HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1900-02-02, Page 4Me Goods
Sale
For Second Week
Those who visited our store during
the past week were more than pleased
with the values we were showing in
every line of White Goods, and the
prices were much lower than they ex-
pected to pay for such qualities.
Shrewd women -soon find out
wherey can do the best with their
money, that's the reason we have done
so much White Goods selling
We start the second week with
even greater. values: Prices like the
,
following are not to be found every day
"Ladies' Gowns at 49c
Ladies' Gowna, made of fine -white
..e,_ • , ootton,extra wide skirt, yoke raade
of narrow tucks and trimmed with
, • way would sell at 65o, sale
, frill of cambric, if bought in regu-
larprice 49c
i •
Ladies' Skirts at 68c
Ladies' Skirts of fine white cotton
,
with eambrio frill, all nicely tuck-
ed, 3 yards wide, well worth 85o,
68c
, seTe price
' 10c White Muslin, 6e
300 Yards whoe checked Muslin,
, 30 inches wide, large and email
- • ,• obeoks, regulsr value 10o, to clear
-al sale price • 6iC
.
'$2 50 to $2,75, Bed•Spreads tor $1 95
6 White Miersailles Bed Spreads, esstia ree size, very neat designs
our regular prices are 3150 and $2.75, White Goode Sale ‘priceleUee
ija Ladies' Aprons at 58c
Ladies' Aprons, made of good quality white lawn, with frOnt and straps.
over shouldt re trimmed with embroidery, to elear at sale prioe..
c Ladies!Apronslor-25e • ' -
Ladies' Aprons made of good quality white lawn, nicely hemmed, extra
long bleu, our regular 350 apron, to go at sale price
t
Lace Curtain at 75c
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Ladies' 45c Drawers
for 33e
Ladies' Drawers, made of
goo&quality white Cotton '
cluster tucks, trimmed -
with fine embroidery, re-
gular value 45e pair, sale 33c
price
- Nottingham Laoe Curtaine, full 3 yards long and 45 inches wide very
neat patterns, usually sold at 31 per pair, speoial for white goods eo.,
sale
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ite.Cottoa for 9c
yards of fine White Cotton, round even thread, free cf starch and
heavy quality, full 36 aches wide, regular value 110 to clear at.. • ;Ye
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*Embroidered Hankerchiels 3 for 30c.
Ladiele Hankerchiefs, made of fine lawn, --nicely Znibroidered
edges, our regular 15o quality, sale price . 3 for 30c
*bite Sheeting-lor 25c
'White Twilled Sheeting, 81 Itches wide, extra heavy quality, free of
dark sparks, could not be bonebt wholesale at the price we ask,
.... 25c
sale price
Table Linen for 62
1 piece only, about 25 garde, of full bleaohed Table Linen, 72 inches
wide, satin finial. elegant floral designs, our regular 850 quality,
to go at sale price We
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PEeIALS
For Saturday and Monday
Eiderdown Coats for $1
ildren'ii Coate, smade of good qnality Eiderdown, in colors of blue,
brown and red, ere., Borne lihed, others unlined, all nicely trimmed y nA
,regular pricea $1.50,31.75 and $2 50, to clear Saturday or Monday ....1/11
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•
able Huffs for $4 , •
otity tlable Ruffs, fine, soft fur, made of selected skins, trimmed with ,
head and tails, regular vain° 66, to_ clear Saturday or Moncley.... 1.1111
65 !ink Ruffs for $1.00 •
ty iitation Mink Ruffs, in very fine soft fur, large 'size trimmed
•teith three tails, our regular selling price is 31.65, Saturday or
• ItIondsy to cleir 1.00
Storm Collar for $4.49,
y Sterne Cotters, made of Austrailian Coney, fine eon fur, regular
• price is $2 26, to clear Saturday or Monday
•
_Muffs
for 85ct 3350 Astrtehan Muff for $1.9$:
-Bear Muff for $2:50
e of the Very chnicest skins,
.. L29
1,•50 --
8, Saturday or Monday . . . . .$/.19
memos for $20.00
apes for $13.50
-buy them now and save nearly gTh Lip
YOUr Honey Back
If You Want It. „ •
• THE CLINTON NEW ERA
1 •V-ealeSfaeltaieauiPaauf efleauelflute* MONUMENTS. -Mr Seale has; sold tot
the Clinton Marble Works, twogranite
reit:lament% tosbe erected in (Hinton
cemetery ; ono ie for the memory of
the late George McCartney, of the
16th con., eloderich totenship, and the
other is to the naeinory of the late
WilliamMurphy.
