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MULLEN, 168 Froatemac St, Phone 1417 GANANOQUE CLAYTO FERRY Aatomobile & Passenger Service Leave Gananoque: Leave Clayton: 5.45 am. 8.00 am, 9.30 a.m. 11,06 am. 3.00 pam. 6.39 p.m. SUNDAY: 5.45 a.m. 8.00 a.m. 3.00 pm. 6.80 p.m. i os FLOORS t Less, Are More Sanitary and Easier Re a Hr To Vo Allan's Lumber Yard Victoria: St. Yard Phone 1042 COAL CUSTOMERS Please Notice | Coal Sales will be for Cash Only. "BOOTH & CO. . Phane 133, "| Mrs. Alice Emily Garrison, Belleville, Eastern Ontario News NEWS FROM Th THE DISTRICT! CLIPPED FROM THE WHIG'S MANY BRIGHT EXCHANGES. In Brief Form the Events In the Country About Kingston Are Told --Full of Interest to Many. Mrs. David Johnsen, a former re- sident of Campbellford, died in Winnipeg. Assistant City Clerk Ireland has handed his resignation to the Peter. boro council. George W. Hackey, Roslin, pass- ed away on Saturday at the age of forty-seven years. Miss Florence Rahmer has taken a position with the Athens branch of the Merchants' Bank. A. 8. Valleau, ' Deseronto, is at Brighton relieving at the Customs office for a short time. Dr. C. Milton, Stratton, Napanee, who has ben taking a post graduate course in New York. On account of his removal from Prescott, F. 8. Evanson has decided to dispose of his steam laundry plant, Miss Marjorie Carter is seriously iil in Toronto. Her father, W. J. Car. ter, Picton, left last week to be with her, The marriage took place in Eng- land on July 27th of Lieut. J. B. Hol- land, Canadian Engineers, Peterboro, to Miss C. Uyossitti, Two Havelock youths named Cou- vert and Zufelt were fined $20 and costs each for assaulting Bert Aboud, the Assyrian merchant. Amos Kekoe, Belleville, died on Wednesday in Toronto, where he had been living for some years. He was about seventy years of age, Mrs. William Blakely, died suddenly on Thursdgy. She was) sitting on the verandah when she suffered a stroke of apoplexy. Fred Hubbs has sold his interest in the Hubbs & Allen planing mill, Picton, to his partner, George W. Al- len, who will continue business, At the recent entrance exams. ninety per cent. of the pupils from Napanee public school were success- ful, four of them taking honors. E. O. Shannon, agent for the Can- adian Express Co., Cobourg, for the past two years, has been promoted to manager of the Belleville agency. The death aecurred Thursday of Belleville, aged twenty-eight years. She was a daughter of Cornelius John Donovan, By the death of Mr. William G. Downie, which occurred in the Gen- eral Hospital on Wednesday, Brock- villa lost &- well-known and respected citizen, The total cash receipts of the Orange celebration at Springbrook were $3,300. The net proceeds were over $2,500, all of which goes to the Red Gross. Pie. Clarence Palmer, Smith's Falls, killed in action, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Palmer, of that town, and was born in Athens twenty years ago, S.. Welbanks is occupying his new premises on Elizabeth street, Picton. The old Barker foundry has been transformed into a most syitable building for livery and feed stable. Miss Irene Race, who for the past three years has occupied the responsi- ble position of head nurse, in charge of the training school and the nurses at the Eastern Hospital, Brockville, has resigned. The marriage took place quietly at Belleville on Tuesday of Miss Audrey Arnott, B.A., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Arnoit, to Dr. Wilfrid Pocock, lieutenant C. A, M. C., son of Mr. ay Mrs. F. P. Pocock, Brockville. asa aA ARR t Chance! Last Chance! ; To partake of the season's biggest bargains in ladies' and children' 3 wear, at our ¢ Tr Ending Saturday, Augunt vd WHITEWEAR BARGAINS, CORSET BAR ARGAINS, DRESS BARGAINS, a | aes. toads Ore on {From Our Owy Correspondent.) Aug. 5.~~The congregations of the Anglican, Presbyterian and Me- thodist churches helt a unian pat- riotic service at the town park on Sunday evening at 7.30 e'clogk, and it was very largely attended. Ad- dresses were given by the pastors of the various churches and others. The steamer Belleville on her way up from Montreal was in port on Saturday evening with large ' ship- ments of freight. The steam yacht Aida of Alex- andria Bay is giving service two days a week between Rockport and Kingston, calling at Gananoque and other intervening points. Arrangements have been made by the Gananoque Water Power Com- pany for starting repalrs to their dam at Marble Rock, seven miles north of this town, on Aug. 12th. The work will take a week or ten days, after which the water will be shut off for repairs here, which will