Sherbrooke daily record, 4 juin 1915, vendredi 4 juin 1915

[" K.-U Sherbrooke Daily Record.Established 1897 SHERBROOKE, QUE., FRIDAY JUNE 4, 1915 ONE CENT THOUSANDS GREET GALLANT EASTERN\tREGIMENT Streets Thronged As Regiment Marches 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Make Fine Showing\u2014Men of Strong Physique\u2014Best The Country Has\u2014Dis= mounted Drill on Parade Ground Interesting Feature-Sports This Afternoon\u2014Concert To=night.OFFICERS OF 5th MOUNTED RIFLES, (Sherbrooke)\tfROHT Sherbrooke City and the Eastern \u2022Townships bid Godspeed to the 5th (Canadian Modnted Rifles as they go èforth to battle.The exact date of (departure is not announced, but to-fday marks the official farewell, and (trom all parts of the Eastern Town-tehips and from more distant points \u2022thousands have come to greet the /jgallant lads in khaki.Incoming trains, this forenoon, i were crowded to the doors, and a large number of people arrived on ; afternoon and evening trains yesterday.The visitors include a good Imany from Montreal, which is largely represented in the regiment.SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED.The schools in the city are closed to-day, and as far as possible the 'day is being observed as a holiday.Stores are open to accommodate the many visitors to the city who wish to do shopping, and many merchants are offering special displays for the benefit of to-day's patrons.TO-NIGHT\u2019S.CONCERT.The programme committee of the Kth Canadian Mounted Rifles has arranged a most interesting programme for the regiment\u2019s farewell concert at His Majesty\u2019s Theatre tonight.There has already been a large sale of seats, and a crowded house is expected.The concluding item will be one of the very interesting features of the programme.It is known as the Salute to the Allies.A number of Sherbrooke young ladies will participate, beaSng the J%'.gs of the Allies, which will be saluted by detachments from the regiment.doing this?That the Empire might1 live, that Canada might live and that the civilians who lined the sidewalk might continue to enjoy the liberty that belongs to British citizens.These are the facts and may well be borne in mind when appeals come for the smaller sacrifices in connection with the home services in the way of Patriotic and Red Cross contributions or along other lines, where those who stay at home can help.The Regiment proceeded this morning, to the Parade Ground over the route already announced.At the Parade Ground the Regiment dismounted, one man holding four of his comrades\u2019 horses, and the dismounted men going through the various movements of regimental! drill.INSPECTED BY COL.SMART.| As soon as the Regiment had taken its position on the Parade Ground, Lieut.-Col.Smart, Brigade Com-; mander, inspected \u201cA,\u201d \u201cB\u201d and1 \"C\u201d Squadrons, the Machine Gun; Section and the Signallers, The Regiment was then put through! its drill by Lieut.-Col.Baker.There was an immense crowd at the Parade Grounds who heartily cheered i the gallant regiment.\t; The return march began at about twelve o\u2019clock.\tI m 'tmi mm im 'N Top row, left to right:\u2014 Lt.Cushing, Capf.Eustis, Lt.Bishop, Lt.Todd, Lt.Tritsch, Lt.Meyerling, Lt.Tourey, Lt.Duggan, Lt.Llorton, Lt.Hewson, Lt.Smeaton, Lt.Craft, Lt Cotton.2nd row:\u2014 Lt.Tindall, Lt.Rhoades, Capt.McCleod, Major Wilcox, Major Draper, Major Stockwell, Capt.Fitts, Capt.Cleveland, Capt.Ray, Lt.Robinson.In front:\u2014 Col.Geo.H.Baker, Col.B.B.Morrill.NOTE\u2014The above list of officers is complete with the exception of Captain Pilcher who was not present when the photo was taken.FINE BODY OF MEN, SAYS COL.SMART THE PARADE The parade, this morning, started nt 10.30.Sometime before this the streets along the route leading to the Parade Ground, were thronged ; with people, and hundreds of automobile parties from out of town points lined the thoroughfares.