40,000,000 BIBLES. THE ome se woee| [ESE STANDARD BANK fa connéction with Bible Sunday; or annual Bible vev:ow day, Dee. 10, OF CANADA ¥ : x statistics compiled show HEAD OFFICE - TORC NTO # ls il ES : 2 ares = there has been a Jatge ET or -- : the circulation and study © eo Fortunately only slight damage was | Wednesday until Saturday ovening. Biv since the war began. The * : : dome. Herbert Buck purchased a The driving on the.lake is good now mes of Bibles, in hole or in part, Money Orders and Drafts are Fromtemac |i: 'ors.iimru™se "ptm [on "ue SAF Jost Beis | Soy on var er. 006,08 os 4 ei . im. .~ Wartman | ton. Tr. an rs. Joseph Bradley, | Soc last year were 11,0580 $ shot a fille fox this week. Miss Hes- {of Swift Current, Sask. visited Solty those of the Asherican Bible / issued by this Bank payable in i ter Wartman is very poorly, Wes- [friends in this vicinity recently. W. | Society over 7,000,000; those of the 4 aaa a c ECHO LAKE ley Simpkins is also on the sick list. | T. Parsons Is quite {II, being confined | National Bible: Society of Scotland EST'D 1873 all parts of the world. Feb. 5. Mrs. nel MeoCleod | Visitors: Mrs. J. Wartman, New-|to his bed. Martin Cross also has |and of the Continental Bible socie- KIN GSTO N BR A N C H ' " passed away at her home on Monday burg, at H. Buck's; Mrs. Oliver [been quite ill for the past few days. | ties over 4,000,000. If to these are ! after a .long illness, The |Snook, Sydenham, and Miss 4, Gar- | Mrs. William Crozier is able to be|added the issues of the private Bible 'funeral was held on Wednesday and | ner, Spaffarton, recent visitors in | around again after her illness. Miss| publishing houses there will be a | Wan largely atténded. She will be this neighborhood, have returned Nancy Botsford, of Athens, has come | total of more than 35,600,000 copies greatly missed in this community, | aome, f Fn pend a Jew wads ith friends] of the Scriptures. in whole or in - {she continued snow storms keep thel, ------ e: ss Aggie Marshall, Brewer's | part, publish in the past year. NAN 3 3) {roads blocked. Mise Mary Ann © MYER'S CAVE. fils. is at Jamies Fodey's. Mr. and | This is seven million more than the FINANCIAL MATTERS Buckley has gome to Feb. 12.--The weather continues Mrs. George Reed and children made | total estimated issues in 1313. Allg Concern at Syracuse, N.Y., Doing ! again after spending some little time | stormy with an abundance of smow,|% trip to Athéns on Saturday. Mr. |poteworthy feature i8 that the eiren- Big Bushiess, EA er itor Kirkham 1s | dud the roads are in a bad condition. | and Mrs. C. N. Ventisthee S08 FUE ation in the English language basi ac. LOCAL BRANCH TIME {with her parents for the remainder | THE stage was unable to go to Arden |dren, who were visiting friends here}doubled since the outbreak of the A ate, N.Y., Pe! aa vidend in effect Jan. 14th, 1917. of the winter, i on Priday. Council met Saturday.|two weeks ago, are to léave Trenton] war. The Bible, or portions of it, is ia stom Jo Stecklinidiy atgre- 1 " 5 T. D. Perry was appointed assessor, Monday, the 12th, for their home aif now translated in 600 languages, 18 gating $2,600,000 were. declared by Tr trot, foot of Aa Te i Donald MacGregor was a week-end] Lebret. Sask; Miss Katie Johnston, | new languages having béen added he Board of Directors of the Semel BOING WEST Fob. 1.<'Thie farmers are drawing] Yisitor at Ardoch. Mr. and Mrs, | Sand Bay, was the guest of Mrs. Ed-f since the War by the British society, Solvay Company, meeting at the| Ea AE. CIty Wikio 3 are SHAwing Leonaid, Delyea, called at - David ward Vanderburg one day recently. It ih estimated number of Bibles | office of 'the company in Solvay. No. 13 Malt ve a ae 12.20mm 12.57 A0M, tended. the dance' La Spicer's one evening last week. | Mist Ida Bradley was at W. T. Par- | issupd by the Roman Catholic and Authorized capital stock of the [XO 33 Loo" a itp attendad the dance. at Gansnoute| "Sands Perry and Miss Berthalson's over SWAY Grek churshes, and the HeBow| STPOCIO0, (0 330 000.000, | Ne. 3 ere Tai 3 + Good nt Sunday with Mrs. Kate Se ures am WS, FEA » 0 $20, . v NO. 7 Mall. » .as. Brockville, Where rind Sit are 4 Socks. | Miss Maude MacGregor a * CHAFFEY'S LOCKS. ta he foregoing totals, the te] A regular dividend of 2 per cent Ae piirsing. © Miss Irene Prior, who has | Teturned home after spending. the] Feb. 9.