CAPITOL THEATRE 4 CH JAMES ERUZE LOUISE DRESSER PRODUCTION Presented by Jesse L. Lasky A Paramount Picture Members of 1.Q.I. No. § are ed to meet at Orange hall DEC. 18th, at < funeral of from his residence, 25 Q All Sister lodges ar cordiully i to attend. Ww J. HOMER, M ArmA iene | i Commencing Mondny, December 17th, ® one-man car will be pinced in opera- tion. Will our Patrons please be good enough te co-upefate with the Com- | Pony in order 1 the one-man ear Chan uccess ln Kingston | quirer | 2 27 y keep in mind the following: IstKnter and leuve by the fromt| door. 2nd Please bave vorreet deposit same In box at right of eutrance. When desiring to leave car nig | nal motorman by use of push-buttons, r 4th --When car 1s stopped the frowt| mn door will he 30 fi. above the cronsing. | Dor Oth --Rear door must not he used ex- eopt In case of emer, enc). $s KINGSTON, PORTSMOUTH & CATARAQUI BE 'TRIC RAILWAY co. A a it whe Wanted to know the family of the late of Be Annie McGr Brunswick Avenue fare and! hand side] If of the citiz City Council wil Champdon . Fi RM.C. with r evening. Dec. sitors are invited to atte T Cataraqui Lodge Vo. 10, L007, Members are invited to attend I Tuesday evening, Dec. 15th on notice of motion, purchase of pro-' Fa ls Hospital, NOW SHOWING "PUBLIC NOTICE trophiey 10th, at § p.m. especial d ANGROVE Mayor CHILD BADLY SCALDED. , [Passed Away on Dec, 6a, ag Smith's 4 THE DAILY B What the Press Agents Say About | Coming Attractions FAMEO KAJIYAMA. AMUSEMENTS Teds of the Aims and Privdiples of Classics of 1924. PFamoo Kajivama, who appears at the Grand Cpera House on Dee. and 25th, says: Incentive which actuated and the creation of this organiza~ tion possible having been the har- monious and friendly spirit exist- ing among the members of this extended period mouths playing one of biggest jtireuits in the country, not entirely of a commercial enlerprise; but chiefly of a moral association. aiming ultimately to make reality. the long cherished ambition (founder, Tameo Kajiyvama, to lay the foundation for a new form of entertainment more in keeping with {the progress of time, } The Classics of 192% are yet in their earliest infancy, being there- its present form meresy of it is aspiring to be, and international institution, The succes of the principle this circle depends" on one band up on the unflinching efforts and the determination of its members to "earry irrespective of disap- pointments, hardehips, trials and *" | tribulations which accom pany an undertaking of this kind and on the the approval and support of ive publfe Already cach member of the contributed, financially, to limit of' his or her capacity, + pledged and it is ready at all times to exert or her efforts, artistic land otherwise, for the accompl.sh- ment of the aim of this organiza ton. Each and every willing and anxious her very best, { And, for the present, all that {members of the circle ask of the public is to come and inspect ang it |their endeavors meet wth ito give them encouragement > 41h The riad of the it Is for an seven or fits tore forerun mn what jor o? on" of usually other, gcueraj ircle has tue his approval, and the | consideration | and has member 1s | to give his or the | rty. Bb Pound, N.G NR. M. Douglas, Soc NOTICE 1 will be pleased to conduct Auction Bales In Kingston or the County of Frontenac, tes reasonable, Arrangements ca, be made at my office. a T. J. MUNRO, Auctioneer, Corner Clareace Onta; and Ontario Streets T: - . axi Service DAY AND NIGHT ee Contraband shipments of narcotic drugs which are finding their way to Canada and the United States at : t, 'are originating largely in gE Bermans. -- Mr. and Mrs, John Gorr and fam ily, The Mountain, near Plevna, have | the sympathy of the neighborhood in the loss of their Youngest son and brother, Clayton, aged four years. He was badly burned when ne fell fpto a pail of scalding water, ter being given first aid by Dr. Goodfellow, McDonald's Corners, he was rushed to tho Smith's Falls public hospital where in spite of all the doctor's and nurses could do he passed away at five oclock on the evening of Dec. 6th . Beside the stricken parents he leaves three sis- ters and six brothers. The funeral, largely attended, was conducted by the Rev, Mr. Branch at the Angli- can church, Plevna Sunday after- noon, Dec. 9th, Popping corn at Carnovsky's. Amn] Af-| support, It