\u2022Previous to the arrival of the Regiment a detachment of mounted men galloped to the Parade Ground and took up their positions as mounted police.The approach of the Regiment was 'announced by the bugle corps which preceded.The Regiment was headed by Lt.-Col.Baker, followed by Lt.-Col.Morrill and Adjutant Rhoades.Then came the other staff officers, ¦ followed by the officers and men of | the three squadrons which compose the regiment.the regiment, the maebine-gun section and the signallers.REGIMENT MAKES FINE APPEAR- AiNCE.The Regiment was at its best as it! marched through the decorated, streets of Sherbrooke this morning.; The effects of three months of train- ; ing was apparent, in the trim, sol-i dierly appearance of the khaki-clad officers and men.Physically strong, mentally endowed with the courage and determination necessary for the! task before them, one felt as lib looked upon them that here was a spectacle typical of what is going on all over the British Empire today\u2014men marching and training for the battle {ray, not a conscript force driven to the fight but freely volunteering for the great service.There was in it all a wonderful lesson for the onlookers if they would but read it\u2014here was the fighting force of the Townships, for khaki means fight, men in every walk of life who were leaving business, friends and home and tailing all the risks of present day warfare.Why were they MEN OF THE CORPS HAD BEHAVED LIKE GENTLEMEN AND SOLDIERS WHILE IN SHERBROOKE At the conclusion of the boxing programme, Colonel Smart, on behalf of the Sherbrooke Patriotic Fund thanked the spectators for their presence.He was sure everyone had enjoyed the evening\u2019s entertainment and be knew the n.c.o.\u2019s and men were only too pii eased to give the exhibition.There was nothing better for men than those matches to teach them to keep their temper and maintain a feeling of friendship and esprit de corps which had been evidenced throughout the evening.Ool.Smart announced that the regiment required a few more recruits and he hoped that entertainment would be the means of obtaining some from the district.He invited everyone to attend the sports at the camp grounds today, and concluded by stating that the Fifth Mounted Rifles were the best lot of men he had ever had the good fortune to command, and it was acknowledged by the citizens of Sherbrooke generally that they had behaved themselves like gentlemen and soldiers.MANY ATTEND BOXING EXHIBITION AT STADIUM A very interesting exhibition of scientific boxing by members of the Fifth Mounted Rifles was given in the Stadium last night on behalf of i the local patriotic fund.It was giv-j en under the patronage of Col.Smart and Lt.-Col.Raker, who were both I present.The attendance included Lt.- j Col.Morrill and the officers of the regiment.There was an attendance of about five hundred and some clever work was seen.The band rendered some lively selections during the evening.There were .eleven bouts as follows.No decisions were given.Pte.Labelle vs.Pte.Marcotte Pte.Stroud vs.Pte.Phillips Pte.Coulthard vs.Pte.Fincher Corp.Currie vs.Pte.Porter.Sgt.Stewart vs.Pte.Bowers Master E.Prinn vs.Master Billy Webb.Pte.Osgood vs.Pte.Graham Kgt.Grace vs.Sgt.McBride Sgt.Morgan vs.Pte.Dyke Pte.Robertson vs.Pte.Kelley Gorp.Senior vs.Pte.Olden Referee\u2014Q.M.8.Prinn Timekeeper\u2014Lieut.H.F.Meurling, of Machine Gun Section.(See also page 5.) E.T.MEN HGM ILL Pte.Harold leonei, Cowansville, Among; Tliose Reported Killed el Front SECOND COWANSVILLE SOLDIER TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR KING AND COUNTRY.Cowansville, Jins 4.