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W'TyW^T'^.r * â-  /â- ' ^ 'F Dicember I (J 1915 THE F L E S II E R T O N A D V AN C E J h <' SLEIGHS â€" SLEIGHS r > Be sure that you get your next sleigh at ( MCTAVISH'S > There are none better and few will give < the same service. D. McTavish - - Flesherton. i:i ' W. W. T. .â-¼ -T. T. ^ ^ jyy %<%^>r^Ty.^^^'* ^>Tv /#./>.. ^fw^v i Do Some o! Your Xtnas buy- ^ Here ii\g With me. is a Concise List of Gift Suggestions. Automobile Skates Cold Jleat Forks Shaving Urushes Hockey .S'ticks Foikct Knives Ilazor 8trop3 Bcriy Spoojis l>aby Spoons Silverware Ra/.ors Pucks KoilHers Knives and Forks, (sets; Cut Glass Cieam and Sugar sets Teaspoons in sets IJutter Knives Dessertspoons Table Spoons Carvicg sets Pickle Forks Toilet sets IJerry setts Teaspoons , An Assorlnieiitlof . Japanese aud English China and many other 40^835 useful and acceptable Christmas Gifts. Would b«j very pleased to have you call. ^R W. DUNCAN I ^ Hardware Merchant Phonc'.SO r 2 J ^^LESMERTON, - - ONT. ^ lUT IE SURE IT IS A CfaUMIIl, WITH THE EICIUSIHE COIUMIIA FUTUREâ€" THE TOIIE COITROt lUVES. ON SALE AT The Advance Office, Flesherton Western Conditions Dear Advrme, I have oiioe more the ploBsui-o of eci'ibbling you a few lines, having reached home agsin after h sojourn out West, in Sa.skatchewttn, of three iniinths, having gone out on the harvest ei'is excursion on August 21, and ruachini; my destination, 30 milt.8 north of Swift Current, on Aug. 26, in^ time to help hai'veHt the bumper crop of the Swift Current district this year. And it sure was a bumper crop, avoragin;; ovfar the district where I was fifty bushels of wheat and I'M) huslieis of oats per acre, and hurvester.s were in great demand at froni 93 to $4 per day for the hitrvest and $3.50 to 84..")(»for threshing outfits, and no matter whore you went ur what com- pany of men you were in, liio topic of conversition was the bix crop and the possibility of getting it threshed before winter set in. There worn some very fishy stories of yields of wheat, too, .some claiuiini; they had as h'j;h us 7."i and even 75 buslieU per acre, but be that us it may, I saw 117 bushels of wheat per acre threshed, and that was grown by one of our young Ontario funnels, or I might say by one of our O.sprey Old Boys, Mr. Oscar Myers, son of your townsman, Gen. Myers. O^car moved out there about seven ycais iigo ;iud grew this great crop on sixty ucres of summerfallow this year. Of course the fanners needed a good crop this year, aw they had only a very poor one .last year ; hut farmers who were in a position to leave a part of their farm for summerfallow the year before had Ihfteen bushels per acre more of wlieat last year. But we must not censure the other poor fellows who did not have a summerfallow, as tliey did not know the drouth was coming, and in drouths they must have tha summerfallow mulcli to conserve tlie moisture. They certainly have the soil to produce the big yields of wheat if they get the rain, and you would find thousiinds of acres more .sumnierfallow tliis year than ever before. Tliey can and are trying to protect themselves agaiut-t another snuft'- out like that of last year fiota drouth. When wc left Cabri on Nov. 2ti, stock threshing was nearly all completed, lhou;»h the outh'j had about two weeks' llueshing itooks for farmers who were afraid they were not going to get the Ht)oks threshed and so stacked what they could. They had splendid weather (or thieshiiig when we leftâ€" no suow.but the ground frozen up h»rd. Tney had no sn»>w of any iiccount up to that time, but beautiful, cool, sunsliiny weather for weekH. The ftrmerawem a little afraid of a blockade in the elevHtom. us ihey wore nearly all full uii, and many wore build- ing granirii'N in the town to store their wheat until lliel bockade lifted. Prices were '(oi-d f.