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her 18th, 1917. before the ;below cost he sure to uwe advise ENGINE MPANY Ir Dav) {Grains TORONTO 000009.999”. 0111 Chap 3ken Corn as for Horses I] t" .18 00nd 1 Quantities 000090.. N” ethe dthe ufing the nor Ontario d Drafts are i payable in apest '99099 09”.“ FLEMING. Principu 11W- TIME ills U kmds n it ash and 121!) You pay for and smaller Write or call on 95 in Com- :duates are hop 11‘10 an} ims been received of th“ " .' \irs. Lindsay. at Luther. ~11 the 14th of August last. was the second youngest fi‘~'le?rer «it the late Duncan Camp- “? Bentinck. in which town- \ \rnv she was born on July 7th, 1347- 53!“ was married to the late Robert Lindsay. also of Grey County.- and t them were born eight children, Iour of whom survive, two sons and N0 daughters, all residing in Mi- chigan. A sister, Mrs. T. R. Smith, of -\\'innipeg, is the only surviving member of a family of eight. Mrs. Lindsay possessed a true Christian Character, and was a regular at- tendant of the Disciple church for the past twenty years. ' homP In five W TRAVERSTON. There‘s a lot of folk who wouid like some balmy, sunny days, to raise their potatoes, and October is slipping by. 311‘. and Mrs. R. T. Cook Visitei Kindred at Ceylon on Sunday; Mr. {”111 Mrs. Stewart McNally at ‘chle .Mm' Mills’, in Sullivan; and Mr. A. <1}. Blair at Grandpa Reid’s, in Markdale. Miss Mina Cook, (.f Levering, Mich., accompanied him In five days of last week, the 0’- {eil Bros. threshed the season’s wp in nine barns on the 6th con. 11 three of them, they averaged .-ar1y 200 bushels per hour. They :ill stop threshing fora day, ‘0 ll A. (i. Blair‘s tall silo, this week. 1m“. Mr. King. of Elmwood, is to lke charge of the service in Zion ext Sunday. “'0 are greatly pleased to report [#‘l'll 'l'immins as recovering rap- llv from his recent severe illness. Mr. clhus. McClocklin lost a horse Saturday from distemper. ’Tis mmsuzil thing at this season Cf . A lilii‘S belong to the Women's In- ute. The boxes are to be ready Nrwember 8th, and be handed m the President, our better half, or Miss M. F... Robson. Secretary. :5 Lizzie BIC-Arthur read a good [ch of “Tecumseh, the Loyal ton": Miss Varty, of Barrhead 19. gave two choice recitations. MoArthur and daughters Thursday, October 18th, 1917. ll ("it‘d 58VBI help 15 also 0 an Hf p10 .lis neigt quite a 14 k is doing mment V ’rvshvteri \V mtory 56 :1t 3 O‘Cl‘ uld Cam riceville s in the 1-.) ...... tart and McLean's sale of 100 on Saturday last, was very ~t‘ul. cattle going high. Auc- _- McPhail did the calling otf. Dan McDougall of the west, rmerly of Bentinck. gave us z-lly visit one day last week. looking after his afiairs con- with his farm in Bentinck. ring his big barn burned rc- hy lightning. He has one the front for a long time, daughter is a nurse at. the She was as far as Egypt, her duties called her to go. . a number of the young men ‘ Suing to Owen Sound this 0 get, examined as to their for soldiers. Red Cross ladies are always ns Surnewhat unfortunate for" cal Women‘s Institute that moshing machines were busy 2 Iltiéighi'mrhood 0n ThuI‘Sday mt. tiespite this drawback. 113' number met at the fine ni‘ Mrs. Colin McArthur, and V. piw"»titahle time was spent. :u'e twenty soldier boys 0v- nn their list, to Whom they in send boxes for Christmas, r-neml request is made to the in the Vicinity for One, two rt- families to club together i'lp in till a box, as funds in msury are low, and not '20 x: belone to the Women's In- ANNIE C. LINDSAY. Tl 11111( \Vallm nelgnnor; t. despite ' number ‘ Mrs. Cc [pi‘flfltab] rd Cross ladies are always to their meetings, in pro- mething for the poor boys W :met Livingston of N0. 6, 'allaco of N0. 5, Miss F. '1'). of Sep. N0. 7, and Mr. 21. nf SOD. No. 5, teachers, at- he: mmention in Hanover sduy and Friday of last, (1 ropor‘t most profitabie PRICEVILLE. lOSi cold and Very f cw. )tatoes, and very small done as yet There is Miss laud Richardson is in Torâ€" onto this week, visiting her broth- er and sister. Mr. Bert Best. who has been em- ployed at. Collingwood recently, has moved his family to reside there. Mrs. D. McTavish returned on Saturday from an extended visa with her sons at Regina, and with friends at other points. Mrs. G. Haskett of Markdale is spending a few days with her un- cle, Mr. M. K. Richardson. Mr. J. J. McKnight and family motored from Tottenham last Week and paid Rev. and Mrs. Belfry a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Spiller, of Toronto, are visiting for a few