is the contention of the founder |of the Classics of 1924 the human mind is to admire and |take delight in culture, refinement' | and things elevating, enuobling and inspiring even in matters of amuse ments. He belleves that the reason {why vulgarity and coursemess have Leen | responsible for the product-side human nature, and accordingly shu I ple sought to please the phyisal sense of their audiences and neglected to consider the mental side of life which, in reality, is the foundation | of thoughts and conscience, ---- CAST WELL CHOSEN IN "RUGGLES OF RED GAP." | In the making of a' Paramount Tameo Ka- | Jiyvama, that the niutural tendency or used for. entertaining purpose | lin the past was that tho: e who were or} A A A to, NE a et HOR COUR RO OR T. K. MORTON will open a store at 260 PRINCESS STREET | for the Christmas season, with a choice collec- tion of Seasonable Plants and Flowers. : House Phone 2367 r 33. FM OO CR SSS Sa a, | wisp | | story to be filmed. James Cruze has | consistently turned out winners, his | latesi achievements being "The | Covered Wagon." Paramount felt that the combination of James Cruze || and Harry Leon Wilson made "Rug | fire winner even before it was start- ed. "Ruggles of Red Gap" is such a highly shaded humor that were one ll! of the characters miscast the whole | story might appear forced. When the casting of the picture began it was known that there was not an- | other screen actor that fitted | picture, comes. the selection of, the | I! gles of Red Gap," which opens at | the Capitol Theatre today, a sure; | the | C RITISH WHIG MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 102% i MAAS ESLER RTE BRI |THE ESCAPE | A TORONTO WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH Toronto, Dee. ¥7.-- Mrs. Sarah Grossman, forty-two Years of age, lost.ler lige eleven other persons, eight of + them children, narrowly escap- a similar fate when fire swept through a three-storey brick * house early this morning. » EP eee Pb tev 000000 LOCAL NEWS. | Up by the Whig Re- © porters. ! ------ Holly Wreaths 25¢ at Carnovsky's. | | Edward Crumley leaves on the! | C.N.R. at midnight for his home in i California. . Mr. Swain, piano tuner, received at 100 Clergy street 'Phone 564w, Major Walsh, veterinary of the R.C.HA., returned from | Western Ontario Monday, after in- specting horses being purchased for | | the batteries. { The one man street car No. 19] made its first appearance on the service on Monday morning. The car placed the Portsmauth | route. The second car will bd com-1 pleted in the very near future. The choir of Queen street Metho. dist church, under the leadership of | Miss Pearl Nesbitt, rendered spe- clal music on Sunday. At the eve- ning service the male quartette, | composed of Messrs, Middleton, Cor- ficld, Adlen and MeCallum, Sang. Orders west, officer | was on More Concerned With The Canada of To-morrow! | another thing. The hardest part "l am more concerned with the Canada of tomorrow than with the Scotland of two hundred years ago," | cald Dr. R. Bruce Taylor, principal oi Queen's Umiversity, during his sermon in Chalmers' ¢hurch on t Sunday morning. He had reference to church union, which he strongly | favors, although formerly a Scottish Presbyterian minister. The great Northwest was the problem in Can- ada, he said, and a union _ of churches could deal with this prob- lem much better than church divisions. TREE CRUSHES THE LEG OF A TAMWORTH BOY And Amputation 4s Required --His Father Gives Blood for Transfusion. Ray Woodcock, son of Wellington Woodcock, Tamworth, sustained se- rious injury to his leg when chop- ing trees in the woods nine miles north of Tamworth on Friday night, and underwent an operation for the | amputatipn of the leg at the Hotel | Dieu on Saturday evening. It was | performed by Dr. I. G. Bogart and | was one of the most complicated | surgical cases of recent years be-! cause it was necessary to carry out | blood transfusion and administer | oxygen. The lad's father gave two | | pints of his blood. f { Woodcock was chopping a tree | { down and when it fell the bottom ! sprang back and injured his leg, | | causing three fratfures and crush- | #Ing the bone at the knee and above ! { the knee. He is eighteen years of | | uge and was a most industrious boy, | uid 3 ana ¥ | and McMullen were drop-ins. 1 mean | | Mullen { Of course, I had nothing against him the | the present! STOCK MARKETS fronted and Toronto | changes). From the Portsmouth Peni. tentiary Is Described By "Red" Ryan. Torouto, Dec. 17.