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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1918-04-19, Page 1IL 3.21 assomisemoifroorasswasmsemoommunimifocimikatek ztaiLj Stor Call at the Pattern Counter and get May Designer hopping time nthusiasiit in c..'ts anew the this business litg sGoods: inently Feature BLACK and Many Ft' Color Tones r' Is believing that ours :ollection of Correct Choice in mourning. Black r business. Black ng better for "Best ek. lore costly stuffs, We nd Suiting Cloths that ess unfading dye We or the season and alt it representation. roods: asily avor. re in showing you the. e fabrics to ''be found wee you to the latest in plain and fancy - re of colors shown. We that will -appeal to And we want you to . Samples sept any - for same. a yard, including Silk, Fabrics. , silk with a delightful finish m suits, dreeses and waists. f the higher priced lines. oth net -fret shade and colors L ts, middies, and children's 25, and $1.50 a yard. that come a yard wide in all I etialita mid weight suitable .50 a yard. Other excellent epularshades are well repre- te weave, being a pure silk tinction wherever worn. It cl separate waists. Prices Urable wash silk is stocked aost poplar shades. Prices a -Ever se woman knows the for dresses and suites We t eery F. peciaI line we have in ey s market price into cone et yard. TFIE FRONT RANK. OF N INSPECTMN OF TUE E FOR WARM WEATHER Wighl itsraonswewassiuseemsammeriNI - IlIFIT-SECOND YEAR, WHOLE NUMBER 2627 ilest04006041~000.041:000040•0•0400040040000•61a0400e GreigClothing Coiy "Second to JVone " This Is the Most Popular Spit for Young Men s4 'THERE is no doubt about it, this Belted Coat Suit is meeting with the greatest success of any suit that has been put upon the market in many years. the skill with mhich it is designed appeals to the characteristic alertness of mind of the young men of the present time. The new shades of cloth of which these garments are made is another 44. outstanding feature of new- ness Tartan Plads, Purple Checks, Ivey Green, and so on. To see these new suits, or better still to own one of these suits is to appreciate their superior value to the fullest. PRICES.... $209 S259 $30 to $35 41110111•11. Ne* HA -TS atid.G4PS In our stock of r-lats artd Caps will be found the same • high standard of excellence as applies to our clothing. All the new shades to match up with the suits and top coats. Prices $2S3 $4$5 Greig Clothing Co SE &FORTH 4.0.0•04.04.0.0•0•••0•00 41111111111111111111111111111111•11111=11111111111111111.1111111111111111111111111L The Big Hardware Store. 1 s PECIAL Friday and Saturday REGULAR SPE6IAL $7.25 7:25 11.00 14.50 5.50 1.65 1.85 2.00 1.30 .85 .40 4.80 1.00 1.75 3.50 .27 1.25 1.35 .45 .20 .75 1.15 1.45 1.85 24.00 Peerless Washing Machines 48.00 Dowswell Washing. Machines 8.00 Snowball Washing Machines 12.00, Patriot Motor, High Speed 16.00 Crest Wringer 6.00 No. 1 Galvanized Wash Tubs 1.85 No. 2 Galvanized Wash Tubs 2.00 No. 3 Galvanized Wash Tubs 2.25 Cedar Wash Tubs 1.50 Galvanized Stable Pails 1.00 Water Pails t .50 Strainer Pails 1.95 Water Pails (Anti Rust) ............ 1.15 Clothes Horses 2.00 Carpet Sweepers 3.75 Perfection' Oil Stove Wicks .30 Clothes Baskets 1)50 O'Cedar Mops 1150 &Cedar Oil and Liquid Veneer .150 do do ;25 1 gallon Oil Cans .85 1.25 1.60 2.00 Three Burner Oil Stove and Oven 27.00 2 gallon Oil Cans 3 gallon Oil Cans 5 gallon Oil Gans , The Big Haraware Store 11, Edge • Seaforth AMERICA'S YEAR OF WAR to the everlasting ereclit of the Na - (The Outlook) As a traveler stops to look back over the road he has followed, as a merchant makes an inventory of his stock, so the Nation, on the miniver - Id sary of ita entrance into the wor war, has been making an estimate of what it has so far accomplished. , In order to understand its achieve- meetsits failures to achieve, it mast keep in mind the goal towards which it has set out, its purpose in taking up the tie*. Its object has been stated by the President: "The world mast be made safe for democracy." , - • - "We shall fight for the thing which' we have always carried nearest our hearts -for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to liave a voice in their own -- govern- ments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal, domin- ion of right by such a concert of free peoplesas shall. bring 4leace and safe- ty to all the nations and make the world itself at last free." "This is a people's war, a war for freedom and teitice and self-govern.