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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1915-04-29, Page 4( Clinton 'News-Itecots April 29th, 1915 Varna Rev, D. Johnston has invested in a ear;, Which lvi11 Prove a groat con Venienee to him -both for work and: p1easuro, is hill si` in and if o' 'Seeding rn v g a th ii'ne weather: continuos farmers will: be mostly done by the end of the week Wt.Reid and 1 le,,D. A. Johnston have each, purchased an aorto and are rnakiiib use _of the good roads. ="t i,�r. Wm. Stephenson,lsl ori friends nis atStaffa last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Adair Turnbull of Grey attended the funeral of the late Samuel lucid o 1M1wine dal of last a n s ) ,vc,ek, Mr, Chris. Ward spitl a valuable porker to Mr. Clarkson of $ills• green one day last week. Mr. Sant.. Rathwell of Lucknow is visiting relatives in the village. Mr. T. J. McAsh<is still under the doctor's care, but his many friends nope to soon ]tear of a speedy 're oovary,. rhe annual Sunday school meeting of the Methodist clutr011 was held ' in the church last Wednesday - eaening, when Mr. V. M. Diehl was re-elect- ed superintendent: A few changes were made in the teachers and- ',offi- cers. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Foster: are tak- ing up akingup their abode in the villagc. News -Record Means News -Leader, Goderich. Mr. David Marwick has : gone to ,Manitoulin Island, where he conducts a store during the summer months. Mrs.. Pete: McFarlane and her niece, Miss Edna, have returned from an extended stay with relatives at Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. ' Mrs. W. E., Tweedie and family have, gone to Toronto to join Mr. Tweedie. They intend residing in .the city in future. Miss Anna- Hayn has retuned to her' home here after visiting for some time in. Detroit, Woodstock and other points: Mr. and Mrs. II. H. Polley of Tor- onto were in town last week attend- ing the wedding of fly .former's sis- ter. • Re,'. Geo. E. _Ross was in 'Toronto last week attending a 'fleeting of the Foreign Mission iloarci of the Pres- by tartan res-bytartan Church. Mr. 0. E. Fleming of Windsor has offered his beautiful summer home, Ridgewood Park, Goderich, as a con- valescent honiltal during the contin- uencc of the war. Dr Macklin has been informed that • his offer to serve at one of the base hospitals has been accepted by the Government and he is awaiting orders where to report for duty. M'r, and Mrs, Edward Bond 'of D. troit have beenvisiting the lady's patents, Mr. and Mrs. James Mc- , Cracicen,,and will shortly move to a farm near I-Iolntesville. Mrs, I♦, V. Champion of Wayburn, Sask., is here on a visit to friends. Barfield MrS,• M1M1r:' Pm.,due'of the 13aytield Line' spout so,u a clays' with tier sister; , Mrs, ,Jain'es Donaldson, ,The Patribtie Society has donate3 thirty-three dollars to the 'Unive pity Iiospital.`of Toronto and has,- ,'also stns fifty-nine pairs of socks. Another bale of 'socks will be packed, in the. near future. The Sooiety will meet in the town 1ia1'1 on'Tuesday next a•t four in the afternoon. „ Mr, 'George. McIon/ie'and ' wife .. of Clinton spent• Sunday in, the village. the guests of the latcr's aunt; Mrs., Fred, Stanley. News -Record Means News -Leader, B cu. r efi 1 e d. The barns large f b n o , Dugald I atherin - g hang 4th concession of Ttckersniitlt; about three miles from this placer were butted to the ground on .Wed- nesday of last week. The .fire started in the implement building,• from some cause unknown. Mr, Bruce Berry, who was working in a )rack 'field, first noticed it, although .ltlr. Fotheringhaln was working near the barn, . Tho Hien got out all the .stock except .a ew pigs and ;iecp, but the machinery,, except that in use, was all consumed, Mr. Fothinglram's loss ,will exceed 13000; but it is understood to be fairly well covered by insurance. On Sunday week the whole coins un- ity was grieved to hear that Mrs. henry Penfound had passed away that morning from heart failure, It was altogether unexpected as she had been in het usual health up :to tine last, The late Mrs, Penfound (nee Miss Caroline Knight) was born on the Isle of Wight, England, 72 years ago and came to this country when quite young, along with lier parents. The family ,settled in • Usborne township where, they lived for some years af- terwards semove:l to Grey township. She was Married ie Exeter fifty-two years ago to her bereaved Irsband, They settled first near St, Thomas, then near Glencoe and 25 }cars ago they removed to the farm where she died, lot 0, con. 4, Stanley. Sha leaves, to mourn her - departure her husband, one slaughter, Mrs. Bates of Cioderich, three. 0)115, James H., undertaker and furniture dealer of, Oil Springs, George of London, traveller for the C'ockshutt Plow Cu., and Charles at hone, besides two sisters, four brothers and numerous grand- children. For thirty-eight years she and her husband have been members of tire Methodist March, doing their part in upholding every good ,ir)rlc fn the n3mnumity.