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1:1,}: ,6`! [HE% A %3%..-'.".;;.a'-.%::}::ss:aaa:ooo BANK o1=T8 COMMENT OF THE WEEK :- The famdus Comedian Coming Fri. and Sat. December 8 and 9 The famous Photoplay in 7 parts ` jg: Monday and Tuesday _,m -- BARBIE AND ALLAIIDALE BRANGI-l_E8._ H. A`. SIMS, Manager. . There is one sentence which every editor of a newspaper is` very familiar with every issue of! his paper, that is: /`We trust! that you will nd it of sufficient; interest to give it space. In most cases editors do ndthat! the articles would bednteresting to the readers of the paper. They are.b0t'h entertaining and instruc- tive, showing that a capable per- son has prepared them. But the request usually comes from some society organization or` branch oi work that considers the subject} on hand of sufiicient importance`. to pay capable men to further its? interests. Then the newspapers; are asked to give the necessaryi publicity to make the work e'ec..e tive. The only thing a newspap-i er has to sell is publicity and it cannot afford to give away this` commodity to every worthy or-I ganization any more than the! merchant or the farmer can af-A ford to give their merchandise to whoever might ask_;-Mount Forest Confederate. I re the: rlner ask_;-_-Mount capital ..'.".'.. ' 13] Reserve Funds I. $10,000 to the British-Sailors?! ' Relief Fund, the County Coun.. ;` cillors acted in a manner worthy; 3 of this" largeand wealthy county{ "and their action in so doing will: `be pretty generallyapproved. Asf `was so ,clearly pointed out by Sir; jlcrbert Ames, the Patriotic Fund? 'yiS an obligation resting upon all: iithose who rem.ain at home, and; `gas such it should be met by the ` wholepeople, according to their; Nability to pay. To secure such a 7 distribution of the burden, a gen- ' eral levy is the inethodthat most ' nearly meets the situation. It ' must be admitted that many in- equalities will be found in the ?ltaxation, while not a few young -,men and others not on the tax iirolls will escape altogether. In ;order that the latter" may-have 5 `an opportunity of assuming their 0 `ifair share in the national ob1iga-.' 'ltion towards this Fund,.'the Nol- 'iuntary system of giving wi1l_-still jibe used to some extent and all _`_who so desire will have a_ chance to contribute in this Way., ' I The business men, who have to bear by far the largest share of -the increased postal rates and at the same time have suffered ser_ ious inconvenience by curtail- . ment of the mail service`, will ap- ing comment from the Brace- ~ bridge Gazette upon the announ- cement that the Post Ofce Dept. is showing an. increased prot. `The present Postmaster Gener_ ;al,says` the Gazette, has doubl- .ed the price of carrying drop let- ters and post cards and increas- ed the price of ordinary letters 50 per cent. At the same time he has cut down the number of trains carrying mail nearly 50 per cent. A letter` posted in Bracebridge at 9.15 p.m. Satur- day willbe delivered in Toronto sometime on Tuesday of the next week. If he would raise the_ price! anoth`6|r`.cent or so per letter and card and send mails by freight in can lots only; he`-`might increase` the revenue still more, especially if he prevents all other means of communication." l preciate the force of the foow A store `must Ih;;kepi.t_ pay you for reading its ads} If it did not, the cost of its advertising would be thrown away. -For if,the ad. pays you it pays the sfore-not- otherwise. ` ' ' Simcoe's Patriotic Aelvlngs Loyalty to your favorite store ' At the request of the Warden, is 3' ne trait`. Bfe al_S loyal to .the County, Clerk `Secured from yourself by keeping III constant the clerks` of the several munic_ touch with its advertising` ipalities statements as to the amounts contributed for patriotic purposes since the war began. VESPI-`IA LIBERALS . A meeting of Vespra Liberals twill be held in Reform Rooms, The return, presented to the Barrie, on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 2 County Council last _week,`shows p.m., taoeleci; ofcers and appoint a total of $365,848. This amount d.