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Bra: Pr | Trunks &Valises ¥ ALWAYS ON HAND. | Repsiring neatly and promptly i done. , Everything at Moderate Prices. i Dougias' Shoe Store. _ -- Boots & Shoes ~~ OF THE-- Best Quality and Latest Style at Douglas' Shoe Store, Kg AT =1sss= | New Year's Greeting | i | i } The year of 1895 is past! and has been a_ so-called) hard year for farmer and) business man. What the yedr 1896 will be no one can tell. What we would like: to say to you is. this, that it; would be a wise act for you! to buy on our cash or pro-} duce methods for 1896.) This, our new method of: -doing business; 1s but four} months old, soto say only) gn its infancy, and it has! met with great success. It is highly appreciated by! people who are trying to get! slong without having heavy! stere accounts. ck We believe | we are the only people in the connty doing business¢ strictly on these principles. It mightcause you a little inconvenience at times, but just Use the Great Re- medy of self-denial and you have overcome the difficulty. There are a-great many good reasons why you have a big advantage in dealing with us. We know it and so do all business men, that bv paying cash we can get closer margins and large! discounts on your purchas-| es. Then we know by sell-| ing our goods for cash or produce only we can sell on) small, profits. We_ don't hayé-to counton bad debts, loss of.interest, disputed ac- counts, goods going out and not charged, extra expense in book-keeping, ete., ete. | All these things mean doing; acredit business, especially | in hard times, must take! into consideration and put) his profits on heavy enough} to cover or he would soon be under water, unless he had an umimited capital (which, unfortunately we believs not every five aut of hfty--merchants~ possess ). We have had a short experi- enee inthe cash business and we tell you it is a pleas- ure. | | j ! | advantages when you pay) as you go. 'Ist, you save 15 to 20 per cent.; 2nd, you are under no compliment, you can buy where you like; 3rd, no ac! count presented to you at the end of the year; 4th, you only pay for what you get; 5th, no account to dispute: 6th, you won't be persuaded to purchase goods, and ask- ed to pay for them later on with produce or milk money, and when season comes you have not to look back to the past year. You might say, no. You cando it if you' try. We would just make a little suggestionto you. Pay up every business man on Jan. | 2nd. If you are short, borrow euough and you are independent and start the New Year on cash prin- ciples, and you won't have to bérrow money to pay ac- counts in 1897. H. GLEISER, Milverton. "Having Sold my Preperty, ' | Customers, look at the |° 4H ull OUT sale! aon Boots i. | Shoes i i i ARE! ' i aii i Il want to Close Out my stock Right Away! Bargainsin Lad- -les' Wear. Men's and Boys' Wear. 'Stratford and county. WOOD, ONT., FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 1896. : Grussels. A. McGowan and Company, general compromise at 60 cents on the dollar. James Irwin and Company, general merchants, Brossels, have_ assigned. The liabilities are placed at 82400, with assets about the same. * Grey. Miss Lottie Hill is sick with grippe. Mrs. Senn, of York, Haldimand -Co. is visiting her niece, Mrs. Parr. Mrs.James Parr has been dangerously ill for the past two weeks from con- vulsions, John Sharp, of North Branch, Mich. and his son Archie, of Pontiac, were visiting old friends in Grey and Morris townships, la " has purchased a 100 Wiarton and will remove thither 'next March, There is only a small clearance on the pk. ce. The contract for L. MecNeil's new residence haus been let to vei Brussels, for the stone and brick work and to R.G. Wilson, Brussels, for the wood work. Theos. Bielby, of Morris, will move shortly to the Dickson 220 acre farm, i2th con. of Grey, whieh-he~ has" leased fora term of years, Mr, Bielbyvis.a good farmer, Stratford, ' ANDREW MONTEITH DEAD.