The Semi-Weekly News.
VOL. VI. LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, N. W. T., TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1891. NO. 31
The Semi-Weekly News
is published every Tuesday and Friday Evenings,
AT THE
NEWS OFFICE, ROUND STREET,
LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, N.W.T.,
BY
E. T. SAUNDERS, Publisher.
Rates of Advertising Contacts, payable Quarterly :
Professional and Business Cards, Dinch, 1 year, 818. Transient advertising 12 cents per line for first insertion ; 8 cents per line each subsequent insertion. Business Notices inserted in local or news column at 15 cents per line each insertion.
Transient advertisem*nts to be measured by a scale of solid nonpareil, 12 lines to inch, and must be paid for in advance. No advertisem*nt inserted for less than $1.
Advertisem*nts without written instructions will be inserted until forbidden, and changed accordingly.
No contracts taken for a less period than three months, and advertisem*nts of shorter duration will be charged by the line.
Any person taking a newspaper from the Post Office is responsible for the payment of same, and no paper will be stopped until all arrears for subscription are paid up.
Subscription price for Semi-Weekly News, $3.00 per annum in advance. If not paid within three months, $4.00 will be charged.
The above terms will be strictly adhered to.
JOB DEPARTMENT.
The News Job Department is well supplied with all the latest and newest designs in plain and fancy type, Gordon and Peerless presses, stationery and printing material of all descriptions.
Bill Heads, Note and Letter Heads, Programmes, Invitations, Circulars, Dodgers, Professional Cards, etc., etc., printed in the latest style. This department is under the management of a thoroughly practical man, and the public can rely on getting work done equal to any City office in Canada.
Book work a specialty.
E. T. SAUNDERS, Prop.
CHURCH NOTICES.
St. Augustine's Church.
Rev. Rural Dean Pritchard, Incumbent.
Sunday Services, 11 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Litany, Friday evening, 7:30 p.m.
Holy Communion--Early celebration 3rd Sunday in the month at 8 a.m. 1st Sunday in the month after morning service.
Sunday school, 3:00 p.m. All seats free.
Presbyterian Church.
Services at 11 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sabbath school and Bible class at 3 p.m.
Weekly Service, Wednesday evening 7:30.
Communion, 1st Sunday in each Quarter, at 11:00.
Rev. Chas. McKillop, B. A., Pastor. Residence, corner of Dufferin and Bartlett streets.
Methodist Church.
Services at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Weekly service every Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday school at 2:30.
Epworth League meets on Wednesday evenings at o'clock.
Robt. Halsall,
Pastor.
North Star Lodge,
NO. 41, A. F. & A. M., G. R. M.
Regular meetings, second Monday of each month at 20 o'clock.
N. T. Macleod,
14-6-8-1y Sect'y.
Lethbridge Lodge, No. 2
L.O.O.F.
Meets in Masonic Hall every Saturday evening at at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brethren are always welcome.
B. CARTER,
R. SECT.
T. LOWTHER
22-5-6m. N. G.
Alberta Lodge, No. 5
K. of P.
Meets on the first and third Tuesdays in every month at 8 p.m. Visiting brethren cordially welcome.
F. J. BOURDON,
C. C.
J. ROBERTSON,
K. of R. & S.
C. O. F.
Court Lethbridge, No. 262.
Will meet 1st and 3rd Thursday of each Month, at 8 o'clock, at McKenzie's Hall.
A. J. Link, C. R. J. Leask, R. S.
LETHBRIDGE
St. Andrew's Society
Meets in the Masonic Hall on the First Wednesday of every Month at 8 o'clock.
J.D. HIGINBOTHAM,
President.
T. GRAHAM,
Secty.
Alberta Lodge, No. 659,
I. O. F.
Meets every Second and Fourth Thursdays in each Month, in Masonic Hall.
Visiting Brethren cordially welcomed.
F. J. BOURDON,
C. R.
F. L. RUSSELL,
Rec, Sec.
F. H. MEWBURN, M. D.,
Late House Surgeon of the Montreal and Winnipeg General Hospitals.
