The Clinton News Record, 1916-12-14, Page 44
Clinton News -Record'
December I5th, 19I6
News of Huron's Battalion
'rim News-Recoitd is glad to publish of the big gums iii France.' 'It so'.utd-
'the following letters from members l ed dcind of dismal, Kenneth is still
of the Huron Battalion, the llilst , in a tenet with me. Tse is just
which is . at Shornclitle and may We sleep together now. Our battal-
soon lie. Called upon to proceed over Zion isn't going to be broketn up, We
'to France. Where they are now they • will go to Franee'as a unit, Well'I
guess- _I'll close' .Tor 110W. Your
loving • brother :-Norman:"
INTERESTING RESTING SI{liTCll OF '1'111',
From Signaller )Frank Williams to
his' smother at Blyth Air, Williams
Weis' a"student at the C.0,1. when lie
vewber tills, t , enlis'ted :
nr Sister :•-1 have got ats op '�My dear Mother Well' here 1 am
De, •t t last. I guess I at last. again hi clear, old 1 n tsnd,
l+ gutting users to
can hear the'boons of the big guns
on vicar days, so can easily imagine
themselves already in the war zone
This letter is from Pte. N. W. Mil-
ler, son of lir: and Mrs• Miller "of
the Huron tioad :
"Itingate Camp, Sborneliffe,
1'u t , 1916
portunft•Y to write t the milli .«.ui 'fog
\wither aril Father willTbe duct:' ails. And now, 1 Suppose the' best
about Jnr. '1'hcy will ag be to try
think it is a Tong t,hel it, Ile
hers but I couldn't help it, for WC and sketch my trip from Camp ilor-
were on the move all the c tame. the
We
left Norden on Friday,
37tH, and got into Halifax • Monday
morning at half past five and went
straight from the 'traits to the boast
Mid we were on it till -.half-past
t9igee in the afternoon of Saturday,
November the eleventh,so we .had
some trip, The ocean voyage was
certainly great. The first font' days
one could hercily see a wave at all
it was so smooth, but it was rough
for the next couple of days and
then it got lin! again.When the sea
was rough the ship rocked quite a
hit and it used to dip its nose clean
tinder water and a couple of times
the water came right into the sleep-
ing compartments. One night the wan: -
ter came down through the hatches
on to some of the fellows hi their
i'n nil in a holy
-want to tell von. They 'thought the I Yln'es, breaking oil there for (rot
I
water Junction and from there
the Montreal -'Toronto line at 'Pete
born. Before 1 go further there
of anxious
for me to do would1
1 i en let thing
clew . here. The -day we were sup-
posed to leave C' a nt p Bor-
den came at last, 3.30 on the atter'-
noon of Oct 'i"th. At'heeu we pulled
out of the station we slid not hnow
Plat where we Were going but sup-
posed it would be down around Hal-
ifax, slay there for a month or su
and then be sent over to England in
a hurry when we were least expec-
ting it. lint our surmiSes proved in-
,eorrect, as we were destined to see.
The day before we left we eoaumetat-
orated the breaking up of the camp
by an oyster feed in the. afternoon
and tireworlcs display in the evening.
The morning of the 27th we were
astir early and had everything
packed up before diluter, At 2.30 we'
'fell in' anal paraded to the. station
headed by the' 142nd hattcliou bard.
Hems. ey gott l
Front ront ("amp Barden we went to
one thing I want to tell •pan about..,
We passed through is place called
Lindsay. When we got there It was
about night se we were surprised to
see quite a crowd at the station,
When the train stopped theyl carne
up to, the windows and,started to
shake hands with us and say good••
bye. One lady J spoke to` told me
that they hadheard • we were coming.
through so they turned out to give
us a send-up. In addition to this
they had 850 individual lunches put
up for tis, besides a barrel of apples,
to eat on the train, .Now, we Were
a strange battalion that just happened
to be passing through anti yet they
treated us' like that. I call that pa-
triotism; displayed by the kind of
treatment a soldier appreciates' when
he is away from bathe. Hats oil to_
the people of 'Lindsay, But to con-
tinue,. From Petecbo•ro IVO journeyed
to Montreal but as this was at
• night , we did not see what the
country was like. We stayed in
Montreal two hours then headed for
Halifax on the lntercolouial. We were
now to travel through Quebec so you
may be sure' we didn't sleep through
the day. 'Parlez-your Anglais ?' you
ask a little fellow at the station.
