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v â€" .xww--_ar . . . ...-. .-.. 3..-. . STWK TAKING WEEK ' AT THE RED STORE. HUNDRES 0F REMNANTS N AT HALF PBIGE. W. BURGOYNE. THE RED STORE. SEASONABLE GOODS. Gent’s and Ladies’ Hockey Skates, Boker’s and the Starr. The Acme Spring Skates. Greening’s Steel Wire Cow Chains. Racer and Maple Leaf Crossâ€"cut Saws. Toronto Blade Cross-cut Saws, 5% feet, at $2.50 each, a firstâ€"class article. Oak and Hickory Axe-handles. American and Canadian Axes, from 500. up. Stoves, Cooking and Parlor. Prices lowest in the County. lash for Hides and Skins. JOSEPH HEARD. HE ..,COMPLIMENTS THE SEASON. We wish our numerous customers 1n town ‘ and country a very prosperous and very happy New Year. WM. CAMPBELL. Never wear a shoe, not even a “Slater bllOL‘.” that does not make friends With your foot the first time it's worn. “Slater Shoes” are made in as many shapes as ther are forms of feet. l’riee stamped on the sole, tag 'tâ€"efiing all about the leather. Goodyear \velted. 534:0, $4.00 and $5.00 per i air. Guaranteed by the Slater Shoe Makers. OA‘rAtoeut hunt. I i i l l l l l j_ FARMERS WANTING A GOOD Ensilag: Cu er lino Pu per WOULD DO \VELL TO Inspect Robson's Stock. For quality‘and price can’t be beat. _â€" Dealer in coal and iron. Highest price for scrap iron, brass and copper. runs. iiossor. T’l‘he Fenelon Fhlls Gazette. Friday, January 6th, 1899. Fenelon Falls Election. .__.â€".. The contest in this village on Mon- day last was one of the hottest ever fought, and resulted in the defeat of Reeve Mason and all of his colleagues who accepted re-nomination, except Mr. Martin. whose opposition to the power transmission by-law the ratepayers re- warded by placing him at the head of the poll. The figures as declared by the returning ofiicer after the ballots had been counted were as follows: FOR REEVE. Div. 1. Div. 2 Total McArthur 74 72 146 Mason 63 52 115 Majority for McArthur 31 ron COUNCILLoas., Martin 81 88 169 Hand 71 75 146 Puley : 72 69 141 McFarland 75 61 136 Austin 56 46 102 Jones 48 53 101 McKeown 27 30 57 Deyman 26 25 51 FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEES. Heard . 78 101 179 Nevison 78 92 170 Arnold 80 70 150 Puley 69 '80 149 Northey 44 37 81 HOUSE OF REFUGE. For, 80. Against, 22. Majority for, 58. Our own success is gratifying for two reasons; firstly, because, having con- sented to run, defeat would not have been pleasant; and. secondly, because it supports . our contention that the promises of the people of Fenelon Falls are not, as the saying is, “like pie- crust, made to be broken." Up to Sat- urday night we had booked 120 prom- ises of votes, and on Monday we got 146. which is proof positive that almost every promise we got was given in good faith and was adhered to. We had no more idea of running for councillor than we had of running for Parliament until Dr. Mason said, some weeks ago, that the people never thought enough of us to put our name upon a ballot. and then we registered a vow to show him what we could do. Our thanks are not. only due and hereby tendered to all who by their votes placed us second to the old and popular campaigner, Mr. George Martin. but also to our enemies in the council for depriving us of the little bit of election printing and thus qualifving us to run, and especially to Dr. Mason, whose letters in the Warder had a great deal to do with his defeat and our suc- cess. So bitter was the feeling against him on that account that surprise is ex- pressed at his having, under the cir- cumstances, polled as many votes as he did, but the ex-recve is a strong man in oqe respectâ€"he is a member of sev- eral societies. In December, 1897. and again about a month ago, we heard it said that it would be exceedineg diffi- cult to deprive Dr. Mason of the reeve- ship if he wished to retain it, because he was a member of so many SOClCtiL‘S. and we were told that, after one of his victories at the polls, he said he felt confident that he would be elected, be- cause he “ had so many brothers at his back." It is a good thing, under ordi- nary circumstances, lor a candidate to l belong to three or four societies; but! the circumstances this year were eum- ' ordinary, and Reeve Mason was defeat- l ed, as well as all last year’s councillors 3 except Mr. Clark. who resigned. andi Mr. Martin, who fou;ht in the in-, [crests of the villaue against the other! four. iS‘inic blamed us for daring l.lr.l Mama to run ; b‘it w: felt sure as t-I ‘ ‘277. 