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8 SB mero ti ca sh : icf Tw [one il Er. Pr. -- Albert Luke 71, Reta | News of Nears Piaces | THORNTON'S CORNERS (Ais: ©. 1. Robison, Correapon. Thornton's Corners, Dec. 14.-- ? L 11 iif 3 ike Christmas wea- d Mrs. Ray Scott, of To- t last Sunday with the rents, Mr. and Mrs. Betty Robinson entertain- friends on Friday even- Pearl Scott spent the with her aunt in 22 a qief Li : 3 - od wm of .8. No. 5: Sr. Room Sr. IV. Class--Lyla Thompson 67 per cent, Bobby plerson 67, y Kerman 64, Ella Lind- Doroth: sey 57, Donald Allman 64 (some |] Sr. IV, and some Jr. IV. sub- jeete)., Jr. IV. -- Helen Kerman 70, 65, Gordon Sr. III. -- Cecil Stephenson 67, Gladys Luke 67, Doris Gus- cott. 54 (some Sr. IIL. and Jr. III. subjects). Jr. III. -- Frederic Robinson, 80, Ethel Lewington 79, Marg- aret Pierson 68, Bernice Jack- son 66, Bernice Le Roy 62, Jack LeRoy 57 Frank McClure 53, 0. Taylor, principal. Jr. Room, Christmas Sr. II. -- QGreta Lick 80, Elsie Kerman 77, Billy Drew, 74, Doris Lick 69, Norine Plerson 53, Vie- tor Burroughs. Jr. II. -- Audrey Pierson 81, Helen Drew 53, Ruby Gusecott 53, Harold Bonnetta 49, Wilfred Pas- coe 44. Sr. I -- Russell Disney 90, Kathleen Campbell 79, Annie 78, Walter Scott 64, Tony 63, Violet May 52. Jackson 71, Ronsld Guscott 65. Bernice Luke 62, Gordon May 25. Jr Pr. -- Phyllis Campbell 85, Ruth Kerman 77, Murray Lang- maid 74, Marie Luke 70, Darlien Pascoe (n"sent for exams). Annie Grandy, teacher. X BEST VALUE IN TOWN CHRISTMAS | 'GREETING CARDS 24for ..........98¢ © 6 for on28c 5c Each 'Next P.O. Telephone 78 r ard; Serond Vice-president, ban lowing is the school report | y; NEWCASTLE WM... ELECTS OFFICERS Christmas Tree Parties Now Being Arranged by Sunday Schools (Miss Cora Butler, Correspondent) Newacstle, Dec. 12--The Wom- an's Missionary Society of the Un- ted Church held their annual meet- ing and election. of Officers on Juicers on Monday last, The Of- ficers elcted are as follows: Pres- ident, Mrs. W. F. Rogers; First Vice-n ident, Mrs. Norman Rick- rs. Norman Allin; Treasurer, Mrs. W. Beman; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Floyd Butler; Cor. Secretary, Mrs. iW, PD. : Supt. of Mission Band, Mr- J. A. Butler: Asst, Sup- erintendent, Mrs. C. Batty; Press Secretary, Mrs. C. Carvéth; Tem- veran¢e Secretary, Mrs. Walter Rickard: Strangers Secretary, Mrs, .- R. Fisher; Supply Secretary, Mrs. J. E. W. Philp; Mission Monthly Secretary, Miss S. Black- burn; Associate Help Secretary, Mrs. Glenpy and Miss Rowland; Pianist, Mrs. Rinch: Sec. of Chris- tian Stewardship, Mrs. Matchet, Auditors, Mrs. Rinch and Mrs. J.-C. Hancock. This year Newcastle has 17 mem- bers beloging to the Canadian Club in Bowmanville. On Monday even- ing almost every member attended the Meeting of the Club to hear Col. Carnegie speak on Disarma- ment, ] The Liberal Banquet held in the Community Hall on Tuesday night w*s largely attended, over 400 be- ing present. The catering for the banquet, which was held in the Re- creation Room, was done by Mr. and Mrs. J. Harris of the Harris 'fea Rooms. At nine o'clock the Assembly removed to the Great Hall and special addresses were giv- en, Mr, Mitchell, Hepburn being the chief soeaker. On Thursday last, the Women's Auxiliary of St. Georges' church sent off, their fifth bale to the West. ¢i~¢ad of knitted articles and warm clothing, both new and old. Christmas Tree parties are now the crder of the day, On Friday, vJecember 18th, St. George's Sunday are having their annual treat and Brown's School are having a Christmas Tres and Social. On Wednes the 23rd, the United Church will be en fete for their big Christmas Tree and concert. The Lake Shore are having a Basket Social and Concert on Tuesday, De- "her 22nd. The Won.en's Association of the United Church elected their -"irers | Yor the coming year at their meet ing on Thursday last. The meet- ling was held at the home of Mrs. Rinch on Church Streét and was well attended. The Officers are as follows: President, Mrs. W. J. S. Rickard; First Vice Pres, Mrs, W. Bragg: Second Vice Pres, Mrs. George Honey: Rec. Sec, Miss Blackburn: Cor. Seé, Mrs, Harry Pearce; Treas, Mrs. E. C. Fisher: Flower Committee, Mrs. Matchet and Mrs, J. C. Hancock; Parson- age Com. Mrs. W, J. S. Rickard, rs. J. A. Butler, Mrs, Cook, Mrs. Bragz and Mrs. Plenny. SANTA CLAUS OWES ANNUAL ACCOUNT AT POST OFFICE Postage Due on His Letters Amounts to Large Sum Montreal, Que. -- The Monts real Post Office wants Sants Claus. He owes it twelve cents and before Christmas rolls round his bill will doubtless have swell- ed to dollars, "The twelve