- ment among all the natipns of the world; as war as make the world safe for the peopleswho live upon it and have made it their own." t What the President has said of our object in this war is true of the object of our allies. We entered this war to co-operate with the nations already engaged- We had therefore an im- mediate obligatioe, namely, to fulfill the reasonable expectations of our allies. What did we lead them to ex- pect faint us? Money, ships, provisions and men. Let us recount here what we have sdone in the fulfillment of those ex- , pectations. In money we have loaned to the Allies more than four and a half bil- lion dollars and have promised much more. In provisions, we have supalied for the armies of the nations fighting Germany, including our own Nation, an amount of meterial quite incon- ceivable. We are producing • rifles, for instance, at the rate of forty-five thousand per week. We have furnish= ed from our Navy guns from the larg- est to the smallest calibre to the Brit- ish, Frenchand Italian Governments, with anunnaition far them; but, in- stead of supplying geins to our allies' armies, we are depending upon our allies for guns for our own Army. We have led our allies to expect a large contribution to their aircraft resour- ces; but so far we have not made qur resources begin to .be felt in :the air fighting. One of the principal needs of our allies is wheat In the eepore tation of this we lag behind our prom- ises. We have, of eouree, been send- ing fuel abroad, laut we have failed to send the fuel our allies have need- ed. Our failure in this respect helped to bring disaster to Italy. But the fuel and the food that we have sent have been among the essentials which have kept our allies fed and their factories .and ships moving. We might ' have done this as a neutral, but we have done it far more effectively as a belligerent. Iu addition we haye provided supplies for our own army. What this " has involved, may be indicated by a few odd items: 24400,000 woolen blankets, 75,000,000 yards of olive -drab for. uniforms, 31,- 000,000 pairs of light stockings and 501,000,000 pairs of heavy stockings, 40,000,000 yaras of _bobbinet for mos- quito -bars. For supply, subsistence, and transportation alone the approp- riation of the Quartermaster's Depart- ment during the year was nearly two billion dollars. Out of nothing we have had to create great supplies of an almost innumerable variety of ar- ticles, from rubber boots and tent pins to motor trucks. In the process mis- takes have been inevitable and tradi- tion and red tape have obstructed pro- gress; bat the general testimony has been that for a Nation unprepared we have done quite as well as could have been, expected. In other words, it has been a great achievement for a million men to spring to arms, not in a night, but in a year. In saipe we have been making huge blunders and huge successes. The de- lay in the ship programme, due to quarrels that ought to be humiliating to every American, was little short of criminal. On the other hand, the cre- ation out of marsh -land of huge ship. yards (one of there five times as big' as the largest elsewhere in the worlci) an undertaking that would require in ordinary times two years, but which in one case was accomplished in less than six months, was little short of magical. Already ships for which con- tracts were made after we entered the war have been launehed. One hundred . and fifty-one planes are engaged in building ships.The necessity for •speed as obvious. German submar- ines are sinking shies faster than the world is yet building them. We have practically put into use the available supply of existing. German ships.Sa far any enlargement of the world's ship supply is a matter', not of present fact, but of hope to be fulfilled. In ships' ,too ---fighting ships and ships for the transportation of sol- diers --we have made a great contri- bution to the Allied cause through our Navy. We have put vessels of war to the number of more than a thoesand in commission -battleships, cruisers, submarines, destroyers, -transports and smaller craft. Our destroyers in par- ticular have been of great service; and we are now building new des- troyers in ane -half or one-third of the time required ander pre-war condi- tions. In men