Daily British Whig (1850), 23 Jun 1924, p. 7

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TE ee ee ---- a THE JOY OF THE WATER Comes the time when we store up energy in the best summer climate in the world, for we have built a vigorous and athletic na- tion in the men of the North. for the BOATING GARB lake and river resorts White Serge and White Flannel Trousers evening dance--\ and Khaki for man. BATHING SUITS, in the popular combination wqol weaves that don't shrink; ai sizes from 36 to 44, at $2.50 to $5.00, according to fineness of wool. George VanHorne's 213 Princess Street. Phone 362w. » Is Time To Help Your . Eyes! For close work at least after you have reached 40 or 45 years of age. You may never have had to wear Glasses be- fore, but from now on you are going to be reminded oftener and oftener that your eyes are not as young as they used to be. Better get a pair of read- ing glasses and use them when- ever you do close work. We can help you conserve your sight. W. D. Graham, R.0. Successor to J. J. Stewart Registered Optometrist 140 Wellington St Opp. Post Office, Evenings by appointment. hu "BYZANTA" WARE Fine English lustre in Candle Sticks Flower Bowls 'Salad Bowls Tea Sets Honey Jars Mayonnaise Bowls Bon Bon Flower Holders Kinnear & d'Esterre Princess Street, Kingston Dr. Waugh | providing you picka man who does- {n't drop cigar ashes on the carpet THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG DENTIST 106 Wellington St. Phone 256. BRICK, STONE, PLASTERING AND TILE SETTING DOUGLAS & McILQUHAM CONTRACTORS JOBBING WORK A SPECIALTY. PHONES 2267F--928W, 400 ALBERT STREET > LIN Our Casserole Prices ARE LOWER THAN OTHERS No. 881-- Round, 7 inch, Silver Plated Frame and Pyrex Lining .... ..$4.75 No. 884--Round; 8 inch, Silver Plated Frame, and Pyrex Lining ..... $5.75 No. 930--Round, 8 inch, Silver Plated Pie Plate Frame, and Pyrex Lining . . $3.00 No. 875--Round, 10 inch, Silver Plated Ple . Plate Frame and Pyrex Lining . . $4.00 Brass Fern Pots and Jardinieres from $1 up. China, Crockery, Silverware, etc. Robertson's Limited 73 Princess St. SORE OO R Neg, IN NA tng Shoe Specials | Children's Brown Muleskin Sandals Allsizes...... ......... $100pair. Children's Brown Canvas Strap Slippers-- + White rubber soles and heels. $1.00 pair, Boys' Brown or Black Lace School Boots-- Sizesltos............. . $2.99 pair ALLAN M. REID SHoe STORE 7 All sizes. 3) oh | Br June { Maxson HATS By George 8S. Chappell. We talk of the many varieties Ot birds, and of bees and of flow- ers, And numerous learned societies Discourse on. the subject hours, Put though I have worked long upon | it | | | for never discovered a tome properly dealt with bonnet, That crown of the female dome. | I've That They stick on some fur or a feather, | They drape 'em in color or black, And often it's hard to know whe- ther * The front is the front or the back. They make 'em demure and girl's- | school-ish, ing the old-fashioned poke, they're simply plumb fool- Recall | And often | ish, { Just a silly, old milliner's joke. | And sometimes they're nothing, dog-| gone 'em, | You'd think they'd be cheap but | they're not, | For the prices those bimbos put on | 'em | Would knock you clean out of the | lot. But the thing that I marvel at most- | ly | When I gaze around on the street, | though the hats are crazy and | costly, The wearers, God bless 'em, sweet! Is, look | | ATTENTION | We Announce An Important Dis- | covery. { Bible Class Teacher: 'Now what | book in the Bible treats of the con- | jugal or marriage relation?" | Bright young student: "Must be | Revelations, sir." | --Mrs. Charles W. Fielder. | Recipe for 'Petting Pudding" Ane date. One peach (cling variety). Pressed two lips--cherry red. Sheik well. Skin you love to touch. | The beats of two warm hearts. | Simper before the fire. | | Don't stir, | --L. H. Frey. | or forget to wipe his feet on the door nat. -- *arly as popular Tie Life Guards Drowning as it u pour co ba istead of bra Prepared. Minister: "Mrs. Dugan, do you hink your husband is prepared for he next world?" Mrs. Dugan: "Shure, an' he's been t t | shovelin' coal fer twinty years." --Harry J. Williams. I Sigh It's true When you Pass me by With that guy Who's proud'n loud Puffed up like a cloud And he thinks he's swell Though he's just a dumbell And a flattering liar-- A perfect flat tire-- Give him the air O one so fair Try to care A little For me Who's Blue For U --Stanley 8. Iverson. Perfectly Legal! Hanna: "Is yo' legally sep'rated from your husban'?" Mandy: "I sho' is. give him five years in chickens!" --Edward H. Dreschnak. De jedge done jail fo' stealin' Readers are requested to contri- bute. All humor: epigrams (or humorous = mottoes), jokes, anec- dotes, poetr burlesques, satires, and bright ings of children, must be origir nd unpublished. Ac- | cepted material will be paid for at from $1.00 to $10.00 per contribution; from 25c. to $1.00 per line for poetry according to the character and value of the contribution, as determined by the Editor of "The Fun Shop." All manuscripts must be wsitten on one side of the paper only, should bear name of this newspaper, and should be addressed to sun Shop Headquarters, 110 West 40th Street, New York City. Unaccepted contri- butions cannot be returned. GANANOQUE June 23.