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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1917-05-18, Page 1(,) m Oro Aa e xore -tette nere asineSS Concern's rata- Ctor in the foundation Knowing this, we igoods of quality—tile nspire nfidence --our iVing met Chandise in ire is service value. we [le profits afforded by oUr chat:others in a way and praitable acituaine rinalance of their patron- INIONFOOMOOMMINIOOliallOWOIONONOMMINOIONOMONOIONlommosei ues r Shirt Waists? 'e have liberally anticipated Les to choose from—Fancy Voile Waists. lb e set, e t;75C to SOSOC, Underwear that makes the prices so re- iowns;6sc to $4 Skirts, rse; Drovers, eec to special, ,2 00 to 2.50 ; 11'- Whate Messes, 75c to 2.-00., I Underwear What pleased women of sind Miss 1917. The moral r. Try ?ur Cotton or Lisle 50 the garment. Summer isses anctehildren, in sleeve- akes. Prices 25c to 1.25 Near Big range of killings. Latest Belt Fashions, 20C Embroideries t quite diterent from the or - tarty atteactive. pular Color here for you to ing of Silks have we nad And you know the spleen is store for giving good s at the popular prices— • z.so the yard idth into, 1.Z57 • as, x. so, . so per yard OPOOMMOOMOOMOOOOOMOROOMOINCONOOO.O.O•ItOOMPOSO."11SIPO se prirtg and Slimmer Suits, w being shown hereIts n become in these garm- em and try them on. euii for the money than litire theo. IfTriFIRST YEAR E NUMBER 2579 Greig Clothing Co'y " Second to ,N _one " Ladies' Coat Specials for Saturday Big Bargains in Prices if real bargains in Coats appeal to the people, we are -going to sell every Spring Coat in our store by to &Clock Saturday night. We carry a heavy stock of the -choicest Coats procur- able from the best makers. This season we had bought more than usual—hence the necessity for a ering of the once in order to turn these inw cash. - There's a gemiine Bargain in here ° for every woman wanting 'a coat Choice of to Coats at.... ie•b••• &OS • .111 •••*. ****** • 000 o * $6050 Choice of 15 Coats at Choice of t-5 very fine Coats at e...... $14.95 and many other excellent choices In coats and -- Suits at $10, $12, $15 ** 0 100-* •• • .95 $9 • Men with Common Sense are taking to our Bach- elor Suits like ducks to water. Good reason why, too. Notwithstanding their good looks, good work- manship and good wear- ing qualities, they are the biggest bargain ever offered to men, being the first guaranteed trade -marked, nation- ally known clothes to be sold at 16L) is sold exclusively by .......... Fine Shirts for Spring We are showing the finest range of new Spring Shirts that has ever been shown in Seaforth. New plaid. it wide stripe patterns, in finestgingham & Silk quality with soft cellar to match if desired, soft or laundered cuffs. A Big Leader in striped pattern.... 6 +6,1E00 Fine Ginghams.••.,.••eat•••••••-••••••• 000 ••••:$1..50 Silks•...„.„.0•..06 0- ••••• 0•• ..... Wesled •tra,B,a • •••• • •.$2.50 Boys' Shirts... .... • ••••• • 0 •0 -50c to 75e TheGresigaColortrthing Co 0- SEAFORM, AY, MAY 18, 1917 TWO AND A HALF YEARS WIT/I the monotony of life in Roubaix, theTRE 1 etteition. GERMANS. gradual' worsening 6f -the food situa- tion, and the room:int rounding up a young men for deportation. By the medium of the sinugglers to We give the coriclusion of The whom I Will refer later I• had establith- narrative of Mr. J. P. Whittaker, - ed coninninicatiort with two young the yeung. Yorkshire man who French friends in Belgium, and I noti- was in Roubaixwhen it was enter- ,fied them of My intention to make ed by the GernianO in Octobor 1 a bid for 'Ilbettiet. We met One day at I 1914, and succeeded only recently the French-Beltpaa frontier b talk in making his ecsape. the matter our, with only *Ave foot wire fence between- . ter I join - Occasionally I made excursions ed thein Belgiuni, and they became Tourcoing, a commune which adjoin* My companion* in; flight, until we Roubaix on the side towards Lille. It parted in IIolland.. is not necessery to desoribe the condi- Of the method of *my esesipe frOm tions which, prevailed in- Toureoing. In France into. Beigituti I will say no all essential respects they Were ident- more than that I followed the track.of ice" with those of Roubaix. the smugglers and adopted the same Several, times 1 travelled farther a- means