THE AGILICTILTURAL 800IETY..--An
adjourned meeting of the 'Flullett Agri.
If ou arrevelling
cultural Society was held in the coon -
ye t
cil chamber last Friday evening, Be-
sides other business the officers were
appointed :- Hon. president, W.
Dutierty ; president, A. Inuee ; lst
vice, W. S. Paisley ; 2nd vice, O.
Johleston ; directors -Stanley, M. Mc-
Ewen ;Tuckersmith,Geo. Dale ; °oder-
ich township, Jas. Connolly ; Hullett,
J. Reynolds, S. Snell, Jas. Fltiriiie%
• where at any time seoure
your tiokets from• •- c
V, It. HODGENS,
Railway & SteemsliiP Agent, Clinton
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FREDAY, FEBRUA.RY 2, 1900.
sew .Adi.tertitituttitto
Wanted -G E King-•............. Page I.
1 want my mush -0 Cooper 4.4 be... .... 1
Valuable f arm— Garrow & Garrow.. .... 6
General servant—Mrs W Poster ...... .. • . t
Wanted -J McClaohorty 6
• Propertiee-John RI out. . 6
Applications—W Coats . 5
Stock-taking—W L Ouimette 5
Reductions—Miss ROSS. •5
• Rumball's store—F Rumball
Stook.taldng sale—Harland Bros
We head—Jas McCiacheity .... . ... 55
If you. want—R Adams
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Winding up—EIcKinnou 84 Co . 4'
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5
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White good.'s sale—Newcombe's
House to rent—H P Streets , 5
Auction, sale—T E Walker • 5
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About fur coats- Jacksen Bros
White goods sale -Hodgen Bros ...... . .
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The Ontario Legielature. has been
called to meet on Wednesday,Feb 14th.
- • • •
The 42nd annual neeeting of the Can-
adian Press Association will be beld in
'AMMO. c n Thursday and Fr iday, Feb.
seh and 9th. The sessions will be held
in the Board of Trade, DAM the banquet
will be given at the National Club. •
The bye -election f or• the Ontario Leg-
islature due to the death of Thomas D.
Hodgins, Conservative, niernber for
EststMiddlesex, took place on Wednes-
dap, Capt. Robson, Conservative, was
eleeted by 64 majcaity with one place
to hear from.
The bye -election, • on Thursday, for
the Dominion House, in Sherbrooke.
resulted in the return of the Conserva-
tive, by ahout 100 of a majority. The
constituency has always been strongly"
Conservative, on five occasions a Con- •
servatiye having been .elected byacche
mation, so that if there is any sig-
nificance at all iu the election, it is in
the reduced majority. Me Martin was
also elected, in Winnipeg, by a small
majority. It happens that there is a
• split in the Liberal ranks in that city,
and although Mr Martin was not the
party candidate, he was accepted as
such, as a compromise between the two
factions, to heal up the hi each, he
being to alt intents .and purposes a
supporter ot the Administration.
Additional Local News
AN HONOR FOR COL. OTR. -At
the, Huron Old Boys' banquet, to be
held on February 16sh, Col, W. D.
Otter will be elected Honorary Presi-
dent of the Associatien, Col. Otter is
one of the old boys of, Huron couney,,
He was born on the Lake Shore road,
between Bayfield and Goderich town-
ehip, and livea for considerable length
of time on the London road; just a
little ways south of Clinton.
