were prepared pepting 21,002 an increase to $1,100 at midsum-j _ erith {Sit Babscription Rate $2.00 a Year in Advance, Otherwise $2.50 * i for a “s with six the ladies of the staff. It was an interes and the situation was a bit tense at times. Teachers present were Miss Hall, Miss Austin, Miss \Kenzie, Miss Hawkins,and Miss Sand- erson. a“ baad Should Get 31200 " These are receiving a salary of $900 a year, but the schedule drafted by the Teachers’ Federation, they should: be getting trzee. For the present though, they ; to compromise by ac- ‘rom Juuuary int ana mer. next was a matter of af- ter-consideration. If -this wergn’t granted, it,was a case of iquit. | “The board didn’t accept their ulti- matum in a spirit of hopeless sub- to close Federation came in for consid cism. The proficiency of the taff wasn't questioned but the board Ft felt that the Federation was getting) the teachers “in wrong Mc-| t EVERYBODY'S COLUMN Ten cents a line for first in- MAID WANTED Apply to Mrs. J. W. Scott, town. tf BOARD AND BOOM Provided for refined young lady. All conveniences. Apply this office. + FOR SALE A sumber of steel coal oil cans. Wm. Stricker & Son. 3tap a POR SALE Two good holstein cows, {ust freshened. Edgar Schlimme, Lis- towel. 5 tinp FOR SALE Horse, cutter and harn also Ford car.' Apply F. O. Clarke, the Bazaar. itup White Wyandotte Pullets. $2.00 up. Cockerels $5.00. Apply Rev. W. H. Dunbar. . Btap TIME TO PAY UP All persons owing J. will head of the Music Hall stairway. tfap Good Cutter. Apply R. B. White. tf) ; H. McDonald, |- call at his office at the| under re RE ig TREE uae AER ES F : it 1 r 4 i : Seis Te Bet Wel Sey ~ The Girls “Put It Over’ board might as well accept their resignations at once. He didn't think ing more in the face of present con- ditions, He would think of s = ing a point and making the x $1,000, instead of $990 as at pres- ent, but felt certain that the board negative. . Mr. Livingstone 15 after furth ! vat the ation, and there _ laugh wien he [ F $ i opEape He to both teachers and ’ ™~ Sky ‘The Limit Rev. J. M. ted : badly cut up. it was pretty hard shuffling around, for owing to the mild weather, the ice -~was In poor condition and soon has been postpon- ther skating ed ‘till after the hockey match booked; ™an. for Friday night between Milverton ‘ and Listowel. ; The ice was bad. but everybody agreed it’s “some rink”— one of the best in the land. The next hdmcwmeds baking sale 4 thediret game night by 5 to the Ni ector C caplaceal =o s+ ae ou te mean that Mr, Hamilton's explanation made it look lke “found money” and it is ex- ‘pected that the council will put the w. the unsat- m of the town lock- up and urged that it be put in proper shape for use in case the occasion arose. Listowel Wins First DEFEATED ELMIRA ON OWN ICE TUESDAY, BY SCORE OF FIVE Elmira, Jan. 11.—Listowel of the season here to- 3, in the senior series of The ice was good and Cully Rocker had his team going in fine shape, de- spite the fact that comparatively little actual practice on ice has been avail- able this season. The game was clean. and Referee Kinder was compelled to impose but few penalties. The back-bone of the Listowel-Pal- merston team, twice N. H. L. cham- | pions, now playing with Listowel, scored the first and only goal in the first period, but the locals tied the score in the second 20 minutes of play, only to be outgeneraled in the last pertod. ' The teams: Elmira (3)—Goal, fense, Selling. oO; de- Weichel; s, Phillips. players by train Tuesday afternoon and re- te! The whole cougcil was named as a striking committee and on adjourn- in och.) urer_was to be looked up. incense OF Te Case Of The ‘Treasurer—! sod ure} “‘Jee-Wilson Again “‘Cop.”...| ,.B°*< The statutory meeting of the new- ly council was beld Monday morning at eleven, when the members all subscribed to the oath of office. A brief address was made by Mayor Maleolm, who congratulated ithe passed by the council before being It was admitted that last year there had been laxity in this respect and members of the council knew nothing certain bills until the items appear- ed in the printed arnes! statement. Two orthree communications were read, including one E urer, and previous to that seeer re--- ciérk, who made application for the combined offices of treasurer an clerk. This matter and other communica-| tions were left over for the night meeting and to aid the council in making the appointments of the town officials for 1921, Mayor Malcolm read the list for last year and the salaries paid them. © ment of the inaugural meeting, the various committees, as given else- where, were selected, and at the night meeting, confirmed. The Evening Session | The principal business