ABBOTSFURD. SUMAS

AND

MATSQUI NEWS

WORLD HAPPENINGS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Carfoll Aikens, Naramata, B.¢ has
been appointed director of the Hart
House Theatre, University of Tor
onto.

The date of the conference of Po
vinclal Prime Ministers, with the Fed
ral Government has been set for
November 8, and will probably last
some days

Four spe uinps have been i
sued in J to commemorate the
fiftieth anniversary of the entry of
that country into the Universal Po:
jal Union

Total profits made through lquor
handled by the British Col

uor Control Board reached $
for the six months’ period ending
March 31, it is announced

The death of toul Pasha, Presi
dent of the *Egyptian Chamber of
Deputies and Nationalist leader, is an
nounced in a Cairo de tch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company

At a meeting of the Canadian Acro

fation roronto,

Ass¢

present

state of aviation in ¢

in

an
ada and plans for placing the country
na in

were the feature topics of discussion

forward. position this rest
Fuiure long distance fighis should

have far better preparation and more

stringent requirements than the Dole

air race to Hawaii, cording to U.S.

tment of Commerce aviation
officials.

Proporals for the establishment of

two grain elevators and flour mill

Bulle
cousidered

at Victoria by a lo-Vancouyer

syndicate, were recently

ting of the

would run to

a special me city coun
The combined cost
$3

rly

000,000

The erection of a mooring mast in
the vicinity of Montreal to accommo-

date the transatlantic lips will be

followed

providing similar facili
, according to

by

ties on the Pacific cc

a prominent Government official in
touch with plavs for connecting the
far-flung portions of the Empire by

airship route

Why Churchill Is Favored

Many Advantages Offered By North-
ern Port Over Nelson

Points favor of Port Churchill

Hudson's Bay

in

as the terminal of the
Railway, are outlined, by General Pat
the

of On-to-the

as

terson, president

Bay

Association

four hours unhindered

wenty ac

Absolute protection from wind and

waves.
Ayailable for ships of any draft
Great saving in cost of construc
tion.
Can be completed many years

sooner than Nelson.

No light ships or buoys required as
entrance direct from deep water
into harbor

Insurance rates should be less

There should be great
ing in ships’ time

portant when a short season is taken

a very say
which is most im-

into consideration.
Harbor is large
considerably more shipping than now
Law and the ex

tension of dock facilities can be

enough to handle

s the St.

ente

nade
at very small cost.

It be
shore ic

seems to the case that the

to the
side of the

than at Nelson, owing soutn-
ward current on the west
Bay, and there would be no difficulty
{n keeping the harbor open with ice
breakers as long as may be desired.
These

the only disadvantage

are some of th
is the mainten-
addition-

ance ation of ninety

al miles of railway

and ope

A New Sailing Record

The two-masted schooner Mary
Elizabeth recently arrived at Provi
dence, Rhode Island, from Brava,

e Verde Islands, having made the

voyage of 3,600 miles in forty days.
The remarkable fgature of the voy
age, however. was not the time con
sumed but the fact that during the
entire passage all her nine sails were

set and not once was one lowered or

The

port

reefed yeteran mariners of Pro

that such a record

ade

vidence ay
and that the

Is of

was never befcre 1

yoyage 15 unique in the anni

tranvatiantic navigation

Hardest Way Is Best

“The hard ay is almost
ably the best “) Thoma
Edison; and he goes on to declare
that whenever he achieves a result |

quickly and easily he always dis
trusts it and proceeds to test it by a
different and more dificult method.
The road to the heights must be stecp
and tolisome

Money is a thing that Is easy to

borrow when you don’t need it and)

s clear at Churchill sooner |

Largest Indian Rock
Carving Discovered

Petroglyph On Cariboo Highway More
Than 250 Feet Long

The largest petroglyph or Indian
rock carving known in Canada has
just been reported to the archaeolog

ical office of the National Museum of

Canada at Ottawa

This petroglyph is id to be more
than 250 feet long and to be carved |
on a vertical face of reddish rock of
the plateay, straight up the side of
the Fraser River v bout half a
mile south of the castern end of the
Alexander Bridge or Cariboo |
Highway \ trout-fshing trail runs |
up in its direction, from whieh it pro>
bably can be seen The place is

12 miles'from Yale on the
hoth the 1

accessible ol

enly about

allway line and, be

t and the most easily

the petroglyphs, it may be set aside!

