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The Signal, 1918-5-30, Page 2el v ss- �F. • 2 THURSDAY, MAY :10. 1918 Y CHB SiGNA.L PRINTING CU . LTD. Pvau.:auaim 1 THURSDAY. MAY ID, ON ever put through Parliament; but it went through, and is just one item in the bill of expense which Eiordenism has fastened upon the country. Important Cabinet changes affecting the Ontario Provincial Government are announced. Archdeacon Cody, of Tor- onto, one of the outstanding clergymen of the Anglican church. is made Minister of EDITORIAL N07 ES. Education, succeeding Dr. Pyne, and Mr. --- George Henry. M. P. P. Inc East York. Ex -Gar Nicholas is to be banished from bK,mnes Minister of Agriculture. Premier Russia. Now he will have the happi- Hearst bad filled the portfolio of Agricul- eat time of his life. I tore ince the death of Hon. James Duff. Von Mac kensen is on the western front Dr. Pyne was looked upon as somewhat of Educe - with Hindenburg. But what can von a jO� in the role of Minister of Educa- (:erman Maclgenaen do against a thousand tion. The real head of the Department was Dt.John sena,. and educationists Scottish Maekoaiziea in khaki kilts .' ! throughout the Province will venture the By the way, there have been reports of hope that the change now being made will liutdenburg's death, but they appear to involve the retirement of the autocrat have been premature. He is now said to who apparently looks upon teachers. be laid up in a hospital at Strassburg with trustees and others connected with the typhoid fever. 1 educational system of the country as so The Governor-General and his party, many marionettes. Dr. Cody has a it is announced, will tour Ontario and visit 1 reputation as a man of broad sympathies even insignificant places like Owen Sound and it may be his privilege to bring such and Strati rd. Can it be possible that a spirit into the 1)epErtrrent of Education the Duke has never heard of Greater as will get it into touch with the people and ma , e it a living force for the benefit of Goderich ? the people such as it has not been in recent Some members of Parliament got there years. There is need in Ontario Inc a by promising farmers exemption from great educational awakening. ma tary service. Now that the promise Parliament was prorogued at midnight has been txoken the ta...-_- _ mending that the members resign. Seems.last Thursday after passing votes Inc the fair enough. lexpenditure of about one hundred mil- lions of dollars in less than four hours. Within the last few weeks two large flax Hon. W. S. Fielding protested vigorously mills have been burned down zone at St., against this scandalous haste; but his Marys, the other at Sebringville. Flax protest was in vain. The closing days of fibre is used in making the wings of air- the session were marked by,a series o f planes, and it may be that the destruction incidents which showed up the present of these two mills was not ontirely ac• Government in its true colars.'� Mr. A. B. cidental. Copp, the member Inc Westmoreland, The Wiarton Echo repubhiahes The N. B., demanded an investigation into the Signal's article of May 2nd on "The taking of the soldiers' vote at the last Create Goderich Campaign" and advises election. stating that extcnaive frauds had the same kind of tonic Inc Wiarton. The been perpetrated as the result of a caro- Owen Sound Sun publishes a portion of fully organised conspiracy.. These chtrges the tame article and wants to know why ' he made on his responsibility as a member Oren Sound cannot have a similar cam- I of the House. but the Governriienl nlajor- Owen. It seems to be catching. ity voted darn the motion Inc an investi- gation. Mr, Archambault, member for Wonder if the schoolboy of today ap- Chamoly-Vercheres. Quebec, charged predates the 24th of May as much as the that several hundred soldiers quartered at boys of long ago did, when the Queen's St. Johns, Que.. had voted in his riding Birthday was almost the best holiday of 1 unlawfully. The Minister of Justice the whole long year, and every youngster promised a judicial inquiry in this matter. invested all the coppers he could scrape I A few days before the Government refused together in firecrackers and :plied the early I to allow the disputed Yukon election case bears of the day with glorious noise. , to go before the courts.and Dr. Thompson Three were the days! 1 the Government .candidate, will sit in the Every civilian in Germany who posses- I House as member for the Yukon. Another sea more than one suit of clothing is coin • incident of the closing days of the session which will not soon be forgotten was palled, under a recent order, to hand it prier Borden's threat to resign if th over to the authorities to supply the' House adopted a resolution proposed b needs of war workmen. If the war con - THE SIGNAL : GODERICH, ONTARIO OLD-TIME SUCKER FISHING. A Cath of Fearless NssMn/ be One Boy in Oss Night. • A reference to the Benmiller correspon- dence recently to sucker fishing at the Marland Falls moves me to write of fish- ing as it ops in earlier days. I remember as a lad standing in my plaos.an a ring of a hundred or two ranged around a heap dt suckers on the green bank above the falls. after a catch. The fish were divided up share and share alike. 