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The Brussels Post, 1939-5-10, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST WEL 1 Si)Ai`, MAY 10th, 1030 calling all MOTORISTS... Below is a partial list of ly °accessories. Selling at Competitive Prices Mufflers Fog Lights Mud Flaps Grille Guards Door Handles Fender Guides Wheel Spinners Horns—air blast Clearance Lights Head Light 'Lenses z Fans ---cool the air Radiator Ornaments Rear Vision Mirrors Steering Wheel Muffs Jacks—hydraulic, etc, Tail Pipes for exhaust Hub Caps—of all kinds Flash Lights & Batteries Gas Tank Caps of all kinds IF YOUR BATTERY IS TO BE REPLACED TRY Exide Batteries NOW—is the Time to Replace those worn tires with NEW Goodyear Tires & Tubes MAKE DRIVING SAFER and FREE FROM TIRE WORRY Call and see them — you are under no obligation to buy — Acetylene Welding — Licensed Mechanic — on all makes c'f cars El l l ott's Garage 'phone 82 Brussels Slang Has A Place Speaking at Guelph rec surly, Lord Tweedatnsair, Govetnol-Genes al, defined slang as a striking Metaphor, which, if it served a need is embodied in the language. In other words, His Excellency sees• no objeetioa to slang so long as it hits the button and allows a buy to broadcast what's in his belfry without puting his audieuce into a brain huddle to learn what he is i,eefing about, WILLIAM SPENCE Estate Agent, Conveyancer and Commissioner General insurance Has Vivid Recollections Of Wars And A Long .Siege Earthquake i tm'etl great sulzjt'liee of treat, w)iteli trade it ueeleas, Suspends Publication Most recent periodical to suspend publication is The Canadian 12aga- zine, wlticlt becomes effective with the April issue. Complete announcement in this regard will be found in the April issue, with directions to subscribers as to the cltoice of another magazine for the unexpired portion to The Canadian Tom Gillies of Brussels Was ,at Ladysmith In Boer War, and Saw Disaster at San Francisco FIFTY-FIFTY 'Se yell deceived, your husband," the judge said gravely. "Ca the contrary. my lord, he de- ceived nie, He said he was going out of town, and didn't go." Officej Say you saw it in The Post. Main Street, — Ethel, Ontario � 1 Spring Time Is Here We have the Best and Largest Stock —of • B, C. RED CEDAR SHINGLES ONTARIO and B. C, LUMBER of All Leading Kinds On Hand Cement Lime Gyproc Board Lath Plaster Coal Wood and Cedar Posts See Our Stock and Get Our Prices Before You Buy We have been advised by the Local Bank that they will advance money on the home improvement plan and its the Better way to do your repairing or improvement as you can always buy better with Cash We deliver your job Free anywhere within reason 01 Na McDonald And Company Phone 77 Brussels, Ont. (By F, B. Kenedy) Tom Gillies of Brussels ,is an old soldier who has been places and :.,tri dills. 11: Ito wuvo a yaung Into and if a bullet hadue1 shattered hie left lap amine; the Cuban I toitleatiun t,.:'ly 11 •s cantle). he KIP', heat IA'iu the tinny today, ba -rinse ,, lilt,:: and has always Liked the in the arory. Yes, Tom Gillies is 00 old soldier. Vivid indeed are his recollections of fighting days dueling the lioet War, climaxing in the relief et A Welcome Sight Ladysanith, And even more vivid are lids recollet,tions of the grew` San Francine earthquake, because he was there the, day' after the great disaster, as a member of the United States army in doing relief duty. „Sure l'be been through, some wars and have seen plenty, but Pre never -seen anything like Hutt re=s in San Francisco. We were at Washington barracks training when the wire came of the earth- quake and the neat morning we were back in 'Prieto. The whole place was on fire. 1'll never forget the awful sights, especially around Chinatown where there were .,cotes of bodies battered to pieces and beyond' identification, TheY sinnply piled them. up and burned them with lime. It was something which had to be done. We had the Job of unloading boats which came with eurplies and of taking them to the different stations which had been set up. Everything was done by army mule pack, No, I never want to see anything like that again," declared' the veteran soldier, referring to the earthquake on April 21, 1906, wales took the lives of more than five hundred people and devastated 2,900 acres of prop enty. The flee lasted for turee 11 were tloslug