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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1916-04-14, Page 17, 191 ultd Inrush an res big nog Qrarl Are teis 1g a Strictly' is season We ever, We and to excel 4V ass:alibied newest ' pat - Of great in- st r `. s stock. 11 effects signsare ions are em soon. g of ef( re summit NUM= 2592 ---011011 RIll, FRIDAY, . . RIL 1 • l+•l !N;0•4•••4.•4••4' .•• 1N+►+• � thinzt1: Theereig f- N ARICA CAPITAL T onto, Aptil 9th, 1916. hasa new distinction. cif Colonel John Weslby British Water Coats fora coats has just been received and placed! in stoc for selling. These garments surpass by ion anything in this line that has ever been-s4own, appearanceAnd in service. They are so cons that t he min or woman wearing one is smartly and for driving absolutely protected in any weather—rain or shine, dust or mud, cold or Actually this cc?at will give the wearer the servic to three or four coats of the orally sort. And the Prices }#re NOT HIGH For Men For Women For Girls t For Boys • 9.00, 12.00 to 1 3.59 to 2.9$ to down t t *ten 40, !Shared . [II state5 lb liable odde oth in ressect ort of heat. equai I Your Easterli a Her • • • ls The new :hats we are showing m4ke Verly easy choosing for the buyer of a new hat. If you have new hat tti our assort- ment. Prices for Colors black, gray green, blue and bro n Boys' Hats 25c to I Boys New • • • • Suits • We never had such huge \ piles of boy's clothing as we are showing this spring, and for the par- • ents who have an lye to saving we would suggest • • a careful inspection of our • clothing for boys. When • at we purchased as heavily * • as we did our object was • to protect our customers • • against the great advance • • in prices of all materials entering into clothing. stialissONNIMall :p4 to $5 .6, A Buys a Good Suit Here 11'111E1111111Mb ;;i- ' eshe 1 Mr:test OVERALLS and S Highest Prices for Butter cnid - tyfreig Clotliiiig Co. • • • • 44-• .belon big other 1° ats pire, • rneX Lavir the .is spare or f • emit .3,1 AA a 144 ,t 0. New York Wad other ericae ,a land has! had a way • hobbits ete on the fringe of big 41, years gO, for example, he was evideoc the represeatative of 'f k, h had a notion .of buying se it on 1 Railway of Capada. Si • then lit 11',3 .been In the' public 4, in co ec axe with water; powers. • ; Lett* ce at Long Sault. The To, of the 1 r, bat the Ontario gov • not u ce d; Colonel John 'We ;- optic; e t of the so-called power s tba t e, and was associated , Colorte 'et Hughea, now Gen Sa They 'were in, •the Un e ion with the power ba of Mu h oncern to this province. Sans hav been allies ever elnce, when th blg ;mutations -orders 1 d -with American firma, naturally eumesoned, o alave summoned Col ley A.111son. With t mind, Ontario is wet e 'anxiety for the retur 113On and also for the ✓ Sane a,nd for what opmenta may be in store irne, the. siteation for ves is full of gloom. his age eye is ill. Thel of the governen est hold aforee Who tnan yet rn attent gphinx r ably. 1 riddle vinee Own but ant, honorary colontl, a [multitude of such eV o ank from 'the minister of distinguished' servioes In than those a blood. He is oni the minister .of mill la elected to help the sh 11 in :placing munitions c ne described by the totals ler who had sewed the e - art .of the trovince Jo n sone Ls, perhaps, as w 11 tints outomee rnanaicin in se islands of the Sa nt where millionttires ape d s. He 'has always presp r- ays been a man of n te has bad the reputat on ncerned In large fineness, taste for horses. He ls ame, curly hd grey of aity groomed, having a ith him and an ever -re dy • • 0, Morrieburg man, he • • • 41, • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • to be Sans Jos supposed Joh V' thin 13 1 wit, a turn, of .the mea Con erva Le 91 lo• goy licens lenges meter cost only been that t pay 1 aratifi might the ,n care lost I been here card govtr cipree for 11 do vidi ata es, smile owne The may and vista whie tIon as of of e - en in a he ce ye ix int to ide ter which. (ohe ape two years <i Oxford County. She was �nai�ried in Ggderiah to the late John McGregor in the year; 1964 * and:'° cane to iiv4 on the • farm on which !she died. Mrs. McGregor endeared herself to her neighbors by her !kindly ninist aliens in 1siekne s and trouble. Her h band died in' the year 1890. There were seven children, all of whom survive. The Spring Show The Seaforth Agricultural Society re- ceived the wort kind of treatment l fromthe weather man for their annual i Show of helmets and, cattle on Titesday :last. A heavy rain- set in early In the morning -and contineed ,steadily until the midthe' afternoon. the weathee conditioha, however, Wag an exceptionallY good she although the entriesjwere not a ereill9 laet year, they were up ?to( the atandard as regerds ity. If the weather had been asdifavor- Under haenrde num- For covering with wall paper use Fibre 13oard Beaver Board b r e Board Sanitary, Serviceable and Decorative For Paint Finish and Panel Effect use Beaver Board able as last year, there woul have itime,- the atreet being well fille with men during the, judginge The foie • , HORSES Cheaper than plaster will not crack or :fall off. C LU F FASE .40N S Clydeadales—One Year old tiallion, Thos. McMillan! Jas. Saltine, PerOheron stallion, any( ale, Jes Smith,Walton • in Heavy draft team, Thomas Seaforth, Kippen; Roger 2521-2 Nerthcott, Exeter. Bnood mare in foal, James Smillie, Heneall, R. D. Bell, Hensel'. Three year old filly or geld- ing, Roger Northcott, Exeter, and 2nd; Dennis Baary, Dublin. Tw Wright, Brucefield. One, year eldfilly or gelding, W. J4 D le, Seafortle Hur- on Weather Insurance Mutual Com- pany/special, Thomae McMillan. _ ham, Brucefield, J.1 Dale, Ciintea; brood mare in foal Alex. 'Wright, Brucefield; R. D. Be 1, Heasall; or gelding, Alex. Wri Seafortb ; one, year old filly- o log, John L. Kerr. Hackney Stallion—Stallion, any aget W. J. Dale, Seaforth. !stallion, ffes 0. Chariesworth, Blyth, roadster, Morton Elliott, Verne, Geo. Beattie, Varna; eingle carriage, horse, F eitanEgroond, Clinton, W. J. Miller, Clinton; roadster teem, Dan Hender- son, Seaforth. Judge—H. 3. Darroch, Lietofvel. CATTLE. • W. Beattie Seaforthe year Henq ; Alex ugill, geld - From the Front The two following very interesting letters were recently received by Mrs. cf A. E. Neil, of •Uaborne townshi , from her nephews, Ptes. Colin F. en P. M. Fire, bothi of whom are at th front, the _latter having enlisted in Australia One wae written irons Longmoore, Camp, and the other from theiDarde- Longmoo Camp, You ; will no doubt b aur - prised _to t learn that I ran batk in England', but auch is the case. We have had a call to leave lie- and got_ to the Dardanelles or Gulf or acne other, place. lieeYe Received your letter yesterd ab a.m., Ja's before leating lee Will tell You. a few things a ;at ,stay in Europe. We were at ted dly cry Sir nd ere Sir is nal ese ing of In ocal on introduced hy the Ortar- ent for reciprocity in motor 111 remove what has be ng cifuse of trouble a otor license in Ontario he government didn't American visiter to the, aince the license fees erially increased, it is equire the incoming tour burdensome condition d prebably would, res er of tourists bringing Ontario. That woald y to tlie.provinces as it ated that the money tourists at least $25 er is now being taken b t , with any state or It urists to come into On d periods from states, ant like privileges. By reciprocity with e ;government increases the Ontario license, wh le compensation to the ✓ having the fees bo lege of entering the pro de• nt of the United S hes complied with the f the law of the stet reeides as to the re McGr life at bow Gregor neerl Ica Wi in al age of 82 years, Mrs. quietly, passed away edhesday morning, Mar 9t. been In frail health o yearn, but was taken the loot week. She -was hire, Scotland, and erni parento, Mr. and Mrs. nele, to Caned& in 184 OD g thet was ind ex - ave felt St to un- hich riet heir has pent per the re - may ario hich pro- ome the h is car- sted. who ates pro- stra- lgiurn Persian y at 4 out oer ixanide e a3 Gtand RecrWti Rally Un Br Th er the auspices of the Seaforth xi eh Huron 00= ty War:Auxiliary RDNO'SOIOPERA3 HALL secidress by Capt. DANCEY 135th Middlesex Battalion Sho t addresses by Pte. SteWart Knox roe ntly returned wound from the fro t; Lt. Col. Combe resident gram of vocal and instrumental music and clog dancing . 