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Established 1865, Vol. 50, No. 6
LINTON 'ONTARIO THURSDAY AUGUST 5 1915
W. H. Kerr & Son, Editors and Publishers
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Do we measure ;'up' to the advan ages of li%e ty and freeclolm that ire enjoy? —Sir George E. Foster:
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Capital Authorized $25,000,000
Capital paid lip 11,560.000
Reserve and undivided profits 13,500,000
Total Assets .... 185,000,000
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with -World-wide Conneetiiolns
Interest Allowed on Savings • Deposits
General Banking Business Transacted.
R. 11tANNING, Manager, Clinton Branch
ITho central committee'' e8 the
beard which will encourage soien-
tifid work in relation to navy re-
quirements will include; Admiral
Fisher, Sir J. Jt Thomson (Cam,-
tridga), and Sir 0, A. Pareons,;tur-
bine. expert, The others shown in
the picture are on the consulting
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regardless of profit and cost.
'No Goods Carried Over"
is an unbreakable rule of this store. These prices
willproveY the o t raft of our rule,
Commencing Saturday niorning you
can tale your pick of any $1.50,
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or any 50e, 60e or 75e Hat for 39e
See Window Display
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are born and theday'j they are
buried.
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Patriotic Rotes
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All who are Knitting or sewing
for 'rho W. P. S. are regiieetdcy ito
send; hi any finished, work, they
may have as the supply committee
wish- to make a zhiptienti as soon
aft possible, The; finished work,
may be sent to any number of the
supply eomm;ittee, Mrs: Munroe,
Mrs. Chant, Mrs. (Fielyuar
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.2}1any friends of the society came
to the.? Tea last Friday! _which Vas
given in St. Johns' Ward oat , the
pretty lawns about the homes of
Mrs Dowding and Mrs. Miller. It
'was very warm but not to warm
of Patriotic Tea. All in the ward
who' were not able tot come and
world or to; send} supplies' for the
tea, sent small donations, of money
This gave, greatr pleasure to the
members of W. P. S. in the ward,
for they were abief to hand to
their treasurer 867.30. The, to in
St, Georges Ward will be Friday
August 13th:
f W. P. S. TEA.te
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The next Ward' 'Tea,, on Friday
+ August 13th will bo held on the
J iawvie. of Mrs. McTaggart, sr.
1: Special Telegraphic news to The New Era, from Toronto,'3 pm, m
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Find Worth Reading
. !Farmer's Advocate
Reportd reachir:g "The ;Farmers
Advocate' indicate That' the need
has not yet passed for to staerner
enforcements of the lee(' governing
motor& . vehicles on the public
roads. Theso regulations are de-
signed not only for the safety of
pedestrians and those driving
horses, but for tthq the pratection
of those who drivq or ride in motor
conveyances. Nearly every day
the newspapers arqrecording
heartrendering accidents which
shouldash . he, lesson ,of care
to t
and moderation in oar delving.
In" Ontario province for example
it should; be borne in mind that
the speed limit for cities 'towns,
and villages is 15 miles per . hour
ren on cot -nary r+oadJ 20 miles per
hour exceptinspecial cases where
specific portions aro" set apart
Thq drivers of motors are to slow
down at 100 yards! distant to 7
miles per hour on approaching or
pass horse vehicles, and in ease
the driver of the latter signals
with the hand( the car is to ibehalt-
eci andel need be the motor ;en-
gine: stopped. In coming from the
Motor cycles are governed ;ay the
real the driver( of the automobile
or other mtatoi(, is to signal 'so
so that the driver of the dig ahead
meal be ' ware rd in 'time to (avoid
risks of clanger, especially so in
,
eesci the buggy tops are tip. Only
lately several o se, were observ-
ed where parties narrowly, escape
ed being, run over by cars coming
up silently ,and,suddenly from rear
without giving warnings, with the
horns with which machines are es-'
Berlin Says --Warsaw Captured
SPECIAL CABLE TO NEW}' ERA.