as they of tedtading the front - field and visited Lille. There was much ler guard. I entered Belgium with 500 in this great manufacturing town to marlorin German money (formerly the give food for reflection. Its throbbing equivalent of £25 aterling) in my .industrial life was paralyzed, its spin- pocket, and no more luggage than two dies and looms idle, its fens of thous- spare soft collarsand two handker-• ands of workpeople unemployed. Lille chiefie had paid 'to the German taskmasters Hew and wheretI *met my Mende I its tribute of slaves, and its homes do not proncuie to divulge. Shortly and workshops had been despoiled. It after we met we fell in with a party of was another Roubaix," doubled in mag- Belgians who made a living by saw- nitude. gling wool from General von Den 's 0 But Lille had other trials which part of the totintre into the area eon- ie , were unknown in the smaller town. It trolled by -General von Bissing. They was a fortified place, and it had paid agreed to take us With them, and that the penalty. Whole streets had been evening weaccompaniedthem -through obliterated by the German guns. The ploughed fields and wods to a spot wreckage remains teday, a menu- near the border betWeee the two areas. ment to German infamy. Here we 'Waited While the leaders of In all the weary months of 1915 and the gang went aheadittonake sure that 1916 I saw only fire men of the the coast was clear; Net -malty yards British army. They were brought in- away paced a German sentry. One of to Roubaix as prisoners, and they our party brushed i itt bow of a tree stood for a few minutes in the road., with his shoukleele; and, the soldier way welting for a tramcar to carry heard the crackleiif the twigs. He them a further stage towards captiv- stopped instantly iind stunned "Hale" ity. I tried' to get -near to them with a handful of cigarettes, but before I could elbow a way through the crowd of Germans and civilians who sur- rounded them a car came up and they were gone. Over the shoulders of the crowd, however, I could see that, al- though all of them were wounded, they were defiantly cheerfula One of them was munching a Imp of choc- olate. During my- stay in Belgium I saw much of the conditions under which the people live, both in town and village. • Four days I passed in Brussels and one in Antwerp. Partly on foot and partly behiad a horse I journeyed through a ,score of smaller towns and hamlets on my way across the coun- try. I have no reason to believe that the places which visited were not eepreseetative_Aethe whole country; but I put forward my experiences as eadderteeeettobet it to he seen in those- particulae goes, - • TM., nest 'fleet 1 lox* -to - datitare that *nowhere in my wanderingedid I see any sign ef starvation. Nowhere did I notice such privation of food as I had known in Northern France. At Brussels the food supply seems to be nearly normal. At Antwerp, with two French friends who accompanied Tale on my journey through Belgium, walked into a middle-class cafe at mid-day. I ordered a steak with fried potatoes, and my friends ordered pork • chops. Without any question about tickets, we were served. ,We added • bread, cheese, and butter to complete the meal, and washed it down -with draught light beer. Later in the day we took supper in the same cafe—an egg omelete, fried potatoes. bread, cheese, and butter. And the cost of both meals together was less than tin cost of the steak alone in Roubaix. Even in the little village where I hid myself, there was no de rth of good ,• food. His Escape. When I add that 'in B ussels, Ant- arerp, and other towns, thp retail shops displayed an abundaece lof foodstuffs of very sort, and that, according to common knowledge, the erman sold- iers buy a great deal of f od for trans- mission to their homes, ie will be real- ized that some parts at any rate of Belgium are not suffering so severely as most people in England suppose from want of nourishment. The policy of the Ger to be to interfere as lith with the everyday life o The fruits of this polic ems appears e as possible the country. are teen in a remarkable degree in , Brussels. All day long the main streets of the city ,„ are full of bustle, and all the out- ward manifestations of rosperity. The theatres, rnusic halls, cin.ema