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W&e eling more cllutiery this year than we ever ,od at Christmas trne before, based on a growiflg dradfor uscful, sensible gifts, that hasts for years ard give absointe satisfact- io.We eau surprisea you witli the valuea S weC are g«ving InI Car-vinrxeSets Scissors Riizors and steel ware generaLlly. It dceVn-it needavrtin to seli sueli things jtlst now, but it wiIi serve as aý reminder thait this is very mueli of a, Clrltimas Sror wýith plenty oi goods here suitable for gif Speclal Delevery on Xmas 'Eve. Bowmavlll R I E POST OFICE F. A. HADDY'S Ohia Hall CGrOCery You eanlt jhave good resuits with poor stock. QrÀality 'S fthe test of ehleapne2s. Figs ! Figs ! Figs! i U45 wii Royalt 3ank of Canada PROGRESS 0F SIX VEARS. Capital & IReserve Deposits Total Astsr 1908 $8,290J,OO $500~0, f $-949,0*oO,o MangerBomanlll, nt, Branc'h 4~Buy Vour Xmnas Goods Prom - Us and Get ae New X: v's It is casily donc, lutour Window is a bottle of Beans. Witlih every Purefhase ol 50v or over yoen get a gtipcas on the number of beans itLe bottie, the one eoming the nearest can have the ie of anyv pair of bouts in the store. * Srneodyis ging to get a pair of shoe3 given to them 80o corne alonDga nitryour luc<k. * No (iuess on Credit. Rfemember we tve everything ini stoek a first elams * shoe stoire band!es-Slîppe-rs, Spats, Leggings for Women1 4iand Clildren3, 1Hockecy Boots, Rubbers of al sizes and I shapes, beside ouir regular lines of Boots. * I rocers' Due Bis taken as Cash, CLIi.N S STCK IEN TOWN. See onr off er in figs.- Choie eooking figs regular 8e per lb for 5e per lb. These are flot the eom- mon 5c kind. Extra ehoice Layer Figa regular 15e per lb fer 10e; regular 20e per lb for 150. Curranits, Raisins andl 3 lbs good Ourrants2e 2k lbs ebioiee Carrants 253 2 Iba very beýst Currants 2Ii5c 3 Iba very best Raisins2e I bs -very best Saltanas 25ec 2 S seded Raisins2e G ibs Dates 2Se Orange and Lemonà Peels8, good 15e Orange and Leinon Pos best 20e Citron Peel 25e Mixed Peels 20e Extracts ! Extracts 1Ail flavorsi bottle. of Extrarts 10e per Confý-iect 1one ry Gocd Mxtrnrteý, Z Ibs fo r Chiocolate IMixtures, prl 5 Fine Mixtucre, worth te or 2 à(" A. large asrmn of Can.dieS from, Or, to Iüc per lb, anid at Special prIces for Cb ristmas. Nuts, Oranges, Grapes in great variety, Colincil May Appo;int Of ficers. We have been ac oe f forcing au irun lrnfay-r"O-af Onopinion that îa councîil should be elected in Bowman- ville tha,ýt ill b e l in ucere sympathy with Local Option and wl do whiatever they camntto aid in ils rigid ouef orcement, The LïIior Licenise Act anticipates the Vêry - thing wbichi we get wheu it gives concils power to appoint officers to enforce local option b-a s ection, 12 1a states that : The council Of anly iuni-ipa-lity in whicli any by-law paassed uinder section 141 of this Act or under aniy of the provisions mentioned in section 142 of Ulis Act, for prohibitiig ithe' sale of liquors by retail, is ini force, may by by- law app oint an officer whose dty i shah be to enforce the provisions of this ,c n fay suchi prohibitory by 'v-law% ,withîni the muniicipality, and sucli council may boy by-law provide for the- payment of suchi officer or officera and for payment of an)y expenses incnrred in snch enforcemient out of the general fnnds of the mn-nicipa-lity and every officer so appointed shahl have within