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Lock- hart, tells something of what he saw in the drive, commencing Aug. 8:-- We are far away frem the place where we showed old Fritz that the old Cunadrn Corpr had still a kick left in it. Well mother, I came through safe and sound, my first experience of going over the top and we (our Battalion) went over the top twice inside of three days, The night-- or rather the morning--of the attack was clear and the stars were shining brightly. We got up to the jumping-off trench and lay down waiting for the barrage to open up. Just a few minutes before it started, we had our issue of rum und believe me, it sure ix great stuff ot such a tine for it wor rather cold ood the rum warmed us up uw bit. The officer looked at his watch snl said "Three min utes to go." Everything was us peaceful and a» quict as a morning in Ontario, The carried wut so secretly got breeze of whut wax coming off and then all at once the artillery opened up und hell wax surely cut Toose--guns of all «leseription--Heuvies, whise bangs, (an artillery barrage which was something awful yet wonderful) ond 71 Grenville Street Toroste, Ont. Toronto's Select Family and Trai t Hotel just off Yonge Street and one block from Parliament Buildings. Rates: European Plan $1.50 up Cale wth perfect exsine and service away we went. The barrage played for two or three minutes on his front line and then started to lengthen out. There was a fairly [heavy mist and I believe it suved us a | number of cusualties. The tanks were work- ing with us und they took an awful toll We were on Fritzie that fast he could hard- ly get any of his artillery into ection. We were to our objective within half an hour after star ing. We captured staff officers ight in their dugouts und then the cavalry go! after the Huns, We got one young Kid who had only been in the army nine He wus half scared to death for he had been told that Canudians dug out eyes of their prisoners and then shot them Uwax tdking to enother fellow who could speak very good English. He was a fine looking boy of wbout my age. He said th in three days' time he would have heen an jofficer, I asked him what he though' of he war and he replied that Germany would have to pay for everything, He was wount! Vian thre pik 1 could toll you a whole lot if I were only there, but of course you will huve read ull about it in the papers Jong ago. Division was congra'ulated nthe good work done. But the fire day f tho. advenee was nothing to the last day By the third day we had got back to the M Hon trenches and we had aome terun to get Fritzie out of them, Our boys have souvenim of ull kinds, belts, caps, boots, ote I'm sending you some pictugee I gor off one T missed a peach of « gold watch on |this same fellow. I don't know where he hat hid, une uf the other boys went throngh him and found it, T was peeved at missing it. Already pretty near all th boys have watches. I am sending you w sot wp iff one of the fellows we t day Tlon't know how the eviluns in Ger many are fed but the breud the Gernusn soldier eats isn't fit for w pig. It m black and just looks like sawdust und w lot of heir socks that [have wen bud clo h sewn en for feet the wool in Germuny must be getting shart af T'think all that-saved me was my tin lid as a pleee struck it and glanced off, The weather has been keeping so good, tow. We can sleep out all night, This is 'once we bave had the weather with us. We came out in those old London 'buses, two storey high. and we came through the place where old Fritzie made it 80 hot in his ad- vance in March thet everybody had to get out. When' we came through, the trains were running and people were beginning to come back to the line, It sure is a beautiful place. I suppose you know the name of the place I mean by the papers. We passed a bunch of Canadian nurses on the road who were cheering us and also some Yanks, It sure hax been some glorious affair since the start and I'm more proud than ever to be called Canadiun. We bave a bunch of draftees in the Battalion, pretty fair looking bunch of fellows, Well, the Allies are surely going after the enemy now. I wish we could finish it up this yeur and get back to civili- zation once more, The harvest ix in full swing here now. The other night when we were coming slong the road in the "buses,"" it sure made me think of home to see 'the fields of grain shocked up and |the moon way shining down, a regular {harvest moon, | France i sure nice coun- try and I don't blame the Frenchman for |beng proud of h country. The Canadians Jyet a greut welcome in any part of France they go. We have been packing » sack of tea and sugar around with us, salvaged it out of an old tunk that was knocked out and list mght a couple of us went out in a pasture field and rounded up an old nalk cow and got a dixie full of fresh anil for our porridge this mort T suppose you have been reading w lot ubout the YAPCA. in the puper lately. Well, whut T've seen of the "Y" is very goo, and we would mua its tot if it wasn't in Franer, It's