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@ » . § i c-- THE DRYDEN OBSRVRS Large Shipment of MERCHANDISE Floating Face ~~ Aflame Film Stunt Astounds AT LOWER PRICES - PAPER COVERED NOVELS, AND BOUND BOOKS, Including many titles by Zane Grey, Eg Just Received. EASTER COMES ON APRIL FOURTH | RTS CROCKERY AND CHINA Our Last Week's Sale Price Still Holds Good Everything must go at Greatly Reduced Prices A Good Assortment of Candy Boxes, DUCKS, CHICKS, & RABBITS. to choose from, @ ............. Three Assortments 5c., 10c. & 15¢. NEW We have just received a splendid assortment of PLAIN & FANCY FIGURED VOILS -- LUSTER CREPES, FUGI SILK CREPE DE CHINES, SATINS PAILETTES, GINGHAMS Plain & Fancy Striped BROADCLOTHS etc., etc. Balph J. Pronger DRESS MATERIALS Gaston Leroux, author of "The Phantom of the Opera," coming March 18 and 19 to the Strand Theatre, who is known as the master mystery monger of France has crowded his weird tale with countless bits of ingenious decep- tion that amaze and thrill. Not the least of these is the face of fire that comes floating for- ward through the black filth cel- lar of the great Paris Opera House the vast vaulted caverns of which were actually built underground for the flming of the massive movie spectacle at Universal City. The singular apparition remains a baffling mystery until the prog- NEW CLOTH- nl IE------ closes the device with surprise, sharp * The filming of this and other parts of the famous story is ac- complished with such genius as to make the tale 'come true." Art ress of the gripping theme dis- & science played important parts in 'making the best of a great novel. Lon Chaney, as the Phantom, fis the star in this production. He is supported by Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry and an enormous cast. Lent is Here We Have a Full Line of FRESH FISH Special Prices RUBBER ROOFING. BLACK COD Slaete-SURFACED ROOFING. HALIBUT SALMON SHINGLES. WHITE FISH -- FILLETS TAR PAPER. EP PERED HIFRRING Heavy & Light Sheathing Paper. INSULATION. Choice Line of Canned Fish PILCHARDS SALMON HERRING LOBSTER C. James Wright FULL STOCK OF CLAMS BUILDERS' SUPPLIES. SHRIMPS Phone | 0. WINEErDOLEOM No. 49 WOOD & COAL DEALER The Store that Supplies Household FENAMELWARE, Every Headquarters for C.X.L. EXPLOSIVES Pratts STOCK FOODS and REMEDIES. ELECTRIC FIXTURES and SUPPLIES. Just Received-- NEW SHIPMENT OF OUR SPECIAL ELECTRIC BULBS 25, 40 and 60 WATT Sizes At TWENTY-FIVE These are money savers at this price: need New Bulbs. New Stock of SIMMON'S BEDS and BEDDING. Now on View. Need ALUMINUM TINWARE WASH TUBS BOILERS, PAILS. ~ Complete Stock of BUILDING SUPPLIES TOOLS PAINTS and GLASS. CENTS Each Try some next time you McClary's HEATERS STOVES and RANGES Our Specialty. | 17]3]26 | cre and There Southern holiday resorts received | 2 setback when the Quarter Million Dollar Club of the Canada Life As- surance Company, of Toronto, de- | cided to substitute Quebec City for "Miami as the place of meeting of | their Convention this winter. Ice statues have been erected ia many of the quaint old streets of A huge dog, carved out of y ice, with a stick of candy in his * Quebec. mouth, is one of the sights in fromg | | of a confectioner's, while another is an immense polar bear, in life-like form. About 130,000 young apple trees will be planted in the famous Anna- polis Valley, Nova Scotia, next spring, it is expected. Good com- mercial varieties of apples will ime clude Ganos, Baldwins, Spys, Kings, Wagners and Gravensteins. According to the provincial apiar- ist, the value of honey, wax and other products of the hive in Que- bec in 1925 amounted to $2,395,558. More than 1,100 new apiculturists were registered during the yeap, | bringing the total to 7,729, possess. ing 100,155 colonies of bees. In recognition of his heroic action when he rescued a lady from being crushed under a tramcar, Tammaro, clerk and stenographer i® the Investigation Department of the Canadian Pacific Raliway, has been presented with a certificate of the Royal Canadian Humane Associe- tion. A new record was created at the port of Montreal in 1925, both in the arrival of trans-Atlantic' vessels and in the amount of tonnage. Last sep son 1,040 vessels, representing a net tonnage of 4,744,793 entered the port. In 1924 