GLASSES Can Fit Thorn gin and Graduate Optician JACKSON Editor and JACKSON AssistantEditor These Goods Have Proven to bo in Ihoii Respective Lines DETROIT VAPOR OIL QUICK MEAL and PERFECTION OIL GRAVITY WASHING PAINT for walls and ceilings High Standard Paint Buildings inside or outside for all stained and varnished The remains long after the Price is forgotten PHONE South End Lumber Yard 4 I THE STANDARD ANTHRACITE P PEARSON Carters Alfred Bishop St Harvey Ontario J Murphy Toronto wholesale merchants th rot touch of uncaainess feeling more and more confidence intho power of the British navy to keep trader routes the North Atlantic free from of hostile cruiser sending their buyers over to Eng land and continent to usual ami winter Eaton Co buyers are now on the way of son of Mr J street gave up hit position in business enlisted to this city on Saturday married Miss on Sunday and left the same evening to rejoin Through traffic between Toronto and Ottawa was opened on Tuesday of last week via tho Canadian North ern Hallway of harvesters excur sions for the Western Provinces loft on Tuesday of last week About harvesters occupied coachco on the and 12 coaches on tho Word received of parties to the National Exhibition which next Saturday from al most state in the neighboring Republic of America A patriotic concert in aid of the Toronto Patriotic Fund Ib announced for this I evening in Massoy Hall Prominent local artists arc giving their services free for the Ship Hospital has been more than raised public generally Thomas A brain an vol unteer for Princess Patricias Pels loft last week for Valcarticr to join regiment Deputy Reeve Miller arid fifty of his employees gave Abram a good sendoft the Deputy Reeve pro mising to look after his family and presenting him with a purse of gold On a charge escaping from the Mail Farm up in County David Ryan was sentenced last to two years at tho Central Prison by Ills Honor Judge Denton Armouries have been closed to the general public No one not In uniform or armed with a pass from military headquarters or officers commanding companies can different fraternal orders in the city have decided to pay the in surance on their- members who loto their lives- while lighting for their the city ok Edmonton and Is to bo ocouplcd for the flrat Mine about the beginning of how year Is the Provincial Normal School at a coat of There are throe stories an and a basement It is located on a beautiful overlooking town and being feet frontage to good also it splendid brick Public a smaller public school and a High School besides spv- out of people which I churches Another building twelve years ago hud less than that stands out prominently 1000 population Such marvel- and is an ornament to town is I0U8 growth is almost beyond the Lutheran College The business town is in a splendid are feet paved cation hacked by a magnificent or cedar block cement walks I farming country which Is farther West wo go the more we are impressed Willi the greatness of the country the optimism of Its people AL we a well-laid- Weeks War News Loudon Aug A despatch to Telegram Company from Purges says that eighteen German officers and 432 men prisoners war have been sent away from that AGO v From Era Mrs Dr Martin East has the thanks of the for and apples kindly his week t The INCORPORATED Paidup Capital Reserved Funds i The ingot Savings Accounts arc the most approved and form of thrift They can bo opened and added to at any time Interest is added to balances halfyearly The Rank of Toronto receives deposits of and upwards in Ontario and tho NEWMARKET BRANCH P A LISTER Manager WHAT WORTH ilium AT ALL IS it Men at Right Prices LATH POSTS SHINGLES SASH DOORS Itoiigni ii Ventured Doors Trim in Oak Cypres Georgia te properly Kiln Pine tie the a mm IT WORKS TO BETTER ADVANTAGE REQUIRING LESS TIME AND LABOR THUS THE IN COST IS SO SLIGHT THAT IT SHOULD OUT NO FIGURE Youll Plncl YvIII Pay to Use tho Best couutry at the front This rule will apply whether dues aro paid up to ddto or not Up to the close of last week the Hospital Ship Fund reached Is announced that the Minister of Finance at Ottawa has received a donation of from Messrs Wil son and Howard and Lewis A How ard of this City towards the general war expenditure By the demise of Mr James the Toronto Telegram has lost one of Its old and trusted mem bers He was connected with the office for years holding different positions on its staff The officers who are attending camp with the York Rangers arc as follows Lt A Majors A T Hunter P P Clarke Gillies Quartermaster Lb Col Hillary medical officer Lt Dayton signalling officers Hamilton Dunham Taylor Fowler Walker J Brown Curran and M Brown Proctor Laubeft Holds- worth and S prinks These aro not all accepted for the front hut merely out on mobilization Mr J L son of Hon J O and one of the star out side wings of the Varsity team Is going to lie war being attached to the Corps of Guides The two Poles who struck down and robbed a companion last week at Swansea were arrested towards the close of last week and remanded in tlie