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MATSQUI NEWS

MATSQUI

NEWS

Section

Is stocked with the
choicest cuts of fresh Beef
Veal and Mutton. Also
cured Meats, Sausages and
Fresh and Cured Fish.

of Meat and Fish as it

We use great care in selecting the stock for this section of our

store and we feel confident that here, there is as good a quality

is possible te procure

R. Desmazes  °
GENERAL MERCHANT
The Pioneer Store, Abbotsford.

Phone 16 or 1912

The members of the Nazarene Church
held a picnic near -Cloyerdale on Sat=
urday.

Mr. ahd Mrs. N. L. Switzer and Pet-
er have returned from a trip to Veteran
Alberta.

|] Miss Anna McCallum has returned

|| from a holiday spent with her brother
in Nanaimo.

|| Mrs, Jessie Lee and. Mrs. \Littlemore

|] of Bellingham, were recent guests at
Mrs. Insley's.

Born—to Mrs. Tracy and the late Mr.
Tracy a son, on August 2Ist, in the
M. S. A. hospital,

Born—to Mr. and Mrs, ©. A, Lam-
son of Sumas Prairie, a son, on Mon-
day, September 9th.

The hop picking season closed the
early part of this week and most of the
pickers have returned home.

mi ING'S MEAT MARKET

Does Personal Sery ~e Mean
my, Anything to You ?

Personal service is that
the proprietor merchant gives. For almost 20 years that per-

to

Phone 48

Modern Mill
Feed

A feeding trial in your barn

An Appeal to the

How Much More per Ton Is a

Blended Dairy
Worth ?

is worth while to compare results.

Cow Is the Final---

*
the Crucial Test.
Ir DIAMOND BRAND DAIRY FEEDS FED, FOR EXAMPLE,
AT THE RATE OF 8 LBs. PER DAY,
. QUART OF MILK MORE PER COW, PER DAY — than the
same amount of home mixed ration, they are worth $12.50
More per ton. Similarily one pint per cow per day, makes the
DAIRY FEED worth: $6.25 more per ton.

Buckerfields Limited

Head Office: VANCOUVER, B.C
A. M. SPARLING, Manager Abbotsford Branch.

WILL PRODUCE ONE

Phone 70

{| farm of Mrs, George near the Yale road

s that |

Art Monument Co., Ltd.

Plowing & Team Work

H. MATTHEWS St Nicholas
Local

Erectors of
ABBOTSFORD CENOTAPH

AND
DESIGNERS

An All-Canadian Firm—with Ex-War

Personnel
121 Richmond St.
New Westminster

602 Kingsway,
Vancouver

“Build B.C.”

Keep milk in cool place and
haye it on hand ready to whip.
Whip briskly for two minutes,
then begin adding gradually a
few drops of fresh lemon juice
until cream is thick, then stir in
granulated

me teaspoon of yan-
ila. Whip five t6 six minutes
and serve.

Be sure to whip 2 minutes be-
fore adding lemon fuice, use
granulated sugar and fold sugar
and flavoring in with spoon,

PACIFIC=, MILK

FACTORY Y461 VERAE:

G. A. McKAY

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Insurance
Complete “Coverage” in Sound
Prompt-Paying Companies

Town Property

Residences at Bargain Prices

Farm Lands

We know land values, and can
find buyers, sellers and renters.

Abbotsford Brokerage ~
& Realty Co.

[ Phones: B.C. 116; Farmers 3425

CREAM AND EGG
shipments want
‘Try our service .

Accurate Tests Prompt Returns and
Highest Prices
Phone at our expense SEYMOUR 5056

Vancouver Creamery Co.,
15-25 Street Vv

MRS. C. B. STEVENS

for first-class

DRESSMAKING

Fine and Fancy Sewing
Remodelling, Repairing, Etc,
(3 Doors South of Picture Show,

Plowed. Wood. Draying, Etc.

Ss

Phone 13M. McCallum rd. opp. hospital}

)

Mr. and Mrs. R. Clark and son John
of Scotland, have purchased the 5 acre

High priges, good harvesting weather
and a heavy crop is the ideal combina-
tion being enjoyed by the grain grow-
ers of this district,

Miss. Trethewey of Boston, who has
been visiting her brother and sistersin-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Trethewey,
has returned home.

The British Columbia and Yukon
Press Association, are holding a con-
vention on Friday and Saturday, Sept-
ember 27th and 28th, at Chilliwack.

