MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1920. THE DAILY BRITISH 'WHIG. Eastern Ontario | Company; 'of this | week for a two England. spending ar ), guest of | McPher- | _ GANANOQUE Ernest , Thomas, foronto, field secretary of the de- Bobi nt of evangelism and social | reform of the Me thodist church, fill- | {ed the pulpit of Grace church at the | 11 a.m, service yesterday. Some | { twenty-five years ago Mr. Thomas | | wag pastor of Gananoque East cir- | cuit. { The Sunday school teachers, offi- | cers' and pupils of Grace Sunday | hool are arranging for the cele- | | brating of a "White Gift Christmas" | The Shawcross Assault Case | is Postponed for in aid of the Chinese famine fund, in i lieu of their regular Christmas en- | Another Week. tertainment. | - The household goods and chattels | The police court room was filled to | secretary respectively of the Central | of the late Mrs. J. Frank Chapman, overflowing on Monday morning, |Canada Amateur Hockey Association First street, were. disposed of by | with spectators, to hear evidence in | { annual meeting, held Saturday night. | public auction the latter part of the | the case of Edward Stokes and John | The Lower Ottawa Hockey Associa- | week. Hilyard, charged with assaulting Wil- | tion is affiliated. 1 3 "| Tne local fire brigade, who re- |liam Shawcross, on the night of Dec. -- TROLS | cently made a canvass of the town |Zrd. Shaweross was unable to appear | S. S. A. A, A. Meeting on Monday. - for the collection of funds for de- | however, and the case was put over A meeting of the representatives | corating and fitting out their quar- | for another week. Shawcross had two | Of the S. 8. A. A. A. girls' basketball { ters at the old market building, [ribs fractured, and also suffered ser- | teams has been called for this after- | have met with a generous response | ious injuries to his ankle, and is a [noon to arrange the rules. Some of | from the public generally. | patient in the Hotel Dieu. He says he | the teams want to play girls' rules |. A by-law will be submitted to the | was held up on the old Montreal | While qthers prefer to play under the 3 | Transportation Company's wharf, and | same rules as given the boys' games. | that in addition to being assaulted, | he was robbed of $80. { Magistrate Farrell passed sentence | on Bernard Turcott, a young man |¢ Wiskin and | who pleaded guilty a few days ago, | in conference over the proposal to Brockville | to trafficking in liquor. The court | OT8 ganize militia sports throughoue commercial | imposed a fine of $500 and costs or [She district. It is proposed to have | three months, every unit represénted in a compre- While many men are walking the { hensive' schedule that will cover a a number of events: and arouse the | treasurer of the Milk Product {town, left last { months' sojourn Mrs. Sidney | past few weeks in Toront« her daughter, Mrs. W. E, son, has returne Miss Pearl Tur OF MERIT SPORTING NEWS 1 THE HOUSE Gifts for Men Who Care Benson & Hedges' Cigars or any of the 30 other Brands that we carry to choose from. Pipes, all shapes, sizes and quality. Tobacco Pouches, all kinds; ---- i Cigarettes and Cigar Cases and Holders, Cigarettes, all makes, Otiawa's First Practice. | in packages of 10's, 20's, 50's, 40's, 50's, 100, at: ' { The Ottawa Club of the N.H.L. had | GEO. THOMPSON'S {its first practice Saturday night. | Broadbect, Bendict, Cleghorn, Gerard | 204 PRINCESS STREET TELEPHONE 3804 . 2 DOORS BELOW CLERGY Hockey At Toronto. ' The Toronto Granites, senior O.H. A. champions, unsuccessfully.defend- | ed the Sportsmen's Patriotic Associa | ton cup Saturday night, losing ta | Aura Lee, by four goals to three. NEW ASSORTMENT OF POCKET FLASHLIGHTS De 13.-----Rev, home. otte and brother, {John Turcotte, who have been lo- cated at W, ano tte, Mich., for some | time past, returned to town last week CASS IN POLICE COURT Special prices for Christmas. "HW. NEWMAN ELECTRIC CO. Phone 44]. 167 Princess Street Boucher, Darragh, Denenny, McKell | {and Bruce of the regular team were | {all in uniform, I SE | C. A. H. A. Annual Meeting. | Silver Quilty and Dave Gill, both of { Ottawa, were elected president and ag ABOLISH FINANCIAL WwW O R RY A CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ANNUITY WILL DO IT Gives a larger return for life than is obtainable from any other form of investment with absolute seclrity. + Free from Dominion Income Tax. Any person resident or domiciled in Canada over the age of 5 may purchase, to begin at once, or at any later date desired, an Annuity of from $50 to $5,000, to be paid in monthly or quarterly instalments. "Any two persons may purchase jointly. Employers may purchase for their employees. We have neither time nor room to devote to READY-MADE OVERCOATS and intend to get rid of our stock. These will be sold at cost price. High class goods which we guar- antee. Come in and see them. electors on January 1st, for the col- | lecting of a tax not in excess of 3 | mill on the rateable property of the town for the upkeep of an instructor | for the citizens' band. The Misses Mildred Helen Scott have gone to to take a course in work, Militia Sports. Brig.