-Andrew Monteith, ex-M. P., Treasurer of the County of Perth, died on Saturday in his 73rd year. He came to Stratford in 1834, and has been intimately connected with the history and development of He represented the North Riding of Perth in the Local Legislature in thy onservative interest trom 1857 to IS74, when he resigned to contest the seat for the Dominion House. Being successful, he was a member for the riding at Ottawa till 1878, when he retired from active poli tics. cipal affairs, and held various positions | until 1865, when he was appointed | County Treasurer, which oftice he held at the time of-his death. had been failing in health for some! time, und. never fully recovered from | an attack of la grippe about six ye:rs | ago, Which left him witha weak heart, | apoplexy being the immediate cause of | death. ' i | Moukton. Felts & Rubbers. Ordered Work) still attended to. | <All accounts must be set- 'tled up before March 1st, 1896, othewise they will be 'placed intd other hands for collection. J, W. Ferguson, i | | | | ; | Western Dairymen Meet. | The new Board of directors for the | Western Dairymen's Association met Lon January 2uth in the secretary's office in Lapdon, Considerable business was transacted, Local conventions will be held at Dun- 'Ville, Forest, Listowel and Elmira, and if suitable arrangements can be made, joint meetings in conjuuction with the Supt. of Farmers' Institates will be ; Weld at Mount Forest and one or two ) other places that may be decided upon. | A good staff of speakers will be provid- fed for all these gatherings, and they | will be made as effective as possible in promoting a better quality of dairy | products in Western Ontario. The scheme disenssed at the Wood- | stock convention of organizing all the) into | groups or syndicates of from 15 to 25) factories in Western Ontario each will ultimately be-carried out by the Board if the factories co-operate aud guarantee their share of the ex- Just use self-denial. | pense >. - | A competent instructor will be placed 'over each group, who will be under the instructions of a head inspector, em- ploy by the association. Such scheme carried out in its entirety would be effectual ip bringing about a greater uniformity in the quality of the product. An effort will be made this year to organize one ortwo groups on trial, meet the directors of tbe "factdries in the Woodstock section, and if possible arrange a group there. Arrangements will be made for a meeting of chéese makers atthe Dairy School Guelph, about the close ot the school term in March. The executive committee for this ee be President A. F. Mclaren; ohn 8. Amdrew Pattullo and al and & committee was appointed to/seniors, so that t A Wroxeter correspondent says: A | are teaming hay trom Monkton, a dis | tance of 30 miles. ; An error occurred in the report of ithe Monkton cheese factory financial /Statemeat tor the past season. The juverage wholesale price per Ib. of icheese should have read 7.88e,, instead / of 7.3le. | REVIVAL SERVICES.--Special meet- 'ings for evangelisic wogk have began in the Methodist chirchinad will con | tinue every night of the week, except /Saturday night. The pastor is working po with the help of the Epworth | Leagne and --members~of thé church. | | A good interest has already been man- lifest, and the prospect for the work', }seems good. Mro McKibbin has given jan invitation to all Christians of other doubt many will: avail themselves of the fraternal welcome. ~| New Parsonacre.--The trustees of ithe Methodist church, for the parson- age property, have finally decided to erect a new house. Listowel,-has been engaged to draw the | plans, etc. Some anxiety was felt by 'the Board about the» necessary funds. | The pastor with one or two of the members of the Board undertook the work of subscription, and have sur- prised everyone by raising over a hun dred dollars more than the amount re-! quired to begin te build. This has lift- ed a load from the trustees, and made them quite enthusiastic about buildiug. it will be a much needed addition to the circuit, and an addition to the town, besides doing a great deal to ward placing Monkton among the. first | of country circuits, } TOWN TALK. | Some time ago Ram's Horn offered | a prize for the best story in less than a ,thousand words. There were a great | many storiés contributed, but the one} written by Rev. Jas. Livingstone, of | Kineardine, was given the first prize by ithe committee, Don't SEND CHILDREN.