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but subscriptions were invited from the floor for 

 twenty-five dollar shares. Promises amounting to 

 fifteen thousand dollars were forthcoming, and 

 the executive was instructed to take the neces- 

 sary steps to implement the meeting's desire. 



A Board of Trustees of the funds was ap- 

 pointed, consisting of Messrs. J. J. Morrison, 

 G. A. Brodie of Newmarket, J. N. Kernighan 

 of Goderich, A. A. Powers of Orono, and Col. 

 J. Z. Frazer of Burford. Of this body Col. 

 Frazer was appointed chairman and Mr. 

 Morrison, Secretary-Treasurer. 



Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the 

 demand for a farmers' organ was the persistently 

 expressed aspiration for a daily newspaper. 

 Some of the most enthusiastic supporters of the 

 movement were sanguine enough to believe that 

 a million dollars could easily be raised to 

 finance the venture, and thus put it at once in a 

 position to compete against powerful organs 

 that had been circulating throughout the pro- 

 vince for more than three quarters of a century. 



It will help the reader to understand this 

 persistent demand for a daily, if he bears in mind 

 that the War was the all-absorbing centre of 

 interest, and that the operation of the Military 

 Service Act had brought home to many a rural 

 community in a new way the sacrifices de- 

 manded by war. The farmer, who ordinarily 



