The Huntingdon gleaner, 31 janvier 1918, jeudi 31 janvier 1918

[" miss FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR THURSDAY.JAN.31st, 1918 HUNTINGDON, Que.ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.NO CREDIT.SINGLE COPIES FIVE (ENTS THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE with which Is united the EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK CAPITAL, $15,000,000 REST, $13,500,000 ABOUT VICTORY.LOAN BONDS Payments on VICTORY LOAN BONDS are due on Friday Febuary 1st.SCRIPT CERTIFICATES must be presented at the bank with payments.ee = es ob al I C.W.THOMAS, Manager of Huntingdon Branch - » oo TLL aos THE MERCHANTS\u2019 (BANK OF CANADA Established 1864 Head Office, Montrea) E.F.HEBDEN, Managing Director.D, C.MACAROW, General Manager, \u2018 T.E, MERRETT, Supt.of Branches and Chief Inspector.Assets Over $136,000,000.236 Branches Commencing with a capital of $100,000 in 1864, the following comparativ figures show the growth of the Business of the Bank Reserve Year Paid Up Fund and Total Total Capital Undivided Deposits Assets Profits 1890 $5,799,200 $2,340,904 |$ 8,745,841 $ 20,717,737 1895 6,000,000 3,057,277 10,364,304 22,928,248 1900 6,000,000 2,650,686 16,178,408 29,583,521 1905 6,000,000 3,473,197 27,066,248 41,477,684 1910 6,000,000 4,999,297 54,091,275 71,600,058 1915 7,000,000 7,245,140 63,662,368 86,190,464 1916 7,000,000 7,250,984 72,640,828 96,361,363 1917 7,000,000 7,421,292 103,000,000 136,000,000 Huntingdon Branch - - - N.W.8parrow, Manager PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, Municipality of the County of Huntingdon.{ PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that on WEDNESDAY, the sixth day of Mar:h next (1918) at ten o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold by Public Auction, at the place where the sessions of the Municipal Council of the County of Hunting- don are held, in the County Building, in the village of Huntingdon, in the said County of Huntingdon, the lands hereinafter mentioned, in default of the payment of the Municipal and School Taxes for which they are liable with the costs incurred, unless the same be paid before the day of sale.MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF FRANKLIN Name Range | Cadastral Amount No.Due {lliam O'Meara.20d, Hinchinbr'k | 48L 816 45 Je Bryson.7th, Jamestown 21 and 22 29.89 Owner unknown.,.7th \u2018 17a 5.50 se te th \u2018 19a 8.50 +h ETS 7th \u201c 23 13.50 se \u2018 Tth 6 24 13.50 8 \u201c 7th \u2018 26 10.50 i\" \u201c 7th + 27 10.50 ss 8 8th \u2018 | 23 2.60 Joseph Gagnier.9th \u201c Jde .39 Joseph Valllancourt.8th \u201c | 10B 24.19 John Rowe.ovenvunnn 8th ss 17 10.23 Herbert Frier.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.1st, Russeltown 17 3.10 MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF HINCHINBROOK Heirs James Davidson.4th 1B 8 4.44 Joseph Soucisse.7th pt.4A 10.06 Abraham Rutherford.Tth | pt.4A 66 MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF ELGIN Alfred Lanktree.| 2nd | 14a | 812.95 R.S.FEENY, Secretary-Treasurer Municipal Council County of Huntingdon Huntingdon, 8th January, 1918.ICANADIAN a PACIFIC KY.CHANGE OF TIME Will be made Sunday, January 6th, 1918 EE The Huntingdon Gleaner is published weekly, on Thursday, by Robert Sellar, residing in the village of Huntingdon, Que, and printed at his office in the Brown building, Chateauguay street, in said village.Subscription $1 per year.U.S.subscribers $1.50.Papers discontinued when the time for which they have been paid expires, No exception to shis rule so that subscribérs who desire to continue receiving the paper, should renew before their subscription has expired as denoted on the address label.In changing address, be sure to give name of former post-office.The rates of the Gleaner for transient advertisements are 5 cents per inch for first insertio and 25 cents per inch for eacl subsequent insertion.Advertisements of 20 words or less 25 cts.each insertion.No advertisement inserted for less than 25¢.No notice taken of Card of Thanks or of short advertisements unless accompanied by the price, which may be remitted in postage stamps.Obituaries and resolutions of condolence, reports of marriage anniversaries, and the like one cent for each word, No advertisements inserted as reading matter.Obituary verses are not inserted.St.John\u2019s, Nfld., Jan 24.