i atk PAGE SIX [News From Eastern Ontario -- 0) ___THE/DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1917. a EE TTT TTT ART > THE COUNTRY SCHOOL AS COMMUNITY GENIRE NEWS FROM (THE DISTRICT "™*"WhiLe Doing His mir i -------- CLIPPED FROM THE, WHIG'S Pte. Ernest Bowman Victi MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES. | of Hun Bullet During At- z Ee i tack on Somme. in Brief Form the Events In The Country about Kingston Are Told | ~=Full of interest to Many, The poll tax of Gananoque ig $5 a head. Rev. Dr. Cobb, Wellington, li his home in a very critical condition, Mrs, E. Lasha is asking Gananoque Council for $500 damages for injur-| In 3 regent Tetter.m ies received on the street. | an Saha Hog cholera broke out in the pens | <4 Ie yd 8 PION oo of R. McFarland, near Brockville. rig RON. pd ok Fifty-six hogs were killed and burn- * ed. They were valued' at $1,000. Charles EdBar Vermilyea, Thur- low township, died on Sunday at Corbyville, after being ill for some time. Deceased was sixty-three years ol age. After a brief illness, Mrs. Joseph Daly, Point Ann, died on Saturday. Deceased was in her twenty-seventh year, and was born at Stoco, a daugh- ter of Michael Kehoe. Mrs, Catherine Fluker died in Brockville on Sunday, aged sixty-one pr-- Brockville, Feb nian, 11 Charles lthe rin of now | 11€ following let Pt r {ro {of the former's son, Pte. Er who was killed October 25th last, Iman, te to you you all I making an attack tiie second wave, "This ocurred on the Somme, but lage near where the fight took place. He was buried a hind our lines, and cross above his grave, which bears an inscription. "Your son was one of the most pop- ular boys in the company. He and I years. Mrs, Fluker was born in|were the best of chums, and had maypy Pembroke ,a daughter of the late [good times togethe=. In the trenches Mr. and Mrs. Francis Mooney. he was always bright and cheerful, and always doing his bit.' A. W, Strickland, manager of the Bank of Montreal, Renfrew fell Sun- day on the slippery sidewalk, and is confined to his home with two brok- en ribs and a very sore left arm. W, H. Nugent, reeve of Wollaston Township, and ex warden of the] County of Hastings, is a candidate for the office of county clerk, render- ed vacant by the death of A. M. Chap- man. R Word has been received of the passing away of Mrs. Adam. Murray TIDINGS FROM YARKER. A Memorial Service for the Late M. R. O'Loughlin. Yarker, Feb. 27.---A memorial ser- vice was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Spencer in the Anglican church here on Sunday in memory of the late M O'Loughlin, of New. York. Death claimed Thomas Kimmett last Friday morning at his residence. (nes Euphemia Paul) at San Ra-|The funeral was held to Camden fael, Cal. She was an aunt of W. J.|East church, after which the remains Paul, Rameay, and G. M. Gemmill, | were placed in the vault. Almonte. Mr. and Mrs. W. Connolly, of Gan- Lieut. C. H. White, brother of H.|anoqu, spent the wéek-end in the 8. White, barrister, and son of Magis- [ village. Edward Joyner, of Kings- tgate Henry White, Port Hope, is re-|ton, was in the village calling . on friends. Pte' Skinner, of Kingston, spent Saturday and Sunday at the ported wounded, He is suffering from a gunshot wound in the leg. He 'had been with the 20th: Battalion. home of 8. Winter. Miss Edna Du- Mrs. Mary Brown, mother of Rev. |DPuis, of Kingston, attended the fune- S. G. Brown, Almonte, celebrated her ral of the late Mrs S. Martin last eighty-seventh birthday on Feb. 6th. | Week. She has knitted 110 pairs socks for| Miss Georgie Bell left for Smith's soldiers, and has seven grandsons in [Falls to tak® a business college active service, and one has made the course. Misses Helen and Jean Shib- supreme sacrifice. ley, of Harrowsmith, are visiting The death occurred on the 16th [their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. inst. at Admaston, of Jean Stewart, | Winter, and Mr. Bell, of Napanee, relict of the late David Farquharson, |$Pent the week-end at his home here. in her eighty-first year. Mrs. Far- Edward Irish, of Napanee, was in quharson was a member of one of the [the village last week calling on best known and most highly esteem- |friends. The many friends of Mrs. ed families in the Renfrew district, |G€orge Woodhouse are glad to see A pretty wedding was solemnized |r out again after being confined on Wednesday at "Grove Place," Pie-|!0 the house for four months with ton, the home of the bride, when|féver. Rev. Mr. Raymond and a Carle Rosalind, eldest daughter of |Pumber of people from here are at- Mr, and Mrs, Malcolm R. Allison, tending the Holiness Convention at was married to Percy Kirby, son of, Wilton this week, Frederick Deare, Mrs. E. T. E. "Kirby Greenbush: of othwell, spent a day