i a smile of contentment, i LD GIVEN SUITABLE WELCOME AT GARDEN PARTY ON TUESDAY Millhaven War Hero 'Was Ro The reception that was given Lieut. | the war. EB. A. Baker, who retlirnad sightless | Would not have been in Ca font ten da , Wi ! 8 Beulah Church. She Vnited Empire Joraiis ven, on Tuesday evening, own r real patr y ¥ SvauINg and dean spoke feelingly of what Queen's from the in a grove near Mill proved ge one of the most, pressive and held in this garden party had been held A during the afternoon and a few teet | rm for the speakers Ong rows of tables Ul § sground. The | being one of those present at such below the plats could be seen with the lake as a back platform was erected on a knoll un- der a my tree, an lanterng shed a soft light over the scene, platform was Lieut. Baker, and eagerly drinking In the words of those who had come to do him honor, In the aud were hundreds who had driven many miles for the event, and on: both sides of the road near the church were hundreds = of automobiles. The band was present, Rev. Mr. Seymour, pastor of Lieut. Baker's church, was called on by the chairman, Rev. J. H. Dawson, to make a short address. He express ed the honor it gave hi WILSON'S fel gists, Grocers and Notice | Di ah a AAR The shortage of photo chem- feals for finishing films does not affect us as we have supplies on hand to carry us till the new supply arrives. We are finishing more films today many times over than all other local dealers combin- ed, Six finishers cannot keep up with the work, Ney We are selilng and guaran. teeing the best film on the mar. ket and still developing at 10 cents a roll. Best's The Popular Drug Store Open Sundays all Drug. bya Slory The wise old owl says Boys young and old N = # See Jerseys day. day on you. Lig is the yet simple ceremonies district. 156th Battalion | © {stood up and was cheered to {eep Cool =: White and colored, with! and short sleeves, at 50c'and 75c. . Cool underwear and cool Shirts receiver to- verybody keep We will be glad to on = ade 4 most suitable one. He sald the reason many of the community had gathered 'together was because of Many of. those resent only for war. It was the war in which had The already done and was doing, and of the effect that the home com- ing of Lieut. Baker had had on his feelings. s i A. M. Rankin, M.P.P., expressed | the 'deepest pleasure and honor of a unigue gathering. It was but little, however, in comparison with On the! what such a hero deserved. He re- wearing {lerred to the tyrs of Canad of which Lieut. Ba.<s was typical, and | expressed the hope that many niore {of the same calibre would bring | honor to their native land. | Dr. J. W. Edwards, M. P., gave {an excellent address, in which he lauded the British Empire and the share that Canada had chosen to {take in keeping its honor of the highest standard. Like Dr. Good- win, Dr. Edwards hgs a boy in uni- {form and he was proud of the fact, | The doctor spoke of the work that m to welcome | the women were doing now in Can- : : p 2 ~~~ ada, and mentioned that when this| He Is getting from 30 to 35 bushels [history is written 'they will occupy {a very high place. They as well as | the men had brought glory to Can- iada, and he was proud of the fact, | Rev, Mr. Barnes gave a short ad- | dress of welcome to the returned hero, referring to the fact that he had done his duty. Rev, Mr. McTear honor that a seat on the platform had given him when it was to do homage to. a returned hero. When the band played. "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow," Lieut. Baker the echo. He proved to be just as manly {in form as ever, and with head thrown back made a short address { that was a masterpiece. The three things that had come over him | while listening to the addresses | were regret} pleasure and gratitude. | The regret was of his inability to re- {turn to the firing .line, where 50 | many of his best friends were de- | { fending the Empire. The pleasure | was from the fact that he had been | | privileged to fight so long without | | being fatally wounded. The grati- | { tude in his heart was for those who { had done so much to make the even- {Ing a success and a miléstone in his { life, i The meeting closed with the band { playing the National Anthem. spoke of the | KENNETH CHIPMAN SAFE. | Member of Stefansson's Party-Com- | ing by Another Route. Halifax, N.S., Aug. 23.