The Stanstead journal, 4 janvier 1917, jeudi 4 janvier 1917

[" The Stanstead Journal.VOL.LXXH\u2014No.1 ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1917.WHOLE No.3699 S your Heating Stove equal to your needs?Have you kept your home as warm as you want it to be, all day, all night, these past cold days?If not, you have not yet learned of the real advantage of a Round Oak Heater, the stove that does not let the fire go out.There\u2019s a long cold spell ahead; don\u2019t let your family shiver for an hour every morning while you are Warming up.Let us have a talk about Round Oaks at the First opportunity.TRUE & BLANCHARD CO.\"PHONE 277-2 - NEWPORT, VT.E can farnish you anything in in the wood line from a hem- weed 1ock board to a mahogany door.Three Villages Building Association, Limited.TOWN TOPICS.H.R.Morgan of Sherbrooke was in town Satorday.Mr.J.B.LeBaron of North Hatley was in town Monday.D.C.Sterrett of Washington, D.C., was in town Friday and Saturday.Miss Nancy Waldron was at home from school in Montpelier for the holidays.H.W.Gendreau, Floyd R.McKee and E.C.Kelley of Sherbrook were in town Friday.Misses Grace Bryant and Iris Rodey spent their holiday vacation in Tilton, N.H., and Boston.The winter\u2019s snowfall now totals 8414 inches, 9 inches less than last season on the same date.The Derby Line village school re- umed its sessions Tuesday.The at- endance exceeds 100 this term.A son was born to Mr.and Mrs.Bernard C.Renihan, Thursday at 2 am.Mother and child are comfortable.Mr.and Mrs.Willlam Herbert, who spent the holidays with their daughter, Mrs.(Dr.) G.F.Waldron, returned to their bome in Lakeport, N.H., Tuesday.At the evening service in Christ Church, Stanstead, next Sunday, the address given in support of recruiting will be by a military officer, Corporal Ford, it ie hoped.Mr.I.Lamothe has sold his farm near Smith\u2019s Mills to Joseph Langlois of Compton county and moved into the bouse recently built by him in the new Daly subdivision.On Sunday evening at the Congregational Church there will be a special patriotic service in connection with \u201cNational Service Week.\u201d The sub- Ject of the evening sermon will be \u201cDemocracy on Trial.\u201d Mr.E.Brownlee, who has been connected with the local customs serv- foe for the past few years, having charge of the office at Rock Island, left last night for Ottawa.Mr.W.R.Bennett from Ottawa is the new officer here.In harmony with the request of the military authorities of District No.4, the service in the Centenary Methodist Ohurch, next Sunday morning, will be a special patriotic service.The order of service provided by the military authorities will be used.Sunday school at the close of the morping service.A bright, interesting service in the evening at 7 o'clock.At a regular communication of Golden Rule Lodge No.5, À.F.and À.M.Tuesday evening the following officera were installed: C.R.Jen- Xine, W.M.; J.D.McFadyen, 8.W.; L.P.House, J.W.; Rev.F.Williams Cbaplain; A.N.Thompson, Treasurer; Dr.O.I.Moulton, Secretary; Dr.R.O.Roes, 8.D.; G.8.Heath, J.D.; D.I.Sandilande, I.G.; G.T.Ames and A.H.Tiffin, Stewards, J.L.Heath, Tyler.Refreshments followed the installation ceremony.Mrs.Elisa J.Foulkes died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.Herbert À.Colline, Wednesday at 2 a.m., after several week\u2019s illness.Mrs.Foulkes whose family name was Glines, was born in Quebec, 70 years ago.Mrs.Foulkes was the occupant, for many years, in the office of the Boston Daily Post, when the family lived in Malden.For the last seven years they lived on the Glines homestead on the lake road.This property has been in the family for over a bundred years.The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock, at the Epiecopal church in Newport, the Rev Mr, Bernard, conducting the service.The burial will be in the Oemetery at West Derby Mrs.Foulkes is survived by one son, H.J.Foulks of Watertown, Maes., and two daughters, Mrs.E.A.Noble, Watertown, and Mrs.H.A.Oullios, Derby Line.A good mother and kind neighbor has gone.TOWN TOPICS.W.E.Terrill of Burlington was in town Thursday.A.F.Bartlett of Sherbrooke was in town Saturday.Principal Trueman returned from New Brunswick yesterday.Mr.and Mrs.W.E.Bmith visited relatives in Newport New Year\u2019s day.J.A.Many spent New Year\u2019s with his father at St.Johns, returning Tuesday.Mr.and Mrs.Homer Corliss and Mre.Sargent are visiting in Berkshire and Richford.Gilmore Brothers are making changes in tbe interior of their store.Eugene Clifford is doing the work.Mr.Ralph J.Hunt ie out again after being confined to his home for several daye with an attack of influenza.Miss Margaret Ryhn of Lebanon, N.H., was the guest of Mr.and Mrs.Charles E.Miller for the week-end.Miss Lilian C.Standish of Malden, Mass, was the guest of her cousin, Mre.H.H.Smith doring the holidays.Mr.and Mrs.Norman O.Eastman of West Charleston, Vt., were guests at the home of Alfred M, Aldrich, Saturday., Miss Beatrice Hunt went to Springfield, Mass., Saturday to accept a position in the dry goods store of Forbes & Wallace.Mr.and Mrs.R.D.Byers, Jr., and little daughter have returned to East Hatley after spending the holidays with his parents at North Stanstead.Mr.Charles Bean of Manchester, N.H., who was called here by the death of his brother, Freedom Bean, returned to the Granite State last night.The members of the Men\u2019s Association presented Janitor John Gardyne with a comfortable reading chair, cap, gloves and tie as their Christmas remembrance.The regular monthly meeting of the Stanstead and Rock Island Red Orose Society will be beld at the home of Mre.Sidney Stevens Friday afternoon, Jan.6th, at 4 o\u2019clock.The drawing class at the Men's Association will start Monday evening at 7.30 with Mr.Harrison E.Paine as master.Bring your tools and drawing board and begin with the class.The Sherbrooke Railway & Power Co.are moving into their enlarged quarters in the Pike block.This will be one of the most complete electrical offices and stores this side of Montreal.Look\u2014O0ld mirrors re-silvered.No patch work, but a complete coating of silver.All work guaranteed.Write or call W.B.LeBaron, Rock Island, Que.99w3 Mre.O.C.Bixby has closed her house and left Friday night for New York, where she will remain during the balance of the winter.She was accompanied by Mies Edith Mac- Gregor.Rev.and Mrs.B.F.McIntyre moved to the new manee, just completed on Beach avenue Friday.Miss Jones (of the Daylight store) and ber mother will occupy the apartment in the post office block, vacated by the McIntyres.The annual parish supper and business meeting of the Stanstead South Congregational Church will be beld next Thursday evening, January 1ith, to which all members and friends of the Church are invited.Supper at eix o'clock, followed immediately by the business meeting when reports for the past year will be submitted, new officers elected, etc.Freedom H.Bean died at the home of bis son Freeman at Derby Line, Thursday afternoon at 3 o\u2019clock, after an illness of about four weeks of sorosie of the arteries.Mr.Bean was born in Barnston, July 26, 1848, and lived nearly all his life in that township and Stanstead.The funeral was held at the home Saturday afternoon, Rev.E.LeRoy Rice officiating.The bearers were: W.E.Hammond, G.W.Dor- man, Alonzo and Charles Wheeler.The burial was in the Derby Line Cemetery.TOWN TOPICS.N.E.Germain of Montreal was in town Friday.Butterfield & Co.are taking their anpual invoice.Earl Howe went to Greenfield, Maes., Saturday.Judge James A.Merrill of Rutland, Vt., was in town Saturday.Miss H.M.Hepworth spent Christmas in Montreal, returning Saturday.Mr.and Mrs.L.P.Jenne of Derby were calling on friends\u2019 in town last Thursday.Mr.Henry T.Ball entertained a party of friends at his home New Year\u2019s eve.Mr.and Mrs.B.P.Ball epent Christmas in Boston, guests of Mr.and Mrs.James T.Ball.Miss Grace Taylor of Boston has been the guest of Mr, and Mrs.E.H.Cosby the part week.Nourse Mabel Ware has returned from Berlin, N H., where she spent tbe holidays with relatives.Fred R.Moulton\u2019s teams are working in the woods for the Nelson, Hall Co , Montgomery, for the winter.Walter Norris and and Rov Cosby returned to Washington University, Washington, D.O., Monday evening.Derby Academy students who have been apending the holidays ac their homes here, returned to school Tues- dav.Mrs.E J.Foulkes ir verv ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs.H.A.Cullina.She is attended by Dr.Adams of West Derby.Mrs.Henry T.Ball and two daugh- tera, Henrietta and Eleanor, left Friday for Winnipeg, Man., where they will be guests of relatives for two months.The annual Christmas tree for the children of Christ Church will be on Friday evening, Jan.5th, beginning at 5 o'clock.Parents and friends welcome, Mr.and Mre.Walter T.Stenson from Morrisville, Vt., were guests of Mrs.Stenson\u2019s parents, Mr.and Mrs.A.F.Girard, over the week-end and New Year's.Mayor J.A.Gilmore bas been confined to his home for ten days with la grippe, but is now able to be at his desk some each day.Mrs.Gilmore is confined to her room with the same trouble.D.W.Davis, president of the National Bank of Derby Line, entertained the employees of the bank, A.C.Cowles, G.E.Crawford, M.I.Dorman and A.W.Moulton, at dinner at the Derby Line Hotel Saturday.A business meeting of the Ladies Aid of the Congregational Church will be held at the church parlors on Thursday, Jan, 1ith, at 4 p.m., followed by the annual church meeting and parish supper.A good attendance is desired.P.C.Blanchard & Co.of Newport have sold the so-called McDuffee farm, owned by R.A.& E.A.Putney to C.B.Kelley of Derby.Mr.Kelley takes possession Jan.20th.It is his intention to commence repairs on the buildings at once and to make of the property a modern, up-to-date farm.Miss Etta Taylor of the Butterfield office staff, slipped and fell on the way to her work Tuesday morning.She was brought by a paseing team back to her home at Mrs.Wilkie\u2019s where she has since been confined although rapidly recovering from the injuries sustained, which did not prove serious.A Christmas tree and treat will be given the children of Christ Church on the evening of Epiphany, \u201cOld Christmas,\u201d Friday, Jan.6th.Tea will be served at 5 30, followed by the advent of Santa Claus.A fund is being secured in Sherbrooke for our blind Canadian soldiers who have lost their sigbt for their country and for us.They are being cared for and taught in England.Will our children bring an offering for this noble object, and thus give, while they are receiving the pleasures of this season?At their home on the Beebe road on New Year\u2019s eve, Mr.and Mrs.Joseph Daniels entertained their children and several others at supper.Among the guests were: Mr.Joseph Raymond from Macindoes Falls, Vt., an uncle of Mre.Daniels, Mr.and Mre.H.Cho- quette, daughter Ozelda and son Nelson, from Sherbrooke, Mr.George H.Daniels, Rock Island, Mr.and Mrs.John F.Daniels and son Lewis, Mr.and Mrs.Walter Simmons and two sons, Joseph and Lawrence and daughter Elizabeth all of Beebe.The evening was much enjoyed by all present and the party dispersed at a late hour after wishing the host and hostess many happy New Years to come.AYER'S CLIFF, The W.M.Society will be entertained at Mrs.Berry's on Wednesday afternoon.The Guild will bold its annual business meeting on Thursday afternoon.The Ladies Aid and trustees of the Congregational Church presented the organist, Miss Mildred Paul, with twenty-five dollars and the choir members presented Mr.and Mre.F.À.Johnston with two pieces of cut glass in appreciation ot their work during the year.Mrs.D.B.Keet is not improving as rapidly as her many.friends would like to see.Mre.E.A.Fish, who has been ill for the past three weeks, is improving.Mr.D.B.Keet was at Stanstead op Wednesday of last week.\u2019 Mr.and Mies Porter were at Magog on Thursday of last week.Mies Dean of Sherbrooke has recently been the guest of ber aunt, Mrs.A.E.Fish.Misses Hazel and Laura Chamberlain and Ardell Martin spent a few days in Stanstead and Rock Island last week.Mise McFadden of Lennoxville is the guest of ber sister, Mre.F.A.Jobn- ston, Mies Rickard has returned to her home in Derby Line.Mr.and Mrs.F.A.Johnston spent New Year\u2019s in Lennoxville.Misses Mamie and Ida Ramsdell o North Hatley were guests of Mra.S.8.Worthen for the week-end and New Year's.Mr.and Mrs.H.D.Hale of Sherbrooke were guests of Mr.and Miss Porter on New Year's.Mr.Raymond McClatchie of Sherbrooke spent Monday in town.Mr.Geo.Currier of North Troy spent afew days in and around town recently.Mre, May Adams of Fitch Bay is the guest of Mrs.Roy Temple.The holidays being over, all are returning to their ordinary, everyday duties.Homer R.Worthen of the 87th Grenadier Guards, writing to his mother, Mrs.F.M.Worthen, under date of December 3rd, says: \u201cI am etill alive and well; got your letter and the magazines and also the socks and was glad of them.I could use another pair just like them.We have just finished six weeks in the worst place in the whole western front, the Somme.Believe me, I was glad to get away from there with a whole ekin.I am now taking a three- weeks\u2019 course in eniping wbich will last until about Christmas and then I expect a ten-days\u2019 pass to England, so I won\u2019t be in line again for a few weeks.Pretty cold weather here; ground frozen and frost on the trees, but we have a fire in our shanty so we are not so bad off.This miserable war I guees is going to last another year, so I don\u2019t know when I will be home.I had hoped this fall would finish it, but it looks now as if they would fight to a knock-out, and I guess the Germans have got to be well whipped before they will take the terme offered.How are you getting along this winter?Hope this will find you and Charles comfortable.1 get a letter quite often from Grace; she is sending me some high boots for the mud.It was soft clay where we have been and perhaps you would not believe it, but I bave seen the mud in the trenches way above the knees.Write me and I will answer as often as I can.When you don\u2019t hear from me you will know I am well, for if wounded or sick yon will be notified at once, but I hope for the best luck and that I will get through without a scratch.