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riotism, on a business scheme that was
sound enough in its inception, by pol-
iticians ,who found their profit in
squandering the neblie money. It and
the Grand Trunk, Pacific are simply
the most recent signe and tokens of
the tyranny long excercised hy priv-
ate .railway interests over political
parties, supine or worse.
The Intercolonial which has been a
Government railway ever sinee it was
Wilt in 1867—having been ' stalled
under provinciaPownership and eon-
tinued under federal auspicee as one of
the terms of Conderation denianded
by the Maritime Provinces—has long
been cited as a warning against public
- ownership. As a matter of fact it is e
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ANOTHER ORPHAN RAILWAY
The Finance Minister's statement
last week simply goes te show that
you can't leave a railway ori the clothes
line ovet night without getting it
swiped. There is reason to believe
that the G. T. P. left itself out on
the line on purptese end now cheer-
fully accepts the consequences.
Cynics call attention to the differ-
ence in treatment accorded by Union
Government to the C. N. R. which had
friends on both sides of polities and
the G. T. P. which was supposed to be
as Liberal a railway as the a P. R.
was a Conserv-ative one. The C. N. R.
was handled with some tenderness.
We foreclosed, as you will remember,
for the four hundred million dollars
the people of Canada had put into it
but we did not forget to pay another
ten million dollars &trek to the unnam-
ed and undiscovered shareholders who
still had a lingering interest in the
coantion stoat. These shareholders
no doubt were the SaThe persons whose
inteeests were conserved on former
occasions when -the C. N. R. was lent
large -SUMS of the public money, to
save it from bankruptcy. ,
The -G. T. P. enjoys no such soft
caresses. It is seized rudely from the
doorstep where the poor fotmdling Iles
walling, and bundled into the hands of
a receiver who will give Wanly a steps
mother's love. ,The receiver is the.
Minister of Railways who is so well,
versed in his job that the Finance
Ministers considez it necessary to
ma:ke public statetrient of the
transaction himself. Thus is the G.
T. P. chivied about right from- the
start and we may safely wager that
it will get the lion's share of the
spankings when public ownership is to
be chastised.
Timid people may ask why we didn't
let the ,C. P. R. take these -cripples
over, especially as we have had to in-
crease the freight rates fifteen per
cent to keep them on their feet—thus
making the C. P. R. fifteen per cent.
richer than it really needs to be. But
the time for asking such questions
has gone hy. We are now fully em-
barked on the experiment of public
ownership and we begin to experiment
with three losers—the C. M. R.., the -
G. T. P. and the National Tra.nscontia
-nental—and one winner, but very re-
cently, the Intercolonial on our hands.
We would probably come out all right
if we could nationalize all the rail-
ways, the profitable ones included,
T. R. stick out we are likely to get
the short end of it.
We cent afford to pay two billion
dollars for the a P. R. and the Gs T.
le has no desire to sell so long as it
is making money. This means that
these two great private railwn,y sy-
stems will continue to prevent freight
iiates on the Government railways
rom becoming too altruistic for com-
fort and to that extent will defeat the
purpose of public ownership which is e
service rather than dividends. No o,
doubt we shall have large annual de-- s
&its to meet for some years to come
end as Soon as our Victory bonds are
paid up the Government will be giv-
ing us a chance to .stake the rest of
our cash on the national railways.
The Grand - Trimk Pacific enjoyed
just enough. ill health to make its.
parent, the Grand Trunk willing to get
rid of it. The Grand Trunk Pacific
was designed te connect with the East-
ern Grand Trunk systenit by means of
the National Transcontinental thus
forming a third trunk line from ocean
to ocean. It was cenceived by the late
Charles M. Hays whO aought thue to
tap the prairie trade for the Grand
Trunk and to offset the encroachments
of the C. P. R. in Ontario where the
Grand Trunk has long enjoyed a
rnonopely. As Mr. HeYs presented
the scheme to Parliament—a line from
the North Bay terminus Of the G. T.
