, eillors McDonald and Kemp, the -organization on}. » Someone Otherwise $2.50 WN M. S. of London Methodist Conference Holds Inspiring ; Convention i in Listowel : “REPORTS SHOW THAT YEAR JUST ©LOSED WAS THE MOST SUC- ; CESSFUL IN THE -SOCIETY’S ' HISTORY — DELEGATES EN- JOYED THEIR STAY HERE. The twenty-seventh annual con- -yention of the Woman’s Missionary, societies of the London Methodist} ‘conference, held in Listowel on Wed- nesday, Thursday and friday of last ‘week, was one of great interest and inspiration, and the reports received ‘were the most.encouraging yet, be- ting indication of a year of splendid} progress There. were 205 delegates besides the officers, and. these were unani- mous ‘in their praise of the local so- ciety for the excellent hospitable reception tendered the delegates, who were comfortably bil- -leted largely in Methodist homes. Wednesday evening all ‘were given a motor ride over Listowel’s nicely paved streets, and the town's attrac- tive appearance elicited: from the del- egates much favorable comment. The greeting to the delegates was given by Mrs. (Rev.) Hazen in a very able address, and responded to by Mrs. W. ‘'H. Graham and Mrs. W. E. \Pescott. There was also a civic welcome Wednesday evening, the council being represented by Coun- who congratulated fts most creditable record and spoke Your dollar will have its old-time} buying power in Listowel on Dollar Day. provision | - made for the convention and the very } provi of the pleasure it was to have. the convention meet in Listowel. at the various séssions, ly those of the evening, but the largest gathering was on Wednesday night, when the program included the ad- dress of the ee capable president, who as presiding officer during the convention, filled the position admir- ably, having the happy faculty of saying and doing the ‘right thing " the right time and place. She wa introduced by the efficient first hae president, Mrs, J. H. Tennant of Lona) See don, who spoke of the excellent qual- ities of the president and of the great momentum jthe work of the W. M. §. had received - the result of her ac- tivities, Mrs. Wright first emphasized to the delegates that they were in great business—that of winning the world to Christ. She heartily congratule- ted the branch on the” magnificent success that had ‘attended ‘the efforts Advance had character- ized ey department of the work. She phasized eimportance of strateut raving and the necessity of still more strenuous effort though it might mean @ sacrificial one. Mrs. Wright felt that there was a great field of opportunity in the western provinces of China, where every field was calling for increased support. The president particularly emphasiz- ‘ed the great field of opportunity op- 4 up in our own land, among for- éigners, Indians, and also in the of Quebec. Wright much régretted a for lack of funds, the organizatio had been obliged to bliminate from of the year. its program, some projects that were of urgent demand. The branch was congratulated on EVERYBODY'S COLUMN Ten cents a line for first in- sertion, with pps of 50c. Subsequen sertions five cents a line ith minimum charge 25c. spd » * ‘Tio. FOR SALE» Horse, motor truck and bicycle. Apply Harry Youn, Listowel. timp: “$1700 for a new mission field at way, between Lesage shown and Ko- The report of Mrs. Cotta, corres secretary, was very grati There was a splendid " attendance| ~ "| Memorial Tablet ag Unveiled on Sunday] || BEARS NAMES OF FIVE MEMBERS} ponding secre’ cae. showi annual membe pt of 87 Hitccase of 1,391, over per cent. f mae ‘ "WANTED. Sie "A tew oe nurses, apply to the city. OF STRATFORD sae HOSPITAL, STRATFORD, 6t STORE TO LET _ As we are moving to Main street, my store on Wallace street will be to let. Apply to ©. C. Douglas, eit eller, bid nt st. GARDEN PARTY On school grounds, Britton, Fri- day, June 10th, under jauspices of Britton Club. Supper from sir to nine. Good Program. ae 25c 2t and 85c. WANTED A lecal representative at Listowel to represent “The Old Reliable Font- hill Nurseries and cover surrounding territory. A splendid opening for a reliable mn. Exclusive territory. STONE & WELLINGTON, Toronto, Ontario. 