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THE HURON EXPOSITOR
SEAFORTII. Friday, January 21, 1921
and popular freedom, even among the
dations which opposed the Central
Potters. In Canada we did not escape
the baneful influences V( war in this
respect. Our parliamentary institu-
tions, not leas than our parliament
buildings, aufl,'er'ed partial destruction
In that fateful period. Customs, us-
age* and practices intended to pre-
serve the free, representative self-
geverning character of tour Parlia-
ment and the responsible character
of ids mint;try, were one by one
tt•tnporarily set aside, one by one
ignored and. in more than one instants
that alight be mentioned there came
to bt', on the part 0t' the Administra-
tion, upon detiunce of the most funda-
mental of these considerations of guv-
ernment w•hieh lir at the rout of
ft,(•d0411 in matters of I' 1tirul aon-
trol.
Through the alteration of the exist-
ing franchise at a time when the
extension of Parliament had been
granted on the condition that no
cuntruvcrstal legislation was t„ be
intreeduced, through fraudulent sate
tnral devices resorted to in the •••••ne
of patriotism, but designed primarily
to secure the return of the adnunistra-
ti n that benefited by them, our
Urals. of Commons lust its represent
Janice character. Through the sub-
stitution of Orders in Council for
legislative enactments and the ignor-
ing In a hundred and one particular's
e,f time-honored t•ustunrs and ueages-
it ceased t„ be, In any true sense el
the phrase, a deliberative assembly
!t 1ICall1t' enure and more ,imply 1
register of the will of the Executive
in eating appropriations, and In
sanclieniug courses of procedure
were alleged lhist ry
• ab n•d b
whichwhiche
!, Y the nu
t„ ln
ce been necessary fel. the rue
cestui prosecution ,f the war.
Without disputing the wisde,14 '
unwisdom of the latitude accorded the
government through war necessity
Miring the period of the war, its ef-
fect in causing the ministry to become
increasingly arbitrary and autocratic,
impatient of constitutional nr other
restraints, and disregardful of the
rights of Parliament, cannot be de-
nied. These tendencies unfortunately
have persisted. To restore the eta
pn'nutey of Parliament, the authel lty
of 1'arlianitea ,.ver the ministry. mud
:lie power of the people over 1'14, 411•
•ee•nt, has theref,.l•,- beeenie the su
arade duty of the hour.
in thi, pat -war period- the u.,rk
of lebead i;m, first and ferenlest,
rust bo that of seeking to re es14(1,14,:4
” filen and enduring f,uudat Ions a4,)
w',ler c-,nlpas, than has hitherto
knew!). all those instittnnn1,
nest• tee preetieee. and us:u'ee ir. 'air
'a:item-teary 1•YSt. nn and mtre
malice It' too, ':meat whlrh ,••nr.
..-t• the ,'11:4^er ..f fre,doul 1v 1,.1-
_e•I ; r....r to the ,' 41me0cenn,n1 of
•„csic,1,•', the tr.on,i
..,.a :,im 111 ;l'., I.de-rad Parts ie
•eat, 1•' d:ey.
:.I a. liar.] greet 6114 , f the Liberal
111 }'.(nada teeley i, to deal
.. Il,le oen as It.!, and dere .111111•5
. spirit wl:.rh e11! he Irne 1.. :he
111_olry and 4! ,litieus „i
. .. m. It recogeiz.•s that new'
,':e -'ora bring new duties, yet it wool.)
,h<ive a certain tontinvity with the
it is not clnitoul to stand Still,
is t" he a worshipper of the pals};
I.nt :t doe; believe that something is
to he learned from history, and it
value- its own position and tradition=
rex one of the historic parties of
f dada with an honorable named.
It claims by its history and its
modern spirit to be a constitutional
party, a constructive party• a party
that has stood and still stands for
orderly progress, for unity, and con-
ciliation.
On the constitutional side, the Lib-
eral Party believes, as already indi-
cated, in a speedy return to represen-
tative and responsible government.
It is our contention that the new
Prime Minister, the Right Honorable
Arthur Meighen, and the members of
his administration, are usurpers, that
they are holding on to office and de-
laying the general election in defiance
of the spirit of the law and the
constitution. The present Parliament
is a war Parliament• elected for war
purposes only. The war -time Elec-
tions Act was passed by a Parliament
whose legs, life had expired under
the extension granted for war pur-
poees only. It contained provisions
which, to say the least, were extra-
ordinary a d adapted only to war
time. That it -'was an extraordinary
end temporary measure is proved by
the fact that it has since been re -
peeled.
