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STOPS IMPORT, MANUFAC- TURE OR SALE * © of Business at Midnight—Colony’s ‘Drink Bill Was About a Million Dollars Annually. N. 7., . - -3 - Esersmeaea] Kid Gloves | Kid/ Gloves Extraordinary Reductions In All Departments Kig Borort, anutscture or sae ot |l g : oy : LG - _ We are flosing out our en- i B S < Gl Ty = b | GALE COMMENCES TUESDAY, JANUARY . 2nd | e stock # kid Gioves at ve possible to obtain any alcoholic low wholegale price. former prices at which the fol- | 4 ; 2 npound within the colony, except Tacdicinal, manufacturing or sa- lowing garments were sold. THIS FALL AND WINTER SEASON': p However, you will find the ' s A x o= e Coats,Suits, Dresses, Wraps, Waists = Furs GOWNS NOT €ARRY OVER ANY OF OUR SEASONABLE MERCHANDISE FROM ONE y 1 WE ) POSITIVELY D Og SEASON TO ANOTHER. ] ere on the island physiclans or magistrates will be the local custo- dians of the supplies required for T sSUITS Fifty Saloons Go Out of Business. . In St. Johns fifty saloons go out of 2 % In this season’s best models, in As there are usually only two routes by which goods come into tne |l Heavy Serges, Mannish Mix- ‘&'%ms“;‘ffbfifié’:,_%’gzm?;fi‘{: tures, Broadc::oths,. Wo?il Ve- B b e, lours, mostly fur trimmed. ‘the law: The annual value of the imports of Formerly Sold Up to $75.00 liquors, wines, ales, beers, etc., with a small jocal manufacture of ales and beers, has been about $250,000 a year ’2 5 ta 5 and on all of these compounds the L4 eolony levied a very high tax, so that the duty obtained therefrom was about 400,000 & year. STRICTLY RELIABLE Drink Bilt a Million Annually. The direct cost of all this material to.the smporters was about $650,000, Adding the | B s, it is figured nal drink bill 1 T e TS e e moot | Annual Discount Sale setious effect which the new policy , .. . S expected to have is on the ordinary We are offering our entire stock venu: vhich shoul 1 - $ I e vmciances. shomk . about |l of manufactured Furs at dis- $400,000 during the next vear, but the |B . 01hts from belief is expressed in some quarters 25% to 50% COATS In the newest styles and mate ials; such as Wool Velours, Mar nish Mixtures, Ziberlines, Broa cloths, Sealettes and Boliv Cloth. Mostly fur trimmed. Formerly Sold Up to $75.00 $9.50 to $35 | Fashionable Blouses in a number. of charming style variously developed in radium silk, . crepe-de-chine and Georg- ette crepe and laces will be placed on sale at greatly reduced prices— $2.50, 3s.0v, $3,50, $4.50, $5.00, $6.00. s S e g oot wo M E N ’ s Street, Afterncon and Evenin the ban. Public Controller at St. Johns. A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF HANDSOME GOWNS, SUITABLE FOR THEATRE, RESTAURANT, AFTER- NOON CALLING, DANCING, FORMAL OR INFORMAL AFFAIRS AND STREET WEAR _ AtGreatlyReducedPrices, $15.00-$75.00 SKIRTS - GLOVES b SWEATERS ture not to put upon it the obligation of Unusually Clever Designs Our entire stock of Kid Gloves IVY CORSETS of eartying stocks of liquors and dis- pensing the same on the prescriptions of doctors, the government has pro- $ 2 A most- complete selection of Designed by expert tailors, fin- EXCLUSIVELY I Yoo ished by expert workmen, the RY ONE AND YOU wiLL | Angora Silk, -Silk Fibre and lines of these Skirts are especial- NOT WEAR ANY OTHER Wool Sweaters. wvided for St. Johns a public controller ly well drawn. A most desira- , Must Be Closed Qut S.OREENES through whom medicinal prescriptions ble range of fabrics offers a Regardless-of Cost Russell, assistant ministers, had re-|as the party leader was adopted was|British Sales of Cotton Goods in[1916 were 172.000,000 million vards(seen drunk. He is not very affec-|knocks such as come the other fel- ‘will be filled and supplies obtained for manufacturing, while provision is made whereby the various churches can have their own agencies for im- wines for sacramental uses. splendid selection from which to choose at greatly reduced prices. SPLIT IN FEDERAL LABOR ;a:gdn%d, agd, dh:cl]y xt:ter l)Iré_I f‘\l}%hes be:“n\use he had “xhr(?nded 27:0!9‘ ad\'c‘h South America. ngii:\}:fl, 9{5.