RAILWAY NOTIts. -The Ceinadian
railroads have deeded tee 'refuse to al-
low. clubs or societies to un excursions
- over their lines on• )3ublic holidays,
such as•May 24th4 They say they care
get as Much traffic as they can handle
at their own rates, without congesting
any section for special excursions.
They have also made a radical change
so far as commisefons to outeide
agents, on foreign -business, is concern-
ed, practically withdrawing the same.
STOCK NOTRS.-8. smith .shipped 5
car loads of cattle, on Monday,to Tor-
onto. Among the stock purchased
were from D. Forrester, 20 head, 27552
• Ihse average 1377; from R. Rensford,
66 head; 802001bs., average 1215 ; from
C. Peacock 2, W. Snell 2, J. Snell 1,
Tyndall Beos. 2, Rodgerson 2, Pother-
ing , and Sprung 1. Chas. Wallis
shipped a double deck of porkers
to Toronto, on Monday'; fOhatips
Reid, three of cattle, on Wednesday,
to Toronto. R. Fitzsimons ships a
load of hogs next week; the price for
these animals -has advanced to $4,30
, per cwt.
Eetoorinectiercie-Bert, H. Walker,
son of Henry Walker, of town, is do-
ing well in Tacoma, Wash., and is em-
ployed in it large Music! store in that
city. Ile receives the handsome sal-
ary 'Of 31,300 per year, which is above
tbe average of that Which is generally
paid to a young man. He likes the
Neese as chances for young people are
,tore in evidence than in ehe east. In
renewing his sitbscription to the DIEw
ERA, he makes a few remarks .:-"I
find your paper quite a „welcome vis•
itoe each week, and I can keep in touch
with what is going on in the metropo.
lie of Huron Co. Out here we have
not had any sign of snow this winter,
but, as usual, plenty of rain. Our
house had a bad fire in November last,
and we are just recovering from the
effects of it. I like the West very
much, as the climate is much mdder
than the east, and the chancee better
for young people, if they are willing
to hustle."
DEATIt OF FRANE BowER8.-Al-
though it was expected by sone% it was
indeed very sudden to many, on learn-
ing of the death of George Franklin
Bowers, which occurred on Fridav
last, Jan. 26th, at the early age of 20
years aed 8 months. had been
suffering from hemorrhages, and was
only confined to bed a few days over
a week, but owing to their severity he
was. greatly weakened, and death re-
. lieved him. He was a native of 011n -
and. eves born in the house in
which he passed away. Having lived
in Clinton all his life, he was widely
known, and had many friends and
rennpenione, who will mise him as a
f worite ; ho was very entertaining
and clever. In the art of -painting,'
which ke followed, he was adept with
the brush. coming. front a family who
are noted fbi, such. The funeral took
place on Sunday afternoon from the
residence of NV. .T. Bowers, Huron St.,
Rev J. V. Parke, of St. Paul's church,
of which deceased was at:tomboy, offle
elating. Being a member of the Wood.
Men of the World, that order attend.
ed„, the pall•beaters beibg melmbere of
the order -13, Item It, Downs, S. Jack.
eon, J. Forrester, P. Fair and
CLINTON
Cooper; Clinton, Dr Se W. ,
Rattenbury ; auditors, J. T Harland
and J, Wiseman •, hon, directors-Jas.McMidlen, ed,'F,, lt, Holmes, M.P., W.
Weir, S. G. Plummer and J. Johnston;
eecetreas., W. Coats ; asstesece L.
Kennedy. It was also passed by reso-
lution that Dr Shaw, S. S. Cooper, J.
Ee Blacken, L. Kennedy, and W. .T, -
Paisley, act as committee to Make ar•
rangements to secure options on lansi.
necessary for driving park purpoees.
-Messrs Plummer, Forrester and Cottle
were re -appointed members of the
park committee. .