Miss Noreen Atkins gave a dinner

party on Friday evening inh onor of
|e Sylvia Harrop, who left on Mon-

day for St. Margaret's School at Dun-
can.
| The Scotch dance held in the Mas-
| onic hall on Saturday night was a very
enjoyable affair, Ben's orchestra was]
in attendance and highly praised by
the dancers.

The Royal Purple and B.P.O.'E.
organizations report a het ‘profit of
| $209.03 as the result of the Elks Carni-
\ yal, and wish to thank the public for
their kind assistance

The 56th annual fair held at Chilli-’
wack last week was one of the best they
have ever held, some fine exhibits wert
on display and the sports program’ wa’
cartied through exceptionally well.

The B. C. Hop Company lost about
fifty acres of hops at their plant. in
Sardis, and eighteen acres at Agassiz,
during the‘wind storm of Sunday evyen-
ing, causing much inconvenience and
considerable loss of time and money.

| AUCTION SALE

Fayored with instructions from
Messrs. R, A. Dempster and. J. P.
Greenhouse, I will sell by Public Auc~
tion on their farm situate one and
one-half miles south-west of Clayburn
Station (C.P.R. and B.C.E.R.), on

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1929
at 1:30 p.m,

the whole of their GRADE HERD OF
COWS, consisting of the following:

1, Trixie, Jersey-Ayrshire Grade, six
years old, fresh one week, fest 4.1.

2, Mimnie, Jersey Grade, six .years
old, bred June 1, test 4.1..

3. Primrose, Jersey Grade, five years
old, due date of sale, test 5.2.

4. Daisy, Jersey Grade; five
old, due date of sale, test 44.

6. Brindle, Jersey Grade, six
old, due date of sale, test 4.4

6. Tiny, Jersey Grade, three
old, due date of sale, test 3.8.

7. Dustie, Jersey Grade, three
old, due date of sale} test 3.8,
8. Nancy, Jersey Grade, seven
old, due December 1, test 5.8.
9. Flossie, Jersey Grade, six
old, due December 1, test 3.9.
10. Peggy, Jersey Grade, nine
old, due November 1, test 4.0,
11. Dot, Jersey Grade, three
old, due October 5, test 45.

12. Red, Jersey Grade, three
old, due October 10, test 4.7.
13. Jane, Jersey Grade, three
old, due October 15, test 4.8.
14. May, Jersey Grade, seven
old, due October 10, test 55.
15. Myrtle, Jersey Grade, six
old, fresh May 1, test 4.0.
16. Flo, Jersey Grade, two years old,
due October 10.
17. Bessie, Guernsey Grade,
years old, fresh June 31
18. P. B. Holstein,
old, bred.
Three eighteen-months old Heifers,
bred in June. ¢
This is an exceptionally fine herd of
cows. They are in fine condition and
there has_been no reaction for. T. B.
for three years.
TERM CASH. Time: 1:30 p.m.

JACK TOMPSON,
Auctioneer,
k, B.C.

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MATSQUI MUNICIPALITY

Accounts were as follows:—
W Tonlhw, $88.45; W A. Denny, $118.40;
J. L. McDonald, $41.40; J. R. Smith,
$54.45; Jas Tonlaw, $49.95; Jas Williams
$93.95; J, Ritchie, $65.25; ©. Olsen,
$168.30; C, Gebhart, $71.10; J. A. Gled-
hill, $123.80; H. W. Henery, $63.00; Jas
Gledhill, $88.40; A, G. Abrahams, $12.15
G. Taylor, $12,00; John Prastlosk!

1, $10.
80 J;, Duncan $7.20; J. Spriggs, $20.40:
R, Fletcher, $20.40; A. Miarcey, $12.00;
Aldergrove T. Co., $6.70; _T. Sullivan,
$16.50; J. B. Sullivan, $24.00; L. FP. Pat-
terson, $18.00; $27.37; M.
Kerkin, $11.90 $2. D.

ors, $27.55; Re
Little, $2.40;

Ellisen, $3.20; G. Lidstrom, $3.20;
Denny, $8.00 J, McLennan, $6.00; Clay-
burn Co, Ltd., $30.60; A. Nicholas, $10;
E. H. Pierce, $35.00; A. S. M. Hospital.
$130.90; Redtop Garage, $16.49; Bunga-
low Garage, $14.00; J. Olsen, $36.00;
T. F. Seldon, $44.73; A. 8S. M. News;
$29.50.

