WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1028 Char-Tex Is the last word dn mouth health. The CHAR-TEX Tooth Paste removes the film and gives the teeth a glistening, white appear- ance besides relieving bleeding and inflamed gums. CHAR-TEX LIQUID positively clears up all cases of Pyorrhea, and {is recommended by the leading dental specialists on the American continent. We ask you to use CHAR-TEX, knowing it to be the best pre- paration of its kind on the market. z L.T. Best *Druggist Farms For Sale 200 ACRES--100 under cultivation, 12 miles from Kingston; frame house, good condition; 2 large barns, newly shingled with or without implements--would exchange flor city property. 190 ACRES---8 miles from Kingston--| 115 acres under cultivation--&0 acres ood bush; good, stone house, large rng and drive shed; well watered, running stream; well adapted for mar- ket gardening; 1 mile from church, school and factory. 125 ACRES---100 acres good soil; bal- ance good pasture; good frame house; 2 barns; never-failing spring: 12 miles from city. 65 ACRES--~Garden anda truck farm; double brick house; all conveniences; close to city. 55 ACRES --- 25 acres good garden land; frame house; barn and cow house; close to factory, school and church; 12 miles from Kingston; on easy terms or exchange. Crop on easy termg for quick sale. Bateman's Real Estate 136 Wellington St. Whenever you feel doubtful about a WEDDING GIFT You are safe in choosing CUT GLASS We offer many articles of distinction to select from and all of them possess the brilllancy that can only be ob- tained in the genuine BELGIAN blanks, Yes! We Have GATE N0AL, RICE COAL, No Stove Coal (With apologies to Frank Silva and Irving Cohn) Also to the Anthracite Operators. YES, WE HAVE NO STOVE COAL, WE HAVE NO STOVE COAL TO-DAY, WE'VE BIRDSEYE AND BARLEY, BUCKWHEAT AND BOILER. . LL KINDS OF SMALL COAL. SAY! WE HAVE SOME NEW FASHIONED RANGE CUAL, TOO; BUT, YES WE HAVE NO STOVE COAL,, WE HAVE NO STOVE COAL TO-DAY. SOWARDS COAL CO HI LOOK AHEAD and see how you are fixed for your heating requirements: -- --Quebec Heaters. ; --Quebec Heaters with Ovens. --Happy Thought Ranges. --McClary's Radium Furnaces. --McClary's Sunshine F urnaces. ~--Gurney or Daisy Hot Water Boilers. ~--McClary's Electric Ranges. : Call in and see quirements. us about your re- McKelvey & Birch, Limited General Contractors, Heating Specialists, Steam Tie Werk; Electric work; Painting and Paper 'work of all kinds undertaksm. Tor embers, envy Tools, Olls, Best Stier envy Hanging. Special 4 | { { | | | | | cerning our municipal LETTERS To The Editor The Portsmouth Controversy, Portsmouth, Aug. 20.--(To the Editor) :--When writing you on | Aug. 16th, I did not fntend to star: a long controversy in the press con- affairs, | i BOT | { do I yet have any idtention of so do- | ing, but that letter of Mr. Halliday, | dated Aug. 17, cannot have a free | pass. In my letter, I stated noth- { ing but facts--facts which the peo- { ple of Portsmouth had a proper right | to know. | fish class, mor am I a great My letter was straight. forward, and I did mot make a 'mlis- statement such as Reeve Halliday has done in 'his letter. It has al- ways been a trait to mine to hold my own grounds. I am not of the jelly bluff. This will be again proved I think ere this letter is complete. Now to Mr. Halliday's first query: Why resign, etc. The Good Book tells us not to yoke the ox with the ass, and I think it better judgment to take the ox away from the ass when he cannot do any good because of the antics of the ass. It is not nice for a man who preaches temper- ance to know too much about the' taste of champagne or beer, and my hat is off to the man who has learned fo spend his pennies well, for he is the man who will handles his dollars with care. He will spend a dollar this year to save ten doHars next year. But the man who will epend his penny this year and have to spend a pound next year is doing bad business. Mr. Halliday informs the people that I am not a property owner. He hes spoken the truth this time, but that is a fact which I have never de- nied, but he forgot to tell the people that I am-and have been for several years a direct taxpayer, still more I have a family being educated in Portsmouth public school. Then I am in business for myself as a mar- ket gardner and am located in the village of Portsmouth. On the other hand as we all know, Mr. Halliday is a bachelor, and his busi. ness is in the city of Kingston. Therefore I may claim to have a more lively interest in the genera! welfare of Portsmouth than he has. Now Mr. Halliday has accused me of advocating lavish expenditure of the public-money-at- the property owners' expense. This time Mr. Halliday does not speak the truth, but tell me who spent money lav- ishly when he engaged an overseer at fifty cents per hour to watch one man work at thirty-five cents per hour? How about the oiling of King street? Early in the spring the coun« cil unanimously expressed its desire thiat the reeve arrange to have, it oil- ed at the earliest opportunity. Now here is August nearly gone, the road. not oiled, but spoiled, and it will cost the village many dollars to have it placed into condition for oil- ing. Neglect of this sort I claim to be lavish expenditure of the publie money. Let us go back to February of last year when we were in the depth of one of the worst depressions our country has known. The bread- winners of this village upon going to town to look for work were umn able to get it because they were residents of Portsmouth. Naturally they turned to their own council and looked for help. What could we "do? 'There was not even snow to remove that winter. Would we have to givé charity? (for there were some urgent cases). { money wasting scheme? The men did not want that. It was advocated that they be sent on- to Hill's Block with a plow, ana there to try and grade roads that were froze hander than the Rocky Mountains. « Who opposed this It was Weiler. Who advocated that rock work was the only feasible work as that time whereby the public would get some equivalent for their money. Who pointed out to Coun- oil that Centre street near the school was the only place wheré we could place our men and money to the best advantage? It was Weller. 