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FIFTIETH YEAR
WHOLE NUMBER 21O.
SiAF• ORTH JANUARY 21, 1916
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MeLEAN BROS., Publishers
$1.00 a Yea ,v in Advance
ositor, died Wednesday morning
Greig Clothing Co
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Prices of
ur Coa
Lower
Not for many year to come wi4 prices
Coats be F.o low as we are offering just no
bought large quantities in order to g t t ep
lowest possible. A mild December indear
uary mild weather has left us over sto ke
must realize on these garments and ie -*e e
the price at a figure low enough to attract
buyers. For instance—
No, i Black Fur Coats..
No. i Yukon Beaver Coats....
No. i China Dog
No, 1 Black Beaver Coats....
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qui k
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These Bur Coats w:11 sell quickly at this pri
while we lave a large stock on hand there
ways •a better choice before being picked o
over. In other words the earlier rou sel
better your coat.
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Big Rec uctions in all other Fur Coa
Coon—Wallaby Wambat and Fur L
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The long cold season ahead makes. one look
all wool under garment for protection and s'
pating advanced prices, which have really
purchased, we plunged heavily on all Woo
sell you the choicest.gatinients of heavy ribbe
ing to weight, for
to, the
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lens. „
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Women's Copts
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Every Coat, not a single exception in our still well
assorted stock of coats will be sold at HALF piCe
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SEAFORTH
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A Soldie'
We hlave
following
.writtep, by
Mks at bort
Rrairrahlatt C
ber •26th:
As this Is
the day to
ward and t
all cherish, t
ego I thfitnilS
about ary o
The first
amend cam
Christmas at!the Front
en permitted to give the
tracts fromi a letter
Seafortil boy to ilsis
. It was written from
'nip, England, on Decemt
lareristrea.s Sunday and
*ditch we all look for -
day ot days, which we
re er.onvory of, has PaS3.•
will scribble a few lines
Ohristmes dey,
ristires sign we •had
I Was tke big and burn -
Ing quest10 T.f we were to have
Christmas Pa, and if eis how long.
This was Sr 'topic of conv,eriation
for at least month 'before the 25th
and er anti- ifferent rumors were
afloat. The «st one was that the
eser.o was- di infected, and 'We were
all to 'have • o week .% and all rail-
way fares • W. But also„ it wis
only a dreet and there were ^nun.
dreds of ot conjectures. But any
one- of the r would have been !letter
than What 0 really got.
I
No snow, rb sIeLgthing, no iekating,
jest rain, s the weatrier did not
ell s to t the rrerry English
Yaletide se • Of cottese„ thiere
wale lots of ly—hedge after hedge
of it, &DA e y pr,etty it looks, with
the red be s„ Another of the
well known h raids of Christrrae was
iabsent, the is with most of as it
was. I mean the- Christrhas ehopping
.and all that with it. Tryln,g to
figure out t yo a are going to
buy tor frio ,and how much yoa
will be in tb hole, So there was no
Ohrister.as eniing in the air at all.
and if it 4d not been for early
argCat.tilialaveliiTtr• c-oming in to es, we
the holiday slip and
never not lit.
By this t le we knew that there
would. be n IChirstrrias pa -es, coming
to as, Of •ottrse, there was a • big
kick, but a kick is no good in the
awry, that Is hardly ever, but there
are except' nS. Then carr.fe, another
rumor to no camp. First, we were
all going to billetted, out in neigh-
boring coun • for Christmas next, ,we
were to • iven five, shdllings and
left loose f the big day, But when
we eaw ti turkeys in the cook
house we we would. have Christ,-
mas at e. Some 'home. We
worked Fri aet end in the after-
-noon, we re given a Cheistrra,s
box, Wilida no doubt be osefal,
and.which w re all sure to keep for
some time, a t we did not thiank the
Powers tha be for tree gift, or yet
did we ace it in good grace, and
I ern sure • e than one of as, woald
;have llked t, see. someone 'have a
very hot y Ceristrrias, and we
have score en. with a fine com-
mand of nglisn language„ who
did it right te gift was vaccination
and innoca a ion both on tne sarre
aro.; you imagine how we re-
ceived itust a clou,d of blue
vapor, thea II charged with greased
lightning n we got back t� the
buts. That ight • Christ= a,s eve.
