Siiimirier Prices FURS Remade and Remodelled John McKay LIMITED. 149-157 Brock St. i, FORMED cANSPIAN | CLUB Ox THURSDAY AFTERNOON. Mrs. O. D. Skelton Is Presidént--The Club Will Begin Its Activities In The Autumn. A large and representative meeting of the women of Kingston was held in the Board of Trade rooms. on Thursday afternoom to discuss . the organization of a Women's Canadian Club. . It was the unanimous opin- fon that Kingston should fall into line with the other leading cities of Canada in this matter, and give the women of the gity an opportunity. to secure the same broadening of view and quickening of interest that the men's Canadian~ Club has brought. A copstitution was drawn up and adopted, and permanent officers elected as follows: Hon. president--Miss Agnes Maule Machar, President--Mtrs. O. D. Skelton. 1st vice-president--Mrs. John Mae Gillivray. 2nd vice-president--Mrs, Mylks, Hon: corresponding = secretary--- Migs W. Gordon. Hon. | recording M. Redden. Hon. treasurer--Mrs. A. E. Ross. Convener of programme committee «Mrs, Alexander Laird. Additional members of the execu- #ive---Mrs. G. H. Ogilvie, Mrs, A. Newlands, Miss 1. Bureau. The club intends to begin its ac- tivities in the autumn and hopes its membership roll will soon include Bundregs of Kingston's public-spirit- ed'w Gerdon secretary--Miss FOR SALE it TK QUART Just the thing for cooking, feeding chie- kens, ete. Dairy Co. University Ave. Phone © | artistic, ® ade. " (os: n or moh, ' VAUDEVILLE AT THE GRAND. Gaby Deslys In Photo-Play, Entitled "Her Triumph." The high standard and excellence of the programme at the vaudeville entertainment ldst evening drew a capacity audience, Jimmy Dodd displayed his ability as a musical artist by his high-class performance on a number of mugical instruments. On the original Frenth horn, he played "Unblossom Time"; on a miniture picealo, "The Garden of My Heart"; on musical gloves with concealed automobile horns, he rendered a novelty num- ber; on a. maribaphone and xylo: phone combined, an instrument of his own conception, he sang a medley of popular airs. He used special Scenery with a velvet drop covered with pennants. Rowley and Francisca won favor by the excellence of their perform- ance. Miss Franeisca sang "Dub- lin Bay." Their first dance wis en- titled "From Home to the Masquer- Then they gave the cake walk from c¢ld time up to the pres- ent day and contluded with the . tango. The Mutual two-reel photo-play was 'The Mystery of the Wooden Leg." The Pathe News film, disc difterent scenes, and the comedy play was 'Ambrese's First = Falsehood." The 2 Paramount Film Company ee same will be presented Satur- day, matinee and evening. KINGSTON IN THE LEAD. Members of Frontenac Cheese Board Made Money. "You will notiee that we had & good price last week, and those who boarded their roca Share money," sa Ham: ar, secre- tary of the Ay jan Cheese Board, addressing the members at the regu- lar meeting on Thursday afternoon. He i to the fact'that at onday's § meeting the officers. Board il elect its The pair's dancing was | . Colb made | 98Y se | St Aguis sleareq for WANTS TO BE AN OFFICER Arthur Don May Attend the Ameri. can West Point College. Being saable to secure admission to the Royal Military College, Arthur Don, & young Chinese student who lately attended the Kingston Colleg- fate Institute, told a Whig reporter that he was now awaiting a certifi- cate from the Chinese Consul at Ot tawa to enable him to proceed to New York City and enter the mili- tary school at West Point to train for an officer in the Chinese Army. He said he was eighteen years of age and was born at Tokio; Japan, where he resided until he was six years of | age. He also asserted that his mo- ther was a Japanese lady. Arthur is bent on becoming an of- ficer and although he was born in Japan and has all the features of & Japanese, more fo than a Chinese, he is anxious to go.into the Chinese Army and see his country some day take a leading place among the na- tions of the world. He has a let- 'Iter from a Chinese student of San Francisco asking him to obtain the signatures of all the intelligent Chi- nese in sor about Kingston, toa peti- tion which is going to be forwarded to the Chinese Government appeal ing to its members to have the pres- ent symbolical system eliminated ahd substituted by an alphabet; whereby learning may be made eas- ier for the Chinese people. -Anrthur Don stated that at present there are 300,000,000 people in China who had no learning and this new movement it i thought by = the learned Chinese. scholars of America will lessen this terrible state of illiteracy: A couple of Arthur Don's composi- tions appeared in the Whig while he was attending the Collegiate Institu- te. SAPP EEFIRR EPR PS LETTERS APPRECIATED. Tetters received from boys at he front or in the various train- FESS 2204422020292 2 0% ; a + IN. MABINE CIRCLES. Sa Movements of Vessels Reported Along the Harbor, Steamer Jex, coal-laden from Os. wego, is unloading at Crawford's wharf. Schooners Andrews and Bt. Louis cleared for Oswego. Steamer Rhodes, unloading a car- go 