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^nnoBOnan / V J -- M, A. JAMES & SONS, Publishers. 61.50 a year in advance ; BOWMANVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1917. Volume. LXIII, No. 41 J 1 Couch, Johnston & Cryderman, Limited. Invite every lady in West Durham to see their splendid collection of Ladies' New Fall and Winter Coats and Suits, all made of the most fashionable fashionable materials and in the latest styles. Every "man should see our New Ready-to-Wear Suits and Overcoats. No better made goods and no better value anywhere. CAPT. (REV.) W. G. CLARKEf WRITES. Life in Some English Hospitals Portrayed. _ Rev. S. Sellery, M. A., B. D.> has received received from Captain, the Rev. XV. G. Clarke, B. A., a letter dated Sept. 3, 1917, from "Somewhere in England" and we are permitted to publish it. After a reference to his own family and the church, he tells about his work in the hospitals as Chaplain. He writes; How thankful wë will all be when the signal is given that turns our faces homeward once more I One of the keenest regrets which has come or could come to me in this service, was when I had to say farewell farewell to my own battalion'and separate separate from the boys of our beloved homes in Bowmanvilie. It was to be with them through all the vicissitudes and dangers of this perilous enterprise that first constrained me to offer my services as Chaplain--To be with them through thick and thin and at the very front' where they must all take la' their post sooner -or later, No man has a right te urge others to go where he is not willing to go himself. But military" necessity, has forced the breaking up into reserves of * most of the battalions which have come overseas overseas and I have the promise that I will be sent to France in due course--then altho' not in the actual place with my own boys but in the same great cause and with some mother's boys I will be able to minister in holy things to our heroes who are doing and daring and 1 dying and never once thinking of themselves that thev are heroes. For the present and since the 4th of- June I am attached as one of four Chaplains to the largest Canadian Hospital which we have in England. There are some 4000 beds here, 1000 of these were occupied four months ago by Imperial convalescents. It has now been all turned over to our Canadian Canadian wounded. Besides the convalescents convalescents we have a staff of 500 or 600 more. I have, made the circuit of these 4000 beds three times--once every month--since coming here. This is Optical Month. Every year we give special attention to Optical work during the month of October. are in constant FITTED by Two Opticians who each hold Diplomas attendance and complicated and difficult cases are the most up-to-date scientific methods. Our quarter of a century in active Optical work both Bowmanvilie and other opticians in prominent cities and towns in Canada places us in a position to give absolute satisfaction. in JURY & LOVELL, Druggists and Opticians. - WHEN WE TEST EYES IT IS DONE PROPERLY. A RE You taking proper care of your Batteries.? This cannot be done without proper aids. Hydrometers are of great importance to all motorists. $1.25 buys the best at our store. Also Distilled Water im-half gallon bottles at 35c, and we allow 15c for the empty bottles when returned. Jury & Lovell. C REAM OF VIOLETS--25c large bottle. It is a perfect agent for softening and beautifying the skin and feeding the underlying tissues. tissues. It is a true skin food. It is not stickey and our customers say it is the best they have ever used. Jury & Lovell. r OUGH REMEDIER-- Right now is the time to buy your winter supply of remedies for coughs and colds. When taked in time a cold can be cured in hours. If let go it may take many months. J ury & Lovell. Handy "Comfort Kits Will help win the war. You should exercise sound judgment when sending goods to the soldiers._ Don't send fancy useless articles. War is a grim business and the soldier needs pratical things that will give" comfort and add to his efficiency. We sell all kinds of useful gifts and it is now time to get your Xmas boxes ready. We have empty'mailing boxes made strong and light for overseas. Come in and let us show them and partly* or completely fill them for you. x JURY & LOVELL Druggists and Opticians. M ( OTOR CAR REQUISITES-- We sell a harmless ingredient * that when poured into your cylinders will remove carbon better than scraping or any other method. 