'l‘. l’arkin 22:26. what his fate would be. and didn't want him to back out and then go around and tell everybody that he could have been re-tlected if he had wished to be. Our own victory is sweetened by the knowledge that our defeat and the de- feat of Mr. McArthur was the main ob- l ler Austin paid us a visit. I l l An Ingenious Peri-grew. On Tuesday last Conny t‘ ~ :~.::il~sion- W :.~'3«er it was intended to be propiiit wry . r cou- ciliatory we do not know: if was not congratulatory, or, it i: \\ .a-, he ject. of (EX-Reeve Mason and ex-Council- forgot to say so. John .iu-i \\ have lor Austin, who did the very utmost in their power to gain their end. Their , l always been good friends. {fr-tit we have had many a verbal firm, a i when own defeat is, of course, attributed (0 l he 1‘11" for Parliament we *1t1l‘ little. anything but the true causes, the chief of which is that the ratepayers do not wish the affairs of the village to be run by a ring. It is said, and is probably true, that the late reevc and councillors take their “knock out" so much to heart that they are quarrelling among themselves and blaming each other for their overthrow. Dr. Mason says (if our information be correct) that they would have been all rightif cx-Coun- cillor Austin had not. got up In bad terms with Mr. Guidal; ex-Conncillor Austin says that they would have been all right if the ex-reevc had not publish- ed his sangninury letters in the ll‘zi-Jer; Mr. McKeown complains that he has suffered for the sins of his associates; and Mr. Jones says he was running alone, and would have got at least two hundred votes ifhis name had not been put upon a “ ticket,” s pposed to have been written by ex-C‘onwcillor Austin. without his (Mr. Joncs's) knowledge or consent. Well, let them fight it out: it's their funeral, and if they choose to hold a wake and wind up with a fight, it’s nobody's business but their own. The new council will. we think, he an improvement upon the old one; at any rate the business of the village will be run in the interests of the many in- stead of the few. Mr. McArthur will be filling his second term as reeve; Mr. McFarland was reeve for a year, and he and Mr. Martin have had a good deal of experience as counciltncn. Mr. Puley and " we ” are the new men, and will both do our best to deserve re election by acclamation on the last Monday in December next. Personally we are not conceited enough to think that we shall make the best councillor that ever sat at the board; but, upon our solemn word and honor, if we thought we should make a worse one than some we‘could mention, we should feel inclined to go and jump over the Falls. One thing urged against us by County Commis- sioner Austin was that we were inex- perienced; but how many years’ expe- rience had Mr. Austin at representing constituencies in Parliament when he set up as a candidate in East Victoria ? Then. it was said that we were “ too old ”; but Mr. Gladstone in England, Prince Bismarck in Germany, Pope Leo (if we may mention him) in Italy. and Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir 'Oliver Mowat, Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Mackenzie Bowcll in Canada were or are doing far harder intellectual work than managing the affairs of a village at a far more advanced age than we have reached. We are not quite sure who it was that said we were “too old.” but have reason to believe that it was the bald-headed patriarch, C.C.Austin, above quoted. What wouldn’t he give to be as young on the top of his head as we are ? ~ The thanks of the friends of good gouernment are due to Mr. A. E. Guidal. whose work with tongue and pen must have materially affected the result of the election. We nearly forgot to ten- der our personal thanks to Mr. Thomas Johnston for the good he unintention- ally did us by talking against us with all his might; one of his statements be- ing that if the council wanted a drain dug a few rods long and a few feet wide and deep we would not be able to figure out how how much the work would be worth, though upon what he based his uncomplimentary estimate of our arith- metical pownrs we do not know. The enmity of such a man as Mr. Johnston son being equivalent to a certificate of merit, we felt sure of' our election as soon as we heard that he was on the warpath against us; and it is reported that the defeated party held his services in such slight esteem that. they thought they would have been better off if he had net flopped over from the other side and joined them. The following are the results in some of the neighboring municipalities : LINDSAY.â€"-M:iyorâ€"Tilos. Walters. Councillorsâ€"lode, Lennon, Jackson, Horn. Crandell, Robson. l30nou’orzox.â€"Itccvcâ€" A. E Bot- tum. Councillorsâ€"D. H. Hamilton, Dr. S. [1. Theme, George Byng, W. '1‘. C. Boyd. MINDEXâ€"Rccveâ€"Dr. Curry. Coun- cillorsâ€"Sisson, Gilbert, Prentice, Min- aker. FENEI.0N.