Daily British Whig (1850), 12 Jun 1916, p. 6

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_ MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES, fs Brief Form the Events In The Oountry About Kingston Are Told ~Full of Interest to Many. The Women's Institute of Almonte is collecting waste paper, The government stone quarry at Westport is in operation again with Arthur Last in charge. ] The Ontafrio Gazeztte announce the incorporation of Perth Shoe Co. capitalized at $100,000, K. E. Lindsay, Westport, expects to move to Newboro tliis week, where he has purchased a hardware busi- Smiths Falls town council raised the poll tax from $1 per year to $5, which, it is estimated, will bring in over $1,000. Before feaving the parish of Arn- prior and Sand Point for Whitney Rev. Father Doyle 'was presented with an adress and a purse, The scheme to have Perth adopt daylight saving this season is drop- ped for the time being, but the pro- moters will take it up again for next year. The old stone mill that has stood for many years on the south side of the river at Kemptville is no more, a gust of wind of unusual strength, causing it to collapse, After having been ailing for about two years and confined to bed for nine months, Mrs, R, A. Gordon, Renfrew, passed away on Saturday. Her illness was a painful one. Mrs. M. J. McCann, of Smith's Falls, announces the engagement of her youngest daughter, Anastasia M., to John J. Flynn, of Watertown, N.Y., ' the marriage to take place early in June, ? Mrs, Howard Taylor, Gananoque, received a cable from her husband, - 'I Miss Adelaide L. Dier, Capt. . Taylor, saying : Chapman (Brockville), and Richardson miss- ing, Waker had his arm broken. All the other Gananoque boys well, J. M. Stoness & Sons, Westport, se- cured all their material for the re- building of the electric light plant, and work has been s commenced. They expect to have the new plant in operation early in July, The engagement is announced of youngest daughter of Mrs. A. L, Dier, 118 Garden Crescent, Calgary, formely of Westport, to John M, Strang, Ph.B, Toronto. The marriage to take place in June. The late Mrs. Chambers, Smith's Falls, left ah estatte of about $30 - 000 which she divides about equally by her will, made some years ago, between her neice, Mrs, Flindall of Trenton, Ont, and thé children of her neice, Mrs. Platt of Philadelphia. Among the charitable bequests is a legacy of $1,000 to St. John's church, Smith's Fal's Mr, and Mrs, J, E. Colson have rendered so good a service in Hotel Renfrew, since their installatiox there in the autumn of 1914, their fame has gone abroad, and they are sought by other establishments of the kind They have accepted a tempting offer to take the manage- ment of the Oriental Hotel in Peter- boro and will leave shortly for the Electric City, Renfrewites will re- gret to see them go, none more so than the directors of Hotel Renfrew, ] Gananoque | (IFrom Our Own Correspondent) June 12.---Officers and members of Protection Lodge, No. 51, L.L L., accompanied by a number of the Ma- ple Leaf Lodge of Prentice Boys, to- gether with some visitors from the district lodges, numbering some 75 in all, paraded yesterday morning to divine worship at Grace Church. Rev. Dr. Taylor addressed them for the last time during his pastorate here. Rev. W. W. Weese, the Montreal Conference poet, was named in the last draft of the stationing commit- tee for the Gananoque East circuit, \ | | RUSSIANS CONTINUE OFFENSIVE. The good news from the Russian front conlinues as the Slavs continue pushing the Austrians back in Volhynia. Ar- rows show the direction of the Russian attacks. tt A A MP 0 er | Economy in Here's the way! Make your drink time. use drink fit for a king! healthful. t Canadian BA the Table Drink % a cup at a No waste in that, when yon Instant Postum Just a level teaspoonful from the tin" (more or less to suit taste) cup with hot water. Add sugar and eream as you wish, and you have a + Order a tin from your grocer now." Two sizes: 30¢ and 50c. Postum has a rich, delicioys flavour that is distinctively its m every standpoint--Flavor, Convenience, Eeonomy, Health-- "There's a Reason" for INSTANT POSTUM Cereal Co,, Ltd., Windsor, to succeed Rev, goes to Inverary. The choir of Grace Church at the Sunday evening service rendered an excellent song service, and inciden- A. E. Oliver, who tally appeared for the first time in} their new black surplices. Dr. J. J. Davis, Piné street, was in Kingston yesterday at the bedside of his little daughter Helen, who is un- dergoing treatment in Kingston Gen- eral Hospital. There was another large offering of live hogs at the market on Satur- day. The offering was taken by lo- cal buyers for transportaton. The coal steamer Horace Taber ar- rived in port the end of the week with a cargo_for the Taylor Coal Co. Three large caravans of gypsies passed through here east-bound on Saturday. + As E, Watson and his wife, from the township near Seeley's Bay, were driving eastward along King street near the driving park, their horse took fright and ran away, throwing both occupants out