\u2014The handicap imposed upon the customs revenue of Newfoundland by the passage of the act which made illegal the importation, man ufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors after December 31, 1916, has been entirely overcome.The revenue for the calendar year 1917, amounting to $4,442,476, was greater by $25,867 than that for 1916, when liquors were still being imported, *% FROM A CANADIAN MOUNTED RIFLEMAN January 4th, 1918 Dear J: \u2014On conding out from the trenches I found two letters from you awaiting me with ten francs enveloped in each of them.I was very glad to get the news from home, and the funds are most welcome too.I have never liked to ask for money from home, and perhaps if we could draw more of our pay it would not be necessary, but at the price of living over here our pay doesn\u2019t go far.One might think that with having our clothing issued, and with food rations, we would have little.cal}.to spend.money, yet I believe I spend over 90% of my money on food and clothes, We have such an existence.exposed ta all kinds of weather, we can\u2019t be too well clothed, and as for food, though I live as well as I can, I have less surplus flesh now than I ever had before.À strange effect I notice from living on rations is ,that one\u2019s stomach seems to shrink so that he is not capable of eating a big feed, for when on leave I promised myself a good feed for a change, yet 1 found it did not require so mueh to satisfy me as it did some of the English folk who consider themselves rath er delicate eaters, and I have heard other boys remarking likewise, Recently our bread rations have been considerably reduced, of course hard tack is substituted, but it is an experiment some official is trying.I consider it both a foolish and dangeroüs one.Ours is surely the wrong end to economize on, and nothing hits the boys like tampering with their rations.If they only realize the test the boys in the trenches are put to the best would be none too good for them.We are out for a short rest now, and then it is another long turn in the trenches.I can imagine how exhausted the boys will be when they get out again, particularly if we have unfavorable weather, for the line is never quiet where the Canadians are.We can take it over from other troops where all has been going quietly and without exception, inside a week or two we have a little hell raging.It is only playing the game, but it is a little hard on the men, We just celebrated our Xmas dinner yesterday.It was quite an affair and, I believe, the best meal I have had in France.Rather a strange medely to be feasting while the band supplied good music, and at the same time the ground quaked with the noise of the guns.We spent both Xmas and New Year\u2019s Day in the trenches.I received the parcel you sent, and also that Miss M sent me.It was quite a pleasant surprise getting one from my old schoolmate, and I and my pals appreciated it very much, as it was one of the few parcels forwarded to us in the trenches.Also the roll of papers you sent arrived last night.I have been so busy I have not had time to read them yet.CONDITIONS ARE DIFFERENT Montreal, Jan.26.\u2014\u2018\u2018 There is one respect in which the women of Canada are less fortunate than the women of Great .Britain in that the latter, when they send their sons to fight, do not send them very far\u201d So spoke Sir Frederick E.Smith to the Woman's Canadian Club yesterday aftern on.\u2018\u2018A very few minutes separate the battlefields of France from the homes in England.When great engagements are proceeding across the Channel there are vast districts in England where you can hear the thunder of the artillery.The English woman knows that if her son, or brother or \u2018husband is wounded, the journey home is a short one, where the wounded man will be surrounded by all that affection and love can devise.Your fate is not so fortunate, You send your children, sons and brothers many thousands of miles away, and they cannot return to you in ordinary cases when they suffer casualties.