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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-2-14, Page 5FEBRUARY l4, 1890. x xxx� have, FRIDAY, FBI MCI 14, 1800. �a<o'cot'or. Our 2nd "Bight" ending olub played lruoknow at \VAlgham and defeated them, Is le reported that Alex. Gibson is progressing favorably under the care of Toronto physiotane. Wo notice that our worthy townsman, Thee. Gib+otl, lYt, P, P., baa a photo, at, usual, upon the leading committees of tiro Local Legialature. Principal Taylor, of our Public eolith), was Dolled away this week owing to the siokness and death of his brother, a young man of about 21 years of ago. The fun- eral took plaza on Friday. A.twocict. The School Board is asking for Lenders the week for the erection of a wing and otherwise improving the /it - wend Pablio School. I. 0. G. T. --The election of officers in connection with the Indepondenb Order of Good Templar8 was held in the base. meat of the Preabyborian church and was as follows :-Sydney Holmes, C. T. ; Mies I. Pripet, V. T. ; A, Holmes, It. S. ; ,hiss M. Graham, Ase't 5,; Geo. Thomp- son, F. S. ; Mies A. Lnshheed, Trees, ; J. V. Wilson, Chap.; \Vm. Rolnlee, W. M. ; Miss N. Hamilton, Aes't M. ; Mies Jessie Ilemilton, G. ; D. Graham, S. THE BRUSSELS POST VP eve tort. People aro taking advantano of every little 'sleighing that nmEym to bring on their log, to the mill. Rev, W. Terranan will repro Ont Wal- ton Lodge, 1. 0. U. W. ab the Grand Lodge, which meets in Toronto next week. Andrew Morrison, a woll.itnown rest. dent of thie locality, has removed, with his family, to Seaforth, where be will make his home for the present. FOOT none. -Last Friday afternoon our eohool football team went to Leadhury to play a gauze with their school club. Walton won the loss and choose to kiok against the wind for the first half hour, during which time Loadbury scored one goal. When ends were oI•anged and Walton gob the wind Lea,ibury goalkeep- er kicked the ball out of touch as much ae possible, notwithstanding this Walton scored one goal which the umpire al- lowed. Leadbury disputedit, ae it was hard to bo tied after killing time, and referee mould give no decision as he did not see. Leadhury would nob give in so Walton left the field leaving scorn one to ono. number of their farms, tee, He had notes representing 0816. He wee oom. witted for trial and was taken t0 Gotta - rich by George ltuaeoll. Armstrong hall a wife and Enmity in Godorioh, and has boon looked upon as an honeet, straight. forward man. The Times says :-We are ealiod upon this week to reword the death 0f Fred. W. Goodwin, late foreman in the Time office The deceased wee prostrated with the in:8mem, of which he seemed to bn reooverin , when he taught ;old, which developed into bronchitic, from which be died on Sunday evening. Tie laid been but a short time in Wingham, and leaves e wife and small family who have the sympathy of the whole oommunity in their bereavement. .t,ttettrth. Wo have the electric light at last. Dr. Mawieid talks of opening n drug store in town. Rev. Father Shea was away attending a uhuroh meeting at Cincinnati last week. T. 0. Ifemp, Geo. Duncan, A. J. Wil. eon and Robt. Fairley were delegates to the Young Men's Christian Association Provincial Conven'ion held at Brantford last week. The Quarterly Board of the 'Metho- dist church has extended a cordial iu• vitution to Rev. Wesley Ges+on to oon- tinno in the pastorate of the Church. It was accepted. Mr. Casson's son expects to enter tllentiuistry this year. Mies Sperling, of Seaforth, is visiting at Dr. Cain's. Mrs. Watt, of Clinton, ie vieiting her broth r, W. ,Sim}son. Miss tele has suceeedod in seeming e musical class in