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SEAPORTll,FJIDAY, JANUARY: 19, 1917
IiE GREIG CLOTHING
"Second to None
ale of Fur
If you, haven't visited our great fur sale you are sit41y
missing the chance of a life time. Our furs are eqt.ial
in quality and ctssortment to the stocks usually shown
in large city stores, the only difference is our pric.es are
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20 to 40
LOWER
and it isnot that we can afford to sell -cheaper than the
city stores but rather that we are overloaded and con-
sequently MUST sacrifice and take our loss whether
we like it or not in other words it is compulsory.
Read this list -we have many more that are not listed:
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$15 Black China _duffs
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• SEAFORTE
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WHAT THE FRENCII THINK OF
THEIR ALLIES.
• As Seen ,By A Neutral.
(By Lewis R. Freeman.)
The increasing confidence of the
p ple of the various Allied gout -
tares ii each other is one of the most
sigrnfiant developments of the third
ref ladies of Seaforth and vicinity -W--
y r o the great war. From the first 1 our ever -considerate French friends -W--:
th is rue was only in. use y -W
ee
Allied 'Government? have been.
el sel n accord to the uitimate ends try to save our feelings by changing .W..--' •
the Battalion for about two g IF GER
the subject whenever • e eonversation E-
tta be triven for, and the differences months before they went ov- 'we To the Edito
threatened to turn on England'a part" -,77---
of opuion.as to the way in which these ersease and is in first-class ----
Even in the firat days a the Somme :-.thr'-
e e ere to be compassed have nev- ..._ condition and practically as Etz- to Dltr, wSihr.,
I er proved irreconcilable. , History will attack, when the British were suffer- good as new Apply to
ing far greater losses than the French ree
for gains far less considerable! there rem= --' The Exposi
ee
.i.w.-- ed a cheque
i re eal that the several 'members of .....
th Q adaruple Entente have shown was a. feeling in France that the for -
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E- Mrs: 0. Neil .m the Red- Cr
Fw.
' th greatest readiness ; to exert ,their mer might have takensiuore, advantage s---- Treasurer, Red Cross Society, ,w ---t-- thus showin
1 e orts in the commonrbehalf to the of the lessons already.- learned by the tmw-- Seaforth, - - Ontario .--- the cause fo
. . ..._.
, f entent of their ability whenever w
a, 11 for help has been made, but be- I latter,: in their fuller- experience of
tlue kind of warfare • But it ha been Etwommuillatig nano inommong
_
Gs
ca se Military effort is more tangible characteristic of the triton tJrough
anI speetaclar than the supplying of the centuries that he needs mus learn a......-
m m
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n nd aterial, " or even "silent" by his own experience, not by that of
ea al preseure (which has formed, ef others. His present incomparable the "'Pommies" and the firm eonvie-
an1 11 continue to form, so large a eolonial system is melt on an seper.. ton of the people that we are in Dear Mr.
pant o Britain's contribution), these ience compact of the blunders and sifc- pounced to t
France to help, them =keg the sit -
latter ave not always been adequate- cesSes of the past It has been largely parade on C
uation possible here."
ly ap reciated by the people of the
dinner won.
"Just as generous is the view of the
so in the present War. Britain has
peasants on the other side. "How a i
countr es that have been the greatest followed her national bent and ccon- .
officers toe be
be1iefic'aries. I - is for this reason you get en with the British soldiers ?"
tinned to learn by her own experienee saying that e
that t e French people -and indeed, rather ..than that of her Allies. 1 What I asked an old danie with a parchment notice. For,
the w a rld at large -were never fullyshe has learned has cost heavy, but
brown face who was hoeing sugarbeets
theguns Battalion
well within range of the German
eonvise ed of the seriousness and sin- the lesson ' has been driven horfie for the officers a
cerity of England's purpose in the .7ood and alt Today there is prebably in the ,1 Arras sector. "Tres bien, Some dim
war u til British .man -power was ors, m'sieu," was the reply, and she went scene! Just
little to choose betWeen the adniirable
on to tell me how one "Tornee" billet-
ganiz -4 on a Continental basis and
tactics. -
finesse of French and Britiah effensive
ed in her house chopped her wood, and can, 1.3ieuth
the B tish soldier fell into - step with . , -.
