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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1917-01-26, Page 1t 19. TOD 404-0400-t>te i , _ L8 DOW Obte new , and J. find val- ki lead you to ern. You'll again this 0 rices oii oat at a pric come an ment and thg. very coat iii t Charge Isamasosais mer roisintOe-Amorassennewries.........1.1111 1...evialmmosner--4.4.6.1011moiliSeansillan ra e s s es farel of tnis iere. To do u witi saVe ore you buy. e a little ou bring Is Wanted 1 dtt-dl4.0.0.0.4-th-tv T _YttAR BER 25(13 Greig.C.Iotbb* Comp tormonoremiiii6. .deaviiiimmemmur SEAFORTII, FRIDAY, JA.NITARY 20, 1917 .1415,2**4 ;sesnake.:111.04101111.M.10., 111111111111111111111 Commencing , Saturday, Jan. 2 Our gigantic Mid-WiAter Sale of .our Fomplete stock of the highest grade clothing is becoming an established event eagerly -looked forward to by the people of Seaforth and surrounding ter- ritory and while trade ,conditions at present ate adverse to sacrifice sales, yet our stock is so abnormally large that we are compelled to • make sweeping reductions -a quick turn into cash - of huge piles of Clothing, Furs and Underwear. This is the greatest sale we have ever put on. e have Mote goods.of HIGHEST GRADE QUALITY AT LOWEST PRICES. . Thousands of people wait every year for our big Annual Winter Sale. gyery. thing- exactly- as adirertliTed. This will be the largest °money saver yet to all our oust Imers. We can mention only a few here of the thousands , of bargains -but come to the store and see the over- flowing tables, shelves, counters, • lwnks, etc., con- taining the precise wearables you need. LADIES' 20.00 coats for. i8.00 coats for . 15.00 coats for. 12.00 coats for... COATS. $1249 • . • • • S7.49 .......S7.29 .........$0.29 D COAT SWEATERS 2.00 coat sweaters......51.19 3.00 coat sweaters.....51.89 • 5.�a coat sweaters..., .53.614 MEN'S SUITS „ 12.00 58.49 • 15.00 . ......-510.29 x8.00 suits.. 513.29 22.00 OVERCOATS. . 16.00 overcoats.......- 11.79 20.00 overcoats.......$14.95 22,00 overcoats.... $16.49 • FUR COATS. Black dog coats for5/ 6.50 Wambat coats to? . $31.00 Fur -collared coats. .515.00 • Ladies' fur collared S2E49 BOYS' OVERC9ATS 5.00 overcoat........ ....$3.29 6.5o overcoat,.... CAPS 1.00 caps 69c 1.50 caps..••.. 00000 • 1.15 Ise • . • 49c soc HEAVY UNDERWEAR, 1.25 heavy 1.50 heavy #2.0o heavy wool.........51.58 SUITS TO MEASURE. Special suit ends for $8.90 Pants to measure......$3.89 • FUR SETS 30.00 WOif pets for...515.00 50.00 fox.sets for...632.50 40.00 cross fox sets.123.00 Black wolf sets for..$18.00 Odd muffs for... • 57.50 BOYS' SUITS 5.00 suit... 7.6o suits.... 9.00 suit... • • $329 m55.49 ••••••• 'wog 56.90 sox 4.5c cashmere .. ...29c 6oc cashmere... ...39c 50c heavy wool 33c 6oc ribbed worsted.,44c STOCKINGS Boys' Ribbed sizes.. • .29c soc heavy ribbed .......39c 75c heavy ribbed............59c 75c cashmere...... .49c RAINCOATS Men's mediuM weight$6.90 1400 heavy molelined$9.98 Ladies 7.00 coats...44.89 2.00 coats .....••••$8.49 WORK SHIRTS Odd shirts,sizes 14 to x6.49c a oo blue shirting 79c too black and white 09e 150 Khaki, heavy ... 51.19 OVERALLS Black Blue Bib........ 51.29 8E2. Black .... Blue Smock.... .••.$1.29 • SPECIAL 2,00o handkerchiefs... ...3o • A SHORT SKETCH OF AN OLD SCHOOL MASTER. • (By .C.1. Willis, Stettler, Alta.) Many. of the readers of The Exposi- tor have been interested in the early history of various parts of the coun- ty of Huron that have been published in this paper during the last few weeks Although the period covered by these zecords is earlier than most of the residents can ecall, yet_there is a cer- tan :historic interesteven for the youthful .generation, . among whom, I of course, I include myself. t In read- ing these chronicles there is one thing we 'look :for, fast of all --and that is the personal touch -the names of