27 JANUARY 1915

Jan. 25th

Mid-winter in the country! Consequently a scarcity of “news” in this locality but we will give the readers of the Monitor the benefit of what little there is.

Colonel Spurr attended the Fruit Growers’ Association at Middleton during the week.

The ladies of the Red Cross Society met today (Monday) to pack the finished work, ready to be forwarded this week.

Miss Adelaide Munro, of Kingston Village, was the week-end guest of her cousin, Miss Thelma McNeil this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Morris are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter, at their home on Pleasant St.

Mrs. Annetta Phinney who has been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Phinney returned to her home at Forest [Glade?] on Saturday last.

Miss Almeda Jackson left on Saturday for her home at Carleton’s Corner, to be present at the wedding of her sister which takes place this week.

Mrs. H.L. Bustin returned to Truro on Monday, the 18th, after spending a few weeks with her mother, Mrs. Amanda Jacques, of this place.

Mr. C.C. Chute who recently was a patient in a New York hospital having undergone three operations, returned to his home on Wednesday last very much improved in health – so much for medical science of the present day.

A genuine “January thaw” visited us the first of last week, followed by a rather light snow fall, sufficient to make fair sleighing and the farmers here began to haul out wood from their woodland thus taking advantage of [illeg.]

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[illeg.] … with their Principal, Miss [illeg.], and Mr. Burgess Wheaton as teamster, enjoying a sleigh ride to Middleton last Saturday evening, where they took in the Nicklet, returning in a rain storm, wet, but happy – Who said they didn’t make any noise on the way?

The war dogs of Germany are certainly waxing bold when they tackle England, and still the war goes on! Being “only a woman” we are not supposed to understand war news as well as some of the sterner sex, but we feel sorry to see our brave Canadians sent to the front to be killed off like sheep, even though their motto is: “Pro patria,” and they have volunteered to fight to the end.

SOURCE : “Melvern Square”. The Weekly Monitor and Western Annapolis Sentinel, no. 42, vol. 42,  27 Jan. 1915, pp.2. Canadiana, https://n2t.net/ark:/69429/m04b2x34p95j .

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