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big as a house. Everyone was on t "lookout for 'another when someone six only men. Two were dead but -I believe' Huns the rest are now O.K. A rescue' n. | party rushed to dig the poor fellows It a out and in doing so many of them ex- p. of posed themselves over the top of the 'of 'parapet. . But not a shot was fired at 'eight feet them. A German jumped up on their parapet and moved his arms, whether in jubilation or to balance "himself I couldn't say. He was down again before anyone could grab a rife and take a shot at him. Then an officer call out to phone our wul-, But one lery and in an increditibly short time: the shells from our guns a mile or two in the rear were whizzing over, our heads and scattering shrapnel into .the German trenches." It was very jon bewildering to anyone not used ito it. we were missing ome- | The confusion, the crack of rifle, the | mg and had just started back when the whizz of the shell, followed by the: shell wh ér our heads and. sharp explosion as the shrapnel burst xploded in the field behind us. © We burst almost over our heads and then 'looking at the big column of dirt the shriek of the shrapnel bullets and | "and smoke, when, zipp came' another fragments of shell as they ripped RUST FUNDS PORT PERRY BRANCH ~ COUNTY COUNCIL PATRIOTIC DEPUTATION A deputation of citizens from differ- ent parts of the County being present as to a grant to the Patriotic Fund. + Mr. Gerow, Seconded by Mr. Dearborn moves that the deputation be heard. Carried. Amongst those forming the depu- tation were Lt. Col. Grierson, Dr. T. E. Kaiser and T. B. Michess, Esq, Ex-Reeve, all of Oshawa. East Whitby, "R. W. Grierson, Ex Reeve. Town of Uxbridge, W. S. Ormiston Esq, and W. Hamilton Esq., J. P. Town of Whitby, Dr. F. Warren Mayor, C. A. Goodfellow Esq. Mr. Terry, Bank Manager, and Dr. C. F. McGillivray. From Port Perry, W. L. Parrish Esq, Ex Warden, Samuel Jefirey Esq and W. S. Short Esq. The deputation recommended that provision be made for a payment of SOME EXPENDITURES We have examined the v accounts regarding equalization of # County assessment. : Judge McIntyre J. E. Farewell G. W. Dryden [ f We have examined the account of Judge McIntyre, amounting to $40.00 re services respecting - Pickering Bridge and would recommend pay- ment of the same with instructions to the County Treasurer to debit the Municipality of the Township of Pickering with half the amount. CANNOT WITHHOLD PART of RATE We have carefully: considered the communication dated Jan. 27 from the County Treasurer regarding the balance of $288.74 for County rates due this County by the Township. of Rama' and would recommend that the County Solicitor be and is hereby authorized and instructed to take immediate steps to collect same. We .also reccommend that the County j Treasurer acknowledge receipt of into Five thousand dollars per month, for cheque for $441.52 and in doing so right along side of us and landed at the German trenches and we could one year, if necessary, in aid of the send statement showing that this the edge of the road. = We made a hear the + head first dive for the ditch and, got 'torn. off with nothing worse than'a shower I then started along the "communi- of mud and dir suggested that! cation trench and was lucky enough we get up a little speed and we 'had to get-a message through on the trench | : barely got started when "zipp-bang" phone to our boys and they got there 'and another shell came straight for us in record time leaving their suppers Is ck the ground just in front and to behind them. I met them on the the right ofthe road. 