Th “It Shines For All.” Sun. Vol VIII—No 24 MILVERTON, ONT., PERTH CO., THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1899 MALCOLM MacBETH, Editor and Publish? HEHE VE Hee He Hee WEEE eee Hee Hee WEEE Hee Were He Wee Neve e Hee HEHEHE HEHE Meee Hee ee HeVe HE Were WeHee Hee tate ie ie ie ole he Cee e eee eee ee HEHE HE HE HE HE VE HE HEHE TE ETE HEE te ie Ke FETE HE IE HE IE HE TEE ie WE REE EEE 1 te FETE NE HEHE HEHE IE HE ETE FEE MILLINERY This Week. low cost. Take a look at our Dress Goods The Prices are astonishing. —Prices be- Must Go. gi sbatsicre Oma B 4 s 3 3 x 3 8 | Sherwood Forest paca acenamnnesnent or 2 A BIG DROP IN Millinery As our Millinery department closes this week, we have decided to give you the advantage of buying your Millinery AT HALF PRICE. For This Week Only. Ladies take advantage of this sale as it means 50 Per Cent Profit to You'* We only have a very small lot to offer. Miss Macdonald wishes to thank her numerous customers, who have So liberally patronized her during the season ; we can assure you it was one ‘of the best seasons we've ever had. Crosch & Pfeffer =: We are paying 11c, for Fggs and 12c. for Butter. LOCAL NEWS, tino Grosch & Sen have two second how bicycles for sale. C.S, Kertcher’s is the place to go if you ges strawberries. Mr. Bates, of Amulree, paid The Sona tonal, call on ane last. * Mr, and Mrs. Api present visiting eee: in an in. turned last week | ‘from a visit to friends in London, Mrs. Rocket, of London, present visiting her mother, MteMi len. Mr. abies Toronto, is at, present visiting pa: in and around ‘Milverto: | Spend a day with the Knights of at Owen Sound on x is Mrs? Saturday. Miss Jennie Waters,-of Soe is spending a few days with her ister Mrs, John McCloy. Messrs. Chris. Schelter and Milton Bundscho, of Mew Hamburg spent! Sunday in the village. A fall line of oe supplies at Torrance’s, who agent. for the Steinberg-Henrich ‘eebeal maps. Mr. Wm. Abram on Tuesday sented us with a mess of new potatoes; They are the first that we have seen this year. Mr. Henry Miller received a message last. week from his daughter Mrs? Winnipe and Miss Young, and Miss Shenoath, of Stratford, svend Sunday at the residence of Mr. J. cker. In Mr. Snowden’s impressions given last week mention ade of duty 26 cet Me Chukar, a printer of the! establishment of Warwick Bros. pagal is at present visiting at Mr. N Roe’ sayy to learn primting—a boy about 14 years old with fairly eal edacation, Apply at Son office, Mil- verton. Ifyou have any paper hanging, painting, graining, cnlcimining or any thing in tliis line to doveall on Schaefer & Schauber, Milverton. A citizen suggests that some ar- rangements be made with Messrs. Wiederhold & Honderich for the pur- chase of a new town bell. The Newton football team played Milverton a friendly game on Saturday evening last but the visitors were de feated by a score of The Entrance and Pa blic School Leaving examinations are being held in Milverton this week with Inspector Trwin as presiding examiner, Miss Macdonald, who has for th season been employed with Messrad} Grosch & Pfeffer as milliner, has just returned to her home in Guelpb J. S. Bennett, of Stratford, who avast his friend Mr 0. J. W te a large number of Milverton- ians will join the Knights of Sherwood, Forest on their excursion to Owen Sound on July Ist. The route is a popular one and the excursion will no doubt be largely patronized. The tenth annual convention of the society of Christian Endeavorer for the, County of Perth will be hel Sy in the! Presbyterian church, on Monday, July 3: Ra wisker bcs a dresses will be ‘delivered and dis- cus Building work in Milverton has been, contractor could find eae todo in Milverton and vicinity. Dr. Egbert has completed his lawn. dyke which will be further ornamented by aniron railing. The lawn has been levelled up, terraced and sudded. The Mr. Robert r. ©, J. Wilson spent Sunday m_|° 1 are at | P° tlic was quite a huge Beese announcing their eafe arrival in |® Mr: Ait, Porry,|¢, was mi [Being aS cents which should have read Along the front he bas built stone |* Moxey Loanep. — When ‘your Your business with us will Le strictly private. JAMES c Torrance. $50,000.—The the Klondike are working miracles for the farmers of Canada. Thirty make improvements. Good solicited.