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THE Latest Itylesi Hgts ut S. F. Morlock’s. BOY wanted to 10: Apply at. this omce. BIG 4 1b Bar Soup for bat 10c. at Grant’s. nurio by- -election, ‘41-: Grant, of Orillim was elected by ' ' y over Hon. Geo. THE friends and acquaintances will be sorry to hear of the death of the late Rev. Robert Walker, who passed peacefully away on the 7th inst, at his home in Elora. Local News Items F03 SALEâ€"At ll .salue, a litter of Collie puppips: six-c UOIIIO puppies. only“ VJ __-_-- _ _ No. 5618, whelped by Rose 0. K. C. No. 5619.â€"F. PEEL. ti. Tun Presbyterian congregation contemplates the erection of a manse this summer, but no positively def- inite conclusion is yet arrived at. The building is to be on the south side of the Church. Own": to increased cost of material and labor, the furniture manufac« turers have decided on an advance of 10:,; on previous prices. Our factory has had some heavy orders to fill lately. MAXY who put off getting in a sup- ply of ice will now be obliged to do without it for the summer. For the past two or three weeks a large amount was secured. but the unex- pected thaw destroyed prospects for a further ice crop. At least it looks that way now. Tm: Bankrupt, Stock of Mr. H. \V. Mockler has been purchased by his son H. II. Mockler at a rate on the dollar and will now be sold off at. very low prices. Mr. Mockler jr., will carry on the business at the old stand, but be has decided to dispose of the present stock to make room for spring and summer purchases. \V’E forgot to mention last week an accident that happened to Mr. Mc- Eacheru. at the Cement \Vorks, by which he lost part of a couple of fin- gers of his right hand. He was en- gaged in carpenter work and the ac- cident was caused by his hani coming in contact with a saw. He will he laid off work for a number of weeks. Tim special meetings in the Bap- tist Church. conducted by Dr. Spen- cer, of Brantford. are meeting with much success. The attendance is good, and much interest is manifest- ed on the part of the congregation. On Thursday the subject will be " Is the Bible the Word of God?” Friday, “ Signs of the Times ;" Sunday morning. “A Message to the Church;” Sunday evening, “ Heaven and How to Get Tnere.” A cordial welcome is extended to all. ON February 11th. Mr. Alexander \lcComb died here at the age of 80 years. A day or so after his inter- ment his aged partner took to her bed. and gradually sank until Sun- day morning when she too departed this life at the age of 76 years. The aged couple were born in Ireland in or near Belfast. Fifty-six years ago they were married, and for many years they resided in this vicinity. The surviving members of the fam~ ily. so far as we know at the time of writing. are two sons. Samuel and Thomas. in Glenelg, and one daugh- ter, Mrs. Allan McKinnon in Durham. The deceased couple is highly spoken of. and to the surviving relatives we express our sympathy in the double sorrow during an interval of less than one month. Interment took place Tuesday to Trinity Church Cemetery. DON’T read Theobald’s ad. PEDLARs and beggar. a sort of com- mon combination. are not altogether wanting in Durham. They strike‘ town occasionally, and last week a perambulating cuss made his rounds of the town, presumably to sell some sort of truck. Many of these chaps] know nothing of common courtesy, and the refusal to purchase seemed| suflicient reason for a tiradelof abUSfl, Most towns are sulfieiently welll stocde with a good class of legit.- imate dealers. and many of the im- pndent itinerinl tramps should, get‘ the cold should. r. and in the event of impurlence. a dose of hot water. In times like the present every man that’s willing to work has no trouble h getting plenty to do. Laziness ‘ Ild never be encouraged. and no ‘ age tdhould be given to an ’ alk who aoee round the no steal the hard minaret l l At less than hulf their :- of pure bred Scotch . sired by Alliepgf. C. learn printing. 