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The Brussels Post, 1903-10-29, Page 1Vol. 82. No. 16 101.1610....13.11114, BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1903 W, H. KERR, Prop, New Advertisements. Legal -ht, E. King. The Weekly Globe. 7luotion sale-Mre. Rath Jaoklin, Perm for sale -N. M. Rioherdeon. Keen oath buyers -McKinnon & Oo. :i str",Ct ¥.Ch", Leadbnrv. The many old friends of Rev. and Mre, tOoeens, now of Brussels, were pleased to hear the former preach last Sabbath at Providence, Bethel and Walton and to have the opportunity of greeting Mro. Coeeoe, Mogi-mop 000NOIL, °0000il met in Christopher White's, Leadbury, on 20th Oot. Members of the Connell were all present and the minutes of the former meeting read and adopted. Accounts were painted and paid amounting to $850 inoluding $498 for three steel bridges. Pascal Pigeon was granted until 1904 for completing Boltou'e and Canada Co.'s drains. The Council adjourned to meet at Leadbury on Thursday, Nov. 26, at 1 o'olook p. m. Joo, 0. Morrison, Clerk, W oa.1 i.0 Yt . We are still disoaesing the 0, P. R. and the probabilities of it aiming here. A young man in this looality was fined 65 by a Brueeele magistrate we hear, for Making up a duet at the Walton for recently. This week D. Farquharson and wife remove to Seaforth where they have bought a house and lot from Jae, Beattie. Mr. Farquharson's farm in Morris town• ehip, near here, has been leased by hie none and Mine Farqubarsou will keep house for them, for a time at least, While regretting the removal of Mr. end Mre. Farquharson their many std neigh• bore and friends wish them a pleasant etay in Seaforth. )Ethel. George Miller, of Brussels, was a visit. or at Ethel Ieet Sunday, We are sorry to hear of some oases of diphtheria at Oranbrook. 15 cents will secure THE Pm for the balanoe of 1903. Try it. Mre. (Rev.) Welle has been on the eiok list but we hope she will Boon be as well an usual. Our two teaohere, G. Dobson and Mhea Shannon, bavo been ee•engaged for 1903. The trustees made no mistake about it, That wedding mentioned in last week', POST is being passed round to several couples who have matrimonial eymptone. Sugar beets were loaded here this week for shipment to Wiartou factory. Mr. Forreet, of Wiartou, was overseeing the work. Ripe raspberries and blossoms were pinked here dtring the priet week but the enow•etorm of Monday will rather put a atop to further phenomenal growth. Township Connell will meet here on Monday, Nov. 9th. The MoLeau Drain By-law will be finally paned and the report and Byelaw of the Whitfield By. law will be read. The evangelistic (services beteg held in the Methodist Ohnroh have attraoted large andienaee end enjoyable meetings have been held. Rev. Mr. Pentland, ie a very earnest worker. Lige TurKeys WANTED The undersigned offers 8 cents per pound, and the rise of market, for any quantity of live turkeys between now and the time of shipment, about the end of November. Delivery at Broesel°. Highest prioee will also be paid for Live Ohiokene, Duette, Fowl and Geese. The latter either alive or dry plunked. For farther partioulare enquire of J. B. McLAUCHLIN, 15-4 BRUSSELS. It ie said David 13adgely will give up the Slemmon farm and will be outmoded by Alex. Lamont. The farm is a good one and Mr. Lamont ie well acquainted with the art of tillage so ehoa!d do well, i111olerawort9Y. Sandy Stewart is moving into the manse this week, Wm. Brown has returned from a trip to the West looking hale and hearty. Mien McKnight and Mies Cornish, of Stratford, visited the latter'%, sister, Mies Ooruisb, of the "College". . Edward Greenoidee is poing to have au Aoatiou Sala on Nov. 4th, 1908. Mr. Greeneidee lives nearly a mile East of Molenwgrth on the Boundary. Rev. M. McKey, who hag 000upied the pulpit of the Presbyterian Ohnroh here for the last three months, preaohed hie farewell sermon on Sunday last, The following ie the vault of the Promotion Exam. held oft Oot. 22nd and 23rd ;-Promotion to Third. Total 500. Marks required to pass 280. Clifford MOKee, 418 ; David Preece, 368 ; Sarah Leppard, 345 • Katie Hannah, 847 ; Colin M'nrray, 387 ; Regio McKee, 317 ; Hazel Malatoeh, 298; Sinolair Meikle. j•,hn, 243 ; Nellie Stewart, 288 , Oaehborn Austin, 226, amen