and injuring the man slightly, but not seriously. Miss Irené I. Shaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Shaw, Front of Leeds and Lansdowne township, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Kingston Gencrul Pospital, is spending a few days In town with Miss L. E. Hurd, King sireet, » Among this year graduates at th Jastern Hospital, Brockville, is Miss Jusephine - Bedard, eldest daughter of the late John Bedard, of this town. Miss Bedard stood second in her class. The _ graduation exercises will he held on Friday next, and di- plomas presented to the successful ones, Mrz. O. J Shaneman, Tanner street and Mrs. Tho nue C. Adair, Pine street attended the meeting in Kingston of the Women's 2 uxiliary of the Church of England during the past week. Mrs. CW. Zaring, of New York city, has joined her husband here to spend the season or Hay Island, where they are having a new. bungalow erected, Mrs. C. E. Chandler, Nutley, N.J. is visiting here for a few weeks with her sisters, Mrs. W. H. Britton an. Mrs. James Donevan. Ernest How- ard, of Toronto, has arrived in town to spend the month with his uncle, D. Ford Jones, GAVE THE WRONG ROLL! OF BILLS TO BUYER. William Webber, Cape Vin- cent Cattle Buyer, Is Again In Trouble. Watertown, N.Y., June 12.--wWm: Webber, Cape Vincent, live stock dealer, who has much in the public eye of late, says 'he handed out the wrong roll of bills to Geo, Zahn, a stock buyer, of Castorland, Lewis County, and he is suing him in Watertown for $275. Webber claims that on March 11th last at Castorland he paid to the de- fendant $655 for stock purchased when as a matter of fact he should havé paid him $400. The payment was made at the Castorland station and was made while the train stopped there. A second roll of bills, the plaintiff insists, was handed out to the defendant while the train stopped and that while he discovered his mis- take In a moment the doors were closed and it was impossible for him to acquaint the defendant with! the error. The defendant makes a gene- ral denial. It appeared the defendant told three or four men that the station agent or conductor counted the mon- ey, but when this man was called he sald he never counted the money. Mrs Zahn said she counted the $400 and that it was in denominations of $5, $10.and $20, while Webber insisted the money counted out "was in $5 been | bills, but the other roll lost. had some $20 bills. \ in a and far own, more At grocers everywhere, Ont. MAKE YOUR-MONEY WORK. "And the Lesson the Small Investor : Needs to Learn. Ye The advice of one of the large banks of the country is that every one should | invest his surplus, whether large or | small, in dividend securities of the best | class, whether railroad, real estate or| farm 'mortgages or public utilities, for "To keep money idle is a costly oper | ation." Let every reader of this article re | member. that with as little as $5 or $10 he can make first payment ca the pur chase of a first class $100 bond. Let -every reader who has a few hundred dollars to spare put it in a good $3500 or $1,000 bond on the partial paywent plan, and let it earn something. Five hundred dollars invested in a 6 per cent bond (with the income deposited in a savings bank at 4 per cent) will double itself in twelve years--that is, the $500 will have become $1,000 in that time. This $1,000 at 6 per cent will earn $60 a year or over §1 a week for its possessor. Even at 5 per cent it will double in fifteen years and at 4 per cent in eighteen years. 3 The lesson the small investor wants to learn is that his monéy is just as good as that of the larger investor The former has greater need of being careful because he has less to spare Learn to be a careful investor. The first thing the careful buyer does if he wants to buy a horse, a cow, a house or a farm, a bond or a share of stock is to make a careful investigation Schoolboys may swap the jackknives they hold in their closed hands. but grownup men ought to know better The humblest investor can buy with as great safety as the proudest, for both can deal with the same bankers or brokers in these days when small lots are popular with firms of established character. ---------- Hungarian Faces. I have never seen such interesting photographer's show windows as there are in Budapest. Partly this is because the photographers are good, but partly it must lie in the Hungarians them selves--such vivid, Interesting. uncon ventional faces. These people look as If they ought to do the acting and write the music and novels and plays and paint the pictures for all the rest of the world. If they haven't done so it must be because, along with their natural talent, they have this indolence and tendency to flop and not push things through.--Arthur Rube in Col lier's Weekly. London's Big Bell. "Big Ben," the bell in Westminster clock tower, London, is known the world over, but It is incorrectly named Sir Benjamin Hall, the first commis sioner of works, during whose tenure of office the clock was erected, had far less to do with it than Lord Grim- thorpe, who designed it and was the moving spirit in its erection. In jus tice to him it should be known as "Old Grim."