• came n : n end
' e war Navin Ile t (
fh t(
t
mere than two years :nen, the IJnien
Government having been (1a:solved,
and a new Cevernntr•nt 1'urn('I under
n neve' Prime \Tinistor, ev0 contend
that the :sense of the people ought
to be Inken in a general election in
vv}ti4h the people will hate an appnr-
tunity to vote upon Canadian ques-
tions, questions of domestic policy, as
they base not. dorm since 1911. in
I917, a very large percentage of
ynnng Canadians 1ver0 over5c;ts, liv-
ing under conditions which rendered
impossible any consideration of (:an-
adian questions. Under the stress
and danger of war, they could think
of nthing but the war. and their
votes were cast upon a war issue
alone. Even with thea; at home, the
war overshadowed every other ques-
tion.
More than nine years, almost the
maximum life of two Parliaments,
have elapsed since the general elec-
tions of 1911, the lest election held
under normal conditions, in which
Canadian questions were considered.
Since that time, an immense new
electorate has arisen. It includes at
least the whole of the male popula-
tion under thirty years of age. It.
includes many older men, for but a
percentage of men vote immediately
age of twenty-one
upon attainingth-
P
g Y
Po
s all the women of
rat It includes years. e
Canada, for in 1911 no woman could
vote. it would be nn exaggeration
to nay that two-thirds of the present
lectors of Canada have never given
Ft vote under normal conditions per-
mitting of the c0netideration of do-
mestic Canadian affairs.
On the side of cnnetrueti-ve .policy,
the Liberal Party believes that. there
are problems arising Int. of the high
rest of living, abuses in the nature
of profiteering• inequalities in taxa-
tion, revisions of the tariff, problems
of soldiers' civil re-establishment, of
railroad management and railway
rate control, of agricultural and rural
THE AIM OF THF: LIBERAL I'AR'TY
iN (':1NADA TO -DAY.
Cunt inued (rein page 1
which fur the time bring seen( to
threaten a traditional trend.
Natnes are of less :oneenl than re-
alities. That men whose 0)1111,athies
are nu lunger liberal should find their
political allegiance in seine other
household is wholly in the interests
of the ultimate triumph e,f Liberal
thought and °pinel. 1t is infinitely
'settee, tai,• that the principles ant)
aims of Liberalism should cunt, to be
known under any name than that
. ,-nition alto-
gether.
lto-
should !. n e t
they I
Y
o run the
' work-
ing
long • ter. In t.
1
,et}
I
1 1 assert rts-
ing of inexorable law v 1,
self in the fate t f part}+•s, 115 in the
lives of animals and plants. 'Those
tenable of adapting themselves to a
national envirennx•nt, and of co oper-
ating in national alma, will survive,
the others will go to the wall.
A knowledge of this fact has caus-
ed the leaders of those political move-
ments which have had their origin in
cissa to seek to gain for their move-
ments some expression that is wider
than that of class. Mr. Crerar has
made it plain that, so far as the
farmers' movement IS concerned, he
wishes it to be censidere-d as breed al-
the designati,n] of its platform. Mr
Drury has been outspoken in
his opposition to government
by class. lir would prefer
a people's party to any party that
/night he mistaken as representative
of only a part of the people.
From the e1S>n iitOltS of new' politi-
cal parties, Intl excepting the make-
be-lieve sv-celled "Natural Liberal
and Conservative" Putty, we have
heard much in the way of distrust
and derision of "the old political
parties." Thin i; pant of the spirit
which war fast,•rs.:4 spirit destructive
of Institutions 115 eel) as of 1110n and
of nu,rals. I0 part it i- an expres-
sion of I hat nli. to ken point of view
which seeks i.: own gain in the be-
littlement of it: n,ighber. By their
very efforts. however, at national ex-
pression, all alike of the opponents
• -of the tradiiiena) parties, consciously
err unconsciously, have admitted that
the thing they have been purporting
to discount or condemn is not only
good, but, in the end, necessary and
inevitable. They have come to re-
cognize that parties organized not by
class, but on national lines, and ex-
pressive of attitudes of Mind and
shades of political opinion rather
than of the special interests of par•
titular groups. are the only parties
likely to be sufficiently strong to at-
tain to and to carry on the govern-
ment of the country; and in affairs
of state, the only bulwark against
monopoly of control by class\ or
special interests.
Every few years bring their own
special problems, and the business of
government is so to deal with these
problems as to advance the general
welfare. The problems of the im-
mediate past were such as belonged
to the successful prosecution of war.
The problems of to -day .are those con-
cerned with peace, the restoration,
reorganization -and reconstruction of
a national economy adversely affected
in many particulars by the destructive
influences of war and the spirit which
war helps to breed.
It is sometimes urged that only a
Tory administration is capable of
successfully carrying un war. If
there be truth in the saying, its
corollary would appear to he that the
application of Liberal principles is
more neededd in a period
of re(n s
truc-
' tion than at any other time. B, this
as it may, there is n, denying )he
fact, evidenced over and over :again
in many countries, that administra-
tions charger) with the work of pro-
secuting wars lona to become arbi-
trary, autocratic, and reaotinnary and
do not cagily- rid themselves of these
habits once they ane ac.piir''d. Our
governrnent is far from being :1n ex-
ception to this rule. It is for this
reason, among many others, that ever
since the signing of Pease the great
majority of the Canadian People have
felt that in the interests of the coun-
try the time for a change had come.
