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I I DRESSING CASES MANICURE CASES SEWING CASES MUSIC HOLDERS EBONY IVORY PIECES And Many Other Gifts WATSONS Store X The Leading County Paper as well as the Oldest No Paper- sent out of North York unless paid in advance I 1 J TERMS per annum in advance when not to United States in advance only paid Graduate Optician JACKSON Editor and Proprietor NEWMARKET FRIDAY DEC Take Santas Advice Select Your Gifts Early Just a Few More Shopping Days Make It a Useful Practical Gift i for the Home AUTOMOBILE Hockey Sticks Little Bob Shin Guards Pucks Ankle Sup ports Snow Shoes Toboggans Safety Steering Sleighs Waggons Doll Cabs and Carls TABLE CUTLERY STEEL8 A nice assortment of Geo enholmg Carvers Bread Knives Boards Pie Knives Berry Spoons Sugar Cold Meat Forks Fruit TOYS AND Building Blocks 25c to Erector Mechanical Sets St and Trains on Track Doll Beds Cradles and Carriages Iron Banks in animal shapes Rocking Horses Single and Double A MAN WOULD LIKE Smoking Pipe or Wallet Strong Pair Gloves or Milts Jack Knife Good Screw Driver Hammer Plane or Saw Small We Oil Stone etc SAFETY OR REGULAR RAZOR8 Gillette Auto Strop EverHeady Gem Keen Strops Stick Soap Brushes Razor Paste Mirrors ftlades to fit all Razors ELECTRICAL GOODS Flash Lights Toasters Irons Hand Lanterns Curling Tongs Warming Pads Water Heaters Air Warmers Grill Stoves Reading Lamps Double Sockets Small Stoves FOR THE AUTOMOBILE Wool Lap Rug or Waterproof Pair of Tire Saver Jacks KITCHEN WARE food Pump Pair of Gauntlets Tea Kettles Tea Pols in Batter Tester Tire Tester Driver Sc Hammer combined for tube and casing Styles Wrenches and Pliers Granite and Brown Earth enware Double Boilers Double Roasters Granite Steamers and Pols Hair Floor Brooms Weight ed Waxing Brush Aluminum Casseroles FOR THE MECHANIC Adjustable Wrench Rule Rule with Level Hack Saw WASH DAY Hand or Breast Drill Set of i Wringers Washing Machine Small Tools in Handle Automatic Automatic Kitchen Clothes Line Screw Driver Hammer Clothes Bars Tub Stand Pipe Wrenches Clothes Baskets BIN HARDWAR THE PAINT STORE FOR GOOD VARNI8H PHONE 28 BANK- BE ESTABLISHED OVER The Farmer and His Bank should be on intimate and friendly terms They can mutually helpful The Bank of Montreal is always glad to give to its customers the benefit of its financial experience and now ledge J G Ross Manager Newmarket Branch SOUTH END LUMBER YARD Why Pay for when you can DOMESTIC LUMP Wood buy Carters COAL at per Ton TRY A TON PEARSON Cor Church and Wrh Giles John Murphy and Leslie Avtfita Service Farmer given attention bale discounted Loans made to responsible parties convenience is afforded to Saving Depositors or large sums may he deposited and interest paid on balan ces A LISTER Manager HORSE BMW BURNED Graham Bros east horse barn was destroyed by fire one morning an weak The wag aroused by be flames at dock but the fire then WOBd control Of twenty horses in the building eight re gotten out Fortunately a west vlnd was blowing which made it easy to save the rest of the barns ft was fortunate too that Graham Bros horses which carried off a large number of prizes at the International Live Block at Chicago had not returned else some of may have been burned The origin of the fire is a mystery Geo West of Newmarket Word has been received by Mr A E West barber of Newmarket that his son George who has been a Prisoner of War in Ger many for two and a half years expects to be repatriated shortly and may be home early in the now year George West enlisted in Aurora in August 1915 with the York Hangers following the patriotic example of his fath er who served with the York Hangers in he North West Re bellion He was transferred to the Battalion and went over seas the first week in October He entered the trenches in France on the 1st of March and in the Battle of beke on the 2nd of June following lie was taken prisoner having been again transferred to the Canadian Mounted Rifles He was not quite years of ago when he enlisted and he has been employed at various kinds of work in Cologne and Ger many during the past two years and six month P He appreciated very much the Red Cross parcels of food His brother West join the Grenadiers in Toron to in 1915 and has been in the Transport service in France since of December 1017 For the Era Christmas Day is approaching Everywhere we hear Plans for others pleasure For the day so near Loved ones are invited To appear thai day To in Luxuries away I As in years departed Well remembered joys When the old folks All their girls and boys Who had left Ibe In the world had gone To some useful calling Leaving them alone d Slithering With lie Cringing others with them each Christmas cheer Since become so A the dinner table Working a zest While between Ihe courses Freely flows jest what foil and labor For a week before All so quickly vanish one busy hour Twill not be forgotten so short a space Kind