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| ne North Omario Election to fill the vacancy catised by the death! of the late lamented Hom, W. H. Re is ne Oldest Hoyle, is now in full swing, and the rah --founded in} ost al and best in wa a ihe pretpects are. that Major {1 S. andicoces greeted the performances, were visits = 2 - the tribe © These Chll- Ber ou ig in id fi not. Cameron, lr a the Gon and dn the second aight every avi, | col warlike 4 advance,* $5.50 will be | servative Gig . e : u ph ube space in the hall was occu md arrogant ' tribes : auiy returned by 3 Sweepltg MA): | con standing reom being at a Ee message | IN bring them FERN STVIVE ofity: ded where we | pa pov PRICE ev premiom, Si | §d prying off en | J.D. McMASTER, V. 8. The two leading features of the Susp Siog ht those withe | Several sums from | The following from Cornwall's | programme Were the International a in the vil- | NEY, & ta10,000, kav | most prominent and influential offi- | Pageant aad the Play. - ae i o for immediate in- {cial citizen speaks volumes for Pert Perry's latest person of Mr. J. D. McMaster who comes to reside in our "town for the purpose of praciising his profossion as a Veterinary Surgeon. To Wren Ir May Concern: Si . EBBEI one S RURERT Port citizen in the tn af the People.) held in the Town Hall On Wedresiy and Thursday | "i evenings of last week the annual Commencement. Entertainments of Inthe Pageant various nations ae and forces who took part in the} A recent war were represented --Bely- Err jum, Serbia, Maly, France, United | espistaed States, Great Britain and ber Col- onies, the Army, the Navy, and the wid 1 } Red Cross~and over all Peace st - The <b by the} CornwaLL, ONT., DBC. 19, 1918. I have had the pleasure of know- FOUNDED IN 1857. ed and atid a Print: Tort Ton i ling Mr. J- 'D. McMaster, V.S. ever PORT PERRY. DEC ab 1018. | SINCE he commenced practice it | Cornwall about five years ago. He a oo has proved himself most FEED Now PF PLENTIFUL worthy citizen, and it is with ex Situation as Rogards Mill Feed, | treme regret that I learn of his in-|5 a . im "The feed situation in Canada is ey | hope he will make as many if not now excellent" declared an official | more friends as he leaves behind | Live of the Feed Division of the him in Cornwall, Stock Branch at Ottawa, 'There ; 4 a | Yours troly, ~lge is plenty of feed offering, both Can=| Pj LALLY. adian and imported. There is plenty Mayor | of corn, plenty of concentrates, | *- - 3 | Still dearer cheese is predicted an The Domins a reserve of plenty of screenings. M + 3 s doubts it. Government have But no one doubts i } $00,000 bushels of corn offering at Whitby is short of hotel accom« |W $1.40 F.O.B., Tiffin, Ont, 25.000 modation. tons of linseed oil meal in 2001 The joy of Christmas costs al pound sacks at $64.00 a ton F.O.B. | decent man something but it is] Toronto, and $66.00 F.O.B. Mont! worth it. | | real. . | Rochester cathedral now has a **There seems to be a Dig Sp woman bellringer, organist and tion. Not Ornamental. of flaxseed in the country for the oil} et -- verger, for the Championships at the An- crushers are all busy now Bran | E 4 ; P P Mem themselves do not know why | hasabl th Mr, and Mrs. H, Carmichael arei .j Field Day and for the High | a hats. Hats aren't ernamen and shorts dare purchasable on the I's pending the holidays 1a the town | tal. They do not keep off the rain. A open market today in straight car- ¥. | School Eatrance Examination were | man's hat is a legacy of tradition, bru- | of Uxbridge at Dr. FL E Mellow's: R os ye of foad lots, without the wars time nec. Mv. Wibert Shunk. we regret 10 | presented, the former by Rev. }. R. | sderament' 8 ats the least essity of buying flour as well as 0B while operating a portable (Bick, of Blackstock. The addresses | a ne) We. have 13.000 tans of) | sawing machine pear Greenbar k It both ti { high Y, the iron Hid of commen wl ¥ sree ik, ¢ (ra 1.7 The dash i 1 screenings at Fort William and we 8 by bath these gentlemen were fig | Pheazsclons, is a tragedy, nnd the glk i met with a somewhat serious acci- | ly appreciated. hat 18 useful ouly to lend digmity te are offering, No. 4 yellow €or}. one of his arms being badly i men who otherwiio might be usdigal The school bas had a good year, Sed. This dignity is traditienal rather throughout the Sestern ae lacerated. on 4 hasis of $1.40 a bushel F.O.I Jack Frost has Minneapolis. There is a plentiful] goog aimost perfectly. supply of coarse gran crop through=1 Coos clay paved. out the greater part of the country, = _ farmers having sown mixed barley "and oats for feed purposes {oa Kreater extent than usual, So with the govermment reserves "and the commercial offerings there is nek danger of feed shortage in Cagada, Nobody need worry about that.' cont AMERICAN CASUALTIES REACH TOTAL OF 66,892 Washington, Dec. 