erig Cowet. A letter hes been reoeived from Mins Oarrie Brydon reporting her safe arrival at her home in California. Last week William Brydou arrived here from Morden, Man., and will likely spend the Winter in this locality. He is weloome baok. Last Sabbath evening H, W. Avieon took obarge of the servioe in Viotoria Hall. The oongregatiooe o0ntinue good and no emall intereet ie menifeeted. During the poet week Walter Forrest, 2od line Morrie, has been on the eiok.list from an Week of la grippe and other ailments. His many friends hope he will thou be o. k. Saturday of this week Jas. Innen, the genial young man of the store here,leav- 00 for Toronto, where he will take a term at the Bueinesn College. He ie a bright youth who will no doubt profit largely by the expeoted oommeroial training. Tun POST wishes him euooeee. Boren B000ETY.-Sabbath evening, 8th inst., the annual meeting of the Up er Canada Bible Society will be held in Vio. oria Ball. Addressee will be given by Rev. R. Paul and A. M MoKay, of Brne. eels, and Thos. Straohan will preside, A epeoial oolleotion 10 behalf of the erase wlii be taken. %V roxeter. Bert. Sage has returned to the village.' G. Howe visited in Brueeele over Sun. day. Mies Mary Smith ban returned from Brothels. Mine Cassie Harris returned from Hen. Ball last week. Mre. Jae Orr, of Wingham, is renewing old acquainta0oee in the village. 3Iro. A.. Robertson, of Wingham, in the goeet_of her daughter, Mre. D. Rae. Mise McKee left for Laketield leen Fri day where she will spend the Winter with relatives. W Townsend, of the Central Business College, Stratford, visited his uncle B. H. Townsend, recently. Jno, and Mrs, Healey entertained the soholara In the senior °lessee of the school to a orokmole party Friday evening. Peter MoTavieh, of the Belmore road, returned on Monday from the West loop• ing much better after hie three months' vfeib. Jan Brook of io Wt ham spent Sunda g P y with hie mother,lire W Woods, who h .w s v o ae been in a poor sate of health for some weeks. Geo. Walker, of Gerrie, organizer for tho0. 0. F. spent last week in this oleth ity and anooeeded in eeoaring about twelve applications. Neil and Mrs. McNeil, of Howiak, have now beoome residents of the village, bay. tog moved into their pottage, Howiak street, lately pnrobased from Jno, Harris. The Editor of the Star takes exception to oorreepondent'e remarks tact week "that ib took him a week to spend Thanitegiving Day". Our remarks were based on the fact that this was hie seoond holiday week this year and we were nn• der the impression that country Editors were entitled to only one week. Ye Edit or, as be terms himself eaye that your oorreepondenb has been having over two i Oak Leather Team Harness, all our own Hand work and guar- anteed to stand the wear. Single Harness, either Hand or Machine work at prices that cannot be surpassed. We handle no Pao tory Work so when you have our Harness you are sure of a good article. In Blankets we offer great Bargains. We bought largely and beforeg rg y a the advance in price, and offer them Cheaper than ever. Also Robes, Rugs -plush or wool. Q10 alQat Reduction Salo for (lash begins Nov. let and continues to Dee. 1st. Keep the date in mind and remember we will offer you great i3argaiiis. Repairs in Harness and Sboes done promptly. I. C. R I H aG R . mow✓ genre of a holiday. In this he le a little off hie bane (although not annual for him) fur your correspondent, in the last ten yearn lute not had throe weeks holidays and not being an Editor has to work every day. 6i1•il.11 br 00 It. Mre, R, K. MoDonald was vieitiog in Goderioh for a few days. 15 00010 pays for THE POST to Jan. lab. Cheaper than borrowing, Albert Fox will bake a trip to Muskoka on a deer heat and we bar a roant of venison on bis return. 500 porde of soft wood wanted, at the Oranbrook Limo Kiln. Highest price paid. V. Cinema, 0ranbruok. 