|e9ates to the convention on includes contributions to Canad- D' -8' 4 ` ' ian Patriotic Fund, Canadian Red P eSidenAt"Sm;:;.::, m -Assn Cross, British R_ed Cross, Belgian . I` ' ' ' Relief. Fie1djC0Inf0I`tS recruit- Read the advts. There's money ing, ambulances and equipment in it for the careful buyer. ` n 1 The `Hearst publications being `banned from Canada, the Amer- iean pro-Germans are `seeking other ways to reach t.he ear of the people of this country. One of these is to present free to ev- 'ery public library a copy of ,Neu- trality" by Ivor Stephen. This book, while professedly from the American point of view, is bitter in its denunciation of Bri- tain and warm in its praise of the Teutons and their methods. Even if Canadians had an oppor, 'tunity to read the book, the re- sult would be a hot resentment at thedgross falsehoods and mis-' representations contained within. its covers, and any intelligent and impartial neutral `could not but be filled with disgust, mingl- ed with amusement. The store ads. are good read- ing just now for any man or wo- man who takes an interest in life. Look at any store ad. in this is- sue-_--and verify this statement. to trait. Be, also, keeping in Vespra will to elect delegates the Dec. A._iIi. N|oFaui, _ . President N. S. Reform Assn. In voting $10,000 a morith to! the Canadian Patriotic Fund and] Chief Grassett of Toronto in a` "striking interview declares that this yearthe arrests for drunken. ness and disorderly conduct have decreased .75 per cent; that op- ponents of the law now favor it. Old customers of the police are now taking their money home. Retail shop-keepers a.re'benet- ing -in many parts of the city. Men who are regularly taken up- by the police have become tem- iporate. Even former liquor deal- ers are glad the bar has been abolished, while the police force. with one hundred less men is do- ing more efficient work than.un- der old conditions. In Belleville in six weeks there were only 5 convictions 'for drunkenness as, compared with 22 last year. " lxulixci '1Zi& "DZ's"'aJ~}" being I -continually carried on with much success. Up to date 2244 ser- vices have been held this year. Working of Prohibition. In the city of London for two? weeks this year there were eight! cases of drunks and disorderly: conduct as compared with 88 last year. The total number of cases of all kinds for the same two: weeks this year was 60 as com-` upared with 160. In Port Arthurg for the month of October there! were 8 cases of drunkenness as compared with `73 last year. The total number of all kinds was 56 as .compared with 158 in 1915. I Helping to Nlaka it Effective The 4 temperance workers throughout the provinceare ev- idently determined -to leave no-| [thing undone that will ensure the` effectiveness and permanence of. -prohibition. Within the past fewi months county or district con_{ ventions have been held in prac-; tically everypart of the province. These are now being followed up by local organization meetings at which committees are being: formed to co_operate. with the; authorities` in the matter of en-! forcement to `sympathetically aid{ The Ontario Branch `of the| Dominion Alliance has districted| the province, Field Secretaries` have been appointed in charge of these districts, superintending this `organization work and keep- ing in close touch with the_work-. ers and situation generally. A.II_-_-_ ._'-I.`l 'I\, , iin social readjustments incidenti "to `the coming into force of pro. hibition, and to keep public op- inion alive on the temperance is- sue. $365,848.06.| 111 D1117 VVUL IX. On motion of Geo. H. Clark and W. H.`Manning, it was decided to re..organize the Simcoe Recruit- ing League with the following of. _ cerss P1-es.--Warden Martin. Secy.-Howard Gover,` Goldwa- 4-.. I 1 V I 3 . wLf.xecu`tive--Judge` Vance, Bar. : rie; J. P. Downey, Orillia; W..T. 3550 MORE lien WANTED V | ` FROM SIIVIGOE coulrrvl (Continued from Page One) Rev. G. W. Watch of Midland` regarded it an honor to be given` [the task of raising 75 men from! `its small area. Midland is will_l ,ing to do unto the very end and! 'every possible means will be tak-' {en to supply its quota. Fur \`:'nnrIr\r\/-`(N 1'4.` l`D_ If any of` our readers_ have a desire to get back to the land, they can get some cheap at Treasurer Qu_in1an svbig land sale tomorrow. - It w;';"s`t;t1;{{lb;};'i."51. VVil_ liams that on Dec. 3 there would ,be an exchange of -pulpits throughout the county for the purpose of aiding recruiting. Sign up or Put up` Dean O'Mal1ey recalled the ar- rangement at the time of the tAmerican Civil War whereby the man who was not able to or did not care to enlist paid $600 for some one to take his place. In this struggle it mightstimulate recruiting if well-to-do stay-'at- homes were willing to pay a hon- us for enlistment. He himself would quite willingly be one of a hundred who would each pay $100 in this way. While he had said a good word for -recruiting more than once from the pulpit, he had not been insistent as there had not been any great clamor for it. He would, however, be pleased to do anything he could in his pub- lie or private capacity to assist inthe work. r\._ .......A.:A... -1.