Berlin—Official—News from the Berlin headquarters re-
ports that Warsaw was captured Wednesday. The Civilian
population had nearly all gone.
especially ecinippgh for that very 1200 U.S, Marines .
purpose. It isi'high time that mom jj LCI
to traffic should settle into ,mor- 9
mal conditions fro room ithe ioldlanded at
WiRa
Haiti
time spirit of dare -devil reckless-
ness, or other stimular Rural
car owners aro now (as a rule' I,get-
ting a good example im ' the een,-
si • of the county highways
b use
te(
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same regulations as • apply to the
large¢ machines and are as a mule
a- -eater terror to horses because
of the infrequency of ,their ap-
pearance' •and the startlingnoise
madein theirpto propulsion. There
e
is no excuse for driving them
at
breakneelc speed as reported any-
where from 25 to, 40 miles (per hour
along. thick -settled highways
where,' as has been noticed in the
dusk of evening, children and „
pedestrians' coming out tof gate-
ways
or rigs from; lanes tare iri dan SPECIAL C,kBLE TO NEW ERA.
gez of collisions which would core
tainll4 recruit in, injury and pose- Cape Town—Pretgrobler, a member
ably death. Such exhibitions' of of the South Africian Legislature,
SPECIAL CABLE TO NEW ERA.
Washington --The U. S. Battleship
Connecticut landed twelve hundred
marines at Haiti to keep order,
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South Africa Member
Gets 2 Years
senseless bravado, to put it mildly,
ought- to be sternly repressed and
an example made of those who
thus imperil their own and the
liver; of others,
Raising The Scheel Age
(c' of removing tthd child foam
school at the present( school age,
for an industrial ;agricultural, . or
domestic,' pursuit, to be,• combined
with parttime indnstral, agricult
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Something new and h
pleasing to the taste, very
rich chicken meat, just
the thing for summer
salads.
Ask for Tuna Fish or
Chicken of the Sea
only 15c per Tin
The Store of Quality
T.O NEIL
W.L,
THE HUB GROCER
Phone 18
ural or domestic instruction until
thea 16th birthday
Recommendation tot a like nature
have already been) urged t,:he
Ontario government in (the ;re-
port, of the committee• on childla-
boy: and. in other ways, but with-
out result. The period' of tompuls
sory'' school atter:dance still ceases
as dick unripe age of 14 years,eincl
el n this an•tr ffie ie t
i c r protection
Q r p{ ec n
for child welfare is largely nailed
by the( absence of adec ir•.rte ttruan
cy Je islatron, as the reports tot
school attendance abundantly show
It is certainly inttho interest 'of'.
the children of the proviueq that
'compulsory school attendance be
required up to 16 yearsa o13) age,
rather than 15, Lsthe commission
of unemployment recommends, but
it is( of equal importance to see
that the existing requirements are
properly enforced.
So many' children leave 'school
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before getting even¢' a "fair edu-
cation" aiacl drift about from,
job to tinottlrer that!, the Ontario
commission on unemployment has
seen tit to recommend that the
ttruancy, act be 'amended In these
who joined the rebels in the war and
was captured, was sentenced to two
years imprisonment and also fined
twenty flue hundred dollars.
Germans Capture Some
french Trenches
SPECIAL C,tBi:E TO NEW ERA.
Paris—Official — The Germans have
captured a small section of French
trenches at the summit of hinge
Kopper,
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Will Turkey Break
Away
Rome—Reports say that Germany]
'and Turkey are at the breaking point
as Enver Bassa demands that Ger
many recall General Von Sanders,
woo' has bad charge of the Turkish
army.
German Arrested for
respects; Seudin tettersto Wdison
1, To require all primarysehmoia. n
cvpportedr'by Attie, public, funds 'to �j
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'provule within a limited
me
facilt ied
for domestic and manual.
or agricultural"inetruction. SPECIAL CABLE TO
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t2 Traisnifita school' age, IWas in ton — A German by the
as tto leaere wt
the parent the name of Guar en.has been ,arrested at
ch�tce, either, B..
(at of leavi., the child via schema San Antonio for sending threatening
urtii !the 15th ir'thda or ' letters President (b) of placing {the( child In en; prisoner has confessed to belonging to
tic school from the 14th tothe 15th a powerfuleague an tbeGovernment
y t to Wilson• The
industrial agriculture or Domes,. ] d
birthday or. has started an investigation,
Russia Says Small Force
left in Warsaw
SPECIAL CABLE TO NEWT ERA.
Petro ra1—
Officio1—
Small force is
now left in Warsaw with orders to
fight to the last. The German advance
on Weirpz River• south west of War-
saw, has heea checked.
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Russians Driven Back
SPECIAL CABLE TO NEW! ERA.
