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The Wingham Times, 1908-07-16, Page 5T1dE WINCT>:;LVVI T1) S, JULY 10 i99i3 7 ed Saunders •..$Y.•0 HENRY WALLACE PHILLIPS COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY McCLURe, PHILLIP5 Cs• COMPANY got)il anti wet, The thrashing was ono t+f the things that gave me a hanker- ing for the west. Very liberal man with the hickory, father. Spare the clouted and spoil the skin was his motto. Ile used to make me• strip to •the waist —phee•hervl Even a light breeze rested heavy on my back when Clad got through with me. Say, Mettle, perhaps I oughtn't to say so, now that he's gone, but I don't think that's the proper way to use a boy, do you?" "No, 1 don't," said Miss Mattie. "Your father meant well, but his way was useless and cruel," "1've. forgiven him the whole sweep," said Red. "But, d—n me, it' I had a boy I wouldn't club the life out of him; I'd try to reason with him first, anyhow. Makes a boy as ugly as anybody else to get the hide whaled aft his back for nothing—once in awhile he needs it. Boy that's got any tire In him gets to be too much oc- casionally, and then a warming is healthful and nourishing. Lord, you'd think 1 was the father of my country to hear Inc talk, wouldn't you? If . sontebody'd write a book, `What Red .Saunders Don't Know About Raising children' it would be full of valuable information. !low's that breakfast coining on?" "All ready—sit right down, Will." Milo you!" cried Iced, and incautious- ly stuug himself upon one of the kiteh- et elm Irs, which collapsed instantly and dropped him to the floor. "Mercy on us! Are you hurt?" cried itliss Mettle, rushing forward. "Hurt?" said Red. "Try it! Just jump up in the air and sit on the floor where you are now, and see if you get hurt! 011, no! I'm not hurt, but I'm astonished beyond measure, like the lima that tickled .the turtle. I'll take my breakfast right stere—shouldn't wonder a bit if the floor went back oil me and landed the in the cellar. No, sir: I won't get up! Hand me" the aupplli's. I know when pin well off. If you want to eat breakfast with ate, tonne sit on the floor. 3'm not golug to have my spine pushed through the top of my ]lead twice in the same (lay." "Will, you are the most ridiculous heron I ever did see'." said Miss Mat- tle, and she fat, plied till she cried in sheer lightheartedness. "But there's a chair you can trust. Colne on now." "Well, if you'll take your solemn oath that this one has no mustache to deceive due," said Red doubtfully. "It looks husky. Well, I'll try it. hooray! • She didn't give an inch! This !clad of reminds me of the time Jimmy Nen- • tiricles came back from town and walked. off the edge of the bluff in the dark. It just happened that Old Scot- ty i� ergusolt's cabin was underneath hint. aim took most of the roof off with him as he weut in. Ile sat ::while to figure out what was trumps, having come 150 feet too faSt to do match thinking. Then, `Hello!' he yells. Old Scotty was a sleeper from way hack, but this woke him up. "`!hello!' says he. `Was'er matter?' , "Tim sary he wasn't more than half • awake yet, so he says, 'Why. I was up on the bluff there, Scotty, and, see- ing it' was such a short distance, I thought I'd drop in!' "'AW ri',' grunted Scotty. `Make y'self t' home,' and with that he rolls •over. ".Tim couldn't wait for morning, and, thooglt his leg Was pretty badly peacefully gone off in his lit. t'.own the creek and, instead of gotgg ever the rapids, where he'd have been done, for all his luck,, the box ambles through the aurae they was building for the new mill. Of course there wee the jounce over the tall race, but that hadn't hurt him much, unci after be i rocked in the cradle of the deep until Iho got beached at Placerville. "'Come along, friend,' says Scotty