we have made the contribu- tion that is most precious. From an army of two hundred thousand we have expanded our forces into armies 'numbering over a million and a half. The greatest act of America in the war was the decision to secure our t Army, not by depending on volunteers, but by selection. That decision stands tion. It has made possible all that has followed or may follew. Out of ten million men subjeet to the process of selection we batre sent over half a million into camp. Of about a s mil- lion men in the Realtdar Army and National Guard we 'have sent several hundred thousand to France, and practically all the reet are mobolized in camps or at poets. While enlarg- ing our An:11Y, we have also enlarged our Navy by something like four hun- dred per cent.. Aside we have not merely put these men in camp, but have built cities for the'm and have provided them not merely ,with mili- tary training butalso with that re- creatton and those resources, bodily, mental, and moral, vraiich the normal man requires. It h been a great achievement; an ans time whether- dem Material thaws or also the things that' eternal. More'than has sumraoned to its brains, of wealtlie has put them to work' r to. 'the ques- y values only ther it values t, unseen natn and our *ce met of retiource, a.hd the public tier- , Vice on multesudinout tasks. More than that, our Nation has conscripted not merely its soldiers but also its public servants, for intakingthe rail- ways it has taken into the public em- ploy the army of railway ' workers, who constitute with .their families, practically one-seveitels of the wage- earning -population of the country. There, is no doubt that this coun- try, is in earnest and. has been from the beginning; but Aeaericans during this year have only beetle to learn the size of their task. The United States is far from having Made the World *safe for deneacracreitfts far from hav- ing made it safe for the peoples who live upon it. , &WO we set ouraisands to this task the menace to demoneracy has grown. The world has become more unsafe, not only for 'democracy but for all, people who want to lead decent lives' without having their man- ner of life imposed eirem them: We have set our hands to establish the "rights and liberties of small nations", but since we entered the: war theasmall nation of Rumania hs been added to the small aetioni of.Belgium and the srnal nation of Serbilt as a victim of German greed and love of power. Since we entered the war, not only have the small nations ,found their liberties and their rights curtailed of .destroyed, but even Asa gr -eat nation of Russia has gone ,aoeati before the -massive power of th' Germans. All our cantonments, ou -thouisands of men, o . hundreds of Alps, our guns, ,our millions and ln otat of merieY/ will be of no avail if Ithey do not ac- complish that ,whicla we set_ out to do. More, than one -. ent official '.(the tateataii-'n eat stlietheed. of the Committee on Public Informa- tion) has said °that it was well thee the country was unprepared. It has indeed proved well -for Gernaany. While we are preparing now, Ger- many has been rolling back the arra- ies of France and. Great Britain. There are thousands upon thousands of the finest mei 'of Great Britain and France there, will be thousands of the 'finest teen of America, killed because we were unprepared and because, there- fore, we had to spend this first Year of the war in still incompleted pre- paration. In his Baltimore speech the ether day the "President said: "There is . . . but one response possible for us: Force, force to the -utmost, force without stint or limit." That is right. That is as true to -day as it was in 1914 that Germany can. understand only one response. So far she has hot had any such response from us. We have talked about force, we have gathered our 'force but we have not yet delivered it. The force in the oil still in the strata of the earth canna drive an automobile. The force in the men of America 6,1 in America's 'wealth cannot of itself beat Pennany. That force will beat Germany only when it is delivered against Germany. During this year what we bave achieved has been wholly in prepar- ation. We have assembled our wealth, we have begun to organize our indus- tries, we have created our Armies, we are building our ships, and, best of all, we have saved ourselves from be- ing a mere agglomeration and