C, Gilbertson, $3.40; A.
R. G.

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Mr. J. 8. Daly has returned from a
holiday spent at William's Lake.

formerly of Abbotsford, arrived here
last week from Kamloops, where Mr
‘Trethewey is now the owner of a mill,

Pheasants are showing plentifully tn
the Valley, and give no ‘tvidence of
that retiring disposition so noticeable
about October 16th.

Commissioner Grant reports that the
bottom has dropped out of the prune
market on the prairies. The B. C.
crop is ripening fast and should make
good fertilizer.

The tombstone business would slac-
ken up noticeably each winter ff all
hunters were made to demonstrate
their ability, mot so much to shoot, as
to handle a gun when not shooting.

f. kept’ dry.
‘The process has attracted the atten-
tion of many florists as well as gardea-
ors andthe vast public interested’ in
blooms. -‘

The B. C. Apple Crop Is Placed
At 3,538,100 Boxes
Purchased for a sum In etree w
$50,000, an oil painting of Loré
Peterborough dy Sir Anthony Van
Dyck, court painter to King Charles
I. was carried by the Canadian Pa-
cific Express Company by steamer
Montrose to Montteal recently,
very special prétal
taken*to ensure safe delivery. It
was bought by A.J. Nesbitt, promi-
nent business leader of Mon!

Commercial apple’ crop in the
proyince of Nova Scotia this year
will total about 1,509,000 barrels,
about 420,000 barrels more than
Jast year. The lo crop is es-
timated at 770,000 barrels, up 210,-
000 barrels over 1928. The British ~
Columbia crop is placed at 3,538,-
100 boxes, about 19 per cent. less
than last year. 78 “eveem— —~

As a result of experiments con-
ducted over several years past, of-
ficials of the Canadian Federal De-
partment of Agriculture feel assur-
ed that two or three varieties of
wheat have been at last developed
that will resist rust. Ne names’
have yet been given the new varie-
ties and it will be two or three
years before they can be produced
in sufficient quantities for seed dis-
tribution.

Hans Andersen, his wife, twe
daughters and two sons, are the
first settlers to arrive for the new
Danish Colony in Hants County,
No¥a Scotia, which is being pro-
moted by. the Canadian Pacific
Railway Colonization and Develop-
ment Department. They have gone
to the Walton district where they
purchased a farm and will go inte
dairying:and hog raising on a large
scale, oe
~ Since 1921 the total turbine in-
stallation in the Dominion has In-
creased: from 2,754,000 -horse-powe:
to 5,350,000, more than 550,000
horse-power having been Installed
in 1928. Developments now near-
ing completion or in active pros*
pects will, on completion, add a fur-
ther two millfon horse-power with-
4m the next few years. In the P-ai-

P.O, Box 222.
Residence Phone: 234-L2.

ie} :
Office: Home-Makers, Phone 157, ..}*

rie Proy ie horse-
Boe has nearly trebled since
SORE ee,

This D

Best Appointed, Garage in

Whether you get your auto #epairs _or servicing done at an
one

istrict

adequately:

Weir's Garage is Prepared to Give

Weir’s

Farmers Phone 3413

of the other kind, you are charged on a time basis. “Just think

that over. What does‘it mean in charges if a mechanic works

in a shop well lighted with every tool he requires. And your car

left for a day or a month invaRarage that is—. Pa
Fireproof ©

Car Requi

Every Garage Service That Your
ires ‘

Garage
« B.C, Phone 36

Insurance
Savings & Loan
Town Property
Farms

Rentals
Notarial Work
Conveyancing

A. McCALLUM

Phone 43 or 72

Your
Homie

Now is

the Time
to get it.

Abbotsford, B.C.

Dr. E. E. GRAVES
DENTIST

Office Houre: 9 a.m. to 430 p.m.

(Office closed Saturdays
and Sundays)

Lady Assistant in Attendance

SUMAS, WASH. mn

Dr. Fraricks will be pl
his service to former
4 at his Vancouver clinic,

.| French-Canadians, whose mother ton-
*] gue is not English.
Canada’s most serious and most imm-

| before we can become a great nation.

