= painter in Westmeath, ey News From Brisk Eastern Ontario Points | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, JANUARY | DEATH OF G. C. CARMAN, Ganano ue Was a Civil Engineer, Worked On C. : q rR. (Erom Our Own Correspondent.) Mr. and Mrs. John McLennan threw open their home on River street for a dance last evening and a large gathering was in attendance, A number Trom town went fo Lansdowne Jast evening to attend a wedding anniversary party at the home Clist of Police and Mrs. Burns | Cornwall Canal, being stationed first The Ror im of the various polling | 2 Ir0duois and afterwards at Corn- SubAivicirss had thet eA out { wall, retiring about fifteen Yeats age. 4 » - . | Besides his wife, who was a daugh- brisht and early yesterday im their | goof 5 wif Judge Pringle and pelliion signing Srey toy ol Mrs, Pringle, Cornwall, he leaves a JULY o ¥. 'i sistér, Mrs. T. S. Rubridge, Ottawa, talivassers reported the outlook a3 | and four stepsons<--Russell Hall in Mbst eheverading i Very - Tow il the Yukon, Farrand Hall of Toron- $ rere me vith a ag ot / 1 all 151s var A PinD 11 sk tha] 10: 1 > Hall of Glenwood Springs, gh, ang Bractieally none avioug the | olo., and Frank Hall of Hazelton, 3 . i expected 'ol 8 that the | po" Judge Carman of St. Cathar- canvass will be finished by Friday. | The men of "A" Co. 59th Battal.) "o's & tousin. vy ion were given a long march yester: | day easterly along the road to Brock ville and back. wall's oldest residents, G. Colin Car- of only six weeks. Cornwall and was in year. wis engaged with the C.P.R., in Bri- tish Columbia when the road was be- ing built. Of ate years he was en- gaged on the engineering staff of the He was born in his eightieth Action Over Boundaries, Brockville, Jan. 24---DBefore Judge cerning the boundaries between two lots on the tenth concession of the Trenches Broken Down, --Allies Kill. | Rear of Lansdowne. I'he plaintiff 1 And W te { i= Homer Kelsey and. the defepdant of And ounded. William Sloan; the boundaries he- Cobourg, Jan 24 A C(Cobdurg| tween their properties being the bas- - physician with the British Ambulan-|is of the dispute, there being land ce Corps at the front, in a letter to] v:hich is claimed by both A num friends here, stated that théy had ad- | ber of witnesses including surveyors mitted fiity-four wounded men to the | were examined. Judgment was res- hospital where he was. This had | erved = formerly been a girls' school, but was re Semen well fitted up for hospital and surgi- To Make More Shells. cal worl. Things had been rather Camipbeliford, Jan. 24 The Dick quiet, he stated, the most of the son Bridge Works Co., is now engag- shelling being done by the Allies' ed in removing the bridge plant and + forces. Just then, however, the putting in a concrete floor in that Germans ad jotaliated Bids = nt} part of the building not already used over a lot of shells, breaking down | in the manufacture cf shells. The some of the trenches, while a umber company will as soon as possible he- were kilted and wounded z * 18 | gin the manufacture of a 6-inch ter was written about Jan, 3rd I shell and will continue to make the ee | smaller sheil The new contract Accidental Shooting. for the six inch shells amounts to Pembroke, Jan. 24 --Richard Du- $350,000 N monarie, Westmeath, was the victim fe of a most unfortunate accident at Dr. Thomas Rowe's Death. that place on Saturday last. He was Cobourg, Jan. 24.--Dr. Thomas driving on a load of wood and had | Rowe has passed away here at the a rifle with him, and as he was in age of seventy-five years. For many tig act - getting off the de Bi years he practised dentistry at Co rifle was in some way accidentally hourg, He was also a graduate in » discharged, the bullet entering c of McGill University. Twe ribs and passing right through the daughters survive, also base o the 2 June. k Jers al Edwin Rowe, here, and a sister, Miss Ugly external wound in the bac | I. Rowe, in Toronto, where it passed owé, and the man's | chances of recovery are regarded as) 1 +, Vo ok 1 x 5 voor, He was conveyed as quickly | Picton, Jan, 26.