probably take at least two weeks. Pte. Wesley Shaw, of the 75th Battery, in eamp at Petawawa, is spending a short furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Shaw, Front of Leeds and Lans- downe. [Charles Nuttall, of the Roya} Fly- ing Corps at Camp Mohawk, near Deseronto, is spending a six days' furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 'T. Nuttall, Brock street. Miss Veda M. Miler, of Brock- ville, arrived on Friday to spead a week with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hurd, King street. Mrs. H. Bovey and children, Front of leeds and Lansdowne Township, are spending a week with relatives in town. Gerald Pauley, of the 75th Bat- tery, in camp at Petawawa, is spend- ing a short furlough here with his mother, Mrs. Pauley, Stone street. Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Young, who have been spending the past ten weeks at their summer home on Hay Island, have returned to their home in 'Rochester, N..Y. Mr. and Mrs..C. H. Hurd, accom~ panied by Miss Veda M Miller, of Brockville, spent the week-end in the lake section to the north. Undeérwent Serious Operation. Latimer, Aug. 5.--The crops are all looking fine after ° the recent rains. The many friends of Miss Luella Traves are sorty to hear of her illness, having undergone a seri- ous operation in the Kingston Gene- ral Hospital on Sunday morning las Miss Edna Johnston, Kingston, 1s spending a couple of weeks at her home here. Mis#-LiZzie Hughson is spending a A Jew § 2 at Mrs. B. Coll- ings'. hnston, Toronto, spent a ak recently at his broth- er's, Edward Johnston's. Harry Darling and Earl Shepherd have each purchased hew cars. Miss Marjory Lord, Titchborne, has re- turned home aftér spending a week at George Sheplierd's. There is some talk of a lawn social here in the near future. Mac. Taylor and family motored from Toronto, and are spending a féw days at her fath- er's. John Taylor. We are pleased to hear that Fredérick Buck has ar- rived safely in England. There was no service here last Sunday evening so the young folks had to go in an- other direction. H. Johnston and 8. Buck called on friends at Sunbury recently. Peterboro Deserter Interned. iPeterboro, Aug. 3.-----Aftéer break- ing his parole in Peterboro, Rein- hold Heuer was traced by Chief Thompson to an American regiment, in which he had enlisted under an assumed name, and is now interned for the duration of the war in a Un- ited States internment camp. Heuer was employed as an expert at the colonial weaving factory. He as- serted that he was a Swiss, but his papers showed that he was born in Germany. a -------- > Cornwall Men Penalized. Ottawa, Aug. 3.----Messrs. "Wil- liam Borthwick and Chevrjer Bro- thers, of 'Cornwall, have been pro- | hibited by the Canada Food Board from purchasing or selling flour for a period of fifteen days from Aug. 1st. This action was taken because the parties named above were not conserving in the distribution of flour and did not take sufficient precaution to prevent illegal export of flour from Canada. Private Thomas Mouser, Hope, while enroute overseas was taken il on _bosrd 4 the Sranspont Thougna, with double Free. monia and died on July 18th. He ar. buried at sea. : ' Waiter Istead, with the R. it Braneiia is a Prince Ed- A y who is in training to do his 'bit. for king and country. of Norman Istoad, Allisonville. : Cut Supplied hy Ontario Safety League, AA ---------- INCIDENTS OF THE DAY. Local Notes and Items of General Interest, James Swift, Jr., and Harry J. Mar- tin have gone to Cleveland and De- troit on business. Miss _Jreda Pickering, Nelson street, is visiting Miss Nellie Burnett at 'Odessa. Four Kingston boys made off with an automobile owned by ex-Mayor C. J. Graham on Sunday and took a spin as far as Napanee, but there met with trouble. The local lads will not be 'prosecuted. The car will be brought to Kingston as soon as it re- ceives some necessary repairs. 8. A. McCammon, who is with the Eastman Company, Rochester, N.Y., is in the city for a few days, renews ing old acquaintances. dn an interview the King bad at Buckingham Palace with the Canadi- an editors, His Majesty expressed great appreciation of the officers pro- duced through the Royal Military College at Kihgston. Hatters' Bay "big leaguers' are out to meet all comers, according to reliable information, and James Mc- Guire, the manager, is out to receive challenges." On Saturday afternoon the Portsmouth boys of the Indepen~ dent. League, defeated the Stella team of Amberst Island by 26 to 10. DR. BELAND ARRIVES AT ATLANTIC PORT Canadian M.P., Long a Prison= mar IS MAORW.. SHARP ALIVE (Continued from