• The deceased was especially devoted to the Women's Missionary Society of the'' Methodist Church. The funeral service was con- ducted by her pastor, Rev. ,Iosias Greene, The funeral to Baird's ceme- tery was largely . attended. The pa— bearers were her two eldest eene, James H. and George, and four bro thers, Charles and James t I C'ran- brook, George of Mandaninin and Wil- liam 1i1-liam 11'., teacher in Belleville high school, -Wha .Murdered,' IOber*'Bea # a.7 Sn i'Uh s Ilfl] ; t i Agri] ..Uta,—Colborne township .was'tlirodvn into consterria- tfon last night fray Dile of the most ,dastardly a•i1d, ;inexpitcable murders heard of in recent. years, :When . Rob' art: Bean , a reputable farmeir shot dolvn as he drove• alon the highway. ' g, Mr.:. bean, who was some 65 years of age;' had keen out to a friend's some few Hiles away, and was returning about 11 at night when apparently, 501116 person Ur persons, who .had lain in ambush along • tufo road, ran up Ijehind the 'buggy and. fired a Charge iron, a shotgun at 'hint. This, shpt apparently went wide, as a neighbor heard tIle -old Haan say : "What • be you doing' that for 7 ' , Then, another:; report Wal heard,. and by the tinr4' a passerby: had come up the. old man lap dead on the: road. The charge, had been -Iron a shotgun and'' fired at such close range 'that the clothing was badly scorched, and Part of the cartridge 5vad had lodged in the flesh. The \charge ,vent in through the back and came out at the left. breast, The affair took place in .front of Col 'tareoe's farm, on the road lead- ing from• Dunlop to Smith's 1x2111, and was but a short distance west of the Colonel'& house: It was Bert Varcoe, one of the Colonel's, sons, who in do- ing the late chores back at the barn heard the unfortunate pian call out, and although he and his fattier were quickly on the scene they saw no. trace of the murderer. The Horse had broken from the buggy, and afterwards made its way home. - i`he deed had been care,ully plan- ned, as in front of the Varcoe pro- perty stand some large willow trees overhanging the road, which would serve to conceal the murderer until lois prey was just passing. The theoryi, advanced is that the perpetratorknew the old roan would be returning that way, and its he passed a'.epped out and fired a shot, and while this ,vent wide tto old man, startled by the at- tack,' did not try to escape, but ap-: patently stopped to look about, when the second shot was fired, -with fatal results. • Coroner Hunter of Goderich was immediately notified, and he, with Crown Attorney Seager and Chief, Postlethwaite, were on, the scene in half an hour. They immediately pro- ceeded with a hasty search, but with- out result. Inspector Reburn of To- ronto was sent in response to an aP- real for Provincial 1 0 assistance, and while he and the county police have been working on the affair all day they have found no clue to the mys- tery, A post-mortem was held at No, 1 Schoolhouse this afternoon, and an inquest will be I151d at the Council hall, Carlow (or Smith's 11111, as itis nolo familiarly known) next Monday evening, The deceased had a family of three sons living with him, and three slaughters married in this lo- cality, but while all have been (pes- tioned as to a possible motive for the cringe none 5(`13111 able to offer any ex- planation, A careful search of the scene this morning revealed all cnrpty cartridge shell about I 0 feet -Vest or where the old man was found, and a scrond one about' 150 feet east-, as though, the first hail been extricated end thrown aside, but the second one taken from tite gun and dropped to the road as the murderer ran ,tst alongthe road. Robbery ,las seemingly not the mo- tive for: the crime,as Mr. Mean s money and: watch were found on the body, Smith's Hill, April 27th Several distinct .clues, 1n the nature of traces left by, the murderer. of Robert Bean, Colborne township farmer, near his home at Carlow on Sunday night -have cu tout•aged the police working on the case. Inspector Robert Re - burn, assigned to the affair by tlic criminal investigation department, is out in the country- at work again today, and, is. assisted by high Con- stable Whitesides of Mensal). and Chief hostlethwatte of Goderielr. IL is admitted that suspicion points in a definite direction, but matters have not reached a stage where an arrest has been found justifiable. The shells .fecund on the roadside at the scene of the mime apparently af- ford no clue whatever they are of a common kind. It is regarded, how- ever, as somewhat' peculiar that one shellwas at aueh a distance, from the other, lending foundation to an idea that more than one person ,vas concerned. The officers spent the most of today in calling on surrounding villages, going as far as 13lyth and Walton, in an endeavor to find record of a sale of shells of the hake used by the murderer. Such shells may he pur- chased in Goderich, but there is no record of any having been sold re- cently or ever, in fact, to 0, person who v v o mi h g t have misused them. Be- sides, the officers believe that, though the man to whom • suspicion points is a resident of this locality, he did not obtahl the shells in .Goderich, HOMESEEIKERS EXCURSIONS TO WESTERN CANADA. Particular attention is directed to the remarkably `low Round Trip Far- es in connection with Homeseeliers Excursions to Western Canada via Canadian Pacifre Railway.;; Tickets are on sale .each Tuesday until October 20th, inclusive, and are good to return within two Months from date of sale: The C.P.R.ffer' o s the fines0s;�i . po bio equipment and fastest train service via one of the most scenic' routes, in the world. It is the only lino operating through. standard and 'Touring sleeping cars, also;Dining cars to Winnipeg and Vancouver. All equipment is owned and operated by the C.P.R.i'affording the highest form of efficiency, •If swath a trip -is under eonsider4ion amply to any C.P.E. Agent for full pahticula s or write M. C. Murphy, ,Toronto, or W. Jackson, Agent at' Clinton. British ;Prisoners Germany. . r maty. ,r; nt Ulna'>} nrneroria l priaon or sot war have ovokoth.pity, and syti:pathy, The agony and humiliation • of the British Prisoners insistb o indescri'b-, our acute and galling', Rut . front that: state of;sufferin b, , there can. be u no redress, it .being -part„ of the for- tunes of war,,;, but tiler lacic of ,`,con-.' forth and food .stands in a . different: category. This want will grow in v01015e and intensity. as the dayso g As a result of 'official orf Ial organiza- tion having been creatal recently to carry parcels; to the British Prisoners in Germany, `ihsu'riug 'proper traus- mission 'through a neutral'. carrier, tle "Khaki" Magazine of Imperial House, I4ingsway, London, has :start- ed a Hund to SUPply:food and Com- forts for those who have 110 relatives or friends, to look after thein, as it is known :that these poo,: fellows aro not getting a proper supply of food. :An appear is blade to you for two dollars only, ae there are so many demands blade upon you in other directions, This money will go .for the direzt benefit of the Prisoners, as Otero is no cost of transmission .aird no 'waste of ally description, in- formation having bean established showing the kind of food and clothing etc., which can be sent without con- fiscation by the German Government:" This appeal should get a large re - spouse as there is no other , fund which deals with this particular con- dition. 'rhe '`Khaki" Magazine and Cabled News Sheet was created primarily as a gift for the Overseas Soldiers, bringing diem. lata news from their homes. It is now supplying, free of charge, iii addition to the soldiers at the front and in training, the var- ious hospitals in England. and France, as_ well as the Grand OlFleet. It is a purely patriotic endeavour and in no way commercial. Ince the "Khaki" .Magazine was founded, amongst thle many who gave their support and.exoressions of good- will for the workithad undertaken, were The Duke of Wellington K.C7., The Duke of Manchester, The First Lord of the Admiralty, The Countess of Zetland, Lady Leven, Mrs: Leopold de Rothschild, Lieut. General Sir Rob- ert Baden-Powell, K.C.V.O., The Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain, P. C.M.P., Lord Desborough, The Earl of Essex, Viscount Bryce, Lord Wil- loughby de Broke, 'rhe Earl of Ron aldshay, Viscount Milner, Earl of Kintore, Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P., Sir William Bull, M.P., Mr. Evelyn Cecil, H,P., The Right Ilon. Sir Charles Johnston, Lord 117a,yor of Loudon, The Right IIon. J. E. Ray- ner, Lord llapir of Liverpool, The Right ]ren, W. H. Bowater, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, The Right IIon. •lames Taggart, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, The Right 1lon. ('raw - ford McCullagh, Lord Mayor of Bel- fast, el- fast, All subscriptions. will be published in this paper and you are requested to send yours 10 any office of the Royal Bank of Canada, and Wrack it "Khaki Prisoners' I+'und,'' The sub- scriptions ,will also be duly acknow- ledged ithe 1 n Magazine and various €,k newspapers in England from time to 1 lune. 1'1Irpopular 1 71b1b1. of the llihliTll and (linton Baptise Churches ,vho has been most ect11D in promoting the Cant ria to be betel in the town hall, Clinton, lura (Thurs- day) evening. Rev. J. K. Fairfull• Beware of Inferior Lightning Rods Again 1 wish to warn the farmers of Ontario against inferior Lightning rods. One of the sante companies that buncoed the farmers with iron- centrod rods last year is reported to be selling the same rod again this year. Watch out for them. There is; no difficulty in spotting these rods, The outside covering is a thin sheet of copper. :Inside of the copper is a .strip of galvanized steel or iron one-half inch wide and two galvanized steel or iron wires about No, 10. The copper sheath is twisted around the strip and wires giving the rod a corrugated appearance. The steel' or iron will rust out in from five to ten years. For ,photograph of what happened to a rod of this kind' in less than eight years see Figure 34, Bulletin 220, which may he had by wriiin the Department of Agri. g culture Toronto. An , Illinois firm is circularizing the trade"`and others advocating tho !'Mast' Lightning Rod System. They declare that, twisted. cables are posi- tively;; dangerous claiming they act like "chokercoils," that tubes only shouldbe used, that insulators, must be used, etc. For concentrated es- sence of error .these circulars surpass anything else I have seen. Beware of • the man with theiron- centred rod and. the. man who claikns that:tWisted, cables- are. dangerous, This,; Department will be glad to he informed regarding the operations of'. Dither,—Department' of Physics, 0. A. C, Guelph,-Wl1-, If, Day, Domestic Arithmetic It is' r lathed ' er to the St. 'Louis a Lo is Globe Democrat that Colonel J. Slocum. Ridgley, iii' answering the toast '"l 1 g o Mother,. ' said ' Let ane tell 1I you a e mother' story. "In my'youth, when T ryas `f',caNting school inSiloam, o oa , I saidone morning to a bright little fellow;— " 'Tommy, my boy, if a farnily con- sisting of a father, mother: and six children should have' a cherry pie for. dinner, 1•ia,y much would exch receive 7' " 'A seventh' the, ;little fellow an s- wered. ,,'CarefullY, said I' .Romem e>, there: areeight people.' ,, 'Yes, ' Iesrlsir„I +iknow, said Tommy, 3 'but mother wouldn't take any for' fear the others wouldn't have enough.” The Bugle Blast to Conada. Readers of the newc,,rapers and fol- lowers of the course of the war must long ago have become convinced that the situation grows more and more. intense and critical day by clay. Great Britain is faced' not alone by outside enemies, but by labor troubles and by lack of those immense inter- nal resources in tiro matter of food production that Germany and Aus- tria-Hungary possess. She cannot' feed herself, and is compelled to: rely on otliar countries for a supply of the necessaries of life, In such case the duty of her children is distinctly' plain. It is noteworthy of her en- emies that they are not only thor- oughly= united but that they are en- during with what fortitude they, possess the rigid military, enforce - meets that are placed upon them for the conservation both of food and material Every ratan, ,vouiau and Child, 11:0111 the Kaiser down, have been put on rations. 