a national monument because of

|its value as a

tourist attraction

Previous to this discovery the larg

est nada was

yph in ¢

70-foot

known petr
west side of a
th of the Macken-
four

on the canyon

about one mile sou

zie bighway, at a point some

from the sea in the “Norway of

Bella Coola

mile
Canada” near
| elie eS eee
| 7 Pe
| Automobile Fatalities
canvas! |

Report Of Deaths In Nine Provinces

For 1926 |

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics

has issued a special report on deaths |
x m automobile accidents in the nic
provinces of Canada during 1926, Un-
this led the acei-
in which automebil

der title

Ss were

in-

dents

}yolved in 2ollison with other vehic

such as bors

cars and

In the nine provinces of Canada
deaths ‘from automobile accidents to
talled 606 for tre 26, made up
as follow Prince

nals
Nova Scotia, 28; is

Quebe 183; Ontario, 242; Manitoba,
2 Saskatchewan 21; Alberta, 33

and British Columb 60.

For the whole country the death
rate from this cause 6.5. per
100,000 of population.

} Children under-15 3 of age coz

tributed 186 deaths or 81 per cent. of
the total

Winnipeg Newspaper Unior}

An Attractive New Frock |

Of decided appeal is this: charming
frack The skirt, having the fulness
shirred in the front, is joined to the
bodice, while the back is in one
View A employs contrasting mate
for the convertible collar, the s
puffs, belt across the back, and is
plied on the lower part of the

The modish sleeye s bolero j
fies in a chic b in front. In View
.B the frock has short sleeves of con-

trasting material and a round neck
1 is for mi and me
and is in siz 18 and 20
size 18 (3 requires 4
inch

)

wonien

, or
rial, and % 4 y-inch
material for View A, and
) for View B. Price 20 cent
the pattern
The designs ilustrated in our new
Fashion Book are advance atyles for
the home dressmaker, end the woman
or girl who desires to wear garmeaots
dependable for taste, simplicity and
economy, will find her desires ful-
filed in-our patterns. Price of the
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DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO CANADA

the opinion of this distinguished
Tee
roup of-p. who arrived in| °°

engers
the Dominion a few Gays ago on the
White S$

hi

that

world

hunt
he

he has
ery country

and he has

hooks

ed

aid

in
thinks Canada he

the finest hunting and fishing in th

Canady is an ideal holiday resort in) hunter of note and despite the fact

practically

so In one of

On this trip he will tray-

Wonderful New Metal
Is Surprisingly Light

Canada Interested In Development As
Depositis Are Found Here

An exhibit demonstrating an inter

of British metal

view at

\Jurgical chen
Bouverie House, Fleet street, London,
by Sir Ernest

scien

esting achievement

siry was on
at a reception given
Benn to a large
tists associated with the chemical and

company of

gas industric This was a small
sample of electrolytic Beryllium of a
remarkable standard of purity pro

duced by the National Physical Lab-
oratory, Teddington

A white metal, with a brilliant sur
beryllium, though
nearly hard
laboratory

believed
and

face when ground
surprisingly light,
as iron Its
production in this country
to be in advance German
American re
| possible to produce it on the large

as

successful

of

when it

arch, and

| works scale, it will probably have an
{important bearing on light alloy man
huts construc-
|

engineering
its

acture and

combined

their y ion. From left to right the | ol right through Canada and probably | tion, on account of
oup incitdes Sir shoot big game in western Canada, | lightness and stre ngth
Senator in the Sir B on the other hand Beryllium is prepared’ fre natural
and Lady Esmonde; z, will enjoy & quiet holiday in the Mus-;beryl, a mineral which found in
daughter, and Sir E¢nest’ Craig, Bart, (Moka Lakes district before returning |Caflada and other ‘parts of tho Em
M.P. for Crewe, who owns collieries to England on one of the White pire, and two smail blocks of it, quar
in Wale sir ‘Thomas Esmonde js a j liners. ried In Kenya Colony and British
- Somaliland, were also on view. Major
F. Watson chairman of the Leeds

Northern Volcano Is Active

Volcanic Peak On Western Aleutian
Islands Is On Rampage

Aeroplane Express

ate Rapid

Anferican Express Company Inaugur-
Transit From Coast

Federation,
surprisea

nployers’
Interviewed, was not
Physical
such a metal, Ex-

| Bngineering

when

that the National Labora-

tory had produced

Bogoslaff Island, a yolcanic peal: | To Coast periments had been going on for some
im : the Western Aleutian Islands | ation on September 1 of €M/ijme. Providing it can be produced
which rose from the sea May 18, roplane express service from coast) ,; 4 y nable cost, he said, it will
1796. is intensely hetive again, Hen-|to coast, which wiil cut the railway }}, yery important’ to m ; of aero
ning Flaun, Danish consul at 8 shipping time in half and will cost planes and niotor cars. In fact there
reported upon his return from less than air mail rates for packages, | yi) bo hundreds of uses for such a
on a trading vessel. was announced by the American Rail- product tefore a definite opinion

“We went within three miles of the | way Express company can be pronounced more detail will
island,” Flaun said. “The entire is-| Pac sup to 200 pounds each}, required, and the question of cost
land scems afire, smoke and may be carried from the Atlantic 10} 4) nave to be investigated
was issuing from every part andjthe Pacific eoast in two The

cks could be
of

lions

many huge
the app
Ifundreds of
driven off the island roaring as if
protest of the burning of their island

seen

inferno. | siz
being

in

has arance an
wi
lir

| pr

sea were

home.’