'This one was way and it wis dusk by that time I a shrapnel and if it had been properly 'took them straight out along what we | timed so as to-explode in the air it call "suicide road" to a point night! would probably have got all three of behind the trenches" thus saving the! us. But it plowed through the hedge time: necessory to get through the! and into the ground before exploding. : long slippery communication trench. | ll | This time I hugged the base of one, Suicide road gets its name because it, | [tall trees, which are nearly always to is in plain view and is swept by the be ound along ese Belgian roads. | German machine guns. But this if | For the next 300 yards we made one time there were only a few odd bullets | dash after another from one big tree and a shell or two, No one was fi to another with. shell. exploding first even touched but we dropped every on right an on the left, some- time a star shell or flare went up and sometimes high ex- ; most of us I guess ducked every time groans as the trenches were | ty By the time had all the injured Patriotic Fund. Addresses in support of the appli- cation were made by Col. Grierson, Dr. Kaiser, R. Grierson, W. S. Orm- iston and W. L. Parrish, The Warden thanked the deputation and 'assured the members that the matter would receive the careful con- sideration of the Council. = Mr. Mason seconded by Mr. Gerow moved that the request of the deputation regarding the Patriotic Fund be granted; and that the matter of ways and means of raising the | necessary amount be referred to the Finance Committee.--Carried APPOINTMENTS ETC. By-laws appointed,--T. J. Widden, Port Perry and E. L. Cameron, Beav- erton, County Auditers.--A, M. Ross and J. H. Downey, Auditors Cr. Jus- tice Accounts.--To raise $20.000 by way of 'temporay loans.--To raise into the ar higher than the big trees, | and left a hole in the ground 10 or 12 feet in diameter and 5 or 6 feet deep. Thén one of them hit the road right behind us. . That was "the last straw", We forsook the trees aid ditches and went off down the road like. human | | aeroplanes. I never knew before how] i {fast T could'run. Tt must have been funny to see but just at the mo-': ment, we couldn't see the fun in it, A afterwards that the In fact I got a of them. But what men out of the trench it was quite dark and we had to pick our way along suicide road, getting the stretch- ers carefully over shell holes in the road, and dropping down everytime a flare lighted everything up and ex- posed us (0 the fire from the German trenches only 300 yards away. But everyone got home without a "scratch, and Bill had the time of his life. We are all well and want 'to thank everyone 'at home for their many istmas rememberances. The boys gium were certainly not forgot- Yours always, Bert Nott Doing th Possible ery well, but if. !$80.000 for Patriotic purposes, by de- | bentures for ten years. | By-law appointing J. F. Paxton Whitby, W. J. Burns, Oshawa, J. A. Jones. Uxbridge and Rev. John Harris, Port Perry as High School ! Trustees for the ensuing th ee years. Appropriations and Grants The Report on Agriculture, granted the usual $500. to Department of Agriculture. = They Recommended that owing to the large expenditures being in connection. with. the. war, that no grant be made to. Agricultural Fairs this year. Yl The Report on Education recom- niendid the following amounts to the erent High Schools "for 'maintain- ance of County, pupils. itby High School 1,272.39 High ¢ 1,025.08 amount has been applied to their account. TALK of OSHAWA WITHDRAWING Mr." Mason gives notice that he will on to-morrow move that a committee be appointed to confer with the Council of the Town of Oshawa to work out an agreement between this Corporation and the Corporation of the Town of Oshawa, whereby the Town of Oshawa can withdg the jurisdiction of the Council' ol County of Ontario. ROADS AND BRIDGES Your committee having considered the application from the Reeve of Scugog for a grant of fifty per cent to aid in building bridge in the Township of Scugog, near Ram's Hill. Recom- mend that the same be inspected when this Committee inspect Seagrave. Bridge and Scugog roadway. A communication from the Ontario: Good Roads Association inviting this. Council to appoint delegates to attend a meeting in Toronto on Feb. 22 93 24 and recommend that no appoint ment be made. Your committee having considered the application of the Reeve of Scugog for a grant to fence 140 rods of the Scugog Roadway. 3 Would recommend that prices for iron posts be obtained by this com- mittee as soon as possible: in order that the work may be proceeded with 'as.soon as conditions permit. We have considered a motion by Messrs Dobson and. Stone re the Seagrave Bridge on the boundry line between the Counties of Ontario and Victoria, the same was inspected by a committee from éach of the "above