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THE NKWHARKET ERA FRIDAY DECEMBER 350 Private To loan i term of years at per cent at Era Office Daws and Skates Sharpened on shortest notice Comer of Ontario and Superior A Merry Christmas to the conclusion Newmarket Girl Wanted who will neither stick to truth readers admit point when proven Merry against message it good In the not far distant said Mr William Mackenzie on return this week from the old try I expect an electric railway he constructed on the right way the Toronto and Niagara Power Cor transmission line to Niagara Falls direct with On Monday I Column itrtcnt the article the Exprcai Herald last week regarding tho Era Again the YuleUde and with sincere tend to the thousand Mortgage Mr interest our hearty Christmas cheer and kindly speech coupled with a heart tender and loving tothe Giver alt Good inspires feelings of regard and solicitude to wards our fellows and spells out for us much that makes life happy and PP joyous The sincere greetings Christmastlde and strength- Mond longboat the ens kindred tics wliile reminding i and re- Mr Walter attended the of that event in Bethlehems manger into the Anglican Churchy to fun grandfather In Toronto io much for the world mankind heralded by tlw angel choir PLEAS ILK Law Keswick was in town on Wednesday Anna Smith 1b spending the holidays at St Catharines A Christmas gathering will take place at the home of Mr II Brim- Mr J A was in town yesterday and gave the Stray Sow Came upon lot con East on or about November Owner Is requested to prove property pay expenses and it away II on earth Again we wish A Good Roads Move A petition is now In circulation throughout the City asking that To ronto and the of York spent on the Improvement and maintenance of suburban roads lead ing into the City The chief pro- motor of the project and who ll the petition is Mr a wellknown and and his proposition to Improve and maintain the ma arteries of traffic for five or ten out from the City limits viz Yon Street Kingston Road Weston prepare for his wedding with on Monday on the Inst Thomas Mr of West Toronto hitherto was a- pagan Indian but Mr John is now a Christianized Rod Man We over Sunday suppose Miss was the mis- Miss Veda Campbell is spending through whose Influence her Christmas holidays with her parents coming lord has broken the let- rjelmont paganism Fj A of Niagara St are spending with friends at Miss Hillock western grain this rail and navigation exceeds records Official returns in- all pa that between the of harvest and the close of upwards of bush of grain were shipped from the Pra irie Provinces to this side of the The grain crop of the West street and Lake way into If City and Townships interested join hands f the project may he re- A Merry Xmas AND Happy New Year E Photo Studio Opposite Postoffice Newmarket I the City join- undertaking Hitherto the City has schemed to bleed the County on every hand and they have so buttonholed men in municipalities sur rounding the Citjt that their efforts have been successful The present project presents more hopeful sign lor the future and no doubt will be popular Better roads leading into the City means cheaper produce lor business official records Express and companies it is learned that during the recent open season hunt ers had very good success The Do minion Express Co carried deer and moose Twentytwo moose were shot in the district The Canadian Express Co carried deer being in excess of last year During the total car- tCC Col to spend ho there with her father Mrs Geo Kitchcson and son Belleville visited with her cousin Mrs Harry Clancy this week Mr J Bastedo of Ottawa spent this week visiting with bis mo ther Mrs J A Dr and Mrs Firth of Kingston of The House of Quality ilUNTER BOS LTD ft Cody while in Mrs Frank Co Man on a rents Mr and Mrs the holidays Mr and Mrs are in town visiting Mrs this week is here visit with her p Dennis for 1 Harvey ol clan Dec the lyca old daughter of Mr in Tuesday to as- the Exams of the College Toronto and will not re- A Wonderful Lamp The Best Burning Oil Delivered In leas than 5 gal At Headquarters or in at a gal South Side Entrance of Lloyd I I Prospect Ave near Timothy PO Box NEWMARKET I Qui Toronto Civic nominations took place here on Wednesday Four candidates for Mayor were proposed ten for the Board of Control and for Board of Education quiet than usual are Mayor Oliver Thomas Joel fit James Guess Mr Oliver will get a second term all right Policeman Thomson was so badly cut and beaten by two roughs who assaulted him last Tuesday night that he is now In the Hospital A bigamist named Charles Smith sent to the Central Prison or a year by the Police Magistrate to death at I Mi A Lothian left on her parents home this afternoon day for int to spend The mother had a neighbor Christina- holiday with her father for a few minute leaving Leone and Mr Norman Morrison two alone Leone Some 30 poor children are invited win- putting kerosene on the fire sot bv Mr and Mrs It Schmidt to lire to her clothes and shortly after participate in a Christmas tree at wards neighbors oing In heard the their residence on Christmas day childs cries and rushing into the j Mr6 j i on Wednesday to spend Christmas hol idays with their son Mr Edgar Jackson at Montreal Toronto citizens and more business 1 Mrs Clancy and Roy City merchants Toronto also Miss Ethel Howard a spending Tretheway reports that he has the Christmas holidays with secured hundreds the best known Mrs parents at In to Ms petition i V deposits of Ontario St o unique 1ive ago similar untario h posits to those in Cobalt today were to Toronto on Wednesday to found in Port Arthur and we a to and will that the mineral cobalt has been return to Town to spend Christmas the Great Bear at Lake District There is no reason I Mr was taken ill property himself both in City and County no question but his personal influence wjll have much with those who may be expected to deal with the propositi We take this opportunity of Wishing our many Friends and Customers MERRY AND SINCERELY TRUST THAT THIS YEAR HAS BEEN THE WORST YOU WILL EVER HAVE AND THAT THE YEAR 1009 WILL BE FULL OF JOY HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY Should the project meet with why another Cobalt should not be Strathroy five