1 Who was it that moved information be sought from the dominion ' and provincial , governments regarding their un yment scheme, there. by hoping to get more for the vil- lage without cost to those friends of the reeve who own so mush pre- perty. Again it was Weller, and the truth of these statements could be verified by the er of men at those meetings anxiously await. ing our decision. What was the ree sult of this undertaking? The fact+is that we now have a passable road over what at one time was a danger spot, thus completing a direct route to Hill's Block, the only place where the village has much room to grow. This work CLEA LE DR. J. 'P. VROOMAN, M.P.P. Who died in Kingston General Hos- pital on Monday. AA AA A was .done for five hundred aoliara] How Gong would it have taken to give | that sum of money in charity? and | the village. had nothing for Its | money. To-day we have the equiv-! alent of five hundred dollars, and the men are better for not accept- | ing charity. These were my first | three months in council. ,I en-| deavored then, and have done the | same ever since, to try-and let our | own taxpayers have the benefit of | the money spent in the village, alse to get for the property owners the full equivalent for every dollar spent. I think that any gentleman would withdraw such an accusation that I have been an advocate of lav- | ish expenditure of public money. Mr. Halliday is wrong when he! says I advocated placing 'debenture debts to the extent of thousands ot dollars. No sum of money was | ever mentioned. What I say is that | the people are looking for improve- | ments which we cannot afford at the | present rate of taxation, and had 1 stayed in council I belfeve the day would soon have arrived when I] would have brought this matter to | a climax by moving in council that | a public meeting be called at which | the reeve present to the people a de- | tailed explanation of the financial affairs of the village; also that the | reeve and councillors express their | individual opinion for or against such a scheme as debenture debts "and that the people at a future date be asked to express their opinion by | a voté-on--a-by-law-to-be arranged: This is not rushing the village inte | debt as Mr, Halliday would make | you think, but placing before the | people the facts concerning their | own business. I contend that if we | build roads and sidewalks, and take care of the surface water im | certain places, people would build | houses, but 'when we wait till a man builde a house in a mudhole and ex- pect him to be satisfied with a 2 x 4 sidewalk it will be @ long time be- fore there are suffici houses go- ing up to swell the village treasury by way of extra taxes. That old way of staying in the rut our forefathers made and expecting our offspring to do likewise is out of date. I am an advocate of municipal debentures as long as they are issu- ed with sound judgment spent with judiciousness and not sufficient to overwhelm a community. I be- | lieve that posterity would take a pride in helping to pay for improve- ments we may install, and which | they would also benefit by. I have! been in this village nine years, Mr. | Halliday, and let me say that some- | times the stranger that is within your gates sees more in a few years than some' natives may see in a lifetime. We all kmow 'the unique position of Portsmouth regarding Govern- ment institutions, and hard as it is, it cannot be remedied. However, It ought to be acknowledged that the major part of the roads touching these properties are maintained by these same institutions, the same applying to their lights, so that al- though Portsmouth does not re. iceive any revenue from said lands, yet they are not a financial burden to the Village, and it ought to be remembered that oftem they give us a helping hand in various ways, and from what I can seq if they were looked after right much more could be obtained. PROBS: --Thursday, fair and a little warmer. Mr. Halliday may think things will continue to prosper without my assistance. For the sake of the Vil- lage, I hope they do, but as actions speak louder than words, why did he not with pleasure accept my resignation instead of rejecting it. Furthermore, why was I not noti- fied of council decision in a busi ness like manner instead of having to find it out through the press sev- eral days after council had met? I thank you Mr. Editor for this space allowing me to defend myself. _Sierely yours, Ww. B. 'WELLER. . Belleviile Tax Rate. . Belleville, Aug. 22. -- The e¢ity council has effected an appreciable reduction in the general tax rate of A 1 1-10 mills. Last year it was 23 4-10 mills, and this year it is 22 3-10. The Coat and Wea Ses | August Lay- Away Sale! Those who find an irresistible appeal in New York Coats should not fail to visit our ready-to- wear section. Here are gathered, in all their beau- ty, the handsomest collection of Sport Coats and Wraps, in the season's most becoming styles, we have ever displayed. And everyone is offered at our Special August prices, with the lay-away Sale privilege of selecting any Coat with a 10% deposit. Come to-morrow and see the beauty of the season's ad- vance coat styles. You will be delighted with them, and amazed Sports Coats | Tailored Coats Priced from $25.00 to $42.50 Priced from $14.95 to $57.50 Developed in soft, All-Wool Included are many smartly Belted Coats with inverted | Velours, Duvetyn, Suedine, Marvella and other fabrics, Pleated Backs and straight line Coats of the tube styles--plaits | with soft crushable collars, in the new shades of Brown, and trimmed with Opposum and Raccoon. Sizes from 14 to | Taupe and Black. Sizes from 36 to 44. . 48. Novelty Wrap Coats The Silhouette is straight--tube like--with luxurious fur trimmings of dyed or natural squirrel, wolf, fox, lynx, oppos- sum or beaver, developed in such rich, velvety, new materials as Marvella, Jerona, Velmara, Uniona and others of lustrous beauty. The shades most favored by fashion are Black, Navy and the soft wood shades of Brown. These, with an occasion- al dash of bright color, make up what is sanctioned as being correct. Lengths vary from 46 to 50 inches. The sleeves and collars for the new season are outstanding features, Sizes range from 16 to 48, *45.00 10 *200.00 ea.' | Six Hundred Coats and Wraps to make a choice from, at prices that defy all competi: tion. Weinvite comparison!