` f`1...\ IT l1ln..1- A...-I LIIU .l\llClI\.lo W. A. Boys, K.C.,M.P., said ,that if all those who had enlisted `outside were taken into account, there had been over `two batta- lions taken from this county be- side the 177th. To get`75 more men is no easy `task but he thought they should be forth- coming. Lots of young fellows will` stay where they are, he said, if left alone, but they should be made-to feel_ so. uncomfortable that they would be impelled to get into uniform. = In the work of re- cruiting," he believed the clergy both from the pulpit and in other; ways could lend evaluable assist- ance. T) . A n . .315... Qua-v-urlruc-rt` policy nas been recently largely tQ_bI`1I1g up conspicuously efli- cient men from -the ranks. The personal appeal of the popular_ man for Canadian colonel, is therefore, largely a thing of the[ past. The new policy will be to! raise men for reinforcement of regiments which are at the front, and which have gained glory in fighting. Every part of Canada 1S today .represented at the front by_ such units. Their is local pride in their performance. For the` popular colonel there has. been substituted the appeal of the] : !"----'--r.._______--._=_----_,__ auu bllub alu L110 I.CULuuuu5. ! There are not three eligiblesi left in Goldwater, said Mr. Man-: ning, who regretted, h0wever, that the rural young men in the lsurrounding country had not done Itheir duty to anything like the 1 same extent. , n1-.11.-._:L1- N-.. . . . . . . . u . . . n n n nn {B11 LU Supply its quuua. . g Ex-W'arde1;r`{]. E. Wright re- :ported a similar determination upon the part of Penetang. Use Returned Heroes Aft-er`.Mr. Earle of Creemoreg `had pointed out some of the dif- aficulties to be contended with,; | G-en. Logie suggested that recep-. ,ti0ns he organized for returned !soldiers--wl1o though rm0dest,ij [would be glad to tell their st0ry= {and thus` aid the recruiting. I u.rn1..n_... -_... .,.,..A 4|.-...,.,. I4:-Linea ' Ou.111L: \J1LL'l/lllln Eligible men are very scarce at recruiting meetings, but plenty_ are to be found at the dances, said J. Swartman of Waubau-i shene,`wh0 had applied unsuc-' cessfully _to e taken on the pat- rol boat ser ice. `Writing to him _recently from the Front, his son said: W'e are willing to take what is coming to us as long as weknow that the {boys at. home. are ready to take our places, should anything happen to us. f\n14 A4` n v\nn11lnl-inn nf` Ann 1111'` Ol.l\JlJll.l (11., Ulllllb IIKJIJLIKJLL ugl \AOo L Out of a population of 400 we lhave enlisted l08, said Dr. Bant-. !ing of Cookstown, and we'll get lthe extra ten allotted to us. He said that many lads of 17, were eager to go, but of course would` not be accepted. a I4`l'\I'O Tf\II .' I l`III7(\" "IY\f` q{\I'I"h IJLUU LIC al.IlJU1Jlr\'.7ll. , For New Lowell and South Sunnidale the Warden reported one man in every hundred of pop- E-ulation enlisted, and from 80 to 100 Sunnidale men had donned `the khaki. (IT A `I'\,\__.. `I7 (1 `Ill 1'\ ......I Rpcruiting Sundays _A_L..`l `L.-- TI. 1`! I Ottawa, Nov; 18-Recruitingf methods are being changed. With :Gen, Hughes out, there has been . a quiet shift from new batta- ,;lions to reinforcement drafts. -.There will be few, if any, more linfantry battalions authorized. ,ijAuthorities have come to the con- vrclusion that Canadian infantry [regiments have reached a num- siber which should not be increas- .ed. The practice has been to ,autho1-ize. popular, conspicuous : and energetic men to undertake 2 the raising of a battalion in his : locality. Condence i_n him by ,the men of the locality has been 2 counted upon as a powerful fac- v_l.or in attracting men. - us , I D Allan, Gollingwood; J. H. Nlitc-.he}l, iA1list0n; Rev. G. VV. Watcn, 1\1iv;'- land; Rev. A. H. Bourne, Pena- tang; J. J. McKnight, Tottenham; ,A. Earle, Creemore; A. B Don-+1`, istayner. C. S. Burton, 1os. J. ,SwaI*tman, \Vauhaushene. J. 