•Santa Cla old •have nad a big
titre oaten Into our hut 'down oer
four Inch! c .aey pipe without being
seen. For had several sentries
doing t eireat ip and down tne
floor. IS • co intersign, "Nurse the
Sore Arne" ih'ad j 1st fallen asleep
with my p nt close by 'Inc. when,
I was awe, ed by some one calling
try name. I lied out of the blankets
nd there o as Nig Iguir and • Bill
Pinkney. to • ishi nee Merry Christ.'
IT:B.S. They • resthave came a mile
In the rai o see me, and I t sure
appreciated Ae far as I remem-
ber all I 1 their. was that I had
Just been cinated and innoculatecl
.aril felti oi he hummer. So you see
even over 1 the Seaforth spirit is
stoutertit •the kleglish ram. An -
•other old t n boy We have in Bram,
shrift is Bi 1 inter,e. He is sergeant
cook et tJe 84th, -and, a fine bowl
of soup b4 ave me when I visiceid
him and the other 84th boys. He has
a good jole dai.s 'men think he is
• the Whole
on the ExPo
goes on will
•'r ning ago,
day, but it
have a 4343.7Chtristrras ins
the first rro
of the day
then that I
was still wit ire.
the holiday and e away again for
forty winks. The s rgeant yelkd
• "Roll out". But t as not till . I
• hes.ra sorreo e say, 'cream with por-
ridge that rolled , ut and tten 1
• was the la t tr.an uP. But that le
nothing new for roe.
• Oh 1 It's nice to get ap in the
walk right in, arid sit down i to tea-
n.ecititig, china, and bowls. No ;waiting
in line with mess tins on Christmas
day, twiiien I- got into dinner my
arte was pretty stiff. But when my
turkeY wises pot in front of rree Why,
1 justli naturally forgot mylittle
gift ,arsci was right there with. ali
lia,ndei on deck and from then on •my
arto Nest been getting better, AS CoLlre
officer's walked along between thle
tablesthey were all given a cheer.
The ;based was playing.. The colonel
trade a &tort speech. Just ae I was
finishing trey turkey meli was wait-
ing for pudding, one of rrw .pals ap-
proached tree and said "Hold out your
plate.". Immediately there were at
least a wore oh :hands extended, bat
rry
pa, yells, hthis is a private on&
and ihe discloses a Western Canadian
pher, podding steemingi and enveloped
in a cloth. He tut ere a fine large
piece, and away de went with it, I
afterwards found it thad, 1.- in aent
to 'a Regina boy„, who was lad up in
the heepital, and .he, had sent it to
us friendise-for ouir d1nnr,. This
pudding was 'piping hot and ha& a
bigtire getting •it away where it
belong . before the pudding. Wiltell
'the menu carne along.! I had
same tTXe doing this, but 1.was just
ry and my plate was there nere wait-
icely through. when along came an
ordel
114. SO I doubled op on the padding.
We then slowly Made our way out.
each expressing the wieh that the
scorns wohlit- be always; ae they
'ha4 been on that, the day Oof the
ig Feed. In the afternoon I!played
aerate—hall afternoon—not a very ex-
citing gastitre for Christmata But 1
dld riot feel like seeing how the holi-
day was being leept out of lamp by
the quaint little' villages whioh sur-
roanos. My Christmas gift again!
Supper e We had cold turkey as
ilong s4 it lasted; eot long; then back
• to beef again; at 7 o'clock vire had
convirt in our /mailroom whIchhad
been decorated for the oiurpo4ei The
artirits ,were from London, att eloeu-
Hoist, violinst, zoloist, enteetainer,
and as, tnat is about all the theatrical
metes I know the other tiara art -
1s fs tryst have been a tornbinat.on of
the other four. The audience were
all: in uniform with! the exception of
a few ladles whto occupied the front
rot* o se,ats with the officers. The
concert was fair. The best part of
the prpgrearine was the choruae,s and
then, the whole hall were artists. Jut
got back to the hut in dirrie e to
get to bed, thus ending irw first
ChriStaras in England& A Canadian
Claristaleas had it over this one like
a. tree', Sanday morning we, had
chierch in the !dieing roonr. end a
(mole of solos as an extra ,Christ-,
was treat. One of them was good, be.t
the other was punk, so we broke even.