--On Wednesday, as possible to Pembroke and is DOW | Jan, 12th, the friends and neighbors, Tecelving surgloal attendance from| unos fifty-five, met at the home of ro. Graham at the General Hospital, | ir ang Mrs, G. W. Barrager, Big Is- There is, however, an Spening TIER 11d with well-filled baskets to spend through his left side through which |, solia} evening in honor of Miss Ger- Hie ir passes and ie unlikely that | ,)dine Moran, who is soon to be mar- e Will recover. umonarie is an|pjeq, Miss Moran was presented old country Frenchman who came to with a chair. Canada about twelve years ago and | -- has been following his trade as a He is about thirty-five years of 4ge and his man friends In that section regret much the unfortunate accident which he was the victim | The Late Lachlin McGoun. Belleville, Jan. 22.--About two | years ago L. MeGoun met with al serious accident in Toronto, resulting from which a paralytic stroke fol- James, aged about fifty vears, died in lowed Since that time he never |the General Hospital as the result fully recovered. and another stroke|of a fractured skull received when occurred on Friday last, and hel kicked in the head by a stallion. His passed away about midnight Weg | home is. at Plantagenet. nesday. He was born in Montreal | -- about forty-two years ago, and | Liquor To Soldiers? spent his early life in Napanee, | Nth - = where he was a practising druggist. Cobourg, Jan, 24 = David Oliver ! He dfterwards conducted an exten. | aDpeared in the Police Court here sive coal business in Gananoque. | charged with giving liquor to two of About fifteen years ago he took up| tbe soldiers quartered here. He his residence 'tn_Belleville, and lat-| Was remanded, and is out on $1,500 terly he successfully operated ! contractor until the accident referred to. THE GERMANS BETALIATED, Wis | medicine Remembered a Young Lady. Hlegal Sale of Liquor. Tweed, Jan. 25.----At the village WY | before Messrs. Bowlby and Davis, very| Peter Courngyea, a hotel keeper at oli Staco, was found guilty of selling li- quor on January 2rd, the day the mu- nicipal election was hold. He was fined $40 and $11.50 costs . A ------------ Died From Stallion's Kick. Cornwall, Ont., Jan. 25.-- Albert as a | bail above | evening the located- over S bake shop, Tweed, On Tuesday Khaki B.'Rol- | were open- . em - | Club rooms, Mr. and Mrs. William Watts, | lins' Perth, have received a telegfam that, ed their eldest som, Albert John, was | David Herrington, son of Mr. and accidentally killed while working in| Mrs. R Herrington, Picton, has joim- 4 silver mine at Kingman, Arizona led the overseas forces in Torontb delicious taste man need. : To-day that food-- and other qualities of worth designed 1 tL has no near competitor among cereal foods in form or it had from the start. : nerves as no other food does. - Mage in Canada = . Camda Postum Cerda) Co., Lid., Windsor Cornwall, Jan. 24.--Oune of Corn- L man, died on Friday after an illness | He was a civil éngineer and | | ! : | Doweley, an action was finished con-: | | a brother, | resident of the townshlp of Amelias- To Remembe Seventeen years ago a food was originated that combined the entire ~nourishment of the field grains--wheat 'and barlevi--with cage of pe-Nuts Grape-Nuts.on the Breakfast Menu builds and maintains body, brain and Ready to cat, economical, appetizing. "There's a Reason" JOIN THE THINKERS' CLUB Grocers everywhere sell Grape-Nuts. » Ont. THE DISTRICT NEWS CLIPPED FROM THE WHIGS MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES. . n Brief Form the Events In The Country About Kingston Are Told ~Full of Interest to Many. They are cutting thirteen-inch ice in Belleville. John McMaster has been pointed assessor for Perth. Mrs. Mary Tobin, Westport, taken up residence in Perth. W. H. Hutchison, G. T. R at Lansdowne, 'has been Oshawa. Charles M. Chamberlin has accept- ed a position on the Dominion police force, Ottawa : J. 8. Renaud, Westport, baker, has rented Mrs. Murphy's shop, Bedford | street, and is installing a portable] aven | Edward Gregory was appointed al member of the Board of Educ ation | of Lindsay as successor to J. D. Fla- velle. William Roblin, Pamelia, dead, aged 78"vears near Napanee Mrs. M banee,; is a sister The plant of Alexander Mills, ma- nuractuver, Merrickville, was harnes sed up to the.new electric power, the first to use the white coal Harold Jamieson, barrister, and | recently mayor of Almonte, has been | appointed magistrate for the town at $200 per