there were 988 w@B- sels with net tonnage of 3,597,147. A magnificent silver dish, twenty inches in diameter, presented by King Emmanuel of Portugal to the famous explorer Vasca da Gama im 1499, in recognition of the latter's discovery of the sea route to India, attracted much attention while om exhibition in the downtown offices ef the Canadian Pacific Railway im Montreal. On the night of January 14 the oldest wing of the Chateau Frea- tenae at Quebec was destroyed by fire, and within 24 hours a start had heen made on the work of re-build- 'ne. President Beatty, of the Cana- '¢'an Pacific, says the new wing will s:ill further enhance the beauty ef amous structure and thaf 18 will Le 100 per cent. fireproof. i {ea "ors and educationalists frora onrts of the Old Country gath- in London recently to discuss ie. hods of teaching and suggested sprovements of bringing up young- tors the way they should go. Among who spoke were Sir Gilbert rzor, the famous Canadian writers Svdney Low, Imperial Publicist, : Dr. Stevens, President of the Tlead Masters' Association. As a tribute to over forty-sim vars of service with the Canadian Pacific Railway, George Rollin, whe retired on New Year's Day under nension arrangements after holding the position of yard agent at the Plyce Viger Station since May, 1900, was presented with a purse of gold. "he presentation was made at a ner at the Windsor Station res- gaurant. Nr. John Leslie has been appoint- ed vice-president and comptroller the Canadian Pacific Railway. "he new vice-president joined the Toronto, Gray and Bruce Railway in 1877 as a junior clerk attached to the auditer's office. When the road was taken over by the C P.R. he was made chief clerk and by 1914 had advanced to the position of comm- troller. Since March, 1918, he has been in entire charge of the coms pany's accounting departments. HUDSON, Feb. 9.--Two aeroplanes operating between here and Red Lake crashed in attempting te make a land- ing there. One of them returned here his morning and reported the accident. FARM FOR SALE. FARM for Sale or Rent, being the S 14 of Lot 6, Con. 3, Eton Twp, 160 acres, thirty under cultivation, balance pulpwood and lumber. 6-roomed, 1-storey House, good well, with stone crib and pump; log stable. Or will exchange for house and lot in town. For pat- ticulars apply to BEN BRIGNALL, Sr. Oxdrift, Ont. EN . For Sale MAXWELL TOURING CAR--In First Class Condition. Run about 7000 miles. 5 oversize Cord Tires. Shock Absorbers. Spot Light and other extra oWeBerBed rs? Sa WAS Equipment. WL asl os Turns re Spy RE EE HEE o VERA TERR TUBE RADIO SET TUBE RADIO SET Portable 'Tubes, Tubes, Batteries Storage Batteries Ear Phones & Loud Speaker $50.00 & "B" Batteries Ear Phones, Loud Speaker $35.00 Willard's Storage "B" Battery Chargers Other Radio Sets & Accessories on hand. Also a number of Globelite Storage Batteries At Snap Prices AT PRICES TO CLEAR OUTTHESE WILL BE ALL {OLD A. G. Ripley, Dryden 'All the Latest and Newest Materials Josepla | for Spring Wear Including-- BEROADCLOTHS VOILES CREPES FOULARDS GINGHAMS And CTHERS LL : SPECIAL FOR THIS WE EK-END vy BEEF SAUSAGES, per ... .I ROLLED POT ROAST ... .15 BONELESS STEW BEEF wn two'llb for... i. 5h case 25 BOLOGNA perth... uu... .15 B.C.SATMON, perth ...... .25 4 : BL BALIDUT, perp os Phone No. 6 A. PATERSON, Prop - In THE Coie BLOCK ERIE ALOE SON Jryden wa Cn Successors to Anderson & Harris. BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS FULL STOCK OF LUMBER. SASH & DOORS SHINGLES, WCOD FIBRE BRICK, LIME AND CEMENT Estimates Freely Given Sik in AEROPLANE S0DA JoIsvTs 35¢c. per packet. vi AR bi SR i A SPECIALS FOR ONE WEEE-- 27 From the 13th, to the 1gth. FEED OATS, $1.75 for 100 pounds. a BALED HAY, $14.50 per ton, PALM OLIVE TOILET SOAP, Three for 2sc COMFORT SOAP, Four Bars for '235c WHOLE BARLEY, 100-tbs, $1.75 CASH Must Come With Order. LA FOR ONE DAY ONLY--MONDAY, 15th-- 4-1b tins, PURE RASPBERRY JAM .......... .69 a TURE STRAWBERRY JAN... ....0.. 77 line ARTTOOT od a ho a acs 73 COMPOUND TAM, 2 h ting, coir ennnnnoin. 43 Food, White BEANS, pet db oo... overt isnns 6% CARNATION MILE twodlr ovis. ee i di .25 BREAD theese loaves $07. cn tou bl iss tides o'sds .25 SHELLED WALNUTS, Fresh Stock, perib .....39 spot okok ok O. H. PRONGER, Proprieto:.