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 yi!|) M r't !•; 1% i 'f i' i j-ii -I 4 Tha Standard. MAEKDALE 'APBIL 22. 1886 MARKDALE SPRING SHOW. The best Spring Fair ever held in Morkdale took place last Taesday. The weather was gorgeous, and the exhibit both large and very fine. Trimble Piekell's imported Clydes- dale, "Lord Derby," was much ad- mired by all. There is perhaps no better horse in Canada of his class. The exhibit altogether was indeed creditable, and worthy of a much more lengthy notice than our epaee will permit. There was altogether 16 entries. W. J. Anderson's thorousbbred Durham bull is a fine yoiing animal, and A. Cairns showed a good Ayrshire both of which becared a prize. Great satisfaction was expressed for fair()Iay aud gocd management. PBICE UST Imported Draught Stallion, Trimble Pickell, "Lord Derby," Ist prize and Diploma for best â-  horse on the ground. General Purpose â€" 1st, McLeod Whirter, "British Ensign" 2nd, J. Manarey, "King Tom." Canadian Draught â€" Ist, W. J. Sbepherdsou, "Scotland " Rdadster or Carriageâ€" 1st, Trimble Gilkinson, "Young Coachman" 2ud John Gawley, "Eoyal George." Blood Horses â€" 1st, Thos. Campbell "Young Terror" 2nd, B. Freeborn, "Royal George." Messrs. Wm. Jackson, J. BL Car- son, and Geo. Noble had each, a fine display of agricultural implements and made a number of sales. down into his breeches podiet^with his left kand mi brongh o«t a haad- ful of tobacco and nlver and picked out $3.60, 80 we put it together and bought him the suit. As soon aa I go home and get some more money I am coming back to get the old man one of your cheap suits. I priced nearly all the different kinds of goods you had, and no mistake they are the cheapest and best I bave seen for years, and I will not hesitate to tell my neighbors. Your Millinery Goods ^are just the loveliest I ever clapped eyes on, and Mary Jane, she tejiehes school up on the 7th, wUl come in and get a Hat, Parisol, and other fixins. She and Joe is going to get spUced this fall and will want a lot of stuff. Take it all in, you beat the hull country, and I am not giving you. any tafiv either. I will be down again soon. Wishing you continued pros perity and good health, Yours faithfully, Mbs. Maey Jane Peppeb. P. S.â€" Come up and bring the misses and have a Taffy PttU. y**'-SH»lfi'-»M^ ©ari:asp:aBd3Bt)B. Notice. â€" ^We wish it distinctly imderstood that we do not hold ourselves responsible for thu opinions expressed by our correspondents Sap Trough Castle, 14th April A.D. 1886. AV. J. McFARLAND, Esq. Deab Sib, â€" I have jubt finished making about 50 pounda of the best Maple Syrup you ever set eyes on and I have heard so much about Mark- dale that I just makeup my miud that I would see that village and trade off my Syrup for Store Goods. So says I to my old man, I am going down to Markdale and, says he, you aint go- ing to take any Syrup, as us and the children can tat Syrup just as well as those stuck up villagers but you'd better talve some money so that if you see some cheap goods down there you can buy them. Well, Sir, I went down, and there was Markdale as large as life. The first nice building 1 saw was one of the allfredest nicest houses I ever saw» and I stopped and asked who owned it,and was told Dr Sproule. Well, it beats all what .the N. P. will do for some people. I strolled round town, visited several stores and finally got into your store. I saw Mr. Bowes, Andy Mc, Charley ijawrence and Bert Casson. I heard that they were not too accommodating and were slow but, to my surprise, they were activa and busy, and no sooner had I stepped in the door than one ot them began to show me the New Goods which had just arrived from England. As soon as he told me the prices I began to think of the money the old man gave me. The first I priced was Dress Goods and when he showed ma your All Wool Dress Goods for 85 cents per yard,. I emiled, then he smiled, then we both â- miled I couldn't stand it longer, so I took 20 yards then 1 bosght a pair of Lace Curtains, tony, only $1.00, which beats everything I ever saw then he showed me some Cheap Boots Shoes, I bought a pair of all leather water-tight for tlie sugar bush for 1 .85 then I txk a look at your Hand Sewed Boots for men, the best 1 ever saw, price^ $3.50. My Jack Tvas with" me, says he, mother, I must have a pair of tliese here Boots. Just when he was trying them ou (a pair uf 10' s) up you shppetl and said to me, your boy is built both for strength aud activity, legs like a deer and feet