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Serviceable Dress Materials
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School days will soon be here. _ No -•V is the time to buy your materials for Girls'
and Misses' School Dresses. We have a large stock of dress goods to select from
in Blues, Greys, Browns, Greens, etc, at prices less than wholesale prices to -day. -
Ladies' Suitings
A beautiful range of Ladies' Suit-
inks in all wool materials. Sei'ges,
Velours, Vicunas, Worsteds, Tweeds,
all the leading shades, Blues, Burgun-
dy, 13rolvn1s, New Greys, etc. These
are scarce goods so \would advise buy-
ing early. From $2 to ,$5 per yd.
Checks and Plaids
Shepherd and check dress goods in
two sizes of checks, a splendid quality
which makes a nice weight serviceable
dress. 40 inches %,, ide 75c a yard. All
wool and union plaids for children's
tvear at 50c to $ 1.00 per yd.
Produce Wanted
For School Dresses
We are showing a great variety of
colors and materials for children's
dresses, Suits and Skirts, in :verges,
Satin Cloths, `''antoys, 13edford Cords,
heavy weave serge:, etc. Most of
these cloths are old stock at pre-war
prices. It will pay yott to call and see
them. 60c to $1 per yd.
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Dress Accessories
Elastic Veils, Sport Nets, Hair Nets,
Fancy Collars, 'Laces and Ribbons,
13rassierres and Corsets, Hosiery and
Underwear.
Canada Food Board License No 8-13535.
Phone 89
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IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of the late Pte•
Leslie T. McKinney, who paid the sup-
reme sacrifice for his country on the field
of Flanders on Aug. 23rd, 1918.
We loved him yes, we loved him,
But Our Saviour loved him more
For He beckoned to him sweetly,
From yonder shining shore.
God knows we miss him greatly,
He counts the'griefs by scores
waves hisfarewell hand.
But then he a es fa ewel an .
And says, "I'll meet you on the shining
shore.
Father and Mother.
In loving memory of our dear daughter,
Annie B. Abram who` passed away on
August 25th, 1916.
Two years have passed since that sad day
When the.one we loved was called away,
God took her home, it was his will,
But in our hearts she liveth still.
Dear Annie thou has left us,
To mourn and weep for thee,,
Soon we will meet up in Heaven,
Happy will that meeting be
it does not seem like home because
There is an empty chair,
It seems so very lonely,
For Annie is not there.
We did not think that death so soon,
Would take thee from our side
. It took from us a loving one,
I A true and faithful guide.
T'was hard to lay that dear dear form,
Within that cold dark clay.
'Our hearts are sad and sore with pain,
Since Annie has gong away..
I Father, mother, sisters and brothers
grieve
• Ohr hearts with grief are riven,
But oh, we think it wrong to weep,
When thou art safe in Heaven.
Farewell dear Annie rest in peace,
Thy :cares and sorrows o'er,
And thou art free from troubles,
Thy cares on earth no more.
Her loving Mother.
Blyth
During the storm on Friday evening,
the barn of Mr. John Anderson of the
12th con of Hullett, was destroyed by
lightning. a quantity of hay and oats and
a Cow that had strayed in for shelter from
the storm were burned. The loss is partly
covered by insurance.
The stern realities ot war has again
visited this vicinity On Saturday Mrs.
Trenin of Hullett, received a message
that her son, Pte. Frank Williams was
killed in action, also Pte. George Leith
• formerly of the 161st Band had been
wounded in the arm, Pte Earl Dexter
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wounded in the right arm, also Pte Rus-
sel King of Auburn is reported wounded
These :Heroes are all memb:rs of the
161st Hurons and went overseas with the
Battalion
Mrs. David Nichol will visit her
daughters in the West for a few months
and will leave on Friday.
Miss Dot Cowan leaves this week to
take a position in the Business College at
Brandon, Man.
Mr. John Mills of Hullett is taking a
tripout to the West.
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Shake -Up .Among Sarnia Teachers
Considerable movement among teach-
ers centres about Sarnia at present. C.
L. Brown, formerly principal of Wingham
i High School, has recently accepted the
principalship of Sarnia Collegiate. He
will also be head of the department of
1 mathematics and physics. Miss Martha
A. Harvey, B. A , who assisted in this
'department, has been promoted to the
position of mathematical master of St.
:Thomas Collegiate Institute. Inasmuch
ns women have 'not usually been called
'' upon to fill such important positions, this
appointment will be viewed with unusual
interest. The position vacated by Miss
Harvey in Sarnia has been offered to Miss
Mary M. Gordon of Toronto, who has
', had charge of math-matical and physical
! training at Gananoque for the past six
t: months.
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FARM help is scarce, but this condition can be relieved
to a marked degree by using machines that accomplish
more work in a given time with less man power.