Lethbridge, N. W. T.
22-1-6-1y
L. GEO. DeVEBER, M. D.,
MACLEOD, N. W. T.
Office: First door west of Smith Bros.' store.
R. J. HARDY,
Painter, Paper-hanger, Glazier, Kalsominer, Bronzer, Etc.
Orders addressed him at the Post Office will receive prompt attention. Post Office Box. 197.
Lethbridge, Sept 20-1m.
C. O'GORMAN, M. D., M. C. P. S. O.
Fellow of Trinity Medical College, Toronto.
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON and ACCOUCHEUR.
Diseases of Women and Children a specialty.
At the CLARK HOUSE, LETHBRIDGE, ALTA.
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Union Bank of Canada
Head Office--Quebec.
Capital Paid-up, $1,200,000.00
Rest. - - $200,000.
LETHBRIDGE BRANCH
Interest allowed on Deposits in Savings Department.
Drafts Issued on all accessible points in Canada.
Sterling Exchange and United States Funds Bought and Sold.
Collections promptly attended to.
A General Banking Busines Transacted.
F. R. GODWIN, Manager.
Lethbridge, Oct. 25, 1y
Steamship Agency
TICKETS
by any of undermentioned Companies Steamers to any from British and Continental ports old by
H. MARTIN, Lethbridge.
Or by R. KERR, G. P. A., C. P. R., Winnipeg: Allan, Dominion, Be ver; Anchor, Cunard, Guion,Inman, State Line, White Star, Compagnie Generale, Transatlantique, Hamburg-American, North German Lloyd, Red Star, American, etc.
N. B.--All enquiries promptly answered.
CONYBEARE & GALLIHER.
Barristers, Soliciters, etc.,
Money to Loan.
Lethbridge, - Alta.
Office next door to News Office.
C. F. P. Conybeare. W. A. Galliher.
C. C. McCAUL, Q. C.,
Barrister, Advocate, Notary, &c.,
Lethbridge.
Money to Loan.
OFFICE:---Over Union Bank of Canada.
F. W. G. HAULTAIN,
BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC.,
MACLEOD, N. W. T.
J. F. RITCHIE,
Dominion Land Surveyor.
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
Local Agent for the Confederation Life Association and the Imperial Fire Insurance Company.
OFFICE:!
South side of Square, Lethbridge.
F. BOURDON'S
Shaving and Hairdressing
Parlor, Round Street, Lethbridge, Alta.
MOLLOY BROS.,
Teamsters & Draymen.
Stables on Smith St., near Macdonald & Co.'s Warehouse.
Coal delivered to any part of Town limits for 50 cents per Ton. 12-1m
Attention, Horse Owners!
A. E. KEYES
Has opened a
Blacksmith Shop
Opposite the Livery Barn, LETHBRIDGE, and is prepared to do all kinds of work and satisfaction guaranteed.
Special attention given to Horseshoeing and Brand making.
Lethbridge, Dec. 5, 1888. 3m
G. W. ROBINSON, Importer and Dealer in Stationery, Musical Instruments.
A "GODERICH" ORGAN ON HAND.
All orders promptly attended to.
Noel's Block, Lethbridge.
TARIFF OF PRICES
Sam Davis' Livery Stables.
Saddle Horse.
Single Horse and Buggy.
SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS.
For Team and Carriage add 50 per cent. to price of Single Rigs.
Special Rates to Travellers and Commercial Men when wanted for more than one day.
TELEPHONE CONNECTION.
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CITY MEAT MARKET
Round St., Lethbridge.
I. G. Baker & Co.,
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Fresh Meats of all kinds constantly on hand.
Lethbridge, October 1886, -1y
LOWTHER & CARTER, BUTCHERS, Fresh Beef, Pork, Mutton and Live Poultry ALWAYS KEPT ON HAND.
C. A. C.&C.Co's old stand.
J. H. LAWRENCE,
DEALER IN
Furniture!
Cabinet making, Undertaking and General Jobbing
Promptly attended to.
Nearly opposite Rowe's Livery Stable.