Sci itow in the morning we, will. go on
with regular routine. Our part of
company may go to Langmorei ranges
aror iswe keep up the score ' of the
fist half we will do all right.
-
living today. Lanterns and candles
flitogetalistr, both in the hespital and nn
olio' own tents. /Stud, yot never saw
trad, our skirts, ehot
they ere, are m ad, four inchee
ep. Our tents here have mad floors
but we always wear rubbers or rab-
ber boots. I ,ani writing at the Prer
sent tirre by lantern light in the
patients -LOIS. Oar tents inelde art
'gam, 18 tby O4, with foer of us to-
gether. We '1'ae 'Matting on the floor
and a, huge packing box for a table
four c,aato stools, and a box on hinges
for our boots, andt a kitchen mirror,
All we lack is a tin comb -case.
• J:Ild I tell you we are on the site
of the hiet battle of the Balkan wart
The trendhes are still here. We are
on the Monestir road& leading to the
fightin,g district, but we are perfect-
ly 'safe,. We are certainly lo the thick
a things here, but it is very 'interest-
ing. But I must close to take off
sozre mustard plasters. The rain is
In torrents. Please keep on writing
I keep well up. in all the news as
?r other sends me the paper. Re-
trember me to everybody.
• Lovingly,
•ISSINNIE
From Manitoba
Mather:a Man., Jan. 10, \191G
Dear Expoeitor.—As I arn eie ding
my subscriptm
ion y thougnts n
back to June, 1881, when I left eiat
fortli for tee West. Taking the bdat
at Goderich for Duluth, as the C.P.R.
was not finiehed to Winnipeg.. In
eight da,,,ye I landed at Emmersone I
started, west to look for land at
Turtle Mountain. At Crystal City I
.got on a wood trail and got lost, t30
I caane where tnere waa a government
locator and -got land twelve miles
west of tiler eared I aro still on my
first hottestead, but my first neigre
bora !have nearly all gone. further
west ,as epeculation was the idea of
so many in the early days. But in
nearly every case, the -settlers' that
have stayed, A or 30 years at the
earre place seem to be in the beet
circumstances and have up-to-date
bulklings I drew itry lumber for
try first house from Brandon, eignty
miles, in 1882, ,andt some from Emmer-
son, 110 relies, When I was at the
Brandon fair last summer, saw so
Many ion that trip, woo are ther,a
yet. As Southern (Manitoba has a lot
of good, land, where it was worloetd
well, it had good crops. In tnis dis-
trict they were very gook but not
so Ih'eavy as (Saskatdnewah and Al-
berta, but we usually !have more rain
than further wet.lued sleigh-
ing in November. There was enouge
snow and the roads were tae best in
25 years for drawing igrain, but since
• Christmas. a lot, of 'snow nee fallen,
• and It is very deep. The trains 'nave
bee -n delayed and the drifts are five
and six feet deep. We will have
wet roads in the spring. Drawing
grain now will be a hard: job as it
will have to be in beget as nearly all
draw in the box loose. It will also
be hard, for tne children to get to
the schools in the country, but where
there are consolidated schools, they
will thave to go in the vans. so will
have to keep the roads brake. Nearly
all the schools have a ehed for horses
as it It too cold, to walk far to
school and, we do not have good roads
in January and February. The wind
fills in the trail wit'h loose snow and
-walking is bad. 'There are quite a few
who are against the consolidated
school, but they give better results
as they 1...ave better equipment and
a more regular ,attendance, but the
expense is morel In the email dis-
tricts eight to twelve children is
often the average atthndance. So
,ganitoba's new governrrent has eeme
work to do to give satisfaction in its
educational departn:ent.
JAIMES A. FOWLER,
(gather, Stan.
A Seaforth Nurse at SalOica
The following interesting letter was
written by Miss Minnie Pe,st, former -1
y Of Seaforth, but now a Canadian
nurse at She front. This letter was
written. from. No. 4, Canadian General
Hospital, Saloniki, Dec,eartber 16th,
1915, and was addressed to ISCre.-io.
Neil, et Seaforth, who haS kindly
iven it to LW for publicationi Pass,
Best:Writes:
Your: lettere come faithfully and
regularly and it is very good oS
peat. , .
