S TWO FURNISHED ROOM8 Wanted by man with Leave particulars at Era Office TAYLOR FOR all requirements of office or shop Box Era Of fice BRICK FOR 8ALE 2w25 Between three and four thous and SecondHand Red Brick in good condition Apply to J- Newmarket FAB WANTED I 1 I I Wanted to rent or shares 50 to acres Newmarket Apply to Office to work on of land near Box Era Excelsior Motorcycle with Rogers Side Car Speedometer all equipments in excellent condi tion Apply Box Aurora FOR Short Horn Bull 10 mos old aire Prince No dam Lady No 92817 Apply to J Lot 27 Con Whitchurch or Newmarket P Box 3w25 DRESSMAKING At reasonable prices Enquire of Mrs next door to the Post Office on Park Ave New market FARM FOR Acres more or less rear end of lots and in the Sixth con cession of East Bank barn stables driving house and out buildings pood frame house of eight rooms good cellar hard and soft water good orchard creek crossing both lots For further particulars apply Box Newmarket Post Office or Mrs Prank Weir Agfncourl I DONT MISS These Bargains 2 Rubber Tiro Buggies WASTE NOT WANT WOT J i When the Blizzard flre occur red two or three weeks ago the Town authorities considered it would be a good time to clean out the big reservoir as the water was pretty well pumped out to extinguish he fire This was done and in the course of the next ten days feel of water was saved over and above he consumption but the dry spell is on and not only have the wells shrunk but the consumers have increased their demand on the water and the result is lhat the engineer can hardly keep enough water on hand to supply the peo ple on the high ground without pulling extra pressure on the mains The Fire and Water Committee view the situation with alarm and have secured the services- of an engineer help solve the difficulty In the mean time the citizens of the town are admonished to be as sparing of the water as possible for fear of a famine until the supply can he augmented in some way Our opinion is that a new should be built on and supplied by an electric pump placed at one of the ar tesian wells at the North End where an abundance of water is assured and thus supply the whole of he West part of Hie town Thousands of dollars have been wasted by trying to get water at the South End Editorial Notes of ices but he tables are turned and the people of 2 Steel Tiro Buggies with Tops are no doubt quite as a A 1 Steef Tire Open Buggy TwoSeated Mikado Light Wagon with Top 1 Good Work Horse and Driver Enquire at K ROBERTSONS GARAGE WaUr St Newmarket BOILER REPAIRER FirstClass Boiler Repairer cap be sent out to repair your or bring to Shop particulars apply to IF ITS WORTH DOING The question of womens foot wear is receiving more than or dinary attention This is not only because of the exUorhitant wartime prices hut what is really more important the crip pling of the feet causing much pain and discomfort and pros pects for a continuance of the trouble for future years The old missionary stories of crippled feet in China called forth much for these prac- now other much surprised at the selfimposed torture of Canadian and Ameri can girls who strut around in short skirls to show their loed turned to the size of a piece stylish pro duction thai almost causes them to fall if a strong wind catches them The Rational Council of Women who met in Ottawa recently discussed the situation and was about to carry a strong resolution of condem nation when one of them pro posed they take a show of feet instead of hands That nettled it Broad toes and me dium flat heels are now proposed to save further doctor hills It is time iUn women saw where hey ape drifting to in following a Letter from France France June Dear Mr Editor- in my last letter I gave you an idea of our troubles in he taking of Well the trouble now is apparently the Germans saw us taking it and us put it back- Anyway they have it now so the job is to be done all over again but nest time lake it well do it right- In the meantime I will try to give you an idea of our further travels in this warworn country I dont know how you people at home are standing it No doubt you have your troubles too but I will tell you frankly hat I have just about had all the war I want and a lit tle bit over and I think it is too hat the Germans wont give in and let us all go home again They are just as sick or sicker than we are of it all but they seem to have got the foolish no tion into tfieir heads hat they can make us quit first This of course is not our idea at all and we just have to keep on ill he re alizes that there is to be no end but our end He has put up some mighty good arguments lately but somehow he fails to convince us To resume we left our peaceful retreat mentioned in my last let ter about the middle of January and made our way by long march es hack to our old front of the late summer in the general vicini ty of Lens There was not much doing as it was midwinter and we put in rather a depressing lime for the next month or so on account of the mud and the mis erable but while in re serve we take advantaee of the cinemas and other entertainments and get through the winter as happily as possible About this time there was much