Ethel. W. Spoete went to Lockport, New York, this week on business. J.ileueuld has purchased the haute and lot formerly occupied by D. N. Milne, now of Lookport, New "York State. Mrs. MoGe trite, of Alpon• , Mich., states to her friends that she receives TUE POST regularly and considers 18 a very welcome visitor. John Dunbar talks of returning to the Pacific o nrst before long again. lle liked his work splendidly. We would rather keephim in our locality. There was a large attendance at the Methodist church on Sunday evening to hear Rev. Mr. Paul, He preached the funeral sermon of the late ilfrs. Mitchell, of Oranbrook. Samuel Shine has disposed of hitt butchering business here to Jacob Steies, of Grey, who will manage affairs from this. We have bed a great many ohanges iu tiro proprietors of the butcher shop in the last few years. Ae annonnoed last week, C. C. Whale delivered his lecture ou Forestry in do- AIlieter'e Hall, Monday evening. Ho gave the audience a history of Forestry since the days of Rabin Hood, the first 0. lt., up to the present time. Ile see- ceeded in impressing his hearers very favorably with the workings of that Order. disc Cale and Mr. Davies fur- nished the musical part of the program winning much applause. Fme.-The glare of fire was seen in our village about 7 o'clock Friday even- ing. Turning out, the villagers en masse, to discover that the hotel ocouvied by J. Burton was on fire. The attempt to save the buildiug proved fruitless, although willing hands removed nearly all the contents. The adjoining sheds were saved only by the untiring efforts of the people, the men tarrying water and the ladies collecting snow. It is hard luck to be turned out of house and hone in the midst of winter and Mr. Berton dsservee the sympathy of the entire neighborhood in his loss. \Ve believe there was some insurance. Sueeterur..-The actions of some of the youths niter the Ore last Friday night was simply disgraceful and had it not been for the close attention of others they might not be as well to -day as they are. There is evidently room for a re- vival of temperance sentiment in this locality when respectable men will so far forget themselves ne was the ease ae above referred to. All honor to the hard workers, both men and women, who did all they could to save proporty, but it is too bad that the fair name of Ethel should have to bear the reproach of such scenes as were enacted after the fire, 1 dont object to fon or jollity but I most decidedly take exception to such displays which are not creditable to auy• one. Ihope there will never be a re• occurrence of it. Yours, t80. DECENCY. Biter rite. Listen for the welding bolls in a few weeks. A large number of people attended Adam Good's monthly sale last week. Mia Annie Johnston, daughter of 1V. J. Johnston, actidentially broke her Dollar hone a fere clays ago. Another girl on the 1st con. and Nel- son will need to keep an eye on her for tear of the boys running away with her. One day last week as Jno. Mooney and his son were tying a binding pole on a load of hay the pole broke and threw them both to tite barn floor. Mr. Mooney fared the worst, getting quite a severe fall. The people of Jobneton'e neighborhood nu,pose having a tea -meeting on Wed. nudity, the 26th, to raise money enough to shingle the roof of the 'ohuroh and to procure Lesson Leaves and Banners for the Sabbath School. The grippe has taken hold of some on the let Don., bot there is still a worth '•grip" which has token hold on some more of our young men and young ladies of the 1st and 2nd concessions, which disease I will not tell the name of. Collector Mooney completed his work last Monday and returned hie roll on Tuesday to the township Treasurer. Out of 1{10,781.00 he collaoted all except 822.14. The bulk Of this amount was levied on property in the village the tenants of which removed during the year. Mr. Mooney says he had not a great deal of bother considering it such a close year. j DEoATE.