^r tl.o West, wheat nettirn» them around 8iio and oalH 'J'lc tUx 81 4o. Well, Mr. Kditor, the West was good onou'.;h for mo, 1 boini; able to eat weP, .sleep wi'll and work hard, and 1 feil a groat deal better in health for the tri)). Wishiriii you and the ftaft' a oneny Chri.stmas aiid a happy New Year and The Advance I'ontinuoJ pr(is|H:rity. Oh, by the way, 1 must toil you that The Advance io a welcome and lnnkod for weekly visitor in very nuny places where I visited and they will all tell you it it like a letter from honie, and 1 looked forward lo its arrival whore 1 was as much as any of them. - U. J. COLijrETTK. I'ever.Hliaui, Di-c. I'i. The Winter Fair To the Editor of The Advaiic: 1 was down at the Winter Fair at, Ouelph last week â€" you cuuld go and re turn for single fare ! I was glad I went There were more horses and cattle tha, I had ever seen there before. Twelve thousand people were there, but not a single one, so far as could be seen, was from ArtomoEJa besides myself. The Toronto Exhibition is not a farm or's show stall, but a groat bit; Vaudeville event, and not only that, but it comes at a time when farmers are busier than they like to be; but the Winter Fair fits in the in-between-season time of the ye«r, aud its All For Farmers. Such cattle '.J. D. McGregor of .Bran don vmn there with a few of his famous fat catde, but he was properly up against it when he landed up against John Bron n of Gait in soire of the Aberdeen Angus classes and Ja*. Leask in some of the grade suctions. McGregor has the name but a lot of Ontario breeders know the game just about us well; even tb(>ugh h^ won the grand beef championship. But it was disappointing to. find that there was not a single â- jntry from Grey in the Inlei-County Baby Beef Contest. Bruce was represented, but Grey, which is a sure-'nough beef county, might ss well have been completely wiped ofl" the map. So far as I could see there was no more than one entry of any sort frojii Grey county. But (iiey did figur* in the Inter- County Judging conttsf, when Carl Atch- eson of Flesherton, with Alex Fleming and Otto Foy got fourth place in the con- test. (Oxford, Middlesex, and Wer.t- •.Torth counties were the first three. The Grey boys did well, aa there was a class of ten 'cams in tha contest. There were only H men who showed in all the Oxford Down sheep classes, and none of the sheep were any better than can be seen on a farm within four miles of Flesherton. of other classes, Weekly Report Flesherton High School Form 1 â€" Arithmetic, M Field 87, H Thompson 82, B Trim- ble 70, J Ste wait tiO, P Allen (*3, W Armstrong 03, A Mitchell .^i, B Meads 53, C Fuller 50, M Madill M, E Thomp- son 44. Form I- Geography M Field 88, C Fisher 83, P Allen 82. A Mkchell 80, M MaJill 77, J Stewart 74, B Meads 70, H Thompson 6S, W Armstrong t>8, E Thompson 07, B Trim- ble «>4. Form 1 â€" Book-keeping Bonus obtained- A Mitjhell 7t>, M Madill 78, C Fi.sher G8, M Field mi, J Stewart GO, P Allen .'),-), B Meads 52. Foun 2 â€" French, maximum 100 J Wr ght 87, A Winters 86, R Ding- well 70, B McVicar 78, R Hargrave 70, E .Echelon 6'.), R Morton G4, M Acheson C3, R Caswell 61, L Lever «0, W Latim- er 54, E Benlham 51, S Mun ly 42, W Williamson 42, R Williamson 41, M Col- gan 40, F Thurston 22. Form 2 â€" Writing M Acheson 83 E Parslow 82, M Wright 80, A Winters 78, L Lever 75, M Heard 74, C Porter 73, J Finley 72, J VVriuht 70, B McVicar 70, E Caswell 70, W Latimer 08, M Co'gan 05, E Bentham B5, R Rutladge 03, R W Morton 62, R Hargiavc61, S Murry 00, A Graham 60^ E Acheson 00, D Patton 58, W WiUiim- son 58, U Caswell .")5, M Wriale o5> -A Allen 53, R Williamson .50, H .More 40, R Dingwell 45, F Thurston 41, P Le- Gard 40. Form 3â€" Chemistry D McVicar 9*j, A Wright 03, E Speiic er 92. G Davis 90, R Hutchinson 84, W Buchanin 78, F Parliament 77, M Ijcg- ate 77, I Liidlaw 73, D W ilsin 70, S Smart G!), L Muir 05, D McMillan •><), The same might be said |^ Harrison W>. J Nichol 54. W