--The recent. snow storm of tast year will be 40,000,000 coples, [and an extra dividend of 3 per cent. | No. 18 Mall . .. .. mick i : moravid again Miss | 185% T6w days with 'her sister, Mrs, | bas blocked traffic. The sawing ma] against 28,000,000 or $0,000,000 in was duciared. - Keo. 18 Express oh De eh an returned from | Rintoul, Harfowe. Misses Lizzie and chisie has been busy in this locality] 1913. ag Clueial dividend of 20, per cont Jno fier "fa Louisa McCausland and Mi Mc- | during the past two weeks. Fal 32 p.m. Kingston. where she spent several a nd. Miss {harvest is about over. all being Prison Records Improve. Ot the new stock issue $2,000,000 |. Nos. 106, Ti 28, 14, 16, 18, 19 run dolly. weeks, dé to illness. Master John|Kinnon it"C. MacGregor's Sunday. . ' 2.0 3 Donoughue and his sister Catherine [Frank Neal is at Hill Crest. furnished with a good supply. J. K.| tne British prison commissioners' i be offered fo stockholders at pap OLbeE Calin Jat tonto. Patgebora made a flying visit to the island from nd Regan is undergoing medical and] oor published lately for the year to the extent of 20 per cent, of their | gamiiton, Buffalo, Loudon, rol | Clayton to visit Mr. and Mrs. Robert HOLLEFORD. surgical treatment in the Hotel Dieu} . ding March last shows that the respective holdings. + | Chicago, Bay Chy, Saginaw, Montreal, i Simpson. Reeve Julius Lachance is | Feb. 10.--The frequent athens hospital, Kingston. The many friends| , mper of prisonefs received ugder - Qttawa, , Quebec, 'Portland, St. John, visiting in Kingston, The filling of 'storms keép (he pathmasters: with and relatives of little Miss Adalade} onience was only 64,160, compared Opens New York Office. an a and New as Tie- the fee houses Is consuming a good | §aNgs of men busy. Even then many | Fleming are pleased fo hear of her] win 114,283 in 1914, a decrease of Toronto, Feb, 9.--Messrs. Aemil- | kets, and all other information, apply Heal of the farmer' time now. The roads have to be made in fields, Mr. retith home from the General Hos-'£0 123. Since the year 1904, which | fus Jarvis and Company have an- to "on ANERY. Al pital, ingston, after a successtul] oo the largest number of sentenced { nounced that Mr. Norman S. Jarvis, | cop Jonnsen ana Ohta Strect heavy fall of snow mhakes it hard Medcot acted as supply in the Metho- henyy dist pulpit last Sunday. Mr. Humph.| Operation for appendicitis. Mrs. W, | ais. 197.941--the {otal . per|late manager of the Raval Securities Tagaton, Ont. --_ | véy was unable to be present. The|ll- Fleming spent list week with her| J00°000 of the population of England | Company, Toronto, has been appoint} oye JOYCEVILLE. teiends of G. Smith are sorry to learn) daughter, Mrs. J. H. Droyre, Elgin. | yng Wales Nas. fallen trom 586 to |ed manager of their New York office, | AGENCY POR_ALL OCEAN STRAN- Feb. 12.--An old resident of this} he is in a low condition; Mrs. Med-| Mr. and Mrs. Horrigan and children,| 768 Three main causés seem, the|43 Exchange place, Open Day and Night Telephoné 90 place passed away on. Feb. 1st in the | cof is home again after spending a Young, Sask., are ealiing on relatives report says, to have contributed to : A ---- A ----------AATNN person of John McFarlane, Kingston. few days with her daughter, Mrs. F. | 2 this locality. Mrs: J. Sowards, i,q great decrease in the prison pop. New Bank Director, ee-- Kingston; C. AMord, Abby, Sask.; 9 --W r I The 'deceased was well known and Trousdale, Hartington. Mr. and Mrs. | ulation: ¢(1) The enlistment of Montreal Feb, 9---W. W. Near, | $ Miss T, Jordon