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ABBOTEFORD, GUMAS AND MATEQUI NEWS

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i Council Te Pay

Keep the Larder
Stock Complete

Avoid the annoyance of having
to send out at the last minute

- Remember—when you buy from? | )
Wattie, you get the best.

W. A. WATTIE

SERVICE — VALUE — QUALITY Phone 67

$2,600 On Conroy School Contract

Matsqui Council and Board of School
Trustees met in the municipal hall on
Saturday last to endeavor smooth: out
legal irregularities in connection with
financing of the new Conroy High
School, nearing completion at Matsqui.
An account for $2,600 due Contractor
Nels Olund on Sept. 1 under the con-
struction contract, was brought to the
Council requesting an advance to
enable payment. After some heated
discussion, the Council declined to ad-
vance the requested amount, Reeve
McCallum ‘reporting that the munici-
pality’s sblicitors advised against pay-
ing the account under existing circum-
stances.

The Reeve contended that the School
Board had proceeded with erection of
the/new building without making pro-

NEW PRICES
on Dimension, Shiplap and Shingles:

The following prices=will be effectiveon and after August 10:

_No.1 Dimension and Shiplap, $25

No. 2 “ “ “ $18
XXX Shingles $4
XX Shingles $2

Abbotsford Lumber, Mining -
& Development Co., Ltd.

per ar for f i and
that it was up to the Trustees, not the

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Remember our phone

113.

FASHIONED MAPLE SYRUP ?
Direct from a farm in Quebec; it’s

MAPLE SUGAR from the same place

Count up your checks and get that

it Sweet?--I’ll say!

of you folks like some REAL OLD

licious—pints, quarts. Also some

to remind you that
OUR LAST SHIPMENT OF
PICTURES IS IN

picture today. ~

Bill Polson’s Kash & Karry Grocery

OPPOSITE ABBOTSFORD POST OFFICE

ABBOTSFORD

Constable J. Butler of MisSten has
been transferred to Abbotsford and
is detailed for both police and game
law enforcement in this district. The
Constable and Mrs. Butler have taken
up residence in the Mann block.

Mr. and Mrs. Hogben of New West-
minster were week-end guests of Mr,
and Mrs. F. A. Marshall, returning
from their honeymoon in the south.
Mrs. Hogben is a sister of Mr. Mar-
shall.

Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Sparling have
returned from a fishing trip to the
Cariboo country.

Mr.’and Mrs. L. R. Mann of Van-
couver are visiting their son and fam-
ily in Abbotsford.

Mrs, Downie, was hostess in Muirend
Lodge last Friday to a score of Scottish
friends, who enjoyed a pleasant even-
ing at whist and dancing. Miss E.

Council, to. find a He had
been told by the Solicitor, he said, that
placing the question before the rate-
payers by plebiscite would be one way
out of the difficulty.
Nels Olund pointed out that he had
taken the contract at a price $1100
lower than competing bidders, and
had fulfilled every requirement of the
architect in construction, and needed
the overdue payment. He offered to
accept one half the amount this year,
and one half next year as a compromise
to assist in financing the project, fail-
ing a settlement satisfactory to him,
he would be forced to enter suits
against each of the school trustees re-
sponsible.
Trustees Smith and Beharrell, and
the entire Council were present.
AS 1 school ti
at further

Telephone Abbotsford 10 W. GRAY, y

Most Up-to-Date
Garage in this
District

We cordiallyinvite you to try our

improved service, Every facility
for Auto Service. Fi

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legal advice is being sought in an ef-
fort to effect opening of the new buil-
ding- on the date announced.

Noted Theosophical Speaker Coming
Mrs. Betty Hampton, international
lecturer of the Theosophical Society,
will lecture in the Masonic Hall, Ab-

son W ‘ing, Sept.
26th, at 8 pm. The local Theosophical
group have been trying to arrange to
have this well-known lady speaker in
Abbotsford for some time. Her sub-|
ject will be “Man, the Crucible.” *28

| WEIR’S GARAGE

Phone Farmers 3413: B.C, 36

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Social Doings Are Starting And

Fall Weather is Such That The

Complexion Now Needs Special®

Attention. You will find Weir's

Stocked With the Best of Every
Thing Necessary.

‘ Local Agent:
| GENERAL MERCHANDISE
a ig GAS, OIL, ETC.

WHATCOM ROAD (opposite Mothers.—Look Over and Reno-
| Municipal Hall § Phone 23M vate your drug cabinet. School
dayS are again here, and the

usual remedies will all be needed

Weir's Rexall
Drug Store

ERIC T, WEIR, Phm. B.

