i ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS “LECKIE,” 275 Safety First! The WET WEATHER will soon be here and your BOY will need pair of good SHOES, We have all sizes in stock from 8 to 5%, “AMHERST” and “JAKE,” at prices ranging from Do not overlook the sact that although shoes are MUCH HIGHER in price than last year, OUR PRICES have NOT heen ADVANCED. to 475 ABBOTSFORD. THE PIONEER STORE Phone 16 R. DesMazes, Prop. UL CROP MATURING AT SUMAS HOP GARDENS A heavy crop of hops, offering lucra- tive employment to pickers, is un- doubtedly encouraging many to engage in this class of work, and the Cana- dian Hop Company at Sumas Prairie is being flooded with applications for accommodation during the harvest, which will be soon underway. Family parties—a desirable class -of picker from the standpoint of the hop com- pany—have signed up in large numbers this season, and they come from such outside points as Vancouver, New West- minster, Saanich, V.I., Choat, B.C., El- co, B.C., Everson, Wash., Sumas, Wash, as well as the local centres of Abbots- ford ,Matsqui, Mission, Sardis, Hatzic Langley, Huntingdon and Kilgard. Many extra cabins’ and 100 tents haye been erected, and water piped to con- venient parts of the living quarters. Other improvements have also been made tending to increased comfort of the big colony which will soon be in GoOooD MUTTON Good Meats of All Kind Always ‘You can always rely upon what you buy at King's. Quality MEAT KING'S wir Located in the Busy Shopping Centre, Essendene East Phone 48 — DR.E. E. GRAVES DENTIST Office Hours: 9 a.m, to 4.30 p.m. (Office closed Saturdays and Sundays) Tady Assistant ir Attendance SUMAS, WASH. SS DR. J. F. WOOD VETERINARY SURGEON MATSQUT, B.C. Phone Ab. 108L J. H. JONES Funeral Director and Embalmer Agent for Headstones and Monumental Work Phone 4903 MISSION CITY A. E. Humphrey YARWOOD & DURRANT rs and Solicitors Notaries Public Vancouver office— 703-4 Holden Bldg. Branch Office at Abbotsford open every riday DR. J. M. MCDIARMID PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office Hours: ‘ Morning by Appointment; 1—4 P.M. 7--8.30 P.M. Tel.: B.C. Abbotsford 3; Farmers X552 MANN BLOCK, ABBOTSFORD, B.C. WM. ATKINSON Auctioneer LIVE sTooK SPECIALIST Graduate of Jones’ School of Auction- eering, Chicago, Ill. Address: Box 222 CHILLIWACK H. G. MYHRE AUCTIONEER Notary, Conveyancing, Wills Drawn General Farm Agent Real Estate Life and Fire Insurance MATSQUI, B.C, Phone Ab, 108K Practical Maternity Nurse MRS. D. PATERSON Fully Qualified é& Experienced GIFFORD, B. C. A well selected stock of Jewellry Watches, Clocks, Brooches, Pins, Novelties, Etc. at Low Prices. J.C. TUCKER MANN BLOCK, ABBOTSFORD SYNOPSIS OF LAND ACT AMENDMENTS PRE-EMPTIONS Vacant, unreserved, surveyed Crown lands may be pre-empted by British subjects over 18 years of age, and by aliens on declaring intention to become British subjects, conditional upon resi- dence, occupation, and improvement for agricultural purposes. Full information concerning regula- tions regarding pre-omptions is given in Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, ‘‘How to Pre-empt Land’? copies of which can be obtained free of charge by address: ing the Department of Lands, Victoria. B.C., or to any Government Agent. Records will be yranted coveriug only land suitable for agricultural purposes, and which is not timber-land, ie, ca’ rying over 8,000 board feet per acre west of the Coast Range and 5,000 feet per acre east of that Range. Applications for pre-emptions be addressed to the Land Com of the Land Recording Division, in which the land applied for is situated, and are made on printed forms, copies of which can be pbtained from the Land Commissfoner. _Pre-emptions must be occupied for five years and improvements made te value of $10 per acre, including clear ing and cultivating at least five acres, before a Crown Grant can be received For more detailed information sec the Bulletin ‘‘How to Pre-empt Land’’ PURCHASE Applications are received for purchase of vacant and unreserved Crown lands not being timberland, for agricultural purposes; minimum price for high-class (arable) Jand is $5 per acre, and sécond -class (grazing) land $2.50 per acre Further information regarding purchase or lease of Crown lands is given in Bn} letin No, 10, Land Series, ‘‘ Purchase and Lease of Crown Lands.’’ Mill, factory, or industrial sites on timber land, not exceeding 40 acres many be purchased or leased, the con ditions including payment of stumpage HOMESITE LEASES Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 2 acres, may be leased as homesites, con ditional upon a dwelling being erected in the first year, title being obtain able after residence and improvement conditions are fulfilled and land ha: been surveyed. LEASES For grazing and industrial purpose: areas not exceeding 640 ucres may bi leased by one person or a company. GRAZING Under the Grazing Act the Provincc is divided into grazing districts and the range administered under a Graz ing Commissioner, Annual grazing permits are issued based on numbers ranged, priority being given to estab lished owners. Stock-owners may form associations for range managenient Free, or partly free, permits are avail ablo for settlers, campers and travellers up to ten head. but so is loss by fire, auto collision, or by any other accident. are only PARTIALLY insured; but this is ely pt , Many people on Sumas. Berrise are now practically ripe on the three-year vines, and picking on these will probably start next week. Circulars describing picking condi- tions may be obtained at the News of- fice, the Hop Gardens, or the Employ- ment Service of Canada office, Rich- ards St., Vancouver. ABBOTSFORD Mr. and Mrs, A. Waters and two children, of Los Angeles, are visiting Mr. and Mrs, Trussel. Mrs. Waters is a sister of Mrs. Trussel. 4 Abbotsford Girl Guides gave a sur- prise party at the home of Mrs. H. FP. Thorn last Saturday, honoring Miss Betty Swift, who is leaving to reside in Vancouver. About 15 girls were present. Tea was served at 5 o'clock, Mrs. Thorn, Mrs, Gray, Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. Rowley assisting. Games fol- lowed the tea, party closing with a camp-fire circle. ‘Two Upper Sumas residents were fin- ed $10 each by Magistrate Winson last week for driving their cars without tail lights. Miss M, Tarso of Abbotsford was & recent hospital patient, but has now recovered. Grapes Ripening Fast In Beltrame Vineyard At Sumas Frank Beltrame, who has a fine lit- tle vineyard near the pumping station, Sumas Prairie, expects to start picking his table grapes next week. Bunches. on some of the vines-are now almost ripe, and with continued warm weather he anticipates an early harvest, Most of his crop will be used in wine-making. In addition to a fine vegetable gar- den, Mr. Beltrame is cultivating a most cosmopolitan yariety of crops, which include peanuts, cantaloupe, water melon, figs, walnuts, chestnuts, beech nuts, endive, chicory, lotus-berry, pi- mentos, curry peas, and.several species of hybrid vegetables. ENGAGEMENT e Mrs. Charlotte A. McMenemy has issued invitations for the wedding of her daughter Evelyn Alieda to Mr. Archie Lincoln Eyres, to take place in Vancouver on Wednesday evening, September 5th. Mr. and Mrs. A. Beck left today for Craigmyle, Alberta, where they will stay for two months with their son. BELLINGHAM Everson Everett Seattle Sumas to Bellingham $1.25; return $2.00 Sumas to Everett $2.60; return $4.50 Sumas to Seattle $3.20; return $5.65 Chrough Tickets. Direct Connections Stage leayes Sumas for Bellingham Daily at 850 am., 1130, 230 p.m., 5.45 and on Sunday 6.30 p.m. Leaves Bel- lingham at 7.30 a.m., 1.00 p.m., 4.00 and 6.00 On Sunday at 8.30 am., 1.00 p.m. 5.00 and 10.30. Direct Connection with Huntingdon Trains. J. C. HESSELGRAVE, Sumas Sumas Phone X228—X421. Travel South by Pickwick Seattle to San Francisco $17.50 To Los Angeles $23 4 Departures Daily from Portland, Ore.—4 THE MODERN SAFE, COMFORTABLE, ECO) MICAL CONVENIENT ALL PACIFIC COAST CITIES TWO GREAT HIGHWAYS Stage Coach And Aeroplane Travel Judged by developing conditions on this coast, train travel is rapidly losing {ts popular appeal, and that ele- ment of the public unable or unwilling to make long overland trips in their own automobiles are taking to the big motor stages and aeroplane. It is not yet sufficiently known that one large motor stage transportation line, the Pickwick system, is now carrying thou- sands of passengers right across the continent, from San Francisco east to New York, and from Vancouver to Tia Juana, Mexico, or to El Paso, Texas, by stage, sufficient rest stops on these long journeys making the trips com- paratively agreeable. ‘The same con- cern is now taking another step for- wrd in methods of public passenger transportation in inaugurating the, West Coast Airways aeroplane line ; from Vancouver to San Francisco, and! south. see One will ask: what does the motor stage offer the travelling public? Prin- cipally, a very substantial economy over both train fares and cost of oper- ating a private car. As an example, the one-way stage fare to San Francis- co is a trifle over $20.00 by Pickwick and connections—the distance, about 1100 miles—or less than 2 cents per mile. What private car or railway company can meet such fares? From the standpoint of economy alone, it is cheaper to pay two or even three of such passenger fares than drive the ordinary car. Other considerable factors are free- dom from driving strain, more safety— the highways are dangerous places these days—relief from eyestrain, no parking or garaging worries, pleasant social intercourse with fellow-passen- gers, frequest