14 3 Next Sabbath afternoon the eerviee in the Methodist obnroh will be withdrawn us it is Communion Sunday in Brussels. The tine 200 %ore farm of the late August neither, near here, is offered for gale by Mre. Fieoher to close up the estate. It le a desirable property. We are sorry to state that there are 8 oaeee of diphtheria in this Ioonlity and the Medical Health OOiorr has placarded the hoagies in which the trouble estate. School hoe been closed to prevent any danger of spreading the dangerous ail. ment. We hope the metes need will epeedly result in the wiping out of the dangerous disease and that thoee effeoted will be soon restored. Tilrrevale. The snow of Monday made us feel that Winter in at hand, Andrew Henderson ie improving slowly under the beet of treatment. The fruit crop is almost gathered and the farmers are bony with their roots. Mise Powell and Mies Robinson, of Turuberry, are the gueeto of Mies Eva Patterson. We are pleased to weloome Mr. Neth• erg and family, from Belgrave, ea residents of our village. Don't forget the Box Social to be given by the Westminster Guild on Friday evening. Everybody weloome. Rev. W. J. West, has announced a thrice of sermons for Sabbath evening's on "Young women, their Faults and Ideals" and "Young men, their Faults and Ideals," which we trust will prove interesting and helpful. The aerial; begins next Sabbath evening. Quarterly Servioes were held in the Methodist Church, Bluevale on Sunday Oot, 26th. The day was fine and the attendnnoelarge. The Pastor proaohed from 1 John 8 2, and was assisted in the servioe by Rev. W. W. Leeoh, of Toronto. The official meeting on Monday atter noon wah well attended and very harmonious. The Ebenezer Church on the Bluevale Circuit has been undergoing repairs and was reopened on Sunday, 18th inst. Rev. A. E. Jones, of Belgrave, preaohed to large and interested andienaee after. noon and evening. The ohuroh was painted ontside and painted and papered inside and effect is very beautiful. The members of the oougregetion are delight. ed with the work. Williaam Stoneman of Henaabl, had the ooutraot. The ooet wee met by eubeoriptiou' without tbe usual Tee.meeting. e . L, McNeil and wife were at Goderioh last week. P. H. McNeil had a bee cutting brush on Wednesday of last weak. Township Council will be held on Monday, Nov. 9th, at Ethel. Damian MoNeir's health continues poor. We hope be may aeon be better. Mine Annie King hn e been r -en ga ed for 1908 in 9 8S S. No. 1, She has done good work, John Kerney, of Fowlerville, Michigan, is renewing old aoquaintonoee in thie section. 15 ciente will eeoure Tnn Poem to Jno, LA 1904, Now ie the time to subsoribe, Salamis of year free to new subscribers. Bible Society meeting in Bethel ahnroh next Sabbath evening and addressee by Rev, R. Paul and A, Moley, of Brussels. Next Sabbath morning the quarterly servioe will be held at Union Ohurah, 12th non., and the communion observed. The pastor will preach, Peter McNeil ie able to be around agein after hie repent severe Mutes. Hie daughter, Mies Annie, who went to Bete - van for her health, bag improyed greatly with the change of air, we are pleased to Oahe. Wednesday after000n of this week Walter W. 131inoo and Mre. Atioe Ridley, both of this townehip, wore united in marriage at the Methodiet Pareouage, Brunets. by Rev. T. W. Cowing, May j•tyand fortune emile upon them. Ouz'rn Boon8e, A matrimonial %Ilfamie was entered upon Wednesday evening when John Lindsey, a well known young farmer of Grey, and Mies Berbera Pat. rick, of the Howiok and Grey boundary, were joined as husband and wife by Rev. 'r, W. Clones, in Brunie. The young couple will make their home on Mr. Lind say's farm on the 7th non, Their many friends with them happiness and pros parity iu the future. Last Monday Peter Caution left Brae. Bela for Deleeu, Man., where he and his brother Sam. have leased an improved. farm with stook, implements, &o for a term of yeara. The proprietor, an an. married man, will retire from farming and live nearby. The boys ehould do well end they have the beet wishes of the people of this eommunity iu their new enterprise, Either of them will hove to get married now and we seeped that Pete should have the preferenee although Sam ie no new hand at preliminary arrange. ;ante. This week R. E, Conteh, 10th non,, i0 packing up and arranging for shipping his household goods to Flint, Michigan, where he purposes making hie borne, He and Mrs. Coates and Aitken are visiting relativoe neer Senfortlt now preparatory to their removal. Mr. Goatee was a beadier in Brussels Meth- odiet Sabbath Sobool and a member of the Oiiloiel Board of the (March and will be missed. The people of thie momtnnn. fby wish ho and his family health, happiness and prosperity ht' their new looatioo, W. Hommingway, who bought Mr, Coates' farno, arrived here lath week from Teeewater and ie now in poetess. ion, We bid bit and hie family web. some to this looality and wish them sae. nee. no landed in a good township when he came to Grey, B1orrrty. A few thrashings to do yet on the Soh line, Miss Lettie Cook ie somewhat better thie week. Jae. Hall has an auction sale on the 4th of November, Mise Ethel Pipe hoe engaged with Mre. F. Martin, 0th line. Thos. Russell, who was very poorly, ie somewhat better now. Robb. Clark started to work on the big drain on Monday of this week. Rabbit hunting in engaging the spare momenta of some of our eporbemen. The 0. P. R'e eorvey through Morrie mute lotus of the fume in bad' shape. Nurse Sharp is at Oranbrook looking after the Hunter family who have been ill with diphtheria. Joeepb Clegg, Mb line, has 14 steers for Bale, that will weigh about 1200 and are in good oondition. Ed. Nichol has been bothered with a sore hand from blood poisoning but it will eoon be all right now we hope. 15 omits gete Tun POST for the balanoe of 1903. Send it to your absent eon or daughter if you get it yourself. Mre. Jae. Coulter has returned to bar homein Morrie, after a two weeks' visit with friende in London and Sarnia. Dant forget James Hall's auction sale of farm stook, deo., at hie farm, 7th line, on Wednesday afternoon of next week, A big oontraotie being gone through on the 6th line in the shape of road making. It has astonished all who have seen it eo far. John Sherrie, Miss Bradshaw and Mies Aggie Bradshaw, of Morris township were guests of Mre. M. Finch, Clinton for a few daye. Lyon Findlaterintende going to Tor• onto to take ap the study of Telegraphy nod other linea of railroad work, We wieh him enaoeee. The trustees of B. S. No. 6 have re•en. gaged Mies Jamieson ae teacher for 1904 at an increase of salary. Sbe will reoeive 6826. We wish her 0000005. John Bell, who bought the old Mie• Rimming house at Sncshiue, has the building all moved away. Sunshine ie evidently going under a oloud. Richard Armstrong and Fraser Dm. bury will leave shortly on their annual bunting expedition td Northern Ontario. They take great epoch out of these axone. alone. A wedding on the 8th line in the near future. We won't mention any names just yet. Rumor eaye the 4th line will see a wedding before long too and their are others to follow. We are sorry to bear that George Pipe, of the Soo, formerly of thin township, has been laid up with typhoid fever but is getting along favorably and will soon be able to get about we hope. Peter Oantelon hoe got hie house all finished excepting the plastering. It is covered with metallic siding and all fixed over in the interior. Messrs, Cameron & McGill, of Blyth, had the contract. F• Martin, 6th line, has parohaeed a fine Durham bull, 10 months old, from Mr. Harrigan, of East Wawanoeh, It pays to keep the beet. This animal took the red tioket at Brothels Fair against tote of opposition. John Jaokeon and family, Mb line, will remove shortly to the Crazier farm in McKillop whioh they have leased for a term ofY ears. Mr. Crozier w 1 retire will t' re and make his home in Beaforbh. The McKillop people will fiod the Jaokeon family firet•olaee people. The snow storm on Monday put the farmers in memory of the turnip patoh, It was cold weather for the apple business. Care are scarce and the apple barrels are piled up outside at nearly all the etatione. When the talked of 0. P. R. oomee along perhaps we will see the farm produce move more freely. Next week Peter S. Roes, 8th line, will remove with hie family to Elm% town. ship. He has purobaeed a foe 100 acre farm, lot 8, con. 16, from Jno. Ellaoott, who intends going West. The pride paid was $6,000. We wish Mr. Roes and tam. ily prosperity iu their new home. They will not be strangers there as a number of relatives and old friends reside in the same community. After long and euooeeeful service as eahool teacher Malcolm Blank, now teach. ing in No, 8, inbeude baking a rest from the profession for a time at the expir• anion of this term. The trustee board has engaged it Mr. Montgomery of