WEDSESDAY, DEC. 7, 109%, Theatrical "Rex Stock Company." When the Rex Stock Compauy opens on Thursday night at 1pe Grand in "Twenty-four Hovis Truth" they should have a capse! house to greet ¢ the best bj of the season. Gp ae best coun- versation takes place between Gwen Ralston and Bob Bennett, a young stock broker. He 16 very much in 'with Gwen, and is a most thetic listener when she comes with her troubles. The rash promise Lo. tell nothing but the truth for Twenty-four Hours is the result of sudden inspiration remembering hie promise to Gwen, Bob makes a bet that he can and will tell tha abso! truth for that length of time. Ii little knew the trouble in store fo him--his partner's home is nearly broken up, he openly insults people about their personal appearance, al- most wrecks his husiness and nijve): confesses that his income the last Year was $2,200 instead of $40,000 as he had told. ~ But--does he win the wager? Come to the Grand on Thursday night and you will know the rest.--Advt, ls ule r % AT THE ALLEN. -_ ---- Baler Gets Doused at College Stud. ents' Party. Gus Leonard, who portrays th» role of a butler in "Two Minutes 'o Go," the First National attraction starring Charles Ray, showing at the Allen theatre Thursday, Friday, Sa'- urday, got the worst ducking of his motion picture career in one scene of this play of college life by Richard Andre, At a Hallowe'en party given in tha home of a fair coed, the butler is seized by the seniors, who are her guests, and is escorted to a swimming pool, where he Is tied while the water is turned on. The seniors return to the fest1vi- ties inside the house, forgeiting all about the poor butler. The hostess, however, discovers his plight and causes his recue in the nick of time. Charles Ray in the star part, gives an amusing characterization. He por- trays a football hero, who is com- pelled to give up the team because of fimancial troubles and spend hisspare time peddling milk to earn money to | pay his college expenses. : The college milkigan gets into a neck to trouble and his sweetheart léaves him crushed. himself in the big football game of the year. The story provides Ray with ona of the best vehicles of his career, and makes one of the finest bi's of entertainment shown on the screen this season. --Advt, At the Strand. man and a woman handcuffed together stand qt bay before a howl- ing mob who seek their life. The Woman is given the key that will re- lease her and give her a chance for life and fréedom, and--she throws the key way! This is'a situatiéh shown in."Re Foam," which opens to-morrow ff the Strand Theatre, and seldom nhs the screen reflected a more poigng ly dramatic moment. The phe is adapted from a Saturday BE (Post story. € Zena Keefe Huntley Gordon placed in this through sheer chivalry, a quality one would not look for in the small Missouri town in which W. H. Ham- by"s stirring story is laid. However, like al} well-ordered Stories and pictures, all ends in a most satisfactory manner, although the spectator will pass through many nt satan A + HEARST'S SALES TAX DELEGATION. Now in Ottawa ta study Canada's sales tax. Congress and came to Canada But he redeenis | moments of tense suspense until ti big climax, In add | named, the players t {includes H an Barnes, Pe *ral other capable and layers. --Advt, GERMANS PUT TAX : ON 'GOOD DRINKING' ° Stuttgart Has a "Souse Tax," Applicable to Those Who Just Sit and Drink. 7.---The city fithe:s hit upon love | sympa- | to him ! Berlin, Dec of impoverished Berlin have the ingenious fund relsing idea of ! 'axing "good eating and drinking." The official™fitle of 'he municipal ordinance which will be passed short- ly in "Consumption ta« for Juxurious eating places and pleasura resorts." , The ordinance proposes a 10 per cent. turnover tax on all "jad Crink consumed in hotels, restaurants, cafe *.