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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1916-04-13, Page 95.1 Nit 01 A- rev4 . . eat .444tty ►' r oil 00 giL Horne seekers Excursions Every Tuesday. March to October All Rail" Every Wednesday During Season Navigation "Great Lakes R©ute'a� Issiswbire cut on the prairies where lest year Canada's Greatest Whole Os. was prethseed there is a bone waiting for you, The CANADIAN ' PACIFIC will Sake you there; give you ail the information about the best plows, end 'beip you to tisoone• 11 u It Particulars from any Canadian Pacific Tioket Agent, or write W, B. Howard, District Pesaenger Agent, Toronto. ',13th, 1916 Clinton Nowa-Record H. Musgrove, M. L. A., one o x the most eloquent men in the Legislature. Toronto, March 20111, -in a .session of the Legislature that is fraught with more than usual significance by reason of the prolongation of the war and the increasing necessity for all sections of the Province to unite in a great effort to bring the struggle to a successful termination, it is re- assuring to hear the voice of rural Ontario expressed ,on the budget debate as, in the speech of Mr, A. H, Musgrove, member for North Huron. From his place in the front rank of the treasury benches, Mr. Musgrove's quiet but persuasive manner always gets a close hearing from his fellow mem. bets, The annual financial statement of the Provincial Treasur- er is a matter of no small importance to the people of the Province. It is doubly important this year because of the war as well as by reason of the fact that it is Hon. T. McGarry's first full year as Treasurer, and the House was anxious tp see what results he had -achieved.' • The Treasurer himself dealt largelp with the work of the year and the result of the financial operations he had con- ducted on behalf of the Province, It remained for Mr. Mus- • grove to amplify that, Which he did in a manner that won for him warm 'commendation from his colleagues. It was an easy matter, Mr. Musgrove; said, to congratu- late the Provincial Treasurer this year on the satisfactory showing revealed in the financial statement, "You must re- member weare living at a ,time that is not common, and •. • there was a time when it'was difficult tfi get sufficient money to conduct the affairs of the Province as they should be conducted, and l am glad the Treasurer was able to say that the services were properly conducted and_, he bad a substantial surplus at the end of the year." The surplus of ordinary, receipts over ordinary expenditures showed a bal- ance of $271,000, and no account was taken in this of the amount' received or expended in connection with the war fund. But it was particularly gratifying to note, in spite '1. of the stress of the war that the revenue From most of the branches has been considerably over the estimate. It show- • ed that the various departments had been carefully,nanag• ed. The Dominion Government derived most of its revenue from customs and excise duties. The runicifalities. could levyagainst real property,' incomes and business, but the rl Province wasdependent upon what it got from the Dominion _. subsidy, what it collected from companies doing business throughout the Province. It was not an easy matter to levy taxes equitably, and he thought that the Treas.ncr who collected between $11,000,000 and $12,000,000 during • the year had exercised great skill in providing sources of revenue. Proceeding, Mr. Musgrove showed how the expenditure of the Province touched the home life of the people, and in a much more vital way than:: any expenditure by the Federal Parliament, "The large grants given for education t •uch every home in the land.. We grant large sums for agricul- ture. We leavee the maintenance of- the institutions where the unfortunate are cared for. We have to .maintain the hospitals and charitable institutions of this Province. ti's have to look after the health of the community and we have to administer justice in the Province. Nearly every item ofexpenditure in the Province of Ontario comes right to the door of the people. Therefore it is a difficult mat- ter to withdraw a dollar from any .of these services with- out it being felt directly." This was illustrated a war ago when it was proposedto cut the grants to agricultur- al societies in half, hut he was glad to see that the revenues during the past year had been sufficient to enable these grants to be paid in full. (Applause,) Analysing the figures given by the Provincial Treasurer Of the assets and liabilities of the Province, Mr. Mus- grove agreed' that while the assets of the Pro:ince were well worth the value of $535,000,000 placed upon them by Mr, McGarry (and this was the first time any such state- ment has been given to the Legislature) there were other sources of wealth in the Province, which ought to to taken into account. The wealth of the Province was not falling oil, It was increasing. Taking the figures supplied by. the Bureau of. Industries, in 1910 the farm lands of the Province were worth 9700,000,000. In 1914—four years afterwards— they had increased to $790,000,000, or an increase in that fn build- ., of 13 percent, A similar increase was shown n fngs, which had appreciated in value from $306,000,000 to $347,000,000 ; implements from 981,500,000 to $91,500,000. During the same period live stock showed a large increase, the figures being 9194,000,000 in 1910 and 9250,000,000 in 1914. The total figures were 91,283,000,000 in 1910, and 15 per • rd of all round increase Ol ox an lOL4, 91,480,000,000 'n i cent. According to the statistics, he found that twenty years ago there were 54 per cent. of the people of the Province on the farms and 46 per cent. in the towns. Conditions in that regard had changed recently and there were more in • the cities and towns than on the farms. Leaving out the smallincorporated towns and villages, the total increase' of 9197,000,000 in farm values gave an increase of almost 9200 for every man, woman and child on the land. There was no } doubt what the Government and the Department of Agricul- ture through the Agricultural College and other agencies had been doing has assisted. in this satisfactory result': (Ap- plause.) Meeting the arguments of Opposition speakers}that the expenses of the Province, were increasing, Mr. Musgrove pointed out that the services of the Province were increas- ing' and the Government was discharging its responsibilities to the people today that had never been attempted before. Grants to hospitals and charities to care for the sick - and helpless had increased from 9262,000 in 1906 to 9480,000 in 1915; . For the maintenance; of public institutions where the unfortunate were in custody had increased from 9907,000 to $1,390,000, The grants to. agriculture had been worthily spent, and last hear amounted tp 9685,000., an increase of 9280,000 since 1906. For education the. Province spent last • year 92,067,000, a gain of 9936,000. 1 Briefly Mr. Musgrove reviewed other developments that had taken place since 1906. Then the mining industry was in •' its infancy. Now Ontario was leading the Dominion in gold production, The Ontario Municipal and Railway Board did not exist in 1906. The Board of Health had grown in use- ; fulness, and was now saving thousands od dollars and he hoped thousands of lives through the Province by its free -4stribution of antitoxin and serums to prevent disease car - „lying off ar-„..Jying'off the ytoutli of the Province. Legislation already be- fore the House to create a Department of Labor showed that the Government was meeting the requirements of ev- ery' situation that came up,and the development of the Highways Branch in the interest of good roads would bring comfort to the rural communities. Conditions were improving, said Mr, Musgrove in con- ', elusion. on-'•elusion. You could not drive over the Northern country like the prairies, but it was a fact' that the settlers in North- ern Ontario today was much better off than the pioneers of Huron and Bruce counties. He was pleased to note the f good feeling that existed between members t on both sides of the House, and hoped all would unite in a great effort to end the cruel war. "1 hope we will all return to our hom- es with a stronger feeling that all we have and all we can give will be for the maintenance of the freedom which comes from Great Britain,” (Applause.) A Letter From Egypt. Alexandria,. Egypt, East Africa, Feb. 3rd, 1916. Mrs. T. H. Atkinson and All Well Florence we have arrived on dry land once more, much to -my re- gret as we certainly had d swell trip and I dont know of anything which I enjoyed more. We left Sandgate fn England on January 11th at eight o'clock in the' morning, just exactly one month after I left Vancouver, and walked to - Shorncliffe, five miles await and had to carry our full, kit which weighed at least fifty) pounds so needless to say we were very glad when we boarded - the . train for Southampton. We boarded the Missilia about three o'clock in the afternoon and sailed that night at' nine o'clock. We were very lucky crossing the Bay of Bis- cay as it was just as calm as a mill pond. They say at times it is ten times as rough as the Atlantic especially in the winter. We passed through the Strait of Gibraltar about ten o'clock on the fifteenth but it was nothing to see to what we had looked forward to.. it is about eight miles across and on each side the have a big search light which throws its rays right across the wa- ter, but as we were about"half way from each shore we got a very poor look at the rock. We passed Malta on the nineteenth about half past four in the morning, so did not stop there. The next day we passed from • the Mediterranean Sea into the Aegean Sea and hugged the shore of Greece all the way as it is just lousey with submarines and they wanted to be on the safe side. We arrived in Salonica Har- bour about noon on .the twenty-sec- ond and was anchored there for three days, then we were shoved onto a small Greek tug with side wheels and Nerc transferred over to another hospital ship called the Ebani which was'a far better boat 'all around and we lust lived like princes the rest of the way, In all we were on the sea'just nineteen daps and the way the time travelled it seemed to me more like nine days as we had some kind of a concert almost every night. We had two more inoculations for cholera $n _board " but they, didn't bother me iu the least although Sev- eral of our fellows and nearly all the R. A. &I. C.'s which were with us were quite ill. We arrived