Why should the farmer cling to horses --a slow, expensive
means of power—when every other business is adopting
the truck and thereby reducing the cost of hauling, speeding
up deliveries, and saving for human needs the food that
the horses would otherwise consume?
The motor driven truck can work constantly at maximum -
load under the burning summer sun, or in the coldest weather.
Unlike the horse it needs no rests while working, it eats only
while in actual use, and when the day's work is done it
requires very little attention, and leaves you free for other'
"Chores" about the place. Then, it can be housed in one -
quarter the space of the horses, wagon and harness it replaces.
It is a mistaken idea that a truck is useful only for driving.
upon paved roads. The Ford can be driven all over the farm,
and used for hauling grain, potatoes, fruit, roots, fertilizer,,
wood stock, milk or any other product. The speed iter
travels, the time it saves, and its low upkeep cost appeal
very strongly to all users of the Ford Truck. If you need
help, order your Ford One Ton Truck today.
Alt prices *Wad to WO' tux clutrbee, except trucks and chassis'
:1510
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
Otte- n Truck $750
Ru - 660
Touri - 690
Coupe - . - 875
Sedan - - - 1,075
Chassis - - 625,
F. 4. B. Ford, Ont.
A. M. CRAWFORD
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DEALER, WINGHAM
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valued at $26, for Dirtle Indian school
The box contained a complete outfit of
winter and summer clothing for an Indian
boy student.
Miss Muriel and Master Alvin Miller ot
St. Helen's are visiting their aunt, Mra.
Thos G. Gaunt
Mille Everett of Kincardine is the guest
of her cousin, Mies Ethel Clow.
Mr. and Mrs Will Humphrey of St,
Helens were Sunday visitors at Mr A.
Fox's,
Messrs. Duncan Kennedy, Robert
Laidlaw and Robert Carrick motored to
Walkerton last week to attend a meeting
of returned soldiers, They were accom-
panied by Mrs. David Kennedy and Mrs.
Duncan Kennedy
Mr. and Mrs John Falconer spent Sun-
day with Langside friends.
Whitechurch
Miss Mat'gena Gordon. of Dlytb, visited
her friend, Misa Lily Paterson, for a few
days teat weep,
Mira Mac Ross le spending a wesk at
the home of her brother, Mr Duncan
MacGregor of Tcsswater.
Miss Greta Fox was a visitor in Ripley
last week.
Miss Bessie Chowen has returned to
her home in Clinton after spending her
holidays at the home of her brother, Mr.
Mowat Chowen
Mr, Duncan Kennedy made a business
trip to Northern Ontario last week
Rev. Robert Barbour of Millbrook
visited his brother, Mr. Wm Barbour,
last week.
Mrs. Peter Naismith and Master
Clarence leave this week for their home
in Series, North Dakota, after spending
two months with the former'$ mother,
Mrs. M firehouse.
Mrs J. Henry Christie and son Morris
of Wii gham are the guests of Mise
Margaret Ferrie.
Miss Eveline Garton spent a few days
last week in Lucknow with her cousin,
Mrs W Armstrong
Miss M. Jones of Owen Sound le visit-
ing her cousin, Mrs, O. M. Chowen.
Mr Jamieson Pettypiece and Mr. W.
A Taylor went West on the harvesters'
excursion on Thursday Iaat
Mise Isabel Simpson of Chicago and
Miss Marion Simpson of Wingbam were
visitors a' Mrs Prank Henry's, last week.
Miss Laura McCarrol of Algoma is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. A.
Kennedy.
Mr Oscar Casemore has been engaged
with Mr, Frank Shoebottom of Marnoch
for two months.
Mr. Frank Ross had charge of the Y
P. S. meeting on Friday night. Miss
Ada Clubb sang a solo. The next meet-
ing will be conducted by the prayer
meeting committee.
The Red Cross Society mailed 50 pairs
of socks for the local boys last week.
Mr Ben. McClenaghan killed a porcu-
pine on his farm one day recently.
Miss Margaret H Gillies has taken a
position in Toronto with the T. Eaton Co
Mr Gavin Middleton of Molesworth
spent the week- end with friends here.
The W. M,.S.,packed a box of clothing,
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$15,000in'
Miss Annie McMillan Invited a few
intimate friends to her home on Friday
last to celebrate her birthday.
Me. and Mrs. W. H. Rintoul of Wing -
ham were guests at Mr. John Campbell's
on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs David Kennedy have
received the military medal and bar which
their son, Corp John Kennedy, won laet
winter in France for distinguished service.
Corp. Kennedy went overseas with the
71st battalion and has been on active
service for over two years.
Mrs. Jean Gillespie had the misfortune
to fall down a stair on Saturday and
break her arm. She suffered other
bruises also but is doing as well as can be
expected.
Next Sunday Rev. E G. Treanor of
near Ottawa will preach in the Presby
terian church.