\u201d Sir Frederick who is an eminent member of the Imperial parliament sent over on a mission to Washington, told them that the people of England realized this, and that from the time the first Canadian division landed on England's shores, no difference had been made in.the treatment given the Canadian soldiers and those \u2014fGÉ indétemrent.to whom the English were more closely allied by ties of blood.He added that Canadian soldiers fought under conditions quite different from those of others on the western front.The French pev- ple were stirred to the heart by the fact that the invader was on their soil, and if men would not fight to save their country, their homes and their loved ones, there was nothing they would fight for.Lveryone knew of the brilliant hervism of the French, and it was displayed under the most power- The British soldiers in France did not have that indicemant, but the fighting ground was much closer to them than it was to the people of Canada, and they wight be expected to be more instructed as to the complex issues of the war than could Canadians, It was difficult for many to understand why Canadians should go three thousand miles away from home to give up their lives in France.\u201cAlthough they did not the stimulus of what have [ have described as the most powerful ducement to fight that there could be.they have carned a reputation for themselves which is second to none won by any division of any army in the world in the present war.\u201d (Applause) The speaker said he could not tell how long they would have to endure the war.The greatest soldiers and the greatest statesmen had been ealled to face, since the war began new developments and new events which entirely changed the face of things.There had been the defection of Russia, and reports indicated a great dissatisfaction in Austria.Tt would be much better for the Allies to treat all these things as false, and to proceed on the theory that the war would have to be won by their own courage and the strong right arms of the Allied armies.If other things came to help towards the desired end well and good.Advantage could be taken of them.During his address, Sir Frederick referred to the preponderance of power whieh the enfranchisement of women would give in the British Tsles, and how they had earned it hy the tremendous and almost unbelievable effort which women had made in subordinating their feelings to the nation\u2019s necessity when their dear ones Were called on, in throwing their strength and skill into munitions | industries and agrienlture and in organizing and maintain.in- courageously ing charities, Tle was sure that everybody in Great Britain and Canada was a war worker.Tle meant by that that there was not a single individual old enough to think who did not count a day or week ill-spent in which they had not made some contribution towards helping the settlement of the difficulties by which they were eset, Even if the price of cheese had Mot been fixed hy the British Government it would not have sold at prices commensurate with condensed milk, says Mr.Ruddick.The United Kingdom is practically the one market for our cheese, while over fifty per cent.of our condensed milk goes to the United States, a third to the United Kingdom and the balance to other countries, There is thus a competitive market for milk as there is not for cheese, Mr.Ruddick said it would have been impossible tp have handled the trade at all under the old system, and that Canadian cheese producers were really many millions ahead as a result of the Commission taking hold of the business under instructions from the British Government, He contended, too, that the price fixed for the Commission by the British Government, 213; cents fo.b.Montreal, as compared with 19 cents fo.b.for New Zealand cheese, was not unfair.He said further that even for the new output from New Zealand, now at full tide, only 19 to 1914 cents net: is being paid New Zealand producers, Financial Statement of the Municipality of Dundee for the year 1917.RECEIPTS Rates collected.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026ee $5117 33 Arrcars collected.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.322 08 Cash on coupons.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026 19,616 96 Special grant from Government for asphalt.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.625 00 Received from Road Departm\u2019t for ordinary maintenance of public ronde.\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.149 72 Rent of Town Hall.30 OU Rates from Road tax.47517 Advanced by Secretary.6211 Do.Corporation in notes.8337 63 $34,736.00 EXPENDITURE Dr McArtney, services (Dodin).