in Alexandria about nine o'clock on Sundays morning and got off and boarded a street car for a camp, about eight miles out, called Sidi Bishr, pronounced without the 'r', and as they didn't know we were coming, we had to wait until about two o'clock for dinner and then it was put up very roughly and was full of sand as we ' are right out in the desert now. So we fooled around there drilling for three days acid then they moved us to where we are now, a camp called Musta- pha where there are twenty-seven Canadians besides ourselves. I haven't been down to Alexandria yet but I expect to go down tomor- row night so will be able to tell you .more about it in my next let- ter. We are-• only about three miles from the city but we aren't allowed down without a pass, but if I dont get one tomorrow night 1 will go down anyway and take a chance, The population of Alexandria is about two millions and they are certainly a great race, The ni.en go around in a gown which looks more li'ife a night ,dress than anything I ever saw, while the women wear "dresses. They go around In very good dresses but have a veil over their chin and some kind of a piece of wood about two inches long and one inch wide, tied onto their nose, they look too funny for anything. They never wear shoes either. It appears to be against their re- ligion to show their faces on the street. When we left England we were bil- led fox Mudros on the Island' of Lemnos to take charge of No. 3 stationery' hospital but it isn't there now and • no one appears to know anything about it, so we have wired for instructions and are just c'wait- i-ng for instructions. Well Florence •I must close for this. time as the lights._ go out in five minutes, but will write again within a month. Lots of Love, Pte, -C: E. Lavin, 522880 C.A.M.C. Army I'..O, London, Blyth Mr. Joseph Coombs was in Toron- to on business last week. Dr. Blacken and family; have mov- ed from Dinsley street to the resi- dence on the cornet of Mill and Drummond streets.. Mrs. Wm. Jackson and Miss Elean- or have returned from a visit with Whitby friends. - Rev. A, E. Fear of Teeswater, formerly pastor of + the Methodist church here, was in town last week while on his way to visit his daughter in Exeter. Miss Macdonald of Monkton was a visitor at the home of 'Her uncle and aunt, Councillor and Mrs. Cutt, recently for a day or so.., Miss Nora McCaughey has returned from Stratford Normal. Miss Mildred McColl arf :Goderich has accepted the leadership of St, Andrew's choir. Mr. P. McTaggart of Exeter and his nephew, Mr. Milton McTaggart of Winthorst, Sask., were here last week visiting the former's sons, Mr, G. E. and Dr. J. A, McTaggart. Wingham Miss Maggie Pocock has - returned from a lengthy visit with relatives at Burlington. Mr. David Robertson of Toronto was here last week attending the funeral, of his father, the late David Robertson. Mr. R. 8I. Lindsay bas purchased a new car. Mr. Wm. Gould was in Exeter last week' attending the funeral of- his uncle, who died very suddenly of heart failure. Gertrude Fallis died at 'her home in Turnberry on Tuesday after but a few days' illness of pneumonia. While the relatives were absent at- tending the funeral of the dead girl on Thursday her sister, who had al so been ill of the same disease, passed away. The another is ..pros- trated and is thought to he in a dangerous condition. &Liss Viola Sturdy of Lucknow was a visitor for a few days atthe borne of her uncle, 1tir. Robert Stur- dy. Mr. J. J. Cunningham was in Toronto on business last week, Mrs. Buell of London visited last week at the home of her sister, Mrs. T. C. Icing. Mrs. James Phelan has returnetl from a visit with Toronto friends. Mrs. Abraham button and Miss Carrie Quail of Pontiac, Mich,, were visitors in town for a few days re- cently. Mr. Wm. Mclfielier of Thedford was the guest of- his daughter, Mrs. T'. Carter, recently. Dr. R. H. Walkley of Mount For- est passed away at the home of his sister, Ars. (Dr.) Fox, on Wed- nesday of last week; He bad been receiving treatment from Dr, Fox. The. deceased was 'twenty-nine pears of age and leaves a wife and three children, The remains were taken. to Athens, Mich., for interment. Mr, N. K. McLeod has disposed of his stock of groceries to Mr. R. S, 151cGee. Mr. C. N. Griffin is - redovering from his recent severe illness and leas been able to resume some of his work at the post office. Mr, Thos. Henry, who just re- turned turned from Russia, where he had been engaged in bridge eohstruction, arrived in Wingham last week on a visit to his mother, Mrs. James Henry, - Mr. H. Davis was in Toronto last week attending the funeral of his brother the late R. R. Davis. Stanley Township he following is the March report , S.S. No. 14, Stanley. Names are order of merit.: 5th—L, B. Hyde, L. Fisher, J. N. Hood. Sr. 4th . A. Cooper, S. H. Thompson, H. Collins. Jr, 4th—J. G. Coop - E.' P, ,Fisher, N. J. Hood, 3rd -E. L. Hyde, W. J. M. Ross. Jr. -W. L. Workman, L. M. Foster, 'Al Parsons. Sr. 2nd—L. S. Near, • C. Workman, D. M. Foster. 