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Make it a point to attend the Irish social on St. Patrick’s night. March 7, in the Presbyterian church at 8 o’clock. An enjoyable evening is promised and the ad- mission lee, 15o, goes towards buying comforts {or the soldiers. It is being arranged by live or six young ladies of that congrega- non. Those who go into spasms over the beautiful snow would have lots 0! chance on Friday and Sat- urday, when we enjoyed the heav- iest snowfall of the season. For- tunately, however, the “beautiful” was light and the train -service was but little interrupted. The country roads were rendered heavy in places and for a day or th the traffic was interfered with and some of the mail couriers had to abandon their trips. Pastor Russell was billed to speak at North Bay on Tuesday night. but the mayor instructed the police not to allow him, as he was informed his addresses were detrimental to recruiting The loyal people of Canada know their own business without instructions from Pastor Russell or any of his cult. We congratulate Mr. Cameron IslueKenzie on his marriage on Wednesday of last week to Miss Isabella Mearns, daughter of the late Matthew Mearns of Hampden. in the township of Normanby. Mr. MneKenzie has been engaged in hrming near Leduc, Alta, for the vast seven or eight years, and from what we are able to learn, he has been doing well. On Tuesday hat he left with his bride for his 'nmo in the west. We wish them all kind: 0! happineu. The recruiting has been hitting The Chronicle. and the capture of «me of our men last week may name us some annoyance and de- lay. If we wish to appear patriotic however, we must put up with the changed conditions and live in hope of better things in the near future. The first consideration is to win the war, and it our men are needed ‘1) the trenches worse than they are needei here, the trenches are the map» places (or them. In the meantime, we’ll have to. atmg- zie on u but we can, and our reader. will bear with on: item:- laritiea till the vacancy is filled. It isn’t an easy task for one man Live. Hogs are $10 to-day. the highest price we ever quoted so far as memory. serves. On one nccasion they were $9.75. and the ten dollar mark was eXpected. but we don’t think the amount was ever paid during the papt nineteen \‘PII I‘S. Calder’s hall on Saturday, March 25. Ice cream and light refresh- ments will be served. Donations of baking, cream, butter and eggs are requelted. 2 tn do the work of two or three, and the shortage 0! help will ex- 4 ‘ thn cause 0! délay or other detects in getting out on: work. We have arranged with a coun- ter check book concern and can supply all needs on short notice. See our samples and we’ll do the. rest. We guarantee satisfaction at right prices. The Red Cross Society will hold a sale or home-made baking in Arthur E. Jackson has been ap- pointed agent for the Canadian Northern Railway. Parties going west should see him before buyâ€"- in: tickets. tm30 Pte. J. H. Mellraith, training in Toronto with the 124th Battalion, is down with pneumonia. and is now in the hospital. Don’t torget the date of the Spring Millinery Openings, March filst. 22nd and 23rd.-â€"Mrs. T. H. MoClocklin. Wanteaâ€"At once, two housemaids [or Ontario Agriculture Collegz‘a Guelph. Apply to matron. 3 It is reported that German 1033-- es in the Verdun battle were 200,- 000 and the French losses 40,000. Mr. Herbert Wilkinson 0! Ed- monton, wlll accept thanks 'tor renewal subscription. NEWS AROUND TOWN This is horse lair day. V( )L. 49â€"NO. 2560 The town hall is not nearly large enough to accommodate all who would like to attend a Sun- day evening recruiting meeting. There were many unable to get in last Sunday night to hear the ad- dresses of the khaki-clad clergy- men who were present here with the boys from the 147th Grey County Battalion. We say many were unable to gain admittance. We think we would be safe in say- ing that hundreds were turned away. ' Mr. S. J. Parker, the veteran treasurer of the County of Grey, is seriously ill at his home ’in Owen Sound. A few days age he receiv- ed a slight stroke of paralysis. which. in all probability will con- fine him to his home for atlme. He is a brother of the late Hen- ry Parker so well and favorably remembered by residents of this town and vicinity. In order to re-organize and put in shape the Durham branch 