days at Mr, F. G. Karstedt’s. Rev. Mr. Dinnick was the Speak- er on Monday evening at the misâ€" sionary meeting of the Methodist Young People‘s Society. Mr. Henry Holman of Toronto has been on an extended visit with his mother and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Fisher are visâ€" iting their daughter at London. E Mr. Robt. Genoe, a lifelong resiâ€" ‘dent of Artemesia, died at his home :near Eugenia on Sunday, after but a brief illness with blood-poisoning which cleveIOped from a prick in his hand. The funeral will take place to Flesherton cemetery on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased, who was 66 years of age, leaves a wife. three sons, Herbert. Frances and Lewis, and one daughter, Mrs. Lou Teeter. Mrs. J. H. Jamieson received word on Monday of the death at Blind River, of her niece, Miss Nellie Bradbury. daughter of Mr. John Bradbury. J. P., a former res. ident. of Artemesia. Miss Brad- bury was a very highly esteemed young woman, a beautiful Christ- ian character, whose life was filled with ministration of good deeds. A trio of young ladies here, who have taken to the saddle for exer- cise, enjoyed a center to the hydro power-house on Saturday, and 071 their return were exultant in their praises of the beautiful autunm scenery in the valley. Canada have been going through the past three years. The war will bec'ome more of a reality when We begin getting our list of the wounded and killed. The United States seem to be going at it a lit-- tle slow, but. it is a great task to mobilize such a great army, and also to send proxisions to our Eu- ropean allies. “ A friend. writing us from the 1f nited States, referring to the war. says: “Our people are just starting to realize what you 3*1 flight, school girls of the Village sold flags on fair day here, and renliznd $47 for the Children’s Aid Society. Miss Dell Thurston has purchas- ed a fine new Mason and Risch pi- zmn, and the trustees of the high schuul 112m) put in a new instru- ment in the scheol. Mr. \\'. L. \Vright has sold part. of his'farm, 120 acres, on the west, back line, to Mr. Chas. Stafford. who will move in the spring from the 4th line. and his bl‘OthBI‘ will return to the farm vacated by him. Mr. Bert Badgerow has rented the former Wellington Badgerow farm on the 4th line, and is now (10ng fall plcmghing. MP. Thus. (3911043. ‘z'um‘ 0n the Snell farm, west, back line, has bought. MP. Gee. McKenzie’S farm near C¢_>y1<;‘>n, to which he W111 move in March. Mr. McKenzie has purchased a residence at Ceylon. About thirty of Mrs. (Dr.) Mur- ray’s former pupils in the primary room of the public school assem- bled at her home one evening last week and gave her a genuine sur- prise, presenting her with a beau- tiful pearl-handled cake knife as a token of their love and esteem. Mrs. Murray pleasingly thanked her young friends for their appre- A good program by local talent was rendered and addresses were given by Revs. Belfry and McVicar, of Flesherton, and Rev. Mr. Forth, of Maxwell. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Dinniok, presided. ankâ€" Thompson homestead, ad- joining his own farm. Possession in tho spring. ciated gift and token of goodwill, after which the girls served dainty refreshments, and a pleasant hour was spent. Mt. Zion Methodist church held an anniversary entertainment on Wednesday evening of last week at which a enjoyable time was spent. Pte. W. G. Thompson, our ne- phew, who enlisted in the west, has been reported wounded in France, to relatives at Portlaw, Where he was born, the eldestson of ex- Councillor George Thompson. Mr. W. H. McNally, near Portlaw has purchased from Mrs. Jerry Thompson of Ctfllingwood, the old FLESHBRTON. Mr. J. Bowler, and Miss Wilda Crossley, of Toronto, paid a shor visit at the latter’s home last week. Mrs. W. A. Armstrong, Mrs. Hick- Iing, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Clinton and several members of the Mission Band. Went to Owen Sound on Tuesday to attend the district conâ€" vention of the W. M. S. Mr. J. A. Cairns, of Mactier, visit- (a) That it is expedient 1n the national interest that the man should; instead of being employ ed 1n military service, be engaged in other work 1n which he 15 habitually engaged; (b) That it is expedient 1n the national interest that the man should, instead of being employ ed in military service, be engaged In other work in whichb he wishes to be engaged and for which he has special qualifications , (c) That it is expedient in the national interest that, instead