=z = va
Russia’s Millions

nc

| Population Of Sovlet Union Estimated |

At 146,200,000 |
‘The total population of the Soviet

Union in round numbers is 146.200,- Considera Airways la
See t bmitted t ‘ T) ~ “are Sunt Qowal yay: we) ave large and several small houses
000 says a report submitted to the . elbourne Tresponde: ) r -
. 7 be pts ; | a pela correspondent O* i near Rogers Bay, Wrangell Island
Council of People’s Commissaries by|the Sydney Telegraph reported that | 3
; 4 - 5 jhas be claimed at different times
the Central Statistica! Dep ment. the commonwealth government decid- | A 7S a r
9 7 8 ee Oe ies by American, British and Russian
Russia proper (The R.S.F.S.R.)jed to allocate an additional 200,000) ..) nies
nlonies
contains 100,500,000 people, Ukraine | pounds sterling to the development of
28,900,000, White Russia 4,900,000, | civil aviatio: It wil ake a total =
: - ; See verge Pt Honor Dead At Mons
Caucasus 5,800,000, Uzbekistan 6,100,- Federal garnt of .000 pounds sterl- . ~
a Vifteen hundred of the Old Con
000, and Turkestan 1,000,000. ing *to finance the scheme being
ae at ; S temptibles under the command of
pens — worked out to bring the most distant . sj .
‘ep eS ad ost “Uistahe | Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Crofton |
Vas W i arts of the ymmonwealth to with- |, —_
Was Well Equipped D : atte Ms ayes. : De ; Campbell Uniacke, marched to the
The ar a sma age sait in four days’ journey of the capitals PI
The vicar of a small yillag aid to BS : a j : ey e 1e capita cenotaph {n London, headed by the
nieve f his ok, “Vm afrai jil- 0 16 istern States by means of a , “é :
ng youth sof-hise flaky slam athe ae js i * ireli 5 ee eas Irish Guards band and deposited a
iz ‘re tampering w » affec- |series of airways encircling the whole Fi
liam, you're tampering with the a * i? ' 16h A wreath in commemoration of the 13th
ions severe virls i is paris continen . = x
tions of several girls in this parish anniversary of the first battle of

It | chi

ze but-no ar
Ii be carried,
nitations

the

techni

lued at more il

eepte

Th

era

concerning

{packages of great bulk

lan $

T restrictions are as to
nor
will

“balloon
for
No shipment

term

5,01

wei

explo:
definite

be

Aviation In Australia

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will

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light |

be

| Commonwealth Government To Spend

Russians Inhabit Wrangell Island

Have Erected Several Houses Reports
U.S. Scientific Expedition

- - a
Opening For
New Industry
| Climate ParticulaHiee Adapted For
| Pi Rabbits For Their Petts

of rabbit fur for commer.
clal purposes is becoming increasingly
prevalent and will doubtless con
| tinue to do so. Rabbit skins are being
used more and more extensively to
replace higher priced furs both fn
Canada and the United States. In a
bulletin on “Rabbits,” distributed by
| the Publications Branch, Department
of Agriculture, Ottawa, the striking
| fact is mentioned that the world’s nn-
nual production of rabbit skins at the
present time is near the 200,000,000
mark Canada imports hundreds of
| thousands of these skins every year.
| Except for use as trimmings or for
children’s cheap furs, rabbit furs ara
{only substitutes for, or imitations of
the higher grade and better wearlng
furs; consequently, the price paid for
individual rabbit skins will probably
be very high. However, the
| price paid for prime rabbit sking —
animals killed during the winter—is
|such that, plus the amount realized
for the meat, there Is a good lmargin
of profit over the cost of feeding.
There is, at present, a good market
for rabbit skins in the Montreal Fur

| Sales.

| never

| These facts show that there is a
field for rabbit breeding in Canada
|Our climate is particuiarly Rdapted
jto this Industry and, given proper
}care and management and the selec-
tion of suitable breeds, as described
in the bulletin, rabbits, as a side line,
sr on the farm or im the back
d, should prove to be an apprecia- *
| ble source of revenue. F

