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a sSteggi fe- jjfAifc J A la O NT DAY MA V that are lent They FITTERS Licenses ON WEST lie to raise for the Ontario re requested to laical program falls oh April is plenty new suit made ip order with was in the Choir have for March A of plays etc js Keep the dale I in winter ft The tore anil bargains like duns to seek I don it lie has a here which is shed but which This individual who went in of the con- before pleaded guilty adjudicated on rk that to thj vidual of little he in a It in any other the very mild I preferred followed tailed out juel as It him a recently with whom impressed are and lie was ft Hie and thy days may he them up by be back He was 7 Cry ERS RI A jiftatiV iplement that r the Spring turn and see if goods from I do not II you You it you rigfot d no or drop rn LOUR says Oil Kl Si ho it Mills Cub- bushel on Axes cut- ground MI KB f ount Albert for short time we Limoges China fct very nice neat he Special Price of for on Quality Inner birder decorations These sets Extra Good Value Quality China Tea Sets pieces at a Special iMce la Window is a Dinner Set a Reduced Price very nice Speolally Direct Importer Fancy of Staple China and china Hall Grocery SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS FOR LENT Band at Rink The Society of tan Church will hold a Skating Party in the rink on Monday ev ening tho 8th with band in attendance Everybody wel come Come P A The Anglican Young People are looking forward to next Tuesday evening when Rev mer of St Augustine Church To ronto is to give a lecture on Music Everybody in vited Commences at in the schoolroom Fresh Codfish In tins 16o delicious on buttered toast with Butter Salmon Loaf Is appetizing when made from our choice brands- of Salmon Prices from lie can up to 26o Canned Meddle Thistle Brand a breakfast delicacy Also a strictly firstclass line of and Cana dian Sardines from Be up to 18o can Imported Kippered Herrings Imported Herrings In Tomato Sauce Imported Fresh Herrings Canadian Packed Kippered Her- at per tin Silted Codfish In pound blooks an In boxes NOTICE There Is a decided drop In the price of Lobsters The leading Reliable CORNER OF lain Timothy Christian Endeavor The Consecration Meeting Of the Society was well Tuesday evening and everyone was very much interested in the talk which Morton gave on What will improve our Prayer Meetings Many helpful suggestions for improving our meetings were also given by dif ferent members Let everyone be present at the meeting next Tuesday when Miss Dorothy will speak How to make this a Happier World Will all the members of the Executive Committee attend the regular monthly meeting at next Tuesday evening Com Special Music Following is the special music to he rendered by the Methodist Choir next Sunday in connection with the Anniversary services Morning Anthem Great and Marvellous I The Choir Solo The Cross of Calvary Miss McCarty Anthem O Worship the King Maunder The Choir Evening Male Choir 45 Voices Chorus Neath the Banner Solo and Chorus Onward Christ ian Soldiers Mr Lyons Inch and the Choir Memories of Galilee Messrs Young- Williams Coulter Slainton Richard son Barker Atkinson Chorus Jesus Our Song Belongs is getting a hew metal ceiling Be and go to the rink Tuesday Evening Band In attendance under auspices of Athletic Clnb Ad mission indies and child ren High School Carnival The fancy dress at the on Wednesday evening was a great success I in cos tume and good crowd of sfotators well as skaters Irish have secured the services of the North Toronto Dramalio and Musical Associa tion of people to a musical comedy entitled The Drum Major on Wednesday ev ening This play was presented in Toronto for two nights to crowded houses Watch for large bills Presbyterian Guild An illustrated lecture on Germany and the War will be given by Rev in the Schoolroom ot St ChurcM on Wednesday evenf- March at eight oclock A silver collection will be taken the proceeds to be given to the Upper Canada Tract Society AH are cor dially invited attend Views and Lecture The Good Fellows Bible Class ol the Christian Sunday School are to give a lecture on Yellowstone Na tional Park illustrated with a large number beautifully colored views in the Church auditorium on Thurs day evening March to- which everyone is cordially invited These beautifully colored views are kindly loaned to the class by the Union Pacific Railroad through their agent Mr I Atkinson Porrlne cracky Flour nge or sale at w Primula Obconloa Asparagus Ferns Aurlcara Cut Flowers Funeral and Wedding Work on PRICES Very Reasonable Phone FOR SALE I At A Davis Oxygen Welding Shop International Gasoline suaes near new engine a at half price I flraull Thresher new far engine at half I Bell Saw Mill near I Port Perry Mill near new McLauKhlift doubUsIatea A of Steam Engines I in diameter A number of Buzz Pulleys Any people in logs can have them out ts ASTRAY Strayed from Lot St sae pair of Hounds answer ing to the names of and Hell Any person retaining lu Battle after ibis date will bo pros- Geo West THE HEN THAT THE HEN THAT PAYS Nature lay lay if A the Greggs Powder Is guaranteed make hens lay when mixed with regular feed because it the system