HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1913-03-27, Page 1Established 1865, Vol. 47, No. 39.
OLiNTON
ONTARIO
THURSDAY ' MARCH
27 1913
W. H. Kerr & Son, Editors and Publishers
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THE
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OF ,CANADA
Head Office, Montreal
Capital Authorized...::,... •-.$25,000,000
Capital Raid -up...... 11,500,000
Reserve and undiviided
pivots ..._ - .. 12,500,000
TOTAL ASSETS 115,000,000
325 BRANCHES
With world wide connection),
Interest allowed on Deposita
General %lacking ,busilnesa. trans-
acted.
R. E. MANNING, Mgr.
CLINTON BRANCH
LAXACOLD
A laxative cure for LaGrippe
Coughs, Colds, Headaches,
and Neuralgia.
Acts quickly and is tasteless
LAXACOLD will often cure
a cold in a day and a night.
Try it once then the next
dime you will be sure to re-
member how quickly Laxa-
cold cured you,
J. L_ iWVEY
Dispeneiug Chemist,
AN APOLOGY.
Owing to the sickness
of the editor there are
many interesting items
tqat we are unable to put
into type for want of time
etc. We hope that by
next week everything will
be in good running order
again.
INVITED TO KINGSTON.
Rev. Alfred 1nrown, Methodist
minister at Goderich has been un-
animously invited to Sydenham St,
church, :Kingston, Mr. Brown had
already accepted an invitation to
remain in Goderich for another
year, but has been released from
this obligation that he might take
advantage ((of the promotion offer-
ed. He will go to Kingston, if
transferred and ' so appointed by
the stationing committee.
Clinton and Surrounding Town-
ships Hit by Terrific Gale
An equinoctial ' gale that swepI'
violently over Clinton from the
West throughout Good 'Friday
created havoc to the extents of -
thousands of dollars.
The storm commenced early in
the morning and was accompanied
by a cold rain. About noon the
storm was at its worst and the
wind had reached a velocity of 45
miles an hour;
St. Paul's Church Suffers.
Thee' roof of St. Paul's Church on
the East side near the front was
ripped off, but the damage was
soon repaired and services were
continued as if nothing had oc-
curred. The new roof was put on
Monday.
Elliott's Big Livery Damaged,
The rear end of Elliott's brick
livery barn, on King street was
eompletely: blown clown and the
roof was badly. 'damaged. Mr.
Elliott in speaking to the New Era
stated that the damage would be
between $250 and $300.
Piano. Works also visited.
Part of the roof at the Piano
Works was also damaged, but this
dict not interfer Ovith any of the
departments and are busy filling
their orders.
Gunn's Limited.
The big elevator used now by
Gunn's Limited also received a
shaking up,
Gel The Bess, it Pags /toot of Combe Block damaged,
The cornice of the Molson's Bank
ELLIOTT building on Ontario Street was
/ torn back and a chimney was also
badly wrecked.
TORONTO, ONT.
Is a Commercial School of the
Highest Grade. None better in
• Canada. Graduates in strong de-
ter now. Catalogue Free,
The Molsons Bank
• Incorporated 1355 Established hi Clinton 1879
HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL
SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT
Interest an at highest current rate. •
on sums of $1 and upwards from date of deposit
Joint Accounts Allowed
BRANCHES AND AGENTS ALL OVER CANADA
AND AGENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD
A GENERAL BANRIdu DESIINIESS TRANSACTED.
C. E., DOWING. Manager Clinton Branch_
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Windows in private homes were
blown in and shutters were badly
broken.
, Mr. James lTwaitchall had a busy
time et his shingle yard after the
1 storm. '
Fences were •blown down, as was
trees and shrubs.
It is impossible to give an esti-
mate of the damage done in Huron
Co. alone ' many chimneys were
wrecked around town.
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dressed lumber. The factory
is closed •down Monday,the men
being engaged in a general house
cleaning. Thatitis an ill wind
that blows nobody good is proven
by the fact that the firm of N'. Cluff'
I' & Sons was atirely sold out of
shingles befor
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windstorm of
Good Fridayl subsided. The
roof and. top aryof the Robert
Bell Engine and pf�esherCompany
suffered in the she. inanner. The
gable end of the, i•erbyterian
church was also blown 'out on to
the, street. •y
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Mr. Joshua SIi 3,n an's barn roof
had a large holes.''btown in it on
Friday.
