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• FRIDAY, AUG. 5, 1887.
'LOCAL Neuro S.
Haase to Rent or fur Sale. Apply to J.
PP'll'T! CHELL, Clinton.
Splendid House and Lot fir Sate Dirt
,j A11rNING dr SCOTT, Clinton
20 per cent Discou"t on Baby Carriages for
14410 at DICKSON'S BOOK SPORE.
WANTED-1,('00 bush Plunis, .1,000 parte.
Pears, 10,000 bush. Apples. A. FLOODY.
BEESL JY J; CO are continuing their Great
00 Sale of Ribbons every Saturday until
.dugust WOth.
We do not want Goose Eggs. but will give
10 cents in trade for Hens Eggs. JAMES
2'WITOklELL, Clinton.
Just opened out a fine line of Black Hosiery
In Cashmere and Lisle thread, great
BEESLEY & CO'S, Clinton.
COA T FOUND—On the Maitland con-
cession, Goderich township Ownrr can have
the same on proving property.' ARTHUR
CANTELON, Clinton. .
wets kicked in the eide by a horse, on
Friday, at Swarts' stable; he soon re -
ger has gone back to the Organ
c erect from the effects thereof. --Mr
, Fac- a♦
tory.--Mr John Boies will move into his
new house on Ontario street in a day or
two.—Mrs Geo Hodgena, of Toronto, to
the guest of Mrs J. f odgene —Mr Jas
Combe,r., of San Francisco, (son of J.
0. Combe, Clinton) has recently had to
give up his position owing to illness, and
is recruiting in the mountains of that
neighborhood.—Mr John Irving has, we
believe, returned to Chicago to work.—
Mrs Owen, of Chicago, sister of Mrs
Combe, is here on a visit.—Mr Gen D.
McTaggart, teller in the Molson's Bank
fur some time, left this week for ivlorris-
burg; be will be missed here and is sun•
needed by Mr Henry Lyons,of Woodstock.
Miss Ella Worthington is visiting friends
at Wroxeter. On Saturday Mr J (learn
shipped a load of sheep to Liverpool. We
are pleased to see Mr W. Martin "on the
box" again ; the old man bas more pluck
and nerve then most young hien, and
while he bas gone through a great deal of
hard usage in his time, is evidently gond
for some time yet. Picnics to Bayfield
from' Clinton have been the order of the
day for the pastweek, and so great has
.been the rush over there this summer that
Mr J Swarts,the proprietor of the popular
River Hotel, intends adding about eighty
feet to nis building next year; a number
of Clintonians are stopping with him at
pre.ient. Mr Neil Gilmour, of Stanley,
whose relatives reside in the vicinity of
Moosejaw, N. W. T., informs us that the
crops in that district aro excellent this
vear. Sheriff Boles, of Orangeville, has
been spending his holidays with Mr 11
Steep Messrs J. Elliott ani John Cox,
of Goderich township, ew
York State on Wednesday, iphalf-a dped to ozen
fine breeding mares and two stallions,one
of the latter, a 2 -year-old, was purchased
from A. McPhail, and weighed 1500 lbs ;
the other was bought of Mr J McCart
ney. Mr Waterhouse, for some timeeon
nected with the Woollen mills here, has
taken a situation' in the Mitchell Woollen
Mill. Mrs Tyndall, of the base line, went
to Milton to attend the marriage of her
son, Prof' E. P. Tyndall, on Wednesday,
to Miss Myrtle Morse, a young lady not
-unknown to Cliutonians. Messrs Avery
and McGregor cabled from Liverpool on
Saturday,gndmarket. that Mr they hsoldRat tonbury cattle, their
ina
well-known trotter has been sold to a
gentleman at Chatham. Mr Jnbart• ship-
ped 14 splendid mares to New York State
last Friday ; theyaveraged him over $200
each. On Saturday Iasi a field of white
oats on the Ransford farm was cut with a
binder, and so heavy was the crop that
the machine could not cut the full width
of the knife. Last week Mr F Fianlea
advertised in the NEW ERA a stfa cow
shortly after the paperw, she was
PROPERTY CHANGES. W. C. Searle
has purchased what is known -as the
Paulin property, on the corner of Batten -
bury and Oreuge Streets. near the Method-
ist church. Mr Arthur McRae has
bought Mr Gilroy' house
the thereot on Rat -
for Mrs
teepees street,, pp y
Geo. Theobald, of Teeswater, formerly of
Olinton,was in town on Tuesday and pur-
cbased a quarter acre lot on Mill Street,
through Mr Gauley, for the sum of $200;
abe intends to erect a house thereon next
year, and will become a resident of town
again. Mrs McBrien, who recently pur-
chased a small lot from Mrs Thos Cooper,
,opposite Mr Fair's residence, is about to
erect a house thereon.