\u2014(Special)\u2014 Another Cowansville man has given his life for his King and Country, word having been received last evening by Mr.John Mooney that his son, Pte.Harold Mooney had been killed in action.Young Mooney was at home from the west when the war broke out, and he was one o; the first to answer the call, join'ng the 48ih Highlanders of Toronto.The deceasrd soldier was born in Cowansville, and was well-! nown in the place.He was about 23 years of age, and much sympathy is felt for his parents.A memorial service will be held jn the Congregational Church on Sunday evening in memory of the late soldier.This is the second Cowansville soldier that has fallen at the front, the other being Corp.Hawley who was also with the same regiment.GEN.VILLA DENOUNCES j CARRANZA ' ^ Declares He Has Associated Himself With Foreigners to Destroy \" LLOYD GEORGE APPEALS FOR FAVOURABLE TO ITALIANS Have Assumed an Effective Offensive Against the Austrians, Who are Strongly Entrenched and Supporled by Powerful ; Artillery.~ ' Out oft German Base of Supplies at Memel.Russians ~\t' all War Material from Przemysl Before Evacuating Fortress.Rome, June 4.\u2014 (Special) \u2014An official statement issued last night says reports of preparatory movements along the entire front show that the situation continues to develop in favor of the Italians, who have assumed an effective offensive against the Austrians, who are strongly entrenched and supported by powerful artillery.GERMAN BASE OF SUPPLIES CUT OFF BY RUSSIANS.London, June 4.\u2014 (Special) \u2014Russian forces operating south of Libau have cut that city off from Memel, depriving the Germans of their base of supply, says Reuter despatch from Petrograd.At the same time the Russians took Polangen (on the Baltic, in Courland) and the village of Rutzan, south of Libau.Another Russian force is approaching Libau from the north.With this city enveloped, the Germans have an outlet only to the sea.RUSSIANS REMOVED WAR MATERIAL FROM PRZEMYSL.Petrograd, June 4.\u2014(Special)\u2014Russian troops on the fronts to the j north and west of the fortress 0f Przemysl evacuated their positions on Wednesday night after all the war material taken from the Austrians had i been removed, according to an official statement issued last night by ! the Russian General Staff.! VIENNA SAYS RUSSIANS ARE UNABLE TO MAKE STAND.Vienna, June 4, via London.\u2014The German and Austrian forces which j broke the Russian lines at Stry are moving northward rapidly.The Russians apparently are unable to make a stand in the Lains, and the j chances of doing so north of the river are regarded as problematioal.Now that Przemysl has fallen, rendering it possible for General Mackensen to continue his movement eastward, he would naturally meet a check at the Russian fortified positions, partly composed of a chain of lakes extending north and south, about eighteen miles west of Lemberg.FRENCH AÏRBÜEN ATTACK QUARTERS OF THE GERMAN GROWN PRINCE U.S.NOTE RECEIVED BY PRESS WITHOUT COMMENT.GUARDS FOURTEENTH BATTALION.Wounded\u2014Pte.Victor Leduc, Adams ville.Of CITY OF MALIN ES COMPLETELY ISOLATED THREE MONTHS FOR INSULTING GERMAN OFFICER Amsterdam, June 4, via London.\u2014 (Special) \u2014The city of Malines has been completely isolated by the German civil authorities, the Handels-iblad says, because of a strike of {Belgian workmen employed in the .arsenal.No resident of the city is {allowed to enter the railway station, while all traffic has been prohibited and the passport office closed.Amsterdam, June 4, via London.\u2014 (Special) \u2014According to a Berlin telegram received here, the.sixteen-year-old Countess Helen Dardcy has been sentenced to three months Imprisonment.for publicly Insulting a German officer, and that her grandmother was also sentenced to a similar term of imprisonment for complicity in the offence.PORTMESE Press Calls lor Severance Diplomatic Relations With Germany Lisbon, June 4.\u2014 (Special) \u2014Protesting vehemently against the sinking of two Portuguese ships by Gcr- ! man submarines, the press of Portu- j gal demands that ^the Government immediately sever diplomatic relations with Germany.GERMANY SENDS REGRETS TO I NORWAY.Christiania, June 4.