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Too Difficult for Us to Repair HAY WE DO YOURS At Jewelry to re The Leading County Paper as well as the Oldest copies each week Circulation during i NEWMARKET OCT J OUR TORONTO LETTER YEARS AGO Ml I TO I Heres place for IT WALL BOARD Made in Canada PUT Board over your cracked plaster there will be no more repairing no more unsightly cracks Y6u can have rich panels by using battens- You can paint the white finish any color you wish Two other colors oak and burnt leather need no dec- oration Comes in large wide sheets of substantial thickness easily and neatly put up low in cost permanent 9 Use Neponset Wall Board in your attic rooms in bungalow or house Use it also for par titions in home office factory Send for our new free booklet Repairing and Bunding Tells all about Products Wall Boards Roofings Waterproof Builds fog Papers and other BINN8 NEWMARKET The Paint Store I South End Lumber Yard BRICK LATH I J E LUMBER P W PEARSON Order from Carte Alf Bishop John Murphy Office Phone Mis George of Mutual Street found unconscious on Thursday morn ing of last week in her room from the effects of coal gas which had escaping from a heavy gas tube attached a stove Last week a scow laden with sand being towed into the eastern gap listed to one side and sank- The scow was improperly loaded under supervision of corporation who paid to look after the work At a meeting of citizens at Nor way Hall last week resolution was proposed declaring that the Board of Control as at constituted not worthy of the of the City A hot time is anticipated next January A report from the Industrial School Board presented last week states that boys have gone to the front from the institution- The statement is also made that it is difficult to keep paroled boys on the farm Those from the City have no taste Tor farm work Mr Price MPP for Park- dale arrived home from a visit to the Canadian lines in France last week To see our own boys in the trenches was to love them he says- Mr George of has sent in his resignaton as a County Police Magistrate account of ill health At Stanley avenue Baft 1st Church one evening last week and were tendered six men of tjie church and congregation who were about leawng for the front Rev J on leialf of the congregation presented each nui with a beautifully bound new Testa ment The local Division em ployes are now contributing per month for machine gun purposes Some Churches al ready voting on the question of Church union and sermons are being preached in reference thereto In all probability three or four Sundays will be allowed before the vote is taken The report of the Womens Metho dist Missionary Society states that the Association among other dona tions has presented the Canadian solders at the front and in England quilts during the Past year Two more student aviators passed their tests at Long Branch on Thurs- of week mating who have how been trained by the Curtis School The General Synod o the Church 50 EARS AGO I from Era Sept A Newmarket Hero Lies in France INCORPORATED 1855 Capital and Reserved Fonda When You Travel Take money you fa the form of Bank of Toronto Travellers Cbsquea or Letters of Credit are absolutely safe and are a protection against loon by theft fire or other misadventure Their cost inconsiderable Obtainable from any of the Bank of Toronto- Branches In Ontario Quebec and the West BRANCH A M LISTER Manager Are you satisfied your Flour If not try our Flour MADE BY THE BRADFORD ROLLER All our Flour la made from old wheat Try IMPERIAL The Best Manitoba Flour RELIANCE Trie Beat Family Flour ROYAL Beat Pas try EVES Order by Phono or from Carters Jerry Harrington or Ben OF ALL KINDS LUMBER LATH I L ETC O L I AND TRIM f Our Trim la Put Through Our and Will Hot After It la Put of in Canada alter live days examination and discussion gave an approval to the draft Hook of Com Prayer as revised A decrease of several hundred stu dents in all the colleges connected pi with the is re ported On Thursday of last week Pilot by miles in four hours in the Russian flying boat has beaten all re cent records Knox the Presbyter ian Academic home opened this week and is a credit to the denomination I On Friday last the Ontario Branch the Dominion Alliance sent a de putation to the Ontario Government and made a request to suppress the retail sale of during the war Premier Hearst assurance that earneit consideration would he given to the request Toronto playgrounds have been very popular resorts this year During August the aggregate attendance the eleven Parks was or an average of per day The growth of Methodism In To ronto was described by Rev at Tiinlty Methodist Church last week About years there were Methodist Churchs in this City today there are and during that period the membership had grown from to Notwithstanding the thought by lion Minister Militia the authorities here and at Niagara are confident that several thousand troops will be quartered in Toronto this winter During the past week the military uniform question was partially solv ed by the of 1580 outJits and more on the way As a small token of friendship to Canadians a group of Chicago busi ness men sent ten- cent bags tobacco to the headquarters of the Cross Society for the use of Canadians at the front Abraham food win aged years lived in Logan avenue was struck by a it train on Wed nesday of last and instantly killed He had stepped out of the way of one train in front of another An employee In mall department of Store was arrested the other day on a charge of stealing a case and hiding It at Yonge St Arcade The Ontario License Board has santloned the transfer of the King George Hotel Trenton from Cook to A Proctor of this city Another man by the name of Fred Frame was sentenced In the Police Court last week to twenty In jail and ten at the end of ten days for