Here is an over- coating offering that will write the name of our store into the memory of évery man who takes ad- vantage of our in- ducements. There are wonder- ful bargains here; come expecting ex- traordinary values for your money; we have a complete range for men and boys; we have all the new and correct mod- els. The coats are the best we have shown this season. 20% discount for balance of this fh month. next winter overcoat [f now and save a nice sum of money. All Sales for Cash. I | | Buy your J | 3 iE if pointed to the 75th Depot Battery. served twenty-one months at the front Columa, has re-eplisted 75-79 Brock Street. 3 A Little Out of the Way, But It Will Pay You To Walk. hm Eira Values in THE BEST CANADIAN. AND ENG- LISH SHEETINGS for single, three quarter and double beds, in plain and twilled, at less than present mill prices. PILLOW COTTONS, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches wide, in plain and circular fine even quality, in all the wanted weights at 25¢, 27¢, 30¢, and 35¢ a yard. hemstitched, in all widths, value at $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50, i li John's, N.B. Bf William Nickle, jr., has returned to §| duty with the 21st Battalion at the | } §| Ambulance Corps draft are on their #1! bulance Corps. =| alterations to certain public buildings E is allowing the county officials the Siuse of the county council chamber landers have enlisted twenty-eight =| men this week, E now 228. ; EA -------- ata caa-- ES oy {THE DAILY BRITISE WHIG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1917, NAR DONNELLY WOUED HE WAS IN COMMAND OF THE EATON BATTERY. "Jack" Mills, Formerly Frontenac Hockey Goal Player, Also Wounded--He Was With Princess Pats. Word was received in the city Wednesday night that Major Harold Higman Donnelly, son of the late Capt. and Mrs. Thomas Donnelly, ! had been wounded at the front, No particulars regarding the na- ture of ids wounds have been receiv- ed. His wife is at present in St. Major Donnelly is a graduate of the Royal Military Col- lege of the class of 1908, and went overseas with one of the master ma- chine gun brigades, and was in com- mand of the Eaton Battery. Corpl. "Jack" Mills Wounded. Mr. and Mrs. Thomag Mills, 120 University avenue, received word from the Militia Department on Thursday morning that their young- est son, Corporal "Jack" Mills of the | Princess Patricias, had been wound- ¢d in action on the 31st of December. | Corporal Mills was with the brigade wiring party and is higialy spoken of by ofticers recently returned from the front. He went overseas in the spying of 1915 with the McGill com- pany of reinforcements from the Princess Patricias, along the Wiliam Nickle, Jr., and H. Richardson. Be- fore that he was a member of No. 8 | company of the 14th P.W.O. Rifles, Kingston. The hockey fans will re- member "Jack" as a crack goalkeep- er of the Frontenacs several years ago. The nature of his wound is not | stated. His mother had a letier from him under date of Dec, 27th, when he was in fine heath. Word has been received that Lieut. front. Lieut.-Col. P. G. C. Campbell, com- manding Queen's University High- landers, was expected to arrive in the city this (Thursday)- afternoon after a trip to the Pacific coast. Officers and men of the Queen's last leave. Lieut. F. H. Powell has been ap- Robert Beck, 3 Place d'Armes, who with the First Divisiona] Ammunition in Queen's Fleld Ambulance for overseas. Pte, Webb, Army Service Corps, who also went overseas with the first contin- gent, has also re-enlisted. in the Am- Foilowing out the new system of having reinforcing companies formed for units already at the front, Lieut. Marion, Rockland, in Ruasell County has been authorized to recruit a com- pany of reinforcements to the 21st Battalion. Lieut. Dancey, 207th, has also been authorized to raise a com- pany to reinforce the 2nd Battalion. Major Newman's company at Corn- wall will go direct to the 156th Bat- talion. Both Lieut. Dancey and Lieut. Marion are returned soldiers, as is also Major Newman. Mr. Winters, civilian architect to the Military Hospitals