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.0 Si.00 a year in advance ; Si.50 to United States. ,X v .:- We have just opened out, direct from John a big stock of/' *& Son V el vet and E ASTER is almost "here and Easter Hats call for immediate immediate consideration. We have a splendid array of quaint little shapes trimmed with" 'rich and brilliant colorings that marks the season's mode, resulting in 'styles as individual'as they are varied at incredibly low prices. To those interested we extend a special invitation to> visit our rooms and; compare vur prices. Miss THE EDITOR TALKS Mn N. W. Rowell is winning the admiration admiration of readers of Ontario Legislature reports for the able way he handles every question coming before theProvincial Parliament. No more striking proof of the popularity of the Leader of the Opposition Opposition .could be given than the amazingly large crowd that filled . every gallery and spot of vantage when Mr. Rowell made his recent speech on the Abolish the Bar Policy. Visitors were present from all parts, of the Province. Every gallery was crowded and many people had to stand. A "significant incident was Sir James Whitney's anxiéty that there should be no applause. When Mr. Rowell rose to speak some University men in the gallery began to applaud. Sir James was on his feet in an instant and wanted it to be distinctly distinctly understood that no hand-clapping or demonstration of any kind would be tolerated from the visitors of the House. The last sentence was quite a tribute to Mr. Rowell, wasn't it? w WHERE THE BIRDS SPEND THE WINTER. also A Fine Stock of Lace Curtains, Scrims, and Bungalow Nets in Many Qualities. Nairn's Linoleums in all widths. Làdies' Suits and Spring Coats of the newest materials and latest styles. A fine stock of Ladies' and Men's Waterproof Coats. Men's Ready-to-Wear Suits from the best and most reliable makers in Canada. ■' Phone 104. Bowmanville. M • ■ . W i Do you know, Mr. Householder, that you can unsure your, home or your furniture for $500 at the small cost of $3.00 if brick house and shingles on asbestos or slate or iron; $3.50 if brick house ' and shingle roof or brick veneer and shingles on asbestos or iron; $4.25' if rough cast or brick veheered and shingle roof; and $5.00 if frame and shingle roof ? ------- - Harry CaWn, The Insurance ahffd Real Estate Man Phone 50 - Bowmanville S WHAT IS IT ? ^TpHE CITIZENS of the town have decided upon this weeh v ■ as a week in which to give. Every Merchant is placing SPECIAL BARGAINS in his store an_d the people are asked to buy any useful article and donate it to the hospital which is without a doubt the best cause of the day.. - Below are a few of our list on which we will give a large discount during this week. Call and make your selection and we will deliver same on their opening day with card attached giving the givers' name, ; - : to a Rocking Chairs.......... i.OO to $7.00 Easy Chairs...... .. . ...... 5.00 to 50 00 Couches .......... . ....... 5 00 to 30.00 Bedside Rugs ............ i .OO to 5.00~ Foot Stools ...... ......... i.OO up. ~ Dressers and Stands, all prices Pictures and Mirrors, cheap, but a necessity. 'Give one.. ' VerandaH Chairs, Child's Cribs, Camp Cots, in fact anything you, wish.j . ; ■/.. . BANK OF ESTABLISHED L 1817 Incorporated by cAct'of 'Parliament Capital . -- $ 16,000,000 Rest -- -- $16,000^000 Undiv. Profits $802,814.94 Head Office, : Montreal. J. A. McClellan, Manager, Bowmanville Branch. w w- Remember, Everything at redùcêd prices PHONE No. 9 Funeral Directors Furniture-Dealers » V\« vsi V\* 'Cs* PHONE 1 No. 9 Private Ambulance Bowmanvîlle's , : : Open for the Sùmmer Bring your Eggs and Farm Produce Produce to Gunn, Langlois Co., Temperance St., and receive the highest price for same. G. T. Johnston Manager of Bowmanville Office F - Phone 203 A BURDENSOME TAX Possibly every merchant, tradesman and professional man in Bowmanville has --felt the calls and demands made on him thi? past few months à rather burdensome tax. The Fall Fair, the Winter Fair, the original original hospital subscription, its sériés of concerts concerts and its last appeal for further, offerings offerings in kind, the colored church in Guelph the wealthy, the Turkish Missions, some personal appeals for local:charity arid several several appeals by letter for hospitals, sanitariums sanitariums and charitable institutions of one- kind and another are a few of the appeals that have been made to town business men within a very few months'. To many of us these appeals for help, .financial and otherwise, are becoming an intolerable burden. Because a business man happens to be engaged in a commercial pursuit it does not imply that he is a Carnegie Or a Croesus. A year's voluntary contributions in response to appeals amounts to a considerable considerable sum, and goodness knows the cost of conducting business has greatly increased. Every business man,and woman woman : enjoys helping every good cause when it is a personal duty, but really all of us