R. into -the West and so on to the Pa-
cific coast—it looked like a good bar -
he Grand Trunlewhich would
rted its share of the Western
'ts United States terminal at
Maine. To give the Grand
at it did not want—a line to
ard through Canadian terri-
i(o make the proposition
e to the Grand Trunk the
gain for
have div
traffic to
Portland
Trunk w
the sea
Government built the 'National. Trans-
continental from Monate), New Bruns-
wick, right through to WinniPeg' in-
stead of stopping at North Bay. This
'parallelled the Intercolonial, Canedian
Paeific and the Grand -Trunk for many.
miles in the East while from Quebec
westward it ran through a desert'. that
'11 afford no traffic for years to come.
Having built this railway at a cost
CP $160,000,000 the Government leased
for fifty years at three per cent. an
tlie cost to the G. T. R.. which repudi-
ated its bargain and threw the railway
beck on the Government's hands at
the first opportunity. And now we
have the Grand Trunk Pacific, also
paid for by the people, back at our
apron strings.
Of course the Grand Trank Pacific
without its profitable Grand Trunk
coanections in Ontario and Quebec is
a tail without a dog but that is the
best -the Grand Trunk is -willing to do.
As a matter of fact the G. T. R. had
a sort of moral claim on our mercy.
It is largely owned in Ehgland. It al-
so makes the plea that it has only had
$281,000,000 of the public money, which
is true in a manner of speaking, al-
though the dozen smaller railways of
which it is the bloated survivor all got
their$6400 a mile and their land grant
in the goad old pork barrel days. Still
money since and -as we are a senti-
mental people with a lingering belief
in the faith of contracts, even when
they are ,autworn we are inclined to
listen to its despairing way when it
says, "Leave us alone.
The National Transcontinental spite
of its sad plight as a disused, rotting
railway, is noett horrible example of
public ownership. It fts rather 'an
xample of extending the old methods
f party pabronage—the pork barrel
ystent—into the field ef railway work.
The railway was a hideous extravad
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warning against the kind of politics
which. loads a railway up with party
hacks and then Jets it fend for itself.
Now that the railway has been taken
out of party politics and run as a rail-
way should be it'showed last year a
surpulus of $2,363,000. As the pet goat
of the privatis railway interests, work-
ing through Parliament, the Interco -
Ionia' has been loadetrwith every
handicap that could make an arginnent
against public ownership. In the first
place it was a military railway and as
such it teak the longest waY round --
they call it the tanbark route in New
Brunswick -An order to be wholly in
British territory. It was not allowed
by the Imperial authorities to take eco-
nomical short cuts, as the C. P. R. does
throegh the United States. For years
it stopped at Riviere du Loup on the
St. Lawrence and did not get a look
in at the great Western Canada trade
until Me. Blair came along at the end
of the nineteenth century .and Pushed
it into Montreal.
However, Canada must do the best
she can with three losers and one bud
of hope. The immediate ,gain we may
expect to derive from out experiment
in public ownership in the lessening
influence of private railway interests 'being encroached u.pon er oblaterat- = o
rid of the railwar ring—or at all e_ moreoter, a strong sentiment among E auspices otthe‘ Red Cross
ring and more of an. engagement ring look lonely; and the :instinct of the t.7..
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d'0,caar Siiingles—ile time tested roof
Cedar Fence Posts
Building LuMber in all sizes
Splellell Lumber for Hay Racks, Field Gates
i` and Gravel Boxes
Addtakthe Value and 13eauty of your home by
flooring &pram or two with BEAVER BRAND OAK
VENEER FLOORING easy to cleanl, no dust,
no carilets 'to beat. When properly finished the
beautiful grain of the oak stands out so clearly and in
such' profinnent figure that it at once gives distinction
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fares and will be 04 againe. others
by the side of railway stations settcl
freight -yards, house*, or fattori'l
- arable or pasture fields, ,parks ---Impersotator— =
tions to leaving thestt tegravese
they are need not 'We-- dwelt upon, -The fourth entertain- rat
No precautions will save them from! ment of the Lyceum =
muse - under ',the
in federal politics. We hope to get ed in the course . of tim.e., There is, • Ei
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vents to make it less of a wedding all rank§ that such scattieeed graves- = s t
Services demands that those -who fell re
which can be given .baels when. love
grows cold. F. H. G. by the wayside should be gathered = ues. March 25
in to rest with thie nettrest main WY =
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: of their conapanions. That is -what = at 8 o'clock –
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR the Commission. with all due care =
e Mr Rudyard Kipling has sent to viev.rof the enormous number of mir : = r. Ratto's performances F.
