The Brussels Post, 1888-5-25, Page 5t1
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MAY 25, 1888.
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GIVING UP THE ICE-CREAM BU?.-.JIN n-,
TIT: law compelling us to close our sten! at 7 o'clock p. xn. will prevent us selling Ice -Cream and Summer Drinks. Wu are going more extensively into the Grocery Business. It has aiw.ty.i 'wen oue
of our principles in business to accommodate the public at the expense of our own comfort. We have always waited on our customers with as much ploasure at 10 O'clock at uiollt a8 at 10 in this
morning. Wo have always refused to slant the door in the face of our friends, if they should be a little late in getting in This is the ago of combines. Last year an attempted combine w,ts ulalo t.1 loop
out the pedlars;�
s year a combine to compel people to deal within certain hours is successful. Next year we should not be surprised t,, find a law compelling people to deal at certain store and pay
certain prices. S1 o are against all such combines. \i a cannot sell you goods after 7 o'clock p, m., but we have still the liberty of selling cheap. We are not only the tnogt obliging stare in tlirossels, bat
are the cheapest. We will sell
12 lbs. Granulated Sugar for $1 00.. 15 lbs, Good Brown Sugar for $1.00.
101bs. Good Japan Tea Dust for $1.00.
We will givo more Groceries for $1 than any other store in Brussels. We give more Currants, Raisins, Rice, Oatmeal, Cornmeal, Flour, Soap, Starch, Blue, Tea,, (:l.i:e, Spic„ P,til;, Tub;, (.1),h1; Lir1s,,
&c., for $1.00 than anyone in Brussels.
2 Cans Fresh Tomatoes for 25 cents. 2 Cans Fresh Corn for 25 cents. Canned Beef only 20 cents per Tin.
Everything Cheap. Everything the Best Quality.
Cash for any quantity of Eggs.
1 -110 -C3 -S 1.
BUTTER !
Cash, in part for any quantity of Good Butter in Tubs. NO CREDIT !
We will pay you cash for your Eggs; we will sell you goods cheap ; we will do anything to oblige, but we cannot give credit.
the prices we sell at.
- BUTTER !
FilaG-S 1
BUTTER
The Toronto Grocery.
DiMrict Daus.
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Which is it; Scott Act or Crooks Act.
David Tindall has been on the sink
list. Mrs. B. Tindall has also been poor-
ly this spring. .
Rev, J. T. Logear and wife woro away
at Goderieh this week. Rev. R. Paul
took Mr, Legear's work last Sunday.
P lf° reteis,t.
Rev. G. B. Howie, M.A., will preach
'at James Ireland's residence on Friday
evening of this week,
Council meeting and Court of Revision
at the fall on Monday of next weak,
commencing et 10 o'clock a.m,
Chas, ilingston and family have re-
moved to Temperaucoville, York Co.,
whole he engaged with a Rochester nur-
sery. ile should melee a good agent.
Wee] toss.
The fanners Have. nearly all finished
seeding.
Tho question now is, Where aro you
going to spend the 24th ?
Mr and firs. Leech have returnod
and the cheese factory started on Mon-
day,
The Messrs, McDonald have atartocd
thrir shingle mill and it ie now in good
running order.,
Whore will the O.P.R. station built
n ho bn It
is rho nouundrunl jest now Bruesole
and Seaforth will have to take a bank
seat.
The teachers, Misses Hillou and Ma
Dougall, attended tho Teachers' Coavon-
lion on Thnreday and friday of last
wool: a.t Seaforth.
Tho fitimnoisl affairs of the Walton cir-
cuit in connection with the Methodist
church have boon wound up this year in
a moot satisfactory manner. We havo
had n good year with our pastor, Rev.
W. Torrance.
Gr try.
Scedi „being finished tiro root ground
le uuw .cc,iving attention.
Court of Revision and Commit meeting
at Etbci on Friday of elle Weets,
It is rumored that another matting
has talten.plac0 near the east end of the
16th line,
Tho only mrviving child of David
Clark, which also had tiro diphtheria, is
now quite well.,
Miss Dortha Bali is home from Sea -
forth. Silo le perfoetinghorsolf in phono-
graphy, Wo wish her success.
A. glnueo at our diary shotes that troos
wore in bloom on the 8th of May last
year, Iiow much gator Ellis year 1
A Young Peoples' Society luta boon
formed in oonnsatiou with I(nox ohuroh.
at Cranbrook and promisee to be a good
8000055.
11, Bali has tho oxoavating done for
the foundation of his now house. IL will
bo brick voucer and will boa comfort•
able struotnre °reeled on ono of tho very
boot situs.
