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Are You Ready for him?

We have bought very heavy in Christmas goods everything new, here are a few suggestions.

For The Ladies.

A nice silk Searf, one of our nice Kimonas, a nice pair of house Slippers, a Battenburg Centre Piece, Drawn Work Kid Gloves and Mitts, A nice Umbrella,a good Silk Waist or Dress, Linens, Handkerchiefs of all kinds, Fancy Cushion Tops, Fancy Neck Wear Cout Sweaters, Fancy Bed Covering, White Embossed Bed Covers, For The Men Tundsids of Tiss of ll Neck Searfs. Faney Hose, Shirts, kinds.

Suspenders in boxes, Gloves and Mitts, FPaney Sweaters of all kinds, House Slippers. Linen Asndkerchiefs Initials, Exceldas of all kinds, Collar and Cuff Boxes.

Call early and get first choice. Phone us your order for Groceries.

OR CRegONeHORONOHOF Rene Ze sonoseneseneLone HeuORonenene neponcnonedesononcnononenenesenenencsenonesoatae sesvesenegepone M. FISHER, Claresho!m : OTHE OLD RELIABLE AND UP-TO-DATE CLOTHING STORE Nov. 3rd, 1910 To the Public of Claresholm and surrounding country: I will offer for two weeks my entire stock of clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes, underwear, felt shoes and slippers, in fact everything in my store at 10 per cent above wholesale price, commencing SATURDAY | J ~ DECEMBER, 10th and ending Dec. 24th.

This is ustraight business proposition. I have bought goods than T can sell at the regular price and [am going to give my friends and patrons an op portunity to buy goods at prices never heard of in Claresholm, See large circulars for particulars and be sure and bring your neighbors and friends as [am going to give you something for cash that has never bea? equaled by more anybody in Claresholm, Don’t forget the day and date } Saturday, Dec. 10th at 9 o'clock, Yours for business. CARL J. BRAREN. LEI ON a Ba Ra NP sah ESE RED MILNES & NOBLE | MONEY TO LOAN | | N 2 || serene noma ON FARM SECURITY at Lowest Rates of Interest Applications attended to promptly.

Offices at GLARESHOLM AND NOBLE, ALTA. aaa SL fesse Ste ee ee SOME INFORMATION FOR THE RATEPAYERS| Sooo OS GE: CORON BO SROROROH: SOROKS 1ONOROTSOROTORORORCLORCTO ee JouonenesenesOneEcEOHORO “CLARESHOLM, ALTA., With a view to giving the people some information as to the experience of other towns in connection with the operation of water and light plants the Review recently addressed a letter to a number of municipalities through the west and gathered some very interesting reports. The Review acknowledges the courtesy of the town clerks referred to for the kindness and promptness with which the information sought was furnished. It is impossible to give all the letters in full as they would take more space than the Review has at its disposal. The following is from Lacombe, a town probably half as large again as Claresholm, Dear Sir--In reply to yours re electric plant, beg to suy that we have been operating our plant just one year and it has paid its way. We employ three operating men during the winter months and two during the summerimonths. Our total operwing expenses for the winter months jamount to #450 a month and during the summer months $150 a month. | We havea manager E, J. Tett who | has complete charge of the plant and who engineers and superintends all ithe work in connection with the plant, }and he does a goodly portion of the j work around the plant. We have no lwater system. We runan all night | | lighting system.

Yours truly, Fraser, See. ‘Treas Morden Makes Money Mr. C. MeCorquodale clerk of Morid Jen, Manitoba writes that the electric Hight plants pays well two men man-| , Jesse | | MAYOR-ELECT OF CLARESHCLM. | T. C. MILNES | { j month. The manager is an electrijcian who does the line work sees after i the lights collects the bills ete. | Mr. MecCorquodale — writes; —"To | give you an idea how well our light | pays. This year we built a dam at a | cost of $760, put in a new boiler at a ! cost of $620 and purchased 100 poles | $598 and placed all these poles, all | paid out of electric light earnings hand we have still a surplus, The | plant has been owned by the town ! for three years.”

Owned By a Company Wolesley, lighted } company owned plant but the clerk j asked the manager for information | for the Review and was told. that the ‘plant pays and that three men are Femployed to run it at a cost of S275 a !month for everything, The engineer is manager.

How Wetaskiwin Fares The city of Wetaskiwin hardly mikes a fair comparison for Clares holm but here is the c'erk’s letter: Dear Sir— Replying to your circular of the [8th inst., last year our Elec tric Light Plant did not pay all expenses, a certain propportion of the | debentures having to be paid from | however, this year | aving Obtainis by | Sask., is by a general account, we expect to pull even, hh fed a number of new connectio: reason of the city having installed a! trom the ratepayers if we had to tax ' department for house wiring at cost.

jthus erabling those who could not) pom 4 to 43 mills on the dollar, for | nfford to pay the usual electricians charges to obtain the advantages of DEG, sth 1910.

age itand the sary list totals $150 aj | $3560 a year.

electric light.

The superintendent, who has charge of the plant and distribution receives a salary of $150 per month, our meter reader and lineman $85.00 a month, one fireman $70, two firemen $60 and Lone other fireman $50° a month, In addition to these charges a portion of the salaries in this otfice is charged to the Electric Light department for collection of accounts efe, amounting to $31.25 per month.