Pattis.m McLeod t')2. I.. .54, E Karsteds 53. W The grain and seed exhibits were good this year. It h»s been a kind ot hard year, but you would scarcely have thought so 17 to look at the exhibitsâ€" all but the corn. It wasn't so good. Perhaps if you had seen it off the cobs it wouldn't have seemed so bad, but to look at the cobs Dudgeon 51, A Acheson 50, G Whyte 50, H McLean 50, A GauUin 43, M Murphy Overseas Postage The Ilonomahle T. Chase Casgrain, Postmaster General of Canfiitii, has been successful, as a result of negitiations en- tered into with the Imperial Postal Auth< orities, in effecting an arrangement with the British Government whon-liy ptreels finm Canada for Canadian soldiers in France and Flanders will be carried at the same rate of postage as a;iplies to parcels from the I'nited Kingdom for the Expeditionary Forces on th« Continent ; that is, For parcels weighing up to three pounds, 24 ct nts. For parcels weighing over three pounds and not more than seven pounds, 32 cent). For parcels weighingover seven pounds and not more that eleven pounds, 38 cents. This •nean.s a material reduction on the cost of parcels, and it is hoped it will be a source of satisfaction to the Canad- ian public. This reduction has been brought about by Canada foregoing all postal charges for the conveyance of these parcels in Canikda and on the .\tlanti -. The public are reminded, however, in accordance with the circular issued by the Department recsntly, that ci:ilil fur- ther notice, no parcel can be sent weigh- ing over .seven pounds. Watch Out for Them Form 2 â€" British History E Acheson 90, J Wright 86, V Finley 85, R Dingwell 82, B McVicar 81, A you could SCO how ahrivelled and loose itj^Vinters 81, C Porter 80, R Hargravo 80, was, as though it had not pioperly mat-jA Allen 7», H Caswell 79. E Caswell 79, urel. 1 wouldn't think it would m^ije;'' I^"''''"! 78. M Heard 75. F Thurston the bestseod-thatis, the dent corns. "''•*' *'^''«*"" '5' '^ """»?"'• '^ ^^* better, as Office Positions Guaranteed 5? ?«?^«?«^x5«M?^a?5jg?» «y Canada's lA-adii.g S luxil of IJiisin ^ /^ ens 10 -opcn.s for enrolluieiit for the -^ 3^ Winter Term <m Monday, -Ian. 3, ?5 ^ at the OWEN SOUND, ' I'nexcelltid courses of .studv.Btisin- ^J less. Shorthand and Typewriting. q|{ [Civil Service and Prepiiratory. In-^^ , dividual instruction. A large con- ^^ I nection with the best business 3^ [houses who employ our graduates. %0 Fall term opening Sept. Isf â-  Graduates most succeEsful. It iS , Full^ The Dominion Government guarantees positions lo Northern liiisincss ('ollc'.<e, Owoii Sound, graduates who pass the Civil Service Examinations in May and November Sdurios $500 lo J12t)0 Ambitious young men and women, hav- ing attended Hiuh School for a year or more, ought easily to pass these examin- ation', after takiii;; our Cnniniorcial and Stenoniapliio (.ourse fir six or eight months. Write for particulars to North- ern Business College, C. \. Fleming, Principal, »v G. D. F'leming, Secretarr vill pay you to investigate, information free. C. A. FLEMING, F ,G. D, FLEMING OWEN SOUND O. A., S^ Principal, ^fkg .Secretary, i ' ONTARIO For Service For service on lot 12, con. !l, Oaprey, one purebred Shorthorn Bull. 'I'ernis w^.-^-^ »*fc***fc*»*»*»#*i ' *'•'"'"• Also one pure bred Yorkshire ;j!?l?»jB!'j!?|p|PS?3ff^«?3P Bwr, Terms 11 00. All aecounts must ho paid to FHKDTVLPIR, Manauer, or '«. u. Bl'HKE, Piopriotor. - J Sep. Bull For Service Thoroughbrt-.l Shonhorn Bull, " Hill rest Oovernor," No. 8o4<S8, for service ( BULL FOR SERVICE I Till) under.«igned has a Piiie Bred : Shorthorn Bull for set vice on Lot 140. fCon. 2, S. W. T. it 8. R., Arteniesia, oin lot 27, con 14. Arteicesia. Termsâ€" | Terms $1.00. All cona served must be $1 50 (or atiulfff, 03 for ihoroiighhredt. i pail for by Isl March, IflUi, -ALEX. CARRl'TUERS, i liopt -H. Piper .