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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1915-05-20, Page 5HOUSE FDRNISHING Our stock in the line of House Furnishings was never so large or well assorted. We were fortunate enough to get all our import lines placed in stock before the war tariff was put on and all bought before the recent sharp advance in all kinds of woolen and linen fabrice. You get the benefit as we have not advanced the price in a single instran- ance. Before supplying your wants in this line gee our stock and bring a- long the catalog sent to you by the department stores of the cities. It will be a pleasure for us to have yo u compare prices, and if we can't do as well, if not better, we won't expect your business. Lace Curtains We have just passed into stock a special purchase of Lace Curtains as well as Draperies, Scrims, and Bungalow Nets . L`inoleums Scotch Linoleums in all widths, guar- anteed qualities at 500 sq. yd. and up Rugs and Carpets The pcent. in tradeseareeu . We can25 save er you money, and sell at old prices. This only applies till we have to put in more stock. o - White Waists Ne er was our stock in this line so complete. We are showing a large assortment, prices ranging from 5oc up We again urge you to see our stock before buying your House Furnishings. The House of Quality The Home of Bargains J. A. Mills 7 .1 Phone 89 Wingham •• 44**0 111N41440Nt►s►NNNsi41•N• ...SAVE MONEY... By buying at the great Bargain Centre. Comfort Soap 250 7 Bars of Comfort Soap for iimemaremuniss 3 cans Peas, Corn Beans for 250 Sugar 13 pounds of the $1 Best for Shoes Big reductiuns on Men's Women's and Children's Shoes. Be sure you come here. Hosiery 150 He se for 2oc Hose for 25e h . ae for ioc pr 14c pr 19c pr Dress Goods Fashionable Dress Goods at 25 per cent less than elsewhere $5 Coats for $1.98 Children's Spring coats $5 worth or $1.49&1.98 Prints & Muslin A big variety of prints and muslins worth 12 r a c for only 9c yd yrs 50c Wide Em- broidery 29c While they last an. ex- ceptional snap; all worth 50c yd for eragresnireqmpowesor 29c Men's Suits at COST OrMIVIV Produce Same as Cash LINDSAY Formerly The Merchants Brokerage Co. Butter and Eggs ,Same as Cash shit s» assor.dr»ammoss saroreeeswe - less rs!et J W hitechurch (Crowded out last week) A large gathering of the friends of Dr. and Mrs. D. Jamieson assembled in Whitechurch on Tuesday evening. May 4, to bid them farewell on their departure to Barrie. Appreciation of the Dr. and hie services to the com- munity for upwarde of 20 years as well as for Mrs. Jamieson, whose birthplace and only home was White- church, were expressed in many ways by the gathering. The program of the evening coneieted of vocal duets by the Mleses Fox and Gordon and by Mies Fox and Mr, Cecil Middleton, a vocal solo by Mr. Harold Parker and a reading by Mr. John Cook, Rev. J, Ure Stewart acted as chairman and spoke of the high esteem in which the Pr. and his wife were held in the eon:imuraity and of the valued eervices of the Dr. as the first physician of Whitechurch and of Mrs. Jamieson in building up the moral and religious life of the community. After this they with their little son, David Mc- Lean, were called forward and an address was read by Mr. A, Fox when Dr. Jamieson was presented by Mr, John Campbell with a gold -headed cane and Mrs. Jamieson by Mrs. D Kennedy with a silver tray and tea service, and their little son by Miss Lettie Fox with a silver mug. In a few well chosen words Dr. Jamieson on behalf of himself and family thank- ed his friends for their kind gifts, of which he said he was unworthy and expressing regret at their separation extended a hearty welcome to them all at his future home in Barrie. After a°'few remarks from Messrs. John Webster and Frank Henry and Rev. Jas. Penrose, in which appreci- ation of the services of the Dr. and his wife to the community as well as regrets at their departure and beet wishes for the future, the evening's farewell was closed with the national anthem. The address is as follows— Dear Dr. and Mrs?? Jamieson: We, your friends and neighbors, have gathered this evening to bid farewell to you, who have resided here for so many years. This is not a pleasant task because we prefer to assemble for the purpose of extending a welcome hand rather than saying good-bye to our friends. We indeed regret that conditions are such as to make your departure neces- sary. However since your decision has been final we must bear the consequences. Now your removal from our midst is a distinct loss in the truest sense of term. You, Dr. Jamieson, were the first resident physician of White- church in which fact we take great pride. Throughout the two decades of your faithful and untiring service to the sick, the suffering and the dying, you greatly attached yourself to the community. While other changes frequently took place you still remained part and parcel of the community's existence. And now your severance of this connection means a great deal to the neighbor- hood. You will therefore be missed first of all as a physician and then also as a citizen of White church and community. And you, Mrs, Jamieson, will be no less missed. You have