oa aE TRS ‘ ri “invest. (Frank foptey im Fora Weekiy.) Halt’ a Saal ag in the country ‘districts, .oné of ‘the chief forms of} them, “* "and" ee ss amusement was Sine. ling bee. The} driac’” rolled glibly from thetr ton-| bie aa ft pupils in a school would range them-| gues. And when a champion d it ak a a id block wi 5 of: = #* ‘blaze : an-easy one, a-word which any school muck } and most of boy.could readily spell. words a was the champion of that. echdo The ices schibbls of the town | f would challenge one another to and the one who out-spelled them all was the champion of the town. :. Then the town-champions’ would meet in some convenient place, with| their respective adherents, and spell for the championship of the county. It was great.sport, those spelling -bees, each town rooting for its cham« pion. And the champions themselves were the pick of the young men and women of the village. It seemed as if they knew how to spell every word in the dictionary. -“Mesopotamia’’ and + EVERYBODY'S COLUMN Ten,cents a line for first in- sertion, with minimum charge of 50c. Subsequent insertions five centa a line with minimum eharge 26c. FOR SALE: Vacuum cleaner, good as new, $35.- 0. W. R. Reynolds. FOR SALE Happy Thought range, in good or- der. Apply George Melrose. tfup Withelm, spelled it ““P-0-W beHev Kaiser E-R."" Th was almost invincible, would brin by ship, disappeared beneath of power-seekers found they wrongly spelled “Success.” A host Manner. spell “Success’’—“F-A-M-E.”” tion of their fellows. fawned upon by an admiring crowd. other way than F-A-M-E, OUR PRICES On Lath, Shingles, Cedar Posts, Sewer and Land Tile, will interest you. R. T. Kemp and Son, tinp LIBERAL REWARD. For return of purse eae Ege sum of money, lost gn Thursday Listowel.tair. Pinder kindly soeee a) “eniw oMmice. ’ FARM FOR SALE One hundred acres, north half lots 57 and 58, first concession Grey; half , mile east of Molesworth. Apply Mrs. I, McCluskfe, Route 1, Listowel. 3tup FOR QUICK SALE Six room house on Elma street, re- cently remodelled and decorated in- side and out; electric lights, town .water, large lot.'A. E. Pelton, . GIVING UP BUSINESS Have some good watches ard spec- tacles for sale cheap. Watch glasses and main spripgs put in at old price. Up stairs over Adolph’s Hardware store. 8. M. Smith. 9tnp FOR SALE Bight horse power Magnet gasoline engine at $325 and five horse power Lister gasoline engine at $300; both in splendid shape. Apply J. W. Sarg- ster, telephone No. 14, Nistowsl tfnp. ANNOUNCEMENT | The Sunday School Convention of Wallace township announced for Thursday Oct, ‘7th. afternoon and evening will be held in the Kurtzville Evangélical church, instead of the Sixth Line Wallace church, as stated in error on the bills. IMPORTANT , Can supply Dominion, Provincial or Municipal Bonds, with attractive Fates of interest, paid promptly half- yearly. . ‘No better security cah be found for any one having money to Cail and ‘talk the matter over and we will explain just how well and * ° * * * . * * * * . . . . * * * * ° * e LJ * * * * * * * o - LJ e * persons who wrongly spell ‘Success’ are pe Who use the letters ‘‘M-O-N- E-Y." believe that wealth will ‘their hearts’ desire; that es all things are possible. cases Money is obtained at the ¢ pense of a good name, character an Mealbh..« Success The man who rightly spells SUC- CESS is the one who uses the S for great SERVICE; the U_ for NESS; the two C's for COURAGE an CHARACTER; the E for ENDEAVOR and the two 8's for SINCERITY and. SIMPLICITY. That man will be the champion speller of his time, an honor which cannot be taken away, for he has learned the true way to spell SUC- top| cess. . * . . = . * * * é DON'T MISS. THE BELL _ BINGERS Do not fail to hear the Bell Ringers’ Male Quartet, Mon- day, October 4th. in the Musié Hall. This isthe first of five enter- tainments to be given under auspices of the Daughters of the Empire during the fall and winter. They are under the same bureau as the Chautau- qua and of the same high standard. Tickets are on sale at all dry-goods stores. Get yours now. No,season’s tickets sold after Monday. Price of season ticket $2.50, with 250 war tax to, be paid when you reserve your seat: children's ticket $1.25 and 10c war tax. Single concert tick- ets 75c and be war tax. Plan for the first concert will be open at The. Banner office, Monday at two o’clock— positively mot before that hour. ' ° * es ° oe * * secure we can invest your money. We make no charge, merely