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Table of.,Ladies' Wool Vests and
Drawers, famous "Watson" Brand;
good weight for Winter wear. Regu-
lar value $1.50 and $1.75.
Reduced to
Special in Flannelettes, good as-
sortment of colors in neat stripe.
Patterns SO inches wide. Regularly
Reduced to -Clear 19c
sold at 25e to 34)c.
32 inches viide• Feather Ticking
at -
startling urit.!e, you have been pay-
ing 50c to GOc.
Now on Sale
39c
Special in, Ribbed Cashmere Hose
in sizes 7 to 10. Good weight and of
tine quality. Reg. 75c.
For Quick Selling
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Clearance of• Silk Dresses, Ladies'
and Misses' sizes, in all popular
shades and serviceable styles. Regu-.
lar Amines up to $35.00.
$15 00
Very Special •
• Blankets of Quality, 100 per cent.
Southdown ; finest quality Wool
Blankets, 8 tbs. weight. Size 74x84.
Only a limited quantity left to sell
at specially reduce price e9
per pair • GO ki
Cotton Filled Comforters, full bed
size, covered with good quality
Chiritz and filled with fine sanitary
cotton batting. Colors, pink, blue,
Special Clearing Price
SP* 90
rose.
Another lot of Flannelette 32 inch-
es wide, good weight and nice soft
finish, big variety of patterns to
choose from. This is our regular 30c
range. Now reduced
to per .yard, 23c
Ladies' and Misses' Dresses of
Flannel, Serge, Tricotine, Navy,
Black, Green and Cardinal. Regular
price up to $18.50. $7.75
To Clear
Men,s and Boys' Underwear
FLEECE LINED -
The famous Tiger Brand Fleece
lined in their heaviest weight makes..
A beautiful soft, snowy fleece. All
sizes for Men and Boys.
Men's Garments $1.00
Boys' Garments • 65c
COMBINATION UNDERWEAR
For the combination, man or boy,
we have every make -Penman, Stan-
field, Watson, Tru -Knit, Tiger -in
weights, colors and prices too numer-
ous to mention here.
Come in; we can fit you and your
purse.
STANFIELD'S
Stanfield's Ribbed Underwear in
green label - an excellent gar-
ment • $1.25
Stanfield's Red Label, ,the old re-
liable garment .,.$2.00
Stanfield's Blue Label, the medium
weight $2.50
Stanfield's Black Label, the heav-
iest weight $2.75
SPECIAL ODD GARMENTS
This table includes laA season's
$2.50 and $2.75 Underwear. They
are all piled out for quick selling.
Every garment is perfect and in good
order. To Clear, Special $1.25
Men's Working Clothes
You can -buy your Work Clothes here cheaper. It's a blunt statement
but not intended to be boastful. Prove the statement for yourself.
WORK SOX
OVERALLS
Snag Proof pant or overall‘sty?,
Blue, Black or Stripe. AU siz-
es.. . ... . ..... . :.....$1.95
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WORK SHIRTS
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'Made with yoke, full sizes, all col-
ors and sizes; double stitched.- .$1.25'
Union Sox
Wool Sox
Heavy Wool
Lined
. gloves
25c
SEAFO
A LETTEire
Dear Eapoeitlt
Before leaviflp Be
fornia, about •each
eleven people nuked
let them lenettaVr`
..... 50c
• 75c
n Where 'tlltielecito.
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Ontario
lwis think of )Step, ,rostor.14.6)
11 for a Pat'co fibkht ,Viat stacks,
d and IO asete,,cpereon,con look out 9 thO 04'
write.• and, wiMoalmost any tune and :anent
ome aa.l Leflin tw411y-five to fifty, -or perhaps
hay stacks, and, houses
9. .0( gram buildings ore more seat-
1tered and farther apart than in Iowa.
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a
how BMWs are .in , , rma.
if I writh, to -each on_4of thane 'w
asked nlis' to do s02-4Wrill take- al
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my spare time fer, seakel,Weeks..elroh0,- Wyoming seems to be more of a
have been so very geldli.lus to me with ranching, than a farming State and
your space that I fell n‘ is rather /111. is very- largely a grazing State, the
posing on; your good nature to.. ask leading crops I think, are hay. oats,
you to pees another leeter on to soy l wheat and potatoes. Wyoming is
friends, but perhaps I1am the fellow enot a very thickly Populated State.
of whom it was said "give him an inch; I think the census
and he wants a mile.' . I population a little over two hundred
'' We left- Seaforth on Wednesday and twenty-four thousand. 'Allis was
afternoon, December).* and rather I the first State where we eaw Dina
a blustery day it was, but. not severe- snow, perhaps from six inches to one
ly cold and seemed to he clearing up 1 foot apal very good sleighing.