known no other home. To you there is but one place and that is \Vhitechurch. Those who have known you beet realize what a help you have been. to the moral and the religious life of the com- munity and what a loss to the same your departure will he. We trust however, since you are leaving us that your return visits may be frequent, for in Whitechurch you will always find a welcome awaiting you. And .now wishing you both along with your little boy . every blessing with the hope that you may long be spared together with renewed health, we ask you, Dr., to accept this gold - headed cane, and you, Mrs. Jamieson, this silver tray and tea service and for your little sone David McLean, this silver mug, as a alight expression of the esteem in which you are held in this neighborhood. Signed on behalf of Whitechurch and community— Rev. J. Ure Stewart, Mrs. F. Henry, George Robinson, Joseph Obamney, John Gillespie. The W. M. S. of the Whitechurch Presbyterian Church presented Mrs. Jamieson, who was a faithful member NO1TAM ADV NO of the Society since its organization, with the following address— Dear Mrs. Jamieson ;—It Is with feelings of sorrow that we learn you are about to take your departure from our midst, \Ve are sorry ,kat the tire that have bound to together tee loug aro about to be severed, and we assure you that we will wise you greatly. You will be whaled in the village where you have spent all your life, where you have hosts of friends, warm and true; missed in the church and in our Missionary Society, where yon were always willing to do all in your power to help on the good cause, for which we all work, May God bless you and keep you, your esteemed husband and little son. In conclusion we will say good-bye, hoping we may have the pleasure of seeing you back to Whitechurch whenever possible. Katherine Stewart, President, Mrs. A. J. Emerson, Secretary. Signed this 4th day of May, 1915. Last Sunday morning was observed as Mother's Day in the Presbyterian Church when the pastor spoke on "The World's Debt of Honor to Moth- er." The choir most acceptably rend- ered "Mother's prayer" and "Tell Mother I'll be There." The whole service was very impressive. The topic of the Y, P's Guild last Sunday evening was "Why I am proud of Denomination." The pastor led, showing the glorious history of the Presbyterian Church. Next Sun- day evening Mr. Jas. Laidlaw will have charge when the subject treated will be "Why it is wrong to Gamble." The 01st anniversary of the organi• nation of the Presbyterian Church will be observed on Sunday and Monday evening, May 30 and 31, Efforts are being put forth to repeat as far as possible the success of the splendid services last year. In addition to the special music by the choir at all ser- vices Rev. Dr. Shearer of Toronto, ief Dominion wide fame will preach on Sunday and on Monday evening be. sides a splendid tea the Dr. will deliver his illustrated address on "Practical Christianity." It will include views of all the practical work of the Pres- byterian Church in Canada, revealing the imigration problem and also the slum and other city problems. Plants Of The Bible. (By the Rev. R. Thynne, M. A., Palmerston) 9—The Box -Tree The Tashur of the Hebrews, and the Puxos of the Greeks, from Puke, dense; but whether so called from the denseness of the foliage, or the com- pactness of the wood. may be question- able, The plant alluded to in Scrip. ture under the name of the box -tree, is undoubtedly the Buxus sempervivus of Linnaeus. It is mentioned only by Isaiah, and that chiefly, to fill up with becoming truth and dignity the glow- ing language and varied imagery in which the final glory of the church is foretold. In allusion to the habits and well-known properties of this shrub or plant, the saints are likened unto box•treese in which the tante, of the Sacred writer pourtrayed their "comeliness, true solidity and sted- fastnese, and the incorruptibleness of their graces." In :this sense (Isa..41:19) the Almighty, when prefiguring the future glories of the Kingdom of the Messiah, which was not to be confined to the Jews alone, but was destined to blossom and flourish even in the desert place, and amidst the 'moral and spiritual desolation of heathen. ignorance and heathen superstition, says, "I will plant in the wildernese the cedar, the ehittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil -tree; I will set in the desert, the fir -tree, and the pine, and the box -tree together. And, in like manner, (lea. (10:13), He says, "The glory of Lebanon," (i. e. the cedar) "shah come unto thee, the fir -tree, the pine -tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary." It is probably in imitation of the intimation sinbodied in the latter clause of this verse, that the box -tree, with other evergreens, is frequently used in England, to "beautify the sanctuary," or for the internal decora- tion of churches at Christmas. It is well-known, that their ancestors were in the habit of replacing the Ohriet- mas evergreens with sprigs of box on Candlemas -day, and thence forward The gentle but sure laxative for children is to the particular seasons, with a suc- cession of flowers, 'Phis tree abounds in many countries. of