• A. very largo number aseomblcd 10
hoar. R.ay. Mr. Howie in Shino's school
hone° last Friday uvoning. Tho rev.
gdntlenran is a good speakcs! and 1landloe.
hi:; eubjeefs in a masterly menti',
A Sunday school *mitt Will bo held
in \ngns,Shaw's grove on rho (queen'
11 ' lhday. After refreshments addresses
are expected from Rev. R. Paul, Rev. J.
T. Legear, W. 1f. Kerr and :others. A
good time is expected.
Farmers generally are displeased at
the early closing of business places,
especially during the summer months,
and -will tern their attention more to the
oountry stores, whore they will make
their purchases during the cool of the
evening. Its nn i11 wind that blows no-
body good.
-'Wilee;hrltee .
Tho following officers of the Woman's
Missionary Society woro appointed : - •
President, Mrs, Chas. Lloyd; vioe-presi-
dents, Mrs, George Thompson and Ides,
11. 0I. Robinson ; recording-scerotary,
Mrs, Thomas IIohnes; corresponding -
secretary, Mrs. Dr. Towler; treasurer,
Mrs. John Elder.
The Queen's Birthday will be !celebrat-
ed here in grand style. The program
will conmlenco at 1) it. m. with a baso
ball metal) between Goclerlob and the
local nine. A lacrosse match will also
bo played. A Trades' p1oe0ssion takes
plats 101 1 p.m., after which a series of
games and sports will take place on the
Agrionitnral park.
hiaen:oNocsIxssrrcrlc.--Tito following
is taken from thio annual report:—The
annual roport showed that the year was
begun with a balaneo of 6512.20 ; 670.75
were received in taemborship foes ; and
in govern eat prtutts 5250, making the
tutolrassots 0811.01. There WAS expend,.
ed for milt etc., 5105,08 ; for salaries
074.10 ; for boole0 not fiction, etnei.57 3
for books, fiction, el48.51.; for magazines,
newspapers, ole., 575.75 ; mieoollanooua,
087,86, time leaving a balance on hand of
04473. The value of 1 ,n,lto 011 luted 1s
0550, and tho tot 41 1 e e, e671,73, Thera
wore bought best yew' 112 books, -of which
150 woro flotion, 1) biography, 24 history,
6G nlisaulkeneous, 12 „choral literaturo,
19 io O tr ' and c rami 10 re i •tuts 28
i s y 1 , 1 1,
science and art, 50 voyage and travois,
and 1(1 works of refermwc, Thom are
now 1805 volumes in tho library, of which
1092 acro fiction and 390voyegomtd travel.
There are 3 daily and 113 weekly papers
rooeiv01, 7 magazines and 8 periodicals,
Tho ensuing year's otl]oore are: J. A.
Morton, president ; W. 11;. Lnntit, seorn-
tery; R. McIncloo Lrcnsuror; Messrs,
Fisher, Morton, Cloves, Dr. Towler and
D. C. Munro, board of directors.
lelsto' v tet.
A movement is on foot to build a num-
ber of small houses ae rho Stable falls
HMI sumiucr,
Hay Bros. aro removing the old mill
ofileo and =about to build a brick build-
ing in its place,
Informations have boon laid against
two of our leading storekeepers for break-
ing tho early olosieg by-law by selling
goods afto.' hours.
EL Bothwell, who for years past has
boon ltoad•nlastor of rho public School,
wont to Brentford, whore, on friday
afternoon, he was married to :Miss Mary
Britton, formerly of Listowel.
' Tho Town Commit has under coptsicl-
oration tho disposing of Elm Agl•ienitural
path grounds, and purchasing other pro.
petty alum„ the Elaut' for tho pnrpodo of
malting a resorvoir, to he utilized 10 con-
nection with tho water works, and pro-
bably for boating and outer. rocreation.
A move 1s 110w being mole to bawl a
perk, The plaoo whetted is the old
0011001 grounde,oppositc D. D. ('ampbell's,
It is utterly impossible to git'rr eredit at
The grounds are being levelled and clean-
ed up, and will, with careful handling,
make a good park. A bandstand is to bo
erected in the contra and trees and shrubs
at once planted.
J. C. Hay and II, H. O'Rielly havo
recently given a largo amount of labor to
prepare sumo statistics of Imports and
Exports to and from Listowel, which
show that in proportion to its size our
town is ono of rho mast enterprising in
this part of Ontarid. The statistics shote
that during the past year the exports
amounted to 1800 carloads of merchandise
and mtenufaoturing goods, whilst the im-
ports woro 668 carloads, roprosentiog over
515,100 for freight, Meaers. Hay Bros.
and Mess Bros. nem by far the largost
exporters.
teleentortle.
