Daily British Whig (1850), 9 Sep 1915, p. 9

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The Best at any price, "YOUR Consideration Is Earnestly Solicited TO TEST OUR BETTER CLOTHES. Prices: Suits Fall Overcoats $15, $18, $20, $22 $12, $15, $18, $20 We're proud of our. selections. Livingston's, Brock St A little out of the way, but it will pay you to walk. THE DAILY pRIMIER whe. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9 1915. NURSING SISTER TELLS TRIP OF THE QUEEN'S. 5TA- TIONARY. HOSPITAL | OF From England To Egypt--The Trip Was Enjoyed--Hospital Is Loeat- ed In Mexandria, The following etter received by stine from her, ter Abernethy, Aug. 13th: If you could see me now 'you would find me seated on a cot' bed in ward "D" on board the Red Cross steamer Asturias of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Line, with my bag and baggage ready to-be gent ashore any minute. We have been lying in dock here two days and -are now waiting to be 'taken ashore to be sent down: to Cairo this afternoon. If you --eould have known our joy two days ago when we learned our fate, No. 5 Canadian Stationary to proceed to Cairo while Nos. 1 and 3 £0 to the little island of Lemnos off the Gallopoli Peninsu.a, in time we likewise shall follow them but at | present we go to a hospital of 500 beds, now under the care of the Im perials but to be turned over to us on our arrival, It has been a wonderfu! trip, wu sailed out of Southampton under sealed orders for Malta on the lar- gest Red Cros§ Steaniér afloat. "It seems wonderful 'the way the _big snip has been reconstructed, the Lierths torn out and wards made of 40 beds each. The lounge has been utilized as a dining room and anoth- ler room converted into an operating room. |. We had a splendid trip London to | Folkestone, «meeting our officers there on the following morning and {then went on to Southampton. A day out from Southampton in the Bay of Biscay almost everyone on beard ship was very sick for a few hours at least, I had my turn with the others, but was all over with it in an hour. The next day's sailing| | was better and from that on it was | ideal; We passed through 'the Straits of Gibraltar at 2.30 a.m., but it was too dark to sec even the out- line of that famous rock, just af- ter that we came in sight of :ha coast of Spain, the Serra Nevada { mountains with their fleecy snow | tops against the blue sky were very| beautiful. The coast line was fre- | quently seen from that time -on. Spain and Portugal and. also peeps at the African coast, and on Sunday | morning at six o'clock we lay at an- are portions of a Mrs. T. M. Assel- sister, Nursing Sis- dated at Alexandria, J chor a mile off Malta at its capital city of Valdetta. We had service on board, the text dealing with that chapter in the | Acts which tel's of Paul's landing at | Malta. The island is about as b 1] |as Wolfe Island, yet it has a popu-| tation of *184,000. Imagine the excitement and inter- | est at. receiving orders at Malta to | proceed to Alexandria, where our | unit was te be left. After leaving Malta we lost sight of land entirely and sailed at top Speed through the wonderful blue water. I had often | heard of the wonderful blue of the | Mediterranean and have not been 'disappointed; just a wonderful sap- phire blue, or if you had a tub of wa- | CHEESE TOOK A JUMP. Sold at 14 13-16 Cents On the Board | On Thursday. Evidently there is a great demand for cheese this week. On the Fron Board Thursday after noon cheese sold at 14 13-16 cents There was boarded 80 boxes of white and 639 boxes of colored. Mr Smith purchased the entire offering] with the exception of Bay View at the price mentioned. The following factories boarded: « White-- Verona, 50; Rose-Hill, 30 Colored-- Arigan, 28; Elm-Grove 35; Cold-Spring, 90; Glenburnie, 30; ilenvale, 60; Bay View, 67; Ontaria, Susbury, 60; St. Lawrence, 41; Thousand Islands, ; Wolfe Island, 41; rac Cheese 25; Siver Springs 44; Elginburag, Gilt Edge, R. J. Draper in' the absence Richard Moore renee on ON THURSDAY. 