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'■.? '. r '>-j• -> '.' ". '*'" ; ** •.. ; . •"'- • ■ *^.< J H« ImSÿgS^ ^ -; r-yy.y--:: r * r . T* ,~'7 .ffn^Wr X rv matt f 1,50 a year in advance ; $1.50 to United States. BOWMAN VILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1916 Volume. LXII. No. 9. Couch, Johnston & Cryderman find that they have too many Ladies' Coats onjhand, and to make a clearance^will from this date sell all Colored / Coats at exactly HALF-PRICE and will take one-third off the price of all Black Coats in stock. Furs of all kinds at greatly reduced prices. sC\ Kgr- |$À IB - March Winds March is the hardest month of the year on your skin. Cream of Violet is a true Skin Food, Nourishing, Soothing, Beautifying. It cures roughness of (hands or face in one night. Large bottles 25c. 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Just think of it 90 sheets of lovely linen note paper and 50 envelopes for 50c this week at Jury & Lovell's. Initial paper of superior superior quality. Regular 75c this week 60c. Jury <fc Lovell. Do not fail to see our Hyacinths just coming into bloom 3 for 25c at Jury & Lovell's. Grease spots--The sole Agency for the Electric sticks for removing all kinds of grease spots has been given to Jury & Lovell. It acts like magic. Price 20c. Rough hands are cured in one night with Cream of Violets 25c at Jury & Lovell's. If you have a grease spot call at Jury dcLovell's and let them remove it free of all charge. Grippe should not be allowed to go unchecked. Weeks' Break-up-a-cold will work wonders in 24 hours, 25c at Jury & Lovell's. DAN D. SCORES SHIRKERS Jury & Lovell The Safe, Satisfactory Druggists and Opticians. When We Test Eyes it is Done Properly. Reports Bowmanvtlle Boys Well Somewhere in France, Feb. 5. Dear Mr. James--I'm. good and mad 11 No, not at you nor anyone in Bowman ville, but the ones who should be in the army today. I've heard from a very good friend of mine that they have actually got 125 recruits for the new Battalion in Bowmanville. Fine 1 So fine that I can't say how proud (?) I am of the old town. Is that all the fit men you have in Bowmanville ? I don't blame you for it, tho I guess you would have, had heart enough to have been here long ago if you would have been needed, as all the young men are now. I was told you had to have "a spoon to stir you up" in town--someone who walked up and down the platform saying saying "If a bullet hits you, you never know it, so--you should worry"; and "the boys who are out here will be very particular whom they talk to when they return !" Splendid way in which to make the jelly-hearts' join up, surely 1 If I were back, I'd gc and plead on my hands and knees with them, shed tears, paint pictures (in words) of the joys of living in mud up to one's neck, etc., as I have done before. Might I say here now that those who are at home without khaki on and fit for service, service, are just a bunch of guys without the backbone of the ordinary jellyfish. The difference, if any, is the fact that the aforesaid fish does go where the sea takes it, but the others are stuck like the barnacles to a ship. They're no use for anything but their own comfort. Some will say "Why should I leave a good job to take a chance to get shot?" Do you think for one minute that I came out here to be shot ? Nothing Nothing was further from my mind, I can assure you of that, for I dislike to be damaged as much as anyone on this earth. If a place to live in is not worth defending to a fellow, then he's worse than any wild animal, for thby'll fight for their own hole or sleeping place. Of course, the 'Huns' aren't anywhere anywhere near Canada--good job, too-- but what would happen if they defeated defeated us here? Of course America is too proud to fight, therefore they'd be scared to come over and try their hand there, wouldn't they? If any boys in town do need these notes, then let me tell them they'cL o;e-t the biggest awakening of tbe:4birves if Germany did come. They have to' bow and scrape to the Germans, as the people have to in Belgium today. Wouldn't some of you like to have to do as you are told, and do that quicker than you do no w ? You may all think you 'go some' but Germany could show America how to move once she got the upper hand. Every one who joins now is one more towards keeping the Huns here and beating them, so those who stay behind after this last pathetic appeal from the 'town hall' platform, are just 'jelly fish' and nothing else. I'll stand the brunt of this statement should I be fortunate enough to return. If 1 don't, then they know my opinion of