12 PAGES Nn YEAR 805. NO, 299 KINGSTON. ONTARIO. T UESDAY, | DECEMBER he Baily British Whig 24, 1918 PAGES 9-12 SECON D SECTION ph en * Citizens' Candidate For Mayor In response to the request of a large number of citizens | offer myself as a candidate for Mayor for 1919. 'My record for the six years as an Alder= man i§ ir known and if it ts approval 1 will be thankful to receive your vote joo influence. 'Alderman N. E. ZONNOR MAYORALTY CARD LADIES AND GENJLEMEN: Al the solicitation of a large number of citizens 1 have decided to offer myself as candidate for Mayor for year 1919. I respectfully solicit your votes and influence. ALD. H. W. NEWMAN iB - 0 Never. a Christmas Morning, 'Never the old year ends, But somebody thinks of somebody -- Old days, old times, old friends. I | = A Merry Christmas To All The J. M. Greene Music Co. Ltd. 166 Princess St. Kingston TS OS E gE = 2 E = = = 2 2 E = E BE = >i How Shall I Invest? BT That is the question almost every investor is asking. Yon can invest to best advan- tage by dividing up your sutplus' in different classes of high-grade securities. Our Statistical Department will be pleased to mail you list of high grade issues listed on the Montreal Stock Exchange. Owing to war conditions many stocks now yield 6 to 9 per cent. on the investment. Full particulars on request Thornton Davidon & Co. Montreal Stock Exchange Trancporiation Bul Building, MONTREAL. A WAR GRATUITY FOR-SOLDIERS cat Conc ates dona Py meats 0 Both Land And Naval Forces. THE AMOUNT IS CRADLATED TO SIX MONTHS' PAY AND ALLOWANCES, vp For All Those Who Served at the Front, the Provisions Are Made Retroactive, Ottawa, Dee. 24.--The Order-in- Council just passed by the cabinet council authorizes the payment of a war service gratuity" to pay- able to the naval and land forces of Canada, in place of post discharge pay, Under this enactment the mount to be paid is graduated up to six months' pay and allowances, exclusl re of subsistence allowance allows ances in lieu of rations and quarters, according to the length and nature be or of service, For the members of the land forces served at any wihicth the strength for pay and allowances of same re- cognized overseas establishment, and wera on the strength of the land forces on active service, on the date the armistice, Nov. 11th, 1918, the gratuity is graded as follows: For three years' service 183 days' pay and allowance For gwo y service and under three years, days' pay and allow- ances. For one year's service two years, 122 days' pay ances, For less than one year 92 days' pay and allowances, who have time over- seas, means on of or over, 163 and under and allow- For Those Not Overseas. For the members of the land forces who were on the strength on active ==\on the strength for pay and allow- tances of 'some recognized _lamount of post-discharge pay already | J paid, will not be paid until Feb. 1st,] service on the late the armistice was signed, and have not served overseas, overseas establishment, the gratuity is graded as follows: For three years' service or over, 92 days' pay and allowances; for two years' service and under three years, 61 days' pay and allowances; for one year's service and under two years, 31 days' pay and allowances, Under one year no gratuity is given. A minimum of $100 in the case of men with dependents who were elig- ible to receive separation allowance, and $70 in the case of men without such dependents, is provided for as in the case of those who have served overseas. As regards those who have mot served at the front in an actual thea- tre of war, and were not on the strength of the force on Nov, 11th last, no benefit is given under the Order<in-Council. These cases are already provided for under the Or- ders-in-Couancil regarding post-dis- charge pay. For members of the naval forces of Canada effectually the same provi- siops are made, Payment of the gratuity will be made as follows: Thirty-one days' pay and allowances on the date. of discharge, and the remainder in al- ternate monthly payments of thirty and thirty-one days' aay pnd aHow- ances. * Certain restrictions are placed upon the granting of the discharge. For instance, if a man is discharged with ignominy or for misconduct, the gratuity is not payable. Further, while the officer or man is undergo- ing treatment by and is in receipt of full pay and allowances from the department of soldiers' civil re-estab- lishment, the gratuity is withheld iungil such treatment and pay have ceased, Deduct Fost-Discharge. Any post-discharge pay paid under previous Orders-in-Council will be de-/ ducted from the amount of the war service gratuity, It is also provided that where sép- aration allowance was issuable during service and the dependent is still eli- gible the portion of the gratuity equal to separation allowance will be paid direct to the dependent. Regarding the adjustment of ar- rears, where the whole or any part nl 'post-discharge pay has already been paid under previous Orders-in-Coun- cil, any payment due under the new, regulations, over and . above the 1018. TIMBER THIEVES THRIVED 30 IN THE THOUSAND SLAND TERRITORY. LONG Armed Militia Was Despatched From Town of Lyme to Bring Pine Pir- St. Lawrence Under Sub- Observer in On-the St. Law- Clayton. e are none now living who re- heard of the Grindstone Island war, an event of nearly a hundred years ago that might have brought serious results to some of the participants had not one of the contending fac- tions have come into realization of the truth of the 61d proverb that dis- cretion is the better part of valor, and backed down, Prior to the year 1798 all of north- ern New York {rom the Mohawk to the St. Lawrence was a roadless and almost impenetrable wilderness, The state had not then become ready to convey title of private ownership to those who were seeking it, the entire domain being considered by outsid- ers as public propenty. All along the St. Lawrence mammoth pine trees were intermingled with those of oth- er varieties, centuries old, that all seemed to be standing awaiting the advance of civilization and the al tacks of the woedman's axe, The shores of Clayton's lower and upper bays and of French Creek were particularly favored in the quantity and quality of pine, and