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FRIDAY, DJg1OBilt sal 20, 1889.
Al Weed.
Christmas tree this (Friday) evening.
Was. Irwin, merchant, is selling out at
cost.
W. liewkshaw hue opened a perk peek -
ng house,
It, ]dell has Hold hie residue() to sirs,
Johnston who to having built thereto a
store to bo need for rho sale of fenny
goods.
Tho entertainment given in connection
with the day aobool was well attended,
notwithstanding the unfavorable state of
the weather.
Of aux
Little Calvin Simpson was on the sick
list last week. His trouble Was inflamma-
tion of the bowels.
Join. Strnohan inflicted an ugly gash
in hie fora ono day last week, by n mis-
directed blow of an axe.
Miss Jennie Beharriell is coming home
in a fow days from Melanoton, where she
has been sojourning for nearly two years.
Tho young people of Strachan's Sun-
day school are preparing for to social to
be held in the near future. This will
certainly be 0, stmeesa as those is plenty
of energy in the people of that neighbor-
hood.
IIs elg-ret.v(�1,
NEW S•rORta—Tho ne'.r store is rapidly
appy ;whine completion and will soon be
ready for its occupants.
The Wingham Eloontionary Com-
bination has ()erne and gone. "Tile
wind b'owoth where it listoth and the
woodbine twiueth 'treund the recollection
thereof."
Pl nsox.%rs: Miss Stewart, who wits
very severely burned about bhe nook and
face a few days ago, is rapidly recover.
ing.—J. M. Godfrey, of Toronto Univer-
sity, returned home last week to spend
his Xmas vacation.
ENTERTAmMENTs, 'rhe people of Bel-
graee and surrounding country will have
this year it groat many ways offered
them of spending their Xmas in a right
royal style. The first event will be a
Christina% Tree, held in the Episoopal
church of the village on Monday evening,
the 28rd inet. It is hardly neoeseary to
say that everything is being done to
make it an unqualified success. Tho
Methodists follow with a grand tea -
meeting, to be held on Christmas night.
The tea willbe served in the Foresters'
Hall, Belgrave, from 5 to 7, atter which
they will adjourn to the choroh, where
speeches from several noted divines, will
form an interesting part of the enter-
tainment. The Blyth Methodist choir
will furnish music for the evening. In
short it is intended, we believe, to make
this as neer as possible It genuine old-
fashioned toa.moeling.
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School closes on Friday.
Reeve Milne has the planer in kis now
mill in running order.
August Ifekmier moved into the village
on Thursday of last week.
J. Hemewarth wears a broad smile at
present, 0nnsed, no doubt, by the advent
of an heir.
Rev. W. Davis and E. Cobor attended
the Jubilee singers' concert in Brussels
last week. They were well pleased.
Tho junior department of out school
Was closed 0n Friday as the teacher was
attending an examination near Walton.
Mrs. Doig is still in a critical condi-
tion and on account of the proximity of
their Hall to Mr. MoAllister'e residence,
where Mrs. Doig is at present, the Sons
of Temperance have postponed, inde-
finitely, the entertainment that was an-
noaneed last week to take plane on Fri-
day evening.
F. Ferguson, who had been sink for a
long time of consumption, died at his
residence on Thursday evening of last
week. The funeral took plane on Satur-
day, at whish there Was re large attend-
ance of friends and relatives. The in-
terment took place at Brussels cemetery
under the charge of the Orangemen of
this district.
Levi Lake, having decided to lead a
single life no longer, started for Platte-
ville, where ho was married on Wednes.
day of this week. There was a reception
given him, by a large number of friends,
at his father's residence on Thursday
evening. We believe there are a few
more in this district who will follow in
hie footsteps during the holiday season.
The follbwing letter was received last
week by T. P. Simpson. It speaks for
itself and should be a hint to "slow
coaches" :—"I will now take in hand to
pay for two 50. plugs of tobacco that I
got from you the year I worked for John
Slemmon at Ethel. I got it one day and
told you not to mark it, as I would pay
it in a day or so, but I forgot all about it
until I wan out of the neighborhood. I
will now send yon 15e. in stamps so as to
"'dive you Go. for interest. Sine that
Lime I have intended sending it time and
again, but always pat.itoff. I am honest
and went to pay everyone al1I owe them.