#, bars and dance resorts whos S average higher tha. the prices e "simple food and drink ostah- ishment,"" meaning such as ""he common people' patronize. Wuerttemburg already has done j pioneer tax work along a variant of the ove line, the capit: Stuttgart, | boasting the most novel tax in Ger- 1010408 many. | The nickname it literally { means ""Souse tax," and it applies to those who continually sit and drink |in the saloons after the police clos- ing hour, which in Stuttgart is mid- night A sliding "'souse tax' payment of five marks entitles you to linger and imbibe for one hour after the official closing time for one morning; eight marks permits you to stay until 2 o'clock, and 10 marks enables you fo remain until three. Obviously it is not a prohibition. measure, for the longer you drink, the cheaper it gets, The canny stu'tgart tax authori- ties have artistically enameled ""Souse tax" coins, easily the vest pocket and of varying co denoting the length of time they pe nit you to sit up and drink. All bear the figure of the Mediaeval Suablan t Knight watchman. Likewise the thoughtful authorities have gecured a special room on the ground floor { of the Stuttgart" City Hall for the sale of "souse tax coins tors, too, can obtain a supply he the Suabian tex gatherers advertise. for | "Collec- | Tory Publicity Chief Loses $1,000 Wager Ottawa, Dec. 7.--John Bain, chief of publicity for the Tories during the last campaign, is one thousand dol- to-day. He challenged Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King to mest , that amount. He was willing to bet | that the Conservatives would have the lar group. The Liberal lead- 'er accepted the wager, and considers that three solid provinces and good results in other provinces will con- vince Mr. wrong horse. ------------------------ The Canadian community in Lon- much surprised lars poorer rgest 3 don, England, was dghver the announcément that the Lib- iW | erals had such a sweeping victory. : MEIGHEN'S NAME NOT ON LIST Ottawa, Dec. In order to vote'in Ottawa, Premier Meigh- en engaged a special train to carry him Ontario in time. no use, because his name was not-on the lists. Someone had blundered. : Go + across > + + * a * * tee Peer under the auspice and | boarding | liquor | carried in Bain that he backed the Even then he found it of | eae The party includes THE DA GANANOQUE Dec. '7.--The most warmly con- tested election in years was waged | yesterday in South Leeds, with Stew- jart,- 'Conservative, Mallory, Liberal, and Warren, Farmer-Labor. As soon [a8 the polls closed in Gananoque, | crowds thronged the streets, | dreds from the surrounding country | coming in to get returns. | e¥'s theatre the returns were thrown *EEPe Se $449 < EERE M. CAMPBELL . SWORN AT POLLS the most contemptible in the contest in 1 on Tuesday was Rhe by Conservative of John M. Campbell, candidate, at polling # sub sion No 1A, Syden- » ham ward. Of course Mr. {4 Campbell took the oath and said nothing, but it shows that the Ross workers. stopped at wothing - JOHN |' eommittee rooms were crowded, and %| crowds blocked the sidewalks, but J ywithal everything was quiet and or- |MAY DO BETTER WORK {derly. At the present writing Stew- IN THE OPPOSITION | art's majority in town is 178. } { ERE EE EEE EEE id | A sad death occurred on Monday, i w | When Mrs. Halferty, wife of Edward J. J."Morison of the U.F.0. Re | Halferty, Arthur street, passed away |in the General Hospital, Kingston, | following an operation for append!- | citis. She leaves to mourn her losa | her husband and one son, about eleven years of age. takes place this afternoon. A marriage of interest to friends in | joices in "Annihilation" | of Government. Toronto, Dee, 7.--J. J, Morrison | took the results of the election phil- | | osophically, y "There is reason for congratula- tion in the fact that the government | Gananoque took place in Peterboro, { Which had trampled on every pris- | when Miss Letha Marie Lafrance, leiple of democracy has been not only | daughter of Joseph Lafrance, Stone defeated, but annihilated," he de- street, was united in marriage to clared. John Stephen Rainville, Sudbury. "While the defeat of the Agrarians Mrs. George Taylor and mother, [1s cause for regret, it is perhaps bet- | Mpg py. Coleman, left Yesterday for that they should form a substan- | Ottawa, where they will spend the 'n the opposition side in | winter at the Alexandra Hotel. than have forced Miss Phyllis Thompson spent the ility of form- week-end with friends at Sand Bay, out having Q1! The Triple Link Club of the Dau- owing to ensure the giv- | Ehers