have become as never before -a Nation. It is not a- time for proud reflection, but for determination. The men who are going to die for this country must be made to understand that this is a country worth dying, for a country, in spite of all its faults, that is gohig to see this thing through, and that means *het it says when. it demands that this world be fit and safe for free peeple. FROM KILLARNEY. Dear Expositor, -Southern Mani- toba enjoyed euch a remarkable line month of March, that it needs a meed of praise. With very little snow, very little frost, bright sunny days, and that old legend, about either corn- ing in or going out like a lion was completely dissipated for March, 1918, and as a climax on March 22nd, (same date as the German drive) the Mani- toba agricultural battalions Were lin- ed up for the spring offensive, to start seeding operations, with a de- termination to increase production to feed our noble boys who are at pres- ent receiving their share of German hammer blows on the Western front, Frani the 22nd, to the end of March. a great deal of wheat was sown. Some few farmer s having all their wheat acreage seeded while some had a half and others only a quarter; and some none at all, thinking it too early to risk it but when the soil is in first class condition, as it was in this case, many farmers- saying they never seen it better, and when good seed is used, it minmmizes the risk to a mere fraction, and there never was An early season more welcome on account of the shortage of farm help, and in this immediate district, a shortage of feed caused by last summer's drought,. So it would seem as if the wind it • Absolutely the greatest motion pic- ture in the world. MUSIC BY. ORCHESTRA • s In Aid of the Red Cross CARDNO'S OPERA HOUSE TO -DAY TO -MORROW Friday and Saturday Afternoons 4 p.m. All seats 25c Evenings 8.30 -Reserved seats 50c; Rush, seats 35c Reserved seats on sale at Aberhart's Drug Store -phone 111. * SEE IT BY ALL MEANS - You will help the Red Cross - You will be wonderfully entertained tempered to the &on. lamb. Yester- day, i(the Ith), we 'had a day's fall of soft snow, which was, just- what the land needed in the way of mois- ture, and the farmers ;who have sown wheat are patting themselves on the back on. having. the foresight to have seed iiithe ground to receive such a bountiful supply of moisture, and ready to germinate. In the face of the food outlook .for the world, the 'west is fully alive to the situation and will make every effort to do her best to increase production of all kinds. As an instance of western spirit, I saw one man driving twelve horses on a biggang plow. He was turning 15 acres a day.- Many have bought gas - aline 'tractors to speede up a larger area- of. cu1thratth es . Tais question of more wheat pro- duction is of vital interest totthe, Neese as almost half of the homes have a son at the front and the anxiety on every 'hand fee have plenty is plainly eeen anceit is rather provoking to be told by some one, that we must not even 'whisper for fear of offence to We. estatt„ it .4proArru,..: is „pore ready to fight brotherCamedians then to defend the Empire in this hour of peril. We cannot have any politicsin such a erisise and I have no patience with any man, who will stand uaitt Parliament, and blame the Govern- ment for actions of two officials in administerine the Military Service Act, when that province had done so little under the voluntary system. A- way with such nonsense, whether in Parliament or out of it and let each province in the partnership of Confed- eration do its fair share and the sooner. Quebec gets it out of its head that the rest of the provinces are hos- tile the better, and also to learn that it is the fundamental principle of our Constitution that the majority shall rule' and when the Minority assumes that function it .is in plain English, anarcha, and I feel like one of the Union Cabinet ministers, who said, the other day, we have displayed long, faithful patience, but we will stand no more nonsense and the west is behind that, sentiment to a men, whether he was in the past a Grit or Tory. It is really a marvel in this province, wh.epe the eolitical lines were so mark- ed, and the scene of so, many hard fought political battles, -te see such unity in all war work. It is a veri- table demonstrationof the lion 'and the lamb lying down together, al- though