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THE WINGRAli ADVANCE.
Witt ,'hate's Dress Goods and Carpet House -
Attractive Bargains
This Month at the Ladies' Store,
Summer Goods in all depart-
ments eut down below Cost,
EXTIIAORDINARY Bargains in wool
Dress Goods.
For a limited time only we will sell fine
Venetians, Basket Weave, Scotch Mix-
tures, Voiles, Etatnines, and other desir-
able wool fabrics, for the ridic- 45C
ulous low price of.. , t ...... ,
Below We -Give a List of Specials
For a Few Days.
25 Pieces Crust's Prints, worth. 12.ic---for 10c
10 Pieces tr tz " 10c—for 8c
An assortment of Shirt Waists, new goods, worth from
$1.75 to $3.00 --for 1.75
10 Doz. Cotton Hose, worth 20c pair -2 pair for 25e
8 Doz. Ribbed Cashmere Hose, -worth 40c pair—for 30c
- =craws
for
Dress Gaols
& Tzimm'gs
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Alex. Ritchie
BEAVER BLOCK - WINOtIAM
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FURNITURE
RITCEIE'S
for
Carpets,
Rugs, Etc.
OF HIGH QUALITY BUT LOW PRICE -
Its one thing to quote low prices on Furniture,
but its quite another matter to back low prices up
with high quality. We give you both. Furniture
that is without spot and blemish, made in latest
styles, of splendid woods, and handsomely finished.
For Five Weeks
we will give special inducements to purchasers.
No matter bow large the reductions, its a straight
saving to you—every cent of it.
See our medium-priced Bedroom Suites
at 811.50, $14.50, 816.00, 817.30 --others to
choose from up to $55.00.
Splendid lendid value in Couehes at 86.00, $7.00,
50, up to BOO.
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trains.
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Ladies' element Circular Underskirts of
Black Sateen, beautifully flounced and frilled,
at different prices but ala special values.
Ladies' Ready-made Wrappers, a nice as-
sortment at very reasonable prices.
A full assortment of Ladies' and Child-
ren's Summer Vests --sleeveless, short sleeves
and long sleeves, from jc to 75c.
Ladies' and Children's Cotton Hosiery
from ioc to .1.c,c per pair—seamless foot and
guaranteed fast backs. The Puritan Brand
being especially recommended for wear and
general satisfaction. G0cd Casinmere Hese,
all grades, bah plain and ribbed.
Pretty- Summer Fabrics for Dresses and
Waists in 'organdy-. Madras, Dimity, Lien,
Swiss, Lawn, et'`., at Bargains Prices.
And Prints galore --English, Aeriesi
and Canadian. A large arrayof nice grants,
all cam, sure t please y .';'u.
About sd airs La s a Cbl' Jren s
Oxford Shoes ti, be sold at less ean e
These are real Barg - -cu:nt and s«e them.
be ��' 11ti4j un nec
bha
TItro. li:tr.t., PRornzEroa.
raitgriai gates
---Vp to the present, the last census
has dist the country $1,1$3,000. This
is the most costly aunt is generally re-
garded ars the most unsatisfactory
census that was ever taken, in Cana-
da..
—Aeeurding to a special report re-
cently brought down, the Dominion
Government cunni 8,013 wiles of tele-
graph lines and 318 miles of cable.
The average yearly number of messa-
ges sent is 90,500, of which the Yukon
line carries 21,000.
—Hon. L. H. Pelletier, the Con-
servative organizer in Quebec, in a
recent speech, declared that the issue
of the coming Federal elections would
be whether Canada should have a
Government-owned railway or a rail-
way -owned Government.
Lair-
--Say the Halifax. Herald : "It is no
wonder the utinistees of the Lfirlttrier
t"abinet hate the Auditor-Uener1tl he
has a habit of telling things they da
not want to have known. For
example be reports that for the year
1902e03, six Cabinet Ministers eliaposea
of the enormous stun of $203,300 for
travelling expenses, railway fates, tab
hire, tips and suuudries. The largest
single item for travelling elling evpe»ses is
that for Sydney Fisher, whose news-
paper, by the way, also ruts the lar-
gest figure in the printing :recount,
It is no matter to Sydney and his cob
Itetgetes
o -
leaglies that every Minister newels
free ort every railway in Canada, but
the travelling fees are counted up all
the same.
