i ------------ Eyeglasses Are thorough examination tells you need them. THOROUGH EXAMINATIONS, COMPETENT ADVICE, CORRECT GLASSES, R. J. RODGER , Manf'x. Opticians and Optometrists. 132 Princess St, Phone 347 , supplied--¥our only after our us that The player-piano made by Ye Olde Firme gives the absolutely true reproduction of world's master pianists. The Heintzman & Co. Phaxger-Yiano can be played with wonderful effect by a-person not knowing a note of music. A musical eduction is niot needed to enable you to enjoy the master- pieces of the great composers right in your own home. Its patented features make it simplicity itself to play, and it is built to last a lifetime, C. W. Lindsay, Limited, Kingston Our Ady. in To-morrow's Paper for Saturday Bargains. A clean sweep of all Summer Merchandise at astonishingly Low Prices at MENDELS Opposite Randolph Hotel = = 136 Princess Street Sent on Approyal-- ® (and on Easy Terms, if accepted) ~~ This $33 or $50 Model Columbia Grafenola fat Sydenham and Princess Sts. Phone 1 - - THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1917. (News From Easter Ontario : 2 NEWS FROM THE DISTRICT |OLIPPED FROM THE WHIG'S | MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES. {s Briet Form the Events In The Country About Kingston Are Told Full of Interest to Many, Cyril J. L. Rickwood, Pembroke, has been appointed organist and choirmaster of Knox Presbyterian Church, Ottawa, and will assume his duties on September 1st. Clarence O. Van Wicklin was granted a divorce from Mary Maude Van Wicklin. They were married on Nov. 28th, 1906, at Trenton, Ont. and lived in Rochester, y The marriage occurred in Ottawa on July 19th of Gladys Alice Rath-| bone Sayer, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Sayer, Aylmer, Que., to-Russell A. Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M:. Lee, Gananogue. John Ellott, Belleville, has re- ceived a cable from his son, Flight Lieut. R. J. Elliott advising that he had been successfully operated upon for appendicitis in London, Eng. where he was spending ten days' leave. Fred Pritchard, a farmer about thirty-five years of age who resided on the second concession of Eliza- bethtown ,was struck by an engine oh the G.T.R. track. Brockville on Tuesday morning and died shortly after in the General Hospital. ( _12-Year-Old Gir! Captures Medal. LANSDOWNE TIDINGS Thomas Hunt, Kicked by Horse, Able to Be Around. Lansdowne, July 25---Miss Jean Meikle of Morrisburg is a guest of Mrs. E. R., Bradley. Miss Viva Dixon returns on Thursday to her home in Winnipeg. Mr. and Mrs, MePuerson, Seeley's Bay, and Mr. and Mrs. Ceell Stevens, Elgin, were guests of Mr, and Mrs. D. B. Jobhn- ston over Saturday. Miss May Phil- lips, Cobourg, is spending her vaca- tion with ber parents at Ivey Lea. Mrs. Joseph Redmond, who has been suffering from neuritis left on Sunday for Brockville General Hos- pital. Miss Mary Hostler returned on Saturday from Kingston General Hospital. : Mr. Kennedy of Quyou, Que, was a recent visitor of Mr. Trickey. Mrs. D. G. Copeland spent Monday in Kingston. Mrs. Shaw is visiting at the Kirker cottage, Rockport. Mr. Mac Tennant is elerking for W. G. Johnston. Mrs. Cornell, Sharbot Lake, is a guest of Mrs. F. McCon- nell. Mrs, Robert McCallum, Carle- ton 'Place, "is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Garnet Sheppard. Thomas Hunt was kicked by a horse and although badly bruised is able to be around. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Peck, Brock- ville, are camping at Noah Peck's cottage at the river. Mr. Roddick of the Merchants Bank staff is spend- ing his holidays at Lyndhurst. Miss Anna MeNunn, who was visiting her sister, Mrs. Hostler, returned to Ot- Arnprior, July 26.--In the High School entrance examination Miss | Phoebe Burwash, of the punkie| school, was successful in capturing tthe Low medal offered by Thomas | Low, ex-M.P., to the pupil in South Renfrew making the highest marks | in the entrance examination. Miss Burwash is only twelve years of age. This ig the third time the Low| medal has been won by a pupil of | the local public school and it was| first won by a sister of Miss Burwash. | Miss Mary Clarke won the Cooney | medal, awarded to the pupil making | the highest marks in the local sep-| arate school. Gas Plant Blew up. Brockville, Ont., July 25.