussels last Fri- day. ri- d Dr. J. R. Hamilton, formerly of At- wood, has located in Stratford, where he will practice hie profession. Mise Bella Molfnighb, who was visiting Mise Miriam Dunn, was one of the sue. oeasful candidates at the meant High eohoolexame. She secured her second class certificate. George Wilson was the only one in this immediate locality who came out successful. Tho other evening es Mrs. Geo. Currie was walking to the station to meet her sister, a "soon" youth threw a stone, striking Mrs. Currie on the aide of the head, inflicting an ugly wound which bled profusely. The stone was bhrown by one of a gang of boys standing op. posite to her on Mill street ; they also struck a man driving along the road. Etlre1. Reeve Milne was in Muskoka this week. Special meeting of township oounoil here Saturday next. (inc sports were at Brussels last Fri. day attending the races. Tenders have beers asked for the erec- tion of the proposed Township Hall. C. Bernath hag returned from his trip to the West whioh he enjoyed very muoh. Mr. Lee reports hie health improving with hie rest. He expects to be in his old place next Sunday morning. Thos. Smith, formerly of Bruseele, ie getting the maobine work on hie sum- mer oontra0te in the house building line at Mr. Cober's shots. Renewal subscriptions now due the Meohanioe' Institute. Did you ever spend a dollar for such a large amount of reading matter for a year 7 Will those intending sending clothing through the W.F. M. S. of .the Presby- terian ohuroh here, please bear in mind that the box will be closed Sept. 8th. 1x3. T. Cameron, of Oranbrook, has oc- cupied the pulpit in the Presby- terian church here for the past two weeks. We are glad to hear, however, that the Rev. D. B. McRae is getting better. illevtle. Miss Annie Walker is spending her summer vacation in Mitchell. A number of our sporting gents tools in the races at Brussels on Friday. Bailiff Scott and family, of Brussels, Sundayed in town at the Commercial. Dame Gossip informs us that there ie to be a couple of weddings in town short- ly. Slim Jim, the tramp painter, took his departure and went Northwest on 'Fri- day. Mies Bella Efabkirk has taken a poai• tion in our postotfioe in the place of Mrs. A. Nation, who has resigned. The English church people are busy practising for their Harvest Thanksgiving service on Thursday, Sept. 8th. Arthur Haigh having spent a few holi- days with his parents here, returned to his home in Biaok Rock on Monday. Geo. Powell has been indisposed for a few days but hie many friends will he glad to hear that he is recovering fast. Rev. Mr. Campbell returned on Saber. day from a month's vacation and oocu• pied the pulpit in the Methodist church on Sunday. Mies Patterson, of Caledonia, Ont., Miss Cannon, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Miss Gould. of Toronto, were the guests of Mee. J. Emigh, of the Commercial last week. A interesting game of football was played in the Park on Saturday afternoon between Wingham and Blyth teams. Owing to it being late before they started the game a goal was not made. .L3sito e1.. The Tutf Olub is out over $200 on the raoes last week. Hay Bros. shipped the engine and boiler of the late flouring mill to Mani- toba. David Fritohley, an employee of the .Listowel Gas works, was badly burned about the hands and face. He bad used some petroleum to start hie fire with, and when he put the match to it the flames blew out of the furnace into his face. He is getting around again, Peter, second son of John Livingston, of the Listowel flax mill, got his band naught in some part of the machinery at the mill, and had his forefinger taken off at the middle joint. The next finger waif also badly °nulled. The young lad had a narrow escape from losing his hand. A frame oeourred at the ranee on Wednesday between two fakirs which Dame nearly ending the sullied career of one of them, who was none other than the notorious Tom Chambers. It was a ease of fakirs falling out over one of their games, with the result that Tuttle who was manipulating the table, knocked Chambers down and then jumped on hits, giving the later Sseverat terrible Iioke on the head and wok, Chambers was knocked etiff, and it was several minutes before he showed any signs of life, Tuttle, fearing that Chambers was dead, bolted, but wag ought not a great distance from the grounds by chief of police Bulmer. When it was found that Chambers had come around, Tuttle was let go. Tho Association should have ad- hered to its resolruton not to allow fakirs to run their gamee on the ground, and the fraternity would doubtless have made themselves scarce, as they did the flet day,—Standard. I31uevalo, Biemark Timmins la tilling the position of book-keeper iu a large eetabliebment at