Should Attend Church
The editor of the Review suggests that
the board of managers "Give the congreg-
ation a holiday." We don't agree with
him. Too few are attending church now.
Very few there are who do not take from
two to six months holidays during the
year. A great many of the congregation
are taking holidays six months twice a
year. As to not being interested in
strange preachers, that is a poor excuse,
Every man and woman likes to see how a
homely preacher can transform his coun-
tenance and appear beautiful. If the
preacher is so strange that he frightens
you, clove your eyes and imagine he's all
right.—Kincardine Reporter.
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Why They
Go J3ack
WIIEN I joined the array 1
was tilled with ant over-
whelming curiosity as to
what war was like, also
a few impulses which might bo pttt
down as patriotic—there was a fight
going on and I stumbled on to some
excuse for getting into it.
Well, my curiosity is more than
satisfied. The wonderlust has all
been stamped out of my system, and
my patriotic impulses are entirely
without fireworks, I've been in the
fight and have been rather badly
hurt, but not beaten, for I want to
get back into It.
The desire' to go back is a funny
things. Ask any of the boys here if
they want to go back to France, and
both hands will go up in horror—
"No, no!" As for volunteering, far
be it from them --"a man would be
crazy to go back." Yet the week I
landed here (at base for convales-
cents) several "casualties" who were
taken off a draft, to be replaced by
men who had not been over, put. up
an awful howl. Ono day a call was
made for twenty-two "casualties"
who• would be wiling to go back;
over a hundred volunteered, and
those who were picked were accused
of having some sort of pull.
Then an order came that no more
casualties were to go back for a
while, and the order was freely quot-
ed as "the unjust manner in which
the army is run,"
A man, if he has volunteered to
go back, will deny it most indignantly.
even when confronted with undeni-
able proofs. I wonder why it is? I
don't think anybody can explain it.
The boys are "fed up," there is no
doubt about that. The mud, the wet,
the cold, monotonous food, shell fire
and all that sort of thing, are enough
to break any man's heart. The great-
est ambition of any Canadian Tommy
is to get a nice little "Blighty"—ono
of those kind like a small piece of
shrapnel in the foot or in the knee,
a nice wound clean through the
shoulder — one of those that don't
hurt much and takes a long time
to head. Think of it!—two or three
months sleeping in a soft bed with a
pretty nurse to bring you all sorts of
good things—lots of good eats. A
hospital is looked upon as a place
where a man gets "eats" every day
—of the kind that most people have
only on Thanksgiving, Christmas, or
New Year's. Then, after that, ten
days' pass; ten days of unadultered
liberty with plenty of money. Ten
daysof with "white peo-
ple"
pe -ple" once more and living as a hu-
man being once'again; then, perhaps,
if one is lucky, a nice "Boiilbproof"
at the base or in the pay or records
'office. That's the highest ambition
of the man in the front line, that is,
if you believe what he says.
- Well, he realizes this ambition—a
nice Blighty, or perhaps it was.a bad
one — but anyway he made it and
lived. There was the nice soft bed,
pyjamas and sheets. The grub:—
well,
rub-well, it wasn't *so bad—anyway, he
wasn't hungry. ' There was the little
.nurse—"Gee, she was a peach!"
Then the ten days' pass, then back
to the base for a "bombproof"—and
along comes a chap that was his pal
down in the Somme or up 'in• front
of Vimy or at Passchendaele. He
rhade Blighty in the June 3rd scrap,
yeti know. .
They fight it all over again. ' "Re-
member that night we were bringing
.up rations and got lost and wandered
into Heinzie's front line?"
"Bet your life! I'll never forget
it. What became of old Shorty Fos-
ter? He was along that night."
"He's still there—got three stripes
now, the same old Shorty, though.
Remember the night we went up to
Hersin — wasn't that .a lark of a
time?" And so on through night af-
ter night.
Before long the dull routine at the
base begins to pall. Shining brass
and doing parades doesn't conform
to his ideas of what should be. He
begins to think of those long trips in
a quiet part of the line, where he
didn't shave foil twenty days; he re-
members that `over there is a cer-
tain officer who, instead of waving
commands of "Form fours; right,
quick march!" says, "Let's go!" He
remembers another officer whom he
knows as "Windy" instead of "Sir."
He does not forget that shellfire that
puts the fear of God into the bravest
man; but that doesn't happen every
day. The uppermost thought is of
that good fellowship and freedom
from petty discipline that exists "over
there." There is also a thrilI about
a "big scrap" that no man yet has
been able to describe. Yet the mis-
1 ery, the cold, •the mud, the wet, and
the shellfire are all there; but the
man whose blood was red enough to
go out there of his own free will—
that roan, away down in his heart,
wants to go back and yet he will deny
it to the last minute. Is it false mod-
esty, or what?