Mr. Harvey 'Jenkins barn was
completely wrecked by the wine:
storm. '
Mr. Clark' s :b rn- on the farm
which be recently purchased from
George Sheppard had the roof
completely blown off.
Mr. George Cook had the roof
blown off the east side of his barn,
' Mr. John Middleton's barn on the
Dike Farm was completely blown
down by the wind storm on Friday.
Mr. James Graham's windmill was
also blown by the wind storm,
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Porters's Hill.
Among those in our neighbor-
hood who 'suffered most from the
violent wind storm that swept the
country on Friday last are: Ster-
ling ,Mcphail, half- the roof of his
silo blown down 'and a number of
boards off his barn. Robert Bea-
com's barn badly:. wrecked. Fred
Elliott, one end df barn blown in.
Peter McDougal half of shed roof
off, John Sturdy silo blown down
and part of barn roof. Leslie Cox
windmill badly wrecked, John A.
Cox, 'barn roof damaged. J. Alex-
ander roofoff barn. Many .others
isustained . minor losses such as
fences blown down'-nd trees up-
rooted and etc.
Wingham,• -O00 of the Worst
windstorms that this country has
ever known struck Wingham Fri-
day. Wingham and the surround-
ing country at large is almost a
total ruin and devastation and de-
struction is everywhere. Among
many who suffered loss is the
Western Foundry and Stove Com-
pany, the new mounting and ma-
chine shop was lifted up y by
the wind and was hurled into the
slew warehouse. The estimated
loss is $10,000. The roof and top
story of'Walker & Clegg's ]up-
holstering building was total y de-
molished and 1 he furniture and
machinery is a loss.
The roof and lop story of Ben -
net's plaining mill was torn oil and
burled in every direction.
Barns within a radius of a few
miles have roofs off. Numbers of
them are razed to the ground.
Many farmhouses, among them the
beautiful new house of \V. Currie,
which cost $1,000, is a loss.
00 the
fire hall was
The tower
razed to.the ground and the Win-
dows smashed. The belfry was
to ed.
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The large cement apple evapor-
ating
ibuilding's roof was torn off
nd
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street
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The Davies 'Company stables
were badly destroyed.
The Union Factory roof was torn
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off the dry building a e
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parts
were more or less destroyed.
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The beautiful grand stand of the
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CANADA.TEMPERANCE ACT WILL: -PROBABLY BE SUBMITTED THIS
YEAR—NEW OFFICERS ARE ELECTED.
The entire county of Huron' will
go dry with one vote if the elec-
tors endorse the action in the
county convention of the Ontario
Alliance, which met here last
Thursday. Huron. is one of the
with twenty-six municipalifties, and
largest counties : in the Province,
fourteen of these will after May 1
be dry, either 'bylocal option or
the Dunkin act.
The Campaign Committee report-
ed that it. would be at I hope
less task to secure local option with
the. three -fifth handicap, the re-
maining twelve places being most-
ly villages and towns, Goderich,
Wingham, Seaforth, Exeter, Blyth
and Brussels being among the
number, and therefore recommend-
ed the adoption of the' Canada 'tem-
perance act in its new forts. The
delegates were almost unanimous
for the campaign to be brought on
at once, on the understanding that
the law would receive the same
rigid enforcement that the Whitney
Government has promised for the
Exeter.—A , terrific windstorm
broke over this town shortly after
noon- Friday. Trees, fences, ver-
andas and roofs of barns and
windmills in the surrounding
country were strewn promiscuous-
ly around.
At the rectory Mrs. Collins, wife'
of Rev. D, W. Collins, had a narrow
escape, the chimney crashing
through the roof into the kitchen
where a few minutes before/ Mrs.
Collins had stood. Mrs. Sarah
Barris and Mr. McTaggart lost
their verandas, as did: also • the •
office of Drs, Hindman &11TeGillli-
cuddy.
The roof was taken off Braun's
carriage shop.
The shed •at the rear of Connor's
old machine-...Ysl.e1?•and the slat
well shed were levelled to the
ground. Among the houses minus
of their chimneys are the follow-
ing : Postmaster C1,ristie, W D
Weeks, David Cobbledick, The
Murray Maclaine Shop, 11, D. Seldon,
In the surrounding county, so far
as heard, greet damage to wind-
mills and barns. John Boot:, Nel-
son Kestle, Harry Roe all lost their
mills ; John Westlake, [Richard
Gidley, Mr. Johns and Mr. North-
cott had roofs blown off barns ; the
rural telephone lines are in damag-
ed
that definite i`te news
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c of
condition, ,
is hard to obtain. So far as report-
ed no lives were lost, though one
Woman received a broken arm. The
heir chim-
neys.
hotels lost t i
three Exeter
The total damage will be
found to run into the thousands.