like a bear. Jack didn't like iu much, but the Boots were so cheap that he took a pair. We then went over to the Grocery connter and sampled your Tea. Now, if there is anything in this world I know when I see, it is good Tea, and I was so pleaaed with your thirty (SQ) cent Japan Tea that I took the largesi box I eoaid get (67 lbs.) We then went np stairs and took a look throat^ your Clothing, and it was so good and cheap aud fitted so well that Jack was bound to have a suit Ijosthadf^.OO left, eo Jack went FlesHertoi From our own eorretttndent. Died at his residence on Thursday eyening last, Mr. Jeremiah Taylor, after a lingering and painful illness. Deceased was one ot the pioneer settlers of this township with careful economizing and hard labor had ac- cumulated a good share of this world's goods leaves a widow and family in comfortable circumstances. Lost on Thubsbay last. â€" Mr. W. Petch, butcher of this town, on his way out to a farmer's place, about 8 miles distant, where he had bought some beef cattle, lost from his coat pocket a purse containing $25.00 in cash and apromiscry note for $30.00. Diligent search was made over the road which he had driven, but no trace of lost yet found. $13.00. â€" A Protonite in Dundalk a few days ago. becomiag rather unruley tried some pugilistic exercise. on one of the residents bf that town, where upon a charge was laid before our J. P., J. W. Armstrong, Esq., against the offender. Forthwith Constable Field was dispatched to summons all parties concerned, when a good num- ber appeared here on Fridaj afternoon. The prisoner pleaded guilty and after playing to the tune of $13.00 m cash was allowed to return to his home, we trust a wiser and better man, Mrs. A. Maloy and family left our midst on Tuesday morning last en route for Atchison City, Kansas. On Saturday evening last Mrs. Maloy was mads the recipient of a very handsome set of China tableware ac- companied by a very kiodJy worded address by the ladies of the Presby- terian churcli here. JOE GALES (WEST LIBERTY). 2-28, The following estimate of this well known trotting stallien appeared in the Cajiadian Sportiina^i of April 9th, 1886 :â€" Very few horsemen in Western Ontario have appeared more favorably before the public during the last few years than Mr. Jas. R. Trimble, of Markdale. For several years he swept the board at fairs with his beautiful bay horse Clear Grit, Jr., and was awarded in 1884 the highest honors by the judges atthe Toronto Industrial Fair. He also showed with marked Kuccess in the heavy classes, and now he is to the front with a standard trotting stallion, and one, too, that is not only su:ed by the sire ot trotters, but has proved himself to be a tretter having a mark of 2.28 to liis credit. The great question among the breeders ol to-day is, what horse will make a successful sire Shall He select one tliat has speedy brothers aud sisters and no phenomenal speed himself although his breeding is above queotion or.one that has both breeding and performance, especially the latter, on his side It goe? witliout saymg that the question is, a hard one. fur if a man pnruhases a horse that has campaigned for several years he will have reached a good old age be^re his colts begin coming to Uie front. If, on the other hand a colt is pt^ m, the stud and never asked to stand the. severe strain of many a hard foughA; race, his get will be in the tramers hands ere he himself has reached maturity, and his opportunities ior producing a flyer is a hundred times as great as the campaigner. Had George Wilkes been placed in the stad as early as his sure, ^ysdyk'a Hamble- tonian, instead of having forty- one re- preaentotiveg in the ^80 list to-day he might faaye a hvndred and fortr. two. ' Jos Galas (West lab*^) jg » ^««°!^K^onft Siwl/Bi 1869' ud itsDds 16 haida two inches. He was aired by Wapsie (688) the sire bl General Grant 2.21 and Glen#ood 2.27i dam not traced. Wapsie was sired fcy Green's Bashaw, the sire of Josephus 2.194 Fred Doughw 2.20*. Hamble- tomJn Bashaw 2.21*^ Rose of Washington 2.21f Jirkwood 2 24, Bashaw jr. 2.241, Wagner Bashaw 2 25i. Amboy 2.26. Green Charley 2!26|, General Lee 2.26*, Tom Kirk- wocd 2.29i, Wild Oats 2.29J. Joseph- ine 2 30 and Robert Burns 2.30 dam by Hempstead's Joe Gales (thorough- bred) Besides producing Wapsie the sire of three in the 2 30^ list Green's Bashaw sired Ambov (2.26) with five, Kirkwood (2.24), with three, and Bashaw Drury, Iowa Chief, W agoer Bashaw and Wild Basbaw with one each in the 2.30 list. He