ABBOTSFORD, THOROUGH CIRCULATION IN ABBOTSFORD, MATSQUI, CLAY BURN, GIFFORD, RIDGEDALE, MT. LEHMAN, Hi SUMAS & MATSQUI NEWS UNTINGDON, UPPER SUMAS PRAIRIE, KILGARD, STRAITON, BRADNER AND THE TRIBUTARY DISTRICT ‘Memberships: Canadian W. Newspapers Assn.; B.C.& Y. Press Assn. GERALD H. HELLER. Issued Wednesdays at Abbots- Publisher: ford, B.C. .. Phones: B.C., Abbotsford 58 & 17F; Farmers, Sumas 3403 Sixth Year. No. 25. Wednesday, June 20, 1928 Advertising—(forms close on insertion; Want Ads., 3c Subscription: $1.50 a Year in Canada Single Copy Five Cents Tuesday noon)—Display, 45c¢ col. inch word Ist insertion. 2c word subsequent insertions; Municipal 12c line; “Readers,” Legal, &c. 16c line, Victory Theatre MISSION CITY FEIDAY and SATURDAY June 22-' «Second to None A ROMANCE OF THE BRITISH NAVY PARAMOUNT NEWS WEEKLY 33 TUESDAY&£WEDNESDAY June 26-27: SALLY PHIPPS and NICK STEWART in “High School Hero’’ ‘This picture is a real treat n aca. COMEDY and FOX NEWS Coming “BEAU SABREUR” ame 29°30 St. Matthew’s Church Grounds Garden Party and s Fair Bowling Alley, Kamerad, Hoopla, Par- cel Post, Housie-Housie, Cocoanut Shie Candy Stall, Shooting Gallery, Kick the Goal, Fish Pond, Guessing Contest Ice Cream, Afternoon Tea, Supper. TUESDAY, JUNE 26 Open at 3 p.m. Dance, at 9 p.m. Good Orchestra mates Novel Attractions Home-Cooking Stall THE BRIDGE PAVILION Sumas Prairie Summertime Dance FRIDAY, JUNE 29th, 1928 BELLINGHAM ORCHESTRA Gentlemen $1; Ladies free _ Good Music Poplar Manor Women’s Institute CONCERT under auspices of above will be held in POPLAR HALL ON SATURDAY, JUNE 23rd Vancouver and Local Artists. Adults 25c Children 15c Trinity Church Ladies’ Aid GARDEN PARTY & STRAWBERRY SOCIAL At The Manse ON FRIDAY, JUNE 22nd from 5 p.m. Program of Music, Games, Contests, Parcel Sale, Etc. HAY CROP FOR SALE 2000 acres of CLOVER HAY are of- fered in lots of 40 acres and upwards at a price of $5.00 per acre as a basis, Booking will commence on the 18th inst., and allottments will be made in the order applications are received. Terms: CASH. Apply Farm Superintendent's Office (near main pump house) . Phone 04 Chilliwack. or Sumas Commissioner, Court House, New Westminster, _ Sumas Drainage Dyking & Development District In fact, by holding a fish puny body, a man could do better wit with mere words. and show the actual scene. , .. plugging tackle. I Can Prove It By Grecory CLARK q It is the motion picture camera man. And now that they have little pocket movie cameras that can go into any tackle box and which cost no more than a fly rod, it looks as if- fishermen have come to the end of their tether. E z There is always sure to be somebody in every fishing party who will secrete one of these little betrayers in his dunnage. We will come home from our trips and tell our adventures honestl 2 fishermen do. Then the villain in the party will invite a large gathering Pacific French River Bungalow Camp a few days before the op the bass and lunge season for the purpose of talking to.guides and Indians about the change of the Ontario bass season to Jul to get some first-hand information abouf the breeding habits of bass. There were plenty of pickerel in the rapids and I was for having a few on I called for the little camera. It came, in the hands of a tr When cameras were invented, anglers believed the end had come. Here was a form of proof that no honest fisherman could deny. But it did not take anglers long to discover how to beat the camera. towards the lens, and in front of the the camera than he could possibly do ___ Nowadays an angler who cannot perform miracles of confirmation with a camera is not a compleat angler at all. that bids fair to stump the fisher- and in large detail, as x But a movie camera of the vest-pocket or tackle box variety came in very handy for me last season. A party of us went up to the Canadian oO! “We are never going to amount to a hang unless we run this country for the benefit of those who are living here.” This was the vigorous conten- tion of Hon. Dr. S. F. Tolmie, provin- cial Conservative leader, in urging that more adequate tariff measures should be passed to protect Canadian pro- TORY LEADER TELLS ABBOTSFORD AUDIENCE AIMS OF HIS PARTY political interferance, and apportion- ment of road work and engagement of road crews on straight business prin- ciples were among other points of Dr. Tolmie’s platform. Chinese Produce Shipped to British Soldiers On Service In Orient An ill inci it concerning ducers, before an in Gaisley hall, Abbotsford, yesterday af Ina ‘ical Tolmie dealt with many important election issues, coloring his discourse co shipment of garden truck from Van- couver to China to feed British sol- diers on service there, was brought out by Dr. Tolmie, in referring to Orien- tal jon. This of with several appealing, and ally humorous, incidents of his career as farmer and Federal member for the Saanich constituency. Dumping of U. S.