palaces, and cafes of Brussels were open and crowded. All the scenes -which I have describ- ed in Brussels were reproduced in Ant • weep. There was a slightly closer sup- ervision over the comings and goinge of the inhabitants, but there was tne same unreal atmosphere of content- ment and real appearance of plenty. In the country districts two things struck inc as unfamiliar after my long months in France. About Roubaix not a single head of cattle was to be seen; in Belgium every farm had its cows. • 0, *4 4 * OP- * The Big ictory oncert WILL BE REPEATED TUESOAY EttelleINCi ay 22nd CARDNO'S OPERA HOUSE SEAFORTIL Admission 35C & 50c Plan opens at A be rhart's Drug Store, atarday noon. Phone ords re will be held until 7..30 Ma. 2.2nd * 111.' 0 10 leineeitnentnitetee• 0 0 110-- • 0 * • 0 0 • 0 0 \ the spot where the two sentries had just met. Scrambling through barbed wire and over an unelectritied wire, he grasped the electrified wire and wrig- gled between them. We came close The smugglers dropped their packages on his heels. He heldethe jeadly el- and ran, and the Frenchmen and I ran ectrified wires apart with lengths of with them. thick plate glass with 'which he had We were more fortunate in our next attempt Once on ,the other side of the border lin ,e found our way eas- ily to Bruise's. - Brussels was an !wen town, and ,we entered it without ihallenge, Friends gave us shelter and food, and We pass- ed four days as enjOyable as any pre- war holiday. - Refreshed by oni stay in Brussels, we eriade our way lee the •outskiets come provided while first my other companion and I crawled through. Be- fore the sentries returned we had run some hundreds of yards into No Man's, Land between the electrified wires and the real Ditch frontier. Only one danger remained. We had no certainty that the Dutch frontier guards would not hand us back to the Germans. We took no risks, though it meant wading through a Antwerp. En route* walked through stream waste deep. Our troubles Itlilines, and saw the effects of the were now practically over. By rapid Ge,nnao glans in the,early days of the stages we proceeded to Rotterdam. At Rotterdam I reported myself to War. \ Outside of Antwerp We boarded a the Beth* Consul. r wile treated tramcar. German soldiers at the oct- with the utmost Idridne,ss. ee... roi apparently were searching aaatt poises daring the next four or five going into the city, but theie ignored days, while I vraitea for a boat, were the tramcar, and eve went =challenge and I was given ray fare to Hull. ed. We Walked about the streets all There I was - seimbed by tvat day, taking our mesas eafe, and : Police andaquestioned closely by an Passed- 1441,24gbt- , examinift ° mr,..ijap6utt. „were- aWale.,..hretti aft* tibial/lag over toe eittiation* from all' pointe of View, any idea of atteripting to go into As I was again practically without eele appietfor them at the noine means I was given permission to go to my home in Bradford before going to London. I wrote to the Horne Office on the day after my arrival in England, now over three weeks ago. A week later I received from the Department a printed acknowledgement, stating in the usual formula that my letter would received attention in due course. Since then I have had no word from the Home Office, though since the pulica- Holland by the shortest route. We gpessed that it would be closely watch- ed and we decided that our wisest course Would be to make for some dis. tent part of the frontier. The indirect route meant many days and nights of travel, all of which must be made on foot. The weather was severe, the temperature well below the freezing point. Snow fell at times and froze as it fell. We ploughed along, sleep in barns and under hedges, until at a villager "somewhere •in Belgium." tion of these articles I have gsven eer- iest we found shelter in the house of Here we stayed for more than three tam, and I hope useful information to weeks, not venturing out of doors ex- various Government departments. time hung heavily, on our hand*, and FROM VIMY RIDGE. ex- cept by night. Once more, as in France again card games, especially piquet, Mr. Ed. Davidson of Walton, has became my chief occupation. received the following letter from hi* One evening in February, we made *other, Pte. N. L. Davidson, who Dutch frontier. We tramped, for hours was wounded at Vimy Ridge, France. our first effort to cross the Beigian- through the darkness over fields and Dear Brother and All,—Well I ar- theough thickets. lice slept on straw rived in England o.k. and am enjoy - in a disused building, and continued. ing civilized life once more, I am in a hospital in Birkenhead, quite a large that day we toiled on, still keeping to place, just across the river from Liv. our tramp soon after' daybreak. All the fields. and woods. On the way we erpool, the place where we landed from overtook another small party. 