--While making an examination of the acety- lene gas plant located in the base-| ment of his hotel at Portland, W. i H. Murphy ,the proprietor, was bad-| ly burned about the face and arms. | A leak had occurred and Mr. Mur-| phy lighted a lantern, which he] placed near the tank, to find it. In| an instant the explosion occurred, wrecking the plant and doing com- siderable damage to the ° building, Mr. Murphy narrowly escaped being A injured by the flying' de- | ris. Little Chance For Recovery. Renfrew, July 25.--There is little hope entertained for the recovery of William Bennett, slayer of Lieut. Bruce M. Leach, who .has been in hospital here since the shooting on the Sand Point road a week .ago Monday. The, physicians" state thal while Bennett still has a chance. of pulling through it is a slight chamée: Bennett's relatives are still In town; and visit him frequently; - CANADIAN LOCOMOTIVE WAR PROCEEDING. ation Fig- e Financial Circles Gossip Now. Toronto, July 26.--Though Presi- dent Jarvis has intimated that he does not fee] like talking any -more about the contest for control of Can- adian Locomotives, others are more ihcHned to loquacity and the discus- sion goes on. In financial circles in Montreal it is. stated that the pro- posal of Sir Henry Pellatt and M. J. Haney is coupled with thé ultimate amalgamation between the locomo- tive company and others, among the latter being mentioned the Steel and Radiation Company. In an inter- view, President Jarvis is quoted in the Montreal Mail as saying: "AS to any discussion of amalgam- ation with 'other companies, we feel that the locomotive business stands by itself, and that it would be un- wise to link up with companies which perhaps would pot have such good prospects for the post-bellum period as we have. In view of the gratify ing improvenient in recent years, we think the shareholders generally will want to kuoow more of the reasons for the present campaign for the proxies." '70 REORGANIZE U.S. ARMY Pershing Decides to Adopt French Plan After Visit to Front. New York; July 26.--A Washing- ton despatoh to the World says that the first important result of Gen. Pershing's conferences at the Paris War Office and on the western front will be a reorganiza- tion of the United States atmy along the lines of the French units. "The . reorganization will affect every company, regiment and divi] sion of the present regular establish- iiont and the militia units that are about to to camp. The National Aru. cafod ade the draft, will be organise: al ether alo the French ine. i. Co TAMPICO OH, FIELDS STRIKE, 15,000 Men Ha Quit Work Foie ve in . Mexican Field. Ricaul i Bd 5 icault, of Tamaulipas, left night for Tampico to take com d of. the situation from the strike of 15,000 men em- ployed in the oil fields. There have deen rumors ever since the begin- ming of the war that Germans would attempt to the up or des An Amal ures in | | Council and the Public Utilities Com- tawa on Monday. Miss Mildred Fredenburg, Toronto, is visiting friends. Mrs. Arthur J. Watson and child, Kingston are guests of Mrs. George Johnston, Miss Lulu Shep- pard, Brockville, is spending a couple of weeks here. And That District Before Expiration of Year, Brockville, July 25 --Hydro-Elec- tric power is likely to be a reality in Brockville and district before the ex- piration of this year. The Town mission have been in consultation with the Ontario Hydro Commission, with the result that the commission tendered a proposition of $35.95, power to be transmitted from the plant of the Cedar Rapids Company, operating on the St. Lawrence sys- tem. The two Brockville bodies, af- ter a full discussion, a#dopted a resol- ution empowering the Ontario Com- mission to proceed with the delivery of yower in accordance with the, es- timate, which was approved. By the terms of the proposition the Cedar Rapids Transmission Com- pany would agree to supply 10,000 horsepower at a point near Cornwall for use in Eastern Ontario at $15 per horse-power. Sir Adam Beck wanted the electric fluid for $311 per horsepower, and it was conceded to have the fixing of the price left to the Dominion Railway Board. By the terms of the agreement Brock- ville would secure power cheaper than Prescott because of using .more of if.. While the price per hofse- power delivered at Brockville is $5.- 96a horsepower over the contract made with the | Hydro-Electric in 1912, the cost of materials and other accessories justified the increase. U. 8. SEEKS POWER TO DRAFT ALIENS. As it 1s veontidersd pale at They Shou! Exempt. {Special to the Whig.) Washington, D.C., July 26.