craves A trial package convince anyone of its Sold at Hardware or for by the TV Stanford Co p o ftit iwl Era to absent Rod The public are responding nobly to the call for funds to pro vide the Motor Ambulance At a meeting of the Employees of the Davis Leather Co last Saturday they voted unanimously to give one days pay to the Red Cross Society which means about Then again some dozen or more of our citizens are giving 25 each The President and VicePresident of the Office Spe cialty Co have sent their person al cheques for each The ladies in charge of the Red Cross Cook Book have donated to wards the ambulance Union Sunday School No 7 East has sent in The Red Cross Knitting Tea in St Pauls School Room on Tues day afternoon was attended by nearly ladies and this added to the funds At the meeting on Wednesday afternoon it was found that the recent subscriptions together with the funds on hand were considerably over the re quired for the Motor Ambulance and a Committee was appointed to make the purchase at once When all contributions are paid that are now promised the So ciety will have 3253 ladies propose to engage a nurse for the Canadian Hospital Lent We are now in the Lent season supposed to have its origin in a desire to commemorate our Lords forty days of fasting and His temptation in the wilderness An American exchange remarks The length of the Lenten feast and the vigor with which it has been observed have varied greatly at different limes and in different countries At first it lasted hours the period Christ lay in the grave and was voluntary It gradually developed however in to a regularly prescribed and was observed by Christians generally its duration being ex tended to thirtysix days in the fifth or sixth century Either Gregory Great in the sixth century or Gregory the second in the eighth added four days to make out the forty Moses Ell as and Christ each fasted forty days and many believe that this accounts for forty of Lent Nation and individuals in all ages and in all parts of the world have observed days and seasons of fasting and prayer In the book of Jonah we read of the fast observed by the when Jonah threatened thcrn with Jehovahs judgment in their sins The Jews from the beginning of their existence as a distinct na tion observed days of fasting The Mohammedans annually kept their ninth month as a time of fasting And the history of the Christian church shows that be lievers of all nations and denom inations as bodies and as individuals have believed in the efficacy of Lent in thought nation fustipg and prayer Ah this fast falls in the early part of the year it became confused with the season and gradually the word Lent which originally meant spring was confined to this Use Newmarket Methodist Sunday School Team played Aurora Sunday School Team at Newmarket Rink last Saturday Newmarket winning by and getting a five goal lead in two games and two more games to play Aurora Newmarket Game 3 S Game Line up for Newmarket as follows Goal K Brown Defence Defence Thompson ft WingAy Hill Wing R Hugo Centre A Rover Sale Register WEDNESDAY March Mr Isaac Fisher will hold an extensive farm sale at lot 29 con Whitchurch at one oclocV 8 credit W J Kester Auot THURSDAY March Auction sale of farm stock implements on lot 35 Con Whitchurch the property ot No reserve Sale at oae Terms months 1 Headman Auctioneer TUESDAY March Mr John Smith will have an extensive sale of farm stock implements etc on the Farm Lake Shore Road quarter a mile from Keswick Station at oclock noon credit Auct WEDNESDAY March sale of- farm stock and implements Lot Con East tie property of John Hodge Sale at Credit until Nov 1st Kavanagh Auct TUESDAY March Mr J Wight will have an extensive sale ot stock Implements grain furni ture etc Sharon No reserve Sale at one sharp credit W Kavanagh Auct- WEDNESDAY March Mr Al bert Lehman will have a large of stock implements furniture etc on lot con Whitchurch credit Sale at one When bills are not print ed at this ofilce notices under this heading are charged at for one insertion and for each subsequent insertion cosh to accompany order 8 8 No 11 King Kottloby Report for the month of Feb Class Marks Lena Rhena Wood- Ruth While Class Marks possible Marshall Greer Dorothy Dove Lulu 591 hon Joy Waldock hon Janet Davis 550 Hunt Davis Willie Dolson Class III Marks possible Ethel Dove Class Marks possible Bertie hon Vic tor Bowman Aubrey Wood Beatrice Lewis Kenneth Mount Dora Wood Wilbur Kaake Hazel Dove Gladys Bur ling 379 Eileen 319 Frank Burling 313 Edna Hunt Wesley Barnes Burling 71 Class Marks possible Edith hon Davis 349 Hunt 253 Kon- 215 Primary Class No of stars Lewis 58 Gortlo Bur ling 31 Jr A Dorothy 31 Jr Jennie Lewis 33 Florence- 33 Albert Barnes 25 Elsie War ren Marion Mur- vin Lewis 18 Tommy Harold 17 Teacher As- March came in are saying the month will go but like a Hon meaning- thereby that unpropiUous weather will be at the end During February bad fire alarms and estimate Ipsa by lires totalled Last week 3733 cattle sheep and 339 calves were brought to the City and stockyards Also horses came in by cars When British navy shelled the it was like shooting from Toronto Bay up Yongo Street to Richmond Hill tAftt Saturday a deputation