when we left. There `e.eas very little I Part of the State of Uteh is rather
rough but there is also some very
snow between Seaforth; and Port liar- 1
; rich soil in the State. The. lowlands
on. We reached Port uron about 8
o'clock that evening, here vile , had , are generally highly alkaline, but
what might be called the upland val-
to wait about two hours and had lots :
ler': below the mountains, - are very
Of time to have our *gage examin-
fertile. FrUit grows well in some
ed. My tool chest wmeeilready some- ,
sections of the State and there are
what busted so the Cutoms man did
• some very fine orchards. U is were out in abundance looking for
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it
1 also very rich in minerals, aps water, as it was very dry. Then we .
a about ten . ' '
hue passing. ; copper and coal leading. In farm saw a mongoose and a few minutes 7 HERBERT • . •
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hay, wheat and oats come later a cobra, who suddenly sat up
! fitst, but it is also a great sugar and „spread its hood on being disturb- The council met oft
as quite a fall , croPs'
el by the car. It really wag a mar- January 8th, with the members ALA;
vellous run and while everyone was present. Declaration. of effice .. Wes ' et
tired we enjoyed every minute.
Our stay in the sacred city *as
spent in sightseeing, visiting the
ruins, etc. We saw buildings -or re-
mains of them rater, that were built
as early as 613 B.C. Among them
was the remains of the Brazen Pal-
WORK MITTS
and unlined, in Mitts or
..25c to $1.00
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moretonowrin'n,
people, both Tend
made* take eit4Tee ne We
saw had so much
gold and silver, ev • war 0,
thg _ear ring% rin 1, on, tbeir gre* Mimi Flynn
and middle toes, a :two tri4 three where ,Che
anklets on each leg« It Was most stertegratiherk4
amusing to see' there- Of the McKillop
From Puttalam to Anaradhapura, 4was held. the ltg
we passed through a jungle and as Friday; the 1.00440
it was about dusk we had the priv- action of business, The/
ilcge of seeing many wild animals of port shows a heavy lint
tee bush, monkeys galore, chattering count of the damages
don
away, suddenly spying the car and storms of last 'yri ,
rushing away like mad and flinging the 14th, Mrs. Barbi py
all kinds of epitaphs at us. The husband with 'baby
jackals were out also and hundre'ts and Mrs. John WilkineoM Asf,
of green parrots flitted to and fro, ton County, were gpcmsts *eh
scolding each other. The wild deer of Mr. and Mrs. William Britton
not request me to unro
Port Huron for Chic
o'clock that night.
through Indiana there
of snow but not enoug ' ' beet SMte.
We reached Chicago the next Morn; , I rather think the Denver and
ing about eight o'cloc14 so taking in- . Rio Grand road passes through a
to account the hour *se had to turn better part of the State of Utah than
our watches hack and two hours wait the Union Pacific. I have crossed
at Port Huron we ;were about eigh- the country on several different roads
teen hours between Seorth and Chi- . and several times over some of the
cage. roads, but a person only sees' the
I have never forgotten and never narrow strip of country through
will forget my fiest time in Chicago, which the train passes and this is
which won more than thirty years ago very often far from being the best
f se • eels net very favorably impres- part of the country, and the more
sed well the city. It was a dreary often I make the trip the more frilly
wet, te.v. ratber cold, the streets mud- I realize how very little I really
dy nee the air filled with smoke. Chi• know about it. The fellows who tell
cries i.• a great letsr,be 'lire city us that they knew the whole coun-
end rssev gond things rnight be said try and every town and city from
id' it ' et T woeld not csrc to live Atlantic to Pacific must be very much
there rne any greet leseee of tiine, sharper and quicker to grapy the
FT ,,,VON',''', on this trip liv . rernained situation al a retesting glance than
I beet -e-n (Nye -nil niet le eht. The I am.
fittt elny was as dark if icit darker On our sesstal afternoon out from, , htstennets--- all say it dates backto
than a moonlight night 14 Ontario. Chicago we arrivea in Ogden and ' PC, but differ slightly in some re- expenditure on township roads and
Tbittsslarleness was caused by fog, then started out on the last lap of 1 sheets regarding it. The people of appointing a road overseer were al- '
elends, smoke, high buildings and just our journey over the Southern' those days went in for great mon- SO passed. Accounts amountmg to:
generally a chill dreary day. The Pacific- road and crossed the great; °lithe and one finds these huge stones ' $169.29 .we,re passed. The council'
outer part of the city was not nearly Salt Lake late in the afternoon, where I everywhere.'How' they were .brought
• then adjourned to meet again on.