Tdra ot all, before I forget, i 1
o
want ' tell you, that for the very
first tier.e, I tun seeing just ihoiw much
good. `isse Red Cross people are do-
ing. Now that we are in our own
beepitarl, a huge affair, sometimes as
many '•as fourteen &kindred patients,
T know what it means. We have pat-
ients 'coming in who have lost their
kit,. or thieve 'been on active service
10ove Imonth.O. The cold iweatherflU • I•3
corning toe is here, in fact, and Chey
orks. His name is not have -no i underclothes, sone full of
itor's liet. See, that - it
you pleese. Just 'started
n's Has been nice . all
would be inepos,sible to
without rain hero,.
rning when I awoke, for
lente I ,asnot COTISCIMB
at of rty arm. It was
ully peanut], 'try present
I tben remembered
a
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ntorning, ,
But its nifer to stay in bed.
We had ai fine breakfast. Porridge
and creaare sausage, bread and marm-
alade and coffeet The creao.. and.
irannaladeisi, ere specials and I got
around it an even though I had the
use of only ;one arro,
On getting up that morning I had
oo be helky into rro tunic. But
pe4
was luco just have a tanic to
pith on. T balance, of my clothes
is; try pyjamas. After breakfast • I
had just asgood a wash and shave
as niy Ch tmas arm would allow.
3.n4 believe e I was not alone. Otis-
ry loves
eorrpany.
was spent
er huts,
as po .0Vible
they had
niecly •
we were done dials
toe?' He
what do
everyone la -bed, but many of. them ward the same end.
thought of the mistletoe and other Our tents are crude, but rly coo--
years. Obt no, I tilde.% not ire. fortable. The weather is cold, but
Then cart the big event—Thick to- we have 'kits of warm clothes, and
mato soup, turkey, mashed potatoes, the food is abundant and very well
arailberrY puce, Plum Pudding wing- cooked. Nothing that you can brag-
41.1ACS. 111.110 'and raisins, tea. And alleine away back is more primitive then
we 1.131a4 tol do was take our teols,piles conditions ander which we are
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holes, no scarfs, it is pitiful.
'Mope going home, by hospital stile
to England, or Alexandria" etc., we
do not provide with/ :clothes, but those
geing back to the front, we draevi
socks, drawers, shir t s and;sarrie-
t im e s , scarfs, from the Red Cross
stores, From them ,also we get to-
ba.cco, writing paper and trratchee,
and that 1-9 a bort' 'indeed. And we
have to account for everyhtinge as
nothing is wasted or lost. do not
know What we wiouLd. do without the
Red prose. Sorretimes the men come
in ,stia,king wet i and • wis, who have
not had a dry 'day since we landed
cannOt get thorn' dry ; and again fre,sh
clothes are -needed. The long scarfe
that 'are knitted are lovely things
and aocks are arwaye acceptable.
Hodiever. it worlit be necessary for
you to zendi a box direct to me, for
you 'have postage to ;pay- on it„as
long as you continue to work and
u
eep up your contributioas yoare
helping us alt.
We 'have not had su,ch cold weather
of late„ yester-day the sun shone for
about fifteen oinutes and the -kw
WAS lovely. We could Bee the woun-
ains in a purple hedge. ad Selo-
ika on the slope„ really, it was love-
ly.
The, other day. we went for a tvalk
t1ote of the Senior officers,--sve
pany and I had lots of aie not allowed out of *mode, un-
balance of the merning ieos s:ccori9anied by some of the seh-
tting as many handoute
• — lor ro.en.
visiting friends 1 eoth
the Christmas boxesi a are in a ward. of forty-eight pat-
rorrl
ents with another Meter. and we
ceived. The huts were
eitch have our own patients. Oh. we
Sited with holly. When
iling our little houses a? alrf; atheit sor tirrouspichtabei here in
h wtheanhave
arked, 'we had no mistle- ben, because we are together, we
t this reP17: `i&Cailet°es know everybody and they know as
need that for" and e are one unit and we all work to-
Chxistinafi in England
The following letter WaS written by
Captain W. Fingland, son of lafr. and
airs „John F'inglend, of rfullett. Capt.
Vingland is connected with the Young
Men's Christian Aesociation, an . 'or-
ganization whieh is doing splendid
work for vile soldiers both, in and
• utside of the immediate fighting line.