Brussels.—Increasing in velocity
from noon the windstorm had con-
siderably o'clock. The
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*ere House was
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the old R
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barn of h
race course was torn into flattened tone ground. The
Swenson's barn was destroyed, wowood.chimney in the electric light plant
--o-- is lying in the river and that on the
Lirncefield. Pryne flour mill met a similar fate.
The wind storm struck our vii- The tower on the town hall, in
lege with violence, barns were which was hanging a heavy bell, is
in ruins, and the Jpel1 lies in the
stud, covered with wreckage. Dr,
Holmes' windmill is badly damaged
and the tower in Melville church
is leaning at a dangerous angle.
Many trees were broken down and
the sidewalk on the .main street is
strewn , with glass from broken
,t indoors.
Ontario liquor act. The date of the
election cannot else set aft present,
sent,
but it will be some time before De-
cember, in order to take effect
May, 1914.
The Committee on law Enforce-
ment drew the attention of the
conference to the fact that the
license act was not being respected
Especially was this the case 'in
North Huron, and the Provincial
Secretary is to be asked' to look into
the matter.
A resolution was passed endors-
ing the action of the Dominion Al-
liance in requesting the Govern-
ment to eliminate the sale of bottl-
ed liquors by hotels. Rev. W. Ket-
tlewell, Field Secretary for Huron
and adjoining counties, was pre-
sent, and addressed the convention
The following officers were elect-
ed : Predident—F. Buchanan, Wing -
ham, -Vice-President—A. T. Cooper,
Clinton ; R. P. Watson, Brucefield;
A. E. Carr, Blyth. 'Treasurer—Rev.
J. Greene, Clinton. Secretary—J. A.
Irwin, 'Clinton.
Annual Vestry Meeting of St. Paul's Church
The Annual (Vestry was held on
Easter Monday evening, the Rector
it the chair. A good number of
men were present. After prayer, •
the Rector read his report giving a
thrown down, parts of the roofing
• Iwere taken from the railway sta-
tion and Mr. Scott's storehouse.
• Shingles were taken off a number
4 of houses, Mr. Scott's chimney on
• his store was blown down.
• Charles 'Wright •ht of Tuckersnlith
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11 are in great demand but cannot be
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terrific gale that swept through
part bf the count/
this Y Friday
Many thousands of dollars dam-
age was done: Scores of barns
were unroofed or blown in, as were
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windmills; The gale seemed todo
its worst damage about three
miles east of here, from Benmil ler
Dungannon.
to Carlow and D gannon.
No loss of life is reported, but Mic-
hale :Primmer, ',miller atEenmelet',
while trying to close a barn door,
was thrown ',backwards, striking
the corner of the building, brealr-
ing three ribs and getting other
cuts, which will keep him in bed
for a few weeks. Between 63en-
miller and Carlow, Win. `Val,ters,
Geo. Beam., Alex. Robertson and
Ales Youngs lost the roofs of their
barns. •
On,the Lake Shore road north,
Jas.31eAlann's john Parrish's asci
Wrn, :Boger's barns were partially
destroyed. •
In the district beltween Dungan
distance 01
L1b111`n a d
and. A
lion a
about 12 utiles, nearly 20 barns Were
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seriously damaged.
Telegraph and telephone lines
are still out of commission. The
G.T,R.line is also broken, serionely
interfering with traffic, the 2.40
train being one hour late 1n,:leav-•
fn S•.
home of the• old residents fothe
town say that the: blow was the
worst seen here in many years.
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Clinton Option
By -Law Sustained
Judge Holt Throws Out Some of
the Ballots Cast for the
Measure.
Seaforth.—The damage to the
n Furniture
the: eruct:, I'
of 1
factory !C
a Y
Company; was- not confined to the'
•m on Good Friday, which
tot
'ids
twit
tore off a section of the roof and
demolished the top story. The
downpour of rain on' Sunday night
soaker, tbrough the seeond and
The following officers were elect-
ed—
Rector's Warden—H. T, Rance
People's Warden—Jas. Dunford
Lay Delegates—Messrs C. E•
Dowding and John Ransford.