When ' W d sda the 21st day of Febru-
merle and signed, Snd the foliewi
municipal officers appointed: Clerk,
James Jordan; Treasurer, Wm. gills; ' ' •,. ''';:,„,4
Assessor, Writ L. McLaren; Collece
ter. G. G. Wilson; Auditors, H. .W...
Templeman and John Kay; M. 0. 11:,,,-;
Dr. H. A. Simpkins; Sanitary Ins
ace, probably the most magnificent ter and Board of Health, a
building of its period. It was nine Scott, Jr.; Sheep Vahlatier, San •
stories high and built on sixten hun- McKellar and A. McLellan; Township -
died stone pillars, which stand up nut Xitgineer, John Rogers, 0.L.S ; ToW11,-
of the ground even to -day 25' feet. ship Solicitor, F. H. Thompson. The
Here, too, is the temple of the sacred Treasurer, William Hills, was in-
Btetree and (if) it is the same tree at, ucted to go to Toronto to present e' '
planted in 288 B.C., it is the oldest a statement of township road expen- • '
h ief nrical tree in the world but one, diture before the Highway Depart- ,
merit. By-law No. 228, confirming ees
Depart -
(lie Tree of Confuscius in China,
which dates back to 500 B.C. At any the appointment of municipal officers e re
was read, passed and signed and ''-itt'
nee it is a very old tree and the ,,,'
sealed:, By-laws for providing for ' e;
te these great palaces and placed will
always remain a mystery. I remem- 1 my, at one o'clock p.m. -Jas. Siodano
else was hghte up e, stone," which was 60 feet long, 2 feet j Clerk.
seeing one stone called the "baby
as dark as the businese section where there was very
it was so dark that automobiles, street we awoke next morning we were near
cars, streets, stores and everything the summit of the Sierra Nevada
Mountains where the snow was
at night It made to0 think of what
me that last winter he crossed from tons, it one of. the King's Palaces. TIICKERSMITII '''
about six feet deep. My nephew tells wide and 18 inches thick. weighing
Ontario people spealeil as the dark
Tduckee to Tahoe City, which is up The Kings went in for a great dealMgc,reoelk-...Wsealley..--.TIChurels or
St sohn the EvangelfiC Wincfserciras
day, about 40 years sgocwhen the
of bathing and had beautiful. bath -
chickens went to reoit• about three
was twenty-five feet deep. The only ing tanks, or pools, built of carved, Monday morn
near the summit, when the snow I the scene of a pretty winter wedding
up toward evening and we got over way to go from place to place tie stones and were much larger than
ing at 10.30 o'clock,
when • Helen Josephine Woolley,
o'clock in the afternoon, it cleared -
our scare that the world was coming ,
in these mountains in winter time is the swimming pools of to -day. There . youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.,
eity was a nice bright clear day hut • there is a hard trust on the snow. me ones near the .n,0,... woona was married to Win.
Icing's old palace, ! called Tud
" - - -71 Amin IllacGeoch, Of NValkerville son
train or snow shoes, or whtn
are two very handsome
to an end.) Our second day in °Y.
Just a word about that nephew
quite cold, the streets and sidewalks ' .
were dry and clean. witina little snow 1 of mine' 24!.itth
°5'
out the residential part of the city, their ubnoys after noonen reto call
enly lves fuse because
that will obe a fes
bust not enough for sleighing. We tu-
yeeirs until it would be big Jack and
spent part of the day calling on old little Jack, or old Bill and young Bill.
time friends, some from Seaforth and Now I did not call any boys after
the surrounding country. We called i
, myself but it is just as bad to have
to see Doctors J. and M. J. Prender- a nephew of the same name near by,
gest, but both were out, however, we I and while I do not very strenuously
had a nice visit with their sister, Miss •
object to big Jim and little Jim, yet
Nellie. Later in the day I called M. deaf as I sun I hear altogether too
J. on the telephone and had a little 'well when it comes to that Old Jim
chat with him, we also had a nice and Young Jim talk.
through train for California over the
rolled, turned and twisted curved in
of Sea- i As we left the summit behind and
, started down the west side of the
But now to go on with my story.
visit with the two Miss Armstrong's,
sisters of Mrs. George Sills,
forth.
At 8.10 Friday evening we , took a mountains, the train rocked and
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Chicago North Western Union Pacific and out around the hills, and it
and Southern Pacific roads. We a- seemed that the Engineer was play -
woke neiet orning in the State of '
Iowa, whin- ing the old game of Crack the Whip.
