roms] FIFI ui Hh Mi RR RH NN Uy | 8 i Add wonderfully to the attractiveness of the ' jive yD Pog ay ar acy nome, gne o Derson's viston will probably A wonderful variety of new cretonnes, denims, <lifths, and many other ew effects at amazingly new effects gry nely low prices or at enn CONSTABLE TEBWORTH RES. CUED A TORONTO TIPPLER Steamer Turbinis, Picked Out a Poor Place for His Afternoon Nap--Mayor Gave Him Chance to go back to His Boat. The fact that he got on a spree on Thureday almost cost the lite of one James Brennan, a middle-aged man, hailing from Toronto. Lying at the foot of Clarence street, sound asleep, with one arm stretched over 'one of the rails, Brennan was found by Constable Tebworth, late Thursday afternoon, and taken to the police station. Trains Yeo moving in and out just at this time, and the fact that Con- stable Tebworth nabbed him and took him in charge probably saved his' life, Brennan 'came down to Kingston from Toronto as fireman on the steamer Turbinia, which is now on the dry dock of the Kingston Ship- building Company, undergoing re- |pairs. Just by way of celebrating his first arrival into this port, he started out to paint the town, but soon fell by the wayside, knocked out by old John Barleycorn, who holds the record for 'knock-outs,' But for his troubles Mayor Rich- ardson would have bad an "off day" at the Police Court. When his case was called, the Acting Magistrate asked about the facts, and Constable Tebworth gave an explanation. "That was a pretty dangerous spot for you to pick out so as you could £0 to sleep," remarked Mayor Rich- ardson, Brennan did not say anything to this, but it could be seen that he realjzed the narrow escape he had. As it was his first appearance, the a -- of ADVANCE IN COTTONS, WOOLENS As Yet Kingstonians Have Not Felt Selling at Old Prices Goods Place. Dry goods, notably cottons, wool- ens and linens, have taken a big jump in prices, and the end is not yet. Kingstonians ag a rule, how- ever, have not felt the pinch as yet, the old prices, and will continue do- ing so as long as the stocks that they bought at the old prices last. One merchant pointed out to the Whig that. he was selling a certain line of goods for less than he would have to pay wholesale in the fu- tare. "In Justice to myself," he sald, 'I should have advancéd prices long ago, but 1 didn't have the heart. by circumstances to increase the prices, although generally speaking, there has been no marked advance. I find that many people, anticipating a big jump in prices, are laying in a store of certain lines of goods. They are wise in their day and gen- eration, for before very long they will have to pay much more than they are paying now." Reason for Advance This merchant explained that the advance was due to the fact that the manufacturers were finding labor and raw material very scarce, with the re- sult that they had to pay more for both, necessitating their asking high- er prices from the merchants. Some of the manufacturers who months ago accepted orders were refusing to deliver them for the prices then agreed upon. Of course, :ontinued the merchant, the reputable firms are abiding by their contracts. That, he said, pointing to a bundle of yarn was made by Quaker, and he would deliver the goods if he lost money with every skein. If there were only more Quakers in every line of business! v Far-seeing Merchant Another of the leading dry goods men told the Whig that . when the war broke out he foresaw a long conflet, and grasping time by the Mayor gave him a chance to go back to his boat. In future, Brennan will | pick out a safer place for his little | A SPIRITUAL ATHLETE | Is "Billy" Matheson, Who Spoke at ? Y.W.C.A. Lawn, : "A prize fighter I was born, a prize | tighter I will die," best describes the | speaker at the Y.W.C.A. lawn last night. If one may judge from the three addresses given by "Billy" Matheson this week, he has acquired that few have, the joy of smiling temptation, the exhilaration of fight- Ing moral foes, "the storm joy that warriors feel." Why has the mhn a fist like iron that he can double and deal a smash- ing blow to the table that stands be- side him except as a suggestion of | his capacity for whacking the sins of | the pew as well as the sins of the pulpit, the sins that are making so-| ciety rotten to the core? | Mr, Matheson is the sort of warrior | who if tripped up by the enemy of souls and thrown hard would not lie| wallowing in the mire, but would rise | and strike him full in the face again. | | A Chilling Reception Will be given by the ¥. W. C. A.