HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1918-02-14, Page 1New Series Vol, 18, No. 5
SEAPORTR, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Iol
From France
.January 18th 1918.
Secretary Seaforth
War Auxiliary, tieoforth, Ont.
Jnet two days before Christmas
3 received the box sent to the by the
ladies of the Seaforth prancer of the
War A.vvxihary, and it arrived in first
chum shape which bespoke the careful
.paclting of the gifts contained therein.
How 0411 1. express to volt the thanks
which is due you for the gifts and also
the expressions of good 331011es 1x1111
whish the box seemed ladened. One
is not able to convey to yon just what
that box meant to me so far from the
dear friends of the old home town but
will yon be so kind as to tell the ladies
that I appreciated their kind thought
and good wishes and all 1 can say is
Thank You.
Last week 1 a)so received aome socks
for which I must a:so thank you. Al.
though they diJ not arrive in time for
our Christmas 1 have given them" to
some of my patients who leave us to go I
back end take their places in the
trenches and as the weather has been
very mold a pair of hand knitted sooke
such as you sent me, were most accept-
able indeed,
We had a wonderful Ohrlatmas and
have never spent a happier one since
I left the dear ones at home 111 the
morning we went on duty early to help
the night sisters nook breakfast for the
men. Porridge, bacon and fried eggs,
toast, jam, and coffee besides oranges
Then the ward was cleaned -up for the
morning inspection after which our
otookings were opened and how happy
erre all were exchanging our various
gifts, then we set a table iu the 'centre
A 11 the up patients eat down and
Ouch a dinner, Turkey, and plum pud•
ding, in fact everything from soup to
nuts, The M. 0, Sisters and orderlies
did the carving and serving. The meal
was followed by some good cigars
which were a rare treat indeed, At
four o'olook we had tea and then as the
night settled down we eat around the
fire and told stories and sang songs
and had music on the gramophone, Sup
per was served at seven o'clock and
-then everyone seemed to forget we
were grown ups and we played all the
old fashioned games like a lot of child-
ren, Then we had snob a nice dance
and at lights out the sisters said good-
Oht and our happy care free day was
done. We all worked very hard to
make it a memorable day for our pat
dents and from the many expressions cf
thanks we have received I believe our
our efforts were crowned with enemies.
Really I never saw so many happy flur-
ries in a hospital as there wns in No, 2
Oan. (leneral fleapits) that day. In
spite of the foot that we were strangers
in a strange land-si.ud so many miles
away from home, For some of us it
was the Bret Christmas away from
home and one would naturally expeot
to find that some wore homesick but in
Mir efforts to make others happy we
were undoubtedly bldssed
I wish•you could have seen the wards
how pretty and artistic they all were
and no two wards were decorated at all
*ke, Oapt Scarlett of Winnipeg, 0118
of our chaplains, gave a pri se of
for tha most artlstioally deoorated ward
We did not win the prise although we
all thought we should get it
Christmas Eve we went around to
the ditrorent wards and sang Christmas
carols, We had a elta411 melodeon and
really the singing was splendid, The
favorite one was "Hark The Herald
Angels sing."
Again thanking the ladles for their
gifts and wishing you all the season's
best wishes, 1 remain,
Very sincerely yours,
Edith 11', :\resin, N, 8.
C. A. M. 0.
Sorrow for the Dead
The foliow,eng article from a once
001831 and eminent writer, cannot' but
meet with the general approbation of a
thinking and conservative people.
The sorrow for the dead 10 the only
sorrow from which no refuse to be di-
vorced, Every other wound we seek
to Ileal, every other aHlietiou to forget,
but this wound we consider it a duty to
keep open. ,This affliction we cherish
and brood over it in solitude, Where
is the mother who would willingly forget
the infant that lids perished like a
blossom from her arms, though every
recollection le a pang? Where is the
child that would willingly forget a ten-
der parent, though to remember he but
to lament? Who, even in the hour of
agony, would forgot the friend over
whom he mourns?
No, the love which survives the tomb
is one of the noblest attributes of the
soul. If it has its woes, it has . like-
wise its delights, and when, the over-
whelming buret of grief is calmed into
the gentle tear of recollection; when
the sudden anguish and the convulsive
agony over the present ruins of all that
we moat loved, is softened away into
pensive meditation on all that it was in
the days of loveliness. who would
root out Duch a sorrow from our heart?
