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Newmarket Era, 2 Nov 1917, p. 2

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data HOUSE TO or arid convenient la act for Doc and Apfcly to MA the Nominations am to iNowninrkei on Monday JO two weeks Nomination Day yea Newmarket with topaz valued- as a reward for return to Era Offico I HELP IVAUTEZD Would you like or daily at homo knitting War Sox on Knitters Bond Company ft Toronto On account of tlio local Tri bunal sitting on the of Nov and following days East tiwllllmbury Council Meeting will liot be held on Nov and hereby postponed until Nov at pm A MACKENZIE Clerk Earning Charles Toronto Has boon latoly to fill positions at from to a month and othors up to por It to got a ior training VJrlto for Enter any J ELLIOTT Principal An enumerator to ho op- pointed for every polling viefonjn tho Dominion to revise voting list according to now Act Military voters stationed in Canada will cast their votes on tho same day as civilian All soldiers overseas will begin voting on Nov and military votes may bo oast up to and In cluding the ordinary polling day There will necessarily bo delay al so in counting of military volos Military votes cast in Franco and Belgium will counted at office of the Can adian commissioner in Paris In United King- will bo counted at the office of tho Canadian High Commis sioner in London Military votes cast in and Cana da will ho counted under su pervision of the general return ing officer at Ottawa It is an ticipated that about five will elapse polling day and final announcements by the general as the final results In all districts Editorial Notes The innual meowing of tho Rod Cross Was hold in tho oyer the Post Office oh Monday and although it was a wet day thorowore I f I SALE Tender addressed lo under signed will be received up to for the at the North West quarter of East half of Lot and acres Weal half of Lot both on 7th Con of owned by Mrs Annie land is partially timbered with Tamarao and other ana may bo In spected by intending purchasers at any lime The land and lim ber or limber will bo sold to suit purchaser The highest or any tender hot necessarily ac cepted For further particulars apply to Solicitor for Vendor Newmarket Indies reported that nine business wore held during the with on attendance members To tal numbor of mbmbors on roll and associ ate The Treasurer the following All the by acclamation as follows Receipts Dal 27507 Knitting Teas Life Memberships Euchres Guides Head and Center piece Sol from Cook Book fieoond St Rod Cross Rebecca Lodge His Johns Church Cordon Parly St Pauls Dram Club Travelogue Orchard Regatta Ladies AidOunensville French Flag Day donations 2109 1700 2375 7000 Expenditures of War j IP A Red Cow with long horns strayed from tho premises of Newmarket a few lays ago Information of her where abouts will be rewarded i i COLLEGE- FARM Our senior herd sire Floral ell Victor is offerod for sale His breeding is good and he is a splendid individual Price Very We are also offering a Purpose Yearn Good at all farm work Call and see them at Newmarket College Farm North York Conservatives ap pear to be fixing lie Riding for What have the Lib erals got to soy about it A press despatch oh Saturday stales that Winnipeg Conserva tives have endorsed Hon Mr Rogers and Hon 1 A Colder Is announced a candidate next election for Moose Jaw Political parties ore getting ready for the approaching contest Airplanes ore becoming more plentiful as weeks go by They ore flying over Newmarket almost daily From the States on Tues day comes the following para graph All the lumber mills of Washington and Oregon may be placed at he disposal of the fed eral government for the manufac ture of airplane slock as the re sult of a meeting today of the Lumbermens Protective League representing mills The ex ecutive committee authorized to go to any length in mooting the demand for airplane stock to i Prisoner By pp lies Yarn Contribution Head Office Euchre Cordon Parly French Flog Day French Flog Day Newmarket Hospital Hal President Mrs Robertson VicePros Mrs J Hill Secretory Mrs Jackson Treasurer Miss N Forsyth Executive Mrs A Howard Mrs Jos Piphnr Mrs Fuller Mrs Hills and Mrs T Watson The President honked the ladies for their expression of confidence in ho officers On Tuesday about ladies gathered at the Rooms for work In connection wifh Hospital sup plies and the collection amount ed to This meeting takes the place of the usual Knitting Tea Total proceeds of last Tuesday night