5tnp IMPORTANT Dominion, Provincial and Munici- pal Bonds for sale, yielding up to 7%. Prompt delivery. Come in and see how well we can supply your re- quirements. J. W. Scott or T. L. Hamilton, office over Bank of Mont- real, Listowel. tinp . GARDEN PARTY A garden party ‘under auspices of the Ladies Aid of Knox church, will be given Donald Menzies, third line east, Wal- lace, on Wednesday evening, June Sth. Supper served, beginning at six, followed by a fine musical pro- gram. ‘Admission: Adults 35c, chil- dren 25c. 2tup CHURCH PROPERTY ‘FOR SALE The undersigned trustees of the Pvangelica! church, second concession | ‘of Wallace township, have been au- thorized to sell by public auction on Tuesday, June 2ist, at two o'clock, the church building, which is of frame construction, 28 by 38 feet in demen- sion; with contents, shed and lot. Terms cash. W. H. Good, Isaiah Hall- man, John Bender, Trustees. aftnp SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS AT PIKE Boat Races and Swimming races, basketball. etc., also a number swimming contests including Walk- ing the Greasy Pole, FRIDAY, JUNE &rd. The feature of thé day will be the performance of Canada’s. Champ- fon Trick Conoeist, who will keep you thrilled during the entire time he is working. See him thet a canoe can be upset without getting water into it, and watch him propel a boast without paddling. Dancing afternoon and — Fry- Com enjoy fogle’s Orchestra. yourself. Admission 2 Grounds: stp Adults, 60c; children, 26c. BOCHOEK es ded = font | ‘The report of the circles, which| Pi the bands, the home of Mr. and Mrs* denionstrate| co rar w akg 830 are new There are 211. Weer comprise the older members of comprise the younger ladies, was read by Mrs. (Rev. Dr.) Graham. It also showed splendid progress. Four- teen new circles had been formed during the year, making a total of 80 circles. The amount raised by the gy during ~4 year was $10,- 174, an increase $1,949. total etiele Se ecthiy” * 3,567, an increase (of /204. 1 Mrs. R. 8 Heard of St. henge! gave a splendidly prepared report o which is the iateatsl branch, and which showed an in- crease in bands of fifteen per cent. New bands were formed at Wood- ham, James St., Exeter; Florence, Listowel, Trowbridge, Donegal, Oil! Springs, Melbourne, Springfield, Moy avenue, Windsor, and Ges The total receipts from auxiliaries, | circles and bands was $58,831.29, an increase for the year of $10,016.25. The reports Thursday evening by Mrs, Graham and Mrs. Heard, were followed by a solo by Mrs. Gourley Darroch of Listowel; a few words by Miss Harrison, gold medalist from (Continued on Page Sixteen) Mr. David Campbell << ae Grey Tp. Dead PROMINENT FARMER PASSES a- . WAY . FOLLOWING ' LONG ILL- NESS WITH PARALYSIS. Following practically five weeks’ confinement to bed with creeping par- alysis, Mr. David Campbell, for over forty years a resident of Grey town- ship and one of the best known farm- ers of the district, passed away Tues- day morning in his 79th. year, at his home on the second concession. Mr. Campbell “came to Canada from Scotland when quite young. For long years he has been a member of St. Andrews, Presbyterian church, Molesworth, and the funeral Thurs- day afternoon, with service at the house, followed by interment at Mole- sworth cemetery, was’in charge of the pastor, Rev. T. A. Bell. is seriived by Mrs. Campbell, one daughter, Mrs. Ed. Mitchell of Molesworth; and three sons, John, Lorne and Gordon, all of Grey township. A sister also lives in Scotland. . FOR Baby carriage of modern mat- wfacture and in good condition. Apply at this office. 2tup FOR SALE OR TO RENT Brick; resiGence on RF street, Vicinity of Fairview cemetety| with four acres of land. Apply to were ms : mames of fi | young men, formerly members 78 Wrethodist’ Sunday : The 7 ichmond | C Koebler, aries: owner, orto J. W. Bernie & Gon. Listowel. 2tp The statidning committee: of - th Methodist conference. The that they might b¢ thakect in * second draft. r : ‘Rev. J. F. Sutcliffe of Atwood, erly ot Trowbridge, Blytl, and Rev. R. J. M sormife whose parents arya 3 Tigi down for Watford. . ‘ Rev. who is being continued on probation,| ga, ig! is down for Don Is. Rev... W. G: Cadwelt is named as his successor, . Rev. T. E. Sawyer is down for Mil- verton, following Rev. J. Knight who is being transferred to. Cal Rey, W. E. Stafford of Brussels down for Ruthven and Rev. C. : Clarke named as his successor. © ~ Rev. J. E. J.. Millyafd,.a former Listowel pastor, at present a at ville, goes to Central church, Sarnia.|. Rev. Wm. Conway, formerly © Trowbridge, but now of. ihe: Maier: aha a ‘aaa at Case . ae ystery Now ments start adil June 16th. ae stationed at Highgate. Sols ak et now, The Chautauqua entertain- IN FRANC _ ina ati An. intestine feature of the “Go-}*! to-Sunday School’ ‘rally in the Meth odist church Sunday afternoon, wa the unveiling of a memorial tabi ‘bearing five maple leaves, on whk bed the Listowe! 