of being employed in military service, he should continue to be educated or trained for any work for which he is then being educated or trained; (d) That serious hardship would ensue, if the man were placed on active service, owing to his exceptional financial or business obligations or domestic position ; (e) Ill health or infirmity; (f) That he conscientiously objects to the undertaking of combatant service, and 18 prohibited from so doing by the tenets and articles offaith 1n efl‘eet on the sixth day ofJuly, 1917, ofany organized religious denomination existing and well recognized in Canada at such date, and to which he 1n good faith belongs; And that if any of the grounds of such application be established, acertifleateofexemptionshallbegrantedtosuchman. ‘K 7' it is also provided by the said Act that at And hercas any time before a date to be fixed by proclamation an application may be made, by or in respect of any man in the class to be called out, to one of our local tribunals, established in the manner provided by the said Act in the province in which such man ordinarily resides, for a certificate of exemption from service upon any of the following And W hcrcas it is moreover DTOVidCd by our said Military Service Act that our Governor-General of Canada in Council may from time to time by proclamation call out on active service as aforesaid any class of men in the said Act described, and that all men within the class so called out shall, from the date of such proclamation, be deemed to be soldiers enlisted in the military service of Canada and subject to military law, save as in the said Act otherwise provided ; and that the men so called out shall report and shall be placed on active service in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as may be set out in such proclamation or in regulations ; but that they shall, until so placed on active service, be deemed to be on leave of absence without pay ; And VV hCrcaS the men who are, under the provisions of the said last mentioned Act, liable to be called out, are comprised in six classes of which Class 1 is, by the provisions of the said Act, defined to consist of all our male subjects, ordinarily, or at any time since the 4th day of August, 1914, resident in Canada, who have attained the age of twenty years, who were born not earlier than the year 1883, and were on the 6th day of July, 1917, unmarried, or are widowers but have no child, and who are not within any of the following enumerated _ _. __ '_ ~J ‘Inv said Act shall be liable to be called out on active serGice in our Canadian Expeditionary Force for the defence of Canada, either within or beyond Canada; and {that his service shall be for the duration of the present war and demobilization after the conclusion of the war ; And Whereas it is accordingly enacted in and by the provisions of an Act of our Parliament of Canada, holden in the 7th and 8th years of our reign, and known as the Military Service Act, 1917, that every one of our male subjects who comes within one of the classes ‘described and intended by the II I 1' And ‘7‘] h CreaS that part of our militia of Canada known as the Canadian Expeditionary Force is now engaged in active service overseas for the defence and security of Canada, the preservation of our Empire and of human liberty ; and it is necessary owing to the emergencies of the war to provide re- enforcements for our said Expeditionary Force in addition to those whose inclination or circumstances have permitted them to [volun- teer ; And ‘7‘] h CrCaS by reason of the large number of men who have already left agricultural and indus- trial pursuits in our Dominion of Canada in order to join our Expedi- tionary Force as volunteers, and by reason of the necessity of main- taining under these conditions the productiveness or output of agri- culture and industry in our said Dominion, we have determined by and with the advice and consent of our Senate and House of Com- mons of Canada that it is expedient to secure the men so required, not by ballot as provided by our said Militia Act, but by selective draft ; such re-enforcement, under the provisions of the Military Service Act, 1917, hereinafter referred to, not to exceed one hundred thousand men ; yond Canada for the defenee thereof; at any tixneiyvhe’nfi it appears advisable so to do by reason of emergency; GEORGE the FIFTH, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions be- yond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. To all to Whom these presents shall come, or