"Non l' he answers you. And every-
where there are directions in English'
and French. '(dentlemenls Waiting
Room' Intl see on a door and under-
neath, 'Salon du Monsieurs' • i The
Scene is very 'picturesque.
Quaint li t t I e buildings, long,
narrow little fields with lots of stones
ill them, but over all 'is a look of.
lazy content that is very noticeable.
There is one thing, however, that
we must give them credit for. It is
their beautiful, large churches. No
matter how small til: houses are
around it, or what a squalid, dila?-
Mated look other buildut,s may have
they have magnificent stone or brick
churches. Next morning we went
through New Brunswick.'there is
some grand• scenery ihro:Igh there.
We were in the mountains and hug-
ging a stream. As we looked oat of
One window we could see the sides
of a mountain with its trees almost
bereft of leaves and presenting such
a beautiful array of coloring, paint-
ed by that mister -painter., Nature.
1 -here you Lind, yourself face to face
with a perpendicular wall of mason-
ry, there, the mountain falls away in
a gentle slope. iaere, is a clump of
trees of various kinds and shades,
rather scattered, there, an almost ins -
penetrable forest. But over all is
that beautiful coloring, harmonizing
und, contrasting, as you only see it
in the fall•. It was grand. Out of
the other window was a stream
with a iibackgroulltl of mountains,
$ere, the stream is wide and
smooth, there, narrow wile -running
and turbulent, On the farther side
quaint cottages could be, sem at var-
ious intervals. Were., indeed, would
be the ideal spot to live, away from
the bustle and turmoil of the city,
away from the excitement ,and the
glare of lights ; right in the midst
of nature in all her beauty. .\t New-
castle, ('ampbellford and 'Moncton we
had little route marches around the
town. At the latter place the town
band met us and led us aroun:l
town. We left Moncton at might and
saw no more until next morning
when we landed ill Halifax. We left
the train, marched through back al-
ly-ways
l-
ly ways until we reached the _freight
sheds and front' there boarded the
steamer. 'l'llis was on Monday and
on \\'ednesdary we moved up into the
harbor where we took on coal slid
about four-lilteen the same afternoon
lifted atichor and steamed out of
Halifax harbor, four transports and
two cruisers. One cruiser returned
after cunveysang us past the danger
zone, the other accompanied us all
the way. The signallers, bund and
machine gun section had first-class
cabins while the others t ramelled
second class and steerage. They said
it was awful down below. I tell you
was glad 1 was a signaller, then.
The lifeboats were half, lowered and
we had to wear our `lifebelts when
ever• we, went on deck. We had life-
boat: drill two or three times. fort
holes had to be closed at night anal
nearly all the lights were out. When.
we reached Liverpool a destroyer
came out and escorted each transport
into harilor. We were not allowed to.
send wotd to anyone for four days
not to mention the name of the boat,
after we reached camp and were told
we cavae on, We couldn't take pic-
tures
io-tures of the boat or of either of
the harbors. But 3 took a few pic-
tures on the train in Canada and al-
so a couple off the north of Ireland,
from the 'boat. 0f, the camp at
Shornclille and England as I have seen
it will tell you more again. I might
tell you that the. 161st is not to he
broken no yet. We have had our meri-
h al examination and passed all right.
Must• ring off now Good bye.Your
son, I"rank "
ship bail been torpedoed or had
struck a mine and w•as sin cum;. The
sailors were enjoying it and only
laughed at it. They had often heels
outon stormy seas before. Winn we
got oil the boat in Englund we went
straight to the train and they sure
are queer looking trains, They are
snail coaches and engines. There are
only eight people in a place and then
they are crolvdea The trains go
fast through that is nae good thing.
We got oil the train at half -past
three Sunday nacrning and walked
two miles to our camp with oro
heavy packs on. 'rhe scenery is very
pretty around here. The hills and
valleys are all green and the cattle
and sheep are all out to pasture, it
sure looks great. 1t will lie a little
different up home, I bet you will
have had some snow tip there before
this. The evenings and mornings are
foggy, in fact the weather seems to
he of a damp nature all the+ time,
We can see aeroplanes any! time of
the day we look till. They are fly-
ing over guarding the camp all the
time. We are only a utile from the
English Channel and only twenty-
three miles from France so we are
near the war region. yesterday mor-
ning we could heat the roll and din
d -
to
r -
is
'i'Illf BEST C'HRIS'PllfAS
PRESENT.