20. ties of the American Expeditionary which have not been pub- have been wise Join the 'Out of Debt Club." To other wohds, yee that your small accounts are paid at the end of the | © year. has decided to build ne more wooden have b2en cancelled. Petrograde and Moscow are object lessons to the world of the result of the ignorant and ctiminal portions of a country getting the | upper hand. Casual- « Forces, fished; but nounced officially by General Per: ishing, had been reduced at noon, December 18, to 1 total of 66,892, which an- In Toronto "there are some wo- men who are a bit disappointed be- could finish koitting the mate to} 'These, the War Department an-| pounced to-day, were classified as {hat sock they started at its out-| »" follows :-- break. Canadian women are demanding he Peace Confer- souls like! Mujor casualties, including killed | died of wounds, died of | | representation at t disease, and died of ather causes, fence. By some gentle 1,690; wounded, 64,862; missing | Mrs. Pankhurst, for instance, play- and prisoners, 350. | fully armed with knives and hatch- A large proportion of the 64,862 ets? mames listed as wounded are minor Vancouver Province: --Soft-head- cases, it was said, many patients ed pacificists predict that the Kaiser having long since recovered and re- | will die with a broken heart, while | turned to duty. Officials explained the less sympathetic are hoyieful} that the total is really less, due to the fact that General Perishing's total included marine casualties of 1,202 killed and more {han 4,000 wounded, which already have been published by the Marine Corps Beadquarters hoes. here. Toess ot "austria Over Four Million in action, Br 1 neck. N.J., las placed women deputies at the railway statious to prevent en- trance into the city of werien and | girls whose faces are painted or | powdered. The two boys of Dewitt, Towa, with a capital of $25, four yeass ago, and who now own a herd of] must be. no ordinary boys, but Dec, c 22 -- The casuals. much rier time with their cheese' cals than havethe disunited townspeople schoo! good, the costumes attractive, and oe required the movements and posings of the different characters dignified and | rechtag it in the whole Ly | chool took part. | sented by fifteen Students who en- | tered Chatcovan of paved Orillia's and in spite of the alarm Pity they | influenza work is going well this | The new departments of | | Agriculture and Household Science | are flourishing, and are highly priz-| he students. and are already | lof fartnds. doing an excellent work for the gob aad. Ox Port Perry like~| year, Bartlett, | sent to the Polar regions next Juoe fRgnted ea the {to survey the North Pole by air- Werimg: according to an announce- to-night by the! plane, | ment cause the war ended before they | Aero. Clab of . America C i birehing because when ise 'mas hant. ¥ during the number were pressive. Almost QOorn, Ooncentrates and [tended departure from our town. The Play was eotitled 'The pereenings OK of wish him every success in his | Bliffers, or Dust in the Eyes," and {new surroundings and sincerely. frow the French. (It was pre: joto their parts with intelli- | the nee and enthusiasm, There were | many pressing situations, and num- | lerous features of French character d life were well represented. Between the acts of the play on ednesday night the Diplomas won by students at the last Depart- | mental and University examinations | | mere presented by Rev. John Harris, the Board of Educa- On Thursday night medals d by t The United States Government | town and community. BE ships, and outstanding contracts Capt. Bartlett to Survey The North Pole by Airplane New York, Dec. 22,--An expedis | 38 | Joan, yh jon to beled by Capt. noted explorer, made ~ here it was said, was conceived by Rear- Soop ordinary : discov Peary, Admiral Robert E. erer of the Pole, --arag- HIDDEN GERMAN BOME | KILLS 156 PERSONS AT GUISE Paris, Dec. 20. A German bomb | 3 which had been planted in a bridge at Guise had exploded Killing fifteen | a persons and injuring twenty-fv according to a Guise despatch The Martin. The date of the e that his death will be due to a brok-! plosion is not given, but the des | patch says that it occurred more Inspector. Corbally, of Newark, (hana month after the armistice went icto effect. | pert avialor, announces that he building a triplane which will ac- commodate a hundred passengers, with cabs and beds and o:her conveniences, Alieady there is a Caproni triplane capable of tra. porting thirty persons and a he act) | dang, t of peng pr -- Ori Packet. British public "school ¥ weal, heel over the and members of eongress need all the Robert A. a season. will be | Swen into Ms The plan, Signor Caprooi, the Itallian ex: Clinion New Esai -- 4A Voy in CHILD Thelr Word of Five J tp with instances baby to us ! from lack fesble cry The woman mother ted food for tha omén being CO rh too weak to oar to feed it. thet litte pa fully showed the woman how to pre pare its food, and insisted upon leave tug oll of our reualning canned mi | that If the baby lived it belonged te me sad they would bring it down to, Port Wrangel. 