|greatest attent 0 torces; but a ° kept for home defence or as an in- 1 say no. in 1914, owing to the sedition being | was kept at its spread by enemies of the British Em- | i | Banquet Friday Night Gens. Macdonell And 1 Report. he Great War Veterans' assem- hall was packed with veterans their friends on the ushering of the old year and the greeting he 'new. The tables were loaded Ih good cheer provided by the brge Richardson Chapter of the DE. The association provided smokes, while Mr. Hanson of the Tloeal brewery, kindly supplied id refreshments. The splendid was started at nine | 0 ramme @'¢lock and: was not concluded tiil| Bfter the new year yas ushered in. | opening feature was in accord- | with the regular procedure of | bs [association meetings; all stand- with bowed heads for one minute memory of those who fell for the . The president then proposed toast to "The King," all stand- Fand joining heartily in singing | Mational anthem, after which the was drunk. following this, Comrade the Rev . Gordon was called upon for a fremarks, which he gave in his fi able manner, telling of the pr of celebrating the arrival of iw year in his native land. He r the contrast with the celé- iE of the time in Canada to-day, president then called on Col. of Sydenham hospital, th in detail the problems that soldier Is 'up against, and fpquentiy the fault rested with himself rather -than the de- it concerned for any com- he man might have. He seg to prove his point and the comrades that his files ys open for investigation pe, and of his whole-heart- in the following up of any complaint. He also advis- ipndes to join an organiza- the G.W.V.A. and to and *if they had. any p put them through that f and that the results hey could wish for. pn of step-dancing was r Besha, who delight- jge with his various was accompanied by nn. as called upon for a hd complimented the pn their splendid re- ted out that they p complaints to him id refreshments they it wag the fault of the 'if they wanted any- "they would have to get at the coming referen- [} Sydenham : sembly with numbers, which were ry, of Address. the genial G.0.C. 'Was then called upon ) His rising was a Qutburst of cheering fdoubt of his popular- Sterans present. An ex- Was given to the as- jeparedness." He said: "four months employed in "the Canadian militia 1 Bave tried by every € and encourage n+ jeess has. varied; RIMBE very much more en- ! than others. What jo do is 10 make one and it it 18 necessary to in- tay as well as our and our lives. of trouble with '& strong military [emntation to an such a force. me in history has prospered i Hi an insur- Has it not on id been the love of lux- ge and disregard of that of national insurance ht all great nations to bu may well remark the case with Ger- f that had paid the some thout the |! RR LL to her military $ German army asion, 1at Germany could rce her will upon other | {iy N es ink Fri- | s firebrand caused all|Iudia, and urging every discharged | Will open at the covered rink on Fri- the two Frih- ot was Le pon the sho ers of the taxpay these co rics, and to such a 1 dic German scepter become that in 1 { the session' of the French Deputies their Military . amended in- creasing the ler service with th colors in France to double what it liad been before, so that in 1915 the available standing army of France {would' have been double what it was {in 1013. Before this could take place Germany struck. What was the position of England at this time? A splendid navy to be sure. but so | was becoming' the cost of aining the two other ar, u A ach 2 y a burde G ¢ ye too heav uld- 1t- her ot vi Act avy bearable, and unaunestionably the ex- Ipenditure on armament could -have been used to better advantage in ther ways, but would not that have been leaving. your insurance unpaid? "Lord Roberts spent many years of life trying to make the people and wernme it of England realize X vd an arm) 23000 men sta- tioned all over 'the world. She also {had vast resources in men and mone) {had had the army of most of {smaller European states 1 doubt ver | { had the war of mitch if we would have 11914-1818. The people would have refused to continue their liture and heavy arma- Id have as steadily de- clined as they d mounted during the list 23 years before the great war | Therefore, 1 say that had England. | colossal expen iment, and woul nations' | «rd that this was becoming un-| had approxi-| but had she realized the danger and! thet y | Germany | DAILY BRITIS WHIG. MONDAY, JAY | terests if he was not a member. At the present moment, he stated that the em:.re was in graver danger than pire; calling special attention to ths unrest in South Africa, Ireland and