recently A pleasing event took place at the |WIth his parents. Pte. Keith Walker] home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Anderson, of Belleville, spent a day under the Fallbrook, on Feb. 14th, when their|Parental roof recently. Mrs. M. eldest daughter, Elizabeth Borrow-|Cambridge and daughter, of Toron- man, was united in marriage to|!0, @re visiting at the home of Mr. Henry Howard Liddle, prosperous |2nd Mrs. M. Lak : young farmer of Colgate, Sask. Price of potatoes and pork are still There died at the residence of her |2dvancing. Potatoes are selling at son-in-law, 8. J. Morden, Wellington, | $3 a bag and pork at $14 a hundred, on Feb. 15th, Harriett Huycke, wid-flive weight. The rain of Monday ow of the late T. J.- Howard at the) Was much needed, as the water in venerable age of eighty-four years. the river and cisterns were quite low, Mrs. Howard was born near Welling- Allen Peters, of Trenton, was hom ton and was the daughter of the late | for a few days, John P, Huycke, After an {iHness of about nine weeks Pembroke lost one of its most respected residents in the person of W. C. Kennedy, who passed away on Saturday, aged eighty-four years. He came to Pembroke in 1851, leav- ing him a resident of the .towm for about sixty-six years. Dr, Dorsey, who recently purchas- ed the Pickering farm just east of Picton, has also bought the Van Dusen and Waldron properties, con- sisting of five and three acre lots with buildings situated adjoining the farm. He has thus secured a front- age on the main road, The houses will be used for farm residences. Farmers, Attention | Owing to the great demand for bran and shorts, and as we have te take 100 bags of flour in each car, we are forced to sell the flour at cost or under, . We are now offering a very fine Patent Flour at $4.30 per bag. Now is your time to stock up. W. F : McBr oom, 42-44 Princess St. ~~ ; Phone 1686 The 'Late Mae Clarke, Deseronto, Feb, 26.--After nearly two years suffering death = claimed the life of Miss Mae Clarke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Sampson Clarke, at the age of twenty-one years and nine months, Decgased was born at Tam worth on May 7th, 1895 and received her early education at that place and after the family moved to Deseronto, at the public school here. Always of a kind and lovable disposition she bore her affliction with fortitude and patiently awaited her Master's call. She was confinad to her bed since March last with tuberculosis of the bone, The Musician : coed finds in the - 2 y ~ Beintzman & Co. + ff Adm bis demands sore then thet He finds a:00me 4unequalled---a touch that meets every require- --eorge Bow- received s George |i. White, a brothér of Russell White, es at| 5 Perth street, relating to the death ¥ nest Bow- in action on v brother ask- "On October 25th our battalion was Your. son was in when he was shot through the head and died instantly. [I cannofetell you the name of the vil- short distance be- there is a white sche The ideals by the largely the | 1 cut life, and his conception ism will be what he b during his scho much to say that the p war is due to a differ fostered by different s N *sctca are but In the public It is not too nt world of idea's §E ms of edu: | cation. 38 Great as is the importance of the Rr TIE TI as TT public school iff old and 21] estab- the children of the neighborhood, but lished countries, this importance is on Sunday the missionary holds his new lands which services, which all attend regardless to assimilate of creed or nationality, and on week populations from the more con ted nights the building is used for meet countries. It is worthy of t ings of farmers, for the various com in Western Canada, whic » munity societies; for the Red Cross cited as a case in point o or Patriotic Club, and for purely so which is called upon to a cial events such as debates, concerts population of many and dances. To facilitate the latter, most strenuous political it may be noted that many country schoolhouses use removable desks w>gystems of public education. These wlilch the willing hands of the farifi™ fights, however, were not without ers' boys quickly dispose of whenever thelr' purpose, and it is out of them there is a dance in prospect. has arisen a public school policy well Another phase of community work calculated to meet the needs of a new associated with the rural school and rapldly growing country. In such which has been coming into promin & country the public school has to ence during the last few years is the take on functions not usually associ. supply of books to settlers in the dis ated with it in the older and more trict. This work is encouraged and densely settled communities. The assisted by the central Department of prairie schoolhouse is ngt merely a