Etc. -- Wingrove insulted
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A lightly edited partial transcript of Simcoe column on page 1 of 18 Jul 1918 Waterford Star.

Simcoe

Simcoe, 11 Jul 1918 -- John Stuard [sic] of Glenshee, 
a rural centre about nine miles west of here, was 
before Squire Hutchinson at Port Rowan on Monday, charged with uttering statements detrimental to the national interests. He was fined $25 and costs, amounting to about $20 more.

One of his neighbors, Pte. George Wingrove, the father 
of a large family, has returned from overseas  with  a 
plate in his skull, having miraculously escaped death. Before enlisting in 133rd Battalion, he was by hard work supporting his family.

It was while dining with several others in a home in the neighborhood, and in the presence of a near relative of Pte. Wingrove, that Stuard is said to have remarked lightly something to the effect that not patriotism, 
but an easy way to have his family supported, prompted Wingrove to enlist.


 

 
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