The man who has been out there
knows the big chance he is taking
with his life. He knows the exact
proportion of chance he has --- it it
one in five of being wounded, and
one in ten of being killed. Often it
is a rotten death. He knows also
that the longer he has been out
there, the poorer his chances 01 get-
ting back.
But luck is a funny thing. Accord-
ing to all logic, all common sense
and the ordinary idea of things, he is
absolutely crazy to go back, unless
forced to go. Ho is afraid some will
say that ho is "battle mad," yet give
him the chance, and back into it he
goes.
I have a bombproof here at the
base, sorting mail and hunting urs
missing soldiers' addresses, but I've
volunteered for motor machine gun
work and I'm going back if the M. O.
will let me. ---Letter from soldier of
the 6th Canadian M. G. Co., Canadian
M. G. Base, Seaford, Sussex Ca.,
England.
east Wawansh Council
Council met on Aug, 19th, as per ad.
journment. Menthol's all present. Min.
utes of last meeting were read and confirm•
ed on motion of Buchman and McGowan,
The engineer's report on the McCreight
drain affecting certain lands in Fast We.
wantish, Khhlos4 and Turnberry was read
and provisionally atiupteti and the clerk
nsttucted to have the necessary By-law
in eunae.ytion therewith, prepared^far the
next meeting.
Byelaw No 6, 1918 wa4 read and
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Page Five
Consider carefully 'these three rea-
sons why it is wisdom. to get a Model
90 Overland car,
You need this modern method that
enables you to do more work in less
tune.
Its price is unusually low consider-
ing its quality, its room, beauty, con),
fort and e,-lciency.
Back of it is a real Canadian institu-
tion
fortunately prepared to care for
all service and parts requirements now
and later,
Five points of Overland superiority "
Appearance, Performance,
Comfort, Service and Price
Local Dealer, L. Kennedy
Willys-Overland, Limited
Wiltys-Knight and Overland Motor Cars and
Light Commercial Wagons
Head Office end Works, West Toronto, Ontario
passed fixing the following rates of tax-
ation for the present year; County rate,
4/ mills, Township rate 2 1 1 5 mills,
Provincial War tax 1 1 J 30 mills, and
special school. rate 2 1 I 10 mills on the
.dollar. •
The collector having declined to act in
that capacity this season it was moved
by Mr. McGowan and seconded by Mr.
Currie that applications for that office be
received up till next meeting of council,
The following accounts were paid;—
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The Times, office part printing contract
$25, R. Mowbray.part payment on Patter -
son's bridge $800; A. Hill & Co part pay-
ment on Patterson's bridge, $1,000, Wm,
Love, inspecting concre'e work on bridge
$54, Alex Young, shovelling gravel $2 Q.
G. Anderson, cum, statute labour tax •$12
R. Scott com. statute labour tax $3, A.
• Scott com, statute labour tai $7.50, r1'
Gibbons com. statute labour :ax $7.50.
For gravel—R. Wightman '$110, W.
Fothergill $4 50, R Patterson $3 90, 11
S. Frisby $7.20 W. Fitzpatrick $1.71.4 R
Shiell $190, 13. McKay $7.' C. Sanburn
$2 R S1:ott $4, A. Scott $6,60. .
By-law No. 7, 1918 authorizing the
collection of 3 per cent extra on' all taxes
remaining unpaid after Dec. 15th was read
and passed.
The council adjourned to meet again on
Monday Sept, leth,
A. Porterfield, clerk,
Shop Early
A poor thing to do on Saturday night
is to leave your shopping orders until
late in the evening. If you do it, you
keep the merchant up late. In fact you
keep him from church on Sunday morn-
ing. Shop early and don't give• him a
chance to blame you for keeping him
away from church. He may be looking
for an excuse for not going, so jUS fool
him.
Victory loan Por October • • '•
The ergsnizanon "'work fax 'rholiew
Victory Loan will commence:'within:, the
next few weeks and it is expected thht the , •
amount asked' from this country will •be"
much in excess oi` that asked and 'secured
a year ago. The money is here aid with •
the practical steps that will be taken. attd• •
the well-known patriotism of this district,
the amount asked,' if at all' in reason,.
should be over -subscribed. It is probable
that the organization that was' so success- ;
ful a year ago will for the- most part be
utilized in the next big • drive. While no
definite announcement has been made of
the date of the big drive, it is believed
that October 22nd will see the culmination
Of this effort.
Some fifteen weeklies in Ontario alone
have gone out of business• within a: year:
And, yet people still ask the newspapers;to
advertise for nothing under the impression
that the cost of, publishing is a mere
trifle.
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The
universal
military
service
gum—
A Soldier's offering to his
sweetheart is naturally the
sweetmeat that gave him
Most refreshment and great-
est enjoyment when on duty.
The Flavour Lasts
Kees. the hove in
serolee supplied.
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