CLIPPED FROM THE WHIG'S MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES. In Brief Form the Events In the Country About Kingston Are Told =Full of Interest to Many. Falls the § Smith's $4,000 to Fund. At the inaugural meeting of the Smith's Falls Board of Health G. W Fluker was appointed chairman R. H. Connor Frankville, sold a beef on foot to W. Kilfovle, the well known drover, Smith's Falls for $180 The death occurred at Belleville cn Monday "of Mrs Stephen Wood Sinith's Falls Sh growt up family, The Deseronto fire al; formerly owned and oper Rathburn Co., has by the town The death oceurved on Th Clara Ketcheson Keteheson, Fromt of and daugiter of the late Charles Rose Two Deseronto ladies, Mrs. M Copeland and Mrs. Jolin Dalton pass. ed away durl the past week, ti former from psy the later a fall and 'a paralytic stroke. Thomas Martin, Campbeliford, Charged with stealing a pair of boot irom one Bahcock of Belleville, 3 September, was found not guilt discharged The marriage of Cauley, Toledo, Ont, Anneva Glenn, Aylmer, Que., was solemnized in the Roman Catholic Ohurch at K¥imer on Feb. 2nd. Miss C. Urquhart, one of the best known public school teachers of Belleville district, who taught for upwards of forty-nine years passed away on Thursday at the hospital. Miss Martha Casey died on Tues- day at the home of Mr Badgley, | Eight Concession of Thurlow. Miss Casey was about eighty years of age and a native of Thurlow township. Walter Hendrick who was teller of the Royal Bank, Pembroke for over thrée years before taking the Same position at the Lethbridge branch, has been appointed secretary of the Y.M.C.A. and Boys' Work So- ciety for that city. Dr. kh B. White, inspector of the Jones Packing Co., Smith's Falls, met with an unfortunate aceident on Saturday. , At the corner of McGill and John streets, he slipped on an icy Spot and fell, breaking his right arm On Wednesday J. A. Shérman died at the residence of his brother-in law, Erastos Livingstone, mear Ath- ens. Mr, Sherman was a mative of Plum Hollow. He spent ail of his life there and in Athens, Last spring he suffered a stroke of paraly-| sis, At tha, Deseronto High : Sehool Board meeting the following officers ! 'were appointed: Wilbert. Woodcock} chair; G. W. Wright vice-ehairman; executive members, Messrs W. J. MeMlicking, Dr. Vandervoort, 'W Stoddart, Oharles I, Gouge and E. Armitage, BY Edwards is the secre tary-treasurer. The brick residence of WW Am Armstrong, Havelock, was destroyed by fira en Tuesday Mir. and Mrs Armnstrong were awakened by the dense smoke and escaped in their night clothes. All the contents of the upper floors were destroyed: a few articles: of furniture were ed Couneil Capadian has voted Patriotic of e leaves a been Mrs wile Sidney ro Francis Leonard and Miss Mary sav Caught. At Orillia Belleville, Feb, 11 'Joe the Serbian, twice convicted in Belle ville on charges of having liquor flor sale in Point "'Anve, a local option municipality, but who skipped before his cases came to court, has been caught at Orillia, where he wds lv ing along the Trent Canal. Through headquarters of the department at Toronto, his whereabouls had been learned by John Stokes, inspector East Hastings Yesterday he 'was brought to Belleville and lodged in Jail for six months, the period of two terms of three mo fie did not pay the fines Gage ot s OR becaus Purchased The Paper, Athens, Feb. 11 On Fe the Athens Reporter was bou Austin G. Ly Tribute, who the office in 1908; and has been ¢ nected with the paper since time, with the exception of I years spent in Toronto completing his printing apprenticeship enters When a man gets into trouble the majority of those who call to sympa- , thize with him are merely after the full particulars ASK FOR IT 'BY NAME When you see an ar- ticle advertised in this newspaper; remember the name. Ask for it by that name and insist on get- ting exactly what you asked for. Good storekeepers never attempt to substi . tute something else. _ They know that there ! 