ALLEN TO-TiAY E HAMMERSTEIN Th -- . i ¢ Daily ST > KINGSTON, ONTARIO. TUESDAY, e AUGUST AS FAMINE OFFICER | |Foreign Minister for Soviet to | f Negotiate With U. 8. Re- | lief Officials. To the Visiting Knights Tem. plar Meeting in the City -- Riga, Aug. 9. --The announcement | that Maxim Litvinofr, acting *. com- missar of foreign affairs of the { Soviet government, is coming to Riga | . {as thé authorized representative of | This Week. the soviet government as well as the | famine committee, hag produced the | The Hugh de Payens Premier Pre- | belief in Riga that Russia wants us | ceptory No. 1, Knights Templars, |2 representative a man empowered | gave a reception to the visiting {tO develop general negotiations with | Knights in the Masonic Hall, Wel- | the United States from the forthcom- | lington street, on Monday evening, ling conference on famine conditions, | Eminent Sir K f possible. night J. B. Phillips || presided, and addresses of welcome | It had been previously ant that Maxim Gorky and M. Hinchook, | were given by him on behalf of the officers and members of the Precep- of the Russian central co-operative | tory, and by Most Eminent Sir | Union, would be the neogtiators for | Knight Abraham Shaw, Supreme | the agreement with the United States | Grand Master, {rellet administration officials. | A very fine musical programme | M. Litvinoft is expecteq to arrive was rendered by talented artists, | Wednesday, and it is thought he may those taking part being Mrs. J. Ey- | be accompanied by United States | ans, soprano; Mis Susman, New | Prisoners who have been released. York, solo; J. B. Bankier, tenor: Mr. | oe GERMAN icipated | Kelly, recitation. Some fine instru- Y ATTACKS | mental numbers were rendered by GENERAL LeROND | Treneer's orchestra. Refreshments were served throughout the evening. Mayor Nickle was to have been present to give an address of wel- come, but had been called to To- ronto. At the opening of the Great Priory at 9.30 a.m. Tuesday his wor- ship was introduced by the Supreme Grand Master, and in an admirable address welcomed tho Kingston, The ladies were given an automo- Held He Did Not Take Proper | Precautions To Avert Trouble. Paris, Aug. 9.- ~General {head of the interallied | for Upper Silesia, appeared before | visitors to [the Supreme Allied Council here tn- | day to explain the events leading up | to the Korfanty insurrection thers | LeRond, | commission | [LITVINOFF ACTS [1 lally [decided not NO TROOPS ~ T0 BE SENT Said the Partition of Upper Silesia Has Been Decided Upon. Paris, Aug. 9.--Premier Briand of France and Premier Lloyd George, of Great Britain, have decided, at a private meeting, upon a compromise partition of Upper Silesia, it was declared here, to-day, on good auth- ority. This seems to be borne out by the unanimity that prevails between the delegations to the Allied Suprema Council. There is none of the bitter contentions of former meetings. The Allied Supreme Council to-day decided not to send reinforcements for the Allied in Upper Sil- troops josie. The British delegation voted {against sending additional French question came up .The boundary line decided upon, hile by no means straight, praclic- bisects the Silesia area. Upon.the private troops when the w settlement being reached the Supreme Council | to send reinforcements | to Upper Silesia at present. The new line is accepted in principle as more nearly representing the real meaning of the plebiscite vote than anything previously proposed. It splits the dis- puted industrial area. Lloyd George said in substance that Great Britain sympathized with plebiscite | |ALLOUT OF STEP | © "EXCEPT LANCTOT | | Denounces Tories and Lib- erals and Against Farm- ers, Too. | | Montreal, Aug. 9.--Roch Lanctot, {| M.P. for Laprairie-Napierville, in an | address at Ste. Edouard de Napier- | ville, severely condemned both the | | Conservative and Liberal party, and | { while he did approve of the Farm- | | ers' party, in some respects, he yas | against them too. After a tirade against the politic- | | fans who, he said, were to blame for | the present railway situation, he sta- ! [ted that if in 1917 Sir Wiltrid ur- | {fer had been only fifty years dt/age, | his English lieutenants would not | | have left him, "but knowing he had {only a few weeks more to live they {lett him; these executioners of Laur- | {ler who had made them---men like | | Pugsley, George P. Graham, Field. | |ing, Calder and Rowell." | ------------ S STATUE UNVEIL | OF LLOYD GEORGE | | { |Ceremony - at «Birthplace of | Premier, Carnarvon, Wales. * | -- | London, Aug, 9.