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5s v Ifesf* ■fe. j$i.oo a year In advance; $1.50 to United States. BOWMANVILLE. ONTARIO, CANADA, THURSDAY. JULY Volume. EDITOR GREAT j With this issue of The ' Statesman i j the senior Editor completes" 37~ years as editor and publisher of this papèr (and he never enjoyed his editorial work more than right now. Pte Dan. Douglas Writes Humor ^ durham boys're-union Our Correspondent Himsèlf Again, ând Lauds His Comràdes SEMI-ANNUAL SALE Hurrah for Alberta ! This province has carried prohibition by some 20,000 major- ity. Liquor interests snowed under bv majority of 2 to I. The vote stands according according to Edmonton Daily Bulletin : Dry 46,987; wet 27,752. The act comes into force July 1, 1916. j of Summer Goods Our sihcerest and heartiest welcome to all home-comers to Bowmanville during this joyous occasion of the visit of Durham Old Boys and young girls --they never grow old. We request all to send us their full addresses that J we may get them correct. i Canadian law holds Somewhere in France, July 3. Dear Mr. James--Accept my warmest warmest thanks for Toronto papers, ' funny part" included. I did have a look at those, for I took them both out when I opened them. The other parts I had a glimpse of now and again, and I was fortunate enough to have my rations brought to me two days afterwards in the magazine section, so I didn't do so badly, tho the ladies were certainly somewhat "mussed up" with bacon lat. Little did those Canadian ladies think they would ever be admired in F rance under a coating of bacon' "fat, when they saw themselves in the city's Sunday paper. That is the fault of war, I suppose, for we blame the > pital. Roy was a hard worker and he took soldiering, as he did everything else (but me) seriously. It's the likes of Hoy that make the back-bane of the British Army. Dan D. Somewhere in France, July 9. DtiAR Mr. James--Does your paper, by chance, go to the North Pole ? I am getting such "surprise packets" now and again, in the shape of letters or parcels, or-, as in the Toronto imd UI nLh BoyS , and Girls from ■Toronto and other places will visit- Bowman ville on Civic HolirL.x/ b day August 2nd. A special DTP ?" leaves Toronto at 8. P « a ® and Sh 15 o Clock. A procession will be formpj headed by three bands and led by the Mayor and Council of Bownvmvîl l V 'T" g Wil ' be iB -- of WÎcÔme ÏÏiJ i M d " 1 ! v . er an addrea, Will respond. Boys, Lunch will be served a <- 19 , , - the ladies of the » 2 ..°?, 1 : 0ck > the MethodisT^nd^^oli* y m Hall. war 9 from this date will sell all Ladies' and Children's Cotton f Dresses, white or colored, at 335 per cent. Discount is one-third below regular price a , perjsou , A euuuuse, ior we ma S , receives a newspaper regularly by for everything nowadays. ment for it. Several people in this . We ai-e furiously fighting the Ger- town and locality will wake up to this ™ ans , as . J writ £* f° r I did hear a fact some day, too. If a paper goes to a u P t r S ri i? e go off a , few m "mtes ago. ' ' ' - not. ordered I ^ 1 can hear around me is the sound '?u-^ n ° res °* ever y possible variety -this is what one could call "peaceful and it is no reason the English "Tommies" declare that the Germans case of my newest surprise, a packet' of "comics" l rphn °onooi Jtlall. and Woodbine cigarettes (the British their fripn^nl f b ?£ s and & irI s request Tommies' Own m'o-a/nofi-tn t out,, . I .fi r fF lends from the count-, x, with them, lunch go to a you that you have not ordered, in struct your postmaster to return it to the office of publication. You do not have to. pay the postage. Listowel Banner has entered suit against a subscriber subscriber in that town who has received the paper four-years, and when asked to settle up said 1 he Kttd never ordered it and refused to pay. /"We don't know whether he. did or not", says The Banner, "it was before our tinie. But I we do know that he has been receiving receiving the paper regularly from us and therefore, according to law, he is responsible responsible for the pay. " must have gone home and just left the caretaker and his wife to tend things. We came here a few days ago and not a man has been touched to my knowledge. knowledge. All seem to be trying to make up for lost sleep in the past, for in every dug-out one hears the same con tented, though far from melodious, I music That All Summer Goods, Muslins, Voiles, Crepes, Bedford Cords and Ratines at Reduced Prices - x >1 -- y' _r> ( V : • ' ; 7' .5 J Sfe~ Selecting proper candidates is the theme of the leading editorial in Peter- boro Daily Review of 22nd inst. It moralizes thusly: "If good men are elected, honest and efficient government government is obtained; if unsuitable