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No. 42; Vol. 2

ABBOTSFORD, B.C., Thursday, October 2, 1924

$1.50 per year

Hunters Prohibited
From Sumas Lands

The Upper Sumas Game Protection
Association was fermed at a meeting
held in the Munitipal Hall on Friday
Jast, with M. Bewman as chairman,

The formation of this boly by the
farmers of Siimas Prairie is due to the
annoyance and ioss they have been
occasioned in the past by hunters run-
ning al] over their property, leaving
@ates open, breaking fences and even
maiming stock. It was agreed that no
Jands will be leased to gun clubs, but
the properties patrolled by their own
Game warden, who will see that only
the land owners or their guests are
allowed to shoot over the areas affecte

M. G. Fadden, W. Fraser and E. B.
McPhail were selected as a delegation
to arrange with the municipal council
the enforcing of the land owners rights
Members of the Council present at the
meeting promised sympathetic consid-
eration and it is expected that practic-
ally all owners of the marginal lands
will join the association.

VILLAGE TO HAVE
STREET LIGHTS

Authority, was received by the Vil-
lage Commissioners last week to enter
into an agreement with the B. 0, Elec-
trie company for the installation of 20
strect lights in Abbotsford. An agree-
Ment was drafted and forwarded Fri-
day to the lighting company’s legal
department. Upon its acceptance work
will be immediately commenced install-
ing the lights.

Abbotsford G.W.V.A. Wires Cordial Invitation to Owner of this Ranch

The Abbotsford G. W, V. A. has wired an invitation.to the Prince of Wales to visit this section of the Fraser
Valley, while on bigsrtrip to the coast.

They are a famous

(Top)—The Prince of Wales’ best

rd and Include many prize winners.
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his ranch at High River to improve the

impion Short Horn bull
ce’s Ran-*

grass cutters are here seen at work on his ranch at High River, Alta.

the King, and loaned to the Prince
equine stock of Alberta.

imported and owned the
at High River on the Gaigary-Lethe

Harvest Serdiices
Well Attended

Record congregations were present
both morning and evening at the
Sunual Harvest Festival at St. Matth-
ew’s Church, and took part most heart-
ily and earnestly in the services of
praise and thanksgiving, In the morn-
Sng the yicar preached on ‘‘Our Best
for God,’’ and in the evening Canon
Smith of Bellingham took as his text
“The Right Hand of the Lord Bringeth
Mightly Things to Pzss.’’

The large choir of men women and

* boys rendered special music, the morn-

ing anthem being Stainer’s ‘*Ye Shall
Dwell in the Land,’’ with Mr, H. R,
Brown as bass soloist and the evening
anthem being Peace’s ‘‘Sing Aloud
unto God.’’ Mrs. Thwaite of Belling-
ham sang ‘‘Lead Kindly Light,’’ at
the evening service.

Flames are threatening the Bioede!-|

Donovan Lumber Company’s mill at
Bellingham, All the available fire
ghting apparatus of the city has

- been called out in an effort to stop the

Conflagration, This lumber company
is one of the Jargest in the world,
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The garage building formorly oc-
eupied by the Abbotsford Garage and
Machine Shop is being renovated and
will shortly -be opened as a garage by
a Mission man,

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POPLAR

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Todd are re-
ceiving congratulations from their

friends upon the recent birth of a son.
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‘Much excitement has-been cudsed-in
the district by the appearance of a
large bear, seen by two boys while
looking for their cows on Sunday last.

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Mrs. John Duncan is spending a few
days in Vancouver.

On Friday night the regular monthly
meeting of the Poplar Community As-
Pociation will be held, and a social
hour. will be spent after the regular
‘business.

We are sorry to report that our schoo!
teacher, Miss MeMurphy, is leaving,
owing to ill health. While in the dist-
rict, Miss MeMurphy has won a num-

ber of friends who will regret losing
a good teacher, as well as a community
worker.