cents is for postage duo on three Santa Claus letters which have already reached the Dead Letter office, the first of an annual collection which some- times runs near the hundred mark. Each letter is addressed in childish hand to the benevo. lent saint and each bears official stamp reading "4 Cents Due" with, written below in ink, "Pay. ment Refused." These last words do not mean that he has {larly refused to pay for his mall, but merély that the postman can't find him, his emulators at loca! department storés frankly admitting themselves imposters when asked to meet hig obliga- tions. The trio who wrote these jetters are all boys, which may or 'may not indicate the greater trustfulness of males. Even though it means a light- ening of their Christmas season rush, members of the Dead Letter Office Staff shake their heads sadly over signs of growing so- phistication among the very young of Montreal. Each year the Santa mail is slimmer, they say, which means that each year fewer and fewer children actual- ly believe In the existence of the Jolly old gentleman with the white whiskers and the "nose like a ch ." Perhaps, they say, the ristmas will eventually come when there won't be any Santa mail at the Dead Letter Office. But perhaps -- who knows? -- St. Nick will turn up at the Post Office one of these Chiistmases, pay the postage due on his mall like a man, and carry it off to the North Pole for per- PIRD SINGERS Shipment of About 4,000 Canaries Arrives From Germany Montreal, Que. -- The Hartz Mountains district of southern Germany, famous for its canaries, has just sent its annual quota of feathered singers--over 4,000 of them--to Montreal. The canaries, which range in colour from the rich yellow to the {ight green of their wild broth- ers on the Canary Islands, are husky youngsters of seven to eight months old, Despite their youth, however, they carry out to the full their roll of rollers or cloppers, depending on the man- ner in which they have been trained. The leAders of this symphony of birds are the pro- fessors, so-called on account of their additional training, to *dis- tinguish them from the plain roll- et and choppers. Mrs. Willlam Martens, an en- thusjastic canary fancler, told about the trip her husband and herself made to Germany to pro- cure the birds. She explained that each fall buyers from all over the world gather in southern Germany to buy canaries. And- 1eashérg is the popular centre from which the buyers work, as it is situated in the centre of the Hartz Mountains where the can- ary raisers reside, Each buyer makes his rounds, visiting the breeders who usually raise from 30 to 100 singers each year. buyers make their purchases, place the birds in tiny wooden cages and remove them to the centre. After they obtain their full stock they leave for their homes. Belleville, -- Falling down the cellar stairs at her home, Mrs. Fréderick Sndrr, 64, of Rawdon rownship, was fatally injured. She died two hours later, Mrs. Snarr missed a step as she start- ed down the stairs and fell to the concrete floor below. REACH HONTREAL The | B uehler ros. Ltd. 12 King E. Phone 1147 Tuesday Specials Buehler . ORANGE PEKOE TEA Ib, 31 Cc Fresh Cut Shoulder PORK HOPS Ib. 12¢ C Fresh Pork Hocks pC 1b Sliced Pork Liver 5 Best Blade ROAST BEEF Ib. 10c Dumart Kitchener BOLOGNA Ib. 15¢ Ib. 9 BREAST OF VEAL With Pocket to Dress Fresh BEEF HEARTS PURE LARD PRINTS Ib. 8¢ wm Jc JATIONAL EMERGENCY "As Presiden t of the Canadian Red Cross Society, Minister and the people of Canada devote its best thought and efficient Prime and I administration of the Fund, raised for the mitigation of toma A E74 pT SE Rg " manufacturers. FELT Established 1886 tical--Bizarre--Distinctive. ly priced. Use the staircase from the main store, Note; --Store Open Evenings Oshawa"s Leading Jewelers 12 Simcoe St. South The Span'sh Room welcomes you with gifts from every corners of the globe--Quaint gifts from far off China and India--Gifts from the Old World--CGifts from the New--Gifts from the Motherland--Gifts from our own Canadian New--Novel--Useful = Prac- Gifts all moderate. BROS. Phone 188 CHILD GOES HOME AFTER FIVE YEARS HOSPITAL PATIENT Liitle Girl Made Life Much Brighter for Herself and Others Montreal, Que, -- After five long years spent in the Children's Hos- pital little Yvette returned home a short time ago almost completely cured of tuberculosis of the spine. She had left home a helpless baby of three and a half years, unable to move, so very ill that there was practically no hope of saving her. ut now Yvette has learned to walk again and can move about. She has not forgotten her friends