\u201d CROPPING THE LICENSE BILL.Before its final passage the Quebec Liquor License Bill was so amended that the increased fees for hotels and retail liquor stores will not come into effect until 1918, another year\u2019s grace.The clause restricting sale to one room in a hotel, was eliminated so thata guest may have his booze sent to his room.The anti-treating clause was changed so that a man may buy a drink for a friend, or for his wife, if he buys him or her a meal.It will be very easy to make a farce of the last named clause of the law.That which constitutes a \u2018\u201cmeal\u2019\u2019 may not even be intended to be eaten, and may be \u2018\u2018served\u201d to several customers one after another.This amendment was secured by Deputy Levesque of Laval, who may have beard of the meais (?) served in some of the licensed places in the U.8.to comply with Sanday restrictions.The eleventh hour effort to have the opening hour changed from nine to seven o'clock in the morning, was lost.FITCH BAY.The monthly Guild tea will be held in the Guild room on Wednesday afternoon, Jan.10th, Tea will be served at six o'clock.The afternoon will be spent in sewing as usual.Sup- par 20c.Master Hamilton Rider is visiting his uncle, Mr.H.H.White, in Lyn- donville, Vt.The many friends of Mrs.Jas.Crel- ler, who formerly resided near this place, will be shocked to learn of her death, which occurred at her home in Waterloo, Que., on Christmas day, after an illness of a few weeks.Much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved family.Mr.and Mrs.G.N.Somerville were in Waterloo last week to attend the funeral of Mrs.Somerville\u2019s mother, Mrs.Jas.Creller.PLEASANT HEIGHTS.Master Ashton Snodgrass and sister Dorothy spent the holidays with their parents bere.Mrs.Harlow Bachelder was at East Bolton on Sunday.Mrs.Homer Cass vieited at Griffin, Beebe, and Rock Island, a couple of daye last week.Miss Pearl Bissell entertained company New Year\u2019s day.News received Bachelder under date of Dec.13th, informa us he was well.We wish the editor of the JOURNAL and all its readers a bright, prosperous and happy New Year.There were a number of arrivale and departures during Christmas week in apite of the severe storm we had the 22nd and 23rd.Mr.and Mrs.E® Whitney, Mrs.M.Harris and son, Mr.Homer Cass and family, were at the home of Mr.Melvin Cass for Christmas.Mr.and Mre.R.Allen of Griffin spent Christmas with their parents here.Mr.Harlow Bachelder spent a day at Griffin recently.Mr.Luther Bachelder and son Emer- 80D from Pennsylvania were calling on relatives here on Sunday.They were at East Bolton also.Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Bachelder were with their daughter and family at Griffin for New Year\u2019s.Mr.Wm.Patterson and family were at the home of Mr.H.Bachelder on New Year's day.MASSAWIPPI.The monthly meeting of the W.O T.U.was beld at \u2018\u2018Overlook\u2019\u2019 with Mrs.E.McClary who was assisted by Mrs.John Oarr in entertaining.Dinner wae served at noon.At2 o\u2019clock Mrs.L.Hovey, president, opened the meeting.The attendance was fair, although several were detained at home.The president read a letter of greeting and the Crusade Psalm sent by Mrs.Oliver, County President.Singing and prayer followed.Several important letters, re- petitions to the Goverment were read, and the outlook for probi- bition was discussed.All conceded that the action of the Government was not what could be wished, We want tha ax laid at the roots of the tree, instead of lopping off a branch at a time.As to the treating, who wil watch?Surely pot the fallen.Let us hope that the law will suflice.Two new members were obtained at this meeting: Mre.E.Stevenson and Miss Alice Whitcomb, both very welcome.Thus our members are increasing monthly.Two more wanted in January.Place of gathering to be arranged for latter.Mrs.W.Sampson of the North Hatley Union was present as a visitor.Mr.and Mrs.H.Dexter Willard and little Pauline spent Christmas at Ascot Corner with Mr.Willard and Mrs.Ja- mieson.Mr.E.Harvey waa home from Ely, Vt., recently.Mise Maude McLeod is with her parents at Gould for the holidays.The Whitcomb and Stevenson families of this place spent New Year\u2019s day at the home of Mr.and Mrs.W.Whit- comb, Hatley.On New Year\u2019s day Mr.and Mre.O.Raymond entertained Mr.and Mrs.A.Raymond of Cassville, Mr.and Mrs Wm.Reymond of the Lake Road, Mrs, James Raymond and Mr.and Mrs.Eugene Raymond of North Hatley, Miss Lusie Marriette of Hatley Center, and Laura Raymond of Lyndonville, Vt, who will remain for the week.In the evering a company of 25 friends assembled and finished a merry day with dancing at the same hospitable home.: Mr.and Mrs.L.Call entertained relatives Monday.Miss Fannie Cox of North Hatley has been visiting her parents of late.Miss Alice Griggs of Sherbrooke visited Miss A.Hitchcock over Monday and Tuesday.from Pte.8.G.|b DON'T HOLLER ABOUT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING But live high by making your sugarina MONARCH OUTFIT and sell it at 13c.to 25c.|b.For further information write MONARCH EVAPORATOR CO., Newport, Vt.TITCHERS WANTED-J.B.G Sie Rock Island.codbue a BALDWIN'S MILLS.Mrs.John May gave a miscellaneous shower on Saturday evening for Mise Clarisse Valads, on her approaching marriage to Mr.Oliva Oabana.The guests numbered about 25.The evening was spent in playing games, after which dainty refreshments were served.Mies Valade was taken completely by surprise when led by Miss Ruth May to the next room, where suspended from the ceiling, hung an umbrella beautifully decorated and laden with parcels which immediately fell before her.Many useful presents were displayed, after which Miss Va- lade kindly thanked all present.A vers, pleasant evening was enjoyed y all.Mr.and Mrs.Arthur Washburn gave a surprise to Mr.and Mrs.Charles Washburn on Dec.25th, when twenty of their children and grandchildren came in to celebrate Christmas day with them.A bountiful dinner was served, besides candy and fruit in abundance.The Christmas tree was very pretty and the children were delighted when Santa Claus appeared and distributed the many gifts.Mr.and Mrs.Washburn are each 81 years of age, apparently in good health, and we hope they may be spared to enjoy many more such pleasant events.Miss Hazel Baldwin of Rock Island spent the week-end with her parents, Mr.and Mre.H.L.Baldwin.The Misses Clara and Rath May returned to Montreal on Tuesday after spending the holidays in town.The Sewing Circle of Red Cross Workers will meet at the home of Mrs, Robt.Markwell, Wednesday afternoon, Jan.17th, WAY'S MILLS.Mr.Walker, superintendent at the woolen mills, got one of his fingers taken off in a gear Saturday.Dr.C.R.Brown attended to the injury.Mies Berry, who has been with Mre.Walker since they moved here, has returned to Sherbrooke.Mies Agnes Oliver has been visiting ber sisters, Mrs.O.Cleveland at Barnston and Mrs.L.McClary, Kings- croft, this week.Leland Buckland is spending the holidays with his parents.Mies Laura Gilbert of Heathton was a recent guest at E.J.Gilbert\u2019s.Mr.E.J.Gilbert, who spent Christmas at Stanstead, fell on the ice while there and hurt his shoulder.Mise Doris Bishop is spending a week in Stanstead.Mise Waid is with her parents in Lower Ireland for the holidays.Nurse Dyson is in Massawippi where she has charge of a patient.Mre.A.A.Heath does not improve since her last illness.Mise F.Pettes of Sherbrooke is spending a couple of weeks at W.G.bompeon\u2019s.Miss Binns of Sherbrooke is with her friend, Mies Walker, for a few days.Reginald Aldrich of Newport is with his father, T.Aldrich, at 1.E.Thompson\u2019s for the holidays.Don\u2019t forget the baked bean dinper at the hall Wednesday, Jan.10th, by the Homemakers and Progressive clubs.Mr.Irving Walker and bride ot Rock Island were at the home of his father, 8.Walker, for Christmas.EAST STANSTEAD.Mr, Freeman Libby has leased his farm to Mr.Fred Curtis and moved his family into one of J.G3.Dewey's new houser.Mr.and Mra.H.Keeler spent the week-end in East Charleston, the guest of Mr.H.W.Kezar.Miss Etta Mclotyre has recently heen the guest of Mrs.J.Bullock of Heathton.Mra, Roy reopened her school here on Wednesday, after a week's vacation.Miss Mattie Fox of Costicook waa recently the guest of her parents, Mr, and Mrs.H.Fux, for a few days.Mr.Charles Bean of Manchester, N.H., was here one day last week calling on friends and relatives.He was called here by the death of his brother, Mr.Freedom Bean, who died at his son\u2019s in Derby Line. 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$100 A penalty of $10.00 wii be incurred by al parties owning or powessitig a dog ce dogs who do not report to the Secretary Treasurer and pay the tax.Maid tax to come Into force on January lat.1917.CORKŸ, Sec\u2018y-Trens, Barnaton, Dec 1th, 1016.ow NOTICE AN persons having claims agaînat the entata of the late Kugene A.Baldwit are requested to present same within 50 days from d «te, and al) persons indebted to the said estate are required to settle within the same delay, P.A.BALDWIN, P.W.BALDWIN, Stanstead, Dec.10, 1910.ply to J.M.Montle.+.NK GOO COAL STOVE - 4 0 I VE FOR SALE\u2014Ap.Mass, spent last week at the home of her tather, Mr.G.8.Rudd.Mr.Harold and Miss Liszio Yertaw vieited friends at Waterville last week.Mr.Arthur Rudd, Mrs.Elizabeth McElroy and Mr.Henry McElroy, Mrs.Wm.Rudd and daughter Marjorie, Mr.David Watson, Miss Bessie and Master Allen Watson and Mr.and Mre.John Rule were guests of Mr.George Rudd and Miss Rudd at their tamily gathering on Thursday for dioner.Mies Bessie Watson went to Mystic on Saturday to visit her grandmother, Mrs.Watson, who accompanied her home on Tuesday.On Sunday Mr.Gordon Thompson, add Mies Thompson accompanied their nephew, Master Colin Thompson bome to West Holland.» Mr.and Mrs.Charles Colt visited his sisters, Mrs.Jobn Baron and Mrs.Walker at Gorham, N, H., last week.They epent Christmas day at the home of Mrs.Baron, Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Rudd and little daughter Marjorie spent New Year's day at the home of her sister, Mrs.Mr.and Mrs.Alexander Thompson, Mies Thompson and Mr.Gordon Thompson spent the day at the home of Mr.and Mre.Wm.Thompson.Mr.Murray and two sons of Newport spent the week-end with his sister, Mrs.Alexander Thompson.BOYNTON.The Ayer\u2019s Clift Farmers Club will bold its annual meeting in the counaty hall, Ayer\u2019s Cliff, on Wednesday, January 10th, at 7 30 p.m., to elect officers for the year 1917.Several speakers are expected.\u2018Everybody is invited to aitend and make this meeting a\u2019 success.Mr.Raymond Hill went to North Hatley Saturday.Thoee who entertained on Christmas day were Mr.and Mrs.W.O.Dustin, Mr.and Mre, W.J.Parkhilly Mr.and Mrs.A.Jobnson, and Mr.and Mrs.E.Scott.Mre.Chester Kiein of Kindersley, Sask, is visiting her father, Mr.G.A.Griffin, and other relatives in town.spent Christmas with his parents, Mr.and Mrs.C.W.Merrill.Mr.Thomas Parkhill of Springfield, Mass, visited his parents, Mr.and Mrs.W.J.Parkhill, recently.Misa Gertrude Sharon has gone to Stanstead, Que.Mrs.Perley Sanborn has gone to a hospital in New Hampshire for treatment.JUDD\u2019S MILLS SCHOOL.The following is the standing of GRADE vil: Bertha Smith 89 per cent, Edith Lowell 83.5, Ruth Pomeroy 72, Howard Knapp 69, Doris Knapp 57.GRADE v: Harold Durocher 91 per win 84, Bthel Lowell 67, Allen Knapp 68, Rutb Noyes 50, Hazel Noyes 33.GRADE 1V: Adelle Baldwin 91.5 per ceut, Mary Baldwin 89.5, Edna Hill 85, Dennis Durocher 65.GRADE III: Alice Lowell 83 per cent, Ruby Noyes 74.Rank 1n Class is found by average per cent.VERMONT ITEMS.20 head of one and two year-old boro tor $1,200.The Ciarence Kelly farm in Derby was sold recently tor 820,000, P.u.Blanchard & Co.made the sale.The clerks in the store of Frank D.Flint, Newport, Were well remembered with gifts by their employer on Ubrist- mas day.Tne Wheelock town library has just received a box of 24 volumes of fiction.from the estate of Ferd Chase of Lodp Lake, N.Y., who was 8 Wheelock boy.There are 248 towns in Vermont and there were 217 community Christmas trees in the state this last week; it is estimated that at least 70,000 children were giveu a little Obristmas cheer.The Orleans County Monitor passed its 45th birthday, December 27.It has, trom ite inception, been fearless, clean and wise in both its editorial and business policy) therefore broadly successtul as & country weekly.The Memphremagog Driving Club of Newport, Vt., will commence their wevkly series of winter matinee ice races on Saturday afternoon, Jan, 6th, at 2 o'clock.The track is already in shape.A large fleld of horses will start, and lovers of horse races are cordially invited to attend.Lyndonville has been suffering from a series of burglaries recently.One Porrell, a former workman in the railroad shops of the town, is held on suapicion.He was arrested in Sanford, Maine.The robberies were extensive and evidently perpetrated by a person more or lesse xpert, CARD OF THANKS.We wish, through the JouRNAL, to thank all the neighbors and frience for their helpfulness and sympathy during the iliness and death of our father.Such kindness will not be forgotten.MR.AND MRs.FREEMAN BEAN, CASBVILLE.! * Mr.and Mrs.John Rule of Lowell, | Carl Wheeler, at Way's Mille.| Mr.O.L.Merrill of Greenfield, Mass., | pupile at the Christmas examinations.| cent, Bertha Molway 90, Richard Bald- Jersey heifers sold recently in Greens- : PROHIBITION FOR QUEBEC.The Matter is Becoming a Practical Political Issue in That Province.Three hundred leading citisens, lay and clerical, of the province of Quebec, recently waited on Sir Lomer Gouin, the premier, and the members of the provincial cabinet, and urged the responsible ministry to use its influence in favor of at least a test of the attitude of the Legislature as to prohibition of the liquor trafic.In the deputation were Judges, officials of temperance organizations, clergymen, and laymen of all callings.They held steadfastly to their straight demand, and re- lused to be diverted by intimations that light drinks should be excepted.They impressed the Government of- | ficlals strongly by their unity and zeal.Sir Lomer Gouin pledged ser- fous attention to the arguments presented, intimating that it was now , more a question as to whether the i public opinion of the province had been educated to insist on enforce- | ment of such a law, and less a ques- ' tion of the righteousness of prohibition itself.