'Duckw0rth, Victoria Harbor; Geo. ,Green, Bradford; D. H-J[_rper,, ;.Co0kst.0wn and J. A. Bell, New` `Lowell. . `he Countl Men have been enlisted with! fthe assurance that they would go to the front with the colonel" whom they knew, and with bat- talion superior officers with whom they were familiar. This has attracted a good many wav- erers. ' For some months authorities .on the other side have adopted the practice of breaking up bat- talions soon after their arrival in England and sending the men to France in companies or sections as reinforcements for seasoned regiments of Canadian veterans; Commanding officers have been left in England, while their men have been sent to France. Few officers fresh from Canada will rank higher than subaltern have been allowed to cross the chan_ nel. Even with suhalterns the policy has been recently largely to_ bring cient personal of past. raise regiments front, which in ghting. is: fnrlnu nnnnnnnnlnrl at 41.... 4`...~...1. Until that date both Renewals and New Subscrip- tions will be accepted at the rate of $1.00 per year. Scores of newnames are being added to our list at the dollar rate. Tell your friends about it. Remember, One Dollar pays a year s subscription. to any address in Canada if paid before Jan. 1st, 1917. h This includes renewals of subscriptions falling due anytime during 1917, but payment must be made be- fore the closc of 1916 to get the `dollar rate. Send Your Dollar Today THE BARRIE EXAMINER & SATURDAY MORNING - Subscribers arereminded of the fact that theuprice of this paper will be advanced to $1.50 per year on Jan. 1st 1917, for reasons which have been fully explained. One Month More No New `Battalions AT THE OLD RATE I I. IV 1111111.!`/8 f Mrs. Taylor predeceased him : four years, but a family of six are left, viz., Mrs. B. Walter Hun- L ter, Newmarket; Mrs. Withrow, Calgary; Dr. Will Taylor, Dr. Hack Taylor and Perry Taylor, all 0f1\Vinnipeg, and Chas. Tay- >; lor of Otterbourne, AMan. ' ll rl`}|n 4'11v1n-nn] nn nn [f\rVf\i`\';l\ Thursday, November 30, `"316. Charliehapiinl -glorious regiment. It is believed this will bring the men to the recruiting offices as effectively as did the old policy. Mfny Barrje friends learned with regret of the death of Dr. IJ. F. Taylor, which occurred in [Winnipeg on Nov. 19. After he lhad undergone one operation, other complications set in and the surgeons performed a second operation in the hope of saving his life, but he did.` not survive the operation. V111,, I..4,. h.. '1".-.-.`l.-.... .V....,. 1..--.. I ---v tvouv 1:: Us I n lIl,I\II' Mar :- A. H. VVest of Barrie took the services on the Hillsdale circuit on Sunday last, and also on the .previous Sabbath. His sermons [were very much appreciated. IIIIKJ KJLJCI. (1Ul\Jl1o The late Dr. Taylor was born in Brock Tp., 69 years ago, and was a son of the late Rev. Chas. vTaylor of Allandale. -After grad- uating from the Ontario Dental College he practised in Campbell- ford and Uxbridge. Then he re- moved to Barrie where he prac- tised eight years. For the last eighteen years he had practised _in Winnipeg. Inn rpncylnn nvnnrl n n A n nn.-I L:-us Barrie Branch Canadian Pat- ` riotic Fund "The Treasurer s statement for the period ending Oct. 31 showed the following amounts paid in of the sums subscribed in the came paign last January: ' ` `.Jan.--Origina1 Deposit $3790.81 Subscriptions paid 783.50 Feb.--'- 813.76 Mar.-- 539.7-0 ApI':- 503.70 May- 371160 June-- V 409.25 July-- 378.75 Aug.-- A 329.50 Sep.--- 297.50 ,Oct.- " 3741.25 Interest . . . . . .. 2.00 I rl'1.____4 r`1._-__A nnnnn nn I KJDUULIJKJLAL AIU, J.V.l.G.11. \JL lJ1 ; The funeral, under Masonic \ausp1ces, was held from the res- Hdence of his son-, Dr. Will Tay-e ,l0r, to` St. John s Cemetery, \Vin- jnipeg. The Late Dr. J. FT.Taylor U _Interest Town Grant . . . . 10000.00 HILLSDALE The fifth of the Mutual Chaplin Specials Together. with a 3-Reel Feature A Pricesno higher 6 and llc UJULI. __.__l 68 (L 46 (6 It 8` 4` $1.8591.32 (A 511' Tlwn the 1`- Uu: p (zed 1: 111;," 2: hold, 3'l(.'(`Vi'.~ I51} 1 [1 `\ i(j~.',-L I\Ii_dlu` MI` Ph- :L,`l'1 o I": 1.2! Zia]; I . 1.141111.` i11;,1'\V' b`,-I':,-"1 [ertsw LL` C1` '1 119 be 1 GRAND OPERA HOUSE HIM,` (s in H1 xlxalm team. L>.. in Ur jug` '14 at H Jf I Iillll O'I)elN \v 1, \ he pcluj w(.*x': ]*Ip\\'n `l\l0Lf1 Mnllcl Thu prcsia gI`1lIll 1'1-ml UV!) - by t .5'[H`-ll l_ n...l G ;\:. .ing 1: Pmwl Uullix ])4`(`. .a "m to \\`t imliv: in win tyfau 111;; H in .411 (121; L 1131.; I Ivy,` 1 Palri land : lust, is ' at i The Romy I \\1l`l`l T '.\1..- -91' H1 K U \ I Exam llngw (`.01. fared high( dinnx quart Conn hlnlu Major Li(*,lH.1 ' KY ,... A%}3Ii'?..1| menu by I. IVIEIJHJ I.l.-(}1 `II- 2. _` K` \ 1| the ' % LBWI: Frvdn l\1I'\ , I Cms; elniw Red ( l'l, Tht DEC. 4 and 5|