--In from Minneapolis to the Telegram | Brazil "Red" Ryan deséribes his escaps Brompton tas ves ean from the penitentiary at Portsmouth | British Empire Steel, com... as follows: | British Empire Steel, 1st pfd. "I'm through. I can never get an. | British Empire Steel, 2nd pd. other pal that I would trust iike Art |Can. Converters -- Brown. Why, it was us two guys that | Can. Cement, com. OF CONVICTS Montreal. Abitibi Power | Asbestos "ee | Atlantic Sagar special | Bell Telephone 2 { framed that break at Kingston. Gor-|Can. Cement, pfd. ... don Simpson and Thomas Bryants | Cuban Can. Sugar, com Cuban Can. Sugar, pid. .. they wise to what we were do- | Can. Stewhsii, Ton ing at the last winute and wanted | Ua. Steamship, pid. ... Lo get out so we let em In on it; but | Pom. Textile ... ... | We knew it reduced our chances to Dom. Bridge a | Bet away. A mob can't make a break | D2troit United ; antida { like that as easy as a couple of guys Aurentide that know how to work together, | Montreal Cotton real Powe Art only had eighteen' months more | Montreal Power to serve on his stretch but when ho | Mackay ror oom fod 0 iy S, m. | found I was going over, he sure had to go along. Of course they got Mec- jo ona on the' start, but not the | S'Vie .. ... rest of us. I was the last one over | Ottawa bower a the. big wall and had to shove that Uhtario Steel Products .. Penmans 2 ' 3 { pitchfork into one of them guards. [Price Bros. | Quebec Power . .. Spanish River, com. | Spanish River, pfd. | Snielters | Shawinigan | Steel of Canada "OT IMoronto Rails but he stood in my way and had a gun, so I slammed himr good and hard. 3 Had No Help. No, we didn't have.any help, guns. If we'd had guns, say it' would {Twin City have been easy. Yes, it's easy to got | Wabasso - out of any prison- get out, [I sald. | yo vagamack Making good a retaway---well that's | is after you get out and dicks get after | Dominion War Bonds. you. These 'harnes bulls' are not War Loan 1925, 5 per cent. , dangerous. They don't know much, | War Loan 1931, 5 but every one you meet is against | War Loan 1937, . you from the start. We went through | Victory Loan 1924, 5 a hall of builets as we ran through a | Victory Loan 1937. mob of guards as we first. started out | Victory Loan 1933, : in that old car and say, you should | Victory Loan have seen it. When we left it that | Victory Loan old bus looked like a sieve. But them Renewal 1927 1 'ginks' couldn't shoot low. We were | Refunding 1928. 5 between them and they would have | Refunding 1943, 5 ------ New York. Amer. Loco Amer. Ca. . Baldwin Loco. . .. | lieve me when I tell you they képt | B. & O...-. Tn | us there five days. We didn't have a | Chandler Motors. . | thing to eat and nothing but slough | 0 | shot each other. That saved us, Got Away In Old Car. "Then they surrounded us in | that old swamp. Now, will you be] | Cosden Oil. . water to drink, but the boys didn't | California Pete. . | weaken. Believe it or not, I haven' | Corn Products. . | seen McMullen, Simpson or Bryants cp Rg... | since we left that swamp. Art and 1! Crucible Steel St got an old car the night we slipped ! Cuban Cane Sugar Com .. { out. That was the night they were Cuba Cane Sugar Pfd.. .. shooting at us and we drove all Gen. Asphalt. . . night, never were stopped once, and Q. 8 Tr got to Toronto before daylight. | Kelley Springfield .. That was some drive, believe me. We | Imperial Oil. ... got some clothes there, for you ses | Marine Pfd.. . | we still had on them prison rags and { Mack Motors. . no one could see us without knowing who we were. Of course we had to have some change, too, so we fixed that job of the Bank of Nova Scotia. We did stir the whole Toronto po- lice force away from the outskirts and that enabled us to get to that little old bank. Then that lettet the prison officials got from me--them Sinclair Oil. . Py fellows at Kingston. I was in To- | Standard Oil of Calif .. ronto all the time, bud that letter Was | standard Oil of N.J. maild in Buffalo ®y a friend. | Texas Oil "I don't want to go back to Can- | ynion Pacific ada. I want to stay here. They don't |U. 8. Steel. ... feed you well up there, and the | Wabash . . .. Kingston grub 'is the worst of | al. Marland Of1. . .. ; Pacific ON. ...