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CORE $4. 50 2. 25 1.15 18, 1917. icher $5.00 ic Hand Slgns, 1n '8, havinor reat deal u nlight dc from or Pastry use black. Profits )I 1.00 .25 .25 Detectives Guthrie and NurseY courageously volunteered to take the offending article into custody, and with every precaution, took it 110 tenderly and conveyed it to the police headquarters. On re- moving the' cork, they found it contained nothing more dangerous than water, and 'their fears all subsided. What a change, when the Toronto civic officials go into hysterics o‘er the sight of a Whiskey bottle! , A Whiskey bottle found stand- ing close against a wall in acor- ridor leading to a suite of rooms in the Toronto city hall, caused a suspicion that a German bomb act Was about to be perpetrated, The civic officials were notified, but thinking it might be an infer- nal machine, refused to touch, taste or handle the deadly Weapon. The Durham branch of the W0- men’s Institute Will hold their monthly meeting in the public li- En'ary on Thursday, Ferbuary 1. at .3 mm. Mrs. Ramage Will give a paper on past and present condi- iions in the war zone, and Mrs. ,l‘.<.»bt. Webber a demonstration on home dressmaking. Question draw- er. All welcome. true An anti-saloon bill, proposing state-wide prohibition in-Illinois in 1918, through a referendum, was introduced in both houses of the Illinois General Assembly. The bill proposes to prohibit the man- ufacture and sale of intoxicants throughout the state. A box social Will beheld in A1- Ian’s school, Egrenfont, on Wed- nesday, January 31. Good program. Admission 25c., ladies bringing boxes, free. Proceeds-for Red Cross. Rev. Mr. Ibbott of Holstein Urea -hed very acceptable sermons in the Methodist church here on Sunday, morning and evening, and at Zion in the afternoon. Rev. Mr Moyer took his work at Hol- stein On Monday night a naval bat- tle is reported to have taken place in the North Sea. One report says from 12 to 17 German destroyers are said to have been sunk by the British. The report, which is un- confirmed, seems too good to be Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Scheuermann at St .Marys, formerly of this 01.: are mourning the loss of a little son, about a year and a Lial 01:1, Who died on Sunday last. The Methodist church Wili give a concert in the interests of Red Cross work in the town hall on the evening of February 6. Watch for programme. It Will interest you. At the recent civil service exam- ination, held at Toronto, Clarence C. Campbell, of the local post of- fice staff, was successful in pass- ing his preliminary examination for mail clerk. Mrs. A. E. Jorian and two chiid- ron, of Toronto, are home on a visit with her mother, Mrs. " W'ilkie. Thriving bakery business for sale â€"H. Burnett, Durham. 14tf Mr. Wm. Locheed and two girls, Edna and Myrtle, of Kelfic'xd, Sask, are Visiting with their aunt, Mrs. E. Wilkie. ' Red Sockeye Salmon, 5 tins for 51.00. Saturday only.â€"Beggs’ Sale. Harry Lauder, the noted Scot- tish entertainer, has invested $250,- 000 in the British War loan. Mr. and Mrs. E. M'. Carpenter of Buffalo are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Cox. We have some grocery bargains that will interest you. See our ad. on last page. Friends of Mrs. J. S. Davidson, who is nmv living in Harristo-., will be pleased to learn that she is well. The official majority for Mr. Allen, Conservative candidate in West Simcoe, is 635. See \Irs. A Beggs Son’s ad. on? Good Ontario lended Flour. last page of this issue. i$4.50. Saturday only.â€"Beggs’ Sale. Free! Free! 1001bs. Purity llour. Red Sockeye Salmon, 5 tins forisaturday only. Beggs’ Store ‘1 nn annrlqoxr nn‘xr _Domn'a7 Qn] Four pounds genuine black tea for $1.00.