ABBOTSFORD, B.C.
Night Calls 32

| Muirend Lodge
| Yale Road (Interproyincial Hi-
way, just west of Abbotsford)
BOARD RESIDENCE
Home Comfort Mod
Reasonable Rates

ern
MRS. J. DOWNIE, Proprietress

Telephone 97 nas)

Wood Coal

Briquettes

Large or Small Quantities
Quick Delivery
Unloaded “Where You Want It”
Trucking of All Kinds
Our Rates are Low

Abbotsford Coal
& Wood Co.

E. MANN, Prop. Phone 62

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After the Show

Call at the

Jubilee Tea Rooms
for Light Lunch

ICE CREAM and
COOL DRINKS

E. A. HUNT, Proprietor
Essendene Aye., Abbotsford

tion as full truck loads.

® Steamrallers

OTHING is too small, nothing is too large to be shipped by the
big red trucks of the Fraser Valley Motor Freight Service, i

Single parcél shipments of the smallest size receive the same atten=

Our trucks carry all classes of goods from single items of merchan-
dise to machinery and truck loads of produce.

Call our nearest agent for details of our minimum,

contract, and class rates

B.C. Rapid Transit Company’s
FRASER VALLEY

MOTOR FREIGHT LINE si

Abranch of B.C. Electric service

Stewart gave an exhibition of step-
dancing.

Mr, G. Hart of the C.P.R. staff is on
a two weeks’ vacation. Mr. Jackson
of Vancouver is assisting in the office.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C, Switzer and sons
left by motor last Friday for Lacombe,
Alberta to attend the diamond wed-
ding celebration of Mr. Switzer’s par-
ents. Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Coogan are
operating the Variety Sales store in
their absence.

Miss Morley of Agassiz is visiting
her sister, Mrs. J. Gray this week.
Something new in dance music is
coming to Jubilee hall on Friday, when
the directors are giving an event at
popular prices.

While at Yale at the week-end, Mr.
and Mrs, Thorn met Rev. and Mrs,
Yates, who resided in Abbotsford some
12 years ago, in charge of the local
Anglican parish. They wsih to be re-
membered to old friends.

Sympathy is extended to Mrs, M,
M. Shore, who is bereaved by the death
of her brother, Mr. L. Dashwood-Jones,
of Vancouver, The late Mr, Dashwood-
Jones, who is a prominent barrister of
the Coast city, was instantly killed on
Sunday morning when struck down in
North Vancouver by a taxi.

Deceased was a native son of New
Westminster. He leaves a wife and
son, Donald, 9 years old, his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dashwood-Jones,
New Westminster; three sisters, Mrs,
M. M. Shore, Abbotsford, Mrs. F, M.
Green, New Westminster and Miss
Kathleen Dashwood-Jones, New West-
minster; and one brother, Mr. Viptor
Dashwood-Jones of New Westminster.
The late Mr. Dashwood-Jones and
his family are well-known and haye

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W. DUARK, Prop.

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friends in Abbotsford and
district,

Huniter Fined $10 For Having Rifle
Magazine Loaded While In Auto

For having the magazine of his rifle
loaded while in an automobile, a Su-
mas resident was fined $10 and costs
in Abbotsford police court on Satur-
day night. Coristable Butler made the
arrest near Kilgard, the car having
four or five hunter occupants return-

OIL

Phone 62

Leary—Griffith i
Married—By Rev. J. R. Ogden, at
the Manse, Grandview Trinity Church,
Vancouver, on Thursday, September 6,
G, Ernest Leary, of Abbotsford, to Mary
Georgina Griffith of Cloverdale, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Griffith, Sardis.
Mr. and Mrs, Leary are occupying the
R, Leary residence, Sumas road.

Mr. Leary is one of the Customs Ex-
aminers at the local port.

Men’s Club Elects Officers
Officers. as follows were elected at

the annual meeting of the Men’s Club
held on Monday evening: Hon. Pres.,
Rev. Mr, Baker; Pres., Mr. H. T. Peters
Vice-Pres., Mr. A. H. Horn; Mr. H.
E. W. Bryenton; Sec.-Treas, Mr. B.
Blackie; Mus. Director, Mr, E. Barrett
Club Caterer, Mr. S. Walker; Poet
Laureate, Mr. F, White.

Mr. G. F. West is relieving at the
Pioneer Store during Mr. Crawford’s
holiday.

ing from an unsuccessful day on Su-
mas mountain. While the offending
gun was not “loaded” with a shell in
the breach, it is contrary to law to
carry a firearm with loaded magazine
in an automobile.

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Barber Shop

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Joe, Bruce, barber

Miss Mae Wilson is visiting in, Van-
couver for two weeks. \

Phone 83 Joe Olsen, tables

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