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a BR ER i - 2 ' over 30. years. For Counter Check Books of all Kinds -- SEE THE -- * Port Perry Star ~ PHONE 60 : COMING F. E. LUKE, Eyesight Specialist, may be consujted at Lawrence's -Drug Store, Port §| Perry, on Thursday, February 16th. He has been coming here * F. E. LUKE AND SON Optometrists 1638-167 Yonge St., Toronto 2. The Peoples' Meat Market We sell everything you want in choice, clean, palatable, nutritious and satisfying meats. If you want it good, ring up Phone 72 W BERT MacGREGOR Will do the rest. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Phone 93. Our driver will eall. 'e shall be You can ALWAYS be Sure of something delightful to eat -at our Store. Prices reasonable. EVERY DAY we offer to you an When choice of buns, cakes, jelly rolls, biscuits, etc. . your needs in cakes and pastry, You'd You'll enjoy our baking. CHAMBERS & SON Bakers and Confectioners pleased to supply IS JUST A MATTER OF Sing UP ALL THE THRILLS Houses which "suddenly be- come old are generally just a § matter of poor lumber. When you build with our full-seasoned, |. durable 'woods, you can expect durability, : t Lae] Sam N. Griffen } Lumber Co. ' Phone 240 i PORT PERRY, ONT. J a stiff "ttf SIT SEAGRAVE A very enjoyable time was spent on Friday evening last, when about 65 guests gathered at the home of Mr, and Mrs, Alvin Bruce, for progressive crokinole and other amusements. Tables of crokinole players moving until 10 games were played. It was then announced that Glen Moase had won first prize. The corn flake con- test in which 3 couples took part, created no end of laughter, they were too busy to enjoy anything but corn flakes. At midnight a delicious lunch was served. Another of these social evenings will be held in the near future when all are invited. The skating party to be held on Friday evening of this week at the Nonquon Ice Palace, when Prince Al- bert Young People will be the guests of our Young People's Society. After ji 1 Phone 16 'We Offer for This Week KRUSCHEN SALTS--The Giant 75c. package is here. Get + yours now. ;/ARMANDS' POWDER--with each dollar box you get-a fifty cent jar of cream. With a fifty cent box you get a twenty-five cent jar of cream {MODESS and KOTEX--25¢ and 85c respectively 'FLOROSA SOAP--Six cakes for 15 cents. VINOLA CASTILE--Eight cakes for 25c. Morrison's Drug Store Port Perry Ontario all Th . : Better Fuels? W 5 W. PYATT .Are You Burning Our PORT PERRY COAL YARD If fot, start the New Year right by phoning us your next order. We*have a supply on hand of all required fuels to meet your needs. FAM US READING ANTHRACITE--That Better Pennsylvania d Coal--Stove, Nut and Pea sizes. HAMILTON BY-PRODUCT COKE--Nut and Range sizes, WELSH ANTHRACITE, SCOTCH ANTHRACITE, CANNEL . COAL, STEAM COAL, BODY HARDWOOD, HARDWOOD SLABS, SOFT SLABS. ; No tear in 8 filling your order. "We have a full supply on hand at the skating lunch will be served in the Sunday School room. The monthly meeting of the Quad- rata Girls' Club was held on Wed- nesday evening, February 1st, at the home of Mrs. Elmer Clements with 12 present, The president, Miss Iva Reynolds, in the chair. The meeting opened with devotional exercises. Many items of business were trans- acted. Miss Marion Eagleson favored with a pleasing instrumental, and Miss E. Graham, a reading, which were much enjoyed. At the close of the meeting a dainty lunch was served by the hostess and a social time spent by all, In spite of the weather, the Sunday services were well attended. Sunday School in the morning was presented |* with another beautiful picture of Sir Galahad, by the Quadrata Cirls' Club. The picture was unveiled by the pre-|° sident, Miss Iva Reynolds. Miss E. Graham gave a reading on Sir Gala- had's faith, which was appreciated. The Supt. moved a vote of thanks on behalf: of the Sunday School for the lovely gift. 108 were' in attendance. Miss N. Urquhart accompanied by Miss Muriel . Clarke spent the-week end with the former's parents at Ux- bridge. Mrs. A. Bruce and son Ivan were recent visitors with Mrs. Bruce's parents, in Toronto. : Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mark were guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibson, Port Perry. Miss Ila Moon of Toronto was with her parents on dridge, on Sunday. {i | around until he spotted the oak {| nails out and set the boards down in the same pla -He still wanted to do something to had pened up. He said he floes, Vou wo 0 e col nails. urnace had dried them so the lumber Shik un mar ad ok up bd Ford and was ready to nail them down again they all 3 places without any sawing or fitting." row a scraper and he smoothed them beter than Then he took raw linseed oil and oiled them with a cloth over a weighted brush. A lot that trick. Oak you know is susceptible "to ¢ Shazges: in weather. It will swell and shrink, but if it is good and dry w ou lay the floor and you have the boards driven tight toget! hn when you oil it; it tightens up and stays to its place, so Scotty told us. We kept off it until it dried in and then he nd a dark oil shin and filler and it brought out all the beautiful grain of the wood. We 'had to keep off that until it dried too and I was getting pretty sick of it but when it dried enough to put the wax on we were so pleased. . Scotty took the heavy weight and polished till you could} see your face in them, now we have the best floors in town or any- | where else. : .- While this was going on we let Scotty live in the furhate room | and gh not w ng on 'the floors, he went all over the hou ved the 3 dows: and: fil the storm sash and storm } J d him we could not nds Seek Shelves ay day ie ¢ felt like taking the on but the more we said the more' lie hung on. 