Wrox. eter, as hie suooeeeor et a salary of 8375, His duties will commence the first of the year, Mr. Sleek will probably methane to reside in Morris ae be has a good farm on the Ord line. We hope he may. The Sandwiob Town Connell has ap. pointed Geo. E. Smeaton Town Olerk in plane of the late 0. H. Ashdown, The local 3arbeodere' Union threaten to appeal to the temperance people to enure relief from Sunday labor, The Nth auntie' convention of the Ontario Women's Christian Temperance Union is in progress at St. Thomas. Stephen Prinoe, a thirteen-year.old lad arraeted in Toronto, admitted oomplioity in a large number of reoemt burglaries. Clarenoe McDonald, an employee of the Victoria Wheel Works at Galt, had his eye torn out by a projection on a belt, Mies Maggie Short wan hurned to death by the explosion 08 a lantern in a barn on Mr, Murray's farm near $agereville. At Port Colborne the steamer A. E. Ames damaged the G. T. Railway bridge. Tritine are being tient around by the M. 0. Be until the bridge i0 repaired. The annual meeting of the trneteeo of the Chautauqua Assembly, was .held at Chautauqua last Friday, Among the vioe.preeidente elected was 0. D. Massey, of Toronto. The Wolfe Taland Township Connell have ordered from the Bertram Oom. pithy, goeon tos n 425,000 eteattfer, to rlin (80 a ferryboat between Mingabon and the island, Lord Alvereton denies that be ie to pubiieb iu The Time a detenoe of hie port in the Alaska oommiesioner'e award. Judge aright*, of Elgin County, Judge William Elliott, of Middlesex County, Judge O'Brien, of Prescott and Russell, Judge Deacon, of Renfrew. and Judge Woods, of Kent County, will be retired under the new not. J. W. and Mrs, Eedy, of St. Thomas, formerly of Bt, Mary's, have left for San Diego, Oal. Their many friends hope they will regain their health by their trip and ebey in the South-West, They will remain in California until May next. The Manitoba Department of Echoes. tion in endeavoring to theist the trustees of rural eoboole by giving them ideas as to the beet models of baildiags for use in rural sobool dietriote. To this end they have bad a number of model plane pre pared by arohiteate familiar with school needs, end keep these on file in the De. partment for use of any eahool eeotion desiriog them. EDITORIAL NOTES. THE rate of intereet on loans 1e on the inoreaee owing to the scarcity of money. « A Naw more bangs like the Alaskan award Rod Canadian Independence will be a live question iu the growing country. k R THE probabilities are Mayor Urquhart will be re-elected by aoolamation for 1904. He hes proven hininelf to be a doer not a dreamer for Toronto. HON. EDWARD BLexE'S health ie in a very unsatisfactory state and oomplete rent for months is advised. Hie ailment is of an netvone °bar%ater. Hog. G. E. Foseze has reached Eng. land and will campaign with Mr. °ham. berlain. He's n'olever man but snbjeot to "moments of weakness" in his verba. brae not always helpful to the eanse he is advocating. EXTENeivn improvements are being made at Depot Harbor by the Canada Atlantic ; an elevator is being built bo aaoommodate 1,250,000 bushels of grain. The Nortb.West trade bas the bulge on all other sections of this Dominion. • + THE Ohineee of Montreal are taking out natnralizatiom papers so as to have a vote. They are on to the one and the role of political oampaiging will have to be changed as the almnond eyed voters will be able to "wash the dirty linen" sometimes talked about. Lon Drawn, the queen of the trotting turf, went a mile at Memphis, Tenn., in 1.68. That rate of epaed will never become popular with the average young man wbo pays hie "distregess" to some fair belle. 