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a year in advance ; $1.50 to United States BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGrUST 6, 1914. Vol. No. M. A. J AMES & SON, Proprietors «* > Annual Sale of Summer Goods at Couch, Johnston & Cryderman's One-third Off the Price of all Spring Coats One-third Off the Price of all Ladies' Suits One-third Off the priceof Childrens'Dresses All Ladies' White and Colored Dresses and all Wash Skirts at reduced prices.. Ginghams worth 12£c for 8c Ginghams worth 15c for 10c Ratines worth 50c for 35c Ratines worth 75c for 45c A lot of other Dress Goods at about half price. THE EDITOR TALKS. MOTORING THROUGH MIDLAND ONTARIO. One-Third Off Men's Two-piece Suits One-third off the price of Men's Two-piece Suits. Great bargains in Men's Ready- to-Wear Clothing ot all kinds. See our complete line of Men's and Boys' Furnishings. Couch, Johnston & Cryderman The importance of enthusiastic immigrants immigrants was one of the features of the time of Laurier rule. The deportation of disheartened disheartened unemployed is featuring the day's of Borden mis-management. Western grain growers may wait upon Sir Robert Borden and Sir Wilfrid Laurier Laurier to urge the adoption of the free wheat policy. By speech and vote in the Commons, Commons, Sir Wilfrid has already declared himself as favouring the farmer's policy. Premier Borden, on thé otbpr hand, has declared against the'farmers and in favor of trade restriction. Recent investigation established the scandal that from the New Brunswick Conservative Government and from the Dominion Conservative Government . a Conservative politician received aid amounting in all to 24,095. Mr. Finder received $224,095 in public aid for a road which cost about $159,000 ! Though the investigation showed that he was not entitled entitled to it, he received a double subsidv amounting to $81,280 from the Dominion Government. Reports are coming to Ottawa of more nasty scandals in the administration of Federal affairs in the Maritimè Provinces. Manipulation of dredging and other contracts contracts for the benefit of friends of the Government- is charged. At least one Minister is said to be involved in an unpleasant unpleasant way. The next session of Parliament Parliament will see light upon some Borden Government transactions which have equalled the Prince Albert homestead "deal" whereby for $10, a Conservative politician was given public property worth $300,000 Surely it is time for a change. Listowel again shines brilliantly in high school examinations--29 upper school students wrote on Normal entrance 24 were successful, 7 winning honors. Twelve wrote on Faculty of Education exams, and II were successful, 6 taking honors. This record added to the Lower school in which 26 out of 29 pupils passed I gives Listowel a preeminence of which all ! concerned may be exceedingly proud. The I name of Climie is closely associated^ with 1 Listowel, for Mayor Climie is its -Chief Magistrate and Miss Maud Climie heads the honor list in the Normal entrance class--two honors not to be slightly re- ! garded having been won on personal merit. merit. WHITNEY'S LIQUOR LAWS. BOWMANVILLE PHONE 104 OF INTEREST TO ALL Watch 'Repairing is an important feature of our business. Wb can guarantee satisfactory satisfactory results on any work left with us in this department. Our experience includes all makes of watches and clocks. Nothing too difficult. Jewelry Repairing also receives expert attention attention with prompt service assured. We can size your ring or put a new pin on your brooch at a very small cost. To-day is the time to bring them Why not enjoy ing them instead of having having your jewelcase filled with useless articles. in. we ar ia both departments you will find our prices as low as possible considering ouj: high-class workmanship. C H. HADD Y, Jeweller The House £or x Watches Bowmanville FACTORY TO RENT The Durham Glove Co. having decided to leave town have placed in my bands the leasing of space in their building. There is ample space for three or four small business business concerns on ground floor. The upper story would make a very fine lodge room. If interested see me at once. Thos. D. Kerr, manager of Durham , Glove Co. offers for sale his comfortable comfortable house on Centre-st. This is a fine home and can be used as a double dwelling. Price right. Anyone Anyone wanting a home should see this. Harry Cann The Insurance and Real Estate Man Phone 50, Bowmanville A Western Fair LONDON. CANADA Ontario's Popular Exhibition September 11th to 19th 1914 # . . ; ' v ' INCREASED PRIZE LIST Magnificent Programme of Attractions. Two Speed Events Daily. New Fireworks Every Night. COME AND SEE-The Dominion Experimental Farm Exhibit and The Canadian Royal Dragoons. The Com T. Kennedy Shows, will fill the Midway. Music by the best available Bands. Reduced Railway Rates commencing Sept. nth. Special Excursion' -Days, Sept* 15th, iôtbÿiyth.. All tickets good till Sept. 2ist. -t AIT information from the Secretary W. J. REID, President A. M. HUNT, Secretary BANK OF MONTREAL ESTABLISHED