'He tended the furnace, shovelled the gnow/and helped me around the kitchen, Junior set up a howl every time he went out of the room. Then we got another break, Heat was being lost through the roof, well there was a fire in a hardware store and a lot of wall-board was partly burned and after the owner had settled with the insurance company he was sending it off to the dum, Ep on a truck. Scotty saw it passing and got the driver to stop and came in to me on the run and asked for half a dollar, he said if he gave the driver fifty cents, the driver would dump the load in our garage and he could cut out the burned part and use the rest to ceil the attic. I handed it out and when Norman came home he said it was a good idea, so Scotty started sawing away and carrying the salvage up the ladder i putting it in through a window rather than carry it through the house and make a mess. Well he cut and fitted till he oe the whole attic ceiled and still had some left, so Norman got him some scantling and he made a partition making two lovely rooms, then 'he kalsomined the walls and ceiling and stencilled a border. It has made such a difference, it saves a lot of fuel and keeps out the heat in summer, and gives me so much more storage room. "I notice you have cedar shingles on, I thought there was some sort of paroid with an ugly pattern on when we came down?" "You are right; but we had some luck there also. A fellow cut some bush a few miles out in the country and made some lumber and shingles but got caught in the slump and could not sell his product, so could not pay the bank, and he moved his "Th bak out and let the bank take over the cut under their lien. The got rid of most of the lumber and some of the shingles but had 'more-than enough left for a house our size, people were walking off with a bundle or twe every few days. Norman offered the manager $15 for the pile where it stood and he took the offer. We went out with our car every evening for about a week. We took our tea and had a picnic in the woods, I gathered ferns and wild Jovem, Junior got mosquito bites and the pup got | in wrong with some thing he mistook for a cat and had to be left behind. Then we! would load about eight bundles on the car _ in the car. I rode on the shingles to hold them on, if I fell off it did not seem to mat- ter, they were worried over the shingles. Jack said they were the best shingles he had seen for a long time, they were very wide, about twice as thick as the ordinary shingles and two inches longer and were made out of lovely clear cedar. them on the goo putting them over the paroid an 'had so many left that Je Jia to figure out some way to use them, IT wanted a summer kitchen and there was an old shed down the road that had become detatched and lost when the farm it was on had been cut up into lots. The owner lived in Toronto and Norman called on him. He told Norman to take it away if it was any use to him 8 if Would §a¥e Him being afsessed for ft. Scotty d Nor- |. man took it down on the 24th 5 Nay 8 Sd Selly built' the kitchen | ¢ De tnd Walls 85 Yell as the 1uof so th the| old lumber not staine 4 Miss Heaslip of Lindsay, visiting at gid lnmber the home of Mr. and Mrs. 8. J. Wool- | For 69c. MODES... + wv. 25¢. per oe. f REGESIN FRUIT SALINE-- 2 pkgs. for 49c. | The old reliable English grape KOTEX ax 4a rey 2000. Pky. and lemon Fruit Salt. (Reg. 3 8 pkgs, for $1.00. $1.00) For Te. LADY DAINTY "FACE PERFECT EMULSION OF : KEPLER'S EXTRACT OF - JASMINE FACE POWDER ELECTRIC CURLING IRONS. (guaranteed for 1 year) SQUIBB'S LIQUID PETROL: ATUM, 16 oz. size (Reg. $1.) TISSUES (Reg. 26¢.)" For 19e." ROLLS RAZORS base : REXALL MILK OF MAGNE- SIA--very economical, 82 oz. bottle : For 75c.- The lowest price yet Mi 81 TOOTH PASTE and 180 VAPURE AND 4 Facile | Tooth Brush Holder, both 29c. OVALTINE dBc, 67c., and $1.09 (Reg. 50c, The. and $1.25.) 2 _ SOAPS. WOODBURYS 5 COD. LIVER OIL, (Reg. boc. and $1.00) For 83c. and Bbc. 6! .. Cake 25. for 69¢c. and Cold or Vanishing Cream. ($1.50 value) Both for $1.00 PALMOLIV} : GARDENIA FACE.POWDER MANYFLOWERS, 4 for 26c. and Cold or Vanishing Cream. VINOLIA CASTILE, long bar {$1.50 value) Both for $1.00 ohh 10e, VINOLIA BRILLIANTINE CONDE FRENCH CASTILE 72% olive oil, 6c. or 6 for 26¢. Said (Res 5c.) For, 3s. . COLEO, 3 cakes for 26¢c. and a COLGA TOOTH PASTE green glass tumbler free. - (Reg. 25¢.) '2 for 25c. CANDY RIKER'S FRENCH BALM '. PEPPERMINT PATTIES * a reliable hand lotion, 25c." Per 1b 29c. and 89¢. PATTERKRISPS, per Ib 29c. AMBROSIA FACE LOTION HOREHOUND AND HONEY + $2.00 outfit for $1.00 LEAVES, 5 oz. bag. for 10c. 'We have a Big Display of Valentines -- le. to 25¢. A. M. LAWRENCE Phone 49. THE REXALL STORE PORT PERRY here is a brick yard at the other side of the town and they had a big heap of bricks that had been spoiled in the kiln by getting. out of shape or being glazed by too hot a fire. | | what they wanted for some of them and the foreman said that he 'was hiring a man to team them out on the road to get rid of them and to take what he wanted. We borrowed a trailer as we could not put bricks in the car, and picked out the hardest looking ones we could find. Norman staked out a walk with 'curves in it and we moved the stakes until it just suited us, then Norman cut the sod away and piled it upside down where we are going to make our the pick of | Tose garden, and covered it with the earth he he put-our winter's ashes in the bottom and for a base, and set the bricks on their edge man. was over last week and he said, * that I will ever give away, I am gong to 'and sell them for Terra Cotta Norman asked had removed, then d them down AER They: id 3