‘a polyglot mass that will take us more

Mr. Sam Trethewey and son Howard, | th

Large Population Not Essential
To Greatness

In an address made recently by one
of Canada’s public men, the following
timely remarks were made:
...."The other fact of momentous sig-
hificance is the enormous increase in
the alien population of Canada. There

now millions, apart from the

Tam certain that

{nent danger is found in our still being
obsessed with the crude and antiquated
notion that we must have more people

We have our place heaped up now with

than three generations to assimilate.

“This is not the assumption of race
superiority on my part which makes
me anxiouslyemphasize this warning. in
@ country where you have this babel of
tongues you are bound to have confus-
fon, suspicion and separation, and are
likely at any time to nave serlous di-
scord. Civil war in Canada is not as
remote a possibility as international
war. If we would only léarn for good
and all that it is not the numbers of ils
people that make a country great.
Otherwise China and India are greater
than we can ever hope to be.

ie A and
of our inhabitahts, not their numbers,
which constitute true greatness.

"The tide of immigration will soon be
setting, in ever increasing volume, to-
wards our open land, the last great
West and North. Hordes 6f people
will be coming. There is # liklihood
that British institutions may’ be im-
perilled. Discord of various sorts and

Trt) tht tel) Tricity tpi

COPS Serr rs

| Have it served wi

Yotcys rity ty ttt
= a me — =

ever you fe

It will preserve yo

of this pure,
perfect food. Bette
than try to re-gain it.

the misery of
ment may arise. These, and . other
companion evils, make a fertile soilfor
the growth of tragic, internal strife.
God grant that our leaders in national
life may have farseeing wisdom,
} that they may seek to employ the me-
thods of unselfish Christian stateman-
ship”.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Switzer have as
their guests, the former's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Switzer of Lacomb, Aita

Sufficient rain to enable the road
graders to operate would be welcomed
by all, as the gravel roads are “Wash
boarding” badly. Modern cars with

springs can navigate fairly well,
but the driver of the antiquated Ford
has a job to keep his head from going
through the top.

M. S. A. General Hospital outstand-

ing accounts for month of August, 1929
B, C. Telephone, rent $4.00; J. S. Daly,
hardware $4.20; J. Gilmour, sheeting
etc. $36.81; W. A. Wattie) provisions
$55.94; Canadian Surgical, surg supplies
$21.10; Geo H. Hewitt, brass plates
$20.15; Dustbane Products Ltd., house
supplies $12.75; A. S. M. News, printing
$17.10; James Steel, grounds $15.50; W
H. Hudson, hardware $10.30; Vanor
Typewriter Co,, stand $21.60; Terminal
Metal Works, hardware house, $62.22;
P, D. Gordon, hardware service room
$40.00; A. M. King, meats $33.10; H.
Baillie, hardware capital $7.89; G. A.
Rosie, milk $16.80; E. T. Weir, drugs
$20.18; Royal City Laundry, laundry
$68.94; total $468.58.
Salaries paid: Miss M. C. ‘Taylor,
$100.00; Miss B. Reid, $87.50; Miss S.
Smith, $75.00; Miss. M. Reid, $75.00; Mr.
‘Wm. Rayburn, $65.00; Miss Falk, $50:00
Miss H. Hills, $30; Miss M. Reid, (fare)
$2.75; Miss H. Humprey, $60,00; Mr. J.
C. Morris, $25; total: $570.25.

AKE the few step
box several times

th all your meals.

ur health. Eat plenty
~ wholesome loaf, natu
Better far keep

LEE’S BAKERY

s to the Bread
a day-—when
el low in energy: .

Get yourself a slice of

LEE’S BREAD

re’s
your health

Le x ext se ey pe eat a OO TIC rrr

ALBERT LEE

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and
Phone 5

Two Stores — Abbotsford

Delivery Service

and Upper Sumas B,C.

. FREE! Blotters Free to Everybody FREE!

Buy 25c worth of 5c Scribblers and get one FREE -

5 25-Cent Pencil Boxes for 15¢

-Highroad’s Dictionaries 50 cents each
_ Inks, Paints, Rulers, Set Squares, - |.
Compasses, Protractors, Etc.

~ School Bags 50c and 75c -
Withyevery $2.00 purchase you get an i

Automatic Pencil FREE ~ is
Follow the crowd to ;

Harry D. Hipwell :
Abbotsford and Chilliwack. Branch Store at Sardis |.

The Prescription Specialist a

ne

General Blacksmithing .

WHEELWRIGHT & GENERAL
WAGON WORK ~

Horse Shoeing a Specialty

John Sorby

The old McMenemy Shop,
Abbotsford, B.C.