SUNDAY Fume -e-On Sunday last,
just as the .. congregation of 'VVillis
church was assembling for the morn -
tug service, they were startled to see
smoke pouring in Volumes from the
twister, and in a moment the alaem
was given that the church was on fire,
and the ringing of the fire bell brought
crowds from other chtirchee. The fire
was located immeeliately Over the
furnace, and beneath the .wet end of
the pulpit platform, and the I .semen
soon had it under control. The tim-
bers get pretty well charred, ' d the
pulpit platform was considerae in-
jured in the effort to reach tie. !ire
from above. A few minutes more
would have given the fire such a start
that it would have been difficult , to
slave -the church. The church and
organ was fully covered by insurance
in the London •Assurance and London
and Lancashire; the. damage was put
at $263 by Inspector .Thos, Gale, who
was here on Tuesday. Owing to the
water in the Sunday school' room, ser-
vices could not be held in the -afternoon
and the • people of Rattenbury St.
Methodist church, haying placed their
building at the disposal of the Presby
terians. the latter, conducted their corn•
inunion eeryiee therein, Sunday even-
ing. - In the afternoon of the same day.
the .alarm again sounded, and many
naturally thought it was a ' fresh out-
break of the morning fire, but it hap-
pened to be a home to the • rear- of the
clehrch, occupied byMrs Chris. Teb-
butt ; the firi
e was n a shed at the
back of thehouse ; Mies Tebbutt, who
is a cripple, was alone, her eon and
daughter having gone to Sabbath
school, but she WAS quickly carried out
and the houee misptied of its contents,
thefiremeanthne having been put out.
The house is owned by -Mrs Howson,
Londesboro, and the loss is covered by
insurance. In the .evening this . fire
broke out a second time, but was dis-
covered by the neighbor's and put out
without any injury being done.
The lea is keen, and. tho matohee are ex-
citing among the looal rinks, which -ere at
it, copteeting for Ant place. There are
elm rink, of our eaoh, and they at preeent
etand thus, with the following skips :-
• won LOST
W. Ieflpaulding ° - 2 0
W. Seekson 0 1
G. D. MoTaggart. ..... 0 • 1
Dr Shaw 1 * 0
D. Forrester . 0 1
N. Pair
That Sleitinitride-
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'Twee on the eve of Tuesday last,
The wind. blew such s fearful bloat.
The team could not go very fast,
11'o Bayneld town;
Ths boy% and girls of forms :mix and five,
Pecked In the eleigh,, like bees in it hive,
Het out to have a nice, long drive,
Up hill and down.
1 1.1 • deg knew, the driver, was no good -
Clinton and Waterloo curled at Strat- But to pass more rigs upon the road
, ford, on Monday afternoon, in the &at Than any man that ever stood.
round for the Ontario tankard, the latter He can't be beat.
winning by 15, the score being 53 to 28. But their lcingt the duffer, was so ellY.
Tim two rinks from Clitston were :-M. G. The poor young lad. began to ory, --
MaTaggert, S. Chewing% N. Fair and W.
ton, Dr Shaw and W. P. Speuldhig, akip. • That was so neat.
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Sporting Notes.
CLINTON DEFEATI'D AT. HOCKEY.
Tell it not in Mournful numbers hockey
jI a creel game when defeat is met. The
big game is over and Goderich . won or ab
least the referee's, decisions awards theni-
the' germ° but a protest hats been entered
by the Clinton team 3 to 2 in favor of
Goderioh was the sbore at half time and
shortly, after the game resumed Clinton
scored another Goderioh doing likewise.
Again Matheson shot, the pads through but
the umpire, a Goderich men, declared it
did not go • through, a wrangle awned Med
the referee was appealed to, but as he. is
goVerned by the umpire's„,clecision, did not
allow the goal.. Be saw the puck go
throegh and will give. evidence to that
effect when the protest acmes off. It was
very small of him to steal a goal and many
of hia own gide denounces. it strongly. It
wee not an.extra brilliant genie, checking
being too close and hetevy to allow any• of
the startling "esambinations. However
what it -thus laeltek. hi this respect , was
offset by the hard: and even play. From
start to finieh both teams worked. inees-,
saltily. During the last half was when
Clinton ferwards made a vicious and .
prolonged onslaught on the Goderich goal.