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the Bindon Times a statement -with dead in France alone, the rereeval :74 are'full of action and life, =
regard' to the work being carried on of bedies' to England would be im- = With not a dull moment z
the„ Imperial War Graves Commis- Possible, even were 'there a general = • . • =
sion, of which he is a member. The desire. for it. Rut the ov'erwhelming .yian Opens.. on TuesdaY, =
-origin and development of the corn- maiority of relatives are eontent that sE Mar& 18th at Aberhart's
mission is simple. In the first days them kin. should lie—officers and men =
of the war the different armies created together—M the countries that "lr- DI:11g •
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special commissio,ns whose duty it was tbeY hate redeentedt .1hte Allied- /go..: '17,4- - - —.
the soldiers fallen in action, and, land to our dead -for. eiesr,/ anil that i . .
to..! register -and: attraid *IP graves- of titta*::' tee, given -4.thettliiifflonitimiumniumiiiiiihiiiiiinna
when . possible, to send photographs offer has been accepted by the Gov;
of them to relatives. Later a National ernments. 'Tp e allow exhumation
Committee :was !formed. and on the arid rein,oval in the few cases where S. S., Seaforth, $2; Wm, Harty, Sea -
suggestion of the Prince of Wales it has been suggested would, it seemt
this was expanded into an Imperial ed to the Commission' be undesir-
Commission to mark and tend the able if only on the principle of Goderich, $1 each; Mrs, Geo.
graves of the soldiers of the Empire equality .and, judging ' froixt what :McOldnagliali>. 'WhitechurehY $2.25;
wherever they had fallen. All parts
of the Empire, seers Mr. Kitiling, have
generously and enreservedly promised
to bear -their share of the expense.
As the author says, these. graves are
to be found as vast cities of the dead
in France and Flanders, where more
than half a million British soldiers
sleep forever, and as scattered mounds
in Africa and Asia, im jungle glades,
on far -away islands, amid desert sande
and desolete ravines. Wherever they
are they will be identified and cared
for by agente of the Commission.
It was felt desitable that at the
heed of each grave should be some
memorial . as lasting as the art of
man could design, and the expres-
sion of some central idea. To this
end Sir Frederick Kenyon was en-
gaged to make a report, and it has
been decided on Iris suggestion that
in each cemetery shall stand a Cross
of Sacrifice,- and an altar -like Stone
of Remembrance, and that the head-
stOnes of the graves, officers and
men, should be of uniform size and
shape. Stone drosses to succeed the
temporary wooden crosses were it ,and the cemeteries will be faithfully
first suggested, but crosses of the and' reverently tended.
smallness -necessary because of the tee 1
nearness a the graves to each other NOTES FROM HURON COUNTY
do not allow sufficient space for the
men's names and the inscriptions, CHILDREN'S SHELTER
and are, by their shoe, too fragile
and too subject to the action. of feed
and weather for enduring use. Plain.
headstones, therefore, measuring 2
feet, 6 inches by 1 foot, 4. inches
have been chosen, upon which the
Cross or other emblem of the dead
man's faith could be inscribed, to-
gether with his regimental badge, his
name and ntunber and other neces-
sary data. In cases Where . the re-
latives desire to add to the formal
record they will be permitted to do
so at their own expense for letter-
ing, so long as the letters do not ex-
ceed silty -five.