of High and Public school teachers wait ed on the Ontario Government and asked for the establishment of a superannuated fund The Premier told them nothing could bo done this On Friday last thirteen carpenters left City for Hudson Bay to work on tfae terminus Conductors and on the Toronto Railway will be provided with straw hats this summer Super intendent has in his office a sample The design will a peak cap design and material straw There are over men who will wear them this summer Tho ninth case ol was reported at the Exhibition camp on Friday Applications or domestic servant pouring in at the Dominion Im migration Bureau from many points in Ontario and so fa there has been practically no supply to meat the de mand By invitation of Toronto Skat ing Club competition lor the Havergal Skating Trophies held in the Arena last Friday afternoon Miss Lucy of Woodstock won the present girls shield Miss Anita the old girls shield Miss Marjorie of College and Miss Kathleen Capreol of Hill be ing highly recommended drug store was broken into by thieves on tho night of the of February and fl sweep made of the cont1nts I City Board of Works Com mittee passed a resolution recom mending an increase of fares on the civic car lines The new rates will be a straight fare or nine tickets for twentyfive cents for adults and childrens tickets single fare two cents or six tickets or ten cents Ontario Hydroelectric Radial Railway Association will shortly able to test its strength in opposing the application of the Eastern On tario Electric Railway or charter The line is projected to run from Cornwall to Toronto skirting the counties along the lake The capital stock of the is plac ed at On Friday evening last Mr Wilfrid Wager sergeant the Filth Field Ambulance with the second con tingent for saving the lives Ernest A Mitchell and John Hoctor by first aid methods was presented with Royal Canadian Humane Societys honorary testimonial By the death of Mrs Riches at her home in road the first woman principal of Toronto pub lic schools passed away laBt week On Saturday last the jury in the case of Carrie on trial for the murder of A Maasey brought in a verdict of not guilty On being examined In her own defence stat ed that she thought of his doing her harm which made her run for the revolver The jury were only out a few minutes when tbey returned with their verdict In addressing the court her counsel Mr stated what Carrie had done was done for the pake of honor just as Great Britain was fighting for honor on battlefields of Europe At last Sundays the Wesley Methodist Church J A Rankin pastor road the rcsolutions which had been adopted by congregation favoring the im mediate suspension of all liquor licenses in the Dominion Hon Thofl Crawford M p p for one of the Divisions of the City is a prominent classloader and favort the proposi tion On Saturday last when referring to decision of the Rate payers Association to award prize for the best kept lawns and gardens in district during the comipg summer Samuel tho vice- president strongly recommends the cultivation vegetables on every bit of available land By a all of fourteen feet from the now Knox College on Varsity campus on Monday where he was working Albert fractured both his wrists a number of applications have been mad by unemployed persons mostly mechanics to be sent back to Great Britain where they believe they can got work of Portland Maine play ed the game of fraud at the King Edward Hotel by representing him self as an exMayor of Portland and got a cheque cashed He cant go back to Maine for some time as the Police Court has a fixed on him just now Sir William Chief Justice In the course of his reply to the presentment the Grand Jury on Monday- found occasion to censure Toronto Police Courts for its methods and the City Council for its manage ment of the Toronto Jail War Offico has accepted the ot ter ot the Medical Faculty of the Uni versity of Toronto to furnish a bed hospital for us In the war Maroh Sessions of York County and Toronto opened hero on Tuesday with cases on the docket Judge Is on For a mere matter of Ten Dollars and Fifty Cents wilt put you In possession of an English Beaver Overeoat with lining and rubber handsome Otter Fur Collar out ami trimmed In Irreproachable manner that taller can duplicate for less than Twenty Dollars I WE SELL ONLY CLOTHES THAT ARE MADE ON THE BEST AND LONG WEAR AND SATISFACTION The Overcoat what puts the finishing r ail it completion to the costume of the welldressed man Just now Seven Dollars and Ninety Cents Invested here puts you In possession of a really Fur Coat made from variety elegant goods In the seasons best style and trimmed and finished handsomely The Men J i Main St West a tt rim old in am BALDW1N BREEZES Continued from very agreeable company and I am assured on good authority that he is very agreeable his family circle That I consider an A I recommend He carried home not by my kind permission how ever as a souvenir of his visit a snapshot view of His Little Honor and Most Uncle Owl The above vulgar expression is pioneer vernacular Our young folks are much leresled in the shakeups giving our young lovers I tribute this noticeable develop ment of the lender passion