Mrs. Archie Smith returned home
from Chilliwack on Friday,

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F. Fraser of Salmon Arm, who at one
time owned considerable property here,

Misited Abbotsford this week on
business.
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Messrs, Enman and Qummins, the

air-brush painters, have been very busy
in the Chilliwack valley for the past
feveral weeks, and are returning to
complete some barn painting for farm-

ers on Sumas and Matsqui Prairies,

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Abbotsford Personals

Mrs. 0. W: Benedict had as her
guests during the past week, Mrs. J-
Ferguson of Victoria, Mfrs. Postlewaite
of Milner, Exd- Mrs, “Housley of Braw
don, Manitoba. The two last. named
Were school chums of Mrs, Benedict,

Whom she had not seen for some years,
see .

Mr. and Mrs. F. JOR. Whitchelo and
daughter Phylis, who have been in Ab-
botsford during the past week, moved
their household effects to Vancouver
thhis week, and will make their future
home there.

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The regular monthly meeting of the

St. Andrews and Caledonian Society
will be held in the Masonic hall on
Saturday eyening next.

A number of friends in Abbotsford
attended the funeral of Marie Bliza-
beth Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Lee, of the B.C. sub-station at
Cloverdale, which was held from Holy
Rosary Church, New Westminster on
Sunday afternoon. The little girl, who
was in her fourteenth year, was ill
only a few days, death being due to ap-
pendicitis. Their many friends through
this district regret to hear of their
bereavement.

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Paste this date in your hat—Friday
October 31—Annual dance of the
Women’s Auxiliary to the M, S.A,
Hospital, in the theatre hall,

Tom Moor in ‘Big Brother,’? coming
to the Abbotsford theatre on Saturday.
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Slowly but surely New York is los-
ing out as a publication centre. Big
printing concerns are removing their
Plants to smaller citiegy and towns.
They are doing it both to escape labor
agitation and high rents and to get
more central shipping facilities, They
are proving what we have always
known and what every citizen of this
district can find out if he wants to
make a test—and that is thut the size

of the town or the size of the shop has
nothing to do with the quality of
printing turned out. If the material
and the ‘‘know how”? is there just as
good printing can be done here as in
Chicago or New York. Nobody has a
monopoly on neatness or breins, and
type can be bought here as cheap as;
anywhere else. The man who sends
away from home for his printing on the
supposition that he can get better work
or lower prices is exposing his ignor-
ance and paying more in the long-run,

So pleasant a time was enjoyed at
the ‘‘Corn Bake”’ held at the farm of
J. Re y cusoniay evening, by the
Gree (Wat Vas Sas and: their friends,
that it has been decided to lave-more

future,

Very amusing were the signs that
had been very conspicuously placed
along the roadside—‘ Vimy Ridge,’’”
‘Hellfire Corner,’’ ‘Hill 60,’’ ete.,
and as a ‘grand finale’ outside of Mr.
Rowley’s house stood the old familiar
and appreciable sign ‘The Better ’ole.’

Several grect bonfires had been
started previous to the arrival of the
party, and in a very natural way the
members settled themselves around,
and after singing ‘‘Pack Up Your
Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag,’’ it was
very evident that they were all pack-
ed away. Choruses, songs, recitations,
and stories followed, thick and fast,
and later a ‘ration patty’ was called
for, and the party got down to a real
corn feast.

Many others who intended to be
Present were left behind through a
misunderstanding as to where to meet.

Mrs. Cavanagh of Sackatchewan, who
has been the guest of her parents Mr.
and Mrs. Dunham for the past few
months, left on Monday night to return
to her home,

Robert Gillen’of Galgary and Jamos
jGillen of Vancouver are spending a
holiday with their mother; ‘

What Local
Industry
Means

The people of British Columbia are
urged where quality and price are equal
to protect themselves by giving prefer-
ence first to British Columbia, next to
Canadian products and then to those
of the British Empire,

This course’ is Suggested as a means
to tone down immigration by building
up local industry. Last year 10,000
British Columbia people with a con-
Sumer capacity of $7,000,000. moved
south of the line to settle there.

