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» TR MA coated AE ES a A vow fe PAGE SIX. NEWS FROM THE DISTRICT cLIPPED FROM 1 THE WHIG'S MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES, Io Brief Form the Events In The Country About Kingston Are Told --Full of Interest to Many. Roy Fulford and Arthur Murphy are the two latest Arnprior young men to join the Imperial Flying Corps." es Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas, Cél- borne, announce the engagement of * their daughter, Margaret, to J. Glassford, Standard Bank, Toronto, the marriage to take place in Febru- ary. » Mrs. John C. McGraw, Brockville, died on Tuesday, aged nimety-two years. Two sons survive. She was a Methodist. In Wolford township she spent the greater part of her long and useful life. \ In Belleville on Tuesday the mar- riage occurred of Miss May Malyea, daughter of Mrs. James Malyea, Belleville, to Cliire McAvoy, son of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas McAvoy, Camp- bellford. The death of William E. MeNeil occurred in Lansdowne Monday night following ill health of the past year Surviving are his wife, who was Miss Webster, of Lansdowne; Qpe son, Ross, at home, and one daughter, Mrs. H. B. White, Brockville, In re ligion the late Mr. MéNeil was a * Methodist and politically he was a staunch Liberal. ElGHT oF CHURCHES WORSHIP IN THREE Brockville Adopts Other Measures Also to Save Fuel Supply. Broe Kville, Jan. 24.-In order to 'pusist'in the conservation of fuel the| reat majority of the merchants of Brockville have agreed to close their! stores at five o'clock on each day ex-| fept Saturdays, when the hour will| branch of the Red Cross Society are -------- News From Eastern Ontario} ---- NORTHE ROOK. COMES TO LIFE. Shovels Itself Out and Miss Weese Starts School Again. Northbrooke, Jan. 21.--Well, here comes Northbrooke. Did you think we were snowed under? . Not a4 bit of it. We just got ploughed out, and now we have th stand oa tip toes to see over the Sous. The last snow has greatly idiproved | snow-shoeing. Ask Miss Weese § 0 you don't be lieve it. However, r little burg has settled down fo busi. ness again so we won't worry till some more Snow comes. Some people were rather cross at the png delay of their mail and even tried to make the stage go School re-opened on Monday last under the able management of Miss Weese, who returned on Saturday after spending her holidays at Sel- by. ev. Mr. Wickware preached his fi cell sermon in Harlowe on Sunday. ' He is leaving for Hamill- ton, and will go from there to Africa, where he will resume his missionary work He will be great- ly missed by all who have heard his delightful sermons. Charles Both and son, Willie, of Denbigh, are spending, a few days with William Both, Nortinrooke. Arthur Thétif ld son and Ernie Smith return- od to-Napar after spending the Wothiays at their hdfnes here. Miss Violet Skier spent a few days in Tweed. Harvey Fuller and Claude Scott made a business trip to North- brooke last week, Mrs. Wilson Wood returned home 'after spending a month with hier daughter at Par- ham. Mr. and Mrs. Wickware, acs fcompanied by Miss (Preslar, were visiting at Clande Alkombrack's re- cently William Atkins and sons, Martin and Irvine, of Trenton, alse Miss Lillie Atkins, Toronto, spent he holidays at home. Miss Carmen Weese spent the week-end with her sister, Miss Ertelle ,Weese, North- i brooke A URIMICAL OPERATION. Was Performed on William Babeock in the Hospital, Wilton, Jan. 22, --The Wilton be extended to mine. o'clock. The! holding their annual open meeting whange goes into effect at once and Will be operative until early March, No lights will be displayed in the! 'store windows during this period. For fuel saving eight of Brockville's churches worship in three. - All the pultiic schools are closed except two with the hours of tuition extended $n order to accommodate all. the classes and the public library and ¥Yown Hall are dlosed for an indefin: ite period Brockville, it is said, is about 4,000 tons short of its usual 'coal Supply, HAD A GOOD TIME At a Social Held Recently at W, Metzler's Home. Odessa, Jan. 22.--Mrs. David Smith, who has been ill for some me, was taken to the Kingston nerdl Hospital last week. Miss | Lennie "Snider, who is ill in the] Kingston General Hospital, is im- proving. Stanley Mabee, Williams- port, Pa., spent a few days with his parepts, Mr, and Mrs. P. A. Mabee, last week. Deati Babcock. who has been employed in the Kingston Loce- motive Works for sonie time, has re- turned home. Mrs. William Dotdgherty Is spending a few days with friends in Kingston. The social glven by the Ladies' Ald Society last Friday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Metz. ler was fairly well attended con- sidering the condition of the roads and: disugresable weather. A. W, VERMILYEA IS DEAD. * Was Farmer, Miller, Merchant ang B ists. - (Belleville, Jan. 24.