--Kenneth G. Chipman, of Stefansson's expedi- tion to the North, whose name it was announced in New York and Toronto despatches, was not on the list of [those returning, is safe and is com- ling by the MacKenzie route, via Ed- monton, This information was received by relatives of the young enginéer in Berwick to-day, He is accompanied by two others of the party, K. G. Chipman is a son of the late Andro F. Chipnian, of Berwick, and a nephew of Judge Chipman, Kent- ville, His brother, Rev. O. N.. Chipman, was formely Baptist 'pastor of Canso, and is now stationed at Hampton, N.B. On his last visit to Berwick in 913, Mr. Chipman was recovering from the effects of an attack by a grizzly bear sustained while map-| making for the Dominion Govern- ment on the Northern Pacific coast. SUCCESSION DUTIES TAX Provincial Treasurers To Confer With Reference to Collection. Toronto, Aug' 23.--A conference will take place shortly between Hon. T. W. McGarry, Provincial Treasurer of Ontario, and Hon. Mr. Mitchell, Provincial Treasurer of Quebee, with the object of arriving at an under- standing between the two privinces with reference to e «collection df succession duties tax upon estates where assets exist in more than one province. By arrangement with the other | provinces, except Alberta and Que- bec, if the executors of the estate can show that they have paid the outside Jovernment succession duties on that portion of the estate held in that par- ticular province, the Ontario Govern- jment remits to them the amount |charged by Ontario against the | estate for the portion held in that | other province. Such is the arrange- {ment that will likely be made be- tween Ontario and Quebec. | LAWYERS DO WELL. i | Get $130,115 Out of Fight Over New York Will. | New York, Aug. 23.--Surrogate { Coholan yesterday signed a decrce | permitting the proponents and con- | testants of the wil) of Amos F. Eno the will were allowed { $130,115 to pay certain expenditures for counsel, In addition $12,000 was allowed Yor the cost of their alienists. | coutestahts enumerated expenditures for $8,000 for counsel in addition to The next of kin of Eno were dis- satisfied with the clause in his will leaving an estate residue of about $5,000,000 to Columbia University. They united in a contest in which it 'was alleged ' testator was incompe- tent and unduly influencad. The mentary capacity when he executed the will. , . Record Hog Prices. Chicago, Aug. 23.--Hog prices hit the highest mark since 1865, when choice hogs sold in' the local live stock market to-day for $11.30 a The! question, +tatement that Ottawa, Aug. 28.---Germans and Austrians who are decidedly anti- British are swarming into the Peace River country in a numbers, according to Jehn Wilson, Grand Prairie, rte, who is at present visiting In Ottawa. He stated it was time for the Federal vernment to move in the matter. e declares that repeated requests from the peo- ple that action'be taken have been ignored. . "Good Canadians dnd Americans who have settled in that country are leaving to go to the front, while their places are being taken by Germans and Austrians," says /Nr. mn. "These, of course, are not from the Fatherland since the war started, and some of them are only sons of parents born in Europe, but their sympathies "sare . entirely with the cause of the Teutons. They make no bones about their feelings, and some have gtated that the minute they get their patents they will be off to Europe." There are more Germans and Aus- trians moving into that country than any other class of people. They are coming from other parts of the coun- try. | Mr. Wilson states that the crops {are fair in the Peace River country. of wheat to the acre, against 50 and 60 last year. SUFFER FROM MELANCHOLIA Be was They Have No Interest in the Wain Which They Arve Fighting and AUSTRIAN | PRISONERS IN PRESSED STATE OF MIND, Mrs. Harold Davis, Stuart street, entertained at a most enjoyable tea on Tuesday afternoon in honor of her guests, Mrs. Henry Polson, of Bufl- falo, and Miss Newmarket, who received with her. Many sweet peas centred the tea- table, which was in charge of Mrs, W. R. Givens, Mrs: G. McKay and Miss Millie*Ferris, who were assisted by Mrs. J. H, Byrne, Mrs. W. Gibson, Miss Bessie Robertson, Miss Aileen Folger and Miss Mabel Richardson. » * » Mrs, Frank Bermingham, Mrs..O' Rielly and Miss Keenan were the guests of 'honor at a luncheon at the Country Club ong Monday. At the table, which was bright and pretty with golden glow, covers were laid for twelve, the other guests present being Mrs. Artur Cunningham, Mrs. P. C. Stevenson, Mrs. J. L. Whiting, Mrs. Scadding, Mrs. Walter Macnee, Miss Bessie Smythe, Miss Florence Cunningham, Miss Marian Redden and Miss Frances Sullivan. * * Miss Flora Abernethy, Albert street, was' hostess at the tea hour on Monday, when