I am at a loss to know, which Party represented the innocent spot- less lamb. Just plain human nature would prompt each one to say, the other fellow is the beast of prey, but we seemingly have got past that mile- stone, .and we are Canadians, doing ,-ourtbit in defence of honor and jus- tice, and to help overthrow one of the worst enemies to Mankind, all clown thtough the mages of history, and I sometimes am. lost with such a glor- ious thought, that thousands of our young .men respanded so quickly to their couhtry's call, seeming to see the great danger more quickly than some of the older minds. A touchine scene was enacted not long ago at the Governmere House, Winnipeg, when an elderly Killarney lady was presented by the Lieutenant, Governor with the Victoria Cross, which her son had earned on the bat- tlefield before his death. Our Lieu- tenant -Governor, is one of the most affable and affectionate of men, and lie was so stirred by the bravery and the face, that he kissed her as affection- ately as her own son hero. What pro- vince would not be proud to have such a Liettenant-Governor, and such a mother,. too, who went in her sorrow 180 miles to receive that coveted re- cognition of bravery, intended for her son, but who did not live to re- ceive it. It is not any wonder that so many touching incidents of this war, has silenced party feelings, and I hope it may be permanent. One Of the papers presented this week, a picture of T. Finn, wao lives ,the mountains of Oregon, at the age of ninety. He was the original "Huckleberry Finn" of Mark Twain, and when the old gentleman was hit terviewed this week, he told the re - potter of the days of the sixties, when he and Mark were steamboat hands on the Mississippi, and Huckleberry was promoted to be first mate; also going over the boyhood days of him- self and Twain; who were boys to- gether. Those incidents related by Mr. Finn of the long ago, brought to our mind the bubbling over spirit of Mark's brilliant wit, but how diff- erent now with the shadow of war, when we try to read Mark's best sal- lies of wit, it seems to somehow re- coil, when there is so much mourn - mg and suffering, for hardly a -day passe e but we see some fine' specimen of young manhood on crutches,_ prob- ably 'a cripple for life. As I close my letter, a wire has come announc- ing a big German effort to capture Amiens and in our pessimistic mo- ments, we almost think they will get it. Yours truly, , W. BARBER Killarney, Manitoba. MeLEAN BROS.. Publishers $1-50 a Year IneAdvance m after refilling his gasoline tank, which was on the rear of the car, swerved a, little too far inside in .bacicing out and hit the door. The tank burst and the gasoline neared over the floor, and runaingdown the reeister and fur- nace pipes, lintamaiately ignited. In less than forty minutes the whole of the structure was gutted, and the firer men had a hard fight to keep tae flames frost/ licking up adjoining stables. The garage is 'ovrenct by Dr. Stevenson. T. H. Luscombe, the book- keeper in the garage, tried to get the bailee in the safe, but the fire spread so quiekly that he was unable to do so and had his face badly scorched. HURON NOTES -Mr. Roy Spa.rtittg, who'for sever- al years has been passenger agent at CANADA. jtheG. T. R. Station at Goderich. has Nor - the western cattle ldng, has present- wich and leaves shortly to take the -Mr. P. Burns, of Calgary, Alta., I been an/minted station master at islor- ed to the Royal Air Force, through new position. the Canadian Aviation Fund., a. battle -Rav. Ge M. Holmes, B.A., B‘The plane costing three thousand pounds. • of Goderich, has received and aecepted It will be named "Calgary" an unanimous call to Ossington Ave. -Because he served pork at one 0- Baptist Church, Toronto. Mr. Holmes clock on Friday morning, a meatless is moderator of Walkerton Baptist day, James Wong, .proprietor of the Royal Cafe, in Brantford, was fined $100 and costa for a breach of the Do- minion food regulations. The propris- etor of the Dominion Cafe was also convicted on a similar charge and fined $100. -Trapped in the cellar of their home at 124 Sheridan ,Aven.ue' To- ronto, by a fire that spread-withsuch rapidity that their malty avenue of re- treat was cut off Ityro children, of M. Arthur Ellicock was burned to death on Saturday afternoon a' third was rescued from certain death by „Fireman John White, of Cowan