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pays,IO,bn *no atonic. Though ilui.ktitial
cost of o ,a famous brood into your Air:c1
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yourieed booldng for *Ivor fin' barroasing your
ands, Consult-tho Manager.
TI1EH DOMINION-- BANK
SEAFOR'Ifki BRANCH, - R. M. IOW -A Manager.
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENt
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
DISTRICT MATTERS
Brown Label Salado can now. be
bought from your grocer at 55c a
pound. A delicious and economical
driak. One pound makes two to three
hundred cups.
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lower the cost of bread. 1 see they
have already Sawered it a little. But
it would seem from the statements of
these men, the consumer is supposed
to make good the losses, regardless
even if flour has nearly declined. fifty
per cent. in price. I wonder how if .
things had been reversed and theme
bakeries had bought a large supply
at bottom prices and then flour rapid-
ly advanced in price, would the con-
sumer get the benefit of the low
price? No; he would not by a long
shut. He would have to climb alter
it, for the other fellow is not in the
game for his health or philanthrophy.
THE NEW YEAR RIGHT. When sugar was in the neighborhood
There is a time to do the right I
of 28 cents per pound, the would-be
thing, and the man who does the profiteer kindly and unsolicited in.
right thing is always conscious
formed us through the medium of
of
the press that the sweet article was
having done his duty. New Year's
is a kood time to start, so before going to soar high in the thirties and
you renew your subscription to any . probably would hit the 40 cent notch.
To -day we can get all we want of
paper, think a moment' of the Farm -
1 sur sweet frienctatt 9 cents per pound.
er's Sun, and what it means to
yourselfand the farmers• of this
1 When away up on the high, the re -
a
Province. The paper is owned by I taller would dole us out two pounds ;
the farmers, and ubliOied solely in 1 as a favor only at times, for whicis
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favor we would separate ourselves
their interest. No other paper do- .
nates its entire energy to the farm. from fifty or sixty cents or more. One
time when sugar was skyward bound
ers' cause. When sending in your ;
some of the wholesale houses of this
subscription, get your neighbor to
e
subscribe, that you will both be do- ; city had six ars of sugar shipped in
from St. Pau!, Minn., but when these
int( the right thing at the right time.
Think of the price, 104 issues for arrived they were afraid; so niuell
sugar might be a weight urs the ' nark -
silly $1.50. There is no other paper
et, so they shipped three of the ears
just like The Sun. The Far MerS'
back to St, Paul. Also through the
Farmers' Sun, Toronto.
press we wen kindly informed by
--4.--- , would-be profiteers that clothes, shoes
A LETTER FROM DULUTH , and other commodities would be high-
er priced next spring. They, how -
Dear Expositor;
ever, are declining contrary to
Since my last, the weather fun- '
these free -given advices but not as
' aster got busy and showed us he is
rapidly as they should be 'in 7011' -
t. always a joker. ()Ti the morning
parisiin to the cuts made by menu -
of December 24th, it registered ten
facture' and is holesaler. The retail-
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get all he car out of the c''i,-unier's
•opply of oxygen awl a light mantel
pisiket biiiii... mud he has bet' ii tilit,:t-
• f snow covering the ground. Re- ing to the Idine's holiday speielthrift
I igit,t1S Services were llskl in the earl -
policy to ger all he can in the 111ean-
7. is churches Christina eve or on
tilde. After New Year's. p737734of
christinas Day.
Ne4t- comes Ne,.,c Years and i1, many artieit-s will take the toboggan
511(13. route. It is simply astonishing
birth MISbe announced by. the ring -
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of the tens ((t'((t'thousands of dollars of of church bells,. blowing
almost sho.tly clothing and other in -
and in other ways. Then
furter shelf -worn, and moth-eaten
1920, with -leg fecOrtirwill be history ; goods for sale in surae of the SO-'
Ruby 1921 will step in untarnished '
ICali7.1 big department stores of 1 his
and pure, but ere its race is run,
idol v. hit+. they advertise in nom-
eu.ziity events, no doubt, wilt hal- ' (.'itY
lin
:' ;ng heades in the press, to say
rori,pired some for good and 50,0_,
reiliing of many of the second hand
for evil, and millions of new hums.
clothing stores run, generally speak -
h -i gs,will have first seen the light
Mg, ;by Scions of .t.h Hebrew lace,
of*"" day: and millions will have bade
and the pusehaser is Ilniost forced
life's journey adieu. So it is up to
to bite and be stung.