1 thought bat little of promise, knowing how easily | people forget such things; but five | yremrs after this occurrence 1 was 'dur | to have some Chilcat natives ng a sturdy and heelthy lftle boy, apd formally give him to me, saying @at this was the baby whose Hfe we eaved, #id he therefore belonged ps. The child was taken imto our | mission" at Wrangel, and I ba {Bim with" the mame of "John," i my friend. "WHY DO MEN WEAR ATS? Reatly, When You k icine to Think of 1%, They Are of Little Use and | | tase | | atter ' real. Bridepreoms, undertakers | dignity they car command. So they | oep the silk hat handy. Spring. which brings the straw hat, welcomed by men, since it removes the hideous necensity of mansing othe lw = displayed ta the bi unregenerated detils ¢f hell wih much Toving kindness only fo hi | peror who burn the books and slewed the scholars to extinct the eiviMzation of the peaceful inhabitants; but he was not success in tis crafty tricks, for the civilizations ¢ould never be i (ros. wot Soe by told me when we were about to leave | po also awfully wishing fo sidve the | oldest livisg graduaté of West Point, "In the history of China was an em- people and extinct the elvilizations of the universe; he alo destroy the Tit- erature books, and the arts, and the ships, and mess the people of oifies | nations, . . But be will not s¥¢+ cess." Oldest Living West Pointer. General Horatio Gates Gibson, the veteran of the Mexfcrer ¢fvfl and In= | diam wars, has jost celebrated his | | Olat birthday in good health and | spirite. Among the guests of the soldier on his birthday were a few surviving members ef fhe Aztec Club, which was formed By officers of the service | in the city of Mexico seventy-one years ago. There is omly a squad of the original members of this club living. Gen. Gibson #s sue of them and is the organization's president. It is probable that this vetcran thought as a young soldier, after cam- paigning from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico under the leadership of Gen. Winfield Scott, that the Mexfeant war was a good deal of a war, It ia likely, also, after serving ns an sf tillery chieftain through the cam- patgns from 'G1 to "G3, that he thought the civil war was sbout the biggest { Ibing in the shape of & war that ever et esteem 190000000000 900000 ® Are endorsed by The: Cam -Howsam of Ontario, and are for sa pbell Flour Milis Co, The Campbell Flour. Miils Co. 119, eter D. C. Thomson, AA. MoFall, Bolton. os Oigatbaarin.of Rerront Commies do by the following: runs ey ¥ & Nowsam, Wing Orillia : 0 ruarmelr=; ¥ « gsimately S63 Tir ARTY ing Soild on tl wel Bank Buildin of Resources ¢ * ® * * & ® ® ® ® ® * 4 ® ® 4 * 9 < Q @ ® ® @ < @ © 60205008 0065005000000085 P06000¢2% 5006600 olla Cott mee oAMeal for immedi ate sale in cas! yners' seilios directly to feeders of live stock. Hhis offer is open only to Dee. Sst. whan sihar disaosition will by surle of stocks rematnind. ges on Ahp aaih 'Ful Dec. ist, they will be ne charees at the time of purchase, chasing ficm James ] me a gal lots To be sold directiy to Local Organizations and local dealers te $64 por ton. £ 0. b, Hamilton, dependizyg yasis of marked weights as they nvive. Par. zichardeon & Sons, Ltd, Royal , Tor ato, in charge for the Oreanization oP ar lament Ruiidings. Toronto. "1 happened or ceuld happen. Today, this man of service, 91 years of age, is under the necessity of readjusting | his earlier thoughts o> the compari tive magnitude of con | nations.--8t. Louls Fuat-Diu : EL To Texch Fruit Ralelng, Vice Consul Richard P. Momsen re- patch 'for those who go without bats haven't the at all Glves 8li a Premium. i the tman" (everyonsé sells bivalves bere is known as hit 2 unique scheme his cus eat oysters out . customer whe Te 1 hands them an th an enclosure. yelope is the fol | Cont Hanger. The | d coat hanger in 'the flmest drawn | | shvelope, pay ed for five years And when one opens the env ey natnrally ex- pect to find = g new to bang ® t thereon. not disappelint- p Wrappell In 4s nothing More 'sneinch wire mall chemist has e,' piso a solid Lo sembling lard, eos and when | x: en, rove whole, it makes | is "the stripll- | with hydroges sn oil, and very much re J entirely taste- pastry or bread ptory results, ac. tor employed The new on the market the food admin: {ports that the Brazilisn govermnent has nuthorized the establishwent of a { pomieutiural station in Deodore, The | work of the station will comprise the production of domestic fruit trees and | those foreign types already selected 'and acclimated, ihe introduction