| on the lawns Friday, the 18th, at| 8 p. m. Music will be furnished by | the band of the 156th Battalion. | Water ices, ice water, ice cream, iced lemonade and icéd cakes will! be served. Admission 10c. | Eastman's kodaks and films. Ma- | hood's Drug Store. i Individual Eye Care Kach eye must be iy. We slassen = after most enreful ex~ tion with sclentific instru ments, Every lense we ply is ground speciall neh ae wn Taey tor =a You are assured accuracy and eyes with a nating Tour made for any evening, eaeh, rh SE Prunes, nice Juicy, 121-2¢, 6c Th, : [evaporated Peathes, 2 Ibs. for Evaporated Apri Sweet te phan W. R McRae & Co 'Golden Lion Grocery, booze naps. | | long as the supply lasts there will be | the , so-called the president, Miss Edith King, "making the a forelock, he accumulated a big sup- ply of staple lines. "I have," he continued, enough goods om hand to meet the demand for months, and so no advance in this store." All the merchants reported busi- ness as good, although one said he did not think it was quite as good as last 'year. This merchant said that his customers were dispersing with luxuries and buying only the necessities, Other mer- chants reported that, as yet, their customers had not drawn the line be- tween necessities and luxuries, The majority declared that there was plenty of money in' circulation. and they were not experiencing any trou- ble with their collections, Getting®Goods Cheaply. The consensus of opinion among the merchants was that Kingstonians were getting their dry goods much cheaper 'han were the people in other cities. One of them pointed out that a big dry goods house in Montreal, the other day, advertised a bargain sale of a certain line of goodg at the identical price that he was asking day in -and day out. Moral: Shop at home! When the advanced prices come into effect Kingston will feel them all right, Cotton goods have ad- vanted from twenty-five to fifty per cent, and woollens from forty to sixty per eent, and this is only a pre- liminary canter, Linens have gone up in leaps and bounds, and soon only the very rich will be able to buy them. WITH MUNITIONS EOARD Two Queen's Graduates Working Un- der Major L. F. Goodwin. E. T. Sterne, lately lecturer in chemistry at Quee 'niversity, and al Engineers; yed ™r the last three months as chigf chemist and inspec- tor for thel Imperial Munitions Hoard, and is giving great satisfac- tion. J. A. McRae has been engaged for the last three months under direc- tion of Major L. F. Goodwin in re- i search work for the Imperial Muni- jj tions Board, and 'this has now reached a satisfactory conclusion. Both the above Queen's graduates had extensive training in research work working with Major L. F. Goodwin in various investigations when at Queen's. , Another Queen's graduate, J. B, Fraser, is now employed as assistant chemist under Captain E, T.-Sterne. Y. W. C. A. FELLOWSHIP CLUB Makes a Presentation to Miss Janet . MacKenzie. The Fellowship Club of the Y. W. @. A. held a picnic on Thursday af- ternoon at Lake Ontario Park in honor of Migs Janet MacKenzie, one of the members, who is leaving the city next Monday for St Louis, where she will enter a hospital to Here and there, I have been forced| cr . ce . Gana- noque, officer commanding the 3rd Battery, C. F. A., writes from the front' as follows: "Since writing you last we have been in some pretty tight holes, but were particularly fortunate, and while we were very heavily shelled but it's coming. The dry-goods mer- chants, ever considersie of their! S05 FORE SMR SERMONS HS on customers, are selling practically at with. very much less a of war and I asking him if he of Richardson or "We are still in getion and expect to be for some time yet but we all prefer to stay in rather than go out for a short time, then come into ac- tion agais in a place whefe the po- sition was not as strong as our own and get shot up. Nothing stirring thank you. "Doe Chadwick has come back again, his wounds being very slight. "The battery has received two decorations now A. S. M. J. Smith