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 Germany has informed Norway that nn investigation has shown that, the j Norwegian tank steamer Belrldgo was torpedoed accidentally by a Ger-, man submarine.The communication says Germany deplores this fact and! is willing to pay full compensation.OF U.S.MILE KILLED.El Paso, June 4.\u2014 (Special)\u2014Copies of a proclamation issued by General Villa at Leon, Huanajuato.were received last night, in which the leader of the northern army states that Carranza and his followers have \u2018'criminally associated\u201d themselves with the \u201cforeigners that are lying j in ambush to divide and destroy Mexico.\u201d General Villa has received a copy of President Wilson's note, and is .expected to make his answer within a day or two.GUARDS AT AMERICAN MINE j KILLED.Waco, Texas, June 4.\u2014 (Sperial) \u2014All of the mine guards of the Am- ; erican Consolidated Mining & Milling ! Company, at Tavachi, Oaxaca, Mexico, were killed last Tuesday night, according to word received here today by officials of the company.Vice-Consul Robinson, at Oaxaca, telegraphed that the situation was serious.NOTE PUBLISHED WITHOUT COMMENT.Vera Cruz, Mexico, June 4.\u2014 (Special) \u2014President Wilson's note to General Carranza and the leaders of other Mexican factions was published without comment in the newspapers here last night.It was received calmly by the public, and apparently was regarded with indifference by groups of persons who .gathered in cafes to discuss its content*.TO RELIEVE MEXICAN CIVIL POPULATION.Washington, June 4.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 Without waiting to see how the cob-tending military factions of Mexico take president Wilson\u2019s warning.Administration officials were to-day cooperating with the American Red Cross in carrying forward comprehensive plans for relieving the Mexican civilian population from further distress and hunger resulting from the incessant, warfare in the southern republic.Tells Wliat manufacturers and len IM do For Britain to rriumDii Paris, June 4\u2014The headquarters of the German Crown Prince were bombarded yesterday morning by French aviators.Twenty-nine machines dropped 178 shells and several thousand darts.Many of the shells are said to have reached the mark.This announcement was made in the Official statement issued by the War Office last night.The text is as follows: \u201cTwenty-nine French aeroplanes between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning bombarded the headquarters of the Imperial Crown Prince.They dropped 178 shells, many of which reached the mark, and several thousand darts.\u201cAll the machines were subjected to a severe cannonade, but they all returned unscathed.\u201cThere is nothing else to report except new progress of our troops in the \u2018labyrinth,\u2019 to the southeast at Neuville, St.Vaast.-\u2014?- GREEK SHIP HITS MINE Paris.June 4\u2014A Havas despatch from Athens says that a Greek steamer, outward bound from Trieste, struck a mine near Salvorc and sank.All the crew perished save three who wore seriously injured.GERMANS WOULD HAVE BEEN IN GERMANY IF SUPPLY HAD BEEN MAINTAINED AS IT OUGHT.Manchester, June 4.\u2014Declaring that the German victory in Galicia was due to an overwhelming superiority in equipment, and that if the Allies in the west had been as well equipped the Germans would long ago have been driven from Fraoce and Belgium, David Lloyd George, the new minister of munitions, made a stirring appeal last night to employers and workmen to supply the British armies with the necessary munitions.The speech was delivered before employers in the engineering trades and trade unionists.Mr.Lloyd George, who had previously lunched at the Clarendon Club, received a remarkable ovation from the people of Manchester, which was in striking contract to the manner in which he had been received in this city on previous visits of a political nature, particularly when he appeared at the time of the Boer War as an opponent of that struggle.