DUFFERIN COUNTY  -   WORLD WAR I

Newspaper items of interest during World War One

News of 1916

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 1, Column 3
    District representative H. R. Hare of Halton County, has enlisted for overseas service.
    J. M. Dobie, associate editor of the Owen Sound Sun for the last three years, has joined the 147th Grey Battalion.
    Capt. James Moore, M.D., of Listowel, C.A.M.A. has been transferred to the 33rd Battalion to succeed the late Major A. V. Beecher.
    Lance Corporal Chas. Gillingham, of St. Thomas, invalided home, has been given an appointment by the Dominion Department of Labor.
    The soldiers training at Alliston received a Christmas remembrance from Mr. W. A. Boys, M.P., in the form of 50 packages of cigarettes.
    Arthur Cutten, of Chicago, formerly of Guelph, sent $500 to the Guelph Branch of the Red Cross Society, with his Christmas greeting.
    Lieut. (Dr.) R. L. Hutton has arrived at Brantford on sick leave, having spent eight months in hospital transport work at the Dardanelles.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 1, Column 4
    Rev. W. E. Hindson, of Guelph, has been recommended as Chaplain of the 153rd Wellington battalion.
    Dr. J. D. MacDonald, Liberal candidate for Muskoka, and Mayor H. E. Rice, of Huntsville, have been granted commissions in the new 122nd Battalion.
    Pte. David Upper, 110th Perth Battalion, died in Stratford General Hospital of blood poisoning resulting from a sliver in his finger. His father-in-law died the preceding Sunday and the funeral had not been held.
    Lance-Corpl. Geo. Clarke Duff, son of Hon. J. S. and Mrs. Duff of Cookstown, was married to Miss Elizabeth Kidd Drennan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. John Drennan, of Alliston, on Wednesday, December 22nd.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 1, Column 5
PROBABLY KILLED
Eye-Witness Says That Pte. Field Lost His Life at Hooge
Wife of English Soldier Lives in Mono Township.
    Letters which Mrs. Edith A. Field, of Glencross, have received seem to substantiate the fact of the death of her husband, Pte. Field of the British Army, concerning whose fate their has been a god deal of uncertainty since he disappeared last August.  One of the letters indicates that Field was probably killed at Hooge on Aug. 11th last. The letters to Mrs. Field read as follows:
                                Friday, Oct. 12th, 1915
1st Buffs,
    B.E.F.
Dear Mrs. Fields, --
    With reference to your letter to me about your husband.  I remember his being wounded rather badly and I gave him an opium pill because he was in considerable pain.  He was then lying in a dug-out close to several other wounded men. We shortly after had to leave this trench and the wounded, of which there were quite a lot, were left in charge of the stretcher bearers. I have made enquiries as to what happened after that and it appears all these wounded were moved to another trench preparatory to being taken right away.  After this there is no more trace of your husband or of eight other wounded men who were with him.  I am afraid that what very probably happened, is that they were all hit by a shell.  Our headquarters have your husband down as missing because there is no direct proof as to how he was killed.  There has been no trace in any hospital of him, which there would certainly have been if he had gone down wounded.  Also it is quite impossible that he can be a prisoner. I am therefore afraid that there cannot be the slightest doubt that he is dead.  I assure you personally that all possible attention was paid to the wounded then.
    There seem to have been various rumors with regard to your husband. I asked after him several times and was always told that he was in a hospital somewhere and slowly recovering.  I have questioned the men about this and no one knows how it arose, though they remember hearing it.  I believe that what I have told you are the real facts and am very sorry that I cannot tell you anything more definite.
                    Yours sincerely,
            P. Dangerfield, 2 St.,
                        M. G. O., 1st. Buffs.
                    10th December. 1915
Mrs. E. A. Field,
    Mono Centre, Ont.,
        Canada.
Dear Madam, --
    There is at present in the V.A.D. Hospital, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells, (Home address: 2 Princess Street, Richmond) a Pte. Hockliss, East Kent, who took part in the counter-attack made by the East Kents at Hooge on August 11th in the afternoon.  I regret to tell you that Pte. Hockliss states that all the bombers, of whom Pte. Field was one, were killed, with one exception, and he himself helped to bury Pte. Field that same day in a grave by himself.  Pte. Hockliss states that the death occurred in the Clearing Station very shortly after Pte. Field was hit.
    Of course such a single report should not be accepted without confirmation, even if it given by an eye-witness, but I feel sure you wish to write to Pte. Hockliss himself. We will continue our enquiries, and watch the German Prisoners' Lists for Private Field's name, if by a miracle he should still be alive.
    I remain with much sympathy,
                    Yours truly,
            G. G. BUCKLER
                for Sir Louis Mallet.           

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 3, Column 3
    "Melancthon Station" - James Sloan, Jr., has enlisted with the soldiers and is now on drill at Toronto.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 4, Column 3
THE WESTERN FRONT
Canadians in Northern France Experienced Beautiful Autumn Weather.
Interesting Extracts From Letters by Sergt. Ross Macpherson.
    The following interesting extracts are from letters written by Sergeant Ross Macpherson, who is with the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry in Northern France:-
Dear Mother : --
    This letter is unique among mine from France in that it is written in a hospital. My malady is mal de dents, and is not very severe at that. Part of a filling had broken out, upon reporting which yesterday morning I was ordered to take an ambulance at 10 o'clock.
    In my journey therein, yesterday, to a small hospital in a small village, and to-day to a larger one in a good sized city, I had the company of four other chaps of the same regiment as myself. The small hospital was only a small makeshift and in it we slept in a cellar, a clear and airy cellar, however, and we had stretchers and two blankets apiece for bedding.
    Our present domicile was once a school or college. It is a clearing station only, but minor cases requiring only a few day's residence are kept here.  The dental work is handled by only one doctor, I think.  When we arrived this morning there were about thirty cases lines up waiting. These have gradually dwindled away, but it is still questionable whether we shall be treated today. It is said that the doctor suggests pulling in nearly every case. If he does in mine, there is going to be a difference of opinion.  I have all my teeth yet and hope to have a while longer even if they are all plugged.
    It has been an interesting experience to get a glance of the army medical corps at work. I am not sufficiently curious to desire more intimate acquaintance, however.
    The fall rains have hardly begun here yet.  It is more like our Canadian Mid-September than like other Novembers I have known.  The city shows little of the marks of the nations struggle, is one may judge by glimpses of its streets seen from the back of the ambulance.
    You will be glad to know that this son of yours has been to church this fine Sabbath morning.  It was the first chance in many a long day, and so we did not mind a service which began at 12.30 mid-day and kept us dinnerless until after 1.30.
    I think the censor will allow me to enclose a view showing the ground upon which we stood.  A fine chateau has been taken over by the officers and it was on the terraced grounds in front of it that we were lined up.
    To do justice to the beauty of this country at this late Autumn date, would require more time than I can give even to my mother.  In many respects it is like an Ontario country side, but all unfenced.  The leaves are going now but the fields retain color.
    Yesterday as we were returning from a route march four broad rays of sunlight played through the mists upon the hillside like spotlights over a stage, revealing pretty woods and villages and farm houses to the eye.
    The place, a factory town, lies in a valley.  At close range there is nothing pretty about it, but it offers opportunity for little purchases which add to one's comfort. Prospects point to a considerable stay. We are at present a kind of instructional battalion.
    I apologize for the stain on my paper.  I have been sipping a glass of cafe, a most excellent drink as made in the estamnet in front. I think I shall learn the art of coffee making from madame.
    Did I tell you we sleep under the lee of a billiard table which is always at our disposal. We have a Sergeant's mess established again, and so we eat well.
    This afternoon I have received a letter from Douglas. I am glad that he is likely to be in England three or four months.  Much may happen in that time and the Canadians are all up in rainy Flanders where he would likely have to go.  It is reported that many are suffering from trench feet. It is our good fortune to be with the British divisions much farther south and at that we have not been in the trenches for a month.
    A letter just received from Jack Aiken takes it for granted that we are away up in Flanders near his battery. From all accounts it has been raining up there steadily for more than a month.
                    November 26th, 1915.
    Your son is a fighting soldier again, not a puppet of a school of instruction.
    And this is the manner of it.  One day I had to get my teeth fixed.  When I got back at 8 p.m. I was told to be ready to leave at 5 a.m. next day.  Ten miles tramping brought us to our train.  Enroute we saw again the place of our first landing, and, but for the mist, should have seen the chalk cliffs of the jewel of the sea.  By night-fall we were getting back into our July haunts.  At ten o'clock we disentrained.  When we marched down the cobble roads a band played "O Canada."  Another four miles brought us to the farm billet. And so we became again as nearly as we can make out, C.E.F.
    We haven't seen any of our fellow Canucks yet, but Jack Aikens is only a few miles away now. Indeed, his may be one of the guns we can hear growling away.
    It snowed this morning, or tried to, and failing, rained.  Last night we had no blankets, but they were issued out to-day, so I shall sleep snugly in my straw to-night.
    Good night, mother dear.  I shall hardy be able to spend this Christmas with you, but I shall invite myself for 1916.
                        ROSS.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 4, Column 5
OUR RETURNED SOLDIERS
The Work of the Canadian Patriotic Fund and the Soldier's Commission
    The establishment of the Soldier's Aid Commission for Ontario, of which the Secretary is Mr. C. N. Cochrane, Parliament Buildings, Toronto, is the first result of the report recently issued by the Hospitals Commission, and the forerunner of others.
    The care of the soldiers who have returned to Canada, mutilated or weakened as a result of active service, is the prime duty of Canadians.  For some months the Canadian Patriotic Fund has been endeavouring to ensure that the men already back from Europe should suffer no want.  This work has been voluntarily undertaken by local committees of the Fund, although in most instances their time is fully occupied with the task of making provision for the families of soldiers.
    Each soldier is interviewed at Quebec by a representative of the Fund and a confidential report sent by the latter to the patriotic committee of the town to which the soldier is going. This serves the two-fold purposes of protecting the Fund against the greedy or unscrupulous and of giving the local committee information that is helpful in finding employment for the deserving.  Not every man who returns to Canada wearing His Majesty's uniform is included in the latter category, but the great majority have done their duty to the fullest degree.  To the latter it has been the privilege of the Fund to present a small badge bearing the words, "For service at the Front."  The men who are wearing these badges are worthiest citizens that we can acknowledge.  Like charity, that badge should be allowed to cover a multitude of sins.
    The work that the Canadian Patriotic Fund can do for returned soldiers, however, is limited by Act of Parliament, and it has been specifically enacted that no assistance can be given by the Fund to "any person who is receipt of any gratuity pension or allowance paid by His Majesty or by foreign government in consequence of incapacity or death occurring as aforesaid."  Partly on this account and largely because the pensions and gratuities paid to incapacitated men are oft-times admittedly inadequate, it has been necessary to establish a Hospitals Commission for and Disablement Fund.  The officials of the latter, in their report to the Federal Government, recommended among other measures, that provincial commissions be formed for the purpose of supplementing these pensions either by monetary grants or by free training in various trades.  The Soldier's Aid Commission of Ontario, as we have said above, is the first step in this direction.  Already it has announced its intention of mobilizing the manufacturers of Ontario and we do not doubt that the process will be facilitated by the manufacturers themselves.  Others also will be asked to lend their aid in discharging a great national duty and there is every prospect that in Canada at least the traditional tragedy of the returned soldier will have no place.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 5, Column 2
    Rev. J. A. Brown, pastor of St. Andrew's Church in Fergus, has offered his services as chaplain of the 153rd Overseas Battalion now being recruited in Wellington County.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 5, Column 5
"Camilla"
    Messrs. John and Norman Rayfield, of the Overseas Contingent, Toronto, spent Christmas at their homes here. Mr. Charlie Rayfield, of Vancouver, and Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of Toronto, were also home for the holiday.   
    Mr. Wilbert South and bride, of Guelph, are visiting at the latter's home here.  Mr. South has enlisted and is training in Guelph.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 6, Column 1
RECRUITS WANTED
Authorization for the raising from Dufferin and Halton Counties of the 164th Battalion, to be commanded by Lieut.-Col. Domville, has been announced by the Minister of Militia and Defence.  This is the only Battalion that has authority to recruit in Dufferin County
    Recruiting Offices have been opened at Orangeville, Shelburne and Grand Valley where men can be medically examined and sworn in and where they will live and be trained by competent officers during the coming winter.
    A subsistence allowance of 60c. a Day for Single Men and 85c. a Day for Married Men, in addition to their pay of $1.10 a Day will be given.
    Thus a Single Man receives altogether $1.70 a day and a Married Man $1.95 a day. Everything that is necessary for the equipment of a Soldier, including Underwear, Socks, Boots, Woollen Gloves, Razor, Brushes, etc., is provided, so that no expense is incurred in this connection.
    Further particulars may be had by enquiry at the Recruiting Offices, or to Capt. Lester M. Green, Orangeville.
    Enlist with Your Own County Battalion and Give Dufferin County Credit for Your Service and Patriotism.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 6, Column 4
WITH MACHINE GUNS
Trooper W. Jeffers Writes Home From England
Was Taking Course at Shorncliffe and Expected to Leave for Front at Any Time.
    Mrs. J. M. Still, of Glencross, has received the following interesting letter from her brother, Trooper W. Jeffers, who was training with a machine gun squad at Shorncliffe Camp when he wrote.  Trooper Jeffers is a brother of Mr. C. V. Jeffers of this town.
                    Machine Gun School,
                            Napier Barracks,
                        Shorncliffe, Dec. 7, 1915.
Dear Jennie :
    Received your welcome letter today. To begin with I have no excuse for not writing sooner.  I didn't know we were leaving Calgary until the day before we left. I was on pass and just got back the day before we left.  I wired Carson that I was leaving, but I don't know whether he got it or not.  Your letter is the first I have had from Canada. I have been here upwards of two months. I don't know how long it will be until we go to the front.  It may be tomorrow and it may not be for four or five months.  After being kept in Canada so long, I would not venture to say when we will leave for the front.  At present I am taking a six weeks machine gun course at Shorncliffe.  There are twelve of us from the 1wth, one from each troop.  We are supposed to be crack shots.  This is my fourth week here.  It is very interesting work.  This is reckoned the best machine gun section in England.  A lot of our instructors are wounded officers that are back from the front.  The machine guns are some guns.  They fire from four to eight hundred shots a minute.  There is talk of forming a machine gun brigade.  If they do we stand a slim chance of going to the front with our regiment.  I would not like to leave the regiment.  I don't think there is its equal in England today. We get different fighting here and the training is quite different.
    I did not finish my letter last night. We were shooting on the range today.  It is seven miles from here, right against the sea.  It is good sport shooting with the machine guns.  They sure are a deadly weapon.  They are called the ghost of the battlefield.  Here at the school you do everything against time.
    This is an awful country for rain.  It has rained every day this last month. Some days ago we can't see 20 yards for fog and mist.  I haven't seen the sun for two or three weeks.
    We had a good trip coming over.  We sailed from Montreal on the 9th and landed at Plymouth on the 19th.  It was a little rough for two or three days.  I did not get sea sick or did not miss a meal.  The Missanabie was the name of the boat.  The 8th C.M.R., 76th Camerons and 40th were on board.  Plymouth is in the south of England.  It has a very strongly fortified harbour.  We anchored about 10 o'clock a.m. and remained on board until the next morning when we took the train at Bramshott and got there about 10 at night.  Bramshott is 45 miles from London. The nearest city is 16 miles away.  There are lots of small towns close around. England is a wonderful little country, with its hedges and castles and towns and cities.  It certainly seemed odd at the first, but we soon got used to it.
    Shorncliffe is on a cliff a few yards from the sea.  It must be a nice place in the summer.  Sometimes we can hear the big guns quite distinctly.  The Zeppelins did some damage at Otterpool about three miles from here.  I saw some of their work in London and Newcastle.  I was up in Newcastle for five days.  It was close to Scotland.  I was with a pal whose home was there.  The people sure treat a fellow white.  The Canadians have a good name over here.  A sergeant in the British army, who was fighting along side the Canadians, told me he would sooner face any other soldier on the field than the Canadians.  He said that since those Canadians were crucified the men from the Dominion do not take a prisoner.  It is said that the Germans are awful cowards and squeal like pigs when they are cornered.  They sure are there with the big guns.  Everywhere you go here you see wounded soldiers.  It is quite a sight to see them coming from the trenches. They are coming and going all the time.  They are covered with mud from head to foot and look more like ghosts than anything else. Six days is the longest furlough they get unless they are wounded.  Down at the front the trenches are full of mud and water.  I have talked to lots of boys from the front.  We are all anxious to get to the trenches as we were to get to England. Boatloads leave here every day for the front.  They are going to relieve those who have been there a long time for Christmas.  Some of the boys of the 12th who came over in the drafts left this morning.  They were all trained as cavalry but are going as infantry.
    Aeroplanes fly around here like birds.  At night everything is in darkness.  In our barracks we have to put blankets over the windows. The women here are conductors on street cars and train porters.  They have to take the place of the men.  Any men whom you see working are very old or else young boys  They will not give a job to a man who is fit for the army.  Well, Jennie, I was glad to get your letter and hope you are all well.
                            Your brother,
                                    WILBERT.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 6, Column 5
THE ONLY ONE LEFT
Pte. Robinson Belonged to 36th Peel Regiment
                    Shorncliffe, Dec. 12th, 1915.
Editor of the Banner
    Dear Sir, -- As it is near Christmas and being from Orangeville locality, I thought I would like to write to you a few lines.
    I belong to the 36th Peel Regiment and was in Lieut. McGuire's platoon, when he was bowled over at Ypres.  I will miss him at the Christmas dinner this year.  I am the only Orangeville boy that was with the First now and I am glad to be able to take my place beside those who came across to represent Canada in the grim struggle for an honorable victory and lasting peace.  No doubt this Christmas will bring sadness to a great many hearts, but the only thing to do is to brace oneself for the ordeal and look at the Most High for strength and consolation.
    I extend my sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. McGuire in the irreparable loss which they have sustained in the death of a son who was so honorable and brave.  I will now close by wishing you and your paper a Merry Christmas and a bright and prosperous New Year and an increase in your business.
            I remain yours truly,
                PTE. F. R. ROBINSON,
                    Reserve Batt., West Camp,
                St. Martin's Plain, Shorncliffe,
                                                        England.

LOOKING FORWARD
Soldiers Were Expecting a Good Time at Christmas
"Ike" Winterton, an Orangeville Soldier, Writes from Northern France
    Mrs. Ed. French, East Broadway, has received the following letter from her son, "Ike" Winterton, who went to the front with the First Contingent : --
                France, Dec. 12th, 1915.
Dear Mother, --
    As this is Sunday and all the boys have gone to church, but another fellow and myself who have been left on guard, I thought it would be a good chance to write home, as we do not get it very often.
    I have only been to church once since I have been in France, as we are all over the country and cannot get time to go.
    Your letter was twenty days coming but I was glad to hear news of home.
    I have not seen any of the Orangeville boys for over three months, and  just met one Meaford boy since I came to France.  I have not much time to look them up and the roads are so bad, so much rain and mud.
    We are a long way from the trenches just now  and are to be here until the 26th of this month. Then we are to go up again and relieve the other boys, and we expect to be there for the winter.  But mother don't worry about me for I am alright and will be.
    We are going to have a real good time on Christmas.  We are invited to a farm house for our Christmas dinner, and I do hope you enjoy your Christmas too.
    There is not much fighting on this front just now, but expect there will be about the New Year.
    I suppose you received the little Xmas gift I sent you, also the cards and we did not get them in time, but I am sending each of the girls and boys one, also one for yourself.
    Has Reba received the Christmas present I sent.  I hope she likes it.  You know it is so hard to get anything out here that is nice.
    As I cannot tell you much news, I will ring off, but will write again soon.
                    From your son,
                            IKE WINTERTON

Amaranth Patriotic Fund
    The Committee in charge of the canvass made in amaranth township a short time ago in behalf of the Patriotic and Red Cross Funds has appointed a local Treasurer in each of the seven polling divisions.  Contributors are asked to pay their subscriptions to these local Treasurers, who will hand over the money they receive to the Central Treasurer, Mr. Robt. Fife, of Laurel.  The local Treasurers are : --
    Farmington Div. No. 1 - John W. Maxwell.
    Laurel Div. No. 2 - Ed. Richardson
    Waldemar, Div. No. 3 - John Grosskurth.
    Coleridge, Div. No. 4 - Joseph Tindale.
    Maple Grove, Div. No. 5 - Wm. Pacey
    Bowling Green, Div. No. 6 - Willis Potter
    Whittington Div. No. 7 - William Phillips.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 7, Column 3
    Pte. Mervin Leighton, of the Grenadier Guards, a Montreal battalion now in training at St. John's, Quebec spent New Year's with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Leighton, Zina St.