men are elected, the people are due to hear of such disgraceful transactions as have come to light recently in Manitoba" Manitoba" in the Conservative Government. long as party nominations are made the choice will go to the man who is likely to pull most votes to the artv rather than to the man best tted by èxpérience, education and ability to represent the constituency. Frankly, the Review places party be- fore.constituency, and so will the*nominating the*nominating convention. . "Conservatives should endeavor to keep the high principles principles of their party before .. them in selecting a candidate" is the summing up of the article. Here Is Property in Bowmanville at Bargain Bargain Prices-Buy Now Brick residence on Church St. in best residential section, can be made into double house; in good condition, part of house electric lighted, hard and soft water, must be sold at once. Dr. Dandeno's property on Lib- erty St., brick house, just painte^, waterworks, electric light, furnace, 2 acres land with small fruit trees and splendid garden. This property property will be sacrificed at low price for cash. W e wrote something like the following following some time ago but this is so very àppropo that we give it space in this column as we endorse every suggestion heartily: FiCrmers, make your house beautiful. Lay out spacious grounds around your home, plant shade trees, lay gravel roads and walks.and plant flowers. Don't lay up all your net earnings for the benefit of your heirs and lawyers, but spend.some of it in beautifying your home. The farmer who always shuts his eyes to the aesthetic aesthetic features of his life, and screws himself down to the task of making money, loses a large portion too, of what should be his better existence. His horn t should be an attraction to himself, his wife, and, above all, to his children. Unattractive homes in too many instances drive the sons of farm ers to the towns, to excitement, dissi pation, and ruin. Such sons do not generally leave pleasant homes. This applies generally to girls as well. further particulars phone, or call MO "JUMENT TO OUR BOWMANVILLE HEROES rpo be successful, a store smust be above all things honest. If we would be successful in our bid for on your patronage we must offer you something you have-not been used to getting at the store where you.have been dealing. We must either base oar plea on * higher quality for the same price yea have been used to paying or by offering the same quality at a lower price Harry Cann, Phone 50. - Bowmanville. Since the establishment of this business we have built our reputation on quality. We have made it our hobby and our rapidly increasing business is due entirely to its, influence. ' In selecting our stocks we insist upon only the very best of leathers for upper and sole--the Iin- ipgs must be right and the styles in perfect keeping keeping with the season's fancies. QUALITY IN SHOES THE FIRST ESSENTIAL Wv a POOR SHOE AT ANY PRICE IS A COSTLY INVESTMENT "My Valet" For S1.00 per jnonth in advance, we keep your clothes in first-class order, viz. : Minor Repairs, Sponging Sponging and Pressing, to comprise One Suit of Clothes and One Overcoat each week. Goods must be left at works not later than Tuesday night. If you wish our Valet service, which.costs $1.00 per month, taken for not less than three months,-sign your name and address below, and leave same at the works. Name Address Gibson's Cleaning Works King St. W. Bowmanville üg; . „ - 32h Buy your groceries for the holiday at Rd. Snowden's, the Elite Grocery, phone 243. Goodyear Auto Tires are the best on the market--sold in Bowmanville by Masson Masson & Dale. Don't fail to secure some of the genuine bargains in Sumpter goods now at Coud, Johnston & Crydenr. m's. Writing from Barrjefield Camp, Kingston, Major A.- v E. McLaughlin, Ba -rister, of this town, makes this timely and splendid suggestion for consideration as soon as the war is over: Dear Mr. James--What a splendid fellow Dan Douglass is ! I knew both he and Kenneth Martin would make good soldiers on account of their unfailing unfailing gaiety. Shakespeare said the whistling boy would .walk twice as far as the one who did not, so it has not surprised me at all to hear how well they both did. It wi.l be the . first duty of the people at home as soon as the war is over to make a start towards towards a, monument to the heroism of Kenneth Martin and the other brave soldiers who have given their lives for the greatest things in the world, that other generations may know what this generation put first in its ideals of life. I do not think I have seen anywhere a finer description of a' day in the trenches than tne last letter from Dan Douglass in your paper. It is unaffected