There is but one circumstance that
can defeat the wish of the great ma-
jority in a federal contest and that is
unnecessary and unfortunate divisions
amongst those who share a like atti-
tude towards the problems of govern-
ment. There is no danger of the
forces of reaction being divided; they
are. already strongly entrenched, they
control all the power and agencies of
government, they are not likely to
be 'over-acrupulnns in their methods
either in or out of parliament. "To
divide and rule" is their game, as
well as their aim.
Recognizing the truth of all this,
and tate very serious consequences of
in of the
'tura
well -bet
it
to 'the fu g
people of
Mir country; recognizing,
(
zit
R,
too that political parties prim-
arilyarily
y a means to an end• the first aim
4 the Liberal Party in Canada to -day
la to. bring about such co-operation
anii`eo-ordinakion of effort among men
atat$women of liberal aims. and aapira-
tietts as will ensure defeat of the
combined forcesof a
reactionary
co -
s. ser')1aand make tissee possible,
in
'. Matters of gjovernment, the reasser-
„.,.ttoti and ultimate triumph of liberal
k principles and policies.
,'Not only did the war destroy mil-
Mthe Of human lives and untold ma-
:l+et'lnl Wealth, it was:destructive also,
$$rge measure, of human liberties
development, of industry and Indus- unity, good -will, and the open mind.
trial relations in the cities and towns. It has no prejudices of race, creed, or
and of electoral reform, all of which •1:1440; it is for equal rights and jus -
require special and immediate con- tree to all It believes that the prob-
sideration. Isms of industry and nationality, like
The Liberal Party also believes that all gt''ati• ns ,f race and religion, can
there is the greatest need fur an end enty be served by the application of
to extravagance, and for the exercise these principles. Difficult as may be
of the strictest economy 10 the all the ee,nentie un') social problems of
ministration of public affairs, and our day, much suffering may be avert -
that this is something not to be ex- ,d by appreachir(:• them in a spirit
pec1ed frust members of a ministry :'r feiendshie aid confidence, us 01)-
(1 ho, during the lung period of the posed to hotrod and suspicion. We
war• acquired habits of lavish expen- want no cleuvuge along class lines,
diture and great indifference to the as we want ne cleavage along racial
control of Parliament. tot religious lines.
As regards the 'Pariff, the prime In imperial relations, we are op -
consideration, we believe, is that it posed to centralization. We are nut
shall be trade by 00 in accordance sdvecat0s of British unity. based
with the will 0f a House. of Commons teen human relations rather than up -
fairly representing all glasses of the on governmental machinery; unity
people of Canada. By the cw,atitu- based upon self-government and the
tion, the House of Commons is vented equality of the British community of
with the power over the purse, the ,,utions. We are for friendly rela-
{wwt•r of taxation the power W grant , cons with the llnited States, and
or Withhold supplies, to say how pub ' we are in sympathy with the move-
hc revenue shall lo' raised, and howl silent to substitute friendly co -opera -
the money shall be spent. 'Che fact ' thin for conflict and jealousy in inter -
t hat the framing of the Tariff is national relut ions with all countries.
d01eg41t•11 u, the Guvernmentl, and A11 said anti done, the great task
particularly to the Minister ,f l"1111 ice that lies before our country, /IOW
does not affect the position of the that Peace has been restored, is to
House of Commons as tilt supreme repair the ravages of War. I1 is a
authority and source of power. In task to which the Liberal }'arty is
the exercise of this power, the house committed,' t task, however, to which
of (a moon, ought to represent the the combined enua'gies of all our
people of (:anada• the taxpayers who pellti,al parties slay will be directed.
Watt' hie till- money In curry un the Because w:er callslat .scarcity, we
government. must strive to brute plenty by in -
If this be, as it is, a true interprets erlrused pl1,dtl.'tien. 41,144use the war
:ion, it will seen that the early
mstol al„n of repre'sentallvl• :Ito) 1''
<plitISible government 15 an issu'•
;rentor rt 011 than the '14111)f 01' .,f
'any of 4),'''l
her sub1(
cit nlellttned.
e es hem
sense it in ruI t
h
el- av>
w in a
i er r. Melts
ll The E'rimr 51 u1 st .1
1
at•n, i, debbe',) •ly planning to av,'i
the plain issue, by intimating that
F,e purposes t„ mike a revision of
the T:u',ff at the ensuing session of
Parliament. Ile should realize that
the first requisite of a revised tariff
ie a truly representative House of
('on neat;. As already stated, each a
body dors not now exist. If the
truth be plainly v),lken, we have at
the present time. not only l,'gislatien
without represeal::M ion. but taxed fur.
