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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 16th, 1927 New, Fresh Stock CIGARS, CIGARETTES and TOBBACOES OF ALL KINDS A share of your patronage respectfully solicited! C. A. Post 1 Door West of P. O. Colborne, Out. Cloverleaf Baby Chicks l2l/2 Cents for July Delivery These early-mating chicks will lay in December, which is contrary to the old belief that July chicks are too late, but not so with our heavy laying S. C. White Leghorns. Ask our customers who received July chicks last year. They began laying at 4^ to 5 months of age. We have a supply of four-week-old cockerels for delivery at once at 10 cents each in any quantity. They will be ready to kill in four more weeks. Agents for Miller Ideal Incubators and Brooders. Prices on Application. Cloverleaf White Leghorn Farm L. V. POMEROY, Proprietor Member of R. O. P. Breeders' Association of Ontario Member of Canadian Baby Chick Association Salem Store Re-Opened New and Freak Stock GROCERIES and PROVISIONS GASOLINE and OILS Cochrane & Evans Phone 68r23 EARLY CELERY EARLY CAULIFLOWERS EARLY CABBAGE ALL KINDS OF OUT-DOOR PLANTS now ready at onr greenhouse* Crandell & Scripture COLBORNE New Service Station Victoria Opera House, Colborne Full Supplies of GASOLENE OILS, ETC. IRA EDWARDS, Proprietor J. M. SNETSINGER, Manager OUR 18-inch SURFACED ROLL ROOFING^ makes an excellent Barn Roofing, being nailed every 18 inches. It offers special resistance to the wind. A carload of the Mineral Surfaced 4 in 1 Shingles, Sheathing and Building Papers to choose from. PRICES RIGHT ! Will exchange logs for roofing material Custom Sawing Done Promptly R. H. TYE Box 358 Planing and Saw Mill Phone 99 Have you observed that no up-to-date business man neglects to show his windows? Some,merchants neglect advertising. The window is seen by by those who pass the store and by no others. The newspaper carries the show window, as it were, into the homes of the town and district and gives the people an idea of the goods carried, and the prices at which they can be secured. All Kinds of Plants for Sale g. aTkemp East Colborne ATTENTION! WE BUY ALL KINDS OF JUNK HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR ALL KINDS OF FAT POULTRY Goldstein Bros. Raw Furs Wanted! HIGHEST MARKET PRICES PAID i. Margies - Cobourg Phone 124 We Pay for Out of Town Calls. LIVE POULTRY AND JUNK WANTED Highest prices paid for Live Poultry, Rags, Brass, Copper, Iron and Bats. Long distance telephone calls will be paid if purchase is made. B. GOODMAN Phone 153 Third St. Cobourg EXPRESS ADS. BRING RESULTS Butter Wrappers at ■xprsss Office. Special Information AMERICAN LIQUID ROOFING CEMENT It will not run under extreme heat. It will not crack or get hard and brittle. It remains elastic for years, expanding and contracting with the roof. It is not affected by climate, rust, or corrosion. Sold by B. D. Hollenback COLBORNE Sole Agent for Northumberland Massey-Harris SPRAYERS A SPECIALTY ALL KINDS OF FERTILIZER F. C. Morrow Phone 40 East Colborne lere an dTh ere Is Ironing Hard Work? If you have to stand over a hot stove, heating old-fashioned sad-irons, and walk backwards and forwards between tie stove and your ironing board, it utfc eoubtedly is. But, if you use a SOVEREIGN Electric Iron you can do your ironing on the back porch if necessary. The " Sovereign " Electric Iron is truly the housewife's friend. It has a cool handle, tapering nose, and is beautifully balanced. Telephone us, and we- will deliver a "Sovereign" immediatelv. It sells for the remarkably low price of 8 **»*ADE IN CANADA!! Sold in Colborne by G. M. PEEBLES ESTATE Two million doiiars will be spent In the Certral Manitoba mineral area on development work this year. Improved navigation and highways into this district are included in the activities of the Mining Bureau of the Winnipeg Board of Trade. The development of the muskrat industry five miles south of Revel-stoke will be proceeded with further this year, 160 acres having already been fenced in by the Revelstoke Muskrat Fur Breeders' Association. Eight hundred families from Switzerland are expected to come out to Western Canada to settle during 1927, according to the Acting Consul for Switzerland. There are thriving Swiss settlements in Notre Dame de Lourdes, Manitoba, and