1 The a was received in pecog-}, ‘nition of school’s contribution of a $50.00 Pa bond to the Mission- ary fund. It was. unveiled by John Hill, a returned soldier, and member}) of the young men's class, following a short address by Rey. Dr, Hazen. The|' names it bears are Joseph Bassett, Sidney Bassett and Will Baker, form- erly of the Listowel Sunday School; and Vincent and Lincoln Torrajice, identified with ‘Stewart's Sunday) :; School, befote going overseas. z The special program supplied by the Ontario Religious Education Council was followed, and a collect-| grade ion of over $10.00 was received. There was an attendance of 254. “retiring. about a had. reached a apse bout ten years x Louise Duke of - Other > Mich.; , Alberta and Mrs. ’ ‘pre ik of New Liskeard. ‘to the Old Listowel cemetery, aonyedist minister bridge FOR MISS LEE. z) It is not like’ ‘do with the “kidnapping,” “much may be attributed to a ‘of Irysteria. Since no one is fiaphieated| an any way, it is pointed out that the ébest way to deal with the matter is ‘to allow it\to be forgotten. ping om Dollar Day. Have'you bought y our season tiex-! at forthe EA el "fection from | bone his assessment was lowered June 16th. to 22nd. 7? Let us fill your tank with high-| itor’s home, Mr. ni will give you| was an oversight that it hadn't been rteous & Elli-’ boosted sooner, but admitted having gasol ee aateae maNeage. son. i Wednesday, June Ee, to which place ter ni ‘ago. He vedi shea age of eighty-four years. ‘Mr, Duke-was born ih Scotland and has continually resided for more del Mrs. Duke died ~ Mrs, Ed, ateenas and Miss Mar- owbridge are mem pean of “the y are William and David of New eard,” Mré. Frank Baker, Marine Mrs. Samuel Byers of wm. redec > ay surviving are Mr: Andrew yton and Mrs. Thomas r The funeral is to be held Saturday an be in charge of Rev. Wm. Ster!- of Trow- WILL LIKELY BE WITH- _ HELD ‘OUT OF CONSIDERATION } ai Mall andj Empire—Uniess the auth- pipes at- Queen’s Park alter their ; don;.it-is. probable that the en- ae eral ‘public will have to forget the “kidnapping” case with- iat. the matter it is intimated that ee publicity | to the Inspector's Bee A be sald thet {t rete ne on other than Miss Lee rad anything te and Rs “Avoid the big rush. Do your shop-, early the} assessments and lowering ‘the others. GRANT HAS BEEN LETTING! CITIZENS DOWN. EASY AT "EXPENSE Or OTHERS. MDG. The court of revision onthe: assess- ment roll met Monday night and dis- posed of four appeals, sustaining. two ‘The first appeal heard was that of Mrs. Adam Schinbein, who consider- ed that an assessment of $2500 on her new home on Wallace street, not yet completec, was unreasonably high’ when compared with a_ similar assessment on the house of her neigh- boér,.Mr. E. G. Atnold, which in her opirfion,. was much more valuable, being finished and including in ad- dition to hers, a sun ropm She was represented by Mr. J. Schinbein, who convinced the court that there was a difference in the| value of the houses. They contended | though, that Mrs. Schinbein’s home.) reported by the assessor to have cost $6700, was not assessed too high, but that Mr. Arnold’s property was ass- essed much too low. \ Mr. Grant, the assessor, said it was all mud about these places when he called, so he simply viewed them there wouldn’t appear -twenty-five, cents difference in the value. Councillor Kemp sremarked that there had clearly been misjudgment| in the assessing. With this the others agreed, Councillor Zurbrigg’ stating that the Schinbein home had no sun room and wasn’t evén painted yet. “They shouldn’t be& assessed the same,"' he said. But according to a valuation on the house that Mr. Schinbein ad- mitted as fair, Mayor Malcolm - poin- ted out that the assesment was too low if anything, and on motion of Messrs. Kemp and Malcolm it was sustained. Mr. Schinbein's wake contention | was that the assessment was too high as compared with others ‘and the Yi court’s answer to this was that the others were too low. They’re the ones that should be appealed, Mayor Mal- colm remarked, but Mr. Schinbein said that he wasn't the man who was going to do it. The second appeal was that of Mr. N nst an assessment of $1850 on his“restdence on™ York street. In stating his case ‘Mr. Nuhn quoted assessments on neighboring properties that made his look ex- tremely high in comparison. He men- tioned for example that of Mr. Henry Ott, with two lots, a better house and a stable in addition, assessed for $1300. “I would trade him house3 and give $1,000 difference,” stated | Mr. Nuhn. On motion of Messrs. Malcolm and Explaining a fifty per cent.jump in the assessment on The Banner ed- Grant claimed it raised it only the year previous. The Drop. in Puce Has Come 1. And thé: big values the Listowel merchants are announcing 4 . +See Them Smiling «> sf | °° jmothit week's issue for their first “Dollar Day,” Thi, ought to make you smile too. They are certainly slash- ing the prices in a way that should draw a monster crowd to town Tuesday and make it worth while for people to come from a radius of twenty miles or more. ‘ All the “Dollar Day”’ stores’ will be open from eight in the morhing ‘till after the evening rush. But don’t wait ‘till night Ree oa erty get any in the cmning Shop with the “Dollar Day” stores—the ones offering the ' big values ‘that will bring the crowd to town. You'll know them by the “Dollar Day” pennants in their windows. Tuesday, June M.