--Right Hon. W. | | M. Hughes, premier of Australia, on { {Saturday unveiled of es statue of Premier Lloyd Geor, at Carnarvon, | Wales. > | | Premier Hughes said the statue, | | which was the gift of the mayor of |the city, enshrined the spirit and | British | derstanding and working between e | ALLEN TO-DAY THE MIRACLE OF MANHATTAN 9, 1921. Whig NEW LEAGUE MAY RESULT Washington Observer Pre- dicts Development of As- sociation of Nations. Washington, D.C, Aug. 9. -- De- velopment of the armament limita- tion conference into an association of nations is believed Were today to be more likely as a result of the de- velopments at the British Imperial Conference, just adjourned. Many shrewd observers of interna- tional affairs here have been thinking for some time that this would be the natural course for the Washington conference to follow. Belief here that it would gradually grow into such an association, fulfilling Presi- dent-Harding's promises made dur- ing the campaign that he would urge an association of nations in place of the Wilson league, hay,been strong as has been indicated in the Star Washington despatches. But the summary given out at the conclusion of the British Imperial conference carries the idea further, to the minds of abservers here, than any step vet made, The whole underlying idea of the premiers of the British Dominions, apparently, was either a closer un- the British Empire--or Common- WOMAN "MAY BE IN NEW CABINET Mrs. Parlby, Mentioned Possi- bility , Had Romantic Car=- reer in This Country. ---- Calgary, Aug. 9 ~--Romapce at- tended the path in Canada of Mrs. Irene Parlby, recently elected to the Alberta legislature as the candidate of the United Farmers, and. now mentioned as a cabinet possibility. Mrs. Parlby came to the dominion for a visit to some friends in May, 1896, with no intention of remain- ing. While in Alberta she met Wa!- ter Comentry Hal Parlby, M.A. Oxon, who had come in 1890 on a visit and had remained. They were married in March, 1897, and have lived ever since at Dartmoor ranch, Alix, Alberta. "The coldntry fascinated me from the beginning," sald Mrs. Parlby, "and I loved the old pioneer days better than the present stage of de- velopment, I am a great niece of Captain Marryat, R.N,, whose book, "Settlers in Canada," read and re- read as a child hankering to visit this country." ? --------rieaia Turks to Evacuate » Their Capital City Paris, Aug. 9.-- The Turkish Na- tionalists have decided to evacuate Angora, their capital, and retire on Caesarea, according to a despagch from Constantinople. 7 Occupy Lefke Pass. Constantinople, Aug. 9, -- The | GIVE MILLIO 10 VETERANS Fourteen States Give $184. 000,000 Aad Eight Others Provide $191,000,000. New York, Aug. 9.--S8t tion converting more than 000 to the aid of world war veterans has been passed or is waiting popul- ar referendum, the Bank' of America anounced last night at the conclusion of a nation-wide survey of the bonus situation. ' Veterans in fourteen slates already are receiving cash bonuses totaling $184,000,000 and in eight more stat- es legislation providing for cash bon- uses of $191,000,000 now is pend- ing, : Only Alabama, Georgia and Missis~ sipp! have failed to pass legislation authorizing aid to velerans in exemp- {tions or benefits of some kind, the i report declared. The bonus ranges from $10 a month for service in g Number of states to $256 a month in North Dakota' Several states set maximum rates ranging from $100 in Now Jersey to $500 in Oregon. | Maine, Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire and Rhode Island gave $100 cash bonuses outright, Massachusettg also provided $10 a month cash bon< us for service prior to January 1st, 1918. ate legisla $375,000,- Greeks have occupied Lefke