'of oats at Richardson's elevator, cleared for Port Colborne. : Steamer Buena Vista and. Waffle cleared for Oswego. M. T. Co.'s Bulletin: Tug Emer- rived this afternoon from Port 6 with b Blrma dnd Dunmore loaded with grain; Emer- son cleared for Montreal with two ain barges ra Inland, Sarnia, - passed down at noon Thursday. mer Natironco and barge down Thursday I aYaninr: an route to . the Atlantie coast. Steamer lonie, down 8 p.m Thurs Steamer. Glonmount leit the Kings- toh Shipbuilding Drydock on Friday morning, and the steamer Ames will enter in a day or two for repairs. Steamer Turedt, Cape is due up on A Britannic is. due from SE 2 Frida, Me a 'Abbis La a raw and Oswego on Fri- morning. camer 3 Jacques. is due uw on Fri- day. iu Lr Th a of 4s at the n a This success. | SEPIELIEIEILP0 040 Is Very Marked During During the Past Few | Weeks. f Thomas Kelly, Ordnance sireet has! rAceived a leiter from his brother, | Bdr. James Kelly, with the Indian contingent at the front, and in it the wonderful work of the Canadians' is referred to. The wriler says: "The Canadians have made a name for themselves all along the battle front: as fighters, and their record will go back to homes all over the world," Further he said that up to a few | weeks ago the Allies had made very little progress, in fact were in about the samo position as last October, but for tho last few weeks splendid pro- gress had been made. ° The contest is now one of numbers, and the Ger: mans have troops and troops on the firing line. These will without doubt be beaten eventually, but he says that "a few mothers' sons will answer their iast roll-call before this is ac- complished." He refers to Where they are now.as the "'Gates of Hell"! and remarks that the name came Tom the almost comtinuous Artillery re. viiiia ATHLETICS ET CAMP, Arranged For at a Meeting on Thurs. day Night. 3 Thursday evening there was a meet- ing of the Y. M: C..A; at the camp, when an: Athletic Association : was formed to look after the needs of the soldiers while in camp. The differ: ent units were represented by well. known athletes, among whom were Bert. Stronach, the famous outside wing player and all-around athlete; of Ottawa. Every line of sport is well covered at the camp, including baseball, soccer, lacrosse and aqua tics, and in addition *'social evenings" will be arranged for. Different events will be held on Saturdays. The following officers were elected: Hon- orary president, Col. T. D. R. Héem- ming; Vice Hon, President, Lieut.- Col. E. C. Arnoldi; President, Capt. Woods; Vice-President, Lieut. Rog- ers; Secretary-Treasurer, J. W. Pat. terson, Physical Director of the Y. MC. A The purpose of the association is to get as many of the men as pos- sible into the sports, and at the same time to bring the best players to- gether. The association will carry on games ech week, and the best in these will play off with thelr Tespec: tive units. Stole From Employer, Sylvester Strong, Bathurst, hired a young Scotchman on Saturday for half a month, but on Monday morn- ing he left; taking $17 of his employ- er's money with him. Mr. Strong missed the money after Scotty left, and started in pursuit. He traced him to Sharbot Lake, and swore out 4 warrant for him, and got word of him on the C. P. R. going north, Mr. Strong and Constable Tomlison fol- lowed as far ag Oso Station and phoned from there to Clarendon, ask- = Constable Thomas Kirkham to be on the look-out, giving a desorip- tion of the man. It wasn't haa | Jong. untily to at came that a 4 just arrived there, so-Constable. Kir ham arrested him and took him to Sharbot Lake, ~ They found all the money on him, and gave him a light sentence, Crucified a Soldier. James R. Butler, of - Portsmouth, has received a letter dated May 13th trom his son, Private George, who is under Col. A, E. Ross, with No. 1 Ambulance Corps. He says he is well, but that he has heel Jo too ey to write. At.the present me quarters in a school house, wh or is 0. K. Before this be slept in a barn where cows and pigs wi "But it was not too ao bade add- ed. "And we qe, Sood food here. The first brigade had a memorial ser- vice for our dead comrades. . While the service was on guns Were boom- ing at our left; above us aeroplanes were flying, no doubt looking trouble; at our right oad, comrades were buried. ¢ "The Germans say they Would rather face a Ghurk a Canadian. They say We are sav "The Germ & member f the 48th Highlanders, so you can PE RR market. feet in every detail. in New York City. Hear them at the store. thing in Music." . THE CRESCENT TALKING MACHINE, $15.00. 11 is equal to any $35.00 Instrument on the Beautifully 'made in quartered oak, per- Sold by us at the same price as A machine for every home. LITTLE WONDER K RECORDS, Pricc 15c.-- Millions are being sold monthly of these it ecords. List eontains all (he lead- ing popular and standard numbers. POPULAR MUSIC, 2 for 26c.; Saturdays 01ly --The only store in Ontario, since. the increase in duty, that sells Popular musie at 2 for 25¢. & 'Every- Book Store for |. 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