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Ptc. W. 1`homa%s, killed last month, waslisted from Barrie, but belonged to (lookstown. His mother lives at Cambley, Eng.- land, and there are no relatives in Canada. He was born. in 1896. Major Knowles speaks very `highly of him. ' T . ` v - In ...\ .. A... Jos. Pierson, ex-1-eeve of Te-- cumsetll, llas-been notied that his son, Pte. Fred. C. Pierson, sustainned a gunslmt, wound in the right arm on April 19. Pte. Piersmx enlisted in the 157th Bn. Pte. `Oscar French, ,-so_n of Samuel French,. Waverley,` was killed .in the recentghting in` France. He had been in the t.ren- ches about a year. ` b The Examiner has not yet been able to locate W. `Burgess, Bar- He, and Ci; C. Barne_s,_ Allandale, whose names appeared in this week s wounded list. Gunner Oscar Kerr, son of Mr and` Mrs; D. H Kerr, Eln1~v`ale, died in a -Boulogne hospital, on April 28, from wounds received -011 April 21.- ' ' TIL- .f\--.... I7..........'I. An... Al` wrru THE 1 MEN IN KHAKI VI luvxlu nnavnnun Through an unfortunate error on the part of the Globe, the name of Gunner Rollett A. Car- son (along with several others) a.ppeared as killed in action in- stead of wounded on Tuesday, causing deep distress to his par- ents and friends. The error was put right in yesterday s issue. Pte. Pearsall Killed i Olficial word was received yes- terday by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearsall, Mitchell Square, that their son, Pte. J. H. Pearsall, had been killed in action on April '11. He was just 18 years of age and was a splendid young fellow. G0- ing overseas with the machine gun section of the 157th Bn., he went to France with the first draft taken from the Simcoe men. Before enlisting he "was a mem- ber of the Merchants Bank .sta1`f, Orillia. His brother Luke enlist- ed in the.West and went overseas last month with the 9th Regt. Draft, G.A.S.C. Easter Sunday in which :he re-` ported himself as feeling very t.i 'Pt.e. MeDonI1ell at the time of! enlistment at Camp Hughes was! engag,e'd,in farm work near Re-4 gins... ;`Mr McDonnell whas two other sons, John and James, at `the Front with a Vancouver unit, and also a grandson (son:-of James) who went over as a bug- ler with his father s battalion. 0nSunday5 Mr. and Mrs. And." rew Carson were advised that their son, Rollett A., had been` .wounded on Apr, 25. No partie- ularswere given. The last letter received from him wa written on Apr. 5 a few days befo -e the Vimy attack began. Gunner Carson was with the 25th Battery, con- sisting of 18.11). guns, whie_h `op- erate 700 or 800 yards behind the advance trenehes--a hot spot in the kind of bombardment the Huns have been keeping up the last month. 4. Thomas Robert Speers, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Speers, was killed in action during the Vimy fighting, between April 8 and 10. An official notice to this eifect reached his parents. on Monday. T. R., as he was gen- erally called, was born at Ivy 34 years ago. Ten years of his life he spent in Barrieand during that time was a regular `attendant at St. Andrew s Church and Sunday School. After -leaving school he went to work for James Vair and was thus employed when he en- listed for service in the South African War. He did not reach Africa but served a year in the Garrison at Halifax. On his dis- charge, he returned to Toronto four years before going to Fer- nie, B.C. At the time of the `big re in Fernie he was managinga storethere. From Fernie he mov_ ` edto Vancouver where he had a store for a couple of years and then went into real estate. In ._Ianuary, 1916,` he enlisted with the 158th Bn. and went overseas in November. As he had `no op- portunity of coming home, sev- eral of` his relatives journeyedirto North Bay to bid him good-bye. Early in March he went to France. The last letter received before his death, written on `Apr. 5, spoke of the terric bombardment that was going on along their lines. Pte. Speers was six feet in height, of stalwart build and well titted to hold his own in any company. Like so many other brave young Canadians he has given his life that we who stay at home may -enjoy the liberties and privileges which the cruel Hun is seeking to destroy. T\....-._.-J___.__ .. 'I__....L`I..-._ -1` 'II'.~.-. tam} was with the T. Eaton Co. for Minister Makes Munitions Midland Argus----Rev. Mr. Gil-> mour of-Penetang believes in do- ing what he can to beat the Hun and at the present time as Well. as caring for the spiritual needs of the Presbyterian congregation in that town he is assisting in the man1'.11'ac-ture of high explo- sive shells in one of the Midland munition plants. _He drives aa- cross here every morning and back in the evening and appears ' to enjoy the work of making pro: jectiles with which to destroy Kaiser Billls forces. V ' The Late Pte. T. R. Sphers st. Paul's, lnnisl _ Mrs. Perry-and Miss Carr at- tended Lhe annual meeting of the W. A. last week, which was very largely attended. The meetings were of a high order. Some of those who addressed `them were: Rev. Dr. Taylor of China, Rev. Mr- `Haslam of India, Canon Gould. General Secy. of the M.S.