-grown fruits on Canadian markets was given especial attention by Dr. Tolmie, who read, in this connection, a wire received from the strawberry growers of his riding, complaining that prairie brokers had cancelled orders for Coast strawberries, the market having been broken by ar- rived of 20 carloads of berries in Win- nipeg from the United States. Such a condition was frequent, Mr. Tolmie ob- served, and one which he recognized as ruinous to Canadian producers. He favored imposition of tariff “machin- ery” such.as the United States gov- ernment used to protect their produc- ers, urging that Canadian growers “con- centrate on products for which we have an assured market.” Said Premier King Evaded Barber’s Question For Berrymen Hon. T. D. Pattulo did not make an appearance at Ottawa to apply for re- of duties on eggs first, and My first cast hooked not a pickerel but a twenty-five pound muskie. What a mess I was in! A dozen witnesses to my perfidy, andla champion of tight seasons and smaller bag limits! bli and fruit, Dr. Tolmie said, and contin- ued to detail incidents in this applica- tion, stating that Premier King evaded H. J. Barber’s application on behalf of Haney berrymen. Making a further point supporting the Conservative tar- iff policy, the speaker said that New butter, p! d under clima- amateur. I ordered him to press the button and commit to film for posers. and forever, my deed. I played the muskie—not for sport, ut in order to remove that plug from his jaws. He leaped. He bored. It was all duly filmed, amid the shouts and silences of my friends, the witnesses, gleeful witnesses, of my fall from anglers’ grace. At last I tired the monster, I ordered the Indian to lift him tenderly to remove the plug from his jaw. And then, with the little outfit still buzzing merrily away, I ordered the indian to let the twenty-five pound musky go'free! And all this is on record in a hundred feet of half-inch film which I guard as the salvation of my reputation. ' The movie camera may mean the end of the good old days, as far as free speech amongst anglersis concerned. Butita so saves reputations. if A? unique and intimate record of the: Massacre at Frog Lake in 1885 at the time of the Canadian Northwest Rebellion has been given to Canadian history by William Bleasdell Cameron the sole white survivor of that appalling disaster, In a volume recently published by the Ryerson Press, Toronto, Mr. Cameron recounts in vivid detail the events which led up to the attack, the bloody progress of the SUMAS DRAINAGE, DYKING AND DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT PASTURE CLOVER PASTURE, FENCED, GOOD WATER, CATTLE $1.00 PER MONTH. (No horses taken) Apply Sumas Commissioner, Court Phone 04, Chilliwack. Farm Office, Sumas Prairie ience as prisoner of the Indians. ‘“The War Trail of Big Bear’ is not only outstanding for its value as a historic record; it is a remarkably powerful and dramatic narrative. Mr. Cameron was a young Government agent at Frog Lake when the Massacre occurred. He describes the general restlessness of the Indians preceding the Rebellion when it seemed as if the whole Middle West might be swept by the carnage Typical Cree Indi: hho partici) ‘massacre at Frog Lake “B® e, and his two months exper-| Lak. MASSACRE SURVIVOR TELLS EXPERIENCES (inset) Chief Big Bear of fant aevage rebels on the war path, had not the Canadian Pacific Railway then in its infancy stepped into the breach and sent troops to quell the uprising. Big Bear, the old chief of the Crea Indians is a noble and _pathetie ereature, a lover of peace and a friend of the white man. He has little in- fluence over the fiery and blood- thirsty members of the tribe, and knew little of the killing at Frog Lake. One of the most dramatic incidents in the book is his speech at the trial of the Indians following the massacre when eight of his band are sentenced to death. Dejected, lonely, shorn of his freedom, he was still able to hold up his head. He was still Big Bear chief of the Crees. And his plea was not for himself, but for his people—for his children, hiding in terror “afraid to show themselves in the bright light of day.” Tonsil operations were performed on three children in the MS.A. hospital last week—Glendon Stafford, Sumas Prairie; George Higginson and Julia Mitchell, Abbotsford. Mrs. Richmond (nee Miss Nina San- ford) will conduct the Upper Kilgard Store for Mr. J. S. Daly. 