‘ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND” MATSQUI NEWS —_ Do a Whole Wash Without Putting Your Hands: hh The Water 2 | Coop er-Seldon Co. SALES AGENTS Pa B.C. LAUN electrio washing | | WASHES AND DRIES WITHOUTIA WRINGER | | ~ May we give you a demon- VRE can do the washing rinsing (using scalding hot water too) and even the blu- ing, hands into the water if you without putting your ‘wash the Laun-Dry-Ette way Thousands who use the Laun - Dry - Ette “Washing Machine are saving hands Electric and health through its use stration in your home? oe 1 Y-ETTE machine Good Is Cheaper and Better than Wood. Ihave it My Tons Are BIG TONS HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FOR BOTTLES Coal Or By the Sack Abbotsford Coal & Transfer J. W. COTTRILL, Mgr. BAILROAD ST. ABBOTSFORD PHONE 9 The Friend who took you would appreciate a tire or tube for : Christmas WEIR’S GARAGE out week-ends Abbotsford ow Express Rates On Produce, Eggs, ee We make pick-ups in ton lots anywhere accessible SHIP BY TRUCK--IT’S CHEAPER AND BETTER EVERY DAY Poultry, Vegetables CALL WEIR'S GARAGE FRASER VaLley Phone Fair. 1186 A, THORNTON, Proprietor Motor Express 1131 - 13th Aye. E RIDGEDALE MUTUAL BENEFIT LITERARY SOCIETY AND MECHANICS INSTITUTE NOTICE is hereby given that all persons claiming to be members of or interested in the above Institute are . tequested to attend a meeting whieh will be held on moe evening, Dec. 29, 1923 at 8 o’clock at the Ridgedale Hall, and bring with them such evi- dence as they may possess of their membership in the above society. Dated this llth day of December 923. In a community and district so young that it still numbers among its inhabitants many who are looked up- on as pioneers, a quarter of a century seems a long stretch of time building or institution twenty-five years, old may be said to haye a his- tory. Among the institutions in Ab- botsford this distinction must be numbered St. Matthew’s ehureh, Although Church of England services had been held in this part of the Fraser Valley for many years be- fore 1900 by clergy coming from, Mis- sion or Chilliwack it was not until that year that the present church building was erected and opened for worship, largely through the instru- mentality of the late James M. Mil- sted and Prof. Hill-Tout. Tho late Archdeacon Pentreath, who labored so long and zealously for the cause of God in British Columbia came monthly to hold services and associated with him were the Rev. Messrs. W. E. Wright, C. J. Brenton, J. W. Weather- den, D.D, Moore, Tha Rey. A. E. Davis was the first resident vicar of Abbotsford commencing ‘his /ministry in 1908 and the entries in the parish record show that George Clark Cham- berlin was the first child® baptised, Albert Henry Barker the first person confirmed. Edgar Marey and George Tucker the first couple married and Mrs. Sarah Merryfield the first re- corded burial. . Various in the reeords of the church, as for in- stanee that in the winter of 1911 there was an outbreak of small-pox in the town necessitating the suspend- ing of any publie gatherings and that on occasion the plague of mosquitoes has been so bad that no services could be held, a reason for non-attendance at chureh which fortunately ts no lon- ger valid in these mere civilised days. The church has grown with the growth of the community and additions and improvements both within and with- out the edifice have been made from time to time. ‘The oldest article in the church is the font which was Sent out from England in the early,.’60’s the gift of the i Coutts for use in the old Fort Douglass Tt later taken to St. Chilliwack thence brought to Abbotsford. In 1912 completed and any elaiming incidents Baroness Burdett- chureh, was Thomas’ church, and the present vicarage was and subsequently paid for the effort of the Auxiliary, an orginization largely through Women’s in the parish that has always done worthy service. ag geen More than $170,000,000 came to Gana da through tourist traffic during last year, according to an estimate received from Ottawa by Canadian National Railways officials. In addition to the great numbers of tourists brought into Canada by the railways during the reg- ular tourist season, which this year was the heaviest the Canadian National sy- stem has known, it is estimated that over 1,000,000 automobiles entere] the nine provinces of Canada on business or pleasure during the season. During last year, according to government es- timates, tourist traffic, producer, took fourth place in Canada’s industries. as a revenue MEET ME AT Che & resrent Tobacco & Cigars Billards & Pool Pipes, Bte., Ete. Well Equipped Barber Shop in Connection Soft Drinks — Soda Fountain Confeetionery E. A. HUNT BE. M. BEHARRELL Acting Seeretary Essendene Ave Abbotsford Phone 39 Anglican Church Represented In Abbotsford Over Quarter Century During the ineumbency of the pre- sent Vicar, ahall 25x40 has been erect ed beside the church and is fulfill- ing a most useful purpose in the life of both the community and the church, proving especially serviceable for the boys and girlg of Abbotsford. This building