Pelerboro'. James 111oHardy, while working in the saw -mill had hie foot severely out, It, required several etitohee to draw the wound together, J. J. Denman is pushing the hog brei. Dees at a lively rate. He has had as many as 400 head at one time. The swine are kept at hie farm where he feeds them on whey, chop, Go. All the whey made at the faotory here goes to the hogs, about $400 worth during the season. A London buyer enema a tine lot of pigs from Mr. Denman a ehort time ago. Onrr,—The death of a former and well- known resident occurred in Bluevale on Monday, Aug. 22nd, when the spirit of Thomas Billingsley forsook its tenement of clay, Deceased was born in London, England, and Dame to Wingliam with hie wife, two eons, Frank and Harry, and daughter, Emily, about the year 1871, and remained there until a few years ago, when he removed to Bluevale, his wife having passed away while residing in Wingham. For four years he had been an invalid, and death came as a happy release from his sufferings. The funeral took place on Wednesday afternoon, the body being taken to the Wingham ceme- tery and laid beside the remains of his partner in life. Only the two sons are now living, Frank residing iu Kamloops, B. C., where Emily died, and Harry in Toronto. Kind-hearted friends and neighbors of the departed watched by him and did all that was possible until the end Dame. Frank, of course, wee un• able to reaoh WIngham in time to attend the funeral, so that Harry was the only member of the family prevent. C7raitbroolc. The flax mill is now running in full blast. A. Reymann was away to Buffalo for a visit with relatives a week ago. A number of Oranbrookites attended the noes at Brussels last Friday. It is stated that Hiram White has married and settled down in Michigan. Jno. McRae, who hae been home for his vacation, leaves on Saturday for Hamilton where he is attending the Col. legiate Institute. Mies Kate Foerster left on Wednesday for Berlin to attend the Model school. She passed the 3rd class Teachers' ex- amination this Summer. The party who borrowed my boring machine will oonfer a great favor by re- turning it at once as I am needing it. A. Raymann. Bev. D. B. McRae, who is much belov- ed by his large congregation, bas been quite i11 daring the last two weeks. We are glad to know that he is now nioely - covering. 13. F. Cameron took the service in the Presbyterian ohuroh for the last two Sab• baths owing to the illness of the pastor, Rev. D. B. Molise. His efforts were highly appreointed. Menus.— R. F. Cameron delivered a splendid discourse on the subjeot of mis- sions in Knox church, to a large congre- nation. His text was chosen from Daniel 12th chap. and graver., "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament ; and they that • turn many to righteousness as the stars for- ever and ever." Mr. Cameron clearly pointed out a number of motives whioh should prompt people to help missions as (1.) A duty ; (2.) A privilege ; (3.) Prospect of reward. The sermon was an able and earnest plea to the young especially, to enlist in the noble work of saving souls. Morris - The next meeting of Morrie Council will be held on September 26th. Reeve Mooney hos oorn growing that measures over 12 feet in length. James Timmins taus of erecting a brick house on his farts South of Blue - vale. Farmers are rushing in their Fall wheat sowing, a large acreage being put in. Jno. Rubb jr. geld 12 head of young cattle recently to Wm. Jewitt that aver. aged 1,420 pounds in weight. We regret to state that Donald Ourrie's health is in ap reoarious condition and his many friends are anxious about hien. James, Nicholson, of the boundary, aged about 50 years, has been dangerous. ly ill with a stroke of paralysis, caused, it is said, from a sun stroke reoeived not lone ago. The candidates who padded the repent Teachers' examination are away to the Model 5011001e which opened on Thurs- day of this weal. Jae. Molllwen, Jae. Elston, and the Smillie Bros. are among the number. HsntnNEAn, Lust Monday David M. Naismith, of Toronto, and Miss Isabella MoDoneld were united in marriage, at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. D. Millar, of Bruseele. Mr. and Mrs. Neiamitb left on the noon train for Toronto on a short wedding tour before settling down to farm life near Mount Forest. The many friends of the bride iu this locality wish her and her hus- band happiness and prosperity. Man.