also sired the dams of Fulton Maid 2.29i, Gypsey Bov 2.2S, Joe Young 2 25}, Princess 2,29^, Trampoline 2.23i and Western 2.25^. Green's Bashaw was. sired.by Vfernol's Black Hawk by Long Island Black Hawk, (24), the sire of Prince 2;24i, and Jake Oakley who trotted a mile in 2.32^ thurty. years ago dam Belle by Tom Thumb,, a Canadian horse of unknown hlood,. but a trotter of great speed and endurance 2nd dam and Charles Kent mare the dam of Rysdyk's- Hambletonian who not only proved himself to be a great sire of speed and to-day stands third on the list of speed producing sires, but also stands without a peer as the sire of speed producers as even his grand and great grand children are to day producing phenomenal performers. Joe Gales was bred by J. L, Wilson, West Liberty, Ijowa, the owner ol Wapsie, his sire, and was considered one of the most promising stallions in the State and had he not met with the misfortune of breakmg his ankle he would have been one of the fastest; and even to-day, afttr severe camp- aigning and misfartunes, he can show a quarter on any goofl track at a 2.25 Clip. He is as pretty as a picture, his beautiful heady with that game never-say-die gleam in his eyes, well set on a rangy neck sinking into a. pair of massive .shoulders for a horse of his stature. His barrel is well lib bed up. coupling strong and quarter powerful, while his legs and feet are above criticism. He trots off naturally, wearing neither boots or weights,, and is as pure and level gaited as any horse living. Joe Gales (West Liberty) trotted his first race at Walton, Iowa August 22ud, 1872. and won in straight heats in slow time. His next appearencs was at Devenport, September 9tli, 1874, when he defeated Gertrude, who .won the first and third heats, Mark Twain aud lufanjt being distanced time 2.57|, 2.544j2.46J,2.52i,2}47f. He won another streight-heat-race in September, 1876 getting a mark of 2.39, which he reduced the following mouth to 2.§,5^, at Virginia, 111., where be defeated Mary C, Jackson- ville Boy, General Singleton, end Messenger Golddust, the last two being distanced. It was in the 1877 campai{,n, however, that the game son of Wapsie came to the front. His first great performance was at Free- port, III., May 31st, 1877, where he won the second heat in a race in 2.28 hia present record. This was Jollo wed by a yictory, at Dubuque,. 111., wheie on .Tune 7th he defeated the roan gelding, Loafer (2.24^), who, won the first heat in 2.28, and was distanced in the 4th, and Amy B., who won the second in 8-31, 2.32, 2.33, 2.36. The same fijsld met the following week at Cedar Rapids, and Loafer won but Joe Gales won the second apd fourth heats in 2.28^, 2.29, and drove him out in 2.28, 2.80} and 2*29. After defeating Waijdering Jew, Sparkle aad Fulton in a, five heat race at Battle Axe, Michigan, he was brought to Canada, where he has won several good, races. Starting in a free- for-all at Forest, May 24th, 1883, he won in streight heats, defeating Rattling Dan^ Comet and Pulton, who drove him out in one heat in 2.29. He defeated Fulton and Tom Jefferson in stright heats over the same track in September ot that year for a purse of $2pO, his best time being 2.83^. As a prize winner Joe Gales (West Liberty), 2.28, has few equals, having swept the board wherever shown. The Fast Lambton Fan: Association awarded him first prize and diploma on three occasions. He also carried ofWrst prize and silver medal at the London Fall Faur againrt fourteen entries. He was awarded fh»t pnze and a diploma at the Sarnie Sprinir Pair in 1883. and a gold medal at the JJall fan: of the same assooMti«n for the best trotting staUion on the yoond aufm ^f^. -IN- Advertise iii the STA]S[DAEa D U NLOP^S RLQC T^ EliYELOPES, HItn PAP£/t, PENCILS^, PENS, 1: N K.8 .. FANCY GOODS. TOYS. Tv the People of Markdale rounding vifinity: and sur. Ha-^ng openfidt ». Stationery and Fancy Qoods Stoxse in Dunlop's Block. I hereby solicit a share of public patro- nage.. Hoping that our intercourse may 'prpye.both.^lestsapt and profitable, lapivVOiu-s truly, • MRS. CLEMENT, m »KI£H BISClliiil A call respectfully solicited, MffS. CLEMENT, MARKDAlrl o o coo "o' o ocoooooooooooc ANNOUNCE "boo o_o_c.__o__p_o .o._o _o_p_o_o_p_ o o c c c o i c :oxo: ' TO HAND A CONSIGNMENT OF Ready Made Clothing Cheap, Stylish and Nobby^n desirable Shades and Patttm Young men and others who wish an ELEGANT FASHIONABLE OUTFIT Should see my stock before purchasing elsewhere. 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