â€"â€"For rcevc. Alex. McGee For councillors, ’etcr l’crdue 2.33. John Irwin 2‘30. John (,‘urrin lfi’l, J. P. l’almer 148. House of Refuge: ycas 145; nnys, 341. Lem,“- A SOMERVIL1.E.â€"Inst year‘s rec-re and councillor“, rc-eleeind by areamation. Vsutrl..\.\I.â€"-l.w-t year's rcerc and ~ cm'nri .or~ rv-elected. i R. C. Webster 28.”), Thos. Dcwel 278. v .weck's 0.17.410: in the notice of this' I I l best for him, as evt-ryho it knows. But, though we thought he “on? i make a fairly good M. P. l’.. h.‘ d ms not think we are qualified for a seat at the council boardâ€"possibly lit-ohm) we lack the admirable and estim 1?1 : men- tal and moral qualities for which his brother, the L‘s-councillor. is so pro-cm- ineutly distinguished. Darin; an elecâ€" tion, either Parliamentary or municipal. all sorts of stories are aflJtlt, and it hav- ing come to our ears that C. 0. Austin had said something (not very bad) about us, we told him what. somebody had said he had said. and he declared he had never said it. Then hcpro- duced his grievance, which was, that. we had not wanted him to be the Lib~ eral candidate on the lst of March last, and had said that if somebody else were nominated instead of him it. would please us so much that we would nrint the ballots for nothing. The story. which of course “ riled " Mr. Austin at good deal. was simply an ingenious per- version ol' facts. It being next. thing to an absolute certainty that Mr. Austin and Mr. Carnegie Would be the only candidates, and the returning-officer fearing that he would not. have time to visit every polling sub-division in the riding and distribute the ballots if they were not printed until after the nomin- ntions, we decided to print them before nomination day and run the risk of having to print them attain for nit/tiny: ifeithcr Mr. Austin or Mr. Carnegie- declined to run or if a third candidate entered the field. We. have no idea who trumped up the story told to .11"- Austin; but somebody did. and it of course had the intended effect of makâ€" ing him wrathy. Couldn't Tell a Lie. Although type-setting machines have been in use for some years, the operat- ors occasionally make the funny mis~ takes that at first were very numerous. and a jumble of letters made iii an ed- itorial with reference to the tn'iyoralty contest is thus noticed in the Globe: “ Over in the office of the l‘lvening Star there is n type-setting machine that was used on one occasion to set the story of Gcerzc Washington and his axe. The fable greatly impressed the machine. which vowed never to tell a lief On Saturday the good resolution was put to the test when the machine was used to set an utterly unfounded story that Ald. flicNIuri'ich would re- tire from the Mayorality contest. The item, as it appeared in the Star, reads as follows :â€"â€"â€"“ A lively report on the street this afternoon stated that this evening Ald. McMurrich would with- draw f'rom the contest. in order to make absolutely certain the reelection of Mayor Shaw. My informant declined to make known gkqj gkq bgkq gkq gkq make a definite statement. but he is a reliable citizen, and he declared he had the information upon excellent authority.’ It will be observed that the machine utterly broke down and wept thus: gkqj gkq bgkq gkq gkq when confronted with the necessity of putting the story into type. Friends of Mr. MoMurrich and the citizens gener- ally are informed that Mr. McMurrich is in the field till the last vote is polled to-uight." Powles’ Corner. (Correspondence 0/ the Gazette.) The annual school meeting passed off very quietly. The attendance was small, as the roads were bad. and it being a cold day the ratepayers did not feel inclined to leave home. Mr. J. B. Powles was the retiring trustee and Mr. W. A. Gillis was elected for the term. The po~tmastcr has been trying to raise a small sum of money for the chil- dren's hospital in Toronto. He found it in -re difficult to get 10c. from those who chewed and smoked tobacco than from those that did not. Some people's charity does not go very far. A few weeks ago we midi: mention ofa few weddings that were to c-nnc oil. and two of our citizens have already joined hamh with two of Cameron's favorites. ()n the 27th of December. at the Methodist parsonage at Feliclou Fail-t, Mr. W. ll. Harris of Cum-"rm; was united to the eldest daughter of Mr. .\. E. Mintlmrno. and on the 28:31 Mr. W. Hill was united to Mini: Harris of Cains-ran at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. it. ll. mistake occurred in hut I ma rriage. Mrs. D. F. Milloy of ()rrville spent a WCL‘k with her father, Mr. Joe. Brown. "