Yon will please find enclosed 150. in
stsmpe. Yours truly, A. Id."
(1 rsurlbroolc.
Rev. A. Y. Hartley, of Blnevale, will
preach in Knox church next Sabbath.
Council meeting was held here on Fri.
day to wind up the business of the
year.
The annual Ball and supper will be
held at Tuok's hotel on New Year's even.
105. Alarge number of invitations are
issued,
Pensoxets.—Mr. Coutts smiles upon
our village again. May his :shadow
never grow less.—Stephen Kressler has
returned home from the Pacifier coast.
Stephen is a hustler.—R. F. Cameron
has returned from Clinton Collegiate In-
stitute.
J. 0. Tuck has leased his hotel to a Mr.
Zimmer, uncle of tho Zimmer boys hero,
who will take pos1005100 in a few months,
Mr, ruck has not decided what line he
will follow. We hopo ho will continue to
reside in Cranbrook as the neck family
havebeen thinly associated With it for
0, great many yenta.
NEwsNoTss.—Datnes' hotel will `'soon
be oomploted.—Businees be finishing up'
Again and our merohante dere are doing
a good business,•—Miteheil We William;
are gutting things its shape for three inter
trade, --`.Cho Young Peeples' meeting are ; L
Monday evening, all aro welcoino.--.Mr,
Davis, who preaches i11 the Methodist
ohnroh, is an earnest and willing worker
for the memo of truth. \Vo;, wish him
abundant Wane.— .A imbiber from hct'o
. us w J.3TXlf Isrm resoles w 3 eezere v w...e
took in the Fannon' institute ineoting
at liruseele last Friday and Saturday.--
Jas. 11itelile, merchant, bac beet' oo
edu-
finto his home by Mures for the last
fow wooke, Wo hope lie moy he fully re.
stored in near future.--Tondors aro out
for the oarl;ying of the mail from Brus•
sols to Cranbrook.
There le an unepoken feeling in the air
10111811 says there will he noeleotfon con.
lest in 01 e trst „_Lip thio year. The
present Council appear to be doing the
work in a very satisfactory manner,
Y. P. C. A,—Tho following program
was preeenled el. tho last meeting of the
Yonng Peoples' Assoelation re—Reading,
Miss Meggio Perrie ; music, Misses Jane
and Christina and Archy MoNoil ; ad-
dress on "Luther," by Rev. D. B. Mo -
Rae. This was the event of the evening
and was interceding and instructive.
Tho great Reformer, Preacher and ad.
amine will ever remain as an example of
Christian heroism well worthy of imita-
tion by all.
THE ]3F-USSELS POST
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i7reeefA s1 IC..
Dnlmaga's bus driver appeared before
Mayor Moindoo, charged with furious
driving, but was acquitted.
Rev. lefr. Murray, of Kincardine, de.
livered a very interesting leoture in the
Presbyterian olmreh, entitled, "A trip to
Europe."
Lebanon Chapter No. 84, R. A. M.,
held its regular convocation, and sleeted
the following officers for the ensuing
year : B. Wilson, Z. ; I r. L. Dickinson,
lI. ; 0. E. Williams, J. ; J. Neelande,
Treas. ; W. B. Groves, S. B. ; H, W. C.
Meyer, S. N. ; T. Bell, P. 8. ; J. Plenty,
Jan.
Bell's Factory Band has now been pro-
perly organized and number twelve mem-
bers. They are getting along exoeed'iugly
well. The following is the list of affirms:
Pros. & Treas., Thos. Bell ; Vice•Pres.,
Wm. Willis; Secy., W. K. Lontit; Lead -
or, S. Merrifield ; Com. of Management,
W. Cooper, R. Marlow and P. John.
stun.