Pass, a short distance northeast of Brusa, and are expected shortly to re-occupy Ismid {genius of the Welsh race. The statue | Wealth, as Lord Northcliffe prefers |is nine feet high, and depicts the | 10 state it--and the United States, { , 8 lhe! . - {premiér in characteristic oratorical | °F @ three cornered arrangement be North Dakota claims the honor of having been the first state to pay the bonus and Illinois heads the list for bile drive about the city, starting from the Masonic Hall at 9.30 a.m. Twenty cars were used and man last. spring. He was bitterly attack-|the French desire for security but. ied by Germany for alleged failure | that security ought to rest on moder- ¥ | to forsee the attempt by the Poles to | ation. The British Empire would points of interest were visited. At 2 p.m. the steamer St. Lawrence took excursion among the Thousand Isl- ands, one of the most delightful trips out of Kingston, and the party had dinner at the Thousand Island House, Alexandria Bay, Tuesday Morning's Session. The Sovereign Great Priory, Knights Templar of Canada, opened | esia the members and their wives on an | made tale over a large part of Upper Sil- plebiscite area and hints wee that he did precautions to meet when it did develop. CANNING FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE the situation In due form at 9.30. on Tuesday Origin of Blaze Unknown -- morning with all the grand officers in their places. The beautiful lodge room had been decorated for the meeting and added to the color of the banners were the bright uniforms of the Sir Knights, M.E. Sir Knight Abraham Shaw, supreme grand mas- ter, presided ovér the meeting and 19 his right was R.E. Sir Knight Dr A, S. Estey, Calgary, deputy grand master. Mayor Nickle, in rising to extend a welcome to delegates from every part of the dominion of Canada, remarked that while he belonged to no fratern- al organizations, he had enedavored 11 Plant Idle for Last Three Weeks. Belleville, Aug. 9.--Frankford vil- age suffered a heavy loss by fire Monday morning, when the canning factory, owned and operated by the Frankford Canning Company, was totally destroyed. The origin is un- known, and will likely remain so. The loss is estimated at $130,000, the insurance aggregating about six- ty-five per cent of that figure. Since . about the middle of July the plant had not had a fire in it. Tha to identify himself with every phase |P€2 cToD had been canned and about of the city's activities. He trusted that the visiting Sir Knights would have an gnjoyable and profitable stay in Kingston and that they would have an opportunity to examine some a dozen men were working around the place, getting ready for corn can- ning, on which it was hoped to start on Wednesday. When the fire was first discovered, of the points of historical interest in | the Whole building seemed a mass of the city. An invitation was also ex- | flames. The village fire fighting tended to pay an informal visit to | @PParatus was got out and prevented the city hall to view the memorial | the SPread-of the fiery element, The windows which has been installed. R. BE. Sir Knight WwW. Y. Mills, chairman of the committee on ar rangements, also extended a wal- "¢ome on behalf of the sitting precep- tor and the committee and pointed out that the Knights Templars were meeting in a city which was as in- building was gq metal-clad frame Structure of very - large proportions. It was valued at, perhaps, $40,000. Not only was the plant 'lost with all its machinery, but there is alsg gone all the product of the season, inclyd- Ing thousands of dollars worth of canned fruits and vegetables, soma teresting Masonically as it -was his- (©! this year's make and a consider- torically. In 1794 the Ancient 8. John's Lodge was founded, in 1833 Cataraqui Lodge followed and in 1870 Minden Lodge was installed. Anclent Frontenac and Cataraqui chapter was warranted in 1797 and more especially were the visiting Sir Knights interested in the fact that Knight Templarism was established in Canada through the installation of Hugh de Payens Premier Precep- tory in Kingston, and in 1854 Col. W. B. McLoed Moore, 69th regiment, opened the first