-mis my favorite State at but so far as I know he did not
a farming. country. I do not say that. snap any of the rear cars loose
the soil of Iowa is any better or 'from the rest of the train. It wra
richer than the soil of Ontario, but now breakfast time and it sure was
I do think it is more easily cultivat- 1 some job to walk through the cars
ed. Iowa is a great corn growing • on account of the rocking, swinging
State, hut corn Is not grown so much i and curving, and I rather think the
for frehistr or ensilage as for grain , Southern Pacific has not as good a
corn. On account of yrarmer nights 1 roadbed as the Union Pacific. As
and a longer warrn &ants Iowa is I we rolled down among these hills the
un came out nice and bright, and I
more suited to corn growing than
Ontario But, in site of Iowa being
a fine State, many fanners have sold
their farms and gone, to the North-
west of Canada, where they can buy
land tench eheaner We read of
many of these farmers returning to
the United States, hut the percentage
returning is not very large, arid those
who do rehire nre the ones who went
up there thinking they could take, up
land and sit down and watch the land
produce them a lieing; so Canada
need not worry sheet some of these
people leaving, for they are the class
that is no good to Canada Iowa or
any other place. Many very fine peo-
ple and very fine farmers have gone
front Iowa into the Canadian North-
west and are doing well. One thing
I like about Iowa is that the fsirmers
keep their outbuildings neat and trim
and generally well painted. This
painting is something that the On-
tario farmers sadly neglect. The
barna in Iowa are not usually . as
large as in Ontario There may be
some farmers -who spacialize on stock
raising that have fine' barns and
stables, but take fa buildings in
t
general, I do not thik from east to
west that I have r seen farm
buildings anywhere near equal to the
farm buildings in Ordarrio, especially
'the houses. I said that corn is not
raised so much for fodder or ensilage
in Iowa as for graiti t orn, yet silos
, are very common. --Many farmers
were just stripping ears of corn
from 'their corn lie and hauling
I them to great piles t shelling, and
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In many fields the Stock was out
stripping .the lea.es ,Off and leaving
, the • bare socks littinding. Out
' time h the corn -growing state;
More just left for Ste stoic to feed i derful tTip, around the Island.
Pokunas," meanies; twin baths, one
for the King and one for the Queen.
We find huge Buddas carved from
stone everywhere among these ruins
and when you come upon them unex-
pectedly, one has an eerie feeling,
which it is impossible to describe.
'Here, too, we find the largest and
oldest dago' 1e the world, also
Thuparama, wh; 's of course Is the
sacred one to all the Buddist -coun-
tries besides Ceylon, and many
grims cofne each year from all over
the East to pay homage and receive
blessings from Budda. But I must
leave many other interesting details
of this city and proceed with our
journey.
might say there is usually bright sun-
shine up in the high hills six or seven
thousand feet above sea level. Some.
times the sun was on one side of
the train and sometimes on the other,
sometimes it was straight ahead and
sometimes directly behind; somet,imes
the rear end of the train was nearer
home than the front end as we curved
and turned around the hills. Although
the sun was bright up in the hills
when we got within fifteen or twenty
miles of Sacramento we ran into a
fog belt that must have been very
much like the California fog that
Henry McIver used to tell us about.
When he was in this country many
years ago he went out one morning
to shingle, and set 'his ladder up
against what he supposed was the
building; climbed up to the top, step-
ped off and sat down on what he
thought was the roof and commenc-
ed to shingle, but after shingling for
several hours the sun came out and
the fog cleared away and let him
down to the ground, and he found he
had been sitting on the fog shingling
nearly all forenoon.
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We left Anuradhapura late on Sun-
dev afternoon for a 63 mile run to
Trincomalu. The road ran, straight
through the thickest of jungle in are brothers of John Murray, trio
which both bears and leopards roam, township asters -or, and all are, sons
but we didn't see either and I was of Mrs. William Murray, now in her
somehow glad, for after it got dark ! seth year, who makes her home with -
I 'was a bit nervous. However, we , lei daughter, Mrs. Harry Tyndall.
saw all kinds of wild deer and the ; lilies Haney is n danglatsr of Mr. Jas.
harmless jungle beasts, unless moles- ' Haney and a nicer of Mr. Matthew
ted and finally arrived in Trinctee Htertey: "MacLennan. Jan. 2. -Well,
We were staying with friends here, the festive season is past for another
PO . of course we mad a very pleasant , year. and no iettet, everybody put in •
two days with them. ' a pleasant fortnight, as the roads.
