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The Huron Expositor, 1917-07-13, Page 1-V 61 tal7 ,11"14.18"6-"5"11618116104'..7---- MST 'THAR OLENIThlent UST swoRrni, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1917 Greig .Clothing " &WW1 to None >me nth van Gloves You get here kind that . cool and _ortable, ear wefl and st little, eith- er fabric or kid makes, all pop- ular 'shades are n stock. We are .particular- li strong in SILK Gloves _ of quality. Pri ces from 50e to $1.50 itage hone reatest Clothing Sale in eaforth's Histor •=c=cscz.-. The largeness of our stock, the superior quality of our clothing, the splendid service to every zustomer and the exactness with which we carry into effect every de- tail of our advertised sales, *lakes this !clearing out sale a continuous, day after day, HUMMER. People coming in now get just as good choice, and ican make just as good .3election as in the hrst days if the sale. Not one man, woman or boy in this community should miss this splendid opportunity to buy Clothing necessities at bne half actual value. We mention only a few of the many hargains offered Hats• Beautiful Felt Hats in all colors and shapes, worthup to $3 for $1.49 Very choicest of new Straw Hats of (every shape an4:1Ze. •Regular $1. tO V), for ' ••J, flOc to $1.99 Summer Caps 200 Silk and Lightweight Caps, 200 very fine Caps .. 75 Boys' caps Prices As igh as $5 are the Corsets worn e best dressed women at home and abroad9 e conforming to the fig - •hey addgrace and beauty le wearer and lend that Etti n able something -Style every woman who wears Style -,vith Comfort) Agowswv.m.v.v rth h40400404nh40400401.0.40 0 Fine Silk, flowing Oeela&WO. O• 00 *a •O •• • price 69c • • ********* 1.006 ***** .0 •. Handkerchiefs 1,000 fine Handerchiefs ** • ........ ....39c 4C nose 500 pairs Men's Socks, grey and brown colors, per pair ....19c 400 pairs heavier Wool Sox sale price . 29c 500 pairs' Braces poo pairs Braces sale price : ";. . / 29c Suitt; - , • • - 50 Suits ti Your Measure in very choicest stitings, tale price $22.00 75 Suit Ends of 'fine old country cloth, per suit end • $12.29 , Men's Suits • 225 Twelve to Fourteen Dollar Suits, sal price ... $8.99 200 Fifteen to Eighteen Dollar Suits,sale price j. $12.99 100 Twenty to Twenty-five Dollar Suits, sale pric . .$15.99 Boys' Suits Embracing all the wanted designs of Boys' Snits, for boys four years to sixteen years of age. Remember met is not considered in marking these Suit prices. 40 Norfolk and Double Breasted coat, $5. to $.7 suits, sale price $4.29 80- very fine $7.25 to $8.50 suits, sale price $5.89 Pants 75 pairs of grey stripe, part cotton, sale price $1.69 100 pairs of fine worsted grey stripe, sale price .. $2.49 100 pairs fine dress pants, sale price • Boys 'Knickers • 100 pairs Knickers, fine, for boys 8 to 16 years, sale price 89c 100 pairs mere fine Knickers sale price ••$1.19 .. Stockings, sale price, per pair 29c Collars -500 Odd Linen Collars, each 7c • Raincoats 35 Nine and Ten Dollar Raincoats, sale price • $6.99 35 Twelve to Fourteen Dollar Raincoats •$9.29 Women's Raincoats ,sale price $4.99 Boys' Raincoats, sale price ••$3.29 Overcoats 150 ten to eighteen dollar Overcoats, including coats of all weights from 'leiter to heavier winter coats, and all -different styles, sale price7• $7 to $11.49 liT3rk Shirts 300 Work Shirts, made of strong goods, long full cut, and many colors to choose from, sizes 14 to 18, regular 75c to 90c, sale price .... . • • . . .... .79c 400 extra choice fine material Work Shirts ,regular $1.25 to $1.75 sale price ... . ...99c Children's Hats and Linen Hats, sale priee sale price 016•004.40,s emeo Ties ends, sale price 75 Children's Silk Children's Straws, Fancy Shirt& 1 250 Dress Summer Shirts, which sold for $1 +.0 300 Extra Choice Quality Fine Shirts, regrilar Summer Underwear se 300 Balbriggan Underwear,sal price o 1 e ea . t . . . 81 Pfdilleces 1Ptilw W ol to be c lu at 00 400 pieces pure wool .... .. . •• • • • • • • • c • • • • • 200 pieces Pure Wool ..... .... ............. Overalls Sale Price .... ..• . . ...... Suits and Coats 75 Ladies'suits and coats,very fine garraeute tGoods exchanged if not satisfactory. ••••••••• . .... .44c r. • . • • • • • .29c .29c $1.25, sale price 79e $1.25 to $1.50 ..99c ... . • . . • . . • . . 44e old wolesale prices. 89c **6 • • • ..... ...$1.29 41.29 *oefoo•ipo ae •it".