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ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS

Bintwreete.

years we

*riees an

We Sell Good
Groceries, too

Now, as throughout the many

have been engaged in

oe || business in Abbotsford, we are Ql

WEZay ecting adequately all competition in our various depart.

ei nents. GROCERIES always have, and always will be a
trong Line at the Pioneer Store, and after investigating the

‘d Qualities elsewhere, try our Grocery Department

and QUICK DELIVERY SERVICE.

New Stock of Imported and Canadian Woollens

R. Desmazes

as . Pioneer General Store
Ps fe botitord: Phone 16 or 1912
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q ee When You Deal With a
| | DaaqqGProprietor Merchant
ts ) Personal service is that to that

the proprietor merchant gives. For almost 20 years that per-
sonal service has been given to the public of Abbotsford by A.
M, King's Meat Market, and today, it is available to the dis-
_criminating shopper, who seeks QUALITY FIRST with fair
market prices on meat purchases, Picnic Meats a Specialty.

Same amount of
more per ton.

4. M. SPARLING,

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A KING’S MEAT MARKET
k RS 4 The “Personal Service” Butcher Phone 48
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How Much More per Ton Is a
' Modern Mill Blended Dairy
Feed Worth ?

A feeding trial in your barn is worth while ‘to compare results.

An Appeal to the Cow Is the Final---

the Crucial Test.

IF DIAMOND BRAND DAIRY FEEDS FED, FOR EXAMPLE,
AT THE RATE OF 8 LBs. PER DAY, WILL PRODUCE ONE

QUART OF MILK MORE PER COW, PER DAY — than the ©

home mixed ration, they are worth $12.50
Similarily one pint per cow per day, makes the

DAIRY FEED worth $6.25 moreper ton.

Buckerfields Limited

Head Offices_VANCOUVER, B.C

Manager Abbotsford Branch. Phone 70

Eye

STANDARD

his service to former and
at his Vancouver

W.H.

Optometric

Experience in Your

791 Granyille Street, Vancouver.
Dr. Francks will be pleased to extend

FRANCKS
Specialist

apnyenralor WAGON WORK

, ‘Horse Shoeing a Specialty

John Sorby

The old McMenemy Shop,
Abbotsford, B.C.

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new patients

General Blacksmithing

WHEELWRIGHT & -GENERAL

this:

years in my home.
other.

all s of pastry,
has no equal for pr

Factory at

Mrs. Driscoll of Victoria sends
“I have used Pacific Milk for

I use it becatise it is
the richest in cream.

PACIFIC MILK

ABBOTSFORD B.C.

Prompt-Paying Companies

.
Town Property
mate 20, Residences at Bargain Prices
peor Farm Lands
and Bnd ay We know land values, and can
uuddings”. find buyers, sellers and renters.

Complete “Coverage” in Sound ~

Abbotsford Brokerage
& Realty Co.

Phones: B.C, 116; Farmers 3425

St. Andrew’s and
Caledonian Society

Meets First Sat-

“Build B.C.” urdays of Every

* month in Masonic
Pacific Hall, Abbotsford

Milk ¢ All Scottish Folk

HK == = zs Cordially Invited
No J. Mutch, Pres. W, Stewart, Sec.

Other i =)

Insurance—

Home-ma

Ours is

Service
We

The Districts Pi

ABEOTS

kers !

COMPLETE

A. McCALLUM

Realty & Insurance Man
FORD (next P.O.)
Phone 43 or 77

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Issue You Your Marriage License

Find You a Nice Home or Farm Site

Effect the Purchase and Execute the

Necessary Papers.

Write Up the Insurance of Your Home
Your Furniture and On Your Life

Issue Endowment or Trust Accounts
for the Children

Attend All Notarial Work & Affidavits

Execute Your Will

ean -

loneer

CLAYBURN

Mr. J, W. Ball, manager of the Clay-
burn Brick Go. is gone to Powell
river on a business

Miss Peggy Scott
the Misses Dorothy
Fooks last w

Mr. Crabtree has returned home from
a business trip to Victoria.

Mrs, Hugh Nesbit and Mrs. Peterda-
hm of Chimacum, Wash. are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. H. Richmond.

Miss Esther Rossi has returned to her
home in Vancouver, after spending a
week as the guest of Miss Argenta
Venturin, .

Miss Margaret Woodroofe left for
Seattle on Monday, where she has ob-
tained a position.

Mrs, A. Davies has returned home
from a months visit in Saskatchewan,
Where she attended the funeral of
father, She was accompanied bi
by her sister, who, is going to be her
guest for a time,

Miss Margaret Nelson has returned
home from a holiday spent in Vancou-
ver.