Orangeville Banner dated 06-Jan-1916 Page 7, Column 4
Recruiting Notes
    The Orangeville Company of the Dufferin-Halton battalion will hold its first church parade on Sunday morning.  The Company will attend service in St. Andrew's church.
    About $400 is being raised by the citizens of Alliston to help purchase the property of Mrs. Holmes, mother of Pte. Robert Holmes, a returned soldier of that place.  A clear deed of the property will be presented to Pte. Holmes.
    We understand that Messrs. Earl Stevenson, Lester Arnott, Lloyd Patterson and Arnold Jackson, four well-known young men, intend leaving town on Monday for Kingston, where they expect to join the 33rd Battery, Canadian Field Artillery.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 1, Column 3
    Alex Sime, of the Grand Valley Star & Vidette staff, has enlisted for overseas service.
    Rev. R. A. Kerr, Baptist minister at Flesherton, has enlisted with the 127th Grey battalion.
    Herb LeGard, of the Flesherton Advance staff has enlisted and is training in Owen Sound.
    Wm. Parks, of Rosemont, who is 52 years of age, has enlisted with the 124th regiment in Toronto.
    Messrs. Harold McConnell and Kenneth St. John, of Hillsburg, have enlisted for overseas service.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 1, Column 4
    There is some likelihood of a second battalion being organized in Simcoe County.  Lt.-Col. J. B. McFee will probably be the commanding officer.
    Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Doherty, 397 15th St. E., Owen Sound, announce the engagement of their daughter Mary to Lieut. Elgin Ewing, merchant at Wiarton, Ont., the military wedding to take place in February.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 2, Column 1
WAR AUXILIARY FORMED
Organized Effort Being Made to Stimulate Recruiting in Dufferin County
    An organization designated as the Dufferin County War Auxiliary was formed at a meeting which Major Williams, of Toronto, and Major C. R. McCullough, of Hamilton, addressed in the Public Library Auditorium on Friday afternoon.  Mr. C. R. McKeown, M.L.A., was elected chairman and Mr. V. A. Statia secretary of the central organization. A Chairman and Secretary pro tem were also appointed for each of the Branch Auxiliaries as follows : --
    Orangeville - Mayor Campbell, Chairman; Dr. Carson, Secretary.
    Shelburne - Harry White, Chairman; T. F. E. Clarridge, Secretary.
    Grand Valley - Rev. E. Wyle, Chairman; W. Logan Craig, Secretary.
    East Garafraxa - Jno. A. Corneilius, Chairman; Laban Boggs, Secretary.
    East Luther - S. C. McKee, Chairman; Wm. A. Walker, Secretary.
    Amaranth - Herb Hughes, Chairman; Rev. J. R. Bell, Secretary.
    Mono - J. A. McFadden, Chairman; W. A. Henry, Secretary.
    Mulmur - James Barber, Chairman; Geo. A. East, Secretary.
    Melancthon - Thos. C. Dryden, Chairman; R. H. Halbert, Secretary.
    The organization plan outlined by the speakers provided for a Branch Auxiliary in each municipality composed of a representative from each polling sub-division. Organization meetings for Shelburne, Mulmur and Melancthon will be held in Shelburne to-day (Thursday).  Grand Valley and East Garafraxa will also be organized at meetings in Grand Valley to-day. Orangeville and Mono meetings will be held in Orangeville Public Library on Friday.
    The organization sill assist in the work of recruiting and will also provide comforts for the soldiers who have already enlisted.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 3, Column 1
"Rosemont"
    Mr. Wm. Parks, an old soldier who was through the South African war, has enlisted and expects to leave for the city this week.  Concerning Mr. Parks, the Alliston Herald says : --  Wm. Parks, of Rosemont, 52 years of age, has enlisted with the 124th Regiment in Toronto. He came into Alliston on his way down to the city and made the boast that although he had passed the half century mark he was physically fit and would see active service. He is an old veteran and could not resist the temptation offered by mustering of regiments.
    Dr. Ed. Hanna left for Toronto last week.  Ed. enlisted some time ago. He will be greatly missed.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 3, Column 4
    "Caledon" - Pte. "Barney" Howe has gone on a short visit to his parental home before starting to train in Brampton with the 126th Battalion.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 4, Column 3
26 Have Enlisted.
    Twenty-six have passed the necessary examination and have been sworn in as members of Shelburne Company of the 164th Halton-Dufferin Battalion, Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, as follows :
    Alexander, Fred, Honeywood.
    Burge, Peter John, Honeywood.
    Cavan, Walter B., Shelburne.
    Checkett, Jas. Amaranth.
    Farnell, William, Whittington.
    Galbraith, George O., Shelburne.
    Hall, William J. M., Jessopville.
    Henderson, Wm., Violet Hill.
    Johnston, Robt. J., Violet Hill.
    Large, Charles, Shelburne.
    Lee, Ed. B., Mansfield.
    Markle, Stanley, Shelburne.
    O'Reilly, Meredith, Shelburne.
    O'Reilly, Harvey T., Crombie.
    (Harvey T. O'Reilly has been transferred to Grand Valley since joining here).
    Pearson, William, Shelburne.
    Petch, Alexander, Jessopville.
    Pickering, Harry, Shelburne.
    Salmond, Robert, Shelburne.
    Skerritt, Sidney, Melancthon.
    Small, D. Melvin, Shelburne.
    Thompson, Thos., Honeywood.
    Whorpole, Ernest, Shelburne.
    Winchester, W. J., Honeywood.
    Yemen, Walter M., Jessopville.
    Any person wishing to enlist but who is not quite ready to go into training can undergo the necessary medical examination, to be sworn in, and then get leave of absence (without pay of course) for the necessary week or two it will take them to get their business affairs in shape.
    Any person wishing to enlist and ready to go right into training will go on the pay roll at once after passing the medical examination and being sworn in.
    The military authorities expect at least half a company to be recruited at Shelburne by spring.  This means the raising of an additional one hundred men. -- Economist.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 6, Column 3
ENLISTING NOTES
    Mr. Willis Flatt, of Orangeville, has enlisted in the 126th Peel Battalion and is now training at the Exhibition Camp in Toronto.
    Pte. Wesley Connop, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Connop, visited his home here over Sunday, January 9th.  Pte. Connop is in the 12th Peel battalion.
    Horce McGuire, third son of Mr. and Mrs. B. McGuire, who went west last August, has enlisted in the American Legion and is now training in Toronto.
    Mr. W. J. McCandless, A. McCarroll, Toney Zack, J. J. McDevitt and Sydney Howe, five Caledon men, are training with the Brampton Company of the 126th Peel Battalion.
    Fred Lewis, son of Mrs. (Dr.) Lewis, 3rd Ave., has resigned his position in the Orangeville branch of the Bank of Commerce, and will go to the front after taking an officer's course.
    Stanley Martin, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Martin, West Caledon, is training with D. Company of the 95th Battalion at the Exhibition Camp in Toronto.  Mr. and Mrs. Martin have three sons in training for service at the front.
    For being a "full back private" as he terms himself, Douglas Endacott, son of Sheriff Endacott, was promoted a few months ago to the rank of Lance-Corporal, then Corporal, then Acting Sergeant and now to Quarter Master's Sergeant.
    Palgrave has ten men training with the Brampton Company of the 126th Peel Battalion.  They are A. Stronge, A. Gilbert, A. C. Bible, T. G. Stinson, E. A. Moss, G. W. Munro, G. T. Stanfield, C. J. H. McMahon, E. A. Tatum and A. Walker.
    Capt. Douglas Eppes, of the Imperial army, has been attached to the 164th battalion and is at present stationed in Orangeville.   Capt. Eppes went to Valcartier at the outbreak of the war and accompanied the first Canadian contingent to England.  He was afterwards transferred into the East Surrey Regiment of the Imperial Army, was invalided later on and afterwards returned to Canada.  He served in the South African War and on the West Coast of Africa with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.  Capt. Eppes has also done considerable newspaper work and was formerly on the staff of the Toronto Telegram.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 6, Column 4
PTE. MALYON WRITES
Former Caledon Boy Sends Interesting Letter from the Trenches.
    Banner readers will be interested in the following letter which Councillor Jas. H. Hillyard, of Caledon, has received from Pte. F. Malyon, a former Caledon boy.
                        France, Dec. 20th, 1915.
Jas. R. Hillyard,
    Caledon, Ontario.
    Hello there Jim, -- how are you enjoying the winter.  If you would like a change you had better come over here and help us to enjoy the mud season in Belgium.  It is coal boxes instead of Christmas boxes for us out here.  I guess we will spend Christmas day in the trenches this year.  We are forbidden to make love to Germans in No Man's Land. They tried their gas trick again, but it did not work.  We just pull on our smoke helmets and that is all there is to it.  But the air is full of their gas.  Jim, this gas is so strong that it will make your eyes run water five or six miles behind our front line of trenches, when the wind is in the enemy's favor.  We are in the trenches to-night and it is just 12 o'clock. Sleep when you get the chance, eat when you get the opportunity and live as long as you see anyone else alive are the living rules here.  Believe me, this is no child's play.  I do not know how long I will last at this game, but I will stick it as long as it is possible for me to do so.  I feel husky enough, but the effect of the gas at Ypres last April is bothering me a little.  I have not said anything to a doctor about it because I look well enough.  The gas at Ypres burnt my right lung and when I carry my pack it bothers me a great deal.  We had no smoke helmets at that stage of the game and it killed most of the boys in my crowd. Then a fellow has wet feet all the time and when marching to the trenches one is all wet with sweat, so there you are.  A fellow in the condition that I am is somewhat handicapped as compared with fresh men.  Last March while in the trenches, we had very bad water.  The water is generally bad where there has been a lot of stiffs buried, and at times your blood is liable to get bad.  I had blood poisoning three months ago and it was just pick and toss whether my arm would have to be taken off or not.  The arm went dead from the elbow down, and it was beginning to discolor  I was so fed up with everything at that time that it did not bother me very much whether I did lose it or not.  However, we all hope for the best out here and we are pretty well used to this country now.  I don't mind the cold dampness this winter.  You see we landed over here last February and we had a pretty good taste of Belgian winter.  Whether it is that we have got used to the damp climate or not, I cannot say, but I know it is a lot different with me this winter.
    Dileas Gu Brant -- "Faithful Unto Death," that is what we wear on our caps and what our badges stand for. I will close by wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.  With best wishes from
                            F. MALYON

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 7, Column 3
    Delbert Darraugh enlisted on Monday and looks every inch a soldier since he donned the khaki. He was the 50th member of Capt. Green's Orangeville Company of the 164th.
    Mr. F. W. Field of McMaster Hall, who enlisted for overseas service in a signal corps, spent Sunday January 9th, with Capt. and Mrs. W. F. Adams. Mr. Field preached in the Baptist Church Sunday evening.

Orangeville Banner dated 20-Jan-1916 Page 7, Column 6
Mono Patriotic Fund
    The following errors occurred in the list of contributions to Mono Township Patriotic Fund as published in the Banner of Jan. 6th : -- In Div. No. 2 the $1.00 list commencing with the name of Ross Coleman, should have read $5.00 each, in the $1.00 list the name of Chas. Parker was omitted and Mrs. Parker, $1.00 should read Mrs. Halbert.  In No. 4 ward, Jas. Thompson $2.00 should read Jno. Thompson.  In No. 6 ward, A. A. Fremner $5.00, should, of course, be A. S. Bremner and in No. 7 ward, Jas. Buchanan $2.00 should read Joseph Buchanan.
    The following additional contributions have been received since the list was published: No. 1 ward, Wm. Cobean, $5.00; No. 2 ward, John Pierson, $1.00, No. 3 ward, R. W. Holmes, $5.00; J. W. Maguire, $4.00; R. J. McCutcheon $10.00, No. 4 ward, Wm. Holmes $5.00; S. Holmes $5.00; Emerson Holmes $5.00; Isaac Conn $4.00. No. 5 ward, Richard Gulley, $2.00.  No. 6 ward, Rev. H. A. Meek, $10.00; Hamilton McKim, $10.00

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 1, Column 3
    Rev. J. L. Williams, rector of St. John's Anglican church at Hillsburg, has resigned to enlist in the 30th regiment, O.T.C.
    Daniel McDonald, a well known Kinloss township farmer, has four sons who have enlisted. Two of them are already at the front.

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 1, Column 4
    Mr. E. H. Barnes, accountant in the Shelburne branch of the Bank of Toronto, has been taken on the paymaster's staff of the 139th Northumberland battalion.
    News of the death of Major Charles Edward Sale, aged 37, from wounds in the trenches in Flanders apparently during some recent engagement, has reached Goderich.
    Pte. M. G. McCauley, a Dufferin County member of the 4th battalion, has been given a Distinguished Conduct Medal. This is the first war medal to come to Dufferin County.
    Before he left for Toronto, the Hornings Mills friends of Kenneth Strothers, who has enlisted for overseas service, presented him with an address and a handsome wrist watch.

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 1, Column 5
    Shelburne Public Library Board has granted the privileges of the library free of charge to members of the Shelburne Co. of the 164th Halton-Dufferin battalion.

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 2, Column 2
WITH THE BIG GUNS
Allies Are Ready for the Huns on Western Front
Orangeville Boys Had a Jolly Day on Christmas
    The following are extracts from letters which Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Aiken have received from their son, Gunner J. M. Aiken, who is on the Western Front : --
                                Dec. 12th, 1915.
    Yesterday Bert and I rode over to our old position to see Harry ten miles away.  When we had reached the battery he had just left for the waggon lines.  We rode there and saw Tod's friends, who told us that Harry had just left for the battery, so back we went and found him there large as life.  He was greatly surprised to see us not knowing we were coming or even where our battery was stationed. We had a good chant and tried to arrange to spend Christmas together, also if possible, to get our leave to England at the same time.  He treated us to cake and candy Bess had sent.  It was great.
    I have high rubber boots which I got in London, so the mud and rain will no longer bother me.  They surely are the only thing for here when the mud is so deep.  We are going to lay brick walks in front of the tents and from there to the stables, which are already bricked.
    Our Battery Command class is getting along pretty well.  We can read messages from the buzzer if not sent too quickly and the same with the flag signalling.  I like the work very much and hope to be able to take my place at the guns shortly.
    My sciatica has not troubled me at all since leaving England and I am feeling fine.  Have not been sick once since joining the army.  Yesterday Bert was taken to the hospital in the ambulance.  The gas from the fire in his hut made all the boys ill, but he was the worst.
    Last night was the heaviest bombardment I have yet heard  The artillery on both sides went to it with a vengeance.  I see by the papers the Russians are once more on the offensive and making it warm for both the Germans and Austrians.  If they are the war should soon take a different aspect and the Rumanians would then turn in their lot with us, as would the treacherous Greeks.  However, at the worst we are sure of victory for the German bolt is shot as they will realize when they batter their lives away against our positions.  Tell Dad not to worry over any attacks on the Western front.  We are fully prepared and it will have but one ending, and that will not be our defeat.  The boys are all anxious to get at the Huns, and when the time comes will take full vengeance.
                                Dec. 26th, 1915.
    Christmas is over and we had a jolly day.  In the evening the Sergeants and Lieutenant Harris gave an entertainment for the men which was fine, at the conclusion of which, the presents for the troops for Canada were distributed.  The parcel from Orangeville and the one from the city of Toronto to those who enlisted there has not yet arrived.  We did not rise until 7.30 Christmas morning, an hour later in bed.  A "sub" arranged to have a dinner at the restaurant near here and Bert came with us.  The meal cost us $1.00 each, and this is what we had -- soup, roast pork and apple sauce, potatoes, custard and Christmas pudding, enough wine to toast the King and our friends at home. After dinner we sat back from the table and smoked and sang. For supper Bert and I went down town and had fried eggs, potatoes, cocoa and pastry. From this you will see that we spent a busy day and thus forgot to be homesick.
    You ask what are the duties of the B.C. man.  There are twenty men in the party and they have the communication work for the battery, such as signalling, telegraphing and phoning, etc.  As Cub is a signaller he can tell you his duties and they are similar to what the B.C. party does.
    It is just great the way the old town is coming forward.  Everything should be done to help work along.

Gave Soldiers Send-Off
    Gunners Hutch Keith, Earl Stevenson, Arnold and Frank Jackson, Lloyd Patterson, Lester Arnott and Percy Leighton, of the 33rd Battery, and Berth Booth, of the 34th Battery were home from Kingston over the Sunday on their final leave of absence before taking their departure for England.  The local men expect to leave Canada early next month. The boys returned on Tuesday night and were accompanied to the station by the Citizens Band, about 60 members of the Orangeville Company of the 164th and several hundred citizens, who united in giving them a royal send-off.  At the depot rousing addresses were given by Mayor Campbell and C. R. McKeown, M.P.P.

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 2, Column 3
TRAINING IN ENGLAND
Corporal Fred Saxon Tells of a Visit to Birmingham.
    Mr. E. H. Sproule has received a breezy letter from Corp. F. H. B. Saxon, of the 37th Batt., C.E.F., now training at Bramshott Camp in England. The following extracts will interest Corporal Saxon's friends and acquaintances here : --
                            Bramshott Camp, Hants
                                                        England,
                                                Jan. 4th, 1916.
Hello Ed. :
    Here we are in England at last.  We arrived on December 5th after a very quiet voyage.  This is the finest country for wet weather I ever saw.  I don't believe we have had twenty-four hours yet that it did not rain.  The roads are all splendid but you have got to stay on them.
    I was up to Birmingham for six days and had a very nice visit with one of the boys at his home.  I had the pleasure of going down town one morning and losing myself for about half an hour.  The streets change names so often.  A street will home one name for a couple of blocks and then it changes and then to add to that they are all as crooked as a dog's hind leg.  I was through the art gallery and really I wish I could have spent more time for you can't see it all in a short time.  We went up to the Central Fire Station and were taken around and had everything shown and explained to us by one of the firemen. It took us nearly a whole afternoon to go through the fire station alone. Another day we went up to a factory and saw them making oil bottles, caps for big shells and a lot of other small accessories that are needed in the "scrap."  The work was very interesting and was nearly all done by women.  One woman was pointed out to us who had been working for that firm for 34 years. She did not look very old at that either.
    We get pretty good food over here and are housed in huts about 20 by 65. We have 43 living in ours with room for one or two more.  We do not do much drilling.  It is nearly all physical drill, trench digging, bomb making and throwing and route marching.

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 3, Column 2
"Elder"
    Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Brinkman entertained a number of their friends and neighbors at their home on Friday evening. A party of about 100 guests were present, it being the occasion of two of our young men joining the 157th Simcoe Battalion.  The guests came from far and near. The night was happily spent in dancing and other amusements, lunch being served about midnight. During the evening the two solders, Pte. Hearndon and Pte. Short were each presented with a wrist watch and the following address :
Dear Boys : --   
    During these stirring times of war and anxiety when our Empire is plunged in the deepest gloom in its history and the bravest of our boys are called to guard its sacred coasts, we are proud to know that you, hearing duty's call, have answered it, and are found in the ranks of those preparing to serve king and country.  Your companionship was always cheery, and we hope that you will carry the same cheer and good will as you journey to the battle front if it be your lot to go there.  This community will always be proud to remember that you will be found with the brave boys fighting their battles while we at hoome can only await the outcome and pray that you may be safe guarded during the hours of trial.  We ask you to accept these wrist watches as a slight token of the appreciation we feel.  As you watch the marking off the hours and think of those at home, whose good wishes these small gifts signify, we also ask you to remember that their thoughts are with you and the rest of the  brave boys who have sacrificed home and comforts to protect us. We will be constantly looking forward to the time when we can welcome home the return of our soldier lads and rejoice that you and your companions have done their duty in this terrible war.
    Signed on behalf of your many friends.
                        W. R. BRINKMAN
                        R. J. AIKINS.
The floor was waxed for the fun,
    By Jimmie Rowe and Isaac Conn,
Now pick your partners and come along,
    At W. R. Brinkman's party.
John Anderson kept at top speed,
    By his side was sweet Miss Tweed,
A friend in need is a friend indeed,
    At. W. R. Brinkman's party.
Willie Holmes was next in line,
    He sported a partner from Perm line,
And seated her for tea in right good time,
    At. W. R. Brinkman's party.
Next in line was Trueman Thompson,
    Who stepped to the music of a mullen clog,
And through it he kept a right good jog,
    At. W. R. Brinkman's party.
Sammie Holmes got slightly mixed,
    It was in the act of right and left six.   
He said he'd do better in the next,
    At. W. R. Brinkman's party.
Lyttle Thompson did some calling off that night,
    In every figure it was hug her up tight.
John Conn took advantage with all his might,
    At. W. R. Brinkman's party.
George Aikens looked quite lonely,
    He stepped tot he music of Casey Jones,
The crowd did shout in lively tones,
    At. W. R. Brinkman's party.
This all took place on Friday night,
    And all the time it rained with might,
And at three o'clock all took their flight.
    From. W. R. Brinkman's party.   