1s quality behind the i average advertised arti- it! | cle an hat it will i * please thei¥ customers, | ~ They are glad Yo link | the name of their store {fi | i with the name of reput- |i' i able manufacturers. . iL we = i | | oo I Lig { Helen Wing, of Toledo, Ont., { ph Hl Grenville ii| Church at ELGIN SCHOOL, S) FALLS Was Burned Down On Morning. Smith's . Falls, Feb. 11 ---Fire, which 'started from the furnace, to- tally destroyed Smith's Falls, finest public school on Wednesday morn- ing In less tran an hour from the time the "fire was first noticed the roof had fallen in, and despite heroic efforts on the part of the Fire Com pany, who were promptly scene and worked like thing could be saved Very shortly after the classes assembled smoke was noticed and fire drill resorted to with the result that the children all reached safety although some of lost the caps and overcoats, At the time the fire was first ed Mr. Halfpenny, acting princi of the s Wednesday the no- on trojans, had conversati of the was did Such rapid headway wrapped falling i in 1884, when chairman 6f the Boar and the east } 150 Brodie ey of the Board school contain eight rooms, was sald by the inspector to he best school in the county The loss to the town will be heavy The school building alone cost the town over $20,000, but cannot be replaced now for less than about $30,000. Insurance was carried to the extent of $21,000, placed with three companies in two $8,000 and one $5,000 policies Efforts will be made immedi 13 to secure temporary quarters for pupils. and the The Late Ezia Wyatt McCrea, Brockville, Feb 11 Word has been received by relatives here of the death of Kara Wyatt McCrea, aged seventy-eight, a former resident Leeds County, at his home in Plea- sant Valley, Saskatchewan, which oe- curred on January 24th, 1916, after a brief illness from pneumonia. The deceased was the only son of the late Col. Hiram McCrea, of Frank ville, Leeds County, and for the past few years had been extensively en gaged tn farming in Saskatchewan The late Mr. McCrea was twice niar fried, his first wife being Miss Eliza beth O'Connor, of Ottawa, He is survived by his widow, who was Miss twa sons and one danghter, Hiram, and Gertrude, all of Saskatchewar three sisters, Mrs. Christopher Rich ards and' Miss Bessie McCrea, of Toronto; and Mrs. Amos Robinson of Brockville The interment fort, Saskatchewar Mr. McCrea was a man of kindly qualities and had friends His family were | who Leeds and for many years took ent part in the affairs of thi ook place at N alists settled in Annual! County Orange Meeting, Brockville, xh, 11 I'he an meet r of Nc Lodg Hall, the 'chair A fairl tation from all the lodges in the ¢ ance After had been gor \r g Officers were ele {ustalled by the : E. Godkin, of W.M C: R DMT. J Chap Jam £00d represer various pr were | 1 usin instal Oak Leaf Tay Prit hard Fin Treas D.( see Burr Robert Irvin Officers Joh rst was choses Had A Narrow Escape. Smith's Falls, Feb. 11 J vidson, had a narrow escape probable death in his planing mill, but happily he did escap« He was working about one of the machines when he was caught in the fast run: ning belt and whirled away ou it in a trice. His two sons were near by and at once stopped the machine but not until Mr. Davidson had been car- ried up to the eeiling, over the pul ley and flung to e floor. His right arm was terpibly lacerated and his head badiy cut, but doctors were call ed to attend him and it was found that no bones were broken and phat his injuries were not Hkely to be fatal, The Late Joseph Marrs. Brockville, Feb. 11.---Private Jos Marrs, of the 15th Leeds and Battalion, died suddenly on Wednesday at the residence of his father-in-law, Thomas McHvenny, af- ter a brief illness. «Pte. Marrs had rendered luable assistance to the firpmen inh ting the fire in the Harding block and was apparently in good Livalth, While returning to his home he was taken ill, and went ine to the residence of his father-in-law His condition become worse and he was put to bed and medical aid sum- moned, bui notwithstanding the ef- of. his physician, he passed © deceased was thirty<five age, forts away years of Presentation, To Soldiers. Rednersville, Feb. 11.