them. I know my opinion doesn't count much with some, but iust the same it takes a number of 'ones' to make a crowd, and I'm not the only one of the 1st Contingent here. There's nothing out of the ordinary to tell you of as regards happenings. Last time we were in the trenches they got after us with some of their 'Kr--r--r--r--rup' specials (high explosives) explosives) but did no damage to the boys. The dirt flew, and as I told one of my Bowmanville friends, we experienced experienced 'the heights of expectation'-- that is, a big shell coming your way-- but missing us. All seem well at time of writing, I saw one of the Bowmanville boys this morning, Haywood by name, brother to Haywood in the 21st Battalion. He is in the Canadian Engineers and connected connected with the 1st Canadians. He has been with our bunch for some months but had never met one of the old boys till today. He is at present on the sick list, having scalded his hand some way. We (Charley and I) 'had a long chat with him. I heard from Major Arthur E. McLaughlin yesterday. He is in France but is unable unable to see me, he says. I was looking looking forward to seeing his pleasant round face again, and having a chat about Bowmanville. Never mind, as he said in his letter, he hopes he'll be here to stay soon, so I may have another another chance later. , I guess I've written enough this time to last a day or two, but don't think I'm 'blue' again--I'm not. Kind regards to everyone from - Dan D. In trenches in France, Feb, 10. Dear Mr. James--One year today since we landed on French soil for the first time, and how little we thought that 12 months later we would still be here. We've seen some life, some deaths, and also some changes from that first day. As I look around today today at the boys, I can almost count on my fingers those who stepped off the boat with us on Feb. 10th, 1915. They not all dead, but they've either gone back to England or are on jobs way back somewhere. We little thought that we would see what we did in those months past, and one often wonders wonders how w& did come thru it all. Our anniversary passed very quietly, as it was a miserable day with a drizzle drizzle of rain that would make you 'uncomfortably 'uncomfortably wet' and I guess Fritz felt like ourselves. The day before he was. busy with his ' Minnie-ha-ha's ' as we call them. They're a kind of trench mortar that has' a 'Johnston' explosion. They're fierce things, but, FROM SHORNCLIFFE CAMP THIS WEEK'S PAPER < m?- THOMAS THORNTON,ORONO An obituary appears on the third page of this issue. THE EDITOR TALKS. We often wonder if other business firms are harassed as publishers of lqcal papers are. We make bur living outiof our space in the paper, charging, a rate per line or per inch for it. There is no money in subscriptions; any publisher publisher will tell you this. Even a great metropolitan newspaper like the New York Sun pleads for relief from requests requests for free space for all sorts of enterprises, saying; "The appetite for free advertisement grows daily.' We give a paragraph and a column is demanded; demanded; we comply with a modest request request and are informed that we have enlisted for a long campaign. It becomes becomes difficult to keep abreast of the growing exactions. Brethren, be merciful. merciful. We have done our best, but we cannot give al of The Sun to you. Many other good causes invite us wqose expression is not wholly comprised comprised within the, word" "give." Let us, we beseech you, have a brief respite." respite." The seekers for free publicity have of late'assailed the churches and many pulpits are advertising mediums. mediums. The long list of announcements makes the people very tired before the sermon, begins. Patience will cease to be a virtue soon. We have watched with curious interest interest to see how political papers on both sides of politics would speak of the Peel bye-election where JEt. J. Fallis, the former member, resigned his seat, handed over $1,880 gains in horse deals with farmers for patriotic purposes and appealed to electors to pronounce upon his acts thru the ballot box. It was not in the nature of a political election altho a Liberal named Lowe was the opposing candidate. , Mr. Fallis' former majority was 627, and this time when on trial by his constituents constituents on his record he was defeated by over 300. Speaking of this result The Daily Review (Conservative) Pet- erboro, says: "It is seldom there is such a change in an electorate, especially especially when two regular party Bowmanville Boy Writes, very Newsy Letter. The writer of this