rest and meal stops, and ample time to look around most worth- while places en route. The stages run a rapid through service—40 hours from Bellingham toSan Francisco—and keep closely to time. The chauffeurs are under strict rules regarding driving over railway crossings, passing of other yehicles, and similar precautions tend- ing to safe driving, manipulate their big machines superbly, and are withall courteous and good-natured under of- ten trying circumstances. They are paid a good wage, are respectable, and appreciate their responsibility. Just now, the new thing in stage circles is the Pullman sleeper coach, being used on trans-continental runs, and to be started on the Pacific Coast before winter. etl ot FOC Future of aeroplane travel for or- dinary use, is uncertain. Speed, and a certain degree of comfort is offered in the tri-motor cabin planes, but it will be an expensive and not altogether attractive mode of getting around to most people for several years to come. Those of us who have been “up” agree that, apart from the novelty, there is something lacking in interest in air travel, which is provided by the slower locomotion over terra firma. Holiday Fruit At least once a year—and with some of us much oftener—one becomes dis- gruntled with his occupation, environ- ment or prospects. \It is then a good plan to take a change—call it a holi- day—and if possible see other places, other faces, and study other conditions, Such an experience is a great tonic— mentally, as also physically, one result of which is enabling a much broader perspective of the home environment. The home district is now suryeyed through the rosy glasses of comparison, and it’s alright, see Seattle, clamorous hill-city, out- growing its fine town-planning ideas; Portland, city of roses, beautiful shops and theatres, and narrow, chummy streets—but commercially quiescent at present; San Francisco, cosmopolitan city of romance, tourists, cannibalistic ecmmerce, and cool Pacific winds—all as individual in their character as any family or village. And the small- er communities dotted along the great Pacific Highway, beauti- 3 loaves the bread was when we came in “| starving” keeps us looking all life for a flavor which our app lent. 5 for Lee's Bread contains the fin body-building ingredients; first | flour, Fleishman's Yeast, highest 25c malt’ and is mixed "sclen (oa electrically operated machinery the finest of grains to the bi 1 insuring cleanliness and sweetness, ~ Try a loaf today. Phone 54 and hayethe driver call, ALBERT EE BAKER AND GROCER s High Quality with Low Prices. B.C. Phone 54; Far, 19{1 B.&K. Quality is recognized by all farmers and - poultrymen of the Fraser Valle Very Complete Stocks Kept ig er Our Abbotsford branch ~ GRAINS, POULTRY AND STOCK FEEDS, SEEDS, HAY, | ALL THE PROVEN VARIETIES of eo 1a eforest nh f se. a i ay 4 Much has been said recently about re- forestation in B.C. The present forest is the result of natural re- forestation when the human hazard was not présent to defeat nature. Natural re-stocking of cut-over lands is now going on, as may be seen almost everywhere, and nature will again re- establish the forests if only fire is kept out. Prevent Forest Fires---You Can Help! 7 a BRITISH COLUMBIA FORES eh M) ful little towns and cities, which have progressed up from the frame-and- shack “hick-town” days of a decade or two ago—thriving centres subsisting in districts with but a fraction of the area and productive possibilities of ours These sights are an education, par- ticularly to those who knew the places in the earlier days, and show what can be done. Cee It’s no news to be told that British Columbia (including particularly the Abbotsford, Sumas and Matsqui dis- trict) has the most promising indus- trial future of any Pacific Coast area —and the best all-year-round climate. But its a grand and glortous feeling to know that such a statement is the honest truth, Three hundred employees, engaged in the 15 Mainland branches of the Brackman-Ker Milling Co., Ltd. en- joyed the annual picnic, of the firm, held at Bowen Island recently. Mr. Ben. Hill of St. Thomas, Ont, is the guest of his neice Mrs, E. A. Hunt John A. McDonald GENERAL CONTRACTOR a SOU a ake ‘ “ad ( May22nd to Sept.30th = (Return Limit, October 31st) M 4x. it a trip of many pleas- ures, Enjoy the privileges Canadian National Service affords. DE LUXE TRAINS The Canadian National sleepi: ining service is all that can balteaizedl vith radio entertainment and an atten: dye stewardship you'll always pleasantly semember. Get the most for your vaca- tion money—let Canadian National plan your trip “Back Bast” this summer, Be Baler sabe opaee Jasper Pak ox Bia Atay docleed: poist. ra Rupert ia is not economy. Is your business equip- ment not worth Complete Coverage? 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