1 went home with a dosen. From far and near men and bons used to come Inc fish afte. their day's work, for the beg catches were made at night. An exciting episode of w htch the old -1 timers tell was the big tight at the falls between the lumbermen who were rafting timber down the river and the Tipperary green from Goderich township. The tuna - of the men who had come to fish. but the tette: got their Irish up and gathering m force one night cleaned out their tormen- tora. Few of the veterans on either side of that great,battk are now left. As to the 66shingnets or spears were not needed. The fish were hand-picked. There were experts in those days. Ned Slattery. Bill %anstone and his brother Sam. C,-ha:lir Walters, Jesse Gledhill, John Oke, John McGibbon, the M !ler boys, Rod. Adams and others whom 1 might came were famed for their skill in picking them out. For the benefit of those who never had the privilege of living within sound of the falls in the olden time. it may be said that the fish on their way up the s' ream to their spawning grounds made the leap over the falls and then struggled up the flat rock slide through the swift shallow water near the share, gathering in hun- dreds in' the stiller water near the edge to rest before continuing their voyage up stream. Here they were captured. To explain how. let me tell my fish story—a story that some unbelieving present -day's is treat with a contempt which it does not deserve. Briefly. 1 caught fourteen hundred in one night. I have sometimes said thirteen hundred. to make it easier of belief. but I am writing for the press now and 1'11 tell the whale truth. Thr season was well on, and for some reason there was no crowd that night and no expert catcher. A party had come from Clinton with a team and wagon. but how to get t fish they did not know. Another and 1 had gone down for a night's sport. Could we catch.' To be sure we could. My mate undertook to manage the tight, so he went ahead wits a big torch along the edge of the water. A proud young fisher- man waded cautiously along behind tbe light where the fish were nestling with their backs shining almost above the water as they crowded each other for room. A gentle movement of the hand from the rear up among them as if it were another fish crowding in: then grip your victim behind the gold and pull him back and drop into the bag held near by to receive him. Don't hurry. but get them all! It was great sport! The first run gave us a pile of five hundred on the grassy bank above. We then sat by the campfire till another shoal accumulated and repeated the operation. After the third catch it was getting daylight and e the strangers left for Clinton by the roa - )' way with their wagonload of fish. We - made a short cut home through the n woods, tired and happy, but with no fish. We already had a surfeit at home. The addition of an extra foot or so to the dam below the falls at Piper's Mills a few years after stopped the upward voy- age of the fish.Protests were entered and the obstruction was removed. but not until the fish had found other haunts. n I Whatever the reason. present-day sucker fialsinseis s im business compared with the a old-time sport A BENMILLER OLD BOY. tinues much longer. the German people will be in a like state to that of the one of his own supporters—Mr. Richard son, of Manitoba—to abolish all titles British army at the taking of Lungturig• Canada. A modified resolution. declaring that no lilies should he conferred in Can - pen' a V Kipling. ada except with the approval of the The editor of The Farmer's Advocate Prune Minister, was adopted. The sig - jerks himself away from contemplation of nificance of the Premier's attitud was pigs and potatoes and spring pasture to that. although he appealed for electio drop a pearl of wisdom as follows : )ast December for the sake of the soldiers -Since icing is now banished from and "the winning of the war," he wa ha we can more red to desert the cause of the sol the cake per ps getDrepa good, cid-fashioned gingerbread. which difrs and let the war get along without has nem been excelled by the product him unless he had his own way in this of any fancy recipe.'