ABBOTSFORD. SUMAS AND MATSQUT NEWS ORLD HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY TOLD By an order-in-council the Katchewan Gasoline Act, 1928, has been amended to exempt all railway] companies operating in Saskatch- ewan from payment of the tax. Speeding Up Mail Service Letters From British Isles Delivered From One To Four Days Karller Letter mail from the British Isles Sas. {20d Europe will be brought from one |to four days quicker Canada to vice, recently inaugurated, The Canadian Post Office Depart- |} ment, following successful ments made last year, has entered into contracts for the cony Set,| Tal by alr, to and from lantic steamers. Incoming sleamers are met at Rimouski on the River St. | Lawrence and letter mail is taken off and despatched by airplane to Mon- treal, Ottawa and Toronto. Mails for western points are carried in the plane to Toronto and from there sent on by train, ' The advance in delivery is from twenty-four to seventy-two hours, depending on the time of arrival of the steamer, train connections, etc. On outgojng steamers \a supple- mentary despatch is given to biisi- ness ccrrespondence by direct air Last year 00 British subjects ee from the United ingdom helped by the Government to settle overseas, states the “Oversea tler.” were nee of ns-At- treatios in- trade countries, Negotiations for with several foreign cluding Newfoundiand, will be enter- ed by fhe Canadian Government dur- ing the present year. Dr. Otto Hamman, long a figure ip German political life and chief of the} press bureau of the foreign office from 1894 to 1915, is dead at the age of 76, The equal franchise bill, giving wo- men the vote at the age of 2 under the same terms as men, passed its third reading in the House of Lords, | service from Toronto, Ottawa, Mon- without discussion. jtreal to Rimouski, where this mail More beets, more parsnips, more is placed on a steamer sailing from oats, more flax and more wheat are| Montreal or Quebec several hours a at the |previously. In this way a supple- ewan prison in Prince Albert than in| mentary despatch is given to letters any other penitentiary in Canada, | Which would otherwise have had to ‘At Philadelphia the seaplane PN-| wait the next outgoing steamer sail- 32, carrying a useful load of 2,000 ing perhaps three or four: days late: kilograms _ (approximately 4400/ Although the Air Mail Service 3 pounds) broke the world’s altitude) at present operating is primarily in- rd by ascending more than 12,-| tended to speed up the transmission tah teat {of European mail, advantage is tak- * jen of the existing service to carry A new five-cent air mail postage) eae By ee TE asiNe extra postage is charged on let- ww, of the Un! i A - phos Ue Rie faiitataiip his been’ author-| os Nees ee ized. ‘ > Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, famous Arc- tic explorer, told the International Congress of Aerial Arctic explora- tion that in 1929 he intends to make an extended polar flight in # dirigible airship. He said this ship was now being constructed in Germany. Winnipeg Newspaper Union Put Trout In Mountain Lake Experiment In Fish Culture Is Done Successfully In Jasper Parl After a journeyof at least two) thousand miles the largest group of United States immigrants that ever settled in Canada has established its home in Jasper National Park. | During the week-end 200,000, Brook trout fingerlings, all the way: from Creco, Pennsylvania, were placed in the water of Maligne Lake. They came to Canada last winter as| eggs and for months they have been} carefully nursed in a hatchery espe-) cially constructed for them. Her- bert Davis, one of the park wardens. whose charge they were, watched them grow from eggs to fish, kept | the coll water running at the propery temperature, and when they were big | enough to eat fed them chopped liv-} er. They were brought from Penn-) sylvania to Jasper by Canadian Nes tional Express, nnd were transferred | to Maligne Lake by pack horse, wag- | on and automobile. There was no} difficulty, in these last, 35 miles to) keep the tins in which they floated | constantly moving, and they wate the journey without mishap. The water of the lake was tested before] they were lowered into it, and they} showed themselves acclimatized im-| mediately. Oliver Bright of the Do-| minion Hatchery at Fort Qu’Appelle, | superintended operations and Unusual Apron An unusual apron, War-| signed, that appears more like a den Davis kept watch over his pets pretty morning frock, is found in A , pattern No. 345. It has a confrt until he saw them safe in their new able fitting waist, which is cut in home. The stocking of Maligne Lake) (no with front panel. The side sec- with trout is one of the experiments tions are gathered and a dainty sash being made in glacial waters by the ties at the back. Japanese pongee é silk, cotton crepe in floral design. Pominion Government. Zephyr prints or cleverly de- Reason Fer Expansion With Canadiens eating on the tifully. Small, medium” and + k er Size, The medium size requires 2 average, 80 pounds of pork per \. 