--A .patrio- rally. was held in the Methodist lednersvile, when Pte: Wilder and Pte. Lorne Dempsey, who have recently joined the 155th Bat- talion, ware presented with pocket testamonts and wrist watches by Nol Lic | son Parliagent. of ! lof young men going vice { __THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRID From Our « 1 Corr ndent.) Feb. 11 The bugle and brass hands of the Mth Battalion came up from Brockville yesterday afternoon aud rendered an excellent concert in the Opera House last evening. Each number was well rendered and was received with appreciation by a well filled house will be repeated The band came Majo: Daws 1e& concert by permit, of ingt me of Mi lespie, OR place and Mrs Charles street ternoon to Gananoque V 1 1 argely i; nde REGULATIONS FOR MEASLES. Must Be Carried Out, Says Chief Of- ficer, Feb 11 Health Officer, irantine for measles at deal of rboro', Dr. Amy says that nas caus inconvenience to the citizens and military men he wrote to the Provincial Board of Health requesting that (quaran tine for measles he either raised or gated and the reply received Dr. McCull » Chief Medical Health Officer was 1at he must en- force the regulations. He adds: So far as the military authorities concerned, there. are a great inany more troops in this city thar y other singlé point in Canada r disposition is to obey these tions in every particular. Why hould they not be obeyed? Measles is a far more dangerous disease than In the military hospitals this season out of fifty the disease, eleven the om are 1all-pox Halifax two cases of died." TELEPHONE COUNTY. Held Annual Meeting And Officers Fox Year, neerville, Feb 11 At" the eighth annual meéting of tha Leed and Grenville Independent Telephone Limited, the following d tors were elected Wiliam Holmes, Spencerville; A. Connell, J. W ite, J. A nell and C. J Ralph, ? subs¢ Elected Company, usta. e Latham-Patience Wedding. lle, Feb wedding wa Feh, #4th, at the , Hallecks, Lathan he best Wright Lyn officiatin a dainty wed luncheon the young couple we driven to Brockville where train for Toronto and » wedding ¢ wére of a 1 W stantial ding r they to Hamil varied money pres to the hig de was held The Hstance ere, lhe father, from Quer and Mrs. McCready west, and Mr Roxy Lansdowne guests groom's and Mr from the ready of 1 » DUSK. also Med A Wite Secks Alimony. Peterboro', Feb 11 In 0 here Mrs. Florence Ferguson to recover alimony from her husband Edward J. Ferguson, a cement con tractor in the city of Peterborougl In the statement of claims the plain tiff recites that she was married to the defendant ip 1906. In 1911 by reason of abusive conduct on the part of her husband, she was com peiled to leave him. She have lived with him at different. periods since, but on May 22nd, 1915, she loft 'him tinally, and has not lived. with him since The defendant = denies the statements of the plaintiff and ask: that the action be dismissed urt seek Splan--Shaver. Brockville, Feb. 11.--A' quiet but pretty wedding was solemnized at the parsonage of Wall Street Metho- dist church on Wednesday, when the pastor, Rev. A. E. Runnells, united in marriage, Frederick Lyon Kamsack, Sask, a form knewn resident of Biocky Miss. Caroline Daviria Shaver t ville, Ont 1e bride is a graduate purse of the Brockville General Hos pital Major Williams, officer of the Toronto military dis | trict, plans to mobilize boys, women and men over age to take the places on active ser-| hiéf recraiting john Tolmie, ex M.T, Kincardine, | iz dead as the result of a fall ~~ of and dominate AY, FEBRUARY 11, 1916. THE M. 0, OF ETAPLFS. Dr. Birkett of Montreal is Having a Streuuouns Time. Before the Dr. H Birkett did delicate operations in big hospi tals before the and other practitioners Montreal know him only and a recollection He wears khaki the McGill Base Hos pital