to the enormous amount of valentines passing to and fro on the 14th of Feb in years past Love appears to be a germ which develops and develops until the bust is full of Who Owl refer to as having half a dozen beaux The little English blonde declares Shes the one others doubt it A wellknown old bach elor gave his to understand that he would not a flirt He must have her undivided love One man one voto one beau one belief Thems my Senti ments She got well and stood upon her feet And told the cross old bachelor she loved him not a hit The being angry hopped upon a limb Saying out upon you He upon you Youll never catch old Jim Skating is now most Emerald Lake Is one vast area of glare Not very ladylike indeed It is very vulgar It is most vulgar for young- women to indulge in loud boisterous talk and laugh ter Some mammas should check their girls Springs coming I AN LETTER TO YOU Follow the You have heard that phrase in pop ular songs and in the common par lance of dny- More than likely it is Hung out flippantly with intention ol mak ing a point But lot us turn it into a text tor the motor car buyer Something like 650000 Ford cars are in service throughout the world- More than right hero l Cana da is a world of in that fact Does anv one imagine for a moment that people ore driving Fords because of some sensational advertis ing campaign or because a a fad of tho moment Not by a Jugful The Ford car is an economic tact and are driving It because sound substantial reasons of a practical businesslike nature solid nature of Ford success is due to the inherent and Unique quali ties of the car The light weight is responsible for the lowest possible ex pense of operation and maintenance and yet safety and durability are present to a greater degree than in any other car because of tho simpli city of design and the Intelligent use of Ford treated Vanadium steel tacts have been recognlied by owners throughout the world And having recognized these points they pass them oh by word of mouth to others who arc soon members of the great Ford family K Ford evidence Is and so one by one the prospect follow crowd As thtf wise man from the oast only way one can Ho about the Ford to knock It K Cheer up I ooo Brleflet Bo sure and go to the rink Tuesday Evening Band In attendance under auspices Hereon Athletic Ad mission Gents Ladies and child ren ONTARIO LEGISLATURE At the suggestion of Howell Opposition leader In the Ontario House a motion was made by Hearst last Friday to send a message to first overseas con tingent congratulating theta on the success attending their first conflict and sympathizing with those wounded and also with those bereaved f Geo a appeared before the Magistrate this morning charged with having abused bis wife It the second time he has been charged wltb the same offense He was convicted and sentenced to two days In county Jail and to receive lashes Mercury School Reports No North Qflorge ONeill HI Johnnie Graham Harry ONeill Floyd Mitohell Frank Kay Wilfred Ver non Murray Eddie Myrtle Stiles May Nora Jr EI Viva iard Frank Gray Tommy Harold Primer May Mitchell John nie ONeill Bertie Artie The names appear in order of merit Teacher Winch ClassArnold Joe Glen Davidson Frank Jr Class Irvine Sweet Manuel Nelson Morton Winch Scott I Class Sheldon Steven son Lauretta Winch Marion Scott Jr I Class Jack Thompson Johnnie Davidson equal Aggregate attendance Bel haven M M Nixon Teacher SNOWBALL tbat I may be carried to the skies on flowery beds of Tba used to bo what Tom said Now he O that I might be received from the cutter by brotherly arms of a Miss Marguerite was the guest of Miss Laura Morning on Sun day- was promoted last Sunday- Reserved seat Mr Ambrose Archibald of Noble Sunday as the guest of Mis tethel We all like now drivers but we prefer one that will draw so that we wont have to walk and lead the horse Mr L Hall spent Sunday at his home here those long drives I Willie takes the team now We understand Mr Will Morning hired with Mr Will Ferguson for te summer Whos the young man who made emergency trip to Newmarket on Sat urday night Ferguson and and White were guests at Mr Tom Cut tings on Sunday night Miss Mary Stephens is in our burg again as the guest of Miss Laura Morning vv fiSI Brother John life School Report for No A North records those present every day for Feb Class Everett Morloy Perry Winch King Class Joel Thompson George Christie Nel son Jack Winch HI Class Marjory Bernard David son Grant Thompson David Davidson Dav id King Maggie King Alma The Institute intend hav ing a evening at the homo of Mrs John on Wednesday evening March Good program ten cent tea Everybody welcome 200000 fire in on Wednesday morning Feb While walking to on the P Robert Martin carpenter of Carth ago was by a train in blinding snow storm and died a low hours later He was over thirty and leaves a bride of five months An inquest will be held HOW HE BUILT IT a fine building that is across the way Charles Yes yes but the owner built It out of the blood and groans of his fellowmen out of grief of crying and woes of wailing women I A course Yeo yes I CharlesOb no dentist i mm 3Wa ixs V see s sy i i ii ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO TORONTO saw gas Mm