•119A9 Terms- -Cash BERLIN TO -DAY. . The following is an article by Mr. P. Sefton 4Delmer, who left' Berlin on May 28, He is an AllatTaliallAtall a student at Berlin, and became English lecturer at the university there in 1901 Interned at Ruldeben from November 1914, to. March, 1915, he afterwards enjoyed 'enema opportunities of ob- serving deVelopments in Berlin. Although, the fact has never been publicly proclaimed, everybody knows 1 that a major of the _general staff gath- ers the newepaper editors together once a week and tells them what they are to talk about in their news- papers during the coming week and -w-hat attitude to adopt. On the whole the German press is a meek -flock, and baas loud or Stthotight it wise to be franker with the oft, east or west as he Military Press Bureau prescribes. , people than it has been on military. The courage of evert the most questions. "We can and must hold mdaaunximitleslisanofnatrhdeen,Boerolziens. be a close thing. , Our bread supply "but it will fmger-tips when it comes to the point. out atili5tsthe'' out" ea" the authorities; is assured till iAtlgtist 15, and with I heard him one evening tell a crowded luck and good management ere cad public meeting in the big Philharmonic make ends meet till" the new harvest Hall that he had been forbidden by the °wiles t° °ur relief* authorities to dismiss the question of The Food Controller and his colic- peaee terms. With an heroic gea. agues realize, . however, that they are ture-he has been an actor in his time walking °11 the edge °I a PreeiPice • e ----he protested, "I would not let the They ktiow that .the economic wish •f1 of the Government stand in ran. gins are so narrovi that a false step way if I thought it was to Gennany's to right or left may hurl them into the advantage to disregard it," The '.Theulf. crowd applauded. unheard-of in- question is whether the new dependence of spirit, but at Hard a harvest of 1917 will he punctual. No next meeting he cooed as soft a one dares to hone that this harvest dove,. for his magazine, the, Z es, will not be a good one.i it may in - had in the meantime been confiscated deed' as man"vith good reason, fear' and he had promptly mime to heel. turn out with a disastrous failure. The extraordinary weather From private sourcee I lcnow that that prevailed Harden is convinced not only that throughout Northern Germany during thmon there need have been no European e critical - months of March, April, wax had Germany not decided on -it and May has been from. the f.armer's that, England and France did their standpoint, the worts thinkable. Not bonce but a hundred tines, I have heard est to prevent the war, but, what is w many blundeOfena wainless May, 'red into an unequal and :people say, l"It seeins as if God Him- self were nst we • orse in his eyes,he thinks that Ger- agai therefore disastrous contest through. Thing waheard departing from Bisnmrckian traditions h°t as miasummett'f°11°*ed . an ice- departing statesmanship. bound April. The date .of the corn - Needless to say, I attended Such pule. fields even te my mnagrieultural eye, lie meetings as the one at the Phillam as we passed threVa the plains of monic all mentioned above entirely the Mirk 0 Brandenburg' and a Mecklenburg in tbe-:tftin on.May 23 at my. own risk. I was supposed to aur as. by a magnet to the scene of hsegilfirmed 1113' Irtiliee• The farther teir, and within reach of the North remain inmy home after 8 pen, Three or four thews, likse a criminal drawn' wet we got, toward. Dutch front past crimes, I went out to Rubleben Sea coastal rainsgthahetter the crops looked, and Holland was a smiling gar- den. There is a temptation in such cases to let the wishlhe father to the thought, but T can, j think say with safety that the coming hay and grain .harvests in Germany. will this year be exceptionally poor ones, and that the grain harvests will, in the whole of Northern Germany. --of Southern Ger- many I cannot speak --be fully six , weeks late. ' But may not a fat in Rumania help Out a lean year :in Prussia? What Germany has to ',expect. from Ru- mania's coming haziest nobody knows. ndous laints in Malden tonifields 1 le:tholitatev. ealittmg6o4 nor have 1 ev 8QU or heard of al single statement of hi that betrayed anything more *Pia a mediocre mind., Nevertheless, sunieg the Reventlow party Ben' denbarglifs;04,1 a fetish. Hindenburg,or tie Hindenburg, bath seldiers and officers are sick of the war in general wed the western front in particular, frOin ifhiet officers are known regularly to head their letters home with. the WOWS, "Still Alive." And that, I think, expresses the state of Germany regarded as a whole "In spite of everything, we're still alive!" At the present moment every Ger- man is anniously.asking himself, "Will our food supplies hold out?" On this subject the Kaiser's Government has and walked through Spandau. I some- , times visited