0! the Patriotic League, and to impress vmm the members a fuller know- ledge of its significance and dut- ies. a meeting is called for Friday night next at 8 o’clock in the public library. As there is a great deal of important work in connec- tion with the league. it is of the ut- most importance that it should be well officered. A full attandance is requestedâ€"Friday evening at 8 o’clockâ€"in the public library. Litigation entered by the Board “ (‘nntrol against the Toronto Street. Railway Company for overcrowding has been dropped owing to the difficulties in se- curing men to handle the service. General Manager Fleming told the board of the company’s handicap for want of men since the com- mencment of thy war, and says conditions are getting worse in- stead of better. At the same time he says the company is giving ev- ery encouragement to men physi- cally (it to enlist. believing their services to be needed in the trenches, regardless of diflicul- ties the c'ompany may eXperience. There are fifty earl idle for want of men to man them. This, it. part, shomdflfieulflutobemetinthe One of the first recruits that Col. McDougall got for his Forestry Battalion, which is being recruited at Ottawa, was Sir MacKenzie Howell. a former prime minister of Canada, and the oldest parlia- mentarian. He is only .02 years of age. but says he would like to he a brine-corporal. He is an old 301- dier and became Colonel of the mth Regiment. One of the oldest and most famous of the Six Nation Indian women, Wife of Wm. K. Loft, died at Brantford in her 80th year. She was the aunt of Pauline Johnson, the Indian poetess, and sister of Dr. Oronhyatekha, who was in- strumental in founding the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters. All are invited to attend the Surfing, minim”? opening at tbei Hat Shop, first door north of the-' post office, on Friday and Satm- (1m. March 17 and 18. â€"M. A Lat- imvn labor problem. If you need counter check books see our samples and leave your order. No need buying from out- siders when(you can get them as good and as cheap right at home. All interested in Red Cross work are requested to save rags, rub- bers. papers, and magazines until called for by Red Cross workers. These are to be sold to raise funds. 2 Lostâ€"A gold tie pin bearing the initials “W. B.” Finder will be re- warded by leaving it at The Chronicle office. Mr. S. McIntyre, who bought the W. Black hardware stock, opened up for business on Saturday and is now getting in full swing. Persons in need of monuments will make no mistake if they call on 'W. J. McFadden to get descrip- tions and prices before buying. 3t Boarders wantedâ€"Good board and comfortable accommodation will be provided at reasonable costâ€"Apply at The Chronicle. l o I Yesterday, at 12. 30 a quiet Wedding was solemnized at the home of Mrs. George Wilson, when her daughter, Miss Ida, was united (in marriage to (Mr. William Buc- han. Mr. Whaley was the officia- ting clergyman and performed the matrimonial ceremony in the pre- sence of only immediate friends. The. young couple left on the afternoon G.T.R. train to spend a brief honeymoon in Clinton and other places. “’0 join the com- munity in extending congratula- tions. The plant of the Renfrew Mach- inery Company of which Frank Vickers is the manager, was com- pletely destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The fire is said to he of mysterious origin, spread raâ€" pidly, and several workman had narrow escapes for their lives. The loss is estimated at $100,000 in addition to several important shipments ready to be sent away. This is the second fire within a week, the plant of the O’Brien Munitions Limited having been damaged last week to the extent of $100,000. Two men, who said they were Germans from Berlin. Ontario, appeared in the police court on suspicion of implication in an attempt to destroy amuni- tions plant on Sunday night. A Berlin despatch said the m n. Bartscher and Zenkir were t :‘known there. The recruiting officers that were here on Sunday, were a cheery lot of men, and none of them for a moment would think of letting a hint drop to show sorrow [or making a sacrifice. One of them went so far as to say it was no sacrifice but a plain duty he was rendering to his country. Mr. Spencer struck a very responsive chord when he expressed pleas- ure in the thought of being killed in battle, I rather