Portier Curtains, Lace ftains and Draperies in lisive styles and not to found elsewhere in the are carrying at thi. of the year a very 'ete stock at prices ll appeal to the closest gnolcums we show t live to be found rices that mean 4 money-saving tg RSONAL MENTION. "PASSING OF THE OLD YEAR WAS The People -- What Saying And Doing: srapam, Sydenham, i« v WHOSE CLOSING DAY FULL OF CHANGES. Bes ing "8s fn the city. go Misf rie Mae Truesdell, is vis | it The Ever Surviving Custom of | Miss tessie Acton, Ganasogus, Watching the Old Year Out--| BD. J Cavs, real estate rokor. i Solemn Services Held in | boro for Toronto on a Various Churches. tel The old the frst of th W ry, pa the nirs 3 ios ime of the ad Fhe the a the sun basiness M. Hugo, Watertown, New _ Year's with friends orney cen werbial Jour; city. Florence t of street MchowaH, yesterday © Bertrim, Miss Parham, is of life, Lillian Wright, send about th What food that gapersiitions rele tion ! 1 " g, clear and hight, Crown." N.Y- . © 8 oo 2 hy, pry Robert Massie and wife, Ottawa, ped forth. av. intervalsg] 1eft for home after a week's visit with followed again b their parents here. hada ¢ Fron: Wan J 0 Rielly and family left to- bitterly Ad wight Cornwall, after a visit with the astrologers. . will friends in th ty. < * What did Frank W. Coates, spent New. Year's with his father, lig Coates, Brockville. Frank Taylor, Tornwrly a clerk in the okl' Ontario bank, is a candidate for alderman in Ottawa. Mr. Taylor, Perth, spent New Year's as the guest of his daughter, Mes Felix Bhaw, Bagot street. R. F. Drury, B.A, London, Eng., spoke in Portsmouth on *'Seriprure Reading" yesterday aiternoon. W. D. 'Hart, manager of the Stand- ard bank, willleave soon for Japan, on a three months' sight-secing visis, Mra. A, Traynor, Toronto, spendieg holide with her mother, Mn B. Hawley, 100 Brock stro turned home to-day. R. Pe Berdt Hovell, was a visitor. in the ity is touring the world awd is favorals Vv impressed with Cann la. J. Allicon Lawrenes, Y.M.( retary, has retirned from sant Christiips Jutiduva spent ricids at Spr Id, Mas John Dpdda, steambo®® inspector, Toronto, ig spending a few days in tha city, He is an old Kingstonian, who has many friends here, Messrs. Simpson, John and Matthew Kane, have to~ Wateriown, afer spending their vacation . with their parents on Bagot st The remains of the la wish Harley were taken over sland Wednesday and plac Roman 'Catholic vanlt there to await interment in: the spring. The funeral was le y attended. A concert was on Thursday ever ry young péople from the the number was Miss | ram, Parhaiil, who dont solos in vary sweet voice Mi Minnie VIROWE, a graduate nurse and medallist from the King ston geneval hospRal, following her in Ottawa, arrived in the oily yesterday 'on a visit to old friends. She is en toute to Toronto to permanently de there with her mother, day was t storm for mors darks sna ll-s1 J a culm, then tle chang ig wings day wi ¥ » Princes from treet, trip re a to briuging bluster; day for Oo a wong those sig | ls | ignity A =) 8 Princess street, Wil of " v £ cold picrdin r, the church | tobled requiem of vear, the Peaiings Sour and hollow on the rried alo sto spend the clos prayer and supplication | ol watching icht bri asleventh he r hour he out win 8 of In St. Andrew Andrew's chu A rge number « } solemn & i by Rey More Yenrg and Moments Hark My Swelling," ot Tue A. somo ane plea- with hymns' * was itish un of " The the w vias amd the | ithiul servants; : lication chovds. "Eo 1 am e to the en wiet words of our Lord to tf 1 ciples, took His departs os v short disvour # remaining mis there 'was si'ent hurch bells p another v t the Gloria cam long metre « climax to the prayer tendere alwe ton ith of o ansolation spoken cre he toxt of fow Year, the of vou Pwiing of the o rayer, d and ar the licth airtifnl words of from the pulpit The xol , fitting eolemun 88 a at Westin a num! f ity Among Bert two giv ---- in odist" Churches. Methodist church the well{fille Appro sreayer ofier Péalm rewd Covenant In In Broek lotture ro priate hvu eid and t we the ny hymn Eber G ly fro hall ence EE uted § werd sung, twenty-third yoir creed, {sang and my, BA. B.8e., atthew xxiv, end come. the end of profession "And the on s made refer year, and fi the doing ---------------------- -A CLEVER TROUPE, it we are continually for the last time. service in. Quedn «treet Metho vech was _gleo Targely attended ng regation sang several Wyng, the pastor, Rev. Dr. Apthiff," ad d the cgngregation, {aking ps subivet the words, "Let us atk J Lhe. L that are past." He > fro: shown us in the Is we have had, and p learned irom them. © the lessons of the ER EhGat we could learn in the future. A midwight, the ir heads in silent pRition they re aging of the belly of a new Vear. vice in Syden ist church was Roung people. The pb, gave a brid a mes of the OM Values spoke of merc op dy Of trials dnd of changes On the feelings of regret f With the old netessitly of now re A number of ap she, and as g knell Two Splendid