Avia, as about Mt. Caucasus in Persia, China, Cochin -China and etc. Boohart says it Is !Quad by the chores of the Dead Sea. The wood is very valuable, and sells at a high price by weight. It is very hard and poeder- oue, and ie the only European timber, that wont swim in water. It is ranked with Ebony for closeness of grain. Old Evelyn earl, "being very hard and smooth, and not apt to warp, it is well adapted to a variety of nicer works, and is of special use for the turner, engraver, carver, mathemati- cal intsument-maker, comb and pipe or flute -maker, To these uses' Virgil seems to allude, where he says -- "Nor box, nor lime without their use is made; Smooth -grained, and proper for the turner's trade." Box has been much celebrated as a medicine; but Gerarde shrewdly re- marks, that "it is more fit for dagger - hafts than to make medicines." The box le of the class Monoecia; order, Tetrandrla. It is well known in its dwarf state; as a shrub, however, when left to itself it becomes almost a tree, often twelve or fifteen feet high, with a trunk of considerable thickness, covered with a rugged greyish bark; that of branches being yellow, The leaves . are opposite, nearly sessile, oval, notched at the end, very entire, of various breadths, and shining. The petals are concave, blossoms, greenish white. The Romans clipped it into the shape of various animals; for which purpose it was second to the yew with us in former times; but the dwarf box stood unrivalled for "bord- ering up a knot; and was esteemed a marvellous fine ornament to the flower garden." Pliny affirms, that no animal will touch the seed of box. Gmelin states, that the branches are fatal to camels in the East that eat them ; and Withering states, that theyare also fatal to pigs, and other creatures, Corsican honey was supposed, by the ancients, to owe its infancy to the bees feeding on box. The name of this tree varies little from. the Greek and Latin, in the European languages; being bucks or buokebaum, in German; bnxbom, in Swedish and Danish; buis or bouis, in French; busso or bosso, in Italian; box, in Spanish; bux or buxo in Portuguese. The Russians h a v e adopted samschit; in Turkey it is named tschemtehir; the Japanese call it ho-stuge; the Chinese, huynh- duong; the Cochin -Chinese, hoam tuon; and the Hebrews, as we have seen, tashur. 4..•--4—.-- A TERRIBLE CHARGE. Lancashireman Tells of Attack In 'Which 400 Germans Were Killed. How 400 Germans were slaughter. ed in a night charge is told by Pte. George Wilkinson, 2nd I3attalion East Lancashire Regiment, who has returned to his home at Farnworth suffering from frostbite: Only recently we have been giving the Germans a hot time during the early part of the day at —, where one battalion has ,been for some time. The Germans were entrench- ed seventy yards away. Night came and all was quite, when the enemy scouts were observed creeping up. "Leek out, lads, the Germans are coming;" shouted the captain, "and be ready for a hellish charge." The last call came, and with fixed bay- onets we dashed from the trenches and met the Germans, who were ap- proaching in big numbers. It v.a, a terrible charge, for the Germane werescreaming, and it v. -as just lik' killing a lot of pigs with the terribl: noise. We were as vigorous as lions and 'hien were bayonetted in all parts of the body. For, three hours the slaughter Lasted, and the Germans i,ere cut ur in all directions. It was a time 1 cannot forget, and 1 hope never tc have another. At last the German: wer: forced hack, and it was a herr task, still the gallant captain urges: us on, and sl otiteci "Give then so'n' more." The Germans were force' tc run, and the East Lancashires occu- pied th) tre-iches, but fearing they were 1 the captain orJerec' them to be filled up. At dawn the stilt was awful, fol ler 400 Germans and 120 of th East I.an;:ashires lay dead on the field, and mad It took a long while to bury them. 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Get a Box Today front WALTON McKIBBON Winghalnn, Ont. ******************** The Duke of Orleans Cannot Get a Place in the Allied Armies ******************** N these days when recruits are at so high a preneium Louis Pl'ilippe Robert, Duke of Orleans, 1s a strange and anomalous figure. His sympathies are all with the allies, but he cannot join any of the allied armies. And this in spite of the tact that he is p. soldier with considerable experience, The Duke of Orleans is the head of the Orleans -Bourbon house, which formerly ruled France. He has a large following in the republic, but the French Government, wary of anything which will foment Royal- ist activities, forbids him entry to the country. He Is compelled, there- fore, like Manuel of Portugal and the aged Empress Eugenie, to live in England, where he keeps up a coun- try house with considerable state at Wood Norton, Evesham, in Worces- tershire. When the war broke out the duke volunteered for service as THE DUKE OF ORLEANS. a private in the French army, but a law forbidding such a proceeding stood in his way, and the French Government, unwilling to allow him to earn any glory which would aug- ment his popularity, refused to re- peal the law. The duke turned to Britain