| next week. from the front, and to look at them” eee eee RECALLS BYGONE YEARS * Mr. F. W. Hay, M. P. P., had the*natives to their doors on Thursday evening, when he shot up and down Main street on one of those old-time bikes of fifty years ago, with the high front wheel. We _pre- sume “F. W."” is getting ‘in form for a little exhibition when the “old boys’ return. RT at PEERS SEREES aa Listowel Chautauqua 16th. to 22nd,—six joyous une nys of en- tertainment. Fuller ouncement No claim was made that the assess- ment wes too high, other than in com- parison with the low assessments on other properties noted and admitted by the court to be unreasonably low. Exception was taken to the assessor's inconsistency. The assessment was sustained, The fourth case was that of Mr. M. W. Lavery against an assessment on his store property on Wallace street, which was’$500 higher than he paid for the place last July. “I'l be glad to sell it at that price to any ‘of you fellows that want a_ spec,’ Mr. Lavery stated. Here again the comparison with other stores con- vinced the court that the assessor had used poor judgment, some of the places being away low when placed alongside that on Mr. Lavery’s, pre- mises, which aside from a veneered front was a frame shell, with an un- ‘finished upper story and no otalrpy leading to it. ‘his assessment was reduced $350. “Dollar Day” iis just an advertis- ing stunt. The idea is to draw new patrons from a long radius. The day after regular prices will again pre- vail. — Beats Galt In Exciting Game TWENTY MINUTES aig NECESSARY TO DECIDE “WIN- NERS IN SUDDEN DEATH GAME Guelph, Ont., May 31.—Galt and Listowel soccor teams played off to- night in Guelph to decide which e- leven should represent the Western Footbal! Association in the first round for the Ottawa Cup, the re- sult being a victory for the Listowel team by a score of 83to 2 after 20 minutes overtime. The winning goal was scored five minutes before the extra period was up. Both teams brought large numbers of supporters, the Listowel fans running a special train for the occ- asion, and these in addition to the Guelph fans made the attendance the largest at any soccor game played in this city in many years. The game was the most interesting and exciting ever seen here, and there was very little to choose be- tween the opposing teams. Previous to this game Listowel defeated Galt at Galt by 2 to 0, while Galt trimmed Listowel at home 8 to 1, thus necess- itating this play-off. The Northerners will now meet the Taylor-Forbes team of Guelph at a date to be de- cided upon some time before June 11. Listowel scored two goals in the first half, while kicking against the wind, on good clean football, the first goal being scored on a rebound from a shot on goal, and the second by a pieee of pretty combination work on the part of the Listowel forwards. The Listowel team looked best in this half of the game, but Galt came back strong in the second half, and amidst tremendous excitment equal- ized a short while before full time Was up. It was decided to play ten minutes each way, and there was no scoring fn the first period of over- time, but Listowel notched the winn- ing taly from the corner kick five minutes before the time was up. Following was the line up:— 4 Listowel—,Goal Ament; backs, Atkinson, Johnson; half-backs, Bam- ford, Hiles, Schell; centre, Kelly; right wings, Cavell, Stephenson; left wings, Black, Philp. Galt—-Goal, King; backs, Walker, Rhodes; half-backs, Bently, Taylor, Bennett; centre, Parks; right wings, G. Devere, A vere; sett wings, Hossack, Referee—-Sam Tate, Gnetok. On Sunday afternooh, between M. F. Zurbrigg’s residence and Baptist church, purse containing ring. Find- er ‘kindly leave at this office. itnp ~ POUND In postoffice, jewel box containing wrist watch and pearl necklace. Own- er can secure same on proving prop- erty and paying for advertising. 3tnp Take our advice. up on Dol- lar Day. Tt will pay you,