In each cemetery there will be
erected a building which will con-
tain a register of each grave with
the birthplace, age and parentage of
the dead recorded. In. honor of the
Indian troops who fought in France
in 1914-16 a Hindu temple and a
Mohammedan mosque will be built
It is- also intended to rear special
memorials to commemorate the part
borne by -particular armies and di-
visions in particular actions, such,
for instance, as the Canadians at
Ypres, the Australians at Amiens
the South Africans at Delville Wood
and the British at the breaking of
the Hindenburg line; and no -doubt
there will be a particularly glorious
monument to the Old Contemptiblea faithfal and efficient
Mr.. Kipling says -that it is • hoped creased to $40 per m
that the art of the Empire will gime last meeting in Feb
its services and advise in the .deingn-
have bean taken in
ing of these memorials. He lays
emphasis upon- the fact that so far in foster homes. Sev
the work of the Commission has only in the home are atten
been blocked out, and that advice and the public schools a
suggestion wilt be welcomed frozn the benefit of their new s
many gallant fighters have said and
written before they in turn fell, a
violation, in all but a few special
cases, of -the desire of the dead them-
selves.
The difficult business of identifying
the fallen is going. forward on all
fronts, and we are glad to note that
this is one of the few thinge that
appears not to be awaiting the de-
cisions of the Peace Conference. The
various architecte to whose charge
the cemeteries have been alletted are '
preparing their designs Ter the,
planting and the buildings required
in France, and steps are beinit taken
to prepare dignified and c'haractert
istic designs for the gemeteries
the East and . elsewhere. But 'it will
be some time before the more than
half a million headstones are ready,
for as Mr. Kipling says at the pres-
ent time there is not enough labor
all the world to cut, carve and letter
them. While they are being inede
the wooden crosses will stand,- and
when necessary. will be renewed;
the registers will be filled and filed
The regular monthly meeting of the
Children's Aid Society for the county
was held on Tuesday of last week, and
wa,vas usual full of interest in the
several cases dealt with. The little
family being cered -for at the Shelter
is growing, and fresh problema arise
weekly, as each new case brings with
it its own difficulties and, require.
ments. The Society officers will be
glad to answer any enquiries from any-
one contemplating the adoption of a
child. and the happy results which *re
flowing from those recently plaeed,
even since the opening of the Shelter,
are most gratifying in the work. Meny
donations of articles useful in the
home are beingtreceived, and the ki d-
ly interest manifested in various pa
of the \ county is most encouragiog.
The home is continually in need I of
such things as potatoes and other
vegetables, apples and canned frusta
and anyone having such to spare cant
not do better than, send a supply 'to
In the items of business transacted
at the last meeting weee the passinglof
tiM following accounts: Travelling
and other expenses of the agent $86. 0
provisions and needfUl articles for t, e
Shelter, $69.21. The.salary of the m
ron, who is proving herself a st
meager, was ni-
nth. Since the
nd three placed .
ral of those sr
giregularl
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=clings a
public. training.
After so many years of fighting The following don
over densley populated and civilized scriptions are acknow
countries like France and Belgium, last reports published:
it is inevitable that there must be A friend, $25; to
single graves and groups in positions $50; Goderich W.C.T.
where, when the life of the land Soldiers' Aid Circle, $
timis and sub -
edged since the
of Goderich,
.60; Methoditit
Robert Clark, Seaforth, $1; Reg. Shar-
man, Goderich, $2.
Bell organ; Mrs. Chas. Ross, Goderich,
'baby teenage and . a go-cart; Mrs.
!Stokers, Sr.' child's clothing; Betlsei
a quilt , 3 jars each of fruit and pick-
les, fresh eggs, cream, apples and pot-
atoes; Mrs. Knight, clothing; Mrs. A.
Porter, high chair, 2 kitchen chairs,
a blackboard mid, child's bath tub.
