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i= a PERRY Lk thers' Meetings, "Mrs Witterick, . HG JIUTCHESON, Manag MacFarlane Fone fia, Mrs Starr, Whitby atire, Mrs Wicket, Port Perry aditor; Mis D. Archer, Port Perry Ontario County Com pany Dear Slr--As you are probably aware acceptanee has been made by the wnister of Militia to the offer of the County of Ontario to raise a full dou- of the wheat being so badly|ble company of 250 men, with a ed as to be practically unmarket- | Machine Gun Section. and Machine The losses_sustained from this | Gun:Section and Machine Gun for | twill run -into thousands of| Overseas Service. I have had the s and wou'd be alarming if we|houor fo be appointed to Command get.exact figures, ~~ Most of the | this double Company, and recruiting! serious smuts can be readily |is being actively prosecuted in the olled by the formal treatment Couty, Prospects 'are very bright h is as follows for obtaining the full number of men. E pint formalin is dissolved in 42] It would be weil to impress on the ol water and the sack of seed | boys the duty of enlisting in their awn ersed in the solution for about | County Regiment. This Company 'Then the seed is spread | will be kept together as a unit, 'and if "clean floor to dry. The|any reinforcements are asked for; this * should be rapidiy dried to avoid | Company will go forward as a unit. to germination - power. This| The figures that follow have been ent has been tested fully by the computed according to the population imental Department of the Ont- 0" the County and the Municipality, rig Agricultural College' and bas|and the number required. The figures els the best results of any cf thelare not arbitrary. The more men the Farr is tréhatents "tre y nd her fought like men pod ged ive' handy and cheap. A modificet-| try to recruit the minimum number One brief hot spell of loosened hell; ion of the above treatment using one Port Perry "Hell: for the bafled Huns; pint of formalin to ten gallons oi water But a time was this of wild mad' Bliss) 2d spuniting the seed; with this To. 'the: praic's dashing. Suns. strong solution and mixing it thorough- ly is very effective if the grain is} yet knew no thoroughly mixed 'so as to insure moistening the seed. Cover the grain with canvas over night to keep the fumes of formalin from escaping too fast. The above amounts are sufficient to treat from 40 to 55 bus. of , rain. Before treating wheat affected with Bunt or; Stinking Smut the grain should be run through the fanning "men ati mil and thoroughly cleaned giving it _|plenty of wind to remove the bunted Beaverton... 01 kernels which are very 'much lighter This makes a total "of 260. The than the good grain. Another surcr apportionment is made on the basis Smut in Grain Bvery farmer knows that Smut bas very prevalent in grain this year. Scugog .. '{ They slew, were slain, "pain | In the thrill of the breathless. hour When the big guns flash, and 'the bayonets clash, : And you're gripped in the war-lust's power. {And the Teutons fought as Hy 'should and ought, I martial Deutschland' Sons, the prairie breed: Were : the Pickering |... Sapdge To Scott; ... Thorah Brock Mara, Rama... Whitby Town Oshawa, .....c.. > on Uxbridge Cannington 12 tthe grain into a tubjof 6 Tecruits to every 1000 population' stir thoroughly and skim H. P. COOKF, : off the tuted keroels which will float Sept, th fosman's bes | bottom. Before. : Be} grain, the grain drill; bags, bins and} Mr. John McLaren, Scugog,. re- © |anything that will come in. contact|ceived a letter from Bob. Fowler who in Belgium fighting. He has ap: i for and expects to 'get-a com- mission as Lieuténant in' Kitchener's ill lodge in such places Army, - He saw George Fines recently back into the grain. lin a Kilty Costume, having joined a has been found | Highland Brigade. Bob is doing well made "has 24 speaks as though the victory in. fact in spite 'of the with the. seed should be thoroughly} disinfected wi ry, on] rage, Terisveffect- better" "Bar cachiumé pality soma p= Reach Council Met at Manchester: on Mon lay,. Sept. 18, at 11 a, m, All members. present. 'Reeve in the chair.s ~ Min- j utes of last meeting read and confirm- Communications From Kenneth Wallace stating that | he had killed his dog on account of i worrying sheep and asking the council to pay him a bounty, also from one i Wesley E. Pickett stating that he had shot and buried the said dog which he found worrying sheep; and as there were two. Claimants, action was de- ferred. From The Sarnia Bridge Co., re bridge material. From the Preston Car and Couch: Co., re ditchers and graders. Accounts Passed Geo Smith, gravel $15 50 j Kenneth Wallace, right of way to pit Thos Barrett, ditching con 6 Theo Fitchett, 'aid 115 75 5 90 4 80 5 00 15 75 Centre Road, Con' 7" j Day Bros, gravel W. M. Letcher, racks for seats | Sharp & Cook, law costs Geo Howsam, rep road con 4 Robt Vernon, work on' culvert and railing Div 4 WE Tummonds, gravel Chas Honey, money collected | for S L 1914 Thos Swanick, cleaning pit and rep. road Chas Wells, bonus 79 rods of W, F. T C Boynton, rep. culvert Thos Swanick, gravel Jos Peel, balance for gravel Thos Carnochan, gravelling of ~ Con 8 Geo McMillan, bonus 116 rods wire fence W O'Neil, rep washout Wm Phoenix, gravel Geo McMillan, gravel H Grey, gravel Div 81 15 60» 4 200 -. 5 000 10.500 19 75 5 00 970 40 21 00 2 2 1 CEN -- Lambe-Short A quiet wedding was celebrated ax the Queen Street Methodist parsonage: at Lindsay, on Wednesday, Septem-- , ber, when Miss Olive Mertine Short, oungest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ohn Short, of Seagrave, was unitedim. 'marriage. to Mr, Howard Franklim. | 1 Lambe, of the G. T+ R, et The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. J. McMullen. The bride was- ™, unattended. After the cerémony, Mr 'and Mrs Lambe motored to the home: of the bride's parents, where a sump-- tuous wedding breakfast was in wait | ing, and alter partaking thereof, they left for a trip to points in Wester