Cartipbellei position was continuallyassails...
ed bat hie marvellous work saved the God-
arioh goals. Referee Shepherd was vets,
lenient with the off-eides partioularly with
Goderioh air they scored most of their goals
in this way. The teams lined up as fol.
lowd
actokstn1 ekip, W. G. Doherty, John Johns. Who the laird showed uP hie limit' tie
Dere said he had a mei& eve,
•hurch himes. •
But none of them would scarce believe,
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That Lizzie's heart was seen to heave
A meeeing ofthe C. le U. will be
'held at the home of Mies Biddlecombe
on Thursday, Feb. 8•13, at 7.30 1. m. ,
Ensign and Mrs McKenziehave re-
ceived orders to farewell' riext Sunday
and procded to New York, where they
will receive, appointment, Tuesday
evening a special meeting, comprising
some thrilling armystories by silted°. When they had to vnilk about a mile,
grapey, and a musical .program, will The girls sat still, and all tlie;while •
beheld, to raise fares. The boys walked on
The Rev W. E. Ohristna,s, who has Mae eaysthe drive Was very fine,
caused so much excitement in religions Next time at Georgia he -will dine, .
circles in Manitoba and Woodstock, But he will soon come back and pine
by healing the sick, in the name of For what ho's done.
On the weiry road.
They met a sawer on the way, -t •
. saidit washis winning -day,- ' -
They wished, when he upset the sleigh,
•, It had not'snowed.
Was the sleighing good? Well 1 should
•, smile
Jesus, will preach three tines in the.
town belle Clinton, on Feb. 4th, at 11
a. m., 3 end 7 R. m. Mr Frank Gorrell
wilt take part to the meeting. Collec-
tion eaken for expenses.
• RATTENBURT ST. -Sacramental ser-
yiees were held, on Sunday last, the
pester being assistedin the adminis-
tration thereof by Rev B. Clement.-.
Next Sunday Miss Williams, the even-
gelietemay be expected to • preach in
the Rattenbury St. church ; she will
assist ° the pastor in special seryices
during next week, every evening ex- .
cept Satuidae ; the Public are cordi-
ally invited to all these meetings, -
It. Was the intention of Rattenbury Ste
Epworth League to pay North St,
Epworth League, Goderich, a visit on
Tuesday evenhig, but the raceme,
weather prevented them.
Wiersis Caurime.-eThe services on
Sunday will be conducted by the pas-
tor, in the auditorium, ,as repairs will
be made sufficiently so as to allow
services as usual. The anniversary
services will not be held' until further
notice. -The Session met,and inseruct-
d the secretary to forward to the
Board of RattenburyeSteehurch a vote
of thank% carried unanimous vote; for
the kindness shown and use of Ratten-
bury church for . their communion
service, on Sunday evening last • the
pastor, Rev A. Stewart, conducted the.
service. .
Theeannual meeting of the local
brandh of The Upper Canada Religious
Tract and Book Society will be held in
the Ontario street Methodist church,
oreelonda,y evening next, 'tee. .5tb, at
8 o'clock. • Rev Dr Moffatt, ot Termite,
secretary of the society, will address
the audi0J3,eaul his subject will be
'Bettettj?volt'for God' and for man.,"
A special collection will be taken up
for the much-needed missionary col -
portage work in Ontario, Muskoka,
Algoma and Central China. A gen-
eral invitationes given to all to be
present.
ONTARIO ST,. CHI/R-C-11- . . A-N-N-I.VE"RS"AR"-y-
- The anniversary services were held
on Sunday and Monday evening, and
the inclement weatheedid not prevent
the attendance of good congrerzations
to bear their former pastor,. Rev W. J.