'Phey Canada. Well Ed, I will start at the seemed at first no more pleased to see first and give you some of the history us than we were to see them, but it did of happenings from the time we start - not take us long to discover that their ter Monday. Our Battalion held about ed over the top at Vimy Ridge on Eas- purpose and ours were the same, A- 150 yards of front line trench; that the British Army. He did not give men and as there was an attack on a means about seven or eight hundred mong them, I found, was an officer of me hisname but he mentioned that he 12 mile front you can imagine the had been stationed at Hounslow. He number that went over. Somewhere the Germans during the retreat from y about .72,000 men jumped over the top at 5.80 in the .morning after a barrage had been wounded and captured b Mons, andel-Lad managed to escape af- of 3 minutes from our guns, I won't ter many months in hospital. try to describe the barrage as one can - We reaehed by nightfall a hut in not imagine what it is like without see the heart of a wood and there we ing it except that the shells started rested Until about 9 o'clock. Then, oenveFryriytza'redfroofnhtislifnreonetnda shwelpdtofaltmhoemst ing the hand of the man in front of , trenches was killed before we went so that almost every German in the walking in single file, each man hold- : were within a few yards of the electri- i down in, the dugoute though, but they over. There were all lands of them him, we approached the frontier. We . cal wires when a German • patrol sud- I were not hard to handle, but even denly took alarm and fired in our direc- I with the artillery fire we had quite tion We turned and ran for some a number of wounded and a few killed I distance. It was raining in torrents. 1,-- ht. , _at We crouched crouched under a hedge for hours, , went dismally back to the hut in the I we , There are throe reasons for the success of Motion Picture Entertainment and then, vvhen all seemed quiet, The picture I have presented of Bei- woods. There we held a council of I it gium as I saw it is, of course vastly war. It was decided to postpone the of the first stage of the war. our hiding -places. What became of , N. 05., Pnbii ear in Advawe as Fritz opened up with his big guns of annnunition holding the right Rank as soon as he knew where we were with two fellows, one wounded and the and although he had not the twent- other sick who Imew nothing about ieth part of the artillery we had, still a machirie gun. Thank God: Fritz he got quite a number. I was hit dideit counter-attack. We slept that when I had gone about two hundred 'night in a shell hole and hi the morn - and fifty yards into his line. and as II ing four new men came up and was useless as a fighting man, I turn-' Thompson and Barret went out. We ed and came back to our dressing sta- all went back that night to our old tion. On the way out I eaw quite trench for 48 hours, recorganizied, and a number killed and wounded. brought one fellow out with me who had been hit in both lege and one arm. Although both sides had been shell- ing quite a bit for months before this the ground did not look so very bad, but the two hours from the time we storted over till we came back completely changed; atta trenches were filled level and the test of the ground was one mass of shell holes, in fat after seeing it one would wider how it is possible for anyone to live ni suelwa place and yet once you get started you will go through it as cool and quiet almost as if there was no aanger. I walked about three miles after being dressed then might a mot- or lorrie to the next dressing station where we were bandaged again, then we were taken in a Red Cross