| The character of this deputation, as well as its size, the respect with which it was treated, and the answer | it received, all combine to make friends of temperance throughout Canada more hopeful, It has been assumed by many that Quebec must be left out of any general prohibition | scheme, however remote its complete | accomplishment.The supposition, for a long time, bas been that ecclesiastical and political forces too strong to be overcome stood in the way of even converting cities like Montreal and Quebec and a peasan- | try such as inhabits the villages to | any favor for prohibition, much less getting a statute on the law books, ; And no doubt the past history of re- | form movements in the province has given much cause for the supposition.The fact is, however, that example ! teaches louder than precept, and the victories for prohibition in Ontario, and in the provinces of the west, are not being overlooked in Quebec.The ; facts cannot be hidden, and they are having an educational! effect.The burdens of taxpayers will be heavy, \"and if jails can be emptied, prisons .relieved of man inmates, and bank deposits increased, the French-Cana- dian town or country dweller will not ; miss noting the relation between cause and effect, between temperance and thrift.He is as shrewd a citizen as any country boasts, albeit thrifty to an extraordinary degree, After Ypres the Somme, , Two officers\u2014one from Edmonton ; and the other from Montreal\u2014who Were wounded early in the recent advance, too early to speak of the actual event, in the course of conversation with a representative of The Canadian Gazette discussed the difference between life in the Ypres salient and on the Somme front.\u2018Ypres and the Somme are,\u201d said one, \u2018\u2018the exact opposite of each other.\u201d On the Somme front, they explained, they were out in the open, and shell-holes served as trenches.| At Ypres there was no seeing the i enemy and very little chance of hitting back.On the Somme you saw | the enemy and even saw cavalry at , work.It was harder work on the | Somme, but it was much better ; sport.There was not the sense of being shut up in a limited area, for there were many miles of front.Both\u2019 officers spoke of the superiority of the British in the air.The enemy employed no Zeppelins on the | Somme, and very seldom was an enemy aeroplane seen.When one | was seen it was so high up as to be useless from an observation point of | view.The consequence was the German observation was nothing like as efficient as it used to be, and more liberties could be taken than in the Ypres salient.Rations could be brought up in the daylight, and | altpgether life was very different from that led in the Ypres salient.The \u2018bors\u2019 were all glad to be on the Somme front.The German shelling was sometimes severe, but the British artillery sent over quite ten | times as many shells as the Germans .fired.Our guns stood in rows and did terrible execution.A large number of German prisoners were taken, They were for the most part stiall men, but were very smart, springing to attention directly on meeting an officer.These prisoners expressed their amazement at our artillery.which had done destruction in their ranks.Both officers spoke with enthusiasm about the | tanks\u2019 which were like little battleships on land.The nose of a \u2018\u2018tank\u201d could be raised up, and that was how the great machine managed to cross trenches, They were inarwellous in what they could do, and they certainly 2nnoyed the Germans very much.A Mennonite Problem, A delegation of western Mennonite bishops saw the Prime Minister recently about a curious grievance, and they asked his protection.It appears that under the Mennonite faith they cannot enter into litigation.They can neither prosecute nor defend lawsuits.Recently a member named Heinrich' was excommunicated, and he sued the bishop for damages.,He was non-suited and he then sued À number of members of the church for conspiracy.The case was undefended and he got $1,000 damages.The Mennonites fear that this sort of thing will be- come a habit, and it is suggested that the Government should name a counsel for them.It would be a way out.The community is law-abiding and much respected.When the : Mennonites came to Canada, in 1873, : they were granted freedom from military services.After the war began they waived this right and many of the young men have enlisted.The Kaiser Talks, ! The Kaiser, addressing troops on the Somme front, thanked them for their sacrifices and adjured them to | \u201cstand firm against French insolence and British stubborness,\u201d concluding: \u201cThe Lord will give His blessing in the end.\u201d | CARLYLE AND HIS WIFE.The Lady Was Jealous of His Social and Literary Success, It is certain that the Carlyles were an {li-assorted couple.She consid- eved from the beginning that to marry him was an act of condescension on her part.The daughter of a country doctor of Haddington bad descended from the skies, like Diana to Fndymion, to marry the son of a stonemason.But he loved her and was happy in bis love.Not so she.Jealous of him as she was\u2014furiously jealous\u2014not as a lover, for there she knew she was safe But she could not bear to think that if she were famous it was as his wife, whereas she, knowing hereel! to be brilliant, would fain have bad him to be known as the husband of that wouderful Mrs.Carlyle It was his success, social and literary, that she resented.It irked ter to be in the second place, and she couid not forgive it.à There was something else of which the lady was jealous, and that was the agony of concentration wbich her busband\u2019s work meant for bim.At moments here \u2018saeva indignatio\u201d against \u2018that Carlyle,\u201d as she would contemptuously call him, passed all bounds.One day my aunt went to call upon ber and found her in one of her tantrums, \u201cWhat asked, \u2018Oh, my dear, it's just that Car- Iyle! Would you believe it, I have bad a beadache for three days and he\u2019s only just found it out.\u2018I'm afraid you're not quite well, my dear,\u201d he said, and all the time he has been working, working! I just tbrew a teacup at his head.\u201d\u2014Lord Redesdale\u2019s Recollections.Settlers\u2019 Loans Prove Popular.Applications for loans under the settlers\u2019 loan legislation of last session, already amount to $92,790 for the District of Timiskaming alone, and others are still coming in.\u2018\u201cA substantial amount has already been paid over to the settlers and the bulk of the amount applied for is in process of going to them,\u201d stated the Government Loan Commissioner, Mr.Fred Dane.\u2018\u201c\u201cWe have given precedence to ap- was the matter?\u201d she plications from Timiskaming, because we thought the need there more urgent than in other districts on account of the fires,\u201d said Com- | missioner Dane.\u2018One effect of the burning of so much standing timber \u2018| has been to give an impetus to clearing.With the bush burned off set- | tlers are looking for loans to help: them get more land cleaned up and tn cultivation, and to get cattle to pasture in the burned areas.\u201d The New Liskeard, Englehart, Ma- theson, and Cochrane agencies contribute the bulk of the applications, Cochrane has 82 settlers applying for a total of $25,300; Matheson, 62 for $26,100; Englehart, 48 for $16,550, and New Liskeard, 49 for $18,800.In the Hearst agency away out on the Transcontinental, nine settlers want $2,940; in the North Bay district, five settlers ask for $2,100, and at Haileybury, three want to divide up $1,000.While the legislation under which loans are made permits the Commissioner making a loan up to $500, secured by the settlers property, comparatively few men have asked for so much, the average running around $350, , Trade Opportunities in West Indies.Mr.James E.Dobbs, who as a representative of the Canada India League, spent ten weeks in the Brite ish West Indies and in Trinidad in particular, has returned to Toronto firmly convinced that there are vast opportunities for the development of Canadian trade in the West Indies.There is there, Mr.Dobbs declares, a prevailing opinion that almost all! sorts of Canadian products can find a ready market if advertised and sold by competent representatives who would see that the goods were prepared and packed to suit tropical conditions.The Canada India League is interested in bringing about a closer bond of sympathy among the colonies of the Empire and eliminating any social, religious, or racial prejudices which might exist, and Mr.Dobbs spent considerable time in Trinidad, where men from the East Indies forLi one-third of the population, in studying the social, commercial, and domestic life of the men from the East Indies.Mr.Dobbs formed the opinion that those \u2018men after perhaps three years at the outset came to understand that \u2018While in Rome they must do as the Romans do,\u201d and adapted themselves to cone ditions.How They Raised the Money.Many Australian business firma and manufacturers rendered very material assistance in the flotation of the last war loan by taking up benas on behalf of their employees in return for small weekly payments.While each firm made its own arrangement, yet the general proce« dure was to assist any employee in receipt of less than £200 a year in taking u® bonds from £10 to £50, the amount to be repaid at the rate of 2s, 6d.a week for each £10 bond.The employers undertook to pay over the amount subscribed by the employee without interest being charged for the advance.Further, any employee subscribing to the loan and lepving the firm's service before the expiration of the eighteen months (tke period of reimbursement of advances) may obtain his or her bond on (a) by payment of the amount oulstanding, or (b) transferring the subscription to another employee, or (c¢) arranging with the firm to take up the subscription\u2014in which case the frm will repay the amount paid, together with the interest due there on wo date of transfer.Mathematical, Whdn you're present at a wedding You will note ere 'tls begun What with bride and groom and parson It takes three to make two one.Increase in Silos, There were 1,258 silos built in eastern Ontario last year, Tried on since his S6600000000600000000000000 british Raised an Army Of Over 5,000,000 Men With Wonderful Speed 0000000600000 T is now possible to take stock of the devclopment of the British fighting forces since the war bee gan.Britain's contribution te the army, official figures show, bas reached a total of six million men, In August 1914 the regular army, on mobilization, amounted to 450,000 men, including reserves and special reserves (the old Militia); and Lord Haldane\u2019s Territorial Force, strained in a very high degree, though not so thoroughly as the regular soldier, and only liable for home defence, added 250,000 more\u2014an army in the aggregate of 700,000, But over 100,« 000 of these regulars were allocated to India and other foreign stations.In a single day after the declaration of the war, 30,000 recruits were attested\u2014the number provided for in a whole years of peace.The War Office machinery, at first quite inadequate, survived the avalanche, and adapted itself to the new heaven and the new earth, as everything else had to do.Members of Parliament and provincial business men were called in to help, or came in without being called; military officers who had lived in a world of their own found themselves suddenly attempting to communjcate with civilians from quite another world.What astonished the efficient civile ians most in those early times was the daily snowstoYm of pay sheets and forms of all kinds which descended upon them, unlike manna, from London.The 500 paid officials who were sncwed under by those documents at the beginning of the war have since been increased to 7,000.In the fifth week of the wap 250,000 men presented themselves for the army or the territorial force, and of that number 175,000 were passed into the regulars.A central organization, equipped to feed, house, clothe, arm, drill and instruct an army, at the most, of 700,000 men was confronted, a few : weeks after the declaration of war, with an army of about a million and a half, and winter was at hand.Appalled by the apparent impossibility of getting huts and clothes and boots, to say nothing of rifles, ready in time for all who were demanding them, the War Office on September 11, five weeks after the opening of the war, deliberately checked recruft- ing by raising the standards.e expedient was all too successful, It had not occurred to the War Office then to put the superfluous recruits into reserve groups, from which they might be called as they were require ed.Recruiting rapidly fell off, and at the same time\u2014everybody image ining that the country had enlisted as many soldiers as it would need\u2014e the voice of the parrot was heard in the land repeating everywhere \u2018\u2018Busie ness as usual.\u201d This had an injure ous influence, and the great slump in voluntary recruiting ensued, The standard for recruits was lowered again in the second month of the war, and the age limit was extended, but the mischief was not to be se easily undone.Recruiting was now entrusted ima a much larger degree to the civilian organizations, and the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee canvassed 8,« 000,000 heads of households on thelr duty to contribute to the military strength of the country.Under the National Regisration Act, passed in July, 1915, all the men and women in the United Kingdom between the ages of 16 and 65 were registered, with all the information concerning them necessary for ree cruiting and induetrial purposes.Then took place \u2018\u2018the last great recruiting rally for the voluntary system.