Daily British Whig (1850), 3 Jul 1917, p. 9

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~ PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1917. KEEP COOL' Sir! when you are ready to lay aside your vest it's a sure sign that the 'good old summer time 1s near.' PREPARE FOR IT. Look at your bodily comfort and peace of mind by provid- ing yourself with one of our Cool- = . to our usual high -- standard and \~-- they show every style kink that's now on. $15,00, $18.00, $20.00, $22.00. e've many cool things in Men's Toggery. Ss Cool Negligee Shirts that are handsome and different, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 up to $2.50. Cool underwear, united garments, in a choice variety of best make, $1.00 to $2.50. Cool neckwear that's different, 25¢ up to $1.50. Cool hosiery, cool collars, cool hats and toggery of all sorts. e ® 9 Livingston's ' Brock Street If Off Your Route, It Pays To Walk. For the Hot Weather The coolest and most comfortable suit for summer wear. We have a large variety at moderate prices; from .$4.98 to $16.75 Sweater Coats Silk and brushed wool, a very large as- sortment including many novelties not shown elsewhere: from . $3.50 to $15.00 White Skirts Ducks, Gaberdines, Cords and Indian Head, perfectly made .and finished in the very latest manner; at 98¢, $1.48 and $1.98 Bathing Suits Up-to-date and stylish suits, neatly trim- med. +- ce veo... $3.50, $4.00, $4.98 Bathing Caps in many new and novel styles; from |. .. .. .. . ..25¢ to T5¢ : 8 During July and August this store closes each evening, except Saturday, at 5 o clock. Waldron's DEATH OF CHAS. T. WKAY | | WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN AWAY SUDDENLY ON PASSED SUNDAY. FRENCH-CANADIAN WAS HELD AT BROPHY'S POINT ON MONDAY | He Was Stricken With Heart Trou- "And Was a Great Success--Baseball ble at His Summer Home at East View Park--A Veteran of South African War. | On Tuesday afternoon there was laid to rest in Cataraqui cemetery {the remains of Charles Tossel Mc- Kay, a highly esteemed citizen of Kingston, who passed away sud- denly on Sunday afternoon The late Mr. McKay had been in poor health for the past three years and | {in his long hours of suffering he dis- {played the patience and fortitude which was a characteristic of his summer residence at East View Park and before medical aid could be sum- moned he had passed away { The deceased was born in Kings- iton forty-five years ago and the greater part of his life was spent in ithe city of his birth where he was in business with his brother, John | McKay. in the firm of John McKay Co., Ltd. In the city he gained the {respect and esteem of a wide circle of friends who will regret his sudden | 4 demise His popularity with both old and young, for he was a great | favorite with the children, was due {to his congenial and happy tempera- ment which was shown even when | the was in failing health. The late Mr. McKay was a staunch | patriot and in 1899 when the call! was sent for volunteers to represent | Canada in the fight against the Boers, | Mr. McKay enlisted as a private with the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and fought in all the en- | gagements of that momentous time. | For his services he was given the | South African medal and four bars, | having taken part in the relief of Ladysmith and the fight at Mafe- king and in other strenuous events of the war In the AF. and AM. he had the confidence and regard of his breth- | ren, taking a lively interest in the activities of the Shriners. In relig- fon he was an Anglican, being an! attendant at St. Paul's church. { Besides his wife, formerly Ger- trude Metcalfe, he is survived by one son, Lionel. His mother, Mrs. John McKay, Sr., is also left to mourn his loss, and two brothers. John. president of the furrier firm of John McKay Co. Ltd., and George 0, manager