eoaes for contract bein the office by noon MALCOLM a Monday, MacBETH, and Proprietor. So Dr. M. C. Tindale, L.D. “ _ Honor graduate Toronto Universit; CROWN and BRIDGE WORK a ace "Phone No. 3! Bank of re Scotia, Office: Punic DRUG STORM, MILVERTON Hours: 10 to 12 a.m., 2 to 4 p.m, and 7 to 8 p.m. Lega H. B. Morphy, K.' & Solicitor for Bank of Hamilto: LISTOWEL, MILVERTON, Offices: Listowel, Milverton. y to Loan, F. R. Blewett, K.C. Sollcltor for the Bank of Toronto. wat asion mand above weeilasee is ‘sufficient to make ieee ha Omice : Gordon Block STRATFORD, ONTARIO Harding, Owens & Goodwin Barristers, Solicitors, &c. ~ STRATFORD, ONT. Money to Loan, Gordon Block, K.P. HARDING W, 0, OWENS W. I. GOODWIN, Veterinary. J. W = Barr, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, onto. ‘Treats all diseases of domesticated animals All calls promptly attended to. "Milverton Lodge No. 478 &A. M., nday eeeatuer on or before ‘aeag § 2 Pon hall ‘eir' Visiting brethren Ai iee Geico 6. A. Barth, W.M, w, Segent Secy. Silver wee paar No. 202 Meets every Fi eee poe ‘at 7,90 in thelr all Over Bank of Hamilton. Meets ha full moon ever in J, B. Et, Hovecey. Heer Sey, Notary Public. in W. D. Weir, - Notary Public: lis Auctioneer for the Counties of Perth Conveyancer, deeds, wi ‘and ieee Village clerk. Office: Weir block, over Bank of Nova Scotia A. Chalmers, - Notary Fublic Conveyancer, Issuer lage License J.P. for the County ee Perth, Real rere bought and sold. A few choice farms for immediate sale. MONKTON, ONTARIO mortgages drawn made. Nelson Merrick, - Auctioneer for Waterloo, Wellington and Perth Countles,; Estimates given on sales of farms and ks. Office, next to Bank of Nova Scotia, Linwood eeaHOT: in the sti EXPERIMENTS . ‘PERSONAL OUTLAY. : Butter Maker’s commaee - It is well known that cream ht urn in a reasonable time and in a) Spending More Than You Can Afford ‘on What is Not Necessary Is : __ Extravagance, as Sy lessen the dangers of (thumps) ich causes many fatalities among they cannot or earth from the root z Extravagance e one of the words being pee in the eh 1 to their derivation no doubt has much to ao with 1 Las of ar al at flavors butter during Win’ e ee month. In testin uw a dozen dif-| S08® ire it pounds of butter ety with 8@rd, “inbent ion of purchasing the most | Sere THE TB TESS BE BATCH OF V.C’s sitar, the writer was surprised to find that no two pounds tasted ee ee ae ech Heroes Whose Brave Deeds Make of a different Z this yariety of flavors are ‘ Their Country Proud. due to the want of ventilation = the ‘The latest batch of Victoria Crosses | tis 0. wer en have been awarded to three officers eS ant. of ventilation bes and two privates in regi ments and a sergeant of an Ir All distinguished " chemaeives Th . inure ce to dangel could not believe that God h: thing new to say to his peop! is absolute sinking Pafrabe the message is char- More than are like some rele in‘ this re- they want the may spend money? that question oe is dnbererong he tice that in many countri ent has been tried of sequiating ‘and limiting by law the objects and ‘amounts of personal outlay. The mo- military; the no- th for and | “ Ro- Lord salen. which Bat its me ane sata mers wife or daughter who an finds she thinks ‘it worth her while tolnine mimes order id “that crepe id se rThosa laws were called gary.” ‘They aimed at va things, all of which, Lieven eee'o ed to such an extent that a free pas-| the same general kind. They with-| ai desired for hest sony in churn- | her: ing. this will help ts ensure well- flavored’ ata a ee that of this Tad. ream’s starter, Nor shall the first to win the cross ter and. forgotten. other helps that ee be provided if a (ee the f pene article ted.! Grenfell, who was wounded in e present is no. doubt the time oh leg: which the home dairy has the best! gium, on Augus' chance to make a name for itself, aad | saving the guns of the 119th Battery. the rapidity with which a good brand |He was invalided home, but returned pacral ad Ean ated Fe ot cant sl certain store