\u201d The new feature of this last rally was Lord Derby's group system, under which, in the space of two months, 2,250,000 men attested under the group system, and in addi tion it added over 275,000 men im= mediately to the army.At Great Scotland Yard 2,300 recruits were dealt with in one day, and 6,200 in the last six days of the scheme.It was found by the Government, however, that an appreciably large number of single men of military age had neither attested nor enlisted, and accordingly, in January of the pre sent year, Mr.Asquith introduced his Military Service Bill to conscript the unmarried, and it became law.A gime ilar measure in respect of the mare ried followed soon after, and by May 25 all men of military age in Great Britain had been made liabl$ to be called into the army.We know that before compulsion was introduced over 5,000,000 men in the United Kingdom had voluntare ily come forward to fight the enemy, It is not known to the public how many have been added by conacrip- tion, but the British army is now spoken of in well-informed quarters as an army of at least six million men.Taking everything into age count, it may be claimed with come fidence that no other country has ever made or is making now a greate er war effort than is being put forth in these times by Great Britain, All the above figures relate to the United Kingdom only, and take ne account of the magnificent contribue tion in men and money of the Overs: sea Dominions.A Dethroned King, Lidj Jeassu, who was recently dethroned as king of the Abyssinian domains, succeeded his grandfather, Emperor Menelik, in 1913, hif moe ther being Menelik's second daughe ter.Among his first acts was the creation of his father as king of Wollo and Nigi.Lidj Jeassu being a minor, administration has been cars accession by ree gents.London Has 904,500 Miles of Wiring London has 73,500 miles of ever- head telegraph and telephone wires sud 921,000 miles of underground, . ~ AH OVERSEAS MINISTER NEW OFFICE HAS BEEN CREATED IN DOMINION CABINET.\"Sir George Perley Will Undertake the Task of Looking After Canada\u2019s Interest in Great Britain and Will Look Also After Ef.olency and Welfare of the Expeditionary Forces, IR GEORGE PERLEY bas been appointed Minister of the Canadian Overseas Forces in Great Britain, and will preside over a sub-militia council wkich it is intended to establish there.The requisite order-in- Council was passed last week, The situation leading up to the new system is outlined in the following memorandum issued by Sir Robert Borden: \u201cDuring his recent visit to Great Britain the Minister of Militia gave very careful consideration to mora effective arrangements in connection with the overseas forces, and reached the conclusion that a committee or sub-militia council ought to be established.In view of the unexpected length of the war and the unprecedented efforts which are being exerted by Canada, in common with the rest of the Empire, for its defence and for the common welfare, careful attention was necessarily given to the situation which has developed.\u201cThe forces already despatched by Canada for overseas service in Europe number about 258,000.Tha expenditure involved in the organization, maintenance, equipment, and direction overseas of these forces is Very great, an every available effort must be made to assure not only the highest degree of efficiency, but the most thorough and prompt co-opera- tion of the overseas forces witn those of the Mother Countrÿ and of the other dominions, as well as the most economical and careful admin- {stration of the means which are appropriated for that purpose.Havine regard to all these considerations, :t has been thought desirable that, ip + connection with the proposal to establish such a committee or coæn- cll, there shoüld be a me:nber of the Government resident in Londo and charged with important duties and responsibilities in connection with the overseas forces.The Minister of Militia can visit Great Brit ain only occasionally, while a resident Minister would be continually in touch with the British Government, as well as with all questions touching the efficiency and welfars of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.\u2018The necessary orders-in-Council for the purpose have been passed, and Sir George Perley, who for two years has heen resident in London, discharging the duties of High Commissioner, has been selected by the Prime Minister to undertake the duties and responsibilities of Minister of the Overseas Forces.He will bring to the important responsibilities which he has undertaken qualities and experience which will enable him to give splendid servica to the country in the discharge of bis duties.\u201d Good Results Already Seen.The first results from the working of the Ontario Temperance Act will be found in the cities, and already these resulis are becoming known.Lieut.-Colonel Grassett, Chief Constable of Toronto, in a statement covering the six weeks following the sixteenth of September, comments on the marked change in conditions.For the period from September 15 to October 15, 1915, there were in Toronto 1,059 arrests for drunkenness, and for the same period this year, which is concurrent with the operation of the new law, there were only 214.\u201cEvidence of satisfaction with this ora of prohibition is being given constantly by men who were never known to be temperance advocates,\u201d says Colonel Grassett, and he cites several cases where individuals have been benefitted by the Act, and one hotelkeeper who acknowledges that the bar was an abomination and he was glad to see it go.The economic advantage, which is principally hat was in the minds of the Government when the law was proposed, is equally significant.There is a marked absence of loitering around hotels now, and many former habituates are Low seen in the company of their families and the necessities of life are taking the place of the whiskey glass.It would seem that the Ontario Temperance Act, given the same reasonable enforcement in the future that it has received so far, is going to prove popular, : nd will at the same time meet every reasonable demand that exists for restricting the sale of intoxicating liquors.Canada's First Farmer, The first farmer settler in Canada Who lived on the produce of the soil was Louis Hebert, an apothecary from Paris, who landed in Quebec in 1617 with his wife and children, and at once started to clear and cultivate the soil on what is now the site of the Cathedral of Quebec, the Seminary, and part of the Upper Town.With a spade as his only tool he worked and re-worked the soil until it was ready to receive seed.He threw in seed from France, plant- od apple and rose trees, and at last saw waving in the breeze the golden grain, the flowers, and fruits from bis motherland.The third centenary of the landing of Louis Hebert will be commemorated in Quebec in 1917, and a citizens\u2019 committee has been formed to erect a monument to the first farmer of the Dominion.A Wonderful Record.It i8 stated that the British have not lost a gun in the whole Somme offensive; and it is probable that this is the only offensive in the war that oan boast of such a wonderful record.ZEPPS DON'T SCARE LONDON.Curiosity apd Hatred Are All That They Arouse.\u201cThey're about.\" Such was the message passed among the crowds of Londoners returning late one night from an afternoon in the country and suburbs.The unusual darkness \u2018of various places told the tale in any case, The Zepps were expected.But Zepp raids are so accustomed now that no one showed any perturbation.It was quite a matter of course.Folks stopped a moment to scan the starry heavens, where searchlights flashed their phosphorescent glow, then most of the .populace went home, Others still watched from roofs and windows, awaiting the fireworks.About midnight the distant thuds of a few guns sounded, then stopped.A few minutes later the searchlights revealed the silvery form of a raider floating in from the eastward.Then, a sudden flash and, as suddenly, a burst of cheering from the crowds in the Strand.Shooting earthward in a trail of sparks, breaking in half in a blaze of red fire which lit the sky, the monster cam?down.Not a sound of firing was there, just a swift, silent, flaming destruction.\u201cAnother one down,\u2019 babbled everybody, fairly dancing for joy.Two hours after this bad subsided, and when tired citizens were again about to seek repose, another cry rent the air, \u201cFire! fire! the Hotel\u2019s burning!\u201d yelled a man, dashing down the cement sidewalk below my window.Your correspondent pulled on some clothes on the instant and hurried out to see the new excitement, Already the nearest fire engines had dasbed up, and steel-helmeted men were climbing in through the windows of the second floor, whence came rifte of smoke, Women in night-dresses were helped down the ladder, and the sound of crashing glass, burst- « doors, and the hiss of squirted chemical extinguishers 1s- sued, The fire was immediately controlled and put out.Mayhap it was an accident, but what a dodge for a Hun spy! Once ablaze, even if presently put out by the brigade, the hotel would have made a splendid flare for the enemy airships, several of which still hovered somewhere up in the mysterious, star-lit skies.A nice signal it would | have been\u2014a beacon, whose known location might point the way to de- siratie places.But once more were the Huns frustrated.One wonders if the German peo- tle realize how little these dastardly and tidiculously ineffective raids inspire fear in the people of England.Nowadsys when a Zepp comes over, instead of the terror it is plagned to inspire, it merely awakens hatred, then the pleasurable anticipation of seeing a pyrotechnic display as it comes crashing down, and, finally, a covetous desire to be in at the death and grab some souvenirs before the air service men get to it and place sentries about.\u201cI was out where the last one fell,\u201d remarked a young English girl to the writer.Her fiance lis in the service, and took her in his staff car.\u2018Just think of it, I had a chance to take the Iron Cross off the dead commander's breast, and, like a ninny, I contented myself with a cartridge from his belt.Oh, yes, I did get his binoculars, too, but they were so cumbersome and conspicuous that the major who searched the car when we were leaving discovered them and made an awful row.Of course, I had to give them back.That silly old War Office wanted them.Just as if they didn't know what a pair of Boche fleld-glasses looked like.And someone else sneaked the Iron Cross.Well, I shall know what to do next time.\u201d In her nonchalance, at least, the young lady typifies English sentiment.Prince's Hard Luck.It seems likely that Prince Albert's career as a sailor is to come to an untimely end, for he is again invalided home, and may have to under- g0 another operation.It is very hard luck, for he is extremely keen, but he is consoled a little by the thought that he was able to see something of the Jutland \u2018\u2018scrap\u2019\u2019 and got a \u201cmention.\u201d It used to be thought that Prince Albert was the more robust of the King's two elder sons, but this war has proved that, though slight, the Prince of Wales has a wonderful amount of staying power, and that his looks belie him.There are authentic stories of the Prince of Wales cycling long distances with scarcely a bite to eat at the call of duty, and such feats would be impossible were he not strong and wiry.« He Accompanied Him.The well-known novelist, Mr.Jack London, although he has permanently taken up his abode im California, pays periodical visits to England to see his publishers and transact other business.On the last occasion he was over there he was introduced to a noted musician.\u201cI, too, am a musician in a small way,\u201d said Jack London.\u201cMy musj- cal talent was once the means of saving my life.There was a great flood in our town in my boyhood.When the water struck our house my father got on a bed and floated with the stream until he was rescued.\u201d \u2018\u2019And you?\u201d asked the musician.\u201cWell,\u201d said Jack London, \u2018\u2018you see, I accompanied him on the piano.\u201d Household Hints.Lemon-juice makes a good substitute for shoe polish if a few drops are well rubbed into the leather.If copper pans are not very carefully washed there is danger that they may poison the food cooked in thew, When making mint sauce, add a little brown granulated sugar to the mint and the chopping will be much easier, and accomplished more quick- iv too, \u2014\u2014r nave nr me ree wm WHO IS BRUSSILOFF?Cousin Declares That He Is Really Sir Hector Macdonald.\u201cWhen ~ man is dead, then he's done for,\u201d rurs the old ballad, but there are a few who do not come under this generalization.We have had the famous Dauphin of France, titular King Louis XVIl., who is said to have escaped from the deadly Temple, and to have lived in America or elsewhere as various people.And two novelists took the idea as bases for interesting novels.We recall news items how Oscar Wilde did not die in F,ance, but was buried in effigy, and lived to find life anew, hidden away.The mystery of Marshal Ney is an old story.And there was Heotor Macdonald, who has reappeared in the person of more than one noted military leader; especially lately, he has been identified with General Brussiloff.There are, then, men who simply Will not stay dead.The story of Brussiloff, while the reverse of probable, Is still interesting enough to ne reproduced.A writer recently gave out an interview with a resident of Gotham who said she was a cousin of the supposedly dead Macdonald.In this the identity with Brussiloff was put forth, We learn: The legend of Sir Hector Macdonald is one of the strangest and most romantic in modern history.Charged with immoral conduct in Ceylon in 1903, Sir Hector, then a brigadier- general of the British army, a Knight Commander of the Bath, and a member of the Distinguished Service Order, was reported to have committed suicide in a Paris hotel after visiting London and failing to have the charges dismissed.Officially, General Sir Hector Macdonald is dead and buried in a little cemetery outside of Edinburgh.His wife remarried many years ago.Tradition has it, however, that the suicide in the Paris hotel was not Sir Hector, but a traveler in an adjoining room.Seeing at once the opportunity, Sir Hector, according to the story, changed clothes with the corpse, and, in his new identity, departed unsu-ected.Like the man in Arnold Bennett\u2019s story, Sir Hector went forth into the world with bis life to use as he liked, The legend, which was previously hazy and unconfirmed, takes on new life in the words of this Mrs.Taylor, Macdonald\u2019s cousin.The reporter asked a number of questions, trying to shake her belief in the identity of the hero of the castern front but without any success.The account states: \u2018\u201c\u2018l am absolutely certain,\u201d she said, \u2018that General Brussiloff is really Sir Hector.While I am only a distant relative, éousins of Sir Hector live in London and Canada and Australia, and I know that they have been in communication with him.