f Business Directory Pitcoabes These Advertisers Whenever You Need the Services of Reliable Business or Professional Men LEGAL J. C. HAMILTON, B.A. Conveyancer, Solicitor Bank Canada ist er the Imperial of r oney to loan. Office.on south side 2 f{ Main street, over Zinn’s store. Bonds for C. MORTON SCOTT, B.A. ’ Barrister, retake Public, Convey- Office over Bank of Montreal, Wallace Street. D. G. CAMPBELL, B. A. Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer Office over Bolton & Johnston, Wallace etreet. , Office 149 DENTAL cow. G. E. ‘SPENCE Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist Jepartment of Universiey of Penn- pivania, Philadelphia; also gradu- ate of The Royal College of Dental urgeons, Toronto. Office over Schinbein’s store. For painless extraction we use nit- 1 17/18/19 45125126127 22 28/29 }|The Listowel Banner and The Atwond Bee (Amalgamated Oct., 1st., 1923.) Published Thursday of each week. Eight to sixteen pages, seven col- umns to the _Enee, All home-print. Can uge m Su strictly in advance: otherwise $2.50. six months $1.00; three months 60c. To subscribers in the United States 50c additional for pos The Banner and Bee hes the cir- culation—several hundreds more naga its Competitor—and excels as rous oxide oxygen gas, also conduct- lve anaesthesia. BR. F. TAYLOR, L.D.5.; D.D.5. Graduate of the Royal College of renee Surgeons, and of Toronto Un- “Nitrous Oxide Gas for Extractions. Office over J. C. McDonald's store. Phone 60. F. ST. C. WILSON, L.D.S.; D.D.8 Graduate of Royal College of] When A: Rheumatism no Part of Nature’s Plan She offers her healing herbs to stop suffering merica was wilderness, Indians i I ecessfull From Dental cthly-o p-calipiar University rae using a "years Sonn - y- Janes secrets nt Office over Red and ite Store Gallagher dened fon 2g Bec Je hold Remedies. His famous Kidney AUCTIONEER Remedy has helped many’ a sufferer umatism. fae ie Geer Reon fi of Nature, he a W. J. DOWD ie Quickly stops back- Aucti => cir aioe sete An adder ni uctioneer oe ae - Real Estate Insurance} — M. Creighton, Listowel Phone 246, Listowel. 5 ; — MEDICAL A. G. SHIELL, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women Fs Surgery. P one Office Inkefman Street, West. Opposite Presbyterian Church: — Did you ever try DR. the . R. FORSTER Eye, , Nose and Graduate, i medicine, Throat University ; of Toronto Eats assistant New York Ophbthal- mic and Aurgl Institute, Moorefleld’s Eye and ee pauere Throat Hoe- ign Londo 63 Waterloo St Stratford. Phone 267 Will be at the Queen's Hotel, = towel on the first Monday in the | month, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m | INSURANCE FIRE INSURANCE in best companies; also accident, av-| tomobiles. burglury, plate glass and) nd insurance. Automobile insur-/ Ford Coke? If not, try a Ton NOW Robert Oliver Phone 4 Listowel . per 100. bites ye asiness | eolicited. E. D. BOLT ; E. L. ROBIN SON Gowanstown On tario; Representing leapertal Life Assur- ance Co. Head Office, Toronto. ze { FUNERAL “RECTOR | W. F. Mc LAUGHLIN ‘uneral Service Residence and Parlor Main St. East. Night and day calls, Phone 227. Cook’s sagas Compound 4 flee, giictte regula? ine BS +3 THE COCK MEDICINECO., TOBONTO,ONI. (Formerly Windsor! . Banner Readers & Whose subscriptions iInedium “We do job printitig of all kinds. E. 8. HUDSON. Editor and Proprietor. Thursday, December 20th Editorial “It is good to be children some times and never better than t Christmas when its mighty founder was a child Himself"—Dickens. . The health record of Listowel for the year just closing has been re- merkably good, according to Mr. Sangster, chairman of the Board of Health. There have been no epi- demics and only one case of contag- fous disease was reported. This re- port, of course, does not include thp present epidemic of flu that has hit the community, but it is general throughout the country. The