the nattiest inhabitants, and the work they were engaged in. After all it is men that make history, and not inaniro.ate .things. . - (With this thought In mind, I have been waiting foe some time to see if some one among the readers of • this paper would not give the public the 'benefit of their reminiscences m regard to the 'life of one man lately deceatsed, whose career for over forty ye.ars makes up one of the most important chapters M the history of the County of Huron. I refer to the late L. L. Menu', ,principal of Seaforth school for two generations. It is probably quite natural that when former resi- dents of the town start to recall the scenes of their early youth, themdo not place much emphasis on material pro- gress, but their thoughts have to do with things of the spirit -with ideas that tliey absorbed in early school days Or with influences of personalities. • that they carne in contact with. Prob ably because he reached many of us early in life, the influence of Mr. Mc- Fall', is the one that has lasted the longest, with mot of his pupils. In my ehildhood days there were two men who.m. I dreaded to meet under any circumstances'the town police- man and the school master: Both of them seemed to be the embodiment of stern justice and most of the small. boys would take a back street to avoid either of them.. If we happened to be a minute late for school we would slip in .behind the shawled figure of Mr. 1V1cFaul as he ,stood on the front platform with bell in hand. When he -visited the upPer rooms we duo into Otii books to avoid meeting his ac- cushig eye and one • of the most ' solemn sounds that we used to hear, at irregular intervals, was he thud of the strap in the lower hall and his 'stentorian command to the victim to "Hold% up, up! am!" This command, • by the way, was given with a cadence that was quite .appropriate to the oc- casion and, the word "up" was spoken - with a- rifting inflection of voice that persuaded the delinquent to raise his hand as high as possible. Corporal punishment wailaccompanied by ex- hortations 'tto be a trim", etc. A friend told me recently that "Old Mac,' did not ask hini to be a man, but sailed In without prelim -Merles, and gave„him 'a thrashing that:bid been iteberiefitlte him ever since. And while playing in t'he school grounds, the two taps of the master's bell would fall on our ears like Gabriel's trumpet, especially. when the bell was accompanied by a wave of the ann which indicated that one of our eumber was plainly "in for it". Corporal punishment however never took place duringrecess or after four, but always during school hours, with the object no doubt Of impressing -the ether pupils who were no more deserv- ing but more lucky. The figure of the principal standing on the front platform year in and year out.. without missing a day, as far as lean remember, for many years,dress- ed always in the same costumemonsist- ing of conventional suit and a Scotch shawl thrown over his shoulder, is a figure, which, to the minds of most of his ex -pupils, has more signif- icance than that of Napoleon standing on the rocks of St. Helena or of Nel- son on the deck of his ship, and plac- ing the telescope to his blind eye. In our childhood it meant the I flaming sword of justice, and in our maturity the symbol of days well spent and duty done., As we grew old enough to study the habits of the master, and wonder how "one small bead could carry all he knew"; we were struck by a phenome- non which was as certain as the rising sun. He was muictual. Pupils might go late,other teachers also, but the principal, -never. Then again, he al- ways came to school with his shoes scrupulously polished. No matter what the circumstances may have been, whether he drove in from the farm, as he did in the early days or whether he walked to school on, a rainey day, his shoes _were 'always as clear as a mir- ror. The thing got to be a load on our minds. How could he do it? What was the secret? We latent r ew that anything is possible with elbow grease, and a man in Vancouver told me that since he left Seaforth school, he remembered only one thing., that is to polish his shoes every mormng. And he deesn't hire a bootblack either, al- though he is well able to do so. The school mester was as punctual and scrupulous after school hours as during the session. His house on God- erich Street was elistinguished by a very large lawn and in those days his chief recreation was to dig up the soil. This would ' occur two or three times every summer. _ He always worked in his old clothes' for the edification of . thope no &all., who dressed well, ' but l neither toil nor spun. None of •I us could imagine why he kept digging away at what seemed to be quite a good lawn, but the reason tmdTibteclly lay in his desire for perfection and his- love for outdoor work, as well as • to be an example for his pupils who were too apt to ;spend their spare time • on fishing expeditions or at cricket or football. 1 When we arrived in our teens, we ) discovered that although our jam" ci- ' meanor to his Own pupils was neither 1 cold nor solenua There i a perfectly pal seldom or never smiled yet his dea- 500 colored border hanIfs authentic legend that he n ver thrash - The above is only a partial list of this Big Store's • ed the pupils in his own room. They Multitude of" Bargains• were expected to act strictly on their honor, and the Qnly reproof I ever t heard from him, while in has room, was Greig Clothing Company=11, p a upil sulked him ff he had any -e smtni:Aioannerd hneeerdZiedwas thanott ' iE=c_ , Mt -LEAN BROS., flablidee. $1.n a Year l Adyance FAMINMENIEM1111100111637M arlA. invited to attend the Second 4nnual Old Time Dance in, tardno',5 Opera Hall on _Friday Evening, February 2nd, 1917, in aid of the Soldiers' elid Commission MUSICIANS -H. M. Chesney, Jr. P. M, Chesney, James A. Ches- ney, E. H. Giese, Alfred Curtis, Abe Forsyth, Henry Forsyth, John Hawthorne, Thomas Rands, Joseph Storey, Ea.r1 VanEge mond, Herbert Fowler, Herry Stewart. FLOOR, MANAGERS -Peter Cameron, John Carter, Harry Char- ters, Geo. Cookel'hos. O'Reilly, rYi. McDonald, Wm. Workman COMMITTEE-Hibbat,, Joseph Murphy; Hullett, Scott Hawthorne; McKillop, Fin. MeKercher„R. Dodds, jr.; Tuckersinithelressrs. Wm. Charters,. Robt. Gemmell; Seaforth, John Beattie, L. T. DeLacey, Dan. Shanahan, Charles Stewart. Special Piping and Highland Dancing • LADIES BRING CAKE OR SANDWICHES • COFFE WILL' BE SUPPLIED AT THE HALL M DANCING COMMENCES AT 8,30 GENTLEMEN $1.00 • A. D. SUTHERLAND, Secretary IIIIMMINIMINFINNINIRIMMMLEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII111431111111M111111111M1115111=FIF walimmilmemo".1101."v'' ilinnallfiffiNfilirififil pens, but a book on etiquette. I re- member one warm „june afternoon 'when after we spent the whole day in reviewing subjects for the approach- ing examinations, the,`master decided that we should have a *tie recreation. He suggested Ifteratutill and brought out Wordworth's poemt4lTo s Skylark" was 'milieu - the questions d the discus - and furious. .1 long after - 'The change in the pup bus. This was play a about certain points sions thereon were f We did not realize 1, wards, that we were 0 mg taught by a master hand. His linioni3 on read- ing, writing and arithmetic could not be surpassed. What boys and girls they were in the old public and high school days! Shall we mention their names here? It is not necessary, They remem- ber and the general public does not care. - "What care they that the'orioles build, For other eyes than -ours ---- That other hands with -nuts are filled, .And other laps vvithtflowers." I suppose that over one thousand. pupils passed through the