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“It Shines For All.” Vol VI—-No 45 MILVERTON, ONT., PERTH CO., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1897. MacBETH, Miiiiior and Publisher Another large stock of OOTS ano SHOES just to hand which will be cleared out at greatly reduced prices. DISTRICT NEWS Some Interesting Items Culled from Neighboring Press and trom Other Sources A quilt shown atthe Simcoe Fair contained 18,674 pieces. j The Monkton Cheese and Butter Company shipped about 700 boxes of cheese from Mitchell station on Mon- day. Price paid, 8: There are from 147 to 150 students registered at the Ontario Agricultyral College at present, a large number of them boarding out, there being no rooin at the college. Hemphill and Mitchell, the two young men charged with having work- a Listowel man for $100 with an empty box supposéd to have contained green goods, have been remanded for a few days. The Rev. C. A. Anderson, B.A, J.G. Grosch kas bought out the entire stock of BOOTS, SHOES and Rubbers from N. W. Ross,. Es@., Cannington, at a greatly reduced price and_ will for the NEXT 80 DAYS: give the public an oppor- tunity of this Great Bargam Sale: pastor of St. John’s Chureh, ‘Alvinston, and St, Mary’s Church, Napier, who past’ two years, having accepted a call to the Kingsville parish, will, on Sun- day next, hold farewell services, Elliott & Mitchell, opplel buyers, hare purchased 4,000 Hur county at $1.50 ss "sl! ri per bbl, bee D. Cantelon, the Olinton apy le ‘king, made a shipment of 2,700 ae of apples to the Glasgow. market cently and expects to follow it up with 3,500 barrels. Hehas sixty bbls. of prime Canadian fruit. While threshing near Harriston the inte the cylinder, causing a great crash. The concaves were: bi and the eylinder teeth went in all directions, some of them sticking into the roof of the barn. When returning from Stratford the other evening, says the Mitchell Advo- Of course, Mr. Herr politely refused, when the mai towards him, but before he was ible to lay hands on hiwn, Herr felled to the ground with a heavy oposite POE AUG he had in the wh and then drove off on the full gal ie begin in aria on Monday the 8th of Novem mong the pee ere the court will wl Compare these prices with others; Men's Rubbers from Men’s Spt’ Bals was $1.15 now 85 ets Men’s 2 buckle shoes was 1.50 now $1.00 Men’s grain long boots was 3.00 now 2.00 _Men’sfineshoesfrom _— 1.00 to 5.00 Ladies Rubbers from 25 to 50 Ladies wearing shoes from 85 to Boys strongwearingshoesfrom75 to 1.50 50 ets to 75 cts| 1.50 $4, Buffalo, with whom Mr, Hacking then employed, biol gee re: Mr. Hacking withdrawin firm’s agents. of Mr. bern case. The customs returns of Conte ee ae ra of Stratford show: Im Is, $25,521; eouabe Ale 'gi6, 16,258; se et 8.23. ‘As compired with the’ re- Hike for the same month last year there is a Inge increase in all depart- ments, urns were: free has charge Above are only a few of our}. ee goods ago, ran 35, 218; a dane goods § $3,752; ad prices, everything else. is marked away down. This stock is a new and complete stock so itis to your’: advantage to call early and se- cure Bargains. Yours truly, year’s retu is, $18, 823, d dutiable goods, $12,- 506; vay ows an incre in ‘duty col lected, $1,056.10. ‘The x: rire hie for the month have not yet been m Miss Kate O'Hara, of Stratford, has a + Sealy uncle in Australia who. has just offered to make her heiress of lies estate and one-third of his for- tune, amounting to about $: 100. The old gentleman’s name. is Jam Harris. His wife is Miss O'Hara‘ rae and he has always taken a great: fen tached to which, , however, there were conditions which she is v rel to accept. She has no Canada, and above all she was born and bred. has ministre so toceptably forthe! ire ‘Th rs| now have ee his position as one of the Buffalo Ane Mr. Mabee a|or place of ‘THE LOCAL NEWS. Mr. Albert Haas spent ‘Sunday at his home in St. Jacobs. The Milverton Sun and Weekly Globe to Jan. "99 for $1.50. ‘The first snow fall of the season erton Sux and Weekly en and var to Jan, ’99 for $1.50, id Mrs. J. Saree en of Waterloo, ene ‘aniley ‘at H. C. Hasenpflug’s. Rev. Mr, Lowry,of Toronto,preached in ae s Keg last Sabbath morning and e' ee Lippert left on Monday Hie: to visit his sister whe in Chesley. Miss L. Gleiser, of Waterloo, is at present visiting her unele, Mr. Henry Gel iser of Milverton, Wo rn last week struck another flowing ares the place of os. McFarlane, Elma, The Women’s ae of Burn’s church will meet in he heveeae on Thursday afternoon at} Moy. 2 pice Livingston and John sine we ry Friday for Lion's head in the Bruce penineule where they will follow the deer The congregation of "Bares church | 80 mucl ifficulty, in getting to inh at’ 11 o'clock as they used eat ‘he earlier our is an improvement. Mr. Geo. Pfaff has the plate glass ut in his new block. The transom above is fitted with cathedral glass i, {aud gives the whole a very fine ap- 2 Mr, Pfaff does a job ‘bum’ shows. not be so. wary