You Pay Less Here----Out Of The High Rent District O CONNOR'S LADIES EXCLUSIVE ExtraSpecialBargains for Saturday Selling ! Our Special Sale Week Ends To morrow, Extra A Few of the Snaps and Inducements. 8 DOZ. PURE WOOL SWEATER COATS 10 DOZ. CHILD'S FLANNELETTE rare at 20 DOZ. NEW WAISTS, 10 DOZ. CHILD'S WHITE WOOL OVERALLS, at 4 DOZ. CHILD'S WHITE BEAR FUR 8 DOZ. LADIES' FURTEX SETTS, 10 DOZ. NEW NOVELTY TIES (Silks, Braids, etc.), SETTS, > DOZ. NEW XMAS NECKWEAR (Boxed), 4 DOZ. NEW SERGE DRESSES; 150 NEW WINTER : COATS Q Indi ents est ¢ all sizes "0 M isges Ladies, At 25 per cent. Discount SEE | -- i 260 Prin cess St. 5 I I { VI all sizes, at MILLINERY (Hn) 1 s Haren s Velvet Shan Hats, At 98c each. 48 TRIMMED HATS new Vel all at $2.69 each vets, at Less Than Wholesale Prices Every OUR WINDOW FOR VALUES J. O'CONNOR | - The Store with the Small Prices. Department Offers $1.49 39¢ and 98c 49c each 69c a sett each each 29¢, 69c¢ each 15¢ each 25¢ each $4.98 each $8.95 COATS $8.95 H) caly new ( of Oars, the lat 11 Dark od C'hevie Misses and 8 Vaile "At $8.95 each made mm thre ne ts 3 sn 80 THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. A safe, reliable regulating | medicine. Bold in three gress of strength--No. 1, 81; 2, $3; No. 3, $5 per box. | Bord by all druggists, or sent | {u prepaid on eceipt of price, 'ree pamphlet. Address; | wood THE COOK MEDICINE CC | ¥ | ToRoTO, ONY. (rormerts Wisdser. Dr ry red p a wanting | Hue of repairs floors elve By 0 een Street. an ng Evtimal REY Christmas Presents may be a if not they soon pass into junk and isting pleasure RUGS All sizes; CARPETS Wiltons, CURTAINS--Madras, PARLOR AND LIVING Phone 90. Yours joy and Brussels, Velvet Brussels See these Our pleasing Furniture Gifts will avoid that hundreds more Axminsters, Brussels Nett, ete ROOM (CHAIRS forever, line of of all pro 1 to 19 Pine et w done in new work; also kinds mpt attention. ERE selected comfortable and prove a floors if wisely useful, danger on our te Over 100 styles hen the carpen- »8 giyen on all kinds hard- All orders | Shop - LALAAL,ALS PTET Make the Happiest- Hearts Footwear is always useful. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR EARLY ' SHOPPERS. Bougloir, Cosy, Comfy and Felt Slippers, in all colors Rubber Boots, Moccasins, Hockey Boots, | Spats and Overgaiters. 111 PRINCESS STREET KINGSTON | veveYvYeTew ST GEORGE'S WOMEN'S AID Tea and Sale Afternoon. | Women's Aid of St IK athedral held a very successful tea gale Thursday afternoon in St | George s hall The following mem- {! ers had charge of the tables | | | on Thursday [Held a | Ine George's! and Home-made--JIrs. W. A. Sawyer (convenor Mrs! H. Robertson, Mrs Harvey Brows Mrs. Robert Suther { land, Miss M. Smith, Mrs. George M | Gowan Apron | teconvenor) | | table-- Mrs J Mrs. E. H Hamilton Finkle, Mrs Claxton | Tea (convenor), Mrs table Miss Annie Muckleson Clark W. Wright, | Mrs. Hodgins, Mrs. Huhbell, Mrs. E J. Bidwell, Mrs. John Twigg, Misses T. Kilburn, Christina White, Bertha White, May Mills, Elsie Pense, Wary Finkle, E. Loucks Frances Wright land Eleanor Mundell { Fancy work table Mrs fconvenor), Mrs. J Brown, Mrs. B. R. Watson, reer, Mrs. W. G. Robinson Candy table--Mrs. Robert land Mrs Brownfield (« | Miss Brownfield, Miss § Miss M. Bidwell Mrs. J. Carson and Taylor received, while ley hadcharge of the | door. The proceeds [$225 Dn' Seels Kent onvenors ) Kirkpatrick Mrs. Norton- Miss E. Bad- plate at the amounted to | IN HOCKEY CIRCLES. | Queen's LN Students Must Get To Play Outside. The Queen's Athletic Committee met Thursday afternoon, and the chief. business discussed was whether re at the college should play { | Permit on an outside hockey team. A mo- tion was passed that no student