4 miles an hour is good enough for them, Now that the Rugby football eeaeon has 'started and hookey games almost in sight the drngginte are looking up their arnica supply and measuring off their stook of mart plaster. Prize' fights are not in it with teal rough and tumble Rugby. A Donkhobor riot 000nrred, North of Swan Lake, Man., in which 800 took a fiet over a Methodist missionary attempt. ing to preach to them. Three were killed and one seriously injured before peace won restored. The Donke% are an eccen- tric' lot and will have to be handled like glass-thie side up, with care. AT the annual Convention of the W. 0. T. U. in St. Thomas, a resolution was passed urging that the franchise be ex. tended to women holding the ne0e0eary property gnalifloation, There should be no objeabion raised to this by legislators, in our opinion, as the women property owners have ae good a right to be able to express their opinion with the ballot as the male Voters. Ae a rule a woman ie nearly always on the right oldie of moral questions at any rate. IN the bye elections held on Tuesday at Senit Ste. Marie and Muskoka the parties broke even although the politioalrepresen. tation wasteveraed. Mr. Smith, Liberal, was eleoted in the former over Mr, Mis. Campbell by about 200 and Mr. Mahaffy, Conservative, will be the enaoeeeor to Dr, Bridgeland, Liberal, deemed, by about the same majority. Renfrew le the only vaoauoy now. The standing in the boaee will be as follows t --Liberals, 60 ; Comm. vativee 46 withoutthe speaker and Ren. frew, giving the Government a majority of 4. Premier Rose will continue to do business at the old etand with lbs prob. abilities of Renfrew sending him tooth. er backer. It hes been decided to exhibit a colony of live heaving in the Canadian section of the St. Lade Exposition. London Free Preto nye ;--At the present bice grain ehippera in Ontario are complaining of aaoareity of box oath, and it is estimated tim t a ed t hat on the middle division of the Grand 'bunk there in a eh°nage of abort 1,000 Mg. This was the statement made Tueeday morning by a prominent Guthrie grain man, but et the Grand Train's ofiioee the statement oonld not be oorroborated. One G, T. 11. oflia !al remarked, however, that freight tradho is now very heavy. The railroads are mak- ing every effort to relieve the situation, and are outmoding so well that very few oomplainto are beard. The Oanadien Paoiflo in if anything more fortunate in this reepeot than the Grand Trunk. The movement of grain from the North -ween has been remarkably light this season, and consequently there is not enoh a de. mixed for oath there ae formerly. Morris Council Meeting The Commit met e000rding to adjourn. meet, in the Commit room, Morris, o0 Oot. 19th. Members all present, tbe Reeve in the chair,. Minutes of last meeting read and passed. On motion of Taylor and Jaokeon the Connoii agreed to fornieh 5 inoh tile for a drain on centre sideline, eon. 1, providing the interested parties draw the tile and do the work of patting in drain, On motion of Code and Shaw the bond presented by the Col- lector was aooepted as eatieteotory. Mov- ed by Shaw, seconded by Code that all Pathmaetere in the municipality be in. etruoted tor, have all noxious weede opt or destroyed in their respective beats, Oarried. Accounts were ordered to be paid ae follows ;-Eli Elliott, tile on N. B. $4.65 ; J. A. Anderson, Hall rent for Voters' list Court, $2 00 ; Joo. Oololougb, gravel, $176 ; A. Hughes, gravel, 61 25 ; eeleotars of jurors each, 64.00 ; Mr. Hill, plank, $6.76 ; J. McCaughey, putting in oulvert, 6716 ; D. Pipe, cleaning out dibob, $2.00; Joo, Wallace, repairing auk vert. 62 00 : J. McElroy, underbroshing, 63 25 ; M. Kelly, ditoh, 812 00 ; M. Healy, ditch, $5.00 ; J. McMillan, gravel, $2 10 ; F. Martin, repairing anlverb, $2.00 . Wm. Wells, gravelling, $11.00 ; Jae. Logan, inepeobing, $2 ; D. Lewie, tile and work on Patton drain, $7.10; S. Jobneton, repairing bridge, $20 00 ; Jno. Miller, oul- vert, $14 00 ; R. blathers, cleaning ditch, $2.25 ; A. Clark, cleaning culvert on side. line, $1.00 ; D. Farquharson, tile and gravel, $8.81; J. Smith, gravel, 62,38 ; Duff & Stewart, work and gravel on N. B., $6 75 ; Jae. Hall, gravel, $7.66 ; Den. bow Bros., gravelling on East Bdy., $81.. 