2nd -O, M. Anderson, J. E, Mcicen- , L. F. Anderson. ,1st Pt. -R. L. i+iam T W. Bridges. The best oilers in the monthly spelling matches were : 51b—Anna L. Fisher. Sr. 4th—Margaret: A, Cooper. Jr, ' ;-J, Gracie Cooper. Jr, 3rd—Wil ..souRoss. Jr. 2nd—Aorsina Foster._ Goderich The following is No. 9, G,oderich month of March ; Grigg 77, Charlie 4th—Pearl Hanna 73, Willie Pearson 72, John Ostrom 60, *Willie Stirling. Sr. 3rd—Glad- stone Grigg 69, Jr. 3rd -Lizzie Pearson 69, Ila Grigg 69, Sr 2nd-- Jessie nd—Jessie MacDougall 80, Carman Grigg; 70, Harold Connell! 5j. Jr. 2nd— Edward Grigg 63. Pt, 2nd -Martha Cook, Mary Cook. list—Chester Grigg,—J. 10. Ciuff, Teacher. Township the report of S.S. township, for the Sr. 4th—Bruce Cooper 68. Jr. 82, Allred Hudie Seaforth. Miss Mae Carmichael has retuned from a visit with friends at Crom- arty. The treasurer of the Red Cross Society has received the , sum of, eighty dollars from the . Young People's Debating Society of Tuck- ersmith. -- Misses Hazel Morrow and Pearl Guhr have gone to Rochester to take nurse's training. Mrs. Will Bright has returned from Syracuse, N.Y., where she had spent some time owing to the illnessof an aunt. Miss Eva Sperling has accepted a .school at Caledon East and left last week to commence her'' teaching duties. News -Record Means News -Loader, E, F. C. E. L. Mrs. W. E. Southgate, Jr., and little daughter' .are visiting Toronto friends. Miss Grace Walker left for Roches, ter last week to take a course, of training as a nurse. She intended visiting friends in Buffalo on the way. Mrs. S. Dorrance, who recently sold her farm near Constance, is moving to Egmondviile. The wedding was solemnized at Blyth last week of Mise Edna Webb and Mr. Wnt. Montgomery. Capt. Hodgens has returned from London where he has been taking a special course in musketry. Mrs. W. E. Southgate has gone to New York to visit her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Wilson. Mrs. James Weir, who spent the winter with her daughter in Toron- to, has returned home. .Mr. arid Mrs. Hugh McI{ay of port Huron visited with Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Box last week. Mr. A. R. Cowlthrop left last week for the west. He went by way. of Chicago and will stop off at several points in the United States. He ex- pects to x-pects.to spend the summer at Cey- lon, Sask. All Will Have to. Help. (Froth The Toronto Globe.) IThe Globe has on several. occasions recently pointed out that in the vill- ages and small towns of the Prov- inces there must be in the aggregate many thousands of - retired, farmers who are not incapable of returning to the fields for a few months, if it can bo shown to them that by so do- :ing they would be serving their country as truly as b3► enlistment in the army'. By a circular issued from the Department of Agriculture on !larch 17th an appeal is made to municipal officials to obtain informa- tion as to the available workers, but nodefinite arrangements have been made for the immediate utilization of the available labor, •An official census of all retired, or occupation - less farm workers within the Prov- ince willing to volunteer for tempor- ary'service on farms in their vicinity could be secured within a week were the Minister's request changed by the Legislature to an instruction to Clerks of towns, villages and town- ships to secure the required informa- tion. The Legislature could pass a short enabling bili at a single sitting as a matter of urgency. And it is a matter of urgency. If effective steps are not taken to increase the supply of farm workers during the season about to open, there v'ili'pe a great; falling: off in agricultural production and a marked increase in the price of foodstuffs: Hensel'. &Ir. R. Sturgeon has returned' to the west after spending some time herewith friends. Mrs. T. Newlands has been in Tor- onto visiting her daughter. Miss C. V. Smith has been in Hamilton nursing her sister, who, has been ill, Mr. Frank E. Case has returned from Buffalo and Is much improved in health. Mrs. George Chapman of Guelph and Mrs. J. Uric of Delorain have been visiting relatives in town. Mr, John Murdock was in Detroit recently attending the funeral of his brother-in-law. It Pays. Good Butler Makers to have their name and address printed on 1 the parchment paper in which they wrap their butter for the market. It Pays Parr Batter Makers ti if there are any hereabouts, to leave their name and postoffice off the wrappers, mere, • ly using the printed matter called for by law. Wrappers in 500 and 1000 lots, the cheapest way to buy, them, can be obtained at the office of The News -Record at a moderate price. THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE, The blood is the life because it is the nutritive fluid. If the blood be- comes very impure, the bones, the muscles and other parts of the body are impaired, and finally become diseased.. Slighter variations iii the quality of the blood, such as are of- ten ften brought about by breathing the bad air of unventilated rooms, , have equally sure though .,less plater ill ef- fects on the nervous system. Persons that have any reason to believe that their blood is not pure should begin to take Hood's Sarsa- parilla at once. This medicine has done more than any other in cleans- ing, enriching and revitalizing the blood and giving strength and tone to all the organs and functions. If you want to be entirely satis- fied, insist on having Hood's. Ac- cept,no substitute. 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