',tlthoua u'prest motion, for Targe
number-. ,.f e':median Citizens were
'll.rfr,Mn'Li-ed al tn.' la-' election. In
n•w of file lu:1l.le'l in which reptr
-
entatfol: in the prevent House of
I'uril1l10' war brtaight. into hoing, ea
'I:II,' ' ,•:at fell telt hoot rep reselltsti"❑
tl.e F•real. I):(i'•tily el ti:e Can.
edea. pe•'p4. 'fill; aeon-id]•ration
.Iri no ft, p, oP; run aff'.r.l
caused huge ,'x p re•ndittire's, we Must
p,1 back to economy and Sound tin -
:ince. Be•t^ulse the war destroyed
human being by mittens, we must
h and
I um;u) health eek
Lu
,un.e n'e t
war ro-
.. Ise til, u
"e. Because bumrui h p
t
I + u ereeite
,iced til -wilt, we unl.ct Si,k t
gaud -will. lie„euse the ww' involved
autocratic methods, vee must get
back to dentoc rat y, and strive to en-
large the b,a,nds of freedom. Our
soldiers fought under that banner,
and we must keep faith with the liv-
ing and the dead. It is that better
world, for which so many suns of this
Dominion fought and died, that must
command our best intelligence and
our highest ,•ndeavnr. In all this, we
shall not only be serving the highest
pnlrl)ose and interests of our own
country; we -hall be furthering the
supreme interests of humanity; we
1hall be uniting 14140 forces to those
]which through the ages have fought
ter the bett,rnt,ltt of Mankind.—By
the lion. W. 1.. 1Tackenzie King in
al el- }.can's.
I. 1,111T, re'lt, :Mal synch ,t1111,1L, e .•u';, tp,nrr.i Ip' the .chic-'iuu of
n..'.1 (11,», :he (;,,•:,'Stan Ill Il,r
\Ir \l• a'I1 •1, H -tri vile.,
, tent Intel Ins
'1n t nc.,,l:. .I:,• ..f I`n, 'll-xJe ,•t<:1:
I'r rvtl" \V, .• 1I„,itlnn'
,It., 1 , t. li I w real, .rt iIr I '
1.1- '.11) rt. l h:it the Issue (an
), 1, 11 1..1.,•(- .,e (l:d E''
lea , :,
,r flan' the fat t that nen,.
.,f she '...moral s!atfern., new berets.
t l:e ten air., flet er,•u tier l dalton.
..I' rite P:n'nn•r',:
Party. ,Irn>:utd free
t r:Idr. '1'):l- 1.161,41 Party has n•,
t'ntulr. ..f tariff :Malaital. Its (0140y
vlsi,n tat -might re-
duetion in the interests :,dike of late
.!cert= and temainiers. The Party be-
lieve; that their fundamental inter-
ests :u''• 41111 conflicting, but are identi-
,:1. :111 .,f us :u', consumers; all
of u.- n•e, ,r ought ir, b,•, in the
broad rens', produc,rS, rendering
MOM' ','r1 -i,'1' to the community with
hand 'n' drain er both.
We believe that the time has come,
indeed that it is already lung past,
whefi 11 downward revision of the
tariff is nces.sury. In this revision,
we believe that the home and its
needs should be a first consideration,
that there should be substantial re-
ductions of the duties on the neces-
saries of life; in other words, on
those articles which go to make up
the fond, the clothing, the shelter of
the Canadian people; that certain
specific 1lrlirk's required for purposes
of consumption, and other articles
•esscnli01 to production, should be free
of duty altogether; and that- in re-
gard to the implements of production
in the basic industries of agriculture,
mining, lumbering, and fishing, there
should also be a substantial reduction
and in 5ollie instances, 11 total elimina-
tion of duties.
With all there has been of destruc-
tion during the period of the war,
what is needed most to meet the
scarcity
and taxation which have en-
sued is increased product hive If the
basic industries, the key industries of
('ana,Ia, aro relieved as far no p145-
.tibl, of taxation, if the instruments
„f prmluction are made easier to ob-
tain. if production is thereby cheap-
ened and enlarged, these industries
are henelit,rl, and the whole commun-
ity is hi•nefit.ed. Not only do second-
ary industries gain in the reduction
in cost of raw materials, but COn-
sumcrs also gain in the Iessend cost
of many of the essentials of life.
With the Liberal Party, the main
concern respecting the Tariff is not
Free Trade or Protection; it is Rev-
enue, and the simultaneous develop-
ment of industry in such manner 8s
is likely to serve best the interests
of Canadian people. With the revenue
which will be required for years to
come to meet the large interest pay-
ments nn public debt, the obligations
to our returned soldiers in the way
of pensions, and in other respects, as
well as what will be necessary to
parry on the ordinary work of gov-
ernment in Canada, there will be re-
quired for purposes of revenue—
wholly irrespective of what it may
be possible and advisable to raise by
direct. taxation of .incomes, 43115111e59
pmfl'S, or luxuries—large sums of
money which of necessity will have
to be raised ' indirect t taxation
(d h
Y o
threegh a customs tariff.