75c will put dirty cylinders in perfect condition. Jury & Lovell. OTOR CAR FOR SALE--In splendid condition. Cheap for cash. Has only run 4000 miles and looks and is almost as good as new. Cost over $1400.00. For quick sale $800 will buy it. Jury & Lovell.' ~ + R UBBER GOODS received an enormous stock of Hot Water Bottles. Regular ! price is $2.50 and $2.75 but to start I them ofi with a rush - we will sell the ! first 100 at $1.95 each. > Every one | guaranteed for 2 full years. Jury & Lovell. a Watch for date of Women's Institute "Win the War Sale" and Bazaar. "Canada's Sharè in the War" is the travelogue to be given by_Frank Yeigh, Oct. II, Opera House, Bowmanvilie; Durham County Teachers Dr. W. E. Tilley,_ M. A., Public School Inspec tor, No. 1 Inspectorate, Bowmanvilie, Ont. THE TEACHER'S DUTY. Darlington Sec.-Treas. Teacher Certificate, Salary Post Office I F. B.Xovekin Douglas Connell II $ 600 Bowmanvilie 3 J. H. Power *. Neva B. Allin II 625 if 4 H. F. Osborne Marion M. Van Nest •II 650 if 5 L. M. Smale Effa G. Wight II 610 if 6 Chas. Snowden Nellie A. Patterson II 700 7 H. Douglas ' Lillie Gilbert III 600 Burketon 8 H. S. Phair Amelia Lear II 700 Courtice 9 W. E. Pollard . Ruth Bennett II 600 Bowmanvilie IO Sidney T. Hoar Jean A. Calder II 640 a II George White Frank J. Groat ' II 650 Hampton Mildred F. Cole II 525 a -12 Arthur T. Stainton E. R. Frost II 660 ft 13 J. W. Virtue , Alice G. Werry II 600 Tyrone - 14 Arthur Millson E. May Reynolds II 600 Enniskillen* IS Leslie L. Pascoe Pearl Miller II x 6oo Burketon 16 Dr. C. W. Slemon Elsie E.- Rundle II , 700 Enniskillen 17 John Hall Rena F. Bentham II 600 Burketon " 18 Arthur W. Annis Ruth Squair I 650 Tyrone Ida L. Jones Ilia 490 19 J. J. Smith Kate M. Stephens 11 600 Enniskillen 20 John Reynolds Robt. Jr McKessock II 625 Solina 21 R. A. Ashton Elsie M. Hugh II 600 Haydon This town is honored this week by the presence of over one hundred public school teachers meeting here in annual convention. On behalf of the citizens we cordially welcome them to our progressive town and hope their stay will be profitable and pleasant. No class of workers deserves more respect than school teachers, for they are our nation builders in a peculiar sense. This country's most valuable asset is its boys and girls and the responsibility responsibility of-developing their lives and characters is entrusted to the ublic school teachers very largely, e teacher's responsibility is, therefore, therefore, very great' and her position should be regarded with every person's sincere respect. Education has come to mean much more than mere book-learning, altho, we fear, in the minds of too many people it is simply imparting knowledge knowledge fr put The ledge from prescribed books--a pre- E aration for life by the acquisition of t Cartwright Norman Mountjoy John Wright Thomas Hyland Jas. H. Strong Nelson H. Marlow Wm. G. Philp Samuel T. Bruce W. C. Ferguson Ed, Armstrong Post Office H. Eldon Twanley Ilia 600 Burketon Bertha Jones II 650 Blarkstock Elizabeth G. Burgess II 600 Burketon Bertha A. Clark H 600 Nestleton Sta Elizabeth Weir III 600 if Maude H. Young II 600 if Frances E. Payne II 600 a Norma A. Orchard I boo it Mrs. Thos. Richardson II 600 U address for téacher of No. 9 is Janetville Station •- Clarke In addition to this great hospital we are responsible for visiting Canadians who are in all hospitals within our radius of action. The principal other hospitals to which I go are what are known as the Horton and the Manor Hospitals. They are active treatment hospitals with a large proportion of cases confined to their beds. The Horton Horton hospital comprises 35-1^9 rds» each, ward having a capacity of* about 100 beds. It is an Imperial hospital and it covers a vast area of ground. We have several hundred wounded Canadians Canadians there--I have visited all of that hospital during the last month, hunting hunting up all our Canadian boys who are there. The Horton Hospital is about four miles away from me here at Woodcote. Manor Hospital is about three miles or more from here. It has a capacity