His letters, several of whica wo lia,ve
pc.blished, are always interesting and
informing and this one is particularly
so. It was written on December 14th
freer }lye*, England, tne present
headquarters of tne 30th battalion. He
seye:
•
Dear Folks at Hotre.—By the time
this reaches you Chrietaras will have
come and gone; the first time Mat we
have not spent' that season of tile yea
together. But, of coarse, we nail to
expect EUie time to rome when we could
not all get horre; at least that seems
to be the way wita nearly every fair-
lly.. it is fine to get home for taat
particular -occasion, and we always
look forward to it. But this time yeu
will notice the difference more tean I
will, for 1 aro, quite hapay here. In
feet, under the present circutrstancee
would rather spend toils Christmae
aeasen with tile troops here than in
Canasta. There are so many of as to-
gether wale are away from homethis
year that we seem to nave a sort of
kin.stip and Madly feeling toward
eaebl other, and as I follow up try
work amongst the numerous hopItals
ere, tie sgoich there aro about a
dozen, andusee the, nattdreds of men
sick and wounded, I realize that I
have a great deal to be thankful for
many remons Why C 'would be happ,
thougn far away from norm. SOine
of these men have been in tire hos-
pital a long time, some have recently
one hack from the front. Not all tne
latter are wounded, for the severe
wet weather of Northern France
tollhig upon the older men, and u
those wno axe not phyelealle up to
the tr,ark. If a. roan nas any vies,
soot in his so,sterc, It is apt to snow
Air standing in trud and watar
and going fc days and nights at a
• titre with wet dotal:rig or witliditt a
change is a severe teet upon tae
!hest physique. One thinks of the
words a Robert Service in the `'Law
of the Yukon" :
'Send not your foolish and feeble.
SerLd mc your strong and your sane,
Strong for the red :rage of battle;
Sane. for I harry then: sore;
Send zren girt for the combat,
Men who aro grit to the core;
Swift as the panther. in triumph
Pierce es the bear in defeat.
Sired of a bulldog parent.
Steeled in the furnace neat.
Send ere the best «your breeding,
Send me your chesen ones;
Them will I take to my bosom,
Therr., will I eall my sons."
lillailoomosonons
ight, but we all hope that it zr.ay
come .60021. We. have to admit tnat
things 'nave gone against Las this last
year, and the outlook tale Christmas
is none too bright; It is a life and
dea,tii struggle for England., It is aere
•sorretimes ironical, to read the
apthrism of the Canadian neve-tempers'.
It leeks as thougn the war rany eon -
thole for several years yet. It is cost-
ing England a trerrenduous price beth
in seen and money, bat there are many
who :reope and believe that out of the
old England, widen `before the war
•was Sheivring signs of decay and en
of civil war, win core tea new Enge
land purified by the sacrifice •
hurried'. lifo. It is the old, lava hWithe
out tale Sneelding of Blood there is no
Rerrission of Sin," and there are many
A large number of men are .being of us here, -who hope that when it
admitted into hospital witi what is conies that we can return to our
c.alled hTrencial feet," caused by going;. iicarreiand, we amen find a better Can -
for days and nights at a titre witai ada, than we left, freed from its petty
wet ,cold feet without taking .thefistrifest of charm and politics, from
boots off or Changing socks-; It is- a :its graft seed selfieliness, a land in
very !painful trouble •and if neglected
soneetinaes the feet 'nave to be amp -
fated,
It is very interesting visiting the
men In hospitals, who are 5.,lck
and wocodedl. In opite of all their
pain, •and the noneetoo-hapeful futare
for those who have lost arms
or legs, or left with them more o
less theles, there is a wonderful
cheeriness and epthrie.an, a feeling
that they have "done their bit". Very
few of there are very anxious to go
back to France again. They like to
tell how the battle was fought and
hew lost or Won. We have still evre
of the ,survivors of that dreadful
carnage at Tpree and Festubert laet
spring when the Canadians saved
the situation In Northern Framio, per-
haps saved the Erripirie in that terrible
German advance. They fougat and
died with an abandon that tl* Ger-
rrans omildn't understand, I recent-
ly had( 11, Chat with •one an who is
the only one lett living out of 'his
company of 250 men from British Ca -
'untie.. • There is always a welcome
kir a visitor ,in the hospital wattle,
especially if he has with him *Torte
reading material. igen while in hos-
• pitals do not receive any of their pay,
but it is all kept for them till they
are sent out. The result Is that they
have Wee or no =mese to provide
• therr.selves with poetage stamps, etc.