--London Mirror. Newton and Gravitation, Sir Isaac Newton never attempted to tell the people of his day what gravi- tation was. His very frank statement was as follows: "I do not anywhere take it upon me to define the kind or manner of any action, the causes or physical reasons thereof or attribute forces in a true and physical sense to certain centers when 1 speak of them as attracting or enduved with attrac- tive powers." Entirely Stopped. It was at a big boxing show in Brook. Iyn that at the time for beginning the third round of one of the bouts the of- ficial master of ceremonies climbed through the ropes and from the center of the ring made this statement: "Gentlemen, I wish to announce that in the last round Harry Pierce broke his hand and is compelled to stop. He is therefore unable to continue. And 80 he will not fight any more tonight." The First Oyster Eater. The gluttonous Vitellius is reported to have eaten 1,000 oysters at a sitting "He was a very valiant man who first ventured on eating of oysters," King OFFIGERS, IN. TRAINING WOULD ; BE -'SUBS' GET THEIR BUMPS IN INFANTRY SCHOOI, It Matters Not Whether Their Rank Be High or Low, All Men Secking Qualification as Officers Must Face Hard ~ Physical Tests -- "Thank God We Have a Navy," Says N. C. O. When Bad Breaks Happen. NYBODY who considers that any young chap who has pull enough to get himself | a recommendation for per- mission to attend the Pro- vincial"School of Military Instruction can land himself a commission, Ir- respective of his ability to lead men or to solve military problems, has another think coming, says John French, Jr,, in The Toronto Star Weekly. I took a whirl at the proposition and I know. It is a dificult and tedious course, and there is no royal road; at least there wasn't anywhere around where I was, for I saw pros- pective lieutenant-colonels and lead- ers of new battalions handed the same line of caustic comment upon their lack of attention or thick-head- edness over certain elementary move- ments as was ladled out to the or- dinary "subs." ' "Your other right! Your other right!" I heard one instructor shout at a man decorated with the crown and star of a lieutenant-colonel. "Have you lived all these years nurs- ing the idea that your right leg was on the other side of you?" "Mr, -,"' anether instructor shouted to another "lieutenant-col- onel" who was bouncing up and down like a rubber ball trying to mark time, "what do you think you are trying to do---dance the baby on your knees? No! no! no! This is not a Highland fling nor a sailor's horn- pipe." The crest-fallen chap quit bis bouneing up and down and commenc- ed to shuffle his feet back and for- ward more quietly, only to be saluted with a roar of, "Neither is this a sand jig." But to get back to the original premises--the course is tedious and hard and there is no royal road. The first day we tackled it Var- sity campus was a fleld of virgin snow a foot thick. They plowed us out into that feathery mass 600 strong, and for five hours they kept us at it, with short breathing spaces, ng up and down 140 paces to the minute--the quick march al- ways handed to recruits in order to instil snap into them. That bard physical grind was the first weeding- out process. There were too many candidates, and it looked to me as if the first cut was to be made on a physical basis, and this was the test. For three days they hammered "us away through the snow and sleet and sero weather. Man after man, the products of soft office jobs, who thought they were cut out to be sol diers, dropped out, "killed" by the hard physical exercise, or the victims of colds, grip, tonsilitis, and kindred ills, It was tough, hard going---a real test even for a man who was used to a fair amount of outdoor exercise. Along about three o'clock the first day my partner on the left, a red faced Irishman, who quit the job of handling a big business to take a course, and who had been fighting and battling his way along grimly for the last hours, suddenly broke loose : "I'd like to meet the fellow that told me I was cut out for a Napo leon," be snorted; "I'd draw and quarter him and pickle his hide to make army boots." : The sweat was rolling off him and every step wae agony, but he hung on to the end. The next day he laid all the blamw for his sore muscles on the Kaiser, and was continually in- venting mew tortures to wish on the Emperor of the Huns. In spite of all the rough weather, the hard drilling, and the tight reins, | the boys found or made lots of fun. One of the N.C.O. instructors we had was an Irishman. His favorite method of gingering up his platoon was to issue orders as rapidly as his tongue could utter them, His own Hames was wont.to declare, a sent) ment echoed by the poet Gay: The man had sure a palate covered o'er With brass or steel that on the rocky shore First broke the cozy oyster's pearly coat And risked the living morsel down his throat. . She Knew. Clergyman~--It is bad to lose a hus band, madam, but I am sure that as he was such a good man he is happy | where he is. Widow--Oh, but I know | he isn't happy! Clergyman-- Why? Widow--Because he said he could nev- | er be happy without me. -- Oe -------- No Novetty to Her. Miss Gigglegum (single and romantic) | | =The shower of soot and ashes from | | Vesuvius must be an awe inspiring | | sight. Would you not like to witness | [1t? Mrs. Pottson Pans (married and | prosaic)--Oh, I don't know! I've seen | | my husband take down a stovepipe.