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We have a splendid assortment at ... ... .$25 to 40 Or a Fur Ruff or Stole We have one you will like at the price you want to pay : from...... ..........2. ......}...Appoiiono5 Fancy Neckwear, latest novelties,........... .... 10 to 50c Handkerchiets the daintest to be had............. 5¢ to 75¢ Handsome Waist Lengths, woo!, silk & wool, etec50cyd up Silks for Waists and Dresses black, cream and colors Dregs Goods and Suit Lengths all prices to....$1.50 yd Felt Juliets and Slippers...... ...... ..90¢c and $1 per pr Table Cloths ...... .$1 to 3. Table Linen by the yd..30c to $1.25 Table Napkins..75c¢c to $3 per doz. Towels. ......up to $1 pair Floor Matsâ€"we have some handsome ones........... $1.25 to 4.50 Chenille and Tapestry Table Covers.......... ...... .$1.25 to 8.00 SUIT CASES and CLUB BAGS. FANCY BKACESâ€"â€"Boys‘ sizes..10c to 25¢ ; Men‘s..25¢ to 50¢ GLOVESâ€"Unlined, woolâ€"lined, silkâ€"lined ...... ...... ~75¢ to 1.50 HANDKERCHIEFSâ€"â€"Linen......to 25¢ ; Silk...... 25¢ to $1 TIESâ€"The latest shapes and colors.......... .... .... .. 10c to:50¢ NECK SCARFSâ€"â€"Some beauties. MUEFEFLERSâ€"â€"Can be pulled up to protect the head ....50c¢c elich . . fints for .. Christmas Buyers James Ireland. _ Please the Housewife The Children and Misses would like a pair of our cosy Felt Slippers. Gifts for the Men â€" With a Gift from onr Linen Stock. urha *4 % DURHAM, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1905 (A stirring Meeting of Cement Directors and Town Council. Messrs Scott and Kline came up morning train Monday and met in the Town | Hall with Mayor and counsil in the afternoon. _ The mayor yery succinetly placed before the visitors the wnol‘e situation, and during the afternoon and l »mfif}‘" . Irefided, vith sbllityâ€"and Signity.. . Je . vighors sitl. the ;peoulbget him down," and the objection to Mr Kennedy was thay he was connected | with a rival null,~ Why they persistently looked across the border was not | made clear to us bnt they stood by Mr Lake firmly and would listen to no sug | gestion from Mr Calder for an honest couference, throw Mr Lake aside and pick | upon a good Canadian. | Mr McKechnie, not the committee, was asked if he had any objection to asking the Osborne Engineering Company of New York to supply a man. He had no objection to such & reputable Co,, but had to the procef@ure. _ Anyway President MacKay soon wired word that the Osborne people were sending a man on Saturday, It became known that the expert was a Mr Lake from Cleveland, more or less intimate with the American offlcials at the works here, Messrs Farr and Elhrhardt, and the committee and shareholders generally sould rot be blamed for the resentmant that soon showed itself at the manifest bias of the Directors to saddle upon the zshareholders an expert most likely to be inâ€" fluenced by his friends and countrymen here. The council were in session on another matter, when they were waived upon by Mr Allan and other shareholders and asked to put the Alien Labor Act in force. The mayor telephoned the President what his duty would be should Mr Lake go to work,. The President then asked for a meeting of Messrs Ssott and Kline with the council and committee on Monday at 1 p m and this wa, agreed to. > It will be remembered that at the meeting in the Cement Offices on the Monday evening previous, an arrangement was arrived at between the Direcâ€" tore on the one side, and Mr McKechnie as a member of tha committee on the other, to have un independeut expert examination made ofthe Lake and the marl beds in the vicinity, The Directors, or offisials, brought forward the name of Delano, to whick weâ€"strongly objected seeing he bad already expressed nimself on one side. _ The town was left however till Thursday following to name an expert and if satisfactory to vhe Board, they might accept, but would not bind themselves. _ The names of Mr Hassan of Ottawa and Mr Kennedy of Owen Sound were in turn submitted but both