That is what many write us, who
mire a gift of a Youth's Companion
subscriptioli to a friend or relative.
Thousands can recall the first Christ-
mas that. The Companion came into
the house, and how it was passed
from one to another as a most pre-
cious thing, and the beauty of it was
that every)`weeit looked - for, and
pounced upon anal devoured and ev-
erything else put aside for it. You
eau bring that same sense.of delight
into any home by sending The Youth's
Companion to it for n year—$2.25—
less than tour cents a week.
The Companion home Calendar goes"
to every new subscriber and to every-
one who makes a gift subscription.
THE YOGl.hi'S COMPANION
WINTER lOCiI"i IN FLORCPi.'t,
LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ETC.
The CsnadiaitiT'acific Railway offers
Pram. Camp 'Dollen. we went to
reel connection- is trade for fS snitch,
Crncivatti and Atlanta, Ga.,
Jacksonville, Florida, is reached see -
nod morning • after icaving Detroit:
The Canadian I illic.-Miehigaii Cen-
tral Route will lie found the ideal
line to Chicago, where direct sooner -
tion is made for trite Southern Stat-
es. Now Orleans is reached sc^ottl
morning after leaving Torrintos The
Dining, Parlor and Sleeping Car ser-
vice between Toronto, Detroit sail
Chicago is up-to-date in every par.
ticular, Connecting lines also oper-
ate through sleeping and dining cars,
Those contetuplathtg a trip of any
nature will receive full information
from any C'anadlan Pacific Agent or
W. B, Howard, District Passenger
Agent, Toronto.
Dry Goods
and I
House'
Furnishing)
Conek Co.
PHONE IS.
Millinery
and
beady tn-
\Venn
Ctturments
Quality Furs for
Christmas Giving kif
The Christmas (,aft o ho
appreciated shoal(' ha ye some
qualities which will not pass
with the festive seasoen,
Jus in assist you in making
your gilt selections we pub-
lish herewith rt list, to remind
you. of souse of the grimd
timings we have in one store
for ,Ihis gift giving season.
Blldson Seal Sets
Pereian Lamb Sets
G es y taunts Sits
Minks Sets
I31ack )Wolf Sets
flack Pox Sets
Hittite Sets
Red Fox Sets
The ever popular
and most accept-
able gift for every
member of the
family
CHRiST1'IAs LINENS
Linens are always in order for (beams giving, and no house
keeper ever has too many, 'son should not tunes seeing the
beautrFul display of linens ss e have gathered .together for this
holiday selling
A few suggestions for
Christmas Giving
for Ladies and
Gentlemen
Umbrellas •
Scarfs
Ties
Tie Pins
Tie Clasps
Garters
yleevelets
Sox
Handkerchiefs
Gloves
be open evenings week before Xmas
Fancy Handkerchiefs
Kimmoines
Parasols
Scarfs
Collars
Sweaters
Fancy Waists
Fancy Hosiery
Bodiour Caps
Hand Bags
Fancy lags
Bed Slippers
Store will p
'10 St. Paul St., Boston, Mass.
New Subscriptions Received at
This Office,
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
The Hospital for Sick Children
COLLEGE ST., TORONTO.
Dear Mr. Editor:—
Thanks for the privilege of appeal-
ing through your columns on behalf
of the Hospital for Sick 'Children, the
great Provincial Charity. '
Our need of money is measured by
the children's need of help, and you
can judge how great that need must
be when last year 3,045 sick little ones
were treated as in -patients, and as will
be seen from the 1916 figures, 692
patients were admitted from 242
places outside Toronto.
Last year 271 in -patients were treat-
ed for deformities, such as club feet,
bow-legs, knock-knees, Pott's disease of
the spine, lateral curvature of the
spine, dislocations, infantile paralysis,
tttl, ankle.
srtlear disease of Hospital for Sick 'Chld en to
take dollars out of your pocket, or is
death to take babies out of their
cradles? That is the question.