Visitors and anyone interested in
child welfare will be cordially wel-
come at the home fit any time. If you
have a warm corner in your heart for
helpless band dependent children, call
at the Shelter and' see what is being
done for the children of Huron County.
JELLICOE'S STORY OF
GRAND FLEET, ,
. Admiral Jellicoei book about the
operations of' the Grand Fleet from the
time he took emumand in 1914 until
he relinquished it to Sir David Beatty
in 1916 does not tell us all we
should like to kaow but it does
contain isletife important new tnat-
ter and throws light upon places
hitherto dark. Undoubtedly it does
give Germany information that she
would have eisent milliond to acquire
three or four- .years , ago, especially
the fact, disquieting even now, that
the British Grand Fleet when the war
broke out, and for perhaps a couple
of years afterward, did not have that
suffigient margin ef superiority to set
at rest all fears as tO the result of
a confliCt between. the tvyo. When Sir
„..David Beatty took charge the margin
of superiority was great and increas-
ing every month mita in the closing
months of the war the. German navy
would have had little more chance
against the Grand Fleet than. would
the Swies navy. It nia,y be, howe-ver,
that Beatty would have handled the
navy better, or rather more daringly,
even if he had no margin of superior-
ity in material. Jellicoe seems to have
been handicapped hy an imagination
that caused him, to conetantly spec-
ulate as to the disastrods results of
defeat—not the frame of mind for a
fighting mani but perhaps proper en-
ough, for a civilian administrator,,
It would be unfair to a gallant- and
Spring Millinpry
Qpeni.ings
Thurs. Fri, Sat.
March '7th, 28th & 29th,
dal Display of New
etidgear for ladies and
children. We invite you to
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minima efficer to suppose that the Walton.
;rand Fleet was handled under Jet- . —The contract has been let by Mr.
If2oe with any timidity. It was looks Geo. E Ecceleston for a cement pay-
tig for the German fleet ready to Ilion and bathhouse at Grand Bend,
-arry the fight to it from the day 150 feet - by 70 feet, tam -story in
ear booke out. But Jellicoe was height, to be ready for this summer.
Ilad he taken greatar risks It will be one of the finest and most
—had he been a man more like Beatty up-to-date in Ontario.
—the German fleet might have been —17,eV. D. MeOaraus, of Blenheim.
aterly destroyed et Jutland. On the' las 'accepted ahe invitation a Wesley
ether hand, the British fleet might chunk to become their pastor at the
have been destroyed, and the ielands end of the present conference year
thrown open for invasion Mr. Asquith and Rev. A. Jones has accepted
said in. the House that the possibility' the invitation of the Blenheim...Meth-
If invasion had to be taken, account odist church.
of. In his book, aellicoe says that —Mr. Alvin Essery, Centealia lost
the Grand Fleet was practically the five horses and a cow lately 'from
whole fleet; there was no reserve of 'spinal meningitis. He had a veter-
eny account. A disaster to the Grand inary inspector from Toronto and one
Feet would have been, irretrievable. from' London but they eould not
It would hatre meant the swift ending determine the cause of the outbreak.
If the war. , When Nelson. fought at Ills loss Is' a severe one and we under-
siereksides on
'Trafalgar, he had under him only a 'Cst:i_ jnnedeashmseioehnsasm12!):KhGnererigyhh,otr,hslzhobought
fine one hundred acre - farm belong-
ing to Martin McNair. being Lot 17,
Concession 15, Grey township, for the
turn of $8,000, also the adjoining fifty
aeres pasture farm of jellies Perrie
being South half of lot 16, the price
being $2,000. Mr. Knight now owns
seven hundred acres of land,
—George Grigg, a resident of Sea -
forth for some years and formerly a
fanner near Walton, died on Tuesday
last' after an. illness of some duration.