having beaten his wife LanceCorporal Carl Grange who enlisted for Overseas Service on Aug has been at the front iu the line in his turn without any mishap from Feb Hi till the day of his death Aug a little than a year after bis enlistment He went with the first lot from the York Hangers at the com mencement of the war After his arrival in England he was trans ferred to the machine gun and was soon promoted to do Lance Corporal He look part all the seven engagements the Canadians were in and came through without being wounded He was years of age Carl as the boys knew him was born at on March and resided for some time in Northern Ontario until he came here with his parents several yours ago aiui was employed during the greater part of his residence here in the Lathe Room at Canes Factory whore he gave up a good position to goto do bin duly lo the Empire That he has done his duty well is borne by news of bis ac tions reaching us from bis as sociates and companions at til front One of thorn Private Win J Ma in who formerly lived near Aurora in a letter lo friends recently said Lance Corporal Carl Granger a No I gunner on quo of our machine guns He is admired and trusted by his crew of moil Devotion these leaders is shown in some- very funny ways A little fellow Canadian by way of nationality bad Hie misfortune lo get i by a German shell caving in hi- dugout Happening to see pliglit Corpl Granger at once to dig him out and finally succeeded In bringing him lo the surface During a reorganiza tion of gun crews and the drafting in of new men was thought advisable to split some of the old and substi tute new men Anyhow as luck would have it lie was picked out of bis gun crew Tears cam lo bis eyes when he was Informed that he would have to he pari of a new crew He- told our Captain of how the corporal had saved bis life and Insisted on being re lumed lo Ills old gun crew be bud his wish satisfied hep he could give would be given gladly for him There arc plenty of heroes and Granger is one of those unregistered heroes quiet brave ana kind He wins the admiration of his fellows very soon Carl was a brave fellow but modestly shrank from anything that bail the appearance of blow A comrade writes to ax friend here early one morn ing he sniped no less than ten Germans one after another un til it got too hot for him to re main any longer with head up The first man was crawling along the ground in the semi- darkness and Carl knew be bit him because he groaned As Germans came lo his rescue he picked them off until too many appeared at once There is no complaint from Carl in any of bis letters that have been received here and while he undoubtedly knew am realized the danger he was in no mention was made of it except in the last letter Ate wrote to his mother Aug days be fore bis death which lie said My life is not worth ten min utes here now We are only yards from the German trench A letter from Private John Mc Donald also a Newmarket boy who has been at the front with Carl says A German sniper shot Carl when he got bis bead above the parapet of the trench This is all we know of the details sur rounding the death of this brave boy but from Ibis stands out clearly and strong the facts thai from the earliest moment of the war be realized need of offer Ing to do his bit that be stead- fastlystuck to it at the same lime earning his stripes showing effi cient application to duty recog nized by bis officers and that be died while lighting our fight as well as bis own and as he would wish facing lb enemy- Let us cherish his memory as one who did what lie thought was his without public acclaim Or dis play and who has cheerfully giv en his whole lifes opportunity lo the service of he Newmarket has reason to be proud of Carls record and be fully deserved recognition of respect by the flying of flags in ami at halfmast on 110 day He word was received of Ills death rand speaking of his comrades hesaid There ninety of the Mad Fourth alive today but so far as I know there are none in the trenches The battalion all Cen tral Ontario men is no more and we who arc left are on a bit of a furlough We are called the Fighting Fourth and the Cold- streams call us brothers I know lhat we had the bravest officers men could ever want and lhat we went so far in that it took seven Bullish regiments to dig us out But we all fought In an interview with a press re porter Scrgt Glenn desired to talk of nothing but his beloved commanding officer whom all the Fourth loved so dearly Col A P of Gloucester and of Toronto- The day of the St Julien bat tle the came lo us and said Hoys we are going to The demise of Mr Alex Sang- of is announced His funeral itook place on Sun day last and he was buried with Masonic honors Wells Esq P is down at attending Parliament Trustees of Union School Sec tion No East and Scott offer reward for the conviction of the person who re cently did wilful damage to- the premises At on Friday even- ing last the young people in con nection the Methodist Church assembled at the Parson age and presented an address to Rev and Mrs Campbell accom panied by an elegantly bound vol ume of the Scriptures a beautiful Family Bible gathering was a surprise to the Key gentleman and his good lady King Township Society Show is announced to be held at Kettlehy on the 17th of October Whitchurch Show at on Jibe 13th of October and East at Sharon on of October I i I 25 YEARS MO From Era Sept cannot praise Granger All honor to the men on the bat- enough and the greatest lloflolds and in Ihfl trenches i v Newmarket Man Home from the Trenches Boon Under Fire In Threo Campaign and Franco India Africa i EVERY A 80LD1EU a ftRkET Era to On Thursday of last week Ser geant Geo Glenn arrived home from France on furlough for two mouths bis sight having impaired by a shrapnel wound oil I he forehead Leave of absence was granted mor readily