man, Capt
the Fr nch soldier in -the 1great attack The growing Strength of the French Capt McTag
another .hreught water, and anoihhr -
!upon t e Somme. ' o was making a scare -crow dressed in armed with
confidence in, and the inigeasing
In t is article; it is 'necessary to a Boche uniform for her garden, and, .
call at ntion, to the feet that there warmth of the French Sehroratien for,
finally, how all three of them bought and
bonbons for her daughter. struggh
the ,Brifish is evident- hie evertt hand some 500 hungry men waiting to be
is ofte a wide divergence between France today, and, ifs inuicative of the served. For price the men gave orders
Just how well "Tommy" has behav-
the co paratively uninformed popular growing solfderity of the Alliee as the and the officees were on parade. The
opiniop of a country and the thorough- ed may be judged from the observetion
Sr info ed official opinion. The grim ordeal of the third winter of war of a well-knovin Russian. correspond- officers, who were not carving, were
is at hand, its eontinued develoement flitting aubout from table to table with
French 'Government has understood ent in whose company I motored sev-
ifrom the outset not only the value 's of- the highest significance. , Cnie
eral hundred milestbehind the British plates at tha and then it went front
plates Of turkey, etc. -and 'generous
f England's , financial and industrial sees evidence °fit M the cinemas iwhen
lines: Every time that he saw a large
13ritish pictures are shown (I saw a turkey- to Ch
fforts but has also been able to flocic Of ducks, geese or -hie!. fele a look :
eigh 'end allow for the trernenduous large crowd watching a 'Pathe "JOurri- of incredulity would epread over his "
. seen we offie
I wish you
ufu
cult)es which confronted that corm- al" come to its feet as. one man in the
broad Slavic countenance, the while he
before a war organization coin- enthusiasm of its apPlatise for Lieut.
.. pursed his lips in a whistle of astonish- er hard on the boys who are right In
aprons; Capt.
p rahle to that which existed in Ger- Robinson standing/among the wreck 1 g; the Cha lam drying: our band
down), at .mtisic halle when British mtn.virt.
playing or P . Cowell coaxiitg from the trenches, and a lot are eoming in
piany fin. many years before the out- age of the Zeppelin he had breught
hat's so remarkable about the
poultry, X ?" I asked. ifThey . the piano soin favorite chorus such as, sick, in fact 1 have to leave my writ -
reek a the -present etruggle could be /„.
"Pack All' Yo Troubles in Your Old ing every little while, so exeuse it. 'I
erfected. This knowldge made the in the friendly glances which greet
irs were played, and on. the streets
look to me a very ordinary lot of barn • ,,
Those who were not
ove ent extremely reluctant to yard foWl." "So they are," he replied. -"-'-' "agl et°. have not had a letter from you, father,
Such as it had ever§ reason to believe that interest nie, but the -fact that, hig and serving at the ing forward. to one long one from you.
since 1 landed in France, so I .ani. look-
rnin and follow the British. seldier strolling
about on leave. It is not their points as show lair& ' eating were -6
11 on England for any help beyond
could be freely adn readily granted, with so many able-bodied soldiers a- I
Isame time.