\u201cSir Hector was a small man, stockily built.Gen.Bruasiloff is of the same figure.In his character of Russian general, Sir Hector has grown a moustache, but it does not make his features unrecognizable.\u2018Many people who did not know of Sir Hector have commented on the queer and extraordinary circums- stances connected with the rise of the Rusgian commander.It is odd, to gay the least, they point out, that a man in supreme command of one of the greatest offensives of the war ghould be of a previous history totally unknown, \u2018Brussiloff\u2019 is not a real Russian name, anyway.And the photographs of the general show be does not look like a Russian.\u201d Canning Without Sugar.Housewives who intended to reduce the amount of canning done this season by reason of the bigh cost of sugar may abandon that project and put up as much as they wish, is the statement issued by the canning specialists at the Department of Agriculture, This can be made possible by the use of boiling water when sugar gyrup is beyond one\u2019s means.Any trait.they say, may be successfully stétrilized and retained in the pack by simply adding boiling water instead of the hot syrup.Most fruits canned alone in water do not retain their | flavor, texture, and color as do those canned in sugar, and must be sweetened when used for sauces or desserts.In order to can without sugar the product must be canned on the same day that it is picked.It should be prepared for canning in the ordinary way.Then the containers should be placed in a sterilizing vat such as a wash botler with a false bottom, and completely covered with boiling water.The sterilization process may extend from 10 to 30 minutes, according to the process used.After sterilization the packs should be removed, the glass jars sealed and wrapped in paper to prevent bleaching and stored in a dry, cool place.\u2014 Haitford Times, Queens Sold Almanacs, The sale of almanacs was once a lucrative monopoly.Queen Elizabeth granted the sole right to publish \u201calmanacs and prognostications\u2019\u201d to the Stationers\u2019 Company, and James I.extended the privilege to the Uni- verities of Oxford and Cambridge, but for centuries only these three bodies were permitted to issue printed calendars.The monopoly ended when the claim of the king to the privilege of granting or withholding permission to Issue calenders\u2014a survival, perhaps, {rom days when kings asserted their right to regulate all things, including even the times and seasons\u2014was definitely disproved and proclaimed non-exist- ent.Now an; body can say who's who anywhere,\u2014London Chronicle.Shipbuilding in B.C, The Wallace Shipyards, at Vancouver, have taken contracts for the construction of three steam vessels in addition to the three wooden ves- gels already in course of construction.Several other propositions are under consideration.In some of the Pacific States shipbuilding bas been booming for some time and the ao.tivity is now spreading to the Canadian side of the line.FRENCH ENERGY FOR WAR.No Time to Be Concerned With Mere Industrial Progress.The important effect on French trade after the war of the new chemical, metallurgical and mechanical industries created in answer to the needs of the army, were emphasised by Albert Thomas, Under-Secretary of War, at a luncheon of the Economic and Financial Association.\u201cOur war loan of to-day Is not only the loan of a victor, but incorporated as it is in all our new creations, it becomes in some ways a great Industrial loan which will permit us to prepare fruitful enterprises for the peace of to-morrow,\u201d he sald.\u201cWe shall have made new and fecund creations, and the national savings, almost entirely locked up hitherto in Government securities, will flow into channels where they will be the driving force of t industry of to-morrow, Attempts are being made to revive old industries, to create new ones, and direct new French forces to the conquests of new markets.1 wish to give a word of warning.Let us not disperse our strength.Let us associate our pre-occupations of to-day with those of to-morrow, but let us be sure that no force shall be diverted from the essential task of to-day and from the France of the war, we depend upon America,\u201d went On he , \u201cfor -parts of our steel and shells.Recently there have been torpedoings, and ships laden with steel have been unable to sail.It these incidents become more freque and deliveries of American metal become rarer what would our situation be?Our duty to-day is not perhaps to assure the entire production of the raw materials that we may conceive will be wanted to carry out our programme ghell manufacture, but to diminish gradually the gap between our resources and our.wants.\u201d MAN WHO WOULDN'T DOWN.Dismissed for Intemperance, He Enlisted and Regained Commission An official despatch from Canadian Headquarters contains the fol lowing: The whole Canadian army has learned with sympathy and delight of the reinstatement of Lieut.O.B.Jones to his commissioned rank.Deprived by court-martial of his commission because of an act of intemperance while on duty, Lieut.Jones immediately enlisted as a private in a well-known Montreal battalion.He showed ngt only strict devotion to duty, but conspicuous gallantry upon several occasions.He became a corporal, then won his sergeant's stripes.He was awarded a D.C.M.for his reckless courage and again » bar for his medal.On September 15 he was in the thick of the fighting.It was said of him that he -/as perpetually out killing Germans.His conduct was such as to recommend him for further reward.Latcr he was so severely wounded that it is improbable he will be again able to serve his country as a soldier, but he is now reinstated as an officer, and he has won back his honor.The Trench Commandments.The \u201cTen Commandments\u2019 of the trench are: 1.When on guard, challenge all parties thee, 2.Thou shalt mot send any engravings nor any likeness of any airship in beaven ab.ve, nor any postcard of the earth beneath, nor any submarine in the sea for I, the censor, am a jealous censor, visiting the iniquities of the offenders with three months C.B., but allowing mercy unto thousands by letting thou shalt approaching their letters go first who obey my | commandments.3.Thou shalt not use profane language, unless under extraordinary circumstances, such as seeing thy mate shot, or getting petrol in thy tea.- 4, Remember the soldier's week consists of seven days.Six days shalt thou labor, and on the sevench thou shalt do odd jobs.5.Honor thy King and country; keep thy rifle well oiled and -shost straight that thy days may be long in the land the enemy giveth thee.6.Thou shalt not steal thy comrade\u2019s kit.7.Thou shalt not kill time.8.Thou shalt not adulterate the mess tin by using it as a shaving mug.* 8.Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy comrade, but pre- gerve silence on their outgoings and incomings.10.Thou shalt not covet thy corporal's post, nor the sergt-major\u2019s but by tby duty and perseverance, thou shall rise to the position of field marshal.The Bishop's Story.Apropos of the fact that although children soon weary of doctrinal or any other teaching they are never tired of tales well told, the following story is related in regard to the Bishop of London.He was once addressing a boys\u2019 meeting, and having delighted them with some of his racy illustrations he began to draw to a close by saying: \u2018Now I'm going to point out the moral of all this,\u201d when one little fellow from the middle of the hall shouted out: \u201cNever mind the moral.Gie's another story.\u201d Noblewoman Can't Mend Roads.After nearly four months of heavy farm work Lady Mabel Smith of London, sister of Lord Fitzwilliam, applied to the Wortley rural council for a position as a road laborer.The council has refused to give her a job, saying the work is too hard for a woman.A Clean Record.\u201cWhat makes Jinks so proud of his ancestors?I never heard any of them did anything.\u201d \u201cThat's exactly the point.many persons\u2019 ancestors did do things which got them into trouble with the police,\u201d So! THE NATIONAL SPORTS.Splendid Tribute Paid to Hockey and Lacrosse by an Officer.The following tribute to Canadian sport, particularly hockey and lacrosse, the national winter and summer sports of the Dominion, is contained in one of the latest books (The Red Watch) dealing with the great European struggle, written by Colonel J.A.Currie, M.P., and having for its subject the doings of the First Canadian Division in Flanders: \u201cThe work of organizing and equipping the Canadian Imperial battalions for overseas service was taken up with great vigor by the Minister of Militia and the officers of the department.C ving to the influence of the churches the best class of youth in the country came forward in large numbers.The clergy appealed to the athletes that had ben trained in the gymnasiums of the Y.M.C.A.,, and the ranks soon contained a large sprinkling of Canadian lacrosse and hockey players.\u201cIt was afterwards to be shown that the manly and strenuous native Canadian sports, lacrosse and hockey, practised by almost every boy in the country from the time he is able to walk, are of a character admirably suited to produce bold and | courageous soldiers.Boys who have | been accustomed to handle lacrosse and hockey sticks, develop arm and shoulder muscles that make the + carrying gnd use of the rifle easy.Firing for hours during a hot and sustained engagement does not fa- | tigue or exhaust them as it otherwise would.In the rough work of the bayonet charge, they keep their heads, and have confidence in their ability at close quarters to overcome their antagonist.They do not dread a blow or a bayonet, for they have been accustomed to roughing it all their lives.When it comes to \u2018cold steel\u2019 it {s the man who has the courage and confidence in himself that wins, for nineteen times out of twenty the cther man is dominated before blades are crossed, and at \u201c once either throw up his hands or runs.\u201d ONTARIO DEAREST PROVINCE., Workman\u2019s Weekly Outlay for Necessities $15.01 in September.The Labor Department's October publication of the cost of living figures shows that the average weekly budget of a workingman's family, for staple foods, fuel, \u2018lighting, and rent, had by the end of September risen to $15.01, as compared with $14.63 for August last, $13.67 for September of last year, and $13 for September of 1911.The average is made up from prices obtained from sixty cities in Canada, and the items included concern practically only the essentials of very plain living.Nothing is included for clothing, doctor bills, amusements, church or contingen- cles.The increase in the cost of living for the wage-earners, on the modest scale measured by rent at $16 per , month, 18 $1.54 per week during the past twelve months, and $2 per week since September of 1911, If the increased cost of clothing is also taken into account the total increase in the workingman's weekly bill for necessaries will be considerably greater.Unless his wages have gone up by more than twenty per cent.within the past four or five years ne is worse off now than he was in 1911, Rent is the only item which shows any downward tendency.The average weekly cost of rent is now put at $4.08, as compared with $4.58 in September of 1914, and $4.75 in September, 1913, Food costs $8.69 per week now, as | compared with $7.73 in September of last year, $7.82 in September of 1914, and $7.13 in September 1911.i Ontario is the dearest province of the Dominion for food.The average weekly budget for the province is given at $9.18, as compared with $8.64 for Quebec, and $8.65 in Mani- | toba.\u201cKitchener Square.\u201d An interesting suggestion for the utilization of the oid courthouse grounds in Vancouver, as a site for ! à soldiers\u2019 monument, is made by Mr.J.W.Weart, member-elect for South Vancouver.Mr.Weart prefaces his proposal with the suggestion that the new Government should, as one of the first acts in office, make a grant of this square to the city of Vancouwer, in trust for the people of Greater Vancouver, ; including North Vancouver and New Westminster, who could erect thereon a suitable monument to the memory of the gallant soldiers who have fallen in this war.\u2018In my opinion,\u201d said Mr.Weart, \u2018the name that should be given to the square which will undoubtedly be turned over by the Government to the city, 1s Kitchener square, as a tribute to the memory of Kitchener, the man and soldier, who will be given by history the credit of organizing that magnificent army of citizen soldiers, which is destined to uphold British institutions and be the means of bringing everlasting peace to the world.\u201d Someone Ought to Tell Her.Dear little Willie was only recently married, and for the last night he had been wearing that famous smile which a man wears on only two occasions\u2014when he is first married and when the first baby arrives.That smile, which suggests a codfish in paradise is extremely annoying to the onlooker.Therefore, Willie's friends were relieved to see him appear one morning looking very glum, \u201cHallo, Willie! What's the mat- | ter?\u2019 they cried in chorus.\u201cOh, don't chaff, boys \u2014 don't chaff! Marriage isn\u2019t what J thought it was! My wife can't sing!\u201d \u201cCan't sing?Why, you ought to be thankful for that!\u201d \u201cYes, I dare say.And I might be monly, you see, she doesn't know it of | fort- | THE NEW DUBLIN.Plans for the Restoration of the Dee stroyed Bections.One of the \u2018burning questions\u201d connected with the restoration of sections of Dublin destroyed during the recent riots is as to whether the British Government shall foot the bills or the municipality, or whether there shall be a division of the burden; and also just what shall be the character of the restoration.Discussing the problem with a correspondent, James M.Gallagher, the Lord Mayor, had the following to y: One thing appears certain, namely, that the owners of the bouses which have been destroyed, as well as the other occupiers and their stock which has perished, should be compensated.The Government is expected to pay for part of this, through the insurance companies, but in my opinion it should also lend money to the corporation, who might again lend to business men and traders, so as to enable them to start afresh with good buildings.With regard to improvements, i Sackville street, that is O'Connell street, should be laid out in fine buildings for offices with shops underneath.A circus such as Picce- dilly Circus is, round Nelson's Pillar, would be handsome and would bring in a large profit from the premises in it, and with the widening of Earl street into Talbot street, would relieve the congestion from which that district suffers.The committee in charge of the rebuilding could do all the work in five years and would dissolve after handing it over to the corporation which would after that be the authority.According to another scheme, the Government could lend £1,000,000 or £2,000,000 to the corporation, which would carry out the work.