F. R. BLEWETT, K. C, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY PUBLIC, . ETC., Gordon Block, Opposite Post Office, STRATFORD = a OnrT. Cecil Hamilton, B. A. Barriste -, Conveyancer. Solicitor for Imperial "Bank of Canada MONEY To LOAN, Om: St., next to Dr. Foster, tist, Beaoot 0 oftics in Atwood 'as ties LOUIS GABEL LICENSED AUCTIONEER, LISTOWEL, | ONT. Sales sonileiuid tes t in any part of Perth ounty at moderate charges. Satisfac- on Se eer te be arranged for at a FRED. VANDRICK, die LICENSED AUCTIONEER For the Counties of Perth, Huron an the Township of Maryborough. -- 1 a pee as Senitte 1 be given prompt a! Orders left oh. y "Vandrick's store, Lis owel, will ttention Driven Away. Taxes Increased to the Limit. reasonably well enforced. increase in assessment ; taxes are about the limit, 28 mills on Mere Boys Get Drunk. Lacal Option has been an enormous loss in business. proper accommodation, increased assessment, business that come here now goes to Peterboro' and Lindsay. d BOBO44 ®@ 6000848 inter Term from dan. 2 CENTRAL Mn ee WLLL ONT. is the leading Besines College in Western Ontari three departm ew Commercial, Shorthand and Telegraphy. It is larger and better than ever. @ Our courses are much better than @ those of the ordinary. Business pee and our graduates secure igh grade positions. A practical training is worth many times the If you want a Business Col- iors course select this school and get the best. $ Our c*talogue is free. Write for it at once. D. A. McLACHLAN, Principal. 20eee4et a. $ be found on our streets, temperate man, but I must confess this measure is a failure. > Young Boys Drink Now, Young boys get liquor now that could not get it when licensed hotels. TO THE BOYS AS THE LICENSED BARS, AS WE NEVER HAD BOYS UNDER LICENSE, day nights especially. Encourages Secret Drinking by Young Men. Local Option is not a success. ness and disregard of law. ot young men. IT IS DETRIMENTAL TO THE BUSINESS OF THE It has tended to promote Business is not as good as it was previous to Local Opti nearly the number of farmers come to this town now, liquor more than ever, An uyene sending arketch and dencrt ascoctain our opinton froe w prodah tent able handsomely illustrated pally, cplation of any scienuite journal 'ierms for te ELS a a 7m ar, postage prepaid. Sold by TAUNN & Co,2er-erm New York LISTOWFL Sash and Door Factory BAMFORD BROS. Builders cll cemase catioas drawn, and estimates furnished on application. SASH, DUOR FRAMES, BLINDS, ete,, tarnished on short nsotice. doae to order, Everything in the oul- ing -- will be given prompt attentivoo ard t clase Workmanship guaranteed Charges Moderate Bamford Bros. The License Laws are, in my opinion, better than this measure if There has been a loss in revenue and an W. J. CAMERON, Ex-Town Treasurer, Southampton. Mere Boys now GET Drunk, carousing is carried on at nights and drunken men are to I have lived here for many years and am a T. J. PARSONS, General Merchant, Omemee. Since this law came in force we have had mere boys arrested tor beiny drunk, and THIS LAW IS NOT AS GOOD A PROTECTION Lots of drunken men may be seen here, ou Satur- J. W MITCHELL, Omemee. It encourages secret drinking on the part JOHN CROCKER, Millbrook, Boys get WM, CALDWELL, Ex-License Inspector, Durban, Ont. READ WHAT THESE PEOPLE SAY OF LOCAL OPTION. the dollar in the police court, Lack of used to . . : Liquor is brought in and boys get order. we had Drunkenness is much in evidence. AKRESTED than under the license law. Jawless- VILLAGE. ion ; not liquer. Local Option. » To "Banish the Bar" Cry Local Option has turned out just about as expected. lower grades gets into the hands of boys much more than before. FRED. PEAKE, Ex-Warden of Northumberland and Durha Camp and Contractors prepared to contract for the erection of buil Plans Planirg Those people who pvsh Local Option claim have no ani- mus against the hotel. It is only iy ---- bar which they object ce their cry, "Bani the Bar" their chief desire being to lay as much stress upon that spade and simply, parrot-like, re- e thread bare formula "We proper, but only d e matter work out in actual practice? he Local Option party know ga they are trying to throw dust in the eyes of the voters of Ontario by this pretence of saving the hotel. Their gyrations with re- gard to this matter would be amus- ing were it not they had their ser- ious