There's sufficient difference in styles for the new season to make a visit to this store interest- ing. . So no matter how well you are satisfied with the clothes you have been wearing--our new clothes offer vou the e¢hanee to be better satis- fied. New Suits $15, $18 up fo $22 Spring Overcoats . ...$12, $15 and $18 Livingston's, Brock St. A little out of the way, bug it will pay you to walk ' _THE DAILY BRITISH _ WHIG, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1016. TO TAKT UP ASSEMBLY'S REMIT i ON CHURCH UNION, | Rev. Dr. W, §. MacTavish Submitted | Report Of Committee On Foreign ' Mi: -- " » sions . Several Chargés Still ; evening and attend the training class Vacant. '| being conducted by the officers of The March meeting of the Kings- rihe 14th Regiment. As the officers {ton Presbytery opened in Convoca-' are giving their timé amd services | tion Hall on Tuesday morning at 10 free and the class is.a wonderful op- |o'tlock. The General Assembly's re- | portunity for civilians to learn mili. ! on the question of church union' tary drill, more should show their 4% on the docket, but when the mem- appreciation by attending. Pid oumed for lunch at 1.30 fhe) : o'clock, it had not been taken up. On Saturday afternoon on the C. ba a committee composed of Rev, E. { P. R. train for Ottawa there were |G. Currie, as convenor, Rev. A. J. about 150 o;cers apd N. C. O's who Wilson, Rev. Mr. Foster, and Messrs. , had been attending the P. 8. I, a Moore and Strange, as elders was! R S -A. courses here. ( 4 Sppointed a striking committee 10, wreck west of Parham Junction, the 180 pet the standing committees. | men did not reach Ottawa until 4 ider the head of "vacant charg- , nm, Sunday, whereas they were due rive about 10 p. m., Saturday. in the City A large number of civilians should go | Nort Too | TEATIE Owing a quist of unusual ability and a good At The Grand. "Madame Butterfly" "with: Mary | to the -Armouries * this| Pickford in the title role, is holding | the boards at the Grand for the first Ji half of this week. The story as told | Ji on the screen is even more effective fi than in either opera or play. Mary Pickford is as charming as ever and in the role of Cho-Cho-San she -is | Ji remarkably cast. A two-reel Uni-| versal drama "Pawns of Pate" is very good while a one-reel comedy "Twenty Minutes at the Fair" is a side splitter. Then there are also the Pathe and Topical films which are very good. Herrick, a ventrilo- line of wares and McAvoy and { Brooks in a dainty singing and dan- cing act provide the vaudeville and round out a first-class bill. Mati-| We are showing A did line of Serges, Broadeloths, Cheviots, Tweeds, ete, for this spring's wear. The colors of these we guaran- tee to be perfect and values that. will not be equalled for some time to come. mrmnumn - "EXTRA FINE SERGES, in Navy and Black, 52, 54 and 56 inches wide; a great variety of weights and weaves, at $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 snd $2.00 L§ ' FINE FRENCH BROADCLOTHS, a very large assortment of 'all the popular colors, in wide widths, at 75¢, 90c, $1, $1.25, $1.50 & $1.75 NAVY AND BLACK CHEVIOQTS, suitable for real hard wear, wide widths, at =~ : $1.00, $1.25 and $1.60 a yard. T™W EEDS, COVERTS AND FANCY MIX- TURES--A great variety at popular nrices. W ALDRON'S jes," Rev. John Dawson stated that (; ar St. the charges of Sand Hill and {John's were still under the care of a | student of Queen's University. Mr. { Morrison, but that a call would be | extended to Mr. Morrison as soon as {he completed his college course at {the end of 'the present term. i The Clerk Presbytery said that | there were charges which had been vifany for some time, and that there { should be reports. He asked par- [ticularly about St. Andrew's Church, | Kingston, Prof. Dall, who appeared before Presbytery in khaki, said that the {matter of extending a call to the {vacant charge' at St. Andrew's' | Chureh, was being proceeded with as' | "expeditiously as possible." The Clerk said that the charge of | | Pittsburgh was yacant, but that he | had received mo reply to his letter | asking for a report. As regards the vacancy at Fox. | boro, which has been vacant for A | considerable time, it was reported | that negotiations 'were now going on' | towards