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a yea^- in advance ; $1.50 to United States. BQ WM AN VI IXE. ONTARIO, CANADA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1915. Volume. LXI. No. 37. SS ■ K- v - r- Couch, Johnston & Cryderman Have had a very successful Summer Sale and are very busy this week opening out their FALL AND WINTER IMPORTATIONS In a few days they will be showing a superb stock in all departments More particulars next week ir Success Has At tended Our Efforts Beyond our most hopeful expectations. expectations. The rapid development of our business has been; built upon its own merits--relative of course to the need of such an establishment in this towij. Increase in business has forced us to move to larger premises which we now occupy opposite Goodyear Club, King St. East. We dye and clean everything as well as pressing. Goods called for and delivered. Gibson's Cleaning and Dye Works. Phone 273 Bowman ville \ ■TDUILT for the very kind of service you want to give them, are the work shoes we sell. The man who is working out doors all-day and in all" sorts of weather, requires a more sturdy and tougher shoe than the porter or warehouse man, but the shoes of both should be so constructed as to give comfort, as well as long lasting wear. «r'f w The shoes here for those whose occupation occupation is farm or outside work, are made of absolutely water proof leathers, with solid counters and soles to withstand the hardships they are bound to receive. The lighter work shoes are as well made and as durable The prices for every class of work shoes are as low and lower than you've probably been used to paying for inferior qualities. 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 Liberty Liberty St., brick house, just painted, 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. For further particulars phone, write or call on Harry Cann, Phone 50. Bowmanville. Hello Mr. Farmer ! Why spend your valuable time going to the station with live poultry when I will call at your house for them. Time is money and I will pay the highest cash price for spring chicken and fowl. Also highest cash prica • for choice butter. E.W.W. Rundle Phone 251. Bowmanville. Stall Fed Cattle Fdr Fall Trade. We have recently purchased purchased a car load of stall fed steers, averaging 1200 lbs each, which is a very super ior lot of young cattle. In fact is is oiie of the finest shipments of beef cattle we have ever purchased. We are bound to keep up the quality of our * meat and only buy from the best feeders. Get the habit of buying your meat from C. M. Cawker & Son Phone 64, Bowmanville. 66 SERVICE 99 Here Is Wheré We Specialize We employ Expert Plumbers We have a reputation for Square Dealing We treat our customers Right New Goods, Prompt Service, Courteous Treatment It will pay you to deal with us. Send us your next order and give us the opportunity opportunity to show you just what we mean by service RICE & CO. BowSHSMVtllO Dan D. Tells.of Life at the Front Somewhere in France, August®. Writing to a triend here Dan D's letter contained among other matters referred to these paragraphs:. ' Capfc. E. O'Flynn has just returned tTom. a week's leave to England and, like the others who have been, came back the better, to all appearances, for the rest. One is often struck, if one takes the trouble. to notice such things, the drawn look on the faces of the boys who have been all thru the game from our first arrival here. They have seen sights that would turn most persons grey-headed in a night, but they're young in most cases and the young spirits overcame the horrors seen bv them. Another who has returned returned the better for a rest is our Sergt.-Major Flinter. He sprained his ankle playing football and it turned out so.bad that he was sent to England. England. The boys were as glad to see him as he was to see us, as one . could tell by the smiles on meeting. They all have great confidence in him for he has shown himself what he is--a brave soldier. I was talking of the appearance of the boys, but can't quite explain as I would like to. If you saw them it .would tell you more than I can ever write. Still, the spirits are as light as ever, as I well know at the present moment of writing. The working party is due to move off, and the boys are passing the time singing the usual songs which convey their impressions of having to use the pick and shovel which we have used more than our guns lately. The chorus they are now roaring out at the top of their, voices is sung in smttches (as I will write it for you) and in a heart-breaking.drone that gives you a pain to hear: Work ! .work ! who mentioned work ? Thousands have died--when they thot --about it; Work 1 it is--a ter--rer--ibul thing; My farver's 'mother'--was never--to work 1-- And--shall we stick to it ?