'Y PICKERS wanted to pick &énp 20 BERR’ jam berries. Mrs. T, Andrews. A big time—St, Matthew's garden party and fair, next Tuesday. M. Sawri, a Roumanian arrival from the praizies, has purchased 23 acres near the Yale road at Alcc:grove from W. I. Vanetta, which he will operate as a@ muskrat farm. Mrs. A. Carmichael of New Westmin- ster visited her daughter, Mrs. 8. P. White yesterday, tic conditions far more favorable than prevailing in Canada, could be laid down in Vancouver at the same freight as from Ade- quate tariffs would enable this coun- try “feed itself” indicating possibilities of development here with assured mar- ket prices. British Columbia had the greatest 1 sheep - area in Canada, 66 per cent. of al) the fish catch in Canada was from the waters of this province, and the 1927 agricultural production of B. C. totalled 71 million dollars, the speaker declared. Dr. Tolmie said he had been various- ly referred to as “the absentee leader” by Liberals, but would rather be ab- sentee leader than responsible for the provincial administration for the past 12 years, which had resulted in a 400 per cent. increase in the provincial debt, taxation increasing three and one half times what it was formerly, mak- ing British Columbia at present the most highly-taxed province in Canada The P.G.E. was admittedly a serious problem, Dr. Tolmie said, and he would have a thorough survey of the line made as a first step towards solution, but he did not consider the P.G.E. as B.C.’s major problem. Creation of a national spirit in our children, a better understanding be- tweeen B. C. and the prairie provinces, freedom of the Provincial Police from ENERGY Goethe put it this way: “Energy will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circum- stances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it”. British Columbia offers to energetic young men and women greater oppor- tunities than any province in the Dominion. The Pacific era is dawning, destined to be the greatest in the history of world commerce, and British Columbia is Canada’s gateway to the Pacific. British Columbia’s area is 355,855 square miles, or 10 per cent of all Can- ada; equal to three United Kingdoms; larger than Italy, Switzerland and France; Washington, Oregon and Cali- fornia. Its mountain region equals 25 Switzerlands. It has a coast line of 7000 miles. British Columbia’s dairy production from over 50 factories amounts to $11,627,000 annually. | British Columbia’s schoo] population in 1926-27 numbered 105,000 pupils, with a teaching staff of 3531 teachers. Last year in normal school 432 students were in training, and in the University 1,780 students. British Columbia's available hydro- electric development is estimated at 1,931,142 h.p. at minimum and 5,103,460 at maximum flow, with only 473,142 h.p. used. British Columbia's fisheries produced $27,367,000 last year, half of all-Canada production. British Columbia has 21,973 occupied farms with an acreage of 2,860,000 ASSEY-HARRIS Farm Implements ARE THE BEST W. C. BLINCH Local Agent GENERAL MERCHANDISE GAS, OIL, ETC. WHATCOM ROAD (opposite Municipal Hall Phone 23M vegetables was authorized by the Can- adian government, through Agricul- tural Minister Motherwell, and was purchased from Chinese, the speaker stating that he had the photograph of the truck, bearing the name of “Wong Pioneer Re-Union at Winnipeg Fang” delivering this food at the Van- couver wharf. “So long as the price and quality are right, I don't care where they were bought” was the re- ply Mr, Tolmie said he received when he questioned Mr. Motherwell in this matter, and went on to point out that the Liberal administration at Ottawa was absolutely ignorant of the Oriental situation here. The Conservative leader spoke very highly of Wm. Atkinson, nominee of his party in this riding, and remarking upon the fact that Mr. Atkinson, and also Mr. J. Berry, nominee for Delta constituency (Mr, Berry was present and spoke briefly) were auctioneers, said jocularly that “the present ad- ministration won't need any auction- eers on the eighteenth, because their past policy has them Sold already.” Leon Ladnet} MP., addressed the meeting on party issues, making his talk most interesting, but brief. E. T. Weir occupied the chair. 