kinemas; too, that were ' showing war films but the game was i ' i never worth the candle. These films - love to show the Boche as a Allan- . i thropiet. Now he will- he sharing his / ; dinned with some orphans in the oe- ; cupied territory, now standing with ' bowed head in some ruined church, and : anon feeding a Belgian baby from a i bottle . I Just before I Came away however, the Moewe films were shown, ane they , were from many. points Of view well worth seeing. From a German stand- point they are undoubtedly a gross miiitake fon, in their grin realismi - tliensibring Iteille .tii thefielinider' the wholesale and wanton destruction of merchantmen and lead the imagination to conceive the unspeak- able horrors of the U-boat war, hor- rors which the German, as a whole, have not yet grasped. One sees on these films, which take exactly one hour to show, steamers and sailing ships brought up, one sees the torpedo strike the ships and the noble ves- sel, as- in agony, struggle, writhe, • fill and sink. • The effect on the spectators was the • very reverse of what the military au- thorities wished to produee. Far from • being exhilarated, the public seemed ' depressed by the sight of what they • felt to be cold-blooded murder of un- armed ships. "Frightful," they whis- per, as if it is just begiening to dawn on them why.that other more terrible and cowardly. form of hostilities, the • U-boat War, has made the -German name so 'detested throughout the, eiv- • ilized world. " In spite of all the Germans' twist- • ing of facts and all their skill in mak- ing -the worse appear the better reas- • on, they really do not -believe they are • winning. None of them has, it is true• , any idea of. the actual losses iri the field. Vague estimates are current. I take one that is going the rounds as being the most symptomatic. Among the officials at the Deutsche Bank a report was recently in circulation esti-. mating Germany's losses alone at 1,- 300,000 men killed up to the end of March, 1917. A civilian in a high official position, who Was present at the discussion, contradicted this, say- ing that he -believed this estimate to be too low by at least half a million. But no officialtto4ls are published. The lehg sheets hfitasualties are still pasted up on the polished granite of the Staff 'College in Berlin, but one no longer sees the groups of weeping wo- men and eager searchers that were constantly standing there in the early stages of the war. The Authorities now have more expeditious private ways of informing the relatives In spite of their doubts about vic- tory, and of their distrust of and re- sentment at the methwds their own government have adopted towards them, there is, as I said before, no sign that the Germans will yield till they are at the last gasp. I have, myself, however, heard certain members of the Roman Catholic Centre party in the Reichstag say that they did not see how either Germany or its enem- ies could possibly hold out till Christ- mas. Any such discouraging state- ments when made by less, privileged individuals than members of Parlia- ment are liable to be regarded as treasonable, and a reward of 1150 is promised to anyone who can bring any propagator of such rumors to book. Police proclamations to this effect a- dorn the advertisement pillars in the streets. This public incitement to private denunciation has produced a reign of terror. "Nobody is safe in even the most confidential conversa- tion," I heard a university student say. This new regulation has certain ly had the effect of muzzling conver- sation between all but the closest of friends. . Even their idol, Hindenburg, now conies in for criticism. He has the reputation of being a man who boasts U! never having read any books ex - Greig Clothing Co SEA FORTH ••••••••••)•e•oecosososs000bemese.044)**eos• There Imo been o the Rekbatag: nght Me breei yield from thee this year, The Germans made a great fuss about the alleged banduls, of wheat that fell into *their hands when they overran the country last autumn . But as I knew for certain, it was a case of much cry and little wool. The Rumanian wheat sack, dangled be- fore the hungry eyes of the German industrial centresmever arrived. What ever grain did, after much squabbling • between Germany and Austria, find its way into the Fatherland was at once grabbed by the military. And here I -must emphasize the fact that in every case where the interests of the civil and military clash. the civil claims have on principle to give way. 