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MlLLlNERV SEE THE PLUMS. dthli STAB 000000060”. 0â€": -. 7” FOR STYLE AND ECONOMY ‘l’arties buying Flour or Feed in quantities would do To THE FARMERS W" off till wanted. the times. THUS. RDBSDN, FENELON FALLS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ed will govern themselves accordingly._ W. T. JUNKIN, The Fenelon Falls Gazette. The New Town of “Dryden.” Paint? 3 Paint '9? é; «um, Paint. ? ? ? t g, ' e, That is the Euestloii? Whether it is better in the end to suffer the sorrows and disappoint- ments that poor paint will bring, or at the start provide the best that can be bought and end it there. " o ‘ There is but one best, and that is: {HE SHERWIII-WILLIMIS PAINT. With Paint you will need Brushes and perhaps Varnishes. v These ;. and all Painters’ Supplgimgto be found ctf ‘ J 03. Heard’s, , The Old Hardware Store. he undertook the opening of the Wabi and is in great demand. peeted. WED: Go to- Him. Campbell, who has the largest, best assorted, most stylish and cheapest stock of ors at ” boom ,, prices_ , ' Dryden, will be read with interest :â€" 1u town. Come early and Dear Sir :â€" parenily none of it was winter killed. On the 18th and 19th we had some cold Weather which checked its growth bad. ly. The clover is commencing to grow again, and I cannot find any of it killed or heaved out. There are now only two lots for sale in Dryden. Three repre- sentatives of English capital from Aus- tralia and S. Africa have purchased lots, two of whom, and perhaps the third, will build and make their headquarters there this year. The undersigned beg to announce to their numerous T here “1'0 PM”? 0“ laboring men customers and the public generally that their new hereâ€"“mm” man-V “m” the summer ) D ‘ . .‘ ' l 1 ‘. . . work commences. Five cars of settlers’ \OllLl Floui Mill 1s now completed, and grinding mght effects arrived here yesterday and m, Our Opening takes place every day- Hid MES. _â€"â€" and day. The machinery throughout of the- most y more areexpected to-day. The pepu. i ofthe two “band mills” ordered from lation of Dryden and vicinity is probably the same firm a fortnight 3.20 is nearly finished, both of them will be at. tho I are a lot waiting to buy towu lots as l Falls in 'a couple of weeks, and all the , machinery will arrive as fast as it will i modern pattern, and the quality of the output second to none in Ontarlo. Special attention given togrtstmg 300 or 300' ‘nclu'l'ni‘ V'S'm‘s' “cm :illtl chopping. “’0 pay Lindsay prices for wheat and ism," as more "0 surveyed The ,1“. Of the surrounding vicin- ity. If your Machines should need repairing, or if you should want any repairs, or new mould boards or steel land sides on your ploughs, COME EARLY, and don’t put If you think of purchasing a good Pea Harvester, Hay Fork, or any other imple- ment, give ROBSON a call, and you will get them at prices to meet that the Assessment Roll for 1897 for the village of Fenelon Falls was returned on May 3rd by the Assessor, and is now on file at the office of the Clerk. Parties interest- Feuelou Falls, May 6th, ’97. Clerk. Friday, May 7th, 1897. When Ontario’s Minister of Agricul- ture, Hon. John Dryden, first undertook to establish his pioneer farm near Lake Wabigoon, eighty miles east of Rat Portage on the C. P. It, few would have predicted that within two years we should see. three townships taken up by Settlers at that point. Probably Mr. Dryden himself is as surprised as any- one that the development should have been so rapid. In this, as in every- thing else he has undertaken, Mr. Dry- den has evinced his usual good judg- meat; but he has been assisted by the tide of events. It. was very fortunate goon country just at. the time when the wonderful mineral richness of North- western Ontario was beginning to at- tract hundreds to the district. Gold mining is fast becoming a booming in- dustry, and every foot of agricultural land has received an enhanced value The town site of Dryden, lying oppo- site the Government Farm, was laid Eout last summer. The lots in the first survey are all sold, an additional block ofland is now being added, and the town promises to become a place of con- .siderabiy more importance than was ex- Confusion exists in the minds ofsome regarding “ Dryden ” and “ Wabigoon,” about thirteen. miles distant at the east- ern end of Lake Wabigoon. It should be understood that there is no connec- tion between the two places, as the name might lead one to suppose, and in con- nection with the latter the Government assumes no responsibility whatever. We are informed that town lots in Dry- den are sold at reasonable prices to actual settlers only, and not to speculat- Such is. the desire for information rc- gard-ing the locality that the following ’ letter from the farm superintendent, a copy of which has been sent us by Mr. Dryden 1’. 