of some 1500 beds, in 12 wards. We have had about 200 Canadians there. But the Ramsgate Canadian Hospitals Hospitals were vacated last week-end and over 600 sent here to Woodcote Park and 200 over to Manor Hospital. So after dinner on Sunday I went over to Manor Hospital. We had our usual church parade here on Sunday morning conducted by myself at 10 a. m. It gives one a strange feeling to stand before such a vast body of men, every one of whom has faced death in every imaginable way from shell and gas, rifle and machine gun, revolver and hand bomb, bayohet and rifle butt. One's heart goes out to every one of them. The majority of them will go back into the samé inferno again, bearing one or two or even three strips of gold braid upon the sleeve. Surely this is enough to prove we are in need of scores of thousands of reinforcements yet to come from Canada. Well, on Sunday afternoon after lunch I walked over to Manor Hospital, Hospital, which lies about as far the other side to the the northwest of the city of Epsom as we are distant to the south of the city. Part of my way I made purposely across Epsom Commons. Commons. These Commons are very "common" throughout, England. Ep som Commons is as large as a fair-sized farm, an irregular unfenced waste of land owned by nobody ia- particular and everybody in general, covered with a rank growth oifern andwhinn bushes and small clumps or thickets of thorn tree. But oddest of all are the great masses of long black berries They grow everywhere and with these other plants and shrubs and trees make-impassable thickets--especially where they grow 1 up among the thorn trees. They grow almost as tall as the thorn trees apd are covered with masses of great, tempting berries. Paths run across the Commons in every direction. It is a great resort-- all too much so I am afraid for good morals, Well, I got to Manor Hospital and -m- 1. - • l^x visited from bed to bed and ward to ■W e have justy war< j a u the beautiful Sunday afternoon. afternoon. The up patients were al abroad--the day was the first beautiful beautiful and clear day we have had in long time. We nave about 400 Can adians theye scattered among the 1500 beds, some 200 of these, as I have said, had just come in from Ramsgate Hospitals Hospitals clown near the mouth of the Thames. The German aeroplanes had malin a bombing raid. One bomb fel directly on one of our Canadian hospitals, hospitals, piercing roof and three fibers mfco the cellar, killing, several of our wounded and hitting many more This has become deliberately a part of policy of German frightfulness lately, lately, Surely the day will come when I James Robinson Jane Robinson II 600 Pt Granby 2 Robert Martin Zeta McFarland III a- 550 - Newcastle - 4 Fred Smith Agnes A. Annan II 637Vz Clarke 5 Chas. M. Eddy - Marjorie C. Colville Ilia 525 Newcastle • 7 Wragg Albert Tena M. Ferguson II 550 Clarke 8 Fred Cowan Mary I. Reid x II 575 Orono 9 Edgar L. Osborne Gladys Bradley II 600 Newcastle 10 Arthur McKay Isabelle E. Allin II 550 Starkville 12 A- J- Staples Blanche A. Wilson I 700 Oronô Winnifred Williamson II 500 a 13 L. W. Soper Nancy L. Johns I 650 Kendal 14 Alex Marr Clara E. Moffatt II 600 Orono 15 Wm. W. Cornish Hazel A. Brown II 600 Orono 16 Stanley Porteous J. Valleau Ames II 600 Orono 17 John Patton Mrs. Percy \vrlby II 625 Kendal 18 Geo. M. Glass Eunice L. Hooper II 500 Orono 19 Gep. W. Taylor Beatrice H. Glanville Ilia 500 it '21 John Stewart Hazel I. Clark II 600 Kendal 22 Heber J. Souch Jessie L. Williamson II 525 Bowmanvilie I A. W. Heaslip Manvers Marjorie N. Heaslip 1 II 600 Janetville 2 -Wi-J.-Mitchell -Carrie M. Poast II 625 Pontypool 3 J. E. Steer Annie M. Shield L III a 600 Bethany 4 E. J. Fallis Sara A. Moise II 600 44 5 Ed. Mitchell Ed. Mitchell II 600 Franklin 6 T. V. Grandy Norman W. Matthews Ilia 615 Janetville 7 A. E. Hanna George A. Beggs II 700 a 8 J. H. Jakemam- Marion Virtue Tem 500 Pontypool 9 Josiah Perrin / Grace M. Noble L III 550 a 10 Samuel Stinson Myrtle F. Davis II 600 Janetville il W. H. Lee Edwina Irwin II 600 IdaR. R.I 13 Chas. Ghent Mervin Ghent II 650 Pontypool . 