those now living to lead good and
lhe coal basins, despite all the
proper lives and be prepared to an-
wernirgs and threats of the Fedetal
swer the final summons when an -
'1.01,e -ides to :ake didscie action,
1 ounced, whether it comes by day or
have kept straight an helping
night, and that their influence, whe-
to lighten the consutner's pocket book.
her living or dead, will have been of
benefit to humanity. Our tenure of They are professionals at the game,
with .seared conscience and the thun-
lfe is uncertain and short, even at
der of supposed federal action does
i's longest span. Every one of us
hould live such live5. that the world notjar their nerves. They know the
lay of the !and and govern themselves
wUl be better off for each one of es
l'aving lived. We should not live for accordingly. It wiluld semi to me
secdid self alone. During the late they are xs ell in the lead as human
ofiteering wretches.
a,.i.ful World War and after its for- pr
unate termination, -this country has Sum/vied up money is the God of
been infested with myriads of human unprincipled deals and unscrupulous
profiteering vultures, both great and profiteers. My definition of an Anier-
small, of high end' law degree social- icon profiteer is a foe of hunianity.
but all of small caliber from hu- an enemy of this glorious Republic;
Inanity's standpoint. They were and a carbuncle 'and blot on Ijociety. He
iire not satisfied with legitimate pro- cannt he world as an innocent
into t
shifted ektortion ,prices babe without a cent, and unless re-
fits, but have shsegardless of the suffering entailed fnrming in time will die, despised and
abhorred, leaving his ill-gotten gains
b
upon countless thousands of human i arid will be given his just
beings. By their unjust dealings
they have caused hunger, misery and wanhiby the Impartial Judge of
Aiffering, fostered discontent, addi Mankind.
thousands to the ranks of the 'radical Trusting that the year 1921 will
elements who would overthrow this be a prosperous and happy one for
great Republic were they unfortunate- The Expositor and all of its readers,
ly able to do so and make out of it and for the fair Dominion of Can -
(1 Bolshevik Russia. Thousands of ada and nil of the rest of the Mighty
human beings have slaiksred from the British Empire, and for the League
la& of proper tbod and clothes, leav- of Nations, and that our good friend
ing their systems weakened and vul- Uncle Sant will be une of its power-
nerable to disease. . ful members in the near future, 1
Wheat, corn and oats have drop- remain
ped tremendously in price and it is Yours truly,
elainSed farmers have lost one billion ROBERT McNAUGHTON.
dollars in this country alone from Duluth, Minni., Dec. 27, 1920.
the depreciation in grain prices. I
do hate to see the farmer lose; he is
the honest producer and his crop is
not assured until it is harvested. He
has had to pay such high wages for
labor and prices for machifiery and
commodities of aft kinds, and he is
entitled to the highest prices possible
for his crops and other wares. But
after the grain is purchased from
first hands, the middlemen get into
the game and many of ,these have
been Steering wretches of the
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
The women who were recently elect-
ed to all municipal offices in Yoncalla,
Ore., including that of mayor, have
taken their places:- Their first effort'
will be a general cleanup of the town.
The former Princes Troubetsko,
who was forced to flee from -Russia
atter her property and- estates. were
confiscated is now living in London,,
most calms type, and the consuming where she is making a scant living by
public have to pay for all. Many of modeling rag dolls.
the bye products of these grains have Miss Mathile Makin, of New York
advanced in 'price despite a declining City, is probably the oldest woman in
grain market and are even higher that country to be. admitted to citi-
zenship. She is past 82 yeaTs of age,
but only ?wetly went befRre the
court and received her pars,
The MassachusOte, niblimum wage,
board has handed down -a decie
granting aerubWonien aminim
wage' -of $15.40. per week. 'rbts is
at the rata of Srcents an lioun.fixed
been reduced seine. The presidenton a basis of 42 hours' employment
,me iarge bakery concern in this city weekly.
said they had put in a supply of flour Several Irondred women in Melia -
when it was at its. highest point and ' wake, Ind., havebrined .3vhat they
said they kept the flour about six call a battalion 0' death, or the pur.
months in' Oder to age it and ensure pose of 'waging war .mi. bniduki Men.
gond bread, and when this supply Was The *Mien Will, meet regularly to
all -used; *hieb. probably .would be take .part to target practice, under
tzilleit Years, then they would cot instVotors.
now -than when the grains were at
alma* Plias. This is where the
retailer has been getting in his dirty
work.
Wheat from its high point has been
cut in about a half; oats ditto, corn
more so. .Flour reduced not far from
Remy dollars per barrel. Bread has
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The coming week will bring to a close one of the Bigge.
Sales we have ever had. 'We are making special inducel-
ments for the final week. Price reductions in all
departments the equal of which you will not
see for some time to come. Don't wait
as we cannot continue these prices
indefinitely. Come this week,
it will pay you.