weeks ago and had to discovered up in that great that other tending farther into the County may extend the good roads movement and thereby add to the genera comfort and safety of highways Tom Longboat will be married this City next Monday A reception will be held in Hall alter ceremony Longboats next race w be miles Buffalo Jan 2nd This is the race postponed from N Years Day A bench warrant was ordered by Judge Winchester Wednesday for the arrest of J Laraperton car conductor on the Church street route who Is wanted in the Sessions to answer a charge of seduction laid by the mother of a fourteenyearold girl- is a married man His case was called in the Sessions hut ho failed to answer Reeve Henry and of an Toron- The President and directors the Ontario Motor League Invite all Christmas Numbers that to hand the Canadian Pictorial fifteen cents published irt Pictorial Publishing Co 142 St Peter St special Municipal Elections that Reeve Moore will will probably Rumor k have his last year opponent Mr the field against him The old Councillors will likely be reelected without opposition EAST Everything is exceeding quiet and the probabilities are that the old Council will be elected by WHITCHURCH fight there will also be a contest for icipal honors The present Reeve Mr Raker will be opposed by the it Deputy Mr Mr ark one of the present Council- will run for the Mr Spaulding another of the Coun- illors declines to serve again Mr J Thirsk and Mr Ed re spoken of as probable candidates contents the bright Christmas stories and wealth of Christmas pictures to the Sweet Old English Carols words and music complete are full of Christmas spirit spend Christmas than fore in the history of the The traffic is regarded as very Grammar and arithmetic will not in future be included in the list of J subjects at matriculation examina tions for the Ontario Universities This decision was reached on Wednes day last at a conference held the Univeroity at which all the Provin cial universities with the exception Judge Iras completed bis in quiry info the Marine Department al leged Irregularities and his report Will he presented to Parliament early In the session The Commission should now he authorized to tackle the Railway and other spending made public on a return of the popular vote in the Dominion elections The British Columbia are in complete The total vote polled plus British Columbia figures was Of these went Liberal and Conservative figures indicate that the Liber- gave the Government a popular majority of less the Conservative majority in has recently been passed by the Provincial from prospec- lands in the highly mineralized districts of which is an important centre This order with draws all the lands in and two Townships not yet named 50 miles northwest of Cobalt and miles from the Township of James The area affected is about square miles in extent A strip of land feet in depth around all lakea has also been withdrawn staking Among others the lakes af fected by the order are Ahusking Wigwam Everett Bloom Millar and Hot According to the November report at out under authority of the Do- nton Department Agriculture the total crop of potatoes turnips and other roots hay fod der Corn and sugar beets grown in the Dominion in is 816of which per cent is credit ed to Prince Edward Island cent to Nova Scotia per cent to New Brunswick 283 to Quebec per cent to Ontario per cent to Manitoba per and 11 per cent to Alberta Potatoes are best in the Maritime Provinces In New Brunswick yield is 209 per a en at he rushed to the hospital where he remained for three weeks He was down Town on Tuesday for the first time since his return home Mr Gilbert Bowles Tokyo one of the principal mission aries of the Friends Church was in Town on Tuesday and inspected the Pickering College He was not on ly delighted with the size and general of the building but also of the at the annual banquet of the Commercial Travellers last Wednesday night Hon P Graham Minister of Railways made the announcement that something may be done in the next few months to place the man agement of- the Intercolonial Railway different basis Another state ment of interest was likewise made by Hon W J who intimated of Ontario bad decided to pass legislation next hotelkeepers in Onta rio to provide fire escapes proper THE CRADLE KEEFER In King on Nov to Mr and Mrs Kee- twin sons ville a daughter PEGGIn East or Dec to Mr and Mrs Wilfrid a son a daughter daughter THE LEADING You buy your Foroltiiro Cheap For Cash UNDERTAKING It A SPECIALTY to St John Millard Pfconta ted The postoffice handled nearly four hundred million letters last year Mr Alex Maclean Trade Com missioner to China died at children ate brought to understand that idleness is a crime and that no amount of fine culture make them pass for valuable in the worlds eye if they are unable to livelihood the hertter for them That daughter who helps her mother cook and scrub is far more worthy than she who only paints and plays and obliges her overworked father to servant that she may not soil her hands THE ALTAR FRENCH Thursday Dec 17 1908 at the home of her parents Albert Ada daughter of Mr Rev Thos Edwards Rev C Johnson in Toronto Dec Wm Chapman to Mrs Bertha Gardiner of Al- TOMB MCMILLAN In Whitchurch on Dec Ada daughter of the late John McMillan aged 21 BRODIE In Toronto on Dec Alexander Brodie father of Mr W formerly of Newmarket aged 79 years ASHWORTH At her residence Brunswick Toronto on Mon day Dec Jane Murray Newmarket Ont Interment at Newmarket At Michigan Funeral service at the Methodist Church on Monday morn ing last and interment at Cemetery ST All Orders wilt In a few more days will bo of past but it there will he celebrated a feast or a day of rest We take this opportunity of wishing you MY be forgotten for the Nonce and pie a Should we continue to be favored with your patronage as we hope to we can assure you of that same attention to your slightest commands which has characterized our dealings- and made pleasant and cordial relations In the past that to acceptable to diEcrlni- is one wo are now Bottom Prices igh Grade Pianos IS and finish with and purity of tone will find it in our Meson Rich prices low for high Instruments and made to suit you Come and for AGENTS FOB OXFORD STOVES RANGES NEW WILLIAMS SEWING MACHINES