at the hospital and sends them mes- sages to say that, while she likes living at home, she often thinks of them. It will be a long time before the memory of her own cheery pre- sence, Yvette has left behind a sou- venir of her stay that will be a per- petual reminder of her patient and courageous fight. It was she who thought of the idea of using a mir- ror to see what was going on around her when she lay fat on her back unable to move. Now the mirror has become part of the equipment of other children simil- arly situated. They know what the youngster at the far end of the ver- andah is up to. They can see to feed themselves and they can find their toys and books on the bed with the aid of the mirror. With. out it, all they could see would be blue sky on fine days and grey clouds on gloomy days. ENGLISH DEPLORE THEIR OWN HABITS ness in Handling Vege- tables and Salads -- London.--~When the English start to criticize themselves they do it so good-humoredly and with such a gristo. We have just listened to Miss Winifrede Wrench's breast beatings as she thinks of the de- plorable lack of good English sal- ads. Now a reviewer of certain cookery books writing in the Lon- don Mercury says: _ "Our national weakness in handl- ing vegetables and salads is deplor- able, in salads we scareely run be- ond lettuce and tomatoes, heaven nows why, Even in an expensive restaurant near Piccadilly Circus one may pay an exorbitant price for a few lettuce-leayes, whose ap- pearance suggests that they have probably been refused by the head- waiter's rabbit, and a collection of seeds upholstered in bright red leather." "What is known as a salad in England," says one of the new books, "consists of shredded lettuce, half a dozen radishes, three slices of tomato, two of cucumber, a little beet root, water-cress and spring onions whole; there is at the bot- tom a certain amount of water. , Sir George Newman, chief Med- ical Officer of Health, has written in an official report: "There is still much apathy and ignorance in the choice of foods, often associated with deplorable inaptitude in cook- ery". The reviewer would add the downright word 'laziness'. "Bad cookery leads to tins and packetery and a vitiated palate "A ocnfirm- ed tin-burster" is one of his denun- ciatory phrases. He is not sure that "sandwichery" (one of the words coined by a new cookery en- thusiast) is just the thine--but the signs at any rate are hopeful, if n~lish housewives will read their || mentors, Winnipeg was the only city in Gana 10 show an néreate in i the A ey Sh Tame No: -------- The final returns on ¢ crop of Western Canada 'lare 266 million bushels m estimate, . the September Frank Admission of Weak- | 11 BRITISH SEAMAN LOST OFF TRAWLER Oslo, Norway, Dec. 14.--Eleven British seamen members of the |V crew of the German-owned traw- ler Venus, which sank off the Norwegian coast were reported missing today, together with the trawler's commander, Capt. Vis- naerotsky, and a German mem- ber of the crew. A raft, bearing two desperate, half frozen seamen and bodies of four dead comrades drifted ashore at Maaloey, A motor boat set out immediately to search for the additional survivors, Pat was brought before the migistrate charged with striking a Chinese hawker with a plate. Magistrate--"What have you to say?" Pat---*' Bure, your Honor, the uge ly Leathen spoke to me In broken English, and T answered him in broken china." CRITIC DECLARES LAURA SECORD'S STORY IS TRUE Certificate Given by Offi- cer Cited in Support of Story Torontd.--"Laura Secord's Story True" is the way Fred Williams considers it, writing in the Mail and Empire. He quotes the certifi- cate given by FitzGibbon: "I do hereby certify that Mrs. Secord, the wife of James Secord, of Chippawa, Ese: did, in the month of June, 1813, walk from her house in the village of St. Dayid's to Decamp's house in Thorold, by a cirguitous route of some 20 miles, partly through the woods, to ac- quaint me that the enemy intended to attempt by surprise to capture a detachment of the 49th Regiment, then nnder my command, she hav- ing obtained such knowledge from good authority, as the event proved. "Mrs. Secord was a person of slight and delicate frame and madé the effort in weather excessively warm, and | dreaded at the time that she might suffer in health in consequence of fatigue and anxiety, she having been exposed to danger from the enemy, through whose line of communication she had to pass. "The attempt was made on my detachment by the enemy, and his detachment, consisting of upwards of 500 men, with a field piece of 50 dragoons, were captured in conse- quence. I