at the university could play on an out side hockey team withont the consent of the committee. At the Queen's Hockey Club meet- ing the chief business transacted was {the receiving of nominations for the office of secretary-treasurer of the club. The following members were nominated: R. Barnes, M. D. Nichol- son and J. O. McDonald The elec- tioi will take place at next meeting of the Alma Mater Society GET IT FIRST--NOT LAST When a cold grips your system it is | convincing proof that your condition is weakened -- remember thar, Itis risky indeed to simply trust your strength to throw it off, because neglected "colds i have brought more serious sickness | than any other one thing, while weak- ening cathartics and stimulating syrups | aie often depressing and dangerous. | The one best treatment for any cold | --the one so often relied on when others i fail, is the powerful blood-nourishment | in Scott's Emulsion, which feeds the very sources of bodily strength to sup- | ress the present cold and generate | trength to thwart further sickness. Get Scott's first, not last--and insist { on the genuine--always free from in- } jurious "drugs. No advanced prices. i Scott & Bowne. Toronto, Ont. { 15-33 | nted _a-want | nalling under Lieut | Kingston, . racks { [NEWS ABOUT THE TROOPS I QUARTERED IN THE CITY a fire drill 1ighly satisfact bsequent pra the 22nd Bat t floor to have , or wich i the fir Arnoldi expects night next ) empty the »0 week, in w building wi Know to be sound one 0 that an acct ma ne may be J. Marshall, i Forsythe, ¥. I HR. Curson and éf the artillery Drydock Barrdcks n pas the examin School Signalling hel unnf M batter atten sre essful sing f the of darriefield camp Lieut } Ami, harge of the men resu D.B signalling cla meeting complete usé on Thursday Ami hopeful complete set of ruments 'y n of the tare every day 0 ss for 1 lery and 1 splendid 1s A graphic set was in and obtaining a with morning Lieut is oon use ation room on the rack H H. Booth, o Ottawa Booth ompany eported the 22nd\ Battery on ng that t ¥2nd Battery is a here are S \ officers Four Thurs now McKertzie app who applications lay morning taf on duty there qualifying ry desire Wert Be ire at the Jonald of the « servic ty overseas Young port to R pected to re to-day Ottawa the 32nd Bat cked from 400 tind Battery from Ottawa Fift men, p to join on Saturday who the 1 arrive There tending are the now thirty-five men at- Behool' of Artillery Ami, Ten othérs Sig- are away on leave Capt. D. E examining and Bell, vac D. B nating M O, recruit muddy crossi entrance the and the authori a load or two of here is a very the Ontario street Drydock Barracks- should have put to ties cin- ders ere h and W. M enlisted in the John « have 'rd Battery adjutant of the Lieut. R. W known in the city having riefield. Camp proved himself officer The new talion 80th Bat Nichols, is well at Bar a splen ished for that right of the Transport, Friday pub! the information officers hand concerned always » the Lieut Mech end AD I McRue, anical City School of was m morning reported to Major Hamilton, of S. and T I'he 3rd Division sponded splendidly to the call mecnadical transport drivers for the Imperial Army and Lieut Me Rae accepted thirty-three in Ottaws: Thursday Picton and will later return to Lurg where the drivers will be ilized until ready on [or Ha Co- mob- 10 go overseas Stafl-sergeant Graham, vice Ccrps who has Ie hi: returned Lieut. G. O. H. Driver, Army S Corps, winter services at v, has been | romoted to the captain Ser sick Army been on ave to duty vice of W. Leslie and H the Roval Miitary Col- reported for duty with . and posted to "C"" Ba Lieuts. R weon, of have H.C. H.A Ww, L the i tery for "C" Friday Three recruits | were