in heat !say `yes' to that," responded Red, "pub "Como right ill," said Miss Mattie. "You're just in time for dinner." if you want my honest opinion on the Subject it's a -n hot" + There was a great protest at this. ,:.'Tis that" assented the smith, and They "hadn't a moment to spare;'" they were "Piet going down to the a C`ef1ce followed. they crack fence build- er around here," asked Red—"the man i "You've got to help me," said MISR that can make two pickets grow where Mettle. "Will here has Invited the only one grew before and do it so easy boys who are working for Mtn to smore that it's a pleasure to sit and look at to dinner, and it won't be any more him?" than Christian for you to help me out." to the feller. 'You and me are going "Iley?" inquired the smith, not pie. 1 "Ladies," said Red, !`.if you don't to have a little drink on this, if it is cisely getting the meaning of the ad• , want starve amen who's deserving the hist act.' And I reckon probably dress • I a hotser vete taan who's your deserving they made it two, for wheu Scotty got R by Ivo got n Yenee to Uu , and come out #o dintler leo be con back again he was in a condition that made everybody believe that he'd only guessed at the story the told. But they cabin wouldn't it? Well, there ain't found out afterward it was a solemn the first blasted thing of any shape nor fact. Mettle, give us some more cot. description In there but the hole. You fee." can go in and look for yourself,' nem abruptly recalled to Fairfield, "It cost Scotty one case of rye to Miss Mattie started up. make us forget those circumstances." "Well, Will, it does seem as if that "I should have thought the man was a dangerous country to live in," would be killed, striking on the roof said site. that way," said Miss Mattie. "Oh, not so awful," said Red, "Just "0h, no! Roof was made of quaking as many people die here as they do asp saplings, just about strong enough there. This world's a dangerous place to break his fall. Scotty was the to live in wherever you strike it, Mat - sleeper, though! It wasn't hardly nat- tie." ural the way that man could pound his "That's so," said she thoughtfully. ear through thick and thin. He !tad "And now," said Red, bashing back quite a surprising time of it once. He'd his chair, "it's time I got to work and been prospecting round the Ruby re• left you to do. the housework mndis- fractory ore district and be came out Curbed." at Hank Cutter's sawmill just at sun- "What are you going to do, Will?" down. Hank's place was full of gold "First place, there's fences and things to be tinkered up, 1 see. I suppose a millionaire like me ought to hire those things done, but I'd have measles of the mind if I sat around doing nothing." "I have been wanting to get the place in good order for some time," rushers, so Old Scotty thought he'd sleep outdoors in peace and quiet. He discovered some big boxes that Hank was making for ore bins for the new - mill, and as the ground was kind of damp from a thunder shower they had that day he spreads his blanket inside the box and goes to sleep. Ore bins 'aid Miss Mettle, "but what with the have to be smooth and dust tight, so money I had to spend for this and it wasn't a bad shanty. that, and not being able to get Mr. "Well there came a jar and waked Joyce to coma in for a day's work ' when I wanted him, it's gone on until there is a good deal of wrack to it." "We'll wrack it t'other way round in uo time. Got any tools here?" "Out in the barn is what's left .of father's tools. People have borrowed 'em and forgot to return 'em, and they've rusted or been lost until I'm afraid there ain't many of 'em left." "Well, I'll get along today somehow, and later on we'll stock up. Want any him up. The box was rolling.a little and going along, going along forty mile an