Surh tariff as may be necessary in
this connection will he, under Liberal
policy, a tariff for consumers and pro-
ducers, not a tariff to further the
interesl5 of combines, monopolies, or
any special or privileged classes. It
is net honest to say that we can do
away with the tariff. We can revise
it in the light, of what may be shown
to be mod in the inherexts ref the
people As a whole. and that is our
policy.
Finally. on the side of conciliation,
the Liberal Party will continue to
stand, as it has stood in the pact, for
usual declarations, the minutes of
the previous meeting were read and
adopted. Hays,—Penhale.—That the
Reeven Clerkn h i'iz
a d be tot b ed to
sign and submit to the Minister of
Public Works and Highways of the
Province of Ontario, the petition of
the Oorporation of the township of
Stephen, showing that- during the
period of January lst, 1920, to De-
cember 31at, 1920, there has been
expended upon the township roads
the sum of $5,708.08, and requesting
the statutory grant on that amount
aa pruvided by the Ontario Highways
Act and amendments thereto.—Car-
ried. Neeb---Sweitzer—Tient the sups
of $10 be granted to the Hospital
fur Sick Children and a further sunt
of $10 to the Children's Aid Society
in eloderich.----Carried. Neeb—Pen-
hale.—That by-law No. 77, of 1905,
to provide for the performance of
statute labor be amended by striking
out the sunt of '$4,00 wherever it
appears in the said by-law and sub-
stituting the sun] of $1.50 in lieu
thereof. --.Carried, Penhale—Sweitzer
That the caretaker of the town hall
be instructed to charge in future the
sum of $3.00 per day 20 residents of
the Municipality of the Township of
Stephen fur use of the hall where an
admission fee is charged by persons
renting the same, and a sum of $8.00
per day 40 nun -residents. --Carried.
Bayes—Penhale. —That a by-law be
passed appointing the following per -
sone:, to the respective offices: Jos.
Guinan, assessed' and preparing the
IFS:1301(Na:
Thetins Read Note, •\li'.mid Mrs.
neater F,dvvurds, of 'Toronto, are
]i -Icing relative, r, the e.elghborheed
Alts. Joe Day nem al.') daught,•r, of
'1'v' h,•rsnuth pen; ,( fee.' days last
t, k in thi' i eetlity. La t'l'ij,pe hate
...:,I held of 'owe e ,lumber in this
„menity. Suieley tin. :thin) the
"durst day- ' f tile winter, but a
, sily numb, r were present at the, -h hard) sere el- '1'1„ \4 M. S. of
L'' -')lady chet,lI :(r,' hnv'41g In -.vitt',
d•,ell:eritig in :he el:elr,ll or. 'Thursday
'ening, the :,,l,,5'.,, fee beam one
,a.' I'or ec.1y year '.f the age of
the per?un.
truant school book records at a salary
of $150; James Hodgins, caretaker,
salary $23 and $1.0(1 extra for every
ounee'M hold in the town hall for
vvhi eh :ul adltlisSi,n is char
ed'
Charles s Jwicka and Phs 'Previa
thick, auditors at a salary of $8.00
each; Alotiz' Hudgins, a member of
the Board of Health to be paid as
fixed by the Statutes; Henry F. Silber,
,wheel attendance officer, concussion 1
to cuncssion Il, inclusive; Reuben
('roctz, school attendance officer, con-
cession 12 to concession 17, inclusive;
W. B. Oliver, school attendance officer
concession 18 to west boundary; Dr
1I. A. Eckert. sanitary Health Inapec-
ter, concession 1 to concession 11, in•
elusive; George Merrier, Sanitary
Health Inepertor, concession 12 to
c:neessien 17, in,lusive; W. B.
Oliver, Sanitary health Inspector.
.'neessien 18 4.0 west boundary; Jus.
Nuinan, distributor of dog tags, who
.,hell ,'144'rt 25c. i'0 each dog up to
dale he relln'00 the roll tri the town
,hip Clerk, :April 10th, after which
tilt '1'ow•nship (')eek 511:111 sell and dis-
KII'PEN
'file .,,II he „e Old Tinto, IImo,• held in
N.. _ .o'I,. 41 h,.u,e. Tutiter,m,th, on Friday
tot Jan Ire '10th. 1921. Tahh-, for
tone.
nG.tiu 1.0 erre/wed. i'nr.yth's Orchestra
a,ll • ntely n Atlmi,.,inn, gentlemen
181,10. 4,11 444..41 vrn.,.te randwirhea. Pro -
ill sol of Furnace Fund. 41'41,1.4m14.,1 then tor, mmudatiun of horse.°. I ':11.1
Note's,—.Mrs. (Rev.. Lundy. Mrs.
