L CLIPPED FROM THE WHIG'S MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES, In Brief Form the Events In The Country About Kingston Are Told ~Full of Interest to Many, Miss Edna Mayhew, Joined the teaching staf! prior public school. Pte. Frank E. Morrissey missing a few days ago ther of Herbert Morris ville, Michael Stroud, Mount Pat rick, Renfrew County, died at the age of a hundred and two years and four months. Thomas A. Ross, 7th line, West- meath, has purchaked the farm of James H, Elilott, adjoining the town of Pakenham. Miss Lizzie Dolan, Mr. Francis Dolan, Calabogie, has gone to New York to apprentice to the nursing profession, The Almonte Gazette thinks that Lanark County farmers never 'had better crops or more favorable har- vesting weather than in 1917. The death has occurred at Leth- bridge of Mrs. W. Virtue, a forme resident of Pembroke and a daugh ter of the late Henry Mitchell. The steamer Thom, condemned some time ago as being unsafe, left Ogdensburg, N.Y., Thursday for Quebec, where she will be rebuilt. Mrs. Daniel Chard, aged seventy- four years of age, residing in the township of Sidney, was seized with an epileptic fit and died in a few minutes. The Daly Hannan Dredging Co., Ogdensburg, N.Y., has disposed of the tug 'Rescue No. 11, a coal scow and four mudscows to Lanahan & Davis, Athens. The Duke of Devonshire, together with various members of his staff, arrived at Portland on Friday in his . reported i bro Brock daughter of private car via C.N.R., and spent the | day there fishing. The Pembroke Iron Works, Ltd., and Pembroke Machining Co., Ltd., has been awarded a new contraet for six-inch (90-1b.) shells aggregating well over a quarter of a million dol- lars, ! Dr. and Mrs. 8. P. Reynolds, Lon- don, announce the engagement of their daughter, Myrtle, to J. G. Adams, B.A., Trenton, the marriage to take place at the end of Septem ber. The following are members of tri- bunals in Northumberland county: Cobourg, Judge G. M. Roger; Brigh- ton, J. J. Nesbitt; Campbellford, Dr. R. N. Bonnycastle; Warkworth, Peter 8. Ewing, Dr. W. H. Steele, Arnprior, who has practised there for several years a8 a dentist, was married in Brae side on the 5th inst. to Miss Annie Isabel Douglas, daughter of Wil lam Douglas. Troopers Hugh D. and Norman Phelps, sons of Norman Phelps, edi- tor of the North Bay Times, former ~1Iy of Leeds County, have enlisted at Hamilton in the Canadian Mounted Rifles depot battalion. a. L. Thorne, Brighton, an- nounces the engagement of his younger sister, Anna Alberta Smith Thorne, to Kenneth Douglas Mack lam, Brighton, the marriage to take place the third week In September, Miss Alice Loretta Kehoe, young- est daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Kehoe, Brockville, and Thomas P. Droughen, formerly of Smith's Falls, a popular employee of the James Smart Mfg. Jo., were married on Friday. : ° Mrs. Thomas P. 0'Keefs, who died In Prescott on Sept, 7th, had been an invalid for several years, but had suffered only five days severe ill- ness, She was born in Heuvelton, N.Y, and was married about 30 years ago. One hundred years ago Presby. terianism was first started in Perth, and during several Sundays; be. ginning last Sunday, special services, commemorative of the event, will be held in the churches of that deno- mination in Perth. F. Lingham, a Belleville boy has been selected to supervise food con- trol for a division whieh includes the state of New York and the eastern The Most Fastidious Will Be Well Satisfied with our beautiful array of the season's lat- est in SUITS, COATS and DRESSES 3 suits in black and navy in best Ser styles, $i 5 New coats and $15.00. $18.00. in crepe hats. . : latest st serve goods on les epos . in good material, $13.50 . Our store is full of blouses, collars and + | WAR BROUGHT DAVIES I | BIG TRADE INCREASE ews From Eastern Ontario | Fi { y states He w Pie wounded, tsow's Corners t in Beggs, re. n Alm ng the tary