of Rebekah held their fort- to the policies for nightly meeting at the home of Mrs. Roy Pickett, King street. There wag a good attendance, and after the busi- ness session was over, a social time Was spent. Refreshments were served at the close. -« -- LABOR LEADER KEPT THE DEATH BENEFITS ter liament ponsi the new {on them t ing a gove sufficien: ing of full effect | which they stand [ "As the | cipal opposition in the new house, the Agrarians may, in- | deed, by bringing their influence to bear, be able to secure more legisla- j tion in 'the interests of the people | than they could enact as a govern- { ent, faced by the two old parties, which, by combining, could vote them | cut of office | © "Some of the individuat results," | Union Official on Witness Mr. Morrison continues, "'are more to | | ba regretted than the defeat of ths Stand Admits Appropriat- Agrarians as a whole, First amony | ing Moneys, these I put the defeat of R. W. E. | : ------ Burnaby in North York. This is to| New York, Dec, 7.--Sensational {be regretted not only because It |admission that he had collected and means the loss of an outstanding | deposited to his OWN account money |leader, but for the fact that this | Assessed from members of his union { was due to the dastardly and un | for the payment of death benefits {truthful attacks made upon him. 1 | was drawn from a labor leader at the [ain sorry, too, that W. A, Amos, an | resumed hearing of the Lockwood 1ient figure in the new | Housing Committee. William A, Hogan, of Mount Ver. non, secretary of Labor Union No. 3, of 'the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and treasurer of the Nationa! Union, was the wit. ness from whom this admission was wrung, after he had signed a waiver tarlo, Miss Agnes McPhail in South- | of immunity and taken the stand as the first witness when the committee | east Grey, and John Pritchard in | North Wellington. The election of | resumed its hearings suspended since | Miss McPhail is a new departure in | last June, Canadian politics Miss McPhail 1s| Another witness, Thomas Naugh- Guite capable of holding her own at |ton, head of an "independent rival Ottawa, and her influence should be | electrical workers' umion, prepared felt on the house elected." the way for what the members of the committee believe will produce developments mote startling than New Agreement to Replace |i. revelations which led to the trial Anglo-Japanese Alliance! and conviction of Robert P, Brindell, . | former labor czap-in New York, who Washington, D.C %Pée-T--A ten- | is now in Sing Sing, tative proposal for an agreement be- He told of. the grip of the Interna- tween the United States and other tional Brotherhood of Electric Work- { powers to replace the. Anglo-Japanese | ers on the labor situation in the [alliance has been cabled to London | building field 'in this city, which, he as well as Tokio as the result of the | said, permits Hogan's local union to | last meeting of the conference's 'Big | collect $250,000 a year from non- { Three." Official confirmation that the | union ele ctrical workers through tha |suggestion for a new international | issuance of weekly working permits concert was given by the British to- | without which they cannot be em- [ ployed on jo n New York. other promir forces, was not elected. "On the other hand, there is occa- sion for rejoicing in the election of a number of good men, including W. C. Good in Brant, R. J. Woods in Dufferin, T. A. Brethen in Peter- boro, R. H., Halbert in North On- | day. that a! SNOW AT BLOOMFIELD problem | The British cabinet feels | sane solution of the Irish | has been made The Dail Eireann tain to endorse the British ment, {Cattle Found With Tuberculosis-- Late Dr. A. Fraleigh, Bloomfield, Dec. 5.--A snow storm started this morning apd quite a | depth has fallen with every indica- | tion of making sleighing. There has only been a small amount of rain- fall, and wells are not filled up.for wintér the way they should be. A. H. Saylor and wife, Picton, vi {sited at Stanley Gibson's on Sunday. | Rev. Mr. Mounteer, Mount Pleasant, circuit, occupied the pulpit of the Methodist church on Sunday. The pure bred Holstein herds of B. { Leavens, W. Gough and E. Purtelle have undergone tests by a govern ment official to find out if thbercu!