The Herald, 1900-08-17, Page 1The Official Organ of, Zurich and Hay Township.
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Dr, Lir 1. Mrs. R. H. Steinbach, of
Riehville, accompanied by Miss
Beatrice; Steinbach tend Miss Carrie
_ Canada are visit-
ing with 'rienc1 this s in eiis
Saginaw Courier -Herald,
should. Her Majesty Queen Vic-
toria be,spared until the, 1$th, of.
January next, she will have attain-
ed the age of George II:I, and be -
Come theest British Sovereign,
' Old �
either of modern or me diwva x 'tunes,
The first umber of the Zurich
Herald is just to hand. It is a
most creditable issue and promisee
a. long and healthy career. In
these days when so many papers
are being run to gratify private
greelges, it is refreshing to hear
BI.6-L •,' layer say, "Wo are here
frons, a business standpoint and the
money there is in it.—Tilbury Times
Mr. F. Kibler made a business
trip to Toronto on Thursday. •
Sittings of the Division Court
Is 7erXRxislaaD •
Dyer, of Ontario, will be held here on the 27th.
Rev, and Mrs. Andrews of Varna(
were in toxon Monday afternoon..
NENSALZ IN FLAMES!
ERN' THURSDAY EVENING The . The Business portion of the
$
D., nXLR. Town n. almost wiped out.
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it paid' strictly in advance. When the
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eh as' Lost"`" Estray" or "Stolen" will
charged 50 cents first insertion and 25
uts for eaeh subsequent . insertion.
Copy for change of advertisement must
handed in not later khan Tuesday night
each week to insure change, in follow -
g issue.
Local notices in ordinary reading .hype
eats per line. Notices for 'Church en-
,rtainments or other benevolent inst'itn-
on at special rates.
Contracts for column, half -column and
carter -column :Gates for speeified periods
ill be cheerfully given. Address all
nimun.icatioiu to
, eralc1
DYER, EDITOR,
ZrlRre13, P.O.
CHURCHES.
ST. BONIPACE, Catholie,
Order of service for Sundays and
Holy Days:—High mass at 10 &.m., Ves-
pers and henerlicciou of the most Blessed
Sacrament at ;i p. }ra. Week Days:—
lhass every morning at, 7:30. Saturday
evenings from 7 tn./3, one hour's visit to
Our Lord lin the Blessed Saerament.
Rev, Father Valentine, Parish Priest
EVANGELICAL, German. and English
' Rev. C. H. 7='inkbetner, Pastor.
1-4 .:IRAN.
Rev. Schuelke, Pastor.
The Commercial
Hotel,
L FOSTER,
.\k ,mrd hes been snared of the
safe* arrival in Exeter, of W. Mo
Nevin from Manitoba and the North
ilber'
west Te rritoiies. Miss Doral E
ane Miss Gertio Trott were visitors
in Hensall, lest week.
Rev. Julius Neudc rffer occupied
the pulpit in the Lutheran chuiruli.
Sunday evening, and preached a
-eery good• :,sermon. The Rev. gen-
tieman was a resident here when a
young boy and his friends aro pleas-
ed, at his rapid advancement in his
studies.
What is the duration of a wink?
Zurich now boasts of a newspaper The time occupied by the several
called the Herald launched upon the phases of the movement has been
journalistic re ill n by D. Dyer as zieasured, and it is found that the
editor, . Aug 3, 1900, A. D. ; it is an mean duration of the descent of the
eight page six column issue and is licl is from seventy-five to ninety
Total loss about $20,000
.Special to Tres HERALD, Aug. 11.
About 2 :30 this morning a very
disastrous fire swept through the
•
business portion of our village.
The fire started in W.C.Davis gro
eery store and spread very rapidly
till soon five or six business houses
were wiped. out. The folleming aro
the places burnt out, with the ap-
proximate losses as far as could be
a.ncertained this morning.—McAr-
tow & Co's bank, loss 81500, par-
ti+ally ,insured;- W. E, Davis' stock
a.. el building total loss, valued at
x+1000 insured for �n250Q; J. 0. Stone
.-win's stock, about $2000 ; in this
.op were also located the Public
Lbrary and the office of the Bell
a newsy, bright sheet, ahead. of one thousandths of a second. The
Telephone Co., both of Which n*ill
many of our exchanges but we gill tlt heavy losers ; A. Maeph• ison's
z iced if Zurich can support lost ntcnec while the ey< is shunt was 'eL op, dwelling and'stock of gents'
be scup I l in one case only fifteen -hundredths fro,nishing 'all a total loss, insur-
such a 1u uuy as a newspaper ; we of a seeond. The rising of the licl
amp about 83000 ;1total zloss, s stock
hope, however, success,rntay Crown occupied seventeen -hundredths of of millinery; loss or amount of in-
stirance not known as Miss Sniitli
iS out of town ; the Od elfel1 a w's
block had a very narrow eses las the
loss on lodge furniture through
smoke and water is about $:i0.