hour. Scotty lit a match and found he was in a kind of big tunnel, but the wall was flying by so fast he couldn't make out just what kind of a tunnel it was. Now, he'd gone to sleep in peace and quiet on a side hill, and to wake up and find himself boat riding in a tunnel was enough to sur- prise anybody. First he pinched him- self to see if it was Hank's pie or a help around the house?" cold fact; found it was a fact; then he "Thank you, no, Will." lit another match and leaned over and "Then I'm oil."' looked at the blade water underneath, It was almost with a feeling of ter- eor that Miss Mettle beheld him root up the fence. Her idea of repairing was to put in a picket here and there where it was most needed. Red's was but this made the box tip so it start him, and 11e settled down in the bot} tom again, He didn't try to think. What was the use? No man living to kneel: it all tint first and set it up could have figured things out with the few facts Scotty had before him. All in Al condition afterward. So in two hours' time • he straightened un and of a sudden the box made a rush and Snapped the sweat from bus brow, be - diet out into the air, and 'Scotty felt holding the slain pickets prone on the they were falling. 'God 'sakes!' he gt'ass with thorough satisfaction. Yet says to himself. `What's next, I won- he felt tired, for the day was already der?' Then they lilt the water below !tot with a moist and soaking seacoast with a kerfiap that nearly telescoped " build'" ex . �,, claimed lied, "and now I want some tinned to their protests, which he ob. help—want it so bad I'll produce to the served were growing weaker, "it's ne extent of three a day and call it A ers trouble at all. There's plenty for ev- from now till 6 o'clock. Any taL•ers i erybody. Come one, cows all, this here? Make your bets while the little house shall ay clean off its base as Lail rolls:' i soon as H Now, for heaven's sake, The loungers understood the general ladies,it's all Settled—come on!" drift of this and pricked up their ears, Whreat they laughed nervously and as did the blacksmith, "Guess one of took off their hats. the boys will help you," said the latter. , It was a jolly dinner party. The "Weil, whops it?" asked Red, glauc• young fellows Red had picked up in fug at the circle oC faces, Three dol, the blacksmith's shop were not the or. hits a day was enormous wages in dinary quality of loungers. They were that part of the country. Nobody boys of good country parentage, with knew just what to say. n common school education, who un "Oh, well," cried Iced, "let's every' fortunately could find nothing to do body run! I reckon i can find some but the occasional odd job. Of course thing to do for the five of you. Are it would not take long to transform you with me?" I them into Common ne'er do wells, but "Yes, sir," they said promptly. now they were merely thoughtless "Can 1 borrow a hammer or so ori; boys. you, old man?" questioned lied of the The whole affair had an al fresco smith. ' flavor which stoppered convention. "Certainly, sir," returned the latter The two women visitors pitched in and heartily. brake what you want." I had as good a time as anybody. "Much obliged. And the gate hinges In the middle of the festivities a are out of whack. Saunders' ' young man walked past the front place, you know, Come over and take 1 fence—a stranger evidently, for his a squint at 'em in the near by and by, clothes wore the cut of .a city, and a will you? May as well fig it up all at cosmopolitan, up to date city at that. once. Come on, boys!" ( He stopped and looked at the house, It was thus that the greatest enter- i hesitated a moment and then walked prise that Fairfield had seen in many in, back to where the folk were eating, at day was undertaken. Miss Mattie "Excuse me," saki