IÔI7 Incorporated by o4ct of 'Parliament Annual Farce of Boat Pursers. The annual farce ot fining the boats on Lake Ontario for the seitrig"; of liquor without a license has been Pf^rated by Chief Inspector Robert S. Burroto of the Provincial License Department. and his assistants, Inspector P. J. Jennings and D. Greer. The Chief License Inspector for the Whitney Government hailed into Court the pursers of seven of the largest Lake boats and the results is that they are fined $200, plus approximately $36 in costs, in each case. The seven offenders appeared appeared before Magistrate Denison and received received their "deserts" as they have been doing each year for the last eight years. It is pointed out that the fine, even with the costs, amounts to a infinitely small sum compared with what any other liquor sellers, operating under a license, would have to pay for a bar which has such patronage patronage as any one of the seven boats. The Liquor Licen se Law states under Section 10 of the Act. "That liquor shall not be sold nor kept for sale in any room or in any place on such vessel". Since 1907, when a number of the boats were fined $50 apiece, through all the succeeding succeeding years, the fine slowly increasing the officers on the Lake boats have annually annually contributed their tribute to the Provincial coffers. An Ontario License, legally granted, would cost from $120 for a township tavern license, to $1000 for one of the HO hotel Licenses in Toronto, but the business done on these Lake boats is not comparable to any except the steady stream of trade which passes through, or rather over, a Toronto bar, It thus is seen that for the paltry sum of $236 the Lake boats are enabled to carry On an absolute illegal trade, ànd fora sum for which others have to pay more than six times-as much. The boats upon which Chief Inspector Burrows has made his annual "swoop" are the Cayuga, Chippewa and Corona of the Niagara fleet ; the Kingston, Toronto and Rochester of the R. & O. Division and the Chicora that sails on the Olcott Beach route. On not one occasion since thé Whitney Government came into power in 1905 has any attempt, worthy of the name, been made to suppress this illegal traffic. The annual "Fining farce" merely means that the present "law abiding" Government is winking at those contraventions ot the liquor laws on the Ontario stature books. Editor David Williams of The Bulletin, Collingwood, Mrs. Williams, Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Wilson took a motor trip thru these Midland counties recently stopping over night in Bowmanville. In his paper last week Mr. Williams has a three-column description of their perigrinations. Here is his introductory paragraph: Three hundred hundred miles through Midland Ontario, the counties of Ontario, Peterboro, Victoria, Northumberland, and Durham, in an auto, gives a new idea of that section of the Province. We here on west side of Lake Simcoe appear to have so little in common with the folk on the other side except at election time when we listen for the telegraph telegraph reports from Lindsay, Peterboro, Cobourg, Port Hope and Bowmanville, that we are comparative strangers. Here we are more directly associated with Tçr- onto.than with the towns and villages of the east, consequently live with different ideas in regard to them and their _ part of the Province. By this time there is no intention intention to convey the idea that by crossing crossing the Narrows at Orillia one enters a foreign land peopled by a foreign people. All are Canadians and all live in the same way. We are simply separated in a sense by imaginary lines of demarcation, that should not even be permitted to be imagined. We are soon in the old town of Cobourg, spread out along the Kingston Road and the shore of Lake Ontario fora number of miles. The main portion of the town has the ancient appearance that goes with many Canadian towns. The stores have the antique shop style and the municipal buildings have a sombre, impressive impressive air, the old town hall standing, as it were, a guardian of all it surveys and a monument of the days before cut stone was driven out by moulded cement. Along the main street to the east is the colony of the United States moneyed cousins who have exchanged much of their cash for Canadian real estate, brick, stone, paint and labor, and have received -in return handsome summer homes, many of which will compare favorably with castles in the old land. Beautiful grounds surround them and altogether they are most attractive and add materially to the wealth of the Ontario lake town. From Coboùrg westwa'rd are a series of towns and villages along the lake front and on the Kingston Road, the route which for 100 years and more has been the course of travel between the east and west. Next to Cobourg is Port Hope, another another old and prosperous town with its high railway bridges, its business street on the face of a hill, its monument to Col. Williams who gave his life for the Dominion Dominion in 1885, and its harbor yet fie- quented by the odd scooner which yet sails the lower lakes and the excursion steamer and coal barge. Continuing westward Newtonville and Newcastle are passed and then Bowmanville,. which is always kept to the foré by Editor M. A. James of The Statesman, is reached. IN OLD ENGLAND. Rev. C. W. Barrett and Mr. Chas. Horn had Roral Time in England.