The flax mill and its oontents owned by
Lawrence Murphy, of this place, was tot-
ally destroyod by fire at midnight on
Thursday of last weok. The loss by the
destruction of tho mill is 46,000; insur-
ance 58,000.
J. Livingston, captain of the Collegiate
Institute foot ball team, bas boon chosen
as one of the players on the Comedian
team in the international match at Sor-
lin
on the 91th of May, between Canada
and the United States.
Several important changes toots placo
in the times of trains leaving Stratford,
on Monday. There is no change on the
mai linobut there is new train
G.T.R.n a 1 ev
to London and a new one to Goderieh.
The now train to Croderioh leaves Strat-
ford at 1:95 pen.
At the election for two :ounoillan ]n
the eolith ward M. R. Counter and A.
Bonin wore eleetod. The following aro
tho vatee east for each oaudidate : A.
Bean, 0.1 ; til, .Lt, Coater, 49 ; J. Gillespie
•lu ; A. 'Trot; 28, Tho councillors for
this ward aro T. W. Duman, A. Beam
and M. R. Coulter.
Eight mouths ago Elizabothand4onnio
Quiulancl, sisters, aged respectively 20
and 18, loft thoir home hi Seaforth, and
came to Detroit to engage in sarvieo.
Thoy secured situations as waiters at Ella
St. Elnio hotel, and up to two woelts ago
are reported as having beau faithful ser-
vants. Thur day night in company with
(Von. Shepard, living at 128 Michigan
avenue, they were lodgod in rho Central
Polioc,Station, Sorgt. Ben High states
that rho inveution of the polico had roe -
cued thorn ort tho brink of a ruinous life,
Sentence. —From tits assessment roll
the glean the following statistics t ---There
aro 60.4 nitildren between rho ages of 5
and 1(1; 411) betwoon 7 and 18, and 778
betwoot 16 and el. Tho real property is
assessed at 0515,500; personal property,
560,500; income, 517,880; total tome.
noir, 6592,880. Tho population is
2,0.16. There ie a substantial and setls-
foototy inereasc in every department,
showing that tho town is malting satis-
factory progress. There aro fn rho town
110 cattle, 1111 horses, 25 ahoep, 28 pige
and 109 doge. Thera Was (luring tho year
40 births and' 22 deaths.
teremees Bmeitnee,—A grand lacrosse
matulr will take plane on the 24th, bo-
ttween the ".Hoover t," of Seaforth, and
the ',Dauntless," of 111111100, arnn1no110-
ing .11 10 o'clock sharp. 1 u tho after-
noon horse races will 11n hold on Fair-
view park, which will be tlto beet of the
season 00 liberal parses have boon offer -
01. In the evening a getout =cot will
be given in Cardno'a hall when Mies
Maggie Campbell, formerly of Seaforth,
James Fax, of Toronto, Mrs. and Miss
Sage, of Walton, the renowned musical
glass players, and other Ewell -known tal-
ent, including tho Seaforth quartette
club, will take part. This entertainment
is for the benefit of the 38rd battalion
band. o—
Unroll County Notes.
The avornge attendance at Clinton
Public School, during the month April,
was 450.
The fall wheat, in Aslifield township
is a failure ; °spatially is this tho case
whom the wheat was tint in on pats land.
Tho population of Goderieh has in -
°roasted the past year by 109, the number
being 44129, as conpared with 3920 for
1887.
It is roportud that Rev, G. R. Turk, of
Atlanta, (late of Codorich,) has boon offer.
od the pastorato of n Boston Congre-
gational church, at 54010 a year.
The official board of the North Street
Methodist church, Godoriob, 11000 extend-
ed nu invitation to 'tee. Geo. Richardson,
of Listowel, to bo,omo their pastor.
Tho Clinton Nuw .Era, says :—Aapccinl
council meeting 1100 held when a by-law
appointing a market day, and malting
certain provisian1 tarn: for, wax pas,ud.
The day seleoted 111 the fire: earltot dee',
will bo Saturday, the 2 d of Jnnc.
Timilver haul° base -ball S club of
Wroxeter was organized i t week with
the followingnnort`lmrs: - Thep 1'. Miller,
President ; john Barnard, Vieo.Presi.
dent ; J, W, Sand„rson, Sea. -'Einar, Com-
mittee : Thoo. Rao, A. Paulin and Geo,
Forsyth.