---Don't send children to the Public " Library for | books, ause they are more apt to iget the books scuffed and damaged than grown up people; and besides, lehildren are incapable of selecting | books for either themselves or their supposed to select bookgfat all. These facts were laid before te Directors at their meeting on Tuesday night, when a motion was passed instructing the Librarian to give out no books in future te. children under 12 of age. So that in the future; go yourself: for a book, or else send someone old enough #od capable of selecting jfalls upon the book who is not RM. Ballantrne for you. We understand that Wm. Marsden / acre farm- pear} A. Ned eil,; in, Stratford and the County Conncil ty Mr. Binning, of | he work of choosing | one I | Poole. + Mr. Helm' has been under the Dr's. i storekeepers, Brussels, are offering to care lately, but is:improving. Several from Poole attended the fun- eral of Mr. Davidson, of Newton, on Wednesday of last week. Mrs, Chalmers will attend the Wo- man's Foreign Missionary Society meeting in St. Marys next week, and will read a paper on Society Work. The standing of the pupils in S. S, No, 2 for January is as follows: Fifth class--Emily Large, Agnes Atkin, Bella Strathers. Fourth class---Apnie Kines, 'Louis Opper, Maggie Magwood, Ida | Wilhelm, Peter Bronk. Senior 8ra |class--Ellen Engel, Lanra Magwood, | Beatrice Kines, Alice Burgmann, | Nellie Burgmann, Kate Fleming. Jr. 8rd class--Christ. Brank, Howard Mag wood, Dick Daily, Sophia Fetter, Oliver Large, Mary Engel. : Elma. Harry Firth and wife, of London, are visiting at Thos. Hunter's this week. Sam Shannoh came home on Friday {last from Toronte on a short vacation. | Miss Jennie Bowes, of Grey, has returned home after spending a few days with friends on the 8th fine. John and Kate Peebles were in How. ick on Wednesday atfendinug the wed- ding of their uncle, Robt. Coreran. ; While working in the tush one day last week, David Whitten, had the mis fortune to have one of his legs badly crushed by a log. The following is the nimber of marks taken by the children of U. s. ; No, t, Eimavand Wallace. The max 'imum is 100: Wm. Fautkner 100, Rach }ael Neuart 98. Grace Balmer 98, War- Ten Fallis 98, Mildred Grompf 97, Ruby Movre 95, William Heard 95, George Gordon 91, Alice Neuart Si, Oliver Gordon 78, Guss:e Grompf 78, Wilfred Kopas 76, Myrule Bartley 67, Daisy Landerkin 64, Wm. Coghlin 60, Samuel Karges 58, Wesley Faulkver 48, Dollie | GibbS6, Rose Gordon 26, Chas. Kopas 15. He was also prominentin maui-} th cluss-- Lucie Rowland, Lena tg. "Senior 8rd ciass--Ralph Row- land, Wilhe Hammond,. Hugh Me- Court, Chas, Hiles, Lucy Broughton, John MeClory. Junior 3rd class-- Aunie L. Boyne, Eddie Ferg,, Arthur Gorden, Ladie Hammond ané Alice McKenzie (equal), Lilhe Holmes. MILK HAULING.--Last Saturday the Junior 4 'e " ° i ilk hs i 5 "¥ ; ison. | htmber of farmersin this neighborhood | MK hauling routes for next season | $2, in connection with the Elma factory were let tothe following parties: 8th | line, west, Wm. Millen. at 29e. per ewt, i chesse; Sth line, east, Robert Long, at | 24%9c, ; 6th line, west, Norval Hall, at /25c.; Gth line, east, Robert Stuart, at j24e.; 4th line, west, Wm. Turnbull, at | 271$c.; gravel road, north, Jno.Climie.at i40e.;. Jickling reute; Rich. Coghlin, at '55e. The Directors ordered a new | fang press for the factory from Messrs. | Richardson # Webster, St. Marys. | The following is the standing of the at the monthly tnati We are pl! j eased to report that Will Shannon, who has been down with fever for the past few weeks, is improv ing nicely. Mrs.T.Shannon has rented her farm to ohn Coreran, of Howick, for a term of five years, Mr. Coreran will take pos- sesion about the middle of March. id Ethel, The sick are improving. W, K. Whaley, of Belgrave ed in our village. J. H. Heyd spent part of last week with friends in Berlin. Thos. Slemmon will erect a $1,200 brick house next summer, : The sacrament of the Lord's supner Was dispensed im the Presbyterian church last Sabbath, Rev. D. B. McRae, officiating. Wm. Willis left on Tuesday of this week for Muskoka where be has secur eda situation with Messrs. Milne & Heffernan. » Sanday- The Sons of Temperance entertain Ment on this (Friday) evening, in the fownship Hail, promises to' be the t of the season. The feguiar quarterly Meeting of the thodist church was held last Sab bath morning. Rev. J. Waddell preach: eda very acceptable sermon. a Listowel. Mr. Binning has prepared plans fora house for Burkhardt Bender, town. the burnt building on "Wallace street has been purchased by Mr. Bender and will be restored and-=modernized, hay- ing gabled roof, pliimbing and furnace heating. ee Newry. The following are the Standing of the pupils of SS. No.5, Elma, for the mouth of January: Sevior 4th and 5th class--Laura Simpson, Lottie Adams, Angus Dickson, Fred Ballantyne. Chas. H. Coulter, Maud Coulter, Cinis. Coulter, Junior 4th Simpson, J Frank Ball Intyre, Ma low, . Harold Danbroek, Guy Hanna, Ben Howes. Willie Coult. er, Herbert Ducklow. Lily Smith. Jr. Srd_class---Eliza McMone Nellie Bat. lantyne, Theo. Danbrook, Bella Gilmer Bella