the municipality for which ho is ap- pointed ail the powvers possessed by a Provincial officor appointed under sec- tion 1-97 of this Act and ail the provi- sionis of thisAc applicable to, any snch Provincial officer shahl apply as to any officer appointod under this section andc acting'w-Iithin the municipality for which bc is appointed ini the saine man- uier and to the same extent as if suchi municipal officer were expressly mnen- tioned in such provisions. It was the privilege and pleatsure of the qdltreýss f TnrE SI AEMN tO attenld Commencement Exer1C4se-ý and the Con- versazlIne of Wjb Collegiate Insti- tute on Fridav everning The plogram was Cf a veryltr stngClhprac*er and4 the eveLinjg as maýde very pleasai)t to ail bv Princiral G. WH. Hogarth, B A., mid hiFSstaff et teaichers, Onýe thing WhiïCh particalarly ln"terca'ted us was the nuimber of Dr~le or their des- cendants who asisted oi the exrellenit prOgrïam. Among ot'hers weýre otieed MIr. JasfRldg. BA.,Chran Ccl J. EFreei one, of the speakýers;- Mrn G. H. Ho5atb, Prinlcipal of thIe sehool), son c fMris, Daniel Hogarth, Soinsb; 1MiS7eS Nellie anUd JeaIn lHgyCrRt, dau zhters of Mr. WV. J. HaVcraf t, Reeve of Wht omr"of Haýdjýn, and Miï,ss Mamie Baccdaughiter f fMýr. Jamecs E oaok.Mth Sain formerly -of Ceirtwrïght, and grand- dsulghter Cf Mis Johln Boscock, Bow- m-anville Bruef-logarth, son of Prin- cipal, wootie honore at the De- partmentâi axanis, wau presented with' a Senior ecr' certificate MAaster Alan Cowiill om, of Darlingtou, hi que cf the pnpis. Tis scbooI Is cet- tainlv, dolng- ZgZod work and bas a spenilaterdane. We were alo plasdt rrme! trere Re, D, OCr0 s iey,a firmere rtemed ister 0[ Eow-1 menile Mibdia cnr~h.Mr D4vid1 0riýdos.B. H A , is kecretar, cf th Bo l' rtipa a re, A ?L fOn-aiïo LrtdWIes'ollegeý, was Que cf he speke. ry/e wOuld eau tLe atten-tio0,cfIlOnt roade-rs to the Openinganouceen of the eign Business Oallecge aperiugl nothtr coL)nmnF. As s ,t t ed terei, thnewcJiilege is oWLrie and Opevated by tho Rningo T pe- wrtr opany oft Canada', Who0pur p ose plaeing ti Ithe fotralk ofthe usiea clloesIncareonty.What the Dame 'Remian-yton Typncwriter" stiands for in the ti pewriter wold the Remlugten Business Coieg-e l dstu to bo in tho stndeDt worrId. the stanàdard of perfecýtion., To tis cnýýd they have aqeclared the new a-id modem e(ýqulpiuent cf the BsnesS, s'emns School Pand engaýgod thoestaiff of teachers -whieh has, during the past year', done suchi excel. lent woýrlc lu the class rooM3for-- that oýrganizationi. Mr Tl. F. WiHoS wvell aud, aoal known in t fs ds-1 tic,is Principal, a.nd M.Ca.E. Smith the peer of shorthand and type-, wrltlng teachers, has charge cf the work c4 the Sh urthaud-Tý pewrltinig of Miss Rose L, Fritz. who bas wao and- 80 mnanv tulres defendod suecessFully The West End iup Mct'lui i i LCCAL OPTION IN OBILLIA We wish you al A VERV Morry Xmas -A-ND A- Hap)py and Prosperous New Yoar. rtry & Coi,ÎUmitedo Bowmanville, I I I 'llllllllflhlli i i I Irneof useful and mon.,Se, hem in e. owiug aN .g g-ifts ,e sàow *rie 'a Y Su W* DýA.S ile.ions and ifearleas linthe disehlarge ofil 1.ureo- r.A.r Tlle. ty. I *~Visiljig Com itte--Coipa l i as lo tcatn been ae suceoss I) A N V:a x nard, 4a iinEdu-a SPrY, Otil'ia? Ye, deidedlR 1 D U S A N ,A H DDY Kate Blekeli.' option had aeeaineect upou,,t -TiO WM .f uNo ILyZpflh .The 'imsas netn ble to leara Bowmanvi tilp