side, Very largely owing to to their efforts, the saloon pure cue simple, was abolished, and the taining of a liquor license made adhtect to the provision of a_ cer- tain accommodation for guests, as well as the providing of food For . | kore many years the clause of he License Act with respect to tees matters have been complied 'with, but another gyration of the temperance party has already tak- en away a considerable number of liquor licenses, ana it is now as- sailing many m Several conaeTanees follow the withdrawal of liquor licenses from jand an hotel. However much the tem- perance party may attempt to ob- scure the matter, in the great ma- jority of cases accommodation has been depreciated, the prices of the same increased, meals are dearer, and often not so good, In nota w instances the hotels are closed and the buildings devoted to other |purposes, These are factsof{ com- w |mon, everyday ae ger anry There is a world of difference be- tween hotels ety licensed under the existing system, and hotels in thorities {rom the Provincial Secre- tary down to the District License inspector, and in addition, there is a special Inspector charged with the supervision of the purely hotel' part of the hotel keeper's business That official can insist not merely upon the most up-to-date accom- |modation, equipment, foo cache and safety in the licensed Wetels of the Province, but the providing of the continuance of the license, un- der the existing system of full li- cense, the public is safeguarded in every possible manner Under Local Option all the safeguards for the public at once disappear This is obvious. Over an unli- censed hotel the Provincial Goven- ment the License Commissioners. the District or special Inapect- | whatsoever, ors. exercise no control ofanykind An hotelkeeper un- der the existing icone system cap be brough the "powers that be?' but t licensed hotelkeeper is poten {from regulations, he can do as he -- destroy the hotel system and n doing so it of the community. In how many ter? have the advocates of LocalOption justified their professions by them- selves establishing first-class unli- censed hotels and realizing fits wuich they so stoutly main- terprize? How hotels started with a loud flourish of the ption trumpet are are have come to grief? Communities have, however, further asset in the fully licensed hotel, The rateable value of the latter is always higher than that of an unlicensed hotel and the ial from license to "no li- cense" by lowering the rateable value of the hotel increases the : To sum up. The carrying of a ploases = no s can aes Local Option by-law either jeo- |B is right to 50 ac PUOD | Dard the existence of the hotel serjously interferes with the comfort and convenience ds Local Option centres of Ontario are - |the hotels of a first-class charac- In what number of instances epro- tain come from such a form of en- many unlicensed burden of taxation upon the com- In some cases of hotels his cape the attention of voters . Drunkenness Increases, Boys Drunk With Bad Liguor and Trade} Sends Trade to Other Places. On the whole it is not a good law as there is a great amount of drinking among young men and boys. places. Some of the supporters of Local Option are reputed to sell liquor on the sly, and one of them has been charged with the offence L. J. LABELL, Manager Cavendish Lumber Co., Lakefield. Not in Interest of Law and Order. it without let or hindrance, The general result of this Act has been bad on business and morals. I am a temperance man, and this law is not in the interest of law and REG. BRENNAN, 'Manager Temperance Hotel, Havelock, Ont. JAS. OVENS, Colborne, Ont. Boys Drink Bad Liquors. Liquor comes in here in almost all conceivable ways, and is usually of the lower grade and gets into the hands of mere boys much more bellford, Ont. Women Drink to Excess. Local Option in our town has proven very unsatisfactory, accom- modation has been destroyed, business driven to other places and worse than all thissmen and women have debauched themselves with My advice is, keep to your license system in preference to J.B. FERRIS, Campbellford. Local Option Ine1 Increases Taxes 4 this. --_ Option not come - the town now, it goes to other places, e thing La or lowers the standard of accom- modation, it renders that accommo- Me us eee extra taxation which falls to - borne by the community. It is