- HORRIBLE EUROPEAN WAR THREATENS# GOVERNMENT INACTION Capital -- $16,000,000 Rest -- -- $16,000,000 Undiv. Profits 1,046,217.80 Savings Department Head Office, Montreal# J. A. McClellan, Manager, Bownumrille Brandi. HIGH SCHOOL EXAMS. Whitney and Gamey,-- Hanna and Taylor,-- J. J. Foy and Beatty Nesbitt, Polman Evans, J. W. Moyse, Dr. C. K. Robinson--Next ? Once more has the Ontario Attorney General's Department been brought unfavorably unfavorably before the public--this time m reference to the Blanche Yorke c a s e. This makes the fourth in a serious of cases which have been handled with no credit to the Department looked after by the Hon. J. J. Foy. At first there was the vanishing of Dr. Beattie Nesbett, who was ultimately located in Chicago--Manager of an Insurance Company, "wanted , dis- appeared from local ken# J. W. Moyse, "financier," has been missing for the past few weeks and still the Provincial Police Department il showing its usual lethargy. Now even the Conservative press is roasting roasting the Government for its dilatory action in Ontario's latest mystery. Dr. C. u. Robinson, in the cellar of whose Tam- worth House the body of Miss Yorke was found a few days ago, was allowed to leave, unmolested, for the United States, Inspector Miller, Superintendent Rogers and others of the Attorney General's aides aides were "on the job" in plenty of time, talked to Robinson by the hour, but let him slip through their fingers. The Toronto Toronto News says in part : "Remarkable circumstances surrounded surrounded the discovery of Blanche Yorke's remains... .Dr. Robinson was allowed to disappear and weeks elapsed before the real facts were uncovered. Even then the discovery was the result ot an accident accident rather than the vigilance of the authorities. The Attorney General's Department Department should take all the facts and circumstances circumstances under serious consideration.' Dr. Beattie Nesbitt--Pollman Evans-- J. W. Moyse-- Dr. C. K. Robinson ! Next? Reports of Departmental examinations for entrance to Faculty of Education and to Normal Schools have been published and it will be observed that Bowmanville High School has made an excellent record in these classes, having passed every candidate candidate in the Upper School exam. Successful Successful students are : Faculty of Education. Leta L. Bragg (II), Gladys M. Cousins (II), Orville Henderson (I), Nancy P. Johns (II), Madeline M. Stephens (II). Misses Cousins and Stéphens won honors in their Part I exams last year. ' Senior Normal Entrance* D. D. Barton, Mary C. Galbraith, Alan G. Gale (honors), Helen L. Johnston, C. ,Gordon Manning, E. Mae Reynolds. In this class last year two students won honors: Marion VanNest and Roy Warnica. ' Matriculation Results. Matriculation results will notbe avail- able for another week-yet. IN THE EDITOR'S MAIL. Mr. Sherwood N. Potter, Philadelphia, Pa., writing July 29 says : I notice by your paper that you have not had much ram. Guess we have been having your shai with ours, for not tor years has this city had such heavy rainfall in July as this year. • An esteemed minister whose financial circuit report has just been printed at James Publishing House and whose printing printing we do, as he is not near any printing office, writes under date of July 31 : Many thanks for the concert and civic holiday bills you printed for us, and the church report was a grand job and arrived on time, too. All my printing will go your way. ' Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S ©ASTO R l A What a gr§nd and interesting tour in England ttièîfwo Hamptonians have had judging from Rev. C. W\ Barrett s letter to the editor of this journal. It may be remembered that his former letter was written from Plymouth on arrival at the famous old seaport from which so many forefathers sailed, as Mr. Peter Werry s letter in our last issue stated, away back about the first half and middle of last century century for this part of Canada--then known as Canada West--for the present Greater West was not then open to settlers. As eyery school boy knows it was from Plymouth, Plymouth, in sunny Devonshire, the Pilgrim Fathers finally set out for this New World, and the stone at the point of departure, bearing the simple inscription, MjXV - flower, 1620" is reverently visited. The Cornish Riviera, immediately to the west of Devonshire, and the English county nearest this country with its surpassingly beautiful scenery and mild but bracing climate, rivalling even Italy and the South of France, makes a holiday jaunt unequal led among the beauty spots of Europe. His letter bears a postmark that never fails to charm us : Paddington, July 23 This is the London station of the Great Western Railway which affords a splendid service to and from the West of England, the extreme