'Soldiers first!" is the iron motto. I have heard raembers of the Reichstag assert that if the worst comes to the worst the aged of both sexes must be allowed to perish first as their work for the state is -over and done. In _ order not to be unfair, I will here ad- mit that at present aged people receive a special allowance of one pound of oatmeal per month. The people in the queues, however, are well aware of the ultra -Spartan measures in store for them. • A few weeks ago, I heard an old woman, whose application for milk on grounds of illness had been refused lament, "Now that I can't work any lcnger or bear any Mee children they regard me as a burden on the State.. And that's what they call Kultur!" Next in importance after the men in the fighting line -when it is a question of grading rations according to the re- cipients' to. the State -come the munition workers, and after them --a long way after them --come the troops in barracks, the troops doing mere garrison duty, and even the men confined to the hospitals. These last three categories all complain of the short coramons on which they have to live compared with relatively plentiful rations of the first two dames, and are continually writing home to their re- lations for extra food. They write in vain. Such soldiers' comforts have ceased. For it is impossible for peo- ple who have not a crumb to spare to send away even the smallest portion of their own meagee allowance. The only things they can now send their soldiers are tobacco and spirits. I Was talking to our baker the other I day and asked him how his son, a boy not yet 18, was getting on. "Oh, he's been in the hospital at Pinsk for the last three months with rhetunatisimand glad to be there,except that he hasn't enough to eat. But what can we send him? We haven't enough even for our- selves . "It's enough to drive one crazy!" The well paid munition workers ex- cite the envy of the rest of the work- ing classes. "These munition workers who are getting handsoine pay and all sorts of extra food, even sausages and fat, are the last who dia.ve reason to strike," says the ordinary -workman. The munition workers' strike in Ber- lin in the middle of April was brought about by the proclamation of a small- er bread ticket. The strike had prac- tically no political inspir-ation and was soon nipped in the bud. liteLIAN BROIL, INNIMia* a Yew ia /Ames .......e.vava•talfaaaa."ki•00.40.00.00avaa.. France's Day JULY 14th France's National Holiday A. Flag Day,under the auspices of the Canamian Red Cross So- ciety, will be held on SATUR- DAY, JULY 14th, for the flick and wounded soldiers in the • French. Hoepitals, as well as the French Prisoners of War. France needs all the help we can give her, for this is no • charity we are offering to our • pliant ally. It is a debt of • honor. What would have been our plight to - day had that wonderful wall of Men& Sold- iers broken in the, early days of the war before we were ready? Let no one keep from giving because their centribu- tion might happen to be small. Let us all do our utmost to help those who are suffering and in need that we may enjoy liber- ty. We hope for a generous response to this anpeal. Cap- tains and. their aseistants will cover the town and suburbs. fil0.0.044:esetidtd>41e0.0.0e. team of horses he had been working. He was apparently stricken with heart failure. The late Mr. Drununond was in his 68th year and was widely known throughout the tsmnship and vicinity. Besides his widow a large fatally eurvives. PERSONAL EXPLA14ATION. Seaforth, July 11, 1917 Editor, Hinson Expositor I will appreciate' it if you publish the following personal explanation. I accompanied the 1.61st (Huron) Battalion to England,' as second in Gormand. Shortly after our arrival in England 1, watt ordered to France for instructional purposes and ,duty, and was attached while over there to the 5th Battalion and had a much ap- preciated opportunity to visit and in- speet the front line held by the Can- adians and got valuable Instruction as to how things are carried on:inFrance and in the trenches. Shortly after my return to the 161st Battalion,. Gen- eral Swift, Brigadier of our Brigade, ordered me to take a two' Months' couree at an Imperial 'Senior Officers School of Instruction at Bedford, stat- ing that it was the best course in England and that When I had fitiished, weuld he qualified ed lead a Battalion anywhere. I attended said course and at the final qualifying examina- tions obtained the following percent- ages: In Administration and Organization 94 Topography and Map reading ....77 Tactics 59 Trench Warfare .86 316 A total of 79 per cent. in all sub- jects. On the day following my return from Bedford, General Swift sent for me and said to me that I had passed a very sati'sfactory