Oh, it was I hope it 'conies soon. Do write often
. The Canadian - irrespective of great tune we had to -
and there is no doubt that M. Briand whether or not they are of French an -
bout there are any birds at all. Now ; gether, and it eltoed us to forget for a if you can for it is nice to get letters.
spoke the literal truth when he said cestry appear to be esPecially popular
if it were the Don Cossacks that were little while th t we were so fan from I am sending this in a green envelope
recentl that Great Britain had never in France, and an offieial in the Minis -
here instead of these orderly "Tone. home- ' for Which we just received our first
yliv
. tere- des Affaires Etrangeii recently
miesd'-and he indicated a chiekenless What was t e menu? ' two. I am enclosinga German note of
yet ans ered nay to an appeal from
northern France with a sweeping ges- Turkey two marks and also a letter received
told me that one of the whet enthitsias
France ,for assistance. k
As typical of the French official ap-.
had ever seen in Paris' rstaa occasibned
tie and spontaeuos demohstratione he
ture of extended hands. `1%4o Wonder Corn Plum Phdding end .Sauce •
C bbage Salad - potatoes from the St Giles sehool in Winnipeg
reciation of the difficulties that con- the French peasants love the British and I want you to keep them for me
mated England m organizing for a Canadian service Corps men iri the
by the appearance, of' &lorry load of soldier, he does not even steal their Pickl s and Relishes
Oranges gards and the season's greetings to
please. Now please give my best re,-
ntine tat war, .1 will quote these midst of , a great braved that had as- poultrY'n . Nuts
allthe dear old friends there and thank
Words o a distinguished officer -whom The feeling of the French peonle to- Tea Candies
-Coffee
I nit ne to eturing Ittecheon at staff band, = :i-, I 'ward the rest of their conritrYh: allies Did we ha e enough? Well, we
begin with, but I eon them all for me for the parcel. We
eernbled to greet .a vieiting seitian
geadq rters on the occasion of a tee eine .catuotadd gootigthigg wbstodt may be quickly indicatedi for France's had quite a. few fellows in the' ern -
cent viiit to one oftlie Freah arrafeid telationa With these have been t -weed had enough
assure you t t when . the- "Hurous" bulance who were reservists, but eat
er to do with the affair," he said. got finished ere was not much of irt Cana& Mid whose homes are tea
-.."On ' Visit to England, feom,which They were only so many men going by few such. complicating eircurnstari-
the 600 pound of turkey left, and as there, one from Stratford, Hamilton,
1 ret ed a few days ago," he said, about their duty, and ithey chanced a- ces as have those with Great Britain.
little of the 6 0 pounds of Christmas quartered at Bertrancourt and you
"I was ken to one of the great muni- Of all the gallant republic's allies,
To our regr t 262 of our Ixers were may be able to see where we are,
long just .after the Serbians, ivhd. had
tion fee ries just being put into op- been giving a concert, had been 'hut Russia, as the oldest and best proved pudding.
oration, Here I was shown a thousand of them, undoubtedly stands first in We have very little chance to -write
ried away in their motors. No sooner in France and could not join. with us, letters so thismay have to do everyone
or more new machines for performing did the crowd see the khaki Uniforms the affections of the French people.
but they were not forgotted; everyone
a, certai operation in munition -mak- of the Canadians than a rush was The sort of "big brother" feeling which in Seaforth for some time, hut 1 will
with our good ;wishes. try to send field eards, anyway. God
ing. Now, not only were these ma- made for the lorry and for fully twen- France has had for years for the great of them was sent a five -fret -le note
chinee not in existence before the .war. has been most wonderfully careful -of
ty minutes it was the centre of cheer- northern Empire has been intensified
but it was even necessary to make We may be together but a short time me, protecting me from danger and
ing thousands. And hardly were th.ey since the outbreak of the war by the
longer as a Battalion, hut our dinner
machine to make parts of other ma- free of this section of the crowd than self-secrificing ' gallantry with Which, kept me well. .
chines t at were needed for the rapid those in the next block closed in around time and time again, often at gi•eat together on C ristmas Day, 1916, will Your loving boy,
day the warmth of affection of the create a diversion and relieve the FRANK.