--Rarver ! ! ! and so on. It is painful when you have to listen to it, and it certainly does convey their contempt for that same. PROF. LAUGHER GOES TO BOWMANVILLE. DURHAM COUNTY BOYS I should like you to try and think of something we have not slept in since we came out to this country. There's one thing occurs to niy mind right off --a dog kennel ! I'll bet you can't say anything else on.a farm,- and find we haven't rested our weary bones there. The list, as it occurs to my mind, comprises comprises the following- the farmhouse, the barn, wagons, stables, the farmyard farmyard itself, and now, to conclude the list--the pig-sty. We are in glorious billets at time of writing, at a place where pigs were kept before the war. The floor is beautiful, soft, (?) level- cone: ete, and the way the callous on our hips (for we most of us can boast one now) can find the soft spots is really a mystery. You will come in, after a day of prospecting in clay (to see how many shovelfulls it takes to fill a sund-bag) put down your rubber sheet and sink down, into rest. You'd never know the difference from the original inhabitants of the place in an hour, to hear them "sawing off their breaths in solid chunks". At least, the noise conveys that thought to the mind. They soon forget any troubles they have, or fancy they have, when it comes bed-time. We're 'out', but may go 'in' any time again now, and the general opinion makes one think we're best there. Our cooks make us long for our little dug-out in the mud, where we pleased ourselves how we live as regards cooking our food. Suppose you have all recovered from the visits of the 'Old Boys' by now. 1 heard the town looked quite gay, from a young friend in town, who writes me some splendid letters giving the whole record of doings from one letter to another. If the people at home only realized how the boys look forward forward to the Canadian mail, they'd write by every post. . It's from the home town, you see, and tho tho it may be, perhaps, a 'kid's' letter--it is a letter, and that's where the joy comes in. _ Personally, I don't do so badly. One of your readers in England will smile at this, seeing that it's very seldom I miss getting a letter in the Canadian mail In fortunate, as I am in most things, but cards--there I'm beaten every time. The boys pass many a happy hour with those 52 pieces of pasteboard. I have a set of cardboard dominoes I carry and I am pleased to say I can beat Clarence at those--if I see his hand. I get him talking to me by passing-some remark about his position position on the Headquarters Staff. He generally forgets the cards, if I get him going, and there you are 1 ! "All in the pink" as they say in England, that place where we used to live--well --it seems like years and years ago. Fat De well is back with that grin as broad as ever it was; in fact, broader than ever, for he has put on flesh while at the base. I just mean to gossip about the boys you know that are with us. You remember remember Clarence Hall ?--well, he clean shaves every day, like the Headquar- 4-Ann ï T 1' ters Staff. Don't think I mean he has the usual clean shaves--he's as he was before, wanting one at times like the rest of us. You see, he's just an offspring offspring of the real thing, a sort of super-super-official, if there is such a thinsft still, he's important, like a drop of ou in an automobile--he helps run things. By the way, from some unknown unknown place he dug up a bicycle, and now he rides down to get the mail. He thought we didn't see him on it the first aay, so he had to wheel it us and speak "Oh, just ordinary Ike F There will come a day (wet) From Owen Sound Advertiser. Mr. C. C. Laugher, Organist and Musical Musical Director of the First Methodist Church, is leaving Owen Sound this week, having accepted a similar position at Bowmanville. Bowmanville. Mr. Laugher holds somewhat of an ■ ----f*--r wuei-e enviable record, having received unsolic- j to remain for two years. juiko ited five offers fr in other churches during ■ Î .'Prompt and splendid business man his stay here. Among these is an offer I he ^ as ever shown himself to be, he worth while from First Methodist Church, ! fclie money to pay for his favor- Beaumont, Texas. It is also remembered V e koine paper up to the end. of- 1917. A model business letter in style, phraseology, methodical arrangement and contents has been received from Sergt. 