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y ib # B vVOLUME XXVIILâ€"No. 3 THE NYAL DRUG STORE THE PEOPLE‘S STORE Inch‘s Cut Rate Drug Store The Store Keep Thurday Ev‘g _ May 17th Free Sunday Hours :3â€"5 p.m., 8â€"9 p.m. _ _ REMEMBERâ€"If you want a real bargain in GARDEN SEEDS we have the stock, the quantity and the price that canâ€" not be beaten., Don‘t put off. Call toâ€"day and select your seeds. We have Simmers‘, Rennie‘sand Steele Briggs‘. * from any other engagement WATCH THIS SPACE NEXT WEEK § Will Be Carried. s ICE CREAM BRICKS in all Flavors Carried at All Times â€" BOYS AND GIRLS 4. Buy Your Ice Cream Cones at Inch‘s This Year GoodiCones, Good Ice Cream, Good Big Helpings INCHS IGCE CREAM PARLORS A8F NOW DPE Weston Coal & Lumber se . L. and W. Scranton Coal The Standard Anthracite COKE AND wWOOD LUMBER MERCHANTS Our Supply of Coal is Coming Through Now. Place Your Orders. Office and Planing Mill â€" Phone 27 EAGLE AVENUE, near G.T.R. Tracks H. H. RUDOLPH, Mgr., Weston Full Line of Rexall Goods on Hand. AND DOING BUSINESS kR b B oA T( Reas‘o SÂ¥ Sole Vendors of PHONE 53 bo Cimres *X Giine. But we do not find this theory working out in our town toâ€"day. A large percentage of our busiâ€" ness is going to the city of Toronto. The big departmental stores get the bulk of it. ‘Their wagons give a good delivery service daily. They send their parcels CO.D, Each company keeps a wagon, |\ feam of horses and two men employed for Weston only. How do they do it? It has taken years to build their business and connection.. They first of all got the people going to their centre, once they had a display that attracted. They gave value as advertised. They used the paper to bring their values before the people. They cut prices to small margins and quick turn overs. "Ihey issued exâ€" pensive catalogues, giving description of the articles they had for sale and their prices. They study the requirements of the people and thus anticipate their wants. ‘Rhus they created business. They charge cash and are able to do bigger business each year. They do their biggest and best business where the town merchants are not active. Now let us consider the conditions, Is it not easier for a person to buy all that they require right at their door? â€"You will find that everybody would sooner do that than go into the city or trust to mail order. The town merchant has the personal confidence ofâ€" the people. He can give them rapid deliverv, heccan study their wants, likes, and dislikes.. He can always be ready to assist in their choice of article. "Thus the town merchant w ho is alive to his opportunities should work up a bis business. 7 ton. Will anything be done this year to give the children and people of Weston a proper play ground and park? True we have a most beautiful site for the park and playground. True its situation is most ideal and would be one of the finest picnic‘grounds in the district,. : True many could be accomâ€" modated there. Again, true it has not been utilized. Now is it not a shame that our park being paid for by the ratepayers of Weston out of the taxes is not utilized. What is the reason ? Simply because no efforts have been made to make it attractive. No time has been spent to lay it out as a place of recreation. No energy is spent to bring it before the proper authorities. Therefore it lies idle except for the spring and fall fair. As you recall the condition of parks in the City of Toronto a few years ago and you look at them toâ€"day in all their beauty you start to wonder. You ask how was this accomplished? Then you recall that it was some old dump. _ What will be the future of our fair grounds with a little work done each year?‘ It will become one of the finest playgrounds and parks for recreation purposes to be found. Think about it and act! Let all realize that each should help the other to get and keep trade. By coâ€"operation of the business men we could get all the trade redirected here. > It will not be done in a day. Rome was not built in a day. â€"What is required is first to gain the confiden‘ce of the people. It is reported that the merchants of Weston do not want more business. . If this is the case a new set of business men should replace them. For every man that turns business away in his line take it â€"away from others. Every purchase that is turned to Toronto weakens our making Weston a centre.a To make Weston the centre we want all the business down here. Again it is reported that our merchants‘ prices are too high. Now this is serious, as every man is justified to buy in the cheapest market. There is no sentiment in business. We are living in an age when every cent saved counts. Therefore people will buy in the lowest market. Quality and service and price goes hand in hand. If you give the service that calls the people to your store, if you give the service that anticipates their wants, if you give the service that tips them off for little points, then you are doing the first part. If your quality is always just as you represent it, if your quality is what the people require, you are going a second step. If your price is the same as they can purchase.for in Toronto, if your prices are reasonable and fair, then you will capture all the business. A lot fall down on the price because they are not satisfied with a small margin and bigger turn overs. They find goods on their shelyves that should have been cleared long agow». They find ales coming slowly and expenses still going on. They find it hard to get cash. With a quick turn (fver of these same goods they would be in a position to save the interest they are eating up. The interest saved would give more capital to carry on. Thus you can see that by a little financing the prices could be made the same as Toronto prices. Thus to make W eston the centre our merchants must make the neâ€" cessary move.. Advertise your goods. Give service, quality and prices. Use the present retail merâ€" chants‘ association â€"to further the