• • always stand ut as one of the hap -
turning out of certain parts .of the them. I had never realized..until :that cost to herself, Russia has struck to
first on . One of these tlater ma- piest of the in ny hours spent together,
chines- h d over five hundred parts and French people for the fightieg men of pressure on a hard be -set ally. In We believe th. t our boys are just a- FARQUHAR.
bout as clean and manly a bunch of Death of Mrs. Gardiner. -One by
manyet ousands of separate measure- our great ally." ihe great parade in Paris on July 14th
fellows as eve left Canada and Hur- ene the old settlers are passing away.
ments 'a d many months of time were There is no doubt that the brave the Russian soldiers are generally
required 'before the first working mo- fighter and genial diplomat, "Themes credited with having been rnore en- on may well. b proud of them. The last one being called to go is Mrs.
greetings and ay the New Year bring Barbara Gardiner, who died at the
del co d be turned out Knowing Atkins," has played a great .part iri thusiastically cheered than others, and To the folks at home we would send
thet practically the whole of • Eng- cementieg the Entente, not only by the same feeling is evident whenever home of Mrs. Currie, in Cromarty, on
land's v st . war organization had to the blood he has shed on French, soil
' the tall warriors of the Czar Meter
return hornet dear old Huron. January 12th in her 88th year. Des
th as the peas,h
tat will enable- us to
be creat d anew, those of us who un- but also by the frank engenuousness ! past on the sheet of a cinema. ceased was born in Sherbrooke, lien-
derstan the situation, far from being that is so direct an antithesis of the I "We always knew sve coold count Sincerely your irk County in 1829. Later she With
impatie. t of what some have charac- rather stand-offish tourist that the on Russia for all the help she was able (Si ed) J. K. Fairfsu'll, her parents moved to Hibbert, settling ..
terized as that country's 'glacial Frenchman has been wont M the past ito give, and we feel that we -always Chapla n, 161st Overseas Batt riage to Mr. William Gardiner, she
in the Cromarty line. Upon her mare
in the la d- war, have constantly mar- visits Paris just infrequently enough f
I shall be able so to count on her."
: These, the words of a French iourn- MON,ed to Farquhar where she wo.s $t
.slownes ," in making her weight felt to consider as the typical Briton He
veiled a what has actually been ac- to make one remark his presence when alist with whom I displeased the subject FROM F ANK HABKIRK I eSident for over 45 years, Mrs Gain
complis ed.' in the face of difficulties he does come, and I have been Much seem to me to epitomize the feelings of diner was making a visit with her rel.
that w uld have dismayed a less interested to note that he is nearly al- the French people towards their old- The followin letter was written by atiVes in Cromarty, when she toelt a
resolute people toward making that ways seen either in the company of John Habkirk of town:
Pte Frank Ha kirk to his father, Mr. bad attack of bronchitis. Owing to
her infirm condition she was unable
weight Count overwhelmingly in the a pouli or two, or else in that of a est ally.
Already bound to Italy by ties of -,
bevy of French girls who are taking blood, • the French awaited enly the Somewh e in France, to combat the disease and passed away
rfter a week's illness. She was faith -
end. '
Thin as I have said, fairly chame- the - occasion to act as "Thos. Cooks" deciaration of war by that ceuntry up- December 23, 19116. fully waited upon by her niece, Mise
terizes the attitude of official and in- to "Thos. Atkins." Yesterday, eeat- on Germany to weleome her Mto the I want to let you know I am well and
all right, and although the weather power to alleviate her euffering. Mrs,.