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 3, Column 3
"Caledon East" - The following young men of Caledon East and vicinity left for Brampton on Monday to enlist should they succeed in passing inspection : -- James McDevitt, Recruiting Sergeant; Norman Matthews, Lawrence Matthews, Tupper Perdue, Reggie Brown, Ambrose McCormick, Fred Gibble, Arthur Douglas, Wm. Smith, Wes. Walker, Fred McElwain, Harold Berney.
   

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 5, Column 2
RAISED $1481.85
Results of Recent Patriotic Canvass in East Garafraxa.
Including former Contributions Township Has Now Given Nearly $3,500 for Patriotic Purposes
  The special canvass made in East Garafraxa in November realized $1481.85 for patriotic purposes.  This brings the total amount contributed by the township up to $3462.10 which compares very favorably indeed with the showing made by the larger municipalities of the County.  The people of East Garry made their first canvass for patriotic purposes last January when they raised $980.25.  This was followed by the November canvass and in December the township council supplemented the latter by voting $1000 for patriotic uses.  This means a total of nearly $3500, made up as follows : --
Contributed January 1915 --     $980.25
Contributed November 1915 - 1481.85
Contributed by Township
        Council December 1915 --   1000.00. 
                                                          $3462.10
    The individual contributions in November were : --
    DIV. No. 1 -- HEREWARD
$25.00 - Wm. Scaife, Wm. Parks.
$15.00 - Wm. Curtis.
$10.00 - Wm. G. Woods, Hugh Semple, Albert Richardson, James Semple, Donald Gear, Alex and Alfred Platt, Joseph Woods.
$8.00 - Alex Burnett, J. T. Cowan, Wm. Geffs.
$5.00 - Mrs. Francis Phillips, R. J. Gillespie, J. A. Davison, John Rathburn, John Snow, Thomas Woods, J. S. Goodall, Thomas B. Jupp, John Curtis, Richard Curtis, Robert Brown, D. J. Richie, Thos. Conlin, Geo. Robinson, Wm. E. Clayton, James H. Irvine, Arthur Taylor, John Robinson.
$3.00 - James Curtis.
$2.00 - Geo. Clarke, Alfred Kirk, Robert Taylor, Mrs. Sarah Burnett.
50c. - Mrs. S. Platt.
            Total $260.50.
    DIV. No. 2 - DUFFY'S SCHOOL
$20.00 - John Irvine.
$15.00 - John F. Haws, Geo. McPherson.
$10.00 - John Taylor, Edward Irvine, Trueman Hall, Wilfred Groskurth, Albert McPherson, Robert G. Thompson.
$5.00 - Robert McDonald, David Thompson, Elwood Irvine, Isaac Taylor, Thomas Taylor, Emley McPherson, Harry Platt, Wm. Warnock, James Mann, Alex Burke, James Irvine, W. J. Taylor, Tom Duffy, Oscar Hall, Jas. McKitrick, Geo. McKitrick, John Burke.
$4.00 - Jack Ewing.
$2.00 - James McBride, Jack Bennett, George Warnock, Clarke Rae, Robert Irvine, Joe McBride, John Hillis.
$1.00 - John Gate, Frank Hillis, Norman Irvine, Willie J. Irvine, Herb Irvine, Alfred Moore, W. Fines.
            Total $220.00.
    DIV. NO. 3 - COOK'S SCHOOL
$20.00 - E. E. Cook, L. L. Hocken.
$10.00 - Charles Peden, James Duncan, Geo. A. Cook, Percy L. Campbell, Wm. Woods.
$5.00 - Mrs. E. Cook, Miss Mary Cook, Jos. Black, Thos. Dearing, Jas. Freure, J. A. Reid, Jos. Turner, Orton Redman, Geo. Haws, D. M. Haws, J. Digby, Silas Cook, R. J. Peden, A. Townsend.
$3.00 - Jas. McBride, David Black, Jas. Roxburgh, Jr.
$2.50 - Wm. Roxburgh.
$2.00 - Norman Deering, Thos. May, Jas. Roxburgh, Sr., Jno. Carney, J. Gerrie, J. McLannahan, R. Burnett, Adam Boyle, H. Warnock.
$1.00 - John Leader, Walter Gibson, S. Depew, E. M. Good, Jno. Watson, Robert Davis, S. J. Robinson, Harvey Heath, J. J. McLellan.
25c. - Harvey Leslie, Geo. Watson.
            Total $199.00
    DIV. No. 4 - MARSVILLE
$15.00 - Uria Everson, Robt. Simpson.
$10.00 - W. E. Nodwell, A. E. Dyer, Andrew Nodwell, W. O. Nodwell, Geo.  Nodwell, David Jestin, Jos. Platt, Jas. Boggs, Laban Boggs, W. B. McGowan, Herbert Simpson, John S. Simpson, Jas. Johnston, Robt. Nodwell, George Mandley, Geo. Simpson, Alex. Carroll, Presley Donaldson, David Taylor, Jos. K. Thompson, Morgan Nodwell, Norman Thompson, Marsville L.O.L. 345.
$8.00 - George Dyer.
$6.00 - Alex. Oliver, Ed. Nodwell.
$5.00 - Wm. Haws, J. H. Gear, Jas. Byers, Wm. Johnston, Victor Armstrong, Jas. H. Simpson, Sam. Price, W. and J. Armstrong, Enoch A. Price, John Byers and wife, W. A. Donaldson, Archie McKitrick, Jas. Hillis, Samuel Everson, Edward Mandley, Henry Hanna, Agnes S. Kean, John Preston, Arthur McGowan, Mrs. Collier, Jas. McGowan, Mrs. J. Hillis, J. H. Hall, Norman Everson, Abraham Everson, S. G. Boggs, John M. Fleming, Archie Wilson, John K. Warnock, George Green, Jas. Brown, N. Reid.
$3.00 - Russell Oliver, Hugh Oliver, W. E. Taylor.
$2.50 - John H. Redman.
$2.00 - Jas. Edwards, Mrs. Baxter, R. N. Forgrave, Geo. Cox, Frank Redman, Henry Manley, Spencer Jones, Robt. Mann, John Forgrave, Ben. Boggs, James N. Taylor, H. Howlett, Mrs. McDougal, Wm. Leader.
$1.00 - Arthur Everson, Mrs. Jas. Hanna. W. J. Haws, Wm. Thompson, Miss Platt, Mrs. Anthony, Robt. Keith, Jas. Rennicks, Jas. Keith, Robt. Forgrave, Sr., Jas. Donaghy, Warren Jestin, Currie Rodger.
50c. - John Laughlin.
            Total $493.00
    DIV. No. 5 - THE MAPLES
$25.00 - S. H. Simpson.
$15.00 - Isaac Reid, Wm. Cornelius, Jr.
$10.00 - Albert Reid, W. A. Hoare, Joseph Cornelius, Manasseh Ferns, A. L. Reid, W. H. Brown, W. H. Hunter, Nelson Black.
$7.00 - C. W. Simpson.
$5.00 - Wm. Carroll, Wm. Cornelius, Sr., Joshua Bradley, Walter Smith, Dougal Reid, Mac McCormick, J. W. Hoare, Mathew Ferns, Geo. W. H. Leader, Miss Jennie McArthur, Theodore Denny, J. A. Cornelius, George Lightle, J. D. Hoare, J. Johnston, Fred Cornelius, J. J. Ferns, Joe Carney, George Robinson, James Richardson.
$4.00 - J. E. Bradley, Peter Norris.
$3.00 - Wes. Anderson, Wm. Battison, Freeman Leader, James Black.
$2.00 - Mac Rowan, Wm. Bradford, F. W. Morrison, Jno. Carney, Fred Price, H. Smith, Isaac May, J. H. Moote, A. E. Montgomery, A. E. Rennick, C. B. Lawrence, S. C. W. Hughson, Geo. Bland.
$1.50 - John Ferguson.
$1.00 - Geo. Nodwell, J. Stringer, Percy Reid, Geo. Wakefield, Geo. Glover, James Way, A. Norris, T. E. Mottart, David Kay, W. H. Black, Jno. Cole, A. J. Simpson, A. Buchanan, W. Cook, M. Geary, J. Johnston, Jr., James Gamble, R. Edwards.
75c. - David Fee.
50c. - Wm. Wilson, Jno. Black, G. E. Glover.
            Total $309.35.
                            SUMMARY
No. 1, Hereward         $260.50
No. 2, Duffy's                 220.00
No. 3, Cook's                 199.00
No. 4, Marsville            493.00
No. 5, The Maples        309.35
                                       $1481.85 

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 5, Column 3
ENJOYING THE TRAINING
Former Laurel Boy Tells of Daily Routing at Exhibition Camp.
Editor of the Banner.
    Orangeville P.O.
Dear Sir : --
    Perhaps you will be surprised to get this letter, but being a resident of Laurel, Amaranth, I have always been an earnest reader of your paper. I came to Toronto with two friends from Laurel on Nov. 8th, 1915, and we enlisted for overseas service with the 95th Batt., under Lieut-Col. Barker.  We thought we would like to keep in touch with the doings of the home town and surrounding districts and we decided the best way to do this was to subscribe for your paper for 3 months, (longer if we should be here).  I do not know what your charge will be to us, as it will have to be folded and wrapped up, as my address is too long to put on the paper, and will thus entail more work, but send along this week's copy and your rates and I will send the subscription next week.
    We are enjoying the training fine. As you are no doubt aware there are a number of Orangeville and surrounding district boys in the 95th, and all are anxious to see your paper every week.
    I will give you an account of how we spent our New Year's in camp, which might interest some of your readers.
    We got up at the usual hour and had the regular roll call and parades and were dismissed at 9 a.m. to do as we wished.  At 11.30 a.m. as many of us who had not gone home, or out of the city, sat down to a splendid dinner provided by the Young Men's Christian Association, consisting of roast turkey, candy, nuts, oranges, apples, plum pudding, after which, a flash of light was taken of the tables and us sitting there.
    Then every man was presented with a box of cigarettes, if he wished one.  Then those who wished to stray in the Y.M.C.A. provided a free concert both afternoon and evening, but the majority went out, as we were allowed to stay out until 10.15 p.m. instead of the usual 9.30 p.m.
    On Sunday, Jan. 2nd, we did not have the usual church parade as there was so few of us there, about fifty per cent. being on leave for four days.  At 12.30 we sat down to our battalion New Year's dinner, consisting of the same as the Y.M.C.A. dinner, except we had goose instead of turkey.  Before we started, however, Lieut.-Col. Barker spoke a few words, impressing upon us what we had undertaken for our King and Country, and how in order to try and make peace for another New Year's Day, we must all put our shoulder to the wheel and push hard, and finished up by wishing us all a Happy New Year.
    The men then gave three rousing cheers for the Colonel, led by Captain Armour, of D. Co., and then three more lusty cheers were given to Mrs. Barker, who was also present.  Mrs. Barker made a brief reply, and then we began our dinner.
    We then were free till 9.30 p.m. to go to our respective churches, and then on Monday Jan. 3rd, settled down to our drill once again.
    Well I must draw to a close this time, wishing the Banner a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
    It might interest you to know that Pte. W. G. Martin, who enlisted with Capt. Neilson, of the 96th, has been advanced to the rank of Lance Corporal, and myself and Pte. Ernest Richardson, of Laurel, have been transferred to the 95th Signal Corps and are learning field signalling.
    Again, wishing you all a Happy New Year.  I am on behalf of the Laurel and Orangeville boys.
                    Yours truly,
                                WM. J. PENNY

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 5, Column 5
    In response to the request made through the local papers by Harry White, secretary of Dufferin Patriotic Association, asking the various branches to pay in what they had on hand to the fund, he received the following cheques : -- Orangeville, $618.66; Mono, $2,000; Melancthon, $2,000.00; Mulmur, $1,850.00; Shelburne $700.00, making a total of $7,168.66.  This will make the payments from Dufferin amount to $14,249.83.

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 6, Column 5
SOMEWHERE IN BELGIUM
Soldiers in Trenches Get Details of War from Canadian Newspapers
A Canadian Tells About Carpentry Work and Building of War Entanglements.
    His many friends hereabouts will find much to interest them in the following letter from Pte. Robert McCulloch, an Adjala boy, who is now at the front in Belgium : --
                        Somewhere in Belgium,
                                Dec. 19, 1915.
Editor Orangeville Banner.
    Dear Sir, -- Received your paper last night.  I have missed two copies of it somehow but they may come yet.  I was very much pleased to read your description of the Eugenia Power plant as I was over the ground about a year ago.  I suppose it is one of the largest power plants in Ontario.  The Abitibi Power and Paper Co.'s plant at Iroquois Falls, where they develop 22000 h.p., must be about the largest except Niagara.
    Well I expect you know almost more about what is going on here than we know ourselves.  Of course, we know a lot that is happening but we have to wait for the Toronto papers to get the details.  I was reading in the Christian Guardian last night a very interesting account of how a German aeroplane was brought down not very far from here.  One west astray about three weeks ago and had to come down right at our reserve trenches.  We were just waiting for our supper at the time.  I heard it, but of course, thought it was one of our own, as there had been one of ours around the night before, so I missed it all as it was soon taken away and also the two men who were captured with it.  The story related that about the first thing the captured men asked was "what are you going to do with us."  When they were told they were to be taken to England, they exclaimed with surprise "How can you do that, when we control the Channel."
    Today has been a very busy day with aeroplanes and a lot of other excitement that you will have read about in the papers long ere this reaches you.  We have had a turn at nearly all the different kinds of work, namely, making barbed wire entanglements, carrying them up to the front line and last, but not least, building trenches right in front of the German lines.  The night of December 2nd we worked until 2 o'clock in the morning constructing entanglements.  It was not a very healthy place to be but no one was hit.  It was as dark as forty cats except when a German flare went up. Then, of course, we went flat.  The night of November 26th about 500 of us dug a communicating trench across a field.  Just one man was hit and he was not seriously hurt.  This was right in front of the German lines.
    Two weeks ago yesterday I got orders to report at headquarters. Of course I did so and with four others was sent to Brigade headquarters, where we have been at carpenter work ever since.  This is surely quite a change for us.  We are billeted in a hayloft over an estiment, or hotel, as we would call it in Ontario, in a village about the size of Mono Mills.  In all there are six hotels, so a local option would not be amiss over here, especially when you consider that there is a village about every half mile you go, no matter which way you travel.  There are 20 of us here altogether.  We have a colonel and sergeant of our own, also a cook, who cooks our meals in an old fashioned fireplace.  They have them in every house here.  About the first job we had to do was to build a Y.M.C.A.  We started it 16 by 40, but got further orders to continue on 20 feet farther, so we have moving pictures in it every night now. We also have jobs to do away about a couple of miles or more.  One little job in particular made me think of old Ontario and that was when three of us were sent to put up two stoves at one place and one at another a mile farther away.  Take it from me stove pipes are just the same over here, if not worse than at home.  These particular ones were even more contrary than usual. There happened to be a tinsmith with us, so I let him have his turn at them.  However, we finished about one o'clock and started back for our billets.  On our way we called at a house and had eggs and chips.  Eggs are very scarce here.  They charge anywhere from three to six pennies apiece for them now and they are not strictly fresh either.  Almost every house along the road sells coffee and cake or bread.  They cut the bread with a long knife that has a hook on the handle that catches around the elbow.  They sure can slice it off quickly, and it is amusing to hear them clattering around with their wooden shoes.
    We are just across the street from the Church -- Roman Catholic, of course.  There is nothing else here and judging from the crowds, everybody must go to church.  They surely are a funny dressed crowd.  I notice a lot of red neck ties this morning and a narrow fur scarf about two feet long that goes around the neck in much the same manner as women wear scarfs in Ontario.  I wouldn't like to attempt to tell you the styles that the ladies wear, but I do not think they come from Paris at all.  I was quite amused to see a lot of them come into our hotel below and have a social glass on their way home from church.
    Our Christmas parcels are coming every day now.  I have had four already and there are three more on the way that I know of, so I am faring pretty well.  Some of the boys get a box every week. We always pass them around.  We sure have some great feasts.  I have fixed up a writing desk and am writing this with the aid of a candle.  We use hundreds of them here.  They cost a penny apiece.  I had some sent from London to me.  We average about two per night.  This has been the most exciting day here we have had since we came over.  It looks like real war.  We got a whiff of the gas this morning, but I don't think it amounted to much.  You will see all about it in the papers long before this reaches you.  I am not learning the language of the country very quickly.  The inhabitants seem to get onto our language much easier. Of course the troops have been here now a little over a year.  All the youngsters talk good English.  It is quite common to see boys four or five years old smoking cigarettes.  A few days ago three of us were taking a short cut across country and were quite surprised to come upon some of our batteries.  They are concealed so well that you would never notice them until you come right on top of them.  They you hear them good and plain.  There area  couple of six inch pistols not far away that shake things when they go off.  Say, what battery does your young Aiken belong to?  I might happen to run across him sometime.  The next war I go to I will have someone from near home with me.  No matter what bunch I get into they always have known each other before they enlisted.  The bunch I am with now come from near London, Ont., although there is one man from Elk Lake and another one from Ottawa.  I was quite lonesome after leaving the boys I had trained with so long, but I see them quite often.  Just now a lot of the boys are making tea to drink before they go to bed.  I intend to have some cocoa which was sent me from England.  It is cocoa, milk and sugar combined and made specially for the soldiers.  We also use a lot of Oxo and similar preparations.
    I think this will be all for this time and I will close by wishing you the compliments of the season.
                            Yours sincerely,
                        ROBT. McCULLOCH

Orangeville Banner dated 27-Jan-1916 Page 7, Column 1
    Mr. F. H. B. Saxon, formerly of the Bank of Commerce staff here is now training at Bramshott Camp in England with the 37th Battalion, C.E.F. Mr. Saxon has the rank of Corporal.

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    Messrs. A. Clowes, John St., and his son, Wm. Clowes, have enlisted in Capt. Green's Company of the Dufferin-Halton Battalion.
    Mr. Walter Mottershead, son-in-law of Mr. Wm. Harding, has enlisted with the 169th Battalion and is in training in Toronto for overseas service.
    Enlisting Notes - Wm. J. Penney and Ernest Richardson, of Laurel, who enlisted with the 95th Battalion two or three months ago have been transferred to the Signal Corps and are now learning field signalling.
    Party for Soldiers - Mr. Fred and Miss Jennie Atkinson gave a delightful party at their fine home on Monday night in honor of the boys of the 33rd Battery who were home from Kingston on their last leave of absence before taking their departure for England.  The guests present were Dr. and Mrs. Carson, Dr. and Mrs. Bowles, Mr. and Mrs. F. Crozier, Mrs. Dahl, Mrs. Modeland, Misses Jennie Keith, Birdie Leighton, Gertie Jackson, Daisy Morrison, Miss Fisher, Vera Hogg, Tillie Harmon, Ruth Shaw, Ruby Allen, Clara Hulse, Gladys Hogg, Irene Henry, Miss McWilliam, Elsie Dods, Mae Allen, Bertha Allen, Edith Robinson, Ina Allen, Greta Golden, Mae Harmon and Kate Harmon, Gunners Hutch Keith, Lloyd Patterson, Percy Leighton, Frank and Arnold Jackson, Earl Stevenson, Lester Arnott and Bert Booth, Lieuts. Charlie Morrison and Ewart Macpherson, Ptes. Jas. Dawson and A. Dods and Messrs. Fred Lewis, Allen Fisher, Neil McWilliam, Eastwood, W. Henry, M. E. Henry, Charlie Hulse, R. Heard, G. E. Goldring, Walter Dahl and Ivan Fleming.

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Hospital Notes
Mrs. W. G. Fisher,
    Secretary of the Red Cross,
        Orangeville, Ont.
Dear Madam :
    I have much pleasure in enclosing the formal receipt for 10₤, 12s 9d subscribed by the Orangeville Chapter I.O.D.E.  We have noticed that is for the special use of Pte. W. H. Boyce, Pte. W. J. Fitzgerald, Sergt. W. Board, Corp. Wm. Jacobs, Pte. T. M. Smith.  We will send them parcels with this money for five months.  I am sure that you will be glad to hear that parcels reach the prisoners with greater regularity and we have had a very large number of grateful acknowledgements from the recipients.
            Yours truly,
       E. Rivers, Buckeley, H.I.M.B
    Thanks are due for the following contributions for the prisoners fund : H. A. Lanburton, Galveston, Texas, $5; Mrs. Godfrey, Toronto, $1.00; Miss Hewatt, Orangeville, $6.  The last named sum was earned for the purpose by making two dozen knitting needle holders. 

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    Frank Priest, a Dundalk man, who enlisted and was rejected twice on account of his short stature, was accepted on the third trial and is now training in Owen Sound.
    Wm. Loudon, of Shelburne, received word last week of the serious illness of his brother, Pte. J. D. Loudon, in a hospital in England from pleuro-pneumonia. Pte. Louden went overseas with the 24th pioneer battalion.