\" My own private idea, the Lord Mayor continued, is that the Government should buy up the whole of the desolated area, clear it, and replot it ready to let at a head rent of say, £50 a plot.Then those who did not wish to rebuild need not do so and we should have men coming in with capital from other cities and in time : Dublin might be the finest city In the Empire.A deputation is being sent from the corporation to London consisting of the town clerk, the law agent, and the engineer.Another deputation representing the Fire Losses Company is also going, and they will ask Mr.Asquith what he intends to do.With the assistance of public opinion they should obtain a hearing, and if the Government refuses their request there will only remain a monument of misgovernment.The present Under-Secretary does not seem to be inclined to recommend the Government to rebuild.Nevertheless we believe we can make out a case which Parliament must listen to.When 2,000 rebels take possession of houses, and the Government blows the buildings to pieces to get at the rebels, the Government is morally responsible for replacing them, The Coliseum Theatre, which cost £40,000 and was only built two years ago, was like pronerties of a similar nature not fulkw@lsured.The corporation meanwhim.is losing £16,000 in rates while the ruins exist, and how can it provide the necessary employment?The working class difficulty is abnormal just now, We pay £8,000 to clerks and officials, and £70,000 to working men alone.We shall be compelled to part with temporary men.With regard to the question of re- | building the slums, this must wait until after the war.As a matter of fact, we had 13 rebuilding schemes on hand, but are not allowed to borrow money to carry them out.All the same, we have borrowed £24,000 for housing plans and another £34,- 000 to finish the Roundwood waterworks.This work will be done in 1917, A Middy Prince.The list of new midshipmen includes the name of Prince Louis Francis of Battenberg, the younger son of Admiral Prince Louis of Bat- tenberg.The young Prince has, at 16, concluded his course as a cadet, and becomes an effective officer.He has been appointed to the battle {cruiser Lion, Sir David Beatty's famous flagship.His only brother, Prince George of Battenberg, \u2018whose engagement to the Countess Nada Torby, one of the daughters of the Grand Duke Michael, was recently announced, is also in the battle cruiser squadron, being a lieutenant on the New Zealand, that colony's contribution to the Grand Fleet.The Hours of the Egg.| New measures of food economy are reported from Germany.Herr von Batocki\u2019s latest edict is a strict order against the eating of eggs for \u2018breakfast.Since Saturday last all i hotels, restaurants, pensions, etc., \u2018are forbidden to supply eggs, whether raw or cooked, except at the ! midday and evening meals, and the local authorities throughout the country are required to fix the hours ; within which eggs and egg dishes | may be supplied.Henceforward any- \u2018body who supplies or acquires an egg for breakfast will be liable to ! imprisonment for one year and a fine | of £500\u2014or to only one of these pun- \u2018ishments.| Well Defined.: Lord Halsbury was once arguing a case on behalf of a Welshman, and showed great knowledge of the principality and its people.\"Come, come,\u201d said the judge at last, \u201cyou know you cannot make yourself out to be a Welsiman.\u201d \u201cPerhaps not,\u201d replied the barrister, \u201cbut ! have made a great deal of money out of Welshmen in my time.\u201d \u201cWell, then,\u201d replied the judge, \u201csuppose \u201cwe call you a Welshman by extrac- \u201ction?\u201d A Model Judge.i Ine mew chairman of the South : Wales Conciliation Board, Lord Jus- i tice Pickford, Is tbe model of what a judge should be-able, courteous, i fair, and of dignified, stately appear- anc.He is 67, modest and retiring.à \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014 The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED RVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rook Island, Que.Une year (advance payment) $1.00 it paid in six months, 1.06 AS the end of the year, 1.50 When sent by mail to subsoribers in the Uuited States the prioe will be $1.50 & year in sivance.Entered au second-class matter at the Post- ge st Derby Line under the act of March, 8 ADVERTISING RATES.Transient advertising 10 cents a line for tue Brut insertion and 3 cents à line for each aub- sequent insertion.12 lines to the inch.GIVEN GOOD SEND-OFF.Banquet to Messrs.Nurse and Seguin Largely Attended, There was a large attendance at the farewell banquet given to Charles Nurse and Amèdé Seguin at the Gilmore Inn, Thureday evening, about 60 covers being laid.Sunbury\u2019s orchestra furnished music.Laurence H.Laythe responded to the toast, \u201cThe King;\u201d Dr.G.F.Waldron to \u201cThe President;\u201d J.A.Many to \u2018Our Merchants;\u201d Willlam C.Herbert of Lake- port, N.H., to \u201cOur Out-of-town Friends;\u201d Joseph Lowell to \u2018Our Manufacturers;\u2019\u201d\u2019 Desire Neveu to \u201cThe Ladies;\u2019\u2019 Harrison House gave a most interesting response to \u2018\u2018Our Knights of the Sample Case.\u201d The two guests of honor made most feeling responses to gifts of purses of gold and for the evidence of the esteem and friendship of the large number present.The general feeling expressed was that all would prefer to banquet such men to remain here.Messrs.Nurse and Seguin left Tuesday for Greenfleld, Mase., where they will enter the employ of Wells Bros., tap and die manufacturers.TRIBUTES TO CANADA.What ex-Presidents Taft and Roosevelt Said in Letters.Autograph letters addressed to Mrs.Robert Grant, chairman of the committee for the Canadian Booth at the National Allied Bazaar held in Boston, Dec.9-20, 1916, were received as fol- Jows: My Dear Mrs.Grant,\u2014I have never failed when opportunity has offered to express my profound admiration for the supreme sacrifice Canada is making in this war.I have been in Canada many suramers, and three of them have been those of the war.The patriotism and filial loyaity of her sons reveal a moral fiber that leaves no doubt of her ssrong growth into a great nation.She has assumed a great burden of debt, shg hae laid on the altar of her love or Wgrtoriog her finest and her best, when peace comes, she will have found herself and in her conscious strength her load will be light and her Dominion\u2019s future will dwarf the past.Sincerely yours, Wu, TAFT.New Haven, November 25.My Dear Mrs.Grant,\u2014I wish you all possible success with the Canadian Booth of the Allied Bazaar.Canada has played a great and noble part in the world war, showing that combination of high idealism and masterly efficiency which must exist in any people that is to play a mighty part in the world.Neither quality is enough in itself; and Canada has proved her possession of both qualities.No nation achieves greatness except at the cost of labor and euffering, except by showing strength and valor, except by showing the power to dare and do and die at need.No woman is fit for anything but the position of a slave if ehe does not raise her boy to be a soldier whenever his country calls; and no man is fit for citizenship in a free, self-governing nation unless he possesses the high spiritual quality and the trained physical prowess and hardihood which will make him proudly eager to fight in his country\u2019s cause and thoroughly competent to do that fighting in an efficient manner.Canada has shown that her sous and daughters belong to these types.Through their valor and dovotion she hae won an honorable position, a high position, in history, and at the council board of nations.With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.Sagamore Hill, Nov.25.RED CROSS MONTHLY REPORT.Balance on hand, Dee.1st #81 73 Oollected monthly subscriptions 90 40 Donations: A Friend 30 Baldwin\u2019e Mills Group 16 00 Mrs.Sarah Hill 500 Edna Beerworth 2 00 Byron Kezar 2 00 Stanstead Bridge Olub (extra) 1 25 Mrs.Alice H.Stanton, Aubuarn, N.Y.10 00 Interest \u2019 2 86 Total receipts 8210 53 EXPENSE.Paid M.McKechnie for pins $1 40 American Exprese Co.3.85 Three Villages B\u20191\u2019d\u2019g Ass'n for fuel for tearoom 150 6 256 Balance op hand, Dec.30 $204 28 FIELD COMFORTS FUND.Balance on hand Dec.1 $164 14 Received from Mies Colby - 5 00 sc ¢ Mies Laidlaw balance of money donated for Obristmas socks 215 Balance on hand Dec.30 8171 29 MABEL M.STOCKWELL, Treasurer.No big bills have come in this month yet.Caswell & O\u2019Rourke\u2019s bill ot $42(?) pot yet paid.Bill of last pyjama cloth not yet received, hence large balance this month.Report of work sent to Provincial Headquarters by the Stanstead and Rock Island Red Cross Society during the months of November and December: 50 sheets, 50 pillow cases, 74 towels, 56 suits of pyjamas, 35 day shirts, 20 bed jackets, 65 pairs of socks, 8 polo caps, 1 scarf, 1 sweater, 6 H.W.B.covers, 140 dressings (10x12,) 230 starched muslin bandages, 205 sheet wadding bandages, 100 many-tailed | bandages, 24 comfort bags (filled), 14 personal property bags, 20 pillows.To FIELD COMFORTS.60 pairs of socks, 2,000 cigarettes, 4 pounds of tobacco, 3 boxes candles, 2 boxes of chocolate, 2 dozen harmonicas.Nov.and Dec.19186.MARY E.FLANDERS.DEATH OF ALEXANDER CARTER.Mr.Alexander Carter, who has been in very poor health for several years, died Sunday, Dec.24th, at his home in Holland.Vt., where he had resided since the year 1886.Interment wae at Stanstead, Que.Alexander Carter was born in St.Johns, Que., Oct.15, 1831, He was married to Miss Gosselin Feb.2, 1860.To them one child, Joseph, was born.The mother died when the child was six days old; the son died in New York in 1896.Mr.Carter then married Celia Nedeau of St.Julia, Que., September 15, 1861, To them twelve children were born of whom six are living: William of Eas Charleston, Mrs.Delia Wright of Stratford, N.H., Mrs.Mary Mosher of Rock Island, Que., Mrs.Emily Cross of Rock Island, Que., Fred of Holland, Vt., Leon of Groveton, N.H.We wish to thank our friends neighbors who were so kind thoughtful during the illness death of our beloved husband father.and and and and MRS.ALEXANDER CARTER, WILLIAM CARTER, FRED CARTER, LEON CARTER, Mrs.DELIA WRIGHT, Mrs.MARY MOSHER, MRs.EMILY CROSS.TAXING THE \u201cBIG FELLOWS.\" At the recent session of the Legislature there was passed a bill which provides that the tax on the banks is to be one-tenth of one per cent upon the amount of the paid-up capital.The old rate was 8100 on every hundred thousand dollars of paid-up capital, up to one million; $50 for each additional hundred thousand or fraction thereof.For instance a bank with a paid-up capital of $15,000,000 paid a tax of $8,000 under the old law; under the new law it will have to pay 8165000, almost a hundred per cent jump.There is now, as there was under the old law, a tax of $200 for the head office in Montreal or Quebec, £150 on other offices in cities, and $30 for offices in places other than cities.The bill aleo hits the Bell Telephone Company to the extent of an additional 813,000 a year.The old rate was 85,000 a year.The year\u2019s export trade of the United States totals $7,800,000, more than double any former year.BY OUR BLOOD WE LIVE If you tire easily, are subject to cold hands or feet\u2014if you catch colds readily or have rheumatic pains\u2014your blood or circulation is probably at fault and you need SCOTTS EMULSION sustaining richness.off colds and gives OF THE PUREST COD LIVER OIL which is nature\u2019s casily-assimilated food, to increase your red corpuscles and charge the blood with life- Scott\u2019s creates warmth to throw resistance to prevent sickness.Always Insist on SCOTT'S.Every Druggist has it.SCOTT & BOWNE, Toronto, Ont.1-13 ABOUT OUR NIGHBORS.A recent casualty list contains the name of Clarence E.Buzzell, Abbotts- ford, dead.The insane asylum at 8t.Ferdinand de Halifax, Megantic County, operated by the Sisters of Charity, was burned Satarday night.Of the 180 insane women, forty-six were burned to death.F.J.McGowan of Georgeville is a candidate for the municipal council in Stanstead township.Friends are rallying to his support and a requisition has beed signed by about 95 per cent of the electors in his division.The apnual meeting of the Smith\u2019s Mills Farmers Club will be held in Fairview Hall, Smith\u2019s Mills, Wednesday evening, Jan.10th, at 8 p.m, for the purpose of electing officers for 1917.A large attendance is urged.Joseph Marquis, a Stoke farmer, returning from Sherbrooke on the night of December 27th, was caught beneath his sleds when his load tipped over near bis home.Next morning be was found frozen to death.Deceased was 47, and the father of pine children.The city of Sherbrooke, which owns and operates its own electric light and power service, is entering into a contract with the Sherbrooke Railway & Power Co.for the purchase of additional current to the extent of 1500 h.p., and in turn the city is contracting to supply the Ingersoll-Rand Co.with an additional 1200 h.p.The Quebec Utilities Commission has sustained the increase in rates made by the E.T.Telephone Co., upon conditions that the list of subscribers be published in the Bell book; that a reduction in the total amount of bonds be made; that no further increase in rates be made without previous authority of the commission, and tbat no interest in excess of 6 per cent on bonds or other obligations be made and no dividend or bonus be declared without authority of the commission.The E.T.concern is a subsidiary of the Bell Company and the general conviction is that the enterprise was pretty thoroughly skimmed by the latter in the amalgamation and organization.