101st Battalion Band in attendance. Admission Free GOD SA.VE TaE KING J. 13. Reid A. D. Sutherland wh doe wa aaa we 200 rr af wit e Mil tr u the tra on ale pla Ca Til Wit to n I was leaving St. John, fwhat it matter, my boy, if I go by of New Brunswick and you by of France!" That Was all she and I oftee think of it. The day left Alveringhem there were some Wounded and. 70 killed in one little kips It 1,3 a grand, end terrible t to witness a battle at night, 13e•archlights going and star is going op. One night I stood on Gad and watched the proceedings. after =lie a troops, motor ice, wagons, despatch riders end senten. You would wonder bow !managed to carry on awl) a Ole. The cans carry no lights, no is allowed to smoke, Yet everyone g on his special errand, for all world, like a hill of ants. We saw sotne rine air figlos, one e against another, one night our with ;sixteen men Was sholicd. truck! With hit in eight p;aces h 'shrapnel and not pile of tie ches. We were where that: chaerch s ahelled to pieces, all but one pil- lar that had the Virgin Mary on it, it in the t • lobbed. Of course, 1, closed my eyes and was still saying zny prayers long after it landed. X really had to pinch myself to see whether it waa me or -not and there lay theff_1,500 peunds weight of death only a few yards away. "May 19th. Well I Chem had the 'sensed= of nrty last Turk this morning— ' that le the first I know that I have I killed. I can hardly explain what it fe-ele like to kill .a man without giving ham a chance. Jest at daylight I looked over the trench and ,opied three Turk! about twententive yards away crawling up on their hands and knees, most likely. with bombs. 'Weil, really I bad to look at them a minute before I ceuldt muster up enough courage to fire ont them, and just aa I had got a gooksight on one be -turned and looked me In the face. don't think I forgot the look on his face for a to ahoot. one, now though, As I have only to think of eame of inY 171901;t Cm" • Stone of the Turks actually had the cheek tat get Into our treneh during the night, and that is how one of the 14th J3attalion got a V.C. for diapOsing of them. suppose you have read an account of that in the pager: eel won't tell yout anything about it. Vane 22nd. We43 nearly put on pushing deletes • thia morning. I was sitting In nt'Y dugout aleng' with my mate. writing my diary. I Was just teMng him that I wished ;something would -happen so that I woold have aomething to write in, emy book. I no sooner had the lobbed in the dugout and burled it- self about three feet In the side. Well you can eead. more about that when I send the, heok to you. Auguet 18th. regards war. This corps see s to prebably you haye read o have a boeseshoe tied to its ' back, as 'over had not a man killed in the oaperse We bad a fine trip ye 1 six weeks, although e had some ht rough what ii left of very narrow e•scapes. woe wa k ng France and rilngland and arrived. at with ac Belgian fellow one night aod Lensmoor at daylight this morning. he wa.e shot through the heed and did not know what struck him. . I don't know how it was none of us From the Dardenelle,s were bit as we were only abotet a half t mile front the German linea for twa I received your letter of Aug. 5th, weeks, under continual shell fire. With end 043 you were wanting be know out kilo w,e cannot always get undee a 'Olt -of the exPerience I have had cover a.,4 we have Our work to do; one ttince coming to the 'Nelles, I Will advantage, we generally worked at EflOe at copy of the diary I have kept night. One night we were p itting up !since I landed in Gallipoli on April 26. concrete forme, and the artillery was On April 25, we were at Lemnos Isle, very lively, 130 we were ordered to although 'some of the Auatralians left quit for a while. We bad' not gone the night before. We could hear the 100 yards When bingo! a six inch shell ditattitynonmirleiosarain4ywh. ewreellev, eviewedired ahbaovaet blew our work all to roatchwood. We had acme great laughs when a bit of a bot time when we tried to first wet went to the front. 