(1. Monteith, M rs, Jrunes Finlayson
and Mrs. W. Cowper were in Clinton
on Tuesday attending the annual
meeting of the llurml Presbyterial So-
ciety, held in Willis church,—The
annual meeting of the cengregattiun
of St.. Andrew's church will he held
on Monday next, January 24th, at
two o'clock.—Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert
Sinclair and little daughter, who were
here from the West on a visit to Mr.
Sinclair's mother, brothers and sis-
ter, returned to their home last week.
—Mr. Arthur Anderson while cutting
corn on Monday had a narrow escape
from what might have been a very
serious accident, and possibly the loss
of an aril. While working about the
machine his sleeve got caught in the
shaft, but being a very strong man
Nees able to wrench himself free by
tearing his shirt sleeve out at the
shoulder. :1s it carts, hit arm will be
e •s thank -
sure for a few days, but h t
• s 1 e did.—
While
to get .ff as easily a. 1c
e '.'ratan.
• t.ri] to (h
'}till• uu a h
using5s
\i 1
the past weed:, Mr. Thomas Melis
had as pleasant visit at the home of
Mr. Robert Fisher and his three
daughters. Some 35 years ago Mr.
Fisher learned the bl arksnlithing busi-
ness with alg. Mollis in Kipper, •n'.1
they have not forgotten one another,
Thirty yea re ago Mr. Fisher went.
West and ,hiring these years he has
seen a good deal of the rough side
of life. Il,.wever, he was one of the
fortunate ones who made good in
the West, and about twelve months
ago he sold out his property there
and has returned to Clinton to take
things easy and enjoy life, while his
three daughters will attend the Col-
legiate Institute. Mr. Fisher is a
brother of Mrs. Joseph Hood, of the
second conce351on of Stanley.—Mr,
Walter McCully, of the 4th of Tuck-
ersmith, had a wood bee on two af-
ternoons of this week to which his
neighbors turned out in good num-
bete with saws and axes, and so
cheerfully and willingly did they work
that Mr. McCully now has many cords
of wood piled up. In the evening
Mr, and Mrs.. McCully entertained a
large number and it goes without
saying that they proved themselves
the best of entertainers and left
nothing undone to make the evening a
pleasant and sociable one for their
guests.—Mr. Alvin n HarveY.
of
S
tan-
lewho duringthe past fall boughtht
the farm of M. Detweiler, adjoining
the village, is now bringing out his
implements and other farm gear in
his spare time, so that he will have
less to do when the bury season 0015
in.
STEPHEN
. The Council.—The newly elected
council of the township of Stephen
convened in Tewnship Hall. Crediton,
on Monday January 10th, 1921, at
11 a.m. All members were present.
After subscribing and taking the
pea• of them ,!urine the balani:, ti
:he ye0r a. !hot nlr prier of -'
said rh:u'e,•= t„ hr paid over to th•.
I'n;,sin, ,.f t,I.• Municipality auto
bi, l In ;he' 14,111.r:11 receipts.
(': rt o,!. Webb Sw'•itzer That tilt
f II 1'nu• n•1>or , h, appointed ptdh
n est i G•ne•,- 1 I,•m, rs at 11 pnum
Levitt r141 i'alhnl,•".ry W. Rubinson
Murray Eddied, ]],•lily Pfaff. N.M.
Sant, Ilearee Walter, 1104). Whit
1 div. Jelin Inn h,l,ls, Fred Kerr
Mallard Hill, F. 'IY),•bnor, Jr., Wet
Sines, .I. Ilirtzei, Albert Fahne•t', J'hr
Slerleek, .lohn Reeszler, Pat Carroll
i:obert Clower, Ceorge Finkbeiner
,law,), Seitw'arte, Henry Martini, l'
div. I. Edward Hall, Win. Yearley
(;eoree \lawhtnuey, ,lohn Reeler, J
K(•+ll,, .I„s, (flavin, Alonzo McCann
Dan Iluriy, David Lippert, Ben Mc
Cann, 11. I.. Kraft, Alex. McLellanc
Newton ('lark, Thomas Keys, Hem.