and quite perfect in its simple language. It is only a very brave spirit that cm find fun in everything everything tne way Douglass does and you are very lucky to have these sple.idid letters from him, which we all so thoroughly thoroughly enjoy I suppose you know that our regiment has supplied two drafts which are nojv in England, the first in command of Mr 'Harry K., Clemens, (a Durham county boy) and one of 153 a week or so ago. We are now filling up rapidly to strength again, and as we volunteered to go as infantry months ago we-now are looking looking forward to an early movement as a unit. It is certainly very difficult to wait here We have had several men try to slip away on board of the transports, transports, so anxious is everyone to get forward. But our turn will no doubt come in due. time. My nephew, Kerr Cronyn, who was wounded, as you The énergy of the last few weeks has made inroads on our boys' rest, and it is real good to see the way they take advantage of the opportunity. Suppose you wonder why I'm not following following their example, but, as I told you last time, I am just an occasional visitor now--at least, that's what the boys say--so I am pretty well rested now. As the papers say in England, "There's nothing to report" of interest here. One shot per hour or so, and an artillery practice every morning, both sides taking turns to fire. The Germans made a fine» shot the other day --at least one shell out of five hit one of our dug-outs. Nobody was at home at the time, but Corporal E. Moody was standing not five yards away ! alking to Sergt. Birdseye, the boy who was awarded the D.C.M. for his fine work at Langemarck. He is in our Company and, better still, in No. 9 Platoon--Jours). The shell, when it burst inside, threw both on their faces, and sprinkled them with an additional additional coat of dirt. I don't think they had washed that morning as we had to go about two miles to get some water for drinking, let alone washing. It smashed everything in-ide the dug- out, of course, and an overcoat which lay on the floor was "bent" enough to make a ragman turn up his nose at it. One of the boys' kit bags had a pot of jam in it, and I don't know if you can imagine what a pot of jam, a few packets packets of tobacco, a hymn book, a woollen toque, and a few other odds and ends smashed into pulp looks like, but if you-can you save me a lot of explanation. explanation. I never realized what a glorious mess it could make till I saw it then. I went along the trench as soon as I saw the shell explode, to see if anyone was hurt, and there were "Ted" and "Birdie" as.calm as you like, saying things in a subdued voice to the fellows fellows who'sent it; They both are the essence of coolness at all timës, and on that occasion one would have thought it was an every-day affair to get their dug-out blown high-sky. One could hardly realize that Birdseye has been awarded the D.C.M.,-for there's nothing nothing to show it in his manner now from what it was before. He is one of us boys, as he always was, and all are too proud of him to worry about such things as medals. All the boys are about in their usual condition here. At least I've had no complaints to think of up to date. One mo nient !--there is one. Clarence Hall says it's my turn to have my picture in the paper again, as he has the idea that I take turns with Rev. H. B Kenny in being there. Don't think *or one moment he's jealous; it's this sort of thing I have to suffer * because my face was in twice before. I guess Ms is all I can think of this time. The Joys generally give me some ideas, Jut most of them are blissfully unconscious unconscious of anything to do with "the efcter to the town paper". Perhaps may h we more next time I write. A. D. McDonald make a fine Lt. Opl., and he is the essence of coolness when occasion demands. I very nearly forgot forgot to let you know of Roy MacDonald MacDonald going sick on the march/ We travelled 29 miles in three nights, and went into the trenches on the last night. Were we tired ? I should just say we were, but that's wandering from the point. On the second evening evening Roy was not feeling well, but he shouldered his pack just the same and stuck to the march most of the way, refusing to give in--a 46th failing. We had a stop and I noticed Roy drop down pretty flat at the order, and he said to me in a weak voice "It's no good, Dan, I've got to stay here." It wasn't like Roy to say that, so I knew it was serious. Oapt. O'Flynn then came along and I told him He under- Tommies' Own cigarette). I saw the postmark "Plymouth", and my brain started to revolve, but I couldn't "make the grade" so I opened same amid hush of expectation--in mv corner. I am certainly beginning to