preceptory ot mod- ern templarism under English war- rant in Kingston. A 'brief reply was made by Sir Knight Abraham Shaw. During the morning the grand council was in session and besides the nominations for office the sn- preme grand master read the annual address. The election of officers will be held on Wednesday morning. -- Names of Delegates. The outside members and visitors registered today are: Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Becker, Toronto; J. W. Pome- roy, Victoria, B.C.: T. qG. Griffith, Montreal; E. A. Blashale, Toronto; J. A. Brown, Toronto; Mr. and Mrs. John Herod, St. Catharines; C. W. Hamschell, Halleybury; Mr. and Mrs, (Continued On Page 11- HUSBAND AND WIFE. My wife never tucks the bed cov- ers in--KNW. What Does Your Wife Do 2 ' able quantity of last year's. All the supplies requisite for this season's work were in the conflagration. Directors stated to-day that it wii! be their endeavor to get the factory operating as soon as possible, It is hoped to have canning operations ro- sumed, accordingly, almogt immedi- ately. De ---- 'YERY HOT IN TURKEY. Forest Fires Are Reported in Asia Minor. Constantinople, Aug. 9.--Extreme heat prevails over the near-eastern countries, particularly this city. In- tense forest fires are reported in Asia Minor. The heat wave has led to many stories of strange animals coming to the surface of the Black Sea. Inhabitants near the mouth of the Bosphorus, were alarmed by re- ports of an apparition steamer, paint- ed brilliant red, which is believed dg the famine ship of Sebastopol, a fabled 'craft legend. . It says it ploughs the waves of the Black Sea in troublesome times. S------e------ Wins Plain Dealer Stakes, Cleveland, Aug. 9. --R. Colorado, owned by Barton Pardee, Atlanti: City, and driven by Walter Cox, won the $5,000 Plain Dealer stakes, the feature event on the opening' day card of grand circuit races at North Randall for 2.08 trotters, in straight heats on Monday. The best time was 2.04 1-4, -------- v---- Trade Union Campaign. Washington, Aug. 9.--Samue! Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, launched on Monday in Quebec a campaign in- tended "to stimulate" the 'trade union movement throughout the United States and Canada with aview to increasifig the membership of the federation. © ---------------- Judge Ashford, born in Port Hope in 1857, died in Honolulu. In August, 1914, Judge Ashford was appointed 'by Prestdent Wilson as first Judge of the supreme court of Hawaii. [never be drawn into another war by the oppressive use of superior force not take proper |Or the abuse of justice in the time of |estal, one triumph. NEWS OFF THE WIRES IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Places Far and Near Are Briefly Recounted. Aircraft now being built in Bri- tain is expected to cross the Atlantic in forty hours. Babe Ruth secured his and forty-first home runs York on Monday. Estimated 48,000,000 bushels of wheat are needed to relieve Russian, famine conditions, : Emannel--B,. Devlin, M. P, for Wright, was seriously ill while on a visit to Terrebonne. The Spanish forces still hold the positions at South Meililla, Morocco, against the flerce attacks of tribes. men, Tom Wintringham, Liberal mem- ber for Louth division of Lineoln- shire dropped dead in the House of Commons, Grant Hall, vice president, C.P.R., stated at Winnipeg there would be a further reduction in the price of dining car meals. Benny Leonard will fight Lew Tendler for the world's lightweight championship at Philadelphia on September 21st. Mike Gibbons, St. Paul, and Jess Smith, Bayonne, N.J., are scheduled for twelve round bout at Jersey City, IN, fortieth in New Members of Allied Supreme Coun- | cil adjourned the first meeting late on Monday afternoon. Nothing of importance occurred. The steamer San Johe struck ona reef about " fifteen hundred miles south of San Diego, Cal', on Monday night, The ship is resting easy. There were. thirty-three passangers and sixty-six members of the crew on board. Miss Kathleen Shackleton, sister of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the explor- er, has gone to Czechs Slovakia on the invitation of that government