---Much sympathy is ex- pressed to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mc- | infant | Calpin in the loss of their daughter, Edna Patricia, whoe fun- eral was held on Saturday afternoon, interment { anoque Cemetery, {If Popular Songs Were Illustrated. | | | | few days Wilfrid and Ralph Ellis, attending Ottawa. Normal, summer holidays. Mrs. Roy Herberts, who has been visiting her aunts, the Misses Quinn, hag returned to her home in Brace- bridge. Miss Ella Phillips, attended the | graduation dance at the Eastern hos- | pital, Brockville, Friday night. Miss Nellie Shine is spending a in Montreal | mother, Mrs. Benoit. Mrs. F. J. Skinner is | friends in Johnstown, N. Y. Last Night On the Back Porch. THE JINGLE-JANGLE COUNTER | Ants love sugar, cows love hay, I never was sad till my sweetie went away. --George Logan, Jr . - - Do you love me, or do you not? You told me once, but I forgot. --John Bennett. Summer here and summer there, | But where is last year's underwear? | --James A. Sanaker, » * - I love brunette, and hate blonde | hair, 5 I don't even like the taxi-fare! --Edwin Wesselmann. A Shingled-Bob? Aunt to Bobbie (2 1-2 years old): "Bobby, do you ever have any fights with any one?" Bobby: "Oh sure! Betty all the time." Aunty: "Is that whips?" Bobby: I fight Sister so! And who "Mamma does." --Mrs. Ray E. Baskett, Our Own HOROSCOPE Department Mrs. Etta Gray: If you were bor on June 23rd, Etta, your planet {is Gutta Percha, meaning Rubber Tree, the symbol of family life. Accordingly, you are a Home Body and yet very ambitious. You will some day be president of the House wives' League, as you now know 34 Cgochet stitches and 17 ways of dis- guising prunes. All signs indicate that you have travelled extensively, making some days a dozen trips or more from. the ice box to the linen closet. Your lucky day is wash day, and Your married life will be very happy A » Corns Stop Aching, - - Quickly Dissolve Away The misery of a sore corn comes to an end quickly when you apply Put- nam's Corn Extractor. This state- ment means just what it says, and you can easily prove it in your own case. Full directions are given in each package for the hot water treat- ment, and for applying a few drops 'of Putnam's to the spot that is sore. You won't be disappointed. Putnam's 8.36 a} Smeriment: it is a tested Pp on that lessly removes Brupaaton a dan and thickened foot lumps. Soild for 25 cents. PUTNAM'S ~ { John street. | the past couple of days. They the re- turning to Winnipeg the end of the; | week. Dr. William Gibson, who has been | visiting his mother here for the past | | ten days, returned to New York to- Mr. and Mrs. Royce, Richardson, are spending a few days here with | latter's mother, Mrs. Higgins, | Rev. Fathers Rheaume and Mee- han, guests of Rev. Father Hanley for { day. Mrs. Nellie O'Neill and Betty, Leanore and Rudolphe LaRiviere, | arrived here a couple of days ago from Evansville, Indiana, and will occupy one of the Petch cottages on Tremont for the next few months. Mr. and Mrs. Robb and children and Mrs. Bessie LaRiviere will be here for "Old Home Week." Mr. and Mrs. James Bevens, Tor- onto, are the guests of Mr, and Mrs. William Jones. Miss Helen Chadwick, Kingston, is the guest of Mrss Blythe Bat- tams. Mrs, Millard, Kingston, guest of Mrs. W. H. Clarke. Mrs. Lowrence Boyle, Gananoque Junction, was taken to the Hotel Dieu, Froday last, for treatment. Mrs. Sam Turpin, Kingston, spent the week-end here with her parents, Dr. Royal Lee and a couple of New York gentlemen are spending the week-end here with M. J. Lee, Customs House. is the Sorry to Lose Pastor. Hartington, June 21.--Miss Dell Cannon, having passed her post grad- uation at McGill college, Montreal, is visiting at her uncle's, Fred Denni- son, enroute for her home in Bran- don, Man. She is representing her home town at the convention in Hamilton next week. Many from here attended the U. BE. L. celebration in Belleville. We are sorry to lose our pastor, Rev. R. W. Armstrong, who is moving to Eas- ton's Corners. At the Sunday school convention held in Sydenham on Thursday, our school was well represented at both afternoon and evening sessions. The new cement walk on South street past the public school is nearing completion, Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Freeman are visiting their daughter in Belleville. Mrs. Archie Goslin is home from the hospital much improved. There was a welcome shower last night; plant- ing and seeding is nearly finished. . -------------------- When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the Painless Corn Extractor greater will be his contusion. wa your throat in-| being made at the Gan- are home for the | with her | visiting | 1 {Winnipeg Lady a Descendant | of Loyalists--Some of Her Ancestors Hereabouts. | Mrs, Colin H. Campbell, with er daughter, Miss Elizabeth G. Camp- | i bell, was a visitor in Kingston at-| tending the closing exercises of the | { Royal Military