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Driving Horse for its lady who advertised for Goat to call at lhJ Era Of- floo and It t I I j LOOT A Childs Crochet Purse containing one dollar on morning between King Hotel and Pauls Kinder at office Reward Hi I l to thank the electors for having honored me with tholr during the past also to ask to from further duty in Town Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous Now Year TENCH i 3rd Con King Lot do mo last Sept a young Black Cow willi few white spots Information to whereabouts rewarded JOHN MOKNINO Rural Route Aurora FOR with Dwelling House in Town of Newmarket the estate lit lato Miss Maguiro A good business location apply do Newmarket 1 iff ft I r A few Kino Jlarrcd Rock for- breeding pur poses Price HOWARD Phono II No Newmarket help Would you or dally homo knitting War Sox on Au to Knitters unne cessary Bond 3o stamp Auto Knitting Company St Toronto G8w40 i i Of J TAKE that Mr George Morloy of the firm of Messrs Osier of Toronto has token over the practice of the J Robertson Mr Motley will be at the office on Saturday FLORENCE A ROBERTSON Executrix of the Estate of the J Robertson in Canada iKatthe vout church members In this fair land have long prayed for but many scarcely expected to- soo day Thousands upon thousands of in Canada voted for the Union Government who boon bitterly opposed to Prohibition Cabinet that was sustained In tho re alizing destruction of food stuffs in manufacture of li quor a crime In tho of world and famine has abolished liquor traffic as a patriotic and philanthropic argument for tho is unanswerable Canadian liquor had In warohouoos on March last gallons of spirits quantity manufactured dur ing tho Was gallons raw materials re quired lbs of Indian corn lbs of rye lbs of molt and lbs of molasses Kip- urns show the saving of foodstuffs that will result from Governments policy to say nothing of- the saving of money and manpower Under the War Measures Act Government has forbidden importation of intoxicating liquor December except or ders placed previous to that date After April 1st it will be to transport liquor in Canada manufacture of liquor will bo prohibited to he fixed by Government Even In Quebec there will be but few wot spots as Throo Rivers and St are now dry and Hull and Quebec City adopted Temperance Acts which go into effect next Practically Montreal and will be the only places In Canada a short time where liquor nan be legally obtained is believed that action will he I taken to piano in dry belt and national prohibition will be the result Twelve months after peace is declared the prohibition order will terminate hut lion is hat the I icon ho svafem will no bo reverted to without a referendum in which that women Will have he This is a factor likely to make for permanency of I The Canada has already forbidden the diver sion of food the of and is annarnnMv moving toward Ho of national pro hibition Canada will nod the anno cohorts of the Roonbllo and will enhance already as a leader in pro gressive censor ooo- A Christmas Eve was enjoyed to Is homo fullest extent by the sOldiors for PHONY A Merry Christinas To You All Is tho Wish of E in Your will bo open Day also during Hol iday Season Studio Door West the Hew Post Offioe of 5 SOUTH END ftim HAY IFOCKLEI to A Howard Phone CO 1 1 POW Cook Stove J Cook Stove for Coal or Wood Sideboard good now and other Furniture GUUT18 v Newmarket OXIDIZED On fthoH I lMblry for of Canadian Front in Flanders Duo the tail tory will bo of the light tramways at figures will bo to wiiat saved animal power saved in tunc and they saved iu man power Incidentally you will learn that Gorman trucks of a pattern form not a little of tho rolling stock For present I will only give you briefest of summaries based on war diary of tramway company for the month of April the Vimy show in first week preparing for advance on one Section alone trucks covered miles and hauled a total tonnage of Five petrol tractors and mules were used four and five mules to a train It was ii period of con tinuous construction mules being employed over the new rail sec tions Time and again the line was lorn by shell and repair ed On the night of April the first attack the tramways were preparing to advance with in fantry Advance they did lay- 1 their new track behind our attack In sixteen days metres of new track was laid In one section During the battle operations this alone sun- plied per cent the field am munition for one division deliv ered lo ho batteries at a max imum rate of 1200 rounds a day The same section por cent of trench mortar bombs and for the same division The tramways altogether trucks of wafer in the month of rations alee ballast salvage and trucks other material making Iota tonnage for the thirty days 11308 During the fighting trains of two nineton trucks holding stretcher cases evac uated wounded from dressing stations In four stretcher and sitting cases handled fifty special trains being employed Every day of the whole