The Wingham Advance, 1904-07-14, Page 44
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Lovely Dress Fabrics
of Summer Elegance.
Our Dress Goods section is especially rich in those lovely
summer fabrics that are so popular this season. There are
the pretty and serviceable Brilliantines, French Delaines,
Bengalines, elegant Crepe -de -Paris, rich looking German Box
Cloths, They are all regally handsome in design and pat-
terns. They are of the finest wool—but if there are any that
are not all wool, they are wool improved by a mixture
of silk.
Colored Brilliantine Lustres in vogue now for Shirt
Waist. Suits and Blouses ; best fabric for clothing
costumes, per yd. 25c to 75c
Crepe -de -Paris, silk and wool, light weight Dress
Fabrics, fashionable for street costumes, clings and
has a shimmering effect, beautiful shades, per
yd. 65c to 85e
Parisian Voiles in small neat checks, the style for Shirt
Waist Suits, sheer, light fabrics, fine handsome
weave, soft new tones in pretty shades, per
yard $1.25 to $1.45
Shoes.
A line of Shoes rang-
ing in price from
$1.00 to $2.00—your
choice for 50c
RITCHIE'S
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Drees Goods
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Muslins.
. A Table of Muslins to
= choose from. Reg. price
from 15c to 30o per yd.—
Your choice for 10c
Eggs 16 Cents.
Lawns.
50 yards nice Lawn,
regular prices from
100 to 12a,o—to clean
out 80
Alex. Ritchie
BEAVER BLOCK - WINGIIAM
RITCHIE'S
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Carpets,
Rugs, Etc.
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Fancy Back Chairs, comfortable, per half dozen $3.25
Fancy High Back Chairs, reg. $5.25 half doz., for 4.50
(( cc if " $6.25 (( (( 5.50
High Back Nurse Rocker, with small arms, each 1.25
Three Dozen of those Fancy Rockers which have be-
come so popular, regular $2.25, at 1.75
Six Golden Oak fiinish Sideboards, reg. $13.00, for 11.50
Our low-priced Bedroom Suites at $11.50, $14.50 and $16.00,
are fast sellers. For cheap Suites they can't be beaten.
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Ladies' elegant Circular Underskirts of
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Ladies' Ready-made Wrappers, a nice as-
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all grades, both plain and ribbed.
Pretty Summer Fabrics for Dresses and
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Swiss, Lawn, etc., at Bargain Prices.
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DOINIO BANK.
Capital (paid up) $3,000,000
Reserve fa a px a2;a- $3,474,000
Farmers' Notes discounted.
Drafts sold on all pointe in Can-
ada, the United States and Europe.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Interest allowed on deposits of$1.00 and
upwards, and added to principal 30th June
and 31st December each year.
D. T, HEPBURN, /tanager
R, Panetone, Solicitor
BAK OF HAMILTON
CAPITAL PAID UP $ 2,229,080.00
RESERVE FUND 2,000,000.00
TOTAL ASSETS 21,713,013.07
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Hon. Wm, Gibson — President
Geo. Roach John Proctor A. B. Lee
John S. Hondrlo Goo. Rutherford
J. Turnbull, Vioo-Pres. and General Manager
H. M. Watson, Inspector.
Deposits of $1 and upwards received. Int-
erest allowed and computed on SOth November
and 31st May each year, and added to principal
Spacial Deposits also received at current
rates of interest.
W. CORBOULD, Agent
Dickinson 3c Holmes, Solicitors
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THEO. HALL, PROPRIETOR.
eVitorial
—The United States employed 10,555
men in distributing mail last year.
The cost, distributed among 1,100
lines, was $63,591,000.
ger
—The Federal elections are now said
to be certainly dated for November.
Lists ale being prepared, tons of liter-
ature sent out, and other signs are
visible of an Autumn elect' m for the
Dominion.
—The building of the new railway
between Los Angeles and Salt Lake
City will shorten the journey between
Toronto and Srn Francisco by 850
miles. Part of the road is constructed
and the rest is under contract.