a D. C. M., and Corporal Burns a Mil- itary Medal. Both are from King- ston, and both are well deserved as both have done great work." LAURENTIAN HOTEL Plans for Big Hostelry at Bartlett's Point. reported Plans for a ig hotel near Claytomry N. Y., are now taking definite shape, the first mortgage bonds having al" ready been subscribed as well as a large amount of stock, and specifica- tions having been prepared by Archi- tect F. A. Wright, New York, while the Fleming Hotel Brokerage of that city, conditional upon the completion of the hotel and grounds on or be- fore the 1st of June, 1918, have con- tracted for a lease of the property for a tenm of not less than five years. It is proposed to locate the pro- jected hotel at Bartlett's Point, and all the lands, docks ahd buildings there, and about 127 acres adjoining, making 136 acres, which will be laid out for hotel grounds, parks and golf coursg. It is proposed to remodel completely the present hotel building and/ erect a modern fire-proof addi- tion, as well as lengthen out the dock 100 feet, build tennis courts and an 18-hole golf course, dredge a boat harbor, and provide bathing, facilities And construct a conventiol hall to seat 400. The hotel, to be known as The Laurentian, will have 176 guest rooms with elevator and fire-proof stairways, lobby, lounging and din- ing rooms and offices, and a veranda facing tHe river, 275 feet long by 14 wide, with a second veranda 12x45 feet. 'The exterior will be of con- crete, Plans call for keeping the hotel open winters, with ice racing, ice boating, skating, tojgeean slides and ice palaces, Recruits in C. M. R. Wanted. Major W. Alan Stroud, of "C" Squadron, Mounted Rifles Hamil- ton, has opened an office at Sand's Pool Room, Princess street, for the purpose of securing recruits for the squadron under his command. Page & Shaw, the chocolates of excellence. Mahood's Drug Store. The Hat Store Hats for Everybody At Bargain Prices Tomorrow Every man, woman and child in Kingston or vicinity, who needs a new hat should come here tomorrow and get a new one at a bargain. For Men $6 Panama Hats for $3.50. $3 Straw Hats for $1.50. $2 Straw Hats for $1.00, $2 and $2.50 Soft Felt Hats for $1.00, i For Ladies take .a course in nursing. During the evening a presentation was made; of a compléte nurse's surgical ease, presentation--Miss - Kenzie made a suitable reply, thank- ing the club members for their kind remembrance. ape GANANOQUE'S PRO. TEAM To Play Red Sox For a Side Bet of y $200. The Red Sox and Gananoque have completed arrangement for a three game series for a $200 side bet. The even, the aggregation securing the mest runs in the two games will have the choice of choosing the scene for the final contest. Any trimmed hat up to $7 for on $2.48. y untrimmed shape up to $5 for $1.00. pe New Outing Hats reduced to, AE "BO¢ and 75¢. e x * For Children All $1 Psi and Linens for All 75¢ Straws and Linens for All Boe > Straws and Linens for : Watch our Windows ee" GEORGE MILLS & CO. POPULAR winter and next summer, Over seven million of this All the 1916 Summer Hits now released in New York and which will be sung We have every number mentioned in thé publ of the season. Come in and hear these numbers Are You From Dixie; And They Called It Dixieland; Cumberland; POPULAR NUMBERS isher's books have already been sold. MUSIC 2 FOR 25¢ throughout the New York Clipper as the HITS Good Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You; Ireland Must Be Heaven For My Mother Came From There; Nashville; Orange Blos- som Time in Loveland; My Own To Me; Baby Shoes; p Boys Come Back; Khaki; Tonight. Phone 919 Got a Bungalow; Come Back to Erin; The College Iona; There's a Q EVERYTHING IN MUSIC Nights usker Down in Quaker Town; Ireland Is Ireland Along the Rocky Road to Dublin{ Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine; He's I Sent My Wife to the Thousand Islands; Memories; Shadow. time; Mother; She's the Daughter of Mother Mac hree. . PATRIOTIC NUMBERS Roll Up; Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag; Sweet Home; There's Someone Wants You; Good-Bye Mother Dear; I Want My Daddy; When The I Love You Canada; Follow Us Along; I'll Miss The Girl; Where's My Boy Johnny O'Morgan Playing Home Book Store 160 Princess St. Farewell Sale of All clearance of wash ~ Farewell voiles, marquisettes, lengths from 2 to 7 yards, priced up to 45c a yard. Sat- urday at 8.30 a.m. Summer Lines on dress goods, dainty ... 