{News JEWS FRON THE DISTRCT OIAPPED FROM THR WHIGS MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES. Is Brief Form the Events In The Country About Kingston Are Told Full of Intdrest to Many, Mrs. Marion B. Muir, Belleville, passed away Friday night at the great age of ninety-five years and #lx months, The death occurred on Sunday of William G. Bonisteel, a well known yeoman of the 3rd Con. of Sidney, in his Afty-Afth year, after an Hines of some duration. Mhe Fruit Machinery Company, Ingersoll, in which the Graham Com- pany ltd, ¥s interested has . pur- chased the Walker Foundry at Beile- ville. Godfrey A. Forsey, son of the late Samuel Forsey, Kenfrew, passed éway In the Colonial Hospital, Ro- cuescer, N.x., June 25th, at the age of twenty-seven years, He was a great sufferer. The public school! board, Athens, has engaged Stewart L. Smowan, Pembroke, as principal, and Mrs. A. L. Fisher and Miss G. Jobnston have been re-engaged. Leighton Shorey, Winnipeg, died on June 10th. He was a pharmacist, He suffered from heart trouble amd Pneumonia. He was a former resi= dent of Napanee. He was born in Newburgh in 1893, : The engagement ia announced of Miss Lucy Raymond McGrath, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Sydoey McGrath, Easton's Ooruners, to Dr. Robert Stephen Cleawer Schenectady, N.Y. The wedding will take place at an early date, . Daniel A. Howe, for many years reeve of the wwnship of Amelias- burgh, died on Wednesday aged eix- ty-six yedrs. He was in politics a Conservative and in religion an An- glican. He leaves his widow and . one daughter, The death occurred on of Mrs. Jere Remault, an dent of Newburgh, Mr. Saturday Remault is left to mourn the loss of a wife| with 'whom he Mved sixty-four Over fifty years of that time spent in Newburgh. At Brockville, Euvella Hall, eight Years of age, is alleged to have been kidnapped by her father, Altred Hall, from the home of the child's mother with whom she resided. An automo- bile whisked the child and father away, The affair will likely be aired in the Brockville courts, - Dr. George Isaac Black, Brighton, died last Friday. He was a member of the school board, secretary of the Presbyterian church and was prom- inently identified with the 1.0.0.F. and Masonic' fraternftiés, The de- Ceased was but thirty-eight years of age, years. was New Potatoes 60¢c Per Peck THOMPSON'S old resi- | News From-Eastern- Ontario Tis | . GANANOQUE 14 From Our Own Correspongent) July Lieut. Frank Mooney, who left here with the 2rd Battery the 1st Brigade in the First over- seas contingent, and who was badly gassed some time ago, and in con- seguence invalided home arrived in Gananoque yesterday afternoon and was wet by the Mayor J. O'Connor and a large crowd of residents of {the town. He was taken to his home by the mayor in his automobile, The steamer Mississquoi was well | patronized on her trip to Kingston yesterday morning. : | Pte. Charles Grant, a former resi- | demt of thie town, who lost a leg and {an eye at 'the front some time ago jand was invaMded home, was in {town for a visit with friends this | week. | Joseph Acton of the Aviation | Corps at Deseronto spent a few days | here with relatives. : | Dr. William E. Connor of Gouver- (near, NY, is spending a short holi- |day season with friends in town. Wiliam Haynes of Oshawa is spending a few holidays in town with his sister, Mrs. Thomas Baker, King street. . ; Alexander Craig, Charles street, is spending a few days in Toronto on business, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Baker of Lind- say came down in their auto yester- day to spend a short time with rela- tives in town, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson;» former residents of this town, who have | been located in New York State for [ the past few y , are spending a {few days in town With Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sword, Charles street. Miss Reta Lucy of Collins Bay is |spending a few weeks holidays in | town with relatives, Mrs. Jack Amo and son Paul and daughter Lila arrived in town from | Syracuse, N.Y., last evening for a [few weeks visit with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baker, King street. of Wedded at Westport. | Westport, July 23.--On Wednes- | day morning, July 17th, was solemn- ized the marriage of Roy W. Knapp and Miss BE, Jeannetta Cowell, at the bride's home, North Gower. The happy couple left for the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Knapp, Westport, where a reception by relatives aw d them. Mrs. Theodore Myers, of Petoskey, Mich., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Myers, A. McNally and family motored to Port Home and Mspent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs, O'Hara. Mrs. J. R. Breaken- ridge left last Friday to visit friends in Dttawa. Mrs. A. V. Bilton and son Jack, who were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dier, left yesterday for "Torofito to 'visit friends before returning to their home in Calgary. Mrs. F. A. Campbell and Miss Addie Whitmarsh left on Monday for Ot- tawa. Mrs. B. Curtis, of Kingston, is visiting her uncle, D- A. Curtis, Ward House. ------ | Arnprior Veterans to Receive Medals. | Arnprior, July 25.