are not rich enough or philanthropic enough to contribute to all local enterprises enterprises and respond liberally to the innumerable innumerable out-of-town appeals, too. No doubt but some persons have really had to stint their families, their church or himself and his business to respond to some calls on his purse. ' One sufferer remarked' that many of us find dodging our creditors ' trouble enough without having to dodge the professional beggars that infest our main street." A BUSINESS TALK. Never in over a quarter century have we carried week after week thru the winter winter months so many advertisements. It is an evidence of two conditions : (I) General prosperity in town and country. (2) the popularity of The James Papers which reach most of the homes in West Durham excepting the east side of Clarke thé residents residents of which do -not deal very "largely., in Bowmanville. Very few if-any. towns in this country contain two local newspapers newspapers that go as generally into the homes in and around them as do The STATESMAN STATESMAN and .The Bowmanville NEWS into the homes of West Durham. The explanation is clear. A very large percentage of the people in this district have grown up" reading one or the other of thèse old established àrid newsy papers --never as interesting as now--and no other paper or papers can crowd them out of these homes so long, as they are kept up to their present quality; New subscribers are coming in constantly and in all over 34 years' experience here do we remember a year when so few orders to "stop my paper" have reached this office, showing conclusively that people are well satisfied with the James Papers. Altho we recently strengthened our working force and everyone oh the staff has worked almost to the limit we find advertisers and other customers crowding us constantly, and have decided to procure more help. We have also ordered a -lot of new type for our job printing department department to meet the demand for a high class of fine printing that is now being turned out from James Publishing House. -So very much crowded have been our newspaper columns that we have had to refuse a lot of advertising and much reading reading matter also has been crowded out. We have been sorry to disappoint some customers but we have; tried to do the best we could under the circumstances.. NEW HOSPITAL NOTES for The Board is making , arrangements the formal opening March 26th. : Dominion Radiator Co., Toronto, has donated $100 to. Hospital funds. Last payment to contractors is about due. Subscribers in arrears are urged to pay subscriptions promptly. Through its Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. John A. Sinclair, one of Bowmanville's "old boys," The Seaman Kent Co. of Mea- ford has donated hardwood flooring to cover corridors of-the new hospital. Bowmanville old boys have done nobly in helping along the Hospital by generous contributions. Among the latest contributions contributions is a cheque for $100 from Dr. Geo. A. Bingham, one of Toronto's noted surgeons. surgeons. ;,x ; - ' -FF-/-F FF" Owing to^the fact that the expenses connected with equipment and repairs have considerably exceeded expectations on account of scarcity of labor, etc., some of those who contributed liberally at first have given additional sums. Amonv these ( is Mr. Win. Cann who has donated an àd- 1 dilional $50. . Editor, W. S. Given, of the Reporter Mil^brook, Writes from the South ' . . Land,, v .. It's a far away cry from zero weather and frozen nature to the green fields and budding flowers of Louisiana and Gulf of Mexico scenery,-and the enjoyment of of such a luxury for the first time by "ye Editor" may not be uninteresting to Canadian Canadian readers. Leaving at five in the afternoon afternoon of February 17th via C. P. R. and taking the Wabash that night at 1 a m. When -breakfast time came Tuesday morning we were at Fort Wayne, Indiana, going through an exceedingly good agricultural agricultural country. Corn and cattle are the staple money, makers in these parts and ( land sells at $150 to $20Q an acre. Soil is mostly a black Ioomy kind through Indiana, Indiana, Illinois and Northern Missouri. Proceeding Proceeding south color of soil gets lighter to à brick red and the shade of majority of people darker to a pot .black. Mules are more in evidence as dray drawers, frame houses are usual and Nigger cabins dot the landscape. ; As one proceeds south the brag of the Northerner gives way . to the fairer and reasonable arguments of the Southerner, the latter preferring a Canadian to the Yankee of boot strap reputation. • St. Louis has grown very much since writer was at the "World's Fair" in 1904. It is the distributing point of the middle South : and its manufacturers are very enterprising. More boots and shoes are said to be made here than in any two other cities in the world. Little Rock, Arkansas, greeted us in the morning after a night ride of 349 miles in a fairly comfortable comfortable Pullman on