in the city, is surprising In his wi nts an extra outlay by the| decors tics to the N maker as the * grocer eae Gi move is lwharee be wrnte: heh 200 ickly as possible and ape eee apa filling to wy. @ premium for a quick | thanks to the splendid discipline and j Per seller. Sraaitions which exist in this magal- ent regiment. of the igure Handred Thousand,” “the Old Contemptibles,” as they are proud to Salt Poisoning. Some of the laws above ihentioned ap- zie to them, although, as we read in fe called. Some of the regiments that| Livy, it was the women only who {| formed this first immortal expedition-| broke into revolt on account of such | e |e force to France, the Co stream | restrict elaiie stance, lost alm Laws of that kind Eas now This force had heen generally abandoned, the last ounce|the idea of invita Jof human endurance, and there was| broadened, partly because little of it left gs the Battle of the proper venation af gov-| Marne was deci me prevalent. sie _—- i: THE BRAVEST DEED. | e | Samples of salt ar te been officer. any foreign substance that would ac-| count for the poisoning been found. s of poisoning in EBiceneibave: beet cevorted ‘ude bc: casionally in larger animals. ss one ted to them again, and ‘Acts of Valor Which Cannot Be Sur- coe are a veniontaa to advocate | E passed. The New York Sun thinks that the estion as to the bravest deed ree won the Victoria Cross will never sited eet ae alth normal conditions, ough in our the bounds beyond | H filled “Rll of them. | Chickens are very| susceptible to salt poisoning and, while the amount that it takes to horse or cow is considerable, this | som occurs when these animals| are especially salt hungr: When animals have not had access to salt for a long time it is safer to give it to them sparingly at first. the ed on long exper arbitrary ‘ike those Pyreictibed by au- O'Leary stands out with L.-Corpl. Es but va Leal Jacka, of the feito as un-} Courtuey’ 's Post Jacka, single- ae shot or 10 tried to mash i The Queens Hotel Best amet ae oe A Sipe tray lers and 0! Two large Sample Rooms. @BO. F, PAULI, Prop., - Are You Insured THE CANADIAN ORDER OF minimum cost. I a C.Spencer,C.R. x N. Zimmermana,R.S CENTRAL STRATFORD, ONT. Ontario’ . Beet Practical et or hoo! a hand ‘eaten v mber graduating. alogue at 6 D. A. McLACHLAN, ~~ Principal A REPRESENTATIVE! WANTED at once for MILVERTON tele for, at ¢ of lan poetry nnd aang of s Ow at ben re > Seal ae STONE & WELLINGTON ‘The era Nurseries Established 183 RONTO, ONTARIO The Rever Quite qui “y hago play ee with Hobbs.” “Ah ser’, is, hi “N05 at an easy ‘eliars! Milverton, Omt, a | h en! not rank above that of Private Potts, yen te not necessary; |of the Berkshire Infantry, at Suvla but a few tana are necessary, vizw| Bay. Shot in the left thigh, he drag- reasorfably warm Guarters: free fro Spcrad worded « chmpade ctor crate and dry an entrenching shovel a few ge with every British outs | what E |post. Lieut. = Swaith, ef an i Lancashire Repinvent, threw himself what were eee in one age ‘of # pon a bomb that had dropped out) world becomes necessari cue jof his hand, and though he was blown} | but it is easy to de elf on of his eo seer Gear atgatas Parentes do not really need a thing takes are sti it \has taken, because, in its essential {both of strength and weakness, man nature does not change. commonest form me The is| ly travagance ai the Wall atid seb-out from the se citbout 6 Lichen lay | Bl | This will remove the possibility of Mie ee ate Lee Bee Eee rotl a aces, he saved the I A fy the herself and the wall, which i if tee wunded faker Le! s tas while leading nineteen survi- |vors of his battalion of 220 m a| . ¥ | charge, and Major George Wheeler, of | be almost eure of having the new @f- the Seventh Lancers, at Shaiba, Meso-| potamia, a born Mea of forlori varies 12 hours, which cannot he said Ropes, thor met hin death “He was of any other of our live stock, so far | seen far (Se ont that time | single: Handed, straight rrives, it is well to clean the pen out omy’s