He was seventy-six years of age, and
is survived by his wife, who is also ill.
end a large family, all Zif wham with
the . exception of one daughter, reside
—A quiet wedding took place at the
.Trivitt Memoeial church parsonage;
Exeter, on Thursday, March 6th, when
the rector, Rev. A. A. Trumper, united
in marriage Mr. Clifford George Bailey
of Usborne township, and Mies Annie -
Violet Jane, of Worle, Somerset, Eng-
land. . The happy couple will reside in
Usborile township and will have the -
best wsihes of many friends for their
future happiness and welfare.
part of the British navy, and that the
lIsmaller part Had it been destroyed,
!the victorious French would have had
Ito fight even a greater fleet before
!they could command the seas.
1 The responsibility for this situa-
Ition, for the small margin for a
!score of defects in ships and docks
'and equipment, must rest with the
politicians who in the days -before the
war cut the navy's appropriations,
disregarded the advice of the experts,
and otherwise did' their radical best
te steer the country toward destruce
tion. Mr. Lloyd George, for instance
will have to bear some part of this
responsibility. When the war broke
out the German navy had a great
superiority in destroyers, more than
two' to one as against Britain. Her
shells were better, and they were bet-
ter at Jutland. Her mines ere bet -
does wake franklyileared b Jellicoe,
and it was this fear more than any-
thing else that made . him cautious at
Jutland. The German fleet was not
short of officers, but as Jellicoe says
this was not the case with the „British
navy:, and he blames political pressure
* the days befere the war. He ad -
mita that the German navy lacked the
ihitiative, resource and seamanlike
qualities of the British mill., but says
that the Hun sailors were highly dis-
eiplined and -well-trained.
The battle of Jutland appears to
have been an accident. The German
lligh Seas Fleet went out to capture
some British light cruisers reported
near the Skaggerack. Here it en-'
eounteed Beatty with his cruiser
squardon, This was early in the af-
ternoon and the weather was thick,
but by six o'clock Beatty had headed
'the enemy's leading ships wed wee
driving them off the landi Beatty,
as a Writer in the New York Sun
remarks, does not seem to have been
aware that there was such a thing
as a torpedo. At least his report
makes no reference to the fact. His
idea was to hold the enemy in aetion
until the • Grand Fleet arrived or to
drive hine toward the Grend Fleet.
When Jellicoe got up, however, , he
hesitated to close lif on account of the
torpedoes, and consequently could. not
get close enough for effective gunfire,
for modern torpedoes have almost the
range of btg gune, and the enemy
taking advantege of the falling night
and a thick smoke screen was able to
disengage . himself in the dark and
make off, Fear of running into a
mined area or a submarine trap made
the pursuit cautious.
Viscount Jellicoe's, book explains
why such mystery was thrown round
the sinking of the Audacious. He
had euch e small margin of super-
ioritY that he dared,not let Germany
know that this great "ship bad been
sunk by a mine. He speaks of the
sorrow an& even consternation in the
navy when the Hamshire with Lord
Kitchener aboard was lost • Thi's
was due not to a submarine, but to a
mine. The disaster occurred in ;very
bad weather, and it was possible that
the mine had drifted in the path of the
vessel. There was no way it could
have been avoided unless Lord Kitch-
ener could have 'been iiiduced to post
pone his sailing until the weather
cleared and the track could be again
swept, but he never would have con-
sented, and so he went to his death,
Ife was below when the exPlosion occ-
urred, but was escorted to the deck
and a boat was being prepared to
launch 'him and his staff. The storm
prevented the launching and he was
not seen after the' vessel sank, On
the whole, one gathers from the best
and wisest thing with the Grand Fleet
in an the circumstances, He could
have done better, many meri could
have done better if the British Govern-
ment had given the navy proper back-
ing the years iramediately preceeding
the war.
HURON NOTES
—Mr. J. A. Johnston, of Londesboro
has purchased the fifty -acre farm of
Mr. William Brown, on the 6th con-
cession, of Hullett, the price being
$3,000. . This will make Mr. Johnston
a very nice farm home.