Litfk, 13). Disjardine, John Houl
ghat], Elmer, Pickering, Thos. Bayn
haul, J,hn Dietrich, Ed. Lampor
1'1 t 11' Disjardine, John ,Berney,
Pollock, George Mason, Earl Web
Aug. Latta, Humphrey Webb, Adel
bent. 'Webb. Wm. Disjardine, Elgi
Webb, Ed, (:ill, Sol. Pollock, Austi
Hayter, Chlilley Woodburn, Simpso
Ireland, I'etcr Eisenbach; Fence View
ers—Daniel McCurdy, John Morloe
Ezra Heist, Peter McKenzie, Georg
Mawhinney, Eli King, Wm, J. Brow
George Down and Austin Hayte
Pound Keepers—Wet. Moffatt,
Shajton. W. B, Geiser, Theohol
Dietrich, David Eagleson, G. Web
Alvin Baker, Arthur Amy, C Fin
heiner, Arthur Baker, Jos. Brenn,
Fred Procter, Silas Stanlake, Re
ben Goetz, David Steeper, Teremia
Brophey. The following orders we
passed: Hospital for Sit -1k Childre
grant, $10; Charles Lochner. repai
to grader. $4,60; A. Hodgins Co., Lt
gas account, $11; Can. Express Co
express charges, 95c; II. Eilbor, Sup
Township Provincial roads for 192
$30; .1..1. Williams, clothing for Alm
\i>illiams, $30.90; Geo. M. Elliot
grant to Children's Aid Society, $1
.
r
Geo. Wild, statute labor, l.uo.
emlhcil adjourned to moot again 1
the TOW}, hall, Crediton, on Monde
March 7th, at one p.m.
iIENS Ahi.
The Late Jane's Ford. --- in la
week's issue we referred briefly to t
death of the into Mr. ,Tames Ford,
Loomis, Wash., a bright, clever m
' 'n o til son
who left her( when just a y e
sixteen years ago, and who was tak
very°suddenly ill from a severe a
tack of pneumonia and passed quic
ly away just after entering a hos
tat It appears that while in the e
joyment of his customary good heal
a man weighing some 250 pounds,
started on a little trip to Penteeto
B.C., to visit some relatives a
friends„ when in travelling he caug
cold and before he realized it, he w
in the throes of pneumonia and t
very same night that he reached t
hospital he passed away. The f
following, copied from a local pa
in Loomis, will be of interest to
many relatives and friends in He
sail and district: "The funeral of t
late James Ford was held in
Wash., on January 9th, Rev. Mr.
tin, of Croville, conducting the
vices and speaking in highest
of the character and life of Mr. Fo
themanbeautiful and al wreat
floe
Y
were a testimony ofthe high
st y ug
in which Mr. Ford was held,
church was beautifully decorated
Palma and flowers of every lrind,
Quartette sang beautifully "Sw
Hour of Prayer.,' "Nearer My God
Thee,” ".Tcsus Savior Pilot M
Friends came from far and near,
and young to look once more on t
pleasant, ever smiling face. Mr. Fo
wan indeed a universal favorite wi
old and young and `the heart of t
comthunity goes out to the sorrow(
brother who he has so long been wi
sad indeed for one so young to be c
off so suddenly only a -few days wi
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Prices .___.......
on
Special
i
Winter
Footwear
The sudden change to zero weather brought us a rush of cus-
tomers for Wanner Footwear. If you have difficulty in keeling
your feet warm, you can be served with satisfactory Footwear by
coming direct to this store. We have every style in Winter Foot-
wear that's made and all goods are marked at special prices for
quilt olearaddlce,
•
Men's high cut laced rubbers, black soles, first quality, special..$3.50
Men's winter rubbers, 2 buckles or laced, with snag Proof uppers
and red rubber solee. Regular $4.25 values for, a palr...$3.85
Men's Felt Laced Boots with leather foxing, special at a pair. .$4.50
Men's Long Robber Boots with red soles, special at per pair..$5.25
Men's Rubbers, first quality, with heavy corrugated soles, special
at per pair - 1 ' $1.50
Ladies' Felt Juliets with fur trimming in colors, black, red, brown 111
and grey. Regular priceh, $2,25 and 8, ,50. Special at per
pair $1.98
Ladies' Felt Laced Boots with leather foxing, special at per pr., $3b0
Boys' Winter Rubbers with 6 -inch canvas tops, sizes 4 and 5, special
at, per pair, $2.00
Buys' Winter Itubbera with 12 -inch leather tops and red rubber
solea, Regular price $5,50; s(0(48! at, per pair $1.50
Buys' Rubbers, sizes 11, 12, l9, 1, 2, :S. Speoiatat per pair....$1.00
Gyit:-.1rta4.
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TELEPHONE 11 OPPOSITE COMMERCIAL HOTEL
that dread di50ase, pneumenla, being ' and pb'urisy, and whose life f,.-
only 35 years of age, The deceased time was despaired of, is at date of
Was the youngest scan of the late Mr. writing improving, and we trust will
Ford, of the Township of Tucker- continue to improve.—The annus'
smith, a little over a mile cast and congregational meeting of Carnite
north of H,nsrll, 4111,1 a brother of Mre. church was held on Thursday eveniue
T..1. Berry of th,s village, and Miss of this week, hut net in tinea' t, adini:
Emilia Enrd, 4135, of H,nsall of a report in this week's issue. -
Briefs. --Our new emitted :already }lies :Maude Porter, an assistant i1.