and L. Joyce, Philips-| ooo papifual petty offenders, (2) [president of the Page-Hersey Iron, qe Hil | (Al mre Da 8 0 i 4 » ° Hews " pps £ = & e CEH mato gor =2888 ees #2 LOC highly respected here. The cheese Robert Babcock were recent guests at i R meeting and oyster supper held ay H.. Clow's, Invergry. Mrs. James ne Mr. and Mrs, Hearse Fleming, the restrictive orders {ssued by the| Tube & Lead Company, Limited, one Pine Hill on Feb: 1st was Jargely at-| Walker has returned from Godfrey, vg oro, are among the late visitors. | jouar control board and those made |of Canada's most successffil manu- | tended. The ice houses are being here She Visited hor, daughter. Mrs. he members wf the Red oro by the justices and military Suthati facturerS, has been appointed a air-| A filled. oe" is of good qualit , 'Snider. Mrs. T. F. Townson was 2 rw -| ties, and (3) the great demand foF|ector of the Dominion Bank. { Ia hy RR Ped ons sp 4 at home. 10 her Sunday school class ings on Thutaday (0 oo I in-| japor, rendering employment easy, nt ' LONDON 't Hi A LIF on Tuesday, Feb, 6. Mrs, Annie Van- cairn. Con- resulting in abil: ndvies " ir i DO AX are sing sxcellont work heve, Mr. luven. who came from the city to]valeséent 'Home here. The many ari gro The member of No Bri Feb hy Ohaugs i} Via to HA ie Re . rain ang did visit her brother and sister, was tak- hands finished a goodly number of | prisoners received "of militafy age |Steel Foundries net profit for 19186 | : number of tei young triends, who &0 Ill and has been unable to return. Bheld a Mrs. NW Simm ore fell. from 61,739 in 1914 40 19,169) equals 23.21 per cont. on'T4é s17- HALIFAX to LONDON enjoyed themselves immensely. -W. |. Hogan has commenced to move to LueId wt Fre. A Ce tS. | duping the year under reviey. 184,000 capital stock, conipared with | (Calling Falmouth to land passengers) McDonald, Ki Sund is new farm near Sydenham. -Miss|W. W. Whipple is recovering after} ~The eftect of the liquor controll 9417 per cent. in 1915 ! 7 sllons. wl ngston, Poem = ay 2 na Vent raok is staying with Mrs, | her recent {liness. Mrs. Brown, Single- | psard's orders in the metropolis and : per -- : For particulars of sailings and rates, i carey 5 3 as Loretia Arp ¥!{ Robert Martin. Miss Sadie Cook, ton, has a number of music pupils in} gagiish and . Welsh boroughs . is 1 Shareholder | apply to Local Agents or te The Robert as return ome after visiting Sydenham, is visitin t He a. this vicinity. he followl nvictions . Largest Tig | Reford Co., Limited, General Agents, 50 friends in the shy. T. McCarey and | poi} or's. James iE A Nis Stella ae ago 8 fo a yo Montreal Feb, 9.--Frank W.\Ross, | King Strest East, Toronto. J. Kayd spent Sunday at Mount Ches-| 4 ; . : | ness: Tage "ouebec, is the largest individual ~ Martin is at Verona. Mies Orpha TOLEDO. of convictions in. 1914, 2,034; for} dua ney. J. McCarey, Jr., is visiting with | Baheoek was a recent guest of Mrs | Feb. 12.<The hockey boys played | four weeks following ofders 1a J818, Sharsliolder of the Toropts _Rilway, |. P IS GARAGE jriends in Kington. Mrs. T. Anglin,| Smith, Verona. against the Frankville team in ghel 1971; for four weeks ended and one of the additions to the board | ing Grove, os me guest of her sister, - rink here Saturday afternoon. The} ag, 1616, 940. In ascertaining t fiom this province, He owns 1,451 | FOOT OF BROCK STREET : co WRN Ros leeme'veied' ic infant attenie of Ue Tl than haar | com Ho ---- = (Feb, 9.-- Vincent Simkins, s y v or ne: a lady in- 3 " i ART What relief! Your clogged | Feb. 7 Te a tions of Mrs] had serious lrauble with is "eves Harlem team glared er A | uaettr of prisons inquired Por] At th ee of the Do} Ae rn a a "lw . jresult was a tie ~ ose who - a or > 4 or TE SS CS Ed i Gen to Kinston Gamers ou LEI A851 8, hee Ta 0 | 16, TOMAR, 84" erage cops minor, Permanent Lown C0 Toro | et we i L e is imp! ng rapidly after under-| gis daughte . ture" at Frankyille are keeping-up * ti individual rose from 2.6 for to, J. B. O'Brien of Foley 'Brien 4s is or Bo ny going u very pulutel eperation in | Some Riera dey Ee a Ea spit the extromely] L903 tur alkghtly. over 5. in 1913. . On lof Rentrew was elected to the Board Washing Git "ing, A e gener ospital, e Kepler | paulin 1 cold and rough weather, and report! the ofher hand, the commissioners | of Directors, Largs. hundache, Src ao struggling for [branch of the W, M. 8. held their a. Juigasoon. Ihe ple the sessions vesy helpful. Rev. Mr.