Greater Things May Be Accomplished
In the Future By United Effort
One of the most unusal instances of
the advanced attitude of the
average Canadian in matters of pub-
| He health was brought to the atten-
tion of citizens generally during the
}recent provincial

very

When the yacht Northern Light, election campaign

si bearing John Borden, Chicago, mil-|!%, Manitoba:
|lonaire, and his field museum expe- in the subject of commun-
laition through the Arctic on a scien- |i! well-belng was ‘suiMclently” wide:
|tifie expedition, arrived at Wrangell | Spread for one candidate, Dr, E. W.
Island the Montgomery, a -Bracken supporter, to

expedition reported by
| wireless that the island had been in-

|habited by Russians, who had erected

The Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwi
Pickering, Ontario, on the new Canadian National locomotive, number 6120 th
, e 20, the

n, the British Premier, took a short course In

powerful railway engine in the British Empire.

Mr, Baldwin, wl siting K
that this titan of the steel rails was an all-Canadian product, de nL ae epee ae
engineers and built at the Kingston shops. No. 6120

Early on Saturday morning No. 6120

Y'm told that you're c¢ urting a girl in} Mons. Old Bill, the first of the many
this vill , anorher at Gram tone aay I look forward every Sunday to|pondon motor buses that saw active
a third at Muddlingten. jthe after-dinner nap service in the war, participated in the
“Well, sir,” said William: bappily,| “I thought you never slept after | procession
“I've got motor-bike.” io a | ue Sd gets
—E | ‘I don’t, but my wife does.” | The e of@nefromeaviien exposed
Some women are not as fresh a5} Gaye Te ve to the light of a candle, will generate
ithey are painted, and some are more The things that we try to keep/an electric current easily measured
so. | dark come to light sooner or later. on a galvanometer.
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engine driving ‘at.
largest and most
éston, Ont., heard
n National Rallw ay

Royal Train to haul it into Toronto to mark the opening of the new Union Btallon attached to the

although busily engaged in the preparation of his speeches, halted in his work
tion of the engine, eventually climbing into the cab with the engineer. I ee

terest in the manner in which the big locomotive was handled

worked the various levers controll

motive.

ing the engine,

when
"Tt Is a vi € n

be a source of pride to the Canadian designers and builds 4 Sear eoF anne
No. 6120 is one of forty engines of similar type that are being
fast passenger and freight services of the National System. i
les without change—the longest locomotive runs in the Dominion.

said the Premier on leavin

When in regular service they

on, Mr,
to make
He showed the
travelling at

Baldwin,
An inspec-
keenest in~
high speed, and
inery and should
g the |

turned out this season for the
will run 610

|make it one of the chief planks in his

| platform.

| “It is not money in the bank
wheat

in the granaries or cattle

character of its men.” ¥
Pointing to the achievements of the”
past few years, he used them as ex-
jamples of the greater things which
accomplished in the future
effort. Death rates from
is and diphtheria had both
largely because the
community was getting infectious dis-
eases under control. But there was
no reason, he noted, why the deaths
|from diphtheria could not be reduced
| to zero.
| Tho major possibilities of health
movements had not been partially ex-
hausted. They were, he omphasized,
sntially peoples’ movements and
it was essental that the average citl-
zen should be*kept in close touch
with public health and hygiene prob-
lems

might be
by
| tubercul

unitod

been reduced,

es.

Turns On Flocd Lights
Drone Of Aeroplane Motor a Thou-
sand Feet In the Air, Closes
Switch

The noisy hum of an aeroplane #
thousand feet in the air closed the
switch that lighted a bank of flood —
lights at Bettis Field, Meleesport
Pa,, in the first demonstration of the
sound-sensitive automatic lighting
agency developed by H. T. Spooner,
research engineer of the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing
Merle Northrup, pilet at
tached to Bettis Field. compléted the
experiment by bringing the "plane te
the in the glare of powerful
lights turned on by the steady throb

of the ship's

Company

ground

motors
The device in effect uses the drove
thr

aeroplane to contro? electric
From a iiny cvrrent at first
ontrolled energy is inereased
|power by amplifiers until if 13 stron&
enough good sized light=
{ng switelr

The switeh locks automatically and
the lights remain on rntil the switelt
is thrown by a fleld attendant

this ¢

to throw a

Viscount Deerhurst was the eidest
son of the 9th Farl of Coventry an@
was In his 62nd year. He was amet
ber of the Natfonal Rifle Asseckation
Council

head?
tbe

“Can you stand on your
asked a patronizing yisttor of
youngest boy of the family.

“No,” was the reply. “It’s too lug
up. r

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many a family tree

root

oh

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