of a probable German offensive and here was considl difference of opinion among us as to what would prob ably happen but I think the gen eral idea was that he would strike and strike hard but strange loi REV DEAN OMALLEY brother of the late P J of Newmarket were country in which were now operating wasMifferent lo the usual run of country in the for ward area and we found our selves among growing grain crops and new houses that had been built since our advance of a year ago Spring was coming on apace ami the country was soon ablaze with green glory and one felt exceedingly sorry that the farmers had had to leave their hard won fields at the first prom ise of success but it is war and I doubt very much if the On tario farmer would stand it as bravely as his French comrade However this state of affairs was being rapidly changed as each day brought its Quota of shells to disfigure the landscape and poi son the ground In the meantime things were happening to the north The enemy made a most strenuous attempt to cut off our armies from to the sea and the first rush captured and Ml was pretty tough news for us after all our travail in Belgium We had come to look upon the familiar landmark as our own particular property and any say nobody seemed worry Miss Mina Thompson spent the weekend in Toronto Mr Brock Currejr of Hanover was homo for the weekend Mr and Mrs Geo Barker and sons spent a few days in To ronto v Miss Carrie spent the weekend at her home in Snowball Frank Webb is over from Detroit making his parents his annual visit Mr Joe and family motored up from the city Sunday and visited his father Mrs Mason and son Ster ling are rusticating for a couple of weeks near Bala Musk A number of Newmarket Orangemen spent the in and others went to Toronto Mr Frank went to the oily on Saturday and took in the doubleheader at the Island- Mrs Ed Richardson and her two little girls loft last week to visit their grandparents in Io wa Miss Lillian is B CANADA FOOD BOARD LICENSE NO PR E S that Fruit Is getting scarce there will be more Dried Fruit used We have Prunes at 12 15 and alb E A him cap- much at the prospect Let turi never our heads h0 fervently hoped for its prompt will get all thai is coming to There certainly was nothing like he feeling of consternation with which the first news of the Rus sian Revolution was received a year This may due the fact we knew had been feeling the weight troops from the eastern front throughout Hie greater part of was in Ion great force for the present The whole story of the lighting around Ypres was vory interesting us for we knew every yard of the ground and r I could follow it over every knoll and creek It was the first him we had read war news such conditions The same remarks- would apply to best blood had already been and only in a sapped Anyway the situation no j lesser degree longer looked alarming The ex J Well There is not much else troops might he cnclu present bull stylo ITS WORTH DOINQ Field Comforts I t Well there ene mys ranks on Hie Western front and even cause him to overflow somewhat into our trenches Canada he win Uncle Sam was is simply Wonder sending his trumpet blast across the Atlantic Hold the Fort for I am coming and suiting the spending hep vacation with her aunt Mrs Ross of Ternpcrance- Reeve came down especially last Saturday to attend the funeral of the late John iesbn Mr and Mrs J left on Monday for a weeks vacation with relatives and friends in Michigan Miss Mina Sanderson of To ronto was visiting her parents Mr and Mrs T Sanderson on Sunday Mr and Mrs Roy and son of spent Wednesday with her sister Mrs- Barker Mrs Pr Wilkinson Mrs- Hooker and Mrs are spending a month or so on Mr and Mrs- were home for the weekend ve iling her parents Mr and Mrs T Sanderson Mr Albert has return ed from the Hospital and sorry say the operation on his foot is a success Mrs A Watson has re turned from her visit at St Cath arines and is now with her daugh ter at Orchard Beach Mrs Dunn of Trenton came here for Friends Yearly Meeting and isrnaking a visit with her daughter Mrs Scott Mrs 1 lingers of Wood ford Grey Co writes The Era is like a letter from home and we would not like to be without Miss Taylor eft Monday for Toronto where she taking a six months course at Business Nothing finer in Pea than what we have at and per lb w ORANGES Nice Juicy Ora nges at 30 50 and 60cv BANANAS at dozen We have a few SETS left which we of fer at 16c lb CANDY Nothing better than the kind we handle Try It I PHONE YOUR ORDER IT WILL PROMPT ATTENTION PHONE 35 Nowadays it Is Quality that Counts QUALITY OUR SPECIALTY ALSO AGENT So we action to the words should worry The previous year was going be a year of greater disappointment for Fritz There was however a pretty general feeling of sadness that poor Prance would have to suf fer further and curses loud and deep were heaped upon the fickle THE MUTUAL LIFE OF CANADA Insures Your Life at First I could expect Anything Bettor ENQUIRE OF Fred Chantler Representative NEWMARKET Phone The hoys overseas Are very grate ful anil ever ho pleased the parcels to them in April have emu from the following I P Cane Alex San son Pie I Ross a It ney Ik- wood War