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Pacific Milk Co., Ltd.

Head Office: Vancouver, B.

Corn Bake Jolly Affair

affairs of the same nature in the near

CUSTOMS REPORT
HEAVY TRAFFIC

Few persons realize the large volume
of work that falls upon the customs
staff at Huntingdon during the busy
tourist season of the year. Yet for the
five months ending September 30 of
this year over 70,000 auto passongers
were passed through the local port, all
Customs examinations being made by
a staff of two:—J. Bates and T. Kirk-
by, who wero assisted occasionally by
E. Leary, R. H. Eby or H. Thorn of
the Abbotsford office. Immigration
examinations are made by Officers 0?
Neill and Burkett with J. Marshall in
charge. The following figures are in-
teresting and show more than a 50%
inereasevin traffic for this year over
last: April to September 80, 1923 —

Canadian automobiles leaving Cana>
da outwards, ow... - 4756,
Foreign automobiles entering Cana-
da-dnwakds, Wis, fe 5484,
Passengers in automobiles passing
outwards, tremsteeseneeee 24015,
Passengers in automobiles entering
dpwards,-): 2.5,32,.. ais sence QT174.

Same months this year—

Canadian automobiles leaving Cana-
da. outwards, 6097,
Foreign automobiles entering Cana-

da inwards, eevecwsennn- 8576,
Passengers in automobiles passing
outwards, weree 32774,
Passengers in automobiles entering
inwards, - . 39483,

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+ “GLAD TO GET HoME’’

Mr. and Mrs. C. Wallace arrived in
Abbotsford Tuesday evening after a
a three-month visit to Scotland and Eng
land. While overseas they visited
their son’s grave in France, and are
generous in praise over the beautifully
kept graves of Britain’s war heroes in
France. But Mr. Wallace was any-
thing but pleased over industrial con-
ditions as he’found them in the old
Jand. “The dole gystem’’ he said is
becoming the ruination of the British
workman’? It has produced more lazy-
ness, More strikes ond more unrest
than any other measure introduced in
Great Britain in modern times, “Wo
are sure glad to get back to ‘‘God’s
Country’’ he said with Considerable
enthusiasm.

MATSQUI P.T-A. ELECTS OFFiueKS

The regular meeting of the Matsqui
Parent-Teachers’ Association was held
in the school on Tuesday evening last,
and in spite of the disagreeable weather
about 25 were present, After the reg-
ular business, the Rey. Mr. Sundstrom
addressed the meeting.

At the election of officers for the en-
suing year, L. S. Smith, and J. T, Aish
were re-elected president and vice-
president respectively; Mra, G. Crist
secretary, and Miss Bates treasurer.

At the close of the meeting a short
time was spent in social intercourse,
during which Stella IHurum rendered
selections on the piano while the ladies
served refreshments:

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Matsqui school trustees kaye just
inspected all the municipal schools and
found everything in satisfuctory con
dition. They found the new Clayburn
school a model of convenience and good
constrvction.

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A considerable sum was realized at
the fair by the Mt. Lehman W. I. to-
wards the construction of a kitchen
and dressing rooms at the Mt. Léhman
Orange Hall.

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Bernard McElroy, an old-time resid-
ent of Abbotsford, visited friends here
during the week.

The? first - regular meeting of the
Houtingdon Parent-Teachers' Associa-
tion will meet in the school house next
Monday afternoon. Work for the com-
ing winter months will be planned at
this gathering,

Le ASTER RUMEN SR

On behalf of herself and family, Mrs.
J. ©, Alder wishes to herewith convey
her sincere thanks and appreciation of
the kindneses shown at the time of her
husband’s decease, also for the beauti-
ful floral tributes tendered by the
many kind friends,

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Old Time Gospel Service

IN THE ORANGE HALL
Every Sunday
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3 p. ce +. Sunday School
4 pm, 5 =) Service
Preacher—REV. L. E, CHANNEL,

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