Nee
—The census taken by the Con-
servatives in 1891 cost $519,991. That
taken by the Liberals in 1901 cost $1,-
198,208, and it was as incorrect and
unsatisfactory as it was costly. The
first bulletin contained errors in popu-
lation of 13,389.
—More than 1,500 miles of railroad,
it is said, are to be built in Mexico un-
der the direct auspices of the Mormon
Church. Bishop W. D. Johnson, who
represents the church in Mexico, is at
Mexico City arranging for the con-
struction of the road.
—The official immigration returns
for the fiscal year show the total num-
ber of arrivals to be 130,329, to which
will be added one or two thousand
more for later arrivals. This Is an in-
crease, according to the present re-
turns, of about 2,000 over the previous
year.
—During 1903 Canada produced
$33,707,000 of metallic mineral pro-
ducts, and $21,202,000 of non-metallic
mineral products. Included in the
metallic products were nearly $10,000,-
000 in gold, $5,728,000 in copper, $5,-
000,000 in nickel, and $1,700,000 in
silver. In non-metallic substances the
chief item was coal, $715,950,000.
liar-
-The supplementary estimates just
brought down are under two millions,
making a total estimated expenditure
for next year of seventy millions.
The population of this country is
under six millions, and there are less
than one million earners. What
think you of a seventy million touch?
The earners must dance to the tune of
70 to 1.
—In the Dominion Parliament, Dr.
Reid of Grenville criticized the ex-
pense incurred in looking after the
canals. They were used, he said,
largely as a means of giving fatberths
to Liberals, who were thus well paid
for doing practically nothing. The
case of the collector of Customs at Car-
dinal, Ont., was a flagrant instance of
this sort of thing. He has nothing to
(lo and did not collect a dollar of du-
ties in a year, nevertheless his annual
stipend was $1000, together witn an
allowance of $1 a day for driving from
the village to the canal locks, For ex-
tra work on Sunday he got 2.5 cents an
hour, although the canal was closed
from. midnight Saturday to midnight
on Sunday. Besides all this, he was
paid office rent, although he used his
own house as an office and received an
aliowance for fuel. Mr. Emmerson,
Minister of railways and canals, did
not attempt to deny that the facts are
Ke set forth,'
1i'hile the Japanese have been
hammering the Russian armies and
the Itltssiali navy, Mr. Rockefeller has
quietly corked up Russian competition
to the Standard Oil Company. The
Novo. Vrelnya is authority for the
statement that the Russians combine -
tions have capitulated to the foster.
mother of the University of Chicago,
at1(1 the whole output of the Baku
wells is now in American hands,
Peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than watt'.
---Tile largest, smallest and probably
the oldest cedar pails in existence are
on exhibition in •tllo Palace of Agri-
culture at the St. Louis World's Fair.
The largest pail is nine feet high and
nine feet across at the top. 'I'he
smallest holds a quart. Both are
finished with brass hoops and bails.
To demonstrate the lasting qualities
of red cedar wood, two mugs are ex-
hibited. One was brought from Vir-
ginia to Tennessee in 1717 and was in
Constant use up to the opening of the
Exposition. The other has been in
use for nearly sixty-five years•
Ear'
—The wireless telegraph system has
played an important part in recording
the events of the war. Admiral Togo
has used the wireless method with
wonderful success, and one of the
Most dramatic applications of it was
to. lure out Admiral Makaroff when
the decoying squadron had laicl the
mines and then notify the Japanese
admiral that it was time to come on
and intercept the fleeing enemy. The
New York paper gives the following
aipplications of the wireless method—
J. W. Kauffmann of St. Louis and his
wife and daughter, who arrived on
the steamer, St. Paul, were called
home from Paris by a cablegram an-
nouncing the serious illness of Mr.
Kauffmann's son. On the way over
they received a wireless message to
the effect that the son was better.