Ford, now of London. In the after-
noon it was to for the school, and
several addresses were to have been
given, but Rev W. J. Ford and Rev
Mr Wade only had spoken when the
school Was dismissed, owing to the ex-
citement. caused _by the fire alarm
sounding. All the services were very
interesting, and the congregation was
much pleased to hear its fornaer
pastor. He preached both morning
end evening, when special appropriate
music wasprovided by the choir. The
speaker shows a faculty of presenting
hhe theories in it clear • way, and they
are easily followed ; hie discourses
were interesting and appreciated s by
his audiences, the gathering in the.
(evening being large. It Was on Mon-
day evening the nehin object for the
Sunday school, when the auditorium
was crowded, and the program given
very interesting. It was all welepre-
pared. and ' many thanks are due
Maclaine Wall, Mrs (Dr) Thompson,
and the teachers whe had charge of the
extra efforts put forth to rnake• the
anniversary a success, The orchestra,
CLIZITON—Mollse goal • Snell, plait ; under kedges J, T. Enemerton and F.
Doherty, cover point; Coats, _Matheson; -WeWitts deserve thanks also for the
Forrester and Olarridge, forwarda.
Goognicu-Campbell, goal; Allan, point;
Thompson, cover point; McCarthy, Mc-
Iver, Shannon and Pritohera, forwards.
A( the start of the game both team
were off like lightning, the puok flying in
all direetions. McCarthy made a surprise
shot at Clintens goal, the fine for Goderich
the first in fiveminutes. This enraged
the Clintons teem and shot after shot was -
made at Campbell until finally baok to
.enter it went and Again McCarthy scored
on an offside in two minutes. It then
took the home Warn eix Minutes when
Cleats accepted a armee by evading the
eagle eye of Campbell and scored the first
for Clinton. This pot mattere on the hum
and after a beautiful race of combination
work Forrester notched Clinton's mond
goal in three toinntes. • Now Godericls
tornmenced to use their weight end lege
to a !vantage to our light forwards, Mc-
Iver shot on goal, thennipireas hand went
up but our boys kept on playing for the
puokwent wild. Again the refereeraled it
a game and e stolen gold was given to
Goderich in four minuted, After half time
wits oalled andthe game again started tee
eon* town team could not get ite
icom-
bination to work properly but ndividually
they wore good and nutny attempts • were
made to score. It was evenly contested
for some Eine bat finally in a mixup Clin-
ton 9.0ree, egein in six minutes. It then
took Goderich three MinuteS to seer* again
but it wee another orie to their credit
which they did not put through and evi-
derice will be produced to this effect at the
protest. Some -rushes wore now made and
by a neat pass by Forreeter to Ohmage to
Coats enother was scored for Clinton in
seven minutes. The next; goal was in a
mixup and, recorded in favor of our neigh -
bore in eleven minister. Tete the boy % sty
wats aeother one which was stolen by the
=photo decision to tee referee. It again
took fotir minutes for Goderich to add an-
other goal, the equeirest end final. ' Thus
the game is recorded by the referee as six
to four although the boys aiy they ate pro-
testing.
NOTES.
Clinton plays in Sesforth to.night
(Friday.)
Arrangements have boon made for the
London senior hockey team to play here on
Frideyethe.Oth inst. Announcements will
be given neit Week.
Among the cottingent, from Goddrioh on
Friday to see the hockey rastdit were :—
Ohm. Shepherd, Ohio. Depeudry, W.
Given, Chas. Bell, G. L. Parsons, O. W.
Ityans and P. Cornell,
selections given.. S. Teylor, superin-
tendent of the school, presided as
chairman, in his usual able manner.,
The collections amounted to ,close on
to $70: • Itwas nearly eleven o'clock
when the program was concluded.