We give a twenty-four hour service havinga number of power connections for the day loud, and having sold a number of e'ectric irons and other household utensils which the consummers can use about their household duties, Waterworks. This department has only been in operation for about two months, and even now is not in full swing, but, we have a large number of connections, although we do not anticipate that this department will be able to pay | all charges for some two or three! years yet.

If you repuire any further informa- | tion I shall be pleased to hear from you again, Yours truly, E. Roberts, Secretary-Treastrer, | | | Indian Head’s Experience Dear Sir-T have vours of 18th | inst respecting your water and light! | plants, Your experience as to piy- | jing more than the estimated expend-Vitures in conuection with their instal jlation, is nothing new. We atl get lit in theneek this way. and I think, | speaking personally, that this town | vot it worse than most, in as much } Jas the engineers estimate of $135,000, | Jat present amounts $100,000 above this figure.

Our electric lighting system, wien! was installed in the hope that it!

} would serve a population of 5000, at present serves one of 2000, but we |have to keep the same stidi as if it, supplied the larger number, with} | possibly the exception of a meter reader. We have a chief electrician, | who also supervisies our water supply jand of his salary of $1800 a year) $1200 is charged to the light plant, house engineer at $859 a jit power } year, and a fireman at $510 a year, |With in assistant to the chief, whose isilary of 8720 a year is equally ap-| portioned between the light and, |} water departments.

$400 of my own salary is paid ly the electric light plant, and $200 by the waterworks, and this would make our salaries account on the electric Hlight plant $280 per month, or sily | Our coal bill comes to | about $5500 a year, fluctuating ac | cording to the supply received, viral the quality of the coul, We pay an} average: price of $6.25 per ton for leoal, Theother expenses of the | plant are somewhere around $1000 a year, and the total carnings for the j year about $12,500, As to our profits ; }you will get a better idea from the enclosed interim statement for the} }durrent year to Oct 81st last. | | | With regard to your water supply | |system, if you are in the | tion as we ure, you will not lmuch to the question of whether it} sume situa look so it. On the occasion of what promised | to be, and would have been under | | the old regime, a very dangerous fire, I heard a citizen who at the time was strongly opposed to the expenditure of the money, say that in his opinion the water system had half paid for it self that night. Through the instal lation of our water supply, the insurance on properties in this town |i are reduced by over $3000 a year, iff the ratepayers would only think of | this, there would be no kicking as to [high taxes owing to the waterworks. | We Rave, roughly $174,000 invested in waterworks and sewers, and with an excellent supply, ibsolute freedom from typhoid fever, and a splendid fire protection system, I do not think that we should have mnch_ kicking’ them twice as much as we do, viz debentures under this heading.

To sum up, we figure on a deficien- Sa ee SS SS NO. 4) Oe> Meee Dee MEE MEC> Te The Glaresholm Lumb That's how we do busines Wehandle best varieties Prompt delivery.

LOM E> ee> OC= 49> S3OE= <9 3OE-=~ 308E-<> The Western Canada Lumber Co., Limited.

SUCCESSORS TO we should not be ashamed to adopt in private life.

ber of every description, all thoroughly seasoned and carefully assorted, and can supply anything in this line at lowest prices.

The Western Canada Lumber Go. Ltd.

OLE THOMPSON YARD MANAGER. ) Hard Coal from Bankhead mines always in stock.

er and Grain Co., Ltd.

In A Straight Forward Way 3. Our methods here are such as of rough and dressed lum-Any quantity desired.

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At OUR t Standard.

It is a high one, but we never lower it.

oO ABSOLUTELY PURE : i always raise it, and shall When you buy a loaf of George Barber’s Bread you are sure of eating something that is absolutely Pure. open to Analysis.

and Hops.

Every Loaf Guaranteed and The only bread in the On sale daily at J. M. Soby’s and the Jas. Clark Co., Stores, also at the | countryside made with Bakery Shelver Parisian Balm-Pure Malt | ce) St., Claresholm, pepsi a0 10 on our waterworks, and the electric | ‘light plant just about pays interest on its estimated capital of $50,000 without being able to provide any rejserve fund, Yours truly, O, J. Godrey, See, Treas, lights burn on # moonhouse lights The Are light schedule, but the run all night.

Here is Red Deer’s Report Dear Sir--Replying to your favor of ikth inst, asking for information as to electric lighting and waterworks in Red Deer T beg to give you the following information: Tn 1904 when Red Deer was somewhat smaller than it is at present a) franchise was granted to a company to install and operate an_ electric light plant, also a telephone plant. The rates at the time of granting that franchise were 65cts a month for | pays, as the advantages you get from | ey in cash of about $6000 each year lights and $10 per year and $25 for telephones, house and business respectively, We were pointed out a clause in the agreement whereby the rates tobe charged were to approximate, but never exceed the prices lcharged in any town in the territories jand providing fora revision of rates by arbitration. Two years ago the company took action to have the rites increased, and they succeeded in getting rates of $28 for and $35 for business phones, and u rate of 20cts per K. W. for lignts.

are the highest prices charged in Alberta instead of being the lowest.

Although the franchise was grant ed illegally, J. T. Moore, who o1 ganized the company was, elected M.L. A, forthe first legislature and induced it to pass an act ratifying land legalizing the franchise.

You will find in the Red Deer bill of 1906 the full terms of the franchise and also of our agreement for oper-(Continued on page 4 column 5.)

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