procure such Bonds as we know Gre firat clasa and that you decide to buy, bearing six. per “cent{ Interest or better, pay- able promptly every six months. We consider this better than any mort- age. ~ Apply to J. W. Scott or T. L: Ham- ton, Offices over Bank, of Montreal,) Listowel. FARM FOR SALE Eighty five acres of cholce farm land, part lot 17, con, 14, Mornington township, half mile west of Dorking; brick gta tobe 32x22, brick kitchen 22x18, large woodshed, bank: -barn 60x64, also driving shed; two never- falling spring wells and ci con- venient Ps ati ‘and barn, good or- and partly under-}. deaiged. ana: atl 1 in Paz: state of ¢ul- tivation; good roads-and rural mail, half mile from school, mile from chureh and station; fall plowing wilt! be af done, : five acres it On application for revogation of Or- der-inCouncll in tfnp} Section 1 ance Act that a petition signed by at least one fourth in number of. the vat- laid retary of State for Canada, praying for the revocation of the order..af| His Excellency, the Governor General|, of Canada, in force In. the County of Perth. Part two of the Canada Tagaeenee: ‘Act; a ‘pres such petition PUBLIC NOTICE into force the provisions of Part 2 of the Can- a iad ead of Perth. . Notice is hereby given pursuant to 113- of. the Canada Temper- ers in the County of Perth, will be before the Henourable the Sec- Council, nat apd into the office of the Sheriff of the th at the Court House ‘Per . the Clty of baipisy gh 3 payee On the fifteenth F Foe “Nebuchadnezzar” had no terrors for In one of the county spelling bees, a champion, who had held that title rectly—he spelled it with one C. is storeroom ist eb But this erstwhile defender of the ery the Listowel B De chaMpionship was not the first man) put 4 baker, Mr. goege tates who'has suffered defeat because of| there was no fire the way he spelled “ “" Ever] While her new borer ‘tet since the world began men and wo-| ected, Mrs. Kelly has Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and ed that the pos- ‘session of ‘huge armies which they could wield at will, and a navy which & them eternal success.. But the armies crumbled away, and the nauies, ship. the waves, and too late, this great via had of others whose namés‘history fails to record have gone down to defeat be- cause they also spelled it in the same Then there are. those who would The wielding of power has no fascination for them, but they crave the adula- Their supreme desire is that their names shall be on the lips of the multitude. They covet praise; they long for notoriety; they aspire to be known and flattered, and Success to them can be spelled in no Perhaps the greatest number of Meeting At Stratford] ey do not consider that in miAny “Ghye us money,” gthey cry, Btnp) “for in that way, only can ‘we spell SA SESS SSR eS Cees se esesee be deposit-j “| age was from water.a as wi little fire or Was, ap) spread to hér ghee and of men ascended to rescue a few come with smoke and h lip. Alvin Kelly Managed to front room but the aeons was, much for him-and to g sia 2 foreed in a front windows a Fortunately the blaze waa c to the store room and from. for there is no Indication of ¢ am Members of -the fire dep ¥e were promptly on the job but was some little delay in ing th get tos hose attached to the- at the Arlington corner. It finally went o with the thread c , resulting ip, a leak of considerable proportion. The chief didn’t show up; and lack-| ing a head, there were some conflict+| ing orders, . 1 a r Report Of W. M. S. INTERESTINGLY WRITTEN ota The Septeniber toate’ ot thee ecutive of the: W. M. ford Presbyterial was. “hela in. church, Stratford, on Taneday. Seve tember 28th. . Miss Rennie, the president, seem- ed to bring to the meeting more than. her usual enthusiasm so that a foroe- ful presentation of some of the big things and a frank and free discussion of plans and ‘problems made it one of the best meetings the executive ever held. The question of a nurses’ home at Indore, as a gift from the Presbyter- ial, was discussed; the majority of the auxiliaries heard trom expressed sym- pathy with the undertaking and it will be fully and, finally dealt with at the annual meeting in January. Mra. J.