than be _ 7 found 7 amongst be found amongst the shirkers when the boys re- turned with victory on their ban- ners. We have all to make sacri- fices of some sort, but there is no use in tiring the peopie by always whining about them. The fancy dress carnival in the rink on Friday evening was a most enjoyable affair, though the crowd was by no means a large one. A hockey match between the “colored mammies,” and the “white hOpes,” was, as far as we could tell, won by both teams, and was much enjoyed. The prizes for costumes. some of which were ex- ceptionally good, was the next on the program, and was followed by the racing events. Besides these a full measure of skating was en- ioyed by those attending. \‘IU\ “uni-V -- Grey County has a special in- ‘. meeting the situation, It was gen- terest in Seymour Eaton, editor of orally recognized at the meeting “Vogue.” and “Vanity Fair,” who that the subscription price of the died yesterday in New York, bc- local weeklies and semi-weeklies cause he was 3 native 0‘ the is .entirelv too low and that an county, being the son of the late increase rhust be made in order to Francis Eaton, of St. Vincent. Bis keep the publications up to their mother still resides near Meaford. standard. Not only has the cost and a brother, ex-Reeve John of publishing increased but ad- Eato‘n, and a nephew, Ewart J. vertising‘ revenue has fallen off Creeper. of Owen Sound, are other 4 generally. since the war started relatives. Mr. Eaton was, be'sidcsgzmd'from figures submitted by being a noted journalist and wri- ;' the publishers present it was dem- ter, the originator of the famous ‘ onstrated that the subscribers are teddy-bear toy. He taught school i not hearing their cost of prodLC- for seven years in Euphrasia, and ' tion An increase to $1.50 ayear afterwards founded the Winnipeg g was'favored, and a resolution Was Business College before going to l massed to this effect, although the States. where he was engaged i definite action was not taken. and on various papers. J the increase will probably be made The nlant of the anfer Mach- 3 individually by the _,v|1_Ԥ136h£1Ԥ,}‘ In speaking of the temperance demonstration in Toronto llSl week, The Mt. Forest Representa- tive says; “The only one from this vicinity who happened to get into the melee was Mr. W. L. Falkingham, of Orchard, whose face was cut with some ice thrown by one, of the rowdies.” It takes an Artful Dodger to get into com- pany of that sort and come out of it safe. A case of whiskey, consigned to Wm. Wiggins was seized at the G. T. R. station recently, and the matter was tried on Saturday be- fore Magistrates Laidlaw and Ritchie, but as the consignee swore the liquor was for his own use the action was dismissed. Major G. H. Musgrove, of Ban- over, Who returned a few weeks ago from England, where he spent nine months in the hospital as the result of wounds received last May at the battle of Eestubert has been ap ointed second in com- mand o the 162nd, (Parry Sound: Battalion, commanded by Lieut. Colonel James Arthurs, M,P. Rev. Mr. Ashton, from Camboro. near Dunnville, has moved with his family to cake charge of the Bentinck and Glenelg Baptist churches, as successor to Rev. Mr. Barclay, who is now stationed at Spring Bay, Manitoulin Island. Dr. Hutton has been appointed Associate Coroner for the County of Grey. Dr. W. T. Little. of Flesherton, left last week to fill a position in th ‘ Army Medical Corps. He had been in Flesherton for the past fourteen or fifteen months, and is said to have worked up a good practice. William Shakespeare. the great dramatist died on the 23rd of April 1616. and the tercentenary of his death occurs on Thursdax of next Week. DURHAM, ONT. THURSDAY. MARCH 16. [916 A meeting of the newspaper publishers of the county of Grey and some of the adjoining towns in Bruce, was held in the Board of Trade rooms, Owen Sound, last week, to discuss the present ser- ious situation on account of the heavy increase in paper and stock and other materials. The publish- ers have been face to face with a ciontinual increase in the cost of production of their newspapers ever since the opening of the war. and the meeting was called for a discussion of the best means of meeting the situation, It was gen- erally recognized at the meeting that the subscription price of the local weeklies and semi-weeklies is entirely too low and that an increase