Tho first stoup, ,•f t,..., court of Re.
vision for the town of Winglrun for 1488
will be held in tho council 1, 0:1 no Tues-
day evening, 20th Just, 11 for East
a an eh tf 1, , �r n
W t, o will be held t n h. n
tho 22nd drat„ and f,,: , at °leery art
Blnevalo on the 28th inst.
The Wost it1 lie,;; l: tepcc.or hue been
notified to collect all linos fur violation
of the Scott Act yct unpaid, and straight.
en up any mattore portaietiog to the Act,
Preparatory to tho oallcclletiou, of the
Polio° Blag]strate; a0otmniaerfnn, which 10
is expeotod will be dont) as 11(0 act is
logally annulled.
Miss Bolla Door, formerly of Blyth, has
recently beoomo "doer" Bella Whitener,
rho wife of Mr. Whitener, a 801011th tnfn•
tater of Michigan, Miss Deer wee 0
highly estimable yonng lady, and bot
many friends will loin in wish.
tug her very atlenese in her 110W sphere
of lift.
Rev. Mr. Trottor, who lune prcachod in
the Baptist elmrch Clinton, sovoral tirues,
has accepted a tall to the )pastorato theta.
of, and will enter upon his duties about
tho let of Juuo, 13e will also fill the
beet lino appointmont. IIo 113 a young
num of marked ability, and will prove a
worthy successor to Rev. J. Gray.
Thoro is now in rho vicinity of Glen.
farrow two of the finest herds of Dur•
ham and holstein cattle in tho courty.
Tho former, ownod by George Nicholson
and tho latter by ,tutor ()cannlill of the
nth 0onceetiol of Turnb,rry, AIr. Nide.
olaon has recently bought front Arthur
Johnston of 'Greenwood, 1110 famous
Joung show hull, I,ord .l;relcine.
The other day whllo a number of mens.
hors of parliament worn standing togith•
rr tatting in the parliament buildiogs,
Ottawa, Hou. lir, Popo, Minister of Bali -
ways, turned to John McMillan, M. 1'.
for South Huron, and placing his hand
upon his shoulder, said, ''There have
been a good many men eomo to this
House supposed to represent the fanners
and farming interest, but this geutleman
knows Inure about forming than all the
rest put together, and what is more, I
never heard him make to nonsensical re-
mark since ho has been in the house."
A petition signed by nearly every busi-
ness Inas in Wroxeter was presented to
the city fathers, praying then to euforoe
the bylaw on early closing which will
come into oiled on Juno let. Stores and
business places will close at 7:80 p. m.
till Oct, let, then 7 p. n1. for winter
months till April 1st. A fine of 610 will
be imposed on any n110 breaking the law
On the 80th of April the following were
elected for Court Gerrie, C.O.F„ No. 11 :
C. It.—Bro. J. S. Perkins ;
V. C. R,—Dro. Jas. Armstrong ;
1t. Sec.--Bro. J. G. ]:Edgar ;
F. Soca -Bro. S. A. Seaman ;
W. Treas.—Bro. John Keine ;
W. Chap.—Bro. Wm. );vans ;
S. W.--Bro. teams Sanderson ;
I. W,--Bro. J. A. Strong ;
S. D.--Bro, Geo. H. Hazluwoo,l ;
J. B.—Bro, S. Howard.
Under the anspicea of the Boman Celli -
olio Cbnreit a grand concert is to bo giv.
on in the tenon 1111, Teeewater, 021 Thurs.
day evening:, the 2.111 inst. A splendid
} Wont has array of been s pp
t o be enured. T
O'Hagan, M.A. m to o f
e considerable
literary abi',ily e.
and a °fever elooutionist,
is to give a nuulbor of popular selections.
Miss Cool:, of Gndericly Miss Cargill, Miss
Dineley, hiss iironnan, Miss Flannigan,
Messrs. and if c Smith and Flannigan, of
Wiugham, are to telco part, as is also
Miss McCabe, of 4 tuenstine, and Mr,
Goorgian, of Walkerton.
The mann friends of Ileo. T. C. Thant.
son, fonlorly of Bruconold, will be pleas.
cid to 1°cru Mathu til prospers s I luo.leta in his
home in liritieh Columbia, and that the
church •vhich he planted and nourished
thorn under 31X11 adtrors0 circumstances,
j has grown, under his fostering oar°, to
i duck proportions that a divieiou is now
necessary. Writing flout Vancouver on
May 3rd, ho says: "I was fondly hoping
to see von and all old friends this mum-
mer, but I find t must stay here, Our
congregation has grown so that 1 am
making preparations for "hiving off."