and cheerful welcome Beaming from each face Telling after dinner What has taken place What to each has happened In lifes earnest race Of their disappointments And hopes realized Some things lost and others Gained more highly prized Scenes of pleasure noted Accidents rehearse And with homelike feeling groups converse Borne times all arc talking No one seems to hear Tongues arc all the fashion lie quiet ear for some reporter To record the chat He would surely head it Nits of this and that Who would cheek the gladness Speaking from their eyes lis a scene where angels Smile at from the skies Welcome then dear Christmas I Bringing loved ones homo Where dear friends are waiting For you soon to come Tie a taste of heaven Irysling place Where the joys of meeting neer efface P Dec John Icy Brown years old was ac cidentally shot last night by a bullet from a rifle in the hands of his older brother The- 1 wo boys were practising aiming at a highboard fence How Christmas may Bring Greater Joy By Harriet Minimis Smith Jennie The father and daugh ter sat facing each other at opposite sides of the round table At a cas ual glance the relation ship was apparent the mans strong features softened in the girl without losing their pro nounced characteristics To night her face betrayed a weari ness almost suggestive of dejec tion Jennie looked up with a start at her fathers question Tired Oh I dont knowV She seemed to reflect impartially on the sub ject suppose I am although I cant imagine why I took the motor car of course and didnt go but to two or three of the best places where there never is crowd Still at best Christmas shopping is hard work Mr Geo King played with his fork Jennie he said sudden ly whats the matter with Christmas Why isnt there more enjoyment in it His daughters eyes met his in a startled glance that was like a protest Apparently he was not in a hurry to hear her opinion for he went on speaking rather dreamily as if talking to himself It wasnt always this way Jennie When I was a boy there was a zest about Christmas it doesnt seem to have nowadays Id think perhaps it was because I am growing old if I didnt see the same lack of enthusiasm in you Lets see I How old arc you Jen nie Nineteen in February father Nineteen When I was your age Id left the farm and moved to the city hut Christmas was a great day then Sometimes I could get away to go home for my Christmas dinner and some times I couldnt but Christmas was Christmas just the same What hours I spent hunting up Ihe stores where my few dollars would make the biggest showing There was a little who had a stand two from my boarding house and one year bought a pair Of shoes I gave Mrs Jones a check for fif ty dollars yesterday toward a Christmas dinner distribution hut though my judgment com mends the charily as in every way worthy Of support theres no par ticular heartpleasure in it Whats the matter with Christinas Jennie Thegirl had been knitting her brows and when he paused she had her answer ready It was as off hand as il seemed She had been asking herself the question As far as our friends go the people in our theyve so much already thai its hard In I hem anything they especial ly desire And as for the poor people you supply money but the pleasure of giving goes to some society Theres no more personality about it than if you nil your cheek in a machine Thats true agreed her fath er Seems like a sensible ex planation my dear If you should happen upon a solution lei me know Jennie neglected her Christmas shopping he next day- Her fathers question bad touched her more deeply than ho guessed hurt her to think big- hearted generous man should not gel abiding satisfaction out of his liberality In her perplexed mood she was perhaps more open to suggestions than would other wise have been the case It is certain that the arrival of Aunt letter seemed to have something more than a mere co incidence Aunt was Mr Kings aunt a gentle old- fash ioned creature whose visit to her nephews city home some twenty years before was too aweinspir ing a memory to encourage her to repeal the experience Several limes a year she wrote Jennie and letter arriving shortly he- fore Christmas was a valued part of Jennies holiday At the same time its arrival had never meant so much as now My Dear Child I have been thinking of you ev er since December began and of the fine time you must lie having going around to all those big stores buying things to make people happy I have a little package made up send you It isnt much but I made it myself and loving thoughts went Into every stitch The photographs you sent us last spring of your father and yourself a great pleasure They arc so lifelike that its next best tiling to you here When we had our Thanks giving dinner I put two extra chairs up to the table and the pictures on them propped up on a pile of books so faces would show above the tablecloth John said it looked to him as If was netting