Medal, mentioned yon from Canadian in France, are Lance-Corp, Frederick Charles Shotter, Brockville; Corp Roy Atkinson, Bishop's Mills; Harry Wykes, Harlem Mrs. Andrew Lucius Kile, nt Springs, Pa engagement of the an, to Edward G merly of Lyn, now Greystone Park State Laborities, New Jersey. Relatives are advised of { death in San Diego, £alif., Monday, of Dr. Harry Wilfred Brace, L.D.S., D.DS., eldest son the late Dr. m, and his wife, the late Mrs Brace, Brockville. He ill health for over Ey Aro by and announce daughter, Plastow, technician the | of V Ad been in four years. GANANOQUE | (Fro Our Own Correspondent) 18 Mr. and Mrs. William received word yesterday Sent Sept Wilson | son, jr., at Niagara Falls where he | had been located for some time past, The meeting of the executive com- ( mittee of the local Red Cross and Relief Association, local sahool teacher and pr lents of the various 1 nephew |! recipients of the Mili-| Thes Stewart | Headquarters | hay | of | , the death pf their son William Wil-| 1 gures Secured by the Gov- ernment Commission Sit- | ting at Toronto. 4 will have his headquar-| NEWS FROM THE ISTRICT ters at Tonawanda, N.Y., fils home| i for son nto act-| vission- | f ba | business | Hall | Pte. | Wille ent at | Pathological | gr al 0. local societies was held in the town | 'hall yesterday afternoon, and was! quite well attended. The business! was the completion=of the details for | | canvassing the town with the pledge | cards issued by the government along | | the line of Winning-the-War by sav- | {ing The canvass will be made this | | week, i E. E. Conner, who, after a nut-| | ber of years spent in the far west- {tern provinces, located here with his | wife and family a few years ago, left | the past few days for a visit at hig] | old home. John G. McCarney, 0Og-| | densburg, N.Y., spent some time | during the past week here with his | parents, Mr. and Mrs. Neil McCarney | {at the Provincial Hotel. Daniel | | Davidson, Kingston, spent the week-| | end in town the guest of his parents, | | Mr. and Mrs. William Dayidson. | Mr. and Mrs. Smith dod James| Lhatham, Montreal, are spending | some time in town with friends and | relatives. Miss Josephine Bedard, | spending the past few days here with | | relatives, has gone to Kingston 4o]| enjoy a short visit with friends, INCENDIARY ATTACK ON SOLDIER'S HOUSE | Coal Oil and Rags Used to Set Fire to House in Corn- wall, Cornwall, Sept. 18.--A dastard- ly plece of incendiarism, endanger- ing life, occurred at the house oceu- pied by Mrs. John Pelkey on West Sixth street and owned by Louis El- derbroom last night when some un known persons tried to fire the house 'by raising a window on the east side, forcing a piece of apron or skirt un- der the sash and applying coal oil and a match thereto. The front and back doors were also soaked with oil, and the side of the house was liber ally sprinkled with the liquid. The window sash and clapboards at the oast glide and the front door were badly burned, The breaking of the glass in. the door and window from the heat of the flames aroused Mrs, Pelkey, who was alone with her four young chil- dren, her husband being at the front She arose and put the fire out with several pails of water. Two men were seen hear the house a short time previous to the outbreak by a man who was passing on the way to work on the late shift at the paper mill, But he did not re ®ognize them. The matter has been reported to the police department and has caused much excitement in the community. A de chene, $16.00 and 'no part of the labor congress' bu _THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1017. ------el tte. The news from Argentina of disturbances and demonstra- tions against the Germans is very indicative of the way the wind blows. There is no doubt that the German nation, also Bweden, is in for trouble. The people of the great republic to the south are evidently much against being used as a cats paw. g¢ Developments show the German action and activity in Argentina is similar to what it was in the United States. The Argentine government found it necessary to call out the great-, est display of armed troops ever seen in the city of Buenos Ayres to quell the rioting which STOCK MARKETS, Quotations Furnished by Bongard, | Amer with King, WANT ALL ALIENS Trades and Labor Send a Petition to: the Government. Y.