Al the last regular meeting of L. 0. L.
No. 794, the following officers were duly
oleoted and eustened for the ensuing
year : W. M,. John Davidson ; D. M.,
Wm. Cleg{,g; Chap., D. B. Calbiok; Rec.-
Seo., John Kerr ; )'in. -Seo., Jas. Mo-
Oroight ; Treace F. H. Roderus ; Leat.,
Johnston Miles ; D. of C., Geo. Petty -
piece ; Committee, T. Agnew, Jos. Bul-
lard, A. Galbraith, T. Abraham and 3.
Jackson ; 0. T., Geo. Stewart ; L T.,
Marshall Boll.
Lieetow el.
The Sunday school of the Congregat-
ional church will have a Christmas ship
this year.
Hay Bros. commenced last weak to
run their mill night and day on Ameri-
can wheat for export.
J. W. Scott and 7. A. Halstead are
opening ups branch banking house in
Wingham, which they expect to have
running by New Years.
Messrs. Olimie ,L• Hay have rented No.
1 exchange stable at Pt. St. Charles,
Montreal, which will be under the charge
at R. IL Hay, who will reside in Mon-
treal. Gen. Climie will be at Listowel
and vicinity prepared to bighorns at all
times for this market.
The negotiations for the purchase of
the foundry, by the new machine shop
firm, have been completed and the new
firm are in possession. The $5,000 teen
guaranteed by the citizens has been put
through and extension of the shop and
purohase of new machinery will be push-
ed rapidly forward.
At a meeting of Listowel L.O.L., No.
870, the following officers were oleoted
T. E. Hay, W.M. ; H. Willoughby, D.W.
M. ; Jas. Evans, Chap. ; John Montgom-
ery, R.S. ; F. Tank, F.S. ; T. T. Kemp,
Treas. ; John Torrance, Leo. ; 0. Wilson)'
S. Strain, Geo. Scott, John Stuart, and
Thos. Miley. Committee ; S. Culbert, D.
of C.
Drs. S. T. Rutherford and J. L. Tarn -
bull after having oomploted a four -year's
aonreo in the. Canadian medical colleges,
in which they took their degrees, oto,,
with first-olass honors and high standing,
have returned from a six -months' course
spent in the hospitals of London and
Edinburgh and are now fully equipped
for entering successfully into their pro-
fession.
Tuesday morning of last week the
streets of the town were taken possession
of by a procession of teams loaded with
boxes of oheeso, which followed one an-
other to the extent of 128. The cheese
was bought by A. F. MoLeren from sur-
rounding factories and is being stored in
town preparatory to shipment. The
boxes totalled up in the neighborhood of
forty-five thousand, and 080,000 was
paid over to the salesmen io the one day.
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Advertise your strayed oattle in Tnn
POST.
The all absorbing question on the 7th
and 8th cons. at present is. who ie. the
lucky .man ?
Rev. Mr, Howie will oonduot the pray-
er meeting at the house of Wm. Reed on
Friday, Deo, 27th, at 7.80.
Wm, Pierce and wife are home from
Manitoba for the winter. They give a
very favorable report of last season's
crop.
The East Huron Farmers' Institute
meeting was a grand sunrise. President
McFadden and Secretary Bishop are to
be congratulated on their untiring ef-
forts.
'Win. Waters, teacher in the brick
sobool house, held a public) examination
last Friday. The ratepayers of the sec.
Hon turned out fairly well, and were
mnoh gratified with the management of
the school. A number of teachers were
rile present.
Thursday evening of last week wo saw
R. Cott a emend time presiding over a
public meeting and were struck with the
splendid figure ho outs as chairman. He
reads the Scripture and leads the singing
equally well, and ib is imposeible to say
what an industrious, ambitious and
honest young puede may not do in this
or in any culler age, So writes a corres-
pondent.