soldier to keep in touch with the uni- form that he had earned every right to wear upon any and every occa- i sion, jagainst the politiclans and those eeking the interests of the same (saying that we need not bow down {to them; that eventually they would | come to us. The worst enemy we had [Bowmanville 7, | Pacific | |to fear to-day was the "grouser" 'who received his disability on the "London Front." | Comrade Macdonell proved that he { was wholeheartedly interested in the { Kingston branch by stating that he |and Gen. King were making-arrange- {ments to stage an "assault-at-arms" { for the benefit of the local organiza- | tion, the event to be staged by the | gentlemen cadets of the Royal Mili- | tary College sometime in February. The New Year was ushered in at {the club-rooms in a most unique | manner. The members forming a cir- {cle in the street in front of the build- Ing, joining hands and singing "Auld | Lang Syne." On the stroke of twelv | the genial caretaker "Geat Fan i3tood on the steps and sang to the {members a New Year's greeting, { ter which the doors were opened for the remainder of the celebration. GANANOQUE Jan. 3.--The annual New Year's Ishoot of the Thousand Islands' Gun {Club was held at thelr traps on Grasshopper | noon, and was enjoyed by a fairly good number. Five events were shot He urged his hearers to guard | THamilten 5, Aura Lee 4. | McKinnon, Wood, Kennedy, Sweet- af- | SPORTING NEWS [fj <= | ' | O.H.A. Game on Friday. The junior O.H.A. hotkey series! {day evening, 'when |tenac teams will meet Queen's and | RALC. » . } | | Cigarettes 3 pS i Hockey Scores Saturday. I Phe Sizer Cases and |" Senior: Kitchener 5, Argonauts 4. oN * . Kitchener 8, Guelph 0. Oshawa 4. Victoria 5, Vancou- Junior: Coast: TELEPHONE 304 ver 3 THE HOUSE OF 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; , 40's, 50's, 100, at: GEO. THOMPSON'S 204 PRINCESS STREET f MERIT Holders, Cigarettes, all makes, DOORS BELOW CLERGY Kingston Wins at Belleville, The basketball team representing the Kingston Y.M.C.A., which played | in Belleville on New Year's evening, | was successful in defeating Belle-] vilie boys by a score of 44 to 26. The' half-time score was 25 to 12. Me- Kinnon, on the forward line, starred! for Kingston, while Armstrong, at! centre, played a wonderful game tor | Belleville. The Kingston team was: The Late Alexander Johns. } Alexander Johns, late of the'Can- man and V. Johnston. jadlan Expeditionary Force, passed ------ away at the Mowat hospital on Sun- City League Hockey {ao The deceased was twenty-two In the first game of the junior city | years of age, and a son of Peter hockey league, played at the Palace | Johns, St. Regis Island. The remains rink on Saturday morning; the Gran-| were sent to St. Regis by James Reid ites defeated the A.O.H. tednm by 2 | yudertaker, on Monday. to 0. The first period ended with no! ------ score, and in the second twenty min- The Late Mrs, Wart. Park, Saturday after-! | utes Purdy scored and Driscoll made Sarah Melisa Wart passed away | the second counter. The game was! at the General Hospital on Saturday | very fast and exciting. The teams: |The deceased was the widow of the { Granites--goal, Montgomery: de-|late Miles Wart, of this city, and was | fence, Purdy and Jackson; centre, iin her sixty-eighth year. She is sur- Pogue; wings, Driscoll and Bellring- | vived by one brother, George Pringle] er. Spares: Rice-and McMahon. Belleville; three sons, Milton, Al- A.O.H.--goal, Taucher; defence, ! fred and Marshall, Kingston; and Bourdier and Halpin; centre, Dev-!lhree daughters, Mrs. T. Smith and lin; wings; Lawless and Thompson. | Mrs. C. Higgins, Kingston, and Mrs. Prudham, Welland. The funeral took place from the residence of her dau- ghter, Mrs. C. Higgins, 214 Fronte- | Spare, Gallivan. Referee--Archie Robinson, who | {had we ourselves properly maintained | our insurance lh rly the war, those | off. and some 'fairly good scores 500,000 British soldiers and® nearly | made. 160,000 Canadian soldiers would have | On Friday afternoon the loéal been upon the face of the earth' in-igkating rink, tn the rear of the town {stead of under those poppies il |park, was formally opened to the | Flanders fields. There are none of us| general public, when the doors were | here to-night who want to see any thrown open to the school children {more war; we have seen enough iof the town for a free skate, and { Therefore we cannot be called mili- | needless to say it was thoroughly en- | tarists 'in any sense of the word, 'but | joyed by a large number. Soft wea- {we oiie antl all owe a duty to the [ther since, however, has prevented [state. We are trained or we were|further operations. {trained. I say this advisedly because! A very well attended and thor- ino man can play ball on his last | oughly enjoyable' dance was held on year's average. The Canadian made New Year's Eve in the big assembly {a wonderful soldier, but how long did | hall at the club house of the Gan- it take to make him fit for that ex-|anoque Canoe and Motor Boat As- |aited rank? The first Capadian divi- |soclation, and under their auspices. | sion was nearly six months before it| Under the auspices of the Y.P.S. | was considered fit to take the ficld.