Currie who did everything in her
formed France toward Great Britain
as an el y. That of educated- France ed under a tree in the Champs Elysees,
I came upon a group consisting of an 4nner circle of the Entente,the "broth-
erhood" in which Russia. was already- has been bad, so much ram, skiffs of above
rhwe
outside ef official circles seems to me outer periphery of French nurse girls included a the outbreak of hostilities, snow and som frosts, still I have been n aasverasgsee8asnel up atoll tillil.etelliemee!;
to have I been well stated '. by the dis- and children clustered around a nodal and to which England fought her way very well, and hope I can continue. I
tingeished Vicomte X to whom centre of two bronzed wartiors from on the Somme. The co-operation of the wrote you fr re our dug -out at our effairs of church and state, as well
as
cf. her sickness took a lively interets in
I had brought a leter of introduction the Somme M trench -stained khaki. fet Italians in the Balkans and the', clean- Dressing Stat. ti I think on the 1.2th in the joys and surrounding of her
from America and at whose chateau the moment my companion and 1 push- • eut successes in the advance on Gorizia or llth, and. at week was a heavy :awry friends, to teem she was aiwaya
On the upper Seine I spent a couple of ed unobstrusively in to learn what and beyond have brought home to the one, for we h d a rough time f, oing
days lately. "There have been times," was afoot one df the "Tommies"- was French people, just as -they did to the up to the adva ced Aid Poet We went kind and sympathetic. Although life
he said, "when some of my friends running his finger down the laphdry English, a realization of the weight up by trench rid were in mud up to rrients for her, she never murmured,
held many misfortunes and disappoint-
have.expressed impatience at the seem- list of his dog'eared phrase -book in that Italy is throwing into the scale of our knees, an Water and mud nearly but believed that all things work tee
to our aid on the Western front, and garments -and incidentally, by infer- the Allies.
gether for good to those who fear God.
g order to explain just which one of his to our hips be ore we got through to
ing deliberation of England coming
to these I have always replied that .; ence, just what sector of cuticle ---had relieve our ot • er men M the German
dug -out We scraped some mud She was a humble and trueting follow- -
nation that had been as • gallant a recently been punctured by the spent FROM THE FRONT. .. off er of the Master and her example may
foe to I.' ance as England had proved shrapnel bullet that his comrade; was . France, December 23rd, 1916 with our jack knives., and as we had
overcoats on too they were in an aw- rank themselves in a higher sphere of
well be emulated by some of those who
herself ming several centuries could holding up for the inspection of all Miss Janet Scott, Seaforth: ful condition. "e remained that way die. The funeral was held on Saturs
r,ot but rove a gallant allY. 'To me, interested. His enthralled auditors My Dear Friend, -Received the par- all night, but e got partly dried. One day afternoon, the services being con-
es an ol soldier of France, the pride laughed tillitlaey cried when he finally cel that your Sunday School class sent of our squad was called out next oucted by Rev. Die Fletcher, of name
of kno fig that we were stemming closed the -book to tell: them that it to me some time ago and I sure was morning to m .et the regimental bear- Road, assisted by Rev. D. Ritchie, of
the full ight of Germany with French was "a has on mon chemise Boehe bul- glad and also very surprised to get ers, but they mild not get their case Cromarty. The remains were laid ts
bayonet more than offset any appre- let come ping!" it .1 got it while in the front line to us owing the mud, and the ?est in Roy's cemetery, beside those of.
1 ension may ever have had as to the "Those two tlinlcsnats," said I the trenches and the boys and I certainly snipers were a so busy, getting two of her husband, who pre -deceased her
ultimate issue; and, in case of need, Edglish journalist with whom I' was enjoyed it That cake was certainly th.e regimenta bearers. We .were re- many years ago.
I alway felt sure that England could welking" are probably doing more to grand, Did you make it yourself ? lieved that af ernoon, and two of us,
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be depe ded upon for any effort that riVet down the loose corners of - the We very seldom get shell luxuries out with the corpo al who brought up the -W. IL Willis, ef Wingham, for.
was rep, y needed, • just as she finally Entente Cordiale than are the Cabinet here except when we get a parcel from relief came b ek over the top" and merly of Seaforth, has been engaged
censente to launching the joint of- Ministrs of France and England, who home. It surely is grand to know tied along the "d duck -boards for I sure as organist of the Presbyterian church,
fensive n the Somme a month or .tWo are meeting at Boulogne this after- the boys in France are not forgotten would not try the trenches again, for
before s e was entirely ready, in ore noon. by the ones at home. Believe me, I it had been m re rain and snow. We Winghana, and is now attending to his
Englarid had to win the confidence of than another where a rift might‘have . not forgotten me We are certainly a it over the oards to the roadway, duties.
