TIE PINS One of the nicest things to choose is a TIE PIN A large variety at WATSONS Jewelry Store Solid Gold Jl to The ERA more home news every J to be the Leading County Have a look at out Gold Brooches m They are so dainty ami will tie sure please her to it ORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND Give as the liberty to know to titter and to argue freely according to conscience above all other liberty No paper sent outside of North York unless paid in advance to United States Watchmaker Graduate Optician No Single Copies 3c each Newmarket Ont- Friday Dec 27 J TERMS 125 per annum 11 paid in advance A YEARROUND NECESSITY IT WONT CHOP WOOD But will convert all kinds of Vegetables Meat Fish etc into Appetizing Dishes at the rate of from one to three lis minute It has 4 Steel Cutters always sharp as it is the only machine made in practically TWO PARTS thus making it very easy to clean and Operate Free Trial Given r HARDWARE STOVES PAINTS OILS AND PUTTY PLUMBING AND T1NSMITHING A BINNS Our Toronto Letter Luke Barry who while intoxi cated went into a butcher shop and carried off the carcass of A sheep who was also of Mealing while the was sent days Work comes from Montreal that the Methodist Court of Appeal has upheld the decision dismissing Rev Dr HEW ZEALAND LITTLE DDMlHlON it By Burjinsbn of Newmarket Written for the Era I I ask you to picture a where snow seldom alls where the beauts- Workman the Wesley Thee- j vegetation grows to great heights amidst wonderful hays rivers and l logical College Fully half of outside students of the various colleges in connection with the university left for home Thursday of last week for a three weeks va cation Harry of insurance firm of Son has dis appeared from Toronto with a short age standing against him of many thousand dollars Ten policemen headed by escorted nineteen Bulgarians to the Union Station on Thursday of last week The foreigners were de ported under instructions PHONE NEWMARKET ONT from Ottawa and were placed on an east hound train en route for Quebec The men were at all willing to go They wanted to stay in city but they would not work Over a ton of plum pudding over from England to Toronto and toward nightfall Christmas day the average small hoy felt as if he knew the exact spot where a big sized piece towering waterfalls nourished thru life a temperate agreeable cli mate you have a fair idea of tie love a New has for his Island home and a reason for the in creasing tourist traffic to that coun try The chief Aarons restlc snugly around some of the worlds greatest and most picturesque harbors show ing- mountain ranges in the distance their snowclad peaks shining in the sun thousands of above the sealevel It is a country naturally perfected by nature and inhabited by most contented happy people in the British Empire This is due largely to the wisdom and foresight of statesmen actuated by in tense loyalty Dominion and a patriotism to country so Im periallike in these days are so prone to scofi at History of the Dominion In Captain in The Value of a Account in THE BANK OF TORONTO NEVER DEPRECIATES The Balance which grows froa your deposits and the interest paid on these is kept in absolute safety until required The Income from the deposits Is received quarterly by you as this Bank pays interest on all Savings Balances four times a year Investments advertised in these days result in loss to Investor but every Dollar of the many millions entrusted to the care of this Bank during the past half century has been safely counted for when demanded CAPITAL RESERVE U60OOOO ASSETS On the grounds of our ability serve we solicit your Business NEWMARKET BRANCH A CRAWFORD Manager of the pudding could be found The most unique closing Auckland and as the fir Governor of any held in the Toronto the leading directing hand schoolswaft that of the Elizabeth St a government and settling Kindergarten held last week One disputes- between the natives and -hu- little tots who could neither ropcair settlers most of whom were desvrtcd sailors sealers and whalers Conflicts between the Maori British continued until a treaty was speak nor understand a word of Eng lish when they entered the class in September last sang a dozen Utile j sixties setting apart a tratft of country in tin Auckland and other Provinces for the native popu lation The Maoris once so very warlike yet always chivalrous have within fifty years become as and as well educated as natives of WANTED 500 CORDS OF WOOD 200000 ft Hemlock and Pine Lumber elation- of the words was remarkably clear lames Hughes who in California has been asked by the Provincial Secretary to visit faod when or his return journey and report to the government on the farm e most countries system of conducting jails Jf war some nt s The Poultry Association have com- which believe are On pitted all arrangements for their one force annual show which today Maori pak or viHuge ran short of There are silver cups besides d the chief medals and other trophies offered for faring of the cause of Wy cessation of kindly Ontario WhenL As the population increases towns spring up and manufactories started which have expanded into large en- farmers are more to blame than The range of latitude gives anyone else for the present low price a diversity of climate which renders Ontario wheat When Western the luxuriant soil suitable lor all the wheat first became a competitor of products of temperate countries while Ontario grain our farmers made manufacturers said Local Option During SouhdM twelve months ending- September 1001 bnyietimiB against for selling key were thirtysix cases tried against hotelkeepers and dismiss i nineteen convictions against pet- sens not hotelkeepers five cases tried against persons not hotelkeep ers and dismissed nine This shows to us clearly that the places that were blind pigs before focal arc blind pigs yet There have been five of the left town who were here under the license sys tem and we expect that after the first