standard.” ‘The writer in the ae seen gad yy cise Sun has been impressed by the otos sometimes hinders the little pigs from graviing around and getting back £0 eekly papers Ti cadacof farrowing in very cold pees steadfast look about Eee os weather, it i an to partly | ine 8 what one man did in the ¢g All feed bast with chaff, set down tran usually seems to be the soul of Grimea and three in South Africa, a yo r, and : hundred are doing in the present put the little fellows into this basket Wm eae pe Hatlabe. ie us ay give a V.C. as fast as they arrive. ae : oath: They will in this way be out of the|! mother’s way while she is in pain, and they will soon dry one another and keep warm edeabeg the jug of};,, or of fari Bebe follower very |¢, eee Beaty tee leave the'weact dite'ct service and add to it 112 days, we may ‘THE SUPREME HONOR. Victoria Crosses Dealt Out With is Great Caution. ses are dealt out “as Guana an though they were com- posed of radium. This is beeause the ta couteatest that can be wo! subject, and also pecans! is eeceyar al therioulestan aa have been earg, a twisted ahah, a pens mas Sean fe, and looks absolutely unheroic,” '¥ So we would have them painted, like °| Cromwell, “wart ,” for eranichliren to look at andl rever-| ., applying Jes: canonization. eed that sroism ; a must it presents some features far out the the ordinary even ane, heroic ae withheld and —— oy y| It’s easy for a woman to under stand why a mam can’t understqnd her, ‘A small child who was the youngest member of a very hard-up family was told one day by Ber Tather Dh rh had a new baby 8 n't nice?” he asked. "Bat hard ae at domestic economy had already. taken Crosses have been ginning of 1 gee And There He stops. Button poses as a hustler, doesn’t as the size of jitter re- With the above Ps 8 e are now on a fair way to s’pose it’s all right, but it seems to “Well, yes; he's see seneteelie ii reaching @ salon that something he penne te raise the BN ter. It is a]me there's a lot of things we vege he d_plan, however, sow | more. ight to be don deputations, to ducees, conservatives in elcien 8, ns in acteristic of Script half the books of hee oa. ‘Testament are annoymou: Gospel never mentions his HPSS name. Of the Epistle to the. Hebrews Origen says Nothing but the Sues mattered to in| grest pronhecy “(sa. 40, 8) is in AS ken 13). a Bethany—Unknown. 8, ‘al es the eis of the scape- Yet, | gin there is wrong, we n a-| their families met again. Ss it| cal tradition; « ae eae in art, is foes not follow that there are none. too late to the name of rprigilege e. y from time to time eae significance of whi Feature of the ‘Campai ears surpass- | hundre: ‘The wise man alway’ ithe fire he stays in the frying pan. 10 REGULATE| — ‘|Lesson IL—John The Baptist and ‘Jesus—John 1, 19-34. Text John 1. 29. 3 Verse 19. We mist distinguish two ‘arranged in collusion, Golden ad any~ only God 3 who wrote it. ese quatre ee ee above ee saiah—T! it it was written five Pa, “He Looks Into the Eve" RTHOD, it is almost ae met mare aucerton an a work Einsone pe remenanines 1e eye, t1 le fect right at its 8 ee Weak Muscles Strengthened _ Headaches Cured, Cross Eyes in many cases straightened adv dvanded ayetem, Chloren os securately: cxamined witho: asking quesi SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! P. H. BASTENDORFF Eyesight poorest ONTARIO. 10 are concerned about buying a New Fail Suit or We selec ed tile most ser- viceable ara we aoe ind at a small a vance | in price, therefor, we can give you tl st value for your money. Our motto is honést busi- ness, fair dealing toevery one, good goods at as low a price as possible. JM. Fleischhauer ” ‘The w: originally the a guner the prophet foresaw the Israclites Ul was captive pylon: the fulfilm S| true propheey— went far beyond the igi ides Read And some ini had} margin, whieh, | re aie overdoes the effort to: sj . It is most unlikely that) | the prists and Levites would come as! aptism impli | though ee of Israel, need-| For su | Lord’s own 1 k 11. |The arate implied con- erse 33. a greatest yet bor n—deigned t aerae nee for his own *siotiples In late s the site was fixed by pacers Hap a sBethabarah (margin). Lamb—In tak is rae wi ae \ oat. 8°30, Both this and verse 15 refer n earlier witness, of which ow kno 31. Ik im not—Best taken lit- rally. ' south, and the fact that a bay were related (Luke 1. 