%}1 0{:]I E\":urtésolor the same. tiorl\ale, is very ignorant and has so|low's way. zad been deposed as party leader, Rep- | cating no conscription as traitors in = % ‘months of 5, 81,000,000 ds in 1914 | little inifiative that he rarely take: “When a boy e PARTY IN AUSTRALIA| Centative King O'Malley and Repre- | the pay of Germany, as enemies of | Great Britain _is evidently taking and 174,000,000 in’ 1913, high rec- |on anything worth doing or actempes | put him throush coliege I toli Bim W sentative Hugh Mahon, minister for | thelr country and as belng responsible |£00d care of her market for cotion lord year of Argentine imports. . -Bx<|to carry out any enierprisee i | wodld he the sorst toing Snim It |an admixture of wood sicohc home affairs and minister for external | for the policy of the I. W. W. in the [g00ds in South and Central America | ports of cotton cloths from the Uni- | change: SRR | RADBERTO hERET T 8dy: You wotidonor t\l&:‘v‘xfit;ne“fi?u:‘fi: dt aye segryes SRS that the increased consumption of other articles will help to offset this shortage, and that in a very few vears there will be a readjustment which will more than compensate for the loss. deleterious in its effect is the tured epirit. This is no wood alcc but pure spirit (95 per cent pre Caused by the Ousting of the Federal Prime Minister. afairs,’ respectively, likewise resigned | commonwealth.” These charges. the |deepite war conditions. A compila- | ted States to Argentina In ihe ten only h airs,'re ™ : i 3 3 to —_— y have a burden of debt on your their portfolios. Statement declared, were unfounded |tlon by the Foreign Trade Department [months ending with October 1916 were = n cent. of the fluld volume, and . Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 31—Wil- | IE POSOTOR, 1 1test Hughes |and “showed Mr. Hughes' unftness for | of the National. City Bank of New | hut What Theodore Vail Thinks of Col- | houlders when you finished college. |posed to render it impossible ¢ 1 3 ,000,000 yards as against Brit- but " aa . . Hughes, the federal prime min- | oo vernment 15 Representative William | leadership of the majority of the par- | York shows that British exports of |ish exports to Argentina of 172,000,000 lege Men. Durden of ‘Eetting aeseihe cadditional | for drinking purposes. The lam 3 ister, was ousted from leadership of Hugh = » cotte loth South and Central | ya g g, 7 Soutl: < -and it | Russian, however, gets around p - ghes, prime minister and_attor- | ty. otton cloth to th an e yards in the same period. To Soutl I a ; 5 is pretty ha § “ i » B oy the federal labor party at the TECENt|ngy geieral; Senator George F. Pearce, | ~ There are thus two Jabor partiés in|America in the eleven months end-|and Central America as @ whole our | Thmodere Sha mhyer o can Magazine | O e e Pgrience and | very cleverly. party caucus, whereupon he left the |, inigter for defense; Representative | parliament, each claiming to represent |ing with November 1916 amount to[exports of cotton cloths in the eleven 9 P " 4 i can earn money only after you hav The young man entering life must|fah eara money only Y b Was Getting Stale, It is whispered abroad that the Ge meeting, followed by 23 supporters,|;’ 5 jensen, minister for the navy: |the industrial element in the country. | 475,000,900 yards against 275,000,060 | months ending with November . are with whom he formed a new 1abor par- | Fepresentative W. A. Webster, post- | The one—that headed by Mr. Hughes, | vards in the same months. of 1815 |about 180,000,000 vards against Britisn |0t De impatient. He must accumu- ty. The ejectment of Mr. Hughes| .gior general; Representative A.|who is yet prime minister—may be | 276,000,000 in the correspondins|exports of 475,000,000 yards to. . the |late eXperience, he must learn the du= were results of the bitter cleavage in| poynion, treasurer; Representative W.|[sald to be made up not along of the |months of 1914, and 549,000,000 in the | same territory in the same period, che | /€S Of his position by the actual do- Substitutes for Vodka. jran, peace. proposition. was to hav the labor ranks in Australia caused by | *A\0Niald. minister for trade and | pro-conscriptionists but the moder- | same months of 1913. Thin shows a|cleven months ending. with . Novems | N8 before- e has any-value tichM| lpreiinidd’ sfbititutes for vodka, |oqprue orverai rat oo of Pis champloning conscription for the | Cisioms; Representative F. W. Bam- |ates: and the other—that headed by |very large increase in British exports | ber 1916. employer: which are afmost widely used in Tus- | aidn't eventuate, and {he pe ution of the war and his pro- | porg O TNl TP O ¢ airs; Sena- | Mr. Tudor—composed of miitant|of cotton cloths to South and Cen- “The reason so many college boys ['sia, are eau de cologne, furniture 1oi- | had. to. b e, and the propositi posals belng defeated in the referen- |,y 'p. j. Lynch, minister for public | trades unionists. The portfolio of min- | tral America in 1916 when compared S Wavs ot thavAh fail is that they are full of theories: |ish’ and denatured alcohol. Coiomie |their hands caevcri it get stale dum. works; Representative W, G. Spence, | Ister for external affalrs was abolished | with 1915 or 1914, and but slightly less : they think they know it all. A college |is not tery popUlar. In the first siare | thelr hands—Cléveland Plain De Not only aid Mr. Hughes form a new | yjce president of the executive coun-|by Mr. Hughes when he formed his|than in 1913, the high record year of | The Arab has some curious ways.