745 27-inch; 3 yards 32 or 36-inc! capita per year, 75 pounds of beef 21, yards 40-inch material with put only 10 pounds of lamb and mut- yard 18-inch contrasting, and 2 ton, there would seem every reason’ yards binding. Price 25 cents the pal $ tern. {or expeneen Wn ge named “Our Fashion Book, illustrating the meat, according to a statement i8- jowest and most practical styles will sued by the Canadian Co-operative be if interest to every home dress- Wool Growers’ Association. maker. Price of the book 10 cents a se the copy. How To Order Patterns | Address: Winnipeg Newspaper Union, | 175 McDermot Ave., Winnipeg Pattern No Town Red Cross Editorial Contest Congratulations Are Extended the Winners in Both Daily and Weekly Sections To Congratulations wide are now being offered all over Ganada to |througit the Canadian Alr Mail Ser-| those who have won prizes In the} The | recent. editorial contest inaugurated by the Canadian Red Cross Society, for the best editorials published in the daily and weekly press of the Dominion, to celebrate the céntenary of Henri Dunant and the founc of Red Cross for the world, Prizes have been awarded to: Rob- ert Henderson, of the St. Thomas Times-Journal, St. Thomas, Ontario, for the best editorial published in any daily paper, while Miss May Stuart Clendenan, of the Farmers’ | Advocate, London, Ontario, took the lending place in the weekly paper section in English. The other bright and clever people who won honors and prizes were: Second for dailies, H. B. Christie, The Expositor, Brant- ford, Ontario. Third, Miss Kenneth M. Haig, Manitoba Free Press, Win- nipeg, Manitoba, It. is worthy of note that Miss Clendenan is the present president of the Canadian Women's Press Club, while Miss Haig is a past president. | Prizes for the weekly papers in English: second, C. J. Allbon, The Asquith Record, Asquith, Saskateh- ewan; Third, C. W. Peterson, The Farm and Ranch Review, Calgary, | Alberta, For the French section, prizes were awarded respectively to Adju- tor Savard, La | Droit, Ottawa, Ontario. | | formed into an adjudicating commit- ‘tee headed by Dr, James W. Robert- son, chairman of the Central Coun- cil of the Canadian Red Cross So- clety were: Dr. Lorne Pierce, Editor, the Ryerson Press, Toronto; J. F. B. i general manager, Canadian Toronto; J. M. Elson, Cana-) dian Author's Association, Toronto; Professor G. M. Wrong, History Dept., University of Toronto. For the French section the adjudi- cators were: Mr, Leon Lorraine, of, the Commercial High Studies School, | | Montreal; Mr. Robert Choquette, professor of the University of Mon- \treal, and Dr. Victor Morin, past | president of the Canadian Authors’ | Association, | The contest was entered by sixty- Jone papers, but dozens more conttib-| | uted editorials without actually en- |tering the contest. Several inillion |readers were thereby informed that it was Henri Dunant who actually! originated the idea of Red Cross for) | the world, whereas, formerly, only a lvague idea that Florence Nightin-| gale had done so, existed in many | people's minds. Florence Nnghtin- gale, however, was publicly acknow-| ledged by Dunant in a speech in Lon- amination, examinations be held un- Kitchens with the don in 1872, as having been his in-| der the direction of the Department used to be roasted barons of beef, en-| spiration. | | Saskatchewan Anti- Tuberculosis League Farmers’ Marketing Tour Canadian National Rathvave’ Tour To Great Britain und Denmark, 1928 Movement To Have Free Treatment Of All Patients At the Public Expense y (Continued. } annual meeting of the katchewan Antl-Tuberculosis League) |wwas held at the Sanatorium, Fort | Qu’Appelle, on Thursday, June 14th, \s a er . business. Smithfield “Market, the finest police | In addition to the routine business, SPtBtelt oeat Britain, yet, n0t- | Mr. A, B, Cook, the president and Qithstanding its modernity, spactous- | managing director, briefly outlined ness und hygienic advantages and the the work of the League to date, and interesting pictures of lovely ladies stressed the imperative necessity of Which we found in a Ee eet s recreation room, none of us extending the activities of the League ich ¢4 (6 stay. along preventive lines, such as the) y.om this Iast word in police sta- examination of known “Contact tions we went to the smoke houses Cases.” He pointed out that at pres- and provision” establishment ot ent no‘ funds were available for this Reser sac re aac Tear bey ; ‘0., Ltd., where we were shown sides work, and that it had been decided, OP'4.50" Yom twelve .countrles,. {n- this year to proceed with the sale of. cluding Canada. Mr. George J. Nich- Anti-Tuberculosis Christmas Seals olls, Managing | Directo (ae vas dor the other provinces the various qualities, Canadian baco} Babes ones 1a aa ie Unites He said, was placed fourth in public of the Dominion and in the Unites’ favor, First English, then Irish, next / States, where funds for both cura™ panish, and then Canadian, Comparl- \tive and preventive work are largely son was also made with butter, cheese