'Phe idea is three -fold, to guard against any p0s-, slide emergencies, to mislead the foe Into over-cotiftdonce and by thorough ness to bring such pressure to bear as wi11 hasten the final derision. tiri-. furl is pitrsuing 1115 same course. She has not yeh,found it necessary to. place her population individually on short rations, but she has found it desirable to take over munition fac- tories in order to ensure supplies that mean either life• or death, to the nation. Meantime, Germany by cow- ardly' submarine assassinations is en- deavoring to starve her people and cripple her resources, With ci.h a,state of alairs existent it is hardly necessary to explain to stay-at-home Canadians bow hest tiley can 1511fill their manifest duty and show the burden -bearers how completely they p0513055 their sym- pathy. But thebugle blast has its rallying power in peace as in war:. To all the people, and to fanners, htee(Iei•5 and '101 ticrs in particular, trite Patriotism and Production 1110vc- 111ent that is in progress is blowing its bugle, or, in other words, carrying its message. Its object is to arouse all and sundry to the part they are called en to play, '\'hat part does net of nee u u a e it veil harder 1 r t work nor increased acreage but it dors imply the exercise of every faculty at ten trim and vigilance. It does imply; fn order to &:cure increased. and improved production, u by which a tc lone cultivators aat rs n of the soil can contribute towards the credit of the country and empire, the greatest care in the selection of seed, in the breeding of live -sloe'.: and in economy of the land. 1014 DIiri•:SI YEAR AR ON RIDCIOIID, 13 UT DR AI NAGE GIVES BIG, RESULTS. The Ontario Agricultural College re- ports that the Crop year of 1014 was the driest on record in Ontario. The precipitation' from harvest 1013 to ]rawest 10)4 lacked 51 in- ches of bciug up to the aver- age, This is a shortage of almost 20 per cent.. The College has often sta- ter that tile ,drainage Was effective in a dry season as wellas in, a wet one, and last year it+ was able to prove this in a most practical way. Since 1912 the college has been in stalling Practical Drainage Dentonettra-. tion Plots in parts of the 'province where little or no drainage has been done, The plan is to drain half a field, leaving the other half undrained for comparison. Both parts are sew- ed to the same Mod_ of grain and, the crop from each part threshed ,separate- ly. Nino plots were drained prior to 1914: The average of the ulna fields showed that at market prices at threshing time the drained half pro- duced 114.12 more per acre than the undrained half, and that ,in the driest year on record. In an average season the v increase drainage re a era, e u ase due to g is over, $20 peu acre, and in a wet season even more. For a ntunber of years the Agricul- tural College has been making_, drain- age surveys for farmers . free of charge, except for travelling expenses. This offer is again renewed. Farmers, having drainage difficulties -may se" cure assistance by writing the Depart. merit of Physics, .0.A.C., Guelph, for information and regular application forms, URANtl.TRUNII SYs EM DOUBLE, TRACK ALL, 'THE WAY. OItON70 CIY'kICAG T 0 TORONr -M E 0 ONTR AL" FOR MON'PItEAL.: Leave Toronto 8.00 a.m., 4.1,0 p.m. and 11.45 p.m. daily 0. FOR. CI%IC1GO I,eave Toronto 0.00 a,m., 8.30 p.rn. and 11.00 p.m.. daily Smooth Roadbed. Highest Class of Equipment. Full particulars and; berth reserva- tions at Grand Trunk ticket otices J, Ransford & Son, uptown agents',' A, 0. Pattison, station agent. Fat and Lean. In the btoy.world of dairying a{en a few meagre calculations show great differences, whether in caws; theiri.ow- nors theland, e p the bank 'de Osits 'or the test of fat etcfat',lead are ande • mixed good x•131.51115 and: -p poor, eV 11 on ,E p , e adjoining farms, even in two stalls in the ohe. stable,. -One owner gets per- haps 200 pounds pf milk froru each lean, hungry acre ; 'a , neighbor with better methods produces the fat total of seventeen hundroi pounds of milk pen acre, keeping' good cows ^ veil tilled eighty 11ere 10 farm, 0)15 milk producer, with poor grade snows, nev- er tested; possibly never well ' ,fed; gets the lean average of less- than three thousand pounds of milk per.cow •; an- other producer, who is a real dairy- man, revels in the knowledge of each of his .sexteen cows giving ever eight thousand pounds of milk that wilt test fairly rich in fat. Then when it, comes to feeding for profit, not simply for existence, we find one man with a hundred pounds of t11111C costing hint only 50 cents for: feed, but a neighbour has to admit the impeachment of milk costing hull ) per hundred at least JO Dents, perhaps over a dollar, So one will make : t110 fat profit above C fe ori of over =tliirt dollars per colt, while bit neigh r, $hoUL' is down to the lean margin of only $3. Why do such amaaing ; differ,' enee5`000117 Primarily I tma ilyl because dairy - then have not studied each 'cow indivi-- viduall . Y Dairy records :alone I can `. shod light on these problems, '`Milk and feed' record forms,sin le, e l y " aat P kept, may be had free from the dairy, division, Ottawa ; apply to -day, and make each cow you own earn a good fat