of the local branch of the Bank of Toronto, and one sister, Mrs. Lionel Smith of Montreal. The funeral service was conduct- ed at the home of his brother, John McKay, Sydenham street, on Tues- day afternoon by Canon W. F.! Fitzgerald. Those who acted as pall bearers were W. Mills, (Toronto), W. J. Driver, John McKay, George McKay, Stuart Anderson and A Metcalfe. Interment was made in Cataraqui cemetery IN MARINE CIRCLES. Movements of Vessels in and About Kingston Harbor. City of Hamilton down, Toronto to Montreal, at 3.45 a.m. | The steamer Jex arrived at Sow- | ards from Oswego with coal. The steamer Jeska. coal laden, from Oswego, is unloading at Sow- ards. M.T. Co's. bulletin--The steamer Arabian passed up from Montreal | on her way to Port Colborne; the tug Emerson is due to -day light from Port Dalhousie, and will clear {wth the barges Winnipeg and Bur- ma for Port Colborne; the tub Hall arrived from Montreal with three | light barges and cleared with three grain barges for Montreal. Field Given to Baseball Teams. On Monday morning after Brig.- Gen. Hemming had dismissed the troops participat ng in the review the baseball teams scheduled to play took the field. A party of the | Veterans' Association was marched | on to the diamond, but had to move off, as it was arranged that the baseball game should proceed im- mediately after the review. | cricket field is at the disposal of the military authorities whenever | | they want it, and 'the baseball play- ers understood that they could not | {play untl after the review. The! | police then cleared the diamond for | them. The players were very sore {at the presumption of the com- mandant of the veterans. Napanee Races. The results of the Napanee horse races on Monday were: 2.23 Class-- Mike Again tSears, Oshawa) .. .. .. .. 2: 1 Weno C. (Cole, Cape Vincent) .. . 222 Silver Forbes Jimmie Pointer (Stew- | art, Deseronto) ... 4 | Frank eity) .. 2.10 Class -- Dick Brison Manuella ville) . Oliver Direct (Sears) 2.50 Class-- Armourdale (Hawkins, Wolfe Island) .. .... 3 2 Bobby Patch (Orr, Belle- Van B. (Sears) .. .... 5 4 Little Jerry (Powell) ... 4 § Named Race-- (Wayd, Belle- Little Minnie (Greenwood, Wolfe Island) .. |... Little Edith (Hawley, Napanee) .. .. .... 33 23 Vassaw's Boy (Vassaw, Trenton) ... «. .» «... 4 4 4 4 Horse Races at Gananoque. Many from Kingston attended the horse races at Gananoque on Mon- day. Flash Patehen, Ogdensburg, won the free-for-all. Judge Murphy, owned by F. Whitney, Kingston, 1232 by Black Maud. of Westport, and the n race by Frank M., owned McCormich, of Leeds. . W. Bell, of Kingston, was a Mrs. J. EHiott and Miss Elliott, Kingston, are the guests of Miss Ma- char at "Ferncliffe." the' | cers to lows in the list: No. 3, The | 2Mmbulance. (Powell, { Belleville) .. .. 1 1! Hospital to cheer the cot patients. Faust Patchen (Cole) . .. 2 3] | the casualty list Penhity YReynolds, city) 2 1 1 1] was fourth. The 2.50 race was won| and Other Sports and Dancing Were the Features of the Day. Tae French-Canadians of King- ston held their fourth annual picnic on Monday at Brophy's Point. The picnic was well patronized and was a success in every respect. There was a fine programme "of sports Dancing was enjoyed by a great crowd to music furnished by Mec- Auley's orchestra. Another crowd witnessed the baseball game between the Y.IL.C.B.A. and C.L.C. 