MRS ZEALAND'S CASE.—MrE erolmes,
of Toronto, who has been with his
slaughter, Mrs Zealand, of St. Thomas,
since the ill-fated 15th of July, came to
Clinton on Wednesday, on his way home,
to which place he goes to -day. Mrs
Zealand seems to be mending, but very
slowly, the weather being so much against
her. The burns are healing. and hopes
are entertained of her ultimate recovery.
although her life still bangs in the bal-
ance. Her broken leg is not doing as
well as ,las hoped for, from the fact that
the same leg is badly burned, and dress-
ing of the wounds is thus rendered more
difficult, but the circun.stance of her liv-
ing 'along as she bas under her terriLle
injuries, is regarded by her, medical at-
tendants as in her favor, •
BRIEFS.—Mr R. Beattie has bought the
trotting horse "Little Arthur" from. Mr
Samuel McLear.—Mr Archie Buchan-
an who has been in Manitoba for a num-
ber of,years, is home.—Mr L .Hartz, "of
Toronto, is home spending his holidays.
—Mr T Turnbull, of Berlin, is spending
his holidays with his parents here.—The
annual sale of lands for taxes, takes place
in Goderich, on the 8th of Nov., the list,
is getting very small, as land in Hurts
Viet valuable to allow of it being -aid for
taxes.—More Doherty orgagg have been
turned out of the factteey here during the
month of Jul han' has been the case for
many a month prior to that.—Mr C•al-
qubo�• , who represents Colquhoun Bros.
,.�Irrsery, of London, has filled orders to
!Y ' the extent IA $3000, in this locality. This
speaks well for their reliability an nur-
sery men.- -Cantelon Bros. have already
commenced the • shipment of apples.—
Messrs. Manning & Scott received an ap
plication from Scotland, for a farm in
—,--.--Goderich_towtvuship_that.daas_bees adver-
tised in the NEW ERA;. that shows the
benefit of advertising in a widely -circu-
lated paper.—The handsome bills 'for the
'Western Fair, -bearing the imprint of the
London Adeertiser,.are the beat that pave
been got out yet for that popular fair.-
Mr John,'1 aylor has put up a new fence
on his property on Rattenbury street.—
Mr Forrester is about to put up a . gas
pipe fence in front of his property on
Princess street.—Mrs Whitt is visiting
with her sister,. Mrs Pendergast, at Strat-
ford.—Messrs. W. Grigg and J. Biddle-
combe were down at Grimsby last week
to see Mr Jos Grigg, of whose illness
mention was made last week, and who is
still confined to hie bed, with very slight
hopes for his recovery. Mr Calcott. of
'St. Thomas, one of the fireman seriously
injured in the recent railway disaster
there. is a cousin of Mrs Kitt, of this
town.—On Saturday evening a lamp was
acting pecu iarly in Racey's store, when
Mr Fortune thought it would be prudent
to convey it outside; no sooner had he
done so than it exploded.—Dr Reeve is
now driving a large roan roadster, pur-
chased from Mr John Wilson of Sea -
forth; the doctor is a gond judge of horse-
fiesh.—M•r S. A. 'Moffatt of Varna, ma
whine agent, says -the -crops generally are
very light, and he has been all over the
cotinty. He had the honor td be the
agent to introduce the solf-binder, he
selling the first of this kind.used in either
' Perth or Huron. -=On `Sunday last a
gentleman in town was reposing in a
hammock when a little girl playfully
threatened to throw him out; not think.
ing it possible for her to do so, he paid
no attention to her until she had got it
swinging so high that she tactually did,
and he fell, hurting himself so that for a
timet he could hardly walk-er stand —
Miss Sophie Bellamy, of Almonte, is here
on a visit to her sister, Mrs Armstrong.