and eggs. Two Chinese eggs six years old were broken and shown | Mr. J, J. Lamb, Secretary of the to be perfectly “fresh” so far as edi- Municipal Hail Insurance Associa~) bility was concerned. Both vs eee tion, and Mr. J. G. Knox, of Tuxford, yolks and were examples of whal ‘ voality o¢ SES Should be, A good deal was | Reeve of the’ Rural Municipality of jet ied from Mr. Nicholls regarding | ee ee 191, were elected to the the requirements of the British mar-| Board of Directors to serve for a ket and whose remarks brought forth | period of three years. many questions from the party. e | We were now taken in hand by the | Two resolutions passed at the last! ots4) Markets Committee of the ; Annual Convention of the Saskatch-| Corporation of the City of London,| rning saw us ont even earlier, At 880 we were viewing tHe Snow Hill Police Station adjoining The next ™ |raised by this means. | ewan Association of Rural Municipal-| who showed us Smithfield Meat Mar-| litfes, dealing with free treatment and ket and Spitalfields Fruit and Veget- \examination of school children, were able Market including the extensions which are being made to the latter |read to the meeting and discussed |S" cast of $10,000,000, We had even-hundred-years-old market-place, the largest meat mar- Ket in the world, except to recall here, Orden the that Wat Tyler was slain by Sir Wil- |by the Independent of King Richard II. and that it had been | the principle of free treatment, these the scene of the burning of Protes- \ i y ndorsed by pRagaere prcre neat hily caanses tant martyrs, for soon we were trav- po ony elling through aisles of meat which It was resolved that the Legisla-| never seemed to end. There were |ture be petitioned to amend the San- 000 tous pone ee noo e ae } mea’ ad ci 0 1c atoria Act so that all classes of TB. Per no and would be out of it by {patients shall have free treatment/three that afternoon! Such ts the |available at the public expense. And meat-consuming power of Greater London. One of the secrets of the ex-| afternoon to & seasion with of the London Chamber of Gomi Here we listened to plain both “sides which brought forth in formation of the greatest valus, A eventful day concluded with an_ ning at Drury Lane, the largest 4 most famous of London's the where we saw “The Desert § one of the most successful mi shows ever presented In London, (To Be Continued.) Subject Much Neglected oF : More Music Should Be ‘Tan; dren At School y More time might well he devo to the “study of singing in 1 schools, Music is an art that en: many a person to endure much ‘thi is unpleasant in life, because whe opportunity affords, thetnystic compensates for everything which involves a discord. makes for happiness and ples It brings to the front the” bette ments in our lives and suggests doing of ‘pleasurable things, than those that are contrary. ‘The more music the better the childre the easier managed, and the i the ideals encouraged. Heavy Wool Contracts = Increase Of 35 Per Cent. Show Last Season ae Wool contracts received by Canadian Co-operative Wool ¢ }ers to date, show an increase per cent. over last season, accor to W. W. Thompson, g Patrie, Montreal, | ; ; ny . In view of the fact that resolutions scarcely time to reflect upon the his-| Saskatcewhan and Manitoba. specially marked inter-city mail be-|P.Q.; J. M. Bstival, La Soliel, Quebec, },44 aiso been passed by the United tory of this s ra 2 t, is} : rate, to be effective August first, IS)‘ /06n Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto. P.Q.; and to Charles Gautier, Le! armers, Saskatchewan Branch, an than 1,500 wool sacks have br to prospective wool shippers in two provinces in question and ai The judges for the English section Dayehters of the Empire, endorsing |jam Walworth in the presence of|er shipment of equal size is before the middle of June. The bags would represent about 6 pounds of wool and does not int the 200,000 odd pounds of range ¥ marketed through the Assoclati !Maple Creek. : | Indians Make Big Profits f: ‘further that same be paid: (a) Partly by the Government; (b) | Partly by all Urban and Rural Mun- jjes immediately below the market, | icipalities in the Province. It was further suggested that the share of responsibility be apportion- ed as follows: The Government to undertake all capital expenditure re- quired in furnishing the necessary —— Bat peditious handling of meat is . the| found Seal-Fishing Good Along Wes Great Western Railway's depot which | Coast Of GRACE obviating the carting of meat through; Fur seals have been unt ‘the streets. Access from the depot to plentiful this season along the the market is ay Dears ve coast of Vancouver Island, ani ‘the from each of which 100 to 150 sides fi : of beef can be cleared every hours) tsa itom Hom Peles cmaas Every facility was afforded-for ask-| Permitted if guns are not used, ing questions of anybody in the mar-| brought in a large number of skin kets, both meat and fruit and veget- for sale. The price is-high and some. sanatoria with their equipment, and able, and a mass