Geneva — Reports that Germans
have crossed the Narew at many
points and Russians bad to fall back
into the outer lines of Warsaw.
to Sharncliffe
Interesting Details Regarding Trip
of Canadian Battalion to
England
The! following 'letteri which Was
published hi the Galt Reporter
on Monday last, is from! the! ,pen
of Pte,/ 2iugh Ross Newell, Of Wing
ham, who was in charge(' of the
recruits' here last{ Sluing 'before
they went to London, The young
soldier is a nephew of Mr. and Mrs,
Hugh Ross of towns and wrotte_ the
letter to his grandmother, whole
Visitting^ at, Galt ;—
Ptet,f H. R. Maxwell, of No. 2
Company, 12th Reserve Battalion,
1st Canadian ontingentt of Wing--
hame where he was employed in
one( of the banks, and a ethephew
of Mrs, James Motfattr 18 Wiainut
street,a,has written the following
iotterosting letter to hid grand-
mother, Mrs. Roberti Maxwell, Who
is witli Mrs. Moffatt, from St. Mar
tin's Plains, Shorncliffe, England.
The letter is dared July 1st, and
reads l
Dear Grandmother; Here we are
in England at last, It is now over
two weeks since; we left(' London:
We left there two wegks ago yes-
terday/ afternoon, It; ' was rather
a sudden move as we did notlknow
'for sure, we ware going nun'til neon
the(, day we left. We arrived in
Montreal( about seven, to,'elock !on
the Thursday morning and were
on our way down the St. Lawrence
before nine o'clock, sot ♦they did
not wasto much( time in getting
list away. They; 'certainly ;had
things arranged as there were 3
other troop trains beside burs pull
ed in at the dock inside tot
five minutes, one from Vancouver,
one from Saskatoon' and the other
froth' Port Arthur. •
,The 'trip down! the St. Lawrence
as far as Quebse was fine, +atst;we
could see both' sides of the river.
It was about nine o'clock that
right when we' O -cached' Quebec,
so we could not see a great(' decal as
it was' quite dark. But; I r got a
fairly good sight! of thel fortress
as wet passed right close to, it. At
Quebec we took on a 'company of
tFrenclrmcn,' which made( the total
number on
board about 14D0.'
By,tho time we got/ up ;the pert
morning we could just seethe land
and that was all. Sunday we pass-
ed: 'Newfoundland, but not' very
close to it. 'Friom what( I ',nauld
ser' of it, et appears- to tie a pretty
rocky. We also ipassed,' several
icebergs that morning, They cer-
tainly are u fines looking {object,
especially; wheel the sun is !shining
an'rtthcm. Then: they looks like a
largo}, diamond floating in: .,tlre
w atee. F rom 1.1,n till Friday night
we saw nothing buK water and it
certainly was calor. The, • Jwhole
war across you( would not know
'but' what yeti were en land un-
less you saws the water, the boat
More Recruits rade so smoothly
,Thd follow4ag have( enlisted for
the 4th Contingent from !Hurn Co.
W. Earl Mitchell, Exeter.
Geo, E, Anderson, Exetdr
Percy R. Lawson, Exe'ttfr
Sidney Drew, Goderich
James, Barnes, Winghem.
Joseph 'Tolland, Winghem
Wm, )3awde a, Wingham
J. Hodge, Bluevale
Geo. A. 1}1 inning, Brussels i
Th* latter. wet. examined here
but has gone) to !Ham iftpn ib en-
list. Be'has however been notified
to report) here at once.
Wef(feRi WWiti`t0
Local News
WOMPThisRMAM
LOTS Odt' HOGS.
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108 hogs were shipped front (Clan
ton on Thursday. c -
LAST -DAY FOR APPEAL..
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Yb
ou name is on.
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have their paper sent to ,them to their
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In the "War inner'
On !ltd Thursday, excitement be-
gan to reign on board es we enter'
ed the war zone that/ morning
aed 'were liable to meets a German
submarine any ttisas (then. .Our
escort was supposed 'Whave net
us) that day but did not mee'ti us
till 7 o'clock 'Friday night. It was a
tropedo boat destroyer: and talk
about speed, they; just go tabputt
10 and 45 miles an hour. But we
did not need it as we saw pothiprg
of the Germans.
We sighted land about 2 o'clock
Saturday( 'after•noon and it was
certainly a welcome ' sight We
arrived' in Plymouth harbour
about three o'clock and fropn
there( we had.to be towed( up the
riven to Devonport where we dfock
cd about five o'elockf Satturdpy
afternoon. in Plymouth wt1L
y harbour
and all the Way up the, river and
also tut ,Devenport; were a large
!:umber of cruisers and dread'
noughts,
We did not leave the' boat hiatal '
about eleven o'clock(: Sunday morn
regwhen we bioarded the
tt'rain. for Shorncliffe, 'where' we
arrived about 8,30 that Light. After
about 25 minutes march we }arrived
ed at oust camp dere We are
living' in \vhat they 'calf huts. They
are{built of steel on the (outside
and finished( with varnished boards
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