McEwen's block also suffered rath-
er severely,prohably to the extent of
$200. The buildings all stood in.
one block on the south side of Main
Street. On the opposite side the
heat from fire did. a groat deal of
damage although none of the build.
ings were destroyed, the plate
glass fronts suffered severel .—
Hassall. If the same fire had the 23.plates in all being destroyed by
Vertical handwriting is: to be a- same start in Zurich, it is doubtful the intense heat. The lois on the
bandoned in the public schools of whether there would have been a
New York, and a return made to the. dozen houses left. It was only the
brotherDyer's hold ventur
ton New Era;,
Everything has a finale, so has
the school holidays and .before an-
other issue of Trs HERALD, the pit-
ter-patter of the children's feet will
be heard on our side ;�v alks wending
a second. A specially arranged
photographic apparatus was used,
The colloquial phrase that some-
thing is done "quicker than a. wink"
is therefore expressive to a, degree
that may be stated in fractions, of
second.
their way to school, where they Last week we called the atten-
will help each other toe the line tion of our citizens to the unorgan-
and hold up the strap until yam- ihed state of our fine departzuent
1 again. SC}1001 re -
tion tune comes and no snorer is the reminder read
opens in Zurich on August 20th than the news reaches us that a
while in town and city, exercises very serious conflagration was al
do not Commence until September most wiping out our sister; village
4th, two weeks later.
.1.•
slanting Spencerian system. The substantizul brick buulclsnr5 w�u The Ramiie block was on fire rev
reason for the return is that the saved the business portion of
vertical system is now regarded as Hensall. If our town officials in -
a fad and that the style is not liked • tend to waits until such a calamity
by business houses, so that the befalls aur town, we would say to
scholars from the Public schools our citizens, arouse yourselves and
had the- slanting system to learn if have an organized fire company :tt
they entered commercial life. The once. Get np and dust ! dust ! !
plates will amount to nearly 81000
only four of which were insured,
these. were in Bell's block.
eral *mos as also were Dr. Buchan-
an's building and T. J. Berry's liv-
ery and feed stable, but by the su-
perhuman efforts of the citizens
and flreiuen these buildings were
saved. J.. C. Clausen's harness
shop in the Otktfellow's block had.
West Bruce Entrance= Examiner:; We ,z narrow este ro as one of the #lre-
Frorietor found that in many eases the vert- have been very busy in theta 1
L. real handball developed into a back office with Dross and job work ti : proof shutters on his back win=low
. l hand. wee:>>llk and ••cold netget out to • . � wa • open and the flames several
�ve�l:�"7t(.'xw�ztzic:�>}c�bttltlta•�t)1 th e cLunZ as Nes ,1.x.,u.teti.. 'Grx.
' r' .�tt<eA� ,�'fir i,
',t• a, C ,Let.. e.1 1115 (i O .k. ,T. O.
tri. c1ling Public. c. Alava sftop We notice that lightning rod a- Still inuu•h WW1: ahead and may notwsnieke zll howeand dvwaterlose. considerable by
at THE COAIiIME1.101 AL Wj en i
in. Zurich..
First-class sample rooms for
Commercial men.
LOUIS FOSTER, ZURICH
minis
j eG. STAN BU Rx, B. A.
Successor to. COLLI\S & STA.1TB .'Rl
_BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY,
Conveyancer, Money to Loan on Village
and Farm Propertyat lowest rates of In-
terest. Documents in original German
read :Ind advised upon.