Drun.—On Wednesday of this week
tire. Torrance, daughter of Wm. Cook,
1011) owl., died of consumption at the
residence of iter permits. Along with
her husband she went to Manitoba over
a yarn ago but the olimato did not agree
with her and nor physician ordered hot
to re111r10 to Ontario. The disease had
too strong ti hold on hoe, however, and
death was the reonit. Mrs. '.l'orietneo
was a poreon of fine character. and died
10 denth of the righteous. 'Her lnsband
out)' ,mo child ate left to 1110ar11 her de.
miss'^ The fnueral ;aline Mean sits Friday
revere n1.1, ir.lrenien• t Ilene:UM, eeulctery,
Chits. Bishop is home from Toronto
University for the (Airframes holidaye,
Rev, D. B. Melon held a prayer melt.
in„ in Shiue'a school on Monday evening
last,
Den..itobsrbsnn is 105005ring from a
doge of intermittent fever, The young
folks are glad to hear this neve,
A. McNichol, 11th 000.has, we believe,
rented his farm for a term of five years.
Mr. McNiceol will prospect in Manitoba,
When was Mr. Miokle on the day of
the Ease Huron Farmers' Inetitnte ? We
sxpeatsd to see him there chock-full of
pork.
Was. Cardiff la busy at present chop.
ping and undorbrushing his lot on the
0th concession. It will make %pie id
pasture land when cleaned up.
James Alai:Mesh is going to ha a
stone foundation put under his dwelling
house. He line the house raised and
will begin building tho foundation this
week.
The 'sewing circle' which was organiz-
ed on the 12111 con. last winter sent their
first box of clothes to Toronto in ()atelier.
Those clothes consist of old coats, pants,
,40. whichthe members of the oirole
melee over, and so are made to do good
services, when they aro commonly thrown
aside as useless. Many of the poor of
`.1loronto would bo glad to get these old
clothes and wo hope the circle will eon.
Untie their good work, and others follow
their example and form sowing societies
in different parte of the country. 13y
meeting one or twice a week during the
winter a few ladies could pleasantly and
profitably spend their time in thus re-
lieving the suffering of the many poor in
Toronto nt other planes. The box was
accompanied by a letter from Miss K.
Calder and received the following men-
tion in the "Gazette" published by the
"Young Women's Christian Guilt]," of
which Mrs. Hltrvie is editor. "Tho box
mentioned 113 the above letter Cams duly
10 hand, ours, truly, it was a wonderful
box, full to overflowing with useful and
eervicoablo articles, many of them now,
for the poor. The men's clothing was
given to needy men discharged from the
general hospital. The boy's clothing
was distributed among the children of
several poor families. The women's and
girl's clothing will be kept for the in.
mates of the Haven. The little coat
with the note pinned on it was given to
the boy of one of the volunteers who has
been i11 ever siaoe he returned from the
North-West."
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A great many around here are expect-
ing Christmas soon.
On account of the bad state of the
roads, business is very dell here.
The measles are jest about gone from
dere, but the mumps are beginning to
spread.
Joseph Leech's mill has of late passed
into the hands of R. N. Duff, and Thos.
Stewart.
Next Sunday morning Rev. I. B. Wel-
win will preach a Christmas sermon and
in the evening he will preach to the young
men..
There will be no services is the Pres.
byterian church next Sunday, as Rev. A.
Y. Hartley will bo is Cranbrook supply-
ing for Mr. McRae.
Last Monday the Township Council
met in the village to wind no the affairs
of the year. Report says Haat Council-
lor Diament will be a candidate for the
Deputy Reeveship.
Rev. J. S. Cook, of Hensn1l, formerly
of Blnevale will preach a sermon to the
Foresters' herein the Presbyterian church
on Sabbath, Jan. 5th, 1890. The people
of Bluevalo will be glad to hear Mr. Cook
again.
Dmn,—On Tuesday of this week Wal-
lace, second son of Irwin Jackson, west
of this village, died. The cause of his
decease was a combination of diseases.
The funeral was on Thursday afternoon.
Rev. I. B. Wallwin conducted the ser.
vice.