Performances Tyo & Dunigan's Minstrels. As clever a minstrel performance as the most fastidious grould desire to sot is that given by fo & Dunigan's cloves troupe of amateurs wo per formances given yoatonday to "overflowing - house the vy hall being taxed to ts fullest capacity both afternoon and evening, and the ation: wer ghly apprecia i composed en pa young 'Kingstonians, all performers, who soquitted in their several roles ig highly creditable #o by were promising themsvlves manner selves. in the opening part solog dored by W. Murray, T. Barry. R. McLaughl by, J. Wakh, Frank and E. Beaupre, new, and amg occasion for, Cres wa The J CITY AND VICINITY. INCDENTS OF THE n | PARAGRAPHS PICKED ur BY The Cold. OUR BUSY Y REPORTERS, Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets care A cold The Spice of { Every Day Lite b 9 dap. No cure, no pay. | What the People Are Talking ' { Avout--Nothing Escapes Police Court--Thursday. 4 tention. t the ice wiing of Portsmouth * school Charles curs this evening ta seket a { Stops The Cough And Works Of court this ter the Notes of Sport. ! option 961, : 1901 jail only day, to yesterday, was' vary not quite + S---------- | Great Sale Of Clothing. Prevost is selling boys' suits for $2. boys' reelors for 8.35, boys' over coats for $3.30, men's overcoats for | men's all wool suits for $6.75. % is a genuine Shap and great var + iety to choose from. A score of new menthers Will bé ud mitted to the bicycle club at its next arthly meeting, The Portsmouth philosopher Says | that a mun may have a weak voles and still nse strong language. This morning's market was alm v of sight. Omly two or three took up their positions on the sc The Totel Dieu gratefully ack edges the roeeipt of £30 from bis wor-| ship, 1 or Kent, as a New Year's gift to t i" hospital, W. Reid, the Umion street poultry fancier, will send about 100 fine birds to Montreal to be exhibited at the poultry show which beging there on Januury Oth, A quiet welding took place on hi istinas ht at the home of E, Smith's Falls, when his second uphiter, Miss Annie, wak um for lite with Peter "M. Hunter, of South | Elmsle 4 The officials' of the Canada life | sorance company = met the mew year | | { i | | J. J #mes of age, dence of his Clergy strest { by focomatng steamboat in Jutinsen Dead. fiv eight ¥ the Whitney's shipped to Auditor. been made Nasty Jabn Whitetn England | seEretary-treanu } railway' compa resign 88 awit ! nt Sharbot La pomtinent residence in ving A Drive To Elginburg On the even party ve drave out and My they Phat the start with ou smile as brond gs a V bast. year's husidess was the on pecopd=over $9.000,000 and ever $7.000.000 paid for, Chere is no one article in the line of medicines that gives so large a re turk for the money as a good porous strengthening © plaster, such as Car Smart Weed. and Delladonna Plasters, temperature. lowered very rapid Tuepday, evening, und at mid thepluomwter was sevors! oe ero, a drop of thirty de twelve hows. This morning rive of. over twenty-live pancake, ent of wish spent 30M arranged the of the party To Chose A Candidate. On Tuesde the tives met to wt a candida mong. ht date, but not for on in was a (Tees g was ther } as that adjourn H "Better for a man to be laid in the Cataragui, than te enter up Now Yooar without a gundiog God or a sorshipping soul !" the words of Mr. Mackie in wort discourse at. the watchnight viee in St, Andrew's church. In the January Cosmopolitar Elisha Benjamin Andrews, dent of Brown university, private comtroct school book educational officials corrupte books often the poorest selected, and |i} the prices paid by the children them | solver of the highest annual tax going up into the millions which sould be very easily avoided if the organization brought in to James Met we his Another + Cause Al ler McF: i t} man an The Last Session of 0 The court » wind up revision ruet were x FIOM of The before ONLY ONE ACCLAMATION. Those Who Have Dropped Out and Remaining Candidates. Alderman McMahon surprised his friends by resigning from the alder- namic contest in Sydenham ward, thereby allowing the three remaining candidates to be elected by acclama tion. In all seven candidates we minated, those resigning being: as Gallagher, W. F. Nickle; Stewart and Andréw MeéMahon. three aldermen elec br W. G. Craig and hast named g elect, bu fices a consi of the fe yeerved Festival Yesterday wa Thom { James | The wlebrated | Canthi choir {In gave Thos sung Owed Jnirm Edward in be anid sisted paced nd half a sta svete 10 Frontd nquet of We 1 Be Iie Re race bership 190: NM her 'ws Rho ie | X13 NGSTON HOCKEYISTS 'WON BY SIX TO TWO. Perth Was Outplayed in the Sec-| ond Hali--Ottawa May Go Af- Stanley Cup--General hy nd ad but MeDow dell has rby FRONTENACS BEATE PERTH. | Does No 5 he New Ihseow i Xt 5 RPM EERE EE , EERE RAE REE EEN, to Purser R SL rig welentifie Gain I a a | v used Sinare sheonie oases, ade so fer ax 49 a, Te sayw: vd almost Every # from Stuarts wploimd ms of onnerh FA Sunes or your #00 yoa buy Scr "