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    Mr. Will Clarridge, son of Mr. H. C. Clarridge of Dundalk has joined the 134th Highlanders' Battalion in Toronto.
    Lieut. Thos. Seaton Gordon, an Owen Sound member of the 11th battalion, Border Regiment, died from wounds on Jan. 22nd.

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    Rev. Fred T. Kingham, Methodist pastor at Sparta, failing to receive an appointment as chaplain, has enlisted in the 91st Battalion as a private.
    Military authorities at Kingston are asked to send back to Cataraqui Cecil Vanalstine, 13, who put on long trousers and enlisted in the Home Guard.
    Eighteen men are now training in Arthur for the 153rd Wellington battalion. Capt. R. J. Bennett, late of Orangeville, is in charge of the recruiting.
    N. W. Rowell, K.C., and Capt. N. H. McGillivray, chaplain of the 91st Battalion, made patriotic addresses at St. Thomas under the auspices of the Elgin School Teachers' Association.

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Mono Patriotic Fund
    Mr. J. A. McFadden, Treasurer of the Mono Patriotic Fund, submits the following statement of the receipts and payments : --
    Perry's Ward No. 1            $550.50
    Hockley Ward No. 2           202.50
    Relessey Ward No. 3          444.50 
    Rosemont Ward No. 4       247.25
    Harshaw's Ward No. 5     531.25
    Camilla Ward No. 6           782.00
    Primrose Ward No. 7         401.00
                                                 $3259.00
Dec. 30th cheque to Hon.
    W. T. White                        2000.00
Balance on hand                $1259.00

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A "FIGHTING PARSON"
Rev. Charles Morgan Offers Himself for Overseas Service in Any Capacity.
    Hamilton has a fighting parson.  Rev. Chas. Morgan, assistant pastor of Centenary church, who has been in full charge since Rev. G. H. Williams accepted the position of chief recruiting officer for the district has taken out a commission in the Thirteenth Royal regiment.  It is his desire and intention to qualify himself for active service in any capacity in which he may be required, and not merely as a chaplain, and while at present his military duties will not in any way interfere with his ministerial duties he will be qualified when the opportunity offers to join an overseas battalion as a fighting man.
    Rev. Mr. Morgan has long been desirous of securing appointment as chaplain of one of the overseas battalions, but as there did not appear to be much chance of his being accepted in that capacity for some time he decided to prepare himself for service in any other capacity in which he might be required.  Accordingly, he applied to Lieut.-Col. R. A. Robertson for a commission in the Thirteenth Royal regiment, and this morning was examined by the doctors and accepted.  Rev. Mr. Morgan is the first Hamilton minister to offer his services in any capacity other than that of chaplain, although several other ministers, including Rev. Dr. S. Banks Nelson and Rev. W. G. Martin have expressed their willingness to do so. -- Hamilton Spectator
    Rev. Mr. Morgan was formerly in business in Orangeville, being identified with the firm of McBride, Gillespie & Co., for several years.  He is a son-in-law of Mrs. H. Savage, Second Ave.

Recruiting Notes
    David McKitrick, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McKitrick, of Shelburne, has enlisted at Regina with the 152nd Battalion and will train at Weyburn.  Dave was on the Banner staff a few years ago.
    Andrew Lane, B.A., a second year theological student at Knox Church, Toronto, and a younger brother of Rev. D. J. Lane, of Grand Valley, has joined the heavy howitzer brigade at Guelph.
    Leeton Erskine, son of Wm. Erskine, of Grand Valley, formerly of Orangeville, is in a base hospital in France suffering from fever.
    John A. McDonald, a son of Mr. Robert McDonald, East Garafraxa, has enlisted in Toronto with the 169th Battalion.
    Over twenty men are now drilling in Arthur for the 153rd Wellington Battalion.  Capt. R. J. Bennett, of Orangeville, has been commissioned to carry on the work of recruiting in Arthur.  The Arthur Enterprise describes Capt. Bennett as "a splendid type of soldier, full of energy and determination to succeed in securing men for his Battalion, who will fight to keep Canada what she is to-day, a freedom-loving, happy, self-governing people."
    Albert Greenwood, of East Luther, a nephew of Mr. Wm. Irvin, Church St., has enlisted with the 164th Battalion and is training in Grand Valley.
    Pte. Geo. Boswell, who is training in Guelph, spent Sunday at his home here.
    Gunner Bert Booth of the 34th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, was home over Sunday on his last leave of absence before sailing for England.
    The Free Press states that 32 men have enlisted in Shelburne Company of the Dufferin-Halton Battalion.
    Postmaster M. J. Casserley, of Tottenham, has received word from his son, Dr. Jos. Casserley, stating that he is in a hospital in Saloniki.  This is the first word that his family have had from Dr. Casserley for a number of weeks and they are naturally, greatly relieved.

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"Mono Mills" - The following list of supplies has been prepared by the local Branch of the Red Cross and was shipped to the Head Office in Toronto on Wednesday of last week : -- 8 cheese cloth skirts, 30 sheets, 96 pillow cases, 15 grey shirts, 18 pairs shaker flannel pyjamas, 27 pairs of socks  Included in the shipment was a donation of 2 pairs of socks from Mrs. Taylor, 1 pair of socks from Mrs. Lewis and 1 navy blue scarf and a pair of wristlets donated by Miss Ethel Allen.  The total value of the bale amounted to $75.65.  The officials who have charge of the Red Cross work here are : -- President, Mrs. J. A. Black; Vice-President, Mrs. W. J. Mills; Secretary, Mrs. D. Carmichael; Treasurer, Miss Ethel Allen.  Meetings of the Red Cross are held in the village every Wednesday afternoon.  All work, donations and other assistance will be gratefully received.

"Marsville" - The Town Hall in Orton was on Wednesday of last week the scene of a large gathering of residents of Orton and surrounding country. The occasion was the presentation of wrist watches to Norman Dearing, William Bolton, Joseph Dunn and Spence Jones, who have enlisted and are now training in the new Wellington Battalion. Lunch was served and the remainder of the evening was spent in dancing.

"Laurel" - Ptes. W. J. Penney, Jos. M. Gordon, E. Richardson and S. Harper, all of the 95th Battalion, spent a few holidays here. We are glad to have our soldier boys with us again.

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ROLL OF HONOUR
    Several thousand officers and employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway enlisted for active military duty with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, and the majority of them are now in Europe, bravely battling for Canada and the Empire. 
    As particulars of Army Reservists are not available, these lists of those who have given up their lives for their country, or been wounded in action, are necessarily incomplete, and does not therefore indicate fully the extent to which the Company's officers and employees have participated in the great struggle.

Montreal, December 14th, 1915 (Fifth List)

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Socks for Saloniki
    Miss Annie Clark has received a letter from Mrs. McGillivray, of Toronto, conveying her grateful thanks to the Daughters of the Empire and the ladies of the Presbyterian Church for a bundle of 82 pairs of socks forwarded some time ago for the use of the soldiers at Saloniki.  Mrs. McGillivray states that the response to this particular appeal has been most generous, 1300 pairs of sock, besides other comforts, having been received and forwarded to Saloniki.

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    Mrs. Homer Precious, of Guelph, and son, Gunner W. Precious, of the 29th Overseas Battery, now stationed at Guelph, spent the week end with Mrs. W. Tilt.

Going to England.
    Dr. T. A. Carson has been selected as one of the medical men who will form the staff of the Ontario Military Hospital at Orpington, England. We understand that the Doctor has accepted the appointment and is making preparations to leave for England in the course of a few weeks. His selection is a tribute to his standing in the medical profession, and his friends are congratulating him unreservedly upon the honor that has come his way. We notice that Dr. W. J. Clark, of Toronto, who practiced in Orangeville a number of years ago, has also been appointed to the staff of the new hospital.

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TO THOSE THEY LEFT BEHIND
A Poem for the Patriotic Fund
Your wives flit around about your homes,
    And give you of their care;
Some of the boys who went left wives
    As kind and just as fair;
Your wives have all the joys they need,
    Their dresses warm and neat --
How could you see a soldier's wife
    Ill clad upon the street?
You have your little children safe,
    You watch their happy play,
They laugh and romp about your knees
    Till you are glad as they;
Some boys who went have children too,
    Who oft their days beguiled;
God loves the children; He'll love those
    Who help a soldier's child.
You still possess a mother
    To give her love to you;
The boys who went have mothers
    Who dearly love them too;
Then for the fond old mothers   
    Who watch, and fret and pray
Arise above all selfishness
    And give your mite to-day.
You have your father living,
    But age has round him clung,
Yet he proclaims how he would fight
    If he were strong and young;
The soldiers boys left fathers
    As noble and as true;
Give, give for those old grey haired men
    Who gave their sons for you.
And there are others dear to you
    Whom you are joyed to tend,
Old folks to whom you long have been
    A comforter and friend;
The boys who went left these ones too
    Appealing to your store;
You will not miss all that is asked,
    So give a little more.
Thus giving and thus helping
    You will be aiding on
The struggle that will have no end
    Till victory has shone;
Each bill you give is a shall
Shot at the Kaiser's heart
Shoot, shoot and shot until that hell
    Is shot and rent apart.
Oh! drop those dollar bombs until
    Our fiendish German foes
Are beaten back to the abyss
    From which at first they rose
Give, give your brave assistance
    Until the earth is free --
Upon the struggle rests the fate
    Of you as well as me.
                            -- M. A. HARGADON 

Orangeville Banner dated 10-Feb-1916 Page 1, Column 3
    C. R. Morgan, G.T.R. ticket agent at Hamilton, enlisted as a private.
    Pte. Lawrence Brereton, a returned Woodstock soldier, is slated to be turnkey of Woodstock jail.
    Lt.-Col. Lochead, of the 118th Battalion has returned to Berlin, and says he got a lot he wanted from the Minister of Militia.
    Soldiers will be permitted to assist in seeding operations this spring and recalled to their training depots when crop is in.

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    Chas. M. Ewing, a former High School teacher at Wingham, but now of the 83rd Battalion, was married in Baltimore, Ont. on Jan. 22nd to Miss Isabel M. Haig.
    The second minister to enlist as a private in the 91st Overseas Battalion is Rev. Edgar Richard Elgood, pastor of the Methodist church at Muncey. He is 30 and married.

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    Stephen Mew has rented his 100 acre farm in Peel township, sold his stock and has enlisted in the 153rd battalion.

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Harry Wisdom Wounded
    The name of Harry Wisdom, of the Royal Canadian Regiment, appeared among the seriously wounded in the official list of casualties last Thursday.  Wisdom, who went overseas with the Second Contingent, is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Wisdom, of Hockley.  His parents were drowned by the bursting of a dam during a rain-storm about eight years ago. Out of a family of seven boys, four have enlisted.  Jim and Wilson Wisdom, brother of the wounded man, are at the front and Archie, a younger brother, is training with the Orangeville Company of the Dufferin-Halton battalion. The wounded soldier is a nephew of Councillor Jas. Irwin and Mr. Arch. Irwin of this town.
<Article on the drowning at Hockley can be found in an issue dated 04-Jun-1908 of the Orangeville Banner>

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MAJOR BURCH SPEAKS
Former Pastor of St. Andrew's Delivers Splendid Addresses to Large Audiences
    Major A. L. Burch, of the 74th Battalion, which is expected will leave for England very shortly, delivered three addresses to Orangeville audiences on Sunday.  Major Burch was formerly pastor of St. Andrew's Church here and spoke to large and deeply interested congregations from the pulpit of that church at the morning and evening services.  After the evening service he addressed a capacity audience at the recruiting meeting in the Opera House.  The interest manifested in the last meeting has seldom been equalled in Orangeville, to the doors long before 8.30 o'clock, the stairway was closely packed right from the entrance down to the street doors and the dense mass reached clear out to the sidewalk. People still came in scores and turned away disappointed upon learning that there was not the slightest chance of getting within hearing of the speaker's voice. Hundreds of people were unable to get into the hall, the overflow being sufficient to fill another good sized hall.
    Orangeville Company of the 164th Battalion attended the morning service in a body, occupying pews in the centre of the edifice.  Major Burch spoke impressively from Christ's words "Follow Me" which he explained he had chosen as a motto rather than a text.  The evening discourse was based on the text, "Cannot I do with you as this potter saith the Lord."  The speaker gave a dramatic portrayal of Jeremiah's loneliness and despair, his visit to the potter's field, his sleepless nights and his joy and triumphant hope when he finally realized that God would enslave his beloved people for their own salvation. Major Burch described the greatness of ancient Egypt, Rome and the Roman church and their downfall, when they were broken into fragments much as the potter's vessel.  While the vaulting ambition of the German Emperor and nation was the immediate cause of the present war, the real cause lay in the accumulation of ill-gotten wealth, the luxury and the extravagance of the hundred years of peace preceding the conflict.  Everywhere the world and even the Church itself had set up a money standard -- a golden calf had been held up and all were bowing before it.  The peace that had blinded the yes and dulled the senses of men to the great realities of life had made the present war a human necessity.  The war was testing nations and people, was creating new relationships and new standards of life.  Everyone must be consecrated with the fire of discipline, and all must listen to the Divine voice and then do what He asks, not for self, but for home, our country and the Empire.
    Dr. Carson was chairman at the recruiting meeting and made his first appearance in khaki.  Major Burch and Col. Domville, of the Dufferin-Halton Battalion, made splendid addresses.  The singing was by Mr. C. Connop, Lieut. Ewart Macpherson and Ptes. J. E. Jessop and W. Clowes.

    Mr. J. R. Hartt, M.P.P., has been appointed paymaster of the Second Simcoe battalion, known as the 177th.

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Red Cross Contributions from Belfountain and Cataract Wards - lengthy article

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    Charles Gordon, of Owen Sound, has received a cablegram expressing the sympathy of the King and Queen in the death of his son on active service.

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THE CANADIAN PATRIOTIC FUND - A Statement of Its Objects and Methods - lengthy article

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    Capt. Green has now enlisted 72 men in the Orangeville company of the Dufferin-Halton battalion.  This brings the company up to nearly half strength.

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    It will be interesting to a good many Orangeville people to learn that in a letter from Mrs. Tebbs she tells about a shower of wool for socks for Lieut. Firth's company having been given in St. James Church, Hamilton, where Rev. Mr. Tebbs, former rector of St. Mark's Church, is now the rector.  A good many of the men in the Company are from Mr. Tebb's church in Hamilton.

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    Pte. Horace McGuire, of the 95th Battalion, spent Sunday at his home here.
    Pte. Auric Aiken and Cadet Bull of the Orangeville Company of the Dufferin Halton battalion, have gone to Milton for a special course in signalling.
    Harry Marshall, of Shelburne, has gone to Brockville to join the orderly room staff of the 80th battalion. Marshall was a cornet player in the Shelburne's Citizens' Band and the Band boys gave him a royal send off.

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A Soldier's Thanks
    Miss Gladys Ewing has received the following letter for Our Soldier's Club, the Daughter of the Empire and Ugoigo Club.
                            Somewhere in France,
                                Jan. 20th, 1916.
    I wish to thank you one and all for your kindness extended to me at Christmas by sending such a beautiful Christmas gift.  I certainly appreciated it very much.  It reached me in first class condition.  The candies and plum pudding were excellent and certainly were some treat to receive out here at the front where luxuries are so scarce.  The socks sure came in handy as this is an awful country for rain and wet feet which make it uncomfortable in the trenches.  Thanking you again for your splendid gift and kindness,  I remain.
                            Yours truly,
                                W. R. HUNTER

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DOING HIS BIT.
Samuel Montgomery is Proud That He Was at the Front.
Interesting Letter from Canadian Soldier Written While Convalescing in Hospital in England.
    The following are portions of a letter which Mr. and Mrs. B. Montgomery, of Toronto, formerly of this town, have received from their son, Samuel, who enlisted with the 3rd Battalion of the first Canadian Convalescent Home at Bromley, Kent, England.
Dear Father and Mother and Brothers
    Just a few lines to let you know I received three letters from you the other day. I was very glad to hear from you and learn that you were as well, as this leaves me getting along fine at present.  I am glad to hear the men are getting more worked up now and I hope they will still continue to do so.  We had the Zeppelins over here in London on the 13th.  I could see them quite plainly from where we are.  It was quite a sight.  I don't think they did very much damage from a military point of view, but it is really too bad to have so many women and children murdered by them.  I don't know for certain yet whether I am going to London to the Pay and Record Office or not, but I think I am.  I expect, if I do, my Captain up there will get me a pretty good job so I will be quite alright and you can rest assured that I will not be going to the front at all, so you won't need too worry any more about me.  Of course I feel that if I go to London and take a man's place in the Pay and Record Office I will still be doing my bit. I am afraid, mother, that everybody will have to do their bit before this is over, for the end is nowhere in sight yet and the Germans must be beaten no matter what the cost, for if they ever get through England and Canada the way they have through what I have seen of Belgium and Northern France it would be something damnable. I have had my share of hardships and pain out there, but God knows I would sooner suffer ten times as much fighting like a man again, than see my own mother and some of my friends ravished as I know some of the poor Belgian and French women were.
    I know you would like to see me again and I would love to see you, but for Heaven's sake be a brave British mother and don't lower me by asking me to be a coward and come home again.  Thank God that I am here and that you have a son here and that he is proud to be here.  I am only sorry that I will not be able to go to the front again, not that I want to die or anything like that, for I don't, but I have faced death and thought I was going to die and I was not afraid to die. I do not really believe that God will allow any mother's son who died in France or Belgium fighting like a man to suffer eternal damnation.  I am proud to tell you that I could have died with a smile on my lips and said "Thank God, I have done my bit," when I was wounded at Givenchy, and I hope that when my time comes to die, I will be the same.  I want you not to worry about my being here, but to be proud of the fact that I am here, and to thank God that I am here for I always felt I was fighting as much for you as for my country.

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    Col. McFarland, of the Grey County Battalion, is considering the question of forming a clerks platoon in Owen Sound.
    Mrs. F. Lewis, of Guelph, is dead, while her husband, on special leave to see her, is on his way home from the firing line in France.

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    David Hughes, vice-president of the Berlin trades council, has enlisted.
    The inquiry into the boots supplied to the Canadian soldiers cost the country $4,500.
    Walter Rose, of Maxwell, a member of the 15th battalion, was reported killed in a recent casualty list.
    Mrs. Geo. Tipping, of Jessopville, sent 15 shirts to the Women's Patriotic League in Shelburne and asked for as many more and also wool for socks.
    Geo. Johnston, a Meaford man who has passed his 84th birthday, has learned to knit and recently completed his third pair of socks for soldiers at the front.

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    Brant Avenue Methodist Church, Brantford, whose pastor, Rev. A. E. Lavell, has enlisted as a chaplain, will provide his family with free parsonage and $50 a month while he is away.
    Capt. Burnham, M.P., Peterboro, has introduced a resolution calling for pay for soldiers sufficient for them to properly maintain their families, and for a better compensation system for the wounded men.
    Recruiting figures for January show an average of practically 1,000 men per day for the full month.  Canada has already enlisted 240,000 men for service, of which 24,000 are from Toronto military division.

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IMPERIAL RECONSTRUCTION - Place Empire on New Basis After the War. - Should Settle Half Million Soldiers in Canada, Australasia and South Africa  - lengthy article

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Waldemar
    A very pleasant evening was spent at the home of Mrs. Scott, Waldemar, on Saturday when the friends of her son, Gunner Willard Scott, gathered to wish him farewell before his departure to England.  The games and music were interrupted by an interesting event when Mr. Hiram Evans read an address to Gunner Scott and Mr. Wilfrid Gamble presented him with an envelope that jingled.  The address read :
 To Gunner Willard Scott :
    On behalf of the boys present, I would say that we are glad that one among us has answered the call.  We fully appreciate the loyalty of our fellow companion and we take this opportunity of showing the esteem in which we hold him by asking him to accept of this slight token which carries with it all our good wishes for his safe return.
            James White; Wilfrid Gamble; Arthur Reid; Evan Gamble; Finlay Jenkins; Hiram Evans.

    Durham had a half holiday to welcome the soldiers of the Grey County Battalion on their arrival from Owen Sound by special train.

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Prisoners of War in Turkey
    The Canadian Government has received notice from London that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been informed by the United States Ambassador, that the Turkish Government desire that in the future remittances of money not exceeding five pounds from private persons for British Prisoners of War in Turkey should be despatched to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva for transmission to the Ottoman Red Crescent Society at Constantinople by whom payment to the recipients will be effected and a receipt returned to the International Committee at Geneva.
    Letters and parcels should also be sent to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva for transmission.  Such letters and parcels are post free.  Money should be remitted by International Money Order which can be obtained at any Post Office and which should be made payable to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva and sent on with full name, number of Regiment of the Prisoner of War to whom the money is to be paid.
    Information has also been received from the United States Ambassador that prisoners of war in Turkey are now allowed to write one letter a week limited to four lines and this regulation applies also to letters addressed to them.  Letters of greater length will not be delivered.