59 ; Jae. Bulger, inspecting on .E. Bdy., 66.56 ; R. B. Alaook, repairing oulvert, 63.00. On motion of Taylor and Oode, Mr. Shaw was inetraoted to have a needle beam put in Somerville's brides an thou as poeeible. Bylaw No. 7, 1908 was duly read and passed. The Council then ad- journed to meet again on Nov. 16th. W. °Lena, Clerk. CHURCH CHIMES. Regular quarterly commnnlon servioe will be held in the Methodist church next Sabbath morning, the pastor preaohing at 10 a. m. The testimony meeting and eaoramental servioe will follow. Rev. Dr. Johnston at the alone of the evening servioe in St. Andrew's church, London, on Sunday, intimated to his non. gregation bis purpose to aooept the invi- tation to the American Presbyterian oharob, Montreal, subjeot to the accept. aooe•by the London Preebytery of bis present charge. Owing to the removal of G. F. Blair from Brussels J. H. Cameron bas been appointed his 000080500 as Soperinten•. dent of Melville Church Sabbath Sobool and A. M. MoKay has taken obarge of the Adnit Bible Close. Mr. Cameron also takes Mr. Blair's place ae chairman of the Managing Board, Rev, David Perris, of in W m no. g envied Melville 'thumb he oh pulpit. in thie plane last Sabbath. His morning theme wee "The power of the Gospel" and in the evening the text was I Oor. 2 and 14. Both dieoonreee ware interesting end in. epiring, Rev. Mr. Rose wee at Wing. ham. At the annual Thank•offeriog meeting of the W. F. M. S. of Melville Month, held recently, Mre. (Rev.) Roes presided. Mre. G. F, Blair read the lesson and Mre. Jessie Kerr the Thank•offeriog Leaflet. The collection amounted to about $44.00, a very respectable sum considering the unfavorable evening ae far as weather was oonoerned. Refreshments were served before the meeting was clotted, The ladies deserve every encouragement hn their efforte. The Fifth annual Epworth League Convention of the Methodist ohuroh, London Conference, will be held in Vio• Coria Ave. oharob, Chatham, on Tuesday and Wedmeoday, Nov. 24 and 25. An A 1 program will be presented under the plan of A Sonoon of Methods. Convention was to meet in Park street obnroh, of whieb Rev. G. H. Cobblediok, B. D., for. multi of Brueeele, ie peter but improve. mento being made bo the auditorium will not be oomplebed in time hence the obange to the other Methodist chetah is the town. See apragram. Mrs. Dwight L. Moody, widow of the evangelist, died Saturday afternoon, Oot. 10, at her home in Eitel Northfield, Mage. Mrs, Moody had been suffering for some time from an internal trouble, but her condition was not considered marina. She soddenly became a0ooneciona Bator. day mottling and paeeed away without regaining her eeneeo at 6 o'olook in the afternoon. Her young eon, Pant D. Moody, wee with her at the end, bat her two other ohildren, a son and daughter, were in Chicago. The funeral took plane Tuesday, Mre. Moody was born in Eng land about 00 years ago. Rev, Alfred Andrews of Walton, primate. ed bi Centenary Missionary sermons in the Methodist Church last Sabbath. He dealt in the morning with the wont done and the necessity for enthaeiaatio liberal. ity to this great these, illustrating itis remarks with most interesting personal experiences in the Northwest. Ab the evening 0800100 bill sermon wan based dpon the text "He that winnetb souls is. wise," Mr, Amdrewe is a pleasing speak- er to Retell to, has good enunciation, clear dub sentencee and well reasoned not di- vieione. Sobsoriptione and eoiloetione were taken and oollaotore will °all upon those who were not preheat eolioiting theft aid to Chin uplifting power, Monday evening the annual meeting of the Mebhodieb Sabbath School was held, the pastor in the ohalr, Minutes of last annual meeting read end 'poefirmed. Treaenrer's report showed a betimes . of 8192 to oredib of Salmi, $36 00 of which was Missionary money. Offioere and teaohere were re•eleoted with the annotat- ion of the Treasurer, It was deoldod to have the school year close on April 80, benne the following staff will bold ofano until that date next year :-Superintend. eob, W. H. Kerr ; aeeistant, W. J. Mo• Oraoken ; Secretaries, W. Griffith, George Cardiff and Mies Miele Buchanan ; Treaeerer, F. J. Gilroy I Conductor of Oroheetra, H. L. Jaokeon, Teaobers, B. Gerry, Eli Smith, Rev. R. Paul, Mine Kerr, Mies Minnie MoNaughton, Mrs. B. Walker, Mre. A. J. Lowry, Miss Ethel Stott, F. J. Gilroy, T. Farrow, Mise Dolly Beaker, Mies Martha Smith, Mre. (Rev.) Ooeene, H. R. Brewer, W. J. Mo. Oraokeo, Mrs. Nicholls, W. H. Salter, Miss Kate Ronal!, Mies Tharea Gerry, Mies Maggie Bozell and Mies Carrie: Hingetoo, Assistant teaohere, J. Oober, Mre, Watson Ainlay, Mrs.FlotoherSpar'. ing and Ira Parker. A hearty vote of thanks was paeeed to the Orchestra for their serviette, 625,32 was voted to the obnroh Board as a donation from the eahool. It was decided to hold