to write a series of articles on condi- tions and prospects in the new repub- lic which will appear this autumn in the London press. It is the intention of Premier Charles Stewart and Hon. A. J. Mc- Lean, Minister of Public Works, to form a partnership in a business en- terprise in Edmonton, following their retirement from the government of the province, W. C. and G. C, Edwards interests, Ottawa, are to embark on a new line of manufacture. in connection with which an incorporated company capitalized at $1,600,000 will short- 'ly be announced. The names of the new company is to be the Edwards Pulp and Paper Company. A REMARKABLE RALLY Has Been Made By Sir«Sam Hughes At Lindsay. Lindsay, Aug. 9.--After his rela- tives and doctors had kept an all- Sir Sam Hughes at any moment, the patient made another rally, about nine o'clock this morn- ing, and the official builetin at 9.30 o'clock said that he was conscious, and conversing as usual with those at his bedside. Willing to Swear A Brisbane, AustraMa, Aug. 9--Arch- bishop Mannix, who has just return ed to Australia from a round-the- world trip, during which he attemp- ted to visit Ireland but was not per- mitted to do so, has expressed his willingness to take the oath of al- legiance king. night watch, expecting the death of * remarkable | 4 CPPIPIEIIPOIISIOIOGS [attitude, with uplifted hand. | | There are two panels on the ped- | { representing the Peace | Conference at Versailles, and the | other the Schools at Llanystrumdwy where Lloyd George was educated. DAY OF MILITANCY DECLARED TO BE OVER Women's Suffrage is Vindi- cated, Declares Christabel | Pankhurst. Montreal, Aug. 9.--"The day of militancy is over for men and wo- men; it belonged to the old world; this is the new," declared Miss Christabel Pankhui achiever of world-wide- 4 - "during. the women's fight for the vote in Eng- land as a leader of the militant suf- fragettes. Miss Pankhurst arrived in Montreal on the Megantic. She in- tends travelling to Toronto and from there to: Victoria, where she is to join. her mother. Referring to the suffrage fight in | England, Miss Pankhurst sald "we [took up vigorous methods reluctantly {and as a disagreeable necessity, as [it seemed to us. That time was not | | 80. very long ago," 4s time goes, but People are much more open-mindsd now than they used to be. "Actual experience," Miss Pankhurst, "has disproved every argument brought against | Woman suffrage by its opponents.' | Miss Pankhurst is of the opinion that continued tween Britain, Japan and the United States. THe British seem to have been eager to bring this about, preferably in preliminary conferences prior to the formal meeting of the November conference, WIND JAMMERS MAY BE ABOLISHED SOON Movie Theatres Will Be Able to See Pictures Without \, Cacaphonic Adjunct. 1 Ir \Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 9.--Orch- estras in all motion picture houses in this city will probably be abolished and the prices of admission reduced to pre-war issues within a short time, Fred G. Nixon Nirdlnger, pres- ident of the Theatrica] Managers' Association of Philadelphia, said yeos- terday. : Similar action may also be taken by the vaudeville and legitimate houses in view of the fact that it has been decided that the Lyric Theéatre will re-open this coming season without an orchestra, he said, The necessity of taking this action is conceded by al} the theatrical men of the city, said Mr. Nirdlinger, because of the refusal of the local union of the American Federation of Musicians, which demands an in- crease. in wages, te accept the asso- ciation's working agreement, which carries a 20 per cent wage reduction and abolishes the fifty-two week con- tract. Mr. Nirdlinger charactérized many. of the theatre orchestras as "wind | the situation in Quebec, where wo- [men have no vote, will soon "right itself." | -- Arrested on Bootlegging Charge, { Clayton, N.Y., Aug. 9 Morris | Rothenberg was arrested by state troopers, who obtaitied a search "war- rant and searched Mr, Rothenberg's house and barns, where they found twenty-eight quarts of whisky, two five gallon kegs of whisky, and two five-gallon cans of alcohol. \Mr, Rothenburg has been involved in other bootlegging affairs and has been arrested before on various char- ges. He fs a Russian. Jew and is en- gaged in the junk business in Clay- ton. Sr---- Wr ------ Robbed Summer Home of Liquor. Cobourg, July 9.