hands of the master during the twenty eight ears he was principal of the school. Some of these still, live in Ontario, but the majority are scattered all over the world. Wherever they are, whether gaged in business, Jaw, Jaw, teaching or endicine, or representing their town and, honoring, ..thel4ifeotmtryon the blood, stained fields of Prance, they will always remember with affection their old school master, who constantly showed them by precept and example that a life of toil is the best life to pursue. He was the last of the old guard. The school masters of today may popes More scholarship, but the presentldschool system is sacrificing personality to the inachine. The grass is just as green, Tom, bare- footed boys at play, Are sporting jut as we did then. , with spirits Just as gay, But the "master" sleeps upon- the hill, which coated o'er with snow, Afforded us a sliding place, just twenty years. ago. I ithe order of the game and within the first few minutes the rival managers Mullenski and Joneso-vitch met in it a head-on collision which. showed that they were more accustomed to head work than stick work. Both were able to resume after a short re- pose in centre ice. dieMillando for the Commerce played a star game at centre from which place he occasion- ally moved and in the second period was seen to come dangerously' near the puck on sevexal occasions. t His opposing player, Pietro Brownippi, whose shins were literally padded will all known magazines played a slashing game in every respect but mostly with his stick. C. von Rankeyn (Com- merce) showed his lcultur in playing an intensely brutal game throughout, nearly terminating in a fistal combat with the Dominion. forward, Herod !Shark. Much praise is due the Do- minion defence players Chestnuts and Palkenhayn, who showed marked su- periority over the opposing- defence, , The only weeknesss in the teams were th goal keepers, Chil Bain and Regin Aeldreid who were obviously not t- customed to the swift company. They persisted in Only stopping the shets it that didn't score and the utter dis- t regard shown by them for the rest ef ithe players by their repeated non-stop rushes from goal' to goal made the rafters ring with cheers from the a- 1 for mentioned throng. There was a considerable diversity of opinion as to the final -score but it was generally conceded to be a tie necessitating a eplay at a date to be announced later. Cone. TOWN AFFAIRS. Editor of The Huron Expositor: Dear Sir -Please allow me the priv- ilege through your valuable paper, of expressing my sincere pleasure at tl.e final result of the municipal stem- i.ede which for a time looked serious, being the first occasion in our his- tory that we failed to get enough candidates to constitute a town coun- cil at the nomination meeting, making it necessary to hold a second nomina- tion to complete the list, which happily has been succesful and now we have a full fledged commit to attend to the municipal affairs ot the town for the year 1917. I am pleased to see some new idood in the council this year. It is good to have men of weight in our public affairs. Already things are being promptly attended te. The snow plow was out on time, making The sidewalks passable, horse -speeding on the business streets has been pro- hibited and citizens have been notified to cease dumping ashes on the streets thus injuring sleighing. If our new aldermen continue to see that the town by-laws, and the statuary laws ef the' imuntry, The Canada' Temperance Act included, are enforced, I bespeak for anyone of them an easy and sure way into the office of Mayon for the town of Seaforth next year. • Sincerely yours, CITIZEN Seaforth, January 20th, 147. • HOCKEY. Dominion vs. Commerce On Friday afternoon at 430 p. m. the first game in the home and home series of the Seaforth Financial Lea- gue took place