a Teachers' Tea in the Sunday School room Friday evening of next week at 6.15 o'olook after- which it Round Table Aon- ferenoe on Suggested improvement's for 1904 will be bald. Canadian P8 e ws,. Parliament was prorogued on Saturday Dalton Ullyot, a retired lumberman, died at Peterboro'. Bishop Ridley College at Bt.Catharines was destroyed by lire. Judge Hodgins has ordered the Kitty D returned to her owmere. Parry Sound Liberals nominated R. J. Watson for the Commons. Sir Charles and Lady Tupper have er. rived in Montreal from England. The Northwest Legislative Assembly meets on Thursday of this weak. John Gerlio, a boy of fifteen, was killed in Perine'e Woollen Mill, at Dover. John OA, a proepero0e farmer, was found dead in a field near Moorefield. Almond Reid's naw and shingle mills at Foxboro' were destroyed by fire. Loth $6,000. Brakeman James Armstrong, of St. Thomas was 000 over and killed at Ba. geroviile. Four men were killed at Niagara Falls and four injured by falling fifty feet into the wheel pot. Dr. Gideon Laroogce, formerly Serge. ant.at•Arme of the Quebec Legislative Aeeembly, is dead, Rev. C. 0. Johnston of Wesley Church, Toronto, regneeted ladies to take off their bate during the servioe. William S. Russell, an old employee of James °orietine & Co,, Montreal, eboe. himself with a revolver and ie dead. A strike ie reported among the servant girls of the O. A. 0. at Guelph, and 10 ie said Ohineee have taken the plane of the strikers. The ateamer Sauber was wreaked off White Fish Point, thirty miles from the Soo, the captain and one man being drowd, Elio etaneil merobante in Toronto have asked permieeiom to carry revolvers for the proteotion of their property on Hal. lowe'en. Frank Shortb, of 654 Palmerston ave. nne, Toronto, died Tuesday from the effects of a oollieion with a bicycle the day before. The bodof John Gilbert,am arm vet- eran, bad been given to te School of Anatomy, Toronto, before his wife beard of his death. Exaavatore at the old fort unearthed the bones of what are believed to be five American soldiers, buried there in the war of 1812. The property -owners of Windsor have carried the by-laws to raise $56,000 for granolibbio mike and $15,000 to remodel the Central School building and oonvert it into a city hall. Some clothing and valuables found on the lake chore at Oakville lead to the be- lief that D. IvloGregor, formerly manager of the Bank of Commerce at Gale, had drowned himself. Mre, Gough, a widow of Stamford vil- lage, ran to a neighbor's with her throat out with a razor, saying a strange men had tried to kill her. The polioe think it an attempt at anioide. The woman will probably recover, The oensae bureau issued a bulletin last Tuesday night dealing with the agricultural resooreee of Ontario. The province has an area above the bide levet. of 166,961,680 aoree-141,126,330 land,: 25,826,806 water. Of the land, 16,18 per oath is 000upled ae farms, Agrinaltnrel values have been taken for the first time in this census. They show for tame and lobo in the provinoe a tete' for lands and buildings of $747,962,5681 for imple• manta and machinery, $62,697,786 ; for nye stook, $181,827,702 and for grope and animal prodooto of theoeneue year $196, 952,362. For farms alone the value of land and buildings ie $745,598,892 ; of implements and machinery, $62,263,988 t of live stook, 6128,248,001, and of crepe and animal produobe, 6192,866,303, HOn, Richard Harcourt, who has just returned from a trip through the Nlpie. sing dietriot, over the route 'of'the Tem. fawning Railway, states that 42 mites of track have been laid on the new road with 80 pound steel rails. Ont of the 42 milers about 30 have been ballasted and graded, The grading work will be con- tinued all Winter and the line aompieted in the Spring. The now line will out a Corner off the Temagami reserve, whioh contains 2,200 square milers andit in moat fertile land and very Valuable. Mr. Latchford sake he bas •requested the oommieeioner of drown laude to lay bat a town sits, eell the lands to the Bout'h and Best of the railway and devote the proceeds towards extending the line. Mr, Latobtord thinks Temagami Lake will be the pleasure resort of the future, The lake mutable' 1,400 islands heavilyt covered with valuable timber,