--A. W. Ver- milyea, retired boot and- shoe mer- chant, passed away on Monday at his home here at the age of eighty. two years after a short illness, He wag early in life epgaged In farm- ing, but had operated a flour mill and a sawmill at Stockdale before coming to Belleville thirty-cight years ago, He was very successful as an evangelist for years. and was a omer of the, Fotolia church. . in the hall on Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs, M. F. Parrott spent a cou- ple of days at Frank Murton's, Bath Road. Little Miss Eleanor Emberly is quite ill of tonsilitis and quinsey. Dr. Mabee, of Odessa, is attending her. K. N. Storms has been raving the ice house at the cheese factory filled, 'while the ice is in good cons tion, william Baboock was removed to the Kingston General Hospital over 4 week #go, where he underwent a critical pperation. His many friends are pleased to hear that he 1s doing nicely. The Ladies' Ald met at the home of Mrs. John Carr on Wednes- dyay afternoon, January 16th, and the W.M.S. were entertained there on Wednesday afternoon, January 23rd, with a good atteddance both times. The Mission Band will shold its meeting nt the home of Miss | Dorothy Neilson on Satarday after- noon, January 265th. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Henderson and baby boy, of Empress, Alberta, are visiting his father, James Davey. F. Clark and family spent Sunday at Bath. ®arl Perry had the misfor- tune to have his horse run' away on Sunday afternoon, going from this plade to the villdige. The cutter was badly damaged, but no other damage was done, Miss Gladys Wallace has returned home, a spent the past couple of weeks with cousins at Elgin. The friends of Korah Lee and bride met at the home of his father on Tues-| day ebening and gave them a variety shower, } Fire in Trenton. Belleville, Jan, 24.--At Trenlon on Monday a fire broke out in a por- tion of the town known as Martin- ville. A large tenement, the pro- nerty of 0. Martin, was completely destroyed, rendeting several famil- {es honieless, also an adjacent build- ing formerly a brewery, was burned to the ground, » Smith's Falls eurlers bave won the Jubilee curling trophy for District No. 9, defeating Perth by 15 to 14, A Torino A a Filed OEMS No War-Weariness Found Among Working People In the West of England BEDI D HAVE just returped from a three-weeks' tour of the western counties of England and am abi2 to report from fssi-band and rather minute observation on one of the most important aspects of the war---namely, the war-weariness of England, writes Gilbeft Leldes in The Philadelphia Evening Ledger, In doing so I am in the position of some philosophers who write about things which are not. War-weari- ness simply does not exist, The thing will take some explain- ing, because I do not mean to sug: gest that | have met a single person, gmong all the hundreds 1 have met, who wants the war to.go through another 'winter. What I do mean is that in country inns and pubs, in city hotels and along the highway, in miners' cottages and farmers' homes, in bieyele shops and tea rooms, 1 bave met no one--literally and abso- utely no one--who wapqt the ex- kay fon point; not ofic person who d not feel that he could carry on, nd very, very few who did not feel that we stood to gain everything by holding out another spell. Reports of this nature are gener- tlly so misleading that in the inter- ¢st of accuracy I am gding to give the basis of my experience, Phe ground covered includes Warwick- ghire, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, and, in a second tour, Oxfordshire and the counties nearer London. Through these counties I traveled on a bieyele and on foot, faking p otluck in the way of sleep- ing quarters," meeting many people along the roads and stopping to chat with them gr accompanying them en route, dropping into public" houses for refréshments, at all hours of the day, receiving shelter from private individuals in their homes, sitting in the smoking rooms of hotels, talking to everybody In twenty days 1 heard exactly one man speak with bitterness about the war, and he was a soldier who had been badly treated oging to a cial blundering. I confess that bulldog determination, the grim 0d sire to see it through, and all the rest of the gray, noble things, which arc supposed to characterize the countryside were not apparent. The attitude of most people is no more grim than the attitude of a moder- ately poor family determined to work on until it achieved prosperity. The war is being taken as a matter of hard course; the situation has solidi- fied long ago, new grooves have been worn and the people walk in them, not without pain, but' without the acufe feeling of rawness and novelty. The western counties are among those where the people are not sup- posed to know that a war is om. London generally arrogates to itself A siperior consciousness of the way, /becase it sees sg many more wound- ed and unwo ed men and cers, because it seers from air rails, and can oceasionally bear the guns of Flanders breaking the stillness eof the tramless nights. But as I rode through the-little towns I saw over #nd over again a little red disc hang- Ing in the windows, and could make out the words, "Not