HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1916-05-18, Page 7Thursday, May 18 1916
THE Wf NGHAM ADVANCE
WITH 7111; BOYS IN ENGLAND
(Continued from page one) -
little cash with them as things are too
expensive, buy only things that are
absolutely useful,
Our bunk houses are about 80 Net in
in length, 25 feet wide, have about 35
bunks in each, up td last week .our
only light was from about a dcz'n
canalee, Our M tj n• was kind enough
to donate three largo hanging lamps.
They surely make unite an improve•
anent. We has or a ema'1 stove for
beating purposes, most of the beat
goes out the chimney as there is no
damper and pipe is shot t.
We have plenty of "local talent" in
our house, have music every evening 1.14
Last Friday night we had a"Rouen '' O
sang songs from away back, of course
I kept out, didn't want to etrain my ird
fine vocal organs,have a tine quartette.
bad a grantaphone donated us by the
the Captain, when we run out we use riti
it.
IrWe have clothes lines etrung u
botch sides of the bunk house, as a rule t
they are kept busy, wash what clothes
we can to save the laundry bill, you
can see everything from hankerchiefe ..�
up on them, it is amusing to see some ✓(
of the boys boiling their clothes in a
pail on the small stove, A number of
them have been boiling their under• Ike
wvear and when dried they find they
are quite small,"Experience is the beat
teacher," 6,11We rise at 0 a, m., physical culture
(torture as we call it) from 0:30 to 7:15, I
breakfast 7 30 since Lent we are get-
ting fish in place of ham,(fastipg I sup-
pose) porridge, bread and tea, Fall in h
again at 0 a.m. drill until noon, dinner ori
at 12.30, potatoes, peas as a rule or Gar-
rote, stew and tea. Drill again from 2 isgi
until G, at Tea 5,30, jam, bread or
scrap pud ding, bread, tea,
We are getting very good meats,
elate thing§ are being cooked better..
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lit -times we could scarcely eat things,
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most of them burnt or not properly 14
cooked. We complained until they
got an assistant for the cook and a at�'�,
new stove. �y
Lights go out at 9.15 p.m.; the camp VI
is is darkness after this hour and 011114.,
every one has to keep quiet. There 1-4
are very few lights seen in any part
of the country.
We are getting very poor mail ser-
vice here. There hasn't been any
Canadian mail received in this camp
for- past two weeks. Have received 1.54
only two lettere since arrive1
There are a number of Canadian
Battalions in So. Bramshott Camp. A
large number leave every day for the
front.
Have had only four dry days since
our arrival. Rain and mad reign sup -
rime.
You will be tired reading this letter
by now. Best regards to your Mother
Page /ive
HE 161st Huron Battalion has been ordered to mobilize on the 1st June and at FULL STRENGTH. will your County.
i ' havingthe first she was authorized to form togo into campUNDER STRENGTH?
be humiliated by r t Battalion
Will the word "Huron" ever stand as a word of reproach throughout the Empire? Or will the people of this County rally
to their pride and to THEIR HONOUR?
The Last Call for Volunteers
TO THE MEN
The business of the young man of the County to -day is the
completion of the Battalion she was asked to form.
Kitchener urges "Men and more men." Canada has pro-
mised him 500,000. Will you be -one?
Are you content to remain at home in ease and reap busi-
ness advantages while other men take your place in the firing
line?
ENLIST and ENLIST to -day, with the knowledge
Will your conscience remain clear and clean each clay of
the long years to come? '
Does the sight of your churn in Khaki leave you untroubled
and undisturbed?
Make such sacrifices as may be necessary (the Empire is
worthy of them) to enable you to take your place in your Coun-
ty Battalion. .
that, at least, you are playing the part of a MAN.
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To The Mothers,
Do you.know what is happening to women in Europe today?
Do you know what the. women of Belgium, of Servia, of Flanders and even of your
own race in the old land have suffered by the invading Huns?
Do you know that thousands and tens of thousands with their little ones, are driven
starving from their homes to die in misery; that they are being violated and slaughtered?
Do you realize that if this war is not fought out in Europe, you and your children
may be forced to share the sufferings of those in Europe?
Wives and Sisters
Do you realize that if Canada is to protect her people, her home and her liberty, her
men must be given without stint to take part in the struggle?
Thousands of glorious mothers, wives and. sisters have given their dearest to this
cause of Humanity of Empire. Can you meet this type of womanhood in social intercourse?