-The weekly debate was hold in Barrie's school house on Wednesday evening of last week, W. H. Cloakey in the obair. The subject of discussion was "Resolved that Independence would be better for Canada than Annexation." The speakers were, for the affirmative, Wm. Brydon and W. R. Mooney and for the negative, W. Sloan and Samuel Walker. After a close debate deoiaion was given for the negative. Instrumen- tal music was given on the violin, her. monica and organ by Thos. Kirkoonnell, Thos. Bird and Joseph Sharp. The meeting was a good one and it is evident the interest is increasing. W in:r'heum- It was decided at the last meeting of the council to erect a bridge at Hutton tut Carr's mill. Dr, and Mre. Chisholm were away last week at Erin, attending the fo eral of the doctor's father, Wm. Obisholm. A grand ball under the misplace of the Wingham Cricket Club was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday, February the 12th. Richard Prior, formerly of Wingham, has made his name famous as a jumper, both in the United States and Canada, having made the throe standing jump, 86 ft. lin,, boating the record so far ; standing jump, 12 ft. 0 in. On Monday of last week, word wee received in town of the death, at Sand Beach, 1.13iohigan, of E. Dean, dentist, Mr. Dean was ill with la grippe, and oatohiug cold, pneumonia set in. He VOA a promising young man, and sinoo looming Wingliam had graduated' from the Philadelphia Dontal College, aid was working up a Moo prattioo in Sand Beath, 000 day reoontly a 0191 giving hie name es John II, Armstrong camp to Lown with a number of notoe against prominent famous of letoeris township, and tried at several places to sell them. 1Ie called ett Peter Deans' flour and food store and offered to sell the notes to John Clegg. Mr. Clegg felt euro the notes wore forgeries, and had Lite man arrest- ed. Ito was brolght before the Mayor, when it conte out in evidence) that Arm. strong vleited IL I1n111bor of t110 fitrin:re in Morris representing that he was getting information for a directory to he pub. ti shed ° liortly, and 81111 1 ,Iteeeelt d hl getting the eines o1 the fernier::, the A committee of Oddfellowe of Liato. wel Lodge No. 100, caned on Mrs, J, T. Barker, widow of their late Brother, J. T. Barker, on Wednesday morning of lad week, when Bro. Tilt, of behalf of the Covenant Mutual Benefit Associa- tion of Gelesbury, 111., prowled her with a °hook for 02,600, rho amount of the late brothers' polioy in that magniti• omit institution. Bro. Burt Mao handed her a ohecic for 867, the omount clue her from the local Lodge. SEROUS ACCIDENT. -000. McGill, so well known in Elmo, Wallace, Listowel and the Counry of Perth geeeraIly, met witb an almost fatal accident on Deo, 17th, at his reeidenoo on the bank of the Souris River near Carsolltun, Manitoba. In passing from one room to another he fell backwards down stairs striking on the edge of one of the steps a little below the socket joint of the neck. The next hound wee to the bottom of the stairs. For several days both arms were badly paralyzed. 110 still Buffers much pain, from the shoulder joints to the oats of the arils. Time oan only tell what future use he will have of his right arm, but hie left is better, end he oan sit up in the rocking chair. 