ren Roland P Hill Wirt Dixon i Burl on Art liar A Young Day Letters From The Boys wish to hank and the oilier Indies hoc My fr your in in parcel Russians for whom we should have been victorious ill few things went along smoothly enough until about the middle of March when we woke up One Hue morning hear that the enemy was rushing over our dii of the and lie thing knew he had recaptured the scene our of two years ago and was pressing US at not elose this without paying a tribute to our air service in I represented ply Wonderful and hags of thirty and forty enemy planes a day have been a frequent oc curence We hardly ever see a German plane these days we often hear them at night when they sneak over drop their bombs The conduct of our is in marked contrast with the atrocious at tacks by enemy airmen on our hospitals and may he day soon come when Germany will have to THE The Most Remarkable Musical Instrument in the World- CHOCOLATES oils MAIN STREET Agent for Cameras and Photo Supplies House Phone No Mr Tricham and Miss Shior motored from Toronto on Satur day and spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Osborne Store Pho No ij The Cradle The Loyal Gleaners Class of Hllllard In King Tp July to Mr and Mrs Mil liard a daughter answer crimes tor such unspeakable truly Mori i more Brloflots The Metropolitan parlor is open again icecream Joint Mooting There will he a Joint of the Womens Institute and a I he City of famous on Rnlurday night oclock in Farmers Commit- I In justice to yourself hear Brunswick with your own tars talking or raph You only huy on Instrument like and yon cannot afford to make a All for owner The Unnswfck cornea to your home equipped play nil makes of records BURNET Main I and J us with trench I from home pini ioiivalfSint depot I mi fine and II J ipprijil- vr I in fever nail i in i in Willi tie Hall Soon He hi doing Heir hit an well iikii on I ii ii Weil J fur now for your ill my ilMe as He for It was bard lo believe but it out to be true enough of course we were considerably excited were placed under moving orders im mediately happened to he in reserve at the time and so were ready lo go anywhere at a min utes notice The weather had turned line and the boys were keen and the prospect of open warfare was a new sensation We look up a reserve position in the neighborhood of Arras and a few days later movtd further south on Ihe flank of the advancing foe hut for some reason or other we never got really the scrap The bailie then spread lo the north of us and we rushed hack to reltovc an Division Ice discuss buying wholesale and lire insurance lo Par mars Club young ladies in the Methodist had a very enjoyable picnic at Orchard Beach last Friday after noon Mrs Muirhead of Todmorden and her brother Mr of spent Thursday of last week with their cousins Mr and sisters Mrs Alherl Storks and Miss Mae spent the week-end- in To ronto visiting Mrs Hoy Storks who underwent a serious opera tion at St Michaels last Week Miss of Co balt and her friend Miss have returned homo af ter spending a month with her grandparents Mr and Mrs A Mr and Mrs Mac for merly Miss Kale Anderson have just returned from a trip out West and are spending several days here with Mrs Robert Miss completed her and her by fruit vacal ion Cull on July 1918 to Mr and Mrs J J Cull a daughter In Keswick on to Mr and Mrs Geo Green a son And rows In Owillimbury on July 10 1 to Mr and Mrs Seymour Andrews a son S J Furniture Undertaking Main St North Newmarket All Orders Receive Careful Attention your In AMERICAN HOSPITAL BOMBED BY MUM8 July German clock last dropped iii hospital Two men were fcfjled aid among Ihe wounded Mlsji Jane ah puree wounded though her are not The w by The waii full of at the lime and were performing at four taiileH operation con tinued landing Ihe explosion At three bombs were dropped oh the hospital One destroyed three tenia were phoned fdr and the vork Tie Field June 2018 ihtfik- for parcel winch I received two while in Irene We had a fine drink of Cocoa lhat morning for break and o been over a week away from any plaee yon ism hooks came In opportune lime he pair pn my feel being only vith lime I am Ihe of field Society can be proud of Work In flrnc come and can ay truthfully that they did in much or help the the front and cheer them on their way any club or I hay and think nil thr benefit by your many will hack me up Thinking for many In pant I am sincerely Dominion Chautauqua the ami for iarrvintr out in novl month Pres J I P Chairman Ticket Coin- J Chairman which had just succeeded in re- I Hospitality Com Dr pulsing a most determined of hi hospital without In SU and ttiwn In jured wan the loll exactly by an ex plosion and on a Spanish oil New York harbor a tempt I capture Arras but not before they bad themselves been forced lo retire about a couple of miles They were pretty tired and Kind 10 be relieved but as wo found out- afterwards not too tired to pinch some of our tele phone which of course we had to at the first op portunity from some other out fit The enemy was evidently nurs a pretty sore head He made no further attempt to attack with Infantry but contented himself with shelling us most