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7&Z . \ : - - . *?5f¥p ere a8e afe, * ! " m s?. T'- *- x > ■V • -; æüg: BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 23 1917 1st txdt ncmm 1VRBSON. liah a mosquito. It is very true we d FLIGH1 UflrlVH.lt HVHIIOUII. «rmnïÏTit.m. rmtnv at-,-5000 feet in I - Volume. LXIII. No. 34 Publishers. $1,50 a year In advance; M. A. JAMES & SONS, r ;- Clearing Sale of Spring Coats and Ladies' Suits Couch Johnston & Cryderman will sell the balance of their Spring Coats at rs- One-third off à the regular price and will make substantial reductions on all Ladies* Suits. They are showing an elegant stock of Ladies' White and Colored Colored Voile^and'Black and Coloured Silk Dresses. Also a large stock of Voile and^Silk Waists. Men's and Boys' ready-to-wear Suits in all sizes and all qualities. qualities. No better value anywhere. „ Couch, Johnston & Cryderman, Limited. Former Goodyear Inspector Tells of Conditions and Things in England. Special Prescription Service Special Request Unless the case is urgent, patients requiring spectacles are respectfully respectfully requested to wait until Oct. 1st, as Mr. Jury will not be in town regularly until that date. Special appointments can be made for those who require immediate immediate attention. Special Advertisements : 10c Soaps now 15c Many customers took advantage of the warning we gave them that soaps were advancing, and laid in a supply. Many of the 10c lines are now 15c, bat we still supply Baby's Own and a few standard lines at 10c or 3 for 25c. Buy now while the old prices hold good. Jury & Lovell. Sponges and Chamois Our stock of these lines for carriages and autos is special value. value. A good strong sponge and a soft good-sizèd chamois, both for $1.25. Wo cannot repeat this value when present stock is exhausted. exhausted. Jury <k Lovell. Jury & Lovell Fountain Pens at 98c If you have not secured yours yet, better call at once. Every one sold on a guarantee and they can be returned if not satisfactory. 14 k solid gold, made by one of the best pen factories in the British British Empire. Jury <fc Lovell. Razors We are clearing up our stock and are ofiering several odd lines at much less than regular prices. Jury & Lovell. When we Test Eyes it is Done Properly Flight Officer Stanley F. Everson who gave up his position in the Bow- manville office of the Goodyear and enlisted in the Royal Navy Flying Corps and has been in training in England England for six months or more writes this racy letter to his coiisin in Bowman Bowman ville: Naval Air Station, England, Sunday, July 22nd, -1917. Dear Sir:--It has just gone'-8 bells" of the second "Dog W^atch. (1mm the Navy now,) so for the next half hour I will amuse us all by giving you an idea of what I think of England m general way and of flying m particular. particular. First of all, who wrote that bit of poetry having to do with Oh to be in England, now that April s there?" Its a cinch he didn t write that this year. The April 1917 was one of the best grippe producing months we've had. However, if he would change it to May for this time he would about hit the mark, for starting r^gbt from May Day the weather all through that month and J une was ideal. A good warm sun and nice .gentle cool zephrs makes an unbeatable combina/- tioo and dispels those wintry fogs and mists which seem to enevelop certain parts of this country at the least provocation. provocation. The flowers in bloom and the miles and miles of green hedges convert I England into a veritable garden. I 1 never knew there were so many roses in the world. Also they have enticed the song birds back, and whal; is there to compare with the English feathered songthesters-- starling, lark and nightingale, to say nothing of linnets, finches and dozens of others--stars everyone of them of the the&tric&l bird world. I have made friends with starling already. I am. trying to persuade him to join the Air service. He seems to be in love though and so thinks he has a legitimate excuse for not enlisting.. Perhaps he is a "Conscientious "Conscientious Objector." English summers are sure tip-top, but it takes a fort-night of them to compensate us for one cold rainy winter winter one. Like most of the Canadians I took my turn indoors for three months, nursing one or two winter ailments. ailments. Its a life of compensations, though for while being supposedly on the sick list I was able to slip into London, London, unnoticed, and attend the British House of Commons. Fortunately, however, I am neither an;, expert at the art of oratory nor a critic thereof, otherwise 1 might be tempted to dis- cuss at length some of the speeches I heard--to the belittlement of the speakers. It was a pleasurable experience experience for me to see the "Mother of parliaments" in action. The old war seems to have developed developed into a starvation conflict between England and Germany. Shucks tho they can't starve an Englishman. In ordinary times he is used to four or five meals a day, while we know by experience that a good healthy Canadian Canadian manages nicely on three, and when the alarm fails to do its duty, we can manage on two. We ought to win the war soon,though, United States States or no States. There are sp/many places where it can be won--mthe kitchen--in kitchen--in the garden--in the fields or in the factories, and they promise us certain victory if we will only eat less bread. Some bright day, if we suddenly suddenly spring a victory on you, you will know that we all took a day off and ate crackers and cheese. I took a jaunt over to Dublin and the surrounding Ireland, during a recent week-end, two days worth, at least, of that country. The Sinn Femns were quiet for the day, but we saw the hav- ock they wrought before and went around on tip toe for fear of waking them. Irish scenery is much like Eng-, lish, tho' vastly different! England is all hedges and stone fences. Ireland, what I saw of it, stone fences, hedges and lakes--anything that is damp or wet over there, is called a lake. 1 m. going to take a good sized spunge along with me sometime and swipe a few of their best lakes. A couple of weeks ago Herbert Fowler Fowler came down over the week end on leave." I managed to procure some "leave" also and we eloped to West Sandling to hunt up the 285th Batt. The bigger part of the Batt., .I believe has been transferred to Whitly Camp, but we found Oapt. George W. Jamss and Oapt. O. W. E. Meath without difficulty and spent a pleasant day exchanging exchanging news, views and comments on home and abroad. They have three forms of frightfulness here m England 1 --Brussels sprouts in the winter, no real pies and a dearth of peanuts, all the year around. Imagine Canada and the States withoutpie or peanuts! Now that the States have enlisted, they are no longer the object of contempt contempt they used to be, but have, blossomed blossomed out into a thing of beauty and a joy forever. The Simmies are quite the rage over here. Their effect and influence on this side of the water will be almost too far reaching tohe measured. measured. England has been doing her best to accustom herself to Canadian slang and ways. You, shoifld see a bunch of them trying to decipher a meaning out of the comic section of a Toronto Star Weekly or a Sunday World. Our slangs expressions have them all at sea now, mit what, on, what will they do when the Yanks cut loose. • V: ,V . • - ,, . They have one thing oyer here that is every bit as good as its rehitiva in Canada--the mosquito. This particular particular one is of tbe speçies mos-qmt-o. It is a Spanish word and means m Eng lish a mosquito. It is very true we don't encounter many at'5000 feet in the air but they have the proverbial patience qf Job beaten to the length of a city block. They are always ready to entertain us when we land. - Their •resence announces summer and bad languages. Sometimes you see a weary pilot or mechanic lying full length on the grass. You go up to him and enquire the time. Looking at his watch he replies politely with the correct time. That man has not been stung by a mosquito that day. Then, you go up to another fellow and ask him the same question and he replies replies "Ain't you got a blinking watch? Why don't you make a sun-dial of your face? Your nose is big enough. What's the time indeed! Well its jolly well time to shove off and leave me alone." That man has had a recent recent unfortunate encounter with a mosquito. One of these tormentors can turn a peaceful law-abiding pilot with an angelic temper into a veritable veritable Crown Prince. I am hoping to get over to TVhitly soon to see the other 235th Bn. fellows that is providing I get "leave"--that elusive thing- which we are told is a privilege not a right, and which causes us all our worries. These people seem never able to forget there is a war on so we occasionally have to do a little flying from 3.80 o'clock in the morning morning until 9.80 at night, except when it is raining like today. Getting up at 3.30 a.m. is fine sport--nit--. It is always a race to see who can get up high enough to see^the sun's rays on his machine first. We don't absorb all our training at one station or school but graduate from one to . another where sundry rules, regulations and restrictions fall alike on the just and unjust. I have learned a few things about the art in spite of the instructors. I have been told now and then and I believe believe it, "that many a pilot can go up, any fool can come down, but it takes a genius to stay up." It is a very deceiving deceiving