—Mr H. Foster spent Sunday last with
friends in Dundas.—J. J. Wright, of
Goderich, -contributed $50 last week to
• the expense of working the Scott Act, for
violation of the same.—The annual meet-
ing of the Photo. Association of 'Huron,
was held at Point Farm last week, but
owing to a small attendance, the election
of officers was postponed until the Nov,
meeting.—Messrs. G. Potts and A. Gor-
rell have been engaged during the past
week in painting the Ebenezer Methodist
church, Goderich township; they will
make a good job of it.—Mrs McGee, of
Illinois, (sister of Mr A. Correll,) is here
on a visit.—Constable Gill, of Exete•,
was in town for a short time on Friday
be said "he had no business in Clinton,"
and we are glad to know it. Constable
Pet'typiece, of Wingham, was also in
town on Saturday.—While Mr W. Muir
was getting off a train here, on Saturday
evening, he severely sprained his foot.—
In
oot,In the report of those who passed at the
Clinton Entrance Exam., published last
week, the name of Miss Lucy J Kain was
accidentally omitted. '-- The many
friends hero of Miss Kate Musgrove, To-
ronto, will regret to learn that she is
very ill agtir,--)Ir R. Blake, of Hullett,
FOR
THE
NEXT 60 DAYS, AT
DICKSONS ; BOOKSTORE,
brought home, and
ple who boar
prairies of
the fact '
with her...Peo-
extensive farms on the
e west, may pot be aware of
at in the Ransfurd farm,ciose to
th' town. there are over five hundred
acres of arable land, with a considerable
quantity beside still in bush. Mr J. C
Stevenson has just made a very fine clock
case for Mr J Ross; it is one of the old
styli grandfather's clock, standing 7 ft 6
inches high. Much sympathy is express-
ed here for ;Mrs Jamieson, of Stratford.
whose husband. a grain -dealer, has got
into financial difficulties; Mrs Jamieson
spent the greater part of he life in this
town; was well connected and very -highly
respected. Mr Jamieson was not a mem-
ber of a church, the statement of papers
to the contrary notwiths'anding Mrs
Whitehead was taken suddenly ill • with
coolie on Mand y evening, and tor a short
ting her life was 10 danger, uiiiil elieved-
by medical assistance. Mrs R A. Callan-
der, of Arkona, who has been here for a
couple of months,returned home on Wed-
nesday. A youth named Anderson, who
has been employed in Clinton for a short
lime, skipped by,thet, light of the moon;
leaving a, tailor, tlliard •. ~,rune keeper
and ethers to mourn his departure. Miss
Jessie Oliver leaves to -day for her holi-
days and her trip includes To 'onto, Galt
and other places. Mr H. B Chant and
wile leave today for a couple of weeks'
holidays' at Unionville. On Sunday even-
ing. last while a couple of lovers were
driving home from d•,derich their horse
wheeled around, upset the buggy and
landed them both in the ditch Jos(t)lin'
against each other. The Knights of
Labor between Goderich and Stratford are
trying to arrange fur a cheap excursion to
the ft rmer place,,bu•t have not get been
able to make arrangments that would
warrant them announcing a date. Miss
Hattie B.arkwell leaves town this w e
or on on heintention of finishing
her musical education in that etty,-' Mise
Jelin Murray, of Lucknow, is visiting
friends in town. Mr W. W. Barkwell
made a flying visit to Wingham and Lnek-
-now -.last week, and -will spend -a'-short
vacation at home; judging from his ap-
pearance; city Life agrees with him. Har-
lat d Bros. who have beeneawarderl the
contract to put in two Boynton champion
wood furnaces in Clinton Collegiate In-
stitute, have also the contract for three
other furnaces to be put in in town. The
NEw ERA extends its congratulations to
Mr and Mrs G. A. Sharman who entered
the state of matrimony early yesterday
morning. 'Mrs Williams, of roronto.visit-
ing for a short zinc with Mrs Hodgens,
left yesterday for home. Miss Jessie
Hutchinson, visiting with Mrs Pay, left
for St. Catharines yesterday. Capt.Moore,
son of Mr E. Moore, Clinton, who has
been in command of the Salvation Army
at Teeswater Jor about four months, has
been appointed to take charge of Listowel
corps; he states that they have bad good
suceess in Teeswater. Misses Maggie and
Jennie Patton,of Goderich township,were
in town this week. The sidewalk on the
south of Ontario street, as far as the
school, -has been raised and improved.