over ai Etaples aux-Boulogne He is Lieutenant«Colonel Birkett and his internes and orderlies stand up to salute him when he passes. His hospital is a coliection of tents. His X-ray room is a tar paper shack. His grounds are plain fields rising at the rear of his tents to a big bald ridge of hills, and dribbling off on the other side of tha Boulogne road into sand-dunés and the sea His nurses are called "sisters" and his 'house- Surgeons' are majors. Instead of the queer half-imhagined cy folk pouring into his there are train-loads of wounded men pouring into his hospital. City folks complain when thev sick and make sounds. This is one of the 1 ent hospitals of war tight tongue ¥ pital tag wai yes of awed students To-day as a"name Soldiers thi On rom one side three-we Lieut Hamilton o a merchant in He was edu MeGill Unive ty ! medicine in Montreal G Montreal Dis Hosp and pr en demonstrator teaching ce of the Dom tal toria hax be n importa was secrefar cal Assoc ors ef lary whateves the he tion He dare 180logy are i great War long 1893 he was atts Medical Staff at Aldérshot, He was made a Lieut.-Colonel in 1904 In 1909 he .was President of the Assoc iation of Medical Officers of the Can- adian' Militia. Sm ateiei-- Another Fighting Parson. "Every time the Germans fire a shell at us we give them four in re- turn; we're on top now all slong the Western line," was the message that Major (Rev.) Dr. E. Bruce Taylor, M.A, the popular pastor .of St. Paul's Presbyterian Ch rch, Mont real, brought back from the trenches a couple of weeks ago. Major Tay- lor was with the 42nd Highlanders of Montreal Most + of the officers were from his eongregation, while many of the men in the ranks were sons of his parishioners or members of his congregation. So when they marched away to battle, the minister got six months leave of absence fram his fashionable church, donned the khaki, and went to Flanders. Dr. Taylor was never a slave to ritual and rule#, so it was easy for him to preach off the end of an am munition waggon or behind a hedge thority or has cen h hed y In to the Arm { where the Hun aviator would not see the little congregation. He stuck I with the Battalion) xnd when it went into battle he was on the spot. gid | have no hospital stories to tell," he declares. ' 'I sgw the men well and strong -- or dead. If they were wounded they were earried off once to the hospitals back from the front, and I was through with them § near did he get to the battle that a German sheli fell within forty feet of him Fortupately the earth was soft there and the shell went five feet into the mud before it exploded A shower of mud was what out of it the nose whith a dug out soir, who was dn the spot £0 and of the shell for tffe par soldier i Standing of tie Breeds. uring the bred vear 40.46 anim; * re adian Na Ort} total ong of cattle, 8 gistered n Ca Live St ords 19.828 'wer rati inl Wi hogs, 6,265 of shee p, and 4 horses In éattle 8 13 Avrshires 3,682, Hereford 1.693, "Angus. with with 1,063 Gruernseys, Gallewa Poiled and Brown for the balance in Clydesdales ied with Percherons coming next wit and Stan®ard-breds follow with 3 Thoroughbreds with Hacknevs with 128 es with iad other n making thorns led wit} coming next following 1.097 sevs Fre: SWISS horses nor breeds In Yorks led Berks coming fairly close : Whites w Jerseys with 1,337 Poland Chinas bad Hampshires 117 In sheep Shrops led with 3334 Oxfords coming next with 1,439, and Leice being a fairly close third swine after Chester { ) tams and and 0935, with Crucifix Figure Remained Intact. Driver John J. Gommer of Queen's Engineering Corps of Kingston, Ont i wounded in the arm, writes home that he had been sent to rescue an old lady, her daughter, and grand- laughter from a house which the Germans were shelling He went back after the little girl, who had disappeared. and a shell exploded in the doorway as he entered He says a remarkable thing happened. Every- thing in the houge was smashed On the dresser there was a erucifix, "the glass of