~. .. | Pan. Amer. Pete. . . { Pan. Amer. Pete "B"" ,. | Producers & Reofiners Studebaker. . Sou. Pac... .. so .. Sop Ry.... -.... | Toronto, | 86 Princess street. Members of Stock Dec. 17th, 2 p.m. (Reported by Johnston & Ward, | the EX~ 62 29 181% | 127% 40% 40% | | BLUNDERS | te | | 1 | | | | i | I tL | Onmly one small detall wrong here but enough to mark the man as un- cultured. What is it? : The answer will be found among | to-day's want ads. | SPORTING NEWS ® | has been engaged to make ice at N.H.A. Results. Patrick's 2; Canadiens 1. o St. Ottawa, Hamilton, 3; | --i | Making Ice at Arena. [Michael 'E. Flanagan, who has been making ice in the skating rinks, of Kingston for the past thirty years) i ¥ the Harty arena this winter. Dur- | Ing the years the odd covered rink | was in operation, "Mike" was iff | charge of ice making, but since (he * | Harty arena has been in operation, 05 30| 2.50 15 10 10 20 20 40 00 8.55 | | | | 3 | | the ice has heen made by other par. | ties. The patrons of the Harty | arena will be assured of good iée | for both hockey and skating .pug- | poses this winter. On Monday morning Mr. Flapa- | gan made a start and he expects if | the cold weather continues thers | will be a_good body of ice in a few, | days. |EARL STREET HOUSE | IS DAMAGED BY FIRE Lively Blaze at Home of James E. Reid Monday { Noon. . The home of James E. Reid, 4% Earl street, suffered a very serious damage as a result of a fire which broke out at noon on Monday. The 4 | rear oF the housé, and was going 29% 8913 368% 475% 64 61 30 106% 8615 371% 26% 60 3TY 43% 126% 958% 11 fire started from a chimney at the | i a lively clip when the call was sent 'to the firemen. The kitchen and upstalr bedroom suffered ex- tensive damage, while the entire building suffered a great deal as 8 result of smoke and; water. The fire, men used two lines of hose. $ The extent of the damage could { not be ascertained, but it will reach | several hundred dollars. | was carried on the building and the | contents, | at Insurance ! Burial of Z. Prevost, | The funeral of the late | Prevost took place Monday morn- /ing from his late residence, 113 |Lar] street, to St. Mary's Cathedral, {and was very largely attended, Many of Kingston's merchants were pres |ent to pay thelr last tribute of res; |pect to one who was held In warn jesteem. Rev, Father Hanley sang a solemn requiem mass at the cathed- ral. The pallbearers were D. J. Mo. Carthy, T. F. Bourke, W. C. Mo Donald, C. J. Corrigan, James Hogan Zotiqus § i g he | | part of Ruggles as did Edward Hor-4 20d his misfortune has excited the | and Thomas Nicholson, { ton. That Horton was working at| Varm sympathy of relatives "el SCOTCHMAN JAILED. City Dairy British-American 0il ... | another studio meant holding up the | [rionds. ritish- America = i Won Load of Wood. | [Ae Detroit For = Neglecting to Pay | Mutual Oil > Miss Minnie Hanley, Wellington street, was notified that she was the lucky winner of a load of wood, of- 19.75 | tered by the Finn Coal Company, of 25% | Port Arthur, in a recent bazaar, 18 held under the auspices of St. John's 14% | General Hospital in that eity. Miss 95 Hanley has donated the load of wood 88 to St. John's Hospi! 119 295 60 83% | production until he was at liberty, but this difficulty was overcome and, REMAINED WARM PALS The Head Tax. Be Was engaged. IN TIME OF TROUBLE | James Russell, a Scotchman whe screen character | | recently arrived in this country, has | Dome better fitted for the part of Cousin | Men Who Is there any Manufactured | had a rather teresting PP yeriuncy \W. Dome Egbert than Ernest Torrence, . who! | during his short stay. On Saturday | Goldale a Jackson in "The Covered Wa- | " Moonshine " Wanted to | he arrived back in the city after a |Lorraine EA gon?" Born in the upen, Egbert, a! Share Trouble. | brief stay across the border and | Vipond vie a rough yet lovable character, is dis- | had .a very interesting story to tell {Crown gupted at the efforts of bis wife,| Herbert Reid and Joseph Jessop | Alan Stroud, the local employment | Teck Hughes played by Louise Dresser, to drag | were warm pals in times of peace | agent. Mr. Russell stated that last | Wright Hargraves him up the social ladder; yet, suh- and happiness, and also Iu times of | March he left Kingston