were rejected and application made, in spite of protests, for Delano. This gentlemen however was ill and consequently other steps kad to be taken, and still the Directors look south inâ€" stead of among Canadians. Mr Lake arrived Saturday, a young man with aix years‘ experience in Eleoâ€" trical enginecring, but not an expert on marl, _ Personally we have no doubt be is an estimatle gentleman, aud the blame of whatever unpleasant feelings he took home with him on Tuesday morning must be laid at somebody‘s door, and that must be either the Directors or offlcials. The sentiment in the quoted line aboye seemed to be firmly in the minds of the visiting directors of the National Portland Cemont Co, who arrived in town on Monday last to attend a meeting of the Town Council. This was the attitude near the beginâ€" | ning of the meeting. Mr Cobbledick arrived by the 2 p m train, and the meeting got decidedlv interesting. Had it been known what was " on " no hall in ‘ town would have beld the crowd. Mr.: Scott and Mr Ehrhardt said Mr Mcâ€" Kechnie had agreed to Lake coming, Caldgr stoutly denied this and this first round of the afternoon went deâ€" cidedly to Mr Calder for Mr wmcKechnie insisted what he agreed to was that the Osborne Co was areputable affair, but he had objected to the whole procedure. The injustice to the town and comâ€" munity in having only Mr Farr‘s verbal report, while the committee‘s report typewritten, in full detail, was in the company‘s possession, was pointed out. The feature of the afternoon was the splendid work of Mr Calder than whom no man has a better grasp, and few so good, of the cement situation, He voices the}‘sentiment of hundreds and hundreds of shareholders in holding that the Lake is by no means near exhaustion, the conclusion being that Mr Fart is figuring on some wrong data when he says that °* commercial marl " | will last only two years. Mr Sparling in the council, and Messâ€" ‘ rs Laidlaw, McWilliams, C McKinnon, A H Jackson, Mr Allan and others in the audience took part in the discussion which warmed up as the Directors still held out, and a patriotic fervor spread over the meeting as Mr Calder asked. * was there not among six mwillion Ca-‘ nadians an honest Canadian engineer | capable of pertforming this work." In the excitement some things were said that would appear harsh, but soon better feelings prevailed. 'l‘hel Directors agreed to a conference, a w-! ‘cess was taken. and on resuming the “Directnrs ard the council sat at one | common table. a happy family, and disâ€" |\ cussed a new name, «or it was eyident | that after that aiternoon‘s expenence‘ | Mr. Lake, who listened to it all, was in i |a poor position to give an unbiassed |judgment. Mr Traynor of Dundalk, aâ€" | | mong other names, was presented, but | at last the jury agreed upon a verdict, \a.nd on motion of Mr McKechnie, secâ€" onded by Mr Cobbledick selected a man \with 11 years experience. an expert in | marl, means of lifting it, and the meâ€" | chanics of railroad construction. He is | to get $10 per day and expenses, while ‘| the Cleveland man was engaged by our \| precious Directors at $25 a day and exâ€" )‘ pensers from the timehe left Cleveland TORONTO The Heather on Fire. «* NO CANADIAN NEED APPLY." m 1 until he returned !! _ He came, he saw, |§ he conquered not, but all the saro«,| $100 of the good money of the shareâ€" |W holders will be gone to recompense him \| E for his 4â€"days trip out of leyeland, i KK This and the $550 speâ€"t on the rock proposition, Calder and others think was money spent in a way the Directors had no authority for. Messrs Scott and Kline defended the expenditure, all on the strength of Mr Farr‘s yerbal report, and it will be strange indeed if the anâ€" nual meeting, when possessed of all the facts, does nct say in â€" no uncertain sound, "weighed in the balances and found wanting." Mr Farr insists that the noles Grilied by the Committee and by Messrs Cobâ€" bledick and Ratz, are drilled through in some instances at