examination and he wanted me to. accept an appoint, naent in England as he did not think I could stand the strain of a campaign in France. I pointed out to him that I was in better physical condition than when he asked mete take the Bedford Course and that I Imew from personal experience what wceild be required of me in France and ivies quite prepared to go. Be pressed me to remonsider his proposition re Staff appointment County in which your Battalion was raised. A.B. SWIFT Brigadier -General Commanding 1.4th Canadian infantry Brigade 1 did everything that was possible to get permission to accompany our men to Fran.ce and when I could not get that permission, I declined. to ace cent any appointment in England for I did not consider that my services were required there, as there are hun- dreds of officers in England who are without appointments and who are anxious for same. . When the full facts are known with reference to the treatment meted out to the officers and N. C. 0.'s in the Battalions in the 5th Division, includ- ing the 160th (Bruce) and 161st (Hur- on) Battalion, I am confident that the people of the Counties of Bruce and Huron will strongly resent same. None of the Offieers sent to the 161st Batalion had any experience at the front, except Major Bowen, who had 14 months' experience in France. and had been wounded, and Major Bowen was outspoken against wha he saw being carried out and refused accept any appointment in the Bat- talion and has left it; Further the following dissatisfied Officers of their own motion, have transferred out of the Battalion, viz: Majors Carelton and Gregory, Captains Macpherson and Malone, Lieutenants iGregory, Hall, Smith, Ball and Cluff (Rex). Yours sincerely, R. S. HAYS THE LAST LETTER. The following letter , was received last week by Mr. William Taylor, of Morris township, from his son, Man- son Taylor, who was killed in action in France on June 19th, just six days after the letter was written. Manson Taylor enlisted with the Mounted Itifies in Edmonton, at the beginning of the war, and had been in the tren- ches for over two years. Huron County, the others in the west. His wife predeceased helm 28 years. - -Mr. William Me of UsWrne, last week received word that his sore Ptei Ed. A. Oise, had been wounded on .the 16th and admitted to the hospital& The nature of his wounds has not yet been learned. This is the second on to be wounded on the battlefield. Pte., Ernest Oke has been home for some time recuperating from wounds- -J. H. Bennet. of Wingham has had another narrow' escape from Leing burned out on Saturday last. His little girl, while striking ai match to light a lamp, ignited the curtains, this da-maging the furniture in the rooms. If it had not been for the prompt action of her pare ets, the lit- tle girl would have been badly burned.! -On Wednesday evening of last week the Young Ladies Bible Class of James Street Methodist church, Exe- ter, held a social evening at the lipme of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. penhale, Stephen. About seventy young lad- ies were present and a most enjoyable tune was spent. A short mutinai pro- gram was given during the course of which Miss Irene Quackenbush, the assistant teacher of the class, who is leaving town, was presented with a framed address. -One of the prettiest June wed.- , dings was soemnized at the home of . and Mrs. .T. T. McPherson, in mgham, about 10.30 on Wednesday J e 27th, when their eldest daughter, Wbfred, became the bride of Mr.) Edward Nash, of Wingham. neve Mr. Abbot, rector of the Englisli. church of Ripley, conducted the sere vice. The bride, who was given away by her father, was charraingly dress- ed in maiee ninnon over silk and wearing a.niembroidered yell. with. or- ange blossmns, entered the drawing. room, where the groom awaited her under an arch of evergreens and. snowballs. After the congratula- tions the bride and groom with aboat 25 guests ea; down to a dainty wed- ding dinner The many beautiful a.nd. costly gifts received, testified- to the - high high esteem in which the yomig couple are held. The groom's gift to the bride was a geautiful pearl necklace. Atnkl showers of confetti the young conple motored to Lucknow and left: on. the 2.45 train for Dundas and B amilton Charles Warchup who lived on the. Bayfield road, three miles from Godec rich, was found dead in bed on Ihitts- day morning with a bullet hole in his forehead. An inquest was held and Coroner Hunter, who investigated the. affair with Detectiefe Grundy, and Chief of Police Postlewaite, coneuded that during a lit of despondency the man deliberately committed suicide. The thumb