common statement of the aioe cates of Local Option that owing to ce of count of a lessened extent of crim- ty. This is nonsensical, it ia besides incapable of proof The bar is changed from a_ regu- lated centre to innumerable dllexit- "Banish the Bar," cry is once more nm to be nothing other than a hollow mockery. Votera should see that they keep the rate of taxation is lowered on ac- | Pr ce sure of, we do not get it as former- . Liquor is not soldin the houses ere ani I know is, that t ar |bad to a the loss of about 25 n the selling value of Several places have sold oak ark the last year, since law came in force, and have left the town, The Local "Option law has been well kept here, but has hurt busi- ag od ness materially. Travellers and farmers do not come here ae 8 as ve much as they used to. ed this for over twen- and am now Clerk of the Munici- i { intact the existing condition 2 pality Ee -- regulation instead of Yours truly, T they can effectually J. W. Bryan do if if "they vote against Local Op- General Manager. tion |Havelock. 94-44-4444 ARE YOU RUPTURED? I can cure the worst case of Rupture from in- fancy to old age, without operation or loss of time, ACT AT ONCE and remove the daily dan- ger of strangulation. Fill in coupon and sead FeveueeCeeeeeCeeeeeeeeee > SPCC T CTT TTT TTT ee ed J. S. SMITH, 88 Caledonia St. Dept. Z, Stratford Ont. Name Address "Age.....<Lime Ruptured ve+sesseeee On what side Rupbured .....0-cs0+ . PSeCUCeCC CCC CCC TCC CCC +otooorrrrTTTTT""""",","TTTYYYYYYYYYYy. weveCetwveve™ pewuwr? The C. P. R. elevators at Owen Sound, with a million bushels of grain, several cars and the. Government light- house, were burned. TOWN OF LISTOWEL. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, 1912 _-- 'Pabile neti is hereby given that a mecting of io Electors ; of phy oot Listowel will be the ees ual on Friday, December 22, 1911, at 19 e'chook a. m.. be) tions a Sayer -- wONAY sa ton aoe idates Monday, the ist Day of January, rg12, pene ny 5 Sertiock | p.m, - with the following pezrone Depuiy be at SPN etn om, | B i i ee DRUGS A Specialty. A fine assortment of Perfumes of the best makes, prices and quality to suit all. Also a nice line of Ebony Brushes, Military Sets, m very suitable for this season of the year. An early call will be toyour | Bk {0 | advantage. "JAS. A. STUART. Druggist, cE = 2 CHRI ° NEW YEAR EXCURSIONS Between all stations- in also to N Pails STMAS AND iagara and B ita io uffalo NY Detroit sd Port Huron, Imperial - Bank OF CANADA. IG IIA CAPITAL PAID UP RESERVE FUND TOTAL ASSETS CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED Ay Over $72,000,000.00 of this Bank is the security their care. solicit your banking business. The first consideration of the Officers and Directors The past record is an absolute guarantee of sound and safe banking methods ; on this evidence of stability we ONE DOLLAR opens a Savings account and makes you the possessor of a Bank Book, of the funds entrusted' to PALA MRI Ae. a This law sends trade toother Liquor of Municipal Elections, 1912. TOWNSHIP OF WALLACE, -- Electors of the? the Township of. Wal- lace are wereey notified nae a public meeting A oad, in Hall, Gowanstown, o Friday, the 22nd Day of pecan ap Meaty the ist Day of January, 1912, to ans at the hour of 9 o'cloek a. ge to continue open until 5 o'clock _Peiling oF hate No. 1, at the eese Factory, Alvin E. Kennedy D. peolling Subdivision No. 2, the School Rome & in U.S. S. No. 5, John Mason ip Hall, @ bdivision No. 8, the Town- ig Gowanstown, Adam ne » polling Subdivision No. 4, the House in S, S, bo. 8, J. Walker 'to Polling ag og? No. 5, the School . No. 12, James McEwan Polling Subdivision No. 6, the School ouse in S.S. No. 11, Wm. H. Mc- Clennan D. R. O. DAVID GREE Re ea Dec. 7, 1911. ning No Nicer Christmas Present for your best girl than a Kodak A full assort- ment at C. A. LEE'S, x Main Street - + Listowel. J. GABEL Issuer of; Marriage§Licenses. In Our (New Premi- ses. SL. KIDD & SON Are now installed in their new premises on Main Street, One Door East of Post Office ' where they keep Only the Choicest Meats. Our stock will he found the larg- est and best in town and includ- ing everything in the line of Fresh and-.Cured Meats, Sausages, etc. We aim to satisfy our custom- . ers andto make new ones and we keep the goods to do it with. to any part of town. S. L- KIDD & SON 'PHONE ai,