motor to the train Which brought us to Bou- logne on the coast iof France, where we stayed in an Anittalian Hospital for about three days and then were shipped to England. From the time I came out of the firing line I have been used like a king. No one seems to be able to do enough for us, there was hot bovril or cocoa every place we stopped and the Y.M .Ci A. gave ns both coeoa and biscuits, besides eigarettes, and -when we got out of the trait here the people of tile towns were at the station with private cars to bring us to the hospital. All the help in the city is voluntary, and I haven't had so much ldndness shown me for a long time, the only thing that is worrying meinow is that my arrn may heal up too quickly and give me trouble. However, I believe that by the way they are driving them now since they have got started that it cannot last mirch longer and as I am • only abbut fifteen minutes ride from iverpool, I will: likely be one of the 1lrst home. • Well, "'suppose you will be having real nice Weather. It is line here, al - through across in France it was mis- erable enough. Well; Ed, I will close for this time, hoping you are all well. Love to all. NELSON A SEAFORTH BOY AT VIMY RIDGE. • The follovving letter was written by a Seaforth boy to his parents. He • joined the Princess Pats and has been eit a machine gun in • Ponce , for ventraceiths past: . Trenches, April 16, 1917. Dear Mothen—No doubt You are all very anxious to know how I came through the big fight I sent you a card before ,and after so I suppose: you know I as all right. I am writ- ing now in a German dugout. Fritz is landing a few around but I don't think they are intended for us. There are six 'of us, the others being all .asleep. I have ben "in" now eleven days and I guess I look pretty wild; but I don't feel that way at all. My team was chosen, at least four of them were, eo go over the top, and we were in charge of the sergeant; who was- also in charge of the gun on our • left. In order of seniority was Sgt. • Connor, myself, Kavanagh, Joe Duffy, (his brother John was left behind) and Gordon, besides two ammunition carriers from the battalion, Barret and Thoirapson. On Easter Monday the ninth, at 5.80 in the morning, ev- ery gun on the front opened up, with a barrage on the German front Inc and we climbed out of an old treed) in No Man's /and and started over between the first and second wa re of infantry which were about fifty came in again so here 1 ant tha only one of the bunch that came over with me left: Fred, Bud 'Cavanagh and Vic. Fell eishom I rarely see, were my only churns out here and they are both gohe now. The fellows all tell me I am lucky. Well I guess I am. It was a _great Easter for me Mother, one of the red letter days of my life, but !ley say we )1 all be home for Christ - rale. 1 hope so. - HURON NOTES. —Mr. Matthews, manager of the Auburn Branch of the Sterling Bank, has purchased from Rev. Mr. Laing, his horse and earriage. Mr. Laing has invested in an auto. —The first boat to arrive in the Goderich harbor this year was the eteamer Grahairewith a cargo of wheat for the Goderich Elevator. The Gra- ham arrived Tuesday morning. —Mr. H. R. Sharpe, acting rnana- gee of the Clinton branch of the Mol - sons Bank, has moved his family from Alvinston and they are oenupying the residence on Maple Street recently vacated by Mr. 11. E.. Paul. —The following are the officers of the Clhiton Ladies' Bowling Club:— Hon. President, Mrs. W. Jaelison; President, Mrs. F. A. Axon; Vice - President, Mrs. J. E. Hovey; Secy.- Treas., Miss J. E. Robertson; Com- mittee—Mrs. Jack McKinnon, Miss Maud Torrance, Miss Amy Howson. —Mrs.