1st Cl. Fred E. Hughes, War Department, Columbus, New Mexico, requesting us to change his address to the Phihppine Islands where he ex-' Like that the First Methodist Church, Owen Sound, invited Mr. Laugher wi hout trial. During his stay in Owen Sound the town has benefited greatly by his 1 willingness to assist. Mr. Laugher's violin pupils have shown the result of his skill on that instru-x ment. The piano and voice pupils have also gained much local popularity. The Schumann String Quartette is- one of his organizations that Owen Sound is proud of. Besides his choir work, Mr. Laugher certainly spec alizés with the baton to the Symphony Orchestra, having forty-five members, which he organized and directed. He acted as director of the massed bands for which the people asked for more of such concerts. Mr. Laugher is also much recognized at the organ. The First Methodist Methodist Church will lose in Mr. Laugher one of the best organists and directors that Owen Sound can boast. Besides being the leader of the Thirty-first Regimental Band, he has organized for the First Methodist Methodist Sunday School an orchestra of which the complimentary letter received by him from the Onward paper states that this orchestra is one of the finest S. S. Orchestras Orchestras in Canada. The Choir of the First Methodist Church presented Mr. Laugher with an address and a purse of gold in appreciation of his faithful and valued services. From Owen Sound Sun. An interesting event Tuesday evening was the gathering of a deputation representing representing the Sunday School teachers and choir at the home of Prof. C. C. Laugher. Brief addresses were made by several of the party, the tenor of them being the general regret of all the First Methodist Church organizations at the coming departure departure of Mr. Laugher. Their appreciation appreciation of his services during the past three years was also marked by the presentation of a wrist watch from the Sunday School and choir. Rev. J. W. Stewart, Mr. W. S. Mann and Mr. George King voiced the satisfaction of the different branches of the church with Mr. Laugher's work, while Miss Brownlee and Mrs. Schultz represented the ladies of the church. In reply Prof. Laugher briefly thanked the deputation for their kindly remembrances and intimated his keen regret at leaving Owen Sound and the pleasant associations associations of First Methodist Church. Bow- some day As his numerous schoolmates of manville high school may s like to write to him, we take the lib erty of giving his address: Sergt. 1st Cl. Fred E. Hughes, Hospital Corps, U.S.A., .Manila, P. I. As we have never had any correspondence from a Durham county boy in the far away Philippine Islands we are very sure that our readers would be delighted if Sergt. Hughes will write some letters for publication in these columns. We all join in the hope that he may return safely at the end of his term out there and favor his Bowmanville and- West Durham friends with a visit. LIFE WITHOUT WORRY CEDARDALE ANNEXATION. Oshawa wants to become a city right away or at least, we believe, a number of persons interested ih the hotel business are behind the movement to incorporate Cedarcfàïe with Oshawa so that a city charter may be obtained. Why do you suppose men interested in the liquor busi- ness are so active in this endeavor ! 6 Our answer is problematical of course, but this is why we think so: Ontario county temperance temperance advocates may soon submit the Canada Temperance Act as a county measure and that it would carry overwhelmingly overwhelmingly is anticipated right .now when such a wave of prohibition sentiment is rolling Ontario-ward from our western provinces. Oshawa is now a part of the county and the passage Of such a county measure would close .every bar in that town--may the day come quickly. Could the promoters of this annexation scheme succeed ijn adding enough population-- 10,000 we believe--to make Oshawa a city, that would make it an independent corporation, just as Toronto is independent independent of the county of York. The chances are that Oshawa alone could, by money spent freely as was the case in the last local option campaign, defeat any temperance temperance by-law for that corporation, but the larger temperance vote in the country would swamp the adverse town vote. This is as we intimate, only a supposition but for the interested action of the liquor men there must be a reason. If this is not the reason who will give a better one? There is a reason, sure. a a fall, bike and will when his pride will have the importance of riding pall. We're enjoying life as usual, with the able support of a pick and shovel and one can of strawberry jam between between four. Our living is fairly good, but our cooks at present do not try to outdo any French chefs as to finding new dishes. Stew one day--which is some fat meat and at times some lean, surrounded by liquid of a lazy nature, probably caused by the heat of the cooker. By the means of diligent fish- you'll discover some pommes de mg terre (nothing so common as potatoes here) but if you wait till last, as all the boys try to do, you can get quite a lot of different things. 