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, Nee 33; Vol. 1

ABBOTSFORD, B.C., aes: July 26, 1923

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This ze nisreay showing the West_ ae ‘Prairie as seen Ala Vedder Mois
a

~ water

tain subystation, depicts in a graphic Woy what has been aecomphatie
shown in the photograph has been drained and the land is now being cultivated.

1 by reclamation in this area. Most of the

Big Pump Has Rircady Lowered Lake 7 Inches

Since the ev éning of July 3rd, when
the big @entrifugal pump at the Sumas
dyke was Amal in operation, the lake
waters have been Idwered an average
of seWh inches. As considerable wat-
er is continually ponring into the lake
from the various tributary streams and
creeks, the capacity of the big pump
is considered most satisfactory by the
engineers. On Wednesday #fternoon
the pump waS shut down, and will-be
idle for.a week or ten ‘days to enable
“a permanent connection to substation
and power ine be made. Westing-
house eleciricians are still engaged in-
Stalling the other three pumping units

“which will ‘constitue the pumping house
“Oyirhnent, and on August 10th the en-
tire battery will be in operation,
Pumping will then continue until the
lake is dry, and by October 1st, the
engineers state, Sumas Lake wilk have
‘disappeared, except for holes and small

low_places.

Contractors are now starting work
on the Sarr-Arnold Creek ditch, and
will -haye~ this excavation completed
early in September, Draglines will
then be moyed to the lake canal, the
digging of which will commence just
as soqn as the lake is dry.

_ Rip-rapping or rocking of the Ved-
Ger river was completed Jast week, and
various other detail work is fast being
completed. The main work at present
is
stalling machinery, painting and clean-
ing up around the works. An earth
dam
river at the West end of the Goose
Lake Canal, a small dyke on the north
side of tho river, and a number of
bridges. The canal from the Sumas
river to Sarr creek is now practically
complete. ; 3 i

Fencing is underway on thes last
prairie. and the Fraser river dyke is
being trimmed up and put into shape.

Asa result of the work dofie farmers
in the lake area land that is now avail-

Mrs. A. ©, Fraser of Keriisdale
is visiting Mrs..Cook at Kilgard.
Mrs. Mills Bad family have fain

up wosidence near the Northern Con-
struction” Company eamp., Mr. Mills
is an employee of the company,

Hargld Lloyd comes to the Abbots-
ford theattre August 3 and 4 in a
good picture. sa

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ao commemorate the second anniver-
sary of the opening of the theatre hall,

Mr, Harrop is giving dance tomorrow
evening.
* * *

“Mr. and Mrs, W. P. Swanson are
the proud parents of a bouncing baby
boy. We have often said “Watch
Matsqui Grow.’’ In this case it is a

- Teality,
+e

Mr. Nygaard returned ‘to his home
at Duhamel,-Alberta and will have ‘an
auction. sale of bis farm simpliments
and stock there this fall after which
he will | ret
has bought a beautiful home,

zs e8e vag
Note Mr. Hurum’s advertisment on
the back of oe paper:
*
OB Atbert Rollog, a Camrose, Alberta,
is here on a visit, Albert has numer-
. ous friends and relatives in-the Mats:
qui district. There is a Possibility of
_ Mr. Rolleg peeling, here,

being pursued cag the dam site, in-

is being built across the Sumas |*

mm to Matsqui where he

able for crop for tlre “first time. Mr.
Cook _ pas about 90 acres in Sprin,
wheat and oats and 3 acres in fall
wheat. His spring crops do not look
as well asthey might, but the fall
wheat which will be threshed next
week, is expected to average 30 bushels
to the gere, Tame hay in the district
averages three to. three and a half
tons to the acre and wild hay one and

a half tons. As~ they are cultivating,
in lake bed lands, a yet unknown
quality

of soil, the farmers are pro-
ceeding cautiously, ‘and the best crops.
to grow in the area will not be deter-
mined for a-season or two:

But the settlers in the Sumas lake
disttict are ~ enjoying their first year
free ‘from floods and with a growing
confidence feel that the conditions
which they have hoped for and antici-
pated for years are here-at last, and
that the lands will fully justify the
large= expense and - work entailed in
their reclamation,

Mr. and _Mrs, J, Fyfe, Miss Nan
Fyfe, Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Chambers

motored up from Vancouver last Sun-
day and spent the day with Mr. and
Mires O. W. Benedict.

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FoR SALE—GOOD. BUSINESS LOT
“in Abbotsford. Snap price.
{ News Office.

Matsqui_
rei
The dance given by the tennis elnb
last Friday ey ening was very poorly
attended, and as a result the club will
have a deficit to make up rather than
a surplus. We take the liberty of say-
ing ‘that this is too bad, The girls
have * done everything in, their power
to make this club a Success, and had
it not been for the outsiders coming
to Matsqui they would haye been mueh
Worse off financially. “The musie was
supplied by Morgans Orchestra of Ab-
botsford. here is no‘ doubt but Mor-
gans put up some of the snappiest
dance music of any orchestra in the
Valley- Matsqui, like all other small
towns is blessed with a few knockers
and soreheads who make it their busi-
nessto make the other fellows lot os
miserable as possible. We have no
use for these people here and the soon-
er they pack up and go the-better we
Will like them. Should we never see
them again we can assure them that
that willbe soon enough. Anyway we
are going to keep on boosting our
town for all it is worth.
* ae *

Mr. Ole Olson, who has been a pa-
tient -in the mental hospital at New
Westminster has returned to Matsqui
and is much improved in health.
Mrs. Wm. Hayes of Ridgedale was
among Matsqui visitors on, Tuesday.