ZURICH COURT ATTENDED
Mee over O'Neil's Bank, Exeter.
our go-g.,gtto#qtr
gents are plying their but -moss m be able to all on. 3 ou et once, arc
this section of country. 7tnzight would say to all who have recited NOTE'S.
be well to warn farmers that light. THE Hxn .LD smiler, come in and McDonellBxos' furniture near the
nine. rods are of value. only When tell us to "stole it" or put you on front of his store was considerably
put up properly. The lower end of
tato root ought to be sunk into the
ground far enough to be always in
damp ground, at least from four to ceivrd. Our list has already near -
six feet. If there is awell or cistern lv200 names but we want 400 by the i The hand cervine didsplendid ser -
in the vicinity of the building it is ist of Ont. We thank those who . vice and saved what might have
a good plan to run the wire into it have already enrolled their names. 'been a fire with six times the loss.
deep enough. to insure the end al- • Ouct lauhhine7 rates with the city * '" *
ways, 'beim in the water —East i' papers, both English and German, Lawyer • Cooke is minus a front
Lambtozs< Tribune. , will be .nude known in a week or entrance to his office and will have
two so th at we can then' give to use the back stairway for a while.
A gentiemanfromBayfield, (name i you lots of reacting for little money * * *
not known) was struck by a whirl -1 • A traveller stopping in town was
wind on our street one day last ; What books should be placed in the first one to see the fire.
week. The said whirlwind
being ; the hand, n.f-3erang girls to for =r. .r.*
manipulated by architect McLeanm, thecharacters, stimulate their When the fire was first noticed
who is in charge of constructions on i intellectual capacities, and lay the the wind was from the. South, and
luckily turned to South west or the
loss would have been much heavier
on the North side of the street.
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Iva
e are offering the remainder of our summer dress
goods at prices that will snit everybody. The fol-
lowing list contains only a few of the bargains we offer
Were we to itemize every article "The Herald" wouid n't;
have any room left for news.
Mrs. Caanpbell is . visiting her
sister in St. Thomas.
Miss Amy Fisher, is home from
Toronto, on a visit.
The Misses Laura find Flossie
Kibler spent Sttnclay in Creditless
Misses Eilit'rman an(L Wisest of
Dashwood, are visiting at F.Bib-
lerys,
Miss. Schnieder of Detriot, was
the guest of the Mises Kiblers last
week:
1VIessrs F. Kibler and P. Lamont
transacted business in Exeter, on
Monday,
Miss Tillie Kibler returned home
on, Monday evening after' visiting
friends in Clinton.
Miss. Melvine.; Koehler returned
homd last week aftervisiting
friends in Seaforth
The. Evangelical Chhzi'•" : intend. to
hold their annexal Sunday School
picnic on. the 23rd inst.
our list as a subscriber. Tne price
is only $1 per year and we feel sat-
isfied that we are giving value re -
blistered and their loss including
four plata glass windows is consider-
able.
k * *
8e yds Scotch gingham the
ne -est designs and shades
retailer 12% cent goods now
eletzring at - - - - .10
184 yds Zephyr Mb -easing in
cream, blue and pink shades
iT leilar 15 cents .per yard
clearing at - - - - .12
93 yds American percales'
regular 10 cents per yax dnow
clearing at - - -
223% yds Seersucker in fine
shades, re;ular 10 and 12'A
cent per yard, clearing at
130 yds Fine dress mulins
in 8 different patterns and
shades, now reduced to 12%
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ome and see the goods and be convinced that such.
bargains. were never offered before in Zurich.
Produce taken in exchange for goods. We do as we say!
the big block at St. Joseph. The
G.F.B. we understand made a per-
sonal attack on Mr. McLean, when
suddenly the unknown's probuseuus
bumped up against rnaek's fihticuff
foundation of a liberal education is
a serious matter for educators. Acl-
dressing the girl studends of Bur-
lington school, England, recently,
the Bishop of London advisee. them
The following are the firm's who
then terra firma bumped up against "to occupy their leisure in taking have suffered through breakage of
the lead 1: of the unknown's head up some particular study and pur- plateglass :- F.C. 36Donell 2 plates
and the dust flew. Mac. is severely suing it to the end. One great Pickard:+ 2, F.C. Arnold 2, J.E. Mc
modest over the matter and would difficulty which young laches in Done11.1•, E. Rennie 2, G.F. Young.
no particulars any more than society e\perienced, was, he said, Nut 2, J. McArthur 2, Miss Carlisle
to say "That insinuations bring how to spend their time properly. 2, W.R. Hodgins is. These were all
forth retalliations, henceforth, so., Girls were too fond of the books on the North sidle of main street
forth and so mote be. ` 'writing was usually and directly apposite the fire.
indicated by a yellow label on the =k * *
whose date of
The Ingersoll Chronicle has the cover. The happiest years df his reverel of the boys drove out from
following to say of the Company life were the ten daring which he Zurich, but too late to be of any
represented at Zurich by E. Bossen-
berry. "We are pleased indeed to
be able to state that the Noxon Co.,
Limited, have been awarded open
their exhibit at the world's great
fair in Paris, France, the grand prix
(highest award obtainable) and gold.
medal, We have great reason to
feel proud of our town to think that
it possesses an industry capable of
turning out a line of goods worthy
of such an honor as the one just
conferred upon this company's ex-
hibit. A few months ago we pre-
dicted for this firm sunder its new
management a very brilliant future
but little thought that in so short a
tiin.e its output -would be raised to
such a high. point of excellence that.