must he made in order to keep the publications up to their standard. Not only has the cost of publishing increased but ad- vertising revenue has fallen off generally, since the war started and from figures submitted by the publishers present it was dem- onstrated that the subscribers are not bearing their cost of produc- tion. An increase to $1.59 ayear t ll hula Lilllo Some ten or twelve wrist watch- es were presented to the boys who l‘ad not been previously recogniz- ed and at the close the ladies of the Red Cross presented each With a parcel containing a shirt and a couple of pairs of socks. Mr. W. Calder spoke at the close 0“ the meeting, expressing his in- tention to donate to each a khaki testament, as he had ’ormerly do! with the other recruits. The latest returns from the re- ferendum vote in Manitoba gives the temperance forces a majority of nearly 25,000. The Tribune, 0! Winnipeg in commenting on the result, says ;â€"“The sword cleft to the marrow in this province. It struck a blow for emancipation from an evil that has Wrecked its tens of thousands in our own city and province.” The Winnipeg Telegram says, “Politics had noth- ing to do with the result, and the decision is untrammeled by ex- ternal considerations.” At the mass meeting, Dr. Jamie- son acted as chairman and each of the four clergymen delivered short addresses. In addition, there were a number of patriotic choruses by some seven or eight of the best male voices, including Mr. Mistelf’. the new manager of the Royal Bank, Whose first appearance be- fore a Durham audience left a verv favorable impression. At the close of the mass meeting Mr. Roy Vickers, and a young lad named Cunningham, signified their willingness to enlist and Were callâ€"i ed to the platform amid much en- tthiasm. _ . lllu‘v l‘uucu.’ â€".Y _ an early date. Mr. W. E. Smallâ€" held, president of the Canadian Press Association, and editor of the Renfrew Mercury. was present at the meeting and conferred With the publishers. I.â€" The. soldier boys were in town? from Saturday morning until Mon-t day ex ening. They left Owne Sound on the morning train and on arrival at Saugeen Junction the Walkerton train ran them oven here, where they arrived between f nine and ten o’clock. They were' not generally eXpeeted here till the arrival of the regular train at noon, and the first intimation we had was when the forty-fixe boys in uniform were on Garafraxa street in a peaceful march tow-. ards the Middaug h House. Soon they were disbanded and all were! free for the time to o where they' pleased, but with or ers to reâ€"i assemble again at halt-past one. 1 L” ['0 auu LI 1‘, I‘lluu“- -v ...___.7 call and don the khaki will militate against all who fail to respond when the war is over. ‘ 1' Amongst them were three uni- formed clergymen, who were to take part in the church services on Sunday evening and afterwards in a mass meeting in the town hall. Major Ardill, of the Angli- can church, Owen Sound, is chapâ€" lain of the Met Regiment, and on Sunday preached in Trinity church, both morning and evening Though somewhat up in years, and not in uniform, he is full of spirit and his sermon in the even- ing partook largely of a recruiting nature. II“- -"v. . O Rev. Mr. Spencer, who resigned his position as pastor of Meafnrdf Methodist .cerch, preached a' very acceptable sermon in they Methodist church on Sunday even-i ing and showed mLch earnestness and .entthiasm as a recruiting agent. Rev. Mr. Kerr, formerly, pastor of the Baptist cerch inl Flesherton, preached in the Pres- byterian church and Rev. Mr.‘ Proudfoot, formerly Baptist min-3+ ister at Leith, was the officiating! clergyman in the Baptist church; All four clergymen were enthusi-! asts for recruits and the day’s ser- vices will produce fruit in due time. The call for men is impera-f tive. and the refusal to answer tha‘ 4'... “33.9%” +4-4- .g. «M C "int-W K DURHAM’S SOLDIERS SPENT THE WEEK END AT HOME INCREASE To 31 50 LIKELY: ‘ ‘ ‘ :ibgibéhbébv; Ev oirbvrbv bEDDEDDy I +++++++++++++++++++++++++.§+++++9+++t++9+++++++++++; v p b DDDDPPDDDDD‘DPDDDDD DD D :DDDDDPEEDPPbDD'DDDO A Grand Display of Cloth- ing for Men, Youths and Boys Overcoats Suits J. 8: J. HUNTER Every garment in our showing of Clothing is made from best mater- Trousers Knickers Bloomer Pants an easy matter to satisfy individual tastes. 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