° A commencement has been made with the construction of the Preparatory §chool Building, the first unit of the Lennoxville School.This important institution, which is fostered and financed by J.K.L.Ross, of Montreal, will be a preparatory college for universities and for business life.The buildings, which are being designed by K.G.Rea, F.R I.B.A., are in the Tudor style and follow the lines of the great Eaglish public schools, being grouped around quadrangies and connected by cloieters.The building will occupy an area of 220 feet by 60 feet and afford school and living accommodation for sixty boys.It will be divided iuto two houses, each with its own entrance.Adjoining the school will be the bousemaster\u2019s residence, communicating on all floors with the school building.There will be three storeys and basement, the construction throughout being entirely fireproof.The foundations will be of concrete, while the superstructure will consist of a stvel frame with reinforced concrete floors.The base will be of granite and the walls above of brick with stone facinge.The case of Mrs.George J.Feltus (formerly Mrs.C.H.McUlintock) et vir va.G.H.House of Beebe has been decided in favor of the plaintiff in the Superior Court at Sherbrooke.Mrs.Feltus sued defendant to set aside the radiation of a mortgage given plaintiff by defendant on Dec.18, 1809, for $3,000, and also a deed of donation passed Nov.20, 1815, of property alleged to be of the value of between 87,000 and 88,000.Plaintiff claimed these were obtained by fraud and false representations; that she had trusted defendant, her brother, and administrator of her property, signing the documents submitted to her in the belief that they were as represented and tbat they were required in her interest.These pretentions were denied by defendant, who contended that the documents were made in the interest and with the full knowledge of the plaintiff as to their nature and the causes for which they were obtained.The evidence was conflicting, and there is claimed to have been irregularity in connection with plain- tifl\u2019s signature to the radiation paper, signed before witnesses.Both this and the deed of donation were set aside with all coste againet defendant.At Thetford Mines, Friday, three liquor cases were heard in court, Ar- chille Roussin, George Turgeon and Leocadie Turgeon, wife of Seraphim Aubin, each being fined 850 and conta tor illegal sale.Under the new liquor law fines will be much heavier in the future.CARD OF THANKS.We wish to express our thanks to our neighbors and friends who so kindly helped us during the illnees and death of our mother.Murs CLARA CLEVELAND, CHARLES F.SMITH, LEVI P.SMITH, EMMA J.SMITH, Mrs.FRED B.HILL.SCACITY OF MEN IN LIVERPOOL.Writing from Liverpool to a relative here, Arthur Pinnington says, in part: \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t know Liverpool now, shops close at 8.p.m.and the town ie in darkness.In 1914 there were bardly any women in town, now they are everywhere.There isn\u2019t an ocou- pation where women are not found; they are even playing football, and I hate them for playing my favorite game.Food is very dear; everything ie double the former price; a pound is only worth about 88 now.Never mind, wait till I am called up I\u2019ll soon end the war.I am coming home with a V.O, *+** \u201cI went to a church social the other day; there were 15 boys between 15 and 18 years and 150 girls.A stranger in Liverpool would scarcely imgaine there was a war on except for the shortage of men.\u201cWe have no girls in our office yet, although we have lost 19 men; the boss thinks they are a nuisance.You should see the train girls pushing the men off the cars.After the war I suppose us chaps will have to stay at home and clean up.\u201d SMITH'S MILLS.The Homemakers Club had a very pleasant and profitable meeting with Miss McMally, Thursday, December 14th.After transacting considerable business, Rev.Mr.Sykes of Fitch Bay gave an exceedingly interesting address on the \u2018\u201cOanadian North- West.\u201d The January meeting will be held with Mrs.E.A.Taylor and Miss Lena, on the 11th inst.BORN JOCK\u2014At Stanstead, Que., daughter to Mr.and Lyndonville, Vt.D c.28, 1916, a ra.Elmer E.Jock of BOOKEEPER WANTED An attractive and responsible position, must be experienced.Male or Female.Apply in own handwriting, stating fully qualifications, salary requir-d.etc.Applications treated as cofidential.Address.Box R, Journal office.STANSTEAD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.The annual meeting of this Snciety will be held in the County kuilding, Aver's Cliff, on Wednesday, Jan.17th, at 1 p.m.for the Election «f Directors for i817 and the annual report of 1916.GEO.W.A.REBURN.President.Bw HOMER GG.CURTIS.8 c'y-Treas.Nomination day for Mayor & Councilors for the Township of Stanstead.Public notice is hereby given that & public meeting of the Municipal Bicctors of the Town ship of Stans ead will be held at Fair View Hall, Smith's Mills, Que between the hours of o'clock A M And 12 o'clock Noon.on Wednesday, the 10th day of January, 1917, for the purpose of receiving nominations for candi dates to replace the following Mayor and six (6) Councilors, whos+ term of office (according te the new Municipal Code) will then have expired.Ma, or, H.H.Smith; Councillors; E.A, Taylor, J.F.McVeay, E.a Ticchurst, P.W.Bald win, W.B.Lenny ard E.R.KEmbury.Should it be necessary for a poll to be held, voting will take place on the following day, January llth, 1917, at the aforesaid place, Fair View Hall.Smith's Milis, commencing at the hour of eight o'clock A.M.and continuing until six o'clock P.M.Homer G.Curtis, Farmer.of the Township of Stanstead, is hereby appointed to act as election clerk during this ¢ ection.L.E.CARPENTER Officer.day of Presidin Given at Smith's Mills, this, the Zut December, 1916.FOR RENT\u2014BAXTER FLAT An offer for term of three years would be considered, upon conditiuns of proper cultiva tion.Apply to Johu G.toster or Ww, Davis.outf STITCHERS WANTED.Light work and plenty of it, yon will find the work pleasant, instructive and profitable.2sw2 TELFORD BROS.Garment Co.1917 DIARIES AT THE Journal Office Make your selection early before the assortment is broken EXECUTOR\u2019S NOTICE Ali persons having claims against the Estate of the late Joseph K.Weich, in his lifetime of Apple Grove, Tuwanrhip of Stanstead.are re quested to present the same to the undersign ed within thirty days from date of this notice, and all persons indebted to said Estate are required make settlement within the same de- tags W.B.BULLUUK, Executor.arlin ton, Township of Stanstead, Dec.27, 1914.P.O.Address, R.M.D.No.1, Beebe, ue.A large stock of Dry Slab Wood at no advance in price over the la-t thr e years.Cun arrange for delivery.W.K.Baldwin, Baldwin\u2019s Mills, Que.tros LOGS WANTED.Highest cash price paid for 500,000 ft.of Hard and Soft Wood Logs, delivered to the Old Com- stock Mill, near Smith's Mills.Also will do custom sawing.I will be on hand for business Jan.15th, with scale rule and cheok book.In the meantime tor particular« apply to H.W.Merrill.E.R.BURBANK.Smith's Mills, Que.A.H.CUMMINGS & SON LIMITED COATICOOK, QUE.Manufacturers of Lumber, Shingles.Cilapboards, Superior House Finish.FLOORING A SPECIALTY, W.L.Smith, Agent, Stanstead, Que.TIRNT-CLANS WORK REABONABL} GUARANTEED PRICYS CHARLES E.HASELTON Manufactarer of and Dealer in al] kinds of Granite and Marble Monument: and Head Stones Your Cemetery work anch as Lettering and tting is Solicited Beebe Que.and Vt.I FRANK D.FLINT NEWPORT, VERMONT Snes EE Eee ESS és The Greatest Semi-annual Clearance Sale we have Ever Had is in Full Swing.Suits at 89.75, 812.50, 815.75, 818.75, that have been priced 812.50 to 847.50 Coats at 83.95, 85.95, 88.95, 810,00, 815.75, 818.75 that have been priced from 85.95, to 835.00, Dresses at 84.95, 85.95, 87.95, 88.95, 810.95, 812.50 that have been priced : $7.95 to $20.00, Furs that have been priced 88.95 now 85.95, $10.00 at 87.95, 812.50 at $8.95, $20.00 and 822.50 at 812.50, 825.00 at 815.75: One Hudson Seal Coat at $50.00, that could not be bought today to sell at $100.Ladies\u2019 Raccoon Coats at less than half their actual values.One only Brown Fur Lined Coat, with Handsome Rat Collar, actually worth $50.00, marked to $25.00.One only Black Astrachan Cloth Coat, with Handsome Natural Dark Raccoon Collar, priced at $17.50, and the Collar alone could not be bought today for that price.Muslin Under Garments at Sale Prices.10 Special Styles Dove Night Gowns, all new and fresh but bought nearly a year ago, to be delivered in time for this sale, when cotton cost only about half what it does today.Sale Price 95c.Many Exceptional Values from our regular stock to be closed in this sale.Corsets at Sale Prices À Special Value Corset, bought under price for this sale and as good as sold usually at $1.00 a pair.Sale Price 79c.There has been another advance in the price of all corsets and several of the regular styles we have been carrying have advanced so much that we are going to close them out under price instead of marking up to the new prices.Gossard Corsets will be advanced January 15th, until that date all at old prices.The Greatest Values in All Linen Damask ever offered because we cannot buy a yard of these Damasks at the prices we are offering them at.We had one import order of Damask that was bought in 1915 come in during the year of 1916 but did not or could not buy a single yard during the whole year at any price that we could sell in the stock we had on hand.While these Damasks last you can buy them at $1.00, $1.19, $1.39, $1.59, $1.79, $1.89, $2.39, with Napkins to match Damask from $1.19 up, at $3.59, $3.69, $3.89, $4.19, $4.69, $5.89, $6.69.When these Damasks are all gone we will do just what many merchants are doing now, sell all cotton, one-quarter linen and one-half linen but at present we have plenty of All Linen Damask and Napkins Our prices on Cottons are only for stock we have on hand which is very large but not large enough to last until the end of the month so if you come late don\u2019t complain if we cannot sell you any of these cottons at prices we offer them at now.Lockwood Brown Cotton, 36 inch 10c., 40 inch 11e.Fruit of the Loom Bleached Cotton, 36 inch 11c.Tubings at 15c, 16c, 17e, 18e, 19¢, 20c.9\u20144 Sheetings Security 30c, Colonial 33e, Pequot 35c, Sheets and Pillow Slips at the same Special Sale Prices, Wool Finish Grey Blankets, 66x78 inches, actual weight 31bs., 11 ounces, could not be bought to sell at $2.25 today.Sale Price $1.69 a pair.White Blankets 64x76 inches, weigh 2 lbs., 7 ounces.Sale Price $1.29.Bath Towels at 15e, 21c, 25c, 32c, 45c, 50c, 89¢, 95¢ a pair.All Extra Values.White Quilts, Special Values 95c, $1.19, $1.45, $1.89 There are many other prices but these were bought in quantities to get prices we are offering them at.Long Cloths at Sale Prices 1000 Yards Bates Ginghams, 1 to 10 yardsin a piece, 10c.a yard.These Ginghams are priced regularly today at 15e.and must go even higher.Don\u2019t forget that raw cotton isabove 20c.a pound it is expected to go to 30c., and that it would go even higher if the war should end because the demand that the countries that are not able to buy any today would require for immediate use.We will quote prices later on other housek-eeping goods.Best Table Oilcloth, Sale Price 20c.a yard We have not usually put our cotton goods on sale until January 10th, and did not intend to this year, but there have been so many customers who have been calling for these every day since Christmas that we are offering them just as fast as we can get them out and arranged for sale.Don\u2019t wait this year if you want any cottons as they must go higher and many of the prices are less than we can buy them today.2 FRANK D.FLINT, - NEWPORT,VT. Business and Professional Cards.J.C.COLBY, B.A., M.D.Office as Oarrolioroft, Stanstead.Uansultations 9 to 10 a.m., 7 to 8 p.m., and by appointment.Hoth 'Phones.DR.H.P.STOCKWELL, Stanstead Plain, Que.Office and residence 0] ite 8.W.College.Bel and Peoples Telephonés.WILBUR A.REYNOLDS, D.D.S., 286 Newbury St., Boston, DR.C.L.BROWN, B.A., Physician and Surgeon, Ayer's Cliff, Que.People's Phone.C; |.MOULTON, L.D.8,, Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.SYDNEY A.MEADE, Provincial Land Surveyor, Coaticook, Que.H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.U.8.P.O.Address: Derby Line, Vt.M.A.CASS, Undertaker Pilates Engraved when wanted.Fitch Bay, Que.EDWARD AUDINWOOD, - Undertaker & Embalmer, Derby Line, Vt., and Rock Island, P.Q.DR.E.A.TAYLOR, Office Hours: Until 9 a.m., 7 to 8 pa Valentine Ave., Derby Line, Vt.New England Telephone.R.O.ROSS, B.A., M.D., C.M., \u201cOffice Hours: 8 to 9 A.M., 1 to8 and 7 to8 P.ME.T.Telephone.J.J.UNDERWOOD, Mason and Plasterer, General Contractor.Htanstead, Que.CATE, WELLS, WHITE & MONTLE Advocate ©.W.Cate, K.C., J.P.Wells, K.C., C.D.White, K.C., J.M.Montle.Offices: Duval Block Rock Island, Quebec J.SIDNEY BRODERICK, K.C.Advocate Sherbrooke, - Que.-At Gilmore Inn, Rock Island, every Saturday.CHARLES E.BENNETT, Designer of Buildings, Machinery, Furniture, Landscape Gardening.Derby Line, Vt.Consultation and Superintendence.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College.Office at Lee Farm, Rock Island, Que.U.8.P.0.Address: Derby Line, Vermont.SIDNEY STEVENS, Fire, Life, Accident and Health Insurance Best Companies represented Agent Empire Typewriter Stanstead, Que, The Variety Store CEMENT BLOCK BEEBE PLAIN \u2018Open only Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays Glassware, Tinware, Agateware, Hardware Woodenware, Aluminum Ware, Etc.