point reached being Penzance in Cornwall. We are not surprised that i Messrs Barrett and Horn should go into lecstacies over the lovely scenery they ' have beheld on all sides, for the wide expanse expanse of salubrious country thru which they passed from Plymouth to comprises some of the choicest scenery in the Old Land. They saw in their itinary some populous suburban districts, districts, substantial and prosperous towns, pretty rural or riverside villages alike abounding in residential mansions or charming villas. One place visited in Devonshire was Torquay, a very picturesque picturesque fashionable watering-place--we call it winter resort in this country--situated on the margin of Tor Bay amidst some ot the more romantic scenery of Devon. Its unique position together with the mildness and salubrity of its climate, the perfection of its sanitary arrangements, its excellent water supply and enterprise of its public- spirited citizens have earned for I orquay a high place as a popular health resort. Torquay is unique in its location, built upon the richly wooded slopes of majestic hills, where amidst luxuriant foliage terraces terraces of he uses, villas and mansions stand in quiet sec'vision so dear to the English wealthy people--some in sheltered nooks, some upon lofty heights, most of them commanding magnificent views of the rock-bound coast and of the blue expanse of the memorable bay. It may be of special interest to Canadians to learn-that on May 6, 1890, the foundation stone of a new pier was laid by Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, wife of the Marquis of Lome, who was for one term Governor General of Canada. But we will let Rev. C. W. Barrett tell the rest in his own way in a brief letter, far too brief, but no doubt the reverend gentleman will have collated abundant material for a lecture or two on England and its historic attractions or similar title: London, Bayswater, Y.M.C.A., 28 Princes Square, W., July, 23, I9I4- Mr dear Mr. Jàmes : Thought I would write a few lines again to let you know 1 how full of interest our journey is proving to be. We spent nearly three weeks visiting visiting different places in Devonshire and were wonderfullv interested in the beautiful scenery and historic places. While in Devon we visited specially Plymouth, Torquay, Okehampton, Holswortny, Bridgerule, Tavistock and Bideford. We had a very pleasant visit^at the home ot Mr. W. Bines, Grove Farm^ Bridgerule, and Mr. John Littlejohn, Arscott Farm, Holsworthy, the father and brother-in-law respectfully of Mrs. Jas. A. Werry, Swain Farm, Enniskillen. He have since enjoyed a little stay with Ml Wt Ernest Bines, brother of Mrs. Werry, at Brighton. At Bideford we visited Mr. M. J. Dtirrant and fafnilv, cousins of Mrs. T. Geo. Mason, Bowmanville, and enjoyed very much their fellowship. Since then we spent two very oleasant days at Wellington with Mr. Fred W. Brooks, eldest son of Mrs. J. F. Brooks, Courtice, who treated us royally. Besides these places W'6 have visited Exeter, Bristol and are now in London. Every place is replete with interesting interesting and historic features and we cannot cannot fail to be impressed by the staunch character of the countryandits conditions. We have been almost appalled at the prevalence and prominence given to the drinking and tobacco business and these evils surely show themselues, particularly "among the working classes. The historic grandeur of the cathedrals, the art galleries, galleries, the museums, the memorial statues and the pleasure parks all declare the pride and interest of our Mother Country. Every place and every dav has something fresh to present to us that cannot fail to be a profit. We expect to sail on August 1st at 3 p m on S. S. "Laurentic" of White Star Line from Liverpool and if all goes well hope to appear in Bowmanville about 10th prox. It is with outraged feelings of intolerable intolerable oppression that the entire civilized world beholds the destruction of life and property which a general European war is certain to produce, and the calm mind ventures to ask, what good can be expected expected to result from it ? In a sense, Europe is one vast family, the same culture has lifted the descendants descendants of the old barbaric Aryan race to appraximately the same civilization. Some mistaken notions of national pride, some supposed infringement ot National Etiquette, are about all the real reasons for this general uprising so far offered. offered. The nations seem to be passionately aroused against each other, and vet it is impossible-for any person to state a reason for it that it may not be challenged. Teutons and Slavs ordinarily live peacefully peacefully together, and the war which seems so imminent, must be an artificial conflict with motives of an ulterior kind not manifest manifest from the proclamations of the rulers who seem to be foremost in precipitating it. No nation seems to be fighting, or about to fight, for freedom from oppression, or for independence, or to defend house, family, or country. What then is it all about? Why is