of information was) also contribute toward the expense obtained having a direct bearing on of care and treatment of $1.000 per the marketing of Canadian products. hospital day, and the balance of care | After three hours of tireless in- _ vestigation we were ready for the and treatment cost to be paid semi-| Mansion House and the reception of annually by all municipalities of our the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, | of the hunters have been making bi; profits. > The weather was stormy at and the Indians, in the frail dugout canoes, had no easy time during th province on an equitable basis, Also that the Convention request the Provincial Government to enact Leg- all children of school age be examin- ed for the diagnosis of tuberculosis, and that subsequent to the first ex- of Public Health. i BRITISH TRADE. AND FOREIGN COMPETITION plain or figured) sateen will give unending service for | general wear and will launder beau-! f large | Size .......| The Suez Canal is longer than the! you this | Panama Canal, the former about 100 miles in length or approxi- ture.” mately sixty miles longer, according “It's no use, madam. He only likes |to “Liberty.” brunettes.”—Ruy Blas, Paris. | “I saw the butcher kisi morning. I will fetch the meat in fu- Every time some men look into a Pe 1739 Von 0, being | Sir Charles Sykes, former coalition Liberal member of the British House Frecnutod be seeee luncheon will be \ of Commons, is concerned over foreign competition and its effects on British trades, “Drastic remedies are required” he said on arrival in Canada a few the great day “Regina,” “if Great Britain is to be re- mirror they imagine they see a hero. \stored to that position in the world which she formerly held. days ago on the White Star liner Sir Charles and Lady Batho. hunt, but are well pleased as the sal imposing house, where since th all lands, we were given a cordial weltome and made to feel at home. During a pleasant and privileged Old French Manual half hour we were shown the old spits on which} Advised A\ , Washing the Face This is from a French man tertained in the great Egyptian Hall, | the guidance of youth, first pu {and accorded a view of the City’s|ed in 1713, which ran through era plate. hes panera Re editions in the course of the aving the Mansion House witn) oy some Yepretvat the ‘sbofitiess’ om thal so oan eae stay, we made the brief walk to the | leanliness it is well to rub tl Guildhall as guests of the Central, every morning with a white tow Markets Committee. | We entered the Guildhall with a feeling akin to reverence: If London |feet, still bear the marks of Great Fire of London. Here the ders pallor.” great anaes Gog and Magog’ are ————— re /stil on guard, and in this room on |July 29th, 1915, Sir Robert Borden} Mader oe {was accorded ‘the Freedom of the| On Victoria Day, Premier Mac City of London, and tribute was paid zie King gave a broadcasted to the gallant and tenacious defence from Ottawa to a 100,000 erow Sate tauren: Force in the Second sembled in Hyde Park, London, Our luncheon table was set in the! and, and a little later Hight [famous Art Gallery, a colorful sur- missioner Larkin telephoned 1 rounding of rare historic and rich the British metropolis to exc artistic interest. It was fitting that i 5 ‘Alderman W. P. Neil should preside Steetgs with reference to ae at a luncheon to Canadian farmers dent. Hither event would have } for he was foremost in the efforts rgarded as a miracle not so vel which secured the abolition “of the tong ago, yet the two mi embargo on Canadian cattle. With , ; i is. wae: the High Commissioner, ‘sir, | Schreey caused. 4 une Oa Larkin. The principal toast was “The tention, so used have we Deco Great Dominion of Canada,” in reply modern marvels. to which a striking tribute to the op- portunities which Canada presents ‘shipping Wwas given by the Hon, George Lang-| THe trouble about worshippl ley, who revealed that as an English cestors is that people who do I workman he had passed and re-pass-|dom provide the same privil ed the Guildhall daily for eight years posterity. or more, but never in his’ wildest dreams had he thought he would one day dine there! It is difficult to con- vey the cordiality, the spirit of kin-| ship which marked the speeches on this occasion when London accorded us her highest honor in this ancient | hall, or the pride with which the Cor- poration's most treasured possession was brought from the vaults for our inspection. ‘This was the scepter which for over 1,000 years has been symbol of the City’s dignity and is carried before the newly crowned monarch at every coronation, With thig we were shown a purse that was the gift of Queen Blizabeth, The dated souvenir match container orna- mented with the City’s coat of arms a “What is the matter with “L had a difference of opin Brumminger, but he broug! round to his viewpol the Lustige Welt, Berlin, easured by every member of the party, no less than the memory of on which Canadian farmers were guests of the Empire's Papltel. | Entertainment gave place in