We have just lot a contract for a school
00001 for a second emlgtegaiion and if wo
can raise tho money we will proceed with
the erection of thu church later on in rho
scaaon, Dusides illi:: IVO are taking pro.
p1.1aratory stops to build a church for tho
brat congregation and so many strougers
coming in thoy Must bo looked after at
onto. Yon will 500 fr,un this that 111avo
my hands full, but I hope, if spared, to
visit Ontario in another year. IIy
health I:eops good."
Fns,—Tho Gorrio Vidotto says :--Tho
fire fiend lute again visited this planus
About half -past 12 o'clock on Sunday
morning last the extensive saw and
planning mills of ]tfesers. Wiles 411 San.
dorson vvae soon in flames. The fire
alarm was sounded, 11nt floc ftro had got
such headway that not111ug could be don0
10 0000 the builrlinge. The lose to the
omen 1s fully 65,000, dnsurtume 01,000 in
tho Saugoon Mutual. W. II, Clegg,
loesee °f the planing factory-, lost over
5500 in moulding, sashes and doors and
dressed lumber. W', W. Smith an it Jolla
Anderson, employees, lest all their tools.
This is the most disastrous fire which
has ever occurred in Gorrio. Tho pro.
prietors are simply ruined, and the vil-
lage and country will bo seriously inoon-
venienced by this sad iivanciet calamity.
Messrs, Wiles d1 Sanderson, W. H. Clegg
and the other esfferers have the slneere
eympatby of this whole community in
their imparabie loss, Something should
be done by way of bonus or loan to put
this enterprising firm on their feet
again.
General ••.oevs.
The Emperor of Brazil iscone:deerent.
Edison, who !s 1011 141100E 48 years old,
is inclined to be stout' and weight, 175
pounds.
Strawberries almost went bogging for
buyers in New York on Monday, at five
and six cents per box,
The Prince of Wales has left London
for Berlin to attend the wedding of Prince
Henry and Princess Irene.
Robert II. Cowdry, of Illinois, has been
nominated for President by the United
Labor Convention at Cincinnati.
Thirteen Chinamen, with white wivoa
and three children of the loader of the
party, passed through Montreal Tuesday
in bond for Now York.
Vermont has figurei np that thirteen
persons wore killed, seven crippled for
life and twont .ei ht injured in coasting
y,1 1 s
accidents last winter in that State.
v
Ten thousand paintings, not to mention
water colors and oelgraviuge, ware emit,to
tho Royal Academy Exhibltiox this year.
Those is room for about 1,201) only.
Thirty women make a living by spec
ulation on the open Board 4,5 •'.Prod° in
Chicago, and half that uumb04 mite busi-
ness through commission -10101:, n' the re-
gular Board,
A. Maryland widow nroro 11 .i: L
<t
° t
a bear trap at her sn1o1: hon t u,:, and
the first catch was a man wbo ,0,144 court.
in* her, ifo b packedup 0 r
g o had i acke, 10 1 tondo
of bacon to carry off.
Russia and Moutonego o a; o le ported 3
have conoluded a treaty, by tint terms of
which Montenegro will undertake opor-
ttions against Austria in tho o. int of a
Rnssa.Austrian war.
A ropo just finisbed for tam Edinburgh
cable tramway is 17,000 foot Long. This
is the limpet mnspliced cable in use in
Groat Britain, but for rho Melbourne
(Australia) tramways ropos 90,000 and
6,000 feet in length, and without splicing
havo been supplied. Tito totter weighs
24 tons.
Pnoolaiss tN Jnr'AN. --The roto of pro-
gress in this interesting country is truly
wonderful. Sono of the statistics fur tho
Past year aro thus summarized : A trade
of 695,000,000 compares with ono of 551,-
000,000
51;000,1)00 just ten years ago. 'Pito 111na
miles of railway laid down 101877 ie top -
resented by 15I miles built daring tbo
past year. Eleven railway aunpanios
worn started in tho course of the year
1887. This year also gavo birth to 111
large industrial companies to three cities
alone. Two important naval stations
leave boon fornlad and aro boin fortified,
and the most modern waterworks in the
01111,1irc wow coupleted in October. last.
With the exucption of those )tot works
c,vo ything ho, ben dono by native °kill
mot native vaptitel alone. As nes Eng -
belt contemporary observes, rims, is not a
bad rocord for century whnro tho fond.
al sestom was in' hill' ening 2:, 'years ago. .