about Our Toronto Letter pending a week with friends near Buffalo Mrs A Starr has return ed after visiting her daughter of is visiting her dnughtor Mrs Howard Cane Mrs McDonald of Toronto spent with her sis ter Mrs John Mr and Mrs Harrison Fish er of New York woro guests of Mrs Tom Doyle on Monday of this week Alfred Lewis and Norman Goodwin the weekend In Toronto as delegates lo tho Boys Conference Mrs J Harvey entertain ed Nurses at Newmarket Mili tary Hospital at tea last Satur day Rev W P Fletcher of Kes wick was elected VicePros of the Provincial Association at Chatham last week Miss Stewart of King is sponding a week with Mrs Brand who edterlained on Wednesday afternoon in her honor Dr Hon J Davis Mr J and Mr Jos left on Tuesday for their annual deer hunt in Mus- koka Miss Jean Hamilton daugh ter or Mr and Mrs P Hamil ton Ave gave a Hollow- een Parly- lo her little playmates on Wednesday afternoon Mrs W J Wood will receive at Methodist Parson age on Wednesday afternoon the of November from to o clock and from lo 10 pm Miss Lulu attended Five Years Meeting of Friends in Richmond Indiana and also the Executive Meeting of Young Friends Activities in Toronto BUSINESS SCHOOLS Toronto for every known Canadian Commercial Diploma or None too for our of vork En ter any time Proa P Prln Head Offices ft fita PIRE AY r I I Wednesday Oct The greatest fire in Baltimore since the conflagration of Feb ruary that destroyed the business section of city is raging early this morning on the big of pie Baltimore and Ohio Railroad extensive terminal at Locust Point on south side of the harbor Piers 8 and stored with vast quan tities of munitions and supplies for be American forces in France and their Allies are in flames Withiy en minutes af ter tho flames were discovered the entire structures were ablaze Fifteen of the crow of a Brit ish steamer lying at the pier looped overboard and it is feared that some are drowned A doz en or more employed on the pier are On one of the piers were coses of shells which ex ploded at intervals It is re ported that the firo vas of in cendiary origin The Baltimore and Ohio groin elevators are but a short distance from the burned piers which are the main terminals in this coun- of the Eng lish lino of steamers Pier was the former North Gorman Lloyd pier which all their ships load ed at this port The two piers are destroyed cost about one million dollars each Lindsay Oct Long a respected farmer in Ops Tp a distance from Lindsay was run over by the Toronto mixed train going north at and killed Both legs were fevered from the 0 was badly mangled Hewas driving a herd of cattle end In keep them off it thought in some caught hie fool and could run train he From Toronto Mail Newmarket Oct At a meeting of North York Association hold in Wesley Block Dr Clark President in the chair it was moved by Delano and second ed by Dr Stevenson That whereas the executive ol the LiberalConservative Associ ation properly colled and as sembled in Newmarket hereby expresses itself as in favor oi Union Government and ils Win the- War policy And whereas in of the fact that Mr J AM Armstrong who has represented the riding for the past six years and was among the first on the floor of parliament and the public plat form to endorse conscription And whereas he having been duly nominated as a candidate for North York And whereas no other candi date has yet been nominated on above platform in the riding of North York Whereas Mr Armstrong is in favor of supporting measure submitted by the Union Govern ment to win the war Be it resolved that the mem bers of this executive individual ly and collectively hereby pledge themselves to support the candi dature of Mr Armstrong in tin coming campaign and extend a cordial invitation to all Wor Liberals in his constituen cy to cooperate with them with a view to securing the election of this candidate and a supporter of tho Union Government C Clark President The new Methodist Hymn Book is out Ibis week and is now on sale at the Book Room Hon Mr Mewburn as Minister of Militia is announced to spook today Friday at a Liberal mooting on Militia Conscription At the Court of Assize last Tuesday Mr Justice Kelly re buked lawyers for keeping Jury men from homo big drive for members was concluded on Mon day night They started out to get and obtained 8235 Bingham of and costs W A Rowland and costs and A J Davis of New market and costs These some of fines imposed by DEAD POll LIFE Washington Oct 30 Tho dependept Socialist in a recent speech