of a show that is brought here by home men who ave never yet put on the stage a yrs, sociability and for the splendid dinner a tof“appear | in Grosch's hall on the yeni ot Jat ie engagenient if her manager will agree to 1t. The Public Library Board met in the Sun office on Monday night and besides doing other business decid ber and | books, for in view of the fact. that many. families carried away five and six copies of the old catalogue. fn is also hoped ae every reader w: anew catalugu to aid the libra ie se aati that they oH their reading free. Mr. Henry Miller, on Tuesday morwing, while plastering the house of Wm. ae near Millbank had a fall wal for the month turing the shoulder ® muscular man he suffers much inconvenience frow con- pao of the muscles due to the cessity of having the arm in one ‘tion. A ti: locating it and fract blade. Bein; tior POR Sunday evening Inst Mrs. Mér- collected, arte 4. Thi refuge but immediately sent to Milverton for Dr. Naismith and Constable Hartmier, Upon their arrival they inwiedinely ordered her removal to the hor her husband who permitted tees to taken in. ly-| Upon examination it was found that -| she had in her possession a package of morphine pills and # vial containing a Taudanum mixture. On™Monday ay |. é| morning, however, she was able to en: being | Price dure the fatigue necessitated by Foreign Mission | Ha: Money! Money! Money! Money to loan on first-class farm security. Current rates of interest. Terms to suit borrower, Apply to James ToRRANCE. Anonymous correspondents persist in sending us items of news. To those we Though the; rsonals’ or names of visitors we ro will not accept them, not knowi the author. ily & personal item might give offence, and ae ane wrathy victim comes stormi ave no authority for the ‘publication of it. Let correspeniants its make a note of this and act accordingly. Hanna Dray Conrracr Ler.—A special meeting of the Municipal Council of a township of Elma was held in the decialonst Hall, Atwood, on Saturday, rd October, 1897: Members all present. @ meeting was called for the purpose of receiving tenders and letting the contract of the rain, lessrs, a Micholson being the successful eng by Mr. McMane, seconded Mr. Shearer, that the tender of Sobk Bohan and John Nicholson known as Bohan & Nicholson for the completion daylight. Moved by Mr. Jackson, seconded by Mr. Shearer, that John Roger, 0.L.S,, be appointed Engineet for the inspec- tion of the Hanna drain contract. Moved by Mr, Rothwell, seconded by Mr, Jacksen, that the Coaneil do now adjourn to meet on the 15th November next, at ten o'clock a.m., for gener business, Carri “Seventy-seven persons including, brethers, aes, children and grand- e-|chftdren of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whaley, attended the celebration of - ¢| their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home in Clam Lake yesterday. The company also included Rev, and Mrs. A. W. Jobnstone- and a few other persons invited from’ this city. The event was greatly enjoyed for its rovided for the guests, Mr. and Mrs. Whaley were married at Strat- ford, Canada, in 1847, and settled in Michigan, October, 1865. There has been born to them eleven children, seven boys and four girls, all of whom are living. Seven of the children are married and have established homies in Northern Michigan. To these have been born twenty-three children. In- , cluding children and grandchildren Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Whaley’s family numbers forty five, all of whom were present at yesterday’ 's golden wedding.” e|The above item is from the Goce re- Express. » The Mrs. ferred to is a sister of Messrs, een Jobn and Samuel Whaley,of se pen Tt was not a very house that greeted Hoyt L. Conary on Thursday evening of < Line ae hose Were present enjoyed a treat ie seldom falls 3 the lot ote people resid- ing'in Milverton. Mr. Conary is all re in-| that his voluminous press. notices say. f him. As an impersonator he is tin- excelled. His entertainment consisted of character sketches rose and rhyme and the audience spenta very dis- | pleasant hour and three quarters with him around ‘the stove ofa country ind | Pete, with his miouth-opening stories of “my unc ie. self-conceited | pro- prietor Bete store, the affable and” wary drummer, the solemn -visaged schoolmaster, painfully precise, and the barber with the cracked At times the audience was convulsed' with uncontrollable “fits of Jaughter® and again they were _ bfeathless emotion. _As.a reciter, he has® few His closing of the ehtertsia ment was sublime and many woul liked to have lingered longer. ssa Mr. Conary i: a prime entertain 3 The Daily Globe has ea td ite froni ite to ie the early mon driven to her sister's at Millbank. The} 1: unfortunate woman on Sunday sought to come buck to the busband an family that she bad deserted and dis- ve| graced but meeting with nothing but! the home of f her | ; | rebuffs she started for the sistet and fell by the wayside, with >