Are you content to see -other mothers, wives and sisters proudly sending off their man-
hood to protect you and your nen folk? Or will you meet the burden of this generation .
with COURAGE, ;'the highest of Divine virtues?"
Your Reason is Only a LAME EXOUSE
150 Huron Men for HURON'S OWN and in 15 DAYS
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and Father, Mae and Jack, Will be■ . *-�_
Dry H. Coutts 305002,
pleased to hear from you any time,
Yours sincerely
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C. E. 13'., C. F. A., 40th Battery.
Bramahott-Damp, Hants,
Belgrave
Mrs. Smith of Blyth, spent a day with
Mrs. Wray last week.
Mrs. Black shipped her household
effects to Detroit last week,
Mrs, John Kerr of Wingham is spending
a few days with Mrs John Scandrett.
Niles Ona islcClenaghan is spending a
Few days in Whitechurch,
The Belgrave bowling club heldtheir
annual sleeting at Wm. Geddes' on Wed•
nesday evening and appointed officers
President, Mr. Faskinei Sec,, J. L. Stew-
art; Treas., Wm• Geddes.
l-Iarry Campbell lost a fine young six
at old horse on Saturday last, this is
hard luck on -Mr. Campbell as it is his
second horse, inside of a few weeks, lost
by diste;nper.
Automobiles still come into the village.
Duncan McCallum having purchased a
Ford and by the way the agents are
hovering around their will be more to
follow.
KEEP .POUNDING
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Wellington on being congratu-
lated after Waterloo said:
- 'I did nothing wonderful. I just
kept pounding till I pounded hard-
er than he did "
And isn't that just what the men
who have won great advertising
victories have done?
They have just kept on pound-
ing!
They have not been fair weather
fighters, They kept everlastingly
at it knowing results would come
Today with business booming
more advertisers n- coming in to
the newspapers than ever before.
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JOB WORK neatly and promptly
d at Tns ADVANCE Orx'1cr.
ono.,
Mille seekers
excursions
Every Tuesida r: March to October
"All Rail"
Every Wednesday Daring Season Navigation
Great Lakes' P oiztt 'i,.
Somewhere out on the prairies whose last year Canada's Greatest
Wheat Crop was produced there is a boots* Whiting for you. The
CANADIAN ' PACIFIC
will teko you there, give you all the ' teat about the best
place, and heft you to some* 0I . :i• 1t9 ..
4t Varticnlari fronts toy eita1►diata'• Paelll►e Ticket
Agent, or writes W, ;l, 1'yGntit<'r►rd, IIikstn'tet Passenger
Agent, Torotttt't,
The Avengers
Somewhere in France to -night a sol-
dier sleeps,
Who will not wake again to God's
bine sky.
And far across the sea a woman weeps,
For over all the land sounds Rachel's
cry.
Somewhere on German soil to -night is
sleeping •
The tyrant who called forth the
Awful Day;
And silently o'er British seas are
creeping
The transports with the men who
wi 1 repay.
Patey is Released
Edward Patey, who was arrested in
Toronto, a few weeks ago on a charge
of attempting to eomtnit suicide in
Wingham last fall, was allowed to go
by Judge Holt on Saturday, May 13th.
In discharging the prisoner his honor
referred to the seriousness of the
charge, but in view of the fact that
Patey had enlisted in Toronto and was
willing to oiler hie services to his King
and country, he allowed him to go on
suspended sentence, Patsy returned
on the afternoon train to Toronto,
where he rejoined the 170th Battalion.
whose major sent him traneportation,
In French Hospitals.
The misery inflicted on heroic men
when there is a shortage in the sup-
plies at hospitals in France, was
graphically told by Miss Elsie Mac-
kenzie, before the members of tate
Secours National in Toronto recently.
The speaker was stationed for some-
time at a small ambulance hospital
that had been an old schoolhouse.
Here b'reneh women who were not
trained nurses worked voittntarily,
but though untrained as we know the
term, they were natural nurses and
soots had their patients well, The we -
men at ]Dieppe ga'vo every extra bed,
bedding, chairs, furniture of any
kind that was necessary to furnish
these small hospitals near there,
They often went short of things
themselves to provide for the steeds
of the wounded soltI. trs. • At one
hospital they had to use a starch
powder for fomentations, there was
ttuch a,shortage of drugs and surgical
supplies. Frequently at theeo hospi•
tals one found women of high posi-
tion, who formerly lived a life of
comfort and ease; doing such menial
work as snubbing floors. The sacri-
fteos, the courage, the nobility of the
French women were highly spoken
of.