12%c a yard Ladies' white repp skirts, size 25 Satwrday i... to 28. .. 69¢ ors, Saturday . . Ladies' white blouses, trimmed with col- iv. 0%e blue. Saturday Saturday ... .. . Ladies' Striped Middy Blouses, pink or Ladies' white gabardine skirts, counter soiled. Less than half price, . Ladies' colored blouses, broken sizes, less than half price, Saturday . . .. 99¢ slightly ... 99¢ ce... 99 black and white. Ladies' Striped Skirts, pink and white, Saturday .. $1.49 Black or navy silk skirts, Saturday $3.99 - A basket full of child ren's socks, pair 10¢ Extra value in ladies' white hose, 25¢ up. a pa -- The Always CLOSING OF MAILS fo ® British" mall closes Irregu- larly. Information posted at P. O. Lobby from time to time. United States, daily ..12.48p.m. Grand Trunk, going GAS .. cictesue suns 11.30 a.m. Grand Trunk, going WORE avs. vevas sxe _« 1.00 p.m Do. (including Western States) 1.00 p.m Grand Trunk and all west of shy $s ose a C. P. R, 10.15 am. and CNR cis con ven sees 2.30 p.m. 5.30 pm. 2.00 p.m. | In Marine Circles | The steamer Conger Coal cleared from the Canadian Locomotive Com- pany's wharf to Erie on Thursday. M. T. Co's Bulletin: The tug Em- érson arrived light from Charlotte and cleared with the barges Condor and Lapwing to load coal at Sodus Point; the steamer Windsor cleared for Oswego to load coal for Mentre- al the steamer Advance cleared from Port Colborne on Thursday with grain for Montreal. The steamer Charles Beatty, which left for the Pacific coast last spring, after receiving extensive re- pairs, has been sold to representa- tives of the Allies for $275,000, it was learned af Ogdensburg, N. Y. The former owners, of whom Frank A. Augsburg, Pyrites, N. Y., was one, paid $100,000 for the craft. and] spent $30,000 in repairing her here. ~ MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENT Miss Lena Elmer Suffered a Sprained Wrist. A .serious accident happened on Thureday mo.ning to Miss Lena El- mer, Earl street, while riding in the side car of & motor cycle driven by Thomas McCormick, near Cataraqui. It is said that an axle of the machine broke and threw the pair to the road. Mr. McCormick escaped with a severe shaking up, but Miss Elmer Our "Dollar Special" Corset is a winner. Newman & Shaw Busy Store poe BUILDERS' SUPPLIRS a Hardwood Flooring We have recently equipped our mill with special machin- ery for the manufacture of hardwoog flooring and can mill it's tent this has grown. to what exe Canadian Industry The product is thoroughl, satisfactory, and the aon of the cases are surpassed no- where. (Oak or mahogany, any finish). lor or hall. If contemplating the chase of a clock it wil vor tainly pay you to see these. Smith Bros. WF. Gourdier | Phone 700 an Tools for the Toilet such as burshes of all kinds, combs, to your brder all kinds of Ma- ple, Birch, Plain Oak, Quar- | tered Oak, ete. ! There is no better flooring we are in a position to name close prices. S. ANGLIN & CO. Woodworking Factory, Lumber Yards Bay and Wellington Sts. Office Phone 66, Factory 1415 wooelumber, Coal and Woodeooos | Sheflield Steel with carved ivory han | die or the latest safety razor, we | have it. When you want a reliable | Here are a few: Gillette and Auto Strop Safety Razors. . Arnoldi and Ever Ready Safety] Razors. ; 4 Rodgers, IXL, Wade and Butcher. | Al the best grade razors made. | Every razor guaranteed. suffered a sprained wrist and shock that necessitated her being confined to her home. She is residing with her sister-in-law, Mrs. A, Elmer. Give us a call | | W. A. MITCHELL on the market than ours and §|, nail polishers and manicure goods of every description should be high class in order to give adequate ser- vice. That is the only kind we han- dle. ' See our special line of imported tooth brushes at 25c. Dr. Chown"s Drug Store 185 Princess St. Phone 848 Bick Room Supplies : Picnics and Lunch Pails We always earry in stock a large assortment of Cooked Meats, Potted Meats Canned Fish, Fancy Pack- age Biscuits, E Bis- cuits, Chocolates, Choc- olate Bars, Etec, Layer ad Drop Cakes Fresh very Day. At 'the Premium Sto LR B.Gage SAA A conionginy FOR HOUSECLEANING ° BROOMS lis te a