'When a land, bat: it was done so quickly and big g un went off, every one woald systematically that I hardly knew Jump in the air But that wae allover the first day and at last we never even noticed them. It nevea trice crossed my. mind that I was going to be burt and if I had my pick I would sooner fight than farm. Like the tmarried man In the corps. We told him he must like war when he would leave his wife. He said, I'61.1.re be- cause I like peace." Evideetly he thought war better than a na,3ty wo- man. 1 ;ask glad you ere good to. the 3ol- diers,, Take it frcem me, it le eke to have 9: griend in a strange •place, and as for, 'spoiling them with kindness, you will never do that. 1 bave been used terribly well since being in the army, and don't think it bias made me any! woree, oxi the other hand it keeps at fellow oat of many a temp- tation, and in England the tempta- tionstare much greater than. in Can - I bave aome dear friends in Eng- land; also in elleigienn. I felt awfully sorrY for the Belgian peo le, they Ilt have come through so much. Otte lad cried when I left Alvering ton, Bele glum; IIe aaid, Colin, I halm riot a kin lefit only my wife and, -Oise to in gave onee a fountain pen, waiters I left, going to write to father, ao you can tett them. • erday, Came 'glum, also Me LBLt BROSJ ite eTe $1.50 a Year in Adnate 'Brewer 500. acres. He or one of his sons nsove to the latest purchaee. —Mr White of the teaching etaff of the GoderIch Collegiate Institute, has sent In his resignation in order to enlist. Mr. !White wiShed to be re- Ileved all the end of April. The zria- jority, of the board, however, deoided to retell( asta -services to the end of the echool term. —Mr C. E. Lepard has purchased Mr. Ezra Iferkleorts chopper and el- ectric motor in "Wingliarn and will erect a new building 'eolith of the Exchange Hotel. aod will engage in the chopping basioess. Mr. Lepard expects to baYe his betiding erected and ready! for -budineas in the course (of ,a4 few weeks. —The total asseesment or the town of Wingha.-rk is as • fellow Land val-s ue,s, $229,330; Buildings, ;592,60; bus - ;925,247. The number of peroons be - 5 and 16 years, 471; betweett 5 and .21 years, 662. The tetal pepulation 2444, an increa3e of 11 over last year. The numbext of dpg3 Is 75, comparei erith 33 laat year. osDuring the tinenth Of March, the Waments Institute and Ited Cross workere of Waitose had a good record, the total proceeds; =morning to $128. Of thie amount, SU'S WaS realized from the W..0,4,1 last Tuesdaefo being the top notch, $39. McKlitop Township Council's grant of 125, was highly ap- preciated. A .shipment of hospital supplies, socks, etc., valued at $211.50 Wa9 forwarded to Hyman Hall, Lou- don. —A -quiet- but pretty wedding was solemnized at the 'Methodist parsonage in Wings= on March 29th, when Miss Annie Pearl Deactm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Deacon, of East Was wanosh, was united in marriage to Mr. Joseph Alvin Armstrong, son. of Mr. George Armstrong; Of the second cons We enade; a real dineum bayonet cestsion of Morris, Rev. ,Mr. HIbbert charge thia morning 'just at daybr-eak. performed the eeremonye The hap.. We had to charge ever a plougli- py couple eeM make their home on the - ed. ftiald and the Turks did not half groom's farm on the Sth concession of get on to U13 with their 'machine gues East hWawantesh. - —Ws oribl a. tale they didn't. When The Onta.rio Railway and Monicipal the order wale exessed along to charge, — Board held a ,seasion ie. Gotierich on you, would bave thought all the trees Friday last to beer a request by tho in- Hada* hid been turned loose, Eve Colborne T.ownshlat Telephone Systeee eryone ahouting our battle cry, 'tome for connection with Clinton by way on Austraitlaf' Australia did come on of the Goderich township eystem. This and a bi't tdo quick for poor Abdul Board ordered thet a trunk line be - too. A fellow doesn't Seem to think of bullets, tua.nhIne guns. dead or dying tween Benrailler and Clinton be built or anytb4nfl elee. He has only one at the joint expense of the two aye - thought and that le to run your bay°, tems andt that coanectIon be estab- net through the fleet enemy In range liehed tee a rate, of ten c-nts, tho and when I 139.W blood, well it aeenseoi elle'rg'e to be paid to the aystem at about ony finish. 