$ 11 00 John Lauber, re John Russell.2000 D.McGregor Moody, inspector.500 Sellar Bros.760 R.S.Feeny, for keep of Margaret MoRNE.\u2026 ose sossscesorrenre sen rene 86 00 Legal Blank Printing Company: 306 Telegram to Road Department.50 D.McCormick, advice re McDaonnell\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.600 Do.Smallman agreement.Hou Paid Howick Paving Co.1200 59 Do., on asphalting.cc.2500 00 Note given to Howick I'aving Co 1500 00 M.M.Smith, auditor.300 Three valuators and clerk.64.00 Five barrels Tarvin, K.P\u2019.and freight.ee see ces een cesse esse 35 60 Expenses of Delegates to Montreal.essences 1270 Do.to Quebec.76 00 COUNLy LAX.cccscsceca racer 135 04.Patriotie, Ke.495 15 Paid NOLUB.csccseees cac e a ce 0e00se 1500 OU Interest.2420 cree B2 50 Beru taxes, to F.E.Taillon.\u2026\u2026.960 Interest on coupons.2299 64 Making 4 Valuation rolls.10 OU Wim, F, Morris, fixing bridge, District 14.renersceenusns 4 50 D.Mende, inspector of macadan FONÜS.L.cnsa css sea ses se caca rer rne00e 452 11 Meals during 1917.35 00 Ten notes vii cin.15,000 UV Interest on above notes.285 62 Building and Jury fund.\u2026 1200 Road maintenance aecount.\u2026\u2026 456 26 Secretary-Treasurer, salar \u2026 125 00 Contingent \u2026 1000 Corporation notes.8837 63 $34,736.00 Liabilities.\u2026.\u2026.rscrsesrserrerces $8300.74 ASSETS Arrears Of rates.nines oens.$021 08 Net Liabilities.covvurnnn.$7878.66 P.N.Mc¢cNEL, Auditor Montreal, Jany, 28,\u2014The tone of the market was weaker for cittle und prices were fully 25¢ to oU¢ per 100 Lbs, lower than a week ago, which was attributed to the increased offerings and the indifferent quality ol the stock.There were really uv guod or choice steers available and drovers state that it 1s very difticult to buy such stock in the country at present at 4 reasonable figure, The market for hogs was weaker and prices declined 50¢ to Toc per 100 1bs., Which wus attributed to the weak- Less iu other Canadian markets lust week and the fact that the demand was somewhat limited as backers u1 some cases had ample supplies ou hand for their immediate wants.The bulk of the re- ceipls were ou contracts made lust week at $19.50, and sales of selected luts were made today at $19 Lo $19.25 per 100 lbs., weighed off cars.EE \u2014\u2014 08 rs ~ a 6 +.tO v5 rod That so much of the grain exported by Canada tu Britain is used to muke intoxicating liquors does not please many.An Ontar- lo temperance leader declares one of the greatest crimes in the old country today is the conversion of millions of bushels of good grain into liquors, Millions of bushels of our best grain goes to manufacture an article that contains only forty-two units of food to the pennyworth, compared with 722 units to the pennyworth of wholewheat flour.If the 1d country had stopped the manufacture of liquor at the beginning of the war there would now be forty-seven weeks\u201d supply of bread, and nearly that amount of sugar in reserve, New York, January 27.\u2014More than 100,500 Japanese were members of Protestant churches in Japan when a religious census was taken by the Government two years ago, Major-General Hibiki, of the Japanese army, declared in an address here today.Since 1916, the number has been greatly increased, he declared.One Presbyterian chureh in Tokio he added, has more than 1,300 members, Guelph, Jan, 24.\u2014Realizing the ever-increasing need for money for patrintic purposes, the County Council of Wellington to-day decided to increase the grant of 460,000 made during 1916 and 1917, to $75,000 on a basis of two and one-half mills on the dollar.There was not a dissenting voice in the Comneil.La AN EXPERT'S VIEWS: Que of the most statements contained in the report presented to the Western Ontario Dairymen\u2019s convention by Secretary Frank Herns was the one dealing with the percentage of fat in the milk supplied Western Ontario cheese factories last year, This percentage varied all the way from 2.6 to 5.Uf course there were not many pat rons who supplied five per cent.milk, or anywhere near that.There were, in fact, only two samples out of nearly 9,000 2xam- ined, that reached the five per cent mark, and only 21 that went 416 or better.There were, however, no less than 102 that touched important the low point of 2.6 per cent.There were 2,118 samples that tested 3 per cent, or lower, and 1,879 that ran from 3% to 5H pes vent.When butter-fat is worth around 50 cents per pound it