accepted on Lieut. G. R. Long, Ottawa, for- | eerly with the 90th Regiment of | Wionipeg detachment at the front, is aitending the Provisional School {of utiantry here. He was wounded ar the front but has since recover- od Battery morning Peterborough has three more rep- resentatives in the 33rd Battery at 'Messrs. Walter, Ernest and Percy Hamblin, three brothers who hive been working in Toronto. Peterborough has sent 135 men. practically a whole battery. The strength of ""C" Battery, R . H. A, on Friday morning was 356. Beside this number there are 100 men at the Artillery Park Bar-! waiting to go oversea this month and 100 that were transfer- | red on Thursday to ge overseas as the January draft, Lieut. WwW. C. Thackery and Lieut. J. €. Price are main | cons tantly con ning tf Royal | He left on Friday for] rank Midnight Blue French Bronze Kid, Dull Kid Are three of the Ne est Shoes for Wom Made in the Gyp Style | . | } When You Hand § Out Your Money Be sure value, aim genuine value Furs for Women Just now call attention to our showing of Neck Pieces and Muffs in such popular furs Natural and Black Wolf, Fox, Siberian Wolf, Alaska Sa- ble, ete Proof that our furs moderately priced abundance, and, comparison, they led in value and Campbeli Bros. Makers of Fine Furs. get good honest I'hat's one thing we do here-- hand ont dollar for dollar to we as are very is here in judged by are unequal- attractiveness. | 1 1 18 Ol | chdnan has been submitted proval by Ottawa as officers of the January t time ago apt E offered to the Depart of 100 men every mou war is there oversea for ap | Some | Steacy iltia t a draft the to date officers at the dr men until and four brought are 2108 in England front and cho for the next two months men are only given a prel inary training here as laid down Lord Kitchener in which given military ipline made physically fit f mili vice in six weeks taught but owing the Royal of | ing the horses of the i little if any equit ! drill is on the sylabus Every artillery officer Canada to a « and men nd 200 el Ir are Some the f School lery ba'tery ation or driy who h for the front nce t began has Kingste qualified at Roval School of Ar tillery Approximately 400 officers { and N. C. O's will have been qualified at the close Applica tions are already received for the next class which opens on Janu ary 10th about twenty-five being re ceived to date This is the fourth week of the present class Examinations in bat i tery drill awd knotting and lashing are being held to-day and the results are proving highly =atisfactory to the instructors = | | been at and of this class being The Provisional School of Inf under Lieut.-Col. Barrager and adjutant, Capt. Wotherspoon, is do ling excellent work in qualifying offi cers for the numerous infantry bat talions which are being formed throughout the division antry his When the war broke out it found that the number of qualified officers was very much below that of the number required for the over WHS sea battalions and it hag been neces- | | sary to qualify 4,000 subalterns and { | officers of the junior ranks since the | war began. Privisional Schools of Infantry have been doing this all over the country but few as splendid work as the one estab- lished at Barriefield and now located in the city. The work has been so good was divided to increase tional staff and have a qualifying class for N. €. O's, the first that has ever been held here for infantrymen On Monday next N. C. O.'s from over- sea battalions and militia regiments all over the division will come here to qualify for positions in the Expedi- tionary force which will further in- crease the high standard maintained in the officering of the overseas units It is inipossible