In recognition of his prompt action and originality during a gas at tack on April Glenn operated a lathe in Canes Factory but glory of war appealed to him and he spout seven years with Brit ish in India Shortly af ter his return home the Boor War broke out and ho enlisted witn Canadians for South Africa passing through the Battle of and other similar on- counters without a scratch This service continued for 3 year Ho was only getting nicely settled down to routine labor when call came again and being member of the York Hang ers he did not hesitate to respond and though now having the re sponsibility of a wjfe and two children ho dilut ed and left for England with the 1st Overseas Contingent His wife is a daughter of Mr J J McDonald Charles St Newmar ket Glenn was enrolled in tho Battalion The Mad Fourth as they are now called since glorious battle of I Those of you who dont want lo come can slay We all went We went so far in in the three days battle that it took seven British regiments lo come and dig us out And Col instead of being hack of he lines was with us to elbow us waft ing us on into the very heart of the Germans how we that man He a When Hush we link it And if be wept and looked broken as he saw us becoming and raggeder each hour- we cheered and yelled him and he Would- spruce up smile and say God help us hoys Now for another jab P The Germans stuck up a sign over their trendies Canada no good burned on it We charg ed and took it for kindling Anil when lite Germans would come at us wed shoot until they reached us then we gave them the knife and all the time we watched our colonel I Then he fell Dead In a furious attack and by all the liv ing powers we men we who loved the very dirt on his boots had lo fall back weeping cursing pray ing and leave our dead colonel out on the Held But there are only ninety of us now Wn did our best Ills body lay out there on the Held until three weeks ago The Germans as you know keep a machine gun trained on a fallen officer knowing well try to get lo him We tried and tried His little wife a brave little woman came right into the first line trenches and we showed her beloved body lying out I here through a periscope She didnt cry She Just looked at us Well three weeks ago Just before I came away four of us who are left of the Fourth went out one night We took our colonels walch wallet and binoc ulars Then we saluted him as wo knelt there and we covered him with earth by our hands When we gave the relics In the little woman she simply I hanked us and said sort of strangely Men yon will he re warded for this She did not cry a CANADA MAKING SHELLS DAILV In the production of munitions of war In Canada lift factories are now engaged the J152000O00 order placed here for British Gov ernment by the Canadian Shell Com mission in addition to this huge or der there are at least worth of munitions being produced for the Russian Government Mr A Thomas representative of the British Government In Canada has inspected all our munition factories Ontario and the other provinces has stated that their capacity and ef ficiency have been a revelation to him and further great orders are certainty Already the Canadian pro duction of shells amounts to per day and will reach The production of ammunition has lean greatly Increased and will overtake the output shells The Altar At the residence of the brides father Aurora by tho Hew Amos on the 17th Mr Ferguson Jane Willis daughter of Mr Benjamin Willis AH the Christian Newmarket on the inst Mr Henry Bennett to Miss Emma Kaiser both of King The Union Sunday School at Sharon is- reported to be pro gressing nicely under the vision of Elder Elder It WiddiHeld is an nounced to preach the Mooting House Sharon on Sabbath next Miss Hughes is visiting in Toronto Mrs Isaac Silver and Mrs Slocking are visiting in Toronto Mr KM Lloyd leaves today to lake up his resilience in Michigan Mrs Scott is visiting Pickering Mr Frank led on lay for Buffalo Mr W Oliver paid a visit West Toronto Junction last week About a dozen young people were At Home with the Misses Jackson at Bowery last Friday evening Mr and Mrs I Wright at tended the wedding of his sister Mrs Hawkins Toronto last week Messrs Smith and of Aurora were in Town on Tues day to examine the interior ar merit of the Church and its furnishings Six members of Newmarket cycle Club visited fast Sunday Fall plowing is now the order of the day with farmers BOLTON FAIR NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY The Directors of Bolton Fair decided that this years show will be better than ever and have made con siderable increases In prize list There will be a stockJudging contest for young men good horses have offered for speeding and given good weather Molten Fair will have tho usual successful show train service and reduced rates on the P TO VICTORY Sept Confer ence of the Municipalities of In Its session at Moscow demanded a complete change in present Government and the installation ol members who have tho confidence of the people The resolutions adopted created a profound Impression One recited As fatal obstacle in the path of final stand all the old mlrles of our imperial life slbillty of authority its detachment from the country its deep disorgan ization and impotence It Is sary to turn authority with determin ation and Into a new path In place of the present Govern ment there must be called men in vested with the confidence of the peo ple Creative work tor popular rep resentation must be renewed without delay The democratic and spiritual unity of the country are lmpostane conditions of victory and must be secured by reconciliation the oblivion Of old political conflicts and of the equality of all citizens before the law The truest wisdom in general is a resolute determination Obscurity lives much longer SB I I A St S ir- fe5 S3 SB 1 Bond Era fame f I v