â€"Beggs’ Sale. VOL. 50â€"NC. 2604 N EWS AROUND TOWN ‘% ’4 \EE a? The Wiarton Canadian says the Ontario Temperance Act makes Deople sit up. From September 16 until last week it looked as if Wiarton had become the dryest spot on the map. The sight of a drunken man had bcome a thing of the past, but suddenly John Barleycorn made his appearance, and the police court, which had~ almost become a defunct institu- tion, was given some work, with the result that a few individuals have a few odd dollars less than they had a week ago. The first of- fender had to pay $14 and: the next $10 and costs. Others pleaded guil- ty and paid the fines. Mr. George Twamlev, Writing inom Webb, Sash, reports himself and familv Well. Previous to writ- ing, on the 17th inst., they had a few days of the worst storm he has seen in the West; Stock, he says, is running out and a person would Wonder they don’t freeze, though sheltered by stacks. He puts his in at nights. He Wishes us and all enquiring friends ‘a pros- perous New Year. he bye-election in North- west Toronto on Monday resulted in a victory for McPherson, the Conservative candidate, by a ma- iority of 1,798 votes. The vote was light. totalling only 6,488, as com- pared with 10,085 in 1914. The to- tzil vote received by Mr. McPher- son was 4,143, and by his oppon- ent, Mr. Cane, 2,345. The Saugeen Red Cross held their sewing bee at the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth W'ilkie on Janu- ary 10. A collection. amounting to $5 was secured, together with three day shirts, two hOSpital shirts, eight pillow cases and three pairs of socks. A box social and concert in the interest of the Patriotic Fund will be held in tne {I‘ownsend’s Lake school on the evening of Friday February 2, 1917. Splendid pro- gram in preparation. Music sup- plied by Markdale talent, under the leadership of Mr. J. H. Dundas. Admission 25c., ladies with boxes, free. Rev. Mr. McLean of Hanover will conduct the preparatory service in the Presbyterian church to-morrow evening, and at the close, Mrs. Mitchell of Toronto, secretary of the Women’s Missionary Society. will deliver an address. The "Durham district branch of ti County of Grey Clerical Asso- ciation m-rt last Thursday in the public library for the purpose of completing the organization. Rev. Mr. VVhaley of Durham was ap- pointed president and Rev. Mr. Ibbott of Holstein, secretary. Toronto expects to raise $2,500,- 000 in a four days’ pairiatic cum- paig‘n now in progress. On the first day they raised considerabiy over a million and a quarter. House for sale.â€"Comfortable 6- roomed house, hard and soft wa- ter; large stable, pig pen and hen- house: on Bruce street, Durham. Apply to James Bogle. 18 30 Mr. Geo. Grier, Rosebank, Sask.. Will accept thanks for remittance and kindly good wishes. Invitations are out announcing the marriage on February 0, of Mr. Wm. Laidlaw of St. Marys, son 01" Mayor Laidlaw of this place, to Miss Ready of St. Marys. D. J. Izzard qf Port Elgin was elected Warden of the county of Bruce. Mrs. John Wilkinson and two children, of Mt. Forest, visited .1 few days with her sisters, Mrs. Thos. Davis, Mrs. S. T. Chapman, Mrs. Matthews, and other friends. Saturday onlyâ€"100 lbs. Purity Flour given away free to the one party buying the most goods for cash. Who will be the lucky (me?â€" Bcggs’ Store. House to rentâ€"Apply at this office. 1130 tf Sex-"en cakes Comfort Soap, Sat- urday, 25c.â€"Beggs’ Store. At the recruiting meeting on Tuesday night Rev. Mr. Marshall- Hawkins gave a graphic picture of the destruction caused by a zeppelin raid in London, England, at which he Was an eye-Witness. Though frightful in effect, it doesn’t seem to have damped the ardor of the British in the deter-. mination to win. We have a limited stock of ex- cellent note paper and envelopes to match. They are of high-priced material, but as no fancy boxes are to be paid for. the prices Will be‘found reasonable. Mr. Fred Lynn and little daugh- ter, Hazel, of Murillo, are here, after an absence of 14 years. They are visiting his sisters, Mrs. Ed. Burnett, of town, Mrs. C. Ru- dolph, of Hanovier, his brother, John. at Aberdeen, and. many relatives, friends and acQuain- tances at and around Allan Park. Mr. Thos. Allan. who has been West for a number of years, is visiting his mbther, and other rel- atives and friends around Varney. Buy your flour now. W'e are giv- ing you an opportunity to save money. Our ad. on page 8 explains. Mrs. A. Beggs Son, Durham. Captain McLurg on rising