to my second childhood but I dont It seemed real sociable v yTiK2 tl Single Copies VOL No AT YEARS Your father will be sorry to hear one she called that our ministers wife is very beamingly So dont poorly The doctor says ought to go to British Columbia par- for the winter but Mr Browns n himself salary is only eight hundred dot- I le and I guess She cant go I P and died without making any provi sion for her And her cousins wont do a thing for her Its a disappointment for Netty for he promised her that she should have every chance but shes the sort of a girl to make the best of things and no one to see her would guess what it meant to her Deacon Roberts your father will remember him if you dont served the fragile little woman shivering in spite of the red hot stove a few feet from her chair No she hadnt been able get out very much yet It was so cold it seemed as ifshe couldnt bear it She would be so glad when the spring came The minister vibrating like a pendulum between the kitchen and Ihe living room was perhaps not sorry when he conducted his is going to lose his home Im visitors to the door And then afraid He mortgaged it when Mr King said something in his his younger son was so sick and ear which must have been say Hansom is going lo fore- thing more than Merry Christmas close I suppose the deacon andaf the same time thrusting a piece his wife will have to live with his other son James and Im sorry for them for Jajnes wife is fret ting about it already and saying that they havent a mile more room than they need for them selves Im afraid this isnt a very letter dearie It hast such a lot about folks troubles but your father knew all these people when he was a boy and hell be interested to know how theyre getting along wish you a happy Christmas Your loving greataunt Jocelyn It Swan When Mr King came home that night Jennie met him in hall Ive solved he puzzle she mur mured What puzzle Ob you mean Mr King handed his over coat to deferential servant ami followed his daughter into Ihe library looking really interested when he had perused Aunt loiter he seemed more puzzled than ever Really my dear I dont see The first thing Jennie an nounced balancing her self on arm of his chair is that well spend Christmas with Aunt She wont have to sel our I bad In of paper into his hand The min ister looked into his visitors face looked al the slip of paper and bowed his head and wept Not a word was necessary Those tears of unutterable relief were more eloquent than the finest words Netty Blair was next be favored Netty was attired in a gingham apron as she greeted her callers She was loo much of a lady not be but in her heart she thought these com parative strangers very much in why Jennie asked her to play for I hem she hesi tated and he color rose in her cheeks Why of course she at lasl with a liMli- difficulty But Im afraid my Angers are stiff I have had a lot of housework to do the last wo weeks She sal down in her ginirham apron her color high and played the Spring Son- in a fashion thai made her hearers forget the wintry out door world and what was an even greater- achievement made forget turkey browning in oven Ils beautiful sofflv as II From Era Fyle Deo The Council of King paid 125 for sheep killed by dogs at its last meeting Messrs Harris Culverwell have opened a new grocery Grammar School closed on Tuesday evening at which a number of visitors were present Canon Ramsay chairman of the complimented Mr Ander son principal on the success off the- school There are over on the roll The semiannual examinations of Newmarket Common School look place on Thursday and Fri day of last week There were a goodly number present especial ly on Thursday evening when a vole of thanks was passed for the efficiency of the staff to which Mr Alexander responded Mr Jesse Reeve of East died Wednesday at the age of years For 30 years He was leader of the cele brated Sharon Band anil compos ed a igreat part of the music they played In politics he was On active Reformer The recently organized Band at Mount Albert is making the village lively and other winter sports with numerous entertainments receive considerable attention while Hunter are doing a lively business Married Dec at the Manse King by Rev Mr John Smith of Newmarket to Louisa of East Markets Eggs and butter V music censed photographs on chairs it make yon feel am Doesnt did me And when we gel there She paused drama tically Then well see we Can do for preachers wife and I rest Piny Santa Clans for whole immunity her father laughed Thats considerable of a proposition It wouldnt cost you a bit more Jennie return calmly than put that stained glass window into the new library building your college Stained glass windows are very nice but if you want my opinion father I think youll find more satisfaction in these others How ever we dont need to settle any thing now but the mere fact that well be with Aunt Jocelyn for Christinas