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ted UP' 11 ['SA'OKA ‘»'v‘-’.1ile going through the bush, last Friday, Mr. W..}. Post of Bracebridge came upon the body of an old man name- 1 , :hn l’ortess. He had lived alone for acmetime, depending largely upon the parity of his neighbors,and at times was rather eccentric in his ways. When fused, the body-was decomposed and _1ize naked. Itis supposed he left his 301:9 ma demented condition and ran through the bush until he was exhausted; â€"Mr. Thcs. Magee, one of the old- is sealers in Mnekoka township, died Very suddenly last Wednesday night of hat week. He was taken sick in the Waning and Mrs Magea administered =‘Ch medicine as she had at. hand He Ppearedgo be resting easier toward midnight, bu: suddenly became worse and died in a few minutes. Heart dis- easeis supposed to have been the 11m mediate cause of death. Deceased was Tiyears cf age, had lived in Muskoka GWns ~3hpfcr many years and was very 513' 2": cs; acted by those who knew him. ? 521 member of the Engliah church, . i «:1 active interest in agricultural W‘ers and in politics was a staunch “vinaetvattve. He leaves a widow, four 3:23 and three daughters all grown ’up. (I ”Q {:1 5.3. ( I. seIeC' 1.1:. Cosh and sons, with the assistance 3i .‘Jr. lob; Wrigh‘. have re-erected egg; barn that was destroyed recently by kghmmo Mr. Cosh adopted the plank ”gem in construcring, and finds it in every way superior to timber. Plank two by eight, and eighteen teet long in :50 largest piece in the barn, and there as not many of those. The plank i; obtainable at about half the price timber would be and the buifdina can be put up {nabcut the time that would be taken to: ampere the timber. Four planks of two}? byeight spiked together make the poets. ‘ The beam planks are crossed into the poets, and spiked. and the whole buildine, laps, braces and ties together in the simplest manner, and with a. rigidity equal, if not better than timber. The aunts 36x50, 16 feet poets, and 12 feet is the first of the kind in the district, d is certain to be an example that will net-ally be followed in the older settled .rttsna of the district, where timber is not easily obtainedâ€"Bob. Independent. .bbnng books 1. 2. 3 and 50 each 56“ 153 “Books 2, 3 and 5c each Exesving Books 5:. Conpy Books 70 scap- Crayons: Inks. Lead Pen. and Public School Boods. _ High OUR CORRESPONDENTS i awe: EARNING POWER who ' lihca of preparation under our TRAINING. 1‘1 HAS‘ NO FINGERBOA RD our public school has again opened i0r another term of faithful work and ’11: schoiars cheerful voices and merry 1Nightm- is to be heard floating on the 3“, tellil Vacation “1'3. Robt. Frise. Mrs. Moaae, accompanied bY be: 503 and his wife, visited at her daugh’ 33’s,, Mrs. M. Mark, recently. Mr- Corneil has téken charge Of his s#1001 agaln after spending his V308? tlogander the paren‘al roof in 098- Miss Johanna Frise, who has been Visiting fnends in th‘s neighborhood’ returned to TorontO. The hex Mrs. Woodger and family EEidomdo are visiting at her sisters? k Miss Daton, who was the guefl 0f fer COusia Miss F. Friae while visib- mga Pftmnpd fn hp!- 11an in UXbl’idZe- u: 00:3 Miss F. Frise while visit- iamuéned to her home in Uxbridge. a few d ora Wells of Bengt-ave spenb 3Y8 of lash week with her fien {Md M18. Frank King. Some one ed bkppy. AUGU Bookkeeping shortham} Typewritngg _ Telegraphmg ”Annual D p r p. rm JEFFERS. M A.. Pmm RELLEVILLE. ONT. 30 61:1 [:0me ' ' Civil Ser .â€" ,,-L , of new Canadian Catholic Readers on hand. LETTERS FROM AY AUGUST 3188, 1899 U1 DIST! I 899 g as they have enjoyed their (Fr-EM and Germsâ€"n) nmence at any time. KER L'LA JI "EO. A LITTLE 1 arm Railway Work) Service Options sman-Warder RE=OPEN1NG t given to seachers Established 1889 Mr. Morrison Mark, wife- and little daughter spent Sunday with friends in Oakwood. Mr. J. W. Hancock and .family of Linden Valley, visited at Mr. Frise’s on Sunday. Miss Annie Moaae visited at Mr. Galaway’s for a few days last week. BEXLE Y The farmers are mostly through harvesting and now the whistle of the threshing machine takes the place of the hum of the binder. Our school has opened again and both teacher and scholars are pleased with the new bell which was hung during the vacation. Another of our nnmber has passed from this life to her long home. Miss Letitia Staples after a long illness died and was buried in Kirkfield cem- etery, Aug. 13th. We sympathize with the bereaved family. Mr. Joe. Peel has returned frOm his trip to England. ‘ We are