interesting, letter is known to our citizens and his. old schoolmates schoolmates as Carl, son of Mr. Geo. E. Maynard, formerly of Ontario st: ; Being one of the boys from.myold home town, I feel it my dutv to write The James Papers a few lines before we leave for the front, where we will have a chance to do our little bit for the British Empire. I am glad to say, Mr. James,, that two more boys from the gpod old town, are here at Shornclifife and we see each other nearly every day and talk over old times in Bowmanville. One of the boys who you will know is Pte. Percy. Crago who used to live near the old: Eastern House. He came over with,a draft from the 33rd of London, Ontario, last August. Who they are attached to Ii cannot say. Another old town boy is Pte. Lloyd Sanders whose father ran the grocery store of Sanders&Scott. He also came over with a draft from the 74th. of Toronto, Ontario, and is now in a reserve battalion of the 36th from. Port Credit and Hamilton. I might say that Sept. 9 1915 was the first day I put on the Khaki for thé 34th Battalion of London, Ontario, where I was working at the time and although I gave up a good position to do so, I have, never regretted the day although it is pretty hard work at times. We left London, on Oct. 21. at 10 p.m- for the Old Land, not knowing where we would be stationed. Arrived at Plymouth Oct. 31 at 12 o'clock noon, had dinner then started off for parts unknown. At 1.15 a. m. Nov. I we got off at a little place called Liphook and was told our camp 3% miles away, so yoù can imagine how tired we would be walking with full pack after so long a rest. Arrived at Bramshott Camp at 3 a.m. pretty tiredx-bat game to the core. ^ Our trip over was one of the worst any Battalion has had crossing the ocean, as they fed us like pigs and our sleeping quartérs were over our mess mess table down in the steerage with a canvas hammock hammock hung up on hooks. The boat was supposed to carry only 1,250 but we had 2,000 on board as there were detached Companies Companies from Ontario as well and with this crowd on board it was just like Labor Day at Toronto Exhibition. After three months hard training at Bramshott we got word to leave for here to get our final workout, so, of course, we all got ready to move but just at the last minute orders came that only 250 men were to go which meant that our battalion was" tom to pieces and that most of the boys were to be left behind. Well, I happened happened to be one of the lucky ones so off we went and arrived here O. K. on Feb. 3. We are here as a reserve company for the I2th Battalion which left Toronto with the first Contingent and got badly cut up at Ypres and need more men, so here we are still pluging away, expecting every minute to leave for the front, where we will have the opportunity at last to do our little'bit for our King and Country. As soon as we arrived here we were issued issued with the new web equipment which is much better than the old kind, also got new uniforms with leather buttons instead of the brass for which we are all very glad as it saves a lot of extra work. By the time you receive these few lines we will be in the firing line so I hope I may hear from you acknowledging this, as I want my home town to know that Mr. Alpha Pinch's trip to New ico where he is visiting his brother Bera, is told in an interesting story on 3rd page. Two weddings and two- obituaries of well-known West Durham Durham men and "In the Editors' Mail" appear on same page. "Editors' Talks" this week on 2nd page are for young people chiefly. Tell girls and boys to read them. Of course, everybody will read Dan D's letter to young men, , and Carl Maynard's from England-. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES At the last meeting of the Literary Society, members of Forms .III, and IV discussed the part played by. people of different nationalities living, in Canada. Miss Louise Hady gave an, interesting account of the Indians of Alberta and British Columbia; Allin Annis of the part played by the French and .English as colonizers; colonizers; Alan Gale of the problems that lie before us in making good Canadians of the Poles, Galicians, Ruthenians, and Miss Ruth Squair of the Chinese,. Japanese and Hindus. Miss Helen Johnston gave an admirable address on the subject of 'Ts this Canada's War?" Miss Gladys Bradley Bradley arid Miss Florence VanNest contributed contributed a vocal duet which was well received, received, and President Kenneth Cox emphasized emphasized the importance of each student taking full advantage of the training to be had in public speaking at the regular