profit,—C, F. W., Ottawa. IHOW TO PRONOUNCE TIIE WORD PRLEMYSL. Jay-meczle with the accent on the "mew," and' giving the "j" the soft sound as in French. Ors though it ,were spelled 't b p ,Sz i la, ineezle. Dungannon aon Miss Margaret Rylin has been home from Lucknow wisiLing her parents, News -Record Means News -Leader. De' Laval Cream Separator - The World Standard. Ideal Green Feed Silos, Alpha Gasoline Engines, .Oe Laval Oil and Wendott Oleanzer. Stock of repairs kept at my house 3 doors west of Commercial Hotel and repairing done Saturday afternoons. D. W. Hamilton, Phone 209 Clinton, NATIONAL PORTLAND CEMENT We have just received:a carload ofithe same old brand , of Portland Cement which has always given you such com,. plete satisfaction. It always fills your requires e.its. You cannot crake a mistake using the National. S. J. ANDREWS, Clinton. The Olinton Garage. AutoTires and Accessories. We still have a Few Bicycles, New and Second Hand. All Kinds of Rubber Repairing, Baby Carriage Tires Replaced. J. 5,.2-Q.nT,rNp =.e_4 k6NSnr 1 The New "Castle' ° Col ` ure The Latest Creation in The Art of IR DRESSING ...!.' • This style w'15 originated and designed by New York's exclusive set, now worn universally in all cities, it is NEW, ODD, yet: simple and be- coming to all faces; Requires the use of a 211 to 30 inch three separate strand switch. We sell the MAi TTA\ LINE of Gu u. nteed Human flair Switch- es, itch- es, and can snatch your hair perfectly, Our salesladies will gladly show you this style and the arrangements of a3 -prong switch, SEE OUR DISPLAY' Human Hair Switches at all Prices from $1.50 up. COOPER & COI Clinton. , 1 FURNITURE, RUGS AND LINOLEUMS We can assist you in selecting your furniture if you are going to furnish ,your home, or if you only want some odd P you ou will and It to youradvantage advanta -e to inspect our e, 'ns a aregiving. �Ve also carr:.a stock and see the bar au wY good lino- of violins, pianos and.orans. Our undertaking department is up-to-date in every re- epect fund we guarantee the best of satisfaction, JAS. DUNFORD Undertaker and Funeral Director.;;'. , ...,Night and Sunday; calls answered'at residence over .store, 28 Phone 28 t , 1 RadVaC Glnns h 0Dry ucH Go ods/s swidrnus 3i s 66 haven't you have ing department. our floors, need it whatever you in the cheapest Be sure t We often paid of some our and t say5�uf ila� not Housecleaning it favor. to see 1 t ali s 81)1eladid Msis 153 99 store, It you it is because house -furnish- here and on to find you in We have will convince is here from a $35.00 one. buying. hear this remark in our some similar compliment yet visited our up-to-date Spring shipments are time is sure article in house furnishings: is andat the. price that Everything in rugs the best from a 35e rug to our very large display before What Have you the curtains for ing is at hand showingla beautiful yd to $1,00 a $8,50, Abont Windows? the to do about house-clean- We are from 15c. a from 50c to - decided what you are going the windows ? Now that it is time you had decided. range of curtain net yd lace curtains:by the pair UilIifleryNews Our trimmer, millinery opening this week and which will be • the summer ,... Tuesday of •''' 3. pretty ideas Miss Chinas attended in Toronto Monday and has 'brought back many on display this week. -Wha .Murdered,' IOber*'Bea # a.7 Sn i'Uh s Ilfl] ; t i Agri] ..Uta,—Colborne township .was'tlirodvn into consterria- tfon last night fray Dile of the most ,dastardly a•i1d, ;inexpitcable murders heard of in recent. years, :When . Rob' art: Bean , a reputable farmeir shot dolvn as he drove• alon the highway. ' g, Mr.:. bean, who was some 65 years of age;' had keen out to a friend's some few Hiles away, and was returning about 11 at night when apparently, 501116 person Ur persons, who .had lain in ambush along • tufo road, ran up Ijehind the 'buggy and. fired a Charge iron, a shotgun at 'hint. This, shpt apparently went wide, as a neighbor heard tIle -old Haan say : "What • be you doing' that for 7 ' , Then, another:; report Wal heard,. and by the tinr4' a passerby: had come up the. old man lap dead on the: road. The charge, had been -Iron a shotgun and'' fired at such close range 'that the clothing was badly scorched, and Part of the cartridge 5vad had lodged in the flesh. The \charge ,vent in through the back and came out at the left. breast, The affair took place in .front of Col 'tareoe's farm, on the road lead- ing from• Dunlop to Smith's 1x2111, and was but a short distance west of the Colonel'& house: It was Bert Varcoe, one of the Colonel's, sons, who in do- ing the late chores back at the barn heard the unfortunate pian call out, and although he and his fattier were quickly on the scene they saw no. trace of the murderer. The Horse had broken from the buggy, and afterwards made its way home. - i`he deed had been care,ully plan- ned, as in front of the Varcoe pro- perty stand some large willow trees overhanging the road, which would serve to conceal the murderer until lois prey was just passing. The theoryi, advanced is that the perpetratorknew the old roan would be returning that way, and its he passed a'.epped out and fired a shot, and while this ,vent wide tto old man, startled by the at- tack,' did not try to escape, but ap-: patently stopped to look about, when the second shot was fired, -with fatal results. • Coroner Hunter of Goderich was immediately notified, and he, with Crown Attorney Seager and Chief, Postlethwaite, were on, the scene in half an hour. They immediately pro- ceeded with a hasty search, but with- out result. Inspector Reburn of To- ronto was sent in response to an aP- real for Provincial 1 0 assistance, and