Mrs. Robert Edmunds (formerly Miss Bessie Chown) was the raison d'etre. Mrs, S. M. Robert- son, Miss Jessie Hutton and Miss Dorothy Roney assisted the hostess with the tea, and the guests includ- ed: Mrs, Arthur Turner, Mrs. John Welch, Mrs. Baker, Mrs. M. Rodden, Miss 'Eleanor Minnes, Miss Libbey, Miss 'Alma Price, Miss Frances Wright, Miss Marion. Booth, Miss non: Penwarden, Miss Florence Shan- non, Miss Beatrice Driver, M Mar jorie Hopkirk, Miss Florence Elliott Make Good Prisoners, land Miss Harriet Chapman, * * * Londen, Aug. 23. Times correspondent on the Kovel | front sends the following despatch | dated August 19th, Though Austrian prisonerd from | the beginning of the war have suf- | fered from chronic melancholia, their | psychology a year dgo was cheerful | compared with the woe-begone frame | of mind one finds in them to-day. | They have been sitting for months | in a country which not one of them] wants, for Austria is fighting for an objective which they do not in the | least understand and against people | for whom, for the most part, they not only feel no bitterness, but whom | they actually like, Their fenthusi- | asm was not extraordinary last year, | when they were advancing and their | frame of mind now is pitiful, | It seems extraordinary to me that! the Austrians should have held out | 80 long with an army that cared so little for the war and which for more | than a year has been obviously an-! xious to cease fighting. I am told by men who were in Vienna just be- fore the Russian advance that every- | one was expecting peace within a few | weaks, and the army-"generally seems | to have been told that after two | years of victories 'for the Central | Powers the Entente Allies were | ready to come to somé compromise | and patch up peace. The new of-| fensive, which seems to have been ut-| terly unexpected, has blasted these | hopes, and now the depression is pro- | found. { The more one sees of the Austrians | the better opinion one forms of their | character, When once captured, it| is absolutely safe to treat them with consideration, for they never take ad- vantage of their captors, no matter | how bitterly they may have fought | before being taken. In strong con-| trast are the Germans, who sulk from | the moment of their capture and take advantage of the least opportunity lo turn on their hosts. Along the! wholo front one hears stories of German treachery,--abuse of the] white flag, ete. I cannot vouch for | the truth of them, but I can state without reservation that they are be- lieved by practically every Russian | soldier, with the result that there is! much bitterness between them and | the Germans, { The London | | { | SOLVING ARCTIO MYSTERY. Mounted Police Get Information Of | Street and Radford. | Ottawa, Aug. 23.--"I have import- | ant information re Street and Rad- | ford case," was the wire received this | afternoon by the Royal Northwest | Mounted Police Department from in-| spector Le Nauze, who has arrived! at Herschell Island with the Eskimo| murderers of Fathers Leroux and Rouvier, missionaries. It is be-| lieved at the Mounted Police head- | quarters that thé natives now in cus-| tody may be same men responsible | for the doing to death of H. V. Rad-|{ ford, a Boston explorer and natural-| ist, and George Street, of Ottawa. | They without doubt are members of | the same tribe. The two murders] both occurred in the vicinity of Ches-| terfield Inlet." : CANADIANS UNITED In Declaring That Lee-Enfleld Rifle! Is the Best. 5 Ottawa, Aug. 23--F. A. McKenzie cables: "I find only one opinion in ithe Canadian ranks on the rifie Every soldier, old or new, officer or private, with whom I dis- cussed the matter voluntéered the : = 4 Ross = 1 finest peace rifle in the world, it is unsuited for present conditions. > "It is too long for the trenches, too slight in parts, with a less ef- fective bolt action. The second di- vision men individually attempted to ick up Lee-Enfields to fury decided he did not have testa-| their Ross, but 'were stopped by or-| der. They are now being armed with Lee-Enfields."' HUNS STEAL TOWN. Colony of Germans Placed in Belgian Town ¢f Bouchate, - Paris, Aug. 23.