-Gen. King returned Satur- day from Ottawa, where he had been Apply to your postmaster, or write, postage free, to S. T. Bastedo, Superintendent of Annuities, Ottawa, for new booklet and other information required. Mention age last birthday: -- DO YOU LIKE CHOICE CANDY? If so, call and take home 50 me of our Home-made Candy, | this town, and for some time past {located in Brockville, was quietly | married to Miss Helen Hall, | ter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hall, on Wednesday last. Mr, and Mrs. Don- (ald will reside in Brockville, | The Gananoque Canoe and Motor Boat Assoclation has decided to Hiow open house the year round, | and to take up winter sports and | hold entertainments and dances in | {their assembly hall. Capt, A. Rackham, John Donald, a former residént of ' { { | daugh- | | ployed off and on with farmers, secretary-| streets all over the country and can- not find work, there is one man who $ not wirying. He is Joseph Thorn- | | ton. Joseph 'was upon the carpet for | | vagrancy, and when asked by the magistrate if he could got wovk he | sald, "Sure". Thorfiton has been em- | and | says he can get a | e for the ytin- {ier and the magistrate was glad to | give him the chance to'go. So if he | keeps on his job, he will not have to | worry over any police court charge. | Inter-collegiate interest of "the young men. The question is being received with much favor, and it is likely that it will be | promoted by the headquarters staff. Track and Harrier Unions. At a meeting of the Canadian Amateur Athletic Union, held in Montreal Staurday, the Intercollegiate Track and Field Union was launched as a brané¢h of {the governing body of college sports. The idea originated at the annual CRAWFORD & WALSH | a -- { championship held at Toronto early | TAMWORTH YOUNG MAN {in the fall. A new Harriers' Union CASTO VS IA CHARGED WITH FORGERY, | was also organized, but was left jover as to constitution until the For Infants and Children John E. Woodcock Remanded | |soeime. wore InUse For Over30 Years at Napanee for Eight Always bears Mackenzie and W. Blatz, University Days. of Toronto; Dr, Lamb and K. the Signature of and you will be well pleased in the quality, Watch our window for Saturday Specials in CHOCOLATES! FRUITLAND ALLAN MASO UD, PROP. 848 Princess Street. 3 3 : Phone 904 ole cretion tresses i Bagot and Brock Streets. A WF = RE ium [| 0 OF | OF THE BIG FELLOWS ALL THIS WEEK Britain BEAUTIFUL PLANTS Primula Malacoides in bud and bloom An ideal Xmas, gift. present Professor | Forbes, McGill; E. Ellis, Queen's; aged twenty- | President Prof. Brown and Secre- near Tam- [tary A. D. Skelton, Queen's and Great Criticized by the Smaller Fry. Woodcock, France who resides | John E, two yea | worth, and who has been wanted on 3 | NL | the charge ot forgery, was arreste wn le by High Constable What You Should: =: =-5 Buy for Xmas Gifts I {cused appeared before Magistrate | 4 F --Evening Slippers. fii [FBP P Pre rr rrr red ere * Geneva, Dec. 13.--Separate action | by the premiers of J'rance and Great | Britain on matters before the League of Nations assembly are made the! subject of sharp comment by the com- | mittee on admission of new states. | Newton W. Rowell, Canada, Lord | % COTTON MILLS WAGES * : DROP NEXT MONDAY -» + tankin in Napanee on Monday |g { morning and was remanded for 'eight | days. | According to information receiv- | ed by the Whig, it is alleged that the | accused entered the post office in Tamworth one day last August and secured a letter which did not belong to him. The letter contained a cheque for $250 which was later passed at | Deseronto. Since the time that the | forgery is alleged to have taken place, the accused has kept under cover. New Bedford, Dec. 13.--Wage + reductions affecting forty thou- # sand operatives were announced + to-day by all the cotton mills # affiliated with the New Bedford ¥ Cotton Manufacturers' Associa-~ tion. The reduction, amounting + to twenty-two and one-half per + cent., will become effective next + Monday. J A lot of Ferns to choose from. | Call and choose them at the 'Greenhouses. F. L. Lawson West End Florist Centre St. # One-half block from Street Cars Phone 11744; Robert Cecil, South Africa, and Dr Nanson, Norway, agree in criticizing the action of those governments in | announcing policies regarding such? questions as the admission of Arme- nia through other channels than their representatives at the assembly *% | meeting here, who are charged with CEPI such problems. Fire in Sentinel-Review Office at Woodstock -- Waodstock, Dec. 13.