| comment on the decline in the num- The néw paper mill of the St EMetent » guaranteed. rea a nig t, your cold or oatarrh | monthly nieeting at the parsonage, | hard wood to Bick Lake siding. for Cumerford opened evangelistic ser-| per. of habitual drunkards commit- | Maurice Pulp and Paper Company at Give us 8 eall, Ean: ; Elginburg, on Monday afternoon. {gpinment, A number of the neigh- vices in the Methodist church last | ted to inébriate reformatories -- 95) Three Rivers, Quebec, has begun t stay stuffed up! Get a small { Owing to the recent storms the roads| pos male a wood bee for Mrs pt week, but owing to the unfavorable| in 1913 and, only nine in 1415. | operations. E. PARAD bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from | ave in a bad condition. Quite a num-| 0 tact Friday, Cord wood and fi weather there were no meetings af- | Though the figures are inconclusive] The tenth annual report of the druggist now. Apply & little of | ber of the farmers have in their sup-| w4oq ig In aoa demand, -and Ne ter Tuesday night. However, he in-| as furnishing proof of any increase Timiskaming Mining Company shows | . ragrant, sntiseptic cream in jply of ice, which is of a very fine |yhringing good prices. Do ald Guth tends to hold them again this week. | or otherwise in drinking amougst!a production last year of 1,263,848 Manure and Moisture. nostrils, let it etrate through quality. This place was the scene i, Es the Ne forcanie ve his John Brunton, who hélongs to the | women at the. present time, they | ounces of silver at a cost of 26.4 In addition to plant food contained al y he head; soothe | of quite a lively little runaway to-|ankie badly sprained hs di staff of the Whyte Packing Com- | show, if the same proportion holds! cents an ounce. Warnings amounted | in well-rotted stable manure, all solls ed 11, Sun chit cm ri 0 Oy a hl od fn, Bronk ph Stole, SS nol Se rs min Te } ' orse ame unmansgéable a . : | among friends here. @ aki| able decrease in the total receptions |;rofits aft 1 char t 352,- i n i , Ely's Cream Balm is just what' ran about a mile till it got into the he apa) ad pi Resting wun hia Girls here were given a pure bred inte prison, but & deerease of over S00, a with $169.701, 3 " pelain De arto. and a ever ald na catarrh sufferer has |snow-banks and was easily caught. ig: Wy Wallace 5 EI ith. Holstein calf, which they are dis- | 60 pér cent. in the individuals re- should annually receive bir 'man: . a Just Spiandio. : . E. Votary spent Tuesday at R Guth- Ri of Rd SrA W Tallman spunaible forthe the Son¥ietons. Season's Earnings Spent in 2 Days. utes, but fa well decayed condftion. - : ries. i . - In two days of festival the Yaku- Very sandy solls so treated have ' ] os Aisa, Re a, BR amproying Bel ro Ie The Sou. Sea Islands. tat Indians of Alaska spent their en-| moisture evgporation reduced at and little daughter Doris spent Sun- {a fetter last week from bor daughter Dr. Inazo Nitobe, the celebrated tire season's earnings in the canner-|leasi one-half of that formerly pre< day at Mrs, Guthrie's, Miss N. Ray-| Mrs. Kilborn, who with her children | Japanese scholar, lecturer, and food |ies--$4,800. vailing. o = Bend spent Satartay at Miss Sadie [recently went to Florida to join her expert, has ey fiom 4 ut 's. Arthur Caswell of Syden-| husband, saying the children had of the South : . h in ham High School spent the week-end | been poisoned by eating beans. Two Seas, and lectured last mont : i : at Donald