\u201cThe Store That Saves You Money LIBBYTOWN.Mr.and Mrs.F.B.Morrill have re- \u2018turned to their home in Bradford, Vt., :after spending a week with her par- \u2018ents, Mr, and Mrs.J.K.Davidson.Mr.and Mrs.E.W.Perry and daughter Marion spent Obristmas day at ©Coaticook witb Mrs.Orin Wheeler and Mr.H.O.Wheeler, 8r., Miss Marion remaining for a week.Mr.and Mrs.M.Corey, whose home \u2018was destroyed by fire a week ago, have moved into Mrs, Claude Gilman's house.On Christmas day Mr.and Mrs.W, H.Davidson entertained Mr.and Mrs.J.K.Davidson and family, Mr.and Mrs.David Davidson and family, and v and Mrs.F.B.Morrill of Bradford, t.Mrs.F.L.Brown is slowly gaining after her long illness.Mrs.Flower and son have moved to Ayers Cliff, Mr.and Mrs.Joseph Seguin of North Hatley visited at Mr.W.H.Davidson\u2019s one day last week.Miss Ruth Hovey is spending a part of the holidays with ber grandmother, Mrs.Lois Hovey, and Mr.and Mrs.Btephen Colt at Massawippi.FITCH BAY.Mrs.A.D.Merrill wishes to thank the teacher and pupils of the village school for the nice gift presented to her, and also for the patience and attention shown her during the hours of practice for the Christmas enter- taloment, Mr.Gerald Huckine of Sherbrooke Was a guest of his parents New Year\u2019s day.Mrs.W.P.Adams ie a guest of Mr.and Mrs.Roy Temple at Ayer\u2019s Cliff.On Cbristmas day Mr.and Mrs.A.D.Merrill eutertained Mr.H.W.Merrill and family of Stanstead and Mr.Peasly and Mies Mildred Peasley.The service in St.Matthias Church on Sunday was one of intercession for our soldiers, sailors and all who have the direction of the Empire as well as those engaged in any way in furthering the cause of the Allies.Mr.Byron W.Brown has returned trom a ten-days\u2019 trip to Portland, Me.The monthiy meeting of the W.C.T.U.will be held at the home of Mrs, F.A.Brevoort on Saturday afternoon.The eubjeot will by \u201cScientific Temperance.\u201d GEORGEVILLE.' Much sympathy is felt for Mr.James Ayer of New York, whose wife died Dec.5th.Mrs.Ayer spent a few months here and made many warm friends.Mre.F.J.McGowan is epending a week with her parents at West Derby.Mr.G.0.McGowan left last week for Oreamery, Penn., where he will spend the winter.Mr.Stanley Bulman of Shawinigan ie a guest at the home of Mr.and Mrs.F.Rexford.Miss Minnie Tuck who has been spending a few weeks with Mrs.Wm.Rediker, left Friday for her home in Newport, R.I.Mise Kathleen Scoles of Sherbrooke epent New Year\u2019s with Mrs.M.Boyn- ton.The stork left a fine 9-1b.baby girl at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Me- Ewan last week.On Tuesday Mr.and Mrs.Addison Packard moved into their new home wbich bas been thoroughly repaired and improved.The Ladies Aid which was to meet at the home of Mr.and Mrs.William Packard, had to be postponed on account of illness in the family.Mr.Wm.Gardine and family have moved back to their home in Fitch Bay.Mr.J.A.Davideon and Miss Davidson attended the patriotic dance in the town hall at Stanstead Friday night.Mr.Henry Hutchins is visiting his mother at Enosburg Falls.Little Dorothy Cochrane still continues very ill Mr.and Mrs.Davidson spent New Year\u2019s at Mrs.Beach Bly\u2019s, Derby Line.Senator H.P, Ladd and Mrs.Ladd of Richford were also guests at that hospitable home.BALDWIN\u2019S MILLS.The Annual Christmas tree and entertainment was held in the Baptist Church on Friday evening, Dec.22nd.Although it was a stormy night, there was a large gathering of friends, some coming from Heathon.The programme wae exceptionally good, the young people and pupils of the day school doing their part splendidly.There were recitations, songs and solos, two items of the first part of the \u2018| program calling for special mention viz, \u2018\u2019The unsuccessfall hunt\u201d and \u2018Santa Claus\u2019 five boys.\u201d The second part of the programme consisted of \u201cLiving Pictures\u201d illustrating \u201cA Christmas Magazine.\u201d This was carried out with wonderful precision, and reality, revealing completeness of detail and careful preparation.Great credit and praise is due to Miss Viola Rix, the capable and energetic school mistress, to whose untiring efforts the euccessful and well carried out programme was largely due.Our thanks are also due to Mrs.John Markwell, Miss Delia Markwell, and Miss Rose May, and not forgetting Mesers.Eugene and Alfred Markwell, who eo ably aesisted in the decorating of the the church bpilding.The tree was well loaded with gifts, and many presents could not be put upon the tree, as they were in abundance.Santa Claus was there, as large as lite, and kept the audience interested and highly amused during the distribution ot the good things.The chair was conjointly occupied by the Rev.H.P.Maitland, the Methodist minister, and the Rev.H.Campbell Plant, pastor of the Baptist Church.Every one agreed that it had been the best evening\u2019s enjoyment for many years.The only marring note was the flerce storm that was raging when the friends bad to go home, the two ministers baving an experience which will last them a lifetime.HATLEY CENTER.Mr.and Mrs.E.J.Oliver and Miss Bonnie Oliver were guests of Mr.and Mrs.Geo.Pope, North Hatley, on New Year\u2019s day.Miss Bertha McKay has gone to Montreal for an indefinite time, and is staying with Mr.and Mrs.R.E.Mc- Kay.Miss Bonnie Oliver bas been engaged to teach the school in district No.1 for the balance of the term.There will be a card and game party in the town hall, Hatley Centre, on Friday evening, Jan.12th, The proceeds of the evening will go towards paying off the balance of the roofing on the school-house sheds.Teams may be stabled at Mr.J.W.McKay's farm.A pleasant time will be waiting for those who attend.Ratepayers of the township of Hatley will bear in mind that the election dates are changed owing to the coming into torce of the new municipal code.Nominations will take place on Wednesday, the 10th day of January, and if a poll is demanded and voting ensues, the ratepayers will have but one day to vote, the day following the nomination,; that ie, the 11th day of January.One mayor and six councillors must be chosen by the people instead of seven councillors as formerly.Mr.W.E.Greer, the secretary- treasurer, must, by the provisions of the code, be presiding officer.Mr.Edgar Voisard has been appointed poll clerk.BEEBE.The relatives of Mrs.Wm.Lorimer made her a birthday visit on Friday, Dec.29th, at the home of her daughter, Miss Bell Lorimer, with whom she lives.Her five sons were present, but one daughter wbo lives in the West was unable to be there.It was Mrs.Lorimer\u2019s eighty- fifth birthday.Services are being held in the Bap- tiet Church each evening ot this week, except Saturday evening.The Rev.M.Davis, pastor of the Congregational Church, of Derby, was the speaker Monday evening, and the Rev.M.Anderson of the Methodist Church of Derby was the speaker for Tuesday evening.Itis hoped that there will be a good attendance.The people from the different churches are most cordially invited to attend as this ie the week of prayer service.Mrs.Charles Hildreth is staying with her daughter, Mrs.Tom Camp, at Newport.They both spent Thursday here with Mrs.Clarence Haselton, the former's daughter.Rev.and Mrs.E.Williams are the happy parents of a baby boy, who is about two weeks old.The Christmas cantata given by the choir of the Methodist Oburch was well worthy of praise, the different parts being taken in a most excellent manner.There was a large congregation and the sermon by the pastor was very appropriate for the occasion.Miss Bernice Reid of North Hatley is a guest of her aunt, Mrs.J.Turner.Mrs.J.Oroden and family moved to Toronto where her husband is.The Book apd Thimble Ulub will meet with Mrs.J.C.Gilfillan (assisted by Mrs.Alex Whaley) Tuesday, Jan.9.MAGOG.The Christmas music was repeated by the Methodist Church choir on Sunday last, and was enjoyed by all.Rev.Mr.Fothergill and Rev.T.Roy were remembered with a purse of money from their respective congregations at Christmas.: Mr.and Mrs.J.B.Oliver were in Montreal on Saturday.Mr.and Mrs.C.Carter and child from Toronto were guests of his parents, Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Carter, during the holidays.Tuesday Miss Lillian Carter left for Toronto where she has employment, Lance- Corporal J.Allen of Kitchener\u2019s Own, was in town for the holidays.Mr.and Mrs.Wm.Ridge of Pauls- boro, N.J, are visiting relatives in the place.Mr.L.H.Drew of Boston was a guest of his sister, Mrs.F.W.Wallace, during the holidays.Miss Mary Whitehead of Montreal was a recent guest of her sister, Mra, Robt.Campbell.Miss Maud Fothergill of Toronto spent the Christmas holidays with Rev.and Mrs.Fothergill.Miss Claire Donald is spending the holidays with relatives in Montreal, Mrs.Henry Shonyo is visiting her brother, Rev.Geo.Stafford, at Spen- cerville, Ont.Mr.W.C.J.Hall of Quebec is a guest of his daughter, Mrs.Geo.Filli- ter.Mr.and Mrs.Henry Dearsley of Winstead, Conn., are guests of Mr.and Mrs.John Dearsley.Miss Mabel Roy is at home from Sherbrooke for the holiday vacation.Mr.and Mrs.J.H.Foss returned to their home in Dorchester, Mass., on Tuesday.Mr.Harry Moore was a recent guest of Mr.D.E.Pepin.Miss Emily Fothergill of Bishop's College was at home for the holidays.WEST HOLLAND.Mr.Chas.H.Bennett has his new house completed, and is moving into same this week.Paul Grow of St.Johnsbury spent several days last week at the home of Mr.and Mrs.E.W.Moulton.Miss Dorothy Todd ie quite ill at this writing.The following Sunday school officers were reélected on Sunday for the coming year: Bupt.,George Curtis; assist- antsuperintendent, Chester Holmes; sec'y-treas., Harry Goodall; organist, Mrs.Fred Goodall.Mies Kathleen Todd epent her Christmas holidays in Coaticook, Que.Mr.and Mrs.Edmond Duff\u2019s baby who has been quite ill, is improving.Intended for last issue.The Christmas tree and entertainment which was to have been given on Saturday was postponed until Monday evening on account of the storm.A fine programme was rendered by the Sunday school children, the pastor, Rev.E.LeRoy Rice, and Miss Evelyn Courier, reader.Two large trees heavily laden with gifts, was a pleasing feature of the evening.Mr.and Mrs.J.A, Thompson with their children, Colon and Evelyn, spent Christmas day with his parents, Mr.and Mrs.Alex.Thompson, at Cassville, \u2018A baked-bean dinner was served in the dining-ball of the church by the Ladies Aid on Thursday, after which the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs.Wm.V.Graves; vice-president, Mrs.G.W.Curtis; chaplain, Mre.O.L.Kidder; sec\u2019y-treas,, Mrs.Fred Goodall.Mr.and Mrs.Chas.Bennett of Sherbrooke, Que., were guests of his parents, Mr.and Mre.C.H.Bennett, over Christmas.MILLER'S The Service Store Derby Line, Vt.MILLER'S The Three Kinds of Best -in Corsets C/B A La Spirite \u2014 Kabo \u2014 Royal Worcester We carry both front and back laced Corsets Prices 50c., $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 and upward Right at the time when Chamoisette and Kid Gloves are scarcest\u2014\u2018\u2018Miller\u2019s\u2019\u2019 offer you a great variety of Cape ¢ or Dogskin Gloves, Dressed Kid and Chamoisettes in a variety of colors at unequaled low prices.Always the Best 1 For the Least At \u2018\u2018Miller\u2019s.\u201d MILLER\u2019S Derby Line, Vt.The Newest Things First\u2014and the Best Always.mm\" OC look at them.ably duplicate for years.The bargain in our Department of Men's Furnishings is UNDERWEAR We own our stock at nearly before the war prices, and every piece at the price we are selling it is a bargain, and you can afford to buy for next winter's wear, as our next purchase will be at full WAR PRICES.apply to ladie\u2019s garments as well.We have for this sale:\u2014Watson\u2019s Men's and Ladie\u2019s Fleece Lined and All Wool in Two Piece and Union Suits, and a full line of Penman's Wool 95.Don't neglect this opportunity.ANOTHER BIG BARGAIN SHAKER KNIT SWEATERS $9.00 Value at $6.00 These goods were bought early, before the present high level and they are right.Take a A GOOD MAN'S SWEATER FOR $2.50 An excellent garment that we can't prob- \u2014 aly JL WILLIAM M.PIKE & SON © cl - [ ANNUAL | CLEARANCE SALE! a 8 of Men's and Boys\u2019 Overcoats 15 per cent.Discount.I We have a good assortment of sizes, colors and qualities in Overcoats, 0 and for years to come the price will not be as reasonable.We are chang- a = ing our store and shall close the goods out, and it is your opportunity._ of covers.This will also beyond reason.The Best Java Coffee for 35 cents to be had in this section.The store that sells Dependable Goods in a Dependable way WILLIAM M.PIKE & SON ROCK ISLAND, QUE.BARGAIN IN BED BLANKETS 1 Doz.Pairs $4.50 to $6.00 This is worthy your attention if in need NEW STOCK OF WALL PAPER = AT 1916 PRICES This stock will probably go fast and you had better come early if you are interested.ART SQUARES AND RUGS Just received and the price and value is right.Our stock of Mattings, Linoleums and and Oilcloth is all in.SPORTING GOODS Skates, Shoes, Pucks, Hockey Sticks, Snowshoes, Toques, Caps, Sashes, Gloves and Mittens.NEW DRESS FABRICS An All Wool Fine Serge at 81.75.Beautiful Goods.We have a line of Serges at 60 cents, and a 54 inch Gray Serge at 75 cents.plete line of Silks: Georgette Crepe, Crepe de Chine, Chiffon, Taffeta, Messaline and Tamoline in all the popular colors and the prices are not a A com- TO LET.The office ronms lately occupied by Hon.M.F.Hacket in the Brick Block.Stanstead ; One second floor Tenement in same bulding.Two connected Rooms in Holmes Bloc * Hill.op of Plain Bill ROLMES & HOLMES, 88tf Rock Island, Que.WILLIAM M.HASELTON Successor to Haselton Bros.Eatablished 1806 Monuments, Headstones, Building Materiai, Marbie and Granite.Wholesale and Retail.\u2018Workmanship the beat.Prices reasonable.Beebe Junction, Que.Beebe Plain, Vt.FOUND At Derby Line, Dec.8 h, Purse containing sum of money evider tiy lost some time, Owner can have same hy proving propert and amine for this advertisement.JOURNAL 5 FICE.MILLI Ï NERY I am clearing out the following of my Winter Hate in the best styles that sell in the regular way for 83 50 to 86.00, Friday and following days-\u2014Special 82 98.The last of our Ohildren\u2019s and Misses\u2019 Hate at about one-third the regular value; a big selection of Velvets, Corduroy and Felts, good colors to choose from, 75c.81.00 to 81.50 for 59c.A Sale of Women\u2019s Girdles and Belts: Lot No.1 includes Lot.No 2 includes 50c.to 75c.for 28c.Lot No.3 includes 25c.to 35c.for 15c.Lot No.4 includes 25c.for 10c.Coilars, 50c.to 75c.for 256.H.M.HEPWORTH POST OFFICE BLOCK, .DERBY LINE, VT.ANNUAL MEETING CUSTOM GRINDING.The annual meeting of shareholders in The Nati nal Bank of Derby Line, for the els ction of directors and the transaction of any other Jega« buninens, wili be held at their Bank rooms, Derby IAne, Vt, at 2 v'elork In the afternoon, on Tuesday, January Oth.1917, ows , W.DAVIS, President.My waterpower and mill having been thoroughly overhuated, I am again prepared to do custom grinding promptly and satis.factoriiy.WANTED\u2014Rasr, Birch.Ash, Spruce and Fir Logs delivered at my mil.L.A.LEMICK, Stanatead. z et res rar -