--Fire broke out this morning in the top storey of the Sentinel-Review building, used as a bindery... It burned briskly for some time, but was confined to the top floor.r The damage is estimated at fifteen thousand dollars. The fire did not interfere with the publica- tion of the Sentinel-Review. --Hockey Boots. --Moccasins. --Rubbers. --Overshoes. --Felt Slippers. WHERE TO "GET THEM: The Sawyer Shoe Store 184 Princess St. Phone 159 TT TTR CL TTC TS Is Positively the HURRY! He Then the Introductory Club Sale of the famous Imperial Phonograph Closes, and your opportunity to get one of these First-class, High-grade Phono- graphs on these Special Terms and Easy Payments is gone. Only a few Phonographs left. Hurry if you want one --House Slippers. Address and Presentation. Before leaving Lyndhurst--in the Quotations Furnished by Bongard, parish of Leeds Rear--recently for Ryerson & Co., 237 Bagot his new parish of Portsmouth, Rev. Street. W. Hilyard Smith was waited upon by the' members of the congregation of St. John's church, Leeds, who, in a | very feeling address expressed their regret at their late rector's removal | EE -- and . wishing him many happy and |Am. Beet Sugar 50 useful years in his new charge. The | American Car Fdy.. 12315 address was accompanied by a sub- | American Locomotive 81 stantial purse as a token of the es- | | American Sugar 8434 teem in which Mr. Smith is held. | Am. Internat. Corp.. 391 me---- |Am. Sumtara Tobac"o 697% A New Mine Bf Barayta. | Smalters 421, The Dransfield Mining Company, | Baldwin Locomotive. 8814 Toronto, commenced developing the | Baltimore & Ohio .. 33 property near Desert Lake, in Fron- [Bethlehem Steel "B'. 523% tenac county, recently purchased |Anaconda 37% from F. Grainger and Sons. On this [C.P.R. property there is to be found barayta, | Central mica, and talcum clay. The company | Crucible purposes installing a steam plant |General Motors with drills and hoist. J. P. Drans- | Lackawanna Steel field, Toronto, is general manager. | Mexican Petroleum .162 a | New Haven x7 { Northern Pacific ... 76% Reading 8315 |U. 8 .Rubber 644 {Southern Pacific 98 t. Paul | | | | STOCK MARKETS. | | Mattresses Don't throw: away your old Mattresses. New York Stocks. Opening, Closing. We renovate all kinds and make them as good as new Get our prices. Frontenac Mattress Co. 17 BALACLAVA STREET Phone 2106w. ns LLL LL Proposes an Embargo. Washington, Dec. 13.--An em- bargo for one year against the im- portation of wheat, wheat flour, bar- | ley, rye, oats, flax, wool, hogs, cattle, land sheep, is proposed in a bill in- ° | troduced to-day by Representative 77% | Young, Republican, North Dakota. He also introduced a bill establish- ing a permanent schedule of import 2 duties upon these items after ons | year embargo. - al To-Morrow SS WHAT ABOUT WAGES? ' An Important Factor In Fixing New Express Rates, Ottawa, Dec. 13.--The importande of wages paid to employees as a fac- tor in fixing express rates was em- phasized by Hon. F, B. Carvell, chief commissioner, this morning when the application of the express companies for a forty per cent. rate inerease was again before the board of railway commissioners. Hon, F. . Ph pen was submitting his 3714 8314 13% 511s Leather Steel Sugar Price Again Drops. New York, Dec. 13.--New low % | prices were atablishoo for refined | sugar here today. The Federal Sug- | ar Refining Comphny reduced its list | price another half cent, to a basis 26 lof eight and a quarter cents per Studebaker 42 | pound for fine granulated. S. Steel 791% ' Warden Ponsford Returns. Superintendent W. S. Hugies and Inspector Smith returned to Ottawa on Friday, and Wardean Ponsford 'has returned to duty at the Ports- mouth penitentiary. It is reported | ® that all of the head posis on the po- | lice staff are now in the hands of of- ficials who accompanied Warden Navigation in the Welland Canal | will close at 7 a.m. Wednésday, Dec. him how long he thought wages we for after delivery. The Balance of Payments are easy, . miss the Money. . on this plan. WE DELIVER AN IMPERIAL PHONOGRAPH TO YOUR HOME--ON PAYMENT OF $1.00-- or Hold you will never 'When You Buy an Imperial Phonograph YOU GET A DOUBLE GUARANTEE-- Our's, and the Factory's You have no interest to pay. There is no Agent's Commis- ston added to the Price of these Phonographs. YOU GET EXCEPTIONAL YALVE--EXCEPTION Ah . QUALITY and become the Owner of the World's Best Tone Phono- graph, when you join as a member