|course is a zood thing, an excellent | it is very expensive just now, and g party, but he formed a new EOVErn- | j; Senator E. J. Russell and Repre- |government and the work which had |import trade in South and Central |He takes off his shoes when he en- | thing, but it must be given to the |secordarly, no matter = what flavoring Federal Inquiries, ment from among the 23 members Of|centative Laird Smith, assistant minis- | attached to that department will bé[America. South American imports of | ters a house, but keeps on his hat.|right kind of youth. Quite a number | extracts are added to it it is npus- | Congress is a grand, grand he federal parliament who had elected | torg. divided between himself and the new |all classes of merchandise ageregated | He reads and writes from right to|o: the highest positions are filled by [sible to disguise the taste of ‘he 1er- | —at Investigating thihes. Nest to stand by him in the crisis, and these | "The faction of the parliamentary la- | minister for home affairs, Mr. Bam-|over $1,000,000,000 in 1913 against|left He eats scarcely anything for|men who went through college but|fume. Furniture polish is more ~op new ministers were forthwith sworn in | bor party which refused to acknow- |ford. The only members of the old {about $300,000,000 in 1914 and 1915, | breakfast or dinner. but in the eve- | who had no false notions as to what | lar, but is mueh harder to obtain It fatu;;llx:\";:fifx“rfn:“rh:'T’-W; > by the governor general of the com-|jcqge Mr. Hughes' leadership elected | government beside Mr. Hughes who are while the estimate for 1916 is about [ ning he sits down to a hot meal swim- | was required of them when. they en- | is impossible to buy it at present vn- | to a pair of bellow it N < monwealth, Sir Ronald Munro Fergu- |y Tudor (late Mr. Hughes' colleague [in the new one are Messrs. Pearce, | $650,000,000, which would seem to in- |ming in oil. His sons eat with him |tered business. No man is Worth |less one presents a warrant from ‘he ; son. in the cabinet as minister for trade | Jensen, Webster and Russell. dicate that the British exports of cot- |but the ladies of the household wait |anything until he has gone into the|police stating that the buyer really =, 2 During the campaign over conscrip- | ong customs) its leader and proceeded tons to South America in 1916 are in|till the males have finished. The |heat of the battle and had his theories | ie a cabinetmaker or a carpenter. The May Be He Can’t Talk tion Representative W. G. Higgs. com- | t5 style itself the official federal par- | From a mixture of sugar cane re-|an even larger proportion to the to- |Arab rides a donkey when travelis subordinated to practice. s polish- is distilled so as to separute| Perhaps the.delay of Carra ith treasurer; Representative|amentary party. It also issued a|fuse and bamboo fiber a Trinidad [tal imports of the continent than in|his wife walking behind, and he| “The son of rich parents is handi- | the alcohol; sometimes it Is mercy | signing the protocol Is due to & Frank G. Tudor, minister for trade and | siatement to the press in which it sald | planter has succeeded in making a|the earlier years. To Argentina alonc (laughs at the idea of giving up iis|capped in his youth. He gets no éx- | stirred with a flat stick until the shel- | that, like most Latin- Ameck customs, and Senators Gardiner and|that among other reasons why a mo- | paper equal in quality to the best|the exports of cotton piece goods for |seat for a woman. The Arab has onc | perience of doing things, and no|lac adheres to the latter. cant’ write and talk at the same fir tion of no confidence in Mr. Hughes | wood pulp product. the ten months ending with October |strong virtue, and that is he is rarely | opiortunity to benefit from hard| Far more widely used and far mere | —Boston Advertiser. 2 ~—Beloit News. L —— 2 WHEN SHE MOTORS vy £~ SHE MOTORS IN THIS The Washington Trust Company WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND Resources over $6,500,000 : A Bank ' Old In Experience Modern In Methods and Progressive (n Every Department SNUG LUXURY itk green duvetyn closed diagon- vith bone buttons 2nd trimmed Skunk fur, makes a dashing, prac- oat. ‘The botiom is _braided 2 ecic velvet, under the fur. and ! is re-caforced witl the "