Commission, is in the city in connection with the for their use as a 1,000-bed military hospital. he The Military Hospitals Commission and non-jury courts, division court and the county council meetings will be held there. A The 253rd Queen's University High- including tem on Thursday morning. The strength is a night, Friday and Saturday. . /| Screen, and | Stedman," who Ty At the Grand. A remarkable showing of su- perior photoplays and refined {vaudeville © has been secured for the last three days of this week. Bertha Kaligh, the celebrated emo- (tional actress, will appear in "Love wnd Hate," an appealing, plausible, powerful drama of high society life in New York. A two-reel Universal Iteature, a comedy, and the Pathe News will also be shown. A first- class variety bill has been arranged. Lucille Clayton, an unusual singing and dancing comedienne, will enter- tain. Also Detzel and Carrol, who will 'offer a musical act which comes highly recommended. This pro- gramme will be presented for to- Daddy Long Legs. "Daddy Long Legs," the reigning comedy success of the day, will be offered here for the second time next Monday afternoon and evening at the Grand Opéra House. "Daddy Long Legs" sets forth the romance of a phan asylum by a big-hearted man of the world whe happens to over- hear her spirited revolt against piti- les tyranny. Mystery envelopcs the impulsive philanthropy of her bene- factor. 8he is not allowed to see: him, or know the name of the man who is playing the part of Prince Charming, but she is allowed to write to him, and her letters fairly rim over with whimsical humor and rare gratitude, not untinged with quaint affections. These letters go to a lonely. bachelor, who never an- swers them, but who reads them over and over in the long winter evenings as he sits by his fireside in a luxur- ious home in New York: Eventually the lonely bachgjor finds himself un- able to resist longing to see the auth: f, these remarkable epistles, and he plans to meet the girl with- out disclesing his identity. At the Strand. The military spectacle, "Canada in Khaki," opened at the Strand theatre this afternoon, and will be presented tonight, introduced by Gen. Hem- ming and ,Mayor Hughes. To-mor- row morning at 10.30 o'clock "C" Battery, R. C. H. A., with band. the Special' Service Company, Machine Gun School, Signallers, Queen's Field Ambulance Corps and Engineers will attend. A fine vaudeville programme with comedy pictures will be includ- ed, making a complete afternoon and evening programme, lasting for two and a half hours. The scenes, dealing as they do with military life in Kingston and Barriefield camp, are of great inter- est. The doors will be opened each evening at seven, programme begins at 7.30 o'clock. In the afternoon the house will open at two o'clock, pro- gramme commences at 2.30. The Social Pirates. To-night the ° first of the . fifteen weeks' serial; "The Social Pirates," will be shown at the King Edward Theatre, entitled "The Corsican Sisters." Dach chapter is complete in itself. There were twelve hundred people who fol- lowed "The Secret of the Submarine," but we still have accommodation for six hundred more. Watch for the "GirlFrom Frisco." She will arrive at King Edward Monday, 22nd inst. Usual admission. episode " GRIFFIN'S BIG PROGRANME. Sessue Hayakawa and Myrtle Sted man, in "The Soul of Kuro San." The brilliant Japanese actor, "Sessue Hayakawp,* supported by "Myrtle Stedman,'\will be seen at Griffin's to-day, Friday and Satur- Gay in the production of 'Phe Soul of Kuro San," an unusual drama written specially for them by "Fran- cis Guiban," and prepared for Para- mount by "Charles Sar- vir." "Tessue Hayakawa." who scored hii greatest success in "The Cheat," has established himself as one of the actors of the the versatile "Myrtle such recently scored a success in "An American Beauty," is one of the most popular stars in the screen world. . The main part of beautiful founding girl who is re-| scued from a cold New England or-| MILITARY CIRCLES | Pte. C. Driscoll and Pte) Harold Gowsell are the only two Kingston boys who are going