he as they looked was simply astounded as the army: up at him, "but isn't this Mr. Demilt's bore down upon the house, house?" "Whatever in the world Is Cousin A momentary silence followed, as it Will doing?" said she, but resting was not clear whose turn it was to strong in the faith that it was neces-. answer. Miss Mattie glanced around sarily all right she was content to and, finding Ileo' eye on her, replied: wait for dinner and an explanation. "\o Bir. Mr. De�mttt's house is about Not so the postmistress. The agonies a mile farther up the road." of unrequited curiosity the worthy „Dear Inc'." said the young man rue - woman suffered that morning until fully. 'Ile was a spick and span, In. she at last summoned up her resolu• f telligent looking man, with less of the tion and asked the smith plump out , dandy abut him than the air of a and out what it all meant would have 1 man who had never worn anything to be experienced to be appreciated. , but clothes of the proper trim and And the smith kept her hanging for become quite used to it. Nevertheless awhile, too, saying to himself in justb' I the sweat stood out in drops on his Station that it wasn't right the way I forehead, for >:airfield's front "street" that clef gal had to get into every i savored of a less moral region than it body's business. The smith was like 1 really was on a broiling summer day. some 'of the rest of us—he could see , The young man sighed frankly and through a beam if it was in his own wiped his head. "Well, that's too eye. ' b1id," 1•. sand. "I'in n stranc nem-- • weelti you kindly tell me where I could get some (Rutter?" "\Vliat's the matter with that?" in- R',irr.t 1'ed, pointing to the roast, .vile•& ,-till preserved an air of fallen t;)rsrit,,sv. IIe had liked the loop of tl .• e tart instantly. 1b,• stranger lacked first at Red and tl:= ,t at the rauat. "The only thing 1 eau re. the matter with that," he an- sv. t rets, "Is that it ie a slice too thick." "i.C' 5 " cried lied. "Yon get it. Mettle, another plate and .weapons to Gt. Sit down, sir, and rest your fe- veetd feet. If you don't like walling at:.' !tetter than I de, you've probably know—where'll I set them?" I strewn fragments of one of the com- "Couple of boards outside for A ta- iner,tlments all ilte r: ay from where ble—let them sit on Boxes or something. i tt;t, stage dropped you to this apple Got plates and things enough?" tree." "My, yes! Plenty of such things, I "It .ceras t0 rte that I dig make Will:' so 'ti: remarks that I never learned at "Then if it ain't too much trouble for nay mother's knee," returned the other, you we'll let it go." ia:::;iing. "And I'm exceedingly "No trouble at alit Will—it will be a 01.eige:l for the invitation, as there regular picnic." ! ea ie,n't e._eur to be a hotel here, and "Boys, you'll eat with me this day," ' i era but a degree south of starve - Scotty and sent the spray flying. Aft- er that they went along smooth again. 'Well,' says Scotty, 'I don't know where I am, nor who I am, nor what's happened, nor who'S it, nor nothing about this game. So far I ain't been Burt, though, and 'I might just as well lie down and get a little more rest.' "It was broad daylight when he woke up again, and a mnn was look- ing into the box. `Hello, pardnerl' he says. 