'The roast' days are not at all bad as the cooker does all the preparing itself usually, and the cooks, doubtless out of humane feelings for the pommes, and so on, leave same in full dress uniform to shield their hearts from the ravages of boiling water. Still, as long as we get enough .to eat, what's the difference P If they did try to make--say 'sea-pie', (that's a paste over the stew) just think of the underhand work that meat could get up to when under the paste, out of sight--so, after all, its for our good that things go on in the same old way. I am receiving the town papers as usual, also the Toronto ones, thanks to your editor. Mr. W. T. Allen, Big 20, also sent his usual parcel of papers. Expect there was quite a crowd on Durham Old Boys' day. Would be E roud to be. one of them myself, but are been content to be a 'London Boot' up to now. Dan D. It has been a surprise to many that Dan D's letters are so full of mirth," humor, light spirits and care-free sentiments, sentiments, the one we publish this week being even more a budget of fun than a letter from the war front. This is explained by the Paris correspondent of the London Evening Standard, a French non-commissioned officer on leave from the front: "Can you understand the happiness of a life without worries? This is the life we lead at the front. Of course, we face dangers, wounds, death, capture; capture; but we have ceased to consider ourselves individually, and if we think of ourselves at all, we do so collectively. collectively. You hope that we may win; we know that we will. You speculate as to what the Germans may do; we have taken their measure and don't care what they do You busy yourselves with all sorts of "if's" and "when's"; we just forget that these exist. War is a dreadful thing, but if one's country country happens to be at war, it is much more preferable to be a soldier than a civilian. Besides, life in the open air is the best cure-all one can desire, and there is just enough excitement to make life full of interest." That the life of a soldier at the front is one of very great danger is undeniable, undeniable, but tha o it is one of distress of mind and ever present sense of terror is denied by those who have had experience experience of it and have been in a position position to observe the ways of the men in the trenches. AUGUST WEDDINGS Scott--Van Nest In Toronto on Wednesday, August 25 th, the marriage was performed of Miss Annie Maud, third daughter of Mrs. E. E. Van Nest, Enderby Rd., formerly of Darlington, Darlington, and Mr. George Scott, C. E., of Toronto, Toronto, Rev. Dr. Wilson of Elm St. Methodist Methodist Church, officiating. The bride wore a suit of goblin blue silk and Leghorn hat with French roses and was unattended. The happy couple left for a trip to the Thousand Islands, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec Quebec and points east, and on their return will reside at 142 Westmount Avenue* Toronto. Dix --Clemens. "Locust Grove" the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Clemens, Tyrone, was the scene of an interesting event Wednesday, Sept. 1st, when their daughter, Florence Irene, was united in marriage with Mr. J. Stanley Dix of Little Britain. Rev. J. E. Beckel officiated. The bride was becomingly becomingly gowned in white silk crepe trimmed with Irish point lace. Her veil arranged in cap effect was trimmed with lily of the valley while her shower bouquet was of pink roses and lily of the valley. Her bridesmaid, Miss Ethelwyn Dix, wore pink silk with over dress of ecru lace and carried tea roses. Mr. Kenneth Courtice, Courtice, cousin of the bride, acted as groomsman. The bridal chorus from Lohengrin was played by Miss Hazel Dix, sister of the groom. After a dainty wedding wedding supper Mr. and Mrs. Dix left on the evening train en route to Chicago and other western points, the bride wearing a navy blue suit and small blue hat. VOLUNTEERS WANTED. For the Canadian Overseas Contingent, 46th Regt., Headquarters at Port Hope. Physical qualifications : height 5 ft. 2 in. and over; chest not less than 33 in. ; age limit 18-45. Pay from date of enlistment. The 80th Battalion is now mobilizing and a large number of recruits are needed. Free transport to point of mobilization. For further particulars apply to Captains Captains G. C. Bonnycastle or C. H. Anderson who are the only officers in Bowmanville authorized to take on recruits. Wm. Farrell, Lieut.-Col. O. Ç. 46th Regt. BUY GROCERIES NOW SÀVE 50 PER Mr. W. Blake McMurtry, late of the McMurtry & Co., Limited, West End House, has bought the Model Grocery- business from James Owens, successor to T. H. Knight, and on last page of this paper makes an offer for one week of groceries, provisions, etc., at prices that should cause buyers to flock in crowds to the Model Grocery at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning when the doors will be flung open to the public. Hie big 8-column announcement announcement on last page tells the complete story. Read it and have your money- ready to go with the crowds. / <ï- _ < 1 . '1 ■< ■ > 1 . < < « ., 1 .--4 ■ ' -4 Jr •1 I > !