-- | | Judge. - | { the Royal Mint in London. platoon soon "got wise" to him and | did not, worry much, but one day he was placed in charge of our platoon, | and started to pull that "Form fours; | two deep!" stuff as fast-as his tongue | could utter it. |'ing file that diy and I started for my { position in fours, only to | break off half-way and come back to | my place in line two deep. He pulled | the same stuff a couple of times until | I got wise and merely moved my left I know I was a mov- have to foot back behind me and turned to "Attention." then re- Just after | we finished one of thé boys dowh the | line grunted: | that spalpeen says and [| met myself "Huh! I tried to do as both going and coming." Every time his platoon muddled a | movement he would look at them and sigh, "Thank God, there is a nawy!" The Canadian Mint. The coinage of money in Canada as well as throughout the Empire, is a prerogative of Crown. The mint at Ottawa is merely a branch of The Ca- | madian Govermment would not have | Going Down. | Redd--He started out with a $6,000 | automobile, { Greene--And what car Is he using i now? " | "A street carn tT ~----Sso WE | Liked Variety. | Judge--No two of the witnesses tell | | the same story. Lawyer--I arranged | It that way, your honor. 1 didn't want ! | the trial to be too monotonous for you. ---------------------------- However mean your life is, meet it | and live it, not shun it and call it bad | | samen Toned | Sometimes we waste an hour ot | time over the minute tribulation. | | ~ Next to being dishonest yourself is| i to sanction dishonesty in uthers. { { t | , You are in luck when you save for the rainy day never comes, | into money free of charge. | ernment makes no profit over cost in authority to order the coinage of gold in Canada; it would be necessary to| obtain permission from the Chan- cellor of thé Exchequer, with whose office is combined that of the ancient Master of the Mint. In 1914 the number of gold coins "struck" at the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint consisted of 14.891 sovereigns, 29,109 Canadian $5's, and 135,403 Canadian $10's. = Own- ers may have their own gold minted The Gov- minting gold, ®¢ it is understood that the amalgam used defrays the ex- Denses, -- -- Dr. Annie S. Daniel has had charge of the New York Infirmary for wo- men for the past 35 years. During that time over 316,000 cases have come under her personal care. Stolen sweets may be bard to di- gest, ; | "Sods It HOOD'S| 50 DRY PICKED CHICK » AND FOWLS, ENS: 600 LES. FARMERS BUTTER In Rolls aud Prints. Also a Large Stock of HAMS AND BACON, Our Own Curing. SPECIAL PRICES CLEAR THE ABOVE LOT, West End Meat Market BARRIE STREET, Phone 407, > we -- % ; FOR HOUSECLEANING CARPRT WHIPS BROOMS BRUSHES O-CEDAR MOPS O-CEDAR POLISH RE-NU-ALL LIQUID VENEER D. COUPER 841-3 Princess St. Prompt Delivery, ., Box 116 P. E. Island box, Your druggist sells GIN PILLS, --§0c. the National & Chemical Co. of Canada Limi Toronto, THOMAS COPLEY Telephone 987, Drop a card to 19 Pine street when wanting anything dome in the carpen- tery line. Estimates given on all kinds or repairs and new work; also hard. wood floors of all kinds. All orders will receive prompt attention. Bhoy ueen street. Wood's : The Great Kwglish Remedy Tones aud invigorates the wh fervcuss stem, makes Dew Blood in cing, Cures Nervows Detfiity, Mental and Brain Worry, oss of Knergy, Palpitation th , Failing Memory. Price $1 per box, siz for $5. One will please, wx will cure. Bold by al) druggists or mailed in plain pkg. on 1 eeipt | ice. New pamphlet meoiled free. THE W | cH CO..TORON Q. ONY (Fave { Phone 76 Have you seen the New UNIVERSAL MICHELIN Non-Skid Tire, if not, call in at the Porritt Garage Co., - Limited And see it, it will interest you both in price and quality, PHONE 454. 210-214 WELLINGTON STREET. entertainment in spite of bad weather Cold nights and wintry weather you'll be particularly glad you have a Tals Is the Victrola XIV. $39 evens on. VIC trola No need to go outside your own home for en- tertainment--the best music and fun that any one could wish. #« y¥aweger. ~ Stop in any time and we'll gladly play your favorite music for you, and explain our system « f cacy terms. 7 / C. W. LINDSAY, LIMITED, 121 Princess Street. 'Charm' Ceylon Tea Black, Green, Mixed. Packed in Kingston by Geo. Robertson & Son, Limited 'At All Grocers. A mms Week End Special Men's Suits We have placed on sale "fifty" two-pioce Summer Suits. Prices from $10 to $20. Wile They Last 14 Off --WATCH OUR WINDOWS - Roney's, ALAAASS 127 Princess Street

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