. matter of fates. It developd in discussion of the esti- mates at Ottawa last week that Mr. Rowell has two private secretaries. one of whom is paid 13,400. The salary of the other was not stated in the newspa;er re- ports. Their pay comes out of the public treasury. The Opposition had the idea that the chief business of the private secretary was to conduct a bureau for the advertis- ing of Mr. Rowell, who is not at all pop- ular with said Opposition. General Smuts, in an address at G las- gow University. gave a quiet hint that it was about time the Irish question was settled as the problem of South Africa was settled -by the granting of set( -gov- ernment. General Smsta himself is a Uv• ing exhibit of the results et that enlight- ened policy. Less than twenty years ago a leader of the tiers in their war with Great Britain. he is today a ixominent figure among the Empires statesmen. and his fellow -citizens of South A frica. Beier and British united, have swept the German flag from the African contin- ent. The Government turned a deaf ear to Mr. Copp's demand for the investigation of his ch trees concerning the taking of the overseas soldiers' vote. The Toronto G1 :be declared that the charges should be in- vestigated; the indictment was "one'Mat no Government can igro: e." The Toronto Globe is six months late. it should have protested last fall, w hen from coast to coast in Canada election methods sere employed that constituted a fraud and a farce. It chose, instead. to cast in de loit with the perpetrators of the fraud, and as a result it has lost the influence it mi have had. Globe ' thunder" is no heavy discount. oast The arbitrators appointed to pig value upon the common stock 0Es Canadian Northern Railway have an award of 610,800,000. The ment last fall, in the face of much tion to the handing over of any sums of money to Mackenzie and art a limit of 110,000.0110 utnn this. tion. The public may draw its osis. elusions. The deal whereby miUiot$ public money was to be handed mer for a railway that already had sen paid for by the people of Canada was denounced in the House of Commons last year by Conservative member as the greatest steal DID A Q OD TURN/ POR AN OLD PRIQND. How Two Mss Proved the Werth of Dodd'. ibdeey Pills. Fux Valley. Sask., May 27th (Special) —'•I tell everyone that suffers from kidney trouble to take Dodd's Kidney I Pills.' These are the words of Mr. Henry Burkhart, of this place. '•1 took Dodd'sney Pills for eight months and now 1 f I as well as ever I did in my life. I a sent one box to a friend who lives in Dakota, and who i knew suffered from his kidneys. My friend wrote me to get him some moue of Dodd's Kid- ney Pills. as the doctors coule do nothing to help him. He .said Dodd's Kidney Pi Is were the hast medicine he had ever taken. 1 would not be without Dodd's Kidney fills." - Dodd's IGdney Pills have made their reputation as ,a kidney remedy by the cures they have made. Ask your friends about them. Ten Billion Photos Reveal Mae Marsh Mae Marsh- the movie star, has the hugest collection of photographs ever rs. sembled in the world s history. She is the joy and delight of the camera and the lens people. Every night of their lives when Mr. Eastman and the other genuises of photo- graphy kick off their bedroom slippers, slip into their pajamas and get down be- side the bed oto say their prayers they take great pains to add a little prayer for Mae Marsh. Over the Christmas and New Year's holidays a mathematician n tth a tot of time on his hands figured uo the footage of all the pictures in which Mae Marsh has ever appeared. obtained data about the n mber of prints of each picture that was marketed and, lo and behold. his bury pencil showed that ten billion is an accur- ate record of the times she has been pho- tographed ho- t phed on the tem. Do you wonder that the gods of tte cinema, the men who make the film. look upon Mae Marsh as being almost as valuable to them as the formula from which they make the film itself ? Read every page 01 The Signal. The news is not all on the front page. ARE YOU PREPARED for the spring rains ? Is your roof and eavetrotlgh in good condition ? Our work in that line is always satisfactory. W. R. PINDER Phone 156 Hamilton Street QUESTIONS FOR REGISTRATION. The following is tbe hat of questions to be asked when the registration of roan- i power is made in Junes 1. Name. 2. Address in full. 3 Age. 4. Date of birth. r 5. Country of birth. d. British subject (by birth or by naturahzati n). 7. 11 naturalized. when and where. ti. Single, married, widower, or di- vorced. 