from Page 1.) It was thought that perhaps 'Major Sharp might have been shell-shock- ed at the front and that in a tem- porary relapse he had wandered All Canada's Man Power is Required ! Avoid Accidents mn -- (INSECT RETR IRARRRRERLSE No Coal Orders Taken Until Further Notice A CHADWICK & SON (RARE from the city. Mrs. Sharp stated, however, that his wounding wés the reason for his return, and that he had ngt been suffering from nervous disability It is understood that a strict in- vestigation into the mystery of his disappearance will be instituted. The fact that the diving and the blasting revealed no trace of his 'presence has strengthened the opinion that Major Sharp has either been made the victim of foul play or that he has left the city. The piace er, Says the Huns Are On Last Legs. An Atlantic Port, Aug. 5.--Bear- ing 600 passengers a huge British transport steamed into port here Sat- urday. Among her passengers were many British and American army of- ficers and Dr. H. 8. Beland, former Postmaster-General of Canada and a former member of the Canadian Par- liament, Dr. Beland described conditions in Germany as very bad and expressed the opinion that the nation could not long hold out with food so scarce Prison camp conditions, he said, ach horrible, Several attempts were made by the British and Canadian authorities to obtain Dr. Beland's release through the exchange of prisoners, but none was successful until early this year. in 1915 the German Government offered to liberate Dr. Beland upon agreement for like action by Great Britain in the case of Franz Von | Rintelen, then a prisoner in England and now serving a semtience in this country for plotting destruction of Allied ships leaving American ports. The proposed exchange did not ma- terialize. BANK ROBBERY ALAM, Two Rolicetmen Dashed Into Bank of Morning. Par tre on ng street were startled at an early hour on Monday morning, when. they saw Constables Mullinger and Downey rush across the market square from the police station to the Bank of Montreal. Visions of a daring robbery in the bank during the night were brought to mind, but quickly dispelled when the police came out in a few mp- ments and announced that the burg- lar alarm wifes connected with the station had crossed, with the result that a warming was given iu the po- lice office. {#xplaining the present where he was supposed to have been drowned is in a secluded spot where he might easily have been attacked Lake 'Ontario : Trout and Whitefish, Fresh Sea Salmon, Had- dock, Halibut and Dowiaiba Fish: Go. Canada Food Board License Neo. 0.3240. by thugs walking along the railroad tracks. It is certainly not an en- tieing bathing beach, for the water is muddy and stagnant and weeds infest the place. George Coxworthy, who found the clothes, stated that a man answer- ing his deseripiion was seen in the vicinity on Priday night and he must have gone by automobile from the city, as he did not buy a ticket at the local 'G.T.R. office His clothes were not seen at the intake pipe dock until nearly ten o'clock, though Mr. Coxworthy had been in the vicinity in the early morning. The alr fs thick with surmises as Call 291 For cars, cabs or livery of any kind. Motor bus for Cataraqui at 1.50 p.m. daily except Saturdays or Mondays. Motor bus for Kingston Mills Si ay at 10 a.m. Finkle and Company 122 Clarence Street. to the causes of his disappearance and his whereabouts. Every person has a different version, based in the majority of cases on insufficient and unsubstantial information. it is understood that a detective from the Thiel Agency has been engaged to work on the case and is following up all possible clues to get at the bot- tom of the mystery. The articles found. on the bank were his tunic, trousers, shirt and other apparel, his watch, his spec- tacles, his cane, his boots and the sum of thirty-live cents in his pock- ets. His fountain pen as well as his money belt was missing, and this ledds to a suspicion that there may have been foul play. It was said that when he left hig office he had the sum of four hundred dollars in his wallet, which was missing when bis clothing was found. BAVARIAN WAR MINISTER Tells Lower Hovise Ge German Offensive (Canadian Press Despatoh) Berns, Switzerland, Aug. 5. Htary situa- tion in France to the wer House, General Hellingrith, Bavarian War Minister, sald that undoubtedly the German offensive bad been stopped, and it was not possible to discuss the present operations, issn le Mrs, Murphy. Portamauthi, was re- red from Portsmou Reid's mo- th £0 ihe Hotell} James of i Ar appear. ane. a ait a, Ay A inches x record i 45 protecting