Tho communion services in the Pres-
byterian ohnroh, a week ago last Sabbath,
were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Simp-
son, of Bruaefleld, who preached three
very interesting andprofitable sermons,
two on Sunday, (morning and evening,)
and one the previous Saturday.
On Wednesday afternoon W. 0. Dowd-
ing, of Logan township, Perth Co., and
Miss Agnes Yoe, daughter of Wm. Yoe, a
well.known resident of this locality, were
united in marriage. The bridesmaid wits
Miss Lon. Earle, of Logan, and the
groomsman Jno. Rogers, of the same
plana. Rev. Mr. Wallwin, Methodist
minister, tied the nuptial knot in good
style. "Still there's more to follow."
Tuesday evening last was a very dark
and wet one.. The roads were deep with
mud and the skies werebidden by clouds,
yet to have seen the masses congregated
in the,. Presbyterian church would cer-
tainly have led anyone to believe it was a
beautiful moonlight night with the best
of sleighing. The church was crowded
to its utmost capacity and many were to
be seen, both in the audience and on the
platform, from both Wroxeter and Wing.
ham. Indeed they lost nothing by brav-
ing the storm, as the tem. given in the
Foresters' hall excelled anything of the
kind given on former occasions and re-
flects much credit on the ladies of the
congregation. The program given in the
church, although curtailed in every par-
ticular poseiblo, lasted from eight to
eleven o'clock, and from the vigor with
which the National Anthem was sung at
the close, the audience did not appear
to be wearied of those taking a promin-
ent part. On the platform might be
mention d Dr. Macdonald, M.P., of
Wingham, Rev. Mr. Simpson, Bruce -
field, Mr.ilrarey, Wingham, Thos. Gib.
son) Wroxeter, Miss Smith, Wingbam,
besides the tumid great display of local
talent, Rev. A. Y. Hartley anted en
chairman and well deserved the vote of
thanks tendered on motion of Dr. Mac-
donald, M.P. The receipts at the door
amounted to about $50, Much otedit is
due to the young people for the vim with
which they took hold of the work and
carried it to snail a grand mouse under
the inauspicious circumstances.
The Grand Trunk ;hope at Stratford
have closed down for two weelts.
The Mitchell burglary naso was eon -
eluded on Tlutrsclay of last week, The
address of the waned wore finished at
about half past 50ven. The judge's
charge was share. Tho jury found the
prisoner Stdioltort guilty bub recommend.
oti hit 11 to titmore of tllo court. Itis
111011or-s01)1eneed him 10 throe y0010 iu
the penitentiary. The plan has a family
of companativoly yottug children and the
evidence want to show that , he was al.
ready rh'eggii,g (hoot down in'c a I11' of
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Violins, Spectacles, Pipes, Cigar Cases, Tobacco Pouches, 86c., &c,
The New, the Novel and the Beautiful
WILL BE FOUND IN OUIi .H..:L'YD,NO,)WE )5'TO<;Ii'.
We can Supply a Beautiful Gift for any Sum you may desire to Expend.
Our Elegant Holiday Stock is a Popular Stock hi all :Respects.
Our Stock consists of Watches, Clocks (Walnut and Nickel Alarms), Solid Gold
Wedding Rings, Keeper Rings, Engagement Rings, Gem Rings, Solid Gold Brooches,
Cuff Buttons, Bracelets, Chains, Lockets, 8•c., &c.
Everybody should see this Elegant Array of Christmas Gifts. Remember we have
the Right Article at the Right Price for everyone you wish to select a Present for.
IsVe can, Bupply you with a Marriage License and ':a.n, .
Gall in and Inspect Stoc,ld. It avers Bort /ct to be ,Sold.
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Well Assorted. Our Specialties at thi:-s Season
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A Handsome Range of Hanging Lamps, Hall Lamps, Stand Lamps, &o., in stock and sold
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Sleigh Bells, and a. host of other necessary articles that are seasonable at this t'
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ple of Brussels .and surrounding Country to o171' beautiful stook of Silverware, T.lus is
the present -making season. Get good value for y'olu' money by purchasing your silver—
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