531vtle. Neil hfeQuarrie returned from his trip to tho Northwest of Friday. Bev. Mr, Birks, of Ailea Craig, preach- ed excellent discourses on Sunday in the Methodist' church. Rev. Mr. Bridgeman, of Bengali, is to officiate in TriniLy church on Sunday and preach a m1eeionar•y norinon. On Sunday evening Mrs. Taylor, o1 Clinton, sister-iu•law of Airs. McElroy. mot with a serious accident when about to return home. When coming out of the house she slipped off the door steps and fractured the bone of ono thigh which will confine the lady to the house for some time. At the last regular meeting of the I. 0. G. T. the following members were elected ae officers for the ensuing term O. T., W. W. Sloan ; V. 0, T., Miss E. G. Young ; R. S., J. S. McKinnon ; F. S., W. H. Stewart ; Chap., W. Mont- gomery ; M., Neil Taylor ; S., Mise Annie Hamilton ; G., R. Howard; P. C. T., Miss Moffatt ; S. G. T., J. Maguire. On Friday evening a number of citi- zens and neighboring farmers web at Mason's hotel for the purpose of conaid- eriug the advisability of holding a monthly horse and cattle fair in our busy hamlet. After some discussion it was decided to hold One monthly. The following officers were elected : C. Ham- ilton, President ; A. Sloan, Vioe Presi- dent ; Alex. Elder, Secretary and Treas- urer ; Oommittee, Nicholas Cawing and Alex. Smith. The first fair to bo held on Tuesday, March 4th. Libto w oI. The Standard entered upon its 18th year last week. It is a well conducted journal and should be generously sup• ported. Perth County Sunday Sobool Conven• tion was held horn on Tuesday and Wed- nesday of this week. There was a vary fair attendance. Rev. G. M. Franklin was attending the Provincial Convention of Young Mon's Christian Associations in session last week in the oity of Brantford. At the public meeting held in the town hall on Thursday evening of last week, to consider quoetious in reference to the consolidation of the town debt, a resolu- tion was adopted to the effect that it was deemed inadvioable to raise the extra X10,000 ae proposed in the application for a Bill to eoneolidate the debt of tbo town. A motion to sanction the raising Of the extra $10,000 and to leave the ex- penditure subject to a vote of the tithe• payers, was proposed, but was not enter. tamed, the meeting being nearly unani• mouely oppoeod to making any addition to the present debt of the town by the act for ooneolidation. L. C. L. -The annual meeting of the North Perth County Loyal Orange Lodge was held in the Orange Hall in thie town on Tuesday of last week. There was a largo turnotlt of delegates from the diff- erent lodges, fully seventy brethren be. ing present, The following oounby ofIloors worn °looted for the ensuing year :--Bro. Richard Johnston, Palmerston, County Master ; Bro. Thee, Miller, Morningtou, Deputy County 1Ftaster; Bro. S. S. Bothwell, Mina, Treaettrer ; Bro, Wm, Welch, Listowel, Soorotary ; Bro. Young Coulter, Newry, Director of Coro. cronies ; Bro. Jae. Casson, Motnin,"ton, Lecturer ; Bro. Aloin Strong, Wallaee Deputy Leeturor ; Bre. Wel. Mehta°, ilfnrniugtou, Chaplain. 11 was ileoidod by tt role of thio lodge 11 celebrate flu) Boyne \lltivetsary et l Llmerstoon thie yeer, Llsrrishnl and (hl sit were marl melee -eel, lint t aIntot. In t rel• i• ,1 111'! FER nln.,;crlily vole. At the Saib Lake City (Utah) munici- pal election the Gentile ticket, including 16 Councilmen, were elected by majorit- ies rouging from 800 to 400. This gives theta control of the municipal Counoil for the first time in the history of the city. The prohibition'of the use of the Ger- man language in the Courts of the Baltic Provinces by the Russian Government has treated a great confusion of tongues. The majority of the population on the Russian aide of the Baltic knows little or no Ruesiau at all. PHOTOS TINTYPES, .1 ,.4'or• .4 5,0 - Coati r, All York from the Smallest to Lire 8590 done Ian Ilrat•claaa manner. 