Educatien, which provides catalogues centre of education; it i€%also the re. of books suitable for such purposes, Mglous and social centre of the dis- : the actnal selection being left to the trict.c During the week days the teacher @ The number of books allot: tel to a school district is based on| even greater in the are being called upon noe imilate a ces. Some of the and consti tutional fights have hinged upon the schoa? teacher furnishes education to | ER 3 a AMON» | EXCURSION BOAT | "THE FALL OF A NATION." | MAY BE SOLD | A Gigantic Sequel to "Birth of a Nation." Thomas Dixon, author and produe- ler of "The Fall of a Nation," is em- {phdtic on one point--that his pre- paredness spectacle is not anti-any-| Certain steamboat interests in To- |thing, but pro-American. He says: ledo and Cleveland are negotiating | In view of the criticisms of cer- Toledo and Cleveland Men Are Negotiating for the Thous= and Islander. with the Canada Steamship lineg for | lain scenes 1 wish fo reiterate the the charter of the fine excursion Statement that ("Phe Fail of a Na- steamer which [tion d3 net directed agaifist any Thousand Islander, . has plied on the St. Lawrence for the | Rationality, class om ragial element. past two seasons. It is understood | MY friend, 8. Stanwdod Menken, is that the offer made is a good deal |duite mistaken in saying: 'Your piet- more than the boat has earned in 'the |UT® is manifestly anti-German.' past, so there ig serious probability |A8ainst Mr. Menken's expression I of it being accepted. {wold put the opinions of the local If the boat should be taken off the jGerman press which are uniformly . 4 av v t river it wil be sadyy missed, as it car- 128 favorable b my_play e jie prea ried thousands of excursionists every {majority RB ee 8 Dguage day, making trips to Clayton, Brack- (Papers. The entire paint ot the play ville, Kingston and other poin &She {15 that all the nationalities here Yi man tenn ir well ap- whether British, drish, Teutonic pointed and speedy and has a re | French, Italian or Eastern European, ing capacity of over 1,600 persons. Jehould be fused into a united Am- "It is alleged that the large num- iter of German faces in the hosts of the invading army and in the cast in ' "The Fall of a.Nation' conviets the *Afternogn, author of "cherishing anti-German (Special to the Whig.) iprejudices. On the contrary, I chose Toronto, Feb. 27.--Premier Hearst {those men because they were out of will make the pronouncement of the work and hungry. Five hundred Ger- Government in favor of woman's suf- mans, many of them reservists, ap- frage in the, Legislature this after- plied to me for work in the battle noon in a speech of some length; be- scenes of the. picture. , They. repre- fitting the importance of the legisla- (sented, fairly well the varying types tion affecting so important a consti- | of thé Imperial confederation of tutional change. As the Liberals Northern Europe which I imagined have already declared themselves for | io be attacking America. My quarrel woman's suffrage, the bill will, like {is with Imperialism, whether pro- the Ontario Temperance Act last ses- | Alley or pro-German. And my desire sion, be passed with a united Legis- (is to uplift the ideal of true demo- fature behind it. - ieracy, which is in danger of being -- {lost sight of by the partidans of the STILL SEEK RECIPROCITY. ioverseas quarrels." Y -- ---- { This play, which is a sequel to Farmers to Meet in Toronto This "The Birth of a Nation," will appear Week. at Griffin's Theatre Fridav and Sat- (Special to the Whig (urday, March 2nd and 3rd. Soronta. Feb! 27.--That the 1911 | ere reciprocity agreement with the Uni-| ted States be entered into by the Do- | IRISH SUSPECTS minion of Canada at once, and other | NOT free trade laws enacted--these will WiLL BE TRIED @ propositions to come before the | . . United Farmers of Ontario, represen- | But Are to Be Prohibited From WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE BILL. To be Introduced in Legislature This ting ten thousand agrieulturists of | Residing in the the province, commending their con- | ' Coun vention here to-morrow. Other big | Ary . subjects affecting politices and pro=i- 3 ondon » Feb, 27 Twenty eight duction will also be discussed. jpersons have been arrested in Ire- | land, Henry E. Duke, chief secretary Nellis-V Wedding. | * A happy event took place at 229 { for Ireland, told the House of Com- Wellington street, the home of Wil-| MOMS. The arrests were made un- der the Defence of the Realm Act Ham Vancoughnet, on Tuesday morn- | 4 ing, when his sister, Miss Pearl Van- | "hich empowers the police to arrest * , persons who may be reasonably sus- coughnet, was united in marriage to George Washington Nellis, The cere- | ject of having acted, or being