Substitutes—Messrs Wm. Jackson
and Win. Johnston.
Vestry Clerk—J. McLeod,
Auditors—H. Paul, J. McLeod,
Sidemen :•-Messrs. W. Johnston,
Clarkson, McLeod, B,artlif1, T.
Greeks, F. Herman, G. Bailey, Bow-
den, T. Hawkins, C, Draper, F.
Evans, A, Lawson,
The • sleeting adjourned to May
' 5th when the complete financial
statement will be presented and
further business transacted.
MILLIN'E.RY OPENINGS.
The milllinery openings Were
and the esteblish-
monts of Miss Cantelon e Co:
Couch & Co. and Irwin •& Co. were
crowded with ladies. The hats for
early spring are much smaller than
were the vogue for last season but
the long flat shape is worn with
good effect and the tendency for
early summer' Will'ikely be to-
wards The shapes es are
size,
larger srp
said to be ore becoming than last
year and all colors are 10 be found,
of fore-
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of
everyshade
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wer
Flo
lin s and
trimmings ' most place in the 1 g
' many of the good hats are shown
t In i he
effect. • cro
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an plans -
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'and better lines also fe•L'tlr r 1
es are much admired anti' are ex-
tensively elvployed. Taken alto-
gether
and
is a Simplicity thereY
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that appears to be appreciated by
the ladies,
When March
Winds Blow
Protect your skin - from chaf-
ing and burning by using
Rexali face Cream
It is a beautifully perfumed
greaseless Cream and is un-
surpassed ]for keeping the
skin soft and smooth,
It's 25e. a jar at
TILL IIENALL STORE
W.SR. Holmes
Ismosnancomercommernamprn
Buy Sugar
When Cheap
Our first car of Redpath's
Sugar will arrive next week,
Order eerily and get in on
the bottom price.
Cash—Limited Time
100 Ihs Red pate's Extra Grams.
latcd Sugar at. 4.90
Not more than 0 sacks to
one customer
This is the cheapest we have
sold sugar in two years
W. T. O'NEIL
THE U B GROCER
Phone 4S
was pure and undefiled.
Referring to the record of both
parties, Sir James cnaracterized
the attempt to ioin the Dominion •
Alliance with the Liberal party -
would be resented by the good
temperance people of the province.
During the provincial elections of
rpt held last twee: . 1002 and 1905, the leading men of
the Dominion Alliance were ranked
alongside the Liberal party in
order to keep the Conservatives
from coming into power. The
whole influence of Mr, F. S. Spence
in the temperance organizations
was to tie the !temperance trate up -
to the Liberal party,
Sir James Lo something to •
and
talk about in the Liberal conven-
tion of 1004. He referred to Mr.
that occasions
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hoµ el
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to amend a resolution to place fur-
ther restrictions upon the liquor
tier ff'a
c cuoted the Liberal leader
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h approval. of a
as saying that the proval
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great many of the delegates, "Per-
sonally I believe it would be good.
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gofurther. w ud
to r, I
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polities
' harmonizing -the
e feet of
havethe effect
Liberal
forces throughout out the
pro-
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vince." That is what was clesir•ed,
continued the , Premier. • The
Liberals of that day were trying to
ride two horses at once. It was not
a contest against rum, but 'against
the then Conservative Opposition.
{• By -Elections,
the a� Rete Sir James again had recourse -to
�� 6 the by-elections in East Middle-
sex, North Waterloo and Muskoka
to argue that the Liberals were in-
sincere in their temperance de-
. and 1)ac1 only made one
ST. PAUL'S OH URC1-I
brief summary of work accom-
plished during the past year. Var-
ious matters of interest to the con-
gregation A
discussed. were t' n R
g•re aro
g
Strong working cominitltee was
Alt ways
into acco
l
taketo �
eel to
form
,ed
the
- endin
and means for extending
School Room and Vestry, Idr. H, T,
Rance presented a most :sa'tis-
•hich was,
report ' u,cial
re po
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a• not
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net. 1
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owing to the
closing until April 30th.
Rowell Hilar Hard
LIBERAL LEADER CHARGES SIR JAMES WITH SEEKING SUPPORT OF
THE LIQUOR INTERESTS—PROPOSAL TO WIPE OUT TRAFFIC
DEFEATED BY PARTY MAJORITY
Judge Holt finally disposed of the
Clinton local option bylaw case last'
Saturday at Goderich by reporting.
that the by-law had received the re-
quired sixty per cent. and should now
be given the third reading by the Town
Oouncii
The judge ilea that some persons
had tampered with theballots in St.