Morrison, Henry Danbrook, Rus: sel MeMane, Janey Coulter, John Ali- Jehn Gilmer, George Peebies. | Number of pupils in attendance 7s. Mighty Problems to be Solved. Ley Penne aete b | The University of Toronto Literary j and Scientific Society will resoive itself {inte.a mock Parhamentat the reguiar ;meeting, to be held in the hall of the jStudent's Union building, this Friday ) night, at 8 o'clock. e meeting will {be an open one, and the ladies are in- | Vited to take a seat on the fivor of the House. The Speech from the throne / pupils iS January. of merit: Senior 4th class--Jessie Mil- | Weber, Jeuny Martin, Lizzie Chapman, } Fle, Sanderson, Mabel Mann, | Sanderson. i Urquhart, Maria Chapman, | Martin, Harry MeMillan, Bert Urqu- fhart. Second class--Perey Davidson, Norton, Annie Dippel, Allie McMillan, George Nesbitt. 3UILDING OPERATIONS --The fol ;lowing Elmaites are getting material | for building new bank barns next sum }mer: Henry Smith, 12th con.: Robert Buehanan, 13th con.; Geo. Long. 8th' Alfred ! ;con.; Jas. Barton, 10th con. j Allison, LOth cou.. will also putupa i barn, but has not decided to put stone istabling underneath. Mr. farchitect, of Listowel, | Reeve of Elma, to have slate re@yplate glass windows, plumbing and @#emace | heating; the total cost will be about | $1,800, | a stone house for T. K. Maytmry, Elma, | to have slate roof, furnace heating, ete.: | _ total cost about $1,500, Contracts were awarded last week. The bailding out j look in Elmais good, MAITLAND Factory Rerort.--The 'annual meeting of the patrons of the Maitland cheese factory. was held on January the 3oth. The patrons were jneariy all in attendance. The Sec | Treas. statement showed that there was 646,972 lbs.of mulk delivered at the factory the past season, 60,5164 pounds of cheese were manufactured; average pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese 10.68: ayerage price per pound for the season 7.68; manufacturing irate for the season 1.17. The following officers were elected for 1896: Sales- man,J. W. Rowland; sec-treas., J. R. Hammond; business committee, .A. Stieff, Albert Quipp, and James Hinks; auditor, T. J. McCourt. The question of boilisg the whey was discussed 'and trons expressed their entire satis- = with the experiment of the past decided te coutinue it in } nin. S.-S. No-2;Etma and Wallace, for The names appear in order | burn, Senior 3rd- Glass--tieo. Marks, | | Martha Marks, Fanny Milburn, Charies | ! ; Atkinson, Ernest MeKeever, Solomon | churches to join in the work, and no! Henry | Junior 3rd class--Annie | Lizzie | Arthur Stapleton, Joe Barnett, Lillie! Binning, ! is preparing | | plaus for a residence for Jas. Dickson, } He has also prepared plans for | wilt be. among others, the fok lowing bills to wrestled with - A fence will be placed arourd-the :Piains-of Abraham and Queenston Heights will be considerably elevated. To secure the St. Lawrence against foreign gunboats a colony of sword- fishes will be imported, © In order to bring Great Britain closer to Canada, and to strengthen the tie } between the motherland and our own | country, the nautical knot will be ex- tended te twice its present length. A bill will be introduced providing? | Tepresentation in Parliament for each ;of the Canadian Universities_as fol- ilows: University Collece five mem- | bers, half member each to Vietoria and | McMaster, and one member to each of ithe remaining Universities. t i ; ; 1 ' For the purpose of greater serreey in the war department, steps will be tak- /en to close the mouth of the Ottawa river, The rules of order will be amended {so as to permnit Indies to have a seat on } the floor of the House. Yon will be asked to consent to a bill for the enfranchisement of sincle and iwidowed women possessing the neces- sary qualification of age and property in ; Recordance with the present franchise tact | 'The gentlemen of the Honse of Com ~ mons will be asked to sit up nighis with this Bill: Yon will be asked to grant an appro- priation for the purpose of establishing: ~ isolation hospitals to prevent the spread ;0f cheek among freshmen, who are } such by designation or qualification. i } "The Common People,"' As Abraham Lincoln calied them, de not care to argue about they ailments. What they want is aefiedicine that will cure. them. The simple, honest statement, "I know that Hood's Sar- Saparilla cured me," is the best arg: ment in favor of this mediciné, and this is what many thousands voluntar- ily say. Hoop's Pruts are best after-dinner ag assist digestion, cure "