|of Grace church, their regular Fri- {and even then manv of us felt that|day evening session was turned into | we were ill prepared for our colossal a watch night service. Refreshments | {task. In the early days or the war [ were served from 10 to 11 o'clock. {we had very few trained staff offi- [after which the pastor, Rev. Daniel ! cers, the positions on our staffs being | T. Mick, conducted a very enjoyable | very largely filled by staff officers service, until the ringing of the bells {loaned by the Motherland, but as the ushered in the new year. | war progressed the Canadian officer | At Christ church parish house on sooti adapted himseli and became |New 6 Year's Eve, a well-attended qualified and gradually superseded | watch night service was also held. the British staff officer until very] On Thursday afternoon at the fa- few, if any, remained at the time of |mily residence, near the Gananoque the armistice, We also loaned tre- driving park, Richard Jacques, an mendous numbers of officers to the |8ged and esteemed resident of the Imperial service for both regimental town, passed away after, being in and staff work. 'Now we "have in [failing health for some time past. He Canada nearly 600,000 officers and [ls survived by a widow and grown- men who have reccived a very effi-|up family. , cient training, and who are now! On New Year's Eve, at the family It does |home, King street west, Willlam Ed- | of | I have | the re-| gradually becoming rustv. not take a great deal of training an- nually to keep un the standard if once the grounding has been obtained. 1] am very pleased indeed to say that practically all the G.W.V. associa- tions in this district have thoroughly and 'systematically backed the militia units in their centres. In Port Hope the local command passed a resolu tion that the G.\W.V.A. of Port Hope join the Dirham Reginiént as a body At Brockville they: are "largely re- sponsible for recruiting the "Brock ville Rifles. At Ottawa, Cobourg Peterboro, Trenton, Picton. and in fact almost every place in this dis- trict where we have a unit: they hav | materially assisted mm our reorganiza- |tion. In many places the officers of | the local unit hold offices on the ex- {ecutive of the 'local:command. We { have not perhaps been quite as ener- | getic in Kingston as. we: should have been, but I trust that! with the new Iyear that the same spirit which we | have met with in other districts will assist us in the work that we are starting here, as soon as the new year holidays are over. In Ottawa we {have established a garrison athletic {association to promote all kinds of sports, both wihter and summer, and it is hoped 'that very shortly we will be able to establish these garrison as- sOciations in other parts of this dis- trict where there are local units and that the various conipetitions either be able to be run off b% h to home visits or at our annual train- ing camp at Petawawa. There i nothing that is so beneficial as physi- cal and military drill. "In conclusion I would appeal to you to assist Col. Pense with the Kingston Regiment, Col. Craig with the machine gunners. Col. Morcan with the Kingston Battery. and Col VanLuven with the 4th Hussars. 1 | know that they will '--. appre- | | | that assistance the militia units of this district will be ah!» to take thei place amongst the best that Canada will produce." Comrade "Jimmie" Flynn then fa- excellent qualities of the "Ponies Baseball Team," "Jimnmie'" was hand- ed a generous ovation. -- Gen, Macdonell Speaks. Comrade General Macdonell, of the Royal Military College, was then called upon and his rising was the occasion of a remarkable demonstra- tion, all in the assembly hall jumping "to their feet and singing "For He's la Jolly Good Fellow" and cheering the popular commander e "Old Red Patch." When qu ed, the comrade thes ide information 1s | ciate your assistance, and that with/ posed by himself, setting forth the | an aged and esteemed this town for many Sr., of wards, | resident years, { failing health for several years. For | many years he was in charge of the | William Edwards furniture store, King street, and was a funeral con< ductor known far and wide in this | district. He was also an expert and skilled boat builder, many of the sailing craft and skiffs he built be- ing still in use on the river in this vicinity. He was predeceased by his wife a number of year§ ago, and leaves three sons, Andrew, Edward (and William, and four daughters, | Mrs. James A. Taylor, Mrs. Hamil- /ton, Mrs. Storey, and Miss Rebecca | Edwards. | terday afternoon to Christ church, and thence to Gananoque vault. Dec. 31.