1 area clean mad whose office the message terminates. and chaaed the Turks a bit too far --434.es Vera HoOver, daughter of J. eo that 1 got away from t'he rest. i TrIehry tHoover, 12th conceesion, a woke up a bit when the Turks turned Grey, bee accepted a position on the and atarted firing on tne, It was not staff *LC the Bank of Nova Scotia, le near !so much fun. It might have Brussels. Owing to the enlistment of been jeee eie amine fun in e waee so Many bank elerks, the banks but thot fun wee on Ihe wrong si.h. throughout the caentry have found it very difficult to officer their branch - 20 Turks corning towards me, then 1 ee, the Bank of None Seotia, Brussels, started to figure which way would being no exception, three of their be [the easiest death, a ballet de a staff having donned the King's uni- natOonet. I chose for the bullet, 2, form during the last three months. the rtira I got four bullets, one in 1/1130 1-100Ver is an experienced steno- grapher and bookkeeper and ;should fill !started to get back to my niates on the bill. Crovrn Attorney Seager hae or-' :nor cap, one through my water bottle, one through my haversack, and one — Aug. 21.3t. I was on eutpost duty at Winghasn, of .11, fiNf Walker, of laat night and *hen I camel in I eves Mount Forest, Ont., and removal el teld ttheti 200 of the lith would fall the body: to Athena Mich., for Irle in ot theee o'clock, fighting order, terment, was not &floored until at% and down into a ,gully and as the first brother, Dr Fox, a local physidan. of our !lien ahowed themselves the An inquest will be held next Tbeirsday. 4htohine guns got onto them „The way The Ontario Medital Council sent Dr. I got down over into that gully would Silverthorn, an expert pathologist, to Wleigharn, for the post-mortern. have done credit to any athlete. When we got down into the gully --Mr W. Lane, county clerk, return - we were lout of the fire of tb.e machine ed to Goderich on Saturday after a guns at Certain places, but we had to trip of several weeks and is again oet put on/ a bit of a apriot a few titres. duty at his office in the *Curt hens?... There were atlenty of dead Turks He went 0.3 far as the coast, staYinr off at many plates en route and look - down thriough where we had to go and trig up the Huron "old boys"; but the you may ibe able to judge my feelings greeter part of his time he wee at on putting my foot on the <stomach of Vancouver, where his son, Mr. W. a !smell who had beea dead for over Stewart Lane, IS precasting law as a two weeke and lying out in the hot member of one of the leeding legal aun, wltht the temperature 110 in tbe firnss of the city. Mrs. Lane, who hed 9bade. I plunked my foot into one and been at Vancouver eince New Year's, thought I was golng out of eight, returned withi hion aa far as Detriot, dee, I would rather face ten live where zhe remained to spend a week Terke than one dead one like that. or two with her 3C n, Mr. °harlot I belaevel the dead are the stron.gest William Maedel, well-knOWn tanner of Seaford, was found dead its his MU charge in my diary bat will send °B.ffftieererioaobn°.114Htbisriieelfr wirnkt 1%110124, tege this letter, I remain, your brother, fice to call him and found him on eh* 8Yvt floor dead. Dit. Emmerson wiz cille-4 and pronounced death due to heart - failure. Mr .11sedel 'appeared to be la Huron Notes —Mr. William Glenn, ex -reeve of npeoc,rfne.c Rtheealvtahs wpolipetanahre leavftonhgoine hat: large circlet of friends, and had been peers. He leaves, besides his wife, two sons, Herold, who is sailing a- rbund Australia, and Herb of Detroit; two daughters, Floosie, at Detroit, and Greta at home. . —Mr. Reginald ti), Turnbull, sae of Mr. and Mrs. 