\ii exchangi! says: "To praclicejjwhat yipii pn-aeh is grand logic and the ladies in Potiidia believe in carrying it out. Preachinu in soni; that they would kiss all the soldiers when they returned from the fiont, tlii'y put iheir sotiliinoiit.s into pi'Hotioe at a recruiting inuuting on Miiii- ilay evening, when 35 of then) kissed Pto. Todd PMeming as an evldunua of his wounds received in France. Some of them even gave double measure. .About twenty fellows on the .Main street will lie unlisling and going to IVlrolia "Oil Spriniss." FARM FOR SAFE Part lot 2, con. o, Euphrasia, coiiiaiu- ing 50 acres, good fraino house, collar fii'l size of house, good barn 34x55, wall all round ; good stabling, large oichard ot tirst cla.ss fruit, hen house, \t\it pen. etc. < )nc mile from the village of Kiin- berley. Will sell cheap to right man. For terms', etc , apply to t'lo undersigned -CHARLES WI0KEN8 1 Kov Kimbcrloy P.O. ^ Tonsorial 'V- Parlors We Aim to Give Entire Satisfaction LA ITNDUYâ€" Basket closes Monday night, delivery Friday eveniig CLEANING and DYKINGâ€" We »r agonta for Parker's Dye Works â€" Clothf^s clusned and dyed, feathers rejuvenat i T FISHER,- PROPRIETOR But the tlint varieties were though they ripened oarhor in »n unfav- orable season. If they do, it looks to me as though they would give the best return. Salzer's North Dakota was the best corn I saw there, to my iniiitl. It is a long H<nt corn, i|Uite a bit like the Longfellnw, but with a cresniy, waxen color. I liked the looks of that cotn. It was .ji'own by a man named Maynard, (town near Chatham, Sonii' of the •iiiiotby seed graded Extra No. I, and a tot ot the cluversl were good No. I's. There were lovely! samples of coaise grains and whea's too.i but when it came ^o selling thtni thej prices weren't up to a groat dod, when yon considered that the no w bags were ham 72, W Latimer 70, M Wright tiO, E Parslow 08, R Williamson 65, M Writiht »:<, E licntham 63, R Morton 62, R Rut- ledi;e Ul, H Moore 58, W Williamson .50, D Pa!lim53, L Lever 51, M Culiian 36. Honor Rolls Rcpcrt of S S No 4 for November. Naiue^ ill oribr of merit. Those with X were pe^feit in attendance. Class 4--Eariiio Stinson, Alox Irwin, Ro.ss Stevens-, Altilie Lockhart. .Ir 8â€" Edi'h Slinson, StelU Acheson x, Marjorie Nicholls x, Frank Nicholls. Sr 2- Vera Voore x, Ethel Nicholls, Hosclla Stevens, Burrows Heard. Jr 2â€" Poarl Badgorow, Jim Badgerow. Sr 1 Mina Scotl, Elizabeth Nixon, thrown in with each bushel. It happened J, 1â€" Ivan LocMmrt x, Marion Acli- lo be i\ splenUid chance to get good seed es«m x at even less than market prices in some cases. I iioticod. It'll, that this now legistored seed they had didn't sell any bett-U', if as well, a> ilie ordinary guaranteed seeds There's nothins to it but that O. A.t. \ 72 oats are the popular ones niiiong the! pecple who sh )w at the Winter Fair ! Report of S. S N i. 7, Artemesia. for The Haiii'i vit!< (».A.C 21 Inrley. Theselj^ovcmber. now varieties are good yielders and werel 4th class- F Williamson, J Uusaell, .) oriaiiiatcd at the Agiiculluial College by lUow, A Gilchrist, E Muir, R Muir, F a selection of a single plant in each case'( >]iver. Look out for the spujious tifty-:;ent pieces. A number of these coins are said to be in circulation and they are hard to detect. They are the best imitation seen for some time. Not only do they ting 'good' when dropped on a counter, but they are of nearly the same thickness as the eenuine and they don't respond to acid tests. The metal has to be scratched > before it will turn black. The coin is a little lighter than the genuine article bufc could be easily mistaken, even by an ex- pert. The receiver-genersl's ottice in Toronto, states that several of these coins have been received withiu the past few weeks and the matter has been reported to the Dominion authorities. They ara endeavouring to locate where the count- erfeit coins are Ijeinit made. Prinier B â€" Kmersou Gallagher, LIviu Moore, Mary Ann Nixon. Class C â€" Kinijjsley Gallagher .