the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain. St. Louis, as all travellers kriow was proudof its "biggest" and best station in the world", until both the Nevr York Central and Pennsylvania ■far outstripped it in New York City. From here thé scenes again shift and a new vision opens, whitewash takes the place of paint; homes of the sons of Jap- heth are replaced by the happy-go-lucky shake-down darky hut. Razor back hogs that Robert'Vance or Joseph Hamilton would look: with scorn on and Isaac Richardson Richardson would turn down for Mathews best. Two or three dogs are at every shack. Mustangs, mules, Arabian horses, divide the honors.for man's use, while a Clyde such as J. L. Paterson would look at is never in sight. A few goats now come on the scene and Jersey cattle seem the favorite.. : We had the good fortune of meeting an old London boy, Mr. Newald who left when a child and spent his early manhood and up to middle age in Wisconsin, but a few years ago came south to; Louisiana and purchased an old plantation of some eJ|bt-en hundred • acres and has entered upon extensive and intensive farming with brains behind it all which cannot but ensure ensure success. He has forty Nigger cabins and some three hundred blacks on his plantation and grows corn, sugar cane, oats, some wheat, clover, alfalfa and an* abundance of live stock. He says the South States are just awakening to the call of the agriculturalist. Land, good south land, is selling as yet at $20 to §25 an acre, built on and well timbered' in most cases. One thing that surprised me as much as anything down South was the vast areas of uncut timber--oak, hickory, pine, walnut, walnut, and saw mills in every town and village, village, virgin forest awaiting the woodman's axe. Lumber is cheaper of course,, fair building pine $15- per thousand. Stave bolts are piled up at every cross road, for whiskey and pork barrels, etc. The manual labor is all black of course and to hear them singing or lilting as they work. is very, interesting. Barefooted children, and lots of them at every cabin door. Bed clothes ever on the line, or fence or verandah. "Are the Niggers so up-to-date and sanitary in regard to airing their bedding" I asked, and for answer received received a look of pity that I was so ignorant ignorant of dusky doings. Sèparate cars for blacks south of St. Louis, "Jim Grow" cars they call them, and one is almost forced to take Pullman as even the white chair cars have every evidence of "low down white trash." The bill-of-fare in diner or in hotel would tell you you were "down in Dixie" .even if the climate and colored people did. not. Hot biscuits, griddle cakes and corn rsyrup, corn cake and sweet potatoes are staple home dishes. My friend Mr. Newald. told me that hogs live and fatten on the Acorn and Hickory Nuts: He turned out forty sows last Spring and they came back with 300 shoats in the fall and fat, too. Cheap pork is'nt it? The razor back hog is the Nigger breed" chiefly, but progressive farmers have the pure breds. Butjt forces itself on one everywhere, the great .possibilities -of this South farm land, the land is low and flat and needs big drains and smaller ones into them; water, water everywhere. I saw a big pig with her head up to'Xher ears in water hunting for soft nuts. Seeding is going on, yards and " gardens a cleaning up, fires a burning outside and Spring manifested everywhere. Thecon- ducter from Little Rock to Alexandria was another Canadian who ran on the G. T. R. line through' St. Thomas a few Rev. Dr. Geo. W. Workman, Toronto, will preach in. the Methodist Church, Brighton, on Easter Sunday. . St. Paul's congregation dedided at their meeting Wednesday evening to invite Rev. A. H, Drumm, Belleville, to become their minister. Service will be held in the Methodist Church Good Friday at II a.m. conducted by Pastor Kenny. Appropriate sermons and music on Easter Sunday. Rev. Canon McNab and Mrs. McNab, Toronto, are taking a well-earned holiday in California. The . congregation of the Cathedral of St. Alban the Martyr presented presented them with a well-filled purse of gold before they left home Livingstone Day was observéd in the Methodist Sunday. School Sunday afternoon. afternoon. Suitable : addresses were given by Messrs. John Elliott,; B.A., Reginald Jol- liffe and Roy Warnica, a reading by Miss Kathleen Knight and a duet by the Williams Williams boys. - Services - at St. John's Church Easter Day will be: Holy Communion 8 a.m; Morning Prayer and Holy Communion, II a. m; Children's service, 2.30 p.m; Choral evensorig, 7 p.m. The choir has been largely augmented and there will be special special music at all services. All are cordially invited. The many friends of Mrs. T; E. Knowl- ton, Toronto, (nee Ethel King) were pleased pleased to see her "in her former place in the Methodist Choir Sunday evening. She sang with splendid expression that favorite favorite solo "The Plains of Peace". Masters Raymond and Frank WilHams added greatly to the pleas ire of the large conr gregation by sing'ng " 1 hé - Song o