NOTICE is hereby given that Herbert Remington Mead, of the Village of Pincher Creek, in the District of Alberta, in the North-West Territories, Physician, will apply to the Parliament of Canada, at the next session thereof, for a bill of Divorce from his wife Louisa Mead, formerly Louisa Macpherson, who at present resides at or near the Town of Waterbury, in the State of Connecticut, of the United States of America, on the ground of Adultery.
Dated at Lethbridge, in the North-West Territories, this 28th day of March, 1891.
C. C. McCAUL,
Solicitor for the Applicant,
By Gemmill & May, his Agents at Ottawa.
TENDERS.
SEALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned, and endorsed "Tender for Indian Supplies," will be received at this office up to noon of SATURDAY, 9th May, 1891, for the delivery of Indian Supplies, during the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1892, consisting of Flour, Beef, Bacon, Groceries, Ammunition, Twine, Agricultural Implements, Tools, &c., duty paid, at various points in Manitoba and the North-west Territories.
Forms of tender, containing full particulars relative to the Supplies required,, dates of delivery &c., may be had by applying to the undersigned, or to the Indian Commissioner at Regina, or to the Indian Office, Winnipeg.
Parties may tender for each description of goods (or for any portion of each description of goods separately or for all the goods called for in the Schedules, and the Department reserves to itself the right to reject the whole or any part of a tender.
Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted Cheque in favor of the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs or a Canadian Bank, for at least five per cent of the amount of the tender, which will be forfeited if the party tendering declines to enter into a contract based on such tender when called upon to do so, or if he fails to complete the work contracted for. If the tender be not accepted, the cheque will be retarried, and if a contract be entered into for a part only of the supplies tendered for an accepted cheque for five per cent. of the amount of the contract may be substituted for that which accompanied the tender: the contract security check will be retained by the Department until the end of the fiscal year.
Each tender must, in addition to the signature of the tenderer, be signed by two sureties acceptable to the Department for the proper performance of the contract based on his tender.
This advertisem*nt is not to be inserted by any newspaper without the authority of the Queen's Printer, and no claim for payment by any newspaper not having had such authority will be admitted.
L. VANKOUGHNET,
Deputy of the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.
Department of Indian Affairs,
Ottawa, March 1891-3t.
DOMINION OF CANADA.
GOVERNMENT NOTICE
By the Honourable EDGAR DEWDNEY, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.
To all whom these presents may come, or whom the same may in anywise concern---
GREETING :
Whereas it is in and by the Act of the Parliament of Canada being the 43rd Charter of the Revised Statutes of Canada, intituted "An Act respecting Indians," amongst other things in effect enacted that the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs may, when he considers it in the public interest to do so, prohibit, by public notice to that effect, the sale, gift, or disposal to any Indian in the Province of Manitoba or in any part thereof, or in the North-West Territories or in any part thereof, of any fixed ammunition or ball cartridge : and every person who after such notice, without the permission in writing of the Superintendent General, sells or gives, or in any other manner conveys to any Indian in the section of country thus prohibited any fixed ammunition or ball cartridge, shall incur a penalty of not more than two hundred dollars, or shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or to both fine and imprisonment within the limits aforesaid, at at the discretion of the Court before which the conviction is had.
Now know ye, that I, the said the Honourable Edgar Dewdney, Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, considering it to be in the public interest so to do, and having reference to the previous public notice on the subject, dated the Nineteenth day of August, 1885, do hereby give public notice that the sale, gift or other disposal to any Indian in the North-West Territories of Canada, or in any part thereof, of any fixed ammunition or ball cartridge is hereby further prohibited, and that the same prohibition is hereby extended to the Indians of Manitoba, and that every person who, without the permission in writing of the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs for the time being, sells or gives away, or in any other manner conveys to any Indian in the North-West Territories of Canada or in any part thereof, or in the Province of Manitoba or any part thereof, any fixed ammunition or ball cartridge, will incur the penalties provided by the said Act.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed these presents at my office in the City of Ottawa, this Twenty-seventh day of January, 1891.
EDGAR DEWDNEY,
Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.