---~Mrs. Gerald Hudson | (formerly Miss Florence Bishop, {Stone street north), left to join her (husband, who recently located at | Steubenville, Ohio. | Wilbur Clow, John street, one of | Gananoque's most popular .tenors, | tilled an engagement on Wednesday {evening in Montreal at 'the big an- {nual supper of the travelling sales- {men of the Swift Canadian Company of Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Root and | Mr. and Mrs, Ford Gillespie, all of Ottawa, spent the holidays here with will [the former's mother, Mrs. Gilbert | ome | Root, Charles street, Stanley Moore, | Tufts and Charles Genore. holiday here | | Montreal, spent the | with his mother, Mrs, J. J. Moore, Charles street. Miss Esther De- Long, King street, is spending 'the week {n Ottawa with relatives. Eric | Hudson spent the holidays with rela- tives at Lyn. \ | Mr. and Mrs. Clark Cook, Smith's Falls, spent the holiday here with the latter's mother, Mrs. Henry Clow, John street. Mr. Cook left for home on Wednesday, but Mrs. Cook is extending her visit for a time with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, Brockville, spent some time in town with friends last week. Mrs. Morton Clow and family vored the audience with a song com- spent the past week in Brockville { with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Eldridge. MAYORS ELECTED. Chatham--F. S. Briscoe. Sarnia---George Crawford. Kitchener---Charles Greh. Waterloo--D. Bohlender. MeaYord--S. A. Gray. Windsor--H. W. Wilson. Harriston--J. H. Fawcett. Daylight Savingf For--Toronto, Kingston, St. Cath- arines, Kitchener, Gananoque. Against--Guelph, Galt. City . composed ders, passed away after being in| The funeral was held yes- | Curling Club Bonspiel. Although the weather was rather mild, the club bonspiel was played {at the curling rink on New Year's | Day. The primary event was run off, {event had to be held over on ac- count of the ice getting soft. C.0.C.L. Bonspiel Cancelled. On account of 'the mild weather it tario Curling League bonspiel sche- | duled to be played at the local rink jon Tuesday and Wednesday, will have to 'be postponed. MUNICIPAL RESULTS, North Marysbarg. Reeve--Jas. L. Hughes, (acc.) i Councillors--Fred Duetta, Frank | Eaton, H. H. Rose, Herbert Wattam, | (acc.) | 7 South Matysburg. Reeve--Arthur Bongard (acc.) Councillors--Lewis Hughes, Fen- [ton Dodge, Gerald Ackerman, Wil- liam Hicks (acc.) Hallowell. Reeve--B. A. Reynolds (acc.) Deputy-Reeve--Morris Huff (acc.) Councillors--F. A. Hubbs, Calvin Rabbie, Harry D. Leavens (acc.) Bloomfield. Reeve--J. E. Baxter (acc.) Councillors--Charles. W. Fraleigh, | Wallace Goodmurphy, Joseph Pyue, | Fred C. Cooper (acc.) Hillier, Reeve--J. H, Davidson (acc.) "Ameliasburg. Reeve--D. W. Robinson (acc.) Députy-Reeve--James E. Robin- son (ace) Counclllors--C. R. Chase, W. J. Reddick, R. C. Hubbs (acc.) Wellington. Reeve-- Wm. Monahan (acc.) i Councillors--H. D. Clemifison, W. i Fox, Craig Platt, Jos. Teskey. ; Ernesttown. Reeve--W. C.'T. Loyst Lace) = \ Richmond, ; Councillors----Geo. 8. Sexsmith, W. | 8. Provins, W. J. Gollinger and John Schermehorn, Jr., (acc.) Camden. Reeve--R. J. Hannah (aéc.) Deputy-Reeve -- Fred. (acc.) Councillors--Jas. Fisher, Wilbert Wilson, Johnston Cousins (ace.) Hungerford. Reeve--J. H. Clare. Dep. Reeve--John L. Newton. Councillors--Joseph . Taylor, A. Thurlow. Reeve--Nathaniel Vermilyea. Dep. Reeve--J. G. Sills. Councillors--W. B. Tufts, Robert Garbutt and Dan McDonnell. Reduction in the increases in rail- way freight and passenger rates be- comes effective Jan, 1st, on all Can- adian railway lines under jurisdic- tion of the Dominion Railway Com- mission, Export of grain from Western Can- ada through the port of Vancouver has started. om! | nac street, to Cataraqui cemetery, on 12¢. . 15¢. .18¢, .20c. Stewing Beef Pot Roasts . . . Oven Roasts . . Rib Roasts Round Steak .27¢. Sirloin Steak . .30c. Choice Geese and Ducks for New Year's Ray. Princess Meat | but three games in the consolidation | is quite likely that the Central On-| Nk McDonald | Market and late of the C.E.F\, passed away in Sydenham Hospital on Monday morning. 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