while he and the county police have been working on the affair all day they have found no clue to the mys- tery, A post-mortem was held at No, 1 Schoolhouse this afternoon, and an inquest will be I151d at the Council hall, Carlow (or Smith's 11111, as itis nolo familiarly known) next Monday evening, The deceased had a family of three sons living with him, and three slaughters married in this lo- cality, but while all have been (pes- tioned as to a possible motive for the cringe none 5(`13111 able to offer any ex- planation, A careful search of the scene this morning revealed all cnrpty cartridge shell about I 0 feet -Vest or where the old man was found, and a scrond one about' 150 feet east-, as though, the first hail been extricated end thrown aside, but the second one taken from tite gun and dropped to the road as the murderer ran ,tst alongthe road. Robbery ,las seemingly not the mo- tive for: the crime,as Mr. Mean s money and: watch were found on the body, Smith's Hill, April 27th Several distinct .clues, 1n the nature of traces left by, the murderer. of Robert Bean, Colborne township farmer, near his home at Carlow on Sunday night -have cu tout•aged the police working on the case. Inspector Robert Re - burn, assigned to the affair by tlic criminal investigation department, is out in the country- at work again today, and, is. assisted by high Con- stable Whitesides of Mensal). and Chief hostlethwatte of Goderielr. IL is admitted that suspicion points in a definite direction, but matters have not reached a stage where an arrest has been found justifiable. The shells .fecund on the roadside at the scene of the mime apparently af- ford no clue whatever they are of a common kind. It is regarded, how- ever, as somewhat' peculiar that one shellwas at aueh a distance, from the other, lending foundation to an idea that more than one person ,vas concerned. The officers spent the most of today in calling on surrounding villages, going as far as 13lyth and Walton, in an endeavor to find record of a sale of shells of the hake used by the murderer. Such shells may he pur- chased in Goderich, but there is no record of any having been sold re- cently or ever, in fact, to 0, person who v v o mi h g t have misused them. Be- sides, the officers believe that, though the man to whom • suspicion points is a resident of this locality, he did not obtahl the shells in .Goderich, HOMESEEIKERS EXCURSIONS TO WESTERN CANADA. Particular attention is directed to the remarkably `low Round Trip Far- es in connection with Homeseeliers Excursions to Western Canada via Canadian Pacifre Railway.;; Tickets are on sale .each Tuesday until October 20th, inclusive, and are good to return within two Months from date of sale: The C.P.R.ffer' o s the fines0s;�i . po bio equipment and fastest train service via one of the most scenic' routes, in the world. It is the only lino operating through. standard and 'Touring sleeping cars, also;Dining cars to Winnipeg and Vancouver. All equipment is owned and operated by the C.P.R.i'affording the highest form of efficiency, •If swath a trip -is under eonsider4ion amply to any C.P.E. Agent for full pahticula s or write M. C. Murphy, ,Toronto, or W. Jackson, Agent at' Clinton. British ;Prisoners Germany. . r maty. ,r; nt Ulna'>} nrneroria l priaon or sot war have ovokoth.pity, and syti:pathy, The agony and humiliation • of the British Prisoners insistb o indescri'b-, our acute and galling', Rut . front that: state of;sufferin b, , there can. be u no redress, it .being -part„ of the for- tunes of war,,;, but tiler lacic of ,`,con-.' forth and food .stands in a . different: category. This want will grow in v01015e and intensity. as the dayso g As a result of 'official orf Ial organiza- tion having been creatal recently to carry parcels; to the British Prisoners in Germany, `ihsu'riug 'proper traus- mission 'through a neutral'. carrier, tle "Khaki" Magazine of Imperial House, I4ingsway, London, has :start- ed a Hund to SUPply:food and Com- forts for those who have 110 relatives or friends, to look after thein, as it is known :that these poo,: fellows aro not getting a proper supply of food. :An appear is blade to you for two dollars only, ae there are so many demands blade upon you in other directions, This money will go .for the direzt benefit of the Prisoners, as Otero is no cost of transmission .aird no 'waste of ally description, in- formation having bean established showing the kind of food and clothing etc., which can be sent without con- fiscation by the German Government:" This appeal should get a large re - spouse as there is no other , fund which deals with this particular con- dition. 'rhe '`Khaki" Magazine and Cabled News Sheet was created primarily as a gift for the Overseas Soldiers, bringing diem. lata news from their homes. It is now supplying, free of charge, iii addition to the soldiers at the front and in training, the var- ious hospitals in England. and France, as_ well as the Grand OlFleet. It is a purely patriotic endeavour and in no way commercial. Ince the "Khaki" .Magazine was founded, amongst thle many who gave their support and.exoressions of good- will for the workithad undertaken, were The Duke of Wellington K.C7., The Duke of Manchester, The First Lord of the Admiralty, The Countess of Zetland, Lady Leven, Mrs: Leopold de Rothschild, Lieut. General Sir Rob- ert Baden-Powell, K.C.V.O., The Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain, P. C.M.P., Lord Desborough, The Earl of Essex, Viscount Bryce, Lord Wil- loughby de Broke, 'rhe Earl of Ron aldshay, Viscount Milner, Earl of Kintore, Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P., Sir William