25. occupied the chair of the. president, BASEBALL International League. Richmond, 5; Buffalo, 4 Rochester, 5; Providence, 3 Montreal-Jersey City, rain. American League. Chicago, 10; Detroit, 9. St. Louis, 5; Cleveland, 4 Washington, 1; New York, 0. Philadelphia, 1; Boston, 0. Boston, 13; Philadelphia, 2. National League. Boston, 12; Brooklyn, 1 Joston, 4; Brooklyn, 1. St. Loui ; Chicago, 0 Philadelphia, 9; New York, 2. ' Federal League. Kansas City, 7; Pittsburgh, Buffalo, 4; Baltimore, 0. Buffalo, 5;-Baltimore, 4. Brooklyn, 6; Newark, 4. Brooklyn, 3 wark, ( WHAT ABOUT THIS ? | piling the lists. They Ate It Up. Who Did ? body. Ate what? The Broken Coin, the | new big serial story featuring Fran-| cis Ford and Grace Cunard. The | first episode was seen by thousands yesterday at the Ideal Theatre. Everybody proclaimed it a hummer. Ask your friends. It will be shown again to-night for the fast time. Don't miss it. Never mind the heat; we have eight fans going and five ex- its leading to open air. Follow the crowd to the Ideal Theatre Every- aT) | were won by W. {test between a team from Inverary | {and a combination aggregation { Ponies from the , The Late Mrs. L. S. Clark. At her late residence, 236 Wel-| lington street, cn Wednesday even- ing, Allie Jane Nicholson, widow of the late Louis S. C.ark, passed to rest | after an illness of eight weeks. Eigh-| ty-one years and nine months ago the | deceased was born in the Township | {of Ernesttown where the greater | military land will be asked why they have not |'ing: | going to make them join. led." AFTER THE SLACKERS BRITAN TO "HAV E A MORAL PRESSURE CAMPAIGN. The Government Commitee Reports As To the Best Metn.d Of Using Natiousal Registration, London, Sept. 9 It is officially announced that a Gevermment com- mittee under the chairmanship of' the Marquis of Lansdowne, which was recently appointed to advise as to the best method of using national regis- tration for the successful prosecu- tion of the war, has agreed upon an interim report dealing provisionally with the 'conditions under which the registration returns from men of age will be available for use _.in tie departments concerned.| The report also indicates approxi-| mately the classes which in the pub- fic interest should not be approach- ed by the recruiting authorities. .| The foregoing. is regarded as firming reports of a proposed re- cruiting campaign by moral pressure, Men of military age have been elim- inated from the registration returns,! and their records entered in special 'pink forms. These men, according to the Daily Mail, will be visited at| their homes by recruiting agents,| New Autumn Materials Complete Stocks Full Assortments _ In spite of the facet there is a great shortage just now in Dress Goods, we are showing a large stock, because we commenced to prepare last January and succeeded in securing many ma- terials now impossible to secure at any- thing like the prices we are now asking. ensisted. From the results of this prelimin- ary canvass the recruiting commit- tees will tabulate these who are con-| sidered as not having adequate reas-| on for 'declining to enlist, and those) are assumed to be delinquents. They will, then be revisited and will be worried indefinitely by the recruit- ing agents. A member of the recruiting com-| mittees in-London is quoted ah say- "We afe after the real slackers, fit young men without any resp nsi bilities who refuse to serve. We are We shall worry them until they do. Every discretion will be exercised in com- Parents and others having dependents will not be press- PLAIN AND NOVELTY SUITINGS CHEVIOT SERGES FRENCH SERGES COATING SERGES POPLINS SUITING SERGES AND MANY OTHERS In Silks New THE INVERARY FAIR. Wednesday Afternoon--Rain || Was a Drawback. | The Inverary Fair held on Wed- nesday afternoon was not so largely attended as previous years. Dur- ing the course of events a heavy downpour of rain for almost twenty minutes had a damaging effect. The chief features of the day included sports, such as horse-racing,in which the trial speed of buggies was car- | ried out and the event-won by W. Kent, Latimer, with Charles Stoness, | Inverary, a elese second. The run- ning race was won by W. Kent and | | P, Kelly, Glenburnie. Hurdle races | Kent and J. Perry. game was hotly con- ON We are showing a number of ! Silk Materials. BLACK SOIREE SILK, wide, at