interest and _ work of doing a bigger and greater business in Wesâ€" Now are the merchants of Weston getting all the business of Weston? No! Are they trying to make Weston the centre for York and Etobicoke? ‘No! Well, can you expect to hold the people? What we want is a very live, active campaign among our business men to bring the business here. At present each man is somewhat afraid of the other fellow. He is trying to outdo his competitors alone. The first step to the greater future of Weston must be taken. This should take the form of a big clean up and paint up week. During this week under proper leadership the town of Weston could become a changed place. To accomplish this we must have all roads, lawns, boulevards, vacant lots, piles of earth and ashes removed. We must have our main street cleaned dnd trimmed as we clean our home in springtime,. We must have the coâ€"operation of the merchants and citizens to paint up their homes and stores. By this coâ€"operative and community spirit we_could accomplish much. Nothing will come of this unless some action is taken., Weston toâ€"day is one of the best situated towns in Ontario. There is no suburb around ‘Loronto that has a better location. & It is connected with both railway lines and an unparallelled service of trains.. Its car lines give promise of great possibilities. The healthy state of our citizens speaks of it as one of the most healthy centres to be found. Its utilities and parks and streets are all laid out. When these facts are all looked into why could Weston not be made the most beautiful of Toronto‘s suburb‘s? It can be accomâ€" plished if the community spirit is developed. What is required is that every man, woman and child should realize that our town is a place of some consequence. No opportunity should be lost to bring the fact before your friends. Tell them of Weston and its future. Do the merchants of this district realize what an opportunity ‘they, to do a good big busiâ€" ness. Many of our towns in this part of Ontario cry out in despair because of their business. They claim that the people of toâ€"day take the car, train, automobile, or use the catalogue to do all their busiâ€" ness. They tell you that it is impossible to cope with these large WForonto stores. Yet these same men sit back and cry of the conditions. In life wefind the man who is always down on his luck is generally at fault himself. o The interest taken by the citizens of the town is what makes a town. _ The community spirit is what develops a place. If you see a nice clean tow n, stores well kept, windows well dressed, gardens, lawns and parks attractive and nicely laid out, public grounds with grass cut and edges trimmed, you are at once impressed. Did you, however, stop and analyze what brought that condition about ? If you do you will find that some active body aroused a community spirit among its citizens. Dr. E. W. Merchant, director of Industrial Training and Inspector of Normal Schools for Onâ€" tario, will be the speaker of the evening. The Board of Trade feel that the matter of Industrial Trainâ€" ing should be explained to the citizens of Weston. The facts of our present system of High School education appears to have failed to reach the masses of the people. It is felt that greater man power and woman power will be given to Canada by the introduction of thesq industrial courses. If thereâ€" fore this is the case we should be willing to carry on the work. So that all may have the opportunity of learning of the details, the board have secured the speaker above. He will deal with the requireâ€" ments, the cost and the advantages. Every citizen in town and in the country is invited to attend this meeting. It will take place in the town hall at eight o‘clock on Monday night, April 30th, A FEW WORDS IN SEASON Don‘t miss the Qpp(_njtunity to become informed on this subject, It willâ€"be one of the questions forâ€" Weston to deal with in the near future. 7 3 .. WwWEST YORK‘S NEWSY WEEKLY WESTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, _APR LET US UTILIZE OUR PARK INDUSTRIAL TRAINING WESTON‘S THE CENTRE DEVELOP SOMETHING EDL 25TH, 1917 Now is the time to plant these seeds and fix up your garden. Don‘t miss this opportunity to save 50 per cent. of your outlay in seeds by huying at Cook‘s Friday and Saturday. # Steele Briggs‘ Seeds, regular 7 packages for ...... ... . Rennie‘s Seeés’, regular 5c per Tpackages for .......... Store open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Cruickshank Wagon Works \_Every seed in the store to be cleared out on Saturday at cost price. It does not pay to carry them over. Look at these prices: § ' : Simmers‘ Packaged Seedsâ€"All selected seed and full, regular 5¢ package, will clear at cost price on Friday . and Saturday, for, per package .............. . 2C 10 packages for .............l.......cal ob All Kinds of Wagon Repairing, Choice Doubletrees, Whiffletrees, Reaches, Wagon Tongues, Bolsters, etc.; Wagon Boxes for Farmers, Market Gardeners, | Butchers, Grocers, etc. TIMEKEEPER ' Canada Cycle & Motor Co., Ltd. WESTON, ONTARIO N. Ww TOOKS . Phones: Weston 74 and Junction 237 WESTON BRANCH YARD T. C. IRVIN Gibson, McCormack, Irvin Co., & Main Street, Weston Limited BIG CLEARANCE OF SEEDS DON‘T PUT IT OFF ANY LONGERâ€"HERE IS YOUR CHANCE 8 1 Ring 55 and place your order early. While it may be had. A full stoct hand for immediate delivery Buttonwood Avenue and Weston Road Telephone 55 _ FARM WAGONS â€" GARDENERS‘ WAGONS Our policy : Fair prices, full weights, good coal \YZF DO IT NOW The Cash Grocery GET YOUR WINTER‘S SUPPLY OF MEN WANTED Green Onions COAL &+ We have openings at present for a number of workmen, both skilled and unskilled. Good wages and steady work for the right men. Apply at ongeâ€" _ . package, will sell at cost, iss vluss o attabe 5e package, will clear at 5.o 0t un oaopge & of Nut and Stove on J. C. IRVIN, Manager Cars stop at the door $1.00 Per Year in Advance ol i a0% Ha 'j?l Ne foak 2