'I hope you've had a pleasant tourney. Do you always travel this treat to which the plainsman was un- CHAPTER VL HERE was a great din of whacking and hammering that morning. Red worked like a horee now, that he had cone. accustomed. A three-quarter grown Many, . sudden thought struck him, boy passed by, lounging on the seat and he went into the house. of a farm wagon. "Mattie," said he. "Hey!" hailed Red. The boy stopped "Well, wart. and turned slowly around. "I see a use for the rest of that nice "Yes, sir," he answered courteously big roast of beef I smell in the oven enough. —let's 'have all these fellers stay to "Want a job?" said Iced. dinner and give 'em'one good feed. "Well, I dunno," replied the boy. What d0 You say?" He was much astonished at the ap- "Why, I'd like to,Will, but r don't pearance of his interrogator, and he was a cautious New England boy to boot. "You don't know?" retorted Red. "Scotty raised up and found his I "Well," with some sarcasm, " d'ye sup - craft was aground, high and dry—no I pose I could find out at the postoffice?" water within a hundred feet of it. The boy looked at Red, with a twin - On one side was gnite a little town. , kle in his eye and a comical drawing "'Say,' says he, `could I trouble you of itis long mouth. . to tell Inc where I am, friend?' "I cale'late if you cud fin' out any - "'You're at Placerville,' answet'S the w'eres ':would be there," said he. ether. Red lau^hed He had noticed the "'PYacervillei' yells Scotty. 'And I went to sleep at Cutter's mill, sixty- five miles from here! What are you giving, us, man?' " `I'm putting it to you straight,' says the stranger. 'Take a look around you.' "Scotty looked, and there was all kinds of wreckage, from a dead beef oiivirrulu �;dcnn•Irtryr.tlCq�l11'g91, r„tltetUOxnsnu•� yu00 ops, said Red. don. busy postmistl'ess rushing out oY lee They spread the board table beneath "Il: or Mese.?" asl.ed the host, with store to waylay any ono likely to h v e an cid apple tree and cleaned up for ' t • !: g aece at his geest. information ou any subject, a stie } the repast in the kitchen storm shed 'f'.: ot:.er ca.'.,;l,t the allusion. "I of questions proceeding from her with an apologetic "Sorry to trouble i l..t t t t led A1�'egetablePreparatiomforAs- slmilating theFoodandRegula- tiltg the Stonmehs ani1 ottels of • Promotes bigestivn,Cheerft11” nessandRest.Contains neither OpiuliT,Morphine norl'lttleral. NOT NA. iC OTIC. JUrtteaPOldiL•Sr1i+f .'•Tt,1 i jlvnp7"rn .Teed' ieteoreena !r ue Sake - Aire Serer' + f3p�,ennint - , onat.fodme i os«a- (ICnh:d .&igen• . •, cera Nor. } Aperfect liemedy forConstipa- tion, Sour Stomach,Diar�ritoea, W;orms,Coftvulsions,FeVerish- nesn and LOSS of SLEEP. Tac Simile Signature of NEW Yi)'11K. STORIA For Infante and Children. The Kind You Have !ways Bought Bears tb e Signature of I� Use For Over Thirty Years EXACT COPY CF WRAPPER. Te �, s ;, rIA . �.. v.vw.. '^'�����'�•� THE CENTAUR COMPA NT. NEW YORK CITY:. gamagammoistas ` follu;ved the deal," he replied, through the door. you, Miss Saunders," or such a mat- , "I.' 1 ., chance it on the ." ':Say, you got anything particular ; ,1 le..;.:•+•,:e:r no felt instantly at home ter as each went in. to do?' Just as Miss Mattie was withdraw-' anti ata .:e: It v::s a quality that Red "No, sir; leastways th ain't no burly ; ing the meet from the oven there came ,•n 7 se.tr:: dhi er.-;:t1 rt'hirever he went. ribOUt it." el. knock at the door. + °I'ie ;`tt'.t al's. : " tald 11 Cd, fOr- s nptsi ued, he made the trip all the way round the trail and woke us up to tell i critter to a wheelbarrow. "Can I buy stuff to make a fence "Goodness, eracious1" she exclaimed.v .:tt.. r It i.:tte tall of juicy meat. u, how he'd gone through I'ergitson's ! "'What in nation's all this?' says he. with around here?" ' '"Whe can that be now? Will, will "'rte is lits .will supply the decorn- roof and the old num asked ltim to n.les, sir; :sir. Pett3grew's got all y0lt see who that is? I can't go:' Urine" Washout,' says the roan. Cloud- "Yes, make himself at home. Next morning st up on the divide—worst we've kinds of buiItlin' material 'at his store "Stere:" said Red and went to the "Do yen like rice a? a vegetable, r had—your hos is about high trr.o anile over yonder," pointing withn tips t:.:!t3,• doer, There stood two women of that sir?"