is a manifest injustice to pay the same price for milk containing 3 per cent.or less of fat that is paid for milk containing 3% to 5 per cent.of fat.A little over one fourth of the cheese factories in Western Ontario are paying for milk by test, The surprising thing in view of the figures presented by Mr.Herns is that they are not all doing it.it is doubtful if, as some think, the business of milk-condensing factories will greatly decline after the war, Tt is true, war contracts will then be at an end, but meanwhile a lot of people will have become accustomed to canned milk and canned cream, and a new and permanent market will thus have been created.An increase in the use of condensed milk in cities in which ordinary milk supplies are available may he looked for, and a still greater expansion in trade in this line will occur in the outposts of civilizn- tion.True, with the disappear ance of war contracts for condensed milk, war prices for the same will also disappear, and con- densors will not be able to pay the price for raw milk when peace returns that they are paying now; but neither will cheese factories be able to keep up the present level of prices paid by them.Tt would scem as if it would be wise for cheese factory owners and pa- trong to count on the competition of condensers as a permanent condition, That competition probably will not he as one-sided when peace returns as it.is now, but that it will continue keen there is very little doubt.One point beyond question there is, and this is that a most unfortunate condition would exist if cheese factories and creameries should disappear, and their business he taken over by the hig milk factories, The dairy industry as a whole might be as profitable then as now, but it would absorb the big end of the profits.The coloring of cheese was pronounced \u2018\u2018a useless practice\u2019\u2019 by Dairy jommissioner Ruddick, speaking at the Western Ontario Dairy convention last week.At one time about half the cheese made in Ontario was artificially colored, but last year, owing to scarcity of coloring matter, only a little over the third of the output was colored, and still nobody noticed the difference, and the comparatively few colored offer- ered did not fetch a premium.on the market.Coloring cheese is not the only useless practice in dairying.Adding artificial color to winter butter to make it lonk like the product of June grass, is equally useless.Tn faet, a somewhat harsher term might he used, since the object is to make the product what it is not.Ottawa, Jan.24\u2014The general increase of fifteen per cent.in railway rates ordered by the Board of Railway Commissioners to go into effect on February 1 is indefinitely postponed.The resignation of Hon.W.J.Hanna as Food Controller was tendered to the Prime Minister today, and was accepted by Sir Robert Borden with expressions of regret that Mr.Hanna for personal business reasons could not see his way clear to continue in the position.RAND TRUNK & Maul train No.SO, leaving Montreal 7,26 a.m, arrive Huntingdon 9.55 a.m.Mail train No.N2, lenving Montreul 4.40 b.ru., arrive Huntingdon 7 06 p.m, Mwil train No 81, lenving Huntingdon 6.49 a.1n., arrive Montrenl 9 30 am.Mail train No.85, leaving Huntingdon 2.30 p.tu., arrive Montreal 4.55 pm.À.Philps, Agent.Ur J.C.SHANKS, M.D.,C.M.Graduate of McGill University HOWI\"K Office hours: 8&\u20149 a.m., 1\u20142.30 p.m.and 6\u20148 p.m, J.G.LAURENDEAU, K.0, Advocate, at Moir\u2019s Ho.el every first Srtarday of each month.NUMA E, BROSSOIT, K.0, Advocate .Recorder of the city of Valiey- field, Valleyfield, P.Q.Will attend all the courts in the District of Beauharnois and Montreal, Phone No.60 PATTERSON & JACOBS Advocates, Barristers and Solicitors, Bity and District Bank Building, 180 St James street, Montreal.Mr Patterson will be at Moir Hotel, Huntingdon, first Saturday of every month, W.Patterson, K.C., N.W.Jacobs, B.C.L.DONALD M.ROWAT, B.0.L, of W.de M.& H.Marler, Notaries 157 St James street, Montreal.Money to Loan on First Mortgage security.Mr Doneld M.Rowat, N.P., of the firm of W.deM.and H, M.Marler, Notaries of Montreal, has made arrangements to come to Uuntingdon from time to time snd begs to notify the public that appoustineuts may be wade with Wm.M.Rowat, M.D.of Athel stan.Mr Lowat will give apecia attention to the settlement of Kstates and the careful invest ment of monies, oe J.0.BRUOR, .General Llnsur- auce Agent, Huntingdon.Mire, Life aud Accident Insurance, County Building, Huntingdon.