for Niagara | Argo EE Aa Jected to her aggressive personality, trouble. | Falls and had $30 in his possession {Indian Minas... ... he is compelled to keep climbing. This was shown following the | and later reached Detroit and earn. | His frequent slips cause genuine | case in police court on Monday mor- ed at an average of $5.40 a day. Af- merriment. { ning, when the two faced charges | ' Furniture ym the Real Gitt | Tea Waggons, Easy Chairs, Pedestals, Ferneries, Jardi- nier Stands, Candle "Sticks, To Install Electricity. A. H. Fair's dairy buildings at the Hemlock Dairy stock farm are being electrified for motor power and lighting. The Hydro Electrle Commission are now constructing ------ ter working for some time, he was, GRAIN QUOTATIONS Felt Top Tables, Card Tables. Ferneries $4.50 to $30.00 Famous KENWOOD | BLANKETS All shades, one quality. Who other than Lois Wilson could | 1 perfection? tingill! Lillian Leighton is "Ma" to the life. Other featured players in this exceptionally strong cast are Fritzi Ridgeway, Charles Ogle and Louise Dresser: AT THE STRAND. | Madge Kennedy in Appealing Picture "The Purple Highway," | Madge Kennedy's new Paramount {Picture "The Purple Highway," [Sas opens a three days' rum at tne } Strand today marks the return of this popular stage and screen stir | jto the silent drama. is an appealing and thrilling drama with several moments of genuine comedy to offset the mere dramatic The water scenes in 'The Purple _Highway' are perhaps the most beautiful feevr seen here. The pic- ture is once novel, appealing and en! : ------ Dr. R. F. Nicholls Honored. Dr. R. F. Nicholls was last week elected president of the Edmonton a ¥ Governor Dr. Brett is honorary pre- sident. Dr. Nicholls is the son of 'Dr "and Mrs. Nicholls, Clarence street. Kingston, and a graduate of Queen's medical college. play the part of Klondike Kate to | And dear old Ma Pet- | The picture | of having a still in their possession | and also with having liquor for | sale. "Look here, | there is no use of both of us getting into trouble over this thing, you keep out of it, and I will take all the blame," said Reid | to Jessop. "No, you don't," Jessop is said to have replied, "I am as much to blame as you in the matter, and I want to take my share of the | blame." And this resulted in both men go- | ing to jail for seven months. : i | Made a Presentation, } On the occasion of their leaving | the city, Jack and Isabel Wilson, | members of the Young Men's Club | and Young Girls' Bible Class of | Chalmers Presbyterian. church, held a farewell gathering for thery ov! Saturday evening. M. G. Johnson very kigdly opened his home for the event. * During the evening, Miss | Wiison and Mr. Wilson were made | the recipients of a fine gift. Both | hiive given valuable service in the | respective organizations, and they | carry with them the best wishes of | all. - Duging the evening, a most | : unior - Literary Soclety or-| chesira of the Kingston Collegiate | jlinstitute. i 3 ¥ he ow ! reputation has been ! {| Meay a good ""abbed b¥ a pointed ug. - . freezing, but with the bright able to save about $300. When he | a entered the United States he did not pay the head tax. The authorities got wise and he was haled before the {M court, taxed $250 and costs and Dec also ten days in jail, and then was taps deported from the country. When May Russell hit the Canadian shore he [07 t+» see coy wenn had $15 in his posession. He event- Aha ually reached Kingston after walk- ing part of the way from Toronto | 5 and lis total cash on hand consisted of $4. ™ a ------ The thermometer on Monday morning showed ten points below sun- shine, the weather is most enjoyable, The mercury dropped twenfy deg rees since noon om Sunday. Wheat--- May ,.. July || strangulation. | called and saved the child's life, the line from Mingston Mills' wate power. The H. N. Newman Electrih Company has received the con- tract to install the electric work throughout the buildings. Girl Drank Kerosene. Rose McGarvey, aged two years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew McGarvey, Marmora, was suddenly taken ill. While the parents were absent the little tot procured a. cup of coal oil and drank it, causing A physician was ---------- An earthquake wiped out "two small towns in Columbia, with big loss of life. Eighty-five bodies have beet recovered.