\, Sylvia Acheson, Maigarel Moore, Lome N.diolls. W. Kerr, 4th line Erin, was bringing s hay rake from the field with a youog horse and with no holdbacks to the har- ness, when going down a little ijrsde, th« rake crowded on to the horse which started kicking. Mr. Kerr was struck on the leg just below the knee, breakinif and siuashiiig the bone. He luaiiaged to get otf the rake and hobblin'.^ on one leg, unhitched the horse, an 1 taking the har- ness otf, lot it go. He then got two sticks and with their help managed to get across the road over to Mrs. Warne's, where assistance was given and the doc- tor sent for. I'pon his arrival and seeing how bad the break was, after rendering first aid, he advised his removal to the hospital at Guelph, where he wa.s takea the same evening. So Kid was the break that one of the pieces of broken bone came out while the leg was being ban" dagod.â€" Erin Advocate. from thousands of others. -And then, there were the speeches ti be hoard. Hon. Martin Butrell of Oin wa spoke olie'day, and I'lof. Yavitr. who was the originator of those (). A. C, oats and barley, gave a gnol speech on the effect ot the wet summer on the different varieties of potatoes, etc. He declared that the ;iotatoe8 which were most sub- ject to r.il this year were iha Early Itose and I lie Beauty of Hebron. Both of these are grown around Flesherton. Good potatoes that resisted rot were Davies Warrior, Extra Euly Kurekaand several others. After all, a visit lo the Winter Fair at Guelph 13 well worth while. The large building has two stories, all taken up with the exhibitr. There were ovei' 375 horses, 400 oittle, 500 sheep and 400 swine, as well as several thousand p<)iiltry and fancy birds, and 500 seed entries. It is a big atfair. -ARTEMESIA. U .1 Sr 3-B Watte-s, A Pavjlow. J1.3-S \Vhyt^ W McKenzie, Turner, A Dow. .Jr2-M Muir, M Gilchrist, M Pars- low, F .1 Vau.se, E Walters, E Oliver, G Oliver. F Whyte, T Cunio. •Ir l-Pl).i». A class-M McDonald, C Cook, .lou A/eads. li class -A Muir. C classâ€" A Whyte. Average attendance 25. K. K. Wilcock, Teacher. Chief Kwing met with an unpleasant sui prise when he went lo the house of a South Ward man cm Monday to collect a fine of 920 and costs for whiakey .selling When the Chief entered the house the man drew a nun on him and threatened to shoot. Ho was fighting drunk and two women who were in the house with him, were also badly in'oxicated. A warrant was subsequently issued for his AUCTION SALE OV - Choice Cows and Heifers Flesherton Station Stock Yards SAT., DEC. 18 Tho underaignedd has received instruc cions from J. E. Ferguson, of Iinterstdl, to sell bis entire head consisting of twen- â- y-flve cow.s, five springers, and ten heif- ers 2 and 3 years old. These are choice Uulsteinsand Durhaiits. Terms cf sale:â€" Eight months' credit will be given on approved joint notes or . . ' B per cent, per annum off tor cash in lieu attest and he will be jsiled if the fine i» ..f notes. Sale to commence at 1.30 not paid forthwlih.-Orsngeville Banner, o'clock. D. McPhail, Auctioneer, Columbia Grafonolas Records, Needles, Catalogues Tlie Columbia is the perfect talking machine. Compare all others, tben hear this and we arc not afraid of the repult. We can sell machines on easy terras to rosponsible people All the best appointed city homes have their parlor machines and ibero is no reason why the farmer should not have the best luusic of the day in his home, iuchiding band music, vocal artists, and performers on all kinds of instruments. You can have it ou a Colnmbia Grafouola, as perfect as the original, and for much less liian you would pay for a Common Organ. They lango liom $20 up. The Perfect Columbia Is a marvel of rcoording instru- ments and the Columbia records, made in Canada, embrace thonaands of selections from which to oboose. W. H. Thurston [ Agent Flesherton