—Fanny, only daughter of Joseph Stubbs who had bean ill for some time with inflammation of the bowels, died on Thursday of last week. It was hoped by her many friends that she world recover but it was willed otherwise. The funeral tools place on Saturday afternoon a very large company attending. Rev. Mr. Salton, of Brussels, preached a very ap• propriate discourse after which the inter. ment was made at Belgrave cemetery. Tho deemed was a most estimable young lady and bur demire is greatly re. grafted. Mr. Stubbs and family have the sympathy of the community. On Thursday of last week Jno. It, Millar, License Inepeotor, arrived home from his five weeks' trip to the West. He went as far as Calgary and Banff and spent a goodly portion of his time in the Prince Albert country. Eke says the crops are light but the wheat will be good if not caught by the frost. Mr. Millar visited the Manitoba Experimen. tal farm and greatly enjoyed his stay there. He met it with Jno. E. Smith, of Brandon, formerly of Brussels, who is doing well. Mr. Smith drove him out to see Alex. Forsyth, formerly of this towrs- ship, who le seriously ill with heart die. ogee, we aro sorry to state, The opinion of Mr, Millar ie that while the West af. fends It large field for onergetie young men older men who are comfortably ne lbttled in Ontario should remain where ay are. B $3000 WORTH New fall Goods JUST RECEIVED AT IRS. E. ROGERS', Being our first instalment for the coming Season, consisting of Cottonades, Shirtings, Flannelettes, Ticks, Grey and White Cottons, Grey and White Flannels, &c., &c. Our Dress and Fancy Goods will be to hand next week and as usual these departments will contain all the Newest Styles. As our stock of Dress Goods is very much larger than any other store in Brussels every lady should see our goods be- fore making their purchases. They will save both time and money by doing so. MILLINERY. MISS GREEN is now in the Markets buying our Fall Millinery. Our Opening will soon take place of which due notice will be given. SELLING OFF. We have only a small stock of Summer Goods left on hand and in order to make an entire clear- ance we will sell any description of Summer Goocls at a very great reduction in price. Having an order for 150 tubs of Good Butter we will pay 150. per ib. for a first-class quality, and we guarantee to give every article at strictly Cash Prices in payment. E. Rogers. Brussels, Aug. 25, 1892. DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THECOOK'S BEST FRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA, Money to Loan, Money to Loan on Farm Pro- perty at LOWEST. HATES. Private and Company Funds. DICKSON & HAYS, Solicitors, dc., BRUSSELS, ONT. 1110 -NE/ TO LOAN. Any Amount of Money to Loan on Farm or Village Pro- perty at 6 & 6i Per Cent., Yearly. Straight Loans with privilege of repaying when required. Apply to A. Hunter, Division Court Clerk, Brussels. Ontario Mutual Life, MEAD OFFIOE, . WATERLOO, ONT. Assurance in force Jan'y,'92..$14,984,807 New business written in 18932,694,960 Increase over 1890 346,800 Cash income for 1891 547,620 Increase over 1890 57,620 Liberal Conditions of Polioies. Oaeh and Paid-up values guaranteed on email policy. All dividends belong to and sue paid only to policy holders. Premiums payable during the month in which they fall doe. Policies are inoontestable two years from date of issue. No restriction on travel, residence or oc- cupation. Lapsed policies may be revived within six months after lapse. Death claims paid at ogee on completion of claim papers. J. A. YOUNG, District Agent, Ethel. FOE m EI t -i I rui:c1z Woolen Mill WANTS TO GET 50,000 POUNDS OF WOOL In Exchange for Goods. The Highest Market Price will bo .A.11owe8.i Wo have a Flue . ssortmoif of Tweeds, Cottons, Flannels, Prints, Cashmeres, Blankets, Sheet- ing, Knitted Goods, Yarns, &c, All Wool loft with us for manufacturing, whether rolls or otherwise, will have our prompt attention. Satisfaction - Guaranteed. BRUSSELS. arvest EXCURSIONS FROM ALL STATIONS IN ONTARIO 13ETURN RATES TD OXBOW DEL ORAINE 11005091IN BINSCARTH NE ITT S B L REGINA MOOSEJAW YORK'i'ON (`•,lrm ARY PRISON 61,13E2'1' — $28.00 $30,00. EDMONTON, $40.00. To leave all points lin the Province of On - baric ou August. 16 Return un1882Ootobsr18 August 23 Return until October —28rd, 1802.— September 6 Return until Nov- ember 8111,1802. Parties tioketing from other points sboald arrange to arrive at Toronto in time to con- nect with the 11128 p.m, train on above dates... Forfullinformation apply to any ticket agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 5. T. PEPPER, Ageut, 1'r+ stele.. THOS. FATOIFhL, .Fr'aeieaZ Watchmaker and Jeweler. Thanking the public, for past favors and support and wishing still to .secure your patronage, we are opening out Full Lines in GOLD AND 8ILYeR WATCHES. Silver Plated Ware from Established and Reliable Makers fully warranted by us. Clocks of the Latest Desifins. JEWELRY 1 WEDDING Exxon, LADIES Gum Rtxos, Bueooiis, EAItalgee, a$o. l:W'Aleo a .Full Line of VteLlne and Violin Strings, deo., in stock, ;1, its—lseurer orMarrtagc !demises. T. Fletcher, w Brussels.