f Home." Pastor Kenny preached earnest gospel sermons. The evangelistic services now being held each evening in the Methodist Church by Pastor Kenny are increasing in attendance attendance and interest. The singing each evening evening by Masters Raymond and Frank Williams Williams of Newcastle is a very attractive feature. The boys possess beautiful well- trained voices which seldom, if ever, have- been equalled by any singers of their age that have visited this town. This (Thursday) (Thursday) evening the pastor will be assisted by Rev. Geo. Claré, Newcastle, and on Friday evening by Messrs. J. E. Walmsley and T. F. Wills, two energetic Christian workers from the Tabernacle Church, Belleville. Rev. and Mrs. Edward Cragg, Calgary, Alta., recently celebrated the fifty-fourth anniversary, of their marriage. The celebration celebration was attended by children, grandchildren grandchildren and friends and was a merry affair. affair. Rev. Mr. Cragg is one of the veterans veterans of the Methodist ministry having entered the service of the churçh in this country in 1854.. He has two sons in the Methodist ministry--Rev. W. J. M.Cragg, B. A., B.D., missionary to Japan, and Rev. C. E. Cragg, B.D., Peterbor6. So vigorous is Rev: Mr. Cragg that tho he is over 80 years of age he is actively homesteading, working on his farm in the summer months months and living in the cit^of Calgary during during the winter. Revival meetings at Disciple Church are growing in attendance and interest. Real gospel messages were given to the people Sunday and seven persons added to the local church. Sixteen have taken their stand for the Master. A faithful and enthusiastic enthusiastic chorus is assisting Mrs. Irwin nightly; Miss Palmer on violin and Mr. R. M. Mitchell, soloist, gave good service on Sunday. Services each night this week including Saturday. Sunday services: Bible school at 10 a.m., preaching at 11; mass meeting at 3 p.m. and service at 7 p.m. when Mrs. Ethel L. Irwin, who delighted delighted the audience Lord's Day Evening, March 9th, will by request preach again on "The Love of Christ." Special music. Free seats and a warm welcome to all. DURHAM COUNTY BOYS. An Orono boy, Mr. Will Pringle, is now Judge of the Probate Court of Wau- baunsee County, Kansas, with residence at Alma. With settling up estates, probating probating wills, presiding over thé juvenile Court, attending to insanity cases, issuing marriage licenses and performing the marriage marriage ceremony, Judge Pringle, is not only one of the busiest but one of the most important important men of his adopted State.--News. Other Durham boys are referred to on an inner page. z THE PRESS The Evening Journal, -I-, He too was like "an oasis" in years ago. a desert of the unknown, W.S.G. GET WELL AND KEEP WELL. It will cost you nothing to join hands with the members of the HOME HEALTH CLUB and learn the principles of home hygiene and sanitation. We will mail you FREE printed lectures by Dr. David H. Reeder, founder of the club, together with instructions for home treatment which will restore sufferers to physical and mental mental Efficiency, Virility and Strèngth» without without using any drugs containing irritating stimulants, poison or narcotics. Enroll yourself With us and help to uplift the moral and physical standards of humanity by clean living and by utilizing Nature's own methods. Address HOME HEALTH CLUB, 5039 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago. . .. 3r I 5 St. Catharines, celebrated its 3rd year's anniversary under under the editorial and business management management of Mr. J. M. Elson by .a splendid souvenir number of 24 pages on March 15. The Journal has made wonderful strides as a daily newspaper and is fully appreciated appreciated by the citizens of the Garden City as shown by its liberal advertising patronage patronage and wide circulation. Illustrations include the office staff, the new ten page Duplex Perfecting Press recently installed and'the city's last year's output of pretty babies--a large number. The Daily Courier, Brantford, has lately lately been so radically changed in its general make-Üp and typographical âppéâfàncè ⧠to be scarcely recognizable to its former readers. A plain new heading, new display display type for the advertisements and headings headings on news pages, a modern and attractive attractive style in assembling first page articles and featuring the more important local and Provincial events 'Ire some ; of the more noticeable changes which have been introduced. Besides several hundred dollars' dollars' worth of new type one addition to the plant is a new typesetting machine costing over $4,200. Wer learn that further further improvements are contemplated and already new- subscriptions are being received received in considerable number-:. Few cities in Brantford's class are favored with better daily journals than the Telephone City now has. v : ■ ;. • ; ; . . z- ' l I ■ 3 Sf vx" ' -y /■V "ssiliii MÊÈÈM SÈMêéëSêF® -, - **-5 • • mmwmï m m gsri _ - - - .... '-