Footwear or Easter Select Your Shoe Re- quirements Early. This year offers a style prominence in footwear never before ' equalled. We are ready with a complete range of sprin shoes in all styles. You'll like them. The Sawyer Shoe Store sessammmmmmnres 71 | Ne VERRS "HE SUFFERED "Fruit-a-tres" Made Him Foul "As If Walking On Ai Omnia, Oxr., Nov. 28th. 1914, | "For over two years, I was troubled with Constipation, Drowsiness, Lack of Appetite and Headaches. Oneday Isaw your sign which read "JFruit-a-tives 'make you feel like walking on air." This appealed to me, so I decided to try a box. In a very short time, I began to feel better, and mow 7 fee! fine, Ihave agood appetite, relish everything I eat, and the Headaches are gone entirely. I recommend this pleasant [fruit medicine to all my friends "', GROCERIES, MEATS, and PROVISIONS C. H. PICKERING 490-492 Princess Street. ' * * Phone 530. RR, There is at present but one prison- erin the county jail at Toronto and he an elderly man with a wooden leg, in on a vagrancy charge for the winter, : ASK YOUR GROCER FOR CHARM TEA . IN PACKAGES. Black, Green and Mixed. Packed in King- ston, by GEO. ROBERTSON & SON, Limited. > , N WOMEN SENT BACK T0 CANADA AN INTERESTING. NARRATIVE ¥ WHEN THE FACTS ARE DISCLOS- ED AFTER THE WAR. 80 Great Was the Rush of Applicants that the Authorities Were Forced _to Waive Restrictions. London, April 7.--When it is pos- sible to write it, the story of Cana- dian women and children in England, who would have been better off in their own counyry, and their depar- ture from hefe, will prove one the most interesting narratives the war, For they returned to the Dominion, as the result of a great effort on the part of the Canadian and British authorities. Hundreds '¢f! women who had come to look upon their residence here as one of the sacrifices of tire war, will sooh be treading the streets of Canadian cities. So great was the clamor for return, that the authorities, who bad intended to re- strict the party, finally let them all of of |, NEWS FRO TE DISTRICT Peterborough on May 24th and 25th. William Ashley died at his home, Marmora at the age of eighty-three years, The PeterBoro Board of Trade has been revived with J. J. Turner as president: The death Fitzgibbons, a former Maitland. Miss Bernice Smith, Almonte, has secured a position in the Civil Ser- vice, Ottawa. " H. 8. Moffatt, J. P. of Jasper, has been appointed a notary for Leeds and Grenville, A young son ' of Mr. and Mrs. George Flegg.died at Smith's Falls last Wednesday. T. A: S. Hay, Peterboro, passed away on Wednesday, He was a for- mer city engineer, » Denis McCarthy has sold his farm near Franktown to J, H. Burchill, along with the stock. Alfred Rounds and "Miss Helen pHayes, Brockville, were married in Ogdensburg on March 19th. occurred of William resident of on Monday after a brief illness. He was a son of David Brown, Front of Sidney. Pr Alex. Snedden has sold his farm on the seventh line of Ramsay to Mr. Somerville, and has bought a house in Ottawa, After a lingering and incurable go. . Among the women were the wives of soldiers who had been . staying with English relatives, others in less fortunate circumstances, and a num- ber of wealthy women who had come over here full of zeal for war work but who did not fit in. It was a mot- ley crowd from every point of view and the authorities had a gigantic task. However, it was done, and when it is permissible to tell howt ,i will make a mighty interesting story. Prevention of Waste, Many thousands of bushels of oats are lost annually due to the ravages of smut , This waste can be largely eliminated by proper treatment of seed. Secure one pint of formalin for every twenty to thirty bushels of oats required for seed purposes. Dilute with forty-two gallons \ of water, and use a barrel in which the bags of grain may be immersed for twenty minutes. Spread out to dry, and then place in new bags or in bags that have been treated in a sim- New Issue "$2,000,000 PROVINCE OF MANITOBA Calls 5% Gold Bonds DATED 18ST APRIL, 1917 DUE 18T APRIL, 1022 Interest and Principal payable in gold in New York. Legal opinion J. B. Clarke, K.C Denomination $1,000 These bonds are a direct and primary obligation of the Province of Manitoba, and are payable from its general revenue. FINANCIAL STATEMENT Estimated value of Total Hunded Debt Provinetal Assets property mutiicipally assessed $723,461,000 31,366,273 68,670,382 Price: 97.84 and Interest Yielding 53% "WOOD, GUNDY & COMPANY Montreal Canadian Pacific Railway Building TORONTO | ; -New York " 0 8 000001 ee . Everyone will admire them three times a day--shining, spotless dishes. - 100000 Woe 1s A 0 © AI veloute of ilar manner and thoroughly dried, thus preventing _ re-contamination. The adoption of these two sugges- tions would mean millions of bushels of grain extra with practically no appreciable extra labor, The Late Mrs. H. F. Pickering. The funeral F. Pickering t afternoon from Nelson "street. the doughter of the late