� i.rt;t:ir �a t •• • tt "r °tniea1 ittd there was Scotty out in front of his cabin, his thumbs in his test holes, looking up. "'What's the .natter, Scotty?' setys L "'Well, I wis_bi.. you'd tell. Inc what in the name of God went through that roof?' rays he. "1 sweltered a laugh crossways and put on a serious face. 'Must bave.been a •rook,' says L - " "'Rock nothitt' 1' says lie. 'If it had been a rock 'Would have stayed in the Kidney Troubles FROM THE LIVER in his study of kidney disease, Dr. Chase, the famous Receipt Book author, found that 90 per cent. of the cases arose as a direct re• salt o( liver and bowel disorders, and working on this idca led to the discovery of his cele- !:rated Kidney -Liver Pills, the only Kidney n,edicinc having a combined action on liver and bowels as web. Dr. A. W. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills eve . water mark—you see there was water the whip. 1 indefinite period between forty and i " No, he t. �...:, , lee •" enough for awhile—I reckon you're "You drive over there for Inc and sixty, very decently dressed and with , "He lines it .a:; t.' nr.1 tit'. Never saw about the only thing that came through get some—just like this here—pickets : some agitation visible i.n the way they ' my cee who it eae,1 !ass tike a r•eg- alive:anti posts and whatever you can th m fussily adjusted various parts of ilei, . et:l b,( than u::: fr3v::1" '1'llr. young 1 rr'Well, wouldn't that knock you?'long pieces, and 1'11 make it right with attTircire.v I. ltlt:et 1+1:,;'1 mug t?sl: it. (:cc the otL•- says Scotty. you:' I started at the sudden spectacle ere. r"Fj hi10 the rest of the folk at the • ""Yes, sir. IIory much will I get?„ of the huge man who said pleasantly, ' Poor :I,:•.1 n tt: 17t1:4 confuted. "It's mill was taking to the high ground for "Oh, tell him to fill the wagon tip "How der do, ladies?' toe; 'til r' you, \i'1:;, to put such a their lives, with the water roaring and with it, and I'll sena hack 'what +, u , r lay r l ” sl:r sat.!. tsring throtigh the gulch, roaring _.f.. had "Why, how do you do? replied the t T d - a good don't want. Tarsle, not of this job; taller instantly and to a voice she a boy; tem t men, ,.,...t.-; , .: opportunity t before I begun." When his Mercury had. speeded Ott with surprise. (Tia he Continued.) the journey ata faster gait than Red "Thank", I'm able to assume the per - architect strode down to the Mach:- pendieular, as y0t1 eau see," responded t5 '• Bed, with 't h.11;a.'ot:;e smile of wel' TYENTY YEARS AGO. Local History of the early Bos. Items from the "'limes" fyles. (From the TIMES of July 13, 1888 ) LOCAL NEWS. Two hundred cords of tan bark were reoeived at the tannery of J. Brennan & Oo. in four days, lately. A good sized specimen of an alligator, being forwarded to Dr. Gardiner, of Lucknow, attracted considerable atten- tion at the station on Monday last. Mr. Thos. Gregory has tendered his resignation as deputy -reeve. He took umbrage at the action of the council on the question of Early Closing, and left she conned chamber during the progress of the lastmeeting, resigning subsegnent- ly. Messrs. R Elliott, High Chief Ranger - sad J. Neelands,High Treasurer C.O.F., J. A, Cline, D. M. Gorden, G•so. Patty piece, John McLean, W. Smyth, J. J. Mem F. Billingsley, W MoCreight, A. Sebastian and Miss Billingsley, of Wing - ham, attended the cennert tint followed the didioatiou of Fo:es:•ers' hall e.t Bel - grave on Tuesday evening. The strange and solemn alohymiet death, claimed another victim after a lingering illness on Friday last, in the person of Mrs. Bradshaw gory• Sy this unique action, tuts the most compli. rated diseases of the kidneys when ordinary 1.edicines fail. They also prevent kidney mint biliousness disease by curing liver complaint, and constipation. Try them when the back aches, or there are rheumatic pains, or deposits is the urine. 