Ethel was the centre of a well der to to relieve the pressure at Verdure." If there has been one place more was glad to know that your boys have escaped the s pers, but we ran for -Mr. Pollard's hospitable home ot
.
the great bulk of the French publie, startd in the Entente lute it is in that 'rough lot out here, but all the same where we wer out out dangei, except ed meeting on Thursday of last 'week,
however by action and achievement portion of France which constitutes we are only trying- to do our duty, and for the shells I was dry, but the 33 ladies bane., present In the absence
&es a mihtary power, and until the Som_ the area under British military control when we know we are not forgotten ethers who cane through the trench. of the president,. Mrs. J. A, Cole, eon.
roe offensive was well under way this and that serious trouble has not arisen by our loved ones at home it makes were in an - a. 1 condition of water ducted the meeting which. opened ha'
was not :Ione. When scarcely one Eng- here is due to two things -the innate , our task so much easier. You must and mud. binging, . Mre. Watts, of Toronto, was
lishman n a hundred realized the gath.- docilitY and common sense of the . excuse such terriblt writing. I at' 'TY- We work in 'Lim squads together us., introduced and the topic selected was
ering mi ht. of his country's war effort French peasant and the considerate ing to write this with my mess -tin for Hammeluallyathe
T bureesnduoyvearatdo "Mother and Girls." It was very ably
It is n t strange that the average manlinesa of the of the British soldier. ; a writing desk, so you can imagineFrBelaunly with. Musical selections were
Beaumont dealt
French an -who knows little of sea- But even allowing for these things 1 what I am up against. fore, but had rio trench to go through given by Misses Verda Pollard, Lela
should h ve felt that France was doing the soldiers and the. civil population ; ent
The weather is very nasty at pres- there, but Monk the newly made roads
'Me much enjoyed. In the evening a large
power a d war economics or finance- the lack of serious frFtion between I Vodden and Bernice Flood and was!
a dispro ortiOnate amount of fighting is astonishing. Nothing (not even the ; e-- ,always raining and cold. We are But as I was I telling you, the a -
crowd assembled at the township hall
ing in the common cause. An artillery bombardment on the Somme) i p to our knees in mud and when we night we :were Tidied out about nine
to listen. to the well prepared program
lady, long resident ' in Paris interested me more on a visit to this get our clothes wet we haven't a nice land 'while waiting up the ro-d
for the union meeting with the Board
and blee .
English
and pro inent in war relief work from area than the kindly attitude of the warm fire to go to and dry them. Iito relay our et er men we were shell -
have dried my clothes on my back for ; ed, one drop g very dose to the eyl-
the culvert winch we M
presided in his usual good manner.