--In the County Judge's Criminal Court here, before Judge Ward, Percy Simpson, of this town, wag found guilty of breaking into the summer home of R. T. Gray of Detroit, in May last, and st®aling a quantity of liquor. Sentence was deferred. by the court until others who are charged with participating in the same offense have had their trial. ' -- First Woman Clerk, Hamilton, Aug. 9.--Miss K. White has been appointed clerk of the First district court in this city, to succeed C. J. Jones, who resigned. Miss White is the first woman to be ap- pointed to such a position in- this city. $A I ------------------------------ P0240 0%0%00400 00 + 4 TWIN BOYS GREET FIRST V.C. HERO + -- . ° ® Halifax, N.S, Aug. 9. Mrs. * Michael O'Leary, with twin boys a few months old, arrived here on the Cunard liner Carmania on Saturday and left for Toron- to tg meet her husband. O'Leary was the first Canadian to win the Victorta Cross in the great war.: He was married overseas and hay not yet seen his twin boys. O'Leary was in the Royal Mounted Police before the war. > TEEPE SNe Ne - * PEEPS PPP be + are wide of the mark. Jammers and 'nerve wreckers." The average theatre goer would be sat- isfled with a reduction of ten to fif- teen per cent in the price of tickets, he said, and will be able to sit peace- fully through a picture without his mind being diverted by a cacaphonic and unnecessary adjunct, : ---- | PEACE WITH GERMANY ENVELOPED IN MYSTERY | . Senators Curious and impa- | tient as No Light is Thrown On Negotiations. Washington, Aug. 9 --Curiosity, accompanied by impatience, is being manifested by the senate concerning the new treaty of peace with Ger- many which, according to dispatches from Berlin, is now in the final pro- cesses of negotiation. So far the senate has been kept completely in the dark about the ne- gotlations, Although members of the foreign relations committee keep an ever watchful eye on the administra- tion's moves in international diplo- macy, their ignorance concerning the treaty making, now progress, is paralleled only by their inability to obtain information while the Ver- sallles treaty was being framed. The only light they have been able to get has come through newspaper dispat- ches and this has been dimmed by administration declarations that'they ---- May Stand for House, London, Aug. 9--Lady Bonham- Carter, daughter of former Premier Asquith, has been invited by the Westminster 'Liberal Association to become a candidate for member of parliament for Westminster, to suc- ceed the late Willam L. Ashmead- Bartlett Bardeth-Coutts. During the recent campaign of her father for parliament and on other Lady Bonhem-Carter has active part as a speaker, ee German demands for German woollen stockings have dwindléd to next to nothing, whereas orders for silk hats and silk stockings have increased five-fold within the last six months, 3 taken an A resumption of the Greek offen- sive toward Angora is not likely to begin before September, owing to the necessity to repair the railroad bridges. , Owing to the iil feeling against the Italians in Anatclia a ship is being sent to' Samsun to evacuate them, ADMIRAL SINS HAS ANOTHER WORD 10 So United States One in Disap- proval- of Sinn Fein Activities. Belfast, Aug. 9.--A letter Rear Admiral Sims, from acknowledging Pt of congratulations. from che | Belfast comrades of the great war on his recent speech before the Englisa- speaking union in London, in which he criticized the activities of Sinn Fein gympathizers in the United States, was made public here to- day. - The letter, dated July 11th, reads as follows: "I can assure you it is a amtter of | great gratification to me to find that the loyal men of Ulster hold the sama opinions as I do.as to the English. speaking peoplé. It may interest you to know -that practically all '(he reputable. newspapers in the United States are now in thorough approval of our condemnation of the activities | of Sinn Fein sympathizers in the United States. "This has been brought about by a remarkable expression of opinion by the American people in the form of showers of letters and telegrams to all concerned." ------ BEES BAN TRAVEL ON KENTUCKY ROAD Block Highway for Days, De= fending Home -in Fallen Tree. Lexington, Ky., Aug. 9.