2. An example of Norse handicrat As far back as 1869, Paul Hjelm Hansen, the famous Norwegian journalist, author and social re- former, began to call attention to the fertile valley of the Red River. The river men of his na- tionality who traversed the ter- ritory ‘between Fort Avercrombie and Fort Garry brought back wonderful tales of the splendid settlement apportunities along its banks, with the result that a large influx of Nonse settlers com- menced in the early seventies, Later, many of these hardy Nor- wegians moved farther west, some as far as Bella Coola and the sea. Sober and industrious, they have, with cach year, progressed and prospered, making a great contri- bution to the development of the weat. 1. In the costume of her ee: as she will appear at the festival. t. planned of the pioneers from the Red River Valley, with those of the west, to commemorate the be- ginning of Norwegian immigra- tion into these territories. This event has ‘been arranged to take place in Winnipeg between July 5 and 10, This celebration will feature Norwegian national music, with many pageants descriptive of home life with participants adorned in their native costumes. Of particular interest will be the exhibition of Norse Handicraft and ant, The headquantens for this festival will be the Royal Alexandra Hotel, one of the chain of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which will co-operate by running of special trains from such cen- ters as Hdmonton, Moose Jaw, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and This year a general re-union is Duluth. acres, and 15,000,000 acres cultivatable. $44,502,000, and tural wealth runs over Farm population, 90,000. $8,000,000 a year. resources of the Empire. Annual tim- ber cut, 2,900 million feet, $82,000,000. $225,000,000 annually, with a capital investment of $300,000,000, employing 41,000 people, with an annual wage of $62,000,000. Capital invested in in- dustries, $120,362,238. British Columbia’s coal production In 1927 was 24,700,000 tons, valued at $12,350,000, and her estimated coal resources reach 74 billion metric tons. British Columbia is Canada’s largest producer of zinc, copper, lead and sil- ver; secorid of all minerals and gold, and third of lead; with a total mineral production of over a billion and an annual production of $62,000,000. British Columbia’s natural resources The annual production amounts to the gross agricul- $200,608,000, British Columbia’s fruit crop yields British Columbia contains more than half of the standing commercial timber of Canada, and half of the soft wood valued at British Columbia’s industries produce .{produce: forests, $82,000,000; mines, $62,000,000; fisheries, $27,000,000. - British Columbia uses 100,000 tele- phones. British Columbia’s tourist traffic is worth $50,000,000 a year. British Columbia imports $84,936,551; exports $172,075,161. British Columbia’s wealth is estimated at $1365,869,120—$2,604 per head, Old-timers again have the floor, the mosquito invasion providing them an opportunity to scold those who did not live in this district in the days be- fore Sumas reclamation. But former residents of the prairies are not to pe entirely out-talked, for they haye seen a few too. Mrs. John Olund of Gifford under- went an operation in the local hospi- tal today. A big time—St. Matthew's garden party and fair, next Tuesday. Grades 6 and 7 (Miss Stenerson, teacher) of Abbotsford school com- menced the summer vyacation today with a picnic at Cultus. All other grades close on June 29, c Quality Hardware GRASS SCYTHE BLADES, good SCYTHE SNATHS, a reliable gra SPECIAL — GALVANIZED No. 14 .. GUTSIDE HOUSE PAINT, No. 1 HEAVY HOG FENCING, 20-Rod Roll, 26-inches, per roll. $950 WOOD HAY RAKES; you will like these ALABASTINE, in Bulk, Tint Colors, Cream, per pound .... 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