-P. ay, corresponding secretary, will atso look after the dut-/ jes of the rechraing seoretary, -until the end of the year. Mrs. Finlay Math- éson was appointed secretary of Y.. W. auxiliaries (a new office) and she and Miss Rennie will be glad to look after any organization work through- out the Presbyterial. The follawing were yp tatcc Choma bers of the nominating committee: Mrs. (Dr.) Armstrong, Mitchell; Mrs. Bell, Tavistock; Mrs. Stewart, Burns; Mrs. Jas. Cleland, Listowel; Mrs. Jas. Scott, Cromarty. Auxiliar- ies are asked to arrange their own thank offering meetings this year, as no returned missionaries are avail- able for itinerant meetings and any other plan is too expensive. A new auxiliary at Fraser church, Lucan, with eleven members, was wel- comed into Presbyterial membership. The message to our meémbership from this inspiring meéting is, ‘‘more of everything’’—consecration, infor- mation, thought, time, sympathy prayer, money! To the “‘fopr-fifths”— “Come and help us." One thousand million who Have never heard the gospel! Every door in the heathen world marked “push!” $500,000 to be raised by the W. M. to meet the estimates for 1920. $8,- 000 of this*the ‘share of the Strat- ford Presbyterial; an increase of $2,- 000 over last-year, or an average of $9.00 per member! Some thought was given to “Oct- ober,” in some respécts the most won- derful month In. the year and certain- ly the most interesting to the W. M. harvest past, summer _ended, beauty indescribable, thanks-giving. thanks-living, thanks-offering, . doés this’ mean to our membe and the four-fifths? It should mean a thank offering meéting the like_of}. which haye ae seen; it should mean ap give the like of which we have never enjoyed ; to give not what we can, but what we éan- a 7s 83 over-| A to sive, | ac.| toe: determined not to be low COUNT IS SENT IN BY. PR uN h. eprertin pete Pree J. ‘SECRETARY. ae: oover of Guelph in the finals, and + | attet the closest-game of the day, the Fcoend lasted a ight, the final match being sta ed. just as daylight broke this morn- ing... The tournamen bogs be my h event elimination of a aisty four rink entry being played off hin one'day. “The eighteen rinks were in constant use‘all day-end “night and a@ total’ of 183 games were run off. “The second event, which was play- ed at'two-thirty in the morning, went for eight rounds. Some very hard mes were fought, as a number of stalwarts whg went down in the open- thg event, entered the second competi- into a third class. The resu t was latter, cine nee on top ‘with an to séven Sets Seta tye jhieca is rounds ‘and the final was wtaged at . five o'clock in the morning, with the same keen playing that predominated din the previous events, very few play- ers défaulting. In this competition such well known players as W. Gould of Acton, Dr. Robertson of ; Blora, George Chapman of Guelph, Ald. Hiltz of Toronto, Rédiner Bros. of Wellesley and Bachelor. of Owen Sound, went down to deféat, while erg strong players were algo élimin- . The finals were between H. Makoues of Guelph and W.B. Screa- ton:of Listowel, the local bowler get- ting the best of his opponent by a count of nine to four.” The third rink from Listowel was -Tom Burnett and “Scotty” Melrose. at pn | Erie was born in Howick township 36 years ago, and spent all his life on the farm where he died, His father Samuel D. Martin, predeceased him five years ago. He is survived by six sisters, Mrs. Jas Stutt of Port Arthur, Mrs. W. Carrol, Sturgeon Falls, Mra. Orm Bailey, Baptiste; Mrs. Roy Car- roll, London; Wilma and Evelyn, To- ronto; and two brothers, Garfield and Whitney, Toronto. His mother-also resides in Torogto, ‘The funeral, which was largely at- tended, was held Sunday, Sept. 19th., to Fordwich; with service in the Pres- byterian church, Rev. T. A. Bell of Molesworth having c Burial was made in rdwich cemt- etery, The was Gorrie C. O. F., which comdnste ae : les, Edwin aes Ww. 4 n e tha. treasur, Former Listowel Resident a former’well known resident of Lis-|| towel, occurred at Stratford on Sat- dence, 169 sixteen years, but had only been con- fined to his bed for about two weeks. Trowbridge 56 years . & grea part of his life was spent Listowel, ‘but for the past five years has d- ed in Stratford, ~ that period with the George McLagan member of firm fone children, Mina, Harold, Bruce) ‘pnd Margaret, all at ‘home. His, ‘mother and five brothers aiso sur- vive: Albert of High Bluff, Man; eo of Medicine Hat, Dr. 8. H., exterior of attractive - architecture. But since its erection the one regret has:been that allowance wasn't made for a basement above ground, which then could have been provided for at & fraction of the present cost of the Ci Planned, which will not be as satisfactory on aceount