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Boar eviile ® ® emRi T AVCTIGNEER & VALUATOR Licersed Auctioneer unnc-? af Lincoln; also for the City of St Harold B. Matchett PLUMRING and HATING Business Directory BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. George 1. Geddes "Honey" Shelton Boxed Christmas Cards DOCTOR BILLS attractive cards our | assortments are ideal. $6.50 WEST MAIN STREET "THE Li TLE SHIEMAKER" CLpeon Wadnesday Afterncon MHours #:00â€"12:00; 1:20â€"4:00 Closed Saturdays At Noon REPAIR BILLS J. W. Kennedy Next Door to Dymond‘s Drug V ernon jye dorainiionks TX ~>~, _/ s ARE CHEAPER THAN 25 Main Street, GRIMSBY iw_lgc' HIGGINS (Vision Specialist) OPTOMETRIST AVCTIONEER PLUMCER INSURANCE ESQUIRE oOF CANADA Saturdays 9â€"12 Chic Armentieres Barmaid Inspired Toronto Man‘s Song Hartiand 1Ackson and his brief case. Wonule ow many rowd on tracts are in it * Whntever became of Mademoisâ€" elle of Armentieres? That delightâ€" ful wench who ravaged the hen"~*s of so many susceptible Canadians in the World War I? Also whatâ€" ‘mbu-odthufiuuim song titled after the girl? The men who fight don‘t want youi kind, We‘ finish this with what we We nee the crosuses ctanding stark Of friends who e benesit the win You‘ll never know the pride men Who come through F«ll and live to Joy and pain, Fuunded on commun Janger and pride of work well done. have. | Five years of wur and yet you waver still! !outc&dd-â€"dqm'fll| Phflth-qflehmu \‘the lips of the world from 1915 unâ€" | til 1918, and he is one person today | at his home in New York who wonâ€" ‘m“flow‘om the Crinks in the estauminet ut Arâ€" imumm...m | she is today serving drinks to the |troops who recently ousted the {'om.mmmm & Wht‘?_,utu" The anawer‘ We who bhavs anown these things, which you 40 not, Pity you, each one of you a‘raid To take your place with figb‘ins Are yout brothers. @â€"sins, friends who heard ths call? Cov‘ring your shrinking souls with While girls in England died beside their guns. Chose to stay and tenc the woundâ€" Who stand apart, content to serve You ask us what we think of men friends on either side Plummet to earth, a blazing ball of And manned her guns in Lest and I It started like this Major Hanâ€" son of the 5th Battery, Montrtal, Men rise to Reights which you will never ;nin. You know them not, nor have vou The fiares st night, the diving planes, ‘The awful tearing sound that chills from cozing mud. % Nor vet, to stand and say farewel\ * a friend who feced death with Royce streets, Toronto. Chairman of the board A. C. Ransom and many employees of that company well remember Gitz and his proâ€" clivity as a songâ€"writer. And, ncâ€" cording to Mr. Ransom he ws« a firstâ€"class salesman. Gitz at one time worked for Ault und Wiborg, Lisnited, who have It was in 1915 that Sgt Citz Rice sat in the estaminet and obâ€" lwor fought beside them when they went to meet their God. ‘The following poem, printe! in the Maple Leaf, Canadian /.my newspaper in the field, has been sent in by more than a dezen solidâ€" lers in action with the request that it be printed: Have never trembled from a morâ€" ___ tar bursting close, "You, who bave zever heard the sound of shells, What They Think Over in lItaly It was Ingram {CHtz) Rice, Toâ€" gladly die? such as you ter aky ed men ? live in w.nter. waile dxad‘m‘t!untclnlmm“hdl-‘ That deliphtâ€", to arrange some sort of show for ed the hew~*ts | the Canudian truops who had been: ble Canadians| fight‘sg steadily ... when Red " Also whatâ€"| Newman (still in Toronto) and The author «. the| Dumbelis show was functioning. girl? Rice, accompanied by Sgt. Knobâ€" Mtz) Rice, ‘Toâ€"| by Clark( all Clarks were, and still printing ink, are Knobby), of Winnipeg, and Red every men, they regard him with great and maZe it clegant, Gitz." Today in New York Rice will tell you he has spent the years since 1915 apologizing to army chapâ€" lains, priests, rabbis, ministers, but that even when he explain; that the doubtful choruses of the song wert not in his original draft, but ‘dllllh.nd&qpunm ally to reminisce. . . . His son is a UA. Navy fiyer and "I became an American citizen last week," he papers are made out to Ingram Rice: "My nickname as a kid was Git," he explained. ‘"When I grew up some news;capermen added a z Roland went int. Armentieres and made straight for the estaminet. It was there that he got the idea for toe song whick waus to have its preâ€" mivre a few nights later. E. Sullivan, columnist with the New York Daily News, tells the story that when Rice went out; on the crude stage to sing it, he was under the impression that the senâ€" jlor officers were to attend the folâ€" lowing night . . . So Sergt Rice really socked home two lines of his lyric: "The general got the Croix "Dear Old Pal of Mine." ... He says the success of the second was the result of John McCormack inâ€" troducing it. . . . He told Sullivan tha«. of the 125 survivore of the 5th de Guerre â€" the sou of a gun he wasn‘t there." . . . ‘The laughter was uproarious. "How‘d I do, Knobby?" asked Sergt. Rice with pardonable conâ€" ceit as he came off stage, after 20 !lflpg.m{m pallid, pulied Rice to one side: "The general was sitting in the front row!" . . . Recalling that appalling moment, Rice still palesâ€""but I knew the Jig was up, so instead of waiting for them to come and get me, I started to where Knobby said the geuweral had been sitting. One of his aides said;: ‘Here‘s the serâ€" geant who sang that song, Gen. Alderson.‘ I went sick all over as the general swung around, but to ty amazement, his face was one big #inile: ‘My boy, I want to thank you for the heartiest lsugh I‘ve had since this damned war After his ribald song hit, Gitz Rice (who had in the meantime ~~" « commission in the field at Tpre) wrote two other considerâ€" sentimental, "My Buddy" and One of the reasons that this war hasu‘t produced great war songs, thinks Gitz Rice, is because we haven‘t the great regimental bands that were so common between 1914 and 1918. THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT DAWES BLACK HORSE snewrens GRIMSBY GARAGE 55 Main Street E. Teler 6 N Y Thursday, December 14, 194«