Mr. Tom Saunderson has returned
from Sumas Prairie and is employed
by F. Bradner.

Mrs. Welby and daughter Margaret
of South Africa are visiting at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Holbrow.

The Misses Anne, Ellen and Margaret
Mynor are visiting their aunt, Mrs. J.
A. Carmichael, while their parents gr
in England. “4

Mr. Wm. Fooks has finished thresh-
ing and had a bumper crop, over two
tons to the acre. ‘

"Rally Day” service will be observed
in Clayburn United Church on Sunday
next at 11 am. The usual Rally Day
service will be held in the school house
at Gifford on Sunday next at 3 p.m.

At the close of the service, steps will
be taken to form a Sunday School. It
is hoped that there will be a good turn
out of parents and children.

trip.
of Gifford visited
and Margaret

MILL SHIPPING LONG TIMBERS

A huge double-flatcar load of long
timbers left Abbotsford early this week
destined for Detroit, Mich., where they
will be used in warehouse construction,
The long sticks are 12x12 to 24x24 by
80 feet in length, and are part of sev-
eral of such orders being filled by the
local mill.

For two weeks the planing mill will
be operated with a night shift, until
orders are filled. 2

POTATO CROP WILL BE SHORT
MARKET OFFICIALS EXPECT

The potato crop this year is likely to
be a short one in the opinion of mar-
keting officials at New Westminster,
who are busy grading the first of the
season's crop with the automatic grad-
ing machine imported and installed
at the Pacific Coast Terminals storage
Plant. The new machine has a capac-
ity of eight tons an hour.

All potatoes shipped in are now com-
pulsorily graded by the Committee of
Direction, the best grade being given
an orange tag, top commercial grade 9
blue tag, and second grades a red tag.
On delivery of potatoes the growers are
given checks for part payment and re-
ceipts for the quantity, final payment,
less grading, sacking and marketing
charges to be remitted after sale.

B.C. Egg & Poultry Pool plan to build
a poultry canning plant m New West-
minster next year, designed similarly
to the Lynden plant. At present the
1,300 members of the pool are sending
their fowls to butchers and packing
houses.
The monthly meeting of the Local
Egg Pool will be held at the Candlins
Station, Abbotsford, on Friday, Septem-
ber 27th, at 8 p.m.

The first annual conyention of the
United aFrmers of Canada, British Co-
lumbia division, is being held in Mis-
sion on Friday and Saturday of this
week, when 500 or 600 farmers from all
parts of the Valley are to be

ABBOTSFORD

Isabel de la Girody, professionally
known as Burnada, former Abbotsford
girl and famous contralto, is giving a
recital in Vancouver theatre on Satur-
day, October 5, which many Abbots-
ford friends plan to attend.

J. A. McDonald has secured the con~
tract for erection of a school house at
Boston Bar.

Mrs. H. Fraser is in Nanaimo, attend-
ing the convention of school trustees.

Miss M. Mackay of Vancouver visited
at the home of Mr, and Mrs. O. W.
Benedict at the week-end.

Miss Gladys Taylor was a visitor in
Abbotsford this week.

Mr. W. Coutts made a hunting trip
to Harrison Lake last week, and re-
ports deer plentiful, but of the wrong
sex for shooting early in the open sea-
on.

Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hunt have as
their guest the latter's uncle, Mr. D.
Hill of St. Thomas, Ont,

Pearl Rebekah lodge gave a surprise
party at the home of Mrs. Stirling ia
honor bf Mrs. F. Tracy on Thursday
evening. About 25 guests were pre-
sent, and the evening was pleasant
spent at music and social intercourse.
A nice gift was presented to Mrs. Tra-
cey's baby.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Berry of Seattle
visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Hunt over the. week-end.

Men's Club Activities— (contributed)

Monday night, after usual game of
600, chairs were pushed back, and while
waiting for corn cobs to cook, com~
munity singing was enjoyed. Beautiful
sweet corn, cooked undr dircetion of G.
Geary was brought on. H. R, Brown
won out by 15 cobs, and was able to
walk home. C. Baker and G. MacKay
came second and third. It was decided
to change the slogan“pack up your
troubles’ to “the more we are together’

Owing to the date conflicting with
an eyent announced by the M.S.A. Hos-
pital W.A., members of the Canadian
Legion have postponed their whist
drive and social, dated for September
27, at Mrs. Davis’ home, to Thursday,
October 3. Mrs. Davis has kindly made
her home ayailable for the event, pro-
ceeds of which go to the cenotaph fund.
Returned men and the public are in-
yited to patronize.