the securing of a minister, | and that a successful outcome was | looked for in the course of a few | weeks. I was also reported that | there was some difficulty in arriving | at a decision in this charge, and a | committee was appointed to take up the matter. { 'The committee appointed is com-| | posed of Messrs. Rattray, (conven- | { or), Conrad, Currie, Gracey, Moore and McIntosh. | The presbytery experienced } | sin- cere regret over the death of Prof. + D. J, Scrimger, of the Presbyterian | College, Montreal, who passed away | in August, 1915. The memberg realized that in his death the church had sustained a severe loss. Notice was received by®the Pres! bytery that at the next session of the General Assembly, to be held in| Winnipeg, Halifax would make ap-| plication for the receiving of Rev. | James Middleton, a member of the Congregational Church, into the | Presbyterian Church. Rev. J. R. Urquhart of New Lis- keard, who is wearing khaki, taking a special course of instruction for | services overseas, was present. He | was gladly welcomed. © "We honor the Khaki," remarked the Moderator. The clerk reported that Rev. H. G. Steers had received a call from | White Lake, in Lanark and Renfrew | Presbytery, he having made applica- { tion for certificate which will be for warded to him | Rev. J. McAllister, of the Montreal | Presbytery, was received and wel | comed as a member of the Kingston | Presbytery, he having removed with- lin the bounds of the Kingston Pres- | bytery. | {, The Presbytery spent some time { in discussing a report of the public- | ity committee, which took up the re- | mit of the General Assembly Com- mittee. The General Assembly Com- | mittee recommended the combining of the existing publications under | one Board. The committee report- 1 | ed against this, but it was finally | Belleville on Good Friday. | decided to adopt the recommenda- if | tion of the General Assembly's Com- Ill | mittee. i | Rev. Robert Laird, of Toronto, for- i} | merly of Queen's University, who is | still a member of the Kingston Pres- | bytery, spoke very strongly in favor, lf | of accepting the, recommendation of }| the General Assembly's Committee | This was the first meeting Rev. Mr. ; | Laird has been able to attend in three l}'vears, and was gladly "welcomed by the members. Rev. Dr. W. 8. MacTavish, of Ma- doe, presented a report of thé Com- mittee on Foreign Missions, which | was adopted. Among other things, the report re- commended that an itinerary be ar- ranged for Rev. T. J. Taylor, B.A, a returned missionary from India, dur- ing the month of May; that Sunday school librarie8 secure a set of juve: nile missionary books; that a foreign missionary topic be placed on the programme at the meeting of the Pregbyterial Union, to be held at TAKE PETITIONS : TO GOVERNMENT. The Kingston and Frontenac Lists Asking For Pro- hibition. Elmer Davis, D. G. Laidlaw, Oli- wer Chown, W. J. Crothers and Thomas Mills, Kingston, and Byron Gordon, Glenvale, left on Tuesday for Toronto for the purpose of pre- senting the Kingston ahd Frontenac Prohibition petitions. The petitions from the seventy- five counties of the Province of On tario will be presehted to the Ontar- io Government on Wednesday. The Kingston and Frontenac peti- tions include some 12,200 names. This is about fifty pér cent. of the votes in Kingston and sixty-two per cent. of the votes in the County. Oliver Chown will make the pre- sentation on behalf of Frontenac and Kingston delegation. | It is expected that there will be Some twenty-five thousand delegates in the grand parade which will march to the Parliament buildings. Each delegation will carry a banner ' ber of signatures secured. - Keep Your X ' And it dwarfs you, share it and it grows; you grow, and others sw Support the "Y | to the Militia Y. M. C. A. are always| red of the cheap and tawdry. __at home. 