One gift more in the Hospital's trea-
sury means one coffin less in the
LITTLE WHITE HEARSE.
The Hospital must be digging up
help for little children front the soil of
human kindness, or sextons will be
digging graves for little children in
the soil of many a cemetery.
The Hospital for Sick Children can
only volunteer its mercy to so far as
you friends of little children volunteer
Hos-
pital'syour money for service in never-endingt battle forhe he es
of the little ones.
Let your money fight in the trenches
of some mother's trouble and rescue
some little child from the dugout of
pain, disease and death.
Can the Hospital leave children to
die because the fathers of those chil-
dren have left home to fight for lib-
erty on the British battle line, and can
the Hospital help the children of Can-
ada's soldiers with Its care unless you
help the Hospital with your cash?
You have money enough to help
every other war fund without keeping
back a dollar from the Hospital's war
fund—the fund that helps the Hospital
save the lives of little children,includ-
ing the soldiers' little children.
Do not let the little children pay, in
the loss of the Hospital's care, the con-
tribution that should be given and
must be given to the war funds. - •
Your money can send a message of
cheer to some father in the trenches•—
yes, send that message from the cot
where the Hospital nurses souse little
child back to life, tine child of the
father who is fighting your battle in
the trenches.
Every dollar kept from the Hos
-
attars power to serve the little .chil-
dren is a weight added to the burdeins
and a grief added to the sorrows of
this sear.
You can bear to have your pocket
emptied of a little money easier than
some mother can bear to have her
home emptied of a little child.
Will you send a dollar. or more if
sou can, to Douglas Davidson, Seers-
ta•y.Treasurer, or
T. ROSS ROBERTSON,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees,
RAND TRUNK R.s4,'ATEt'ie
C'1iRtSTiddAS AND
NEW YEAR FARES
Single Fare—Dec. 23rd, 24th and
25th,, good for return until Dee.
26th ; also Dec. BOth. and 31st, 1916
and Jan, 1st, 1917, valid for return
until Jan. 2nd, 191.7.
Fare and One -Third, —Dee, 21st,
22nd, 23rd and 24th, good for re-
turn until Dec. 27th ; also Dec. 28th,
29th, 8011 and 31st, 1916, valid for
return until . Jan. 3rd, 1917.
Above reduced fares apply between
all stations in Canada east of Port
Arthur and to' Detroit and Part ILu-
ton, Mich., Buffalo, Black Rock, Ni-
agara Falls and Suspension Bridge,
N.Y.
Pickets now on sale at all O.T.R.
Ticket Offices.
1. .RANSFORI) ori SON,
Uptown Agents, Clinton.
Phone 57,
Hnrry Up only 8 Shopping
days till Xmas.
SHOP EARLY SHOP EARLY
„
C
..Choice
Stationer
Is one of the most useful
and acceptable gifts you can
snake. Our papetries were
bought before the advance
in`papers, and you get the
benefit. Choice boxes chin
taining paper and envelopes
from 25c to $1.50
The Latest Books Such .as
Rhimes of Red Cross Man" byService, `� 1. ``Jessie Alexander's Platform Sketches" $1
,
When a Man'a a Man" by Harold Wright $1.25. "World for Sale" by Parker $1.50
"Just David" by Porter, $1,35, and others.
Dolls are Scarce
We have a limited stock aild advise you to buy early
Toy Department
artment
Is now in full swing and although toys are hard to get,
we are showing a fine assortment of low priced
Toy, Games, Blocks, Etc.
Select your Christmas Cards and Books early
Gat first choice. Dainty Greeting Cards, Etc.
WE LEAD iN CHINAWARE
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
We are Santa Claus' Headquarters and the
Leading Store for
,MERIT.®QUALITY AND FAIR PRICE
TELEGRAPH AND TICKET AGENT,
VIIIIMIErgreINISORIWZOMINSINANMEMIllflI
Blyth
Mr. John Leith has leased the res-
.clence of Dr. Allison and will short-
ly occupy it.
Mrs. W. F. McC'auginey visited her
sister in London for a few days re-
cently.
TENDERS FOR PULPWOOD AND
PINP. LIMIT
es).