Police Court The jury returned a verdict to the effect that no blame was chargeable to the motorman of the car which killed Geo on College St last week The boy ran in front tho approaching car The family only arrived in tlie City two weeks before tho accident The has asked to Magistrate Ellin Cohen pow er to try serious charges in the Police Court as is now exercised by Magistrates and Kings feet wide stores two three four high of- flea skyscrapers stories high Slew Grand Trunk Pacific Hotel with rooms with every midern equip ment will rival insbeauty situation at Quebec tho Laur- at Ottawa Parliament just completed is a magnificent of which the might well feel proud while its commanding and modorfk make if one of the striking features of the city the tour ist The view from jlie is a panorama of This is fair Edmonton and this city is visit ors The Fair and buildings are immeime for bach a young city Vm acres well laid iut and be ing perfectly fiat there no trouble in placing everything to the best advantage The Arena which is also used In winter as a skating rink seals people The race track is said to he the best in the and there is grandstand accommodation for nearly more people There fa also a well laid out Man ufacturers Building with the latest productions if in dustry and art The amusements are similar to those found at To ronto Industrial At we met Mr Geo Wright a cousin and under his piloting we were able to see and learn more of the city than the tourist The de partmental stores are uptodate and prices compare very favor ably with similar goods in Toron to Municipal ownership is fully fully developed hero including power light water and tele phone operated by steam plant There is much unoceu- territory within the city lim its in its original stale covered with small poplars and matted grass here is where the speculator gets bitten as the tax- are levied on the land and no thing on improvements conse quently those who do not build soon their holdings burden some IL you Ha ivHUf full law J 1 iOOO -c- Hamilton Time says that Dr McQueen has decided to contest in the courts the election of Dr kert in North It is said that there was a lot of crooked work on the Tory side The war too is Here us one company left for the front the day before we arrived and another is being or ganized the men in uniform inarching through the streets followed by many recruits in civ ilian dress men who are out of work and are joining to gel back East The financial stringency is apparent everywhere The banks have orders not to nego tiate new loans and many busi ness failures are likely to follow before the winter is over THE TOWN OF CAM ROSE By the way the crows fly this thriving little town is about miles southeast of Edmonton but by railway it is over sixty miles years ago this sec tion was one vast wheal field lo- and studded here and there with clumps of poplar trees There are three railways running through the town the P the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern is building a direct line with which will bring the capital with in miles by rail The railway facilities with their large elevat ors are sure to make this an im portant town in the near future Notwithstanding the financial stringency which is felt every where In the West there are now either completed or In course of erection this year buildings and there is not a vacant house in the town The fanners in this section evidently know the value of the telephone for there are no less than rural connections with On enquiry we found that the crops are fairly good but not as good as they usually are Wheat will run from to bushels to- the acre usually barley to usually and oats bushels to the acre but they have had as high as bushels by weight The value of a live local news paper to a town is very apparent Without a doubt The Canadi an the best local paper we have seen in the West and its influence with the enterprise of the business people has made this the most prosperous small town in the province with the exception possibly of Deer On Monday morning 43 fican- editors on a trip through the West arrived here and were entertained at luncheon at the Lutheran College In the afternoon the Hoard of gave them a mbtorHdo of or miles in the country visiting a couple of ranches and two or three dairy farms They expressed themselves as highly delighted with and its agricultural surroundings On through the kind ness of Mr Secretary of the Board of Trade we were Shown through the disposal plant which certainly does its work very satisfactorily at a cost of lbs of Chloride of Lime per day and the salary of the attendant The Town has three miles of sewers and the installation of the plant cost Further both water and sewer pipes are put in by the Corporation at a uniform charge of SI per foot from the building to the mains using 5inch tile and inch gal vanized pipe to the applicant Both sewer water mains run ten feet apart in the center of all streets A visit to the Power House is very interesting and shows that provision is made for great ex pansion There are