at Home." It puzzled me, and fitally I stopped to read the entire disc. These were the words: A Man From This House NOT AT HOME Serving in His Majesty's Forces. So they feel the war with a direct: ness not less than that of London. They suffer less than London and the southeastern counties because they are near to coal and: because they bake for themselves a good deal and because they raise produce. But the faet is that no part of England suffers oruch, and the irritation of sugariess coffee may be as---great to the worker in a Cornwall clay factory or toa Devon dairyman as to a Lon- don government clerk. In all, I felt that these people felt the war keen- ly; that made their testimony valu- able. In Somerset a miner who put me up dor the night asked the usual questions and began a discourse on the war which ranged from the ne- cessity of restoring Belgium te the wicked wrongness of a certain con- {scientious objector. He and bis wife - spoke_of their two sons now at the front, one of whom had come from Saskatchewan to fight. Their one re- gret was that they could do so little in the way of entertaining tho wounded who were in. hospitals nearby. At @ pubin Cornwall I was asked how long the War would last, ¥raid irom cighteen months to three years The gentletnan for whose drink I'was allowed to pay opined that - ther ald be any one left to fight for | if the Bloody war went on that long, and the lady who served the drinks | agreed. Then they curse the Kaiser. «In the midst of Dartmoor Forest 1 heard much talk of a man who was 'always ealled "Keripsky," and was 'told that if Russia hadn't broken the | war would be over now. But I heard the writers in These uy 'samples of, eeraily, OF soiermstions. Not. one has the least diplomatic importas: not oie can claim 0 give the whole heart of England ro far an the war's + But 'the tolal effect can- . Leave out for the Fetmnes hems thé other side of the so en, is Acugatie yearning better the way ~ = SRR Je ol $0 -- MAKING ROADS PASSABLE WITH VIEW TO TO EMBARKING "ON SUBSTANTIAL PROGRAMME. County Roads Superintendent Fair Reports on Suburban Road Area Work--An Oiled Road Will Meet Present Traffic Requirements. County Road Superintendent R. H. Fair presented a report to the County Council Wednesday after- noon: witli regard to the work on the Suburban Road Area last year. In view of the fact that the work has received the criticism of the city en- gineer as not being of a permanent character, the report of Mr, Fair is of special interest, He says: The Suburban Area surrounding the city of Kingston comprises ap- proximately sixty miles of the main roads formerly designated as county roads under the provisions of the jighway Improvement Act. Work nder your commission was com- menced in June of last year and has consisted mainly of an attempt, by suitable methods of maintainance, to bring all the roads of the Suburban Area into passable condition, with a view to embarking on a substantial programme of road construction in 1918. Owing to the situation of the city of Kingston at the south end of Frontenac County, the roads of the Suburban Are? have in the past been subject to very heavy traffic, In view also of the location of all these roads in the townships of ¥ Kingston and Pittsburgh, the cost and construc- tion and up-keep has in the past 'fallen entirely on these two town- ships. Under such conditions, with the funds available, it has been im- possible, under county management alone, to keep the roads up to the desired standard. Tt is now feltihat with assistance from the city, this object' may, in the course of time, be attained. Immediately after commencing work under your commission, it was deemed advisable to improve the roads to as great an extent as possi- ble by ordinary maintainance meth- ods rather than to engage immedi- ately in extensive comstruetion work. This was done for two reasons: First, scareity of labor, which ,was in itself sufficient to prevent exten- sive operations; second, because bet- ter results could be chtained and a greater area immediately benefitted by following such a plan. In addition, to the maintenance work, two short sections were com- pleted and may be charged as con- struétion. A number of concrete tile culverts were also installed at various points of the area. For use on the roads in this area a stone crusher, together with necessary elevator, screen and bins, was pur- chased, and it is intended that this machinery shall ke used entirely within the area. The commission are fortunate in having within their area a source of material and labor which has con- siderably reduced the cost of opera- tion. Stone of excellent quality is secured from the penitentiary and the stone crusher has been operated to a large extent by prison labor; all of which was supplied to the commission without cost, the only expefise to the county being that of motive power, fuel and supervision. With the qualtity of excellent road building material available, some of which can be secured free of cost, it would appear that a sub- stantial water-bound macadam