Miss Addie .Witwer retitrned in competition with the World's
hone on Saturday evening after
visiting friendelfin Exeter.
A. jolly erowd of voting peoPle
Cf Zineoh, had. 'at pie:-artpar c ;acre
the Grand Bend, on Tlie..y sclat
w
ChesterSteinirariz errd his
Geo. 13L1dwiiiY o.
forth, have gene into calm)
Bend.
Miss Angie 12es' and Mis
be h of Cbi.cagoi,are
,beth
or`mer's parents it tow
veeks.
DStec
•B;
7tich azz
greatest manufacturers of agricul-
tural implements the Nolen Cos.
exl, ibit should have gained. _ such
.narked distinction, it being the
only Canadian firm exhibiting to
which this prize was given for the
first time.
The company has just received a
letter foom the Canadian Commiss-
ioner General in Paris,'congratulat.
ing them upon the success achieved
and thanking them for eontribtitinl
"SO largely towards bringing Canada
and her industries so prominently
before the world,,
We might say that the : Noxon
Cjb's exhibit there comprises repre-
sentative machine's from their full
Zine of cultivating, .seediing, hay-
Making and harvesting. inplen entss,
kept a resolution that be would
read no books which. were -written
after the year 1600, He would not
course, but if they were to read trojans. and helped materially in
assistance.
* *
The young fellows worked like
have them adopt so stringent a
keeping the fire in hand,
three books written before. 1800 for
each one written after than date, he
was confident they would be better
employed." The every -day novel
of the perimd is deebti:oss the bane
of education, as most thinkers a-
gree.
The Herald is the name of a new
gaper published in the Village of
Zurich, by D. Dyer. The first hum
ber is a creditable issue, and gives
evidence of receiving fair support
The project however, seems to us
to be very speculative; the field al-
ready being overcrowded, and the
villa„ esmall, without railroad, or
steamboat communication, its car-
eer will certainly ' be checkered,
We wish the publisher success.
—Exeter Thies.
Our worthy contonipory seems to
worry more over the patronage in
store for Tarr Hge,At 7 than ''.vo do—
and not without reason, a:twforyears
this has been a most lucrative, in
fact his harvett field, and ;good. (2)
wishes held mit in• the above item
soundg more like ahowl of venom
and prejudice, however, if we only
get 'steamboat coniinunieation"
we Will be ;able to swine, any11010 c source of danger.
The total loss is estimated at
$ 20,000. t
* =k *
The cause of the fire is a mystery
to everyone' at time of writing.
Tp
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Main Street
Znrinh, en
ber Co.
Succersors to F.'IBLER
DEALERS AND
REPA KERS !
Wish to inform the people of. Zurichyy
and vicinity that they are going to ;yell
boots and shoes this fall at lower prices
than any other dealer in the trade,
having purchased the stock at a low rate
on the dollar it places us in a position to
do all we advertise.
We have now the largest stock in the .'
village and you will find, the choicest
lilies from which to select your present
needs. Come and see our goods, -com-
pare quality and price, with other deal.-
ers and you will cruel it is money spati ed
by dealing with us!
Ordered Work
Leave your order now for your fall
foot wear, so that they will be well sea-
soned when wanted, --it will pay you.
der C
Main Street.,
9 Zurich, Ontario.
.,o, dmmr.en..,4.few...mean... tmuaoearsenemnmeoafo•ros.bm. ..,
Two detectives at Peoria have
come to grief for importing bm-giars
to rob a house and planning to cap-
ture the wrong men, How to guard
the guardians is a problem that hu-
manity has not yet solved.
Drowning accidents - have been
distressingly frequent during the
present season, and the number of
narrow escapes that have been re-
ported show a lamentable amount
of carelessness. Boys and men to
able to, swim, who venture where
water is more than waist deep take
their lives in their hands. Good
swimmers who . venture alone in
deep water take the chalices of -an
attack of cramps, and. the canoe,
easily capsized, easily filled .b;
splashing woes, and with little
buoyancy when filled,is always a
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Great
Slaughter
of all
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