which was broken but 'he figure of #he Christ remained intact Cod Cateh Increases. Indications of inereased Progperity for the fishing fleet of the French }E- lands at St. Pierre and Miquelon are shown in the advices giving figures for the season of 1915 Although the fleet was dinitwistdd trom 22 &team trawlers and" 251 sailing vessels in 1914, to eleven trawlers and a5 sailing vessels last cod as quintals (0 nly catch 182, year ased - fr 119 quintals vithdrawal 0 many vessels was die to the way I price of cod is much bigaer than # Year ago. incre 192 of he Lord, Nortiicliffe may accept a seat in the Britith Cabinet It is rum ored he may be the Minister of Avia- tion. i The total Prussian' casualtiss were | estimated to he 2.577.278 3 WARRIOR ASSELIN, French-Canadian Nationalist :s Rais. ing a Fighting Unit. Politics. makes strange bed fel- lows, they say, but its vagaries can- not be more peculiar than those of war. For example, Oliver Asselin, Nationalist, founder of the National- ist League of Quebec, brilliant advo- cate of the Nationalist creed, is go- ing to war across the seas for the de- fence of the E.pire. Strange, is it? asks a writer in The Canadian Cour- ier. Possibly But' Oliver Asselin, who is a major in the Canadian army, says that his polities must stand aside just now for « vilization has been attacked and the time for fighting---not talking come "My Nationalist lews Just as Strong as ever," he say but just now the battle call is supreme General Sir Sam Hughes f him a command---and receive da prise Oliver Asselin said he be glad #0 raise a fighting ur 80 with it a8 majo, but the com- mamfiwould bave to go to a vete ran from the tr bas are enches, some modern war cepted and Langer home 1 leadership of i the 163rd His has been a varied career It began on a St. H on, Que, on Nov Rimo College is h mater then he taught school « coupl the border. He returned to Canada in 1901 to be come tary lomer Gouin Ju he had been wan dering ind he hig begun contri perience in offer was g h ) came fare Asselir and vely of years across to Sir buting to the r w not ery Moutreal ' long * reached appointed eity Sse In 1902 h Nationalist weekly paper * parity organ From 1902 to about 1912 he wrote and spoke at public meetings Nationalist creed lant editor o organ and founded Nationalist, as Pre red leag La The had no more bril- exponent, either with pen or voice, than the fiery Fremch-Cana- dian He took hard knocks, and gave back some terrific blows He was attacked by all parties he never became embittered In fact, Oliver Asselin remained an intimate friend of many who considered his politics deplorable Although a most busy man, entergd the United States army and served ten months with * the force that was sent to overcome the Span ish in Cuba." That was his first and only taste of warfare until he began to raise the unit he is now forming. Major Asselin is no longer merely the Nationalist orator and author; be is the soldier ready to risk all at the call of civilization which needs assistance, vet h he ENCOURAGE HEPBUILDING Speeches Of Dr Nickle Applauded. Ottawa, eh. 11 The whole of the night sitting of the House of Commons was devoted to making Progress on the routine estimates of the Marine Department. Ope inte esting ' diseu developed The Eitnatian With Which Canada is ) fronted by reason of lack o t Tac at the present time ed Dr. Pugsley Govern idn ilitigs prompt lo IBAIN Urge rent the ads bi Hon pon fhe it taking son to encourags hipbuilding br. NEW TWEED FOR SUITINGS YOUNG MEN, $10, $12. Newest patterns in A i. H-Wool Tw ceeds or stvie" features as in the higher priced lines--a splendid variety of patterns. We offer the best value Roney's, 127] in this city, $10, $12. Princess St. No Epidemic or Disease has ever been traced to Pasteurized Milk All our Milk is thoroughly pasteurized and sold in Sealed Bottles. 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Band Concert, R.C.H.A. Band. 'Everything Free. A Good Time fo All. Come. Tea Room and Canteen Open.