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Recruiting Notes
    Harry Dixon, who worked around Honeywood a year ago, has enlisted with the 109th Battalion at Toronto.
    Mr. Fred Tate, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Tate, of Waldemar, has enlisted in the 164th.
    Robert Hastilow, of Amaranth, has signed up with the Grand Valley company of the 164th.  Hastilow is an Englishman who has every reason for enlisting  His wife is a Belgian girl who knows many of the devastated cities quite well.
    St. George's Society in Hamilton, of which Lieut.-Col. Domville is a member, has presented the 164th Battalion with a set of brass band instruments.  The organization of the band, which will be stationed at Milton, is already well under way.
    Rev. C. K. Masters, formerly rector of St. Paul's Church, Shelburne, is now in England acting as chaplain with the Canadian forces.
    Brigadier-General Lodgie's announcement that farmers and farmers' sons will be given leave of absence to permit them to plow and put in the crops in the spring, should prove a stimulus to recruiting in the rural districts.  If the rural recruits are in Canada next harvest, they will also be permitted to go back to their farms to gather in the harvest.
    Mr. Walter Van Wyck, a former Orangeville boy, has enlisted with the 160th at Kincardine.  Walter has been living in Wingham and was one of the mainstays of the Wingham lacrosse team last season.
    Wm. Shields, son of Mr. John Shields, 2nd line, Melancthon and a nephew of the late Robert Shields, of Orangeville, is at Shorncliffe England, with the 3rd. Reserve Battery.  Mr. Shields was in the Union Bank at Montreal, when he enlisted with the 35th Battalion.  Later on he was transferred to the 3rd. Reserve Battery.

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    Blain-Watson - Lieut. Roswell I. Blain (126th Peel Battalion) married Lillian Ladelle Watson in Markdale

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    Pte. Bert Annis, of the Signal Corps of the 164th, was home from Milton over Sunday.
    His friends have since learned that Harry Wisdom, reported wounded last week, was shot through the thigh.

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    Mr. and Mrs. John Clarke, Purple Hill, have an interesting collection of war curios sent from the western front by their son, Pte. Albert Clarke.

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    Dr. T. A. Carson, whose appointment to the staff of the Canadian hospital at Orpington, England, we noted a few weeks ago, received orders to report in Toronto on Monday and left for the city Monday morning.

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    Six sons of Phil Kett, Harriston, have enlisted.
    Including the four officers in charge of the Shelburne Company of the 164th Halton-Dufferin Battalion has now 54 men.
    Rev. G. F. Morris, Methodist pastor at Caledonia, has enlisted as a private with the 144th Battalion at Dunnville.
    Pte. Geo. Aldridge, 84th Battalion, was sentenced at Brantford to sixty days in jail for refusing to work while a defaulter.
    Rev. G. I. Campbell, pastor of Queen street Methodist Church, Kingston, has been appointed chaplain of the 146th battalion.
    Two privates of the 159th Battalion are charged with a $1,500 burglary at Sudbury and two others with receiving stolen goods.
    E. N. Lewis, M.P., Conservative member of the House of Commons for West Huron, has enlisted at Ottawa with the artillery section.

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    Kilborn Russell, of the Dundalk Herald staff, went to Owen Sound to enlist with the 147th battalion, but was rejected on account of a defect in his eyesight.
    St. Paul's Church choir, Shelburne, presented Wm. Pearson, who has enlisted in the Shelburne Company of the 164th Battalion, with an address and a wrist watch.
    Ex-reeve A. P. Potter, of Tottenham, who has enlisted, has disposed of his business to Mr. R. A. Semple, publisher of the Tottenham Sentinal.
    Before his departure for Toronto the citizens of Tottenham presented ex-reeve A. P. Potter, who has enlisted, with an address and a purse of $100 in gold.  Mr. Potter has been reeve of Tottenham for the last ten years.

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    Major James A. Stewart and Lt. Rodgie Stewart, sons of Postmaster Stewart, of Kingston, serving with artillery units at the front, had a chance meeting behind the lines.
    Not having identification papers, Rev. Arthur Carlisle, rector of All Saints Church, Windsor, now chaplain of the 18th Battalion, was arrested in France as a supposed spy.

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Lucille
    Pte. M. Logan, of Guelph, visited friends in this burg last week.
    Pte. Percy Arlow, of Orangeville, gave our burg a short visit last Friday We wonder whether he wanted recruits or nurses.

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Camilla
    Private Jack Rayfield, of Toronto, spent Sunday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Rayfield.

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HOCKLEY
(Intended for last week)
    A number of citizens and friends gathered in the hall at Hockley on Tuesday evening, Feb. 8th, and presented Mr. John Proctor with a wrist watch and purse, and Mr. Hogben with a purse, as slight token of the appreciation of their friends in the surrounding vicinity.
    Mr. Proctor has always lived in Hockley and many friends and school chums feel sorry to part with him, knowing his place will be vacant in St. James Anglican Sunday School and Church, where he was faithful in attendance, and many other places.  But the sincere hope of his friends is that it will only for a brief space, and they shall feel proud to have their soldier boy back once more.
    Mr. Hogben, who has been living in our midst some time, will also be missed, as he gained the favor of the people in some little time. He was always willing to give help in any way in the choir and anything he could do.
    Their friends felt they could not let them depart without expressing in some way their gratitude to them.  Mr. Thomas Goodeve acted as chairman, and after explaining the object of the meeting, and after singing "The Maple Leaf Forever," he asked Mr. John Proctor and Mr. Geo. Hogben to come to the front, and called on the Rev. Mr. Kerr to read the address, while Dunning Irwin and Lawrence Cole made the presentations.  Mr. Proctor replied very feelingly and cheeringly, saying that he was sorry to leave his friends and his loved ones at home, but thought it his duty to do what he was going to do, and assured his friends that if he could keep the Germans from coming over to Hockley, he would do all in his power.  Here was a pause until the loud clapping and cheering ceased.  He also assured everyone that he could not thank them enough nor say in words what gratitude he felt towards them for their thoughtfulness and kindness, and that at every glance at his watch there would be a thought for everyone.  He closed begging that all should not forget to pray for him, while he was sure he knew they would.
    Mr. Hogben's reply was much shorter, as he assured everyone it was quite a surprise for him when he was called forward, but that he should never forget the people of Hockley for their kindness to him, then and in the past.  He thanked them in every way as it was very little in return, and if he did not express his feelings, nevertheless, he felt very deeply.
    The Rev. Mr. Kerr gave a very encouraging address to the boys cautioning them in their new life and deeply sympathising with their mother, father, sister, brother, wife and children, who, he said, were sacrificing more than was really thought.
    After all the speaking meeting with great applause and the singing of "God Save the King," the ladies served lunch, which was enjoyed by everyone.
    After the supplying of the inner self, and departure of some of the older people, the young people enjoyed the remainder of the evening in dancing and music with their two departing friends.  Following is the address :
                    Hockley, Feb. 8th, 1916.
    It is with mingled feelings of pride, of sorrow and of joy, that we meet you here this evening, the eve of your departure to join the 157th Simcoe Battalion, His Majesty's Forces, for active service in the great struggle which our Empire is now engaged in, for no less a cause that the liberty of the civilized world.
    We feel proud because our locality is to be represented in this great world struggle for right, because you are going forth to fight, not only for our beloved Empire and all she holds dear, but also for our own homes, for our liberty and all that is dear to us.  We feel sad because you are so soon to leave us.  Your sacrifice, the greatest any man can make, was not a surprise to us, for we believe this is a question which every loyal son of liberty and of the great Anglo-Saxon race is facing and trying to decide at this momentous time.  Where lies my duty at this moment? We now a dangerous path lies before you, and therefore we hesitate to part with you.
    We rejoice because of your victory in the great mental struggle which we know was yours, that, while many things called you back yet you listened to the greatest call when you believed to be the call of duty.  We rejoice because of the opportunities which you have before you, of bearing, not only the honor of our beloved Empire and of our Fair Dominion, but also of our own locality.  We know you will bear it worthily.  Did we not feel so, we can assure you our sorrow would be much greater, but we rejoice because our acquaintance with you assures us that you will.
    Mr. Proctor, please accept from us, the people of Hockley and locality this watch and sum of money, and as you look at this watch under whatever condition, may it remind you, not only of the esteem of your friends of this locality, but of the prayers which will be offered on  your behalf to our loving Father who watches over us all.
    Mr. Hogben please accept this sum of money as a slight token of our appreciation and esteem of your worth.  We can assure you that you will not be forgotten while absent from us.  For you both we pray that you may never be found wanting in duty, that God will keep and protect you, and that He will grant you a safe and speedy return.
    For our Empire and beloved Dominion, we pray that the God of Battles will grant a speed and successful issue to our cause and to the world at large lasting peace.
                Signed DUNNING IRWIN; LAWRENCE COLE

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IS SIGNALLING
J. M. Aiken is Taking a Special Two Months Course
Interesting Storey of Experiences in Trenches.
    The following extracts from letters which Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Akin, West Broadway, have received from their son, Mr. J. M. Aiken, on the Western Front, make interesting reading : --
                                The Front, Jan. 24.
    Again I am at the guns but now as a B.C. man.  At present, 3.15 a.m., I am on the telephone station at the observation position; later I will be at the first line trenches.  Yesterday was the first time I saw the German lines and when I go to our trench this morning, I will be about 200 yards from the Huns.
    There is quite a bit of night work on this job and doing without sleep more or less for a time will be difficult.  Outside of that there is little hard work.  Of course it gets monotonous sitting with a receiver on one's ear twelve out of every twenty-four.  When you do that two days you get a day off, then go on the battery eight hours, then have another day off then start over again.  There is a rumor that two signallers from our battery, myself one, are to be sent for a full course of about a month for all kinds of signalling, flags, telegraphing, lamps and buzzers.  They say we are to go to England, but that sounds too good to be true.
                                January 25.
    Last night I wrote mother from our O.P., which is in the communication trenches.  Tonight I am in the first line about 200 yards from the Germans.  I will try and describe my experiences as well as I can.  We came up the communication trench, which is bagged about seven feet high, and after walking about a quarter of an hour, reached the front line.  As we walked German shells broke about fifty yards from us causing us to duck from stray fragments.  On emerging from the communication trench we entered an apparently open field.  The front was built up quite high and thick with earth and bags. The rear was in many places unprotected, except for the huts built for the men to rest when off duty.  My first impression was the fewness of the men, but later I found there were lots of them in the huts resting.
    After entering the telephone booth and taking off my coat and hat, I went out and took a look at the German trenches through a periscope, but found them no different from our own.  After that I went down the line and watched a sniper firing, also with the aid of a periscope.  They know every loop-hole in the German bags and fire at them every little while.  All the men on guard are equipped with steel helmets, which though not bullet proof protect the head from shrapnel fragments.
    Tonight besides rifle and machine gun fire, large shells (our own) are whizzing far into German territory. There has been lots of firing, more than usual since dar, but though I expected to feel somewhat nervous on my first appearance here I have not been at all.
    Signalling, now that I have gotten really at it, is fine and very interesting, the hardest part being the long hours on the phone.  Last night I was out from 2.30 until 9 this morning and off from 3 until 7.30 tonight and now till 3 just making seven and a half hours straight duty.
                                January 29.
    So Andrew Dods has decided to enlist and take out a commission.  I dont's think he will ever regret that step.  We need every man we can get to win -- and they will have to come either freely or otherwise.
    Don't worry about the Germans taking me prisoner.  They don't get artillery men these days.
    At present, just 3 a.m. I am at the phone at the battery, which is central for the trenches an observation station.  At eleven thirty to-day I leave for a town in France for a two months' course in signalling.  On Sunday I'll write you full particulars.  It will surely be a fine holiday away from the sound of breaking shells.
                                January 30.
    Yesterday I wrote telling you I was being sent to the rear for two months' course in signalling.  After travelling all day and much of that time in old London buss we arrived at our destination, which is a small city, but today is so misty one can't see what it looks like.  There are about fifty men taking the curse and all apparently fine chaps.  we are taking semaphore and morse with flags during the day, and every other night for an hour will use the lamps.
    Our only cause for complaint is lack of money.  We are all "stoney broke" and our Sergeant says we are only going to get $2.00 each fortnight.  I work out my French on every occasion, but find it is sadly lacking -- whether it will improve by the time we leave is hard to say.

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THEY SET THE PACE
Orangeville Women Give Further Proof of Their Energy and Patriotism
    The following letter, which reached our sanctum early this week, is self explanatory and is only one of many evidences of the practical patriotism of the women of Orangeville : --
                            Toronto, Feb. 17, 1916
Editor Orangeville Banner.
Dear sir :
    The women of Orangeville are already known for their energy and patriotism, but their latest achievement has set the pace for Ontario.  Some few weeks ago a letter was sent to Mrs. Aiken, of Broadway Avenue, from the Canadian Branch of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild, asking her to get a few of her friends together and solicit gifts of Helpless Case Shirts.  The response was instantaneous and magnificent..  Every woman seemed to vie with the next in her desire to give with both hands, and to the number of 154 these shirts for our wounded lads -- the saddest of all-- the helpless cases -- have been shipped to the President, Mrs. Forbes-Angus, in Montreal, and will later go direct to our Queen -- as a gift from Orangeville women -- to distribute as she wills.  It is a splendid piece of work and I would like to say to each individual woman just how proud we are of them.  Instead I am asking the Editor of the Banner to say it for me and for the Hon. Secretary, Miss Catharine Welland Merritt, of St. Catharines, who has made special note of this contribution for her report.
                        Very truly yours,
                            CLARA F. ELLIS
    At this work in which her Majesty, Queen Mary, has been taking a very special interest, it is a matter of gratification that the women of this town should have made a splendid showing. Special credit is due to Mrs. Aiken who initiated the work here and has also cut out a large number of the garments.

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    Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McMaster, Prince of Wales Road, Mono, have recently received an interesting letter from Pte. Sam Burt, of the 58th Battalion.  Burt is now training at Bramshott Camp in England, but states that at time of writing he expects to leave for France shortly.  The young man tells in his letter of meeting his brother, who had been wounded and invalided home from France.
    Mr. L. R. McCabe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch. McCabe, of Laurel, has joined the Shelburne Company of the 164th Battalion. He will be employed as a member of the office staff.
    Pte. S. W. Hamilton, who joined the local company of the 164th a few weeks ago, has been transferred to Milton and is playing first cornet in the battalion brass band now in course of organization.
    Dr. Carson was home from Toronto over Sunday and returned to the city Monday morning.  He was driven to the depot by Mr. T. J. Robinson, accompanied by a sleighload of his friends.  The fife and drum band and the Orangeville Company of the 164th also marched to the station and united in a hearty send-off.  The Dr. expects to leave for England this or next week.

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Recruiting Notes
    Halton and Dufferin Own Overseas Battalion is making good progress.  Over 500 are now on the strength and ore joining every day. The young men who desire to help their Country and King in this great crisis are coming forward very nicely, but their are still a great many others whom the officers would like to see taking an interest in the cause of right.
    The Non-Commissioned Officers and Signalling Classes at Headquarters, Milton, are making good progress and indicate that there is much first class material in the ranks of the Battalion.
    During the past week the Commanding Officer, Lieut. Colonel P. Domville, made an inspection of the Company at Burlington and the Company Classes and Staff at Milton.  He was much pleased by the appearance and bearing of the men.  From the enthusiastic manner in which the local War Auxiliary Committees of the two Counties are working the indications are that the battalion will soon reach full strength and the opportunity of the young men of Halton and Dufferin to enjoy an excellent training in the company of their own associates under first class officers, some of whom have been at the front, with good pay and everything found will be less than it is at present.
    Paul Munro, of Hamilton, son of Rev. John Munroe, formerly of Grand Valley, has joined the Guelph battery.
    Mr. J. E. Spence, an Orangeville High School graduate, who is teaching at Graham Hill, Sask., has sent his father, Ex-Reeve Jno. S. Spence, of Amaranth, a contribution of $15, with instructions to divide it equally between Dufferin County Canadian Patriotic, Belgian Relief and Red Cross Funds.  Needless to say Mr. Spence lost no time transferring the contribution to the proper officials.

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    A. C. W. Hopkins, of the Chatsworth News staff, has enlisted in the 147th Grey Battalion.

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    M. Green, of the Union Bank staff in Erin, has enlisted with the 153rd battalion.
    Russell Wilhelm, of Galt, was unable to enlist until he changed his name to Williams.
    Hugh C. Templin, formerly of the Fergus News Record staff, has enlisted with the Cyclist Corps.
    Mrs. Margaret Lipsett, of Toronto, formerly of Albion, celebrated her 82nd birthday by beginning her 60th pair of socks for the soldiers.

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    A friend of Col. McFarland's, who is an American by birth, and a resident of the United States at the present time, contributed $250 to the 147th Battalion to be expended as Col. McFarland may see fit.
    Dr. Jas. B. Jupp, a Belwood boy, who volunteered for medical service overseas, is dangerously ill from pneumonia at Folkestone hospital, England. He arrived in England with the Toronto battery about January 29th last.
    Mr. W. Watters, who lives near Cookstown, has or had ten brothers who have all been in the trenches, three of whom have been killed.  He also had three cousins in the Gordon Highlanders, four in the navy, two in the motor transports and three nephews in the army medical corps.

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    W. H. Crehan, a former principal of Erin school, has secured a commission in the Imperial army in connection with the medical corps. He has been given the rank of Lieutenant.
    A purse of gold and a good wrist watch was presented to Rev. R. McNamara of All Saints' Church, Collingwood, on his departure to join the 9th Artillery Brigade in England as chaplain.

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Recruiting Notes
    Harry Galbraith, a member of Shelburne Citizens' Band, has joined the 164th battalion band at Milton.  The Citizens' Band, members of the Shelburne company of the 164th and Shelburne Boy Scouts accompanied him to the station and gave him a hearty send off.
    Lance-Corporal Wilfred H. Goodman, a grandson of the late Rev. John Goodman of this town, is in the 3rd Divisional Signalling Company at Ottawa and has just been home for a few days visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Goodman, Howland Ave., Toronto, before leaving for overseas.
    One evening recently about seventy-five young people assembled at the home of Mrs. Robt. Greenwood, of East Luther, to do honor to Pte. Albert Greenwood, who has enlisted with the Grand Valley Company of the 164th battalion.  During the evening Mr. Geo. Deaken read an address and Mr. Wm. Bruce presented the young soldier with a wrist watch as a remembrance from his many Colbeck friends.  Pte. Greenwood is a nephew of Mr. Wm. Irvin of Church St.
    Lieut. Alex. Bowles, who is serving in one of the machine gun sections on the Western Front, and several other Canadian officers had a narrow escape a short time ago. The party had just left the quarters they were occupying when a German shell struck the building, blowing it to pieces. Lieut. Bowles, who attended High School in Orangeville, is a nephew of Mrs. W. M. Green and Dr. W. H. Bowles.
    Through the combined efforts of the various War Auxiliary Committees and the officers of the 164th Battalion over two Companies have now been recruited and prospects are bright for another to be recruited in a very short time.
    The eligible young men of the two Counties are beginning to realize the advantages of joining a Battalion composed of their own associates and as a consequence quite a number of pals are enlisting and being placed together.
    Dufferin County which so far has been rather backward in recruiting is waking up and the men now seem to be aware that if stringent measures are not to be taken to secure the number required they must come forward more quickly than they have been doing.  The consequence is an increased enlistment.
    On Monday evening, Feb. 28th, the ladies of Grace Church, Milton, tendered an oyster supper to the officers and men stationed in Milton.  The Rev. Mr. Cooke presided and after a splendid repast a pleasant hour was spent in toasts, speeches and songs.
    The men of the Milton Detachment enjoy the social evenings being given by the different churches, and trust their comrades in the other recruiting centres are as fortunate.
    Tuesday evening a team from "C" Company went from Milton to Georgetown accompanied by the Brass Band to give an exhibition of Physical Drill.  Several of the officers accompanied them and a pleasant time was enjoyed.

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    "Mono Mills" -  Pte. S. W. Hamilton, who is now playing first cornet in the 164th regiment band at Milton, spent Sunday at his home here.

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    "Whittington" - Mr. Cecil Reid, grandson of Mr. Wm. Tansley, Sr., has enlisted for overseas service in the 164th Battalion. We wish him every success and a safe and speedy return.

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<Please note: this column appears to have some printing errors in the original publication and I've tried to follow as best I can>
RED CROSS FUND
Dufferin School Concerts
    The following is a complete statement of the monies raised since October last by the teachers and pupils of the County of Dufferin through the Patriotic Concerts for the Red Cross Fund.  Look over the list to see what amount your school raised.  Section No. 9, Melancthon, Miss Sadie Cahoon, teacher, with less than nine pupils, raised the largest amount, $78.00.  The money in the hands of the local treasurers should be paid over at once to Mr. Harry White, Shelburne, county treasurer.  Should there by any error, please correspond with the County Inspector.