a fact they don't give much away but one can always get [writing ysper and & book out of the library by pay.ng a frane aud on re'urning the book due gets the frane buck again, On Ue whole I think the "Y" is a grewt hel to ux They furnish sporting ls to the troop and you lon't get those for nothing. Well, I'm sitting under an apple tree inown orchard writsng thi letter but it is forindden fruit ux we just have had orders rad out to us three times: that the one caught sealing from orchards or gardens would surely be dealt with. There ix a blue plum tree not ten feet sway from where Tun: sit ing loaded with plums Well now maybe T won't have w feed of them when it gets dark, Well mother, thir is wn unusually long letter and I hope it won't tire you rending it, Remeruber me ve ull the folks ut home, From Pte. Howard Reynolds Wri ing to his. parents, Capt. Ro and Mest Reynolds, Holly, Pte. Howard Rey: nulia tells pf his experiences in the big uch which hegon Aug. 8. This letter was chinery. are saved, money Time and labor-saving de- vices for working the land do roduce complete results .. The farmer must have rapid and depend- not in themselves. able means of pl. _ products on the market. The Ford One-Ton make trips to town so much more an the horse that you will have many. extra hours of time to devote to pocnenye work, Al: farmers have proven the Ford One-Ton Truck to be a time and money-saver--have you? | Price (chassis only) $750 F. 0..B. Ford, Ontario - quickly number o: T, Saves Money For The Farmer PRICES of farm products have reached a high level. The farmer can take full ad- vantage of. this situation only by adding to his: equipment of time and labor-saving ma- Time and labor are money. When timeand labor is saved. acing his Truck will Runaboat = '$680 Coupe - + - $875 Tearing + = F. O. B, Ford, Ontario erent all prises subject to change without notion 83 R. HUXTABLE, DEALER, BARRIE 1078 7 690 Sedan misery. The saving of a part saving, gravest importance things he could do dated Aug. 21, but since that time he has been wounded' in the right hand and log and is now in a Bristol hospital, His letter, in part, is as follows: We have just got through moving the front, whttre we made that little drive, so guess they are going to let us rest for a couple of days. You no doubt, will have read a lot about it in the papers. It is the largest advance we have been in, and I guess the least casualties. It certainly was an ex- citing time. The morning of the 8th, that is the morning we jumped the bags, ax the saying is, we left little village just behind the lines @ piece, to go up to the jumping-off place and while on our way up Fritz shelled the trench pretty hea that is, the one we had to go up, We got up there all right and only had a couple of HARLES DICKENS is one 0 Here is what he has to say in one of his books: Micawber, "you come was always a good policy. But to-day we must go farther in our efforts to save than ever before. To-day it is a matter of the Canadian seek ways and means to economize by cutting down ex- penditures for unnecessary things, saving the money he spends on that when the Nation needs to borrow money he will be in a posi- tion to do his full duty. casualties; but none too soon, for it was only five minutes till the time we went over. We were lying out in No Man's Land, that is, between his front line end ours, 60 just imagine what an anxious few minutes it was. The officer kept telling us as every minute passed and all at once the artillery started up like a clap of thunder. We lny down for a couple of minutes while our guns played on his front line. When they lifted to support his front line we got or- ders to advance, His front line, I think, a few lying around dead but the most of them were wounded coming towards our lines with their bands up. When we got to his support line there was nothing but equipments lying around where the biggest part of them had given themselves up. All this time we (the machine guns) were with the infantry in the firstewave but not follow the infantry as they went too fast for we had to carry our guns and am- munition, and it is not very light, From this time there was nothing but a stream of prisoners eoming back. Some of their ma- chine gunners would give themselves up to the first wave, then jump back to their guns after they hed passed, and start firing on us that were left behind so that meant for us to clean them out and some of them 'We attacl one a Mee oF ee te ee was not very strongly held. There were ' after we passed the support line we could { An Advertisement by Charles Dickens "My other piece of advice, Copperfield," said Mr. know. Annual income £20, annual expenditure £19. 19. 