think that I will be known if this keeps on First it's the north of England (Black pool) then it's south, but wherever it comes from there's the cheery letter and an offer of anything I ask for. I'll be a "lonely soldier"--when I quit this ji>b and start to work for a living again •not before, apparently. Thanks, all. _ I also had a long letter from Lieut. Bert Cooper with all the news from the boys there. It will be good to see his cheery face again, of course I have an invitation to visit him when (?) J OV\ r\>x 1 / 4 n tiz . wlx î * 1 1 1_ _ 1 f 1 1 go on leave, which will be before the end of the war, I understand. They have started leave in the Battalion but because I had the audacity to get wounded and go back to the hospital, I must wait till all those who have been here right thru have had theirs. I don't begrudge the boys going before me who did go thru the battle, but ~~ J I' m getting to be a glorious kicker these days, but I have been so close tongoing home--in fact, I saw what I think was the white cliffs of England once, so perhaps you can un derstand how I feel about it. I know I've had a rest while the others have been "at it", but sometimes this resting resting at convalescent camps is as good as being in "clink"--prison. You go out on a fatigue in the the country to lunch fif tt P roc eeds of the -U n iu ' h b 6 e SSL ddftSs are lunching together. as Durmg noon hour autos will take the visitors around town. At 2 o clock a procession will be formed at the Municipal Square and proceedto Agricultuml pJL 1 very Pî' 0 K t,a mme has been provided provided consisting of a baseball match old bov^ f ld b °J S from Toronto and old boys from Bowmanville; and concert concert with two short addresses/ Programme 1. Selection by the Band. 2, Song, Mr. Charles Kelly; Guelph T Th Keachid, Toronto* Address, Mr. Charles McCullough, «011g, Mrs. T. E. Knowlteu milt ° n * Recitation, Mr. Charles Kelly, ^°* Selection by the Band Song, Mr. J. [). Keachie. Song, Mrs. Knowlton. Address, Dr. James L. Hughes, Song, Mr. Charles Kelly. Duet, Mrs. C. Arthur Cawker iq q . r and Mr. H. J. Knight. 18. Song, Mr. Rennie Foster. 14. God Save the King. Miss Mamie Shaw, accompanist. Mrs. Knowlton, formerly Miss King o£t Q Gowman ville, sings with great sweetness and power. Mr. Charles Kelly (Charlie) is a noted singer who was a great favorite 3. 4. o. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. m , morning and. ^ , KVl „. iri c °m, e b ack in th e evening. Like some Bowmanville in the good old davs ? f - t „ h . e , t î r ?i er l. 1 P Vaaada, they waste | Mr. Keachie is a Scottish songster a good deal of time letting the help sleep at night. As some of the boys here said, it's just like being at home only harder work. One or two are homesteaders in Canada and are used to forking from daylight to dusk. In fact, as one of the boys says, they're most at home in their wild state. stood at once, cheering Roy by saying him to fall "Id had to be serious for him to faf out, • and giving me instructions to stay with him till he was picked up by the ambulance. I went to see him the next day, and he actually had no strength to sit up. It was total collapse collapse thru hard work and the trials he know, at Langemarck, is back in i had gone thru the last few months. I France with a staff appointment, ' have had ho word since I left Mm. where his knowledge of French will 1 The next day we moved again, so I be of value. suppose he was transferred to the hos- I heard one explaining what a time they had with the country recruits when they entrained for Valcartier. They were so unused to seeing steam engines that they had to put a halter on a few, and lead them around the goods (freight) yards one or two days --so he says. Then when they wanted to put them in the carriages they had to throw a sack over their heads and back them in, and lock the doors. It must be a terrible country out West-- in places 1 Perhaps it wasn't so bad as that, but the songs some of them dig up on the march are inclined to make you think of Indians on the war path--such hooting and yelling and curious wording as one hears at a wile, west show war dance. I was over to Alt. Kershaw's camp last night to tea, and I did have a feed, too--tea, bread and butter and black currant jam, with stewed figs to follow. Wherever that transport division gets the grub beats me, for we usually have to do without one thing to get another. Alf looks well and fat, but there's still the worry of the uncertainty of Freddie's Freddie's end on his mind. Poor chap, one never realizes how much he thought of his brother Fred until the subject crops up, then t-iere's no mistaking the fact. I suppose we'll -never know for sure, but we hope for the best. I also