which is new nearly free of debt was erected almost entirely by the voluntary labor of the men of the town and district, thirty-five in al) giving time for its construction. Tho present wardens of the church aro Messrs, H. F. Thorn and E, A. Barrett, Mr. F. S, Thorn ig choirmas- ter and Miss S. M, Steede, organist. The Vicars of the parish have been: Rev. A-H. Daviss, 1908-10, Rey. ALE, Bruce, 1911, Rev. O.F. Yates, 1911- 15, Rev. J.C. Mitton, 1915-16; Rev. T.E. Rowe, 1916-21; Roy. AH. Priest, 1921 - 23, Whatcom People Use Home-Grown Sugar Real home-grown sugar is now avail- able to the housewives of Western Waslfington. Sugar made from beets grown here in the Puget Sound coun- try—on farms in Whatcom, Skagit and Sohomish counties—has just been placed on the market in this vicinity. For the first time Western Wash- ington grew sugar beets on a commer- cial scale last summer and now, after the extraction of the sugar content at plants of the Utah-Idaho Sugas Com- pany in Eastern Washington they have been returned here in the form of pure, white granulated sugar, in sacks with the mark, Pacific Northwest Seal of Quality Products?’ in each sack Tho 1923 growing season was used to demonstrate that *he soil and cli- mate ofthe Puget Sound district are ideal for the rasiing of sugar beets. So successful was this demonstration that it is expected a beet sugar fac tory will be erected in Western Wash- ington to handle the beets grown in this district. When farmers of the three northern counties agree to plant 5,000 acres to sugar beets the sugar plant is assured, aecording to Trepre- sentatives of the Utah-Idaho Sugas Company. It has been found that the beets grown in Whatcom, Skagit and Sno- homish counties show a similar con- tent of sugar as those from eastern sections of this state, where the large acreages are planted. Sugar beets have been found by in vestigators to -be an exeeptionally profitable crop for tho farmer, of Western Washington, especially in the great dairy sections. In connection with dairy farming beet growing gives the farmer the tops for feeding his cattle and with a sugar plant nearby he also has the valuable beet pulp which is said to be an exeellent food for cattle. Fertilizer for growing the beets rapidly and profitably is fur- nished right on the dairy farm, Investigators sent from Skagit coun- ty to the beet growing sections of Idaho and Utah brought back enthu- siastle reports on the prospects for beet growing in Western Washington. Some of these inyestigatora wero openly skeptical of the proposition be fore they made thelr investigation. One result of the interest aroused among farmers of Western Washing- ton is the practical assurance that e $1,000,000 beet sugar factory will be erected, probably in 1924, im this part of the state. Such a plant would give employment directly to 350 to 400 persons in addition to providing a pro- fitable outlet for the crops of the farmers. The beet sugar produced in this state is declared by experts to be not only purer and just as sweet as cane but it is handled in a clean, sanitary manner without the danger of tontamination existing in tropieal «li- mates where cane sugar is produced; —Sumas (Wash) News sugar, Don’t forget the Whitchelo’s store Friday. (advt.) shoe doctor at on Thursday and eee Miss M. Bailey of Vancouver recent- ly yisited her home here. eee J. the blind veteran, bas an interesting exhibit of fancy eord Downie work in the window of the Gazley bloek. The Old Soldier %s Still Holding the Fort. Civil and ‘Military Expert If you want a good job at a fair price Thos. Williams SHOEMAKER Essendene Aveaue Abbotsford Central Meat Market C. SUMNER, Prop. ABBOTSFORD Ohoice Poultry for Xmas at Lowest Market Prices Phone 7 Let ws wash your clothing Spetiesely clean in our new Electric Washer Work called for and delivered Waite Help Careful Werk Right Price Laundry (MBS. MORET, Prop.) Phone 69X McCallum Rd. near oil well TRY THE O.K. FOR SHORT LONG DISTANCE MOVING F. BEECROFT & SONS Opposite B.C. Telephone Office Phone 57 Walter’s Auto Stage To New Westmin’r DAILY Leaves— Mission Ferry 7.40 a.m. and 1.40 Matsqui 7.50 and 1.50 Clayburn 8.00 and 2.00 Abbotsferd 8.20 and 2,30 Westminster 10.30am. and 6.30 p.m. Bpeciat Saturday Trip: Leave: Matsqui 5.20; Clayburn 5.35; Abbotsford 6.30; Westminster 11 pra. SUNDAYS Leavet Mission Ferry 5 p.1a.; Mats- qui 6.20; Clayburn 5.35; Abbots- ford 6 p.m; Westminster 10.50 a.m. and 8 p.m, PARES— Abbotsford to Westm’r $1.40 Glayburn & Matsqui to West’r $1.50 Mission Ferry to Westm’r, $1.75 Blue Funnel Motor Line ‘D So impressed is Mrs. Arnct, who lives on Kingsway in South Vancou- ver, with the low cost of Pacific Milk to the consumer, she mentions the point three times in a letter we have received. Besides, ‘I find it most economieal; {t can be diluted with half water,’* she writes. Pacific is as good gs evaporated milk can poss- ibly be. It contains 43 per cent cream which means that almost half of each ean $s real cream, Pacific Milk Co.Ltd Bead Office: Vancouver, B.O, Factories at Laduer and Abbotsford Ben Brown of Anyox i svisiting his parents here,