That the light-hearted gaiety for
etterhea
ds Envelopes
nve odes wcn hb»nOBWORK a hnsaa tisotnoohdasheorfteinll
good stead in these horrible times,
Bill I?" he $ ole int' .dal o p f y +nt
l -.ad N
was aide shown by the speaker.
h enornnous res onoibiit
caring for the refugees in France,
Statements, Etc. Neatly and promptly saefully reaIt711 9
lCanada:
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Itremendous burden, added in
done at the ADVANCE Office.
providing for tho wounded, and
their owe per, a
New .Map of Ontario.
An excellent and up-to-date map of
the Province of Ontario has just been
issued by the Department of Lands,
Forests, and Mines. It has been
brought right up to the moment in
the matter of detail, giving the lay-
out of the newer portions of the Pro-
vince that have recently been devel-
oped and named. The map is well
printed. The color work is not too
bright and the printing very clear.
In addition to the map, the canvas
contains a number of statistics about
Ontario. The extent or the Province
is given, with its population and
chief centres. There are also facts
about the geology, the minerals, the
agriculture, the forest resources, the
waterpower, and the educational sys-
tem, which will be useful to people
who are making any study of the
Province. The map is in every way
a splendid one. The rapid growth of
Ontario makes it necessary to issue
new maps at brief intervals in order
to have them accurate. The newest
one is among the best that have been
so far prepared.
The Late Robt. Weir
The funeral of the late Robert Weir
which was held on Friday May 12th to
Wingham cemetery from his late resi•
deuce, lot 11, con 0, Turnberry, was
Very largely attended. The pall -bear-
ers were Messere John Smith, George
Underwood, Pete Hastings, John J.
Robinson, Richard Wilton, and George
Fortune.
And his wife, may God bless her,
And guide where'er she goes,
Lift our hearts I pray thee, Jesus,
From the worldly things of earth.
Cleanse and make us pure and holy
Give our hearts a second birth.
Yes, dear father, you were ever
Ready with a willing hand.
For to help in all the church work,
There to eaoh and all was kind,
Now, your work on earth is ended,
And may your prayera answered be,
That'your wife and your children,
Meet you in eternity,
Victoria Day.
May 24th
Single I+'are, Good going and return.
ing May 2tth.
Pare and One• Third, Good going on
May 23rd and `lith, return limit May
?lith,
Return tickets• will be issued be-
tween stations in Canada east of Port
Arthur. and to Detroit and Port Ilur•
en, Mich., Buifale. Black Rock and
Niagara,
Falba 1
aNY,
N.
Tickets and full partielt*lars on up
plieatteln to ticket agents,
11. iiallott, Town Agent
MASCOTS OF TIM FLEET.
Jack Always Carries Strange Pets
'With Him.
Being of a very strong, sympathe-
tic nature, with a great passion for
animals, it is scarcely surprising that
"Jack" dotes on mascots and pets.
Dogs and cats are, of courbe, to the
fore, and among the most factious
canine pets of the Navy are the bull-
dogs of the famous i:odney Stone
breed which Lord Charles Beresford
has presented to several Dread-
noughts. Sir John Jellicoe, it may he
remembered, vias presented with a
bulldog, Jumbo, as a mascot for his
flagship.
Monkeys and parrots, however, are
among sailors' favorite pets. ]3oth
are highly entertaining, and the
former, in the words of the Irishman,
"does everything but spake, in case
he be made to work," Sometimes
pets in the navy are come by in
strange circumstances, says The
Field, as, for instance, the pig of H.
M:S. Glasgow. This animal was
found swimming about in the Paci-
fic after the Dresden went clown, and
was picked up by one of the Glas-
gow's boats.
Another rescue incident is forth-
coming in the story of Spot, of the
Iron Duke. During the battleship's
steam trials she rescued the crew of
the SS. Scotsdyke, which had caught
fire. The dog belonged to the cap-
tain, and was with him on the burn-
ing ship. An offer made after the
rescue to present the dog to the Iron
Duke was immediately closed with,
"An opossum on the Superb is one
of the strange animals that some-
times figure on warships, but, apart
front animals aboard, ono of the
strangest of naval pets or mascots is
surely that of a puff adder. One of
the naval brigades in South Africa
carried the snake about in a tin box
for a long time, feeding it on field
mice. It was eventually killed, but
finds an honored plaeo as a curio in
the United Services' Museum.