in the Reichstag suid You hove not evidently gentlemen on exact conception of what war means We have had dead three or four mil lion wounded of whom 500000 arc crippled for life and two mil lion absolutely invalided That makes altogether six million men lost during three years Official information confirma tory of these figures have been in possession of American officials for lime Rochester Oct One- half of tho Government steamer Northern Lights went ashore in a storm on Lake Ontario early to day at Point Breeze north of Al bion The steamer taken by the Government for freight service a short ago and loft Cleveland for Montreal on In order to make the lock the vessel had been divided and woe not rejoined when the cable holding the two parts gave way in a mo stumer was manned by twelve and ah fiuwjGded in Magistrate in the County Police Court on Monday Sunday night the theft of eight motors was reported to the po lice Most of them were stolen from the front of churches Six have since been recovered Newspaper is declared to bo ex cessive in price ana a report is current that Government may lake over paper mills of the coun try North Toronto women have informed the Council that they will equip the Park a play ground as soon as the same provided Wm Strong an employe of the Poison Iron Works who recent ly saved a fellowworker from death by drowning was presented with bronze medal of the Hu mane Society An inquest will he held into the death of W J A which according lo parents is due to pneumonia con tracted by the young man while waiting naked for a of wo hours at the Armories lo un dergo medioal examination Aubrey of Keswick is suing the Ritchie Construction Company and Toronto and York Highways Commission be cause of an sustained by falling off a pump that was ly ing near Jersey Bridge He is asking os compensation for damage to his person and loss through accident case was being- heard yesterday Rev Thomas who has been confined lo the house for the past seven weeks through illness is improving slowly and to bo able to be out in a few days Mr and Mrs Geo mack of Vivian Out announce the engagement of their eldest daughter Florence Mario Mar guerite to Mr James Staunton son of the late Mr and Mrs Wm A Staunton of Poter- Ont The marriage- will take place the latter part of No vember Mrs Geo Curtis of writes I cannot do without the Era very well it is like a letter from home We might well af ford more as we hod such a bountiful harvest this year The groin turned out well for which we ought to be very thankful lo the Great Giver of all good and perfect gifts Mr and Mrs Allan Howard and daughter a birthday gathering at last Sun day Her mother Mrs Matthias who makes her home with her daughter Mrs Putnam reached her birthday in good health and the immediate rela tives and a few friends were in vited to spend the day with her I Premier in a vote of thanks the Navy and British Wouse of Commons on Monday night said tho British navy was like one of those Internal organs to life of which wo are unconscious goes wrong In this war said the Premier the navy had been the anchor of the allied cause If it lost its hold the hopes of the alliance would be shattered premier told how the navy bad guarantcpd supplies to the army abroad and material which it had enabled the allies to get from abroad adding But for the navy disaster would have fallen upon the allied cause Prussia be mis tress of Europe and through Eur ope of the world Despite hid den foes despite- illegitimate naval warfare despite black piracy the navy has preserved the highways of of Brit ain and her allies Since the beginning of the war navy has ensured the safe transportation to the British and allied armies thirteen million men two mil lion horses twentyfive million tons of explosives and supplies and fiftyope million tons and oil The losses of men out of the whole thirteen million were only of which only 2700 were lost through the ac tion of the enemy Altogether tons hove- been transported by British ships It was loo early lo summarize the effect of the blockade by the British navy which would be complete declared the premier if it had not left ho gate of the Balkans unlocked It was not fault of the grand fleet it had not had many opportunities that wos due to the enemys knowledge of Its efficacy Since the battle of Jutland the Ger mans had never seen fit lo chal lenge it He paid a tribute to the work of the smaller craft which lo be found in oil seas being numbered by the thousands Their hardships and dangers