Guthrie's. Miss Lillian {little ones were dead and one other Taye belofe the Astat adiety of 3 © it hrou h Guthrie spent the week-end at Miss | was very fl in a hospital. Sincere ois work in the Philippines, : Lars in, Ratis sympathy goes out 16 the family which he had visited sixteen years Lees and family are moving to King-| 1 "Marvellous changes have been . . ago, four years ago, and last spring. , ston, William Ritchie is spending 52 'gai CE " % a a week with his brothers, A. and-P. Lennox and Addington mada. Be sad. a A rh 'Ritchie, Battersea. The Mission / dence among: the nations, and, pro- lr . 1 Caste Jad ast at ha home at Mr. i phesied that in time there would De GET ; id i. Slack, s a a----. large South 8- : week at Mrs. William Ritchie's. The NEWBURGH. ' Eo: 0 number of li s.| Ontario Sapper Praises Dr. Cassell's Tablets. os': Aid miet this week at Mrs.| Feb, 12--Mrs Farnsworth, of | |qnd arise as D William Shales', : Shannouvilie, is Sisicing her son, | found themselves. " ev. E, Farnsworth, at the parsan- | group. ines, Ja! Bor- aokd id na : ; La a ; if PLEASANT VALLEY age. =T. J. Winter wil be tho assis: | nev. inate Colon Bing, | Dr. hie Fable in clear proof of | thee whe J was ing. Sopth fries Feb. §.--Quité & umber haivest oe AIDE vous. "a usa. Malay elinula, and thousands | the woudetfal sutlaining power of this | War, snd, finding the bensht of them hr 4 . . : rian | of smaller islands. great pire iv. i there, have taken ed their season's supply of ice last | work here two summers ago, SDs » agricultaral pos-| | , eh. week. Henry Ellerbeck returned to | the week-end With Mr, and Mra. sibilities oe slats, pr. Nitobe Ho Bry ies ind y . fem Sings. She; his home at Tessier, Sask. after aA. Dunwoody. Mrs, Jane Y ns | said. that the quite fertile | men on land and 1 alway$ recommend month's Sojourn among triends. | celebrated her 87th birthday on Feb] and that heush the tropical heat | sca dré trusting to Lp them, for 1 know Joseph H. Watson is home from| ist. Mrs. Fred Wales, formerly: of | sneouraged the y of organic mat- | Dr. Cassels Tablets rel they do all that is Guelph and St. Catharine, where he | this place, underwent a serious oper- | tor, with Sienty of fain and irriga-| to sustain them : claimed, for them. red Jee weeks. Mrs. - Richard | ation last week in Kingston, tion three rice crops could be raised | through all the TE : ©. In my opinion they ec he 3 He told of one place hardships of relent. ite the bast tonio , fll ot grippe, is not im-| Mills, of Napanee, spent Saturday |in one year. less war. take for Fi ; - A: E anyone can take fo as Th) H many | with Miss M. Mitchell WW. | where he sdw rice that was sprout- Hail | Addms has purchased a new card jig, some that had just been plantad, SAPPER A. . Joss Bf appetite, and Mrs, W. Huffman are guests pt Semi and another crop tliat bad been reab- | MARTLEY, OF Foorness of the {their brother, MM. C. Bradford. VENNACHAR., ed, Site crop muy bé started at any he A. COM~ ny, blood, or Kheiat and Mrs, Henry Sears, Glenburnie,| Feb. 10.--R. W. Conner made a | time df the year. . PANY, GANAD- BE We have had were week-end visitors at G. Barr's. | business trip to Lavint the fore part @ great opportunity for devel-| JAN = ENGIN: 8 4 for of lard train: ot this week. James Sallens return- | Of t which these islands afford | ggg whose home Y J here, and some {trom the Black Donald mines. Al-|their total land area is 1,250,000 ; [fred Bebee left the fore part of Just ites," said Dr. Nitobe. | SEEEDEC GL of f reside fn Java alone, & n . eX fraction of the ~éntire area. 3 DE = ,000--are scattered over a mil 5 co pidly as der friends would like: Mrs. M. G. to his home here for a short stay be seen from the statemefit that ress is B00, miles, Bros} are 62,000,000 souls who in- islands. Of el dar. ~ 'rest of the people---about 35,- pe 1ion square miles." Gifted Poet Deid. i Bh, ' Co Plu , Joseph The sop or death as a nd bas lost ge of her frs 5 in Dublin ra'.