—W. Mowat NOB S. S.No. 11, Logan, held oe Re, nic in Scott’s grove a ae ‘he . chief feature of the day ec a Schall match tween the Monkton and Logan teams but so evenly were the. sides composed that neither teams could score. A garden party under the auspices of the Building Fund Committee and the Ladies’ ‘Aid, of Burns’ Church, grounds were plenty of amusements. ‘The young, and even many of the old people, amused themselves by” in- gold discoveries at sad Seas lemonade _ inters} and soda water. wanted we were greeted witl nein, wir haben nichts,” ee after we explained that plain soda was all that we wanted it was supplied us with alacrity. Throughout the afternoon able addresses were delivered by H.C. R Robert Elliot, of Ingersoll, Super- intendant of Ernest will be held on the church lawn on the | ton. evening of Friday, July 7th. / Refresh- ments will be served at the booths in the usual way. Good music will be | furnished. was quite a suce grounds were beautifully illumina: Chinese lanterns. upon the management " The other day the oe soribe in Logan and Grey on wheel to ore che te famed dredge which is now working its way cutting its huge ic | swath towards the 17th concession of Afte furnished by the harpers from London | +), was delightful and everybody appeared to thoroughly enjoy shemales. The roceeds amounted to about Mr. David Smith of Wartburg has sent us another communication where- with the eae of the Order SEs out the Dominion and stated t be- fore long the surplus reserved foe pay- ing insurance claims would reach the million dollar mark. n Sound on one the most successful of pe ere The Sound is haying a great galaday. Sir Wilfrid Laurier Sir Charles Tupper and Hon. G ‘oster are billed to speak. Tnelve bands will be in attendance Milverton at 7.02 a.m. The picnic at Dakiaal con Beday jast notwithstanding SP fact that a big picnic was in progress at Carthage was a_ great success. Being purely & school picnic, no charge was made at the gates and Mr. Barr’s grove was filled with vehicles of various A Cal liformian swin; esting for the little people who were always ready to take their place il one of the boats. A‘ Hivered by Rev. Mr. Mr. Thos. Magwi match between Listowel and Donegal rwas one vf the chief features of the day. The match was very hotly rested and Listowel fought aabhoraty Train leaves , rading through country which was un do not made for a wheel we a a mide unevenly dug canal which we told was the ditch that we had t .|to the tortuous through one of the sdacheek wilder- nesses to Western Ontario. and con- siderable hurdle exercise we came, after turning a sharp curve, upon the object of our search. ere it was floating quietly upon the water, | filled the channel for nearly a mile 3 | Phe solitary oecupant of the floating camp was George Harper, the cranes bei when he got the opportunity to viss! Milverton and see for himself which be ES eats for the open ground much play a defensive game, the close stood 2: 0 in favor of the ome team. The pit oF ibe pro- Es, however, which we appre-| al iated most was the supper, which was les| train carrying the tourists time and again, but-as one plate fell away ip was substituted by another pel more plentous than before. Mr. A MacFarlane and those associate ted with thoroughly enjoyed themselves. . Court Evergreen C.0.F. of Carth- age, held their annual picnic in Bur nett’s bush oa Friday last and shad no reason to complain of the day or af tbe | cau crowd. The secluded place where the picnic was held is reached by féllow- ing a winding road through a beauti- ful avenue of evergreens and other E. Cleaver who will now, no doubt, be able to prosecu’ ute like work himeelé, @ hulf cleuwed woodland trees which gradually spreads out into ma the impressed with the power of steam, at the genius of man. The North His Farmers’ Institute excursion to the Guelph Experimental. Farm on Moatay was largely attended and was in every way a pleasant and profitable day’s outing. When the to the royal city arrived at Mialverton, its nuinbers were augmented by 137, and ~ the numbers steadily increased until Shakespeare was reached when 173 got on making the total number about 850. Looking from the car windews one had ample opportunity to com- pare the state of the -crops wee! Milverton and Guelph. The differ. ence after leaving the boundaries of this ~ fair and well favored county was quite noticeable, so noticeable in fact as to in enthusiastic Perth lady to exelam, * Well I nee that we just > live in the garden of Eden.” train left Shakespeare and niga iv way Guelphwards,the fields 1 se their deep greeu, Hees Continued on Page 8.