--The United States with the Allies to legalize the draft- ing of many hundreds of thousands of aliens in this country to fight under the American flag. In every section of the nation an outery agdinst the obvious injustice of the present law as applied to non-citi- gens is rising. Already it has reach- ed Congress and forced action. At the Italian embassy to-day it was stated that diplomatic negotiations were under way to bring 150,000 Italians of military age in the Unit- ed States under the . provisions of the draft. In Chicago one-fourth of the entire registration is exempt, as in one district of 2,923 registra- tion, 2,108 are exempt as aliens, leaving only 815.Americans . from which to draw 377 soldiers. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT REPLY TO NATIONALISM er and Bring About Change. a Ottawa, July 25.--The Ottawa Citizen, has a strong editorial ad- zen says: ih "How to meet Nationalist dicta tion, however is the immediate ques- tion before Canadian statesmen who are genwvinely anxious to carry out Sir Robert Borden's pledge to put the whole force of this nafion be™ bind the men in the trenches, Na- tional Government 4s the obvipus answer to Nationalist Government. to-day is negotiating on Should Get Togeth-| CONSCRIPTION WON'T TAKE ALIEN ENEMIES. Canada and the United States Agree on General Policy, Says Borden. | Ottawa, July «26.--The Govern- ment has decided to rémit to men of alien enemy birth the obligation re- quired of other Canadian citizens under the Military Service bill. {In a statement made yesterday affer- noon Sir Robert declared that under the voluntary system the question of enlisting aliens had been under con- sideration not only by Canada but men of alien enemy birth for compet. ent service. > "Under the Military Service Act," said Sir Robert Borden, 'it is not considered desirable to enlist for competent sgrvice any man who un- der the policy of the voluntary sys- tem would not be acceptable." Minister. of Militia give a statement' to the House at an early date cony cerning recruiting for the Canadian force in the United States. f . W. E. Knowles, Moose Jaw, asked when the Minister of Financg would give the House an accou of his visit to Washington. - Sir Thomas White replied that at present it was inexpedient to give any announce- ment, but he declared that in a week or ten days he intended making a finagcial statement to the House, A KILTIE POLYGAMIST -- Is Sent to the Trenches as a Pune ishment. Boston, July 26.--James Camer- on, a bagpiper with the McLean Kilties of New Brunswick, was sen- tenced to service in the fromt line when his regiment goes back Jnto action, as punishment for hig com- fessed polygamy. Cameron enlisted here during a recent recruiting campaign and his marriage to Miss Beatrice E. Case- well a few days later was made the occasion of a picturesque celebra- tion. Publication of the soldier- grooms picture attracted the atten- tion of Me, James Cameron, of Bridgeport, Conn., and on her alle- gation that he was her husband he was brought back from the Kilties' camp at Fredericton, NB., for trial. He pleaded guilty. In "sentencing Cameron Judge Creed, of the local police court, said: "You shall be taken back to Fred- ericton to rejoin the McLean Kilties, thence to go to the front line, a place of peril and also one of honor, there to expiate the wrongs you have done." . William Patrick McKenna, Bélle- ville, was arrested on a very serious charge laid under the Chariton Act. McLaughlin Garage 34-38 Princess Street. First class work guaranteed. Done by first class 'mechanics. Gasoline, Oils and Accessories. Phone 1609. W. G. Robinson, Prop. » HUDSON BAY Insurance Company PIR INSURANCE a -- Manse Oars Sroath Toronto Hon. Frank Oliver, asked that the | Hot Weather Specials ! Electric Trons and Fans. Get a Polar Cub Fan and keep cool. Halliday Electric Co. Cor. Princess and King Sts. Watch This Space For Interesting Announcements. by the United States. 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Do you believe that Canada must "carry on" to the end, and support civilization with men, money, §0ught every ability and activity of Canada to be "devoted to winning the war? Are you determined that honor, duty and patriotism: shall prevail over selfishness and indifference ? Shall we, support those. sons, those brothers, those husbands, those fathers who are fighting for us at the front, and shall we send them the aid needed to save them from being killed alone and unaided ? Of course you answer YES. Then fill out and mail this coupon and get your friends to do the same. ot i ny -------- ------------------------ ------------------ -- ------ ------- on ------ WIN.THE-WAR CONVENTION - THE August 2nd and 3rd, 1917 oN 76 Adsluide St w. Toronto.