at the Palace Arena between picked teems from the staffs of the two local banks. Both teams headed the league with equal numbers of points totheir credit and intense in- terest was manifested in the game. Long before the appointed hot r huge crowds theonged the grand stands, the private boxes had all been booked ahead and therewas a great demand for standing room. Recemts from the box offices showed a grand aggregate attendance of at least thirty souls All arrangements raoved as clockwork, the time keepers, umpires, staff reeert erst judge of play, attending 'thy-lc:ens, trainers, camera men, etc., were on hand and the game started promptly. After the players had all been form- ally introduced and apologies and fe- licitations extended a vigorous TT:mite' of the cow bell sent the men to their respective positions and the great con- test was started. It was obvious that hard checking and roughness would be - 2 he, 1 cockerel, 1 pullet F. « An- gus. eghorns Black -1 cock, 1 and 2 hen, 1 and 2 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, A. E. Doan. Anconas-1 eockere, F. DeGex, Andalusian -1 cockerel, 1 pullet, F. DeGex; 2 hen, W. H, Dearing; 1 hen, 1 cockerel, 2 pullet, Howrie; 2 hen, Dearing; 2 cockerel, 1 pullet, DeGex. Buttercups -All to Blondin Cook, Minorcas, S.C.-1 hen, 8. G. Me - Kay. Spanish -1 hen, DeGex; 2 cock, 2, hen, 1 cockerel, 1 pullet, D. Bouge; 1 hen, Howrie. • Polands, W . C. B.-1 cock, 1 hen, 1 pullet, D. Bouge; 1 cockerel, DeGex. Polands, Silver or Gelded 2 pullet, Doan; 1 cock, 1 hen, 1 cockerel, 1 pul- let, D. Bouge. • Hamburgs, S.S.-2 cock, 2 cockerel DeGex; 1 cock, 1 and 2 hen, 1 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, S. Gibson. Harriburgs, G.8.-1 cock, 1 hen, De - 1 that be called upon the infantry te risk certain death to further the cause of Empire, home and loved ones, these were just sir many brave fellows left out when the rest came back, their mission accomplished, and theee same erosses, if they eould speak, inisdat tell tales ofibravery, unsurpassed gime • world -ti -as made, for who will ever know how many sacrificed themselves willingly that their comrade nulde be buried if only in a shell:hole. e you consider that in No Man': Last, the showing of a light, the makiag of a slight noise calls forth a hellish blast of steel bullets and death. the Tea will agree with me that,thelittle crow- - es could a tale unfold. And so we band the palm to the boys in the front line, who cheerfully endure mud and cold and even death that our loved. cnes at home may be free. Of couree, we are a necessary part, in fact a* ab- solutely necessary part, if modern warfare is to be carried 'on success- Gex; 1 cockerel, 1 pullet, DeGex, fully. No one who has not heard the the roar and crash or felt the grouad shake with the concussion from the British guns in the Somme can ap- preciate the work of the guns, and how the infantry like to hear it. It does a gunner's heart good to hear them saw as they go drifting by in single lIle past the gun positions, "Give 'em hell, boys", for they know that the takiag of Fritz's trenches if there are any left, is not so hard. when the "bar- rage" lifts to his supports, and the guns keep hisetreserves from coming op. One has To -see a battlefield to ppreciate the utter destruction caused by sheIlofire. How any living thing could cress the open country of the Somme let alone live there and hold the ground against the enemy is at once a tribute to the bravery a gaur infantry and the effectiveness of our guns. Fritz has no doubt a strong kick left yet, but you will trayel a long way in the British ranks before you will find anyone to say he has not been "trurThned to a peak." on the western front and we feel that sooner or later, we don't care a tinker's tl-, which he will get his just desserts And se Hamburgs, G.P.