- Alex. Orr, a former wen known resident of Wingharre died at her home in Toronto on Sunday morn- ing last. Mrs. Oa bad been in poor health for some weeks. Her late hue - band was for some years taroprietor of th Brunswick Hotel. The remains were taken to Teesweter on Tuesday for interment in the literally plot. —Mr. A. Wilkin, has purchased Mr. Thomas- Watts' shoe repairing busi- ness in Clinton and has removed his stock into the shop lately occupied by Mr. Watts, which has been overhauled and renovated It is an excellent lo- • cation and as Mr. Wilkin is a good workman and one who sticks right to business, he will no doubt do wen. —In order to meet the peculiar con- ditions existing this year, it has been arranged that jury and non -jury sit- tino of the circuit courts in Ontario Shall be combined and rnost o1'. the sittings have been arranged to take lace after harvest The date for God- rieh is November 5, with Mr. justice Sutherland as thi# presiditig e —The Clutter/ town courail has chaseci 300 bags of potatoes are to be sold to citizens for seed pur- poses only. They are from New On- tario and are reported to be an ex- cellent sample. The price laid down ton be about $4.00 per bag. They are promised within a week, in plenty of time for spring seed planting. —At the regular me-eting of the Winghard General Hospital Board held on Friday evening it was decided to spend about $4,000 in remodelling and enlarging the hospital. Nurses' quar- ters, including parlor, and balcony, will be 'built and the large dining room in. the rear of the main building, till have one story added to it, also two stories will be added to the kitchen. This will make the whole- building a three-story structure, which will malie four more rooms. —About 75 members and friends inge in the Baptist church, Winghain, on Tuesday evening when a very pleasant time was spent. There was a good programmme of songs and recitatioris end refreshments were served. The feature of the evening was the reading of an address and the presentation of yards apart Our artillery barrage a p f old to Miss E. Regraohle, kept gradually lifting and we kept Miss Reynolds has been a teaener ni steadily advancing till about two hun- the Baptist Sunday School for forty dred yards pastleis front line we were years and her faithful service during held up for a few minutes . Joe Duffy those years has been appreciated by was just getting into a shall hole with the members of the congrgationa me when he said, "I'm hit" and died in —A c,ortipany of young lady friends twenty seconds with a bullet from a called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. sniper or a, maxhine gun, in the side Robert Thompon, of Brussels, on Mon - near his heart With him went two day evening and presented the nostess belts of airimunitioe and our water with an address and a kitehen rocia• tin. We started on again, by the way, hag chair and other very useful ariet me cariwing the gun, and when loo cies by way of reolembering that it ed around about a hundred. yards fur- was the 5th anniversary of their mar- ther Kavanagh and Gordon were liege and consequently the wooden missing and the next time Thompson wedding, A fine time was enjoyed W4 nov.ihere to be seen. Kavanagh, and the party broke up with the ex - different from the outraged Belgium attempt for a while and to return to Lest there should arise any rnisun- the British officer I do not know. ! derstanding, I complete this picture My companions and I retraced our , 1 let. Th Price: by stating my conviction, based on in- steps wearily to the vila.ge from which' The Princess was for years the tirnate talks with Belgian men and wo- we had started, and for a fortnight we i only house in Ontario, outside of men, that the population as a whole remained there, under the roof of a I Toronto, =ming at 5 cents. Li - are keeping a stiff upper lip, and villager who had previously sheltered' censes and the amusement tax that attempts by the Germans to se- us. At the end of this second period • finally forced mato 10c. , duce them from their allegiance by of waiting, which was even more try- 2nd.—Availability. ni ht blandishment and bribery, will fail as ing than the first, we repeated our - One can drop in any time any surely as the efforts of frightfulness. journey stage by stage to the hut and • g - In isublishing this account of -my es- on towards, the. frontier, , 3r&—Quality. cape from France into Belgium, and When we drew near to the wiees,iust We have always used particular from Belgium inth Holland, I have before midnight, we lay on the ground care in. booking, 'Using exclus- ro intention of publishing anything and wriggled along until we were i ively the product of the oldest - those left behind to make their way lay for what seemed to be an intermine 1 and best known producers, While we do not try to compete with which might make it more difficUlt for within 50 yards of