\u201d1 come,\u201d he said, \u201cas an emissary of state to carry the most urgent message ever told to the ears of a Manchester audience.Our country is fighting for its life, for the liberties of Europe, and upon what it does, upon what it is prepared to sacrifice, depends the issue.It depends more upon the masters and men occupied in running workshops than upon any part of the community whether Great Britain will emerge from this colossal struggle beaten, humiliated, stripped of power, honor and influence, and a mere bondslave of cruel military tyranny, or whether it will come out triumphant, free and; more powerful than ever for good in the a'hurs of men.\u201d TAKING FOREIGNERS FROM MEXICO BY AUTO Washington, Juke 4 \u2014(Special) \u20141 British authorities in Mexico City are arranging to take out foreigners by horses\u2019 back and automobiles.% THE WEATHER AUSTRIANS ARE ABANDONING THEIR POSITIONS BEFORE ADVANCING ITALIANS Rome, June 4\u2014The Italian troops which entered the Trentino from its | eastern border are exerting such pressure on the Austrians that the] latter are abandoning all their posi- ! tions in the Val Fiemme and the j Italians are now near Predazzo, 27 l miles northeast of Trent.Possession ! of this town would seriously threat-; en Bozzano (Bozen) and the single railroad running south to Trent, and serving as a source of supplies j to all the Austrian garrisons in ; Southern Tyrol.The Austrians practically destroyed the health resort, San Martina di Castrozza, to the southeast of the Sima di Vezzana, the dominating mountain peak which was.captured .several days ago by the Italians.In 1 the resort were 8 large hdtels, six ; belonging to Germans or Austrians, j and two to Italians.While the artillery duels continue : between the Italian guns on the rieht flank of the Isonzo and the Austrian batteries of Fort Tolfuzio, just to ' the rear of Gradisca, it is reported here thkt Austrians have abandoned the town of Gradisca which is the key to the entire frontier position.The Austrians have concentrated five army corps in this region to resist the Italians marching toward Trieste.Further to the south, on the Isonzo, the Italian army attacking Mon-salcone is in touch with the main Austrian army, and a great battle in the district cannot long ho delayed, according to military experts who know the country.Monsalcone, which is an important town on the railroad to Trieste, is also being bombarded from the sea by the Italians.Two Italian torpedo boats entered The Gulf of Trieste yesterday morning, sank two merchant vessels and damaged an auxiliary cruiser.No official confirmation has been given to reports that Trieste itself is being bombarded by the Italians from Grado, the town in the Gulf of Trieste taken last week by the Italians.WILL RECONSTRUCT LIBRARY OF LOUVAIN UNIVERSITY that quarter in consequence of the threatened aspect on the Bulgarian frontier.Manchester, June 4.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 When the devastated cities and towns of Belgium rise again, one of the first tgsks to be undertaken will be the.reconstruction of the library of | the University of Louvain.A nucleus of the organization and funds necessary for this purpose has j just been established here by the John Hylands Library, a wealthy foundation, established many years ago by a millionaire Manchester cot- ! Capital,$15,000,000 Rest,$13,500,000 ton manufacturer.