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iy ng | 1a of publication, |}, Queen Street, W. H. CLINE s Publisher and Proprietor. PORT PERRY IN "1920. What i is likely t to be the com- mercial 'status and condition 'of this burg at the close of the next decade ? © This is 'not merely an idle speculative question. It isa question that affects in a most practical. fashion every resident and more particularly every prop- erty-holder and tax-payer. We have no wish to publish Jeremiads or to prognosticate evil. But to us there is occasion for very seri- ous thought in the present outlook. There is no blinking the fact that for several years the town has been suffering from a slow and" steady depletion, The woolen mill'that once flourished here is with us no more. One of the har- ness factories that employed a considerable body of men is now operating elsewhere. And more recently the foundry has been placed on wheels and rolled away to another town. And no new industries have been brought in or established to take the place of those that havé departed. Now, in view of the past, what of the future? Two pictures are conjured up. One is that of a pretty country village, clean and quiet,-the home of old people seeking retirement after years of stenuous living on the farm, where the Sabbatic rest that pervades the entire week is undisturbed by the whirr of wheels, the rattle of machinery, or the tramp of laboring men ; wheré the domesticated animals luxuriate in green pastures on the public high- ways. " The other picture is that of a young men's town, a brisk busi- ness place, throbbing with electric energy, the home of flour mills, implement factories, repair shops and canning factories, with its radial railways, summer hotels and fishing resorts, Either one of these pictures may be wrought out in reality. Which one shall it be? That is the ques Ip tion to be answered, and answered | now.' The future depends upon | the action of to-day. Other towns; like Owen. Sound, are advertising their advantages and inviting the attention of industries secking 'locations. What is being done by our Town 'Council or 'Board of Trade? . At the annual meeting of the last named organization . there was barely a quorum present; and about all that was done was to adjoin to a date that was after- "wards absolutely forgotten. = Meantime, the canning facto: that might have been secure _ likely to be located elsewhere The industry that was 'reported as about to come in ¢ thi et gineering difficulties are in the of building such a road and Hu able for four or five todths of tl year.. Fort Churchill is said to have one of the finest natural har- : bors:in the world. : NOTICE TO GROWERS : OF SEEDS. In 1905 the Dominion Govern: ment passed an Act respecting the inspection and sale of seeds, call: ed The Seed Control Act. This Act not only insures the farmer good, clean seed, but it prohibits merchants from buying weedy sceds from farmers for the purpose of sowing in 'Canada, gnd if a foreign market cannot be secured for the seed, the reader will readi- ly understand that such seed is of very little value. It is, therefore, very important that our growers should persist in securing nothing but the best seeds, and in the growing of the crops to: carefully' root out those weeds which would tend to destroy the sample. The Government at Ottawa, for the benefit of the grower, has pro- vided a-seed testing department where small sized samples can be sent and examined free of charge. It would be well to observe that a neighbor selling to another seed which" contains noxious weeds violates the law, and is-subject to the same penalty as is imposed on seed merchants who offer for. sale] seed unfit for sowing. HOTEL licenses in Toronto are counted worth something these days. The population of the city is rapidly increasing, while no in: crease is being made in the num- ber of licenses, and the holders of the present licenses have quite a monopoly. In June last the Muni- cipal Hotel license was transferred for $5,000, and in December was again sold for $25,000, an increase of $20,000 in six months. The Daly House license was transferred in January, 1906, price $25.000, and in June was again transferred, rice $40,000, an increase of $i Gis 1009 in six months. rst coil (in sssimr. + Canadian Pictorial" 'which were not sufficiently large, | and $3,500 is on account of certain aunual deficits jucurred he in anfinal expenditures particnlaris | ) upon the streets: The de; fully satisfied the co hee garding the soundness of their pro proposal, and the Bill committee stage and will ad Hi favorably to the House, where it} > will, uo doubt, soon receive dts} 4 final reading. Five debentures for: $2,200 each will then be issued; bearing fifer- est 'at-a rate not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum, The interest will be paid annually from the time of issue, but the debentures them- selves will uot beconie payable' till the end of ten years. By that time the 'general debentures already is- sued will have: been 'paid off, and the corporation will find it an easy matter to meet this new issue, = It is proposed to cffer these new of M debenturés for sale dn the cecal market, 'and 'the corporation' will soon be in a position 'to' receive tenders for the same. ing Cough, Croup, Bronchitis ough. Gr, Ath, Diphtheis Cresolene 18a boo to Astimatics : Eh a ay tal mi $c Sts ion Ry Th Aftera business career of te \ five years, in'which I think I ha had the lar of serving almost everyhody in Port Per surrouuding townships i time jor otlier), T take this oppor tunity of pus A] apking. i REMARKABLE "BILL OF FARE OF- lo FERED BY THE NEW NATIONAL MONTHLY. The **Canadian | Pictorial cover for February, printed in a dee blue toné, shows one of the ator hockey players of Canada, who ot the purpose of cleat up my books and for a. general organs tion in tle ¢ I hope has been chosen to represent the ng my friends to sport on the ice a Cs at this season. 71 | ence; and that th