game. It looks easy and. enjoyable. enjoyable. It is neither, in fact, it is like nothing on earth. There is no sensation of Speed although you may be ripping along at 100 knots . There is far more exhiliration in racing over the land at 40 miles an hour. The fun is ail in landing. That is where the hopes and ambitions of many a pilot are wrecked. Old Mother Earth does not seem sometimes to be very anxious anxious to receive her wayward children back again. But when the landing is "forced" and in a strange territory then the fun is increased or rather intensified, ff the pilot is lucky to land "butter Side up", he has something something to talk about and brag of for many a day. If he isn't lucky some one else talks about it. See? These forced landings are not always as bad as they seem, but sometimes they occur when least desired. Every flying machine large and small, old and new, fast and slow, is thoroughly imbued with the homing instinct and given half a chance, through engine failure, etc.., is not long in asserting itself. Although the R. N. A. S. is an Imperial Imperial organization, there are nearly as many Canadian pilots as English. Get a couple of Canadians and three or four Englishmen together and you- have an argument. There is a peach going on at present in the next cabin. Something about the instructive ability ability of moving pictures and heavy drama--sort of a Charlie Chaplin versus versus William Shakespeare argument. Its a good one, anyway. I Well there goes "8 bells" and the I bugle. I hope you appreciate the fact that I have spent a good half hour on this, and thus prolonged the war by- just that much. Now the "Navy that flies" will imbibe a little nourishment such as "curry and rice", "bubble and squeak", sausage and mash and numerous numerous other English concoctions. Everybody write and tell us how the war is getting on. We are usually too busy to read the papers much. Stanley F. Everson, ALLIES' STREET FAIR JOSEPH HERMAN FLETCHER The Bowmanvijle boy who met death as reported last week in the Wharf Road railway crossing accident was given this notice in the Reformer: Joseph Herman Fletcher, aged 27, was married five years ago to Miss Annie Reid, daughter of Mr. John Reid, Bond St., west. He was born in Bowmanville and came to Oshawa about seven years ago. He was a steady, industrious young man, being employed as a rubber at the Williams Piano Co. factory. factory. Being of a very sociable disposition he made manv friends and was highly respected respected by all who knew him. Beside his widow he leaves his mother, Mrs. Jos. Fletcher, Bowmanville, two sisters and one brother to mourn his violent death. They are Mrs. Walter Vice, Oshawa; Mrs. (Dr.) Jas. Campbell, Napanee; and Kenneth R. Fletcher, at present with the Army Medical Medical Corps, St. John, Que. They were all present at the funeral. His. father who was for years constable of Bowmanville, died five years ago. Those who attended his funeral from a distance were his uncle, Mr. David Fletcher, Miss M. Fletcher, Miss A. and Master Lome Bess, Miss J. Horne. Mrs. W. Brooks, Toronto; Mrs. Herb Fletcher, Mrs. Robert Greenfield, Mrs R. Frazer, Fred W. Couch, W. J. Martyn, Milton Jameson, James Lunny, John Cole, Bowmanville, and others. The pall bearers were his shop-mates-- Geo. Todd, Richard and John Branton, Frank Hall, John Holdsworth and Russel Luke. Much sympathy is felt for the wife and mother in their unexpected bereavement. TREAT NEXT SUNDAY Bowmanville Methodists are to be favored with the services of Capt. the Rev. J. TV. Magwood, the able and well-known Toronto minister who enlisted enlisted and went overseas with a Toronto Toronto Battalion. He will tell about what he saw at the Front with Canadian Canadian soldiers at" evening service. Special music. The Boy singer, Master Master Edwin Luttrell, will sing a solo in the morning. Do not miss hearing Capt. Magwood. Services at 11 a.m., and 7 p. m. Flight Officer, Royal Navy, O.R. N. Post Office, Mooregate Hall, "Finisbury Pavement, London, England. Mr. Alfred John Gaddye died last week in Peterboro, after a long illness, aged 83. Deceased was born in Cornwall, England, and came to Canada when a young man, settling in Bowmanville.' He was a bricklayer bricklayer by trade. A remarkable interview with Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels will appear in The Sunday School Times of August 25, under the title of "Why I Issued the Wine Mess Order.'