--The Journal des arrived replace Miss Mabel' Richardson has re- turned from a week's visit with Miss Agnes Richardson at Chaffey's Locks. Miss Daly and Miss Kathleen Daly, | Monday | Albert strekt, returned on from Bon Etho Mr. and Mrs. R. Waldron, Mrs Waldron, jr., Mrs. Moore, Miss Carrie! and Miss Ethel Waldron and Miss] McKay returned on Monday from| Ogonquit, Maine. { ih R. | West te Miss Bessie Smythe, will entertain at the morrow in honor of Mr mingham, Mrs. O'Rielly Keenan, { ank Ber-|{ and Miss} » * + 11 will come up to visit Miss Mrs. Francis Bottere from Montreal this week Alice Macnee Miss Nine Kin H. E. Richardson day in Cape Vincent w Sackett Lieut. Mi Tue ank 1, who ig pent Mra. | ne and Mrs. Robert Edmynds in town from England on| Saturday, and will spend a: month with Mrs. A, P. Chown, "Edgehill." ! Lieut. Edmunds is in Ottawa for a| few days. i Lieut. W. Kent Macnee is visiting | his aunt, Miss Alice Macnee at Tre-| mont Park, Miss Muriel Whalley arrived in| town from Arnprior this week, and! is with the Rev. A. F. C. and Mrs. | Whalley, Bagot street. Capt. and Mrs. John Welch, who! have recently returned from England, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. IL. W Williams, University avenue. Mrs. R. Easton Burns and "Mis Freda Burns, Frontenac street, are spending a couple of weeks at Bon Echo. * * Mrs. William Hendry, who is visit ing Mrs. A. Strachan at the Custom House, will leave to-morrow for Ot tawa. Miss Marjorie Low, Ottawa, is now visiting Miss Bessie Robertson, Union street. J. D. Craig spent Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mm. W, G. Cr Barrie street, on his way from Cay Vincent to Ottawa. * * Mrs. Travers Hosa and little Miss Mary Frances have re urned to town after. a week's visit with Miss Alice Macnee at Tremont Park. » Mrs, Stanley Graham, who has been | with her husband at Thirteen Island Lake, was in town on Monday on her way to Thousand Island Park to visit | her mother, Mrs. Samuel Birch, * * * * g, pe * There will be. a luncheon at the Country Club to-morrow, when Mrs M. V. Plummer, who is leaving on Friday for England, will be the guest of honor. ol» Mr. and Mrs. Gray, New York, are! the guests of their daughter, Mrs. M. | V. Plummer, and will leave for Eng- land with her to-morrow. Miss Aileew. Regan; London, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. James Rig-| ney, George street. » 0» Miss Florence' Elliott, Barrie Nt NN ta Nt, Summer Punch and Pep come from a food that | is rich in muscle-fhaking material and' is easily di- gested. It is what you digest, not what you eat, that makes healthy tissue. | eat Biscuit is full of | body-building The burden of years of food ! { folly can be unloaded by | going on a Shredded Wheat {diet and sticking to it Get back to Nature before Jit is too late. Shredded Wheat contains all the body- building material in the whole wheat grain prepared in a digestible form. A Debates says the Belgian Dépulation hundred poynds. . The previous high tevel was $13.25 in 1865. \ chasers for shipment to the in Europe, aceording to the cause, soldiers packers, Heavy blying by Canadian pur! of the Belgian which was evacuated, has been r placed by a colony of German farm- ars, who have taken possession of be ® | houses and fields, town of eer) satisfying Summer food. For "breakfast with milk or cream; | for luncheon with berries. Made in. Canada Jean Campbell, of | Whiting, { sister, {ing the 1$21.99, i nolds, | William { Craig road; $5, William € Every shred in Shredded | x | nutriment. | "Da New Suitings New Linens New Gloves New Blankets New Suits New Silks New Dress Goods New Velveteens The First Arrivals For the Fall and Winter Season, 1916 Are now enjoying their initial showing -- replete with all that me Fashion" claims as the vogue -- the values too are such that cannot be repeated later on so would advise all making plans for la- ter on to choose now while assortments and values are at their best. New Laces New Corduroys New Hofiery New ettes New Whitewear New Coats. Ete., etc. May we have the pleasure -- say tomorrow? STEACY'S| street, went to Toronto to-day to visit her aunt. \ Mrs. Scadding, who has spent some weeks with Mr. and Mrs. John Clergy street, will leave with them for Toronto on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Whiting will go on to Lake of Bays, Muskoka, where they will spent two weeks. Mrs. John Sherman, Johnson street, left on Tuesday. for Toronto, where she will visit her son, Dr. Charles Sherman, for several weeks, Mrs. Odell, Ottawa, is with his Mrs. H. D. Bibby, Barrie street. Rev. A. E. Runnells and family, summering at Sydenham Lake, ro- turned to Montreal on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Bibby and Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Morris, Barrie stret, {are off on a motoring trip through | New York State. Rev. J. D. Ellis and family, sum- mering at Sydenham Lake, will re- turn to the city on Thursday, , (Continued on page 10.) { Township Councils | PORTLAND. Harrowsmith, Aug. 7 Members