9. Physical disability. if any. 10. Present occupat.on, regular occu- pation. What other work can you do ? ll. If an employee, state employer's n .me; address and nature of business. 3 12. • Do your circumstances permit you to serve in the present national crisis by changing your present occupation t some other, Inc which you are qualified. if the conditions offered are satisfactory.' 13. Were you brought up on a farm ? Are you a retired farmer ? Are you will- ing to do faanrns�,, work ? Can you handle horses ? Dri'e tractors ? Use farm machinery ? 14. If nota British subject to what country do you owe allegiance 15, How many children under sixteen ' 1& if registered under the Military i Service Act. whet is your serial number ' ionmeArtininaninkvniAblinioinicommiiipaiiiitfraiittik , W. ACHESON & SON 44 Massey -Harris Shop —FOR - BINDERS, MOWERS AND CULTIVATORS. DELCO-LIGHT PI;ANTS. BUCKEYE iNCLBATORS. GRAY AND McLAUGHLIN CARRIAGES. GAS ENGINES. WIRE FENCE. OLD HOMESTEAD FERTILIZER. 4 i To Be Acswered by Females. 1. Name in full. 2. Address in full. 3. Age. 4. Race. 5. Can you speak English or French ? tt. British subject (by bath, natur- alization or marriage) ? 7. Are you single, married, widow, oe divorced ? '8. How many children under sixteen? 9. Do your health and hone ties per- mit you, if required, to give full time, paid work (registrant answering, 'No" to this question need give no further information; those answering "Yes" or in doubt should fill in the rest of Me card, or must sign affirmation). 10. Do yonr circumstances permit you . to live away from home ? 11. What is your present main -recoups- 11 11i tion ? If in business state nugiber of employees. 1f an employee a name, de business and address of employer. If hill - time voluntary worker state name of so- 3 ciety serving. 12. State particulars of each it you 12 have trade, profession. degree. diploma. certificate. special training. i 13. State length of experience if any, in general farming, poultry farmipg. dairy .i farming. 14. Can you deiy�fee a tractor' Dive a motor ? Drive a Norte ? Can har- ness a horse ? Do farm cooking 15. Indicate any qualifications or pear- 112 tical experience which you possess not already r corded. lit. Do your circumstances p nit you 3 11/ to give regular full-time service w,tho ut remuneration ? Robert Wilson Hamilton St. Goderich 3 3 3 .3 Take Advantage of These Opportunities 3 Our stock of these specials is still large for a big May selling. Prices quoted are below mill prices and away below present wholesale prices today. For coming fall and opting manufacturers' prices are con- siderably higher. Military Flannels Best quality, in grey and white mix., 27 to 28 inches wide, for military shirts, wothen's dresses or skirts. Worth 75c. At per yard ... ...50e Grey Flannels Extra quality. Worth 50c, for 3Sc Ladies' Coats and Raincoats Clearing prices on all our new Coats for spring remaining. Tweed and Broadcloth Coats, formerly 814 to 025, reduced to from... ............................ =11 to $18 Ladies' tweed mix. best English Raincoats, Form- erly 116, for.....- ....... ,........................ 81250 Gossard Corsets They lace•in front. Commended anc,approved by every woman who ever tried them. Beautifuljy made, and styles for all figures. Priced 12.00, 12.50, 83.50, 85.00 and up. Linoleums , Four yards wide, best British make, in good pat- terns. Worth 11.10. At per square yard 1,.. lilac Floor Rugs Reversible imported Union Rugs. Splendid pit terns. 3x34, 18.00. 3x4, 19.01). Brussels, Tapestry and Wilton Rugs .111 grades and sizes, at less than mill prices. Nightgown Cloth 36 -inch fine twill white cotton. free from dressing and heavy. Suitable for sfteeting, nightgowns or general household wear. Worth 35c, at per yard 28e • w,t.rs'a Ute Boy for This ? 1 W. ACHESON & SON RSipahas an Il�h techod 3 albaacel= led make �.at es,s,1e �!14!1!T"1"�I+TTTTT�1! 1�TTT�l�*� T�AT�1�!I�1N JUST ARRIVED — AT — WALKER'S A SPRING SHIPMENT OF Linoleums and Congoleum Rugs in different sizes. Also a new stock of Rugs worth seeing. A call at the store will con- vince intending purchasers that Walker's is the place to deal. 41, CANADA MIUTARY$ERVIQx .ACTS ;1917 W. Walker THE FURNITURE MAN ON TNL SQVAItC .: • he . 