The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

huckleberries place your order with us and we will supply your needs i this seasons berries are of the fiaet and the prices a fa reasonable vis8 3 i fresh vegtriables and other kruits in season 3 try our invincible brand shortening prices on shortening and lard have ad vanced but we are making a ffg special of this good brand at the old prroe jg ratcliff co i big snaps in women s foot wear womens oxfords and strap slippers a few pair at 100 womens pat bajs cloth topi at 198 see our window a as g lehm footwear ofmerit sto uf f v i mie ofit hot5rb 4301 m iw clearing prices mens fine shirts reg 150 sale price 100 mens work shirts 75c mens khaki pants 135 peabodys overalls reg 300 sale price 200 mens running shoes reg 175 sale price 150 boys running shoes reg- s175 sale price 125 all shoes at reduced prices call and see them before you buy j l little west end stouffvillb goal cement salt tile and flour coal select lump steam coal- lehigh valley stove chestnut and pea sizes solway coke x cement canada brand salt 501b 100 lb- 200 lb- sacks and bbls flour and feedrbran shorts- manitoba oats oil cake five crown flour for bread jubilee for pastry tile 5 inch 4 inch and 6 inch on hand highest prices paid for alsike and grain of all kinds telephones office 169 residence 171 r 8tocffvixe markets august 13t- i dlry eggs 27 to 28 dutier 29 ro30 oattl ron a hogs thlch smooth 1080 hogs select 1180 butchers 600 cows- 3to 4 calves 700 to 900 common calt63 4e0 butchers 700 grain oats 40 to 48 pall wheat 100 ooo3s wheat barley 62 w 67 agents wanted the careful attention to our customers orders and the splen did stock supplied for year3 past warrants us in having a repre sentative or two in this county liberal commissions free out fit write at once or exclusive territory thos w bowman soy 9 company ribokvxtlk jf v ont star nurseries stouffville august 21st im a i s 1924 tptti7 ttitot t1vtt i rear of the building is marked by a 1 ijlcj 1 jtvljdljrnjll flat marble slao being laid- on the la published thursday afternoon terms 200 a year id advance a v nolan publisher stouffville ont the overseas trip fat hevs t will pay a special prica for fat hear sam oolden apply at pea- nocks livery when the mefita lauded at ant werp in belgium about eight oclock on the morning of june 21st the party of canadian newspaper men were soon at liberty to go ashore now we were on the continent and glad to be free from the long boat trip of eleven days at the foot of the gangway the burgomaster and other officials of the city wearing the regalia of their office met our party and escorted us to the city- hall where an address of welcome was read in french for that is the tongue of these people and replied to by one of our party from quebec during this half hour in the building we saw a number of marriages performed by the burgo master some in one room and others in another part of the build ing with more show to them by paying a special fee the ceremony may be had under the more gay con ditions the minimum fee is 50c all marriages are performed by the head of the city and not by the clergy we also made a tour of the docks which were a great revelation in so far us size and business done are concerned the river boats were particularly interesting titey are employed in hauling goods up and down the 54 miles or river from antwerp to the sea and are a large flat boat with but one deck about tour feet above the water but with out any rail in this boat a family lives the owner and his wife here spend practically all their livesforft is their only home here the family are boraand the little tots run about the flat surface of the boat without any fear of tumbling into the water chickens cats dogs rabbits and various animals roam about on the boat while the housewife spends her time putting out a washing getting meals and any spare time she is employed at the helm if the boat istravelling we also visited the antwerp cathe dral the third largest in the world which was heavily shelled by the germans and which was the first evidence we saw of the great war the germans captured the city in 1916 that same afternoon we entrain ed for brussels stopping at malines where we walked over a mile of cobble stone street to the palace of cardinal mercier where we were received by this great man in truly hospitable manner he referred feelingly to the part the canadians took in the war cardinal mercier was a personal friend of the kaiser and while his city was in the hands of the enemy he made many en treaties to the kaiser for mercy which often resulted in harsh orders being modified the cardinal is one of the twelve who has the honor to select the pope and in fact he was approached to accept the position but refused to leave his people in belgiuntt where he is referred to as the soul of belgium once back to our train we soon arrived in brussels for it is a short span between cities and some of us went to a theatre that evening it being saturday on sunday morn ing we placed a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier and then visited the house of parliament here we assembled in the very room the senate chamber where the german war lords held their coun cils and whore nurse edith cavell received her death sentence each seat bears a plate with the name of the senator who occupies it but the one in which nurse cavell sat bears no name and is never occupied at noon we had an audience with the burgomaster of brussels in the hotel de ville in the same room and on the identical floor on which the officers danced the night before the battle of waterloo it was of pan elled oak and as highly polished as a piece of furniture from a pbsf- tion on the balcony we looked down into a city square and witnessed the staging of the corpus christ a roman religious demonstration par ticipated in by about 2000 men women and children in ancient garb accompanied by band music and singing christ was depicted in about six different stages of his earthly career from a babe to the crucifixion and the final climax de monstrated him being crowned king of glory this spectacle was witnessed by tens of thousands of people either in the square or ground where the chair stood in which the girl sat four brass points mark the identical spot where the chair legs were fastened to the ground miss cavell was blindfolded and roped to the chair being the fifth one to be meted the same treatment that day one of the vic tims a belgium girl of 20 years re fused to go blindfolded to the chair and faced the firing squad in a dar ing manner stating that she had shown how a belgium girl could live or her country and she was now prepared to show them how she could die for her country the tir ing squad stood on the porch of the barracks about twelve feet distance during the explanation of these hor rible details most hearts were sad dened and many a tear was shed as our party filed past the marble slab and placed a flower thereon as a token of love and respect for the girl who had been so outrageously treated the thought welded stronger than