Bull, M.P., Mr. Evelyn Cecil, H,P., The Right Ilon. Sir Charles Johnston, Lord 117a,yor of Loudon, The Right IIon. J. E. Ray- ner, Lord llapir of Liverpool, The Right ]ren, W. H. Bowater, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, The Right IIon. •lames Taggart, Lord Provost of Aberdeen, The Right 1lon. ('raw - ford McCullagh, Lord Mayor of Bel- fast, el- fast, All subscriptions. will be published in this paper and you are requested to send yours 10 any office of the Royal Bank of Canada, and Wrack it "Khaki Prisoners' I+'und,'' The sub- scriptions ,will also be duly acknow- ledged ithe 1 n Magazine and various €,k newspapers in England from time to 1 lune. 1'1Irpopular 1 71b1b1. of the llihliTll and (linton Baptise Churches ,vho has been most ect11D in promoting the Cant ria to be betel in the town hall, Clinton, lura (Thurs- day) evening. Rev. J. K. Fairfull• Beware of Inferior Lightning Rods Again 1 wish to warn the farmers of Ontario against inferior Lightning rods. One of the sante companies that buncoed the farmers with iron- centrod rods last year is reported to be selling the same rod again this year. Watch out for them. There is; no difficulty in spotting these rods, The outside covering is a thin sheet of copper. :Inside of the copper is a .strip of galvanized steel or iron one-half inch wide and two galvanized steel or iron wires about No, 10. The copper sheath is twisted around the strip and wires giving the rod a corrugated appearance. The steel' or iron will rust out in from five to ten years. For ,photograph of what happened to a rod of this kind' in less than eight years see Figure 34, Bulletin 220, which may he had by wriiin the Department of Agri. g culture Toronto. An , Illinois firm is circularizing the trade"`and others advocating tho !'Mast' Lightning Rod System. They declare that, twisted. cables are posi- tively;; dangerous claiming they act like "chokercoils," that tubes only shouldbe used, that insulators, must be used, etc. For concentrated es- sence of error .these circulars surpass anything else I have seen. Beware of • the man with theiron- centred rod and. the. man who claikns that:tWisted, cables- are. dangerous, This,; Department will be glad to he informed regarding the operations of'. Dither,—Department' of Physics, 0. A. C, Guelph,-Wl1-, If, Day, Domestic Arithmetic It is' r lathed ' er to the St. 'Louis a Lo is Globe Democrat that Colonel J. Slocum. Ridgley, iii' answering the toast '"l 1 g o Mother,. ' said ' Let ane tell 1I you a e mother' story. "In my'youth, when T ryas `f',caNting school inSiloam, o oa , I saidone morning to a bright little fellow;— " 'Tommy, my boy, if a farnily con- sisting of a father, mother: and six children should have' a cherry pie for. dinner, 1•ia,y much would exch receive 7' " 'A seventh' the, ;little fellow an s- wered. ,,'CarefullY, said I' .Romem e>, there: areeight people.' ,, 'Yes, ' Iesrlsir„I +iknow, said Tommy, 3 'but mother wouldn't take any for' fear the others wouldn't have enough.” The Bugle Blast to Conada. Readers of the newc,,rapers and fol- lowers of the course of the war must long ago have become convinced that the situation grows more and more. intense and critical day by clay. Great Britain is faced' not alone by outside enemies, but by labor troubles and by lack of those immense inter- nal resources in tiro matter of food production that Germany and Aus- tria-Hungary possess. She cannot' feed herself, and is compelled to: rely on otliar countries for a supply of the necessaries of life, In such case the duty of her children is distinctly' plain. It is noteworthy of her en- emies that they are not only thor- oughly= united but that they are en- during with what fortitude they, possess the rigid military, enforce - meets that are placed upon them for the conservation both of food and material Every ratan, ,vouiau and Child, 11:0111 the Kaiser down, have been put on rations. 'Phe idea is three -fold, to guard against any p0s-, slide emergencies, to mislead the foe Into over-cotiftdonce and by thorough ness to bring such pressure to bear as wi11 hasten the final derision. tiri-. furl is pitrsuing 1115 same course. She has not yeh,found it necessary to. place her population individually on short rations, but she has found it desirable to take over munition fac- tories in order to ensure supplies that mean either life• or death, to the nation. Meantime, Germany by cow- ardly' submarine assassinations is en- deavoring to starve her people and cripple her resources, With ci.h a,state of alairs existent it is hardly necessary to explain to stay-at-home Canadians bow hest tiley can 1511fill their manifest duty and show the burden -bearers how completely they p0513055 their sym- pathy. But thebugle blast has its rallying power in peace as in war:. To all the people, and to fanners, htee(Iei•5 and '101 ticrs in particular, trite Patriotism and Production 1110vc- 111ent that is in progress is blowing its bugle, or, in other words, carrying its message. Its object is to arouse all and sundry to the part they are called en to play, '\'hat part does net of nee u u a e it veil harder 1 r t work nor increased acreage but it dors imply the exercise of every faculty at ten trim and vigilance. It does imply; fn order to &:cure increased. and improved production, u by which a tc lone cultivators aat rs n of the soil can contribute towards the credit of the country and empire, the greatest care in the selection of seed, in the breeding of live -sloe'.: and in economy of the land. 1014 DIiri•:SI YEAR AR ON RIDCIOIID, 13 UT DR AI NAGE GIVES BIG, RESULTS. The Ontario Agricultural College re- ports that the Crop year of 1014 was the driest