-1 hen, 1 cockerel 1 ullet, S. Gibson. Hamburgs, blnek.-2 eoek, DeGex; Lock, 1 hen, Doan- 1 cockerel, 1 and 2 nutlet, S. G. McKitem 2 hen, 1 -cockerel 8. }{Goinbsdoann.a_All to Angus. Guineas -1 cockerel, 1 pullet, C. J. Steffen; 1 cock, 1 hen, 2 cockerel, 2 pullet, T. Watts. B. B Gaines -1 and 2 hen, 1 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, Doan. Pyle Games -1 hen, DeGex; 1 pellet, Doan. 0.E. Games --1 cock, 1 hen, 1 pullet, Miller; 2 cock, Reith. Any other variety Gaines -1 cock, 1 hen, 1 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, Miller 2 cockerel, Angus. Bantams, Black and Red Game -2 pullet, Thos. Bowers; 1 and 2 hen, 1 cockerel, 1 pullet. Black Red Game -1 and 2 hen, 1 and 2 cockerel, 1 pullet, Cliff Levy. Duckwing Gatrie-1 and 2 cock,1 and 2 hen, 1 and 2 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, Thos. Bowers. Pyle Gante--All to Bowers. and 2y boetnh,er2vicearieketyareG4a2nies-punn\comcko, we "carry on" thinking tnis Christmas t Bowers, 2 cock, 1 cockerel, 1 pullet, a eve of those we love at home. How Levy Golden Sebright-1 cock, 2 hen, F.R ceaorutldevavcebhdealyp bitriwnhgemngwme Steffen; 1 cockerel, 1 pullet, S. Gibson. fatArs, mothers, and let me add more ere atnhdeminaesr: Martin; 1 cock, 1 hen, 2 cockerel, C.J. parcels a4 loving messages, from "others," at -the seine time lessen:Mg zone our resolve to see the blame thing through to a finish, come what may. Irwin are good chalices that we rri et leave pretty soon and if en. J. I em fortunate enough to hold a number which. would let me away to "Blighty". tovrards the latter part of Januar t hence my application for a slice of the assignecttpay some time ago. All your boxes reach rne o.k., and .1 can't thank: you enough for the MUM I only hope and pray I may be allow- ed one day to personally show my ap- 'preciation. You will be surprised te see this green envelope, but it gidrg r.s a trifle more latitude and when awe ether eomes round try and tell you of some of our experiences. Mow of them even in this grim war, are tkuite laughable. I have yet to write six other letters so with gest wishes and love to all at home and may you all have a Happy and Prosperous Milt Year, I remain, CHARLIE. , 'Buff Cochine-2 cockerel, F. R.Mar- Itin; 1 cockerel, P Angus; 1 and 2 her 11 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, S. Gibson. White Coehina-1 and 2 cock, C. J. Steffen; 1 hen, W. Hamblyn; 2 hen, 1 and 2 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, S. Gibson Black Cochins-1 and 2 cock, 1 and 2 hen, 1 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, W.F. Edwards; 2 cockerel, C. j. Steffen. Rose Comb Black -1 cock, 1 and 2 hen S. Gibson. Rose Comb White -2 cockerel, 2 pul- let, H. Rance; 1 cock, 1 hen, 1 and 2. cockerel, 1 pullet, S. Gibson. • Brahmas, Light. -1 cock, 1 hen, 1 and 2 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullets, Wm. Hamblyn; 2 cock, 2 hen, C. J. Steffen. toe FROM CHARLIE SILLS. • France'Dec. 23, plc My Dear •Parents, -I have been an the point of writing you several timed \this week but something or other has tu ed ap to keep me from it, however night I am alone in the sleeping quar- ters off the gun pit, with the wind roaring outside but a good fire inside, so what better time could I have than writing home just two days before Christmas. In the first place I want you to know and remember always, that your kind - mess shown in the many boxes you have sent me and the promptness with which my every wish has been met, has been one of the greatest sources of pleasure a son could wish. At times I felt tbat I was asking too much from home, yet you have always suggested that I ask for more. This fact, that the people at' home, know and feel and show appreciation for the work of the sons at the front has done more, I believe, towards keeping up the inerale of the