and finger of the hand that held the revolver was blackened and the gun was close by. Death wee in- stantaneous, apparently as the body never moved from its pcsition, that of lying fiat on the baek, -with the head thrown well bEiek. The ceased man's sister, who lives with a neighbor, says that her brother told her to come over about eight o'clock in the morning and see him. It while doing thie that she made the sad discoveret. The deceased man came to Goderieli ttwn- ship about 25 years ago. He sold his farm some time ago, keeping about three acres for a market garden. A- bout two weeks ago he sold hie belong - legs and was preparing to go back to Quebec. He was about 70' years, of age and unmarried. France, June 13, 1917 Dear People, --Just a few- lines to let you know that everything here is as per usual and enjoying the best of health with the exception of the two days jest past, as we got our yearly irnoculation, but the effects soon wear off and the benefit is worth it. I am sorry to say at last parcel with the nutele sugar hasn't arrived yet, but still live in hopes. This has toOri an ideal stnniner which helps to make life a little better and it seems anther strange to be fighting in whSe. t fields and building wire enta lements through crops and not a b • ing in sight. The Germans evidently, didn't intend to fall back or everything would have been untouched: Had a letter front Sara and one from Ralph last week sol wrote a faanily letter back, and it seems to be hard to pictwe the 'kiddies the size 'they outfit -be. Had ,a letter -from one of the nurses in Glasgow on Stinday and it kind of made me wish I was back there, as last summer was one of the best that I ever put in, "All things come to those who wait," That parcel has just arrived and have had a glorious feed, and thanks so much, as everything seems to taste s0. good that conies from home and -Please • thank Mrs. John Shortreed for the maple sugar, as I think John said in one of his letters that she was sending it, also chocolate from Jim Sims, of Blyth . I will not be able to write for a time now but vvill send cards. Will be glad when the Germans start falling back again so that we can use our horses as I have a fine beast and it is far more exciting to be on the move, as it isn't one of the -most pleas- ant places in the world to be in a trench with shells and bullets flying around and German aeroplanes above and that is what was happening when • the last field card was written. The Brussels Post still comes but I don't seem ta0 knOW many of the people and to advise him of my decision. This there now. I arn. still hoping to have I did and below I set forth myi letter Christmas dinner with May, as that and General Swifids reply, which ex- gobler she was saving for last Christ - plain themselves. magi will be quite a size by now and. Headquarters, 161st C.I. Bn. Witley, April 27th, 1917 0.C. 14th Can. Irif . Sir: After full consideration I have de- cided that it is my clear duty to ac- company our men to France and as- sure you that I am prefectly ready and willing to go to France with the 161st Battalion. In our conversation of yesterday I clearly set forth my position and facts justifying my- request and trust that this can be arranged. I have the honor to be, Sir, -On Wednesday afternoon Alexan- der Drummond, a prominent farmer, residing on the eighth concessi n 01 Logan townshite was found dead in cept those written on military subjects the field a short distance from the g Your obedient servant. R. S. HAYS M;or 161st Can•Inf. BaLlm. Headquarters, 14th Canadian infantry Brigade Witley, Surrey, 30th April, 1917 Major R. S. Hays 161st Canadian Infantry Battalion With regard to the question of the severance of your connections with the 161st Canadian Infantry Battalion, it may be stated, for your information that in reaching this decision the main determining factor was your age. This alone would militate very strongly against the possibility of you remain- ing with the Battalion in France for any length of time, and you will un- derstand how difficult it is for an offi- cer of your years, not only to adapt yourself readily to the ever changing ccnditions of general service in France but also to withstand the hardships which this service must of a neeessity entail. Insevering your connections with your old Battalion you will fully ap- preciate the fact that in doing so you are making way for a man younger in years and stronger in physique and you will at the same time cure with you the personal satisfaction •of know- vre are prettytired of war but want to have a permanent peace when it does come. I will have to