Ill write her if you say so tonight H was a snowy Christmas Jen nie creeping out of bed at first hint of daylight scratched a hole on the frost covering her window and gazed delightedly on be glistening country landscape so unlike a winter scene in town Then her chattering teeth recall ed her to the fact that she was far from the region of steam heaters and she dressed in haste Much was to be done thai day It was to be the busiest of Downstairs Aunt Jocelyn was going about radiant It was not the gifts her nephew and his daughter had brought her which were responsible for the illumi nation of the sensitive old face It was the fact that her folks had come home for Christmas Words were unequal to express ing her satisfaction That had taken form in flaky pies and golden brown doughnuts In cran berry jelly and whipped cream say nothing of the fattest turkey of the flock Aunt Jocelyns pantry shelves were an embodied hallelujah She bad to spare thern for a time that Christmas morning and she was well content Jennie had helped her in the kitchen the day before and though Jennie had meant well her assistance in getting Christmas dinner was something with Aunl could very well dispense The turkey wont be done a minute said II agreed between her and herself bat she should this delicate pari of their n Von have a wonderful My father and I were lo give ii your music father handle missio gifl von and come llOmi The sympathy in her lislene lone thawed a little of constraint have been so as I she said in a low voice il doesnt help talk about il No but weAcfiol talk about il in order to help Jennie ex plained with a nervous laugh You see Miss father thinks your future is too prom ising for your plans to be inter fered with lie wants o send you back he conservatory to finish your course Finish my course the girl gasped Oh it cant he its too wonderful lo be true Ob moth er come quirk Come everybody It was a long time before they got away from the and Mr King drove to Roberts a poor little place in an unavailing effort to save his boys life The old man was pathetically glad to see Mr Kinc His wife busying herself with preparations for a dinner which Jennie suspected to he a frugal one was less cordial Youve had luck I hear George down in the city Well some folks gets anil some loses Even when cheque was In her hands Mrs Roberts could not bill feel hat she was the victim of injustice nil a joke George King I she gasped And then when her husband came to Mr Kings assistance and made the fact that few hun dred dollars the check represent ed Would relieve them from the necessity of taking heir abode with James wife Mrs Roberts sat motionless It was worth much Jennie thought see the dread drop off like a discarded armonl and relief be yond words take place As they drove back to the farm house on the gallop Jennie press ed her cheek against her fathers shoulder How is this Christ mas panning out She knew the answer to her question but asked it for satisfaction of hearing his reply He smiled at her before ho spoke Its next host to the From Era Deo Mr Win Tuesday for land Robinson left on a visit in Old Hannah Hog is spending- in totally night iioi- thodisl in gers is over from Buffalo for Christmas Mr Christmas holiday bridge Mr Geo Oliver- is back from Manitoba Miss Crone of York City is spending the holidays with Miss Jennie Simpson Mrs Wilson mother of Mrs IS Manning arrived from Dakota on Saturday accompanied by two grandchildren Mr Anderson of Sutton has been appointed take charge of he Canadian Exhibit at San Inhibition The was destroyed by fire Monday A I officers I J J J Snider 1 tin Collins and supper in installation The united Choirs of and Churches gave Town Hall lasl Messrs Son have shipped dozen from here Ibis season The Town Hah was Oiled overflowing on Wednesday even ing In hear Mr Jos Gibson on the Irihibilion Piles of poultry on Market floor last Saturday when the rush was over The hulk of turkeys were bought and geese ai fie Ducks Mr and chickens from to Butter and eggs Potatoes bag Beef pork and mut ton to by the quarter Married Dec by Rev If Matthews Mr Seneca Lloyd of St to Mis May Ma jor of Aurora Sutton Dec 20 by Rev Mar tin Mr Andrew Hunter of New market to Miss Charlotte K Bailey or Dec by Rev Mr Alex P Porter to Miss Emma Jane all of King The Tomb In Whitchurch on Dec John aged years At Dec Culverwell aged years at Newmarket At Mich Dec Anna VanNorman beloved wife- of Thos Everett aged years Interred at At Pec KniKht aged years Interred at Oueensville At Pine Orchard Dec Wal ter aged vears Inter red at Newmarket Cemetery r i one when I bought the little boot black his shoes Next year we must do more Jennie Tf we add sacrifice lo the other elements in vour prescription therell be blessing enough in Christmas to keep a mans heart light all year round Italy officially reports that she has spent nearly eleven bil lion dollars on he war and about casualties