So I keep ney pockets well stored with
these and.. contrary to trie hospital
rcles, I often find, ar.yself handing
out- ,a "bob" (shilling) or two vinen
the nurse isn't kolcing. Then, too,
there are often special things the
trien would like to hla,ve done •for
item. The oieople of Auburn a short
thre ago sent inc 125 and this le one
Or the ways I am investing it for
theme and I wish right here, to em-
press net only our gratitude but itihiat
also of the men, who have a. very
een isense of appreciation for any-
thing that Is done for them by •the
people et the homeland. Some of the
trOney is spent. too, in providIrtg some-
thing to interest the mere in the camp
in the everiinge. A concert or two
Is generally arranged tor every week
and a speaker vsho is esteciany suc-
cessful in talking to men. Most of the
telent bere Is heroic In this regard
and give their services free +Or for a
very small -charge. A little extra Is
being prepared for the men at Christ-
mas. As we go around, the hospitals
we (hand eadh tran a, Christmas card,
not a cheap one, but one worth while.
For trren In barracks we are trying to
secure a barrel ler two of Canadian
pples for th,at purpose. So you see
there is quite a- variety Of ways in
which 'money can be used to good
advantag-e.
At present our battalion is In bill-
ets, froif two to ,a dozen men in •a
house. In some of these the men
like to gather aroand, tile fireplace.
eking turns in reading aloud a good
story. Ralph Conner is quite a fav-
orite author, and we spend FOrre ver,
pleasant evenings in this way. A
narber ler us who are members of the
Independent Order of Oddfellows have
room where vise meet for a social
evening •once a. week. For a time we
had abdat fifty men quarantined in
a couplo of 'houses and it was Try
privilege to ice,ep them supplied with
writing- material, rn.agazines, books,
te.
There is quite a 1arge'.4 C. A.
hall in the town, in fact the iargcst
in the place, Watch has been ren ted
and fitted up with a dry canteeni
writing facilities, reading matter,
games, etc. It is here teat the con-
erts and Sunday evening services are
held. We have zecured another small
hall in a suburb of the town where
some a our men ,are billeted, a place
about the else of Auburn, but it •has
sent aberit 200 tren to the war, pract-
Ically all its you.ng 2,1m] able-bodied,
tren.
The people of fele place are doing
a great deal for the war„ and on try
awn responsibility I undertook the
beating and lig/rung of the building.
—about two abillings a dor—Making
perhaps there isetainie one or gro
r organization in my old home
enty of Huron, who wouldlike to
'do their bit" in title great world
struggle for righteousnees by meet -
g that exixtise.
%Alen ,right and :justice shall have
"dominion from ZOa to sea". If not,
-the flower of Canadian mannood that
is holdIng its part of the line on the
plains of Northern France will have
,faced the rigors of war oartly in vain,
for our war is not only against the
Prussian militarism there, but also
against the ware eutnless Spirit of
• moral Idecay within our own bordere.
This• is cr.y Cnristmas greeting, my
New Year's message to all my
friends in the homeland.
WILL FINGLAND, Cage
• Y.M.C.A., 30th Battalion
Shorncliffe, England,
Huron Notes -
—There passed away in Dayton. O.,
on Tuesday of last week, a pioneer
and highly esteemed former resident
Turnberry. in the person of isfr.
William.. Clark, The deceased gentle -
an gave ap farming in Turnberry
some years ago.
—One evening recently Mr. ,and Mrs.
LvieFadzea,n, and Miss Made -o,
lene, of Elkhorn, Isfane arrived • in
Brussels, for a holiday visit. It Is
tbirteen years since tney removed, to
use West from tnat koality a.nd this
Is the first visit back. Tne West evi-
dently agrees witis thew as they iook
as natural as ever. Mr. and Ogre. Stye.