close now and go on duty so hope you are all well end enjoying life as we -will sure be a hap- py bunch when Canada loomms AinisTsisgolt again. With love to all HURON NOTES • -Mr. A. B. Stephenson is the new mail carrier on rural route No. 5, Clinton, in the place of Mr. W. -Crich. Mr, Stephenson commenced his work on Monday. • -Word has been received that Pte. A .1) .Doherty, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Doherty, Clinton, had been wounded. Pte. Doherty enlisted with a Weste'rn unit. -Rollie Henderson son of Mr. T. M. Henderson, formerly of the Blue - vale road, has been appointed on the permanent military staff in Bramshot, England, as a lecturer and instructor. -On the 28th of June a large num- ber of fowl were stolen from the God- erich poultry yards and a, few weeko previous another large quantity were stolen. Altogether over 800 fowl were taken. Mr. Kidd is offering a reward for the discovery of the guilty party. -The customs returns at the port of Goderich, for the rnonth a June, were $19,130, as compared -with $14,- 732.30 for the same month last year. The returns for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending June 30th, are $51,541.99, as compared with $41,- -The annual convention of the Wo- men's Christian Temperance Union, held in Knox Church, Goderich, last week, was the most suceessful yet held, both in attendance and interest teken. The delegates were welcomed in a short address by Mayor Munn- ings. At the meeting on friday ma ening a large number of townspeople wre present, Mrs. Geo. Wright, of' , London, was the speaker of the ev- ening. Her subject was "Women's Place in the War." She congratulated the women on their enfranchisement, and said they were no longer classed with idiots and criminals as being unfit to vote. She spoke in terms of the highest praise of the women of France and Belgium, and said that the Canadian women are also holdinc their own in this sacrificial year. (-lie address was listened. to with the great- est attention by all prewnt. The con- test for the gold medals for singing and elocution was also held. Miss M. Brown, of Blyth, won the medal, fer singing. and Miss Rhienhart, of Goderich, and James Allen, of Wing - ham were tied, and both will receive edals. The officers were elected for the corning year as follows: Presi- dent, Mrs. Hooper, of Exeter; Secre- tary, Mrs. Cooper, of Clinton; Treas- urer, Mrs. Sharpe, of Exeter, -Among all the noteworthy events that have been recorded in the historv of St. Joseph's parish, .A.slrfield, during the seven decades of its exi itence, none has surpassed is dignity and grandeur, the occasion celebe.ted on Wednesday a last week, the 25th art- nivesary of the ordination of Rev. Father McCormick, the beloved pastor of the parish. The fact that seven- teen of the reverend father's 26 years in the prieethood had been spent in Ashfield was an. additional reason for the people of the parish making the event a memorable one. Despite the fact that weather and road conditions were most unfavorable, a large gath- ering, representing points at a consid- erable distance, was present for the grand high mass which was announced for ten o'clock on Wednesday, June 27th. Rev. Father McCormack was celebrant, with Rev. Father Hanlon, of London as deacon, and Rev. Father Yarding of St. Peter's Seminary sub - 498.87 for the nine period last year. deacon. There were present --The pupils of School Seition No. the sanctuary Very Rev. Father 0'- 2, Goderich township, assembled on Connor, vicar -general of the lioceee, Friday morning last and presented Rev. Father Ford, of Woodclee, Rev. Miss Jennie Mills the retiring teacher, Father O'Neil of Parkhill, Pew, Fath' with a handeome set of knives and er McRae, of Goderich; Rev. Father forks. Miss Mills has taught at Ben- J. Hogan, Lucan; Rev. Father Doyle, miler for a year and a half and is a of Loudon; Rev. Father Fallon, of capable and efficient teacher• Winghani; Rev, Father Moran, of -James Johnston an old and high.- Stratford, and Rev. Father Brophy, a ly respected resident of Goderich Springfield, Mo. Bev. Father Dean, ing that the work you have performed townshipdied at the home of his son, a st. Augustine, acted as mastgr a in connection with the raising a the William, of the Huron road, cia Sunday ceremonies, Rev. F. t er. McCormick Battalion and bringing it to England mornMg. Mr. Johnston was over 80 was presented on this occasion with is as much appreciated by the military year of age and leaves elm sons aryl an address and a purse containing over - authorities as by the people of the five daughters, four of whom reside in , $1,000.