Board of Health has done good work this year. -= What wonderful events used. to transpire in the days now almost forgotten. Do you remember the old-fashioned boy who spent his week's wages at a box social for the box he knew belonged to his best girl? Well, now-a-days his son is spending his week's wages paying the Installments on the Christmas present given his girl last year. We RIGHT IN | THE SHOULDER *Fruit-a-tives’’ Did Stop \ His Rheumatism MR. FLOYD “Fruit-a-tives” soothed his kidneys— freed his system of excess acid ‘and poisonous ¥ aste—regulated his bowels —purified his blood—and this is why er 8S. Floyd of Nenaiz B.C bothered with Rheum: woe ar suffered wit am Rheuratis ve ge and, as ed re lief I think this racd- Tous. vt hered _ ith Re umsti tt >t the arms, leg a i& oF Handaches, ret " “Bruit . soe. ns ad Si. a box at | have expired, are re- spectfully urged to re- gate. “Won and shag: a while, Charlie, dear?’ SAFETY FIRST They were standing. at the front u come into the parlor Ww tly. It is N-no, I guess not,” replied Char- cel ade ne pewiak 1d," the girl went ais u would,” the g pais necessary that al] sub- on. pals ay a mes i saat ‘pes gone out an er eectates : scriptions be paid aut gmenne: th rheumatism ‘n doubt If love is any stronger or more jeanne now than it was in the past ; recollections but it makes one act | just as foolishly. } | Christmas Is a severe test. Many os strong-minded man, true to his }eonvictions, iject of cabbage has set out with the ob- purchasing corn beef and for the holiday dinner and returned home penitent, carrying a twelve-pound turkey. There is absolutely no use in try- ing to flght against the wave of pub- He sentiment that sweeps the nation at Christmas. Canute, ft fe said. took his chair down to the beach and. selecting a nice, comfortable spot, commanded the tide to come just ‘so far and no farther. But Canute was obl'ged to recede before the on- coming water; and the {ndividual who attempts to set the world right in regard to Yuletide celebrations will meet with no more success than | the egotistic Dane. Christmas tests us in more ways }than one. When young folk do not | jrespond to the holiday spirit and| engage in the merry-mak!ng festivi- ties peculiar to the ceason they are} out of tune with the times and thns | miss the pleasures of a whole act in! the drama <f life. Excesses should ;never be condoned, but sport and entertainment are as nat- ural to youth as is rain in April and snow !n January, Man himself isan enigma. Heap- i pears harassed by the demands of the holiday season and bored by the festivities jbut sorely digappoimted If hearth and teble bear no recognition cf the occas’on, Women, on the! other hand, are temperamentally equipped to welesme the departure | from the ordinary routine of Ilfe and throw themselves heart and mind in-) ta the celebration’ which cxmes ag- a! mystical past. But Christmas has ita trials as stern parent who, without complaint, observes the hectic life of the teen- age boys and girls. or steels himself to withstand stoleally the din of the children smashing, eating becrtytion rate $2.00 a year, bai Member Canadian Weekly Newspa-| °@Y per Association iy School Lesson. CHRISTMAS wenger dP ag BIRTH OF J j December 23—Luke 2:1-20. Golden Text | Por unto you is born this day in | the city of David a Saviour, which Christ the Lord (Luke/;2:11). We celebrate Christmas, and give gifts to one another on that est Rift that ever has been made or ever can be made in time or eternity, when God gave His only begotten Son to sinful men that they might not perish but have everlasting life. Surely our first thought and our firet word on Christmas should be, “Thanks be unto God for morning | ™4 Ton first Christmas d k- ~ ee to the birth of “the last »”’ who was to restore and more shan tod restore, the ruin wrought by the first man, Adam. Hence it ia not day. Christ jej_ he theme of the whole Bible, Old From the da surprising, though few realize th‘s important fact, that thirty-five of the thirty-nine boo Old Testament contribute to hs neh La 4 chapters (chronologically akin) of the New Testament. .The Sunday Schoo! Times publishes in its Christ- emarkable article on estament in the Birth of His unspeakable gift.” (II Cor. 9: 15). stotas in the home, espec- lally with young children should be time when God’s great iil is pag membered, and talked abou d prayed about, as hearts pie "yo! ces are lifted In thanksgiving and wor- Mae? mighty Roman emperor matter the inhabited earth, togeth- er with the official and world-wide machinery of that empire, were set in motion !n order that a humanly insignificant carpenter and his wife living in Nazareth, should make the fournay south to Bethlehem and be eon a certain day. “There went out a decree from Caesar Aug- ustus, that all the world should be taxed,” or registered for taxation. To obey this decree every one had to go to his own city for euch enrol- ment, which meant Joseph going from Nazareth to Bethlehem, Luke's record, with the accuracy of a great historian, adds that “Cyrenlus was | Governor of Syria,” at this time. The critics used to question all this, with thelr usual depreciation of the Bible record, until Sir William M. Ram- archaeological researches that corroborated in And the critics were silent as they always are when archaeology and criticism come to close quar- ters. There is a sense in which thé en- tire Old Testament was written for this stupendous moment in history, might stand up and say to all the world, ‘This was a man." ""—Far- mer’s Advocate, = THINGS THAT COUNT "Tis the human touch In this world | that counts, The touch of your hand and mine, | Which means far mors to the faint-| ‘Ing heart i Than shelter and bread and wine. But the touch of the hand and the | sound of the volce | Sing on im the soul alway. —S. M. IT’S LIKE SUMMER TIME IN ITAL RNTA A — Place to Spend e Win In ny California you will find wonderful places to spend a month or two this winter, It is a land of unequalled climate, of high moun- tains, of colorful deserts and fasc'n- ating cities, | Sumptuoue hotela at the many re-| sort centres along the Pacific Coats will make your stay a pleasant one. Many visitors to Callfornia plan thelr itinerary via the North Pacifie coast. The beauty and cosmopolj- tan character of Vancouver and Vic- torla—Canada's famous far w estern eltlee—make the journey enjoy able| | and interesting, Compjete Information regarding | Californla— fares, aecommodati on ; and literature gladly supplied by any ) Canadian Natinal Railways Agent. jo-o7! dom-| Kin For shelter is*gone when the night | | Food apes news.” God is o’er Py i ll did not give a Tent world good advice , on that fret Christmas. He brought And bread laets only a day, | the g % that sinners could be ee you is born this day in the , Christ the Lord.” Tt Lo) Christ,”” showing what a wealth Ta] Bethlehem, for example, was rich In Old Testament historical ia Rachel died there; it was the hom of Ruth and eens David was heen there and ther ® was anointed ; he hate Bethichem .means “the House of Bread,” and here the Bread of Life was born. “That which was the granary of Jerusalem ow gives to the world Him who will feed the human race for all gen- erations upon the Bread that cometh down from Heaven, which, if a man eat thereof, he shall never die.” Joseph's wife Mary was with him, and at Bethlehem “she brought forth her first born son.”’ But Jos- eph was not the father; the preced- ing chapter in Luke gives an inspir- ed physician's account of the Virgin conception, by the Holy Spirit, of the Son of God. @ Babe was laid in a manger “because there was no room for them Hs the inn.” Was this not an acted potable of the fact that “He came nto His own, and ‘His own received Him not" (John 1:11)? apee ee shepherds the good erds are found tnraugnone the old Testament in sig- nificant connections. The first shep- herd was Abel, saved by the blood. David was a ashepherd. But ‘no other shepherd or group of shep- erds appears anywhere again in the New Testament after the Great Shepherd of the sheep Himself! The shepherds of Bethlehem, watching over the sheep intended for the temple sacrifices, lay down their crooks at the manger of the Lamb of | God, who in His death will forever ' abolish the need of animal sacrifices ‘and -after Hig. oe will, through all ages ead_-His people In and out that they org find rt Li To these shepherds the angel said: “T bring: you, good tidinge of great | Soy, Which shall be to all people." Griffith Thomas used to quote material from the Old reappears in a! the Nativity Narratives. = ’ of Credit. It isthe most eae method of providing your needs in foreign currencies. It acts as an im- — troduction to bankers in all parts of © the world, and then, your funds are _ drawn from your own Bank only as you draw on the Letter of Credit. IMPERIAL BANK LISTOWEL BRANCH, 1 o) = Travel M. R. HAY, Munager. Feathers Wanted I WILL pay highest market. price for geese and duck feathers. You can bring them in or phone and I will call. L. SCHURE Residence over Kibler’s Shoe Stoe. Phone 288 Radio Fans Is your Radio Set giving you the Sat isfaction that it should? If Not - Why Not? Listowel Give us a call and we will tell you Phone No. 455 Radio Repairing and Service for All Makes of Sets Prompt and Courteous Service M. H. C. Hemsworth Doorway East George's Restaurant - Main the reminder, ate Gospel Him, but by His great work elty of David a Saviour, which: is as been sald that the shep- herds showed true faith in their re- sponse to this announcement. “Let us now BO even unto I ‘ gaved, noe soy doing good works for! fy for|s ~~» “SPECIALS rok ¢ hristmas Shoppers Fight jPristmes Gift is one that brings genuine fs ure arid ch A gift worth giving is easy to find they said, “and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made.known unto us." Might not some of us, !f we had been there. have said, “Let us now go and see if ee thing is come to pass?" There § a vast difference between tha “If” and the “Is in those two sentences But when the Lord makes anything known unto us by His Word, may | we be a believing as were the} Bethlehem shepherds and rejoice | that whatever God: has declazed {5} ome to pass. Then every day will! be n Christmas Dav of Good News | fo us and to these abont ué. f | Banner We Want Ad: Ads. Sell © | m7 & wholesome! eft to us from a romantic and al f nA well as its pleasures; and of the! «a NENA? if Zi a ! and that is you give. love and thoughtfulness. gest a plant or cut flowers as an added gift to Mother regardless of what else sR Mother Ba Ba BLOWERS . #& Nothing will make Mother more happy on Christmas Day than a fragrant pot- ted plant, that enhances the home, that EN | a lasts throughout the Christmas season, Acrowood Baggage ta ially to see the Acropack. It is priced from $10.00 to 4 marvel of compactness: All $75.00 Atrowood is light in weight, yer strane and ruccec CHRISTMAS SLIPPERS Men's 0c to $3.00 oR Women's §Se to $2.75 £4 Misses’ $1.00 Pe) Children’s 75c to §8Se EX Fe | Sa HOCKEY BOOTS oe A free hockey puck with every pair. tg Men's SH to $5.50 ia J Women's $3.50 o% xe Boys’ $3 to $3.50 . st . UD a constant reminder of your 4% | Let us sug- Re ei & @ e us McBrine Aerowood Baggage for Xmas There is nothing newer in bag- Rage than McBrine Acrowood. We are showing a complete range which contains a piece for every member of the family for every occasion which calls for hand baggage. \. Our salespeople will be iBlad to \ show you Aerowood. Ask es N RSSSRssSssssoae w SILK HOSE ‘ .% —" All colors at Pure Silk Hose, regular $1.50 for Full Fashioned, regular $2.00 for W.A \KIBLER fltete 00 Shoes . $15 $165 MRD