hither tim ber thieves with their gangs of labor- ers came to take their pick. The trees were hewn into square timbers and lashed together to form ggeat rafts to be floated down river} to Montreal and from there to Efro- pean markets. The first protest against such wholesale robbery were Nathan Ford and Samuel Ogden, pioneer settlers of Ogdensburg, who had taken note of the large number of timber rafts passing that place every summer. In the summer of 1800 letters from those two gentle- men addressed to Gouveneur Morris and stating their complaints stirred the civil authorities to action for a time by the plunderers who finally withdrew from the scene. Grind- stone Island was then covered vith original forest growth of fime quality and to-there the thieves betook themselves to continue plundering of state property. Once loéated there, they put forth the claim whenever they came to mainland that Grind- stone was in Canada, and if at any time they happened to be anywhere on Canadian mainland they claimed the island as belonging to the states, and while the authorities: of 'both countries were in doubt as to their right to interfere the timber stealing was kept in full motion, The. international survey of the river and islands in 1818, just a hun- dred years ago, was the first to be made, and its decision placed the is- land as within the U.S. boundary. Civil authorities on this side then again erdered the timber thieves to vacate, which command was met with by defiance and threats of civil war by the pirates in case they were molested. A company of armed state militia was then dispatched from its station over in the town of Lyme, and on nearing the island the soldiers be- gan firing their guns as notification that they were there to do business, shots, fled from the scene to cut the fastenings and push their rafts over into Canadian waters, That ended both the dttack and re- sistance, there being but one casual- ty, that of a soldier, killed by acci- dental discharge of his own gun. The first legal settler of which there 1s remembrance or record was one Wells, who purchased the entire low- er end of the island. The next was Alger, who took up land at the north side of the island, and at about the same time Sam Johnston took up 40t acres at what is now known as the Ratchford farm, opposite Clayton. After him came the Garnseys, Kittles, Kendalls, and Flynns, the dates of their settlements not being just now obtainable, There seems to be noth- ing in history as to how and when the island came by i name. Old settlers stories, on account of fail- ing memories, are generally conflict- ing, and in order to get somewhere near the facets the writers-up of his. tory must add up a number and sub- tract that which seems to be reason- able, Back from the water, at the state land reservation there 98 a large boulder around which relic hunters have at different times dug up pieces of flint and broken pottery. The top of the stone has a bowl shaped de- pression that those claiming to be interpreters of Indianology. say was used for the grinding by squaws with heavy stone pestles of corn as food for their lazy lords and masters of a century or more ago. J 'ADplioation: for the adjustment re ase a {iho toad. fares. to lin of the e of the district by in post- be mambactured into srinasonss Jor sharpen tools, but - est g descendants of the oldest Y : Sve hearing: of it. WAR PUZZLES | | SECRETARY DANIELS RECOMMENDED An American Navy on a par with the most wonderful and called for $1,500,- 000,000, three years' ago today, De cember 24, 1915. > Find a seaman bl YESTERDAY'S ANSWER Upside down nose at right shoylder ing of which any couniry might he proud Three-fourths of the coast line and hundreds of acres of both wild and farm lands of Grindstone are now in- cluded in the state reservation and in the estates of wealthy summer resi dents, Vandegrifts, Bakewells, Mc- Cauleys, Afflecks, Bacons, Morgans, Murrays, and McAdams and May Ir- win, The present permanent population of the island is compesed of intelli- gent and prosperous farmers and general workers who dwell in good homes, with well kept surroundings, that are complimentarily spoken of by hundreds of tourists and bers of fishing parties. community Rock Slide Killed Two, Vancouver, B.C., 'Dec, 24.~--As the result of a rock slide Wednesday on the Kettle Valley railway at Ladner Creek, about eight miles east of Hope, Andy Bida, a workman, was instantly killed, and Robert Creel- man, Vancouver, was so badly injur- ed that he died in the General Hos- pital. Dying at Beyreuth, Munich, Dec.' 24.--ifrau Cosima Wagner, widow of Richard Wagner, the grea composer, is dying at Bey- reuth. Frau Cosima Wagner was born Dec. 26th, 1840, and was the daugh- ter of Franz Liszt, the famous mu- sieian. Presented the Prize. The prize awarded to the Mowat Hospital for the float in the Victory loan parade was presented by Geo. Smith and W. Y Mills on Monday. It was in the form of several beauti- ful pictures, which will be placed on the walls in the hospital. Mrs. John Wagar, Tamworth, pass- ed away Dec. 156th, She had been sick for some time. Her funeral was held Dec. 18th, to the Methodist church, She has been a constant member for a great many years. Her daughter:in-law is in Kingston Gen- eral Hospital very low. Death came suddenly to Miss Kate Perrin, aged about fifty years, at her residence in Charlieville on Friday. STE "KIDNEY PILLS mem- EER THE STANDARD BANK OF CANADA HEAD OFFICE - TORQMTD This Bank offers every facility in the conduct of accounts, of manu- facturers, farmers sad merchants. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT at every Branch. 235 KINGSTON BRANCH, o J. F. ROWLAND, Manages, Bacon Hogs Wanted Millions of men in the trenches--scores of millions abroad and on this side-- want Canadian Bacon. This world-wide demand assures good prices for the hogs you can raisg. Buy more brood sows--select registered stock--fatten more pigs. : If you need money for any of these s, see the Manager, The Me Merchants nk is always ready to make loans to progressive farmers. THE MERCHANTS BANK Head Office : Montreal. OF CANADA, Established 1864, KINGSTON BRANCH, ' E8T'D 1873 H. A. 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