About forty new patterns in prints to choose from at R. C. Warrens.
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There is a great deal of sickness in and around our little burg at
present.
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Mssrs. Caldwell and Willians shipped another carload of cattle on
Tuesday.
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Mr. Chas. Chamberlain has been visiting his brother in Windsor for
a couple of weeks.
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Mr. Dyer of Oshawa occupied the pulpit in the Methodist church
Sunday morning and evening. Mr. Philp preached in Oshawa.
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Spring dress goods in all the fashionable patterns and shades also
spring tweeds, cottonades, shirtings etc., at reasonable prices at
Warrens.
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Mr. John McPherson has been very poorly for some time, Albert Arnold
is sinking very fast, Mrs. Chamberlain and Mrs. Jas. Pirie are also
sick. Bert Wells is slightly improved and Fred Wyatt is much better.
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The Rev. J. A. Carmichael starts shortly on a trip to Manitoba. He
will be gone about two months. His pulpit will be filled during his
absence by local ministers. He has had no vacation for two years and
has worked very hard, we therefore hope he will enjoy the change, he
certainly much deserves.
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The Baptists closed their special meetings last Sunday
evening. The house proved entirely too small to contain all who sought
an entrance. The interest was intense. There were five persons
baptized at the last meeting, making between twenty and thirty additions
during the series. Many more who have been blessed through this special
effort will doubtless soon follow those who have thus publicly
acknowledged Christ.
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A musical class is being conducted in the Masonic Hall, by the
Ketcham concert company of Toronto. They gave a free concert on
Saturday night and by canvassing the audience succeeded in getting a
class of about thirty-five. They are spoken of as being very efficient
teachers in voice culture and the rudiments of music. A concert will
be given on Friday night at which the pupils witl assist in the
programme.
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Temperance has had a grand revival here of late, due to the work
done by the Emerald Team Mssrs. Smith and Iredale of Hamilton.
Thirty-seven new members have been initiated in the R. T. of Ts
council and about fifteen more have taken the obligation and are
waiting for the goat to get rested. We have now a membership of
considerably over a hundred which is being increased at each meeting.
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The next meeting of Scott Act association South Ontario will be
held in the town hall Brooklin, on Saturday 31st March at 2 oclock
sharp. The executive and all friends of the cause are respectfully
invited to attend.
The following was passed at last meeting town of
Whitby March 15th. The Scott Act association of South Ontario desires
to express their sincere grief at the death of Abraham Farewell
Esquire who had for so long been an active and able supporter of the
Temperance cause in the province and showed his sympathy and interest
in the success of the cause even to the last. And while feeling the
loss keenly for ourselves and the work we have in hand, we desire to
express deep sympathy to his bereaved friends but rejoice at the same
time to feel assured that our loss is his gain. Committee--M. McTaggart,
D. Ormiston, W. H. Bewell.
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