Though it may sotnetiwee throw a pass-
ing cloud over the bright hour of gay-
ety or spread a deeper sadness over the
hour of gloom; yet, who who would ex
change it even for the song of pleasure,
or the buret of revelry? No; there is a
voice from the tomb is sweeter than
song. There is a remembrance of the
dead to whioh we turn from the charms
of the living,
Oh, the grave! the gravel It buried
every error, covers every defect, satin
guishee every reaentmentl From its
peaceful bosom spring none but fond
regrets and tender reoolleotione. Who
can look down upon the grave even of
an enemy, and not feel a oonpunotious
throb, that he should have warred with
the poor handful of earth that lies
moulding before him? But the graves
of theta we loved—what a plane for
meditation! There it is that we call
up, in long review, the whole history of
virtue and gentleness, and the thousat.d
endearments lavished upon us, almost
unheeded in the daily intercourse of
iutimaoy; there it is that tqe dwell upon
the tenderness, the solemn, awful ten-
derness of the parting scene; the bed
of death, lvitll all its ;liked griefs, its
n0)1eleee attendance, its mute, watch -
ful assidutiee, the last testimonies o
expiring love, the feeble fluttering,
thrilling—Oh! how thrilling—pressure
of the band, the last fond look of the
gleaiug eye turning upon us, even from
the threshold of existence, the faint
faltering aocenta, struggling in death
to give ono more asaurauce of affection
Ay, go to the grave of buried love
and inotlitatel Tliereeettle the aoconnt
with the euuacionce for every past be-
nefit of unrequited, every past endear.
meet nnregarded, of that departed be•
ing, who can never, never return to bo
soothed by thy eonritiOn! If thou art
a obild, and has ever aided a sorrow to
tho soul or a furrow to the silvered brow
of an effeminate parent; If thou art a
husband a d hua ever caused the fond
bosons that ventured its whole happi-
noes iu thy anvil to doubt ono moment
of tby kindness or thy truth; if thou art
a friend, and haat ever wronged, fu
thought, or word, or deed, the spirit
that generously confided in thee; if
thou hast given one unmerited pang to
that true heart, which now lies cold
and still beneath thy feet; then he sere
that every unkind look, every ungrac.
ious word, every tangent's action, will
come thronging back upon thy memory
and knocking dolefully at thy soul;
then be sure that thou wilt lie down
sorrowing and repentant on the grave
and utter the unheard groan, and pour
the unavailing tear, more deep, more
bitter because nnheard and unavailing.
Let ns even bow clown to the will of
an "All Wise" and "Beneiieient God"
and henoeforth be more roneiderateand
affectionate in the discharge of our
duty to the living. -
Many a man is rich without money.
Thousands of men with nothing iu
their pockets and thousands without
even a pocket, are rich. A man -born
with a good sound constitution, a good
heart and limbs, a pretty good
head piece, ie rich, Good bones • are
better than gold; tough muscles than
silver and nerve than flash flee a landed
estate to have the right kind of a father
and mother. The man who is rich has
a good disposition, who is naturally
kind, patient, cheerful, forgiving, hope-
ful, and who has a flavor of fun in his
composition. The hardest thing to
get along with is man's own's own self.
A cross selfish fellow, a despondent and
complaining fellow, a time and care
burdened man, these are all born de
formed on the inside. They do not
limp, but their thoughts sometime'. do.
OLD TIMES DANCE
Red Cross Report
$I.OQper year
by thein, were entitled to an early
ohoioe (+aell for his or her throe seats
a concession that no fair-minded pers.
ago wnuhl deny them,
Secretary's report for January, 14118
.iso mita of pyjamas, 24 llanuel shirts,
24 comfort hags, at6 pairs of socks
114 towels, 18 trench caps, 18 hotter
cloth llaudkerohiefa,
Edna DeI aeey,
Secretary.