annum. Two years ago, Edward Quinn, Westport, swallowed a pin. Latter- lv. he suffered much, and, coughing, he raised the pin, much rusted. Benjamin Willis, Fallbrook, has purchased from William Ferguson | the latter's residence and twenty-five | acres in the north end of Lanark. R. J. Whaley, Westport, has moved his family into the Baptist parson- age, and Lewis Glenn has moved into his new residence on Church street. James Keith, the venerable secre- tary-treasurer of the South Victoria Agricultural Society, has now enter- ed on his fortieth year in that capa- city. Mrs. J. Van Black, Picton, suffer- ed severe scalp lacerations in Toron- to when she was struck by a bottle which fell from the fourth story of a Yonge street store Mr. and Mrs. M. Heffernan, Pic ton, announce the engagement of their daugher Amhie Florence to Harry B. Sfaven. (The wedding will take place 'quietly "this month, Judge Deroche, Belleville, held a recount in Deseronto for the reeve- ship T. H. Naylor was declared elected by a majority of tliree In the recount he lost one vote. At a meeting of fhe congregation of the Presbyterian Church, Cape Vincent, N.Y., a call was extended to the Rev. George A. Percival to be- come the regular pastor of the church. McGreggr Young, counsel for the Government in the Ottawa school case, went to Hilliar, Out., to attend the funeral of -his mother, Mrs. John Young His aged father also is very il. James Weese, a highly respected reap- has agent moved to | | N.Y; is He was born | Dafoe, Na police burgh, passed away at Roblin's Mills on Friday after only two day lIness from pneumonia. He is survived by his wife but no children. Another Brockville minister has offered himself for overseas service, the Rev. S. S. Burns, B.A » B.D., pas- tor of St.John's Presbyterian Church, He is ready to do "his bit" with the boys of Brockville. ? After a Meaford occurred continuous residence in for fifty years, the death on Monday! Rebecca Arm-| relict of the late tichard lie advanced age of eigh- f. She .was born in Picton. Beatrice Wright, Picton, re- a letter from her son, Pte. of the 29th Battalion, stating had been transferred to the 20th Battalion and had arrived. at the base in France for New Year's Day. W. 8. Farrester, Alexandria, has been aprointed by the Ontario Goy ernment as factory inspector for Eas- strong NA i -_-- 2° digestion, to fill a widespread hu- Bo, nutritive value, nor has » 1 iS | fifty-seventh year { fof the 15% \ erniting campaign = i tern Ontario in succession late Thomas Kielty, Erie J. Goldie, whose dgath from exposure at the Dardanelles is re-| ported, was a former resident of Belleville. Thomas Martin, Belleville, was ar rested in Campbellford. He is charged with having stolen a pair of} boots belonging to George Babcock. | Mrs. 'Wesley Jackson, Almonte, was taken to the hospital suffering | from frozen feet, and there is a like-| lihood of her losing her toes, if not| a further portion of her feet. ' The judges awarded the $10 prize in the competition for the name for! the butter wrappers\of the Napanee | Creamery to Miss Murphy, Tyendi- | naga. The name sent in was "Prim- | rose Brand." The machinery for the new shell plant to be installed Th-the Lee Foun dry by the Pembroke Iron Wdrks has been ordered, and about $20,000 worth of it is now on the way to Pembroke . On Jan. 3rd. Mrs Hardipg, for-| merly Mrs, John Ward, Almonte, passed to her reward, after a year illness at her home in Sonningda Sask The deceased was in Wr ish, recruiting officer h Battalion, stationed in Stirling, is an old officer ofrthe 15th Regiment, Belleville He quit his work at Rochester, N.Y., to do his bit for the Empire. | At the House of Industry, Perth, | Grace Scoular, daughter of 'he late | James Scoular, Darling, died on Jan-| uary , 17th. She had been in the| House since last September. De- | ceased was born at Galbraith on Feb. 2nd, 1828. 