6--result, happiness. Annual income £20, annual expenditure The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of Day goes down upon the dreary scene, and--and in short you are forever floored. As I am." of one's in- saved. Prudent men and women have always maintained a margin of JF Charles Dickens were writing to Canadians to-day he would probably give us advice to this effect: "My other piece of advice, Canadians, No matter what percentage of your annual income you have pre- viously saved, your efforts to-day should be to save more. doing is threefold: By the practice of economy you conserve the material and labor which must be devoted to the grim task before us; you cultivate the priceless habit of thrift; you gather more and more money to lend to the Nation for the prosecution of the war to a guick and certain Victory." you know, that each without, so Published under the authority of the Minister of Finance of Canada 'We stayed at our objective all that night and started to move forward in the morn- ing. We stayed that night in a town we had captured and the next night we went forward to hold the line, at least, help hold it, as the infantry is always in the front line ahead of us, I have only been in the frost line once I was transferred into this Battalion. We stay back in posi- tions back » few hundred yards from the front lines so ax we can straff or fire along ronds and paths that he might use at night. We mostly fire a few thousand rounds at night, #0 we have to be awake ut nights and sleep in the day time except for one man who is on guard, so if there is gas or anything starts up he will waken the rest of. us, It isn't very bard work here, it is just the danger one runs. The only thing that is bard is the route march- es. Well, mother, this is my birthday and the third one to be spent in the army, but | suits and she went to the city next dey f the world's great teachers. 20. 0. 6--result, 'There is war-shortening work wait- ing for every dollar that can be The advantage of so ne Country Town's Chance In conversation with a weekly news paperman a few days ago the representative of w Toronto firm expressed the opinion that the day of the town merchant has returned if he only realizes it, He pointed out the cost of doing business in the big cities had mounted so high during the past three years that the departmental stores could no long- er afford to give real bargains any more, but that the country merchant whose costs have not risen in proportion, could under- sell the big fellow on almost any article. This seems to be a well founded state ment for a few werks ugo the wile of o Wwage-earner in u nearby town wanted to get suit of clothes for her little boy. She first visited the local stores that sell that class of goods, examined the quality and got prices. She saw an ad of the depart- mental store making a special sale of boys' T hardly think I will have to spend | tending to tuke advantage of the bargain. another one as I think this winter ought In the departmental store she found prices to finish this affair. Of course, it is hard but we will hope for it any way. Say, I'had the pleasure of eating some of Fritz's bread, it is black bread and believe me I don't think much of it, That is the 'one thing we can say we get, good white bread. I haven't heard from Cliff rince the scrap. I don't know where he is; he might have got a "'blighty.' for all I know, but we hope not. I am glad to say I have been lucky so fer and hope I continue thet way. Well mother, we certainly are making Fritz step now. I hardly think he will last much longer but war is a funny thing, things change so quickly. I sm going to send you # souvenir of this last advance--that is a few Frits's snaps which can be put in the album. I got them off 'a fellow. 'There was one picture he didn't want me to take, I guess it was his wife, so left it with him. Well, I will soon have to close this letter, hoping it find you all well for I am feeling fine. I haven't got those two boxes you sent but may get them this evening; hope they do come along as that stove may be quite handy to make an odd cup of tea as I like my tea now just like an old tea granny. How are you getting on with the harvest? Hope you have good luck getting it in. I will have to close for this time, Could write all day but must stop for this time, hoping to hear from you often. Said Miss Gladys Clarissa McTanner: "Pye abandoned my player pianner. iy a Art is all very But it won't supply food, So I'm playing my tunes on my canner." Send your orders for engraved visiting cards to the Examiner. much higher for u poorer quality of goods. [As a result she bought her boy a suit at the local store. This is an actual happening. | But country merchants have got into a rut and it is really doubtful if they will wake up and take full advantage of the oppor- | tunities that present themselves to-day, The war, which bas turned everything upside |down has created opportunities at overy !turn. By intelligent, up-to-date newspaper advertising the local merchant, providing 'he gives value and lives up to his adverts |ing, can greatly increase his business. Under | present normal conditions, more so than for many years, the town merchant bas his 'opportunity to grasp what logically should be his own, --Exchange, --Upholstering and furniture repairing nently done by compe- tent workmen at Dougall Bros. tf