meetings of the Society. Students of Form III have challenged Form IV to a public debate, and the con- was just j test is being looked forward to with interest interest and pleasure. Lloyd Rice has enlisted service and is now taking training course at Kingston, ing, his classmates and the school gave him a proper 'send-off the old Assembly Hall where, for overseas the officer's Before leav-* rest of the from Presi- as dent, he so ably presided over the meetings meetings of the Literary Society from October to February. Not satisfied with this, on Saturday night students from Forms III and IV invaded Rice's home and took full possession in the form of a "Surprise Party." Rice is a most popular student and carries with him the utmost good-will of both his teachers and his class mates. SIR SAMUEL J. WAY, DEAD. nominees nominees are in the field. The horse deals of . the defeated candidate was something j they have three more of their boys over that the voters of Peel could not stand for. The verdict "against graft in pub lic office is overwhelming. There is no denying the fact that Mr. Fallis' rejection at the polls is an undisguised blessing to the party to which he owed allegiance. Had he been elected he would have been a standing reproach to Conservative principles both in Toronto Toronto and at Ottawa. He has been rejected rejected and the party is well quit of him. It has purged itself of all suspicion suspicion of condoning graft by leaving Mr. Fallis in private life." We also like this paragraph from the same editorial: editorial: "In the Federal field the Garlands Garlands and th,e Fosters can read their lesson in the events of the Peel election election and in the fate of Mr. Fallis see their own finish." Every honorable Canadian will agree with every word of this and we are glad to see a Conservative Conservative paper so candid. Hugh Park, one of Oshawa's business men, third son of Wm. Park, passed away Feb. 13 in his 54th year. He was born at Haydon Jan. 8,1862, but removed to Osh-' awa when 3 years of age. He conducted a foundry business. strange to say, we didn't have one casualty from them. If you were close enough, the concussion alone would put you out of action, so you can guess every one gets clear as soon as possible when one comes over. You can see them coming thru the air like a big sausage and they look as ugly as they are. Clarence was on trench duty at one time when Fritz sent one or two shells over on our right. I think he felt cranky too, for he said aloud (to himself) himself) "Oh, you might as well quit, Fritz, for nobody will even come out of their dugout to see where your shells go." We're in the trenches as I write, but expect to be out again soon. There's nothing of interest to write about this week really, but to say the boys are as usual, but wish they were somewhere. elsieF--in Canada for instance. instance. Hope the town is still as busy as usual. Best regards to everyone from all here. : As before Yours, Dan D. Pte. Dan M. Douglass, No. 8433,No. 3 Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Canadians in France, Army P. O., London, England. here. Trusting I may come through the cruel war uninjured and that I may have the opportunity opportunity of seeing you personally to tell you of my experiences, very truly yours, Pte. C. H. Maynard, 7th Company, 12th Battalion St. Martinis Plains, Shornçliffe, Kent, England. St. Martin's Plains, Feb, 10, 1916'. IN THE EDITORS' MAIL. Mr. W. M. Jones, Miami, Manitoba, once a merchant in Port Perry, when he was renewing renewing his subscription writes: "It is now forty years since I became a subscriber to The Statesman and fifty years that I have been receiving the Toronto Globe. I have continued these papers largely from old acquaintance sake for we faust hâvé Oür Winnipeg Daily and some other publications--seven publications--seven in all reach us weekly no one of the weeklies is quite as good as THE STATESMAN". Thank you, Mr. J ones, we'll try to make it still better some of these days.