in all the Lime, 'Then we el t1tett 110 1t:attorabl0 retreat It back toward .Ledya,ulth and it was necessary to take all the women aura children. British. subjects wlto had been living tui Pundes, We trete cut off fl'a;mt gn;na butt the regelar route. heeauee the enemy httd taken up that pus1 tine, \1'e swatted out. right ander their noses in the middle of the night and hatted tate long treat on a toned -about tante, I gimes tee commander of the outfit was about the only person W-41,0 Komi' where wo tete' going. That night we padded ail the wheels of the gnus and wagons• and padded the chains en that there -wasn't a sound. ''General Sltuon had, been wound- ed when out fielding emir Dundee and died in a Boer's house, They gave hint a, regular military funer- al. Well, we traveled all that night and all the following clay. Provt- bions pan tow nod we knew the enemy wes all around. We kept going the following night and then the next morning, after we had trouble getting over a flooding river ea', we saw a cloud or dust in the distance. The order went oust to ,get ready for action, We thought we were meeting the enemy right In front of us and we knew they were on our fees. Well, sir, sudden• ly MO' order went ,out to c0'ise action and stand at ease and oil of that cloud of dust came riding the lith Lancers, The first thing you could see was Ilia shine at tite top of their lances as they trade toward us, I don't think I was an relieved in my life, said lir. Gillies as he rrc'ollected events of those wiring days. be said the Lancers escorted the whole outfit back to need The c1:1Ys kept Sti'e°tclting , by and there was uo sign of relief. 1 gure3e 11011e of '415 elver expected to got though alive, Niti>,ts were• being eat do:wit all the time kind the only tiring that carried tis through was the eamoturagemleutt given by General Sir George White!: said itir, Billies. Everyone eves so worn out When the relief did chine though on February 27, 1900, that there wasn'ta great deal of cele- brating oto the part of the solei t'S . Lord Duntloluntl was hire first 10 reach the village and he eves ret - love d by Sir heavers Butler who commanded the relief and bron,h8 in fie sit atcn and, supplies after clearing the area of the Boers, Later on this veteran soldier was wouanied in the head while serving at Blood River and then be was shot in the leg during .an encounter at Buffalo Rives', In June of 1902 he went bask to the hospital at Net - ley, 'England, to get over itds+ .1n - juries and soon afterwards he jotrrnoyed} batik to Canada and out to Vancouver, B.C. Toru GMJlies had ]heard a good deal of ,California, so be went south to San Francisco and after meeting sante of his old atony pals they enlisted) with the 12th Battery and they had just gone away to Washington to start training when they got orders claming the night to return ielenedietely to San Frau• cisco as au earthquake had :struck. After working for a about two week's around the strleken Califor- nia City, Mr. Gillies went right across' the United States, an.' sailed form a Virginia port for Havana, Clubs, where .there was talk of an uprising. On a medal which Tom Gillies owns ere the words, "Cuban Pacification, 1906-1909. Badly tWounded It was near Havana, Cuba, tbal Ladysmith. But there wasn't much the old soldier suffered the se'vere peace back in the village, because 1 wound on the It1p, whish today the great siege, which was to make stapes iL necessary for him to use history soon started. The so1Ciers two crutches in getting around; He were ante to see the Boors out of was on a revenue cutter and the the hills utiles away, but their gene Cubans in a boat took to a cave recalled one gun belonging to the It was when he was on. the boat be Another War Coming enemy which was named "Long received the Lull change of a bullet Mr. Gillies is a man who reads Tom" after the Brussels man, be- and than made a stay in a hospital his daily newspaper and follows cause the wa.s about the tallest sol of Havana for three months meees• with keen interest the events In ' dier of the whole outfit. sary. troubled Europe. He believes a war i In 1911 lir, Gillies returned to is coming, but he doesn't think, i Asked about the stories of horse:' Canada, settling, at Ayton. He the armies of Hitler and Mussolini ; being killed to supple' the soldiers tried desperately