'W.A. Turnbull, of Far- quhar, has carried off the coveted honors of Knox College, Toronto, He W9,3 awarded the Post Graduate Scholarship comprOsIng of the Daold Smith R039 Scholarship of ;200, thee Jane Hunter Scholarehip of $175 and tile Macwilliara Scholarship of , $21I. Mr 'Gardiner a few weeks ago en- listed with the Gueltth Battery _eat is already' In England. Ile WW1 awarded his third year owing te este listing. Mr. Nif di. .Gardiner, also of Farquhar has completed his third year with atecondeelaes b.onors.' Mr. Geo R Ratcliffe, also of that ereetion, has completed his second year. \, —Messrs Aikenhead Brost, of Lea- den, have purchaeed the Blyth Sew- Wiraghane and took possession lest week. Tile purcheseeral are thorouals sawmill men aa .they, have a large ss,w mill at London., It is exrpecteet they will, rim :the mill. toi ite full ete- pacity which will bet a good thiag for the town. One of the partsers will be there n!Ant of the time to saes - age the plant. Mr. lfanotone, Wks has been running the mill for tit* Pest couple of years has made a ed the 209 sera fares of his brother, great many friencre there, srho . Pldround, 4t,b line, Morrie, paying be eorry that he is ttevering his *as- . ga500 for it. One of the fermi Is necticm with the basinem latereots of tbe old horneetead. This glees Mr. that pisee. John from h 29, Mc - for crit - born rated Don- at - I don't agree with you when you eeld O would met have come 'if I had known what, ft was Iike. A thousand if the people of Canada knew what was going on, or realised what was doing they would, or should all where I WeA3 huntil I weei landed, and Stanley ‘townshb, • hart purchased had ducked under cover out of the lot in. Clinton and intends erecting a way of ahrepnel, which lwas reeidence on it this summer. around us like hail. I felt happy, as —The Brussels Couneil granted $125 If I was strolling' down the street to purchase suitable gifts for the wath my best girl. The more shots esident young men, wao have en - the Turks would fire, the more we sted in Brussels Company with the woula ebout and laugh. I think it Gest Huron Battalion. muat have been our ignerance of the —Mr and Mrs. Gettrge Gibson, of danger weL were really la or probably Molesworth, have presented an organ it wee only stowing the stuff we to the Sunday School and Young were reallyr made of. I don't mean peoples Society of St Andrewte church myself, but the Australians that I tn matt village, am with: If I had got a bit of a --Miss Bessie McDonald is engaged tremble it the knees I would not have as teacher in the Union School, 18tis dared to 'show it amongst the crowd concession, Grey, recently taught by Although I have had about a thous- —The Presbyterian and Methodist and and one narrow; escapee sin.ce the thoira in Bruseels will combine on 25th ulte„ yet I would not have room Eaeter Monday to give a number of to write them Ina. letter. Well, tne Mualcal selections at ,bleiville Church Turks are certainly giving us a bit Annivereary. The chorus -will number of excitement today, but it'a always about IsIxty. the earnet in the army, either 9. feast —Ur and. Mrs, L. NI „Dancey; of .of feaating. By Jove 1 e 1339.11 would their daughter, Mies Alma Dancey. 'has almost wonder how theY could pack arrived ,sa.fely in England, froai Cairo, 30 much. excitement into` sueli a. small Bgypt, Where ahe hae been stationed parcel, They tossed us about tarty for some( time in one of the military twelve inch ehells today, and every hospitals( one ploughed about an te of ground, —Tuesday of last week, was But - that's what a mare mi t call farm- -ton Days when the papila of Brueoeis ing under difficultlea. One of the school collected ;47.10 by the sale of ehelle—the eelly one that was close Huron County W.ar Auxiliary buttons. enough to do me any eeoere damage— The money goo towards the purchas- dropped into the trench [where I was, ing account of 33attallon Band lustre - but whether!, the devil lOoke after his vents. own, or wbether it wail only a fool's —Last week, Mr WWI= Brewer, luck, I cannot eay, but anyway it dla -Celee491011 7, Grey township, parches - not explod.e. 1 could see It coming and only bad time to think that the Rona Orable P. M. Pyfe, bad about °ne- ctar:0e. As an old, old lady seid to me g htb of a sesond more to live when