The Wingham Advance, 1914-03-05, Page 51
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1914
THE WINGEAM ADVANCE
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The Big March
Half Price
Jewellery Sale
Commences Saturday, Feb. 28th
and will continue until end of March
We are commencing this sale on Saturday morn-
ing for the benefit of our out of town customers.
Look for display of half price articles in windows
and in the store. Listed below are a few of our
bargains. We are giving a discount of 20 per
cent. on any thing in the store.
Diamond Rings at Half
Price.
1 Lady's Ring, 5 diamonds, Folic:
regular at $75, for. . ,.,$37.60
1 Lady's ring, 3 diamonds, sells
regular at $50, for $25,00
1 Lady's Diamond Ring, ee11s
regular at $50, for $25,00
1 Lady's Diamonds Ring, sells
regular at $40, for $20.00
1 Lady's Diamond Ring sella
regular at $25, for $12 60
1 Lady's Diamond Ring sells
regular at $20 for $10.00
1 Lady's Pearl and Diamond Riug
sells regular at $ 20, for. ,$10.00
1 Lady's Amethyst and Diamond
Ring sells reg. at $13, for.. $6.50
1 Lady's Diamond Ring sells reg-
ular at $15. for $7,50
Watches at Half Price
2 Gents' 20 year weld/filled Wat-
ohee, 17 jewe.. u movements,
regular price $20 eaoh, for
$10,00
2 Gents' 20 -year gold-filled Wat-
ches, 16 jewelled movements,
regular price $16 each, for $8 00
2 Gents' 20 -year gold -filed Wat-
ches, 7 jewelled movement, reg-
ular price $12 50 each, for $6.25
3 Gents' nickle case Watches, 15
jewelled movements, regular.
$12 eaoh, for $C 00
3 Gents' nickle case Watches, 7
jewelled movements, regular
e6 50 each, for .. $3 25
1 Gent's coin silver case, 17 jew-
elled movement, regul tr at $1-1,
for $7 00
2 L tdies' gold • filled. Watelres,
regular $20 each, for ....$10.00
2 Ladies' sold -filled Watches, reg-
ular $16 each, for $8 00
Pearl Rings at Half
Price.
1 Lady's Ring, 3 pearls, sells regu-
lar at $20, for $10 00
2 Ladies' 5 -Pearl Rings, sells reg-
ular at $12 eaoh, for $6.00
4 Ladies' 5 -Pearl Rings, sells reg-
ular at $8 each, for $4.00
3 Ladies' 3 -Pearl Rings, sells reg-
ular at $6 each, for $8,C0
3 Ladies' Pearl Rings, sell regular
at $4 eaoh, for • $2,00
6 Birthday Rings, sells regular at
$2.60 each, for $1.26
12 Lathes' Signet Rings, sells reg-
ular at $3 each, for $1,50
3 Ladies' Cameo Rings, sells regu-
lar at $6 eaoh, for $3.00
2 Ladies' Cameo Rings, sells regu-
lar at $8 eaoh, for $4,00
Clocks at Half Price.
Six 8 -day Clocks, regular $1 eaoh,
for $2.00
2 Mantle Oloeks, regular $8.50
each, for $1 25
15 Alarm Clocks, regular $1 eaoh,
for 500
6 Repeater Alarm °looks, regular
$2 each, for , . . .$1 00
6 Alarm Olooks, regular $160
each, for 75o
15 Gold and Silver -headed
Umbrellas at half price.
[land Bags at half price.
Brass Goods at half price.
Toilet Sets and Manicure
Pieces of all kinds at half
price.
15 Watch Fobs at half price
Special for Saturday
6 Alarm Clocks, regular $1 each, for
25c each, Warranted.
Special for Saturday
6 Watches regular $1 each, for 50c
Special
One Gent's Diamond Tie Pin, regular
price $30, for $15.
Special
One Gent's Diamond Tie Pin, $175.
We will olly sell one of welt article to customer at these
prices. No goods given out without the spot cash.
W. G. PATTERSON
THE GREAT WATCH DOCTOR
WINUFIAM
ONT.
Wanton Waste
Forty millions of dollars of the money
of the people of Canada thrown away
by the Laurier Government.
This is the finding of the Oowmis•
Sion appointed in January, 1012 to in•
vestigate the construction of the Na-
tional TranecontInental Railway. The
report of this Commission is a damning
condemnation of the Liberal admini-
stration, a story of waste so reckless
as to suggest criminality ; it reveals
one of the gravest scandals in the ad-
ministrative history of Canada, havinE',
perhaps, no parallel in the record of
railway construction the world over.
Scores of millions of dollars of puha c
money were shovelled into the coff. is
f favoured contractors, and there tk
no redress. This money is gone, with
no possibility of restitution. It wee
squandered under .the provisions of a
law forced through Parliament by the
Laurier Government, a law which was
fought at every step by the Conserva-
tive party, a law constituting one of
the most stupendous blunders• ever
committed by any government ane•
where,
Look for a moment at the history of
the Transcontinental Railway project.