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--•Parliament has already been ask-
ed to vote $65,000,000 for the purpose
of meeting the expenditure of the Do-
• minion fent the year entered upon this
month, This Is nearly three times
the amount expended in 188-78, the last
year the Mackenzie Government was
iu power. It is over twenty millions
More than was spent in 1800, the year
in which the present Government
came into office. It represents $12 for
each person iu the Dominion, or $00
per family. And the end is not yet.
Further supplementary estimates are
promised for this week. Canada is a
rich country; but a burden such tts
this would be a strain fora country
nun(.l1 richer than is the Dominion.
—Meekly Suit.
—Contracts for the constsuetion of
the James Bay Railway from Toronto
to Parry Sound have been let. The
contractors are Angus Sinclair, C. E.,
and the firm of A. R. Mann and Arch.
;liaekenzie. The contracts made
stipulate that the work shall be com-
pleted in September, 190. The con-
tract for the line from Parry Sound to
Sudbury will probabf} be Iet
time this week.
some
The. construction of the first section
of the C. P. R.'s ilnrense irrigating
undertaking east of Calgary is now
being proceeded with. The tract of
land irrigated in this section will,
when completed, amount to 300,000
acres, about 400,000 acres in addition
being also fitted thereby for dairyiug
and grazing. The cost will be. 81,300,-
000.
1,3300;000. If the irrigation of this portion
proves a success, operations will be
carried on, on a Hauch larger scale.
Dere
--Auditor-General Lorne McDougall
has been termed the "watchdog of the
Treasury" because of the watchful eye
he has kept on illegal payments. The
Toronto News remarks are very point-
ed and should be remembered by every
elector. The News says—"It slay not
be strictly correct to say that the Au-
ditor -General was driven from office
by the Gorerument, but that official
has made it perfectly clear that his re-
tirement is due to the conduct of the
Ministry."
—The Toronto Globe expressed the
wish—"that a Divine insight were
given to Governments for, the detec-
tion
etertion of incapacity and crookedness,
even when faultlely guised and well
recommended, and a Dirine right for
their instant and arbitrary correc-
tion." This caused the Montreal
Gazette to remark, thus ,.—"This is
rank hypocrisy; If the Globe's yearn-
ing was genuine it would have pro-
tested against the appointment of
that man Jackson, of Ingersoll. It
surely did not require Divine insight
to perceive his crookedness. A judge
pointed it ort."
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The fiscal year ending June 30,
10x2, was not a dumping time. In
Brittain, Germany and the United
States there was unprecedented pros-
perity and the manufacturers of the
United States could sell everything
they produced in their home market
at good prices. There was no tempts:
tion to dump goods in Canada at
slaughter prices and except in a few
I linos there was very little slaughter-
' ing that year. Nevertheless the
Trade and Navigation Reports for the i In Canada the press messages are not
., fiseal year 10tt2 show that Canadians included in the number reported. Er-
a bought from the United States mene, eryone knows the important part the
,ebaadise to the value of 8114,743,944 newspaper telege aph service plays in
such as country as Canada. • No esti-
mate can be made of the number of
these messages. It is plain, however,
that' at least a million four hundred
thousand messages pass to and fro
every daay of the three hundred and
sixty -fie days of the year.. All this
from the one or two telegrams which
passed on the 24th '_Stay. 1841, when
the Morse system turned the plaything
of science into an instrument of prate
tient everyday use.
7'1r TELEt'iio.E.
The summer of 1001 is the 30th anni-:
veesary of the invention of the tele-;
phone. In 1874 _.Ir. Graham Bell, then
—The leader of the Conservative
party asked the Government to con-
sider a draft hill to increase the powers
of the Auditor General, who, wider
the terms of the present Audit Act. is
unable to prevent unlawful expeudi-
tune of money, Again the Liberal
leaders attacked the Auditor General
and refused to give him the powers he
has been. asking for for some years.