overseas with the draft which the Queen's F.A.C. is sending overseas in the near future. Major R. D. Ponton, of headquart- ers staff, instructional cadre, will be {stationed at Toronto for some weeks at the new school of "instruction in machine gunnery, now being organ- ized. Lieut. Douglas Huycke, Peterboro, is teaching at the royal school of ar- tillery, Kingston. ! Letters just received tell of a ban- Quet held in Kent, England, by. the -joriginal members of the 73rd Battery on the evening of the 27th of Decem- vber, previous to the draft going to the front, This battery is composed mostly of Ottawa men, and was mobi- lized in Kingston. R. N. Eyre, Brockville, and A. G. i Strickland, Cobalt, have enlisted in {the Queen's University Highlanders for overseas. They will remain on recruiting duty at their homes. Sergts. 8S. R. FitzGerald and F. R. Bullis have been detailed by the |Queen's University Highlanders to take a course at the school of infan- try. Pte. D. Ingram, Queen's University Hospital, is being treated for preu- monia at his home at Cardinal. Word from England states that the 166th Battalion, commanded by | Lieut.<Col. Bedell, has been re-organ- {ized to go to the front as a unit. The {colonel has cabled for his band instru- ments. i) 0 TTI \ r = e The Late Mrs. T. Sands, At the age of eighty-six years, Elizabeth Campbell, wife of Thomas Sands, of Battersea, passed away on Wedne:day evening after a short ill- ness. The deceased was one of the county's oldest and most highly re- spected residents, having always live ed at Battersea. Besides her husband, who is over ninety years of age, the surviving children are: Annie," Eliza- beth, Edith, Nora, Charles and Fen- wick, all in the immediate vicinity. The Late R. G. Ford. in Minneapolis, Robert G. Ford, a former prominent Kingstonian, pass- fd away after a long illness. He was Ford, of the old firm of William Ford aud Son, which ran the Davis Tanney here many years ago. working in Macnee and Minnes partnership with hs built up a large ant glass business. He was born in Kingston forty-eight years ago. In Minneapolis his wid ow, his son Phillip and daughter Evelyn, and also his brother W, E. Ford are left to mourn his loss. He has also three sisters in Kingston, Mrs. H. W. Richardson, Mrs. W. T. Connell and Miss Mabel Ford. The remains are being brought here for interment, \ ; JAPAN AS COMPETITOR Rushing Building of Ships for Trade After War, tional border, the Japanese will se- cure control of the Pacific trade, This was the gist of the statement made by C. E. Benjamin, general passenger agent of the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services. Mr. Ben- Jamin left Vancouver last October for a tour through the Orient to as- certain what opportunities existed for the development of' Trans-Pa- cific business. Mr. Benjamin states that the shipyards in Japan working three shifts, in other word the entire twenty-four hours, build- ing vessels, and large ones, at that, for the business that they will at- tempt to capture between the west Canadian and American® coast and the Orient. Dr. Ford Burnham, Winni twice and has sailed for the Balkans 'to Serbian military 5 fal. & command of a d - Se mrss TTT TTT TTT Deceased was a Methodist in religion. = On Thursday morning at his home == the eldest son of the late Robert == After S wholesale store for a few years, the -- deceased left twenty-five years ago = for Minneapolis, where he went into == brother and == Vancouver, Jan. 18.--If there is'S= not a hig effort, made by Canadians = and the people south of the interna-|== Peterboro, Nicholas for services in Montenegro, hosi- JOHN LAIDLAW & SON <3 ype: ty - THI . An Opportunity to Secure at Half Price or Less Women's Winter Coats Just 42, all smart winter styles, in fancy tweeds, boucle cloths and others. $10.00 Coats for . . Coa e $5.00 $12.50 Coats for . . co... .. $6.00 $15.00 Coats for . . visa 2 O00 $18.50 Coats for . . roa ae S900 $20.00 Coats for . . LL $9.00 Also eight extra large size fine black i winter coats for just half price. 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