Go back to 1902. In that year the Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada announcf d
a project for the extension of its lines
through the Canadian West by the
construction of the Grand Trunk Pa.
cific Railway. In this project, a,
originally described, there was no pro
vision for an eastern section collet
than the existing lines of the old Grand
'Plunk. The extension westward was
to ho made from either Gravenhurst
or North Bay on the existing Grand
Trunk system in the Province of On-
tario.
This was a railway proposition, pure-
ly and simply. When it was put before
the Laurier Government it became a
political proposition. The Laurier
Government wanted a new eastern
division passing through Northern On-
tario and Quebec to the City of Quebec.
Supporters of the Lender Govbrnment
demanded :that the line be carried
down into the Maritime Provinces.
This was political. There followed the
contract between the Government and
the Grand Trunk Pacific, under which
the eastern division was to be built by
the Government and leased to the
Grand Trunk Pacific for a period of
fifty years, the rental to be equal to
three per cent. per annum on the cost
of construction. Later on the Govern-
ment agreed to let the Grand Trunk
Pacific operate the eastern division
rent free for seven years at the begin-
ning of the fifty-year period. If, at
the end of seven years, the road was
not paying operating expenses, the
Government agreed to pay the interest
for three years more, and add it to the
cost of construction.
The original Grand Trunk scheme
would have cost the Country nothing
but a guarantee of bonds.
When the Trauecontinental project
was before Parliament, Hon, W. 8,
Fielding, then Minister of Finance,
stated that the eastern division could
be built by the Government for $61,-
415,000. For this estimate he professed
to have the authority of experienced
railway men. The Opposition, under
the leadership of Mr, 14, •L. Borden,
warned the Government, and warned
them repeatedly, that they were em-
barking upon the work with insuffi-
cient information. Sir Wilfrid Lau-
rier'e reply was that they had "moun-
tains of information."
The situation then was this : the
Government sot out to construct a line
of railway from Winnipeg to Moncton,
a distance of eighteen hundred miles,
through a country largely unexplored,
an unbroken wilderness, involving the
most costly construction, very heavy
bridging, etc. The route laid down
was, for a very considerable distance,
practically inaccessible for construc-
tion purposes.
The Government had, as a matter of
fact, nothing but a guess as to what
the building of such a railway would
involve, a guess which was kept as low
as convenient for political reasons.
But even in this situ etion and in the
face of these difficulties, one impor-
tant precaution could have been taken;
the work of construction could and
should have been entrusted to a com-
mission of practical railway builders.
This is just what the Laurier Gov-
ernment
overnment did not do. Had they set out
with the deliberate intention of en-
couraging waste and worse, they
could not have taken a course different
from the one adopted. They placed
the Construction of the railway in the
hands of a commission composed of --
Hon. 8. N. Parent, Chairinan, a
Liberal politician from Quebec, a man
with no knowledge whatever about
railroad construction.
W. S. Calvert, a former Dberal M.
P., a country storekeeperfrone Strath•
ray, Ont.
0. A. Young of Winnipeg, a grain
b oyer and implement dealer,
Colin Mcleaac, a former M. P„ a
FALLING HAIR AND
ITCHING SCALP
Needless --Use Parisian Sage.
Now that ParIelan Sage can be had
at any drug counter It is certainly
needless to have thin, brittle, matted
stringy or faded hair. No muter how
unsightly the hair, how badly it is
falling, or how much dandruff, 1'eri-
etan Sage is all that is needed. Fro.
quest applications and well rubbed in•
to the scalp will do wonders --it acts
like magic. The hair roots nourished
and stimulated to grow new hall, itch-
ing scalp, dandruff and falling hair
costs ---your head feels fine. Beat or
all the hair becomes soft, fluffy, abun-
dant and radiant with life and beauty.
Yon will be surprised and delighted
with Parisian Sage. Try at least one
fifty cent bottle firCitt J, W, MoKibbon
hats a 'oe U
WINCiHAM'S
FIRST ANNUAL
Oar
will be held on
Tuedav Mar. 17
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TT is the purpose of the Business Men and Merchants of
Wingham to make this one of the most Sensational Bar-
gain Days the Town has ever known. The purchasing
power of $1.00 will be Greater than ever before in the history
-of Wingham. Every merchant has promised to give his
customers on that day an
Exceptional and Extraordinary
Dollars' Worth of Uoods
$1 0 n "Luxuries and Necessities" are in= 0 0
caused in this Sensational Day of
Cut Prices. Get Your Share.
A Dollar Bill will do Great Service on Dollar Day.
Watch the Advertisements Next Week and
Come to Wingham prepared to take home
your share of the Big Offerings
REMEMBERTHIS DATE
IsD1•2?
TUESDAV,ARCN 17th [$1.OoJ
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country lawyer from Antigonish, N S.
These gentlemen had no wide ex-
perience even in their own business or
profession. Oa the subject of building
railways they were as ignorant as
babes. Tne chairman of the Board,
Mr. Parent, had been a very active
politician in Quebec and Premier of
the province, but had been turned out
of office without the smallest possi-
bility of ever being returned to it. He
had been President of the Quebec
Bridge Company. whose career had
been one of signal failure.