20c, md 2 1b DURHAM CHRONICLE. NEW up-to-date Hats, soft or stifi, at. Grant’s. JUST Received 100 pairs of Men’s Plough Boots at S. F. Morlock’s OUR New \Vall Papers are now in. Come and see them. MacFarlane Co. HIGHEST cash prices puid for Beef Hides, Horse, dees, Sheep Pelts and Raw Furs at Peel’s Shoe Store. â€"â€"Feb’y O3. 1 yr. TWIN City Herb Food, 4 lbs for 250. at Grant’s. WE have what you heve been look- ing for, a good cattle Spice, {lbs for 25c at Grant’s. Fancy Export Clover at MacFar- lanos’ Drug Store. Aucrxox Sunâ€"Ten months credit. on Tuesday March 17th, the property of George Matthews, adjoining town. Mr. Matthews goes West a week later and everything will be sold. See Bills, also full list in this issue. Hugh MacKav. Auctioneer. THE roads between here and Flesh. erton are so bad that the stage was unable to get through Tuesday. This will account for the non-appearance of news budgets from the east. Even should we be forced occasionally to ‘| hold a budget over from one week to l the next, we hope our faithful corre- lspondents will not imagine them- ; selves slighted, but send in another :next week just the same. We are i trying our very best to attend to leveryone. and in order to be able to :give all the news. we adopted the gall-home print. which we think all ; will regard as an improvement. THE Fraser {arm at Vickers is ad- vertised for sale in this issue. ABOUT two hundred car loads of coal were unloaded at the Cement \Vorks last week. The Company is gradually getting down to business, and will shortly be working at full capacity. Orders are coming in rap- idly, and prospects are good fora big summer’s work. Mn. Axucs MCTAVISH of Mt. Forest, was a caller on \Vednesday as he passed throngh on his way to Flesh. erton. Angus enjoys the Chronicle and has paid for two copies ever since we took charge of it. It has been going to the family ever since it was started as the Standrrd. and it still goes and will go. Noah was one of the earliest adver- tisers. He advertised that he would sail on a certain day. Those who did not believe in advertising failed to get tickets and were left out in the wet without umbrellas or bathing suits. As most of them could not swim. they took to the trees and be- came monkeys. The origin of the monkey is now settled. An exchange says one of the new fads is men's socks for women. There is a rumor prevalent that some wives wear the trowsers. but no one ever imagined that the socks would he appmpriated. If women continue this invasion of the wardrobe of the man there will be few articles of wearing apparel that man can call his own. His hat. shirt, vest. coat, col. lar. tie and socks are gone. He has remaining his chewing tobacco and suSpendersâ€"not much of a lav cut for a. cold day. Miss Lillian Phelps, at a banquet. given by the \V. U. T. U, at St.. Catharmes to the scrutineers anrli other workers at the referendum.2 told the following anecdote: Many years ago, when her great-uncle. the Mr. Phelps of that day. was building the Welland Canal, the men got so much money. and unlimited whiskey tor a day's work. Whiskey was then twenty~five cents a gallon. Her great-uncle thought that where so much whiskey was needed, it would be more profitable for him to make it than to buy it. So he built a dis- _tillery, and went to Bufialo,â€"â€"then ,only a large village,â€"to buy the i machinery to put in it. He stepped I at a tavern. they were not “ hotels ” tin those days. they were, “ taverns.” ,-â€"and before he retired, he picked up a newspaper. and read an article about the great spread of drinking, land the evils of drunkeness. It im- pressed him; he thought about it, land before morning he had made his resolution. He did not buy the fix- ings for his distillery. He came1 home. and called the workman to- gether. He told them that he had Icome to see the evils oldrinking and 'the sin of drunkeness, and would give them a shillings day more on their wages. And he turned out into the " Twelve-mile-creeks ” the whis- v key he had on hand! Miss Phelps was. with others. responding to the . mist. “The Press;” "and this." I shesaid in conclusion, “maybe sc- T oopted assn illustsetien of the power of themes!” . - ' '. ‘ DON’T read