all present. Minutes of last meeting adopted. A by-law was passed fix- rate of taxation for 1916 as follows: For county purposes, 8 mills; for provincial war tax, 1 mill; for township purposes, 5 mills: for general school rate, 4 7-10 mills; total, $18 7-10 mills. Accounts paid: $172.70, S. J. Deyo, work on Lough- boro. boundary; $26.70, Edward Curl, making 128 cement tile; $11.60, John Leveque, work on road: Thomas Leveque, york on 60c, Sawyer-Massey Co., re- $10.50, Albert Beatty, work $11.38, Garnet Reynolds, $11.38, Garnet Rey- 5.85, E, Rey- road; pairs; on road; work on road; nolds, work on road; 85, work on road; $1, A. Card, repairing stone dam bridge; $8.60, Craig, filling wash-out on ig, bonus on 50 rods wire fence on Craig road; $3.60, Charles Wilson, 36 loads sand for Hinchinbrooke boundary. Coun- cil adjourned to meet in Verona Monday, September 4th, at 1 p.m., or at call of reeve. rf | GERMAN OFFICERS MADE THEIR ESCAPE Tunnel Under Walls of Con- vent in Which They Were Confined. Toulouse, France, Aug, 2 -It was learned to-day that eleven Gér- a a | man.officers estaped on Sunday night from a convent in which they had been confined, and that four of them have been recaptured. One, wound- ed and unable to walk further, gave himself up. Another, an aviator, was tracked by,a dog to a forest. When arrested he had in his possession a map of the region and a large package of food. Two others were captured by the police in the suburbs of Nissau. The prisoners escaped through a tuhnel under the walls of the con- vent, the construction of which must have required" many weeks of dig- ging, Wheat Threshing In Manitoba. Carman, Man., Aug. 23.--The first wheat threshing of the season in this district, started Monday on the farm of McConnall and Larson, twé miles east of here. Forty acres threshed, after Yeing cleaned, yislded 660 bushels, grading No. 3 Northern Ea average of 16% bushels per acre, CheaperBeef Cut from the Finest Western Stock. STEAKS-- Rounds . . .. . Sirloins . .: Chuek .. .. . . Hamburg .... .... ROASTS J: Choice Oven .. .. .. . .. 15¢ to 20¢ StewingCuts .. .. .. ... ... 128e Boilingcuts .... .... .. 123c to 14¢c Pickled Beef, .... .. .. 12ic to 15¢ The Wm. Davies' Co., Ltd. Phone 597 Aug. Sale Men's $5.00 Oxfords _ To Clear at Half Price $2.50 . SEE WINDOW FOR SIZES Jack Johnston's Shoe Store 70 Brock Street NO BILINGUALISM CANADIAN AIRMEN IN MANITOBA SCHOOLS : AT SALONIKA Backers of French Promise|Two Ottawa Boys at Least Struggle, but Germans and Taking Part in British Ruthenians Quiet. Offensive. Winnipeg, Aug. 23. --With biling-| Ottawa, Aug, 23, Canadians are. 2al teaching in French, German and taking part in| the Salonika offensive Rutherian wiped off the curricula, |in the air if hot by land. Several the public schools of Manitoba have Canadian airnién are flying with the re-opened, making a new step in the British forces there, Among them )chool and language struggle in the [are two Ottawa boys--Lieut. Mac- SEovinee. Ct hl ? Pherson, son of J. E. Mac! ACKers o € French language in| Ottawa manager of the Bell Tele St--Bonitace--and in other French-| phone, and Lieut. Graham Avery, speaking districts throughout the fon of the late Fred Avery. : Province announced yesterday that |. they were prepared to put up a strug- gle for their language They refused to discuss their plans, stating that 'they were waiting for the Depart- ment of Education to show its hand, {ft will be two or three days before the situation clears itself, as the de- partment will take a look around and ee what is being done before mapp- ng out a further course of action. It 18 probable that there will be a good deal of leniency at first in the wiministration of the act. No reports of trouble have heen received from 'he German and Ruthenian districts, md the department is hopeful that ny threatened trouble will die out, .. 24¢ Cr ita veh se Nore ve ean AOE Fixes Price of Butter in Paris. Paris, Aug. 23.--The perfect of police, who from time to time, fixes the prices of articles of food, has ordered that from today the whole- - fale price of butter shell not exceed four francs sixty centimes per kilogram, and the retal price not be greater than two francs 40 centuries for one half kilogram. The best qualities of butter have been sold for four tr ---------- Steamer Mohtmagny Sold. Ottawa, Aug. 23.-The Gororn- ment steamer Montmagny, suak in collision Jast year below Ouches. wag cold today $25.000 to the St. Charles. Navigation Co. vot et An optimist is a man who invests Ra gold brick every time the op- portunity presents itself. francs or more for m. ' a