write this certificate in a moment of much hurry, and from memory, and it is therefore thus brief." "Then there is' Laura, Secord's own declaration when the Prince of Wales visited Niagara in 1860 Vhen she went to the office of the Clerk of the Peate, for the purpose of signing the address to the Prince, along with the veterans of 1812, the clerk demurred, and she insisted asserting that 'she had done her country more signal service than half the soldiers and militiamen en- gaged in the war,' which prompted William Kirby to write in the Nia- gara Mail: 'We say the brave, loyal, old lady ought not only te be al- lowed to sign the address, but she deserves a special introduction to the Prince of Wales as a worthy example of the fire of 1812, when both men and women vied alike in their resolution to defend the coun- try.' In a later issue of the Mail, Kirby stated that the Prince visited Loura Secord at Chippawa. In March foJlowing he related how Mrs. Secord received gift of $500 from the Prince. "Professor Wallace may consider the Laura Secord Slory 23 of little historical importance. He is entitled to his opinion; but the people of Niagara, and most of Ontario, will prefer to treasure the old story of the brave woman who risked ber lilc to save her country." TEACHER SAYS CHILDREN TALK MORE IN ENGLAND Interesting Impressions Are Given by Exchange Teach- er From Montreal Montreal. = School children are much the same the world over, but it seems in Liverpool they talk more than in Montreal. Homé- work is rarely given, not because the pupils do not need it, but be- cause the parents somehow imagine it reflects on their standing, which remarks are ~ontained in a letter from Miss Ramona Coffey, teacher from the Montreal Roman Catholic schools, who is now teaching for one year m Great Britain, Homework is rarely given: jt is considered 'a device for keeping parents humble." The boys go swim- ming once a week, cricket odce and football once, and we have boxing every Friday afternoon from 3.15 to 4 o'clock. All sports are part of the eu and are, therefure, taken during school hours. The children, whom there is a number, réceive, free bus ram tickets and free dinners. Those who can afford to pay give four- pence a day for their lunch. They receive meat, two vegetables dessert. The dinner is brought in huge tins from a caterer A a woman comes in 15 minutes before time to set the tables and serve out the food. Afterwards all the boys line up and wash and comb them- selves while the woman superin- tends, Quite a job. "There is a fine bathroom in each special school, and another woman is paid by the hour for bathing the Shi dren. The ebult I Base 1s : 38t rty child in the school, alt yh them come from } heart of the slums. In fact, many of them enjoy it so much they ask for a bath every week." H. M. BLACK, Manager Last call --the telephone directory closes soon ! The February issue of the Telephone Directory, for Oshawa goes to press very shortly. There is still time to make changes or additions to your present listing. necessary information to Number 770. Just telephone the Bowmanville. NEW GAS RATE FOR Industrial and Commercial Service Oshawa --~ Whitby --~ Bowmanville The Ontario Shore Gas Company, Limited, takes pleasure in announcing the introduction of a STRIAL and COMMERCIAL GAS CONSUMERSNEW LOWER GAS RATE, to apply to all INDU supplied from the Company's gas distribution system in the communities of Oshawa, Whitby and The purpose of the new schedule is to encourage and develop the wider use of gas fuel in thou. sands of industrial and commercial heating processes, where the economy, convenience and cleanli- ness of gas offers the manufacturers many opportunities to improve plant and working conditions, and thus reduce the OVERALL UNIT COST of his product. The modern business executive is constantly seeking newer methods of REDUCING OPERATING COSTS, and the Ontario Shore Gas Company, Limited, sincerely believes that the NEW LOWER GAS RATE is rendering a valuable contribution to industry in providing a new avenue for attaining that end. The New Industrial Gas Rate Will Prove an Added Inducement to IrJustries to Locate in Oshawa, Whitby and Bowmanville 67 SIMCOE NORTH, OSHAWA For detailed information concerning the new industrial gas rate, we invite you to write or tele phone, and our Industrial Engineer will gladly answer all questions and also advise how you may use GAS, THE BETTER FUEL, to advantage in your own plant. This advice on your particular heating problem is free for the asking. : Ontario Shore Gas Company, Limited a. T. MILNER, Manager. PHONE 3300