Vol. 25. No. 25. ATWOOD, ONT. | G 28, 1914. E. H. swine, PROPRIETOR. ember 22nd and 23rd 'THE NYAL STORE " The Best For move the cause, els. mend it to you. Summer Troubles Opiates like Opium and Morphine will stop the pain of Diarrhoea and Dysentery, but they do not re- Nyal's: Wild Strawberry Com- pound contains no opiates but by its antiseptic qualities removes poisonous deposits from the bow- Its healing and soothing action soon restores the bowels to a normal condition. We know what Nyal's Wild Strawberry Compound will do, and that is why we so-cheerfully recom- E. CG. COCHLIN, Fine Salt in Barrels and Bags. Try Quaker Corn Flakes the best on the market 3 pkg 25c ' HOLIDAY . MONDAY, AUG. 31. i public are sheciy notified that Next Monday is civic holiday. 4 Monday, Sept. 7th is Labor Dj Y, School reopens Tuesday, Sept. 1st Miss Minnie aa is yisiting ¥ relatiyes at Eastwo This year's ieecs crop will much below the average. Miss Edith Leslie spent the we end at Guelph and Berlin. « - Mr. Will. Porter, of Toronto, spent the week-end at his home. hess will be almost wholly sus- for the day. 3 Beatrice Gordon is much im- a in health and her illness was Mrs. Geo. Puol of Palmeiiceell : 8 stated in last i issue of Bee, but visiting with Mrs. Robt. Leslie. @used by her eating something Poisoned her system. Wonder will 'Made in Germany| a goods be as popular as ever in 2 ada? a ty Mr. and Mrs. D. G, Anderson,' ol '3t. Marys, are yisiting with friend jin town. : Russel Woods, of Ligtowel, is th # i 7 5 Massey-Harris Company are e their works at Toronto -and F Hord. About four thousand gen will be thrown out of em- fment. Lack of ordersis the cause je shut-down at both places. ion Adam Beck, of London, who guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knox fone of the finest hunting stables this week, 3 ingland, has presented his eleven Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Ratcliffe andimmee Horses to the War Office. The is deeply appreciated, as coming ay Canadian, who is of absolute Man origin. nly a few years have passed since rst dawned upon a people who evelled in plenty for a century -the richest patrimony is not ! against constant and careless ; that a nation of spenders must Marjory are visiting. with friends f McKillop. E Mr. Jobn Adams leayes this Sat- urday for Dryden to resume his dutie 8 as teacher. 3 Mrs. McDougal and son Ivon, we , the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D, Hodge this week. ef school. Select A Good School. If you purpose attending a Busi- ness College you should select a good The Stratford Business Coll- ege is one of Canada's best. Their courses afe up-to-date and they have a staff of instructors superior to that you can find elsewhere. The College '| which has three departments, Com- mercial, Shorthand and Telegraphy reopens for the Fall term on Sept. lst. Write the College for its free catalogue. _ Dates of Fall all Fairs, 1914 AGWOOd ..cceceee eccceeeceese Sept. 22, 23 Blyth Sept. 29, 30 Brussels Oct. 1, 2 Listowel Sept. 7 Milyert Sept. 24, 25 Palmertson ..... .....sceees Sept. 21, 22 Fordwich Oct > ------ DIED, -- In Monkton, on Sunday August 23rd, 1914, Geotge Brown, aged 71 years. Europe as a result of the war is threatened with a print paper famine. The shutting off of commercial con- nection with Norway Sweden and Denmark shifts the burden of supply- ing the whole world-with paper at a time when the demand is abnorma upon the shoulders of Canada and the United States. On the continent The Star Grocery Plums and Tomatoes Now is the time to buy your Plums and Tomatoes. The late i i Plums are start- i smoothe varieties are now plentiful and we will have a 'good supply from now on and at reasonable prices. ing and will be plentiful by the end of the week. Flour and Beed | 'of the Woods Milling Co., so if you want any 'don't di delay in get- i i {} ing it wo also try and have plenty of Milverton Flour on hand 4) Cooked IIam, : 4 but at present it is hard to get. Meats Breakfast Bacon, Back Lacon, Rolled Shoulder, Bologna, Weiners and Side Meat. i Highest price paid for Butter and Eggs--Cash or Trade. | | E. T. Greensides & Son q Phone 5 | Goods delivered to any part of the Village. { | very lowest price. . SThebet™ prices qiernely bec WOOL! We are in the market for wool in any quantity, washed or unwashed, for which we will pay the highest market " price, cash or trade. Since the re- ie moval of the American tariff the prices of wool are considerably ad- vanced. Get our quotations before selling. W. R. ERSKINE, Phone 1. Main Street, Atwood CLIRCSR ICS CBR IDO maou --_---- r (. BAKER aS Dealer In D. L. W. Scranton Coal young friends. the W.M. S | Miss Della Welch of Moorefield | Shera this week. The BEE can supply. you with ¢ J | Toronto or London daily se tlh the Empire is at war. Tf you're getting nervous about. food supplies, buy a good big sack of oatmeal. Nothin' better. You can bet that Emperor William ; won't risk his sacred hide by getting jin the front line of battle. | Mr. and Mrs. Williams, |Creek, Micke spent Monday | Mr. and Mre/Wm. Hume. Battle with Mr. J. A. McBain returned to To- 'ronto on Saturday after spending his | holidays at his home in town. 