saw that "big baby" of ours with the smile that stays, Ira Scott. He's getting so lazy that he doesn't do up the «buttons on his tunic for fear he will have to undo them, when he turns in at night. It's either that or he's too fat, I saw "Bobs" (Alex. Wrenn) too, and, as usual, the first question was "Any home papers?" The boys do like the news of the doings in the home town and round about, and, incidentally, incidentally, to see if I have told any tales about them. I see very little of them, they being in an entirely different different line, from myself, as you know. I saw "Little Mason", a local boy from Durham, whom some may know. He looks the picture of health and, like who will never be forgotten by his many friends in Bowmanville. Mr. McCullough went to school in Bowmanville. He founded the first vanadian Club in Canada, is a fine speaker and a true patriot. Dr. James L. Hughes is a well-known speaker on educational and patriotic subjects. Everybody hear them. 1 All owners of automobiles are requested to assemble at 10 a. m. at the up-town tt iLi x stat i° n on Monday Aug 2, (Civic Holiday) to assist in conveying the ladies over the line of march to the Opera House WESTERN CROPS GOOD. Mr. Geo. H. Wilson, of the Lindsay Post, and daughter, Miss Jean, are home from a five weeks' trip to Victoria, B. C. Mr. Wiison sa y s that crops all along the c -J - R . seem to be in excellent condition and experienced westerners predict a bumper crop if weather conditions continue to improve so that crops will properly ripen. Western provinces have had much rain and wheat growers have been nervous. Wheat crop west of the mountains is already being harvested. Small fruit in British Columbia has been a* very large crop and quality better than we get in Ontario.--Post everyone else, is tanned up good. for I have missed Lieut. Dick Jones some timë now, and hear he is on leave. The strain he went thru in the big battle must have been just awful, awful, yet, Ira Scott tells me you couldn't catch Dick without that same old smile. I don't know if it was "I-know all-about-it" sort of smile, or just "They can't beat us" but I do know, from the boys' own lips, that if he had said "Ride down to the German lines they would have gone. Some people got D.S.O's and I guess they earned them--because they were under somebody's somebody's eyes--but where's Dick's ? Perhaps Perhaps it was "just his duty" to get grub and ammunition to the line when he didn't know for sure where we were. Well, he did it, thru his men, and if he hadn't been there therefmight have been a difference, mightn't there? I lope he has a good time as he deserves and will soon appear again with his same old smile that is missed by his boys every hour of the day. I saw Harold Carey, too, but he was busy fixing a "bike" so that he might gallivant round visiting us now and again. The rest of the boys are well as far as I know. Roy McDonald returned returned the other day, fit for duty the doctor thinks, but the weary look is still there. Hope he soon gets his leave, for he takes his job seriously and works too hard. Clarence Hall, like Alf Watts, is also developing that superior look of the Headquarters Staff. He has two razors now-- one for morning and one for evening, I guess. Then, when we tramp out unto parade for drill, he will lean against the corner of the barn with that bored look on his face, as if to say "Poor things". His French is as painful as ever to ;he ear--a mixture of French and Eng- ish, to understand which you must be equipped with both dictionaries. He xstens to the pedlars explaining what ;hey have to sell, then in his superior tone says, "Ah, oui, very much, très bon !" Now, is that a contradiction or just mistaken identity--of words ? What do the French think of it ? Well, they nod to him, and he buys for about twice the real price of a thing, and says to us on the side in confidence, "A little French goes a long way here". Whatever way you turn now, leave of absence is the main subject, and the many and weird tales we hear are the limit. Some say 7 days, others 3 days --and nobody knows till they get them. I had two letters from little girls in Bowmanville --not anonymous ones either--and they were real welcome, as the news in them was all town news I do not know of anything else that would interest your readers this time. Hope everyone is feeling as they want to. Kind regards to everyone everyone at home. Hope they don't say too hard things, about me because of these letters. We have not much chance to get material for instructive writing. Dan D. Pte. Dan Douglass, No. 8433, No. 3 Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, Canadians in France, Army P.O., London, England. V - •*7** w j ■) V 1 : 1