Canadian forces than one would at first imagine. When we get loving tokens from home, be they body comforts internal or ex- ternal, our feeling for the home land HURON POULTRY SHOW. The Huron County Poultry and Pet Stock Shew just closed in Clinton, was probablywthe most successful- in the history of the county,both as regards the number and quality of the exhibits. The following is a list of the prihe winners of the show: Light Brahmas-I cock, 1 and 2 hens T. Watts; 2 cocks, M. Lymburner; 3 cock and 3 hen, Mr Martin; 1 cockerel i and 1 and 2 pullett, T. Watts; 2 cock- erel, F. DeGex. Dark Brahmas-1 cock, 1 hen, 1 cockerel, J. Howrie Langshans-I hen, 1 cockerel, 1 pul- lett, J. Howrie, 2 cockerel, F. Deltex. Partridge Cochins-I cock, 2 hen, 2 cockerel, 1 pullet, Mr. Edwards; 1 hen, 1 cockerel, F DeGex. •Buff Cochins-I hen, Mr. Edwards. A. 0. V. Coehins-I hen, 3 pullet, Mr. Martin; 1 cockerel; 2 pullet, D. Bouge; 2 cockerel 1 pullet, A.E. Doan. Barred Rock -1, 2,3, meek, 1 23 cock erel Bert Hovey; 1 and 2 hen, John Walton. White Rocks -1 cock 1 hen, 1 and 2 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, M. E Lym- burner; 2 hen, Doan and Johnston. Silver Pencil Wyandottes-1 and 2 tack, 1 and 2 hen, C. J. Staffen. Patridge Wyandottes-1 and 2 cock 1 and 2 hen, 3 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet W.L. Gibson; 3 Cock, P.R. Martin; 3 hen, 1 cockerel, 3 pullet, R. O. Miller; 2 cockerel, Edgar East. Black Wyandottes-1 cock, 1 hen, 2 cockerele 1 pullet, A. E Doan; 2 cock - 2 hen, 1 cockerel 2 pullet, T. Bowler; Black Java -All to F. Bell Rhode Island Reds -All to Lash- brooke. Buff Orpington -I cock, 2 hen, 1 and 2 cockerel, 1 pullet, M. E. Lymburner; 1 hen, 2 pullet, F. W Angus. Black Orpingtons-1 hen, S. G. Me - Kay. . White Orpingtons-1 and 2 cock, 1 and 2 hen, 1 cockerel, 2 pullet, M.E. L. Lymburner; 2 cockerel 1 pullet, A. E' D011,11. Blue Orpingtons-i hen, A .E.Doan; 2 hen, Doak and Johnton. Dorldngs, S. G.-1 cock, 1 hen, E. DeGex; 2 cock, 2 hen, 2 pullet, W. F. Edwards, 1 pullet 0 Rouge.. Dorkings, A.0.V.-1 cock, 2 hen, 2 cockerel, 1 pullet D. Rouge; 1 hen 1 cockerel, 2 pulet, A.E. Doan. Red Caps -1 cock, 1 and 2 hen, 1 cockerel, 2 pullet, 1 pullet, F. DeGex. Sussex -All to Lymburner. Cornish -1 cock, 1 and 2 hen, 1 -and 2 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, R. Miller; 2 hen, C J. Steffen. White Leghorns-1 cock, 1 and 2 hen, 1 and 2 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet, W. Eiserman; 2 cock, W. G. Nett Leghorns, R.C.W.--1 cock, 2 hen, 2 cockerel, W.H. Dearing; 2 cock, 1 hen, 1 cockerel, 1 and 2 pullet; Wm. Eiserman. Leghorns, S. C. B.-1 cock, 2 hen, MANLEY. Farm Sold. -Mr. Fred Eckert hart purchased the 50 acre farm on the 9th concession from Mr. Michael 0'- Louglin, 010 the consideration being $4!6. The farm is an excellent one, in a good locality, and has on it a goiii frame house, bank barn. and other out- buildings. Mr. Eckert is now the owner of one a the finest 200 acne /arms in the township, He takes pos- session of the new place on April let. Notes. -Mr Thomas Purcell int* with a painful accident last Friday While cutting wood in Mr Wm. Man- ley's bush the axe missed its 21141t44 cutting his foot -Mr Fred Eckert hoe purchased the fifty acre ham of Mr. M O'Loughlin, adjoining his, *hick gives him a fine two hundred acre farm -Well -done Johnny, it wont be long before you will be up against the and the home folks is something that stern relities life. -What might will loom large in the corning years have resulted in a serious accident etc - of Canada's national growth. Those curred on the farm of Mr. Thomas 0"- of us who have been close to death Loughlin last week. While Mr. Jelin a few times get a new viewpoint on Eckert was engaged in cuttipg wooli with a gas engine, the fumes of gas caused three of the men to be'over- come