W. R. LIDDY
    I. P. S., Dufferin

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    Dr. Richard Howey, of Owen Sound, has received a commission in the Canadian Army Medical Corps and is taking his departure for England.

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WALDEMAR
    About 150 friends and neighbors gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Tate, of Waldemar, on Tuesday evening and presented their son, Frederick, who has joined the Orangeville Company of the 164th Battalion, with a handsome military wrist watch, as a slight token of the appreciation in which he is held.  Fred has been a life-long resident of this vicinity and while we hate to see him leave us, it is hoped he will soon return. His friends felt they could not let him depart without expressing in some way their gratitude to him.  Mrs. Ross Lomas acted as Chairman and called on Mrs. George Lomas to read the address.  Miss Tena Gamble made the presentation. Fred replied in a very feeling manner and thanked all for their kindness and assured them that they would never be forgotten and he would do all in his power to keep the Huns from little Waldemar.  Everyone then joined in singing "For He's A Jolly good Fellow."  The evening was spent in dancing and games and it was the small hours of the morning when the gathering dispersed.  The following is the address:
Dear Friend :
    We, your neighbors and friends, desire to express our appreciation of your action in joining the 164th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in defence of Home and Motherland, and furthermore we desire that the appreciation should be in practical form.  We therefore present you with this Military Wrist Watch, and whilst not of great intrinsic value, yet it represents our admiration of your stand, and your regard for you in the past as comrade and neighbor.
    We also desire to convey to you our good wishes and assure you of our prayers on your behalf, and pray God that He may bless you and bring you safely home again.  As you look at this gift you will perhaps think of little Waldemar, and remember that whilst you sojourn in foreign lands, striving to maintain our Empire's integrity and honor, that there are those far across the sea in the loved place called home who are following you in all your wanderings and hope to greet you once again amid the snows of our beloved Dominion.
    Signed on behalf of your friends and neighbors.
            MRS. T. W. REID
            MRS. ROSS LOMAS

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    Major Dyas, a returned Canadian soldier, will speak at the Patriotic Concert on March 7th.

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Home Guard Organized
    About fifty citizens met in the Library Auditorium on Friday night to organize a Home Guard, Mayor Campbell presiding and Rev. A. H. Howitt acting as Secretary.  Capt. Eppes and Major Dyas addressed the gathering.  Those present were enthusiastic in their decision to form a Home Guard and committees were appointed to secure members.  The first drill was held in the High School Gymnasium on Tuesday night when Major Dyas and Sergt. McGillivray, of the 164th spent a couple of hours instructing between 40 and 50 men in squad drill.  The next drill will be held in the gymnasium at 7.15 on Monday night.

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Recruiting Meetings
    The officers of the Orangeville Company of the 164th are holding a number of recruiting meetings in this end of the country this and next week.  A good meeting was held at Camilla Tuesday night and another at Mono Centre last night.  A meeting will be held at Marsville tonight Thursday and one in Orange Hall, Hockley, on Wednesday night, March 8th.

The Soldier's Concert
    A famous squad of the 95th Battalion gave a remarkable fine exhibition of physical culture exercises at the soldiers' concert in the Opera House on Friday night.  The fact that one of the squad, Pte. Stanley Martin, is a local man added still more to the interest in the exhibition. Songs by Corp. Jessop, of the 164th and Pte. Masters of the 95th, short addresses by Capts. Eppes, Bird and Major Dyas, a boxing exhibition by Ptes. Tom Giles and Frank Childs and several spirited selections by the popular fife and drum band of the Orangeville Company of the 164th completed a programme that was keenly relished by the large audience.  Mayor Campbell presided.

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Patriotic Concert
    Orangeville Women's Institute will give a patriotic concert in the Opera House on Tuesday evening, March 7th.  The programme will include selections in elocution by Miss Olive Robinson, gold medalist of London, an address by Mrs. Plumptree, of Toronto, in the interests of Red Cross Work, singing under the leadership of Corporal Jessop, violin music by Miss Clara Hulse and an address by Major Dyas, one of our returned Canadian soldiers.  The citizens' orchestra will be in attendance.  Admission 25c.  Seats may be reserved at McWilliam's Drug Store. Prior to the concert the members of the Orangeville Company of the 164th, headed by the fife and drum band, will march down Broadway to the Opera House.

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GIVEN WRIST WATCHES
Purple Valley Orangemen Make Presentation to Soldier Members
    On Friday night the members of Purple Valley L.O.L. No. 84 presented wrist watches to Ptes. Wilfrid Bagnell, Clinton and Douglas Pierson, three members of the Lodge who are now training with the Orangeville company of the 164th Battalion  The presentations were made in the Orange Hall on Hockley Road, which was filled to overflowing by a gathering of over one hundred Orangemen and their friends. The presentations were accompanied by the following address, which was read by W. Bro. T. H. White : --
To Privates Wilfrid Bagnell, Clinton and Douglas Pierson :
    We, the members of Purple Valley L.O.L. No. 84, desire to express to you our satisfaction at the fact that you have enlisted for overseas service with the Canadian Expeditionary forces, and have identified yourselves with the local company of Dufferin-Halton Regiment, the 164h, which has already attracted a number of patriotic men of the county and this Lodge to the service of our King and Country.
    The war, in which our Empire is engaged, stirs the patriotism and inspires the loyalty of every Canadian.  We wish you a safe return, sure in the knowledge that you will acquit yourselves with credit and distinction.  In your native township of mono you have always been held in high regard and have been worthy members of the Loyal Orange Order.  Your Brethren take a just pride in the fact that your lodge will be so worthily represented at the front.  We ask you to accept on behalf of the Lodge the accompanying wrist watches as a slight token of our appreciation.
    Signed on behalf of the Lodge.
            J. HEWITT
            A. A. STILL
            T. H. WHITE
Mono, February 25th, 1916.
    Rev. A. J. Fowlie presided and the presentations were made by Bros. John Hewitt, A. A. Still and Lewis Moffitt.  After brief replies from the young soldiers, short speeches were made by Bros. David Still, Sr., Jos. M. Island and others.  Township Clerk, W. A. Henry varied the programme with selections on the guitar and Miss Emily Hudson delighted the audience with her recitations.  Songs by T. H. Moffit and S. Roney were also warmly received.  During the evening "The Maple Leaf," "Rule Brittannia" and other patriotic pieces were sung by the entire gathering.  Miss Margare McLaine acting as accompanist.  Refreshments in abundance were supplied by the ladies, this part of the program being under the supervision of Lewis Moffitt and Willie Coulter.  Altogether the gathering was a great success and had the right ring about it, showing that the hearts of the loyal citizens of Purple Valley vicinity are the gallant young men, who have answered their Country's call.

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Socks for Soldiers
    Mrs. John Irwin, a Mill St. lady, who in her 86th year, has knitted four pair of socks for Canadian soldiers.  Mrs. Irwin enclosed a note in one pair and was surprised and pleased to receive the following reply a few days ago : --
                    Newcastle on Tyne, 1, 4, 16.
Mrs. John A. Irwin,
    Dear Friend, -- I received the parcel with the socks O.K. today.  At present we are stationed in Newcastle, a city in the North East of England on the Tyne river, so the parcel went to my old address, from there to our main body in France and then back here.  Thanking you very much for the socks, and hoping that you may see another score of years, I remain,
                Yours,
            Pte. W. W. LACKEY.
 P. S. -- I just heard of the Dominion Parliament buildings being burned down.

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WITH THE 95TH.
J. M. Gordon, a Laurel Boy, is now a Lance-Corporal.
An Interesting Letter from Signaller W. J. Penney.
            "D" Co. Signallers
                95th Battalion, C. E. F.
                Exhibition Camp, Toronto
Editor of the Banner.
    Dear Sir, - Have just finished reading your paper and thought I would drop you a line and let you know how we are getting along.  First I would say we are glad to get the paper every week as it keeps us in touch with the news of the home town.
    It has been cold and stormy down here and not very ideal weather for drilling, but still we can't complain any.  We had a busy day last Saturday, Feb. 26th. At 8 a.m we had a muster parade of the whole battalion.  At 9.15 a.m. we had to change our bunks around and get them in more handy positions. Then at 10.30 a.m. we got orders to take our blankets and move out.  We weren't sure where we were going, so we got our mess cans and water bottles over one shoulder and four blankets and a pillow on the other and all our possessions in our kit bags.  We got out to our alarm post and there was about three inches of snow to wade through.  When we got all lined up the order came to get in our building again as soon as possible.  After we had got our bunks straightened up again we were ordered to fall out for a court martial parade for one of the fellows who has deserted and sold his uniform.  They caught him and he got punishment enough to learn him not to do it again.  It was then dinner time and being Saturday we drilled until 3.15 p.m., when he were dismissed for the day.  we had church parade in our quarter on Sunday, 27th.  We are enjoying our training much better all the time and it is now getting more interesting, but we will be glad when we have a chance at the real business.  I am pleased to state that one of our Laurel boys has been promoted a step.  Pte. J. M. Gordon has been given a stripe and is now Lance-Corporal Gordon.  Another of the Orangeville boys, Pte. S. L. Martin, has joined the signal corps and all of us like the work fine, even better than we did the work in the platoon.
    Well I must now draw this letter to a close as we expect to be up home next Sunday and I want to leave something to talk about.  Wishing the Banner every success, I remain on behalf of all the Dufferin boys,
            Yours sincerely,
        Signaller WM. J. PENNY

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    At a recruiting meeting in Wroxeter Mr. Wm. Mitchell, aged 62, offered to enlist.
    Lieut. G. Sanders, of Erin, has gone to London where he will take a course in the Military College.

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    Although 85 years of age, Mrs. John Lyle, of Brantford, mother of two boys now at the front, has knitted 108 pairs of socks for soldiers and made 5 quilts for Belgians.

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List of Subscribers to the Red Cross Society - Mono Mills Branch.
    The total amount of the subscriptions to the Red Cross Fund up to date is $1081.00  The following are the names of the contributors and the amounts they contributed :
$35.00 - Mono Mills Orchestra.
$27.00 - Mrs. W. J. Mills.
$25.00 - W. J. Mills, Stuart Mason, John A. Vance, D. N. Potter, A. R. Mills, Wm. Jackson, Mrs. Jas. Haffey, Joseph Haffey, George Rawn, James McLeod, Peter Rawn, Robert Rawn, Miss Ethel Allen, Mrs. Oswald Potter, Thomas McCandless, Miss M. E. Newhouse, Frederick Elin, Albert Lindsay, Miss Irene Atcheson, Thomas J. Henry, Alex. D. Speers, William J. Holmes, James Duke, L.O.L. 192, Mono Mills.
$10.00 - Rev. C. H. Quaiffe, George Jackson, Stork Bros., David McMullen, W. J. Kearns, Dr. Dunning, R. J. Speers, W. A. Dowling, Gavin J. Lemon, Nevin McQuarrie, Alexander McLeod, Hugh McKinnon, A. M. Speers, Thomas McPherson, Richard D. Speers.
$8.00 - John Fagan & Sons, Archie Speers.
$7.00 - Mono Mills School.
$5.00 - Miss Emma Williams, W. Lewis, Wm. McKinley, Lawrence Kee, Wilbert Kee, David Patterson, Richard Lyness, District Chapter Scarlet Order, T. E. Holmes, Jackson Potter, S., W. A. Hansford, Wm. Dunn, Samuel Potter, Robert McRay, Dolson Adair, John Welwood, Alex. C. Speers, Mrs. Jas. H. McKinnon, Richard Jenkins, Thomas Moffat, Jas. Armstrong, Miss Florence Cooper, Henry Speers, Robert White, Arthur Cullen, Edgar Patterson, J. J. McMullen.
$3.00 - George May.
$2.00 - R. A. Holmes, Benjamin Cook, David C. Cook, John King, Alban Lemon, Mrs. Alban Lemon, Geo. S. Stinson, Geo. McDonald, John Kearns, John Irwin, Alex. Lundy, R. J. Donaldson, James Williams, Richard Welwood, James Lemon, Ed. Penfield, J. Porterfield, Reggie Jackson, Jas. N. Speers, J. B. Lyness.
$2.00 - Mrs. Black, Mrs. D. N. Potter, Mrs. Carmichael, Mrs. A. R. Mills, Mrs. Wm. Jackson, Mrs. J. A. Vance, Mrs. Wilson Duke, Mrs. Wm. Leggett, Mrs. W. A. Dowling, Mrs. Hazel Fagan, Mrs. Archie Speers, Miss M. J. Patterson, Mrs. Sam. Patterson, Mrs. R. McCandlees, Mrs. Robert Arlow, Mrs. Geo. Rawn, Mrs. Jas. Armstrong, Mrs. Wm. Lewis, Mrs. Gavin J. Lemon, Mrs. John McElwain, Miss S. A. Atkinson.
$1.00 - Mrs. T. J. Henry, Richard McCandless,  R. M. Mason, W. J. Kearns, Wm. Wilson, Robert Ritchie, George Harvey, Mrs. Jas. Taylor, Miss Ina Taylor, Miss Ella Taylor, Alex Murray, Robt. Speers, Samuel Benson, Clarence McDonald, A. Cogger, Ernest Mills, Miss Irene Mills, George Woolner, Ernest Patterson, John Lyness, Miss Minnie Hillock, David Totten, Luke Varey, Harry Farrier.
50c. - Michael Horan, Thomas Bullock

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    "Camilla" - Mr. George Walton has donned the khaki, having enlisted with the 164th Battalion at Orangeville.

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Recruiting Notes
    Earl Hewson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. S. Hewson, has joined the local company of the 164th.
    Louis Knapp, a son of Mr. C. Knapp, formerly of Shelburne, has joined a Highland regiment and is stationed in Toronto.
    When Brigadier-General Logie's appointment to the command of a division at the front is made, he will take with him Lieut.-Col. R. C. Windeyer of the 7th Battalion, formerly Lieut.-Col. of the 36th Peel Regiment, as Brigadier-General.
    Dufferin County's Honor Roll of men in the 164th Halton and Dufferin Battalion, C.E.F., now stands at 185 for the whole County.  It should be at least 500.  What is holding the eligible men back?
    The honor and reputation of Dufferin County is at stake and it is up to the young men to see that it does not suffer.
    Are the young men of Dufferin County waiting for conscription or other measures to bring them tot he colors?  It is hoped such is not the case.  Young men of Dufferin County join the 164th Halton and Dufferin Battalion, C.E.F. "B" Company of the 164th Halton and Dufferin Battalion, C.E.F., with detachments at Orangeville, Shelburne and Grand Valley is composed of Dufferin County men and looking for more.  Get into the khaki and help your pals along.
    A supply of rifles has been received at headquarters, Milton, and is being distributed to the various detachments. Musketry exercise will be gone on with right away so that by the time the Battalion goes to Camp the men should show good progress.
    Ralph Endacott, of the staff of the local branch of the Bank of Hamilton, has enlisted and left town on Monday morning for Ottawa to join the Canadian Engineers.  Endacott is a son of Sheriff and Mrs. Henry Endacott.  Sheriff Endacott already has two sons at the front, so that this makes the third enlistment in the family.
    Grand Valley Company of the 164th had 40 men last week. The previous week has been the best recruiting week since the Company was formed, nine men having signed up.
    Harold Marshall, oldest son of J. A. Marshall, Warden of Dufferin, has joined the 54th Battery and left for Kingston this week.  Marshall attended High School here and was studying medicine at Toronto University when he enlisted.
    Charlie Morrison and Jimmie Hunter, a son of the late W. H. Hunter, The Maples, left for London last week to begin active training for Overseas service.  The young men are connected with the 153rd. Wellington Battalion.
    Eddie Nodwell, son of Mrs. W. H. Nodwell, East Broadway, and Robt. Pratt, son of Councillor John Pratt, of Amaranth, have enlisted in the 54th Battery and left for Kingston Monday morning.  Nodwell is a High School student and Pratt, who has been studying medicine in Toronto, is a graduate of that institution.  The two young men were given a rousing send-off by the students who marched to the station in a body.

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A ZEPPELIN RAID
Interesting Letter From a Birmingham Munition Factory Worker
    The following are extracts from a letter which Mrs. A. Glover, of Relessey, has received from her husband, who is working in a munitions factory in Birmingham.  Mr. Glover volunteered for overseas munition work last August and has been employed in Birmingham ever since he landed.
                93 Monk Rd., Ward N.,
                  Birmingham, England,
                            Feb. 5th, 1916.
My dearest Annie :
    you will have seen the papers, I dare say, about this week's raid on the Birmingham district and also the Midlands.  I was very thankful last Monday night to know you were all safe from harm from the raid.  I went to work at 8 p.m. as usual.  Had only been started about half an hour, when out went all the lights and the machinery stopped without a moment's notice and we were in darkness without any notion of what was happening.  Women were screaming and men were afraid.  I never had such an experience in all my life before.  Thanks are due to the chief constable of Birmingham for his strict orders for darkness, which I believed saved our lives and the building.  I also heard the next morning that the Zepps had been right over us, but owing to the fog that night they were unable to detect our whereabouts, luckily for us, as we all thought our time had come.  Well we got no light from about 8.30 p.m. until 5 in the morning.  Wednesday morning I went around to a little place called Cryston, a four penny car ride from here to see the wreckage caused.  One street was a total wreck.  There were nineteen people killed in this single street and it was only a short one at that. In one case a man, his wife and three children were just having supper, when down came a bomb, smashed the house to pieces and killed the occupants.  They were all working people.  It is simply murder, nothing else.  I saw a lot of other places wrecked too.  Burton on Trenton Station was blown up and some lives lost and Derby suffered also.  The papers don't give anything like a full report.  I felt very thankful so many of you were not in England.  The cutting enclosed is our works, but you will see they give no name.  All I can say is that it has been a terrible week and as you will read in the cutting, we all have to stand by our machines when the raid comes. It takes all the courage one has got to obey orders, never knowing if the whole factory is being blown down.  I feel for the women, still they are brave.

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    Rev. C. W. Shelley, of the First Presbyterian church, Brockville, has become chaplain of the 59th Battalion.
    Prof. L. R. W. Mulloy, the South African war hero, has been made an honorary lieutenant-colonel of the 146th Battalion.

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    Shelburne had a military wedding last week. The principals were Pte. Wm. J. Enderwick and Miss May Munn, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Munn.
    Robt. Hibbert, a former Dominion policeman, who has enlisted at Brockville, has nine brothers enlisted, seven of them having been in the war since the battle of Mons.
    Thos. Gibson, a Toronto barrister, will be senior major of the 168th Oxford Battalion, and R. D. Montgomery, formerly of Woodstock, junior major.  Rev. J. W. Warner, Baptist, Woodstock, will be captain.
    Mr. J. H. Steele, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Steele, of Fergus, has resigned his position in the Royal Bank, Saskatoon, to enlist with the 6th University Corps, stationed at Montreal, Que.

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A RAY OF SUNSHINE
Soldiers Enjoy Remembrances from People at Home
    Miss Pearl Wilson, daughter of Mr. Jas. Wilson, of Mono centre, has received the following letter from one of the Canadian soldiers at the Western front in France.
                            Somewhere in Trenches
                                                February 18, 1916.
Miss Pearl Wilson,
    R. R. No. 1, Mono Centre.
Dear Friend :
    In an issue of cigarettes I received last night I found your address and am writing you to let you know how we appreciate the cigarettes and other comforts sent by the people at home.  Cigarettes are our best friends out here and there is nothing that pleases the boys so much as a parcel or box of cigarettes from the people at home.  it is just like a ray of sunshine breaking through the dark cloud that hangs over this part of the world.
    We are now having a little better weather, but for the last four months we have been up to the knees in water and mud.  It makes one think of home so you see it is no wonder why we long for a remembrance from the people at home. I am with the 25th battalion from Nova Scotia. The battalion that relieves us comes from Toronto.  They are now out for a rest, while we take our turn in the trenches.  I will close now, thanking you kindly and assuring you that your donation to the boys at the front has brought joy and comfort to a Canadian soldier.  I am,
                    Yours gratefully,
                                E. CANNING       

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Presentation to Soldiers
    On Tuesday night the members of the Scarlet Chapter of Orangeville district presented Ptes. Wilfred Bagnell and George Newman with two Scarlet pins and the following address :
                    Orangeville, March 14, 1916.
To Bros. Bagnell and Newman :
    It is with pleasure this evening that we meet to bid farewell to you, at the same time regretting that it necessary for your departure to uphold by force of arms the rights that we enjoy as citizens against an unscrupulous foe.  Orangemen are bound together with one object, liberty, and we rejoice to know that, like yourselves, so many of our Order have sacrificed comfortable homes, positions, and prospects for the welfare of the several allied nations under British leadership to hold fast the principles of world freedom in speech and action for the masses.  As Brother of the Orange and Scarlet fraternity we hope to welcome you on your safe return after the war, but should your name be with the fallen, may it be cherished as it should, among the heroes of Canada's soldiers. We desire you to accept these pins, accompanying this address, and hope both of you may wear them in remembrance of the good wishes of the Brethren and with credit to the degree in the Order which they represent.
    Signed on behalf of the Orange Scarlet Chapter,
                W. ROBINS, 1st. Lecturer

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Farewell to Soldier
    A large number of friends of Pte. Chas. L. Spendiff gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Lemon, of Caledon, on Monday night to bid farewell to the young soldier who is about to take his departure to train for overseas service.  A sumptuous repast was served by Mrs. Lemon and a merry evening was spent until the final parting in the early morning, when the assembled friends gathered around Pte. Spendiff and with deep enthusiasm sang the National Anthem, "God Save Our Gracious Men," "Auld Lang Syne," and "God Be With You Till We Meet Again."  Needless to say every heart was deeply touched and sincere were the hand clasps with which those who had gathered wished the soldier God Speed and a safe return.  Pte. Spendiff's parting gift to Mrs. Lemon was a cushion cover with the name 153rd. Battalion and Flags of the Allies on one side and the words, "To Mother" on the other.  Mr. and Mrs. Lemon's gift to the soldier was a military wrist watch.