unmerci fully our artillery with equal limes the duel of gunfire was terrific Wo Immediately set about re organizing the front and in a short time our positions were stronger than ever with splendid trenches in the rear lo fall back upon if necessary At the same lime numerous highly successful raids were gulled off and alto gether enemy was given a pretty bad lime especially as the most of raids were mis erable failures almost- uni versally got prlsphors no matter which side made Ihe raid Owing to ho the ion Chairman Itarvey Price Sandorson July III Mrs daughter In on to Mr and an Sandersons a Pearson having University course stunt at farm is now home on the Decorating Hob Chairman Junior haul Com- Miss Miss Kennedy The Mioses A S No 3 WHITCHURCH 111 Jr Norman Fry Clifford rMridifo irjth Marguerite Clarence off Wesley Jr III to III- ilirhurd Crouch Irvine II Jr III Crouch jr II Iny Wagner I Jr Hoover July The of tons blew up in kyama Hay miles norBieoat of on July Five hundred of Ike crew lost Several hundred persoiAj dying daily in from cholera according to Stock holm report The diseaiu yy prevalent in- many parts of Rus sia r A prior- lo entering si inly of law In and Mrs Anderson of Calgary arrived here last week The left for home on Satur day hut Mrs Anderson will spend a month her parents Mr and Mrs J 11 Millard Mr and Mrs Cornell and her mother left for Lindsay Wednes day spend the remainder of the holidays wilh relatives Mr will help lake off the har vest Mr and Mrs Walter Col lins accompanied Mrs of Aurora have returned from a delightful motor trip through Niagara District Buffa lo and J Wedlock of market Father Coleman of and Mr P J Flana gan of formerly of Newmarket al tended the Silver Jubilee of Dean in The engagement is Announc ed of Miss Mildred only daughter of Mr and Mrs Frederick of Toronto to Mr Thomas of Sutton West On wedding lo lake place shortly Several changes on the Pub lic School Staff after holidays Mrs Russell has re signed to accept a position on staff of the Deer Park School North Toronto at an increase in salary- Miss Clark has resign ed lo keep house for her father in Lindsay Miss has re signed to take a school nearer home Mr and Mrs spent the weekend at Mr If Irwins Niagara- St On Satur day P they all motored to Al- liston where they visited friends returning on Sunday Mr Wet- del has sold his homo in Toronto and they are moving this week lo Whitby where he has purchases a homo on Kingston Road The Altar SwashMaries On Wednesday July Mary eldest 1 daughter of Mrs Howling of Out to Mr Roland Swash of Toronto At Ml Albert Out on Wednesday July 3rd J by Jev Robert uncle of the bride Katie La- to Stuart Peter of Toronto only son of Mr Donald of The Tomb On Sunday July 1918 at Private To ronto General Hospital Samuel beloved husband of Mary Manning in his year Funeral from his late resi dence Out on Tues day interment in Cemetery Deceased was at one lime a clerk in the store of late Kcetch in Newmarket Thorno At on July Charles after a brief illness At the Western Hospital on July William beloved hus band of Mary Fisher in his year interment Cem etery Thursday At Holland land ing on July 1018 Rimer son of Mr Frederick aged i year and 1 1 months Mr Goer and Mr Terry spent Sunday at Richmond Mill Miss Ruth is visit in the oily Pic Levi Brown of Camp Bor den spent Sunday at his borne Rev J Fox Miss Miss Dorothy and Master Arthur motored to Kingston last Friday for a couple of weeks The League purpose holding an ice cream social on July Look for further par ticulars week Mr and Mrs M Rogers To ronto spent Sunday at Mr also Mr and Mrs Mount and of Mr 1 1 Cull is ail smiles Ihese days Its a lay being a very hoi everybody seemed In look shad Mrs Ferguson is visit some friends at Prank fori Inngi crowd war time upper which held on Mr Archie lawn on Thursday evening Sorry lo hear our young men are being called report at Toronto again as need farm help is great Mr- and Iwo sons of Ft William have been lliiir vacation Mornings of Toronto bar THE Furniture and Undertaking House You can buy your Furniture Cheap for Cash UNDERTAKING EMBALMING A Might attended J H ind at Mr Jim Mr Fivd Rlping his VJs Pie hi Mitchell was over Sunday Tire pupil I pass In- ii- trance Fain- from o in were Dora Ileun and John 0 ANOTHER FIRE AT PEMBROKE Pembroke July 15 SJarling where Ihe conflagration of J left off Pembroke loilay bad another disastrous fire Involving a loss of in which is included one of the towns most important the plant of the Pink Co Limited manufacturers lumbermens tools The lire started about o clock supposedly in or near the resin room of plant and in this building amounted almost to an explosion Two watchmen were on the property Another lot of Canadian troops arrived in England this week London July An economic of twentyfour com prising Ihe Entente Allies is In existence declared herd Cecil UnderSecretary Stale for Affairs and MinisUr of in a comprehensive regardiOK the worlds trade the war which was issued Poo and fire M also Frio i M very on Men char that Will ad a the heir ladle year leole colic marJ ferir eggs res pi he of for I pota peck the lean li Red pies as u Re week I fcb e r