'them all, and it is upon him and the}; | labouring man that the heaviest bur- dens fall. Master Jack Stewart, of Palmerston, spent the week-end at Mr. Walter | Thompson's. | Miss Code has returned to 'her 'home in Eastwood after spending a couple of weeks with Misses Minnie and Saraly Boyd. } | Canadians must not go crazy on |war prices. Keep your head above jall things, and let your common sense | have a chance to,gvork. Mr. and Mrs. D. Hume, of Toron- 'to, and Mr. Tremain and Miss Teetzel of Detroit, are visiting at home of Mr. Geo. Hume, 8th con. Miss Donaldson, Miss Otta, and Messrs. Donaldson and Milton Gray of Stratford, motored to Mr. Hugh Richmonds on Sunday and spent the any. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Robertson of} Markham, and Mrs. Smith, of Brun- ner, haye returned home after spend- ing a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Leslie. Messrs. Geo. Lochhead, H. Porter, | Walter Blackwell and R. A. Thomp- son motored to Goderich on Tuesday and are competing in the Scotch double tournament being held-in that 6 own. | Some of the Austrians in Canada | are placed in a peculiar position. They | | have no desire to go to war, as they | havo no quarrel with any person. If | they fail now, though, they can never return, and their relatives are made H ite suffer for them. The Austrian is Kenneth Anderson, of St. Marysj was in town last week visiting bis Miss Myrle Richmond was at Fe : 'gus last week where she addressed was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wo j Ehought for its tnorrow or come pverly. lowing left Stratford on Friday aléartier with the 28th regiment e known and at one time em- bd at the following places -- fed Jones at Jas. H. Dickson, Line, Alex. Cowan with Robt. fran and Fred Wakefield with Shera. They expect to go to um = gees @ month. a Westgate, beinibea Ch Tessa "a Oe ob es ) been in St. Se about three yeni Previous to that he-was in Atwodd. Shelburne is one of the best parishes | in the Diocese of Huron. Three barns belonging to Wm. Par- sons, two miles south of Woodstock, were destroyed by fire Sunday at noon. The loss is estimated at $8,- 000, the entire year's crop being burn- ed. The fire started in the driving shed and was of mysterious origin. It was with grent difficulty that Mr. In war as in peace the farmer feeds | . Miss Elvie Howard, of Guelph, and }} Parson's home and that of his hired man were saved. A strong west wind fanned the flames. Toe stock was all taken out in time. | Mr. Chas. Mason of Cardelle, Man, § the guest of his 'brother, Mr. W. asop, of town. Mr. Chas. Mason ormerly resided here and is an ex- esye of Elma und a former member pf the 28th Regiment. Thirty seven years ago he moyed to Navada and this is the first time he has been east gince then. At the time of the Reil tebellion he came to Western Canada and fought with the Canadian militia For the actiye part he took in the re- bellion the Dominion Government granted him 320 acres of land which he now holds. Mrs. Jas. Dickson of Stratford, is a sister of Mr. Mason.-- Listowel Standard. A well attended, representative and Spirited meeting of the executive of the Perth County Temperance Al liance which has lent stimulus to the county temperance campaign, was held Monday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A., Stratford, when the following iunportant resolution, moyed by Rev. W. J. Baird, of Mitchell, and second- ed aid Mr. R. B. Hamilton, of Mill- was unanimously passed :-- ey that we continue the work of completing the petitions at the earliest possible date; that these '|petitions be returned immediately || upon completion and not Jater than September 15th next; also that we push strenuously our educational and financial campaign and that the date of the taking of the vote bo left into & sub-committee to be appointed by is meeting." . The sub-committee later named consists of the officers of the association. The meeting was addressed by Rey. Ben H. Spence of the Dominion Alliance, Toronto; President, T. L. Hamilton and Field Secretary, Rev. John Little, of Lis- towel and several others. The re- ports of the president and field secre- pron hat and. you will haye an ans- inal many papers baye suspended publica- tion while others have cut down the size of the publication. In Canada the demand for paper since the out- break of the war has increased daily from 400 to 550 tons. The daily consumption of Toronto alone has jumped from 75 tons to 115 tons daily. You often want to know what con- stitutes a carload. Well paste this in ly a carload i 'Teale? 