The Red Cross
January Fihauoial 8tatenlmit
Receipts—
Balance on hand.....„.......... ...780 le
W A W Caustanue Sun gay 8c11on1 q'00
No 4 MoKillop entertaininent......13 25
Mr .)oho Mc( aa ..................... 60 00
Miss Margaret MoLeari....,.. ,.. 10.00
Oardno Bros, ill 00
Miss L1 Aargau.... ..........:...... 1 1)0
Miss Lukes coats ........:........... .:5 00
Proceeds from Colley collection
ofcopper ................................. 43 75
Proceeds from dance....,.......... 44 05
Collection from Rebeka Lodge... 9 80
Winthrop Ladies Aid Society 75 00
Da l's Church " " " ,...,, 76 00
Oolleotion from money boxes..,.:. 76
Rage Bold ,,,.,,,.. 50
Monthly contributions ,..... ... ,.. 144 10
1301 42
Expenditure—
Hon Jae. Mason (prisoner of war) 10 o0
J, MacTavieh.................... 314 55
Thompsons Bookstore ,.,,,, 60
804 49
Balance on hand...............«....496 93
1301 42
Mr. A. D. utheriand
has closed a contrac
for the production of
that marvellous photod
play ,
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News of Pte. Butte!
The following information regarding
the death of Pte. C W Retl'o! has been
received by Mrs 8. F:unuvers from the
officer in command of hid company.
1+'ranee, ,fan 8111 1+118,
Mra 2 Bummers,
Soaf0rth Ont.'
Dear Madam:
1 regret very mue , to toll 701 that
Pte 0 W P.uffel No 084160 was killed
in the Paaacllendaele ligating.
Ile teas on a Lewis Machine (4133
section and was working his gun, when
he was hit and instantly killed by a
bullet from a German snipers rifle. He
is buried close to where he fell and the
spot marked by a cross'
l regret that I cannot give you any
further details as to the passing of a
very brave man,
Sincerely yours,
It Pollock, Lt, Officer in Command
A. Company, 58 Butt,
Mr Adam Diokeon of MoKillop has
disposed of his farm and intends mov-
nto Seaforth.
!The Seaforth BranelL
' Soldiers' Aid
64
Intolerance"
hick will be given in
Cardno's Opera Hall
Thursday Feb. 28th
afternoon & evening
h aid of
Those
Weary
1 Eyes
,err d,r/,1,.A a..',ri' ?d% tier'- 4niew;..
are you extet t toJind in reardlu4 '
wise favorite hoot. yr
.?ted ret /ln reari%rt end the re.
in dy is si.nfid'. +bur. - •at t and
Hak'+ drillll :
all! ' til% / o11it<---r1
Mair I r;'daw, „er'n!rl 'W. star,'
73V3i r lees all file 1r,.rd,r'..
l e 11144e7l that 1'01 surd vow
r,rr troPelr. ,v : r+tt rr: t vrf• r. ,•. 11
.-este 11(11,130.
karst fur ,
r:.'rrd them, is :'rep n:vde.l
Commission
PIait of Hall will operl
at
Aberhart's Drug Store
on Friday Feb. 22nd
at 12 o'clock noon
This will be the only
opportunity of witness
ing this remarkable
production which far
surpasses The Birth
of a Nation.
314.6 0a-ulatig
Veer 1Battliandlrr 8c ti9i+tirian
3laanrr 1arrlagr $licenses
Phones
Bueineas 194
Evenings 10
The Store you will always like
Tr1.51. 171,
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The Old Times Dance given ou Mon-
day night in aid of the Red Cross wase
splendid success. The music was exoel-
lent and much better than the London
Harpers and all thoroughly enjoyed
themselves, The receipts were $124
and expellees $40 75, The amount
given to the Red Cross was 583 26.
The proceeds of sale of tickets for
the Diamond Ring donated by Miss
Lukas in aid of the Red Cross was $113
Since the beginning of the season
the sum of $733 58 has been raised
over and above expenses at these
Dances for Patriotic purposes.
"OLYMPIA"
RESTAURANT 14ND eeNFEGTIONERY
EVERY ONE
tastes like more if they are the
delicious confections we offer.