'come before Justice Clute for bail, on which will be printed the num-| . i nees are on the boards for to-day and | Lieut-Col. R. Gordon Stewart, | !0-MOrTow and a'so evening perfor. | brigade major of the 4th Canadian ances. Infantry Brigade, has returned to] Canada and. will be engaged in in- ve : v structional work. Cor. wart is! Joe Quinney" has been a great | officer commanding the 43rd Regi-|SUCCess on tour. | ment, D, C. O. R., Ottawa, and was edy by 'Horace Annesley Vachell is | in command of. the 38th Battalion. | tle Kind of play that American play- | His promotign to be brigade major | "Wrights have .not yet learned tol came through his efficiency and dur-| Write. It has something of the ing the fighting in Flanders of the charm and appeal of "The Music| - "Joe Quinney." | 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd Battal- Master" with the addition of being a | ; ] . much better play, structurally. It is| jous Be yas of Etat msistance to dominated by one ably drawl char- Fe soll acter who holds the sympathy and | To-night the ladies of the Brock | interest throughout, in a way that | Street Methodist Church are provid- | Strongly suggests "Grumpy" but 'the | ing a programme and refreshments| comedy is also rich in characteriza- | for the soldiers in the military clubj!ions that recall "Bunty" and other | room. All soldiers are cordially in-| impersonations of pleasant. memory. | vited. A special invitation is ex-| The locale is the antique furniture | tended to the men of No. 1, T. A. C.[shop and the central character an -- eccentric and lovable old man, whose | Contributions of magazines and | love of the beautiful things of an-| other, reading matter of good quality | tiquity is only exceeded by the Bat + he in order, and especially in view of the|®cting is very unusual and superior. | plan to snd a couple of hundred ma- | The company is headed by Clifford | gazines Along with the men about to | Brooke, ihe other members being | leave. Acknowledgment is made of | Lucy Beaumont, Betty Daintry, Ar-| the recent donations in this line from | thur Grenville, Marjorie Unett apd | Mrs. R. Stevensoll, Barrie street; Cecil Fletcher, At the Grand on Sat- 8. C. Calvin, Miss Baker, and a num-, urday March 11th, matinee and] ber of others whose names but not night. PY I whose thoughtfulnes are forgotten, | (Continued on page 12.) The Birth of a Nation. In his spectacle "The Birth of a| { Nation; D. W. Griflith utilized a full | operatic score for the first time in | its true relationship to the enlarge- | | ment of his varied themes. It is the | | | Wagnerian idea fitted to the screen | § J drama' and the synchronization was | so perfectly adapted to this story that it becomes a very important | part of the epical form of narrative. Death Of Ellisville Child. {| A symphony grehestin of 30 Yruste] se 7 lang is carried. ie score was ar- The death Scourred on Wednes- | ranged by Joseph Carl Breil who | day, March 1st, of Mildred Dillon, | : Sriffith whil daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dil- | Spent months with Mr. Griffith while lon, Ellisville, age@ one year and | he was making the 'picture and four months. Death was due to |¢dusht his thematic ideas in snatches | acute indigestion. The funeral took | of tune that Griffith would hum while | place on Thursday to St. John's] he was working out his big dramatic Church, Leeds, and thence to the ideas. It is perhaps the Most un- cemetery at Olivet. Rey, H, Smith, | USUal scote ever devised but Is 0 of Lyndhurst, officiated The pall- | Wonderful feature in the productio '| bearers were Masters Henry Dillon, | At the Grand for two days commenc- | Cecil Townsend, Gerald Tye . and | D8. NeXt Monday with a dafly mat-| Ralph Dougall. Among the Tela-|'"®® aod lives Jesen were Mrs. Clarke of | At the Strand. { The feature photo-play shown at | the Strand last evening was another | Metro wonder-play- in five acts, from | the pen of that well-known writer | (George Ade, entitleds "Marse Cov- | ington." It is a story of Southern, days, featuring Edward Connelly, the The Late Mrs. Robert Bryant. _ The death occurred early Tuesday morning after a brief illness of par: alysis of Annie Johnson, wife of | Robert Bryant, aged sixty-five years. | Deceased was born at Bath. She is'| . i survived by her husband and five 1-know ne Broadway star aud is children ; Mrs, T. C. Turnbull and | Particularly suited to his peculiar Mrs, E. Roach, Kingston; T. C,.Bry-| Style of acting. Other good reels ant, Rochester, NY.: R. J. - Bry- | were also shown to capacity busi- ant, Concord; NH; Mrs. E.P. Jack- | ness. The same bill will be given gon, Whitehall, N.Y. The. funeral|38ain to-night and ali day Wednes- service at the home of her daughter, | 14: Mrs. T, C. Turnbull, 93 Johnson street, is to be conducted by Rev. T.