of the even-! ing session was the passing of the by- | law for the apointment of the town officials. It came mear not getting the final reading because of trouble over the appointment of town trezs- urer. In filling out the blanks in the form, the office of town clerk was the first ub for consideration. Last year's clerk was B. L. H. Bamford, editor of The Standard, and his salary $ 2 r. . Councillor Sangster referred to Mr. Is Allowed Only |" ngaging q@| 50n by the month, at $100, instead of 00 a might lead to other increases. Binning wouldn't accept the last year’s pay, he a new treasurer, little discussion and it received its third reading and finaly passed. Another seprotet=ssst pagan tan eta 1 ohne coer co ion, an posed of by re-e by the year, a motion to this effect being moved by Councilor Donaldson and seconded by Councillor Mc- Donald. There was another bearing on the same matter, appointing Councillora { Sangster, McDonald and Kemp, a. committee to go into the constable question and report at the next meet- gs. An application for the position of — constable, at a salary $75 per’ 7 month, was received ‘Mr. David © Angar, but Councillor Sangster gave it the knock-out blow by stating that Mr. Angar had been talking to him since sending in the application, said that he “didn't sign it of his own free will and would be glad to get out of Carl Rocker, made night watch a few months ago, was re-appointed at the same salary, $80 a month. “A Lot of Money” Councillor Kemp questioned the advisability of spending $2160 for : nd he“was in favor of Bamford as having given satisf. and moved his re-appointment at the same salary. This was seconded and carried. 4 The appointment of town treas- urer came next. Mr. Binning, who applied for the combined offices, pointed out that in doing so it was with the understanding from Mr. Bamford that he didn't intend to ac- cept the office as clerk for another year. By combining the offices, there wou)i be something worth while in it for the one maz, he felt. As for accepting the office of treasurer a- gain, he could only do so in case of a substantial increase in . And as certain members of the council were standing firm against any salary increases whatever, there was a dead- lock for a time and the bylaw came near being shelved while a new treas- Doubled Clerk's Mr. Binning felt that he was en- titled to fair consideration and re- ferred to his long record of service fer modest remuneration. of the Hospital Auxiliary will be held| turned next day. Quite a few fans! wasn't, he felt, a great deal of differ- in the Business College rooms, Feb.| motored over and found the roads} ence in the amount of work done by 19th. . the clerk and the treasurer. The least AND THE WOOD’S"FULL OF ’EM fF # ‘ (t5jj7=p-5 —- —s ~, LE \\ ON Sav/4 re asad \ YY 4 ANG Aa) " NV NY: hal an NN NW ANININ NNN a y, } years 4 since he left Listowel to make his saving some of it if there was a safe way out. There was a letter from Miss Tabberner, asking for re-appointment as tax collector at an increase of $50, to $250. She was again named as collector, but at the same salary. A bylaw was put through, provid- ing for a loan in the form of an over- draft, of $45,000 at six per cent., from the bank of Hamilton, to take cars of current expenditures, The bylaw, endorsed by the rate- payers, calling for a loan of $25,000 to Perfect Wheels, Ltd* Listowel, was given its ‘third reading. $13,000 Overdraft Manager Wanzer of the bank of Hamilton. was at the meeting, and in answer to a question as to the amount of the town's overdraft, stated that it was in the neighborhood of $13,- 000. In the face of this, Mayor colm could offer no hopé for a de- crease in the tax rate. He referred to the board of education overdraft of $5,000, as something unexpected, that had to be taken care of. He stated that it hadn't come before the council and that the first the council knew of it was at the end of the year. James Is Dead At Vancouver PASSES AT ADVANCED AGE POLLOWING BAD FALL. Mr. James Armstrong, a former well known merchant of Listowel and one of the town’s early settlers, is dead at the home of a daughter in Vancouver, B. C. Mr. Armstrong formerly conducted a store on Main street in the stand now occupied by Mr. Rogera, the taflor. It must be twelve or fifteen home with one of his two daughters residing in Vancouver. He will be particularly remembered by many- ci on account of his getting around with the aid of crateh- es because of the loss of a leg. Word of his death came today to Mr. W. E. m his son Arthur of Vaneourer Message bond dated yesterday, and read as fol- ws: The Women's Missionary Society Keox Church will conduct a - Aid room on Saterday af-