Out next stop was Polonne lima, I were good and the weather mostly
another very ancient city, full of in- I ideal. The election fee councillors,
I ee-sting ruins It is here that wi I reeves, and school trustees have all
end the three historical stone figures been polled °fr. For the .Tarbutt
'of Rabin and his discinle knaurie. ceuncil there wore elected .Tamesi Nott
They are all carved in the side of a , for reeve; Abram Chen, Saul Me-tee:ids
huge bowlder, Budda reclinning is " H. Christenson ori T. W Hurn, coun-
Po feet long. Arranda is in 1.1 feet I <tillers. Laird merle quite a turn -over -
high and Bildda in meditation is in i The old warhorse, Robert • Murray,
proportion. It is marvellous work., was elected reeve, and Thies-. Murray,
and done long before England even; Dan McDonald, A. Brady and E. Evoy
was a civilized country. All along , couneillors.-Tn Johesnn • ronwnshi le
the route we find huge irrigation ' 'Thomas Higgins is reeve and N. R.
tanks, bent by these early kings and ' McDonald, Jaws Haney A. Cameron.
I • t,:e
still used to this day. Perhaps the , and A. White en:menhirs. We expect .. -..-
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two most unique and certainly the 1 to tee taxes cut in two next fall and , .:'.
at thrilling incidents f our trip 1 they ran stand it and ,then he high
enetegb.-Wond cutting is the order.
of Mr. and Mrs. WI
formerly of Tuckersisith. Palms and
ferns and clusters of white 'mums
were banked on the chancel Steps,
making a pretty setting for the
bride, who wore a smart suit of nayy
blue marline cloth, with gray fox col-
lar, and a small gray panne velvet
hat. Her gloves, shoes and veil were
also gray to match.
New Ontario News. -Last week's
Sault Ste Marie paper contains. the
following news items from MacLen-
nan, which will be of interest to -
many here as those mentioned are •
former residents of this township,
and have many relatives and friends
here. Mr. Nott is a brother of M.
John Nott of Egreondville and all
uncle of Mr. Bernard Nott, of Tuck-
eismith• Robert and Thomas Murray
scene fieldsfrare dean, but ninny
oil and treaty dovrnIc., di not see We Mt Colombo about 6.30 a.m.
A LETTER FROM CEYLON
This interesting letter was written
by Mrs. J. F. Docherty, when accom-
panied by Dr. Docherty, son of Mr.
And Mrs. J. G. Docherty, of Egmond-
ville, on a seven day trip around the
Island of Ceylon:
My Dear Mother and Dad:
Here I come with that descriptive
letter ,which I promised in the last
letter. It is to be all about our won -
happened on the road to P onnaruwa
from Flahrirnina. The first was
early in the morning, when we sud-
denly came upon three wild deer, two
rim back into the jungle while the
third was so frightened he took. a
flying leap and jumped clear across
the front of our car and never touch-
ed it. It was a sight that I will
always remember. The second event
was on this same road 'when return-
ing about 7.30 p.m., and a very largo
leopard majestically crossed the road
in front of the car only 20 yards
ahead of us. We speeded up a bit
arid hurried by while the huge beast
was crouched in the undergrowth
ready to attack should we stop, no
doubt. However, we were by and safe
in a few minutes, but it was a thrill-
ing moment.
We spent the eight at Usherette,
then on to Dambulla and dandy the
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of the day. Mr John Armstrong Is
going the rounds with his sawing out-
fit. Some farme-s are, putting out a
few cords of pulpwood and others are
heading for the camp, as there is
not much to do around here and the
prices of farm produce does not bring
in much money. A number are zhip-
ping hay, even at the low vices.
Some have whole carcasses of 'beef
hanging up as they could not sell on
the hoot and now can't sell the -beef.
-Mi§trelduitt, of Haileybury, spent
the stun% 'holidays at Mr. Mut
MetC Thomas Murray, jr.,
spent.'a few days with her folks at
her old houte,-A number of our
young folks were at the entertain-,
silent at the Laird hall. Desbarats.,
given it. honor of Miss Gertrude Han-
ey who lei leaving einfrtly Ow Col'. '
otkdo, Where,she has a good Padden.
next day. Here we spent a night, Miss Haney Was nresented,hllt
With e
then home on Thursday. October 12th, Wet Watch lit token of tile'
Now you have been around the island' eztetitilitt Ch she was. hopt,A0,,
hIS
with me in this letter find I ontr 'Haney,
who baS"dd
hope I have told you enotigli for yo as PnatkOntect,elerk .in
to see a bit of it even In your far.. Me WM hIt Mitinied by hen,'
away home. ftiend for -ale Attaa very ttt,
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