MURCHISON.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13913, 20 October 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

MURCHISON.

Murchison continues to supply its quota for the front; and on Saturday evening last a largo number of residents- assembled at Thomason's Hall to bid good bye to the members of our latest contingent. During the evening tho men were "each presented with a . cefv of military hairbrushes- as a mark of the esteem in which; they aro held by the'residents'of the . district. Hie men leaving were Messrs It. Goodycr, J. Russell, H:BV Hayes, R. Burns 0. H. Gibson, D.Ndrriss; A. Garbett. W. Mum-o, E. Hughes, ;'t. King, ami W. McKenzie. Mes.srs J. Bunri, J). James, L. Harris; and R. Symonds. who bad already left, will have their gifts forwarded •to them. * • Mr C. HBtjlby, in making the presentations, spoke of tho terrific-strength of theGeru;aii war machine, aiid made a powerful appeal to thb£a v.h.> h<a<.l not already given in their names to do >o. at once. In tlm rnornmtr over a ■hundred citizens i'nc! about the same number of school cbiklren assembFed at the Post Offieo to ?eo tl:© m«n leave. Shore patriotic speeches wt;re mad-3 by Messrs Kraser, Fairhall, Common, and I*rown h a verse of t3)e National, Anthem was sung, and the co.rs mo/ed off to the accempaniment of ringing elifer*.. The •irLf n arc. a ■ire sturdy llort r and should; give a good account of themselves.