0., April 24, 1897. The fall wheat came through the winter in good style; ap- More Bye-Openers. Some of our readers may wonder why we refer so often to departmental stores. Our reason for doing so is an antipathy to them based upon the firm belief that they are an injury to the community, and that their success, so far, is the result of deceiving the people and not of giving them better value than they can obtain elsewhere. To every man who knows the keen compe- tition that has existed for many years between manufacturers of and whole- sale and retail dealers in all kinds of merchandise, it. is self evident that on bargain days in the departmental stores many articles are either sold at a loss-â€" which less has to be made up by an inordinate profit on other salesâ€"or are not what they are believed by the pur- chaser to be. The member of the To- ronto Star staff, who is conducting the war against the big stores, went through one of them on a recent “ bargain day," and this is what he says about his trip: “ What I did discover was that the big ads were simply big lies. They professed to tell of big bargains, when there was not a bargain in the whole liSt. There may be days, in fact there are days, when a bargain is thrown in as the bait to catch the suckers, if I may be allowed to express myself in the picturesque phraseology of the depart- mentad.-smith. But yesterday, appar- ently, was not one of them, for the bargain mania has now taken such a deep hold on certain people that it is not even necessary to put a real live fat bait on the hook every succeeding Fri- day. Onc good-sized bait answers now for several weeks. And so it happened that Thursday’s ads for Friday's bar- gains were like old Zadkiel’s weather predictions, nearly all lies, and I ean prove it.” The writer says that the “regular price ” marked on an article was in every instance false, while the selling price was the same as in ordinary stores; and he furthermore declares that,on the day he visited the departmental store, fifteen cents per yard was the selling price marked on certain pieces of dress goods from which a few yards were actually sold the previous Friday atfivc cents per yard. The very same goods were marked in plain figures in a regu lar dry goods store at ten cents a yard, which was the fair price, and not 25 cents, as the lying advertisements said. ' Last week we gave an eye-opener, regarding seeds, from the Star, and since then it has furnished us with sev- eral others. Alleged sarsaparilla, sold at a departmental store at less than half the regular price, was analyzed and found to be worth about five cents a gallon, and to contain not the slightest trace of sarsaparilla ; watches really worth $31 are sold at the “ very special price, $39.40, much lower than sold by jewellers”; fancy prices are put on old wall papers, which are then marked down to “bargain” figures; tea worth 12 cents a pound is sold at 25 cents. and bogus baking powder, made of ammonia, phosphates and ground starch, is sold at 10 cents per poundâ€"less than one-third. of the actual cost of the gen- uine article, which is composed of cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda. Other instances of' the methods of doing busi- ness at the departmental stores are given, and if the facts brought to light by the Star were generally known the fake establishments would soon have to close their doors. The New Mill. The work of clearing away the debris of the old mill was not commenced until the 9th of April, and Mr. Thom- SOn is justly proud of the extraordinary progress that has been made, as many of the timbers of the top story are already up, and it is expected that all the framing will be finished within a fortnight from now. The new mill will run east and west, and will consist ofa main body 57 x 110 feet, with. two wings, each 38 x 42 feet, on the south side, all three stories high, and about 35 feet from the ground to the caves. It will be boarded and battened and painted with the brown mineral paint commonly used for the outsides of near- ly all buildings cxccpt dwelling houses. Last Friday Mr. Thomson went to Peterborough, where he was joined next day by Mr. Wright, and they left an order with the William Hamilton Mau- ufacturing Co. for all the shafting that will be needed in.the new mill. One coarse grams, of which we want an unlimited quantity. l min is running night and day and cuu~l he wanted. There are about twenty--i llnles and skins, Furs. Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, etc., bought i not furnish “amber 3“ fast as it is need- ’ 5'70 “190 Workmg "‘ “'0 "1"“ and SW10 ‘ ending April 30th, 1897, 3362 volume. and sold. A-rents for the Canada Carriag- l - led- B"‘"dl“"'b°r Shiphps‘m behad ~ o .,e Company. , ,0, ab...