\tj\t_____ - THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE with which, is nnitod Jlie Eastern Townships Bank; SIK KDMUND WALKER, C.V.O.,-LL.D.i D.C.I*., President.I ALEXANDER I^AXHD, General\t\u2022' | JOHN AIRD, Asat.General Manager*\u2019 TURKEY is AFRAID OF Savings Bank Accotmh Interest, at the current rate is allowed , on all deposits of 81.00 and upwards, i I1 : t bight, to moderate winds fair and moderately warm.Athens, June 4\u2014Bulgaria, it is reported, is concentrating an army on the Turkish frontier.This has occasioned great alarm in Constantinople with the result that troops in large numbers are being recalled from the Gallipoli Peninsula and rushed to Adrianople and Kirk-Kilesse to meet eventualities that are anticipated in XT U*\tc v * \u20ac*»\u2022 U 3 s ; Careful attention is given to every ac- ; BULGARIA count.Small accounts are welcomed.! Accounts may be opened and operated ¦ by mail.Accounts may be opened in the names of two or more persons, withdrawals to ! be made by any one of them or by tixr survivor.BRANCHES IN 8HEUBROOK»t Main Ollice 1 Duffer,n Avenue), E.\tW.Farwell, Manager, A.P.Taylor, Assistant Manager,\u2019 Wellington Street Branch, F.\tA.Brig-gs, Manager.Upper Town Branch (King St.) N.F.Dinning, Manager.D99^ 5 ^234 ^728 4 6 TWO smrRBKUÜK'E DA IT, Y RECORD, FRIDAY.J ODF 4, 1915.- ST.FRANCIS DISTRICT LOCAL HAPPENINGS Gatherings by Daily Record Cor- \u2019 from the pit near this place, which is 1\t1\towned by the village municipality.respondents in Various\tMrs.F.0.Webster accompanied r\tMr.and Mrs.W.Fish upon their re- Pnmmiinitipc\tturn trip to Andover, N.H.; Mr.Lew- wnmunilies\tjis Sweeney returned after a short stay at his former home in Portland, BROOKBURY.\tOregon.Mr.Sweeney is a brother of Service will he at\tSt.John\u2019s Mrs.H.M.Kmery and of Mr.C.S.Church on Sunday, the 6th inst., at Sweeney, both of this place.the usual hour of 3 p.m.\t-4- There will be no service nor S.S.at the Methodist Church on Sunday, owiag to the absence of the pastor.Rev.Mr.Roy.Some painting is being done in the interval to the in-terior of the Church.Mr.E.W.Tite has bought a new automobile.Miss M.Morgan who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.G.W.Francis and Mr.Francis, left on Wednesday en route for England, She will go via Havre, France.Her many friends here wish her a safe voyage.Mrs.Chas.Colley who has been the CASS VILLE.Miss Pearl Corey, of Lowell,Mass., and her brother, Mr.William Corey, of Silverton, B.C., who has been engaged in fruit farming there during the past thirteen years, visited his aunt, Mrs.G.S.Rudd this week.Miss Pearl Thompson is spending a week at Newport, Vt, guest of her brother, Mr.John Thompson.Mr.Philip Picard, Jr., injured A.King from Corris, where she spent a week the guest of her bro-' ther, Mr.D.McDonald.It was the Young Ladies\u2019 Organized Class of St.Andrew\u2019s Church who ' sent a box recently to Private Wm.Knapp, not the boys as erroneously stated.Mr.C.R.Bastin, of Toronto, Sunday in town ; Miss Bessie Fowler to Sherbrooke, guest of Mrs.(Dr.) Mac-Kay.LETTERS FROM E.T.SOLDIERS WITH OVERSEAS CONTINGENT SCOTSTOWN AND DISTRICT HAPPENINGS AÏ DANVILLE TWICE WOUNDED.\tminute affair.What must be the ! Cookshire, June 4.\u2014 (Special) \u2014 expenditure during a month! Private A.Williams, who left Sher-\tVC noTt!ced - of \u2019\t, all the churches and houses I ve seen brooke with No.6 C.A.S.C.and she]ie(li x.ve yet to Bee a crucifix transferred to the 53rd Regiment at smashed by a shell.One shell enter-Miss Grace Brown who was on the Valcartier, in the 12th Battalion, e(t a porch, smashed the window, sick list, is recovering rapidly.\tand subsequently joined\tmade a six-foot hole in the mall Pats and w'as wounded the Princess in action, Town Council Receives Grant of Funeral of the Late Mrs.K.Matthews, a Former Resident, Was Largely Attended $5000 From Provincial Government For Road Work winter with her niece, Mrs.F.J.Ben- Rudd.back so that he has been confined to his bed during the past week.Mr.John Rules, of Lowell, Mass., is at the home of Mr.and Mrs.G.S.\u2018 .\t,\t, ,\t.filled the vestry with bricks, knocked ! STANSTEAD.