Whom the same may in anywise concernâ€"GREETING: A Proclamation calling out the men comprised 111 Class 1 as described by the : Military Service Act, 1917. - [L.S.] 1. Members of our regular, or reserve, or auxiliary forces, as defined by our Army Act. The Deputy Minister of Justice; Canada â€"vâ€"v-- v-.. van-b .g. V“. o‘VJ MA AVHVJ’ VA AAA vw L\VJ (1L AVLQLLLLCD’ U1 ‘1‘ our Naval Service of Canada, and members of our Canadian Expeditionary Force. Men who have since August 4th, 1914, served in our Military or Naval Forces, or in those of our allies, in any theatre of actual war, and have been honourably discharged therefrom. Clergy, including members of any recognized order of an exclu- sively religious character, and ministers of all religious denomina- tions existing in Canada at the date of the passing of our said Military Service Act. Those persons exempted from military service by Order in Council of August 13th, 1873, and by Order in Council of Decem- ber 6th, 1898 ; any of our other dominions or by our Gov'ernment of Indié. Men serving in our Royal Navy, 01: in our Royal Marines, or i Mempers of Aour _mi1'§ta}ry forces raised by the Governments of GROUNDS OF EXEMPTION :- 133i DURHAM éfinofiidfifi. EXCEPTIONS :â€" Mrs. Geo. Herco of Regina, is Visiting her cousin, Mrs. G. Mitch- e11. Messrs. G. A. McTavish, J. M0?- rison, and Fred Karstedt, went [3 Owen Sound on Saturday for ex- and Frank Duncan. Herb Sullivan, Max Bannon and C. J. Bellamy went up on Monday. ed his family here on Saturday. HEREAS it is pro: vided by our Militia Act of Canada, Re- vised Statutes of Canada, 1906, chapter 41, Section 69, that our Governor- General of Can- ada in Council may place our Militia of Canada, or any part thereof, on active service any- where in Canada, and also be- CANADA The Red Cross sewing circle W1” meet next week at the home of Mrs. Robt. Hopkins. Mr. Wm. Petty is improving, af- ter a severe attack of erysipelas. SOUTH-EAST BBNeTINCK. Miss Margaret Mountain return- ed to Hamilton last week, after spending the last three months at her home here. Of all of which our loving subjects, and all others whom these presents may concern, are hereby required to take notice, rendering strict obedience to and compliance with all these our commands, directions and requirements, and governing themselves accordingly. And we do hereby moreover notify and inform our loving subjects who are within the class hereby called out, that if, on or before the 10th day of November, 1917, they report themselves for military service, or if, on or before that day, application for exemption from service be made by them or on their behalf, they will not be required to report for duty, or be placed upon active service as aforesaid, until a day, not earlier than the 10th day of December, 1917, which will, by our registrar for the province in which they reported or applied, be notified to them in writing by registered post at their respective addresses as given in their reports for service, or applications for ex- emption from service, or at such substituted addresses as they may have respectively signified to our said registrar; and we do hereby inform, forewarn and admonish the men belonging to the class hereby called out that if any of them shall, without just and sufficient cause, fail to report for duty at the time and place required by notice in writing so posted, or shall fail to report for duty as otherwise by law required, he shall be subject to the procedure, pains and penalties by law prescribed as against military descrters. ' ‘Kf We have caused these Out In TCStlmony hCICOf Letters to be made Pat- ent, and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto afl'ixed. WIT- NESS: Our Right Trusty and Right Entirely Beloved Cousin and Counsellor, Victor Christian William, Duke of Devonshire, Marquess of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, Baron Cavendish of Hardwieke, Baron Cavendish of Keighley, Knight of Our Most Noble Order of the Garter; One of Our Most Honourable Privy Council; Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Knight Grand Cross of Our Royal Victorian Order; Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Our Dominion of Canada. And we do further inform and notify our loving subjects that local tribunals have been established in convenient localities throughout our Dominion of Canada for the hearing of applications for exemption from service upon any of the statutory grounds, as hereinbefore set out; that these our local tribunals so established