By a vote of 94 to 56 Sir Wilfrid Lau-
rier and his followers turned the guar-
dian of the treasury out of court..The
Conservative party to a ratan are at
the back of the Auditor General in his
attempt to protect the treasury from
the hordes of grafters who throng the
corridors of Parliament Buildings.
Since 1899 that official had been vainly
endeavoring to have the Audit Act of
1878 amended. He has repeatedly
pointed out that new conditions have
arisen which have rendered the pre-
sent act inoperative. To his many ap-
peals the Liberal party, who, by the
way, appointed him to office, have
turned a deaf ear.
ELECTRICAL PROGRESS.
Mr. Geo. Johnson, the Dominion
staticiau, gives the following interest-
ing
nteresting figures bearing on electrical devel-
opment :_.-
TSE TELEGRAPH.
The 24th of May was the sixtieth
anniversary of the sending of the fast
Morse message over a telegraph wire.
There are now 1,764 private and gov-
ernment cables with a length of 204,-
527 nautical miles.
On the land there are 1,025,700 miles
of line And. 3,978,500 miles of wire.
These represent an outlay of capital
equal to 500 million dollars. Add the
outlay for cables and there is a total
outlay of 850 million dollars to provide
the means for transmitting wire mes-
sages by sea and by Iand.
Over head and under seas there is a
daily transmission of one million four
hundred thousand telegrams and 88,-
000
8,000 cable messages; the totals being
478,330,000 Lend znessage. and 13,110,-
000 cables in the. year 1903.
This is the minimum, for in South
Africa (for instance) there are thous-
ands of miles of line which are in the
hands of companies that are not re-
quired
iquired to make returns. Another fact
has to be taken into consideration and
that is that these figures do not in -
elude the telegreene sent by railways
in the management of their own bush
nee&
A third fact must be kept in mind. .
and sold to the United States neer -
ehmelise valued at 816,90709 exclud-
ing gold -bearing quartz, nuggets, dust
and silver eo stained in ore, conceu-
trates, etc.
t is
t that some -
ting more Ithan wanes antidote. for
dumping is necessary to put trade be-
tween C,arada and the 'United States
en a fair basis. Zlnd*nsstrial Canada.
Rerentiy the Minister Railways
admitted d that napoint *"eats are made
to the staff r f the In'tereolenial Raia..1
way purely es partisan hate, This;
was elefe led rev at Least two others :I
C'aainst. This is egziiva ent to deetar-1 on al visit to his parents, who lived in'.
ling that the railway is to be S air .as aa, .8rantford, made some laboratory ex -
pasty +..._3cb'sne The Tcrcnto News periruents which proved that speech
e radents sole n policy as opposed to I could be traazstnitted by wire. Two
f he best inter.sts of the railway and years later--Augast, 1876—the first
s,ag.,._.,. 1 trauu snrission ofspeech over tt: tele -
It is net toe l nth a team t- de- graph win took 1p:ace in Brantford.
dike tt3:e 1. ea*' e "as at 1,i--a.-ii el In 1817 the telephone went into tour
tl'.1i. YiE" �5`Els 1a"E?al�p(lnteta cnemial lege, the city efHanmiltonbeing
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a s acs -s er z eft: l c state
2i:an to
ge,e lar 1, e TaT�:er .ares.: y the first to es'tabiish it. From that
t ;u :.. an tee rt) tLE-i'- obrxn in-' beginning the ruse of the telephone 1' . -
��r •s leaders ref o lxsiit'za11 =t5` been e. net tly an the inereaa The
CP 44P as aaa�:�y fn:U-1?owr as EISt. rettuns the '.1 ' etical Office se-
e ree tneet �h neer t aa`_ int tends to -cured '.1 e ! .1st in 19i i Canada's
a , ]v e fa:.s a as era pee pest
▪ P C1c,:l a.tp ] I4 ;:- 2 k9 xS h appe:t£d• e tipmett WAS WOG tmi1''- of wire;
3„ =,117.-„n alj tem.i ba?3_. `y m e "p to, +,n 33.5.30 instramer te, i y means Of which
�J *Y p KSi S`et3 Itzi° ai°, VMt1t, 1'02,500000 32:,eatages were e9eut in the
teta` Si .:Wo u -tz as revenge t f t -ix year. It 'the tvn years sauce the num.