- osis existed and seventeen head were found infected and condemned for slaughter. The government pays $160 is almost cer: agree- | ILY BRITISH WHIG hun- | i on the screen till 10.30 o'clock. The! Her funeral [ | At Delan- | I | WOULD HAVE TO COME ROUND "l come as a square man, mum, askin' for food." "Well, you'll have to come round some other day." ah - MONE Y MATTERS Miss Quizzer: You're showing a lot of Interest In Mr. Goldentide. Object matrimony? Miss Mainchance: Primarily, yes. The ultimate objectives are patrimony and then alimony." AND SHE COULDN'T GO ON Ambulance Surgeon: How did his happen? 2 "Crossing Cop: An advertisin' band was playin' an' the lady wae fox-trottin' across the street an' just a8 she was half way over the music stopped. | per head in cases of this kind | The remains of Dr. Albert Fraleigh {son of the late John Fraleigh, arriv- |ed at Picton, on Wednesday from To- onto for interment. Bert Fraleigh was born here forty-six years ago {and received his early education here, |and then graduated in medicine from | Toronto University. He practiced in | Toronto for a number of years. He [is éurvived by his wife and two chil- |dren, his mother, Mrs. Emma Fra- (leigh, and brother Gharles-Fraleigh, | both residing here and one sister Mrs Fitz Osborne, Vancouver, B.C. Peter Barr has finisheq shingling Re CHEAP RAW MATERIAL Customer: You want seven-fifty, for the "Life of Jack Dempsey Why | can buy the "Life of Wash. ington" for two dollars. Book Salesman: True, but you must remember, In Washington's tinse it cost far less to live. TIME : It wae quarter Past eight, tick tock, By his watch and the Grandfather clock, When they started to kiss, There was never a miss Until father called "Time!"--what a shock! NO FEAR OF THAT "Don't hunt for trouble!" "No dangeri-kin alius borrow _ dat." ol. WER PEGGING' AWAY Sparrow: What you doin'? Woodpecker: Oh, Just pegging away at the same old galt, ¢ TT AeA his barn. Wm. Cox is building a new cement gardge. Clayton Purtelle and family have moved to the farm pur- chased from W. A. Christy. Harold Rose is visiting his father, Philip Rose, Sr------------ Former Turkish grang vizer, Said Ali Pasha, was fatally shot on Tues- day in Rome. : Some U. 8. authorities hold that if would be difficult to revive recipro- city with Canada or bring about mu- tually low tariffs. Nothing is well that doesn't end well. ee WA Ao Are i ese ---- FREQUENTLY KICKED horsedoctor, advantage you Friend: As a have one ~=your cases caw't Veterinarian: SLY Puss Rich Dad: fellow what do on? i Pp you marry this you expect to live! Daughter:™ Live on what we ex. ect! PEGGED ouT "How's that uncle of yours with the wooden leg "Oh, he pegged out leng ago!" Homebody: Doesn't it make you nervous to stand still and listen to your wife scold? Peewee: Somewhat, but it's not near go bad as standing still wait Ing for her to start her talk. Passed Away at Consecon, John Minaker, Consecon, who had been in poor health for some passed away at the daughter, Mrs. East Lake Roafl, Thursday last. Minakér was a sailor. lost his life in the er Mowat, near time, home of his McConnell, Mr. almost e Olir- Ducks Oscar He wreck of th the Main when T. L. Vandusen of Picton, was drowned ------ It's pretty easy other people's m the undertaker. im, to be liberal with oney, When doctors disa gree it's< up to I | [ sixty members ----A NR Au rt a Popp aera a ----------------e---- THE GREENE Christmas Grafonola Club re ------ -- 3 s of William Randolph Hearst, is the popula# topic of customers and clerks in our store. The extremely easy terms of ONLY $1.00 TQ START has result * ed in the number of members reaching al 'the limit, 25, and the Club is : NEARING ITS CLOSE ° Only a few vacancies left--when 25 members are enrolled, the Club positively closes. Just think of what $1.00 will do in pro- viding a life-time of music for your home. Come as soon as you can and take advantage of this holiday offer. The J. M. Greene Music Co. Ltd "HOME OF GOOD MUSIC" --By courtesy CPR. Montreal's Cenotaph on Armis. . Col. Style A or B--complete with Cabimet; 10 Selections, Needles, Ofl, Brush, ete, on eagy Christmas Club Terms.