EHjah Veale, whose death took place last December. She was 'a member of Bethel Congregational church for a number of years, and will be greatly missed by a wide circle of friends who knew of her kind and loving Christian 'character. , = Besides her sorrowing husband she leaves seven 'brothers and three sisters: Harold, Gordan and William, Kingston; John, of Watertown, N.Y.: Elijah, of Stamford, Conn.; Ross and Her- WwW. G Mrs. T. W. .; and Evelyn ' The funeral service was conduect- ed by Rev. D. Laing and Rev. T. de Courcy Raynor and was largely attended. The floral tributes were Bumerous and beautiful, showing] the esteem in which The Late Mrs. Joseph McGrath. Kathleen Sullivan, wife of Joseph McGwath, Mount Chesniéy, passed away on Thursday after a short ill- . d He Roman' Catholic church, Cushen- all, ? | tie Late Miss G. McCormick. Gertrude McCormick, the twenty- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCormick, 38 Ellis street. passed away at 3 a.m. Saturday after a twelve hours' illness. -------------- Russia Releases rrespondent says: The vernment visional ) , vernment it 'an injustice to imprison only offence is fidelity. a elt ie he tink- was 'a member ofl si illness. Mrs. Samuel Percival, Bur- ritt's Rapids, passed to her eternal rast on Sunday. John Cunningham, Arnprior, is preparing to build a large business block adjoining his block on the old Grand Union site. At a meeting of the Sidney council, W. H. Nobe, Wallbridge, was - pointed clerk' in' the place of the late A.M. Chapman, 'George Hoag and family, Trenton, will soon be leaving for Toronto where Mr. Hoag has been transferr- ed to the C.N.R. staff. Frank and Farrand Hall have bought out the extensive hardware business of N. Turner & Son, Corn- wall, and taken charge, Deseronto will likely seek to have the Grand Trunk railway pass through that burg, {It would only have a diverge a little bit. John Dunton Sharman, a Can- adlan infantry officer, was fined twenty pounds for registering in a London hotel under a false name. John Gore, going from Ottawa to Trenton was stricken and taken to Smith's Falls hospital where he died. His home was in Watertown, N.Y. The engagement is announced of Miss Mary McDonald to Walter Daniel Dutton, both of Frankville, the marriage to take place in April. Mrs. A J. M, Kennedy, Williams- town, sues the C.P.R. to recover un- stated damages for the death of James Kennedy. : She sues on her own behalf and for five children. John W. Barber. Belleville, died bn Saturday, a sufferer from pneu- monia, 'He was born in 1846 and was an expert horseman, He was an Anglican and a Conservative. A widow and two children survive, A quiet wedding took place on in Havelock when Miss Bertha Bryans was united in mar- riage to Lieut, Theodore (Barney) Quinn, of the 247th Battalion, Peter- borough. : : T. E. Provins,; Deseronto, died March 6th, Ho_Was Manager of the Rathborpe farm, He is survived by a wife and five children. He was a Methodist, a Conservative and an Orangeman, : At the special meeting of the Brockville Council, a resolution was passed accepting the offer of St. Peter's church to sell Victoria Park for $5,000, Frank Edwards, arrested. a week ago for stealing an overcoat belong- ing to an Eldorado resident, attend- ing Grand Orange Lodge, in Belle- ville, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. » On Tuesday April 3rd, at the Pri- vate Patients' Pavilion, Toronto Gen- eral Hospital, - 'Helen The mgterfal for the Fulford Me- maorial Fountain to be erected on the Brockville Court House re, is ready for shipment. The work of erecting the fountain will be darted about April 16th. : quiet Welding took place at kville, when Rev. W. A." Ham- ilton united in marriage Flos- 3 , daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Elmer Hutt, and Percy A. Spicer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Spice, ! Tr. ate James Drain, 247th Bat- ion, appeared re A Dumble, Peterboro, and pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy. In view of the fact that he may shortly . J Neilson, for years a | teacher in 'the Kindergarten class in St. Andrew's Sunday School, Smith's Falls, was presented with A putse of gold and a very kind re Hostages, don, 7 were 1vagon April 7.-~Reuter's Petro- to the Queen'gMniversity Highland- pare JLB, Hicks, wife of Dr. H. E. at Br endent of th 1 mom Mamitona. Jie or oe Grant H. Brown, aged eleven, died | EE a -- PETRIE | CUNARD LINE 1 » - + assenger Service . Between Montreal and London (Calling Falmouth to land passengers) For particulars of sailings and rates apply to local agents or to The Robert Reford Co. Limited, General Agents, 50 King Street Eas!, Toronto. tion The price make the a pair put on-- black or choco- late--at shoe stores or shoe repairers, a proof of quality . on new shoes LN EM L BRANCH TIME TABLE In-effect Jan. 14th, 1017.. Trains will leave and arrive at © Depot, foot of Joh street. bis GOING 1 eo Noi Matt . 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