of January the who- want to liquor will have to leave as local option will not be repealed here account of the good work it has done so There has only been one row at a hotel since the first May where the police have been In to settle and under the license tern they were called to the hotels five or six times a week and some times two or three times in a day It is estimated that the hotels here under license system aver aged about piece and it is by some of the that we lose about in revenue from the loss of the license system I would regard this a pretty good investment saving and losing A gentleman called upon of our business men and seven of our industries as to their opinions and their replies were as follows Eight said that business had decreased ten said they could sec no difference and thirtyone said ther bus if esses were much better and that they had received more cash this year than ever before as there were men paying old debts that they never expected will quote you what some of the competition u Sarah Emily has taken to share Ins own ami action against her husband that he I might jc to recover alimony I Ammunition was with a reserve for an insular position protects it from no effort keep tire intruder out the parching draughts so ex- Instead of fighting against the in Australia and South Am- Auction of Manitoba patent erica The climate although Western flours Natural- able never reaches the extremes of Ontario wheat was neglected hot or cold So genial is it that many mills closed down de- plants introduced into New Zealand for Ontario wheat became nil assume a vigor never known to them Yet our farmers complain that there before is no mowy in wheat said am satisfied local- is doing a great deal of good I have only seen one of our men the worse of liquor since the 1st of- May Another said Local option has been a decided to the working- man and to the town as a I have no doubt if it had to lie voted on again it would carry with an in- Stock of every sort thrive and fat- There is good money in wheat and majority Another writes She is asking per week inlerim log force and REMEMBER THE POOR you want to give a reasonable Present some de serving man or woman a ton Coal HO AG PEARSON Corner Church and Order by Phone or from Carters- JOS or J NELSON city oh a petition of ratepayers of Ore and sent an the Ward complying with the Act a flag of demand the has this principle in its legislation and if the is render of the position or 1 belter for women anil children I he 9S5 be removed roldentin courtesies the rather than the hare thought of Oh Thursday of last week the their The Irish jumper Michael J have wonderfully WW of the evening landing of lie man 1 1 sill Montreal After a short rest lie will lire unmolested in reserves where the stately rivers flow beautiful woodlands and valleys with A FANCY VEST A NECESSARY ARTICLE OF WEAR THIS SEASON For a Gentleman Who is Well Dressed SEE OUR PATTERNS FALL at REDUCED WILLIS TAILOR DOOR TO ATKINSON STREET Joeeph Mo car repairer Wis at by a yard engine A little toy who mother for tried wmt trick Canadian Pictorial The National printed on fine coated paper Picture of infant ftre to current f burning her to death curious About sand square each Appeal to the MX I I A peat of London ip I I people AbBolutaly no to grind fed Ten cent One dollar year The Pictorial Putting Co Ma St St ontrea enter the field of sports in this city Two Englishmen not long out from the old land presented a letter purporting to he written by a min ister England declaring that on- of the men had been an exemplary Sunday School teacher On the strength Of this letter Rev Large gave them assistance The next day the was discovered to bo a for gery and tlie two men wire sent rip as vagrants Mrs wife of Rev Dr I McTavish pastor of Central Presby terian Church is lying very ill in a hospital Baltimore whither she vfs token about six weeks ago for an operation to remove a cancer Latest news Is to the effect that Mrs is on the mewl has a fearful prison re cord Last veck he was sentenced to four years at Kingston peniten tiary He was convicted along with of assaulting and robbing Win Hill was sent to jail for sixty days was also con victed of stealing from Robert Sterling on Dec ll On his record being looked up It wan found that over eleven years of life ftlncb have been spent In prison Tne situation at the Don with regard to overcrowding becoming acute Governor tiers congregation continues to In crease two hundred and thirteen name were registered the books of thin number eighteen were women Sixtylive of prisoner have been sentenced to the Central prison bub that Institution is like wise overcrowded two hun dred thirteen prisoners In the Jail fifty per cent are foreign ers and at least one- third of the to tal number have been sentenced vagrancy are now the corridors front of cells ofTered ten early or- the pastures without the our farmers Can get it out by forcing shot so j aid of roots or foods up the prices Since millers have Corn produces from fifty eighty perfected blended is no bushels to lic acre In reason why our farmers should buy bushels to the acre Western Hours flours con- with a greater growth of si raw than Ontario wheat and a small I huc seen in Canada quantity of Manitoba wheat are bet- The wheat crop reached an average for bread and pastry than of bushels to the acre which flriir milled of a single kind of compares very favourably with the wheat- One of the leading bakeries of yield of Other countries The tohac- Toronto has tried out the blended thrives well as do numbers flours and it has been the means of of lesser plants and in addition to doubling and trebling their business on these Chines- and Japanese together homemade bread In Maritime fruits flourish abundant- Provinces blended flours arc capturing requiring but ordinary care the market and have driven Western Potatoes yield heavy hut are hard patent flours out of many store often attacked by a fallrfit which is entirely