as yet to state Bow | that it the instrue- nutaber can be accepted. (Continued on Page 8.) No Change In Prices In view of the Government com- | | mandeering the wheat, the Whig | asked a leading baker in the city, if: it would make amy change in the bread prices. He stated that there wouid be no change. Toronto bakers the officers of the December draft have made the same statement. ' have done w en Sy Our Ice Cream is the by Government Test. We deliver to all bricks. Next Op2ra House. arts of the city in bulk or ~ SAKELL'S best and finest in Kingston | Phone 646 XMASGIFTS That Are Appreciated! Sanitary, and dust plac House tor evervthing and Drool Jarvdiniers, Ii Tables > MOOR ~CUaSeS rary Artistic U and mbrella and med Oak Lib- Sectional At the Busy Store with the Christmas Spirit, at James Reid's IN MARINE CIRCLES, Movements of Vesse ds Reported Harbor, Bell long the The west I. R Key the G All six in Key laid up the winter the boats of the Kevstone number, will be laid up here The steamer Stanstead Rhodes 'passed here Th their wdy to Trenton to be The tug Florence and of the Hackett Company, {laid up at Portsmouth The steamers Wahcondah and pleton passed on their way William The steamer Waffle was at Swift's wharf to-day, from South Bay, load ed with canned goods, on the way Montreal The 1ug Bartlett to-day from Oswego, Quebec, coal-laden; the tug Emer- son is due to arrive from Iwith two light barges. There are a few more coal barges {to go through the Lachine canal be {fore navigation completely closes Among them are the Rickerton, Dun dale and Brookdale from Kingston | It likely that they will be taken down by the Sincennes Mc Naughton {tugs which arrived at Kingston from | Port Dalhousie, where they had con veyed a dredge from Montreal. The tugs left over two weeks ago, but {owing to unfavorable weather on | Lake .Ontario were unable to make | fast time. The Kinmount, of the Montreal Transportation Company, went into {dry dock of the Montreal Dry Dock j Company, Mill street Montreal, Wednesday morning for overhaul ing steamers have been and near sheds for Hine and ursday on laid up two barges have been Ma Fort to to to arrive with the barge is due | | | Prices For Cheese. ! So far this season, the average selling price of cheesd on, the Fron {{enac Board has been 15 1-2 rents | per pound It went as high as 18 J 7-16 cents, and as low as 12 cents jaund a fraction During the €eason {on 1914, the average price was a lit- tle over 14 cents. There has been a many will come as the applications | Keen demand for cheese during the are pouring in and only a ir season of 1915 Next week's meet ing of the Board will probably be the? last of the season. HOOD"S PILLS: Constipa- Tegelabin Bestlamily Montreal Goods delivered Christmas Eve FAIR AND SQUARE B01 <8 3 ARN A trial order will convince EMPIRE GROCERY, WNW. LEE, Prop. Phone you B. 340, GOOD CLOTHING AT LOW PRICES. OVERCOAYS--8x% 50, SUITS--87.50, 810, 81 BOYS SUITS--83.50, Also full Rubbers, wtock ete, ISAAC ZACKS, 271 Princess 8t. Boots, Shoes, Seeking Administration. Household. goods valued at $1, 200, life insurance $500, and $2.57 savings bank comprise the estate of Capt. Herbert Willard La Rush, who lost his life when the tug Barnes foundered in Lake Ontario on Nov. 3rd No will was teft, so the Trust and Guarantee Co. Toronto, has ap- plied for admidistration on behalf of the widow, Mrs. Alice M. La Rush and her infant daughter, Helen Wil- ard 7 ------ Sapported by poison gases, the Germans are preparing for a high offensive movement around Com- piegne and between the Oise and {Somme Rivers. } {rom a reliable source in Athens. Detachments of Italian troops were landed at Aviona, Albania, on Tuesday, according to informatioh