Miss Aggie Thompson,who bas been visit-
ing friends in town, returned to her home
in St. Marys, on Tuesday. Mr T:Tipling
has been limping around for a couple of
weeks hardly able to stand, having bad
one,ofJob's comforters right on the end of
his great toe, but it is now better. We
regret to learn that Mr James Broadfoot,
of the Mill road, Tuckersmitb, is seriously
i11, with slight chances for his recovery.
Mr Barkwell is enlarging his residence
by building an addition to it. Messrs
Jonas Shaw and Will McKowen are
spending a few holidays at Bayfield,—
Misses Jennie and Mary Sharman, of
Goderich, are visiting relatives in town.
Master Alf. Rance, who has been in poor
health for some time,has gone to Kincar-
dine to try the bracing atmosphere of tba.t
pet: t,
7.2tes
prices
OLI,NTON.
On .PO.LKET BOOKS we will give„ese.:.11cetive oi-25 'per cent.
JEWELLERY "
SILVERWARE. 'r
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
BIBLES
PHOTO ALBUMS "
AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS
TESTAMENTS
CUPS and SAUCERS
SPECTACLES
PIPES
VASES and CHINA GOODS.
VIOLINS and FIXINGS
o CONCERTINES and AUCORDEONS
WALL PAPER " "
BERLIN WOOLS, FINGERING YARN, &c
DAY Books Journals Ledgers, &c
MOUTH ORGANS, wo,will give a discount of
BABY CARRIAGES "
Ladies HAND SATCHELS
Combs, Writings Desks and Workboxes ` 20
VELVET FRAD'IES and DOLLS `: 5
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es2.0.....'etretrg5Ods at proportionately low prices.
is the greatest opportunity ever afforded, to secure goods below wholesale
Our entire stock amounting to nearly $20,000, must be reduced to
$I0,000 within the next 60 days.
Just a Few More Days
Come and see our stock, and get our prices, whether you buy o: not. No
trouble to show you the Great Bargains we are offering. Terms Casb, or 3
months' credit to responsible parties.
CHR1S. DICKSON,
J
CLINTON.
For Those Great
Bargains.
GOQ11S.
We want to convince you that when we say they aro VERY CHEAP, that it is
fact. • In a short time fall goods begin to come forward, and what summer goods
we have we want to sell this season. We also know in some cases the price' ie
what will keep them or let them go. Wo will not let the price be in the way
of keeping them. We can convincer you nioro practically if you will ;just trouble,
us by looking at some of our bargains and ask our prices.
Lawns, Muslins,Prints 1 Parasois
SH1RTI)
ARE INCLUDED TN OUR BARGAIN LIST.
GS, ware COTIONS and 'Grey COTT
ALWAYS A FULL STOCK.
' ,•
GEO. E. PAY & CO.
THE DRY GOODS EMPORIUM OF CLINTON.
The AAT Dept.
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antee
In looking - over ate: ,stuck of HATS we find we have a lot of goods we
would like to see "editi', they comprise
STRAW HATS, MENS COL. HATS, also a Job
LOT of TELT HATS
taood for any season- of the -year. To sell these goods we
will •quote ridiculously low prices.
READY BADE CLOTII1NU
D P.A-P'T3 91\7T
FIN E
MERCHANT -'r TAILORING,
CLINTON. ONT
Wo are still giving some tremendous good bargains in this department, tilthough.—
wo have sold out of a. lot of lines we have been talking about the lastfew week.,
what we have left prices must come down. Tho people who have bought out
$5 Suit tell us they cannot understand how we can get up a suit for such a price.
Wo have only a few of these suits left.
01/8 PILE Of ODD PANTS AT $1.50
is another wonder, but wo want our stock clean and nice for the fall.
Our pile of Boys Pants at 85c, we have
20 pairs left, these will be sold' at 75c.
each, Uur Chrldren's Suits at $2 Haut
was a good bargain, now Sold for $1.5
When people thoroughly understand our method of doing business they will be-
lieve every word we write in those columns. We believe in using printers'ink
to toll the people what we do, and if we were continually talking what was not
so, the public would very soon find it out.
000
JACKSON BROS., ,