of Agriculture. A. Smith Presi 'ent,
that the position of a British subject Germans tried so hard to make them Ind
months now. I have a terrible cold hit vert we were under and sea, ttering
Mr Gier, of Dufferin; Mr. Bowes, of
the ,ou et, told me few days ago peeple toward the army which the
In Fran e during the first two years believe had come to stay for good. Blighty (England) for New Years, so had shelter der. The next night Meaford; and Rev. Mr. McCulloch gave
chest I expect to be over in . gravel, etc. 0
of the w r was a good deal like that of "An army of angels couldn't occuct a good time's coming for me, eh? Gee, too, we were c lled out and both n; h
. , , ta addresses. There was the usual tonwl
Americas m France or England to England as we have Franee,,, said an those are the happy days -when we 1 I had the exP Ilene° of beam au of funny, stories and Jokes. Mrs,
t was 1.30 before wo ; Watts topic "Why is it?' kept the bee
day. e saw France fighting for officer of the British headquarters,staff go on pass to Englana. I haven't midnightseeni
her life before our very eyes, and felt "without rubbing the fur the Wrong Fred Larkin or any of the Seaforth I lay down agai in our dugout. W a :tense of the audience A splowidid lite
that our country somehow ought way of our highly independent British boys for a long time now. it seems 1, carry shoulderhigh' whenever posehie ' erary and mu.scial programme was pet#
to be leiding more aid than she was. farmer. Only the fun behavior of am all alone out here. The rest have and change $oulders often. Three en by the local talent. •-4
We knew little of the nature of the
task of creating a war Machine .which
confronted the Government at home,
and were impatient that more Eng-
lishmen were not fighting by the side
of the French. We felt apologetic,
and' yet, in the nature of things could-
n't apologize, just as I heard an A.iner-
iean. friend ,here .say of the attitude
of the Washington Government,in cso
many questions connected with the
war. And the worst fit was having
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uty nobly and well. I hear a I of. us were sent back a piece Olt tie
ys are in England. Well, I 'Thursday afternoon to a relay poet,
have to closer soon, as I where we were relayed from the light
more letters to write. Re- Ford car to the heavy ones to brieg
to your class and I wish here to our main place of dressing
with yourself a merry and holding for a little while to semi.
Christmas Lind a happy New Year. on down to a C.C.S, or 'the Division
must close. Rest Station. We were relieved on
Yours sincerely, the 16th, twelve of us and have bee.
WILL M. PINKNEY, resting here since but on fatigues,
etc I am on duty in the reteption
shelter. unleading the ears as they
come and looking after their o kite
and fixing the wounded up for the
dressing room. Four of no and a ser-
geant on duty from 8 to 8 pen.. but
the work is not hard and most of the
bearers are working shorter hours, but
working on the roads 4wound-us or the
yards of the tents, etc, We are sleep-
ing in a well ventilated barn on a little'
straw on a mud floor, but I have three
blankets and am alright and have kept
remarkably well all through. I ex-
pect to be here for Christ/14).s, but our
lot will likely be up the line again for
RONS' CHRISTMAS New 'Years and we are told our divih
'se
sion will come out about the middle
DINNER. of next month for a rest. Maybe
march away from this district for a
couple of months or six weeks. so that
one more long spell up there will like-
ly finish our time at least of our 12
for when we come down again, it will
be nearlY time to go out. We may
go over to the south of B. H. next
at the time, the men of
time instead of up at the first place
were to be the guests of
dinner. of.
were through the mud I told you
✓ believe me, aid some
and imagine if you Now I want you to thank the kind
ol. Comge, Major Rea - ladies of Seaforth for the kiedness ni
Shaw sending inc again this year, such a
Vanstone Major
art and 'Capt Town all fine parcel of goodies. I just receive
carving knife and fork ed it since dinner tune and since start -
g with. a turkey, and ing your letter. Miss Fern sent it on
to me along with one from Callan
Minnie so I will have a treat for tea
time. I do want to thank all the old
friends for remembering me at Christ-
mas. May God grant that by the next
one we may have peace in the world
and may be on our way homewards.
stiles pudding. Orley God bless them all m their efforts
home folks could have I to cheer the boys over here. It ha&
rs in white smoeks and been very windy today and very show -
Allen at the disgwashe cry and the weather, of courseds rath-
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France
NY SHOULD WIN.
✓ of The Expositor:
In Mr. Brownell's letier
you have published in
r of Jan. 5th, was elides -
for $25 to be handed to
ss Society, in Seaforth,
practical syrripathy in
which we are all fighting.
Yours truly,
F. Ef.olmested.
THE H
• itor,-When it was an-
e Battalion after ehurch
••strnes morning that
be served at 11.30 -all
present -it goes without
ery man* sat up and took-