--The pike from Concord to Vanceburg has béen blocked for several days by myriads of honey bees which for fifty years had used a roadside tree as-an apiary. The tree tell across the highway be- fore a high wind, and honey was scattered over a wide area. : The bees refused to relinquish pos- session, and all travel was diverted by a route which causes several miles of additional journeying. Persons who approached the fallen tree have been routed by fierce onslaughts of the bees. Floyd Call, sent to repair telephone lines broken in the storm, is in a serious condition from stings. Says Quebec Government Has Deceived the "Drys" Montreal, Aug.' 9.--A strong in-|' dictment of the present government of the province of Quebec was made by R. L. Werry, secretary of the Anti-Liquor League, in speaking at Sherbrooke street Methodist church on the "Tragedy of the Quebec Liquor Law." "I charge the government having deceived the people," declared Mr. Werry, "they have cut their bridges between ns &nd them. We do not want polities', in the pulpit, but we must have soms religion in politics, otherwise our province will go down to ruin." ------ The United States is to repeal the war imposts. Soda fountain and lee cream taxes are to be abolished and the ten per cent tax on Wearing ap- parel ndoned. ; Forest fores in the maritime prov. inces quenched by rain storms. with temperance | amount with $55,000,000 provided the bonus law Passes a popular refi; endum, : Statistics compiled by the Bank of America show that bond issues pro- vide the most popular way for rals« | ing the necessary bonus funds. In | twenty-one states, bonds, notes or | certificates have been authorized ang i sold 'or are awaiting popular approve 'al. Many states which have given cass bonuses also are Providing other aid, In fifteen states aid is offered for vo- cational education asd in California 2 bill has been adopted providing for vocational education of veterans' de pendents, Arizona, California, Oregon and {South Dakota povide aid in buying {homes and in Oregen the bonus is made optional with ihe plvilege of bortowing up to $2,003 on rea] es- tate. In Connecticut, Iowa, Massach ua kota, South Carolina, Texas and Wy- oming veterans are exempted from taxation. Sixteen states provide for civil service .preference in the anes of former service men, In nearly all the states the term veterans includes nurses who were in, regular army service, In many cases the cash bonus is extended to wide a and dependents of those ey Y] who have died. ' Expires at (Clayton, Clayton, N.Y., Aug. 9.-- Henry Smith Barker, aged seventy-five, died at 'his home in John street on Friday evening. He had been in failing { health for the past year, being con- {fined to his bed for the last three | months with a complication of dis- { eases. Mr. Barker was born in Clay- | ton, the son of Alden F. Baker and | Laura Smith Barker. He was a dir- ector of the First National bank of Clayton, which wag established by his father, and had conducted a dry good store in Clayton for the last for- ty years, beirg the oldest merchant in the town. ---- Goes to Ecumenical Conference. Campbellford, Aug. 9.--A numbeyp of officials of the Campbellford Methe odist church assembled at the pare sonage, and on behalf of the congre~ 'gation presented Rev. H. B. Kenny with a purse of $100 as a token of their good will and appreciation of his work, prior to his leaving to sail yesterday from Montreal for Eng- land to attend the Ecumenical cone ference of Methodism as delegate from the Bay of Quinte Conference. Capt. Kenny will tour England and Scotland as well as the battlefields of Europe before returning. WUBN GHE CALLED ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE ROWSE - HOLD To THAT Room AND BXclAIMED." Ir THE GAS PACK To THE EMPLOY MENT OFFICE, Minpue! etts, Michigan, New Jesoy, North Lax