'Catherine McKinnon Dundon, born in Glengarry, Ont., seventy-six years ago, and Daniel McKinnon. born in the same village, aged sixty-five years, have just met at Browns-| ville, N.Y., after forty years ab- sence. On January 7th a happy gathering assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Russel, Rednerville, it being the twentieth anniversary of their marriage, when they received a choice lot of presents. Miss Leah Stratton, a graduate nurse of the Eastern Hospital, Brock- ville, and who was an assistant in a hospital at St. Paul, Minn., was re- cently appointed superintendent. of a hospital at Mennomie, Wis. Mrs. (Rev). W. G. Clark, Bowman- ville, received the sad news of the sudden death Sunday nigh of her fa- ther, William Charters, who passed away from acute indigestion and | heart-failure at his home near Nap- Lieut, H. A anec, Roblin I.. Wagar, aged seventy- | two, pioneer resident of Grand Fork: died at his home of Addison's dis-| ease, coupled with the sthallpox, | which hastened his death. Mr, Wag- | ar was born in Enterpfise, Ont., in| 1844. f Mrs. Benjamin 1. Bradner, daugha ter of the late Isaac D. Noxon, and sister of Mrs. G. E. Fraser, Picton, died while visiting her youngest daughter, Mrs. Ralph Tilt, at Demor N.Y. 'Mrs. Bradner was in lei seventy-fifth year. The Executive Committee of the Soldiers' Club, Napanee, has decid-| ed to give $100 to the Regimental Fund.of the 80th Battalion. and $50 to the Company, Fund of "C" Com- pany, 80th Battalson. The marriage of Miss Marian Fei guson/ fifth daughter of the late John Ferguson of Renfrew, tp J. D MeKerchar, eldest son of Donald Mc- Kerchar, Waseka, Sask., formerly 'of Perth, Scotland, took place at Ren frew on Tuesday, Jan. 18th est, GOT MASSIVE Lanark County Won Contest. Jan. 24 FLVER CUP. The Judging The Tesults of the stock judging competition condrcted by the Ontario Depart- ment. of Agricuiture at the Ottawa Winter Fair were announ®d hy C F. Bailey, Assistant Deputy Minister of the department The massive silver cup presented by Jeter White, K.C., Pembroke, was wou by the team of Lanark County, with a general score of 1,056 points out of 1,500 The team was train- ed vy R. H. Harding, district repres- entative for the county The individual scores showed how! efiicient is the training given young farmers at the classes conducted in| the various counties hy the district representatives In two cases possi- bles were scored. Halley Smith, al farmer boy from Lanark, scoring 100 per cent aL beef cattle judging, and | J. H. Sloan, of Renirew, doing as weil in swine judging. > Teams were entered for the Coun- | ties of Lanark, Stormont, Lennox and Addington, Grenville, Frontenac, | Leeds, Northuniberland, Dundas and | Prince Edward. The competition enibraced the Eastern part of the! Western competition held several weeks ago Ottawa, live Interesting Gift To Church. Brockville, Jan. 24.--A gift 'of | considerable historic interest ahd va- | lue has lgen made in the presenta- tion by Judge McDonald, to the First | Presbyterian -churgh, of two cot- | munion cups, These cups were the! personal property of the late Rev, ! William Smart, the first minister of the Presbyterian church iu Brockvil- | le, They were brought by him ovér | a century ago from the old land Rapidly Filling Up. Brockville, Jan. 24.---Liea.-Col. | Bedell, recalléd from the front to! take command of the new Leeds and Grenville battalion has reached Brockviile to enter upon his duties. | His new regiment is rapidly filling and he willSend his efforts to the re-| which is being | pushied £0 vigorously throughout the! counties, { Death Of Baltimore's Postmaster + Cobourg, Jan. 21----A R. Noble, ! postmmster Baltimore, died after He was a member st Church and a Con- "He leaves Fare four "a to tel | morning. Deceased was well known | Scotland. - | ed to the felon in the cell. . perhaps, having been' wanting anything done in the ca | ne a" Kinda | of repairs and new work; also Late Mrs, Jackson, Sunbury, Mrs. Charlotte Jackson died at her home near Sunbury, early . Monday hroughout that part of the county, as she had been a resident for myer forty years and was highly thhught of. Her husband was the late John Jackson who died four years Deceased was a devout mem- | ago. ber of the Friends' Church, but of late had been attending the Metho- dist Church at Sunbury. She leaves {0 mourn 'her death. two daughters, Mrs. Willian Makins, Sunbury, and Mrs. Itobert Bee, Brewer's Mills: al- so four sons, William B., at home; John, Collin's Bay, Andrew 8. Al- berta. ------------ -- v Begimental Peculiaritios. The red and white feather worn by the ' Northumberland Fusiliers] keeps ever green in regimental his toric