Theobald’s ad. The Chronicle is the best place to put your Advertisements. HITS AND MISSSES. On Wednesday of last week an oldl resident of Bentinck in the person of . Mr. John Hopkins. passed away at; the age of sixty-six years. He was; always an industrious man who en-i joyed good health until about threel weeks before his death was laid up‘ from hemorrhages of the stomach. from the efiects of which he died. He was born in Ireland and came to this country at the age of 10 years and; settled with his parents in Bentinck. near Hutton Hill. Subsequently the family moved so Normanby where they remained for two or" three years and again about thirty-five years ago they moved again into Bentinck and settled on Lot 42, Con. 2, N. D. R.. near Allan Park, where the deceased remained until his death. Mr. Hop- kins was a plain homespun, with little education. but a hard worker. and the very essence of honesty in all his dealings. He read little, we are told, except the Bible with the whole of which he was very familiar, which no doubt served a guiding pur- pose in the good honest name by which he was characterized. His widow. six sons and five daughters remain to mourn the loss of a hus- band and father. The sons are 'I‘hos. and David in Manitoba, Richard. Edward Thomas and James in Ben- tinck near the old homestead. The daughters are Mrs. \Vm. Bailey, Mrs. George Mighton, Mrs. Crozier, and Sarah who is still unmarried. The remains were interred in Hutton Hill cemetery on Saturday afternoon whither they were followed by a host of relatives and friends. The many friends and acquaint- ances of Mrs. Chas. Marten, (nee Miss Jessie Mcliechnie of the Rocky) will regret to hear of her death, which occurred on the 20th of February. Mrs. Martin was the eldest child of Donald McKechnie who kept the P l 0. known as the “ itocky Saugeen ”‘ for a number of years during the latter part of the 19th century. About nine years ago the family moved over to Taunton, Mass, where they along with other relatives locat- ed and engaged in various occupations Jessie remained under the parental roof untill she met the husband of her choice, and together they set out to solve life’s problems, and to build up a home for themselves with all the hopeful joyousness of youth. 'l‘hrre children came to bless their union, the last of the threejust Stay“ edlong enough to fill the parents hearts with a new joy, and love then took its flight to the home where‘ ,none ever feels the will of parting. :A deeper shadow mi soon to fall on the little llO"s<-l.oltl, that shadow was the failing health of the wife and mother, and after a lingering illness. patiently borne. she fell asleep in the arms of her Saviour, at the early age of twentyseven. She knew that her work on earth was done and calmly settled all her earth- ly affairs and strove to cheer her sorrowing friends directing their thoughts to the joys of heavenly re- union, and urging all to prepare to meet her in the home where sorrow is unknown. The casket was beauti- fully decorated with choice flowers, in last sad tribute to one beloved by [all who knew her. Our heart-felt lsympathy goes out to the bereaved lhusband and relatives. May God leomfort them in so great a trial, is l the prayers of a sincere friend l Jenn BLACK. l On Saturday Feb. 28th. inst., Mr. l Allan Black received the sad tidings: . that his second youngest son John, l had died the previous nightof Smull~ '. pox. in Sprague. Provencher District, ; Manitoba. The deceased left home about the last of May, and went toi Niagara, where he was imployed ini the Aker Works. later on he took ltd-Q vantage of cheap rates to the harvest? fields of Manitoba, where he put in' the harvest and threshing season with his uncle Duncan Black. From there he went into the lumber shun- tiec, where he was employed on ‘ second cook up to the time of his . death. The deceased who was in his ' 17th year. was much beloved and re- l spected for his noble qualities and kindness of heart. What makes the blow still more hard is that only 3 ' short weeks ago his mother received ' a letter from him in which he