THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1024. Shake Your Winter Cold -- All Yield to Dr. Hickey's Treatment The Speedy Relief For All Coughs The chest rub for all heavy chest colds and congestion. THE SPEEDY COLD ! CAPSULES for head colds and all forms of Grippe. Each 25¢. or 75¢. for full treatment. Made by: L.T. Best * Druggist Phone 59. lt VR RY FOR SAL Batemans Real Estate $1,000--Frame, 6 rooms, electric light, B. & T. rame, 4 rooms, electric light, B. & T. $3,000---Frame, 6 rooms, im- provemnts. -3 to choose from. : $3,600--Frame, 7 rooms, im- provements. Choice of 3. $4,000 Each--Double brick, 3-plece bath, electric light. $6,000---Brick, all -improve= "ments, University avenue. $6,5600---S8tucco, 7 rooms, all improvements. $7,000---Brick, 10 rooms, all mod- Houses to rent, $20 and $25. Im- provements. Money to loan. 136 Wellington Street, I | { } | | Spoons, : Spreaders, etc., at | this attractive | discount. HALF PRICE We are offering about 10 dozen. Forks and a few dozen other pieces, such as Butter This Flatware is in one of the Best | Standard Makes of Silver Plate, { the range of .which has i ! become | plece is fully guaranteed. broken. This is a real opportun- | ity for any ome needing | such articles, particularly | hotels or boarding houses. Each | | | | ! { Now Is The Time For Heaters Electric Heaters with Cord to fit any socket--$5.00, $6.50, and $10.00. Gas Heaters $3.00, $8.50, $10 and $25.00. Special Morning Star, $3.00. Coal Oil Heaters, $8.00. 20% sale on Enamelware this month. McKelvey & Birch, Limited etree , 5s THE DAILY BRITISH WHI Universities of the Middle Ages, Perhaps some day you will go to | college. I hope so. Universities help our minds to grow. I wish that every boy and every girl could have the joy and profit of college life, In the Middle Ages, there were fered in many ways from. those of today. The most famous university was at Paris. Thousands of students | gathered there, coming from Italy, | Germany and England, as well as from France, In Germany, a great university was located at Cologne. The first noted English university was started at Oxford. It was larg2ly | copied after the University of Paris, Some students were as young as 12 or 13. Others were old enough to have beards on their faces. At Oxford, the barbers had a rule that each student should pay a penny a shave. An English penny is worth about two cents in American money. { That seems a low price, when we MET RS '| WHY THE WEATHER? DR. CHARLES F. BROOKS Secretary, American Meteorological Society, Tells How. Regions cool enough to attract the summer vacationist can often also meet the requirements of the lover of winter sports. The St. Lawrence | alley is noted for its abundant snow. | drought universities, but ot course they dif-]: | i # Seals of Oxford and Cambriugu | | «By UncleRay think of what: barbers charge now- | adays. . { Barbers were in the habit of com- | | ing to the rooms of Oxford students | to do the shaving. Their visits were | | 'weekly. I do not know how much | was charged for hair-cuts. Very like- | iy they were 'thrown in free" to! regular shaving customers.' Some students seem to have let An Ox- { must | { their hair grow very long. ford rule said that students | Keep their hair from covering their ears! i Most of the teaching at universities was 'done by means of leetures. Sometimes the teachers asked ques- tions after their talks. This was to see whether the students had listen- | ed carefully. | Students often befame angry with | the way things were run at tte uni- | versities. Taen they were likely to! leave town by the hundreds. Per- | maps they would start a new univer- sity elsewhere. . The great university at Cambridge, ! England, is said to have been set up | by Oxford students and teachers who | Winter Weather in Eastern Canada, [Wudge noticed that the prisoner, an left the older school in anger. WORE JUDGE'S SHIRT. A Silk One on Man Arranged For Larceny. | Ogdensburg, N.Y., Jan. 31.-- 4 When, Edward McDonald, was ar- | raigned here Saturday morning be- fore Recorder Edwin Fitzgerald, the | unkempt fellow, wore a eilk shirt that was stolen about two montns ago from the Fitzgerald family clothes line. McDonald was before the judge origin. | G PROBS: -- Friday, cloudy, little lower temperature, light snowfalls. fall which reaches an average of 10 ally to answer a charge of larceny feet a winter in some regions. More- | CONCerning part of a motor boat over, its winter climate is, in some | Stolen from a boathouse of Osweg- respects, an equable one, for it lacks {atchie Yacht Club. When questioned th; excessive cold usually associated . the prisoner admitted stealing twe with regions which are ice-bound ; | and snow-bound five months of the year, while at the same time winter warm spells are rarely sufficiently | pronounced to make travelling un | comfortable either from softness un- { der oot or from too much warmth ! tn winter clotling. In fact, the win. | ter climate of eastern Canada is of- | ten the subject of enthusjastic com- | ment on the part of visitors. shirts from the recorder and taking | other clothes from various hanging Places, McDonald's wife is now serving time in Canton jail for the theft of @ cape at the armory, ------ eit Concert at Elphin. Elphin, Jan. 30.