least, mud and quickâ€" sand and not marl!! He says the lake will barely last two years, that there are 7 and 8 acres of good marl in the flats west of the mill, All this the expert satisfactory to both parties, will report on : it is facts both parties want, and since the diâ€" vision has occurred, destructive of all confidence in each other, the money for this independent Canadian exper| will be well spent. Meanwhile we learn the cement on hand if sold will wipe out the debt, leaving next year with a clean sheet and dividends unless by sublime folly the Directors succeed in their purpose, brought out by Mr Cochrane, of taking next year‘s profits to lay the toundaâ€" tions for a new mill on a new system, in a new locality, with the old story of mistakes and mishaps if not of misdeeds incident it seems to the floating of a big proposition. Bit by bit it is being seen with what a kz wanton hand the money of widows and fi workmen and wealthier people was x wasted and worse at the inception of our mill, â€"**Experience t eaches fools " m is an old saying : Do the sharebholders | of the National Portland Cement Co. want some more ? Just as dividends ; are in sights? â€" They know how to get | that experience. | The Directors had the gall to cla.im'; that the rise in the stock was attribut. | able to the extra information obtained i through the Durham papers and otherâ€"| wise since we sounded the first note in our issue of Oct 26th. We take credit to ourselves that that article set the bail aâ€"rolling, and we shall keep it aâ€" rolling till the whole truth is known, C Ww SEVIA. A Schoor ExTERTAINMEXNT.â€"Will be held at 8 S No. 1, Glenelg. near Rob Roy, on Friday, December 15th. A feat ute of the evering will be a dialogue enâ€" evening, 22nd Dec. _A good proâ€" grammeis in preparation. Admission adults 15 cts. children 10 cts,. 8. 8: pupils free,. Tuesday, Dec I9, in the Town Hall. Doors open at 7.15 p. m. Come early. A long program. 10 and 15c. Uuder auspices of Presbyterian 8. 8. «_ S. EXNTERTAINMFNT.â€"Under the pices of Mulock Baptist Sunday | ool a Christmas Tree entertainment | ) be held in the church on Friday ces and very best of choice and we did not have to ¢ scour the country at the last moment and take the leavings. _ " We now have on display the best stock of Christmas Goods that has ever been shown in Durham. " We can save you money on the following goods : TMk + » . h l o o e ooo e Large Stock Ladies‘Chains, Neckâ€" Men‘s Chains, Charms, Fobs, Lockâ€" ets. Tie Pins, Solid Gold Rings. Cuff Links, ete. Just inâ€"A big stock of Ladies‘ and Men‘s Gold and Silver Mounted Umbrellas for presentation. SANTA CLAUS HRAS BEEN OPENING UP CHRISTMAS GOODS at Keel: Best Stosk Durham‘s Best, Biggest, Cheapest and most upâ€"toâ€"date Christmas Store is Mammoth Jewelery, Book and Fancy Goods Store on the Busy Corner Christmas Concerts. TPEST'L:)ZRP-E:,_VR}I'IVgfi. Bracelets, Brooches, Souvenir Jewelery,etc t Stosk of Japanese China in town. â€" No hig prices asked here for Fancy China. We placed our import orders months ago for our Christmas Goods, therefore we got the lowest priâ€" |ecofeCelacelenelecalece|eCocelene) <enelece evelesolecele olsc ols Cole ale ale"ale@aleve Keeler‘s _ _ The Christmas entertainment of Ebâ€" enezer church will be held on Thursday Dec 2lst.. An extensive and imnteresting \ program is being prepared, A yery enâ€" ijovuhle time is expected _ All welcome Admission adults 15¢, children 10c. "Santa laus and the Star Queen " will visit the Methodist 8. 8, on Thursâ€" day, Dec. 21Ist, at 8 o‘clock in the FPown Hall. This cantata is full of humor, with many choice choruses, motion songs et>, and one solo, entitled " If Sandy Claws was Pa." A treat is in store for those who attend. Admission 15 cts and 10 cts. titled " Pampkin Ridge" in which nine young people will take part. _ Admisâ€" sion 10 and 15¢c. . An excellent program is being prepared. To Jannary 1st, 1907, only l The Review CHAS RAMAGE, | $1.00. : Prrxtrt axo» PosurerEe. Suthecribe NoOW.