--On August 4th the third anniversary of the be- ginning of the war, Arnpprior will | present each of her returned heroes | with & medal. The reception com- | mittee are making arrangements for {the presentation, Kindness breaks no bones. « Eyeglasses Arg supplied you. only after our thorough examination tells us that you need them, SILK POPLIN THOROUGH EXAMINATIONS, COMPETENT ADVICE, CORRECT GLASSES, R. J. R wr aihticians and Optametrigta. erly put r.~N. Marion Craw- Lang put toguthar. : re -- SKIRTS ) ----p In beautiful shades of gold, old rose, Bur- gundy, navy, black, and gold flowered; tasseled lar $8.50 values for Green flowered k . Rockets. R00 etc. TAFFETA SKIRTS. In navy, plaid and black. The $7.50 qual- ity, with elastic band and 'pockets. Our Fice...}. vi... ancy sport skirts value for. .. Fancy sport skirts in 001; cotton etc; fancy pockets; $4.00 value for . $1.98 MENDELS |. Jif son--Aa GUARDING A NAVAL" SECRET. | How England Cloaked the Building ot TTTTE New Type of Cruiser. "TY In Europe extraordinary precautions are taken Ly ali the great powers ta | mask their military plans, and con stant efforts are made to ferret out the | | military designs of opposing govern ments, - Admiral William S. Sips ot the United States navy threw an inter | esting sidelight on this phase of pre paredness "when testifying before the house committee, "To show the extreme importance of this matter of a lew type," said Ad miral Sims, "when Great Britain first built these vessels (swit aud powerfu) | battle, éruisers) extraordinary precau. | tions were taken to prevent her possi- | ble enemies learning their characteris. | tick Great Britalu had a number of armored: cruisers. and Germany had a number of them. Great Britain knew that if she could build a number of these battle cruisers that bad battle ship guns and twenty-eight knot speed ~in other words, more speed than any other cruisers in the world and guns "sfronger than those of any other cruis- ers--she-would thus be away ahead for a long time. "She laid down three of those ves- sels. In the estimates they were called armored cruisers, and everfbody in the world supposed that simply three more armored cruisers would come out, with ordinary guns, which are 9.2 inch, ete, They were going to mount on these vessels eight twelveinch guns aplece, and they were going to give them a bigher speed, "You can conceal the speed, of course, while the vessel is building, but it was wholly impossible to conceal the fact that they were building twenty-four twelve-inch guns that could not other- wise be accounted fer. Great Britaly did not want other nations to know that these were going to be carried by these three cruisers. So they induced Turkey to sign a contract for those guns, and a certain foreign attache in London paid not less thun £14,000, or a, to officials of the companies to 8€ to look at their books and assure himself that the guns were being built for Turkey. Of course they pestered Turkey to find out what she wanted with twenty-four twelve inch guns, but in the meantime the vessels were com. pleted and the guns mounted before foreign nations knew that a radically uew type of vessel was ln existence. "The British wanted to get that type out because In any conflict with an- other navy that did not have similar vessels the British would have a great advantag® Their scouting power was 50 great and their powers of destruc- tion so great that anything except a battleship was practically helpless be. fore them." \ Our Poor Record. The average Jield of potatoes in the United States is 113.4 bushels to the acre. In Germany it is 183 bushels The average yield of wheat here is 15.9 bushels. :In Germany it is 32 The yield of oats here is 37.4. In Germany i itis 44. The yield of barley is 29.7. lo Germany each acre produces thirty-six bushels. \ But German fields did not always yield such bountiful crops. Thirty-five years ago Germany raised only 11@ bushels of potatoes, nineteen bushels of wheat, twenty-five bushels of oats and twenty-three bushels of barley to the acre. The German soil is poor. The German climate is unfavorable te successful agriculture. Yet by a care- ful study of the subject of fertilizatiop The Pocket Stage. t may fairly Le claimed that human- within the past hundred years a way of carrying a theater in i ! t will delight in-tak- t its pocket stage and watching tics of the actors, who are so much more inter- FEE 5 sothing but words, more or less clev- Crows and Crops. . The biological 'survey of the depart Werse Still to Come. ' Henderson -- What 'makes you #0 blu? Sanderson--My wife's bread's a failure. Henderson--ls that all? San- ¢ ~All? No; something worse is ing: Henderson -- What? Sapder- week's ordeal of bread pud- ding.--~Puck. ; : "Pa, what is a filibuster ** "A filibuster is au attempt to talk a plan of action to death, my boy." "1 see. You married into one, didn't | you, pa?" --Detroit Free Press, J TT -------- A Bit of Sentiment. : "Why all these toots us you pass that elllage?" inquired the fireman. : "Toots is my wife's pet name" ex- ed the engineer.