MEN'S OVERCOATS.
The very newest style;
good patterns, excellent
cloth. Regular
$40 to 545. Sale
Price- .
Overcoats from
$:15, to S:38. Sale
Price
Overcoats from
$25 to $:%. Sale
Price ..
MEN'S SUITS.
Latest Styles
$45 Men's Suits
for . .
$35 Men's Suits
for
$30 Men's Suits
'1" for
$25 Men's Suits
for . .
$20 Men's Suits
for
29.95
25.95
19.95
OVERALLS.
Peabody's or Snag Proof.
Black or Striped. Regu-
lar $2.75. Sale 2.39
Price
. Derain,
$2.00 Sale
Price
Smocks. Reg.
$2.75. Sale Price
MEN'S SWEATER COATS
High Grade CoCats, in
fancy checks and plaids,
pure wool English yarns.
Reg. $9, $10, n=
S11. Sale Price j.ya
Work Sweaters, all colors
and sizes. Rekular, $4 to
56. Sale Price 2.95
29.95
24.95
21.95
18.95
15.95
MEN'S UNDERWEAR,
Standtlelds all -wool, red
label. Regular -
$3.50. Sale Price
Blue Label reg.
$4. Sale Price
Black Label.
Reg. $5 Sale
Price ....
Tiger Brand.
Regular $2.50.
Sale Price ....
Tiger Brand,
all wool, $2.75.
Sale Price ....
Heavy. ribbed
Scotia, $2. Sale
Price
Heavy Ribbed
Penman's $1.50'
Sale Price ....
Combination
U'Uderwear, all
Makes.
25 PER CENT. OFF
3.19
3.98
2.19
2.39
1.89'
1.29
MEN'S WORK -SHIRTS.
Men's Heavy Tweed
Shirts. Regu-
lar $2.50. Sale 95
Price .........
Black and White Shirts.
Regular, $1.50. 139
Sale Price ....
Heavy Chambray, black
and white. Reg. g mik
$1.75. Sale price 1 .j7
Bow OVERCOATS.
'Every Boys' Overcoat,
Mackinaw or Reefer in
the store will be elleared
without reserve. -
25 PER CENT. OFF
WOMEN'S COATS.
Velour, Silvertone, Beav-
ers, Plush, etc., all this
year's new style.
Reg. $25 to $30 qg
tor
Reg. $32 to $35 23.75
for
Reg. $37 to $45 10
for
WOMEN'S SUITS.
Serge, Tricotine, Cheviott,
Broadcloth, all colors.
Reg. $30 to 35, 22
for
130YS' SUITS.
All New Styles, Norfolks,
Waist lines or form fit.
All sizes and patterns.
Sale Price -
20 PER CENT. OFF
WOMEN'S BLOUSES.
Every waist, voile, crepe
or silk in all colors reduc-
ed.
25 PER CENT. OFF
WOMEN'S HOSE.
Hose is a Hobby
here. Buy all you want.
20 PER CENT. OFF
SEE THE SPECIALS.
WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR. •
Penman's , • Turnbulls ,
andtield's, Watson's -
Every known reliable
Makes. Sale Price
25 PER CENT. OFF
TAILORING DEPT.
20 Per Cent. Discount off
...n. all tailor-made Suits,
a Tweeds, Worsted or
Serges. Leave your
measure Early.
MITTS AND GLOVES.
Heavy or fine Kitts;
G:oves or Pullovers, Men .
r Boys.
25 PER CENT. OFF
terg. $37 to $45 28.95
DRESS GOODS DEPT.
Dress Goods, Suitings,
Coatings, Silks, Georgette
Crepe, Crepe de Chene,
Sat:ns, all fancy trim-
mings, linings, etc. Re-
duced by
20 PER CENT. DISCOUNT
CARPETS AND RUGS.
LINOLEUMS.
An exceptional opportun-
ity to get high grade floor
covering. Sale Price
20 PER CENT, OFF
FURS.
Coats, Sets., Muffs a n d
Ruffs.
20 PER CENT. OFF
HATS AND CAPS.
Hath. stiff or soft; .
cors, shapes and sizes. -
i) PER CENT. OFF
\\,11,Tinter and Fall
lien's and Boys'
;21) PER CENT.
STAPLE DE ;
Shirtings
$heet-
'Cottons,
tiinghams annels,
nelettes, f Curtain .
terials, nileS
Table Linens, Towelling
20 PER CENT. ont.
WOMEN'S.SWEA
COATS.
All new fine -tivalit
feet garments.
best makes. Sale
20 PER CENT,
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