There was the Commission. They
had not been at work very long before
r•.truors of what was happening on the
line of construction reached Ottawe.
Charges that contractors were getting
big money through the improper clas-
sification of material excavated were
freely made. The chief engineer of
the commission resigned rather than
assume responsibility for work of
which he could not, as an honest man,
approve. The Laurier Government,
finding itself in a hole, referred the
over -classification charges to a special
Parliamentary committee dominated
by a majority favourable to the Gov-
ernment and favourable to the Com-
mission, The only result of this was
that Mr, Charles Murphy of Ottawa,
earned a place in the Liberal Govern-
ment whose conduct he had defended
before the committee.
When the Borden Government took
office there was a general cleaning of
stables so far as the Transcontinental
was concerned, The Laurier Com-
mission speedily went out of office and
a practical railroad builder of high
standing was placed in charge of the
completion of the road, Then, in
January of 1912, the Government op -
pointed an investigating commission Shoe
composed of Messrs. George Lynch -
Staunton, K. 0., of Hamilton, and
Mr. F. P. Gutelius, the latter a practi-
cal railway man of wide experience in
both the conetruc'tion and operation
of railways.
The thoroughness with which this
inveetlgation was conducted precluded
successful concealment of the real
facts in connection with the building
of the Transcontinental, The Com-
missioners examined all contract»,
estimates, plans and correspondence
in the otllees of the National Trans.
continental hallway Commiselon at
Ottawa, and went personally over the
road In company with the engineer
d ether n}fielels. They f, mid that
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ISAtD'S
Sale of Remnants
After the Big Clearing Sale we find in
going through the stock all kinds of Rem-
nants. .Broken sizes in Hosiery, Gloves
and Corsets. You will find Big Savings
here while this Remnant Sale is going
on, Ends of Dress Goods, Silks, Trim-
mings, Table Linen, Cottons, Flannelette,
Flannels, Shirtings, Cretonnes, Art Sateens,
Muslins, Towellings, Prints, Ginghams,
Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons, White Cam-
bric, Oilcloths and Carpets.
SALE . OF FURS.
Sale of Furs, Fur Coats, Fur Lined Coats,
Fur Collared Coats, continues. Prices
lower than ever.
Groceries at Cut Prices.
H. E. Isard & Co.
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Tuesday, March 17
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They found that the Laurier Govern- 9
ment had refused to stop the waste 6
when they knew it was going on, that C3
contractors hal pocketed $8,800,000 by t!
the simple process of sub -letting, that i3
in one case there bad been a rake•off of
$710,000 with no work done at all, and
that the railway, which was to have
cost only $61,415,000, was really cost- c3
ing the country the staggeringtotal of
$231,051.521
Business College Course at Seventy.
The Caledonia Sachem had the fol-
lowing item last week : "Mr. A. J.
Hewson, of Victoria, 13, 0., and well
known in this village, where his
brother and sister reside, recently got
a diploma from the "Tamblyn Scholl
of Penmanship, Kansas City, Mo.,"
for a full course of penmanship by
mail, comprising plain business,
ornamental writing, flourishing and
card writing and is now a professional
penman. Mr. Hewson is seventy
years of age, and can hold bis pen jut
as steely as when he taught at Green's
school house thirty years ago, when
he won first prize at Caledonia Fair
penmanship." Mr, Irewson is a per-
sonal friend of Mr. George Dill, Park
Avenue, and was the first teacher of
his eldest son, Mr. Park Dille, of
Gloversville, N. Y.
Mr. Geo. Moir
Wishes to announce to the citizens
of Wingham that he is in the old
stand to stay.
Shining and, Dyeing.
Cigars, Gum, Laces,
Give us a
cta1I.
etc.
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NOX A COLD
108 is the ret' o,er of the prescription
once eubscril-' wonderful doctor.
1t stops a t. 1ievee a-thma and
tronelaitis, and d for ell lung and
threat troub'e. 'l he beat ooegh naedt•
rine for obi:(Iron ; try it. Stitt per bet.
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persons sending in the NEATEST correct solution of the "TWENTV-SEVEN PROBLEM."
There is positively no lot or chance connected with the solution of this problem. It is a
contest of skill. The NEATEST correct solution of the problem will be awarded the Piano,
and the other awards will be distributed in the order.of merit. Everybody who sends in a
correct solution will be awarded a prize.
First Award
A Beautiful Doherty Up
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Value $425
Second Award
A $375 Upright Piano for
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A Beautiful Violin, complete
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A Handsome Guitar, corrt-
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And 28 additional Awards
to the nest 88 neatest
correct solutions,
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DIRECTIONS—Take the numbers from 5 to 13 inclusive, and place thein in the squares so
that when added together vertically, horizontally and diagonally, the total will be 'I'WENT V -
SEVEN. No number can be used twice. Use this or a separate piece of paper or other
material.
The gentlemen who have consented to act as Judges are a guarantee that the
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In case of a tie, the Judges being unable to decide between any two solutions. each
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