| Am. Smelters t "| Atchison B. { C. " | Erie .. ... TO PAY WAR TAX Marine . | Marine, . ¥, | Reading | Southern | Union: Pacific Congress to| N Ryerson & Co., 44 Clarence St, Howard S. Folger, Mavager. New York Stocks, Open 931% 9 2.45 p.m, 95 3p 9614 & O 65% P. BR ba J C. ov. gu Pac { Alcohol (Canadian Press Ottawa, Sept. 18. in Canada not naturalized be com- pelled to pay a war tax on their earn- ings, was a resolution adopted day by the Dominion Despateah,) | | Am, That all aliens| Anaconda Jeth. to-| Crucible Trades and La i Inter. bor Congress and" a memorial will! Kehnie Logo Steel "bh" Ex. rights .. Nickel . . ott he sent to the Dominion Government] Mexican Pét recommending this. This resolution Sault Ste Marie, emanated from|U : | trians and Ge in steel works and paying no taxes. { After considerable discusslon, dur- ing which some delegates said it wa ness to take up cudgels- for soldiers it was decided to refer the resohition regarding = separation allowances, pensions, ete., to the Congress Pen- ion Committea A rural credit resolution develop- ad considerable opposition. | NAILED BABY INSIDE SKIN. Horrible Deed of German Soldiers : Reported by Clergyman New York, Sept. 18. --*"Finding a calf gkin nailed to a.barn door to be dried, the Germans nailed a baby in- tide and wrote underneath the word "Zwei" (two)," declared Rey. New- ell Dwight Hillis to a horrified con- gregation in Plymouth Church here, Dr. Hillis has just returned from a two-months' visit to the front. He exhibited photograps of the results of "a thousand German atrocities." a FROM PULPIT TO RFC. pabiegienn' Rev. O. Mousley, of Atwood, Has Enlisted as a Cadet. Listowel, 'Sept. 18.--Rev. O. Mous-~ ley, incumbent of the Anglican church at Atwood, has enlisted us a cadet in' the RC.F.C. for overseas service. Mr. Mousley is a native of Toronto and a student of Huron Col- lege, London. ' He was appoi 1 to clerical duty at Atwood for the sum- mer months, BASEBALL RECORD. National 1. New York . . 5 Chicago Philadelphia . 4 Cincinnati , .° Boston ,. ... 4 Pittsburg .. ., ---- Aagricin League. A Boston .. ,.. 86 New York .. . 1 Former Czar's Brother Deranged. Petrograd, Sept. 18.--Since the transfer of Nicholas Romanoff, the former Emperor, to Tobolsk, accord- of raincoats. We re- it, at ing to the Birjevipm, former Grand Duke Michael Adexandroviteh, h's brother, has been showing signs of mental derangement, and has been bombarding the Government with re- quests for various privileges. He now asks-petmission to go abroad to take a cure: ad © + Canadian Casualties, * Killed in action---Lieut. R. A hillips, Havelock. 'Died of Woulds--Androw Kish, Wountded --~J. D. Macdonald, Pet- srhoro; FP. M, Vesterfplt, Deseronte; Prank i, Coe Hill; J. Sumers, Prisoner of War---W. + Lalonde, Cornwall, Tio / assed mas King, Peterboro; "5 F. Eward, oe. J. Davis, Canton: Kingston; W. Pringle, Pointe Anne; ke. i G. W. Russell, Pombro where it was stated | Utah . there were over one thousand Aus-|Midvale 'ein rmans drawing big pay | Atlantic Gulf | Am. Sugar Irazilian an Can, Cons. | Dom. Steel ' hom. Bridge .. Nova Steel War Loan, 1937 take place earliest, the 3rd and 1 en of. | Rep. Steel . 8, Steel .. 