pleased to have him with us again. The trip must have been a. pleasant one as he looks well and apparently enjoyed his ride across the ocean. Mrs. Rehill, Victoria Road, is visit- ing friends here. Mr. Jas. A. Peel, Lindsay. ‘spent a. few days with his parents. Still the young people continue to leave for Manitoba. On the excur- sion of the 24th several left this vic- inity and others from the surrounding country. We will soon be entirely minus young people if the emigration continues. Messrs. Arthur Peel. Edward Dallyn, Tolhert Davey and Miss Laura Dallyn left for the west Thursday. Mrs. Geo McKague spent a few days with Mariposa friends. â€"â€"Mr. Joseph Pdtchar'l, of Stanhope Owns hlp shot a big old wolf the other day that has been preying upon the sheep in that nelahborhood for scmayears past: The brute measured 9 feet from tip of nose to end of tail. â€"The by-law to raise 818,000 for a new central school, also the by.law to raise $4,000 to extend the water w0rka system at Owen Sound were both carried by slim majorities on Friday. The total vote polled was very small. â€"-Frank Kendall, captain of the steam- ship Clipper. was drowned on Thursday in the Rainy River rapids. He was caught in a rope that had been thrown to land and dragged off the boat, with the result stated. He was the only son of T. F. Ken- dall. the well-known miner -â€"The Royal Humane Society has awarded amedal to Mr. John Shorey of Norwood for bravery in saving from drowning Mr. R. J. Percy and Her bie Stuart. Mr.Percy H. Clark will re- ceive the society’s parchment certificate for assistance rendered in the same rescue. â€"S sturday evening the fourth drown ing accident in the Otonabee river at Pet- erboro this year took place at Nassau dam, Joseph Starr, an employee in the Rathbnn Company, attempted to run the slide in a punt, which was drawn into the dam by the undertow. and he was drowned. â€"On Thursday Aafonie In Rue, of Trenton, was lodged in the Bellvilie coun- ty goal prior to his removal to the Central 1 prison for a period of six months for big, ,,__ -..-1.. r--â€"- â€"~ . amy. It appears that some years ago La Rose married a. Miss Ids Sangstermf Tran, ton and this spring married a Miss An- nie Pickwith of Toronto. He had not liv- ed for some time with his first wife. --â€"A. startling domestic tragedy occurr- ed on Saturday at Gilbert plains, near Dauphin, Manitoba. A farmer named Frederick Johnston shot and killed his wife and three children, and then shot himself. He was not known to have domestic troubles, and was of sound Mn": Wn satisfactory reason can as yet mind. No satisfactory reason can as yet! be assigned for the deed. â€"-â€"Napoleon Somier met: with a. pain- ful accident last Monday afternOOn while blasting rock at the smelter company’s quarry at Penetang. A dynamite cart- ridge was laid in the rock and exploded. Mr. Somier was not far enough aw a7 * or in proper shelter when the explosion took place. and he received a shower of rocks on his head and person. He may be laid up for some time. â€"-â€"Robert Cunningham of Oatawa, eight. years old, fell into the Ridean canal on Friday. and was drowned. The scene of the accident: was in full view of many, yet the hsy’s body was not taken out; for 18 minutes after the accident. Eflorts at rea- necitatlon proved unavaillng. The boy’s mother is in the Protestant hospital dan- ‘ geronsly ill, and his father. George Cunn- ‘ inaham, a painter, is in Montreal. The boy was drowned while his brother and slate: looked on. â€"â€"Young Harry Bellroae, a little boy, son of A. A. Bellroee of Penetang, mate on the City of Toronto, met with a pain- Enl accident Friday morning resulting in News of the Week a brokenâ€" arm. I "He was playing with little Tommy Devlin in the yard at the Georgian Bay hotel. Harry climbed Up- on the seat of a trotting enlky , standing in the'yard and Tommy tilted up the ehsf:s toppling his young friend to the ground with the ahoVe result. The little chip was taken to a surgeon and had the arm fixed up., -â€".Deter Brady of the Mohawk reserve 1 had Peter and Robert Martin and Ed. Topins of Tyendinega arraigned in the police court on Saturday on the charge of having run a steam threshing machine without having a proper Ipark arreater in the emokeetack. by reason of which negligence he suffered a loss of farm pro duce and household effects; A fine cf $3 with costs was imposed on each de- fendant and Mr W. C. Mikel, counsel for plaintiff. is going to issue a writ for 531000 damages against W. Assietine, Peter } Martin and Ed.Topins, the owners of the i machine. â€"Sunday morning about six o’clock George Godfrey, night watchman at the new elevator, Midland, was drowned. He was walking on the edge of the dock in front of the elevator and is supposed to have accidentally lost his footing and fell in. Mr.DavenpOrt-, who was some little distance away, heard a cry and rushed to where he had seen Godfrey a‘ few minutes before, but upon reaching} the spot he could see nothing of him. The body was recovered shortly after- wards, but life was extinct. He leaves a widow to mourn his loss. â€"Burk’s Falls, Muskoka, was visited by a disastrous fire Monday morning, and when endeavorinq to escape from their residences in the Drew block, Dr. Caughell and hisdaughter Edith, with a iguest, Miss Munroe of Hamilton, had a narrow escape from being burned to death. They had to be taken out through the windows clad only in their nightrobes. The block was completely destroyed. Dr. Caughell only saved his books. Mr. Drew was enabled to save a small amount of clothing, furniture, and â€"â€"Twelve steel arches, each weighing 33 tons, which were to have supported the superstructure of the Coliseum build- ing, in course of erection on Wabash avenue, Chicago, between 15th and 16th streets, fell to the ground late Monday afternoon. It is known that six lives were crushed out. The bodies of these men are supposed to be under the wreck' age. Several are in the hospital with Injuries received, and of these two will surely die, one may possibly recover, and the rest are for the greater part seriously injured. Nearly all the men who were killed were at work on top of the arches, 40 feet above the ground. Some of them made fa'i’e attempts to slide down the side of the arches, but before they could save themselves they were hurled to the ground. fully 50 men were at work in ‘the space covered by the arches as they { fell. a. small quantity of hardware from his store beneath. â€"-Ssturday night Mrs. W. R. Farr, widow. nlnety-two years old. who insisted in living alone at Paisley, Ont., called on her son. two doors from her home, about 10 o’clock leaving shortly after. At: 12 o’clock the town nightwatchman smelt: smoke as he passed the house, and after a hurried investigation he roused her son and some neighbors and broke‘ into the house to find her room full of smoke. They quickly broke open the window and secured what: proved to be her lifeless body from 011‘ the head. The old lady was robed in her night: attire, the lamp-glass was in one corner, the lamp in another and smouldering clothes in another, which showed that: she had. been awake when the lamp exploded and fought the firmer by throwing her bed- ‘clothes on them, and she had succeeded in extinguishing the fitmes. but it was I i thought she was completely overcome and lay on the bed and smothered. On her feet were cute, supposed to be from stepping on the pteces of broken lamp, and her nightdzess was burned in some places aiso small burns on her back and her hair, scorch ed . Save the Babies. Thousands of them die every sum- mer Who could be saved by the timely use of Dr. Fowler’s Ext. of Wild Strawberry. berry. \. There is no remedy so "L‘- safe and so effective for the diarrhoea of infants, \ i and none has the endor- sation of so many Cana- dian mothers who have proved its merits, and therefore speak with confidence. One of these is Mrs. Peter Jones, W'arkwo‘rth} Ont., who says : “I canvgive Dr. Fowler's? Extract of Wild Strawberry great praise; for it saved , baby’s life. She was cutting her tee and was taken with diarrhoea very b a. My Sister advised me to get .Dfl FOMCF‘ES Extract of \Vild Strawberry. I 119%) bottle and. it once]' THE WATCHMAN-WARDER: LINDSAY, ONT; nu Quawupnnjo Cured the baby afméé’iflt There is not a mother who loves her infant but should keep on hand dur- ing the hot weather a. bottle of Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw- {EG‘WQWWQfl‘Q‘MWflM‘fiWfiQ‘ “swarms; g Lindsay’s Leading Clothier ' The Wonderful Cheap Man E swmmmwm “Qwaéfik fikfifiémkméééfihkéé We have for years devoted our special attention to the needs of Boy’s. and Children, and can offer to parents a larger and more com- plete stock of School Suite to select from at lower prices, than can be found elsewhere. 51 DEPENDABLE QUALITIES Ill MEEQ ANTI We have suits particularly designed for School and Playâ€"ground with Long or Short Pants and With Double Seats, for boys-ofall ages. 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