\t; Pats and was wounded in action, everything else dowlli and le?t only ; in the^ Centenary^ Method- writing from Cambridge Hospital in \u2018the Crucifix\u2019 standing.I\u2019ve seen England to his parents, says :\t: ^e same several times.People in \u201cI am rather badly wounded, but: nada d?.n 1 know what a paradise am getting on fine.I was hit by a\tr.1(\u2019y aI.®\tllvlnS\tin.1 After this war shrapnel bullet in the left hip.It\tJ,°u ,'v\t^ee\tCanada\tforge right ran down mv leg and lodged above : il\u2018'ea,\u2014!Can ^\t^ know I my knee.I had it taken out in\t'von t be\tsorry\twh«» 1\tsee its shores France.This is the second time I\ta£aln.have been hit.The first was on April 29, and I got this on May 8.\u201d Services 1st Church next Sunday will be con ducted in the morning by Rev.O.J.Anderson, of Derby, and in the evening by Rev.P.S.Dobson, M.A.The kXg pastor, Rev.T.A.Halpenny, B.A., nett, to her home in Vermont, and was accompanied by Mr.F.J.Bennett who at the time visited his son in Portland and brother in Orleans Vt.Nurse Ord who has been home on a visit, called to Sherbrooke on a case; Mrs.G.C.Batley at Dudswell Jet., with her daughter, Mrs.Roy Rolfe ; Mr.and Mrs.A.H.Batley in Angus recently ; Mr.and Mrs.F.E.McAllister of Sherbrooke, by auto, at Mr.J.0.Leonard's : Miss K.Bernard of Newport, Vt.with her aunt, Mrs.G.A.Lawrence.Work was begun on Tuesday by putting a metal roof on the Methodist Church sheds.Rev.Mr.Williams has left to attend Conference but there will be a service as usual next Sundav.KIRKDALE.The concert held in the Church Hall on the evening of May 25th by the Ladies' Guild of Holy Trinity Church, was largely attended by the people of this and outlying districts, who had the pleasure of listening to is absent at the annual Conference at Gananoque.Mr.H.G.Duncalfe on a business trip to Quebec.Mrs.Ahern, of Montreal, is spending a few weeks as the guest of Mrs.T.A.Halpenny at the Methodist Parsonage.Mr.and Mrs.Henry Lamb and little son.of Montreal, are visiting her parents, Mr.and Mrs.S.Stevens.Principal Geo.J.Trueman is attending the Methodist Conference at Gananoque.Mrs.Henry Taylor and Mrs.O.F.\u201cThe country here, minus the war zone, is lovely; fruit trees everywhere, lovely gardens, large hop vintages, graperies, meadows yellow with buttercups, and large windmills on every hill.I do like to see them.As for the towns, they are very old-Ifashipned, far behind the times, at around where I have been; .\u201e\t.,\t.\t\u201e\t-, Caswell are visiting relatives in home talent well trained.The play, Montreal.The Aunt Frorn California,\u2019\u2019 was preparations are being made by the very ably rendered by the young la- ladies of Stanstead for a social d:es who showed the results of hard \u201chop\u2019\u2019 to be held in the Town Hall study.Rev.J.S.Dickson filled the 0n Tuesday evening, June 8.Pro- , ,\t-\t.\t-\t,\t-,\t- chair with his usual urbanity and, al- cccds will be divided between the , out of his wheel by shrapnel as , rejoice.so> contributed a solo.Mrs.Richard Patriotic Fund and to assist in the be was riding with a message.1 V .J00,tburj\u2019 LadlES\u2019 Aid meeting Billingsley sang two solos in her us- erection of the new band stand at.He says the sight of some of the was held in the Church.The next ual able manner.A duet by Misses Stanstead.\t'ruined towns in Belgium is simply meeting will be at Mrs.Lew.A.Ben- Mountain and Doyle was very pret-nett s on the last Wednesday of this tily sung.Two readings were given Month.CONFIRMS PRESS REPORTS.-THE BIG FIGHT.\u2014POISONOUS GAS HORRORS.North Hatley, June 4.\u2014(Special) \u2014Miss Lottie E.Taylor has received Jeast f !^crJro\u201c Delbert Dean, who ie : rougb cobble stones in all the streets, i yan,Ce;Jn whlch he say® that no drainage systems, no taps, all get most Oi the newspaper reports are ; Their water {rom pilblic taps on the ' hi\" ffh?\teHh WaS m street.All wear wooden shoes; easy I big fight aod did not have a wash t.ontented life, though it is hardly a1 hiA^ht Sa°! a °r IT ''V\t' and happy one now because so many are ¦ f .® tn