—More than 22,821,299 acres of the
public lands in the United States were
turned over to private individuals last
year. This means • that an area
almost equal to that of the State of
Indiana has within that time been ad-
ded to the prod uetive regions. - In the
public domain there are still unap-
propriated 380,979,307 acres of survey-
ed lands and 591,976,109 acres of un -
surveyed lands, or a total of more
than 970,955,000 acres. A great many
tracts in this immense area, of course,
will always remain uncultivated and
unsettled, but it has been estimated
that when the contemplated system
of irrigation shall be put into working
order, so much good land will be open-
ed that a population as large as the
whole nation's present population
could find room there to thrive pros-
perously and contentedly,
—It is to the Marquis Ito that Japan
owes in a very great measure the posi-
tion she now holds in the world. But
for him she alight be to -day a second
China ; but for shim she would assured-
ly not be the rival of Russia, the
chosen ally of England. He belongs
by birth to what we should call the
lower middle class, and has therefore
had neither wealth nor influential
connections to give him a helping
hand. None the less, at an age which
in England he would have been count-
ed a boy he was already a Minister
Plenipotentiary arranging terms of
peace with the great powers of Eu-
rope. For he had the good fortune in
very early days, to attract the atten-
tion of the old Emperor Komei Yen -
no, who was so struck by his extra-
ordinary ability and all-round clever-
ness that he took his education into
his onrn hands and set to work to
train him.. for a. political career. In
1867 the old emperor died, but his suc-
cessor, Moutsouhito, had just as high
an opinion of Ito as his father had,
and as soon as he had power in his
hands he made hien governor of Rio -
go. A year later he made him Fin-
ance Minister, and from that day to
this Ito has practically ruled Japan.
IT IS A VICIOUS SYSTEM.
(Weekly Sun)
The main estimates of the Dominion
Government call for an expenditure
this year of nearly $03,000,000, Of
this total a little over $55,000,000 is to
be met out of the ordinary revenues
of the country while the balance, of
nearly $8,000,000, is to be charged to
what is known as capital account. If,
under this method of bookkeeping,
the revenue of the year should reach,
say, $56,000,000, one million more than
the expenditures charged to current
account, the extra million would be
claimed as asurplus, although the
total expenditures would exceed the
total income by $7,000,000,
This has been characterized, by The
Sun as a vicious system of financing.
The Globe objects to the characteriza-
tion. It says no one who takes the
least interest in the subject is misled
by the method of bookkeeping adopt-
ed, and consequently thinks no great
harsh is done.
The fact is, the system is deliberate-
ly calculated to mislead. The sums
charged to capital account are for the
sante sort of purposes as in other cases
are, and should be, provided for
out of current account. Of the $8,-
000,000 charged to capital $1,300,000 is
for the purchase of cannon, rifle, am-
munition, clothing, etc., for the
militia. The clothing -will be worn
out in five and the arms and equip-
ments will be obsolete in ten years.
Still, the sunk spent for these things is
to become part of the national debt,
and on it interest will be paid by gen-
erations yet to coxae, In the expends•
titre on the Intercolonial, semis, is ash
appropriation of $80,000 for increased
acootlunodation at ,Sydney, $118,000
for additional sidings along the line,
$135,000 for increased accommodation
at Halifax, and $385,000 to strength-
en bridges oil the line. All these
things are charged to capital account
—to become a part of our interest-
bearing debt, An official of the
Michigan Central stated before the
Railway Commission last week that
there is not a bridge on his line which
has not been rebuilt three times in 37
years, and not as station house or
freight shed that lots not been replac-
en in 25 years.. All these things are
in the nature of annual expenditures.
On the Michigan Central they are
treated as such end met out of animal
revenge. The Dominion Government
snakes thein "capital" affairs and
leaves to future generations an in-
terest bill on account of things, some
of which will cease to exist in ten
• years. A farmer might as well add
to the mortgage on his farm every
- time he buys a binder or horse -rake,
Under this system of financing the
_ people are confused as to the exact
• position of the country, and obliga-
tions are unloaded on posterity which
the present generation should sleet:
Such a system is properly characteriz-
ed as a vicious one.
COUNTY COUNCIL NOTES.