'juniors. The Y.I.C,B.A. won the score being 11 to 4. The picnic was a fine celebration of the aniversary of the Confedera- tion and our French-Canadian citi- zens may be well proud of the suc- cess of the day. Military News | Lieut. H. W. Richardson, son of Senator Richardson, has been gaz- etted to the Flying Corps. He went overseas with the infantry. Capt. J. C. Norwell left on Tues- day for Lindsay and Trenton on duty. Soldiers are absolutely forbidden to hire a non-registered car or a re- gistered car driven by or in charge ol a non-registered driver. The thirty-three returned men who arrived in the city on Tuesday morning were driven to Barriefield Camp and taken on the strength of the Special Service Company. Lieut. Col. W. J. Brown, G.S.0, has authorized a new course at the infantry school to start on July 7th. This will enable a number of offi- take a "refresher" course several privates and qualify for a higher and also N.C.O's to rank. The cyclist platoon at Barriefield Camp will take a course at the school of signalling. Dr. W. Gibson. William street, has been appointed as med cal superintendent of the new Queen's Military Hospital, and will take the rank of captain. Major D. E. Mun- dell wll be in charge of the surgical work of the institution. There were 452 recruits enlisted in this district jn the last two weeks. The local units were as fol- AM.C. Depot, 16; C.AD.C,, 3: 21st draft, 5. The Petawawa units{ were as fcllows: 72nd Battery, 21; 73rd, 2; D.A.C.. 23; R.C.HA., 20. The signalling araining at Ottawa se- cured 223 men It is evidently the intention of the officials of the Military Hos- pitals Commission to have a storage system of its own use for the vari- | ous units in this command. As announced on Tuesday a new building will be erected at the Mowat Hospital, and in all probabil- ity similar buildings will follow at' the other institutions. INCIDENTS OF THE DAX. Iacal Notes and Items of General Interest. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Vet- erans' Association raised over $200 by their tag day on Monday. Three infants were baptised at the flower day service in Queen Street Methodist Church on Sunday Joseph Greenwood, Wolfe Island, was removed to the Hotel Dieu on Monday afternocn in James Reid's Mrs. William McDougall, Alpin, was removed to the General Hospital from the C.P.R. train on Monday in 8. 8. Corbeti"s ambulance. William Connolly who got tight on Jamaica ginger and two per cent had to pay $10 and costs for his indul- gence, The steamer Susquehanna is ex- pected to pass down in two parts on Wednesday from Buffalo for ser- vice oh the Atlantic Ocean. Russell Watson, Windsor, spent Monday night in the police cells. He belongs to Windsor, and was given a two-year term for a serious of- fence. The police received a call about midnight, Monday, to a house on (Cole)... 3 3 3 1 3 | Queen street where it is said the mother and step children have a | great amount of trouble. R. (Metcalfe, | The flowers which so abundantly Tw ows Bo jacked Queen Street Methodist Church on flower day were trans- | ferred, after the service, to Queen's B. McCutcheon, Kingston, is in and among the wounded. He is a son of John Mec- 2 dr. ['Cutcheon, Princess street, who had | word that he was back on duty. A fifteen-year old girl, who came | here to the city on the holiday from ['Verona, thissed her train , at 6 o'- clock, and was found crying on the street by Earl Jenkins. The girl was placed in a geod home here overnight. One of the finest decorated houses for the holiday was that of G. W. H. At the Grand. To-night the Grand offers a very interesting programme with plenty of good wholesome comedy. Lionel Barrymore appears in the Metro Wonderplay of tears and laughter, "The End of the Tour." "Buddy" Bennett is a "barn-stgrming' actor, ! and his troupe is strdnded. in May- ville. With Skinny, his property man, h> arranges to give lessons in the drama to the volunteer firemen of the village. Grace Jessup, the vil- lage beauty, is chosen leading wo- man of one theatrical fire company. A travelling salesman makes a false] promise of marriage to Grace, ar- ranges to elope with her and then, boasts of his conquest to Buddy.! The young actor balks the elopement, | but in so doing is wrongly suspected | and shot by his own father. The Pathe News, "Tom's Tramping Troupe," a