records the memory of the des perate fight at St. Lucia . in 1778, when the men the regiment pluck ed the buckles from the hats of the slain French soldiers and decorated) their own with. them. { The CGolucestershire Regiment en-| Joys the distinctibn of wearing the| "Sphinx on the back as well as the| front of their hekddress This hon- or was granted fo them to commem-| orate the gallantry of the 1s Bat-! talion (the old 28th Foot), when Colonel Paget ordered the third or rear rank to face about, and in this way they beat off the enveloping at- tack of the French column at Alex andria The Coldstream Guards took their name from the little village of Cold- stream, near the borders of Scotland They were originally known as the Coldstreamers, which is the correct way to speak of them, and not as the Coldstreams. The regiment was first raised by Monk, the, King Maker," from among the hardy borderers, who followed him anywhere and everywhere, caring very little whe- ther they fought for Cromwell 01 King Charles. London and restored King Charles. Nominally the power of reprieve and pardon belongs to the Royal pre- rogative, . At one time it was actively exercised by the Sovereign; but now, | although the act is carried out in the Sovereign's name, and with the Royal signature, the responsibility rests en- tirely with the Home Secretary in England, the Lord-Lieutenant in Ire land, and the Secretary of State in The decision is sent (0 the gover- nor of the jail, wio is responsible fo; the man after he leaves the court, and by hini'Tt is rapidly communicat If it be an adverse detision the news is brok- en to him as gently as possible. When a reprieve comes the convict is sum moned to the governor's room, and when he gets that order he knows at once that his prayer has been heard The governor may say a kind word or congratulate him; but the © real business is to read out the letter of the Home Secretary to the man as he stands between two warders at the other side of the table. rr r---------- ------ L Historic Inn Closed. "The Three Pigeons," one of Eng- land's oldest and most famous inns, and the sole existing tavern of Eliza- bethan times, was closed a few days ago by the Middlesex ldcensing Jus tices, in accordancé"with a movement inaugurated some time ago by the temperance leaders to restrict the number of licensed inns "The Three Pigeons" a background for ihe scenes in the "Merry sor," and Goldsmith's Conquer," and is alluded to ir ens' "Pur Mutual Friénd." has had sociations than tavern was used as low comedy Wives of Wind- Nhe Stoops to Dick- more any other Eng Few Doctors in Serbia i £2 A coun 000 pop doctors a the war, on, har few surprising 1 More So. "She always gresses like a fashion | plate," 'we say, referring-to the iadty | who, though stout, is neverthelegs charming. "Do you think so?" murmurs bosom friend, sweetly. "Now, I should say she was more like a fash- ion Platter. '--From Judge. hop her ab ha THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987. Drop a card-to 19 Pine sires! when tery line. 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He finds a piano which is an inspiration in itself----a- piano from which he can obtain cftécts not possible from any other instrument. % C.. W. LINDSAY, LTD., 121 Prinrzss 8t., Kingston. bs - EAA AAA AAA A AA AA Alt er torars 1 "KITCHENER" Is the name of the new, Electric Iron made by the Canadian General Electric Co. Under the new power rates, "2 1-2-cents per hour.to operate this Iron. : --FOR SALE AT-- . Halliday's Electric Shop, Phone 94 "3 -t- 845 . a= Sr Buy Pasteurized Milk IN BOTTLES. You are sure it is perfectly safe. Phone 845 :: . Price' it will cost only | J ing Street A Good Impression, First impressions are tenacious. The customer who gets an unpleasant impression on his first visit to a store, is not likely to be-a permanent customer. On the contrary, a favorable first ims, | Pression will insure a steady patronage. First impressions are often obtained from - firnt's advertising, even before the store is visited. A frank, straightforward statement of values and ' advaritages. will' create an impression of fair i _ dealing, a bring the customer to the store ina abr ate of mind. 2 ; 'Our advice to merchants is to, give careful their dvertising and! to advertise & : 3 rg