mony was performed by Rev. B. fa ut to act, in a manner prejudicial ~derce, of the outer depot United | 10 Duaite safety or the defence of the * Church, ~The happy couple are to | fod m. It 'was not proposed to. try reside in Kingston, . |thess rien, a competent military au- , thority having decided to issue or- derg under the Defence of the Realm regulations, prohibiting, them from Lesiding in Ireland. This had been one, Ti. A meeting of the Women's AM of the Gen: Hospital was held on 'Monday afternoon, and Mrs. H. A. Lavell, Mrs. G. Y. Chown and Mrs. H. W. Shellifig were elected as visit- ors for the coming month. NORTHCLIFFE IN HOUSE. When It Was Shelled py German De- There aa Catarrh In this section of the country Shan ult other years it » stroyers. London, Feb. 27. The German on the unfortified towns ing in grim humor, EE taint , the report of the igspector of schools. Lord North- | cliffe's house is well, within the fire]! zone, and the famous editor happen- {ed to be staying there. v | i | In the Province of Alberta, although this school library movement is only in its Infancy, no less than 110,000 books were supplied for this purpose 'last year, at a cost i of 'some $30,000.00. Educationists of the province look forward to the time when every school dis. trict will be a library centre, giv. ing to the settlers the facilities now afforded to residents of cities and towns through their public libraries. The prosperity which has almost over- whelmned rural Alberta in the last two - years, when farmers have been reap- ing enormous crops and selling them at the highest figures in history, promises to contribute still. further to the importance of the rural school as a social centre. With every farm. er driving his own automobile the oppdrtunities for social gatherings -- are greatly increased, and-the eouns try, school is .the. natural place, | i meeting | ne PA A A a rN DOG SAVED LIVES OF SIX PERSONS Who Escaped From a Burning | House--The Dog Was Suffocated. (Special to the Whig.) Toronto, Feb. 27 --Aroused by the barking of a. half-suffocated dog, | seven persons in the home of Charles | Hearndon here escaped from their burning house at 4 a.m. to-day. Mnrs.| Hearndon and her three ohildren were carried down ladders by fire-| men. Hearndon and a man boarder jumped from windows. The dog lost| his life. 8X0 CUBES have proved of re- markable value in the Great War They are equally valuable. in the home. They yield "warmth and Sustenance "ih. 3 a moment. po THOMES COPLEY Telephone 987 wanting anything done in the carpen ery line. Estimates given on all kinds )f repairs and new work; A a- ~00d floors of all kinds. All orders will 'ecelve prompt atten: Bhop. neen strant ----r rn ROW OF SIX HOUSES FOR SALE _eE-----------_------ These Pay 149%. Een W. H. Godwin & Son 89 Brock Street Phone 424 FOR SALE One second-hand, 1918 Ford touring car; two second-hand Ford trucks Sone 1915 Stude- baker; one 1916 Studebaker. All in first-class condition and must be sold, ~ 'Boyd's Garage 29 Brock Street Phone 201 | AnOX0 CUBE teacup | . . I¥ the. AND She. TINS : ~-- Tr ---- a -- 1 {, i is equal in food value to three-fourths of a pound of Beef Steak, eight eggs, fifteen pounds of oysters, two pounds of fish, six pounds of tomatoes. And the milk is more easily digested and far more econbmical than ' any of the other foods. Phone 845 - Price's ap ee eat ee et ta ee a et ee a tg Ht nr Phone Us WHEN YOU DECIDE TO HAVE YOUR EYES EXAMINED FOR GLASSES, PHONE US FOR AN APPOINTMENT, PHONE 699. Optician and J. J. STEWART, Opt.D. Optometrist Cor. Wellington & Clarence Sts. ~~ Opp. Post Oftice Phone 699 > a A A A REMOVAL SALE | Having to vacate my present location April 1st I am offering my entire stock of Monuments at greatly reduced prices. JAS. E. MULLEN, Pc tr A AP AA i ti Phone 1417 i i, Cor. Princess and Clergy Sts. ~------ i A ASK YOUR GROCER FOR CHARM TEA 7 IN PACKAGES. Black, Green and Mixed. Packed in King- ston, by 2 GEO. ROBERTSON & SON, Limited. = J) a A UHR TT TO EOE ns '" Security First" %» EXCELSIOR rer insurance [| FE coneany { ELH TT TE TTT TTT HT E y s Faet No. 2 = Head Office: Mortality rate for 1816, including war claims, 80 = per cent, Jess (han ex pec. Zo Toronto, Can. : = HIRAM A, COOK, District Agent, Kingston. E a LETTE EE OE TE TE TR EE EE February Furniture Special Line of Easy Chaixs, Couches, in Tap- estry, Leather and Velour. Chesterfields, latest in Louis styles. . R. J. REID Leading Undertaker Telephone 577 re ---------------- Flowers! et cA AANA PN AANA ~ A WHOLE WINDOW FULL of millinery flowers, suitable for spring and summer wear. These flowers range from 25¢ to $1.00. To clear Your Choice 10c es pn AST om : A MENDELS | "217 Princess Street | Kingston' High | Clase Ready to Wear for One Quart of Milk 1 i.