Lee's Bakery staff is busy on night
and day shifts turning out the increas-
ing bread orders, one of which is «
wholesale contract of 1,000 loaves daily
for stores in Chilliwack, Mission and
Abbotsford. The bakeshop staff com-
prises Gib. Wilson, F. And J, In-

FINAL PLANS LAID FOR ;
SUMAS EXHIBITION

At a special meeting of Sumas-Ab-
botsford Agricultural Association, held
n the municipal hall last Thursday,
executive committees were named to
arrange the various departments of
tomorrow's event. They were. poultry,
J. Frith; fruit: F. Beltrame, W. Porter
flower: Mrs. P. Starr, Mrs, Winson, J
Rowley; cattle, W. G. Fadden, M. Mur-
phy, J. J, Starr; domestic science re-
presentatives of Huntingdon and Up-
per Sumas Women's Institutes; enter-
tainment: E. H. Boley; publicity, G. iH.
Heller; refreshmen' Tuntingdon WI.
sports: E. S. Plaxton. ’

Correspondence read by the Secre-
tary included a letter from the De-
partment of Agriculture notifying the
Association that the government grant
would be approximately $113, based up-
on last year's prize money disburse-
ments, An additional special prize of
5-lbs. of butter was reported, donors of
which were P. Burns & Co.

Judges were announced as: fruit and
vegetables, A. B. Alberry, Sandwick, B.
C.; horses, cattle, sheep, hogs: A. Blair;
poultry, W. Walker, New ‘Westminster;
dairy products, domestic science, Mrs

ly] A. J. Randall, West Vancouver; school

work, G.F. Pratt.

BRODER CANNERY MAY BE
BUILT IN CHILLIWACK

Broder Canning Co. of New Westmin-
ster has made a proposition to Chilli-
wack Valley farmers wherein a canning
plant will be established at Chilliwack
if sufficient produce if forthcoming.
From 800 to 1,000 acres of corn, 200
acres of peas and 100 acres of beans are
required. Corn, to average 12 to 14
acres a ton, would be bought at $25
per ton, the cannery supplying seed,
and string beans $55 to $60 a ton.

The Chilliwack Board of Trade en-
tertained Mr. Tolley, representative of
the company, and is active in the moye-
ment.

Mrs. M. Wall and daughter have re-
turned to their home in Vancouver,
after visiting the former’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Sumner here for the
summer.

The J. Atkinson farm of 205 acres
on Sumas Prairie, under lease to Mr.
Munroe, has been purchased by Messrs.
Anderson & Porter of Murrayville.
This farm, formerly operated by the
late Reeve Atkinson, is one of Sumas
Prairie’s early landmarks, and includes
a fine modern barn and house. E. 5S.
Plaxton effected the sale.

glis and W. Sayce, Jr. Another truck,
an Essex Dover, has been added, mak-
ing a fleet of three.

Relieying-Vendor McInnis is return-
ing to Vancouver next week, when Mr.
Rowley resumes his duties in the local
liquor store.

Miss Humphreys, R.N., is taking Miss
Reid's place on the MS.A. Hospital
nursing staff.

Carl Holtus has commenced to drive
one of the Lee Bakery trucks. His place
with Abbotsford Bakery has been taken
by J. Scott of Peardonyille.

Mr. Leonard Cruthers is

E. TODD

A COMPLETE LOCAL STORE
Groceries, Hardware, Dry Goods
Boots & Shoes, Patent Medicines
Poultry Feeds, Flour, Gasoline

Phone Ab. 86Y Gifford Stdtion

You can buy cheap
and welbin Gifford

favorably in health at his home here,
after his recent operation.

Capt. G. A. West, Kaslo poet-rancher,
was in Abbotsford last week, leaving
several copies of his Booklet “Kooten-
ay Kuts” with local stores for sale at
50c per copy.

Art Monument Co., Ltd.

H. MATTHEWS .- * St, Nicholas
Local Representative
Erectors of

ABBOTSFORD CENOT,

‘
MONUMENTAL AND MEMORIAL
DESIGNERS

An All-Canadian Firm—with Ex-War
Service Personnel
121

602 Kis St.

present.

Telephone
still

holds speed
record

On September 10, Squadron
Leader A. H. Orlebar, captain of
the British Schneider cup team,
set a world’s speed record for
(is mark was 355

New

Chains Will Soon Be
““Seasonable’’

Cautious motorists are never without
chains,

but it is no joke to be miles

from a garage and find your set is
rusted out and useless, or that they
won't last to pull you through.