month the Tramway suffered casualties sometimes heavy cas ualties ut the work never ceased Tho spirit of all was the of one of their number a private He nut out a in a ruck of hv drawing to a shell bole and water on to the trunk of as heroic incident in the words of I he war in a form I the of lnnijws fine when it was P was at the Newmarket Military The was token 6X and ably thrbUbiibUt the by Sir pi Toronto in his opening stated he had of- ten boon called upon during of public life to pre side forms of meet ings and entertainments hut none him urothan at the markct Military on Eve- v provided for the soldiers took form magnlflcontly laden Christmas supported by a strong Con cert and the evening had started peace and contentment atmosphere An duty upon the Chairman for Car men Methodist Med Cross Society of Toronto had an and Its had to bo accounted for Just 16 prove what it could do to wards the entertainment music was and the has duly been approved of and a hearty of thanks vyas proponed by Atkinson by Lyon and enthusi astically carried Many Christmas Boxes had comolo Hospital and these wore accumulated until Eye whon they wore duly dis tributed and thankfully The principal gifts from old Father Christmas were stripped from his beautiful Tree and dis bursed For this everyone Is In debted to Beaches Cross Patriotic League Toronto who gave Stockings and Mrs A of Aurora Patriotic league gave Miss Francis Anderson of Young Peoples Pat riotic League Sutton gave 1500 Cigarettes and pack ages of Players smokes Tho stockings ware no sinecure and were filled lb hearts and content From tho Newmarket Comforts camo lbs of candy Tho Patriotic Club of 2nd Street Newmarket sent lbs of pea nuts and eight boxes of Spear mint vocal and instrumental side of tho was started by Mr of Toronto in a Scotch Comic and ho gave several other selections Miss Barnes of Military Head quarters Toronto rendered three op four lovely solos Mrs Roberts wife of Roberts overseas accompanied Toronto vocalists The music of Newmarket Or was greatly appreciated Among those who assisted dm- the evening were Mr and Mrs Mrs Monk of Toronto Miss Forsyth Mrs Nichol of Au rora Miss L Mrs Bos- worth and Miss occasion was greatly enjoy ed by all 1917 Mother and Dad Am still herd fooling fitie enjoying myself but expect shall bo transferred to another j Hospital soon I am too this place- I drosolngs how and to do but wait for the arm to get strong parcol from the Newmarket Comforts have Just written to my thanks Thoy cer tainly fltiom to have a good Idea of what a soldier needs and host of thanks Is too for thorn have not yet re ceived that tobacco iands suppose election will be over when you receive this The people of this country seem to be much about the result and think that a victory for would moan eventual dis appearance of tho Canadian Army on account of lack of mente It is reported that some of supporters have said kal Mrs Jbnea spent Christmas with Mrs Hamilton Mrs Brothers of Christmas at Ma and Mrs it Manning spent Christmas with in Aurora Edgar Dennis and fam ily Christmas with his sla ter in Aurora f Mr Fred loft on Sat urday for spend tho Jack on a torpedo ship is hero on furlough for a of weeks Mrl and Mrs Stuart Barker and son Harold of Toronto spent town Miss of To ronto spent Christmas Day with her friend Mary Mr J Mulr and family spent Christmas with his dough- they lor Mrs in Toronto rolurn If such a statement were made it is an insult to us land to Can ada At any rate a political fight seems very rnudh out of place at the present limo I nothing to write about and shall not talk politics any more some things lo say about politicians hut the censor might not liko it so will close Love to all Your loving son -J- Prtilto Hub and wo have would Mrs and party ar rived safely at Albuquerque Nov Mexico on Deo and all OK Miss Clarice of is spending Chrislmas Willi Her parents Church SI Mr and Mrs Herb don spent Christmas at home with father Mr John Air and Mrs Fred J Blon- spent Christmas at homo with bis lather Air John Blan co vo Mrs Kidd had the pleasure N that you can tell from Real Wo Carnation Chrycnnthomumo and Holly Wreaths Wo havo a of California Walnuts that tho Finest Walnuts that Handled Wo havo Other Kinds of Wal nuts Peanuts and TRY QOHE OF OUn PASTRY PLOUR I Wo havo to Choose from IT WILL GET ATTENTlOri London Deo A British air squadron has successfully bomb ed the city of Mannheim the great commercial centre and one of most important bases the of the Ger mans on the western front Nu merous fires were started in this city a Ion of bombs being drop ped Tho British squadron had numerous combats with German aeroplanes in this expedition and of the British machines was forced lo a landing The text of the statement is The enemys machines were very active on Sunday and five of them were brought down in air fighting three of them falling in our lines Two other hostile machines were brought down In our lines by antiaircraft guns One of these was a large twinengined