--Editor. Mrs. T. A. Brown, 529 Gilmour st., Ottawa, Ottawa, in forwarding payment for the Bowmanville Bowmanville News says: "We are always glad to receive our home papers. It is very pleasing to note in its columns how well the young men of Bowmanville have responded responded to the call to rally to the colors for King and Country. Our oldest son Fred. who.enlisted with the Artillery section section on October 1st. last, is now in the firing firing line somewhere in France. Our hearts are lonely but we are glad that he saw his duty". Brave mother, truly. It is really wonderful to note the sacrifices the mothers, mothers, sisters, and sweethearts in this country country are making to help the cause of the Allies in this war. Noble women! Mr. Henry Heddon, Hardware Merchant, dealer in drugs, stationery, meats and machinery, Rumsey, Alberta, wrties Feb. 2i f 1916, that "The Statesman has always always been a welcome visitor in our home but altho it is only a little over ten years since I left Bowmanville, I find that names of the people mentioned in the paper from week to week have changed so completely that I do not know many of them". We may say to Mr. Heddon that fifteen years ago we knew most of the people in town but when we walk along King-st. on a Saturday Saturday evening now we do not know one in 2S whom we meet. Our population is much more cosmopolitan than a quarter century ago. This is a world of changes any way. Think for a moment how families families scatter and their conditions change in a few years. We are indebted to Rev. S. J. Allin, Clinton, a Durham County boy, - for information information of the death of the Lieutenant- Governor of Australia. He writes : Have just received a paper announcing the death of Sir Samuel James Way of South Australia. He had been Chief Justice for 40 years and Lieutenant Governor of the Province for 25 years. His father, Rev. James Way went out from England to Australia as a pioneer Missionary of the Bible Christian church in the year 1850. Three years later the son Samuel followed followed his father at the age of 17. After practising practising law for 10 years he was made a Queen's Counsellor and 5 years after that became Chief Justice. He was created a baronet by Queen Victoria in 1899 having previously been made a member of the Privy Council. When Sir Samuel Way arrived in Australia he had the determination to make a career for himself, and when the chance came he utilised it to the full. There is not a boy of like ability who could not win equal success in some walk of life if he were as resolute and as willing willing to take pains as was the distinguished man who had just entered into his reward. The breadth of his mind, the extent of his energy, the scope of his interest, were truly remarkable. The singular thing was, too, that everything he touched prospered. prospered. Every institution of a public character character in Adelaide was the better for his assistance, which was always given freely and to the fullest extent, for he never joined anything which he did not enter into with a will. He was always thorough. There was no "there or thèreabouts" in what he did. He was above and beyond all things accurate. This it was which enabled him to say that none of his judg? ments had ever been upset on appeal. The legal training that he had enjoyed and the innaté pense of justice and right which he possessçd wçre carried into alj his activities. Son came àbC'Jt was the best Chancellor the University ever had, and the best Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge. He was equally equally efficient as president of the Children's Hospital Board, and in all the multifarious multifarious concerns which commanded his attention. attention. The activity of his mind and the earnest desire he had to be of service to his fellow-citizens prevented him from taking any leisure. "In the death of Sir. Samuel Way a prince and a great man has fallen in Methodism" said the Rev. O. Lake, President President of the Methodist Conference. "Few laymen or ministers were more widely known, or more thoroughly esteemed. By reason of his attendance at the Ecumenical Ecumenical Councils of the Methodist Church he became well known to the leaders of our churches in America and in England. His genius for hospitality brought him into into friendly relations with great numbers of men who guide the activities of our branch of the church and much interested zeal was displayed in maintaining those intimacies. He was quite free from sectarian sectarian narrowness, as was evidenced by his friendship with the late Roman Catholic Catholic Archbishop, but with all that he was a convinced and loyal Methodist. Like the Shunamite, he was content to dwell among his own people. Three months ago the Chief Justice was kind enough to write to me a letter in which he especially inquiréd after the welfare of the B. C. Ministert, such as Dr: W. S. Pascoe, John Kenner, John Harris and others. At the same time he conveyed conveyed news of the death of Rev.John Thorne, son of Rev. James Thorne, one of the founders of the Bible Christian demonstration. demonstration. x. vr :-Üs5î»SS ëêÊÊst&sÊÛËÉitièâsS X.f, . -• v ,x ;< . • 9