will begin to sit in the discharge of their duties on the 8th day of November, 1917, and that they will continue to sit from day to day thereafter, as may be necessary or convenient, at such times and places as shall be duly notified, until all applications for exemption from service shall have been heard and disposed of; also that men belonging to the class hereby called out who have not previously to the said 8th day of November, 1917, reported for service, or forwarded applications for exemption through any of our post offices as aforesaid, may make applications in person for exemption from service to any of our said tribunals on the 8th, 9th or 10th day of November, 1917. And we do hereby proclaim and announce that for the greater convenience of our subjects, we have directed that prescribed forms, for reporting for service, and for application for exemption from serv- ice, may, at any time on or before the said 10th day of November, 1917, be obtained at any post office in our Dominion of Canada; and that reports for service and applications for exemption from service, if obtained at any of our said post offices and properly executed, shall be forwarded by o_ur_postmaster at the post office from which the same v __â€" v- â€"â€" vâ€"- .â€"vâ€"- "n‘ are obtained to their proper destinatiohéias by our rogulafions pre- scribed, free of postage or any other _charge._ VV_____~â€"'â€"v vâ€"â€"vâ€"vv own! 5V Chi-(v.5 as aforesaid, shall thereby comm't an offence, for which he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years with hard labour, and he shall nevertheless, if we so require, be compelled to serve immediately in our said Expeditionary DA-AA And VV hcrcas it is further provided by our said Military from service shall be determined by our said local tribunals, subject to appeal as in the said Act provided, and that any man, by or in respect of whom an application for exemption from service is made, shall, so long as such application or any appeal in connection there- with is pending, and during the currency of any exemption granted him, be deemed to be on leave of absence without pay ; And ‘fifhcrcas our Governor-General of Canada in Council has determined to call out upon active service as aforesaid the men included in Class 1, as in the said Act and hereinbefore defined or described ; â€"‘ wâ€"v v“-- ‘7.qu _ *9 comprising the men in our said Military Service Act, 1917, and hereinbefore defined or described as to the said class belonging, on active service in our Canadian Expeditionary Force for the defence of Canada, either within or beyond Canada, as we may, in the command or direction of our Military Forces, hereafter order or direct. And we do hereby strictly command, require and enjoin that each man who is a member of the said class shall, on or before the 10th day of November, 1917, in the prescribed form and manner, report himself for military service,.unless application for his exemption shall then have been made by him or by another person entitled to apply on his behalf ; wherein our loving subjects, members of the said class, are especially charged not to fail since not only do their loyalty and allegiance require and impose the obligation of careful and implicit obedience to these our strict commands and injunctions, but more- over, lest our loving subjects should be ignorant of the consequences which will ensue if they fail to report within the time limited as afore- said, we do hereby forewarn and admonish them that any one who is hereby called out, and who without reasonable excuse fails to report as aforesaid. shall therebv comm't an 0mm”- Fnr urhinh 1.- arm“ k- Force. And Whereas mOfeOch it is enacted in and by the pro- visions of an Act of our Parliament 9f Canada holden in the 7th and 8th years of our reign and known as the War Time Elections Act that certain persons thereby disqualified from voting with such of their sons as on polling day are not of legal age, shall be exempt from combatant military and naval service ; Now Therefore Know Ye At Our Government House, in Our City of OTTAWA, this TWELFTH day of OCTOBER, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. and in the eighth year of Our Reign. Mr. Wm. Vollett took in Dundalk show last Friday and visited with friends there. Misses Bell and Margaret Petty, of Conn, and Meaford, respectively, were home «wor the week-end. Mrs. M-cElroy visited last week- end at Mr. C. Petty's. Under-Secem'yofm Read the Small Ads. on page '7. that we do hereby call gut_the ‘said Class 1,‘ Page 3.