expressed his pleasure in seeing such a display of enthusiasm and didn’t see the necessity of help from Toronto or any- where else. An address from him after What he had heard seemed to be quite. unnecessary. It was a work of super- erogation. He told the audience his work connected chiefly with the hospital, and the address, calmly delivered and free from any attempt at strained oratory made a deep Miss Mary Smith is attending the Shaw commercial school, in Toronto. The following seven recruits have been secured here for the 24-8th Battalion: A. C. F. McGowan. N. Zimmer, A. M‘ulock, H. Ervin, R. Giles, E. R. Boyce, W. McIlvmide. For sale or to rentâ€"The prOper- ty known as M'cKechnie’s Mills, in the town of Durham. Everything ready to operate at once. For par- ticulars apply to G. J. McKeché- nie. or J. P. Telford, their solicitor. _ Hides are 18c. 21 pound. Live hogs are $13.50 to-day. Lieut. Legarde was in Toronto ovter Sunday. The Dundalk Herald has raised the subscription price to $1.50 a year. The county council is in session this Week in Owen Sound and Reeve Calder is in attendance. Rev. Mr. Moyer was the first speaker, and made a. few pointed references to the magnitude of the task we are engaged and the necessity for; incregsed Bower and assistance. Rev. Mr. Hawkins thought the existing condition of things required our most serious consideration and a straining of every effort to secure men, either by voluntary service or by conscription. If conscription should come he hoped the Clergy should be included. He, saw no reason why they should be exempt. He had himself applied for positions in the service and recently learned of his acceptance in London England and as' soon as called on would engage in training. His address was pointed and delivered with intense earnestness. Rev. Mr. W haley made 2t telling address. Recruits are necessary and, must be swured, either by voluntary enlistment, enlistment as the result of persuasion, or lastly by conscription. To him it seemed that the time was past to secure volunteers, and con- scription would soon have to be re- sorted to. He would enlarge on the conscription idea, so as to include not only the conscription of men for service but the conscription of wealth, and labor for rxnilitary requirements. A patriotlc meeting to stimulate recruiting was held in the hall Tues- day evening when addresses were de- livered by three of the local clergymen, Rev. Mr. Ibbott, of Holstein. Captain McLurg. of Toronto, and Col. 3. Hilliard Rorke. Commanding Ofl'icer of the 248th Grey Battalion. The musical part of the program was well sustained by a number of male voices, and consisted of a duet by Messrs Mistele and Harding. a solo by Mr. Buschlen. and a quartette by Messrs. Telford. Harding. Mistele and Busch- len. with Miss Rita Irwin as accomp- anist. Mr. J. P. Telford was in the chair in the unavoidable absence of Mayor Laidlnw. Rev. Mr. Ibbott. of Holsteindeliver-j ed (1. brief, but forceful address andi appealed to all pligible young men 1305 don the Khaki in defence of the' world’s heedom. He felt 11: was the; dutyof evezy young man to render W11 1t assist 1nce he could in blinging; the wax to :1 successful lssue. RECRUITING FOR 248th BATT. NOW ON IN EARNEST DURHAM. ONT. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, [0| I He referred to “the. “Thousand League” an organization being formed to facilitate recruiting by which each ;one signing the pledge would secure i one recruit, if possible. before the I fix st of March. The address was plain iand pointed, and at the close of the I meeting, two young men accepted the I invitation to don the Khaki and do Iservice for their King and Country. ; The volunteers were two likely young 1 men and nothing in the Whole meet- ing brought forth such an OVution. It ! is truly a grand sight to see a. young Q man surrender himself voluntarily to f the service of his King and Country. l These young men and all who have ? gone before them are deserving of the 'highest encomiusm, and in order to i win the war speedily we hope the ‘nohle example they have set way be ; iollowed by others in