College, - where her son, Colin Howell Campbell is | cadet. She was also participating in | | the celebration of the United Empire | | Loyalists at Belleville, Mrs. Camp- bell is a descendant of Loyalists on ber paternial side of the Bucks and | Boehems, and on her maternal side | |of the Nellis and Howells, . | | Smith Ryerson's history . of the | | Loyalists, states the first settlers of | Upper Canada were undoubtedly wo- | men and children. It records the! names of five women, Mrs. Buck, | Mrs. Nellis, Mrs. Bowman, Mrs. Se- | cord and Mrs. Young and their thirty-one children. Mrs. Nellis was MRS. COLIN KR. CAMPS¥ELL Fe i br the grandmother of the late distin- guished Principal Dr. Nellis of old Victoria = College, Cobourg. Mrs. Buck and Mrs. Campbell's great grandmother. Her husband, Philip Buck, was a prisoner of war in Phila- | delphia, as doubtless were the hus- bands of these other splendid women who, with their young children, fac- | ed the wilderness and its hardships to begin life anew under the flag they loved, Her grandfather, Philip II, was born in the trek at Lachine. In a few days these hrave women and children were conveyed by boat up the lake to the Niagara frontier where they were given land, food and seeds by the government. This they | shared with other refugees. It is | recorded that when rations were | short tea was made from the juice of | bass wood seeds which sustained lite § BRtil garden seeds matured. After an exchange of prisoners Philip | JUNE BRIDES-- Pros) | Puck brought his wife and family to the Canadian wilderness. Mrs. Camp- | pell says that a brother settled at Kingston, but she never heard his name and would like to know if there are descendants here. In 1808 her grandfather settled on the newly blazed trail of Dundas street, which was made by engineers | under Lord Simcoe. He was grant- { ed one thousand acres by the govern- | ment because he was a United Em- Winnipeg, both former cur- | | ates of this parish, have been the (1. ssesses. pire Loyalist, the seal of which she owned by him and her father Anson { Buck, M.D., M.R.C., Eng. Mrs. Campbell's grandmother, Julia Boehem, was of a Swiss family whose great-grandfather settled in | { America in 1715. Mrs. Campbell | brought with her to Kingston a most interesting biography of her great- great-uncle, Rev. Henry Boehem, | who visited her grandmother in Pal- | ermo, Ont. | years old. This was his second visit | to Canada. The biography was writ- | ten in 1847 and a second edition was published in 1875 after the celebra- hundred and thirteen years ago Mr. with Bishop Asbury, the first Metho- The old homestead wae | dist Bishop of America. » when he was ninety-five | thousand people under the * MRS. COLIN H. CAMPBELL] The Loveliest Times of all the Year ARE these bright, smiling days of early Summer. The frilly, feminine white frocks fluttering in the warm breezes. With the exquisitely dainty White Canvas Slippers that go with them. And this is "White Week." Beautiful White Straps at $3.50, $3.75 and $5.00. Abernethy's Shoe Store pective Housekeepers will do well to come here for. We make a specialty of completely the new home they are about to start. they become a life-long customer. outfitting newly-weds so perfectly that We offer you excellent store service. JAMES REID "Phone 147 for Service. The Leading Undertaker Kingston he stayed at the home of Elijah Shomaker and says: "I preached at-the Methodico-Presby=- terian church on the Sabbath Day." It is interesting to note the spirit of union in that early day. Mrs. Colin Campbell is d& worthy successor of these stalwart ancestors, Thie year will complete her fortieth year of public service, She has been foremost in every good work, a coun- cillor of the National Chapter I. O, D. E., regent of the Manitoba pro- vincial chapter for twelve years, a valiant supporter of the Federal Child Welfare Bureau at Ottawa and during the war recruited from Mani toba to Nova Scotia, being instru- mental in getting men and money for the needs of the Empire. tion of his one hundredth birthday In the old John- street Methodist church of New York City, when he preached his centennial sermon. It is of special interest to her, Mrs. Campbell sald, because of her visit to Kingston and Belleville now. One Boehem visited here in company They came to visit the early churches in these parts. In 1791 the Bishop appoint- ed Willlam Lozee the first missionary of Canada. In 1811 Rev. Henry Boehem visited Cornwall, Elizabeth- town (Brockville), Augusta, Matilda and Kingston. He preached at Hay Bay in the oldest Methodist church in Canada; and at Adolphustown. Near Hay Bay he preached to two shade trees planted by God's own hand" as he says is quoted as saying himself in a book of memoirs Mrs. Camp- bell had with her in Kingston. In He is beneficlent who acts kindly not for his own sake, but for another's, Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting. Sager ied | Valuable Coupons in Bach Package and Tin or y AA paid Gath ania 4 Tar oad AI The phigh } a LRAT ArT te 2 2 ar. 237 Deliciously ~~ Fragrant

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