On Wednesday of last week a special
session 'of Huron County Council was
held in Godorich for the purpose of
preparing and reading a by-law to
borrow the sum of $20,000 for 15 years,
on debentures, payable in annual in-
stalments of $1,200, to beat' interest
at the rate of 4 per cent. $10,000 of
this amount will be applied on pay-
ment of addition to the House of Re-
fuge and the other $10,000 toward
bridge building now contracted for.
All the members were present except-
ing D. Patterson and B. B. Gunn. By-
law was considered in committee With
J. B. McLean in the chair and it will
receive its third and final reading on
the lith day of December at 7.30 p. m.
Barrister Blair addressed the Council
relative to that body taking some
action in securing authentic informa-
tion relative to the wash-out at Port
Albert, etc., as the Ashfield Council
was proposing to ascertain by legal
process upon whom the responsibility,
rests for damage done last spring by
the freshet, No action was taken as
Council was convened for the especial
purpose of dealing with the by-law
referred to. Jailer Griffin asked for
some repairs to the jail, referred to
county property committee. Council
adjourned at 3 p. in.
The contract for a new cement
bridge on the boundary between Us -
borne and Blanchard townships, near
Kirkton, has been let to a St. Marys
firm at $1,525. Bridge is 45 feet long
and Huron and Perth counties will
bear the expense equally....A stallion
broke through the floor of a bridge in
the southern part of the comity and
had a leg broken. Tlie horse had to
be killed. It is said the owner will
look to the county for the price of the
animal. ...The present debenture debt
of Huron County is £15,000 sterling....
There will be 0 or 8 county bridges
constructed this year in all probabili-
ty....The stone work of the House of
Refuge addition basement is being
commenced. Brick is now being de-
livered from Crediton for 'the walls.
....Ashfield township Council threat-
ens suit against the county for the
washing out of a . roadway at Port
Albert, by the freshet last spring.
The Ashfield Council presume that the
county iron bridge was at fault in be-
ing too narrow, they affirm, to allow
the ice jam to get through. At the
,Tune session of the Couinty Council,
Port Albert was visited^by the County
Councillors, who after viewing the
situation, declined to make a grant to
the replacement of roadway, hence the _
menace of a law suit.
Is Your Breath Bad ?
Bad breath is one of the early symp-
toms of catarrh which should be
checked at once and not allowed to
run into consumption. The surest
cure is fragrant healing Catarrhozone
which cures catarrh by removing its
cause. No case is too chronic—even
the most stubborn yield in a short
time to the balsamic vapor of Catarrh -
ozone. It makes cures that last, for
once mu -ed by Catarrhozone you stay
cured. Catarrhozoue is pleasant, con-
venient and safe to use, relieves al-
most instantly and is guaranteed to
cure every type of catarrh, bronchitis
and asthma. Use only Catarrhozone,
complete outfit $I,00; sample size
25 cents.
— A cow belonging to Mr. Hugh
Mitchell, 8th Elderslie, gave birth to
three calves on Monday—one male and
two females. All three are well de-
veloped and healthy, and apparently
ail have the desire to keep on living as
long as possible.
Duncan McKenzie, V.S., a fourth
concession (Culross) boy who has been
for the past two and a half years in
the service of Uncle Sam in Manilla,
Philipine Islands, arrived home on
Thursday last. Since he left home in
the spring of 1899, Mr. McKenzie has
travelled all the way round the world.
He first located in Drayton, N. Dako-
ta, where he practised his profession
until the fall of 1001 when lie secured
the position of Veterinary Surgeon in
the Quarter Master's Department of
the 'C7, S. Army in Manilla, to which
port Its went by way of San Francisco
and Sandwich Islands. Having served
over two years at Manilla he resigned
his position end made arrangehnents
to he sent to the 1J`. S. so as to land at
New York,--1Teeswater News,
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This "I3ig Store" is never anywhere except in the lead.
We pay 14c cash or 16c trade for fresh F,ggs.
Here's the BIGGEST BARGAIN in Fancy Chinaware
that was ever offered in Wingham or elsewhere. We're
always on the lookout for Bargains for our Customers, This
time we have succeeded beyond any past effort. See the
goods iu our window.
Imported direct, one package "Franconia" assortment
Fancy China,
50 doz. Pieces Six Hundred -50 doz. Pieces.