of the neces- sity of going four feet underground. With voluntary aid it is estimated | that the basement can be completed for considerably less than $10,000,! probably’ not more than $5,000 or! $6,000, whereas.a néw separate build- ing for Sunday School accommodation would cost more like $20,000. Town members of the congregation will] likely do. the excavating and it is ex- pected that the farmers “will supply! the gravel. . Work on the drains is to be com- menced at once nd the plans age to have the excay gravel, as well ‘cement floors, winter months. nero remainder of the work wil be 4 with immediately foNowing, will de- _pend’ somewhat be the price of build- Noa pavetial and e. the cost of the qaneraarney and ia. the time their coming tea meeting is over, expect to have $1,000 of that amount At present the Sunday School meets in the auditorium of the church and for the study of the lesson the class- es scatter in various directions, a number meeting in what was the old ayy The ‘superintendent is Mr. E. G. McDonald, principal of the Pub- lft school. Provision for an up-to-date Sunday School room will not only fill a long felt want, but make Knox church, in addition to being a beautiful edifice, complete from the standpoint of éfi- clency. With a little remodelling, the heating system, it is thought, will be ‘tleged lawlessnas of the town. who lets his dog run at large + demands to the distiller of pen igh as having an abgolu see the manufacture : of the. latter eattra suppressed. the ee Yer ap a es of t tern Justice Orde of Tororito p true bill on the murder. ch ly in the prosecution of c e fe Ah decision of the town counell M even Several members of ‘the . sided over by the president, plaints from some residents a : 33 # He 4 a tag or the citizen who-does mom TS Ro whisky. @Mayor Symon and members of the- council exp Guelph, Sept. 27.——The fall ass supreme court opened this n at the court house with ter the grand jury had. icons gainst Col. Laughran’and ‘Mrs, N ro satistactory. Basel, the Maryboro township ce . who are all to have caused The Late Fite Meri : * « . * « * * «© * ¢& ‘ death of the iMlegitimately born + Wes Misch Repected| > ocapran aigeoo anion $] S00, as, Oven eras am * * - The news of the dea death of Brie’ Mar- ‘ poned, as the crown was not tin, in the township of Howick, came! . Oaens pbrrenae cg ae *| to proceed. Justice Orde an with a shock to his many friends in| , . «| that the heariny would. ted lett ¢ the disttict where he resided tears, before the Grand Jury */ until the spring! He had been to Gowanstown in the}, ‘% Chicago yesterday, Eddié * ij)-neaith, Mrs. Beisel forenoon of Tuesday, Sept. 14th., de-|, Cicotte. premier pitcher of the */ out of jail some time ago and livering stock, and in the afternoon), Cicago American agus *| was renewed at $15,000 at four o'clock, he ahd his brother! , shoe cr bio bbe tor cinders *| is still in custody Whitney had brought in a load of ; ; . — barley, and as Erie stooped to fasten ‘ EMA octecese ong a Nip e wi the sling to unload, he Prasad tk that], the Cincinnat! National Takacs at Te Banner he felt very sick and asked tney - to get him adrink. The brother ran| . outlet also admitted thet *| . Hear Frank Oldfield, Canada’s quickly to the house and soon return-} , New: York-Philadelphia- * who ed, but found Erie had succumbed. |, . | finest goice in America, His sudden death has cast a gloom Chicago Cleveland syndicate of Hall on Thursday Oct, 14th ‘Over the neighborhood as he was lov-| , ease tee Se hie Gectioes * | singer is already booked to a : ' or id every large in Ontario htt’ Siid aetenhors epee. Padarapeny , Tomita the shameful conspit- - */ ams valos te beyond ma * ‘} Seene with willing hands to do all|, oy: # must be heard to be »| they could, s 8 © © © © © © 8 (eo | eemeeetie Died Recently / At Stratford The death of. Mr. hiir. Joseph N. Large, urday, September 18th., at his. resi- uro stree t. He had been ailing for the past The late Mr. Large was born 4 ing employed for He leayes to. mourn, his: wife and ss, es mined ee ee aan m that nee “The floral tributes titul. City, Mich? Dr. F. A., Windsor; fal"Uat Shwe it we ‘ethankfal” perky <t the: Higgs and Jas. ‘of Killam, Aita: we will come to the annual tha geek out tothe bereaved once 46 tues fun ee Tuesday, July ist The er's Sub- acription Rate 7 was of Necess- “ity, Increased. to $2.00 a vows in Advance There are * few subscrib- | ers, who probably through | oversight, have not _ kept paid up.