36)) hich incidentally makes it highly times, under | Scarapiatie that Mary ‘ouse of David—does tee as that | Ecclesiasti- i—As always, is is very characteristic of ing: the Synoptic Gospels | us, he need not tell the = i of ie ph cpmbolize Teh uae nce of the Maton “ot ect men have the Spirit ch atfully, oa often “grieve” him—Jesus him unchangingly. athe Synoptic Gospels very clear- ae that Jesus kept the secret of apostles “ghe discrepancy 1s ex-| Sine by the fact that John is in- | te wae and not merely reporting, ysin; He is not con: sa Lae gives. ened with el Soldier's Long Sleep.” Professor Verger has described the Medical and Surgical Society the and was found aft The soldier has been asleep for months, salisa dlosed, respiration egular, » but pr It is pos: ‘ible to aunee Tiguid food td | Professor Verger says that the case is one 0! terical lethargy, and chs man will eventu- ally a resume Sea his normal Like Father, Like Son. “Willie, as. fe ae ANS teacher?” “Na 1s cae oe Seat about your teacher that way? Don't you” know that is Soon “What’s wrong with it? what you tell Ma a wore ist”... - In The Years To Gini rater sce did you an in the Gre: st you while your mother was selling flags. Suits and ed their reputation in our tailoring and Made-to- It has always been our aim and ambition to give our customers the best possible satisfaction in the tailoring business. Our suits and overcoats are made in a high- class, careful manner. They have earn- are tailored as well as from the pure ma- terials from which they are made, The quality has always been a prime factor invite you to inspect our stock. Measure Overcoats from the way they always will be, We 0. DUFFIELI The Up-to-date Tailor, Monkton, Ontario Plumbing en Heating Now is the time to have on a complete job. The bath is the finest thing in the world in the sum- mer, the closet is great in the winter when it is 25 be- low zero outside Call and we will give you an estimate FURNACES We sell the famous Sunshine and Hecla Furnaces. We have several to install just now, so you had better get your order in before it is too late. your bath room fitted up. | ent: he thinks only of the ea at he relates. es A DAY A MONTH. Canadian Patriotic ai ‘The men in the trenches are fight- y us three hundred and sixty- ve days in the year. Why shouldn’t the poorest of us ork at least one a a month for the smilies of these m is not much ask—twelve ys a year, as agi three hundred d_ sixty-five, ante as the three d and sixty-five are \spent in nstant danger of death from bullets, Bh ‘or exposure to ee of | *e wins the cross he pla y factories and a etree | s have acted ae ‘The average payment to each fam British army ante ay vy since the be- ily by the Canadian Patriotic Fund is ne sixteen dollars a year. \a month will go a long way aes ds helping thr lay’s some such family to get oti 1917 in comparative comfort. er Sa ! 8 looks before leaps—then instead of leaping into M. E. BETTGER & CO. WEST MONKTON the cost of living. A Few Eye-Openers These are prices suited for hard times and will tend to help people keep down Takead vantage of them—while they last. FURNITURE $6.00 Iron Bedstead, for... 7.00 Mattresses, for. Soo spetags: fo i 85.00 Dre Stand., 25.00 oar t be Serine for the aay 20.00 Dresser, for.....-.+4 18300 0,00 Rocking Chain, for. ‘ ifs “95.00 6. 150 Dining Room m Chala \ ® 75 Kitchen Chairs, for. o 12.00 Tenner er for 10,00 Can't placed for he money ~ GROCERIES Peas or Corn, 2 cans for My Ae = ecaDe acan. Un Oaledona Salmon, per can r ane Plekles, for B00 Honey, tee: 200 Baking Po’ We rhe ‘or. ete Cow Bi et Gan 80 Waney Sou p Bo: ++ 0 25e° Fat ey taycerene ‘and. Taylor's Salada a Blac k Tea.. ~ 400 Isn't that