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    About 75 of the friends and comrades of Pte. Alex Sime met at his home in East Luther and presented him with an address and a military watch.

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    Friends of Pte. Harry Platt, of East Garafraxa, presented him with a military watch and an address.
    Pte. John Sloane, of East Luther was presented with an address and a military watch by a number of his friends.

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CARING FOR WOUNDED SOLDIERS
Dr. Garfield Bailey Narrates Experiences in Dardanelles
    The following are extracts from a letter written to his mother by Dr. Garfield Bailey, ship surgeon on H.M.S. Folkestone.  The writer is a brother of Dr. Trueman Bailey of this town.
    Since I wrote you I have been put on a new job but still on the same ship. We are running to Suvla Bay (Gallipoli).  We are carrying wounded and medial cases and there are certainly plenty of them.  The weather here is fairly bad and it is hard work transferring the sick and wounded from smaller ships to ours in the rough weather.  There was a bad streak of luck in the weather line and we carried thousands of poor fellows with frozen feet.  The poor fellows were standing in three feet of water fro days in the cold weather so you can imagine what it was like.  The only consolation is that the Turks and Huns are in just as bad condition.  I met one fine little fellow, 15 years old, with both feet frozen black.  I do as much for them as possible under the conditions.  The first thing they ask for is cigarettes and then for beef tea and oxo, so if you collect or organize a society and supply anything you will know that it is being used for a good purpose.  I was ashore the other day and tried to get to the reserve trenches but turned back.  It was too hot -- I mean the shells, and the mud was ankle deep and plenty of snow. Plenty of Turks handed themselves up as they were too frozen to fire a shot.
    I believe there will be something big doing here then ext two months and if I come through safely we will have a blow-out in London after the war is over. One of your papers state that I have not been on land for three months, but the truth of the matter is that I have not been on shore for thirteen months.
    I had a nice letter from Frank in the last mail and I am very pleased to know that he is considering enlisting in the Spring.  He will be in good time for there is no sign of this affair being finished for two or three years yet.  Have met several people from Canada during the last few weeks and also one sister (nurse) from Kingston and two friends of mine from Queen's (1910). We had a pleasant reunion.  I only wish that the war was over, so that we could have a little reunion together again.  You will find me rather changed for the strain of this infernal war tells on all of us.  When we are not looking for shells we are looking for torpedoes, so it is one confounded thing after another.

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    Nelson Welwood and Harry Beamish, two of Dundalk's young men, have enlisted in the 147th (Grey) Battalion.
    Maurice Howitt, B.S.A., of Prince Rupert, B.C., brother of Rev. A. H. Howitt, rector of St. Mark's Church, has enlisted for overseas service.
    'Cliff' Marshall, a son of Dr. Wycliffe Marshall, of Owen Sound, formerly of Shelburne, is now Capt. V.C.W. Marshall, Canadian Army Dental Corps, Folkestone, England.

Our Soldier's Club
    Our Soldiers Club wish to thank Mr. A. Robinson, Zina St., for his donation of $30 from the sale of a horse.  This will help greatly toward the purchasing of yarn for soldiers' socks.  The Club purchased $100 worth of yarn this week and put in an order for another $100 worth which cannot be delivered until July as yarn is very scarce and hard to obtain.

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Emergency Registration
    The Orangeville Branch of the Women's Emergency Corps is desirous of securing applications from the women of Orangeville and this county, who are willing to serve their King and Country during the war by undertaking (when necessary of feasible) the work of men who are called to the colors.  It is hoped that a large registration may be secured.  Applications should be made in person or by letter to Miss E. McKay, Box 119, Orangeville, or at the Court House, Orangeville.  Application forms will be sent on request.
    The following is a sample of the questions to be answered in the form: --
        Christian Name and Surname?
        Full Address?
        Age?
        Married, Single, or Widow?
        Nationality?
        Have you ever done paid work?
        If so what?
        If so when? (Give date as nearly as possible with Employer's name or names.)
        Are you free to work (a) whole time? (b) Part time? (c) to leave you home for work if pay is sufficient and housing satisfactory?
        What work are you willing and able to do?
        If you have never done paid work what kinds of work do you think you could do?
        Are you prepared to be trained for work which you have not previously done?
        Give name and address of two person (not relatives) to whom you are well known, to whom reference may be made, one of whom should be, if possible, a doctor.

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Recruiting Notes
    A class for Non-Commissioned Officers was commenced at the Battalion Headquarters on Wednesday, March 15th. This is a good chance for any ambitious man to secure advancement in the growing Battalion by enlisting now and joining the Class.  Bright young men particularly are desired.
    It is proposed to hold a monster parade of all units in Hamilton and surrounding district on Saturday, 18th of March.  It is probable that the 164th Halton and Dufferin Battalion will be included.  This will be the first appearance of this splendid County Battalion in the City, and they will no doubt make a hit. Colonel Domville would like to take down 800 men.
    Pte. Wm. Enderwick, of the Shelburne Company of the 164th, was presented with a military wrist watch by the firm of Norton Fisher & Co., with which he was employed at the time he enlisted.
    Officers of the Orangeville Company of the 164th had been advised that the Militia Department has decide to give all farmer's sons and farm hands, who enlist, a month's furlough to allow them to return to their homes to assist with the spring seeding.  Their pay will continue as usual while they are on furlough, and they will be allowed transportation to and from their homes for any distance not exceeding 300 miles.  It is likely that the Department will extend a similar privilege to all soldiers who are still in Canada at next harvest time.  this arrangement will be a great help to the farmers and should go far toward meting their obligations to the enlistment of young men from the farms.
    It is expected that 7000 troops will take part in a grand review of the Hamilton Garrison and other battalions of the district in Hamilton on Saturday.  The 164th Halton-Dufferin Battalion will mobilize at Milton and proceed from that place to Hamilton to participate in the Review.  Orangeville, Shelburne and Grand Valley Companies will go to Milton by special train on Friday morning.
    Mr. Ernest F. Jamieson, a dental student in Toronto, has enlisted for overseas service.  Jamieson is a son of Mr. Robt. Jamieson, of Violet Hill, and was formerly a High School student here.

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WOMEN'S EMERGENCY CORPS.
Names of Officers Elected for Mono Township
    At the meeting held at Mono Centre on March 2nd to discuss the work of the Women's Emergency Corps, the following officers were elected from Mono township:
Polling Div. No. 1 - President, Mrs. (Rev.) J. A. Black; Secretary, Mrs. J. J. Crozier.
Polling Div. No. 2 - President, Mrs. J. E. Arthur; Secretary, Mrs. Alex. Still, Jr.
Polling Div. No. 3 - President, Mrs. W. J. Bowers; Secretary, Mrs. J. Halbert.
Polling Div. No. 4 - President, Mrs. (Rev.) J. W. Dudgeon; Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Little.
Polling Div. No. 5 - President, Miss Katie Brett; Secretary, Miss Marie Jackson.
Polling Div. No. 6 - President, Miss Nina Bremner; Secretary, Mrs. H. T. Anderson.
Polling Div. No. 7 - President, Mrs. J. Thompson; Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Henry.
    The object of the Emergency Corps is to aid recruiting in the community, to supply the places of the recruits and also to take an active part in any patriotic work.  Officers elected at this meeting who may wish further information respecting the work of the Society are invited to communicate with Miss Lamont, County Secretary, Orangeville.

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Orangeville Home Guard
    Orangeville Home Guard held a splendid drill in the High School gymnasium on Monday night.  About fifty men were out and were put through their paces by Major Dyas and Sergt. McGillivray.  Drill was followed by a business meeting at which Principal Hackett, of the High School was appointed Captain.  Rev. A. H. Howitt and Mayor Campbell were appointed lieutenants and Mr. W. G. Hyland was selected to fill the position of company sergeant major.  Col. Domville of the 164th was present and addressed the men briefly upon the importance of Home Guard work and intimated that the officers of the 164th would be willing to form a class of instruction for any men wishing to fit themselves for officers.
    To remove any apprehension that may exist regarding Home Guard work, it may not be amiss to state that Home Guards are organized for two main purposes, namely: -
    1. To provide a knowledge of the fundamental principles of military training for those who are by circumstances prevented from joining the active militia.
    2. To create a reserve force to assist in the protection of our Dominion in the event of an invasion by an alien enemy or in case of internal disorder.

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STRUCK BY SHRAPNEL
Pte. Harry Wisdom, a Mono Boy, Had Leg Broken in Three Places.
    Miss Elsie Haddock, of Glencross has received the following letter from her cousin, Pte. Harry Wisdom, who was wounded in January while fighting on the Western front : --
                                    Feb. 7th, 1916.
Dear Cousin : --
    Just a few lines to let you know that I got wounded on January 26th.  I got hit by four pieces of shrapnel in the right leg just above the knee. Two of the pieces went through my leg and the other two lodged in the bone.  I certainly would have written before but my pain was too great.  My leg is broken in three places and the doctors wanted to take it off, but I had to have my little say as to that and I wouldn't allow it to come off.  I may have a stiff leg the rest of my life but that would be better than a wooden one.  You asked me if we ever were at any concerts here, but I thought when the shrapnel hit me I was at a garden party.  Say, Elsie, what is the name of the outfit Archie is in and ask Ernest why he doesn't enlist. will you let all my relatives around that part of the world know about me and give them my address.  Tell them to write as soon as they get the address, for it makes me feel as if it were more like home, even though it is in the hospital.  My address is 478019, Pte. H. Wisdom, R.C.R., "H" Co., No. 8, Stationary Hospital, East Ward, B. E. F. France.
    Well I think I will draw my letter to a close now, so goodbye from
                            Your loving cousin,
                                            HARRY
P. S. - Wilson is quite well and has good health.

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    Rev. H. F. Woodcock, of St. Jude's Church, Oakville, becomes chaplain of the Halton-Dufferin Battalion.
    Canon R. S. W. Howard, rector of Christ Church, Chatham, has been appointed chaplain of the 186th Battalion.
    Pupils of Shelburne High School presented Pte. Jos. Armstrong, one of the local soldiers, with an address and wrist watch.
    The business men of Arthur presented Lieut. J. B. Fair and Sergt. W. S. Buschlen with an address and a purse of money apiece.

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    Dr. W. A. McClelland, of Grand Valley, is in Toronto, taking a training course with a view to joining the Canadian Medical Corps for overseas service.
    Samuel Thompson, a London motorman, was fined $5 and costs for running his car into the rear of the 142nd Battalion while it was on a route march.
    Bert Grieves, who has lived with Mr. W. W. Warnock, 12th line, East Garafraxa for a number of years has enlisted for overseas with the Guelph Co. of the 153rd Battalion.
    Friends of Sergt. Jas. McDonald, of the Grand Valley Co. of the 164th Batt., presented him with an address and a military wrist watch. The presentation took place at the home of Mr. Robert McDonald.
    The municipalities of Dundalk and Proton presented recruits from the two municipalities with an address and $10 each. The presentation took place in Dundalk in connection with a big banquet and reception for the soldiers.

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SOLDIERING IN FRANCE
Interesting Letter from Bert Wheelock, son of County Treasurer Wheelock
Orangeville Boys Are all Well and Making Good at the Front
    The following interesting excerpts are from a letter written by Bombardier C. H. Wheelock to his parents, County Treasurer and Mrs. C. R. Wheelock : --
    I am taking advantage of a chance I have to send this letter with one of the fellows who is going to England, and will therefore go into details more than I have done in the past letters, but of course I will not be able to tell you many things that would be interesting as we have to be careful not to mention anything that would be of military importance.  I will commence at the time we left England for the front.  I think you have bee kept pretty well informed up to that time :
    On the evening of September 13th, one week after we had been in Wales for gun practice, we left Westenhanger for the front, "Somewhere in France."  We travelled all night and reached a port on the English Channel next morning.  There we loaded part of the men and horses on an ocean liner and the remainder on a small side-wheeler, the Mona Queen.  At 8 p.m. we left port and again travelled all night reaching a port on the coast of France next morning.  The pleasure of the trip across the channel to France, I am loath to say, hardly fulfilled the mind pictures of a most delightful and pleasant trip which had been dormant since the days when knowledge had been clubbed into our dull heads by that best of friends and teachers, Alex. Steele, at the good old High School at home.
    The Mona Queen was packed with troops, every available space being taken up.  The night was dark, rain falling and the sea rough enough to make many of the men feed the fishes.  Down below there was not room enough to get stretched out, even the steps of the stairs were packed full of men.  Bun Aiken and I managed to get enough room on the deck near the funnel to lie down and dream of home and feather beds, with the hot metal underneath us, the beautiful cooling rain bathing our brows an our life preservers on so if the rain increased we would be sure to float.
    Upon reaching France we unloaded and pulled out to a rest camp where we had the first square meal since noon of the day we left Westenhanger.  That night at 10 o'clock we loaded up again on the train and started north.  It was a huge train and as we could not find the nigger porter of the box car, which served us for a pullman, to make up our berths, we were relieved of the annoyance of having to go down into our pockets for a tip.  We travelled slowly until the next evening, passing through country very similar to that around Orangeville, but with no rail fences.
    After unloading the train we proceeded across the country stopping two hours for a rest about 4 a.m. then continuing until 4 in the afternoon when we pulled up twelve miles from the firing line.  We rested there all day and it was then that I was advanced to the position of Bombardier.  The next half day our battery pushed on to a position where we relived another battery.  we went into action that night and I, with another Bombardier, was appointed to the duties of an air scout.  We were given much needed instructions for a few days.  Our main duty was to spot hostile air craft when they appeared as specks on the horizon and to report the same.  We lived in a small dug-out just big enough for two.  The roof, which was supposed to be shrapnel proof, was uncomfortably close to the floor. The walls were beautifully decorated with a most artistic collection of pictures.  The former occupants of the palatial structure were evidently cigarette smokers and were therefore in a position to acquire the valuable collection.
    I have acted in a great many different positions since arriving at the front.  In the army they go on the assumption that a change is as good as a rest.  I have had charge of a party pulling down brick buildings that have been shelled and destroyed.  The bricks were used for paving and improving the horse lines.  The horse lines are from four to five miles back of the firing line.  I have also had charge of a sub-section at the horse lines, which was no small contract to handle about 15 men and 29 horses, look after horses, stables, harness, cook house, providing teams for various duties, and many other things. The soldiers expect the man in charge to answer all questions, know where everything is and to put everything right that has gone wrong.  Many of the horses had mud fever which made it much harder to look after them and to provide teams for the work. Besides we have to take our turn at the guns.  While there, six of us live in a small dug-out, double deck bunks are placed around the walls, a can with holes in the centre of the space serves as a stove and a piece of corrugated iron suspended from the ceiling as a stove pipe.  A curtain for a door, and close tot he door, shelves loaded with shells.  Outside the door is our only pet and plaything -- the gun.  We look after it as carefully as a baby, keep it well rubbed and even protect it from the rude gaze of Huns.  The Babe's digestive organs are perfect. We feed her on shells and, although she kicks at time, the diet seems to agree with her.
    At the horse lines we live more comfortably -- generally in a tent or a shack which is heated and made comparatively comfortable.  Conditions are improving very much.  Since Christmas we have shower baths and get a clean towel. We are allowed five minutes under the shower and fifteen minutes to undress and dress.  We also get clean clothing and as many socks as we want.
    The fellows in the trenches have rather the worst of it, especially if the trench cannot be kept well drained.  A good story is told of a private who was tramping along one of the connecting trenches through the mud and slush, when the challenge came "Who goes there." He immediately replied "Submarine U 13."
    There has not been very much excitement along the front for some time, but things are now looking up and promise to be more lively in the near future.  It is impossible for you to have any idea what the fighting line is like.  It was a huge surprise to me.  Things are at times quite peaceful.  we have got so used to an occasional shell bursting or a bullet zipping past that we go about attending to ordinary duties without the slightest fear and as though there was not an enemy within hundreds of miles.  In fact men often expose themselves quite unnecessarily which accounts for some of the sniping.  Fritz is certainly a sure shooter.  The men in the trenches sometimes for a joke shove a 3/4 inch broom handle above the parapet and the enemy taking it for a periscope will smash it every time at 200 yards.
    It is very interesting to watch shell fie and still more interesting and exciting to see the air fights.  We have seen a great many fights between aeroplanes and have occasionally seen one brought down  It is surprising how they ever get through the shell fire as they do.  They remain up for hours at a time being fired at continually.  Aeroplanes are certainly playing a very important part in the war and do some very fine work.  Our aviators seem to be far superior tot he Germans both in daring and numbers.
    A few nights ago six of us were in talking to an old saddler when a big gun about two miles away fired.  I saw the flash and expected the report but he did not.  The concussion sent cans of nails and other things flying off the shelves and he jumped about two feet.  We thought it a good joke, but he did not seem to take it in that way.  The grease spot on this letter, which please excuse, was caused by a shell bursting quite close which knocked the candle off the shelf.
    Gas has practically no effect when helmuts are worn.  Some time ago the enemy planned an attack, sent over gas, and then charged. They were given such a warm reception, that a few of them who left the trenches ever got back and none reached our trenches.  The artillery fire that was exchanged for the gas was something terrible.  It was one continual road and even then all the guns were not firing.  We did not fire at all.  The battery close to ours was shelled out and came to us for protection.  The Huns have not discovered our position yet though it is a wonder.  We were firing a few days ago when they had four baloons up observing. At one time they sent fifty or sixty big shells close to us, they were armour piercing and showered everything around us with shrapnel.  The holes left were eight and ten feet deep.  The only casualty was a Belgian hare that was hit by a piece of shell and we ate him the following day for tea.  You may think it strange and I do myself, that we do not feel the slightest fear when the shells come over, and are out to see them send up the mud every time.
    you will be surprised to know that we had quite a gay time at Christmas.  On Christmas Eve we were invited to a social evening by the officers and it turned out a great success.  We threw hoops over bottles, rolled balls into an empty shell case, etc. for prizes.  The prizes were fine and were a great surprise to us. There were spurs, small looking glasses, tobacco, cigarettes, note paper, cocoa, coffee, playing cards, and heaps of other things. We ordered Christmas dinner at an estaminet near our lines and had a splendid dinner, everything to plum pudding and champagne.  After dinner the boys put up quite a good entertainment.
    A short time ago we were at a first class concert.  Four artists were sent out by the Princess Victoria to entertain the troops.  The concert was held in the expeditionary force recreation room which was packed.  So you see even at the front it is not all work and no play.
    I also take great pleasure in riding.  I have become quite an expert and laugh when I think of the way we used to ride the livery horses at home.  I have at present a beauty of a little black mare, she is full of all kinds of tricks but as quiet as can be, and there is nothing she is afraid of.  She is four years old, has lots of life and can pass all the other horses.
    Bun Aiken and Don McLaren are now both on the Battery Commanders staff, which is in charge of all telephoning, signalling, etc.  They are with a nice bunch of fellows and like it very much.  I was up at the guns last night and saw Don for a few minutes.  He looks especially well now.  In fact all of us are in splendid condition.  I never felt better in my life and have just enough work to keep in shape.  I see Harry Lewis occasionally and also Gerald Preston. The boys in our class at school are pretty well represented at the front and I am glad to hear that others are on the way.  The Orangeville boys are proving themselves to be the right sort.  They do not require conscription like some of the slackers of England.
    The unexpected has happened. The box of apples, which you shipped some months ago, has arrived, after I had given up all hopes of seeing it.  They were in good condition, only three bad ones in the whole box.  You may be sure we thoroughly enjoyed the good Canadian apples.
    The magazines and papers are coming to hand as regularly as could be expected.  They are eagerly looked for by myself and many others.  We have adopted a circulating library system here, and the literature is passed around and exchanged.
    We appreciate, very much, the parcels received from the Soldiers Club and The Daughters of the Empire and more especially as it impresses upon us the fact that the kind thoughts of the people in the old home town are with us.  The selection of the contents showed thoughtful care for our comfort and pleasure.  The parcels contained almost everything we could desire and were simply splendid.  The packing was a marvel and everything reached us in the best of shape.