Some worth 25c each, some 20c each, some 15o each.
But for TWO WEEKS ONLY you can have your choice of
this very pretty Chinaware at TEN CENTS EACH. This
is ridiculously low price, but we never were good at charging
big prices. This is the assortment—Salad Bowls, Fruit
Saucers, Cups and Saucers, Vases, Sugars, Creams, Syrups,
Tea Pot Tiles, Jugs, Plates, Bread Plates, Oatmeat Bowls,
Cake Plates, Spoon Trays, Mugs, Ash Trays, Tooth Pick
Holders, etc., etc.
Fresh Eggs 14e cash ; 16c trade. Two cars Butter wanted.
News From The Boot and Shoe Department.
We're doing a brisk business in this department in the
"Big Store." We're looking for exceptionally good trade
this month having just put into stock a shipment of MID-
SUMMER STYLES in Women's, Misses' and Children's
Shoes and Slippers, also Men's and Boys' fine Shoes. Your
inspection invited.
Farmer's Harvest Boots at Bargain Prices. A soft,
medium heavy, tan color, solid leather laced boot, very
comfortable,' just the thing for the harvest field, regular
$1.50 for $1.25•
Women's Oxford Ties, Dongola Kid Slippers, Patent
Leather Slippers, Light and mediun heavy soles, Military and
Cuban heels, perfect fitting shoes—$1.25, $1.50 and $1.75.
Women's Fine Kid Boots, Patent Leather foxing, Dull
Kid top, Goodyear welt soles. The best boot on the market
for the money—$2.50 and $2.75. And they're made in
Canada.
We show the most fashionable and serviceable Shoes for
Misses' and Children's wear. Fine Dongola Kid, Patent toe
cap, Medium heavy extension sole, Spring heel, Solid leather.
No Shoddy. All sizes.
For Fresh Eggs we pay 14c cash or 16e trade. We want
two car loads good fresh packed tub butter.
FARMERS.—Your eggs and butter will buy more goods
at this store than you're getting, if you are taking them
elsewhere.
THE ROYAL GROCERY
CANNED APPLES.==At this season of the
year when your apples are done, nothing will
take their place so well as the canned ones for
making pies. We have a choice lot in gallon
cans — 25c per Can.
BREAKFAST FOODS. -We keep all the
latest Breakfast Foods for hot weather — Orange
Meat, Malta Vita, Vim, Life Chips, Strengthfude,
Force, Shredded. Wheat, Triscuit, Grape Nuts —
15 cts. per Package.
PICKLES.==Imported Pickles, grown and
bottled in England, put up in large bottles, weigh-
ing 3-.1- lbs., will hold as much as two ordinary
bottles. In laxed, chow chow, and white onions
—25 cts. per Bottle.
at griffin's
Wingham Coal and Wood Yard.
We are sole agents here for the Scranton Coal, and will
guarantee every delivery to be O. K. Just ask any person
who has used same and hear what they say about it. The
following prices will not raise for 12 months :—
July delivery $0.70 per ton hate and over.
August delivery $0.00
September and seven following months $7.00.
To take advantage of the above prices, orders must
be in by the fifth of each month for immediate delivery or
they will take the next month's prices. Farmers wishing to
load and draw their own Coal will'have 25c per ton rebate.
Parties not wishing to have their Coal delivered before
Fall, but wishing to have their supply secured, may do so by
requesting us to place their name on our books as customers;
this will secure them for the winter without fail.
NOW FOR THE WOOD.
No. 1—Best I3ody Hardwood, per Cord $3 Q0
No. 2—Hardwood, from Smaller Timber, per Cord . 2 75
No. 3—Hardwood and Ash, mixed per Cord 2 50
No. 5—Slabs and Soft Timber, per Cord 2 00
Rough wood, chunks, etc., for furnaces and box stoves, per Cd 2 00
(Nos. 1 and 2 are cut from green timber.)
No. 4—Ash and Elm, mixed, per Cord.
Our terms for Coal and Wood are strictly cash,
J. A. McLIAN.