Stettler, Alberta. Canada's chemical industry recorded an increase of $7,500,000 in sales during 1926, as compared with the previous year, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Production by 533 plants was valued at $120,369,518, as against $113,000,-000 for the previous year. Ottawa's memorial carillon, to be installed in the new Victory Tower at the Capital, arrived in Canada May 20 on the Canadian Pacific steamship "Balfour/' The huge bells, weighing in all about 53 tons, will constitute one of the finest sets in the world. They were cast at the Croydon bell foundry in England. Word comes from the Engineering Department of the Canadian Pacific Railway that when the Banff rings Hotel opens on May 15th, for the summer season, the north wing of the building will have been completed and ready for occupancy. Next year at the same date the south wing will have been rebuilt, when there will be at the service of the public an hotel of over 600 rooms and baths, as well as its other splendid accommodations. Representing fifty Nebraskan families who wish to settle in Canada, a delegation headed by Frank Stewart, of Nort Platte, Nebr., conferred with C. A. Van Scoy, superintendent of the colonization department of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company at Winnipeg in Girder to •' obtain details regarding suitable tracts of land. The land seekers will go to Calgary with a representative of the department and inspect land in that vicinity. The group proposing to emigrate has ample capital, it is said. The Folksong and Handicraft Festival held at the Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, May 20-22, under the auspices of the National Museum of Canada and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, proved to be perhaps the most outstanding musical event ever held in Canada. Many persons from all parts of the continent gathered at the Ancient Capital to hear the old songs of French Canada and te " see the handicraft products that are still produced to a large extent in Quebec despite the modern methods general in almost every other part of the Dominion. NOTICE After a careful study of my business and present conditions, I have decided that by putting my business on a cash basis I can save money for the consumer, as I can sell on closer margin of profit. I wish to announce, therefore, that from this date our sales will be made on a Cash Basis. Also, I wish to call to attention that all outstanding accounts must be settled. I. PALEN Colborne. COAL GENUINE SCRANTON COAL We screen our coal. My scales are enclosed and always in perfect order. 2000Ibs. is a ton with us. Service is a pleasure. Special attention to farmers. Shed open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ira Edwards The toll of railway and level crossing accidents last week numbered 18 persons killed. EXPRESS ADS. BRING RESULTS Red and White Chain Store Specials for Saturday June 18th, 1927 10 Bars Surprise Soap and a shopping basket for 1.00 10 Bars P. & G. Soap..................49 21b Soda Biscuits...................25 21b Ginger Snaps...................25 Granulated Sugar............101b for .73 Quick Quaker China .................38 Macaroni..................31b for .25 Matches....................3 for .25 Post Bran....................2 for .25 Servus Baking Powder.................25 2 in 1 Shoe Polish.....................11 FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES PROMPT DELIVERY W. A. SEED Phone 74 Standard Bank Block Colborne Car Load of Wire & Gates CHEAP FOR CASH FULL STOCK OF IMPLEMENTS AND REPAIRS AT REDUCED PRICES We handle PLOW POINTS and SHOES for ALL MAKES of Plows Full Stock of BINDER TWINE on hand JOHN REIVE King Street Colborne WARNING UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE WEED CONTROL ACT 1927 now in force the destruction of noxious weeds is no longer optional. The destruction of noxious weeds is now COMPULSORY Every occupant of land and every owner of unoccupied land is required to destroy all noxious weeds before seeds ripen. Municipal Councils are required to destroy all noxious weeds growing upon the highways. Let everyone co-operate to end the weed nuisance. The Department of Agriculture Province of Ontario Parliament Buildings, Toronto HON. JOHN S. MARTIN W. B. ROADHOUSE Deputy Minister