on record in Ontario. The precipitation' from harvest 1013 to ]rawest 10)4 lacked 51 in- ches of bciug up to the aver- age, This is a shortage of almost 20 per cent.. The College has often sta- ter that tile ,drainage Was effective in a dry season as wellas in, a wet one, and last year it+ was able to prove this in a most practical way. Since 1912 the college has been in stalling Practical Drainage Dentonettra-. tion Plots in parts of the 'province where little or no drainage has been done, The plan is to drain half a field, leaving the other half undrained for comparison. Both parts are sew- ed to the same Mod_ of grain and, the crop from each part threshed ,separate- ly. Nino plots were drained prior to 1914: The average of the ulna fields showed that at market prices at threshing time the drained half pro- duced 114.12 more per acre than the undrained half, and that ,in the driest year on record. In an average season the v increase drainage re a era, e u ase due to g is over, $20 peu acre, and in a wet season even more. For a ntunber of years the Agricul- tural College has been making_, drain- age surveys for farmers . free of charge, except for travelling expenses. This offer is again renewed. Farmers, having drainage difficulties -may se" cure assistance by writing the Depart. merit of Physics, .0.A.C., Guelph, for information and regular application forms, URANtl.TRUNII SYs EM DOUBLE, TRACK ALL, 'THE WAY. OItON70 CIY'kICAG T 0 TORONr -M E 0 ONTR AL" FOR MON'PItEAL.: Leave Toronto 8.00 a.m., 4.1,0 p.m. and 11.45 p.m. daily 0. FOR. CI%IC1GO I,eave Toronto 0.00 a,m., 8.30 p.rn. and 11.00 p.m.. daily Smooth Roadbed. Highest Class of Equipment. Full particulars and; berth reserva- tions at Grand Trunk ticket otices J, Ransford & Son, uptown agents',' A, 0. Pattison, station agent. Fat and Lean. In the btoy.world of dairying a{en a few meagre calculations show great differences, whether in caws; theiri.ow- nors theland, e p the bank 'de Osits 'or the test of fat etcfat',lead are ande • mixed good x•131.51115 and: -p poor, eV 11 on ,E p , e adjoining farms, even in two stalls in the ohe. stable,. -One owner gets per- haps 200 pounds pf milk froru each lean, hungry acre ; 'a , neighbor with better methods produces the fat total of seventeen hundroi pounds of milk pen acre, keeping' good cows ^ veil tilled eighty 11ere 10 farm, 0)15 milk producer, with poor grade snows, nev- er tested; possibly never well ' ,fed; gets the lean average of less- than three thousand pounds of milk per.cow •; an- other producer, who is a real dairy- man, revels in the knowledge of each of his .sexteen cows giving ever eight thousand pounds of milk that wilt test fairly rich in fat. Then when it, comes to feeding for profit, not simply for existence, we find one man with a hundred pounds of t11111C costing hint only 50 cents for: feed, but a neighbour has to admit the impeachment of milk costing hull ) per hundred at least JO Dents, perhaps over a dollar, So one will make : t110 fat profit above C fe ori of over =tliirt dollars per colt, while bit neigh r, $hoUL' is down to the lean margin of only $3. Why do such amaaing ; differ,' enee5`000117 Primarily I tma ilyl because dairy - then have not studied each 'cow indivi-- viduall . Y Dairy records :alone I can `. shod light on these problems, '`Milk and feed' record forms,sin le, e l y " aat P kept, may be had free from the dairy, division, Ottawa ; apply to -day, and make each cow you own earn a good fat profit,—C, F. W., Ottawa. IHOW TO PRONOUNCE TIIE WORD PRLEMYSL. Jay-meczle with the accent on the "mew," and' giving the "j" the soft sound as in French. Ors though it ,were spelled 't b p ,Sz i la, ineezle. Dungannon aon Miss Margaret Rylin has been home from Lucknow wisiLing her parents, News -Record Means News -Leader. De' Laval Cream Separator - The World Standard. Ideal Green Feed Silos, Alpha Gasoline Engines, .Oe Laval Oil and Wendott Oleanzer. Stock of repairs kept at my house 3 doors west of Commercial Hotel and repairing done Saturday afternoons. D. W. Hamilton, Phone 209 Clinton, NATIONAL PORTLAND CEMENT We have just received:a carload ofithe same old brand , of Portland Cement which has always given you such com,. plete satisfaction. It always fills your requires e.its. You cannot crake a mistake using the National. S. J. ANDREWS, Clinton. The Olinton Garage. AutoTires and Accessories. We still have a Few Bicycles, New and Second Hand. All Kinds of Rubber Repairing, Baby Carriage Tires Replaced. J. 5,.2-Q.nT,rNp =.e_4 k6NSnr 1 The New "Castle' ° Col ` ure The Latest Creation in The Art of IR DRESSING ...!.' • This style w'15 originated and designed by New York's exclusive set, now worn universally in all cities, it is NEW, ODD, yet: simple and be- coming to all faces; Requires the use of a 211 to 30 inch three separate strand switch. We sell the MAi TTA\ LINE of Gu u. nteed Human flair Switch- es, itch- es, and can snatch your hair perfectly, Our salesladies will gladly show you this style and the arrangements of a3 -prong switch, SEE OUR DISPLAY' Human Hair Switches at all Prices from $1.50 up. COOPER & COI Clinton. , 1 FURNITURE, RUGS AND LINOLEUMS We can assist you in selecting your furniture if you are going to furnish ,your home, or if you only want some odd P you ou will and It to youradvantage advanta -e to inspect our e, 'ns a aregiving. �Ve also carr:.a stock and see the bar au wY good lino- of violins, pianos and.orans. Our undertaking department is up-to-date in every re- epect fund we guarantee the best of satisfaction, JAS. DUNFORD Undertaker and Funeral Director.;;'. , ...,Night and Sunday; calls answered'at residence over .store, 28 Phone 28 t ,