machine with three occupants who were made pris oners Our night flying machines bombed several of the enemys aerodromes with good effect At daylight on Monday one of our squadrons bombed Mann heim on the with excellent results A ton of bombs was dropped and bursts were observ ed in the largo main station in works and also the town where fires were started Very heavy antiaircraft gunfire was directed against our aeronlanes when they were over their ob jective and one of our was damaged and forced to land Several of the enemys scouts made repeated attacks our formations but were driven off All of our machines returned ex cept tho one aforementioned AVIAYOK3 Fort Worth Texas Deo Lieut and Cadet Man- son Canadian aviators who had been here about two months in training were Incinerated in an airplane accident yesterday Their identity was wade known by Roy al Flying Corps officers tonight Both of the men were members of the Royal Flying Corps for several months previous to com ing to Fort Investigation proved the men were burned lo death after truck the ground It was said tho machine was at height of feet When it struck a side When ma chine struck the ground gas oline tank was torn open and a The men In with afire were of a visit from father Mr Gorman near Tilsonburg during holidays Mr John Watson of Abbey is spending a of months with his parents in East Mr and Mrs I and Mr and Mrs Hoy of Aurora visilcd in town on Christmas Mr and Hill of the Toronto Globe spent Christ mas holidays at her fathers Mr Morrisons Miss Mina Thompson visited parents at during the weekend returning to town On Christmas night Mr Addison of III writes Enclosed find for Era You dont suppose we could live hero without it Mrs Smith and daugh ter Mrs of are here lo spend the winter with Mr and Mrs J Smith Raglan Mr Ben Howard has his farm lo Mr Mills Intend to retire in Mr Binghams on fit Mr Howard rrri North Dakota is hero visiling friends tind moller Mrs Tn own in some lime In January Mr beck from Ibe Tin e fair evnortq to hack in Sprint and InrAfi Mr a no Hole their Mr Mrs A Storks Christmas Several members of Hivor- Lodge A A came up from Toronto by private car on Friday night to visit their broth er Mr J A family gathering look place at the residence of Mr John Cow- on Christmas Day We arc pleased to report that Mrs icson is greatly improved in health Mayor Eves and wife were in city two or three days last week on account of her father Pans Deo An official nolo today announces the reaching of an agreement between the and Governments for exchange of prisoners by which noncommissioned officers and men of 48 years of age or over who have been in captivity more than months will be repatriated Officers in the same category will bo interned in Swit zerland St Thomas Dec 25 Miss Lottie aged of St Anns Place was found uncon scious on pilot of Wol verine Michigan Central Hail- way flyer as it pulled into the sta tion here tonight It was later found that she had been struck at the aired- crossing She has a broken leg several fractured ribs and internal in juries She may not recover It lo Quality that QUALITY OUR SPECIALTY ALSO FOR THE LEADING Furniture and Undertaking House You can buy your Cheap for EM HALM INC A SPECIALTY Night callo to at THE Musical In World- HUYLERS CHOCOLATES NEWMARKET Agent for Cameras and Photo House Phono No Store Phone No 1 i Phones and Mr Lukes of Bradford under going an operation at tho Hos pital We are pleased to report that the operation was success ful and he is getting along nice ly Mr Stuart Darker the well- known of Toronto Choirmaster and Soloist of Col lege Street Presbyterian Church has been engaged lo sing the bass role in The Messiah for the TJrantford Oratorio Society on New Years Night Mr J Barry of Marie Mich was calling on old friends in town last was on his way to New York and on a holi day and intends to return of Chicago He to doing well in this worlds goo- Mr Win Wilkin of fteld Indiana writes I send the equipment to lake best paper and the oldest that Is printed in Newmarket for another year I would like you to toll me when you will have this unrighteous war closed for all time- I pass ed year in October and my is good I eat well sleep well and a great of this worlds Maily old friends in York will bo to boar from him once more Paris Deo The seams in olivedrab uniforms were burst ing high explosives ll over Paris today from the slraln of Christmas cheer inside tholr wearers If there was an Amer ican soldier in French who did not cats to him remember bin years to come be must tacked and- Cradle In Newmarket on Dec to Pie Archibald Butcher and wife a son Johnson In Newmarket on Dec 1917 to Mr and Mrs Geo Johnson a son Altar At the residence of the brides parents on Dec by Thomas Harold Walt of Ot tawa to Cora daughter of Mr P J Anderson Town Clerk of Newmarket In Newmarket on Thursday Dec 20lh John In his year At Holland Landing Dec wife of Jonathan Webb in her 74th year At her late 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