a2r 2 as
&ail malas deltas elan be 'iaer f f rettnnrei2ts bras ii2.reseeel to
Vtin It isParalThraut iin'1 of i eestag's to 253 00,000,
"et : f at tha e of t to administer tin in!,i&we oi' 111 per volt at
in inru
• MiS J tiie ..,,,1 "a u £1rC'. But to ]a.
,.:, . that �, ryii Y'.. " t, int net
meats and of +2,x6 pet (Olt. in number "t
be tee 'ailed as et 61r -hey engine to of tnessagea--sinettettneots 1 I-2 ting
r ' ;iu Tlat y, but be treated Aga Imre taut re s messages 21.2 times more,
ad
axv .arcs a'.I p'G fmtat zrrrzint"Ja n• ' `a'kiirg the liuletitn of the last
eyries, that demands 'h»sm the
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I. baser tyreeemei And wen ore, tentas there is in. Canada one, tele-
pectbetic etaataderatieta plaeleie lastratnesat :W a ♦ OS perhOMS.
Thursday, July 28, 1904
JNO. & JAS. KERR
BIG HOUSE CLEANING SALE
AT THE "BIG STORE."
_W° Nees= July 25th to Aug. 6th
TWO WEEKS
Every Special Sale we advertise is a success, because we do as we promise, We do not
say one thing and do another. Therefore the people have confidence in us. At thin "Big Sale"
the money -saving opportunities will be almost beyond the power of imagination.
This is, strictly speaking, a "House Cleaning Sale." Otld lots must be cleaned out. Stock
must be reduced at once, We will not carry goods over from one season to another. We quote a
few prices, but you must come in and see for yourself the great bargains we are Offering.
.A.11 departments contribute to this Sale, and Special Sale Bargains will be placed on tables
in centre of store.
DRESS GOODS.
12+c, 15c and 18c Muslins, Etc.,' at 9c a Yard.
Dressy Summer Muslims, Dimities, Ginghanrs, etc., reg. 12ic, lie and 18c goods, go on sale at per yd... 9c
30c Flake Voile reduced to 19c a Yard.
Dainty new shade brown Voile, neatly flaked with grey, sold a}I season at 30c, Sale Price 10e
$1.00 Panama Canvas at 69c a Yard.
Pine worsted wool Panama Canvas in Bream and grey shades, a popular seller at $1.00, Sale Price60c
85c Homespuns at 53c a Yard.
All wool Homespuus, heavy check effects, 54 inches wide, regular 85e, at per yard 53c
Gents' Furnishings at Clearing Sale Prices,
TIES, COLLARS, CAPS, ETC., AT HALF PRICE.
41 7 doz. Men's Silk Ties in bows, strings, four-in-hands, etc., reg. 25c, for ,.12 •c
4 doz. Fancy Silk and Satin Ties, flowing ends and puffs, correct styles, reg. COc, for 25e
▪ Men's heavy. Rubberise Collars, good shapes, reg. 20e, clearing at 10c
A Men's turn -down Celluloid Collars, reg. 15c each, clearing at Tic
• Light -weight Summer Caps, all sizes, reg, 60c, clearing at 25c
Men's and Boys' Summer Caps, new style, tweed. effects, reg. 25c, reduced to 121c
• Men's cool thin Hats, Fedora shape, neat black band, reg. 40c•and 50c, clearing at 25c
Men's high-class Straw Hats, were 65c and 75c each, clearing at 38e
Y. 18 only Men's and Boys' fancy Straw Hats, worth 25c each, offered now at 121rc
MEN'S AND BOYS' COMMON STRAW HATS AT RALF PRICE.