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Doing Their Share
    Ten Orangeville homes have done their share in sending recruits to the front.  Here are the names : -- D. Machperson 3; Blaney McGuire 3; Harry Endacott 3; Mrs. (Dr.) Lewis 3; Vance A. Statia 3; D. B. Brown 2; Mrs. French 2; S. Jenkins 2; Pearsons 2; Joseph Jackson 2.  It will thus been seen that in ten homes in the county town have furnished 25 recruits. A record hard to beat. -- Shelburne Free Press
    This is assuredly a good record, but it is by no means complete.  Messrs. J. W. Aiken and John Kilpatrick each have three sons in khaki, G. A. Leighton has two sons who have enlisted, Col. Preston and his older son, Gerald, are overseas, and Rich. Sanderson and one of his sons have donned the king's uniform.  Mr. Ambrose Clowes and his son William are both in training with the Orangeville Company of the 164th.

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RECRUITING MEETING
Mrs. Parsons and Pte. Durant Deliver Stirring Addresses in Opera House
Returned Soldier Attributes Allied Reverses to Insufficient Reserves
    A large audience attended the recruiting meeting held in the Opera House on Monday night under the auspices of the Orangeville branch of the Women's Emergency Corps.  As the meeting was in the hands of a women's organization, it was perhaps only natural that the audience should be composed largely of the ladies of the town.  Easily two-thirds of those present belonged to the gentler sex.  The speakers of the evening were Mrs. Parsons, of Cochrane, who is widely known as a Women's Institute lecturer and Pte. Durant, of the 48th Highlanders, a returned Canadian soldier, who has seen fighting at Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60 and St. Julien.  Miss Strang, President, and Miss Lamont, Secretary of the Emergency Corps occupied seats on the platform with the speakers.
    Sheriff Endacott, who made a capital presiding officer, gave some interesting statistics relative to the population of the counties of Dufferin and Halton.  While Halton has the large population, its rural population is slightly less than the rural population of Dufferin.  From this Sheriff Endacott argued that it was only natural that recruiting should be more rapid in Halton than in Dufferin county.  He estimated that while perhaps 400 men had enlisted in Dufferin there were between 2500 and 3000 men of military age still available.  It should therefore be an easy matter for this county to raise its share of the 164th Battalion.
    Mrs. Parsons, who was given a hearty reception, made a stirring recruiting address.  At the outset she took the position that Canadians had not come to realize the hopelessness of Canada's position should Germany win the present war.  Canada was one of the great prizes of the war and should Germany win this country would speedily become a German dependency.  So far as the Allies are concerned military operations up to the present time had been largely a succession of failures.  These failures Mrs. Parsons attributed chiefly to the lack of men.  The reason that it was so very hard to get recruits in Canada was that our Canadian men had not realized the dire necessity of the situation.  At present Germany was in control of twice as much territory as at the beginning of the war and had sixty-seven and a half million more people nominally under her rule.  A German victory, Mrs. Parsons argued, would mean the same fate for Canada as Belgium and Serbia had already experienced.  Great Britain had been described as a nation that was cursed with drunkenness, but statistics showed that where England had one drunken man Germany had six, where England had one criminal, Germany had 16, and where England had one illegitimate birth, Germany had 26 of them.  Under German rule Canada would be reduced to a state of vassalage, its people would have no choice as to what they would do and learn.  They would be obliged to learn the German language and everyone would have to serve as a soldier whether he wished or not.  Canada farmers would be reduced to the position of German serfs and slaves. T hey would no longer be land owners as they are at the present time because all the land would belong to the state. Mrs. Parsons cited instances of German cruelties for the correctness of which she stated she was prepared to vouch. In the home of one of her relatives in England are three small Belgian children, all of whom had been mutilated by German soldiers.  Canadians did not want this war fought out on Canadian soil.  They want it settled on the other side of the Atlantic, and the only way to ensure this and a speedy end to the war was to send to the front every man that Canada can give.  The more men the country gave the more it would get back.  Mrs. Parsons referred to the cleanness and splendidness of camp life and asserted that it would be impossible to get together 10,000 civilians who would measure up to the moral standard of 10,000 Canadian soldiers.  She appealed to mothers not to keep their boys from enlisting and stated that she did not believe that any mother had any excuse that could not be met and answered fairly and squarely.  If women persisted in using their influence to keep their sons and husbands from enlisting they were going to bring conscription to Canada and, added the speaker, "for my part I don't care how soon it comes."  Voluntary enlisting was a waste of our resources in this time of stress.  It was a disgrace that such appeals should be necessary to secure men for the front.  Women should be prepared to encourage their men to enlist and prepared to undertake to fill their places.  There should be no work that women can do that they would not try to do.  The omen of to-day might not have the physique and hardiness of the women of yore, but they had some backbone yet.  Speaking of girls taken men's places as news agents and street car conductors, Mrs. Parsons expressed the opinion that any girl could go anywhere in Canada in the King's uniform and the King's business without being subject to insult or insinuation.
    Pte. Durant gave a racy and humorous account of the voyage of the First Contingent across the Atlantic, their experiences while in England and particularly at Salisbury Plain, the journey to France and the part his regiment took in the battles of  Neuve, Chapelle, Hill 60 and St. Julien.  At each of these places the British demonstrated their ability to take German trenches, but were forced to withdraw because of insufficient reserves.  The retirements were far more costly in men than the attacks.  This showed the need for more men at the front.  Pte. Durant concluded an admirable address with a stirring appeal to young men to enlist to do their bit in the Empire's time of need.
    St. Andrew's S. S. orchestra provided a delightful musical program.  Misses Hazel Patterson and Irene Henry contributed two fine piano duets and Miss Bessie Lewis sang two solos in her usual captivating manner.
    The speakers, chairman and others taking part in the program were tendered a hearty vote of thanks upon motion of Mr. D. Macpherson, seconded by Mr. V. A. Statia.  Before the audience dispersed Miss Grace Strang, president of the Orangeville branch of the women's Emergency Corps spoke briefly upon the work and objects of the organization.

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WHITTINGTON
    Mr. W. J. Hamilton has received a card from a German prisoner dated January 31st, 1916, with an interesting message for the Whittington Sunday School. The missive read as follows : --
    Dear Sir, -- I received the box of underwear in good condition and it was just what I needed, and remember me to all the members of the Sunday School and my teacher, Mrs. White, and if I get home safe I will be around to see you all. Thanking you for your kindness,
                    Good-bye,
                                    W. O. TINDALE

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    "Laurel" - Pte. E. A. Gordon and brother Lance Corporal Jos. Gordon, spent last week under the parental roof.

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Presented With Pins
    At their regular meeting on Tuesday evening, Mar. 14th. the members of mono Britons L.O.L. No. 259 presented bro. Dr. T. A. Carson, whose appointment to the Ontario Hospital, Orpington, Eng.  The Banner has already noted, and Bros. Will Welwood and Percy Arlow, of the Orangeville Company of the 164th Battalion, with Royal Arch pins.  A very enjoyable evening was spent in dancing and other amusements after which lunch was served by the ladies.

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Recruiting Notes
    Mr. Rich. Robinson, of the Bell Telephone Co's. office staff has enlisted with the local Company of the 164th.
    His friends and associates in Danville, Que., presented Pte. Mervin Leighton, of the Grenadier Guards, with a handsome military wrist watch last week.  Pte. Leighton was on the Bank of Commerce staff in Danville before enlisting.
    Corporal "Jimmie" Dawson, of the 95th Battalion, is spending a week's sick leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Dawson.  "Jimmie" is just out of the hospital after a sever attack of quinsy.
    Harvey G. Banks, of Davidson, Sask., has enlisted with C Battery, R.C.H.A., at Kingston and have been training there for several weeks. Robert C. Banks, of Kincaid, Sask., has enlisted with the 128th Battalion at Moose Jaw.  The young men are brothers and are former Amaranth boys.
    Councillor Wm. Robbins has show what kind of stuff he's made of by signing up with the 164th. While he is considerably older than the average recruit, Robbins is a strongly built, active man, and will make a first-class soldier.
    Pte. Mervin Leighton of the Grenadier Guards, a crack Montreal battalion, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. ? Leighton.  The Grenadier Guards expect to sail for England about April 1st, and this was Pte. Leighton's last leave of absence before sailing.
    The 164th had 585 men in line in the big military parade in Hamilton on Saturday. The Dufferin Companies journeyed to Milton by special train, which left here at 7 o'clock Friday morning, spent the day in the Halton county town and proceeded to Hamilton Saturday morning. T he battalion is said to have made a fine showing in the parade. The local men report a fine outing.
    Capt. Douglas D. Eppes, who has been in charge at Shelburne for several weeks, has been appointed Adjutant of the Battalion, and has been transferred to Headquarters at Milton to take up the duties of his new position. Lieut. T. E. Daniel is now in charge at Shelburne.

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    Western University, London, is offering the Government a complete field hospital staff for overseas service.
    The choir of Shelburne Methodist Church presented Pte. Wm. Enderwick with a silver fruit bowl and knife.
    Dr. Allan Cleghorn, of Brantford, serving with the C.A.M.C., is dead from pneumonia at Bramshott Camp, England.
    Col. L. R. Carleton, former commander of the Royal Military College, Kingston, has been made a brigadier-general.
    Dundalk Orangemen presented Ord Cornett, of the 147th Grey battalion, with an address and a handsome signet ring.

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    Mr. J. L. Yule, organist of Division St. Presbyterian Church, Owen Sound has been accepted for overseas service with the Canadian Ambulance Corps.
    Color-Sergt. George Tilley, 49th Regiment, a veteran of the South African war, and his son Peter have enlisted together in the 155th Battalion at Belleville.
    An effort is being made by Mayor Kemp of Woodstock, to get Brantford in line in an attempt to have all county battalions retained at county headquarters for summer training.

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300 MEN.
Whirlwind Campaign for Recruits on Monday and Tuesday next
    Monday and Tuesday next, April 3 and 4, are to be momentous days in the history of Dufferin County.  On these days a concentrated effort will be made to secure an additional 300 men for the Halton-Dufferin Battalion, the officers and men putting their whole energy into filling up the vacant places in the ranks of the 164th.
    It is the wish of Col. Domville; as well as those at Divisional Headquarters at Toronto, that such an effort be made at once.  Dufferin County was asked last fall for 500 men and its quota for the 164th.  Up to the present only about 200 have responded to the urgent call.  With spring opening, the officers are looking forward to going into camp, before which time their battalion must be fully recruited, organized and trained sufficiently to take its place with any other battalion in the Division, and the time is short.
    Lists of eligible men are being prepared, posters will be displayed and literature distributed.  A recruiting meeting will be opened on the main street, and other recruiting plans will be worked out.  A mass meeting will be held on Sunday evening, at which a prominent speaker from Toronto will be present.
    Following this meeting, on Monday morning the officers and men will start a personal canvass of all the available men.  These will be asked to give satisfactory reasons for not serving their country -- a reason they would not be ashamed to display publicly -- or to enlist at once with their home battalion.  There will be no cause given for any ill-feeling, but it is felt that the urgency of the situation calls for a very direct appeal to every available man.
    Merchants and other business men are asked to assist by placing recruiting posters, flags, etc., in conspicuous places in their shop windows.
    EVERYBODY HELP IN THE CAMPAIGN.

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    "Caledon" - Corp. S. Howe, Pte. W. McCandless, Pte. A. Gilbert and Pte. A. McCarroll, of the 126th Peel Battalion, Brampton, spent the week end with Caledon friends.

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Received the Parcel.
    The following letter will be of particular interest to the members of St. Andrew's Church Ladies Aid Society : --
                            In the Field,  Feb. 9th, 1916.
Mrs. Jessop,
    Sec-Tres. St. Andrew's Ladies' Aid.
Dear Mrs. Jessop :
    After having had to report your parcel lost it is particularly gratifying to be able now to acknowledge its receipt.  One is reminded of the returned argosies in The Merchant of Venice and how happy we were in Antonio's good fortune.
    I said "parcel," I think I should substitute "shipment" or some such word suggestive of immensity.  I doubt whether a bigger box ever came into camp.  It has come too at a time when a taste for candy killed by over indulgence at the Christmas season has been born anew.  I can assure you that it is being much enjoyed by the boys and that they have a warm spot in their hearts for the ladies who were so thoughtful of them.  The candy, I may tell you, was in excellent condition and all edible even where it had run a little due probably to heating en route.
    I have heard in a recent letter that Mr. Jessop is undertaking to provide music for the 164th.  I can testify to the help which any music is on a march and I know that the 164th will be very well looked after in that respect.
                    Gratefully and Sincerely,
                            J. R. MACPHERSON

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    "Mono Mills" - Pte. Arlow was at his home here over the week end.

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    "Hockley" - We understand that Corp. H. Glover, of Relessey, is to pay his farewell visit to this vicinity for a couple of days between March 30th and April 4th.  This will be a farewell visit before his departure on April 6th for overseas service with the Canadian Buffs.

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FOR RED CROSS
Names of Contributors in Alton and Melville Cross Wards
    The following is a list of the contributors to the Canadian Red Cross Society of Peel County in the Alton and Melville Cross Wards, of Caledon Township
    $100.00 - Alton Girls Club, J. M. Dods.
    $45.00 - S. S. No. 11 (Bazaar).
    $32.60 - Royal Circle (Methodist Church, Alton).
    $25.00 - J. B. Smith, Geo. Hall, Jno. Hopf, Mrs. E. D. Barber, H. McPherson, G. W. Wanklin, J. O. Smith, Arthur Lovell, dr. McKinnon, D. C. Worts, J. L. McDonald, Jno. Lovell, Mrs. Wm. Algie, Andrew Blumme, Ernest A. Bates, Mrs. J. M. Dods, Geo. Ward, L. H. Lemon, Amos Mason, Wylie Houston, Bert Buchanan, J. A. Hodgins, E. D. Barber, Henry Ambrust, R. Thomas, Hy. Scott, J. A. McGregor, Arthur Huston, Wesley Maxwell.
    $20.00 - T. Smith & Sons.
    $15.00 - D. Conley, Robt. Sproul.
    $10.00 - C. R. Cuthbert, R. Jones, Allen Maxwell, Jas. Barber, Lila McCartney, A. Conley, Emily Gudgins, Louis McFaul, J. W. Montgomery, Jas. Johnston, Thos. H. Smith.
    $9.05 - S. S. No. 12 (Tag Day)
    $7.00 - Geo. Gooderham, Jno. Madill.
    $6.00 - Wm. Dorrington, A. E. Shaw, Geo. Torrance, Ed. Corbett.
    $6.35 - Dance Committee (per Mrs. Mason).
    $5.00 - Jas. Hillyard, S. Kannawin, Jos. Davis, Jno. Corbett, Jno. Henderson, Jas. McCann, Hy. Ableson, Mrs. W. S. Martin, Thos. Hillyard, Mrs. J. Lovell, B. C. Cook, V. R. McCallum, Geo. McIntyre, Jane Willoughby, R. J. Dean, Edgar Ireland, D. Darraugh, Russell McMahon, Jno. Currie, Jos. Lemon, J. C. Limebeer, Isaac Bradley, Jno. T. Watson, S. Island, T. Bracken, Wm. Meek, Thos. Delaney, Mrs. H. Scott, R. A. Scott, Albert Sawden, Jno. Ellis, J. R. Cook, Elmer Harrison, Thos. Rodick, Thos. Maxwell, A. N. Adams, Wm. McCutcheon, J. H. Glassford, Jas. Presley, Jno. McLauchlan, Stewart Corbett, Sam. Dodds, Harry Adams, Hilton Dale, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Culligan, Wm. White, N. Dilman, Mary McClellan, A. J. McClellan, Wm. Ward, Nellie Hodgson, John Erskine, Owen Finnegan, W. McConnell, Andrew Dods, Jno. Buchanan, David Fines, Earl Harrison, Jos. Carroll, Albert Neil, Isaac Sargeant, W. A. Jenkins, John Gooderham, Rich. Fines, Mrs. N. Nelson, Chas. Scott.
    $4.00 - Fred Martin, W. Coulter, Geo. Greatorix, Howard Johnson, W. Erskine, Alex. Patterson, Mrs. J. Erskine, Mr. Carlisle, Mrs. A. Lovell, Harry Lovell, F. Stewart.
    $3.00 - Wm. Huston Jr., Geo. Hillock, Jno. Murphy, Wm. Myers, Jos. Hillock, Ben Madill, Miss J. Armstrong, Mr. Turner, Ernest Adams, Mr. Dowswell, Ed. Delaney, Mrs. H. Hoskin, Mrs. Sam Barber.
    $2.50 - Russel Jenkins.
    $2.00 - Mrs. R. Houston, Wm. Walwin, H. H. Stringer, Wm. Harkies, Albert Stringer, D. Martin, Olla Dick, Mrs. Jas. McCutcheon, Frankie Brodie, Albert Morris, Jean Barber, Phoebe Algie, Geo. P. McKenna, Wm. Rowcliffe, Ellison Smith, Russell Johnson, A. Sinclair, Lillian Sinclair, Janet McNeil, Margaret McNeil, Mrs. Geo. Morris, Mrs. Alex. Dick, Mrs. P. V. Lemon, Mary Trimble, Joe. Palmer, Sr., Alex. Dean, Wilfred Sinclair, Edward Trebble, Jos. Hay, Jno. McCruden(?), Mrs. E. J. Ellis, Norene Noble, Mrs. Jane Thomas, Thos. McClellan, Miss E. Thomas, Geo. McClellan, D. Harkness(?), Jno. Watson, D. McFaul, Jas. Hillyard, Jr., Sam Corbett, Grace Barber, Edith Dods, Tone Gibbs, Mrs. J. Gabriel, MR. McIntosh, Miss M. Hill, Mrs. Simpson, Misses Dowswell, Mrs. Martin, Joe Palmer, Jr., S. A. Shaw, Herb Storey, Mrs. D. Patterson, Mr. D. Patterson, Mrs. Jos. McClellan, Mrs. D. White, Mrs. M. Gibbs, J. Dilman, Thos. King, S. Lowe, D. Simpson, J. Lowe, J. Simpson, W. J. Dods, J. Collier, E. Marsh, Herb Peterson, Mrs. M. Davis, T. R. White, Mrs. Wyatt, Mrs. T R. White, Mrs. Jno. McLauchlan, Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Armstrong, Joyce McConnell, Bert French, H. Nelson, Mrs. M. Stubbs, Sam Delaney, W. P. Dawson, Wilmer Dawson.
    $1.00 - Mrs. Geo. Temple, Wm. Ward, Miss M. McKenzie, Mrs. Jas. Ward, Dolly Morris, Jennie Wellwood, Wm. J. Shaw, Joe. Hackett, Mrs. W. J. Shaw, Alex. Dick, Bella Morris, W. R. Dick, Allan Johnson, Earl Martin, Pearl Shaw, Mrs. Chamberlain, Hazel Burnett, Leonard Smith, Lucy Wellwood, Jno. J. Stroube, Mrs. H. Bailey, Letitia McCann, R. J. Page, Hazel Gooderham, Florence Hunter, Tillie Kochler, Julia Palmer, Gertie Gooderham, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Cockerill, Henrietta Forsythe, Emma Hall, Mrs. Lowe, Maggie Ward, Margaret Sinclair, Irene St. Croix, Lily Coleman, Marie Teeter, Mrs. M. Gooderham, Mrs. Hillock, Jack Hall, Gordon Clark, H. Myers, C. D. Chamberlain, R. Jacques, Ella Harris, Mardel Davidson, Geo. Dean, Tena Myers, Jas. Morrison, Cecil Patterson, Mrs. Wm. Meek, Reggie Lowman, Jno. Clark, L. E. Clark, Margaret Dods, Frank Anderson, Mrs. A. Gibson, J. B. Dodds, Dorothy Dods, Ottie Gibbs, Mrs. Forsythe, Hope Barber, Lizzie Meek, Ida Lovell, Miss B. Hoskin, Miss P. Collins, Mrs. Chapman, Misses Vera Martin, Millie Lovell, Winnifred Duckworth, Margaret Simpson, Violet Rambo, Edith Trimble, Hazel Hall, P. Trimble, C. Forsythe, R. Collins, G. Pearson, F. Hoskin, M. St. Croix, L. Walker, May Harris, Elwood Sutton, John Jenkins, Mrs. McKinnon.
    50c - H. Russell, Jim Scarmuzzie.