stated I that he would soon be home with ' them, but such was not to be. As we haven’t {ull particulars to hand we are unable to give details in full. We extend to his narrowing parents brothers and sister our heart felt lym- pathy in their hour of sorrow. DULU pointed, of being OUR new story, “ The Mystery of Grulov.” the initial chapter of which 1 is given this week. will be of interest to :11 renders of that kind of liters- 3tute. It is _well-illn_strsted,_ quite DURHAM, 0NT., THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1903. DON’T read Theobald’s ad. Jmssnc M vii ECHNIE. J om: Hopxms. and ha the additionql OBITUARY. £53?“ It... 1.. Mr. S. F. McComb. of Palmerston, attended the funeral Tuesday of his sister, Mrs. Alex. McComb. Mr. McComb, of Holland. drove over Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. McComb. Mr. Joseph Lindsey, at West Sup- erior, spent a few days with friends in the vicinity, returning to his home Wednesday morning. Mr. Jae. Carson is seriously ill of bronchitis. We hope to hear of his soeedy recovery. " THE GOING AND COMING 0F VI81TOR8 IN THE ”ONT” OF MARCH. The Ratepayers of Durham will take notice that a public meeting will be held in the Town Hall on Friday evening, Feb. 13th. for the purpose of discussing the question of lighting the town, as an offer is under con- sideration to buy out the present electric plant. the Council is desirous to be advised by a free and full ex- pression of publiclomuion. \V. B. Voliet, Clerk. Mr. Otto Cepper, of the Cement Works. left Thursday for Georgia. People We Know The members of the Junior League entertained their friends to a “Pleas- ant Evening Hour ” in the basement of the Methodist church on Monday night, consisting of choruses, part songs. whirling interludes, the topic by Miss Jessie Caton and a number of choice selections on the phonov graph by Mr. W. J. Glass. Miss Bertha Sparling and Rita Irwin, as orgamsts. played the instrumental accompaniments. The room was crowded. and parents and friends were highly delighted with the efforts of the young folks. On Sundav evening a service 0! unique and interesting character will be held in the Methodist church. The service throughout will be con- ducted by the young ladies of the church. Music with full chorus, duet and quartette will be rendered. 'l‘he pastor will speak on the subject “ \Vomen and others.” A welcome especially for strangers. Obliging ushers. seatsfree, hymn books pro- vided. Late Assistant. Roy. London Ophthalmic Hos. Eng., and to Golden Sq. Throat and None 1103 Specialist : Will be Watchmakers Jewellers Opticians and Engravers. Keelers’. . . Watches IF YOU want. a. Watch, Annunno’ is the place to buy it. Also buy your SILVERWABE from them end one money end get the beet goods that money can buy. . Manama K'oolors BVIIINO‘F'“ R. B. KEELER SON Big Jewellery Store. YOU want. a. _Wat9h, KEELEPS' If your Watch or Clock is sick Koala: can nuke it tick. list: Eye, Ear, Throat and Nose HAVE the Jewellery trade of this town. \Vhy? Because they are Practical EXCLUSIVELY. at the Middaug h 110mm lat \Vodnesday of each month, g~from ’ to 6 p. m. ALSO because we can save you money on everything you buy in our line. PUBLIC MEETING. DR. GEO. S. BURT. CHURCH NOTES. METHODIST. Co..- IN GREAT VARIETY. 0 ‘9» «g A"; 4", 43!, w, “145% w. w, \w, w, «I, v, 4' I I v.60-’ C00--0"o‘- 338% “a? ’m‘ a? 75$ '1‘? ’m‘ ’m‘ ’m‘ “as ’m‘ “m NEW SPRING GOODS. SILK BLOUSESâ€"New weaves in fency stripes, eludes of Light Blue, Pink, Old Rose, Fawn. Blue, Navy, Cerdilal, Myrtle and Cream. CAMELS HAIR SUITINGS in Oxford and Blue Grays. FINE VELVETEEN SUITINGS in Buck. Nuvy. Brown“, sud Dove at 50 cm. per yurd. ' BBILLIANTINE LUSTRES in Buck gt 250.. 400. and 50c. vay with Polk: Dot md Creum. P'lIESTLEY’S BLACK LUSTRE M: 65 cu. nod 75 etc. per. yud. CBAVENETTE-Priutley’s Buck Wgterprooi, fine urge twill, 60 inches wide. FINE FRENCH HENRIETTA in Black. Navy, Green. Cudinal, Light Blue, Cram und Pink 0.1: 50 on. per yard. A FULL RANGE of Prints god Muslin. in the newut puttornl. J. J'. HUNTERS THEM/8' STORE ON THE 8087 OORNER. $1.00 PER YEA.