two-reel L-KO comedy, | "Practice What You Preach," and a cartoon comedy are also shown. Lee and Lawrence, "Up to the minute and a minute ahead," constitute the! high class vaudeville act and offer a! very clever comedy skit entitled "Milady Raffles." Tais same show will be repeated to-morrow matinee and night. ! At Griffin's "The Running Fight," now play- ing at the Griffin theatre besides be- ing an extraordinarily well filmed production of an interesting story has a cast of exceptional quality. | Violet Heming as a beautiful and at- | tractive girl and an actress of qual- ity and experience, It is a picture that should not be missed. The | fifteenth and final episode of "The i Secret Kingdom" will also be shown | and is equally as thrilling as the pre-| ceding chapters, together with a very funny Lonesome Luke comedy, en-; titled "Luke and the Mermaids." At the Strand. | Capacity business greeted a bill | of exceptional merit at the Strand | yesterday afternoon and evening Bessie Barriscale was seen at her best in the latest Tiiangle play. | '"Bowbs o' Blue Ridge," a fantastic comedy drama of the romantic Blue | Ridge hills, in which a writer from | Yankeqland wins the heart of the mountain maid after an odd court- ship best with many complicat ons, a beautiful play of all that is good | and sweet and pure. 'Her Nature Dance," two thousand feet of Key- stone fun and frelic and "The Purple Mask' also held the boards. This programme will be shown again to-night and Wednesday. STOCK MARKETS. Quotations Furnished by Bongard, | Ryerson & Co., 44 Clarence St, | Howard S. Folger, Manager. New York Stocks. Open 2.45 p.m. Atchison B. & O. .. C.P.R. .. Erie "we Marine .. ... Marine pfd. N.Y. C. .. Reading .. .. Southern Pac. Union Pacific Alcohol Am. Loco .. Anaconda .. ... Beth. Steel "B" Crucible . Inter. Nickel Kennicott .. Mexican Pet Rep. Steel U. S. Steel .. Dak .. ... Midvale .. 127% 108% 623% Canadian Stocks. Brazilian .. co. 38% Can. Cement 601% Can. Steamship 3 Cons. Smelters .. 25 Dom. Stel 60% Maple Leaf 102%b | Atthe Theatres | STORE CLOSES EACH EVEN- ING, EXCEPT SATURDAY, AT 5 O'CLOCK DURING JULY AND AUGUST. Summer Dresses An interesting assortment of new styles in the smartest summer } dresses: Plain White Voile Dresses, Embroidered Voile Dresses, $5.75, $8.00 up to $15.00 Figured Voile Dresses, $5.75 to $15.00 Linen Dresses. | Novelty Wash Suits In many clever designs; good quality material at $7.95, $9.50, $15.00. White Skirts White English Repp, Novelty Sport Skirts, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 up to Nova: Scotia Steel 991% Steel of Canada .. 58 War Loan, 1937 94 BASEBALL RECORD. International League. Toronto 11--8; Rochester 21. Newark 6--9; Providence 1-7. Buffalo 4--6; Montreal 01. National League. New York 6; Boston 1. St. Louis 6; Pittsburg 4. Cincinnati 8; Chicago 5. Brooklyn 7; 'Philadelphia 3. American League. Detroit 5;. St. Louis 4. Boston 4; New York (tie) 4. Washington 6; Philadelphia 0. Chicago 4; Cleveland 3. Comer, at 80 Division street. Over fifty flags, pennants and banners Yormeq the display, which' was a very beautiful one and much com- plimented on by citizens. Strawberries For Wednesday. Eleven cents a box, some 123% and 15¢c, one cent less by the crate at Carnovsky's, Brock street. "J. W. Litton has been given the contract to erect a new pavilion and store house at the Mowat Memorial Hospital. Red Cross Tea and Musicale At A. M. Rankin's, M.P.P., Collins Bay, July 5th, from 4 to.6 o'clock. Homemade dainties. 4 STYLES IN MISSES' Made from good quality middy cloth; 12 years to 20 years. _ $1.00, $1.25, $1.50. © Richmond 15--2; Baltimore 14-- 1 John Laidlaw & Son Color Popular We are showing Khaki color rubber sole shoes for boys as well as the black and white. Th Lockett Shoe Store Imeem

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