57 X IC 1AT amt of Residences, Etta, sill Iten$onable Rates. W. J. Fairfield. MONEY TO LOAN. Any Amount of Money to Loan on Farm or Village Pro- perty at 6 & 6k Per Cent., Yearly. Straight Loans with privilege of repaying when required. Apply to A. Hunter, Virisinll Court Clerk, Brussels, The "Scotch Collar Heavy and Light Harness, BUFFALO ROBES, Homan BLAN1rETs, SLEIGH BELLS, RUBBER RUGS, ito. Always in Stock. Al Handsome Range of Trunks, Valises and Satchels to choose from and sold at Reasonable Prices. 1 Special Attention given to Repairing. H. DENNIS. MONEY TO LOAN. Molle,y to Lotto on FARM PROPERTY -at- LOWEST RATES.,, Private and Company Funds. A.I.-'PLY T(.? J.C,Heffernan, J.A.Young. Valuator. Agent. Ethel P.O., Ont. 2810 g Money to Loan, Aioney to Loan o11 Forte Pro- perty it t £0 JP I„ 7' 1e TL,y'. Private and Company Funds.. DICKSON & HAYS, a'U1'ccitors, ado„ 'bosoms, ONT. GOOD STOC Kincardine High School K Is now open, with the following excellent STAFF OF TEACHERS: S. WP. Perry, II. A,, headmaster. Honor Graduate and Gold Medallist of Viotoria University -Classics ,XLate The subsorlhrrn offer for sale the following well bred Stock 1 1 Heavy Draught entire. horse, 0 yours old; 3 heavy drought entlro horses, rising3 years old ; 1 carrion stallion 7ears old ;1 stallion tone heavy draught, Also a heavy draught morn, 0 years old, and another heavy draught men, rising 3 years, sapnoaod to be In foul. They oro all in- serted. Pediereee mrd certificates can be produced, Intouling )tnrchusers would do well to cull sun see the annuals and got prices, They aro good ones, S0'hilt Itlt0S., Proprietors, 07.10 nnteael8 P.O. 20-tf and Moderns. .Ganes Gray, M.A. - Honor Graduate of Toronto University --English and Science, 0'. W. French, 10.A., Honor Graduate of Toronto University --J'ftttltematics and Comtreroiel Branches. Miss dnnet Rare. Class Provincial Certificate• - English and Moderns. Drill, under supervision of a Graduate of Royal School of Infantry, London, Ontario. W. C. Loerrern g, Chair. 11. of E. DeWrrr 11. Mertrr•N, M.D., Sec. First ETHEL CREST ANO (LOUR MILLS. The undersigned having completed the change from the stone to the celebrated Hungarian System of Grinding, bas now the Mill in First -Class Running Order and will be glad to see all his old customers and as many new ones as possible. Flour and Peed ,]ways ©n, Ed d. Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain. WM. MILNE, OUR GREA KR OF THE T. S. CAMPBELL AI Reiff 1') 11-1 Paom. SWILKIN€111041:30 MR Willi 25 Yards 36 -inch Factory Cotton for $1.00 ; 15 Yards Tweed Dress, Goods for $1.00, worth 10c, per Yard ; 121 Yards 24 -inch Melton Dress Goods for $1.00, regular price 15c. per yd ; 17 Yards Fast Color Ginghams for $1.00, worth 10c. per Yard ; ]5 Yards of 12e. Shirting for $1.00; 16 Yards of 1Oc. Canton Flannel for $1.00 ; 8 'Yards 20c. Gray Flannel for $1.00 ; 2k Yards 60c. All Wool Tweed for $1 00 ; • 8 Yards Of 25c. All Wool Dress Goods fol' $1,00;, 8 Gent's Linen Collars for $1.00, worth 20c. each ; 18 Yards of Print for $1.00, worth 12,c, per Yard ; 5 Yards Military for $1.00, worth 80c. per Yard; 7 Pairs Gent's All Wool Seamless Sox for $1.00. worth 25e, per Pair; 2 Gent's White Shirts for $1.00, worth $1.50 ti Yards Table Linen for $1.00, worth 25c. per Yard 6 Pairs ,Ladies' All Wool Seamless hose for $1,00 ; 7 Pairs Ladies' A.11 Wool Cashmere Gloves for $1,00, worth 20c, a. pair; 20 Skeins Fingering Yarn for $1,00, worth 8e. per Skein ;; 0 Pairs Linen Towels for $1.00, worth 'trio. per Pair 'yards Cottoned° for $1.00, worth ;100, per Yard ; 12 Yards •10 -inch Cotton for $1,00, worth 120. per S'nrd. 74') niTY10 LISON & AY, 11 AN GE S,