Fadzean will spend a month or so
renewing old friendshIps in and
around the 'old 'noire.
oilsieLaugblio vs. Grant— Tnie was
the style ef an action brougnt 'by the
plabstiff, Neil S ilieLaughlin, against
the Defendant. Alex D. Grant, ail of
Brussels, for $80 damages arising un-
der ,a lease trade to tire defendant
and sublet by hitr to tne platotiff,
and was tried at the last eittings
of the Division Court in Brussels,
• when ju.dgment was reserved. A de-
cision has been ,since delivered dis-
rriseing the actioa with
costs,
These are isoire of the things -
are trying to do for our men.
senior chaplain. Dr. C. W. Gordixo
Connor). is at liberty to call
upon me to perform the ditties o
lhapialis at ceurch parades on Sun-
days. There are many other oppor-
tunities for service, but I can rot. go
into details now. In fact, a, large part
of try work has to do with details
4.rvri Incidentals anti we try at all
Union to be ready'r'to step Into any
emergency that may arise or new wt
conditions and there continue gur
—The annual congregational rreet-
ing df Burns) chum Hullett, was
hen] on Wednesday of laet week. and
the receiots and expenditure of eaen
eartment were laid before tte
meeting. The statement swore the fi-
nances of the enurch in a very healthy
condition. $1681.66 being raised by all
branches, and made ap as followni
Ordinary revenue. $812.01; Ladies* Aid
Society $109.71; British Bed Cross.
$230.50; Wairen's (Missionary Seeley,
$50.25; Sabbath Scri•ool. $41.11; me-
sions, $8208.
—A very eethrable lady, a former
well known resident of Wroxeter, its
the person of Mra. L . Harris; idled
at her he in Toronto on Saturday.
January 8th. Although she had not
been in good healtn fisr soire time,
nothing serious was anticipated, by
her friends and. ner death after a
few hours illness,comes as a, great
hock, lgre. Harris was in 'ner 60th
ear and her maiden name was Ellen
Melinda Doubledee. She spent all reer
life in Wroxeter and vicinity until her
erroval to Toronto with ner family
bout four years ago, She was a
rrember et the Presbyterian enurth
and during her iife nad taken a
very Bettie part in the work of the
Women's Missionary Seciety and ten -
°yea the respect and esteem of all
who knew her. Deceased Is survived
by iher husband and three dauglWers.
—There was a good. Attendance re-
cently at the annual aneeting of tne
Ethel cneerse factory. 3, K. Baker oc-
cu:pled the enair and the repo -rt of
the past year was read and adopted
Owing to the decease of J. K. Brown
who eo sur..msfully tr.anaged Inc fac-
tory, his son, Will, was appointed in
this stead and the prke for A -rak-
ing incxeaeed fifteen eints per bun -
rod weight which will now be iS2Aii.
The former Committee of Manago-
trent was ekcted. vize—J. IC. 33aker,
Harry Speiran and We Sierrono-n,
William Brown was appointed sales-
Vaill and treasarer and J. Krauter re-
appoIntea secretary: The people of
the torranunity will be pleased to se
the factory go witn a good swing un-
der the new shanagenneet. It will be
ikely to do this as the on was as -
associated with the father In the fac-
tory for years.
—Citizene or Gilder -14h are to=ing. to
iiecancluelon Viet It, does not Pt,r
o drink too much lireWater, at least
Charles lobes, Isino .ha- a torep,,
trent position at the elevators th
so, for Magistrate Kelly fined
$20 and coots for ilia being druiisci
5 for moulting a onstable, Asa
bound Wine over to keep tine peace for
one year on a MO Wad and he litist
-Igs job in Lae Itatilitia. Roberta Ns'
pea.red on the street 15 a' dr
collation and County Constable
/ow tret ,hirn and aceesed Ulm of
ing drunk, and sthortly after lie
tented. Fellow in a rheinal soma*
and Wake finally moulted in Ueets
k as a. friend of the meal. Thei;heing arrested and Planed
ask is not the eadest in tne wor14,41ockuP,. The magistrate' warned
at One finds us recompense wmn.Ferts Rad < etuseas twit the vicali
:nen come to hire witin all sorts or 'protect Fellow and all officers,
problems and questions, botk pleasant would 6ave Made &IX example
and unpleasant.
ot rots mot tim ttI
The war goee on, rAfe end, is not in listed In tise overseae isattake*.
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