50 to 60 hore, { of sheep, 6000 feet of- Nibety 17,000 pice of siding, 13,000 feet of flooring, 5,000 feet of shingles, one half less of hard lumber, one third less of joist scantling and other large timbers, 340 bushels of corn, 400 bushels of wheat, 580 of oats, 156 of flax seed, 780 of apples, 340 of potatoes and 1,000 of bran. Trainmen on the railroads crossing Kansas report an unusual number of cases of train sickness, an iilness sim- ilar to sea-sickness, and they say the cause of itis ths wind waving the wheat fields alongside the track. The unusual height of the wheat this year and the fact that /the western and central counties presert an almost unbroken yista ef green made the country appear like.a yast ocean the wind sweeping across the fields mak- ing the appearance of waves This coupled with the motion of the train produces an illness akin to seasick- ness. Trainmen say some of their passengers have become so violently ill that they had to leave the train. Others are cured by the simple ~ex- pedient of not locking out of the windows. MAITLAND. Messrs. John B. Riach and Fian- ces Riach, of Maitland,. motored to Delhi last week to visit a sick friond. Mr. Jas. Hinks has erected the frame of a building which, when finished will be a fine addition to his commodious barn. Messrs. F. Ronnenburg and John Bllacott | built anew porch over the front door of School House No 8 Elma, last week which will be a great convience, Mr. D. Allen, of Ellice, was thresh- ing with his fine traction outfit on the 14th con. Elma, last week. Mr. Wm. Strickert was attending the same line of business on the 16th con. The yield and sample of the wheat is not as good as was expected : being badly shrunken. DIRECTORS MEETING. The Directors of the Elma Far- mers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co. met pursuant to adjournment on Tuesday, the 18th August. All the members of*the board were present but Mr. Shearer. The minutes of the last meeting were read, confirmed and signed. The secretary read the communication he had sent to J. W. Barr V.S., re certificate of post mor- tem examination. Mr. Barr had given Mr, Pfaff for a cow supposed to haye been killed by lightning also the reply he had received from Mr. Barr. After careful consideration owing to the very unsatisfactory explanation given by Mr. Barr, the company did not entertain any liability. $55.00 was paid A. Stevenson, of Ilma, for a 3-year old heifer killed by lightn- ing on August 13th, 1914. Applica- tions for insurance were. accepted amounting to $101,000.00. The meeting adjourned till Sept. 15th, to ae sla Ea at the usual time and pee. -- Hammond, earn on "VOTERS? ET 1914. MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP _OF BuMA, COUNTY OF PERTH. NOTICE is' hereby given that I have transmitted or delivered to the per- sons mentioned in Section 9 of the Ontarion Voters' List Act the copies required by the said section to be so transmitted or delivered of the list made pursuant to said act of all per- sons appearing by the last reyised Assessment Roll of the said munici- pality to be entitled to vote in the said munisoeey at _Clections for Members of the Legis! and at Municipal lection ; and that the said list was first postéd up at my office ix Atwood on the 21st day of August, 1914, and remains there for inspection. And I hereby call upon all voters to take immediate proceedings-to have any errors or omissions corrected according to law. Dated at Atwood this 2lst day of August, 1914 GEO. LOCHHEAD,. CLERK OF ELMA, The People of extra supplies of all 'lines war in Europe---enough to time. advances have had to be Will Not Have to Pay War Prices Immediately on the declaration of war we secured With the exception of sugar, our stock was all sold in a.week we are in a position to supply nearly all lines that we sell at regular prices and in cases where slight much less than would be necessary tf we had to go into the market for these lines teday. Eggs 24c. trade?23c cash. This Vicinity likely to be effected by a carry us through for some made these advances are Kh ATWOOD Wood and Tile It Phose 2-12 ios: _ Draying in Connection. i AS === S=[S=_=S=[=][SSSPS SSF' more to be pitied than blamed, as he | tary were quite encouraging and the lis simply a yictim of a. vicious and |association feels confident that their 'damnable military nutocracy, that is |efforts will be rewarded with success | going to be crushed in this war, prob-| when the question comes to a vote 'ably beyond hope of repair. early in the year. ~ Gowdy & Go. -The Store for all the People Listowel