Sohn's ward by erasing the cross in
favor of local option and placing
crosses against Ioe.ai option;
There were 14 ballots which expert.
Stanton said were changed and the
judge allowed 13 of these as it was very
apparent the crosses (added had been
made by the one person, while one
for lo -
ballet Whichhad been .marked
cal option and also had the word ''yes"
above the word against was not 'alloiv
ed,
The final vote - as reported by tb'e
judge was 327 for the by-law 210 a-
gainst, which loaves 0 margin of 11.5
votes over the three-fifths necessary
to carry the bylaw,
Counsel for the local option party
W, Proutlfoot K. 0., held' that the
original retains' which gave 0 major-
ity of nine' for local eption should have
been assented but the, judge decided
otherwise.
The costs of the case are assessed
against Reuben Graham in whose
name the case was entered. -
Toronto, March 10.—Mr, Rowell'2 1
proposal to abolish the bar was to-�
day voted down by a party majori=
tyfor the second time. The debats
on temperance was concluded for
the present session, with speeches
by the Prime Minister, and the
leader of the • ,Opposition, and the
vote, taken shortly after 6 o'clock
this afternoon, stood 75 to 17.Mr,
Allan Studholme, the East Hann'_
ton Labor member, voted with the
Opposition,
Liberal Leader.
The Liberal leader drove home
the fact that the Government had
beaten aretreat upon the anti -
treating 'proposition. Hon, W. J.
Hanna had ler the retreat and Sir.
James Whitney had brought up the
rear and raised enought dust to
obscure the backward -moving bri-
gade. Sir James Whitney made
the mistake of calling history to
his aid • to prove that Mr. Rowell'
was playing politics" 'with the
temperance question and had
done se far back as the Liberal
convention of 1904, Mr. Rowell re-
plied by'reading from the Mail and
Empire to show that Sir James,
'while in Opposition, had favored
the Wiping out ofthe bars. That
was twenty years ago and the
Prime Minister had been backslid-
ing.eyer since.
. Rowe'll Hits Hard.
S ra.iSe(1
the fact. The Conservatives
a roar of protest and Sir James
jumped up to declare that the
statement was "absolutfely untrue."
"Then," said Mr. Rowell, "rny
honorable friend is the only man in
the Province ;who does not know
of it."
Sir James Whitney began by re-
ferring to IMr.Proudfoot's sug-
gestion that rhe handwriting in Mr.
Lennox's amendment resembled
that of the Provincial Secretary,
and went (onto say that? only one
handwriting was ever revealed in
the motions brought forward by
honorable gentleman ,Opposite, in-
dicating Mr. Rowell. - The mem-
ber for (Centre Huron (Mr. Proud
foot) declared that the Govern-
ment had swallowed itself, but he
was sure that if the time ever
came when the present Govern -4
inerrt forgot its responsibility, a
worse fate would await it than
was
t
o itself. He o
having to sit all W
sure that whatever ntigh(t'be done
'
put an end to the
• wince to
in the pro
ti`eating• habit, such legislation
would emanate from the Govern-
ment side of the House_ _'Ile ads.
wised the ,Opposition to take' Warn-
ing from- the fact tlia(t the actions
of the Government had been in-
dorsed by the. people in the past,
and were likely to be in the futu.re,
Refers to Records.
Mr. Rowell disturbed the Govern-
tl. charging
ment members by flatly g g
that the Conselva'tives would in
the next election have the support
of the • liquor interests, and flinging
in the face of the Prime Minlater
the assertion that he was aware of
deletions,
into the riding of South
Lanark, where an election was '
actually in progress at that mos
nest, , :
From a lower point of view—one
of mere political expendiency—Sir
James asked if any leader of a
party should follow a policy that
had been turned down in three
consitituencies by immense majori-
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The Prime Minister, continuing,`
said that Mr.Proudfoot had stated,
in the
remarking th ,
at
re a
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atru
g what the
heed
Government -Ilia not
license commissioners of Toronto or
the News said some years ago. "It
was apparent that. the administra-
tion of the license law 'in,Ontario
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Be Sure and Rear
Mr.r it Hayes
In Ills Dramatic Recital of
The Story
of Joseph.'
and: other selections,
"The
Bells,"
Etc.
This is a hit;h-class ani rare
entertainment,
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