(`..C. Rev. (Captain) Carlyle, Chapiain of the forces, gave some exper- iences and impressions of his work at the front. It is with much pleasure that we are attic to re- port that St. Paul s bv.-anch of the W. A. won a prize in the 1\Ii+smn_ ary competition No. II, The Church in Corea. In three of the other competitions the mem- bers who entered took a high per- centage. This is the second year that St. Paul s has taken a prize. The book g`iv,r=n this year is The Apostle of the North by Cody. (3.....-.: A A . . -. _\ C1-._,..J..__ ._-A A-.- .4- -Q }\cce`mpa1'iied"hy' twenty fmem- 1,)ers'0'f`-7tOnilli:e Chapter, W: H. T'l.'ldh`(.)pE-,>7GI`aIld Superintendent V-for Georgian Dist:-ict'N0. 9, met- `ored '-over on Tuesday night to pay his official visit to Signet C.ha'.pter,' No; 34, R.A.M. The Royal Arch degree was conferred "upon eight candidates by J. VV. Mex"- rigila; the. First Prin. Z., and his nil -iiers in such a manner as to (ziill forth the hearty praise of the fty_membe1's present..The Grand .Superim,.endent. gave.a most ex- cellent address on The Ideal Tmnple Bu'ildin_: of Masonry. A \:'er_v enjnyahie bafnquet was held at the close of the lodge. Urrited cigar Stores * The Barrie branch of this com- pany, under the management of Earl Degeer, will open on Satur.. day next. Watch window for special r>`e1'ings. Next, to Sar- jeant C0 s. coal office. 4.;h1uuvav Va 011'; AVLII LII IJJ \.J\".l. - . Services on Sunday next are as follows: . .. -wv . .- ofric1a'*I" Visit The Large and Small . ' Last week a man weighing 278` lbs. walked into our store and wanted a Ready-to-wear Suit.` His chest measurelnent. was 50 inch- es and waist 52 inches. In less than 5 minutes we tted him per- fectly andsent him away happy.[ Saturday evening` a man Wanted a pair of pants 29 waist and 2! leg. H also was immediately" tted. e fit the hard to t. _No man too large and no man too small for us to t from our large stock of Ready-to-W-ear Cloth- ing.` - Special value during the month of May in all Men s and Boys Clothing, more especially in Suits._ V ~ . . * ' " "" I Stanley Gowan, son` of Mrs.~ Fred. Gowan, Eccles St., is in the hospital with a .22-calihre bullet i_n his body as the result of `an { accident last. Saturday al`ternoon.; Eddie Zeihr and another lad were; playing with a rie on Sophia St.{ and Stanley was watching them.; `In handling the rie, Eddie Zeihral accidentally discharged it and the: bullet hit the Gowan boy.in the; abdomen, passing through be- tween . the abdominal cavity and the abdominal muscles and lodg- ing` in the -back of his body, -whence it has not ,yet been re- moved. The injured boy is mak- ing very satisfactory progress to- ward recoveryfe is fteen years! old and a son of the late Fred- Gowan. shot.` in Abdomen A ne tribute to thememory of i the late W. J. Nightingale, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nightingale, of Graigvale, killed at Dover on April 20, was paid in St. Paul s Church, Innisl, on Wednesday evening, May 9. The church was lled with those who not only de- sired to honor his memory and _extend their deep sympathy -to his parents and sister, but also with those who wished to pay a tribute to all who on sea, on land `and in the air, are ghting for ithe defence of home and country land the maintenance of all prin- ciples of liberty and righteous- ness. The `service was a very. solemn one. It opened ' with the hymn Peace Perfect Peace,.fol-' lowed `by Psalms 23, 25 and -'16, the reading of Isaiah 40 and Rev. 21. An_ address was given by the` Rector, Rev. B. J.W. Perry, on The Lord is My Shepherd, in which referencewas made to the leading of thelate hero to join the.Navy and the glory and right- of dying that thethings worth while might live. ..Other hymns sung were Our Dead are Living Unto Thee, On a Resurrection lCom.1nue'd on page 12.) 1'heJ Late Seaman Nightihgal Pte. Harry Ayerst of Owen Sound was killed in action on. April I4. Prior to enlistment he! was employed up Portage la Prairie and enlisted in the C. M. R. He was born at Gookstown, being the son` of Grus.VAye1'st. vn A J11. Wi11:x-`ed'Bane`roft of Rosemont was killed in the Vimy I`1g'hting. .)'u,.~`.t a few days prim` to the re- :-eipt of the news of Pte. Ban.- cr0ft s fate, Mr. Johnston, with whmn he had been employed, re- cnived a message stating` that the V soldier had won the D.(1.M. He was about tl1irty_yea1's of age. .The 125th_Bn.. into which most of the Barrie and Collingwood companies of the 157th Bn; ,We1"e drafted,-went. to France recently. ,This is the Brantford battalion commanded by Lt,-C0l. Gutcliffe.