| W. Savary on Wednesday afternoon. --tn War Pictures at Strand. 2 | week the Strand Theatre will show | | the official French war pictures, TRAINS HELD UP OWING TO FLOODS. 'Fighting in France." These pic- | tures are pronounced by all who| And Funeral of Luke Cunning-| have seen them .as the most wonder- | ham, Bath, Has Been | Postponed. | are six large reels of the films, and | they were secured by the great gen-| erpl staff of France for the national | archives and brought to this conti-| On account of {he trains being | X > | 1 i rE, B wel held up in the state of Illinois, due! nent by. E Ea or ay bo] \ i | war. crorespondent. a wie, Tuneral of, So fate { shown with wonderful success in oth-| in Friday last, has been postponed | &T Canadian Citfes, and there is every | walting the arrival of som friends |- nication that capacity audiences] the a idler By a 8 M05 | will be the order during their stay | v he evans . Ney = ok have | ;;, Kingston. The usual programme | an. er 3 in, Sus = 1 train o¢ pictures will be shown in conjumc- | BeTY Co ) . t The deceased had lived in Bath all | phig will his life, having followed the trade of | und evening's entertainment. For] a Sarpenter. He 18 Survived bY huis further particulars see advertisement wife, two sons, Char © Tk-| in amusement column. land, Illinois, and Leo of Chicago; | and three daughters, Mrs. D. F. Den- | nison of Selby; Mrs. 8° J. Drum-| mond of Cassinora, and Miss Josie! The Diamond From The Sky. gal's Progress,' together wih {all-star detective feature, "The Price of Sugar Soaging. The price of sugar ha$ taken an- | other jump of 10¢, and is likely to night. Usual admission. ¥ This pleasing com- | §i For the three last days of this | Hi ful war scenes ever exhibited. There J} ion with these famous war subjects. | 1 provide a full afternoon Mi In its fourth-episode, '"The Pradi- ( Ein- | ger Prints," at the King Edward to- [ji Cottons For Spring 1916 at ~ Laidlaw's The colle etion, which is by far the largest we have ever-been able to show, contains many distinctive Novelties, both in texture and désign. . IMPORTED VOILES Light or dark effects, in a most unusual and attractive assortment of designs, at 35¢ and 25¢ yard. IMPORTED BATISTE Fine mercerized qualities. ORIENTAL CREPES In White, Pink, Blue; special at 50¢ yard IRISH.DIMITIES In stripes and checks; all white, made by the celebrated Irish firm of Robert Me- Bride & Co. IMPORTED TRANSPARENT ORGANDIES A very attractive range of the newest floral stripes, and many other Cotton Nov- clties, at Silk Crepe de Chene In Ivory, Cream, Pink, Light Blue, Black, 'Maize, Copenhagen, Coral, King's Blue, Navy. Special at ] $1.50 yd. These Crepe de Chenes have now become very scarce and you should take advantage of "this special offering as we cannot repeat these later 'in the season. JOHN LAIDLAW & SON | go still higher. During the past two weeks it has jumped 30c. The whole- | sale price is now $7.03 per hundred and the retail price $7.85. This is the highest price paid for sugar in many years and it is claim- ed that sugar is cheaper in Canad than -in the United States. : Case To Be Postponed. Goldie Clarke, Hinchinbropk town-} ship, who is in the county jail await-| ing' trial for a serious offence, will | not, according to information in legal | circles, be tried at the present as-| sizes. He will likely, however, which, it is understood, Has, been agreed upon by the representatives of the Crown and 'the defendant. When You Pass Away. it will comfort you to know that during your lifetime some of your earnings were given to advance the work of the YM.C.A. in Kingston-- 'Your home city. What «a terrible thing to die with one's soul atrophi- ed with impoverishing stinginess. Box Calf Boots. EE -- To CORI mir Money We have received a shipment of Women's Sf Bock These a made in button and ace, also high and low heel; these -are considered extra value. Our tic 92.50 Support the "YY" Frank Strachan, son of Mr. and rs. Archibald Strachan, Kingston, who enlisted at Moosejaw with the 11th Battalion, was wounded last spring, is coming back te qualify for a commission, #