Matsqui Fair Opens On Thursday
{ With Many Exhibts’
‘

At the Matsqui fair held at Gifford,
on Thursday and Friday the 12th. and
13th. of September, there will be a
Sale of high grade cattle and sheep, on
the afternoon of the second day. An
auction bill has been primted to. this
effect, but ‘there are several more
wonderful opportunities to buy high
grade stock.
} The exhibits will be well worth sec-
ing ahd it is hoped that as many Ab-
hotsford people will attend this Fair,

out of order.

ten ten places,

Severe storm
puts 90

‘telephones out
of order

Telephone service in North
Vancouver and district suffer-
ed on August 18, when lightn-
ing and rain put 90 telephones

Tightning struck a 100-pair
aerial cable, burning through
the metal sheath in eight or
caused a

suspension of service on 65
telephones. On the same day
rain penetrated the sheath of

‘ another 100-pair cable, putting
i 25 telephones out of seryice.

, and

Another example of the tro-
ubles with which
men have to contend in their
efforts to maintain service.

B.C, TELEPHONE COMPANY

telephone

as there were Matsqui people attended
the Flower Show. One of their pop-
ular dances will be held on the night of
Friday 13th, and Dr. Wood's orchestra
will be in attendance.

Stump And Peat Fires Cause
Dense Clouds Of Smoke

Although the smoke gave one
impression of great damage being ae
in the forest the latter part of last week
very little damage was done, as it was
mostly from peat ‘bogs and stumps.

Six miles north’ east. of Mission, a
considerable portion of “logged-off”
| Jand was swept by fire, and the district

around Peardonville sent up huge
clouds of smoke from a peat ae
There were several small fires where
dead timber or recently cut trees, lo-
cated near the new Yale road, are be-
ing destroyed. ’

—___
The Girl Guides held th

h ir . first
regular Thy .
eae jursday afternoon Meeting
Mr, Wm. Roberts has _ ins
ae aber the Yale ance is
supalyt Bia Sumber of the homes
Se

TRINITY UNITED cH
U!
Rev. T, S. Paton, B. A, atten

Services on Sunday Se)
tember 15th
10 .a.m—Sunda: Ki
oe Y School and "Teen Age
11 dm, Sermon sg hK
Sensitiveness", =
p.m.—Service {i
Huntingdon,
7.30 p.or. Sermon Sul %
eeaeas bject;—

“Spiritual

in St.:Paul’s church,

“A Call To

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY}

Sunday School at 11 am. ” ame
Service on Sunday at 11 am. }
In the LO.OF. Hall, Sumas, Wash. |

SMITH BUTTON WORKS | :

736 Seymour St., Vancouver, B.O
or

Co,
Rey nee

Specialist in

Hemstitching Pleatin,
Embroidery Braiding ; t
Tucking - hirring W’

Buttons Covered
Try Us—and you will be pleased, 2

St. Andrew's and
Caledonian Society »

Meets First Sat-

urdays of Every
month in Masonic —
Hall, Abbotsford.
All Scottish Folk
Cordially Invited —
W. Stewart, Sec,

J. Mutzh, Pres.

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John A. McDonald |
GENERAL
CONTRACTOR |

EVERY KIND OF BUILDING |
CONSTRUCTION & REPAIRS |
i;

.
Frame, Concrete, or Brick
ee ns aa

Promptitude, Thoroughness ante
Reliagle Workmanship Always. |

McCallum Road, south of MLSs
Hospital, Abbotsford

Telephone 125®

W. H.FRANCKS

Optometric

Eye Specialist

Experience in Your
Guarantee of

GENERAL MERCH

GAS,

STANDARD
91 Granville Street, Va

Manicipal Hall

‘ani new patien

WHATCOM ROAD

ASSEY-HARRIS
Farm Implements

ARE THE BEST

W. C. BLINCH

Local Agent

ANDISE
OIL, ETC

(opposite
Phone 23M

eee.

many distant parts,

THE GLAYBURN

Factories;

Clayburn Products—

4S also various centre
BRICK, TILE, SEWER & DRAIN Pp

the Finest Made

y are manufe
QUALITY  FqE
is recognized p:

tured with
and this ~

2 y the trade in

s of Canada and the U. S.

E, RETORT UNITS, ETC, ETC

Clayburn; Kilgard, MEANY, LIMITED ‘3

women

esident Manager
ae

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