The ;megrim, as given, was as follows:
Ringing by -the school
Prayer Bev W. J. Ford
Seeretary'a report.... ... fleb Wray
Treaeureee report • ..R. Tiplady
SelectionOrchestra
Duett. ........Lewis Manning and E. Pearin
Reeitatfon Miss Belva Olson
Recitation MisS Mabel Plintoff
Song .. ......... ....... ........ johnnie Shipley
Selection • ... ...... Bible Class
Recitation t .fi.Willie Lockwood
Recitation • Harry. Furry
Swing chorus.... ........ Miss Tebbutt's class
Violin solo. . ... Miss Olsen
Chorus by the school
Lnpersonations....... ..... . . .-.." :Primary class
Address • ... W. J. Ford
Selection Orchestra
.
Song, (by request) "Tito man behind the
plough," jolmnie Shipley
Recitation Lewis Manning
Duett. ......Tanton Woodman mid Bert. Reid
Recitation Rena Finch
Recitation Carrie Shipley
Flar chorus 8 girls
Ree tenon .y_ I`u
Marching chortle .Miss Tornbuire chew.
Duett EramaPlumsteel mid Lily Coats
Solo • ,...Fred. Hill.
Recitations lieziOgrNign8141%
Solo.. .
Flele,ction. Itenior. Bible class
Dialogue MrePlumsteel's class of 10 girls
Address
Chorus by the school
Selection
• The school is in a prosperous condi-
tion, owing no doubt to the intereat
taken by superintendent, teachers, and
all connected with it, Mr D, Tiplady,
until several years ago, was euperin-
tendent for 2o years, and while in that
eapacity did his utmost, vrorking faith.
fully for its promotion. Ile has been
the foundation of the school, and since
Mr J. Taylor fills the same place, with
Mr Tiplady as his %serviette, they have
carried it on in the same successful
manner, keeping up its standard.
From the secretary's report we learn
that 47 names were added to t he roll
and 37 removals during the y ear ; total
number on roll, 417 ; scho'..re, 376 ;
teacieers and officer% 41 ; average at-
Rev,B. Clement
Another Letter from Africa.
BEixoNT, Sow ILAfrica,
. Dec. 23rd, Me)
Conn° aaain I take my pencil, to write a
few lines to let you know that I am keeping
well. I will'try and write so as to have
a leiter home every week, although we do
not get much mail here. WON, gotta we
•will be getting our Christmas dinner here
and probably New Years, We did expect,
ttego farther towards Rinaberley, bet I be-
lieve now, that we are not going to eee
very much reel act:ve Elervioe. We are all
getting tired of camping on the sand in
the hot enn and it is so lonesome. We are
all hoping to get h ime lie spend the 24th•
of May, (which I would 'like to myself.)
We hear from reliable *Mercers that we
"the Canadiane" are only , for garrison,
that is, guSrding towns and provisions, in
or about the enemy's country. Now I
must say it is not oue of the pleiseantest
dutieri either, as we get so much out post
and guard, and its -we are in 'the enemy's
oa n country, we -have to be very careful.
It was lust a few short months ago that,
did not think I would be spending Christ-,
mas day with the therrimmtter at 130 in
the abed°, we oennnt realize it is Christ -
mac time ; I believe we are going .to haye
a nice tirne Christmas day as the English.
•-ere sending out 10,000 pinta puddings, but
. we are not Bare if we shall get . them ; 111write in a week or two. and let you know
whet tiled of a time we have on Christmas.
I do not care how Boon we leave this awful
country, jnet fancy, all. we earl see is sand
and shrub, and Enpjies rising between_ 200
and 300 feet all around us for a 'distance of
10 or 15 miles, with the blazing sun on us
and no shade whatever except canvas, but
there is one blessing,' that is the nights are,
cool and it makes it not so bad after all.
Now aw far as sickness goes there is very
little among neat present which goes. to
show what.. kind. of tuff we Canticks are
Made'of. -- We geLa report the other day
of what the Boni ihent-of Canadians.