—On Saturday last, Joseph Wheat-
ley, who for the past thirty years has
held the position of - ',Chief of Police
in Clinton, handed over his badge of
office to Bert Fitzsimons, and retired
to private life. -
—Mr. William Clegg has sold his
one hundred farm on the lst line of
Morris, to 'Mr. William Field, of this
town; The price is said to have been
$50000-
-Mr. Kay of Farquhar, has bought
the steam threshing outfit of 4f. L,
McCurdy. We knoW of no other
section ux-the County better rePres-
quharthere being three in lese than a
ingee
—Joseph B. Hamilton hat sold the
fine Hamilton homestead, Lot 20, con-
tts, of -the ,saine locality, who viim
get early pofifiesiiion. °The him is
one and three „„quarter miles east of
—A happy event took place at the
Baptist Parsonage, Vitinghane on Wed-
nesday of last week, when Miss Flor-
ence S. Stapleton, daughter of Mr, and
Mrs. James Stapleton of Turnberry,
became the bride. of Mr. Bertrara.
Holmeis, son of Mr. Holmes, of Tutu -
berry. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. J. F. Dingarn. The young
left on the afternoon train. for
'Toronto, and on their return will re-
side on the g-roomis farm in Turn-
-On Monday evening, the friends
and neighbors met „at the home of Mr.
and- Mrs. Josiah. Itestdet.tn.Cerstaithas
to spend a 'soils' evening before theie
removal to Exeter. A very pleasant
time was spent by alI and during the
eirening's programme, Mr. and Mrs.
Kestle were presented with a mantle
clock, end Miss Ethel, with a fountain
pen and butter dish. Mi. Kistie in-
tends moving to Exeter this week.
—Leading SeaMall Gordon White-
ford, son of the late James Whiteford,
of Centralia., visited his aunt, Mrs. S.
3. Hogartle in Exeter last week. on his
way home to Wisconsin. eaman
Whiteford, 3232, Volunteer. Reserve,
has ibeen three years in the war, and
reetently on His Majesty's Mine De-
stroyer Aecot, which on November 10
last, was sunk by a submarine off the
north coast of Ireland. The strange
thing about the loss' of the boat was
that there were only two men saved,
hiniself and Seaman Alfred Coates, of
Usborne Township, who enlisted in the
navy over two years ago.
paid his official visit to L'ebanon For -
Monday evening of last week After
the business of the evening; refresh..
ments were served and a toast list was'
as toastznaster in a very efficient man -
lent address and spoke very highly of
the work of the officers
Exeter branch of the Molsons Bank, ,
has been offered the managership of
another ,branch of the bank at Rich-
mond, Quebec, a town of 2,200. pope-
lation, and has accepted the offer con-
ditionally, at the same time 'express-
ing to the head offiCe his lack of de-
sire to leave Exeter. Mr. Clarke has
been in Exeter for nearly fourteeu
years, and for several years has been
manager of that bieuich. 'In business
and social circles, he will be missed
should he accept -the promotion and
leave Exeter.
—For the past four or five months
-the question of the anialgaznation of
the two Methodist churches in- Clin-
ton has been before the people and
there was considerable imitation on
the question. The vote was counted
Tuesday night on the question in both
chuircheei About 575 helloes were
counted and 377 of the Methodist
people of the town voted for union of
the ehurches, and 198 against How-
ever, the Victoria street congregation
vote stood; 100 for; 186 against ,The
quarterly board of the Victoria street
church, on the Strength of the vote,
introduced a resolution that union be
not consummated. Six members of
the board voted for the resolution, and
1r refrained from voting.
—A large number of the congrega-
tion of St John's church, Holmesville
met at the home of Mr: William Gould. ,
Huron Road, on the evening of March
4th, and spent a very enjoyable time,
Their main object being a surprise in
appreciation of the valued services
'which Mr. Gould has given in St.
John's and to wish him every hap-
piness in his new home in Goderieb,
After all had arrived, Mr. Gould
Was presented with * set church'
books, bible, prayer,
warden, on -
while Bev.•
Mr. Gould, detPlte the
well past thotinve score d