to get into the tare as strong and as powerful as and the people with meat during army during the Great War, but the dictators tell the Test of the . the siege, Tom Gillies laughed as couldn't ghat past the medical evem- tvorld. he recalled the necessary move in leer. "And this time they want t0 slaughtering more than two 11un• "A group of us old -inters decid- really clean the enemy Up. The deed 'bosses. Fewer had broken out ed to forth a bakery in Tor•":1to, was the whole trouble during the and, took a heavy toll of lives, and bet the dnctnr just laughed when last war. The boys should have the Ore from the enemy bad puma- vve tried 11(0re titan one trick to FREE SERVICE OLD, DISABLED OR DEAD HORSES OR CATTLE removed promptly and efficiently. Simply phone "COLLET" to WILLIAM STONE SONS LIMITED PHONE 21 - iNGERSOLL BRUSSELS PHONE 72 get item atction• again,' laughed Mr, Gdlltae. I)e •h'a's bean a resident or B•nusca°sl far title past ten years, canning here from Wroxeter. kept right on going instead of stop- ping where they did," said the old soldier. He believes Canada should have a stronger standing -army than elle has right now, but he also thinks' Canadians will be right to the fore in case the British. Em- pire needas help if an emergency should arise, Tom Gillies only wishes he were able to get into a undform again, But even in. the early stages of the Great War he was turned dotty 011several occasions, be- cause of injuries suffered, in prev- ious engagements. He said he couldn't get past the medical offi- cers, no matter how 'hard lie tried, because of the. injury to his hip, which also affected Lie spine, Native of Scotland But to get to the beginning. Born at Gashielts, Scotland, he was raised in Birmingham, England, un- til he was nine years old and then came to Canada, mutiking his Rants aL Gerrie, He was in the Can- adian volunteers' as a Young man and 1't was when he was worltit:g on cattle boats sailing to the Old Country from 5t, Joltn, N,B., that he deckled to join the Imperial Army. This: he did at Glasgow, ev- erting with the 690 Field Battery of the R.F.A. Think was in 11,10 when he was a young man or 21 years or age, • The following summer, In 1017, me wits sen~ directly to latdyienitlt In South, Attica nu regular atmwy At the time the 10,11 :1101111 lain Bat. 1 forty and the Royal iiesh Rifles were alr'eacdy there and it w'ue ttboIt a year later Ikea u•nnble cdry vt:,tti1 rl among the Beers { . :,a- .1 thee dew: there all right. I remoinbet, it wits In the month of Jolly in 10111 11x11 we 1111,1 to 1huule,, sets' eight pen or twenty guiles front 1 La(lyantnit+h, 1t. was considered a goat dabs niatc'h. We wenn theme shout three weeks and things ce•r tautly get pretty loot and the I3oers Spring Cleaning Days Jmrnent But it's Not Necessary To Up.set Your Hoesehold Completely In The Process Modern methods have . lightened the task of house-cleaning as of many other things and it ]'s no longer lin most; eases tite complete household upset that it used to be, but that the occasion is still a mat- ter of dread on the mart of mane - line members: of the hiousedtotd fa apparent In 'the •foll wing lament by D'klgvilie wpIUing in the London Dally Sketch t Spring to heralded by the time- honored ritual known• us s'ol'ing cleaning, tht Is a period beloved of women because they know it to be necesary, and bated of siren be- cause they cau't live in it. Everything Missing It is the period of the year when eve1lY'tduitng you have kept ,where it is, is tekett and put where it wasn't. Where Is the plpe•clenner I left beside the bath three weeks ago? in the garage. Where are those oltl slipper's I used to ensconce behind my den door? In tithe garage. Where is the hat that has been rescued a thousand times from destruetion, arrest or incineration? In Ole garage, And where is the garage? Don't ask um, A man in New Mexico reports a Bud Leghorn hen which laid a doz- en- eggs In one day and then fell over dead, Of course New Mexico la a long nay from here so we merely repeat the story for what you care to mike of it, Pliny Fisk died in New York 1110 other flay in a home fo riueurahtes and depending on charity. And it was Pliny Fisk trete tinning the height of his career in wan Streit made $300,000 clear profit in One day's operations. 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