Ave- nue hall; wio made a heroic dash in- to tbe burning house and was so badly burned in so doingthat he hid to be removed to the Western 110 pital. A baby was also in the home, but was carried to safety by the father. -The first session of the fourth Alberta Legislature prorogued atnoon on Friday. Most important legislation has been enacted at the present ses- sion, inClUdiiir a 'civil service reform bill, -workmen's compensation act, an act instituting direct taxation in the `province for general revenue as ,well as to provide $800,800 for the Patriotic Fund, and several other taxation. measures, encluding epeciat taxes on natural gas, electric power companies and banks. ealleetotal estimated enue to lets'ilealitted tftliatnewetaxee, italuding grants from tlae.4aieninion Government, is more than 410,000,000. -The management of thet News- Asscomtion and he has held pastorates in Georgetown and Goderich. He op- ens his rainistry in Toronto on the first Sunday in May. -On Tuesday evening, Mr. Joseph Finkbeiner and Miss Hilda Schenk, were married in the Evangelical church, Crediton, Rey. Mr. Becker of- ficiating at the ceremony. They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Morlock. The hanny couple will reside on the ermines fans west and north of the village of Crediton. -A quiet wedding was solemnized at the Methodist parsonage, Wing- hant, on Wednesday, April 3rd, when Mies Vera Sarah Merkkley, daughter Miss Vera Sarah Merkley, daughter near Belmore, was united in marriage to Mr. Willia-m John King, of How - ick, son of Mr. Stephen King, of Turn - berry. Rev. E. F. Armstrong. per- formed the ceremony. . -.Mrs. A. McMichael, of Wroxe- ter, met -with a serious accident .tili Saturday night while returning from the home of William. King. Mr. Me- Miebasi and daughter had got out of the buggy to look for the formeris hat, -which had _Wewn eff, when an- other h.orse and buggy collided with the one mecitpied by Mrs. ISleadichael, it and causing the horse to awey. Mrs. McMichael found in an unconscious condition and . is still irt a critical state. -A fernier well known and esteem- ed resident of Goderich, in the person of Elizabeth Robertson, widow of the Telegram of Calgary, have ensammeed late Lewis Elliott, closed her earthly the cessation of publication ofthe newspaper and the passing of the iNeweeTelegram Campanyin Skturday. the News -Telegram was folldaved by - a new paper, the Calgary Canadian, pubilshed by. Alberta Newspapers, Limited, a $350,000 car poration, with career on Tuesday, April 2n4, at Port liuron, Michigan, Mrs. ' wee barn 31's years ege„in Gedeetieje team - ship, spent her eterly years in Col- borne township. was married in 1855 to Mr. Lewis Elliott, of Goderieh, and was a resident*of that town until a few it shares of ten dollar denomination, years ago when she went toh . ive With of which 0, M. Thompson is the pees- her daughters et Port Huron. She ident and the directors, leading busi- was the last surviving member of a nese men of the city and, provincefamily of eleven children of the late The new company, it is said, has up- Peter Robertson. Mr. Elliott ilied in wards of a thosuand shareholders, the year 1900 and one son and four scattered throughout the Province of daugthers- survive. Alberta i ots aunessimaenet bie-jwoes,:eephiciitodvelobny saantclJamesurda Saturday eveGnainrag- deeu _ japlianencinaloeui 2p eli4 aeirpo tavittiet4.tielnotr 3.4 Jaz last at Paincurt, near Chatham, when mate ea Mee Pula' ella saa edild aleal usT their auto overturned into a ditch. eleicrego.ed mei nt umeatmoad tee There was eight inches Of water inthe 2.111241 et eueurtuestoo atemos smut& ditch and the men pinned underneath -Wel? earilmPlugUi 941 10-1, pePaw:t the car, were helpless. Alfred Bour- Villa 08 si mee sw -4&08 01 drao eseal asseau, who livea nearby, heard the `elle el 5U udealauleaueu P'wuSXeWX crash and at onae went out. It was elle me-TS3aTs.p3 JO u 2aaneoee necessary to secure a block and tackle 'lava esallt ai saul11sx1W allaPT to raise the auto, and the men were i'eeed eilta 'Pees ,e0Pun Puln age e2 01 - dead when lifted out Both victims /Am 8Pe1lt 3u1e1 8.t 5U514 Puu ttof were gas drillers and had been work- tleirelzepini mite 'Salaam mesiamouatese- ing on a new well near Mitchell's Bayeepit eleto1 lees. eti aueleemossw emu Both are married and their wives and -lad saIrtual ,IfiaaaA, gal -uor.pripoid