105 9114 5014 893% 108% 108% Canadian Stocks, 391% 60b 4066 26% 61 146 92 561% 95 295 6la 41 27 60 5 144% 92 561 95% Cement Steamship Smelters Scotia Steel. of Canada Germany's reply t6 the pope's peace proposal is being preceded by German propaganda suggesting that the Kaiser's militarists are will- ing to give up Belgium if the allies do. not insist upon the demoecratiza- tion of the German government. The general elections will likely in December. At. the Oth are spok- Canadian. reserves are being de- pleted at the rate of about two thou- sand A month. broke out through the anti- German feeling demonstrated by the mobs. Several large Ger- man business houses were de- stroyed by incendiary fire, and FOOD CONTROL IN NFLD. P. T, Magrath Chosen Chairman of Island Committee, Toronto, Sept, 18. president of Newfoundland, has been chosen as chairman of the food control com- mittee of the island, along with the Deputy Minister of Customs, and Mr. Grimes, representing the labor in- terests. 'Mr. Magrath was in town on Saturday. Mr, Magrath's mission is to obtain a supply of flour from Canada for his people, numbering 250,000 and he expects to complete arrangements with Mr. Hanna to this end. He ig going to Washington to arrange about meat and bacon with Mr. Hoo ver, The problem in Newfoundland is complicated by the fact that the population is scattered along 6,000 miles of coast, in communities num bering 200 or less, outside the cities, 50 that no machinery exists for any official control. All supplies must he got into the country before the end of Décember, as the cost is praeti cally inaccessible from January till May. CATARAQUI SCHOOL FAIR. The Winners in the Parade and Patriotic Chorus Contest, Cataraqui school fair, held Monday, was a great success, and largely attended. Mr. Sirett, the district agricultural representative, and his assistant, Mr, Sibbitt, were in attendance. They are attending the school fair at Joyceville to-day. The following were announced to the Whig to-day as prize winners in the parade and patriotic chorus eon test at Cataraqii fair: Ist prize, Palace School, Mrs. Ravelle, teach- er; 2nd prize, Crystal Spring School, Miss Boyd, Kipgston, teacher; 3rd prize, Woodbine School, Mrs. Saund- ers, teacher, on We will: rent you a piano, and at end of six months if you feel like purchasing instrument we will al- low the 6 months' rental on pur- chase price, and arrange easy terms on balance. C. W, Lindsay, Ltd. ITALY'S TROOPS NEARER VIENNA The map shows the pincers of hs 1tali Austrian forces on the lssuzo front, Baiusizza plateau, which General ( an troops closing on the "adorua hax already nearly coun quered. The southern eid is where the Italians are encireling Hermada. The centre is near Monte wolidifying the italian positions. San Gabriele, just captured, . ¥ th ft i The northern end is at the. ; | } | P. T. Magrath, | OTously condemned, of the Legislative Council |Rounced that a ARGENTINA IN GRIP OF ENRAGEI ) RIOTERS ON the German Club, one of the architectural masterpieces of the city, was badly . damaged. The photographs show, upper right, the principal park, muni- cipal mansion and cathedral; left, Dr. R. 8. Naon, Argen- tine Ambassador at Washing. ton, and, insert, Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, President of Argen- tina. The Argentine Naval At- taché at Berlin, Captain Celery, has been recalled, presumably on account of the Swedish af- fair, nd The House of Commons killed a Toronto divorce bill, and during the discussion the existing condition in regard to divorce in Canada was vi The Premier an- joint effort was being made by the two Houses to find a better method, The bacon enquiry at Toronto shows huge war-time profits, Merri A , Cor. Princess orm SI -- NA AA A A A mar re h French Ivory Jeweler and Optician, "Where the Clock is on the te. e- | R. J. Rod NE A AAA AA AAA ter at te ims HE NEW FRENCH R THERA TON JHE No.3 CURE RAEIS N RA ION ¥iIAL WEAKNISE SOLD BY LEADING OCREMISTS Pigs in AncLAxe 3 Bend stamp address envelope, age & sy EMEDY, « No 1, cones CUBLMARGES. No ol v up circulars, JK. W,, LONDON KABION' 1S ON ¥ NUINK PACKETS. u BRIT. GOVE STAMP AFFIXED TO ALL OK Carpenter and Builder W. R. BILLENNESS Specializing Store Fronts asd Fit- tings. 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