14 D. H. Carscadden Bell Rogers Tem 500 ft 15 Monk Alex Wellington Higgins II 700 Bethany Gertrude J. Dewell III 450 Z ti 16 J. J. Henderson .Miriam Richardson II 525 Janetville 20 R. L. Fuller Effie W.Summerfeldt III 500 Pontypool BOWMANVILLE - Port Hope Teacher Salary Teacher Salary David Somerville 1400 R. D, Davidson $ 1200 Mary Strickland 660 Minnie M. Jennings 650 : Gertrude Sing 660 'Lillie M. McLean \625 Jessie Tuer 577% Helen G. Morris 62s Elsie Thompson 605 Greta Scott 525 Phyllis M. Smith 605 Greta M. Wickett 525 Murial C. Thompson 495 Reta M. Caldwell 525 Violet A. Scott 605 Ethel Garbutt 550 Jean H. Dodds 605 Leta L. Bragg 425 Gladys I. Fligg 484 Flora M. Galbraith S. Ward 650 Edith E. Sing 605 ** East Ward School Mary E. Mounsey 660 Newcastle Myrtle Long * 522% West Ward School John WJBradley 950 Mrs. Norma Jackson 577% Hattie A. Mason 600 Florence Montgomery 632% those responsible for this war of murder murder on defenceless wounded and help- ! ess and innocent women and children, will be brought to a steipt account and receive the punishment which common law prescribes for murder. But I must close soon. Among the bed patients I found one not far from the eternal shore, in the last stages of the "white" plague that had gripped him after some two years of exposure in France. When I asked his age I could scarce belieiye he was only 22. He seemed so aged. He was a boy from Manitoba m the Strathcona Horse. He was suffering much pain in the back and could rest in no _ position position but yvas turning and moaning in pain. I asked him what was his faith. His answer was just one word he mid scarcely speak above a whispdr ■that word, Oh Iso sad, was "nothing".- How that whispered word touched my heart with pitv and compassion ! I spoke to him tenderly about prayer. But between breaths he told me he had been there now three months. He walkèd in but he couldn't new walk out. - He was worse than when he came in. He had prayed, but what was the use? Here he was still. The.n I almost shuddered as he told me in words of pain, low whispered and slow, for alljtiis prayer was that he might die, and now he couldn't die. Think of it ! Without faith, "nothing" "nothing" as he whispered it--and praying to die, and, go into Eternity with "nothing". We who sing so often with another meaning, "Nothing in my hands I bring. simply to Thy Cross I cling", and this tioy had "nothing in his heart, no trust, no clinging to the Cross,"nothing". The ^rntward circumstances circumstances were sad.--» strange lad in a strange land, among strangers. But how axmü, a stranger to Jesus' love; and praying to die. My people who pray, pray for him, if he be yet alive. Pray for all our wounded in hospitals, pray for doctors and nurses, but above all pray for your "Padre" that he may be able to point these stricken ones to "The Lamb of God Who,taketh away the Sins of the World". I tried as best I could to tell him that God in His goodness and love had not answered that prayer so that he might find time to repent and go at last into His presence. Young friends, aye, all who hear, do nob. wait until you are on a bed of pain and suffering to flee for refuge unto the Sinner's Friend. For the present, Farewell.-^ W. G. Clarke. ook knowledge. The formation of character as well as storing the mind with information is included in the work of teaehers-_ The successful teacher will strive to kindle in every child a thirst for more useful knowledge knowledge than the class recitations contain, The foundation of education only is built in the public school, for while we were taught in oui school days that education was a drawing or leading out process, it is nevertheless a continuous continuous process going on from the commencement to the very end of each human being's existence." Education, therefore, is the progressive progressive development of life and that education is most complete which consists of the fullest development of the individual's nature so that he expresses expresses himself and - exercises his faculties to the fullest extent. Owing to the cast-iron character of the cùrriculum or course of studies prescribed by the Education Depai*t-- ment the energies of Ontario teachers are chiefly spent in an endeavor to turn all children into a few particular moulds artifically constructed from preconceived ideas. The question is, would not this energy be better spent in learning from the varying possibilities possibilities