ever in my mind that war is hell and woe unto the perpetrators monday morning by special train we travelled from brussels to leige a city of 170000 situated about 40 miles from the german border be fore the war this city was surroun ded by 12 forts for the most part located behind natural earthen posi tions when the germans opened hostilities in 1914 this city was the first centre of attack within two days eleven of the twelve forts were demolished and the city was occu pied by the enemy this remaining fort was calculated to protect the main road between liege and the city of brussels and its guns were built all pointing away from the city however with this handicap this single fort held off the enemy from pressing on from leige for ten days and during that time the brit ish with feverish speed were rushing reinforcements across the channel had it not been for this single fort delaying the progress of the enemy the channel ports would have been occupied before serious resistance could have been offered and the war might thus have been fought on british soil the germans believed that great resistance awaited them at this sin gle fort or it might easily have been taken days before it fell only 350 men defended it the commander col messens told our party the story walking over the ruins and explaining in de tail the movements of the fight he started the defence with 550 men which were reduced to 350 when he assembled them in an underground passage and told them that their fort alone stood they had an op portunity to surrender but to a man they asked to fight on on the tenth day the ten foot wall of the fort was blown in anil under it 250 brave soldiers still tie for the ruins were never removed from them be cause j its immense weight the colonel was thrown into a corner in an unconscious condition being picked up a german prisoner he andix men were the only survivors for 24 hours before the fortcollap sed shells rained on the position at the rate of 25 per minute the con cussion of the german big shells wrenched the great fort guns off their turrets and turned others com pletely over colmessens wore a karki uniform and spoke to us through an inter preter a beautiful monument is erected near the ruins to the mem ory of those whose lives were lost in the defence of this fort the following day tuesday we moved on to lille a less important city but nevertheless one of many thousands of people these eur opean people call a city like london ontario a town leige for example is regarded as a small centre but its population numbers 200000 brus sels has a population of nearly 700- 000 lille runs into the thousands also but i dp not lcndw the exact population it is a very ancient city wtih many narrow streets- and dingy ilanes my stopping place at this point jwasthe hotel de leurope a fine hostelry with a large court yard inthecentre while the city jvas in possession of the germans this hotel was made the headquarters for the german general staff and the room i occupied bore marks of the -ger- taan officers spurs and heavy boots for they left the property jn bad dis- repair several of thelady employees tetil engaged in the place werethere and waitedon the germans they were paid fof their services but the owner is just now vetting the walls of the various rooms put into clean condition again after the rough usage of the invader they told us that one night the german military staff held a big hanquet as they frequentfy did but on thls occasion a messenger came along the routes of the procession the important event of- our visit r wot bne hnes in sreat haste in the capital cityvtjf belgium came and handed a note tothe general in that sunday afternoon when the party journeyed to the palace of king albert to be received by his majesty at the palace gates stood armed guards- who allowed us to pass with out question but once inside the great halls we were requested to leave our hats coat3 and any par- command who spoke a few words hastily in german to his riienat the tables instantly all arose and uslied from the building andin a half hour a shell from ithe allied lines or a fcombfromah aeroplane dropped into the court yard tvlthln a few yards 6tthe dining hall the spot where itr struck is still quite eels or cameras in the checking visible for if badlly aamageda tree room then we assembled in a the first battle line over which we beautiful room in which hung some travelled from lille is known as the eighteen large dazzling chandeliers yp salient which includes hill 62 with nearly fifty lights on each in where the king government haa this room we formed into single file erected a beautiful memorial in and passed into the reception room in the centre of which stood the be loved king albert in his stately military uniform as we neared him one of the aides took our names and repeated them to the king in a memory of the canadians who fell at this place in 1916 the memorial overlooks what was known as cen tury- woods and unapproachable through an avenue of maple trees probably theonly maples in europe loud voice we shook him by the th hav been gratted on to roots hand and passed out by another of some local varieties standing on way it was a gracious act on the ground beside the mem- part of the king to receive this 2 t c0 a tjstanc9 canadian party but it goes to ex- st j the canadians were empllfy the good feeling the bel- sassied glum king and his government hold were travelling towards ypres for canada and the roads were so dusty all the our next points of interest have j thesoldier boys toll about dur- more to do with the war we went iftgvar days must have been turned to the military harractot in brussels into duat for it was like greu to visit the spot whure nurse edith j along the wayside new cavell wan shot tho place in tho continued on page 8 oe30e o a o u o ios30x 10230 sozsoe a a o a a o o a a 9 o d o o n o o n o n o n o ov d o wh shaws aono o n o o n o 39c she thursday friday and saturday 300 odd pieces of china reg 50 75 and 100 sale price 39c ladies and childrens cotton hose reg- 50 and 75c- pair sale price 39c ladies summer vests reg 50 and 60c i sale price 39c ladies summer vests reg 25 and 35c sale price 2 for 39c ladies suminer bloomers white crepe reg- 75c sale price 39c ladies gingham house dresses each sale price 39c o d o o n sale starts thursday at 9 a m q o o d o o a a o o q o o a o i a o 0 o ladies and childrens all wool dress goodsy reg 75c yard sale price 39c boys caps reg 75c each sale price 39c mens fine sport shirts reg 100 and 150 each sale price 39c boys fine spoit shirts reg 100 and 150 each sale price 39c many other items not on this list at39c see window display remember the date nine oclock a m thursday w h shaw o a a d o oemoe phone 9s12 stouffvillb store remains open tuesday thursday and saturday evenings closes friday at 12 oclock o h a a fl a a o a a o d a ijmhok loeaoe o d a lohnar f t hill co limited successors to todo cook highest prices paid for alsike red clovejr timothy alfalfa and sweeit clover bags supplied if desired imce phone 1401 housb 189 v v e todd managing director fc