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"IIow do you de?" was world inio theot only face, butled the no elle we!start durned f we fr0111,"'tm.ournedlit ek Ita:lere to whole C of Ot of the maiden ladies of I� airflcla, ta�itl t}tis4, country saying 'how der mist( dti •ire have excelled hie interest in looking tate whole world as much in the lusido hour at a stretch, I pats it up."meal pocket as possible. The ltlackee :3 ,t he raid: "Coming : , :; f11:1a How's was emphatically a ratan of gossip, as ! your father?" "CUSS rte if I don't well as a hardworking, God fearing i shift the'cu.t a little t.n: lie , ' he ntl,t man. ed mentally. "Say, there he ccu:es norv, 11ir. . ut- n, tie!" cried ono of the lounged, and ' Sir J tlzcliu,i, \y r it fe the t.. ,.� i l1 "-- M the sniitlt to loo!:. ) r •,! la a :•101 nutlt,el to "Well, let flim cont"!" retorted the ' the other woman ; ttie.unl i •c:..t •r. +: •• 1 its the of t;c'ttittlal. "Mary 1 smith testily, jttntlth:r;, a shoe : ;: as z tnat• can you tar.; lilt+ that? I t'•:r t-. •••••. full!. .t. ,,. 1' , Sufi •.,•, t. v nnee 5 .. . with �t •rtl I:a �r rr r ,e fbeen, y tart •. ter of fact he was embarrassed. The dea=l t,.i }ounters huddled together for morel The hot't'O1' <•f the l.t:).:.t° t r :.• 1. Y ' r s , V ' it 1 •tt'at t t 1 1• • the •Y ,tt ht cowman 1 1 COrF tt support t ors, "Why, Scary nal P autme "I • A larger ,. .c , �.,,, ., "'t%b , laws very tall it:.Irc,l:" e,•.. ppot't as to nn Ott^'U the iloorwttyf crying hospitably (1:1 t 4Rrl0 t , yo:t do?" or Isower l't:.,lnsss Ituolta The l••hot'k'r 0::', I':Inti: e, 1.u,°. '•! } I;enl)th l,, he%) r,,!;.. 111'1 t:ai 1 t-!ta''1l•,, ' r. ,.0 , •: , liieittie .. , • : e...,. t1. "Good morning, friemis " SSI 1110. "Good. morning, sir!" replied the blacksmith, rubbing his hands on his apron. "Nice tiety, sir." • "For the take of gool fellowship 1'!l ,t '' IyT THE FOR",SlN SS Th.-; 1 of t .., el the t, t :;a I i-vetn., tti tr Alli:i tr::a tt..; notnottit- . .. tie cue 10:t+) t.•t5 ti t1 1 fro .. ,as itaa,:•1•x)ei:)the ,la;i rfth!'t..110 : ea hull:! or the oil limp. Aat.'. yes 1.1 the el eat of the elec.. tr;e 1t;,hl •-)l) the :1J'ot:tol+e'., of I1:,<'..191 'Mt:th,):i.-? t C?s)r�'E r ' Nis. eta high voltage • hatterlea, altither yo1I valet light A,• „ New potatoes, of somewhat diminu- tive proportions. wero seen at 1i eteae grocery on Wednesday. They were grown by Mr. Wells, of Lower Wing - ham, There was a big exodus from Wing - ham on Thw sdsy morning the 12th of July. About 350 tickets were sold for Kincardine, 50 for Listowel and 20 for London. On Friday evening last, a number of citizens intorma'ly met at the residence of Mr. H. Palk to express to him their good wishes and regret at his removal from Wingham. Mr. GEE. lifcKsy wart called to the chair, and the address was read by' Mr, Peter, Fisher. •' Speeches wore made by the chatrceau and Metsre. D. M. Go don, W. J. Chapreen, �. Buchenen, R. Orr, S. Graney, Rev.'. Scott, F. W. B:ockershire, P. Fisher, Dr. Maedor"ld, J. J. Helmuth and othee s. A number of our citizens are at pre- sent disouseing the matter of a high school foe Winghem. The question is revived by the presence in the town.` last week, of eighty odd candidates for entrance examination. Mr, J. A. Morton left on Monday to sttend the summer meeting o" t`te Ont. irto Fruit Growers' As�ociatian to be htid at Pietoa, rcinee Elward Co., on Wudnes lay and Thursday of this week. DEATHS. KERB—I.t Wini.ham, an the 6•h 1051 r 5 tvab, tl.e beloved wife of Bract w Ksv, aged 33 years, 1 month :mrd 22 days Nervous, : isease DRS. K. & K. ESTABLISHED Consultation FREE. Question Blank for Home Treatment sent tr FREE. 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