were barely realized yet the fruits of their action were enjoy ed by the people of these islands While before the war difficulty had been found in getting men to join the mercantile marine on account of belter conditions ashore yet despite the strain of hardships and peril that bad in creased manifoldly sinco the war began there had not been found one mon afraid to return to the sea Men torpedoed once or twice hardly waited for their papers before they returned TheBritish expeditionary force continued Mr Lloyd George now numbered more than three mil lion It was a great triumph of organization but was only ren dered possible by the heroism he old army the finest fighting troops the world It saved France and Europe but hardly a man of that army was left received Ban tart fco bought all of tho chaff removed only It Is put up In Lib tins and at in3 it f when Canned Fruit both Canned Fruits Lombard Plume iDo tin Pino and I fi th ati Jo pu da cot All mi tin an ore drdpped but tho Quality remains the fry a and bo convinced it CONFECTIONERY It Quality that That la our Candy both and Fro ItoryLlado Candy I YOUH IT GUT PROMPT ATTENTION I lb Ring Comments of Exchanges Markham The peo ple do not want on election in South York What they want la a Unionist candidate whom both parties have confidence in war must bo won that is first consideration there must be no profiteering and mufti be conscription of wealth as well as of men Let the Conservative and Liberal Associations each meet and arrange for a Joint con vention to a fearless candidate one in whom all have confidence Nov- politics are Leave politic alone until the war Mrs Pitt of Bar River writes I feel I cannot do without the Am proud of my old borne Town to sec what the people are doing for our dear boys across the sea My boy is still on the firing line going on four years now It is a terrible struggle but know right will gel victory Wishing Newmarket all kinds of good success Mrs Herbert received a wire last Saturday informing her of the death of her father Mr and Mrs and daughter left in the afternoon to attend funeral at St George Her from Brant ford also went borne with two children one of which took suddenly ill and died the next day The fathers funeral was postponed and a double fu neral took place yesterday which wos indeed sod lOOOo LOAM Yearn In York Johnson Sutton A Sutton North of Con Hamilton Point North East of fion Jos Davidson West East Eastern Sec tion- Mount Albert East Western Sec tion L Cody Newmarket Whitchurch East of Gib Con Button Whitchurch West of Con P King Tp Western Section Coffey King Tp Eastern Section J M Walton Aurora Aurora Walton Aurora Newmarket Bennett New market THE Furniture and Undertaking House You can buy your Furniture Cheap for Cash UNDERTAKING EMBALMING A SPECIALTY Ik attended to at Phonos and J is Over Germans were captured by the French in this weeks drive together with big guns Hurry Gardner formerly clergyman in Toronto and a fichdol was in to it pleading to At Franklin on Oct to Mr and Mrs George a daughter Otophone On the 2nd Con of East on Oct to Mr and Mrs Fred Stephens a son ho Altar HarperDougherty On Oct 10i7 by Rev Paul College St Methodist daugh ter of Mr and Mrs Dougherty formerly of ville to Eugene Harp er of Toronto dolly In St Williams Co on Saturday Oct of Nathaniel Jolly aged 70 Funeral took place to Cemetery on Monday Oct On Monday Oct Cecil ONeill A aged years son of Jas J of Aye Toronto Deceased was a grandson of the late Win ONeill of Newmar ket and a nephew of Mrs Wm I mouse mm jig In 0 it Is Quality that Counts QUALITY OUR SPECIALTY ALSO AGENT FOR THE The Remarkable Instrument In tho World HUYtBRS CHOCOLATES rag NEWMARKET Agent for Cameras and Photo House Phono No 151 Store Phone No MAIN STREET ft Organs Dominion Piano a Piano Piano CIO Mahogany Dearly a Dominion Cant Hot a takes a Vino Piano Organ Oak Organ How A of from up BARGAIN One Player Piano Los9 than and Rolls SURE TO SEE A I Columbia Qrafonolae to Always In Stock Longs and fiooords a FullSized a on Trial Your Own Terms Every Instrument mm a Phone 30 mum paper I I J the Ream not and Quality that tho Con PiOduoo to to Country on s h Oft Aviv Hi the on the lid of lo res Mo a the I and A aft Mr ice ft i a A till I i6fi lion Cow day T audi ifcrtei VTOll Hot quali IK nod at abim tient half in an gram that their Tin Praia the Hi at intere Major an To ftoldifi of mil The Miss tribute of I n MOuit The to i tiai liyyldti i or TORONTO

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