wide spread and plays terrible havoc What our farmers should is to sometimes necessitating the Import- slop speeding their money for Western at ion of potatoes from America flour and buy blended flours milled geysers shooting steam high into the air The hot springs have made the coun try worldknown as a resort for those suffering from rhcinnatiin and be cause of wonderful scenery one of the wonderlands lie world He- fort that intrepid explorer Captain Cook of fame left pigs to roam the wilds and increase to quell the hungry appetites of his colored friends the natives living on fish Tats and the roots the fern where often obliged through fear starvation to make war a neighboring tribe and taking prisoners if so fortunate resort to the old order of cannibal ism The Maori was always a leis urely person so we must not evince surprise at his feeding and fat tening his victim before placing him in the pot The most objectionable practice carried on before the- en forcement of the most lenient laws of the early nineteenth century was that of striking off the heads of prisoners after skilfully by pricking juice in the face and of selling the heads to traders Many grim of Maori Warriors are to be seen in Museums The best collec tion of Maori and South Sea Island relics and curios is to be seen n the Museum and any person go ing to The Worlds Metropolis should not fail to pay a visit to that interesting Curiosity Shop New Zealand is and will probably continue to for a considerable to come essentially an agricultural country Marty important Industries are springing up In the Dominion giving employment to a large number of skilled artisans but Its true source of wealth still remains In tho a There were in the Dominion last I by our own millers of our own On- year about sheep the wool clip amounting to lbs valued at The frozen meat exports totalled In cluding frozen mutton lamb and beef In addition there were exported frozen rabbits awl hares are a serious pest to farm- an I arl trapping hard ly check the increase provide a new field industry for attack- by a health camplife with charge of scenes and congenial employment Culled it Gambling wheat in this way the money which now goes to the wheat growers In Manitoba and would stay right here at And as the d for blended flours increases the demand for Ontario wheat wilt In crease and higher prices will he ob tains for their crops by the farm ers It is the farmers fault too that dairymen and stockmen arc paying such high prices for bran and shorts When our do not grind much grain there is a corresponding short age in the amount of bran etc for sale Those who keep cattle and horse must get their feed from Mani toba and Alberta where there Is plenty of wheat raised and where the mills arc grinding out great quanti ties of feed With a good health de- Judge Morgan dismissed an action brought by IO Smith against Peter Meyers of a Toronto broker was suing which he said the jm and for blended flours our mills defendant should pay him- an account will be running to their full capacity of transaction in stocks plenty of bran and shorts would bo m Meyers testified that he had spoken I produced and with no freight charges over the telephone to Smith instruct- to pay the prices would necessarily him to buy Pennsylvania and down Heading and had sent Wm three had Mining Disaster to sell and not to buy and thait when he hart endeavored to cash Jobs Creek Pa Dec checks there had been no funds in gas in the mine of tho the bank to draw on He had asked Pittsburg Coal Company located personally to honor the checks ier and Meyers would not honor them as 0 miners and there scarcely he checks had been given with a ray of nlo thurtlerstandlng that Smith was to find that this was a pure gamb- the vicinity of Wie mine and the ling said His Honor tho few bodies found early was a puTe piece of gambling under the sanction of both parties and I plosion ol such that it must the case seems Impossible that anyone could must dismiss M taken out this are The Forest flax mill was destroy- terrly mutilated and three Ahem by fire are headless The effect has been very marked In connection with our workmen as we have had no trouble our men be ing oil local came into force Only one employer said ho could see no difference To show you that the farmers are going to other towns Lemons wholesale and produce business has doubled sine local option came into force and they deal ly with the farmers that is buying butter eggs turkeys and all kinds fanners produce am real estate business myself and can you two properties I sold lust month I one two years ago and last month at an increase The other I sold last and sold it at an increase last month again anil as- a rule properties sell much better In the spring than in the fall This goes to show that there is no depreciation in she value of property in Owen Sound rather an increase I know of six women who went out washing and scrubbing for a living un der the license system and had to do It since local option came In force On asking them the reason for this they say that their husbands drinking and the money home to them now instead of spending it over the bar I cannot see where the open bar is of any ad vantage to business in town and I think every rightthinking man will agree with me In this matter our churches are doing what they should do there Is no trouble to carry local option Kindly give this space in your valu able paper for benefit the pub lic LEGATE Owen Sound Dec 1007 ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT removes all hard soft or calloused lumps and from horses spavin curbs splints ring bone sweeney stifles and swollen throat coughs etc Save by use one bottle War ranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known Sold by J Prophecy Fulfilled hear the tread pioneers tlons yet to be The first low wash waves where yet shall roll a human v Today we are not listening to distant tread the coming people are here and we see them