"Of memorials to pets the grave-
yard of H.M.S. Excellent at Whale
Island Gunnery School is interesting.
Ilene crosses aro erected to tho mem-
ory of a pet, the `Property of Com-
mander Bayley, run over and killed
December 19th, 1896, aged two
years; also Brownie, the monkey,.
died from pneutnonia. January 17th,
1897; also Dash, died April, 1893,
aged nine years."`.Che, keeping of
pets on board has to have the ex^
press sanction of the commander,
The unfortunate who brings an ani.
mai on board when possibly half seas
over is made to pay the penalty.
"In the old days it we's customary
to take live stock, poultry, and sheep
to sea, and some good old Yarns are
told in consequence Lord Charles
Beresford recounts that at the period
%hen a ship's appearance depended
on the proper
application ofbI,
t,It
and whitewash a • certain captain
Toned fault with the mato because
the fowls and coops were dirty.
The latter, to remedy matters, white-
washed the chickens and blacked
their legs and beaks. Tho fowler
were -the oraerty oftI
o cantata,
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and failed to uurrive the treatment.
It was theta nutat for the admiral to
take a cow or two to sea., and the
r,ffieers teeth. islteen and Powis, 1.4T1
JFiar•Tesieinarirs lust there is;a tradi-
tion in the navy to the effect•that one
cow used to be milked in tho middle
watch for the benefit of the officer
on watch, and, in order that the ad-
miral should get his allowance of
milk, the cow was then filled up with
water and made to leap backwards
and• forwards across the hatchways.
Another tradition ordained that'
when forage for the sheep ran short,
the innocent animals wore fitted with
green spectacles and, thus equipped,
were successfully nourished on shav-
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HONOR ROLL
The following is a list of of the
young men who have enlisted in the
Wingbam detachment of the 161st
Battalion: --
H. Guest T. T. McDonald
W. E, Thompson T. S. McDonald
V. L. Sanderson
W. A. Windsor
1I. W. Powell
M. 0. Cameron
W. Aitchison
G. R, Taylor
Chas. Gander
E. M. Forbes
Wm. Holt
R. 0. Mann
J, F. Galbraith
J, Holmes
O. Orchard
F. Johnston
J. 0. McTavish
J, F. Oarruth
T. Mister
H• T. Drumwond
G. R. A. Ireland
Fred 0. T. Manuel
Walter J. Percy
Richard Fay
Jas. McCallum
Richard Jones
Isaac i ewenzie
W. E, Temkin
A. T, Horne
W. E. helps
E. J. Haines
It, C. Salter
It. Fay
,T. H, Coultee
P. Ferguson
0. Backus '
J. S. Thompson
J. Harold Currie
Geo, Day
3. A. Allen
3, It. Chisholm
L. A. Grisdalo
T. Mundy
T. L. McKinney
A. L. P.tsiiff
U. L, Hastings
L. Winch
Lloyd Hewer
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C. 1?. Wilkinson
Norman Butcher
Walter Haines
G. W. Schaefer
G. L Stillwell
A. 0, Williams
R. F. Forsythe
J as, Ii, Currie
3, 0. Penrose
J. II, Barker
R. Huffman
L. Kirkham
M. Mercer
L. 0, Cantelon
N. R. Bloomfield
W. Hinseliife
J. T. N. Taylor
J. J. Kerr
L. B. Drummond
W. M. 0, Fottertey
H. J. Bond
Allan Knechtel
W. G. Adair
Geo, 0, Rintoul
Wm. Scott
Toe, Price
Harpy Liye;,
I_3rank Sturdy
Wesley White
il. A, Campbell
Fred Guest
R. 'McGuire
Herbert bard
Rt A. Tasker
It. J. I+'allls
:C, W. raenioete
J. 11; Jefferson
0. Crawford
Thos, Lutton
David Johnston
G. II. Anger
Ben Holland
ee
Harold 'V`, Kearney
W. L, Jones
John TinaVie
J. J, Hutton
Jos, Carruth
R. T. Co c.lt
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George Jacques
Chester Copeland
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Monday 22nd
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t DON'T MISS THIS CHANi?
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