and Russia, but probably on the advice of France, they declined his services. The latest overtures were made to Italy, but it is under- stood that that nation wants no,com- plications which might arise out of the Pretender's military achieve- ments. Louis Philippe was born at York House, Twickenham, England, In 1869, and is now forty-six years of age. llis father was the Comte de Paris, and his uncle the Due de Chartres. In 1896 he married the Archduchess Marie Dorothea of Aus- tria. He was educated in the Muni- cipal College, England, and later in the College Stanislas in France, at a time when his residence abroad was not insisted upon. In 1886 the French Government, for its own piece of mind, exiled him and he went to England, where he secured a commission in the 60th Rifles and served in India in 1888 and 1889. In the latter year he went again to Paris, but was again expelled. A Repentant Bandit. Among the motor bandits who terrorized Paris in those distant days before the war was a Belgian named de Boe. Not being one of the heads of the gang, his own head was saved, but he was condemned to 10 years' servitude. From his present abode on "The Devil's Island" de Boe has written to his legal defender in Paris regretting that he cannot take up arms for his country. His letter is a curious document in which a note of real sincerity and patriotism pierces the flambuoyancy so charac- teristic of the gang to which he be- longed. "My poor little Belgium," be writes, "has felt the whole weight of the German heel. Will she recov- er from it? I hope so with all the force of my soul. For I have discov- ererd that, though for long I did not know it, deep in my heart is a sin- cere love for my country. Could 1 lint have a rifle in my hand and take my place on the front at Dixmudo or at Ypres, my courage would be equal to my hate, and I would make these Teutons pay dear for the hours of anguish I have lived here. But that is the cruel part of my position. I can do nothing." King Endorses Alliance. King George has telegraphed his warm approval of the new society known as the Anglo -Russian Alli- ance In Moceow. The object of the society is to promote a social and economic rapprochement between Russia and Great Britain by means of exhibitions, museums, lectures on literature, and reciprocal visits, and the establishment of information bureaux, Branches will be opened at the chief commercial and indus- trial centres of Russia. eseeeseaseeseeseeseasse ?t Brilliant Chemist. A. T. Charron, who has recently been appointed chief chemist for the Department of Agriculture of the Province of Quebec and who will henceforth reside at St. Hyacinthe, Que., was one of the leading chemists of the Government at Ottawa and a brilliant graduate of Ottawa Univer- sity. For some time past he has been secretary -treasurer of the syn- dicate pnblishin;; 140 Droit. He is also preside'it of the French-Cana- dian Educational Association of On- tni io and has been president of tho Monument National, of Ottav;t, The Pocket Book Nerve THEY say that the most sensitive nerve in the human body is the one that leads to the pocket book. Realizing this,we say to you men that you may freely offer your pocket -book nerve to any statements appearing over our name. It is certain that this store is making itself felt amongst good dressers, and our prices make a direct appeal to men of common sense. Why not droll in to -morrow and see what we offer in H. E. Isard & Co, FISHER Canada's Premier Car Built by our own Canadian Work- men. Designed to suit Can- adian conditions The Fisher Car is built, not assembled, in Can- ada. The Quality, Workmanship, and Design of the Fisher Car assure you of More Real Value for Your Money than you can obtain by the purchase of Any Other Car Sold in Canada today. Also agents for the famous Grant Six fel R. M. Williams Wingham, Ont, 11111111111111111111111111111111111 REDUCED FARES account VICTORIA DAY (May 24th) SINGLE PARE --Good g ing and return- ing May 2tth only FARE AND ONE-THIRD—Coed going Mar 22nd, 23rd. and 2101. Return limit May 25th, 1015 Return tickets will be issued between all stations in Canada ea't of Port Arthurxnd to Detroit a, d' Port nuron, Mich., iluf• fale, Black Rock, Niagara Pails and Sus pcneion ilridge, N.Y -Tickets and roll particu'ars no application to ticket agents W. F. Bergman, Agant, \\Ingham Forty Per cent. More Wheat. It is estimated that the area under wheat in the present year well he greater by 2,000,000 acres than in any year in the history of the Doni- inion. The total, yield for 1915 should not beeke. than 245,000,000 bushels. Canada's wheat crop for 1915 will probaely.bring in 40 per cent. more money than in the pees vioue year. But the actyantagee of the increased acreage under 'crop aryl of the Higher prices will not be fully bait until 1916. , u sees corn taken xrom shok corn which bas stood in the tltild most of the winter has been found ,to; give ne better germination test than`"'ley per cent In soma instencee. Such corn Menet be used. for seed with any de. Free or suc'ce`ss. Coria is not allowe:i to dry out well in the ebvchs and when Irequent freezing and thawing hegln' rhe t-it4lity at the eat croon raulshtig