T .how evi•Iet:,',• .'f real life and :u'tiv- llen:ull post office, is spending a Week
ity by :olvertail:41 :Lr lend, r.: far or two 'With endnotes and friends it
gravd.-C,:rin i. ,outi0g ,1. freely la Toronto. --Mr. Alfred ('lark, as Dr.
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market and ulcer, 151:11 r4:1,iy del,:and lricl 111110)}' [;rand Master of Seut,.
and highest mark,•! I.rice, 'foe ,hour llut'on and leans, were in Seaforth 0114'
.d (':ernn'I ,1101'.i. ‘,"'',,.1 411' 1., a tine evening during the past week in5•In1'
,.,ur. •.t Irl 0117: n":1r 1,11'.4, - ,1r. Jelin ling the officers of the lodge there.
t Fours, •'1 'I'i nu">f')' I, ,toe' '..,- Pur and also enjoyed a very pleasant fun:
,-le,,-,•d tee c'..:nn�„'.e1 I(40 ', w:(s In tion with til,' Oddfellows and sister
le",1111 - the I',•"-. and Rc'hel„Ihs at lirucelicld, and .:peat,
, ail! aeete t .'t,r'g• :u \L .. • Mrs highly of their kind reception and , 0-
1,,.61•1.1 .Lural - 1.1 ::".e.l 1'0,01 tertainnlent.- \1r T. ('. Joy'nt. was it
• Hamilton, wise -Pe-r' : ,.idle Montreal on husutess during the pas'
I of 1vee6-. with 1., r ,l,ol�ri,t, r.-- \ very week and rep,rts a fine trip to tier
large aereeee 'tf 0.. =. t':..: :t,.;! so -tit;:. .\lr :Ina \lr-. William Buch:alai
ear hetes; are pl:u.lre.lrf.o til, .wring at the east tee! of aur village, very
3 spring. --\L',. 3,hn B.,110n, vet o vev- pleasantly entertained rho choir tit.
. t-r:d year: ago was !n 1.4,44141;:l. Wash., Carmel Presbyterian church on '}'hors
. visiting her brothers, \i'i!i':a'n :end day evetling of last week.- -Mr. Milker
, Junks, the !attr :•(•t r::Ic ,sing of Auburn, is visiting his relative.
- away, reeeiv,'d a most IW' i'' -11:,41 let- Mrs. Workman, in IIensall, and other,
1, ter from a lady friend tat re riving in this district. ---Mr. and Mrs. W. t,
y her all partieulare ahem 1i''.• sal death Wilson have returned from a pleas:nit.
- ,f her brother, ,lame,, :,ref the -'rr5W and extended visit with their (laugh:
- and regret felt by all wh.' renew tum ter in Niagara Falls. Ont.-- The want.
t, and the very large funeral. one of of our skating rink, which was taker
J. the largest in the history ed mese down a short time ago, is much felt
b, residing at Loomis,—Mrs. Andrew by our curlers, hockey players and
- Dougall, who has been suffering very skaters.—Miss Dora Sherritt, who
11 much of late from rheumatism, is some five weeks ago slipped on our
n considerably improved, Find we hope walks and broke her leg a little above
n will continue to improve. She 1'x11 the ankle, is now able to go around
- recently in the tc,w-nship of Bay visit- the house with the aid of crutches
k, in'g her relatives, Mr, D. Shirray and and will soon be able to dispense with
e family.—Our hotels and restaurants them, --On Wednesday of this we'cs
n, and meat dealers are beginning to get the choir of St. Paul's Anglican
r; anxious about securing ice. — The I church held a very successful social
E. weather during the past week has evening, the result of a contest for
d been decidedly cold with snow falls, attendance. The captains were Mrs.
b, but owing to the high winds that T. Simpson and Miss M. Johnston,
k- prevailed, the snow has blow;, ,.tff the which chose 'the choir on two sides.
r, roads so largely that there is not at the loosing side to furnish a banquet.
u- present good sleighing for 'cads or The contest was won by one point nn
h general teaming. --We are plea: ed to Mrs. Simpson's side. The ,banquet
e state at date of writing that Mr. was held at the home of Mr. A. John-
e, finery Smith, Jr., who is and has stun and daughters and a most 0n-
rs been so seriously ill with pneamenia joyable evening was spent.
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of Our assortment t,f Felt Footwear is particu-
he
°f larly good, and at the present time you will
an
to
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k- We have a r,plendid line of the latest styles
pi-
th, in broken sizes and at prices that you cannot
he
'r' afford to overlook.
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er Boots, Waterproof Shoes, Dress Pumps, Slip-
rn- pers, House Slippers, Bed Room and Bath Slip -
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