* It is the issue of the Times which carries the "temperance lesson" for the third quarter in the International Lesson Lesson Series. The interview describes with minuteness of detail and dramatic force the wonderfully impelling reason for the famous order which made the Navy "bone dry." And the Secretary refers, too, to the change of sentiment within the Navy i itself, from disapproval to hearty concurrence concurrence in the order, as results vindicated its issuance. The Secretary snatched time from his strenuous duties to tell this story to his former private secretary, who is now associate editor of • The Sunday School Times. Like everything else the Girls' Patriotic: Club undertakes this novel event was a huge success, bringing into their treasury $900. From President Ethel Morris to the last member every young lady entered into the enterprise with enthusiasm and stayed on the scene till midnight of that day, August 11 th. Orono's live-wire Bow - manville correspondent pays high tribute to the young ladies in these well-deserved sentences : Anything the Girls' Patriotic Club go in for is bound to be successful because they have yim and energy also the get-up-and- get where older people fail. Old King street never looked better than it did on Saturday evening with the many festooned booths, the electric lights, the many street lights, the brilliantly lighted windows and stores with thëir banners and other decorations, decorations, and to stand on the four corners and look east or west it was a scene for a moving picture film. It was truly a grand fairy land scene. The proceedings began at 3 o'clock with a street parade of the Patriotic; Club and their novel features, with their band in its motor chariot, prettily decorated with the flags of the Allies. . They presented presented a splendid appearance in their various various colored costumes, Japanese and Italian Italian ladies, girls of the Orient, Gipsy maids, flower girls, Mrs. Wiggs and the numerous numerous little Wiggs', good looking Canadian girls, push-cart merchants of the gentle sex; and when one stood on the curb and viewed the parade he got a better idea of what that club means than he ever did before, before, and the conclusion reached was that they meant business in securing comforts for the soldier boys Overseas and at the Front. The feature of the parade was the band which we should imagine was the pick ct the club musicallyl'udging from the program program rendered. The "old lady" who led on the cornet and conducted the musicians musicians had a very easy time of it as the artists artists were so well up in their several parts, especially the drummers, who should now be classed as professionals. The. instrumentation instrumentation was up to the requirements, of the most up-to-date concert band and it is to be hoped that we may be favored again at a similar function. The afternoon performance was enlivened enlivened by a program by the Dominion Or gan Band, conducted b> Mr. Wm. Grant, and the band stand was in front of Mason & Son's drygoods store. The Methodis t Sunday School Orchestra, led by Prof. C . C. Laugher gave a fine program in frort of the Girls'Club Tea Room and those who heard this part of the day's program were delighted. In the evening many availed themselves of the merry dances which took place i n St. George's Hall, and as it was only fiyt- cents fee for each dance quite a financia 1 revenue was secured therefrom. The speller at the corner whoffiad a curiosity on exhibition which he announced as thi- "bearded lady" also took in several sheck- els, and inside the enclosure of the Montreal Montreal Bank and also at Edger's carnagt- entrance a land office business was transacted transacted in pitching rings and various other devices to lure the unsofisticated. The Country Store, Flower booth, Candy, Candy, Ice Cream, and Lemonade booths were all well patronized, and the Tea .Rooms, where Afternoon Tea and a tempting Supper Supper was nicely served were the busiest of all--they always are when open. Miss Amy McKowan, a returned Missionary Missionary from Japan, appeared in her vet y beautiful Japanese costume and sold Jai - anese dolls, post cards, slippers, etc., ar. d also had a correct representation of tl e Coronation of the -Japanese Emperor, on exhibition, which was especially interesting interesting and added considerably to the fund. A very large crowd came in for the afternoon, afternoon, but in the evening the crowd wes too much for pavement so the street w: s thronged also. There were no accidents to mar the pleasure of the day, those with autos being very careful, and there we: e a host of cars from all districts within 15 miles. The unfortunate occurrence at the Grand Trunk crossing on the wharf road during the afternoon cast somewhat of a gloom over the fair but otherwise it wa s a great success and the young ladies ai e to be congratulated for the all-round success success of their first Street Fair. The National National Anthem closed a most profitab.e- day. Scene of the Railway Tragedy FWtche^wS.^otaSonïSf' jS^atJiçk 'No^roi^weJlS, tW W6re r,dh,g -