sufficient. ; numbers. The young men who enlisted g were Ronald Giles and Ed. R. Boyce. Engineer Ross, of Sarnia, Fire- man Chas. Farner, of Sarnia, and Patrick J. Hickey, signal operator, of Toronto, were placed under ar- rest, and claim they have been warned by railway officials to positively refuse to make state- " “‘5. --.L .3 u it took half an hour to jack up the tender so as to 9xtricate the boilieg‘of Macdonald and Lewarn. He was pinned beneath the rear axle of'the tender, and death must have been almost instantaneous. gnank Leyarn was _similarly pinn- On Sunday night, as a troop train bearing 500 soldirs was pull- ing out of the Union Station, '1...» onto,~bound for the east, a seri- ous and fatal accident occurred .21; which Col. Wm. Campbell Macdon- and lost his life, and four others were seriously injured. Col. Mac- ;ionald was a Brigadier, attached to the Headquarters Staff at me Exhibition Camp, a'nd was manag- ing director of the Confederation Life Association. He was 60 years of age, and Was killed by a pass- ing light engine. ‘ Ld in, and sustained serious injur- '.~-s in the back and internally. Among the three others who were seriously injured, was Isaac B. Lucas, son of Hon. '1. B. Lucas, who was bruised about the hip and head. Mayor LaidlaW was chairman, and 1n his opening gddress 1.. eulogized the Red Cross movement and paid a high tribute to the faithful Work that was done by the women of Durham and Vicimty. Up to a few months ago, the supplies were sufficient to meet the demands, but of late there has been a falling off, and the amount on hand at the present was only sufficient for a few weeks. He hOped for increased ac- tivities and greater liberality, and advised the formation of a socie- ty here. properly affiliated with the Red Cross organization. FATAL ACCIDENT AT TORONTO UNION STATION Col. Rorke, Commanding Officer. is a, comparatively young man. born in Thorn bury, son of Captain Rorke. ln speaking he prefaced his address by saying he had his first military train- ing under 001. Telford, of Owen Sound; the last man he swore in at Owen Sound before coming here was a son and the chairman at this meeting is a brother of his first Oom- manding Officer. He emphasized the duty of the people of Gray to aid the 147th by recruiting men to fill up the gaps that would be made by the wast- age of war. Of the five million men now in the British Army the natural wastage would thoroughly annihilate them in a few months if not kept up _by vigorous reeruiting: One of the great needs is s fo_r_ the boys_ in the trenches. Canada was doing a large amount of Red Cross Work, and is still at Work sending in large quantities of supplies and com- forts. The society has a wide and growing field for its activities, and comforts from Canada have not only been sent to Canadian hospi- tals and convalescent homes, but have at times been sent to aid the French hospitals. We have now in England and elsewhere about 150 hospitals for the treatment 01 Canadians: besides this, the convaleScent institutions need to be provided for. An interesting and instructive address on Red Cross work was given Monday night by Mr. Dal- ton of Toronto. The constitution of the society, he told the audi- ence, fixed, its requirements at relieving the sick and Wounded and providing comforts [or the prisoners of War. He did not pro- pose to give a history of the origin, growth and development of the society, but to give some idea of the Work they have been doing since the beginning of the crest crisis that now disturbs the v» hole world. impression~ on an attengve audience. RED CROSS MEETING ‘25ka SOCKS q , '"VWWMO VVVVVWV" va ggJ. am. HUNTER WMM+++++4°N++++6++++4 *Wfii‘éiflmfi Stanfield’s Unshrinkable Underwear STAN FI ELD’S Unshrinkable Underwear is severely tested in the laundry before leaving the factory, and is positively guaran- teed not to shrink. Also, ha'Ving been subjected to a special purify- ing process, terminating with a washing in distilled water, Stan- field’s Unshrinkable Underwear is warranted to be absolutely pure, clean and sanitary. 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