of in: digenous fruit trees, the study of fa- sect pests and methods of combating them, the study of better methods of packing and transporting plants and | frutts, exporiinents to determine the | most successful methods of conserv- ing fruits and the gucstion of distribut- | ing friits to dealers. The school will be opea to students who wish to pur- sue this branch of agriculture and to | farmers who wish to observe practical | demonstrations of modern pouilcultural methods. Chinese Taking tc Cicarcites. Ten years 8go we exported 400,000, | 000 cigarettes to China, which Is an ' avernge of about one cigarette a yerr for each celestinl. This year thers lng already been nn average of 10 cig rettes exported to each Chinese, or, iu round figures, 4,000,000,000 American cigarettes, says Popular Science Monthly. Last year our exports in cigarettes clove reached the $12,000, 000 mark. Bravery and Buttons. "When I was in the ranks" John's second Heutemant tells him (John Kd- ward Martin is the recruit hero of | "The § Star," by Capt. F. D. . Grierson), erewd was inspected by a 'tamous general. When he'd look- ed at every badge and button he said: 8 to any is available 8 ian | Lads, og we sources | that the biggest near at bard. Aa | WOLF REAPPEARS IN FRANCE Bold Because "the AX Attention of the Country Has Been Concentrated on the War oti 'Now' and then, os we walked dowa the slope among the scattered trees, we heard the low kr-krump of distant guns which had come to my ears be- fore 'dawn, writes Willian Beebe in Atlantic Monthly. It wos a litle funre distinct aud sometimes double; krump- kr-krump, but even now a hig frog at the bottom of the hill would have been more effective, Dut all other thoughts slipped away 28 a new zound arose in the darkness, fncomparably more alluring. | skyward--a 4 a sound which held for me a thiill, a8 vital ns the hint of distant battle, and It rose slowly, ® rich, mellow, undulation which stirred every fiber; and then quavered, descended, and broke off. We stood motionless, listening with all onr ears, and again it came, un- mistakably, from the depths of the misty woods. My companion smiled at me. We could see in Imagination the drooped tnil. the hollow-cheeked muzzle ralsed wolf uttering that ery whiell of ail sounds is most symbolic of the northern wilderness--unhurle- ment plaintif et logubre. I could not believe my ears, that here in the heart of France, within sound of the guns at the front, I had heard the voice of a wild wolf. The peasants had report- ed wolves at several piaces, the cold and pinch of hunger driving them from _ distant fastnesses where thelr race . little to oppose them in this was making its last stand. And now they had become bolder, finding 'a day during the following tweaty< uri, ana are adie to take up their 66 ARE add LARD uP IN MGRGUE welve Grogs of ihe oil mre give® iH A aif a tumbierful of water, poking Ro At the Bust i Would Po Henpies] for fr ropeated in one hour, then tea! Man o Yelled Hui zah for @rops given regularly every two hours . the Kaiser?" y ure has dropped 10, > normal, When the feter has gone fen drops eHomd be give three times four or forty-eight hours. When in- filuenza is thus treated from the very ontset--that fs, within the first three tempereturs be any place oe depending cars. when one of the men sg Re Na heard at # Gul as 10 hh d the con | saan who was evidently a stranger and sneyer | msn of lish desccut. ip oe i WRY 7 mauired Ambitiée Bmall Girl. "Mister, piémse, mister, can 1 Rave to et fo the cis horpital 8 Job?" the stranger. "411 the girls on our block are pick- | "Sare," B18 the 'maun of Tian des ing fruit; tbe boys are working Ia scent, "you walk one square enzt; lurw the shipyards, sud I want to do som@ to your right 2nd go ope square soul titing for Uncle Bam," twelre-; "There you wii! ind & vermin ste Alice told Charles Sjorberg, tion. Go In tiers and veil 'Flyrreh er at the Hanlon Dry Dock and Sbip- for the kaiser! acd when yd comz 10 buliding plant, 8s she sought & "por you will be in the city hospital" : The men who told the story said he or tan 00 Sart" she com. thought that was dfie way of fog the city Sete] ty reo wen ing. time, but his friend did not axree witls | er, or 8 rivet-pSaser," she added as him. she sald she would grow up and be "Why don't yon age: with 9" a riveter snd break the record asked the first men. "Dou't you think ) 'Tears welled as she set out In search the plan a good ome!" ; of an orchard where she could pick "Qh, the pian is all right" replied fruit after Sjorberg told her she would Ms hardly do as a riveter- tiem iz all co Call. | a recrulti country, Lacking sowie) Rooulesen. I Apt wlways these modern -- LE were = Rus- in stricted to the farthest wilds of sla and Biberia. To think of them mated 9 000,000 tons and ere are ort aronts Rrsnop wai lu luigiaation to, roles ture