Pay a little more for good ones—it's
real economy in the long run—they will ©
carry you home, no matter how far

Farmers Phone 3413

“home” may be.

Weir’s Fireproof Garage

Hunters, attention—

B.C. Phone 36

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Raw

AND A

Indirect light, free from gl
is the right kind of light.

nrw. Check up, and plan

of light.

over the lighting in your home

have only plenty of the right kind

British Columbia Elettric Railway Co, Limited

THERES A

WRONG

@KIND OF LIGHT

light,with its harmful glare,

injurious to precious eyesight,
is wrong. Bare lamps should
haye no place in any home, in
town or country. Are you using
the wrong kind of light?

RIGHT

KIND OF LIGHT |

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are,
Go

to

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miles per hour. The automo-
bile record is 231.36 miles per
hour, held by Major H. O. D.
Segrave. :

But the telephone is still mon-
arch of them all with a pace of
178,000 miles per second.

While you are seated comfort-
ably in your office or home, you
may travel by telephone to al-
most any distant point, faster by
far than any means of trans-
portation known to mankind.

B.C. TELEPHONE COMPANY

ASSEY-HARRIS

Farm Implements
ARE THE BEST

,
W. C. BLINCH
Local Agent

GENERAL MERCHANDISE
GAS, OIL, ETC,

WHATCOM ROAD (opposite
Municipal Hall Phone 23M

Dr. E. E. GRAVES
* DENTIST

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

(Office closed Saturdays
and Sundays)

Lady Assistant in Attendance

SUMAS, WASH.

was so eager to own @
that he gave all his pennies:
then found it wouldn’t blo

Just, so rich foods keep you
and then don't nourish For yo

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Lee’s Krispy Krust Brea

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‘The loaf at once a luxury and an economy. Makes
ig like a prince even while it cuts your food.

Lee’s Bakery

ALBERT LEE

Phone 54 . Delivery = vic
Two Stores — Abbotsford and Upper Sumas, B, C

you are livin

At this season--- a
Fortify your health--- build

with Nyal compound ~
Syrup of
Hypophosphites

for stubborn Cough, Weakness and
Lack of Strength %

$1.00 full pint botile ~
Harry D. Hipwell

The Prescription Specialist ‘

Abbotsford and Chilliwack. Branch Store at Sardi

or

Co. COLLIST.

- NEW WESTMINSTER Phone 9
Specialist in

Jewellery

victor Acency Novelties
A well selected stock of Jewellry

Watches, Clocks, Brooches, Pins, || emattehing con
Novelties, Etc. | mbroidery
elti cc. at Low Prices. ‘Tucking a Nov

Buttons Covered

J. G TUCKER ‘ Try Us—and you will be p
MANN BLOOK; ABBOTSFORD -

” TRINITY ~ UNITED
Rey. T. S. Paton, B. A,

J, C, GILLIES

11 a.m. Rally Day Subject:

Mortician Fy of Others”.
° unday School and Congregati
Mission ite for Service. f
Sumas Huntingdon

Special Programs Provided
Telephones; Mission 49 ee tenn

KH ion | 3 pm. Rally Day Service in St

Huntingdon 274 | Church, j

| 7.30 p.m. Sermon Subject:

paca What can ¥
Watch for the Watkins || 1 |b: Fou
Man | John A. McDonald jf "==.
and see the offer he "GENERAL Be

has for you

CONTRACTOR

|| EVERY KIND oF BUILD
| CONSTRUCTION & REPAI

W. D. Carmichael

DEALER ABBOTSFORD

Ss Ba |

Frame, Concrete, or Br

Promptitude, Thoroughness
Reliable Workmanship Always:

V. D. SIBLEY

Cabs, Blacksmitiing, Laminat
» > ed Fy
Wagon Wheels at $45 per Set “ig.

YARROW STATION

Hospital, Abbotsford fo
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Telephone | 25R

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Clayburn Products—the Finest Made

Clayburn Products are Supreme because they

Fs but one fundamental consideration— QUALI
cardinal requirement of our processes is re
many distant parts, as also various centres

BRICK, TILE, SEWER & DRAIN Pp:

fre manufactured with
TY FIRST—and this
cognized by the trade in
of Canada and the U. S.

IPE, RETORT UNITs, ETC,, ET }

THE CLAYBURN COMPANY, LIMITED

Factories: Clayburn; Kilgard, B.C.J. W. BALL,

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Resident Manager