Holland. There we - as I have done to freedom . Nor shall able time. We saw patrols passing. , City houses for the newer films; I give any clue to the identity of those An officer came along and inspected ' if they are good you will see who gave me shelter and helped nt the sentries. Eveiy thing was oppres • them eventually. We have thus in many other ways on my perilous sively quiet. been able to show you au the best known stars in their biggest -suc- journey. ceases at -it price satisfactory to Each sentry moved to and fro over a I left France early in January and dstance of a couple of himdred yards. the public Att4 ourselves. landed in England just two calendar Opposite the place where we lay two months later, having travelled across of them met. Choosing his (*porton- ! Belgium and a good part of Holland. i ity, one of ray comrades, who had pi 1 some time before I set out on himself -with a pair of rincess 0- ForDer Inv adventurous journey I had hen gloves some weeks before for the gro'' enee- increasi' *ugly restiosor owi lie to calm' moment" rushld ferwaM I hear died of wounds and Gordon went pression of hearty good wishes. In considering yoli entertainment ro. member the old reliable The PRINCESS back with shell -shock, I guess. Next one to get it was Sergt. Bertie Con- nor. We were held up again and a shrapnel burst right in our faces, a nice big piece going right through the upper bone in his right arm, breaking it clean, also getting a battalion man in the leg. As we were held up any - map, there are now 93 members ni good 70 how I bound up his at; , took his standing it looks as if the objective . —At the regular meeting 0 lurpey Orange Lodge Tuoedry evening last there were two initiatiens and two members joined by certificate. Also four applications were received. SO1n0 months ago it was anticipated that the membership would reach a hun- dred before the 12th of July and as case and rum bottle, y e y, didn't have a shot of rum before we went over. just after this we halted forty minutes to re -organize after ad- vancing nine hundred yards. Just myself with the gun ami spare parts and Barret with two boxes of Um muni- tion, one of which was snoiled by a piece of shrapnel, although it saved his life, Here, however, we were join- t(' by two other lade with more aminu- nition and a tin of water who had lost themselves. After forty minutes we started forward again and inunediete- ly one •of the new comers got lost again. •We advanced altogether 1300 yards and dug in—that is our brigade, the next one carried on from there a few hours afterwards. 11.1x. Cham- bers came along after I had picked a position and shook hands all around, Before we started, you know, I was shown where to go by a map. He wan greatly excited as it was his first time under shell fire. Ile had a slight shrapnel wound in the left shoulder, which he was quite pleased with. Here Thompson rejoined us with one box of ammunition, the other having been cut off his back by a piece of. shrepnel which cut him across the beck from shoulder to shoulder, but he wouldn't go out when I said he could JO there I was with a gun and four texas would be reached easily. In addition to the routine business of the month the lodge voted sixty dollars for the erection of an arelt in the lo,lite room. —On Tueoday afternoon the home of Mr. Wiliam Strachan, Cambria Road, Goderich, was badly damaged as the result of fire. The blaze started from some wood which Mrs. Strachan was drying in the oven and had then placed in a back kitchen. The fire- men were handicapped for a time by having poor power and the fire having mane its way into the rroof of the house was not easily extinguished. A good deal of damage wee done by water also. The building and =- tents were insured. —At the regular meeting of Mait- land Lodge, No, 33, A .F. & Goderich on Tuesday evening last, the lodge was made te recipient of a hand- some gift by Rev. J. W. Trusslece in the form of a beautiful life -like oil painting of the late W. Bro.. ridajor C. E. Sale, suitably framed. The paint- ing is portrait like in its fidelity of re- esentailon of the feature' of the let° ajor, and even the detail of regi- mental badge and buttons S reprodae- ed. The coloring is veryfie and tee painting will be very by the lodge.