Dainty and attraotive in appear-
ance, sanitarily made, pure and
wholesome,
OUR CANDY
is the kind you can safely eat,
offer to your friends and give to
the children,
Isn't that the good, safe kind ,
you have been looking for,
.1)ut1't forget to 00010 )31 and gat your Latch
before you go home after the _show,
Railway Electrification
BELGIAN REPORT
THE
RELIABLE
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IACTAVISH'S
SEAFORTH
THE
QUALITY
STORE
FOR JANUARY
Balance from last month............ 12
Private
Mrs Adam Hays ........ ...... 2 00
Four little girls Tee' Mona Sill
Bertha & Dorothy 'O'Connell
& Mary Hays 2 00
Robt Bell. ..... ......... 25 00
Miss Agnes Gillespie............... 100
Mra M Y McLean 2 50
Mrs Robt Willie...... I 00
Afriend....:..... ............. ...... 2 00
Mrs Jae. Hinohley. .....................1 00
'' Sam Somers... ..... 1 00
Neil Gillespie ...................... 00
Mies Maggie McLean ...............10 00
Mrs DeLaeey,..,,,..... ...,. 3 70
" Chas, Stewart,....... . ............ 2 50
John MaoTavieh.................. 2 5o
Nail ................... ......., i 0000
Rgmondville Church ..,.......,12 00
Dom. Bank....,.119
Total ...... .... ...................... 71 85
Remitted to 1 George, Toronto . 70 o0
Expo lees , 30
Balance on hand .................... 1 55
The knitting bag donated by 'Miss
Luke was drawn 'last Thursday, Mrs
8, H, Dorrance having the lucky num-
ber, No, 13.
LADIES
FUR
VALUES
YOU
SHOULD
LEARN
ABOUT
To the observant mind -to
the women of clear intel-
lect --FACTS speak more
eloquently than words.
It is not the Maims we
m ke that gives our goods
the perfection ofdetail ar d
CO l Sequent favor ,: mong
discriminating women --It
is not our words, but the
li
FACTS that u lie derlie our
words.
Ladies
Except-
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Coat
and
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Values
"WITHIN THE LAW"
Al a special meeting of the Council
held on Monday night delegates con-
sisting of Mayor Stewart and Reeve
Harburn were appointed to go to Tor-
onto to urge upon the Government tak.
ing over and eleotrifying the 0.N.R
and Grand Trunk Lines of railway. It
is one of the moat important proposit-
ions fading Ontario to day, The fuel
problem would be largely solved if this
can be done. Mr J. F, Daly was ap.
pointed by the Hydro Commission as
their delegate and he left on Tuesday.
In order to correct mistaken impres-
eiona Mrs R Murless-Jones begs to
state that although numerous requests
have been made for repetitions of
"Within the Law" and "Conspiracy" it
has never been her intention to again
offer these plays in view of the weather
conditions and the departure of one of
the principal players. The executive
of the Red Cross Society had not been
asked for their assistance in the stag-
ing or incidental work connected with
the plays neither was the executive,
nor any member of it, directly or in-.
directly, approached by her with a view
to repeating thein, as eeema to be the
impression of some people,
There appears also to be some mie-
understanding regarding the seats tnk-
en by the players, These seats were
not complimentary but wore paid for
and the deputy of the players was third
in line at the Bale, Bad the pian op
ened at the advertised time inatend of
00u0 fifteen minutes earlier that dep.
City would still have been third. The
pinyon, after the time and energy given
The Beauty of a Clear Skin, --The
condition of the liver regulates the
oontlitiou of the blood, A disordered
liver causes impurities in the the blood
and these show themselves in blemiehes
on the skin, Parmelee's Vegetable
Pills in toting upon the liver aot upon
tate blood and a clear healthy akin will
follow intelligent use of this standard
medicine, Ladies, Who will fully ap-.
proaiato this prime quality, of these
pills eau use them with the certainty
that the effect will be most gratifying.
VALUES
IN
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GOODS
AND
SILKS
THAT
SAVE
YOU
MONE
The Merchandise we - sell
has won its reputation
and favor not by argu-
ment
rgu=anent but by VALUE.
You'll find our goods -not
always the lowest priced
but always the BEST for
the MONEY.
4actavish
(The Store that Satisfies)
Values
in
Linens
and
Cottons
That
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Please
Thrifty
Buyers
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