Tenders will he received by the un-
dersigned -up to and including the
1st day of February, 1911,7, for the
right to cul pulpwood and pine tim-
ber on a certain area situated on the
filacic Sturgeon River and other ter-
ritory adjacent thereto, in the Dis-
trict of Thunder Bay.
Tenderers shall state the amount
per cord on pulpwood, and per thou-
sand feet board measure, on. pine,
that they are prepared to pay as a
bonus in addition to dues of 40 cents
per cord for spruce, and 20 cents
Per cord for other pulpwoods, and
12.00 per thousand feet, board meas-
ure, for pine, or such other rates as
man from time to time be fixed by
the Lieutenant -Governor -in -Council,
for the right to operate a Pulp mill
and 'a Paper mill on or near the area
referred. to.
Such tenderers shall be required to
erect a mill or mills on or near the
territory and to manufacture the
wood into pulp and paper in the
Province of Ontario.
Parties making tender will be t'c-
cluirecl to deposit' with their tender
a marked cheque, payable to the
Honourable the Treasurer of the
Province of Ontario, for ten thousand
dollars' ($10,000), which amount will
be forfeited in the event of their not
entering into agreement to carry out
conditions, etc.. The said $10,000 will
be applied on account of bonus dues
as they accrue, but the regulation
tines, as mentioned above, will re-
quire to- he paid in the usual man-
ner as returns of cutting of wood and
timber are received.
The highest or any tender not nec-
essarily, accepted.
For particulars as to description of
territory, capital to be invested, etc„
apply to the undersigned,
G. 1'-I: FERGUSON,
Minister of Lands, Forests and
C'. FI. MORNING, Mines, Toronto, _119h6.
Union Station, • N. B.—No unauthorized publication
Toronto, Ont: of this notice will bcypaid for.
Dr. and sirs. Allison left last week
for London, the Doctor having enlis-
ted with tine M.A.C. for overseas
services. He will probably be in Lon-
don for a short time before leaving
for. overseas,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Sloan have
gone to Toronto, where they will
spend 'the winter months.
Mr. T. A. Sanders has disposed of
his farm in Hallett and it is said lie
will take up residence in Blyth,
Prior to his leaving for London Dr.
Allison was presented by the local
War Auxiliary with a handsome nnil-
itarywrist watch.
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Let us Give Moderately to Each ()the('
,and Generously to the Soldiers' families
Nineteen hundred and sixteen years ago came the very first Christmas, and for
all these centuries there has recurred the Great Anniversary with its message of good
will to men.
And so we give gifts.
Men and woolen of Ontario! We who stand for gots will among men and nations;
we whose men fight that there may at :last be real peace on earth—let us masse this a
Christmas worthy of the day it commemorates—Jct us lay aside a generous proportion
of our Christmas money for the families of those who are fighting the good fight.
Give to the Canadian Patriotic Fund
the fund that gourds the soldiers' families from want.
Great as the result will be among the families of out- soldiers. greater yet may the
blessing be among us, the givers. Christmas will have a more viral meaning for us
than perhaps ever before, and as for the children, who can measure the impression they
will receive and keep of that Christmas Day when they shared their Christmas with
the loved ones of the men who saved their country!
Let each Canadian boy and girt get a lesson from this historic Christmas which
will go with them all through life.
Good men and women of Ontario! Can the need of our soldiers families •cry in
vain for the relief which this Fund alone makes possible? Can we—can we, in the face
of it ail, again give lavishly among ourselves? Shall we not this year, with hearts full
of the spirit of Christmas, lay aside a generous proportion of our Christmas money
for the cause which so urgently needs it?
"Somewhere in France" he is fighting the good fight. '
Somewhere in Ontario all that he holds dear is depending upon our decision.
Truly "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Ontario will be ask-
ed la January to as•
SUM the Canadian
Patriotic Fund that
it, can depend on
has'lug -sta million
dollars In 1557 .for
the frunilles of Ota-
taclo s seldta.•s.
gni• a AN PATRIOTIC e,,;t
t 11 iii • , t,,, ' " , .'liliii .......
$oqr trillion or
these dollars must be
secured from individ-
ual subscriptions. If
there9s.no Branch of
the Fund In '`'our
town or Monty send
your subscription di -
tea to the Head
OfficeCanadian
Patriotic Fund, Vit-
toria street, Ottawa.
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