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OVER FIVE PER CENT CANA-

The new Community hall which the

DIAN EEOELE OWN AUTOS! Aldergrove

Motor ences registered in Cana
during 1922 ayeraged 5.7 to every 100 to
persons. The total Hegatahes was
531,821, an increase of 6 per cent over
1921. Passenger cars in 1922 number-
ed 462,275, commercial cars 37,610 and
motorcycles 9375. Licenses issued to

dealers and manufacturers amounted to tion.
4561. Tourist edrs entered Canada to i
the number of 818,314 for @ period of _ Mtelligence

24 hours or less; 175,535 for two to 30
days, and 2420 for a period of pus to

six months. . (board measure) to 50c¢. age would and 400! Butter Beans, 3 ibe for 25c.
be of great ad¥ antage to B.C. '§ ex- 4
4 Riz AAs ae ind Gooseberries, Ib 6 to 1ée; 4 strawber= :2
Uiidor the auspices of the recently | Port trade, ; ries, crate $1.50; Raspberries, Ib Se;
i = 5 $ ;
Greanicede. sidergrover-Wowtarts. (lr SS a Oh Sis ae Blackberries Ib 15e; Currants, red,
stitute, a most, successful sale of work The B. Cc. Berry Growers Union are erate $1.25; white Ib 7e; black, Ib 129
was held recently. The proceeds erecting a juice plant at Clayburn to to 15e;¢herries, Ib Ge; Loganberries,

amounted to $105, which will be dona-
teil to the community hall fund.

gh date.

the

% ;
The hall has been voluntarily erected
by, local labor gnd financial eontribu-

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comes from the
that the duty on fir, cedar, spruce and
hemlock may be cut from $1.00 per M

Agricultural
erecting will be completed at an early.
This will be a fine addition

buildings in the district and
| reflects great credit on the ¢éommunity.
> —

increase the marketing ‘possibilities of |
small fruits.

Westminster Weekly Market
Society are —- i

Butter, ranch, per Ib, 45 fo 50e; Dey=
onshire: Cream butter, 50c; Eggs, r
per dozen, 25 to 30e; Pullets’
wholesale 15 to Ave; Wholesale,
22¢; Retail, 17 to 20c.

Potatoes, per sack, 41 +7 Ibs for
25¢; Carrots, 2«bunches for 5e; Bectsy
3 bunches for 10(; Cabbage, per Ib 5e
| Onions, per sack $5. 90; rca 2 2 buielg
ches, Be; Rhubarb, per Ib, Pe,
new, 45 lbs for 25¢; Cauliflower 2/
Tatas head, 3  forlQc;
each 5 and 10c; Vegetable Mar

21 to

9

South

Cucumbers

2 Ibs for 25e; Huckleberries, Ib 15¢.~
Hens, light 11 to 12e, heavy, 15 to

7c; dressed fowl, 25 to 35c; yearlings, /

system itself.

This service enables cus

The Mails

The setvice of the Bank of Montreal is as
wide and comprehensive as the postal

Ib 30¢; ducks, dressed, Toostp
8 to 10c young ducks, 18 to 20¢; d)
ed fries 3 for $1.00; broilers, 20 to
baby chicks, 20 to 250; |
25: young cockerels, each) 4.and 5:
pullets, 60¢ to $1.25.

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“Kick:In” A Good Bieta?

George

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baby ducks,

Fitzmaurice’s prodtction of
“Wick In,’? a Paramount picture whieh
is being at the Abbotsofrd
theatre next Saturday contains a group
of famous film folk, in addition to a
corking good story, one that lia
the elements that go to make'a suce
ful motion picture.

~In New York one may in a faw min-
utes walk from the fashionable district
to the slums where crooks and the beg-
maké — their
twa classes of society

shown

¢

gars homes.

Between
tliese
but a narrow line, yet the man from
the slums often finds himself confront-

ed-with almost insuromuntable obstae-
‘}les wlien he attempts*to approach his
more fortunate neighbor.
portrs

there is

of‘ Kick In’?

these, two classes as they real-

Visits.

“Banking by Mail.”

Write for our A

living in

districts to transact their banking by mail as
satisfactorily as if they could make personal

BANK OF MONTREAL

ly are and people who like to know the
truth about all phases of life will fiml
this amazing picture well worth seeing.

The people of Mission are
for the removal of the provincial coh-
stable. They -claim that
strict in some directions
in others and is: causing considerable
trouble to the law abiding cifizens,
Various bodies are discussing the
matter with a view to Asking the pow-
ers that be for Iris remoyal.
erg ae
Surrey

ifating

he is tod

and too lax

The
plan

Council is the

Travte

backing
advanced by M.r Board
of formally opening the last

of

tion of

POR SALE—WELL SITUATED LOT
in Whiterock near beach $125.
News Office

Miss D. M.
im Vancouver.

Lee spent the weekend

Following a consultation with the

government road engineet, the Board
of Trade secretary is circulating
petition to be presented to the govern-
ment, requesting the paving ot the
aan streets. . ;

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< thé. Pacifie Highway on L Day
Established over 100 years September 3rd with a monster Picnic,
ESS SS ee
SSS The ~ town of Mission is improving
Branches established at the. ialieeser points in the District: its main streets by paving, this puts
New Westminster, Chilliwack, .-Port.Haney, Cloverdale, Frits hig Serer ee
Misaron Giky, Ladngr, : Agassiz. E: leir streets in good shape.
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Two of the big dredges |)

which have been contiri

ual at work on the Su

3 dykes. One is at

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present eng
off”?
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the big

“topping