They 'seer we are Indians and 0. not think
of meroy war, and are .--of the opinion
that we scalp our viral= as the Indians
did long ago ;:they have a reward for us '
.of 50 to 100 pounds for officererdead or alive,
what do you .think of that ? Ha Hs. I
teink by the looks of things out hero s that
the war will emu be over as the Free State
Boers and the Trans.vellerreare revolting
among themselves, the Free Staters want
to return to their ferrnes . as the seeding
will commence in a short time up_ there,
M
so if this ate of things exittheywill
easy fall victims to British arms The
Free Staters have• only found ont ,v
made a big mistake in going to help
Pant Krueger, as after the, war its over -and
.the Berfee win they would only -be under
him, but there is no enoh thing, as that,
going to happen, . The Boers are a very
shrewd and penning people and know how
to take a position sand hold it Only 17
Iles from here on the other side of Medd-
• River, they have taken up their stand
pa threw nrebreast works so as to con-
trol 14 miles °liking line, there are up-
ward of 25,000 troops of the Biwa there,
But tee Which see .confident of routing
them; they will not attack and they shiver
at the sight "of. a bayonet, I was talking to
an Engliehtnan who went through the
battle of Moader River, and he amid. when
they made the chargee he ran up the hill
and wasi just in time to see a Bcer taking
aim at anwhen he just stuck him
through the letekarend let his. rifle stand
upright then began to singe4Rule Brittania"
while the Boer went through his death
struggles, pinned to the ground with it
bayonet. Many inzidents occur like. this
one, and the Englishmen eay they do like
to see the Boers singer as they are 130'
treacherous, Now the Beers do not give
their dead. a decent burial. Now, right here,
within Of out -tamp (where the bat-
tle of Belmont wait fought) oan be seen
to -day the dead Boers with their heads,
legs, rec., just, above the ground and
vomeare not buried at all, just loose stones
threeiri over them to keep the vultures off,
so this will give you it good Hee what the
Boers Ree like. Whyjust think of a country
commanding every male that is able to
earrjearms from 14 to 80 years, of age to
fight, whether lse is willing or not and teen
bold them at the muzzle of a gun to fight
for sernething they know nothing about.
This war is to gratify it few old dutch
lobsters, gush es,Stein., Cronjeeand Kruger,
who teeny hold the people in their bands,
and they are so ignorant that they . tan be
Made to believe anything, and hold in fear
every one who is is little more intelligent
than themselves. Yen eave no idea what
this country is like and if you could've° it
yen would wonder how on ,earth the Bri.
title were going to drive them out.; they
are so cowardly they will not attack end
will not use common "eons° when they
are attacked. We saw the Royal Horse
Artillery ge throdgh here on the way to
Modder River, end the shells they use will
blow the top of a hill like chaff from the
ground and nothing cin live within 200
yards of where they explode as the gas
frone them!' very pelmet's. We also saw
the kits of the dead and wounded High-
landers come through yesterday. There
were 170 killed and wounded. Now I
must tell yen about the papera here. They
hed a roper* teat We were atteeked by a
Beek force but we 'repulsed them walled
loss ; now this is fele% foredthough we had
ad
ricer% they did not aback nit as they wore
afraid of the "scalpeire" This is about
all this time. ens not telling you any -
OMR only as things are and perhaps ii
will interest some of (he people there, as I
have not the ohenee write to every one
lie it !shire through the hindneis of Dr.
tendance,217. $M90 wag vent in pap, - Barrie! of Y. M. C. A., that we esn get
ers for the scholars - the total number
of which were 13,50, viz Me8senger
5200, Pleasant Hours 3120, Sunbeam
1560, Happy na,ye IMO, Dewdrops 2080.
Over 13,000 verses were recited—over
8,000 by the girls and over 4.000 by the
boys. The Receipts amounted to 3133
and expenditures to $112 giving a\ bal.
ance $21.31,
writing metered% and *emit et limited,
but we mute be content, heti= or not,
and live on good army -beef puddings.
This hi all so I will cowide ; hoping
receive more mail and to be preeerved
through this tedious eampaign ; With best
to all. Yours for Vietory,
PartITS A. B. Wont
South Aides.
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-c.
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