France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Great Britain to be drawn into the conflict ? No one can answer, and yet, if cable reports reports are reliable, every nation in Europe is putting its army and navy in fighting t i order as though they were expecting a astoral * wor ffi-wide conflict. We dread anarchy, and yet here is anarchy anarchy instigated by the rulers of Europe, and though feeble efforts ^are made by a few of the powers for peace including I am glad to say Great Britain, they are all getting ready for war. It is said in Paris and in Berlin, the workingmen, who were exhorting for peace, were driven from the streets -by the police. Verily the people of these nations have gone crazy for bloodshed. In a sense, the war has been made inevitable inevitable by the international madness in Armament Competitions, and it would seem it would only end in a general conflagration conflagration which perhaps is the destined way. 11 is deplorable that these christan- ized nations have so easily forgotten the dictates of the great Master of their faith, and instead of using their forces Î0 maintain maintain "Peace on Earth and good will tO men" they are preparing for an Armageddon Armageddon Haughtes. But the piling up of bat-, tleship upon battleship, and army upon army, that has been going on so long in Europe, could have no other result than to kindle the beliggerent passions of men such as the attitude of the nations present. But after these passions have subsided and the conflict is ended, and the cost of life and property destroyed, is conated up, méthinks the already overburdened taxpayers taxpayers who must foot the-bills, will curse the hot-headed rulers who precipitated rhe'holocaust. Once firing a great gun costs more than the average laborer is able to earn during a long life of toil The children of the poor are born in desolation desolation and reared in poverty because of this international insanity in Military expenditures. expenditures. A few potentates may rejoice in victories victories won, but what is a. triumph bought at such a cost?- The soul must be craven indeed, indeed, that can rejoice over such a wholesale wholesale slaughter. e^sCHAS. M. Bice. Denver, Aug. I, IÇI4* SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS schools will open Tuesday, Couch, Johnston & Cryderman are giving giving one-third off the price of ladies suits and ladies' and children's spring coats No oerson from this town has reported lv luv „ , as having his pocket rifled at Lindsayand | ^ Normal Sept. 1st. Schools in this inspectorate are pretty well supplied with teachers, Trustees of Public Schools should notify Dr. W. E. Tilley of engagement of a tçaçher for next term on Form 93 properly properly filled out. Collingwood accepted resignations of six teachers on its Public school staff and filled their places with new ones, Some other towns might profitably follow suiri Mr. W. H. Houser, principal of Graven- hurst High School for the past two years, has accepted the position of science master master of London Collegiate Institute, succeeding succeeding Mr. John Elliott who has taken the principalship of Mitchell High School. Miss Elsie E. Rundle, Principal of Enniskillen Enniskillen school, and Miss Greta M. Van- Nest, Principal of Tyrone school, are attending attending the Rural School Conference at Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, this week, as a fitting closing to the Teachers' Teachers' Summer. School in that institution. Miss Rundle represents -Durham County Teachers' Association. Mr. Alan G. Gale is- receiving showers of congratulations on winning honors in the Middle School exams for senior entrance entrance to the Normal schools. He alone enjoys this distinction. Last year he won honors in Junior entrance class or Pt. 1. He was also a candidate this yearin Matriculation in Toronto University. He is eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. James Gale this town. We were favored by a call from Principal Principal T. F. Wright, proprietor of St. Catharines Business College on Friday. Mr. Wright has invested in an auto and has been enjoying with his family Visits to their relatives.' He reports a splendid we doubt if any had because they have | mar kable success m reexaminations. reexaminations. more sense than to carry a bulging wadi of bills to a town where robbers carry away big safes from business places and rifle them in the quiet of the vicinity. But more than one fat pocket was touched" touched" at the firemen's conclaves there. Une sad man lost $25 and a much sadder one lost $400 in cash and negotiable paper, People should come to this town- and invest invest it in real estate with Harry Cann, The bo™land broker. He will give you ^'big value. Some Durham students. county boys have been Peterboro has had some light-fingered gentlemen operating out there. In the days of oùr fathers the farm provided provided almost everything needed by the family. The few things not raised on the farm-were received in trade from the village village store. Very little money was re* quixed or handled by the farmer.