families are in Tilbury. The car was ileelle12 ufP nail Pug II etualtilla owned by Rowlby, who was an exper- eeleempan plume. semelooa ienced driver. ' eel eo Auu el 'equip eo Armee esne -Dominion Policeman George Me- 'man SIqjo seems ues. peeve easnoxe Leod was ,shot in the body and legs , -1193 Sie sea putinoH eleseD -ax- on Friday night when. he attempted , -Assessor T. J. MeLean of Wing - to arrest a French-Canadian named ham, has coMpleted his work for this Whissee near Espanola, Sudbury dise year and the roll has been returned to trict, under the Military Service Act Town Clerk Groves. The total assess - The shooting occurred at one o'clock ment this year is 412,340 more than and it was eight the follwoing morning it wee a year ago. The figures for .before medical aid reached him, and this year and last year are as follows: he is believed to be mortally Wound-. Land valtie for 1918 *220,055; for1917 ed. McLeod has made several trips into the district to catch 'Whissel, and was apparentry attacked by an organ- ized gang, in which it is _said women took a hand and incited the men to violence. Inspector Storie, of the Pro- vincial Police, has called all his men onto e.h.e case and has personally left for the scene, which is two and a half miles from Espanola anA in. a French- Canadian community, 4 -As a result of an eutomobile ac- cident, which occurred near Breslau, shortly after midnight, pn Saturday, Walter Leven and Roy Forsythe, of Guelph, are at the home of Dr. Hag- nier, in Kitchener, suffering with se- vere injuries. The inened men, ac- companied. by Jack Flaherty, also of Guelph, left Kitchener fer home about 12 o'elock, after having spent the ev- ening. there. When near Breslau the car turned turtle into the ditch. Flah- erty, who escapedwith a shaking up, comsnunicated with, Kitchener, and a physician arrived soon after. For- sythe, who was driving the car, was suffering from a broken leg and arm, and also two fractured ribs. He was conveyed to Dr. Haginier's residence along with Lovell, whp was also badly hurt, and are being treated there. Mr. Flaherty returned to Guelph the next morning by train.- -The Ontario garage, in London, containing fifty cars and large quanti- ties of oil and gasoline, was com- pletely destroyed by fire on Saturday evening last. The, loss is a100,000. The company's loss is about $60,000 and is fully covered by insurance. The stock included thirty-five brand itew cars belonging to the firm and fifteen autos belonging to local doc- tors and businese heuses, which were kept in the garage. Tilde was no ihsurance on many of these. The fire started when a tourist from Windsor _ A - ; $221.940; buildings for 1918, *597,1500. for 1917 $592,655; Busmess for 1918, $93,360; for 1917, *92,930; income, for 1918, $18,400, for 1917, $12,000t Total for 1918, *931,965; total for 1911 $919,625. The number of school „child- ren between the ages of 5 and 1.6 is 4881. The number of dogs is 63, com- pared with 86 of last year. For the first tinte in many years the popula- tion of the town shows a slight _de- crease this being caused by the num- ber of young men. who b.aive been gall- ed for active military service. -In the death of Robert J. Brown on Sunday last, Blyth community re- ceives a severe loss in oneeof their most energetic and progressive agri- culturists, as well as highly esteemed and much.respected citizen. He had been seriously ill for some weeks and for some days prior to his death, al- most all hope of his recovery was a- bandoned. While his death was not unexpected, nevertheless the news was received with prefaimd sadness throughout this section of the county. The late Robert Brown was born in the Towtisbip of Cartwright, Derharn County and came to Morris With his parents in 1894,, and had resided on the homestead, lot 11, concession in, until the time of his demise. He was the owner of 300 acres of land, and was a thorough agriculturalist, taking a lively interest in the cultivation and producing from the soil all that was therein. He was married twenty- three years ago to Miss Alice John- ston. who with a family of three, William, Harvey and Edna, survive . - Besides his immediate family, he leav- es three brothers and two sisters, Messrs. John Brown of Morris; Isaac H., of Blythe Charles of Deadwood, South Dakota; Mrs. Williara New- combe: North Battleford, Seek.; Mrs. Richard Scott, ,of Blyth.