revealed by the growing personalities personalities ? The natural bent and mental capacity of the individual child should be considered by the teacher. Real education provides the child with the best possible environment and mental equipment and to place. at its disposal that material which has been discovered discovered through the experience of the race to be of most service. The child should be allowed to make use of that material and to develop and grow in that environment. What the most successful teacher will discover from experience is that a certain freedom is necessary for both teacher and pupil. Altho children are taught in classes they must be considered considered as individuals and not as groups. It is better when bovs and girls arrive at an age when they may safely decide for themselves to permit them to select for themselves the course of study that most appeals to them. After all the teacher who can create in a child a healthy curiosity to know the why and wherefore of things and conditions, a lively ambition, a will to acquire knowledge at whatever expenditure expenditure of time and energy and a" keen desire to achieve and accomplish something practical and useful in life is the kind of teacher this country most needs. " So the successful teacher's teacher's work and influence should supercede supercede very far the formal teaching of the text books. Just before going to press we came across this sentence in the London Advertiser on The Boy Problem : "All children must be given the chance to learn intelligently the practical things of life ; in the schools lies the hope of the future, and for that reason let it be hoped the great profession of teaching teaching soon begins to assume its proper function and to be given its proper valuation by the people." Millbrook Methodists have secured Prof. W. H. Greaves, Victoria University, for Thank Offering Service Oct. 2ist. Port Huron Times-Herald says: "Mi. Fred R. Foley, of Bowmanvilie, underwent underwent an operation at the Port Huron hospital Thursday for acute appendicitis. - Mr. and Mrs. Foley were on their vacatior. visiting Mrs. Foley's sister, Mrs. Nelson J Moore when he was taken suddenly ill." Our citizens will sympathize with Mr. Foley in this unexpected serious illness a will wish for him a speedy recovery anc and safe return to his home here. JUBILEE SERVICES Simcoe-st. Methodist Church Oshawa on Sunday Oct. 21. To The Congregation,--Once again as the season of our anniversary approaches, approaches, we have an opportunity of surveying the work of the post and 61 planning for the coming- months. * As a congregation Simcoe-st. Methodist Church has during the past year in spite of the sti^ain and struggle of these strenuous times, tried fairly and bravely to meet its responsibilities. We have given our means, our members, members, and our _ pastor to the great cause and have struggled to. "carry on" that the work at home might not falter and with gratifying success we think. Has not your part in this splendid work given y du a very real satisfaction? On Sunday Oct. 21, people and pastor will be again united and this occasion will be doubly memorable, marking as it does the fiftieth anuivei- sary of the laying of the foundation ' stone of the church. Such an occasion occasion is~naturally unique and important in our history and will challenge the hearty support of all. Fifty years of devoted service and growing value in this community entitle s "Old Simcoe" to a fitting- celebratior. We call upon The sons and daughters cf the pioneers; with those who have become more recently associated with this church, to unite loyally in this great event. Nor will we forget the great satisfaction It gives us to welcome back our pastor after his service to Country and Empire at the Front. He will be the preacher in tho Jubilee Services on Sunday Oct. 2ist and on Monday Oct. 22 will lecture on his experiences at "Vimy Ridge with the Canadians", and in these services régulai - ly review his work in the church._ This then is a call to every member and adherent adherent to rally round him. at these Jubilee Services. J. W. ELLIS, Recording Steward Oshawa, Oct* 10,1917. - uytv- -ra& -■-<4 3 : i' ":X-' î-i v V a 5*51 i V 1 \>r 1 s ,.*4s "X '■ .*ci >9 > c ;t> ■ -f y M - ,V- L . 1