boilers which are used alternate- months The coal mine is sit uated within two miles of the power house and coal is deliver ed at a ton all the year round There are two electric city via Dunkirk for England When they left they were escorted this by a dozen gendarmes with fixed I meet of the Agricultural So- bayonets Board announced for to- Aug 21Th official war mo afc the Railroad Hotel fa bureau in a issued at arrangements for a ploughing noon formally confirmed the Ms fall Brussels by th German- Mr and daughter of East troops The bureau announcement while driving down the contained n Information regarding mill Holland what- was developing today in Ending some part of the harness glum simply announcing that causing the horse to has been occupied and repeating frightened and run away Both the Belgian claim that the city had and daughter were thrown been abandoned and attempt made out the former being hold it because It was no hurt strategic Importance A magistrates court this week St Petersburg Aug war 0Und Ralph guilty of larceny office today announced that the was sent to jail for three Russian forces operating East Prussia have defeated a German army J American revolution is still a detachment and taken possession tenure on the other side of the line the city of Lyck miles south of illumination and Feast last Friday evening and Saturday is re- The admission is made that tho a specially successful The conquest was not possible until after attendance large and orderly two days of desperate fighting I Walker Lloyd was appointed which Germans maintained their con- collector for the Township of and killed many of the attack- at its last meeting force It was not until after of Joseph and L Pearson were also spoken of i e i reinforcements had arrived that the Russians were able to take the city by the The German retired in or der but was forced to leave behind a quantity of supplies and several field guns The initial attack was made by Cossacks who were supported a machine gun detachment The Cos sacks were driven back with heavy but infantry supports were brought up and the lighting continued FIRST BRITISH CASUALTIES London Aug 20 The bureau tonight Issued a statement YEARS AGO From Era Aug 30 jThe Altar I The Bowery the home of bride by Rev L j A on the of Aug Mr John A Bell of New York second son of Mr Walter Bell of regarding casualties King to Miss Min expeditionary forces on foreign fourth daughter 1 Jackson ewmarket again at work soil In addition to LieutGeneral Tlpeves art- again at work On who died of heart disease two occasions recently produce has in France en route to the Front it Joseph is stated that Mayor Onslow also is and Mr George Stones dead but no cause of death is clotheslino was stripped one night en Lieut Perry the flying corp3 week and Mackenzie were killed in Miss has returned an accident to their aeroplane I from visiting friends In Short and Col Edge j Mrs Andrews of Aurora was visit- were badly injured in motor acci- ing at Mr John Mannings recently dents but are now said to be doing Miss Bert Toronto well spent over Sunday with Miss London Tuesday Aug 25 From in Town all the of rumors and reports Mr A Brunton is spending a about the war there is one fact that week or two at Coney Island New stands out this morning the great battle expected for days has begun is raging with unexampled fury along a extending from In Belgium to the Swiss border lUt if The financial legislation of the Do minion Government as presented to Parliament by the Minister of Fin ance is lor reaching and- comprehen sive The bill founded upon his resol ution not only sanctions the amend ments to the Bank Act and the Cur rency Act but also authorizes the Government declare a moratorium at any time and to sanction an em Issue of Bank Notes as well as lay a foundation for a national currency such flexible character as to meet the demands of business day it is a welllaidout town of generators and 200 and 1800 Inhabitants with its main street feet wide and twelve foot cement walks and other streets feet wide with wooden sidewalks and feel wide It has hour electric power ex cept on Sunday when the plant is shut down from four to six hours according lo the season of the year waterworks and sew erage system all under municip al control Power is produced by steam and water is supplied by artesian wells The sewage passes through a disposal plant before being discharged into the river which is a branch empty ing into the Battle river As the assessment is entirely on- the Single Tax System the lots are placed at cash value- and there being no tax on improve ments the stores hotels and of fices are large and airylooking buildings and nearly all with plateglass fronts On account of the low assessment the busi ness people subscribed suffi cient when Installing the eleo- light system to place Irfmp iron poles on the Main St similar lo those on St Toronto connected by under ground wires which gives the place a very pretty and thrifty ap- Most of the buildings of wood and there are many large and pretty residences An brick