--In spite of the storm that raged, a large crowd at- tehded the concert held in Elphin 1881-1924 | | g yi | Our business year ends to-day--January 31st A Pledge of Greater Service for the New Business Year THIS store ever looks forward. What it may or may not have accomplished in the past, has no bearing on what it may do in the future. LOOKING towards the new business year, we have every confidence it will be the greatest test of our career, but you will not find us wanting. THE Steacy reputation for quality, with consistently low- est prices possible, is built on the solid rock of de- pendibility, for the merchandise offered must give satisfaction. SEES hall, Friday evening last. The pro- 1 - gramme consisted of songs, recita- | tions, drills, dialogues and instru- mes tal music. The people of Dons General Contractors, Heating Specialists, Steam Fitters and Plumbers, Jobbers of Plumbers' and Gas-Fitters' Supplies, Stoves, | Shelf, Heavy aad House Furnishing Hardware, Tools, Ofls, Bert Supplies, Sheet Metal and Tia Work; Kilectric work; Painting and Paper Hanging. Special World Champion Milk Cow < Is Killed at Brockville WE -- Steacy's Limited--believe in Kingston, as attested work of all uadertaken. | Mahogany Bedroom Suite, Dresser, Chif- 'fonier, Dressing Table and Bed--regu- lar $155.00. 3... ... cern. $105.00 ° | genuine Walnut Bed and Chiffonierto match, Reg. $140.00. } price, $70.00 --These are extra good values. 6 high grade Cotton Mattresses $18 and $19 | present & memorandum asking for as You Toshard Brockville, Jan. 31.---~May Echo Sylvia, queen of cows, and holder of tion from one day to 120 days, was despatched yesterday at the age of 156 years by Dr. Waghorn, veterin- ary attached to the staff of Avondale Farm, to the herd of which she be- longed, The animal was said to have outlived her usefulness. The records which she set up for milk produc- tion have never been beaten, ' and one of her sons sold at auction in Milwaukee some years ago for the sum of $106,000. She was owned by Hon. Senator Hardy. British Minister to Turkey, the world's record for milk produc- | aldson played the most important part of the programme, with the young yeople in the dialogue itled "The Train For Ompah Sidirg." It was amusing to all. Then they came in a darkie drill and acted out what the people think, say-and do In love, diplomacy end style. The grown- ups met in a dialogue entitled "The Mock Trial" with R. Sergeant as judge, John Morrow as court squire with Messrs Sproule and Trombely taking the parts of lawyers for the plaintiff and defendant. Evidence was given by Jack Ryder and five young ladles taking their parts on the stage as outstanding stars. Oak Flats Notes. London, Jan. 31.--Hon. Ronald, Charles Lindsay, fifth ton of the Earl of Crawford, has been appoint- el minister from Great Britain to Turkey. He has been an under-sec- retary at the foreign office: since 1921. \ i A large and representative aetega- tion will this week visit Ottawa and the improvement of Port Dover har- Got Indigestion? Nothin discord quicker than an attack of indigestion, creates jomestic 1 Pair of Spring With Each Mattress We Will Give FREE log Harris Co.lid | || your husband and nothing gots rid of ind ion {ck than rated Magnesia No man can be sweet tempered, good nat- ured «¢' even fair minded when his stomach is constantly sick, sour, Fuser: and upset with after-eating distress. nd has stomach trouble fei- ther scold nor 1 him, but hel; i that As a supply Oak Falls, Jan. 23.--Hauling pulp and getting up wood seems to be the order of the day. A number from here attended the quarterly meet- ing at Verona on Sunday. John Bartsch, who has been spending the last two weeks with his brother, has returned home, accompanied by Miss Reta Bartsch. George Smith, Par- 'ham, spent the week-eiid at R. Bot- ting's, Charles and Miss Lila Knox spent Sunday at 8S. Drader's. Miss Hylda Drader, who has been visiting | friends around Ottawa and Carleton Place, has returned home. Miss Sia- .| clair spént the week-end at 3. Percy's On Thursday last a number of young folks gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Bush. The even- ing was spent in card playing ane dancing. The sum of $300,000 will have to thousands to neu stom EE ERE le LE by the recent erection of our new addition. We are proud of this city's past and we forsee for it a great future. IT is deeply gratifying to us, and perhaps interesting to you, that we increased our volume of sales over last year. We are fully aware that it is the hearty sup- port of the people of this city and vicinity that made possible this splendid showing against adverse busi: ness condition. AND so we wish to express our heartfelt thanks to you, our customers, and to pledge to you a store of great- "er service. during the coming year--and ever after- wards | ;