road, treated with asphaltic oil or refined tar, will be economical and will an- swer all present traffic requirements, Owing to lack of funds available for this pur@ose in 1917, practically no oiling wis done, only one short sec- tion of road being treated with asphaltic oil as an experiment. The results obtained from this treatment would appear to justify its general adoption for all roads of the Subur- ban Arca, especially following con- struction. Experience has shown that best results are obtainable only when such treatment is abplied to roads which = have been properly constructéd. Having 3 first-class water-bound macadam road with sufficient depth of metal to carry the weight of traffic, on a suitably drained sub-grade, the. bituminous surface: treatment bas been found satisfactory under conditions such as are obtained in the vicinity of Kingston. When an attempt was made to maintain the roads of the entire area during thé past year, it is felt that much more of the same class work will be required in succeed carry on construction at as rapid rate as possible, the maiaienance o construct immediately, should not be neglected. = + ---- City Engineer's Criticism. The following are the recommen- dations and comments made by the ¢ity engineer cn: the suburban Toad area work: "1 would a that a shetter om oO out and dolug the work be adopted Which would © in my opinion give puch better results and at a h Teter cost than the present syst practically maintenatieo and do it Me before they -- on another road seetion. o: ng to heaky auto and vehicular area. (| resignation 'of Millukoff, and at once ¥ears, and while it' will be well Ni general confiscation, -- Bostqn such roads as it is impracticable to] in another Colle - THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, THURSDAY, JANUARY 244 1918. LENINF. a 4 2 One of the Men Controlling the Des- tiny of Russia the Maximalists, who seized Petro- grad and ousted the Kerensky re- gime, Lepine declared that the first thing he would do would be to start peace negotiations. As peace agita- tor and alleged German agent he was arrested in July, but later escaped. The Kerensky regime threatened to try him as a spy if caught again. His real name is Viadimir Lilteh Ulianoff and 'he is about fifty years old, Rus- sian-born, of an intelligent family long identified with revolutionary ac tivities. His book "The Development of Capitalism In Russia" Is regarded as one of the most valuable contribu- tions to Russian economic literatura, and Ris articles on agrarian, econo- mic and scientific problems woa him high place in the estimation of so- cialists and se'entists alike. Shortly after the revolution Lenine, return. ing from exile in Switzerland, de: clared his position against the pro visional government, It was explained that the provis ional government, xious to avo'd any accusation of interferente with freedom of spe or of the press, had thercfore hesitated to arrest Lenine, but that in recent days offi cials determined nat {no tolerate them any longer, ding. them as" 'more dangerous for R n and her liber- ty than the Germans." In connection with his helieved pro-German activities documents de- clared to have been found in the re- cord of the old department of police were regarded by Russians as signi ficant, The documents showed that while a socialist named Malinovsky was leader of the social democratic fac- tion of the third douma about five years ago he was on the payroll of the emperor's police. Presumably leader of the opposition and elected in reality, according to the purport- hifor ed evidence, acting for the emperor im as an agent, secretly paid do confuse | 10, op and disrupt the opposition. g 4 Ienine denounced by moderate liberals the world over athe evil genius of the Russian revolution, and accused by General. Brusiloff as a paid German agent, appears to be the directing power behind the present outbreak, as lie was apenly the lead- er of the Maximalist rizing in Petro- grad on July 16th, which was sud- pressed after several hundred of the |" civil population had been massacred by machine-gun troops following his leadership. This revolt, which fol most vice, tached lowed close on the collapse of the . Russian armies in Galicia after ihe with Sesp armholes and Jars collar, ng oi By bE Alctunger extending to the waist Ja back and Bolsheviki In command of Petrograd forming broad revers Inf rent, Tre : and resulted in the resignafion ut quarter length faving a, ol George Lvoff as premier and his re- clogs In surplics sivle. Med: Since then Lenine has beet in hid- | 19m size requires 33, yards 36. inch ing. Order for his arrest was Issued | material ) 1 13, at once, and it was reported that he {/ 188 andl peplum ap og wae captured in Finland, near (hs inch material for outer waist, Swedish border, a few days later, buf | 1ar. belt and trimming pieces. The uy njerbody, placement by Kerensky. was retaken by his friends. After that he was réported to be in hiding |. effect, in Sweden, or even in Switzerland, but recently it has been said that and in constant telephonic