444 TIMBER GiRLS HARD AT WORK. A forage corps composed of women is row attached to the Cansdi*n Forestry Corps, which is now felling - timber in the Cumberland Woods. The tints work fix the greater port in the big sawmills. where they havd', be n assigned a variety of useful duties, hitherto performed by men. Puerto shrt'ts the girth riding h este afit' the end of the day. 1 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that, by the effect of the regulations of the Gover- nor General of Canada in Council of the 20th of April, 1918, and the Proclamation of 4th May, 1918, recently published, every male British subject resident in Canada, born on or since the 13th of October, 1897, who has attained or shall attain the age of 19 years and who is unmarried or a widower without children must, (unless he is within one of the classes of persons mentioned in the schedule of Excep- tions to the Military Service Act) report as thereinafter directed on or before the 1st day of June, 1918, or within ten days after his 19th birthday, whichever date shall be the latter. Such report must be in writing and must give his name in full, the date of his birth and his place of resi- dence and also his usual port office address. The report must be addressed to the Registrar or Deputy Registrar rider the Military Service Act of the Registration District in which he resides (see below) and shall be sent by registered post. for which no Canada postage is required. Young men so reporting will not be placed on active service till further notice. They must, however, notify. the appropriate Registrar or Deputy Regifrar of any diminish/ residence or address. On receipt of the report an identifcatios'ward will be forwarded by the Registrar which will protect the bearer from arrest. Punctual compliance with these requirements is of great importance to those affected. Failure to report within the time limited will expose the delinquent to severe penalties and will in addition render him liable to immediate apprehension for Military Service. ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, MILITARY SERVICE BRANCH. this 15th dry of May. 1918. NOTE: The men required to report should address their reports as follows: ONTARIO—Tb the Deputy Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Landon. if they reside in the County of Essex, Kent, Lambton, Elgin, Middlesex, Oxford. Waterloo, Wellington, Perth, Huron, or Bruce. To the Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Toronto, if they reside in the County of Lincoln, Welland, Hsldima.d, Norfolk, Brant, Wentworth, Halton, Peel, York, Ontario, Grey, Dufferin, Simcoe, or in the Districts of Muskoka, Parry Sound, Algoma and Nipfssing north of the Mattawa and French rivers (including the Town- ship of Ferris and Bonfield.) To the Deputy Registrar under the Military Service Act, 1917, Kingston if they reside fa the To the Deputy Registrar under the Military Servic Act, 1917, Quebec, if they reside in the County o Wolfe. Richmond, Compton, Beaute, Bellechasse Bonavemture, Dorchester, Oasp&, gamotera.ka, Lev Liget. Champlain. Charlevoix, Chicoutimi, Mont morency, Quebec, Portneuf, Saguenay, Lothiniere Mostmagay, Matane, M4gaaHe, Rbnouaki Ttmiseouata. To the Deputy Registrar under the Military Servi Act, 1917, Hull, if they reside in the County Timiskaming, Pontiac, Ottawa and Labelle. NOVA SCOTIA—To the Registrar under the Militia Service Act,- 1917; Halifax, if they reside in t Province of Nova Sco.ia. County of Durham, Northumberland, Edward, Viand* NEW BRUNSWICK --To the Registrar under t Addington, ough, Hastings, Prince Edward, Lennox, b Military Service Aet. 1917, fit. John. if t11ey reside Addington, Frostenae, 14a4bwtos, Carleton, poorly the Province of New Brunswick. des, Glengarry, Retiarew, Russell Stormont oner. PNCE EDWARD ISLAND—To the Registrar un vine, Lanark, Leeds, Prescott, or the District of �• Military Service Art, 1917, Charlottetown, if t Nipisaing south of Mattawa river (exclusive of t1R•C.;,' the in rho Servic ee of Prises Edward Island. Townships of Ferris and Boi 5.ld.) 1!<R1Ti$H COLUMBIA—To the Registrar under t To the Registrar under the Military 8�eryryi� �SS�� Military Service Act, -1917, Vancouver, if they 1917, Winnipeg, they reside iii the Dlatri 5.7 ir1 the Previaee of l� itieh Cdumbia. Kenora, Rainy River, or Thunder Bay. 'SASKATCHEWAN—To the Registrar under the Militia QUZBEC To the Reregistisr under the miatarrefivApe f Servile*A e* .ct. 1"917. Regina, if they reside in 5 Art, 1917. Montreal, if they reside in the ty d 'i►"evlsef,M a_sntaltchewnti. Jacques Cartier, Hoch* Lang cit, ALBERTA To the Registrar under the Military Srry Sou)anges. Naptervime. a. (Eta Tani - '..i" Alit. 1111, Calgary. if they "Side is the Province Hunthngten, Lapesirir, Argenteuil, T Two Alberta. Mountains, Mentcalm, L'MANITO)y—To the. under the thief,Mtakloasgl. St. Maur Setv1eN'A$, 111!, WR if they reside is t Musa. Ibety* le, Miaaisquoi, Brom.. Province of elanitoh.. bl , Vereiras, OIL H Irl Registrar nodal' the Military Sri Y---'-1, Meek*, Arils- Act. 1917, Daweoa, if they restse in the Yoh WO IhWeroale, tad StsaNsd. Tear ensue . r I ..•1. t. 4