One of them however, Roe the situation, stopped the engine an all three revived -Miss Millie Murrkr, Las been egaged as dressmaker wigs Miss Brine, of Seaforth, such subjects • and if given time to think, quite realize, even the poorest amongst us, just how dear to us, are the home ties how much the name Can- ada means to us and how proud. we are, even though our part be a Mall one, to be able to say, we helped a bit to save the Empire, to save our homes and save our loved ones from the ra- pacity and greed of a war mad mon- arch. Often enough we grouch and growl even swear and cuss a bit at times when things break badly for us, yet with all the grumbling, grouchi- • ness and hard words, I have yet to meet a Canadian who is ready to quit until the purpose for which we made our sacrifices is accomplished. We should be proud of our infantry and let me ask you to save also a lit - the praise for the Cenadien artillery. But first of all the infantry, who have shown themselves under the most try- ing circumstances, equal to the best old Egla,nd could produce and inferior to none at all. In the SOMItle and in the Salient, anywhere you Will, be the fighting that ewhich required dogged- ness and perseverance as in Ypres, or that which required dash and abso- hit bravery as at the Somme, our in- fantry and in a lesser degree or ar- tillery need hand the palm to any. And the proof, why you see it every- where they fought, in trimly kept graveyards, from the Salient to 'the _nee_ _ WINTHROP; Annual Meeting. - Cavan Churemthe id held its annual meeting on e 18* nst. Notwithstanding the stormy dam, the raeeting was -well attended. Roe ports from the various departments of the church's work were presented and these sowed that a large amount of work had been done and progeess made. The special features were tbe increase in the membership, largely from the ranks of the Sunday school, increases in gifts to missions, both by the congregation and the Ladies' So- ciety, and the flourishing con.dition the Woman's Society of Christian Workers. The gifts to Red Crose sal Belgian Relief were also generous. The treasurer's report showed that $1,244 had been received and the sum of' $19.- 81 was on hand at the -close of the year, after all the obligations dead, been met. The balance is ;30 less than last year. The following a.ppointments were made: Trustees, Thomas Dodds, J. M. Govenlock and Alex. H. Ross; man- agers, George HCa!ommeAnd this is not all the proof Hiram Blanchard; auditors, GeoMe- . Dickson,' A. G. CS der; treasurer, John Cahill; aSSiStaats . . rot all our brave boys are carried back . 1 Ma - behind the lines when they go "west." Kee and AG. Calder; collectors, Z. I walked through No Man's Land in 104SpRad.decsca McSpadden, GHraiebttki;rk,seaJiinMgcoinit .Govmeai front of La Boiselle while at the horse , lines in the Somme. The whole place 'Wel\ A. Dickson and A. A. Cuthill. The was pitted with shell holes and eaeh Theinhership of the congregation is now hole held the body of a soldier. lin- 160, and the future is bright 2 cockerel, 1 pullet, F. DeGem. 2 pul- penal men here, yet they tell me it is Lets, W. H. Dearing; 2 cock, 1 hen, 1 the same in front of the trenches in -The next sitting of the Supreme cockerel, Howrie. Ypres and anywhere our boys have Qourt f� the County of Huron will be Leghorns, R. C. B.-1 cock, 1 and 2 , fought. And what did it mean? So held in Goderich, on Tuesday, Marcia hen, 1 cockerel, 1 pullet, R.H. Pond; [many little crosses in these shallow11.3th, before Mr. Justice Middleton ant4 !holes in fr011t of OUr Wire; yes' and fin a jury „and VII Monday, April 30th., tmte 2 cLocegkb,0Wrn.sHinffD-ealriOccieg.k, 1 hen, 2 !front of Fritz's too ? Justmeant1 fore Mr. Justice Masten, vrtthout , cockerel, 2 pullet, Doak & Johnston; this, that if at any time the power's jury. 4.} • -3 - 4