connec- Bary & Practical In his SI eet a leader of FHomé Dress Making, Lerrons Preparnd 'Specially for This Sovipapet _By Pictorial Review A Smart Blouse with Gathered Peplumi: A gethered peplum is featured on 'this handsome blouse of taffeta and woman who is on ng over \n attractive way to make a sep «ate blouse i3 pictured here, and the r30del is the suggestion it offers for using make-overs. taffeta - that may be used to splendid ad- vantage with some creps de chino or Georgette. rials may be a combination of gar ments of other seazons has a gathered peplum which Is at- 'to a slpevelass outer waist A bit of satin or in two sections, being in kimono mpie to make. Fire. ~pistortal Review Blouse No. T493. § izes, 54 to 48 most of the time he was in Finland [ S°0t® the underarm seams are Js. then the shoulder seams, otched. Hem the front, them plait ower ed ges and adjust stay to position. Take the vest next add. plait at lower edge. Adjust on' right um: .* derbody front and finish left side for closing. To make the underwaist, close un derarm and sleeve seam as notch. ed. Closes back seam of waist. Gath. er between "T" perforations and 2 inches above~ Line of small "o"' perforations indicates center-front. Arrange on underbody, center-fronts. center-backs, underarm seams and corresponding edges even. Bring the small "o" perforation nearer the underarm seam in front, to the back edge of vest and stitch gathers to position; leave under waist free tgrward of thé small "o" perforation, 'draw gathers to the desired size and stitch tape underneath. Take the large collar and jain' front and back seetions of collar as Rotclied and sew 10 neck and fromt edges of outer waist, center-backs and notches even. Baste lower odge of eollar to outer-front. Gather outer waist and collar (at lower edges) betwegn,\'T" perfora. tions and 2 inches above. Arrvange on the under waist with center backs, under-arm seams and corres- ponding edges even; bring front edge of outer waist to small "0" per- foration in uhder waist and stitch gathers to position; tack neck. edge at center-back and in front matching the single large "0" perforations. Then, turn hems in peéplam on smal, "o" perforations. Gather be: twee "T" perforations and sew to right| lower edge of outer waist, cen- terfronts even; bring back edge to -gingle small "o" perforation in outs' er iront K and small "0" perfora- tion at top of peplum to front edge of outer front. Finish peplum be yond front edge of - under walst wi'h tape drawing gathers and fin. a for closin hes bust. Price, 20 tion with Trotzsky and other Mexi- 3 A malist leaders. At all events, he in- -------------------- tended to put in his appearance al the democratic congress in Moscow in September, and the Bolsbeviki had the effrontry to ask Keremsky for a guarantee that he would not be arrested. This the.premier refused though it appears thét any determin- ed effort to find him would probably have been successful had Keretsky dared to use sufimary measures. 'He was elected to the second doums after the revolution in 1905, was compelled to go into exile, a thing he had often done before, when the reaction triumphed. At the be- ginning of present war he wag in Cracow ani was interned as an enemy alien, but was shortly releas-§ ed and allowed to proceed to Zim- en merwald, in Switzerland, where a colony of Russian revolutionists was pr kat already established. ? After tie revolution the provi- siofial government of Russia entered into an agreement with Germany by which the Russian revolutionists in Switzerland were allowed to return through Germany in return for the- reléase of German civilians in Rus- sia. Lenine headed the party which |¥ returned by this route, and his social program, which he has been advocat- ing ever since, was drawn up as bo passed through. Je reached Petro- grad on ril 16th, just after the pacifists in the council of workmen's and soldiers' deputies had forced the began fo preach immediate peace Transeript. Trenton Youth Admits Robbery. Belleville, Jan, 24.----Oscar W. Pearce, aged sixteen vears, of Tren- ton, 'has been arrested hove and ad- mits that on Sunday night last he held up K. Lum, the proprietor of a Ubinese cafe In this cMty and obtain- ed $12. Pearce was recognized on tho street as tho pariy who com- mitted the offence, although at the thine he 'wore .a mark whiclk patti- ally concealed his face. e Te volver used was found in his valise. After his arrest he confessed to the erime.. He was remanded to jail until Saturday. : The principalship of the 'Congre- gational College of Montreal has been offered to the Rev. Dr. D. 1. Ritehit, Sottinghaw 'v Congregational are strain sult us about your eyes. ers of correct glasses. R. J. RODGER Mawes. Opticians & Srtamespinta, WwW 'loek Is on the Walk. i. od £9 You Can Not to do, so Lenine #mained in hiding, Be oY jotrself or those dependant upon you if your EYES To do your work well--you must SEE well. Con- We are eyesight specialists and mak-- 132 Princess Sg, g Player-Piano rom FEY C. W. Lindsay, Limited, 121 Princess St. a i) in i ae y i