of this Club, and get an IMPERIAL PHONOGRAPH. LISTEN T@ THIS ! Very many have joined this In- troductory Club Sale of Im- perial Phonographs. One Clab Members says: : "For some time I was con- sidering the purchase of anoth- er Phonograph, when your ad- vertisement attracted my at- tention. ( came in to see the Phonograph, and at once no- ti the difference in the Tone of and all my with it, and think * tome in this district." i Boshi | J. M. Greene Music Co. Come to our Coram : LIMITED or z HOME OF GOOD MUSIC. PRINCESS STREET. Store Today, Ponsford from the Edmonton prison and many of the old officials havg | been retired. | Adjutant Goodhue To Rest. The many friends of Adjutant | Goodhue, of the Salvation Army, re-| gre: to learn that the condition of his | Nrealth requires him to give up tem- perarily active command .at King- ston, and take a rest. He will spent a | few weeks on his father's farm and | pay a visit to Toronto. In his absence, | Mrs. Goodhue will be in charge. | Washington Navel Oranges. The Christmas seedless orange, first of the season, received today at Carnovsky's. The Forty Hours devotions at St. Mary's cathedral closed by a pontifi- cal benediction at 7.30 p.m. on Sun- day, Archbishop Spratt. officiating. Rev. Father Hanley was deacon, and Rev. Father O'Farrell, sub-deacon. There were 1,000 communicants. | Rev. Father Keaney returned from | Ireland on Saturday and reports con- | ditions very bad there, especially for the traveller. : Four children, from one to eight years of age, were burned to death in the farm house of Archie Brown, fourteen miles from St. Ignace, Man. | Brazilian | Cons. {North Amer. Canadian Stocks. 33 Erompton Canada Cement Canada Steamships Canada Steam. Pid.. Smelters Dominion Steei Dominion Textile | General Electric Pulp National Breweries IN. Y. Exchange Riordon Spanish River { Wayagamack Burial of Pope's Brother. Rome, Dec. 13.--The funeral of Marquis John Anthony Della Chiesa, brother of Popé Benedict, was held in St. Charles church yesterday. The ceremony was gan imposing one. Seventeen cardinals, including Mer- cier and Gasquet, and also the en- tire diplomatic corps to the Papal court and several senators and depu- ties attended the ceremony. Pope Benedict has received innumerable telegrams of condolence. Welland Police Clilef Resigns. St. Catharines, Dec. 13.--Georgze Laing, chief of police at Wellan1l, bas tendered his resignation to the police commicsfoners. Chief Laing has been looked.upon a sucéess- ful official, and enjoyed the confi- dence of the community. To Chief Laing more than any othep person is ascribed the credit for the fact that David McNeal was not lynched at Thorold on August 16th. Remand for another week without bail was granted, Monday, in To- ronto, police count, in the case of John Doughty, charged with the theft of bonds and eonspiracy to kid- nap Ambrose Small. Russell, the 19-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Shier, Peterboro, was burned to death sitting in a chaiy in the kitchen. At the annual meeting of the A. AU. of C, the Alberta. Union was ddviesd to suspend the Alberta "Big rua: ~ Hockey ledgus at ounce, » | 15th, {from the department Monday morn- jing. according to an order issued The president and the secretary of the Brantford Independent Labor Party have resigned, following a vote of want of confidence, and have been replaced by others. The gifts of gold ingots made to Westminster Abbey by King George and the late King Edward will be dis- posed of for the benefit of the Abbey reconstruction fund. The entire permanent office and field staff of the Nova Scotia High- ways Board has been dismissed as one result of a Royal Commission's investigation. The Toronto Baseball Club is seek- ing the services of "Larry" Doyle, of the New York Giants, as manager for next season. Harding has invited W. to a conference on the Nations, J. Bryan League of going to stay at the present level. is sald that everything else is comin When are wages comin too? he asked. "I wish th people would realize this importang. factor. 'There are objections on th part of the public to the rate creases, but the public doesn't ask that wages be brought down.' -------------------- ' Price of Bread Remains: The manager of the Toye Bre Company, when asked if there wi any change in the price of brea stated that he thought the pr would remain at twenty-ons cents 4 large loaf of three pounds retail or eighteen cents wholesale. Ooof! He'd rather buy booze than buy bread, The poor man's seeing red; For, while he never gets ahead, He always gets a head. J a icky on Finicky Digestions gothed by ordinary Grape 'Nuts wenty hours of ison ea? La Sd easily cone 'ry apackage from the ee Test tells: "There's a Reason'