“ $1650. and n. c; ccdarshin- [ gl'es at $2.73. Our stores are reason- ‘able. I have sown clever on the fall wheat. The land will not be ready for ‘ McDougall, Brandon & Austinrrmma. wall to write us for quotations before purchasing. of them are busy rcplankiog the flames, in order to let in water as soon as pos- . Bible and resume work in the box fuc- tory and planing mill, both of' which had to be shut down some time ago. There are eight water wheels, all ofl which are in good order, butthc one- put in to run the third band saw in be old mill will not be needed. T3“ a- ther so far has been very invertible, most of the rain that has fallen having come in the night, and if the work can he proceeded with as rapidly as it has been since it was commenced, it is probable that the will will be entirely finished by the middle of July. Skunks. This is the time of year at which the odorifcrous skunks usually invade th.) village, and two of them have been cap- tured and killed within the past few days. One was trapped and shot. at Mrs. Wallace's on Bond street east, per- fuming the whole neighborhood before he expired; and the other was put an end to by Mr. Mctcalfe, whose house is so near ours that we are mighty glad the skunk didn't think of venting its indignation until too late to do any harm. On Saturday last Mr. Metcalfc- put a batch of eggs under a hen,and the next morning they were all' gone. on Sunday night, after dark, he set (A?) musk-rat traps close to the stable, an 1 about half an hour later there was a- cat in one and asknuk in the other. The cat was at once liberated, but the skunk wasn’t; and how to execute it without unpleasant consequences was a problem which, after long consideration, was triumphantly solved by Mr. Met- calfe, his brother and a neighbor. .good-sized hole about two feet deep was dug and a huge forkl'ul of stable manure placed beside it; the skunkâ€"which ap- peared to give its entire attention tolthe trapâ€"was partly led and partly driven to the hole, and, having been suddenly jerked in, trap and all, the manure was instantly dumped on top of him, and men danced in the half-filled grave, from which arose a fragrance suggestive of what would have happened to them if they had been slower in the pcrf'ornr ance of the last part of the programme. Public Library Meeting. The general annual meeting of the Monday last, May 3rd. The minutes of the last annual meeting were read by the secretary. Moved by Mr. Junkin, seconded by Mr. Fraser, That the report as read by- the seerctary be confirmedâ€"Carried. their annual and financial statements, showing the progress of the library in ‘the past year. Moved by Mr. Junkin, seconded by ed .â€"Carried .. The advisibility of" making a-ycarly deduction-for depreciation of books was discussed, and it was considered good to his annual visit... Moved by Mn Farncomb, seconded by Mr. Fraser, That the following genâ€" tlemen be a Board of Management for the ensuing year :' Messrs. 'l‘. Robson, er, Henry Pearce, W. T. Junkin, Geo. Nie, James Dickson and Rev. W. Fara- comb.â€"Carricd. . Moved by Mr. Robson, seconded by Mr. Pearce, That MnJunkin be presi~ dent. Moved in amendment by Mr.’ Junkin, seconded by Mr. Farncomb, That Mr. Thos. Robson be president. Amendment carried. Movod by Mr. Farncomb, seconded by Mr. Fraser, that Mr. W. T. Junkin be vice-president.â€"-â€"Carricd. Moved by Mr. Farncomb, seconded by Mr. Pearce, That Mr W. L. Robson be treasurer for the ensuing year.â€"O’d. Moved by Mr. Farncomb, seconded. by Mr. Fraser, That M r. Patrick Kelly be secretaryâ€"Carried. Moved by Mr. Fraser, seconded by Mr. Junkin, That Messrs. O. W. Bur- goyne and J. L. Arnold be appointcl auditors for the ensuing year..â€"â€"Uar'd. Moved by Mr. Junkin, seconded by Mr. Pearce, That a hearty vote of thanks be tendered the president, treas-r urer, secretary and auditors for tho cfiicient performance of" their duties during the past ycar.-â€"Carried. The regular meeting of the directors- was then held, at which it was Moved by Mr. Junkin, seconded by Mr. Farncomb, That all members of the Board of Management be on all committees, namely, finance,‘ entertain- ment and libraryâ€"Carried. Moved by Mr. Fat-acornb, seconded by Mr. Junkin, That the regular meet- ing ofthe board he held on the first Friday of each month.â€"-Carried. The library contains 3117 volumes and there were issued during the year ._- -w ‘_ ._. _.~____....~.â€"â€"_.._._. .â€" 56? All the novelties of the season to be j had at Mrs. R. McDongall's. A Sundcrland lady writes Dr. Neelandsv that he had made her a succesdul fit after having eight acts of teeth made in Toronto and elsewhereâ€"48M then some earth, after which the three- members of the Fenelon Falls Public Library was held on the evening oi" The treasurer and librarian rcan? Mr. Fraser, That the reports of the treasurer and librarian as read be adopt-- lay the matter before the inspector on- W. L. Robson, J. Heard, Rev. J. Fras» 3 .1 l l ... . ...A ., .~ W- .m Mâ€".--_-._