building of the smaller is of an exceedingly efficient and economical type manufactured in England There are four artesian wells about feet apart but only are used The water does not raise within 30 feet of the surface and a compressed air pump is run for hours out of the to supply present demands The telephone system is under Government control and at the present time excavating is going on for a Telephone Exchange for this district at The town is offering free sites and exemption from taxation for a period of years for new fac tories and the railway facilities make a very favorable point A large packing house is antici pated in a few years as soon as the farmers are prepared for such an industry The future of Gam- rose looks bright aoOO Four Germans arrested by the police had In their bag gage several weapons besides fuse drugs and polgcm Owing to the difficulty experienced by the committee of the ern HjjdroElfcetrlc Railway in ob taining attendances at the meetings of- some of the principal speakers promised it has been decided to hold the voting on the bylaw Monday October Instead of September large meeting will be held York I Mr Clifford Lee is visiting at Mr A this week I Mr Paisley and Mrs Terry of were visiting at Mr Fred The official reports the War Loxtons on Sunday last here and in Paris admit that Miss Aggie Wright of Guelph a the allies have been checked owing to visiting with her cousins at The unforeseen difficulties Part of Bowery Church this week the British and French forces have Mr City Clerks Office To- withdrawn and their line has been spent the weekend with pushed back although there is no tives the Messrs arm substantiation of the rumors that the Montgomerys Germans have broken through It is Mr A accompanied by admitted that the losses on both his mother are away to the summer I sides were very heavy In the absence of details of the operations and the partial admis soas of defeat by the allies it is as sumed that the German advance has been conducted with the utmost and with considerable measure of success The British War has issued these statements 2 pm The British expeditionary forces were engaged with the in the neighborhood of Bel gium from early on Sunday until after dark The British lines are holding p N has been recelvcl that the first line of defence has been resort of this week Reeve Jackson got home a few days ago from his trip to Manitoba Mr J P Belfry spent over Sun day with Mr and Mrs A Budge The Garden Party on Br Pearsons Lawn Queensvllle last Wednesday was a decided success The program rendered was excellent Mr A A Y Ramsay is rusticat ing with Judge Morgan at Jackson3 Point for a few days A very pleasant evening was spent at the residence of Dr at Sutton on Friday last The dance was much enjoyed A few friends spent a very I taken necessitating the withdrawal evening at Mrs Binns last of a portion of the allied troops from the line to the original position on the French frontier There is no information regarding British casualties The Fall of Namus has fallen This in with Mr and A Budge of Montreal who left for their home yesterday Miss L Foster of Newmarket spent over Sunday at Mr Mr Lundy nas been confined anycity might feel night when jo in course Bee a expected to speak Sir words of the communication t his all this week from illness necessitates the withdrawal of a por tion of the allied troops from the line of Fambre to their original de fensive position on the French front ier There is yet no explanation of its sudden fall No doubt the Ger mans have attacked the allies in this part of Belgium with all their avatt- The French have abandoned those positions Alsace and which they had previoush occupied and now look for heavy lighting in French territory Liege Forts Still Held new attack been made against forts at Liege which are still a In the German armys right flank and a menace to the move ment of troops across the Washington Aug The German Embassy today received the follow ing message from Foreign Office a Berlin The army of the German Crown Prince has won a decisive victory- northwest of over five Preach army corps The retreat of the southern French has been cut off- The French troops were repulsed across the Meuse in complete rout The Crown Princes army giving took many pris oners It Is declared the French troops are no longer able to the fire of German infantry j and Mr Amos Lundy is likewise very poorly these days The gates of lock 6 on the Canal were torn away the steamer John B it is said to a misunderstanding of signals Will Stop Uric Acid Deposit Rheumatic Complications Checked and the Human Roster- The Kidneys Bowels and Skin ard human sewers which carry off the impurities In the blood When these are Uric Add ment in the and Joints and Rheumatism follows the great remedy for alb forms of the terrible dltease checks the deposit of Acid For many years l with Rheumatism I years old proud to say that after uslnff bottle the Rheumatic pains are entirely gone I dally re commend to my Willis Oat J Patterson will it alls 0 ARCHIVES OP ONTARIO TORONTO