--Pittsburgh Post. ' get a loan of a aur] lars from the United end THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1917. NC =. Wo LIEUT-COLS. W. 4 BROWN AND H. R. WILSON BEING RETIRED OFFICERS LEAY Were Formerly in the Civil Service at Belleville--Brig-Gen. Maunsell is Coming Here. Lieut-Col. W. J. Brown, General Staff Officer, and Lie 0 H. R. Wilson, Deputy Assistan Adjutant apd Quartermaster General, two of the bast known officers of the head- quarters staff, Military District No_ 3, are returning to civil life at the end of the present month. The fact that these two officers are to be allowed to leave the district TN i on, BROWN Who ig leav- LIBUT.-COL. WwW. J M.D, Neo. 3 staf atficer ing the staff staff after twd"years of the hardast kind of work comes as a great sur- prise to their many friends. The order has been issued as part of a complete sweep being made in the ranks of Civil Servants of the Do- minion. Both were in that service before the war. When Major; Horden went -over- seas, Col. Brown, who possesses a military staff course certificate, and who was major in the 15th Belle ville Regiment, was asked , to take the position. © proved admirably fitted for the werk of organizing for the training of the imany overseas battalions sent from the district. In i | J mmy, LIEUT-COL. H. R. WILSON M.D: Ni 2 staff, who is going back nto civil Tife the summer months, he was at Bar- riefield and made personal inspec- tions, and gathering together an ef- Wednesday { 4 " 4 | valuable here to let go and they have worked on, in spite of those con- ditions, in a way that has been more than Merely gratiyving or satsric= tory." Brig-Gen, @. S. 8. Maunsell, Direc- tor General of Engineering Services for some time, will take over the work -as Genera] Staff Officer at the camp. The general's wide reputation is sure to make him a welcome ad- dition to the local staff, His son who attended the Royal Military College, went to the fromt with the | Engineers but fell in gction some. time ago, HOT WEATHER SESSION OF POLICE COURT Six Motorists Also Came In For a Hot Time at the Meeting. The police court held its session on Wednesday despite the warm weather, and the temperature was further increased by the fact that there was a hot time in the court. Six delinquent motorists faced the Cadi for infractions of the Motor Vehicle Act im running their autos without the tail light burning. Warn- ings at various times have been glv- en out regarding this practice, and at last even the patience of the pol- lce constables was tried to a point beyond endurance, and they got out | J after the gasoline puffers. All those in the court on Wednes- day pleaded guilty to the charge, and were each fined three dollars and costs as a gentle reminder that the vehicle act was put on the Statute books. to be enforced, -------------------- HEAVY FINES WERE INPOSED ON MEN WHO DRANK WHISKEY IN A BLACKSMITH SHOP. Three Men Pleaded Guilty to Violat- ing the Temperance Act When : Arvaigned Before County Magis- trate Bradshaw. Drinking liquor is an. expensive luxury these days, providing you violate the Ontario Temperance Act. County Magistrate Bradshaw imposed three heavy fines in a Verona case. Thomas Nelcey and Athem Hill pleaded guilty on Tuesday to being under the influence of liquor in a blacksmith shop at Verona, and were fined $210 and costs each. | There was a fine of $10 and costs | for-being intoxicated, and $200 and {costs for being drunk in a public | place. morning Thomas i an aged man, appeared be- | fore Magistrate Bradshaw and | pleaded guilty to two charges, that j of being intoxicated and that of be- [ine intoxicated in a public place, and he, too, was fined $210 and costs, It is understood that all the { fines will be paid. The charges were made by License Inspector Wil- liam McCammon. The evidence went to show that a jug of whiskey in the blacksmith { shop of Mort O'Neil figured in the j case, the men 'drinking the whiskey inthe shop om July 10th. O'Neil was summoned -to appear to an- swer to a violation of the Aet, but [he was conspicuous by his absence, { although a county constable called his name three times in a stentorian voice. { €. R. Webster, who appeared on i behalf of the prosecution, in sum- iming up, characterized the case as '. a most disgraceful debauch," and {said that the law had been openly { violgted, and that it called for se- vere punishment. Ryder, ri ------ ° Told the Truth. "Jimmy," said the gentle old lady sadly to the young imp who lay with a broken leg in the hos- pital, ""the nurses tell me that you have been a very naughty boy." "Yes, missus," acknowledged his sun-burnt face and tousled head half-hiddem in the pillow. "But, why?" query. "Can't 'elp' i, missus!' shame- facedly whispered Jim. y ' said the old as she rose, "I shall be at the hospital again next Meek and I want you to promise me to be a 800d boy till them, and if so, you shall have a whole shilling. Jimmy fervently promised; but, alas, all his m:schief reassured it- self, and hc was sadly in disgrace when the old lady again' visitéd the wand. 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