BLACK DUCHESS SILKS, 36 inches wide $1.25, $1.00, $1.49 BLACK TAFFETA SILKS, 36 inches wide A baseball ani 36 inches of Kingston Senior | Baseball League and some players | from Missouri, a village lying north of Inverary. The '"*Allies" won by the score of 5 to 4, but had it not been for the accident received by "Bert" Geraldi, the catcher for the! home team, the latter had a fair | chance of winning. Mr. Geraldi's ter just a little too blue. for bluing | portion. of her'life was spent. At| right hand was badly split between | white clothes. | the latter place as well as for the the first and second fingers by the | The meals are not as gpod as on | past five years, which had+been spent | ball, compelling him to stop playing the Metagama, but the weather is so {in Kingston, Mrs. Clark was widely and hurry to see a doctor. mild and enervating that keen appe- | known by scores of friends. In re-| AERO PN tites are rather tare. We walk | ligion the deceased was a Methodist | A Barefoot Millionaire. the decks for miles every day, and |and member of Broek Street Chui h, Rankin Clemmons, "barefoot mil- played various games. We had. con=|the pastor of which, Rev. G. S. Clen-|lionaire,"" lias just died at the-age of | certs in the evening. I enjoyed | dinnep, will officiate at the aCe ninety. . He owned more land than every minute of it. Every one wad | service to' be he'd at her late resi-|any single 'holder in all the Blue generally agreeable. You know-1 | dence Fridav morning. Cross region of Kentucky. He am-| had been in France, and had seen | To mourn her loss there ure one|assed a miilion dollars by his oie very little of our own officers, know- | sister, Mrs. 'A. A. Wood, city. and strenuous and persistent efforts. He ing those of No. 1 better. 1 find No. | five grand-children; Mrs, J. Roy Ed- | used to walk barefoot in the sums] 6 officers very pleasant, and they | gar, St. Thomas, Mrs. William Dav- | mer, thought money wasted in buy. | BLACK TAFFETA SILKS, 36 inches $ wide BLACK TAFFETA SILKS, 36 inches « wide COLORED TAFFETA SILKS COLORED DUCHESS SILKS BLOUSE SILKS, a number of novel- ies. Suitings and ' -- Cloakings We have been very fortunate in obtaining our ii early purchases of Navy Blue and Black Serges. Scotch Tweedsand English - Cloakings At old prices. These we are now offering at fully 30 per cent. less than to-day's price. * cm Magnificent Showing 0 ~ New Fall Coats Over 500 to select from. New Fall Suits Over 300 new ideas. A plea: are to ave you inspect these New | York and London aN ffl | again, seeing the gardens, etc. have all been most kind. | Two days ago we landed at Alex- | andria, or rather anchored in the | harbor. We had not been there long | when several small sailing boats | manned by Arabs in their loose | trousers and their little red fez or | cap, came, ready to take the passen- | gers ashore, = We secured permis- | sion from Col. Etherington, and a | party, with Major Kidd and Major | Thompson, who is ohe of the chap- | lains of No. 5 unit, went ashore, but we had great bargaining with the | boatmen before we got there. It | was great fun. We walked through the lower part of the city, with its | smells, its children, its goats, all in | the same "dooryard. We took a Aram. car and went through-the Turk-.| ish and Arabian quarters. The town | seemed rather familiar. It is just so like what one has seen in biblical | pictures and the staging of some of | our recent plays; for instance, "The | Garden of Allah," "Kismet," and the | bazaars were not unlike the midway | at the Pan-Ameritan held in Buffalo. The following day we drove about The public buildings were closed - for three 'days, as it happened to be a celebration of some religious form {or other. They said it was similar to the English Christmas. The sun is very hot during the middle of the day, but aside from that I have expe- rienced warmer weather in our own country." DISORDERLY ON TRAIN. Military Police Nabbed Soldier at Outer Station. Disorderly conduct on a train is a very serious offence to be charged with. When the International Lim- ited arrived at the outer station on Thursday afternoon Constables Stan- ton and Eccles, of the military police