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11.114Y,WYi fig .0, .I. le
Men's Cotton Handkerchiefs at 8 for 25c.
Men's Cotton Handkerchiefs, full size, regular 5c, Sale Price 8 for 25c
Men's Fedora and Christie fiats at Half Price.
Men's black or brown stiff Hats, fur felt, regular 52.25—reduced to $L13
Men's black stiff light -weight Hats, correct styles, 61.26 and $1.50—clearing at .75
Men's fine soft felt Fedora Hats, $2.25 and $2.50 values—reduced to 1.13
Men's brown soft felt Fedora Hats, worth 61.75—Sale Price .8S
65c and 75c Shirts for 43c.
2i dozen odds and ends of . our popular summer Neglige Shirts, detached cuffs, worth
65c and 75c each—clearing at..... 430
Notions and Fancy Goods Bargains.
Combination leather and linen Belts, regular price 15c, clearing at 5c
Patent Leather Belts in black or red, heavy steel Buckles, 16c and 20c, clearing at 10c
Fancy Beaded Elastic Belts, in white and white and black, 60c and 75e, reduced to 380
Good quality Hemstitched Lawn Handkerchiefs, 7 for 25c
TRAVELTARS' 1 RS' SAMPLE CURTAINS.—Lace Curtain samples, about 2 yards long, full
pattern, just the thing for small windows or fan Iights. Curtains sold in regular way at
from $1.25 to $5.00 a. pair. Samples go on sale at from 13c to 55c each.
Bargains in Ready=to=wear Clothing.
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a 18 only Men's and Youths' Suits, in neat tweeds and worsteds, sizes 32 to 40, worth
1 from $7.50 to $10.00—Sale Price $5.35
a Heavy twilled blue ,Denim Pants, quality guaranteed, regular 90c—now .66
1 Blue Denim Overalls, with or without bib, well made—on sale at 30c and 38c
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Boot and Shoe Bargains.
Misses' soft oil grain Boots, self tip, heavy sewed sole, common sense heel, lace or
button, sizes 11 to 2, regular 61.35—clearing at $ .98
Women's plain split bal., double pegged sole, solid leather, regular $1.00—Sale at....„ .75
18 pairs Men's Fine Buff Bal. or Congress Boots, solid leatber,,reg, $L50—for only 1.00
Men's Fine Split Bal., sizes 0 and 7 only, regular $1,00—clearing at .75
Remember the Date, July 28th to August 6th, 1904 •-- Two Weeks only
17c a dozen paid for Fresh Eggs,
Huron county House of Refuge
and Industrial Farm.
Applications for the positions of
Eeeper and Matron for the House of
Refuge and Industrial Farm in the
County of Huron will be received on
or before. the first day of December
next.
Applications to be in writing and
.addressed to W. Lane, Count Clerk,
(ioderieh. i1. SPACEkiAN
Chairman of H. of R. Corn.
13ated July 18th, 1901.
Baby's Picture
will be treasured in coming
Vars. Photographs taken by
us will Mast a lifetime. Also
Picture Framing neatly done.
Remember the place.
M. E. ZURBRIGG
lifE IJL�ES ANOE IRE
Lowed, rates ronslstent with
aabrolnte /*entit , Alt claims
promptly iaettled
Abner Cens
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THE ROYAL GROCERY
CANNED APPLETS.
year when your apples
take their place so well
making pies. We have
cats .--- 25e per Can.
=-At this season of the
are done, nothing will
as the canned ones for
a choice lot in gallon
BREAKFAST FOODS. --We keep all the
latest Breakfast Foods for hot weather — Orange
Meat, Malta Vita, Vim, Life Chips, Stre`llgthfude,
Force, Shredded Wheat, Triseuit, Grape Nuts ---*
5 ets. per l a ekage.
PICKLES.. -Imported P'iekles, grown and
bottled in England, put up in large bottles, weigh,
illi 8 . lbs., will bold as mueb as two ordinary tt
bottles. In mixed, eliow ehow, aid white o11io118
25 Ota, per Bottle.
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