\u2014\u2014 J.F.ROLLIT, Surgeon Dentisf Kelly's Block, Huntingdon.Open all day.Bell Telephone No.104.Mr.L.A.Rousseau, Notary, has opened an office in the R.B.Kelly block, lluntingdon, and will be there on Tuesday, every week, between 10 a.m.and 2 p.m ARTHUR W.SULLIVAN Q.L.S8.& CE.Successor to John L.Sullivan Q.L.S.& C.B, Surveyiug and Engineering of water courses and Bounding of properties, Bornage, &c., attended to promptly.Address: P.O.Box 124 Valleyfield, Que or room 20, 59 St.Peter street Montreal, Que.Hutuall'irelasuraneeCo.of the COUNTY OF BEAUHARNOIS (Incorporated 1852) lead Office .Huntingdon lusures only Farm and Isolated Property.President, M.W.Luehy Vice-President, Robt Blackwood Directors\u2014Anthine Doray, R.R.Ness, Alex McMillan, ANDREW PHILPS, Secy.and General Manager, Huntingdon, Que.À.R.LEDUC Notary Public, Huntingdon, Que.Successon to 1, I.Crevier, Notary Public.Office in the O'Conner Block, entrance next to Moriarty\u2019s store.Money to loan Estate and succession settlement.McCORMICK & LEBOURVEAU, Advocates, Commissioners foi Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, British Columbia, ete.Rooms 41 and 42 Canadian Pacific Tele- greph Buil ling, 4 Hospital street, Montreal.Mr McTormick will attend the Courts in the Distriet of Beauharnois, and will be at Muir Hotel, Hun\u201cingdon, on the last Saturday of every month, barring unforseen circumstances.Telephone Main 2497.Claims for collect\u2019on may be left with Robt.Ellerton, Hemmingforg. THURSDAY.JAN.31st, 1918 THURSDAY, JAN.31st, 1918 Notes of the Week \u2014 It having been settled, after full inquiry, that famine would fall on France and Italy before next harvest, urgent appeals were made for supplies of wheat.Both Australia and the Argentine republic have enough to spare, but difficulty lies in the long voyage and great risk from submarines.The only countries near at hand are the United States and C\u2018anada.and, strange to say, the latter has the larger surplus for export.After supplying their own home market, the two have over two hundred million bushels of wheat to spare, To increase that quantity the two governments have agreed on requiring millers to take more out of the wheat than they have been doing and to mix the flour with a percentage of flour made from rye.barley or pats.By tests made in different sities by both bakers and millers it was proved that a fifth more would be available for export if the quantity of offal was reduced in grinding, while flour mixed with flour from other cereals in no way impaired the quality of the loaf.The regulation came into force on Monday and all grist mills are now making standard Seur.tho it will not come into general use until the old stock is ased.Standard flour can be sold for 50 cents the barrel less than »atents and bread made from it is wore nourishing.The bread re- iembles that made before the roll- w process was adopted and mills whieh ean grind by the stone have sa advantage.The rule is.that uillers make 196 pounds of flour Tom 264 pounds of wheat.The hoiee of the other flour they will ix with it is left to themselves: ve and barley flour seem to be reat favored., \u2014_\u2014\u2014 Tn the legislature, the debate on he motion that Quebec is ready > leave the Confederation if the ther provinces so wish, was«los.1 by the premier in\" two hours\u2019 neech.It was an ingenious and ble attempt to take back water.; was not the Premier Gouin who ipported a motion instructing :e Ontario legislature what they ould do or passed a bill em- >wering school commissioners to mmtribute funds for the relief of ie wounded in Ontario.Tt was ite another Premier Gouin.who oke softly and apologetically.ho declared Quebec would not ave Confederation and did not ant to do so.The people of 1tario will estimate hereafter 1ebec bluster at its true value.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 The first definite information to how many U.S.soldiers are w in France and how many sre are being got ready tn go 13 given at Washington on onday.There are now half a lion men in France and one Ion are being got ready to fol- v.The transportation is being \u2018ected by fleets of steamships arded by destroyers, and.so =.without loss of life.The caring of the soldiers is a small ik compared with the