force, were called upon to escort a drunken soldier from the train, as He had been creating a disturbance jon the train on the way up from Brockville, While being brought to the police station in an automo- | bile he played ok "high Jinks" with the constables, and k away from them, but did-mot Had the constables been ovaed with handeuls they: would 'have had no trouble . Constable Cherry Out. a lingering illness, |ary, [ husband and two sons: | tor, Los 'Angeles, Cal; | View have disappea tof Annie Revell, Charles Re- Keith Merrin, Belleville. is, Mrs. vell, city; | Late Mrs, Albert Rector. The remains of the late Mrs. Al | hert Rector, who died in Watertown, N.Y.; on Wednesday mcrning, after arrived in the city aboard the Cape boat Thursday morning and were taken in charge by 8. S. Corbett, who conveyed them to Latimer Cemetery where | hurial took place. The deceased was born at Inver: Seventy-five years ago and had resided in Watertown with her son for the past five years. In religion) she was a Methodist. To mourn her loss there are al George Rec-| Walter Rec- Two brothers also] Perry, Inverary,! Portage lal tor, Watertown. survive, Sheldcn and Wesley Perry, | Prairie. AUSTRI ANS HA HAVE VE DISAPPE ARED. | May Have Feared Internment For For Not Having Cards Signed. | Niagara Falls, Sept. 9.--Belicving, it is supposed, that they would be! interned until the war is over be-| cause th¢y have failed to have their | parole cards signed regularly, halt a dozen Austrian residents of Falls peared. How they got out of the country is not Niwa but is understood that the polica; Lave a clue.that they were smugg. ed! across the river in box cars. It was reported a few days age that a party of Austrians at Falls View and Mont-| rose were drilling regularly, using} brooms for guns. Investigations, | however, have failed to substantiate the report. There are about 200 | Austrians at Falls View and Mon" | rcse, but only a few of them are! reservists, it is said. NAPANEE HOTELKEEPER Loses His Liquor Licemse For Six i y ke (Special to the Whi x Toronto, Sept. 8.--The a ibe. of | James McViear, license holder of the Paisley House, Napanee, suspended] for four months from Gey tember 11th, and. his bartender, Harry Dubey, has suffered the penalty. me | Police Constable Cherry, who had his leg broken some time ago, was | Peace Talk Does Not Deceive Jews. able to be out the street the | few days for tl Pa "first time since his | removal from Ahe Hotel Dieu to his | hame. Bathberien for ry at Carnovsky's. ER os a cate, at | London, .Sept. 9.--The Jewish | Chronicle, referring to German | peace proposals, says | "We wender whether it is reaily | | believed that the Jews of the United { his life, never bought a newspape:' | cian, - ing clothes, never wore a watch 13 | LINING SILKS, for Suits and Coats or a book, never called on any physi- and was exgeedingly fond »Hf the sunshine. Wheti asked on ly death-bed whether he had anything to say to the coming generation, he replied that everyone shed attend to his own business. SKINNER'S SATINS, in Black and Colors. BELDING UNTEARABLE SATINS Curious Origin. | for Suits and Coats. It is said that the word "teetotal- | er' originated with an English tem- perance orator who: had an mpedi+| ment in his speech, and invariably spoke of t-t-otal abstinence. THE NEW ALTMAN LININGS, in Black, Fawns, Greys; for Suits and Coats; special Downfall in Peaches, Big baskets Crawfords, .60c; small | basket, 25c. None higher on pr at Carnovsky's. Every person entering Newfound-| land must now show his identification | | papers, The United States Consul! | has received his instructions. : Col, T. D. R. Hemming has eon- | sented to allow the soldiers at Bar-| riefield Camp a half holiday tg attend| {| Kingston's Industrial Fair, Mies Iva Denyes, Odessa, is spend-| ing a couple of ng Pp f weeks with her grand- | NAAsss J father in Kingston. \ NEW MADE IN. CANADA ~~ REGALS | Regal Shoes For en. The finest lot of Regal § Shoes we have ever received. Brice the same as before.and better looking boots . ...$4.50, $5.00. and $6.00 IE LOGKET States or elsewhere could a be deceiv- 1} "4 bs 93h a Fanaparont

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