on shGatigneney rem * ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS A AND MATSQUI NEWS Delalr © ABBOTSFORD. Hats Fem 25c¢ Sides $1.75 THE PIONEER STORE Phone 16 Big Reductions to 95c; this lot, some very pretty hats in which must be cleared. to $3.95; latest summer footwear R. DesMazes, Prop. Gagoop Po RK Goop BEEF GoopD MUTTON Good Meats of All Kind Always You can always rely upon what you buy at King’s. Quality KING'S fi MARKET 's Original P 'y Closes This Week To Enable or ore School Teachers AD) . school trustees, through At the end of this week the Delair condensary closes down for one month to enable “installation of machinery and equipment in the new building, which is now almost completed. Five hands of the present staff of 20 will be kept on to effect the changes. Among the very considerable quan- tity of machinery to be moyed and in- stalled are three glass-lined milk tanks of 600-gallons capacity each, two milk tanks of 1,600-gallons capacity each, the large copper vaguum can, two can- ning or sealing machines, two steriliz- ers, pasturizers, homogenizers and se- parators, six electric motors, and all the wiring and pipe connections re- quired. While these are Mr. E. Webster, express their satisfac- tion over the showing made by Abbots- ford pupils in the recent examinations. “Sickness and other conditions con- sidered” Mr. Webster said “I think the teachers and pupils have done well. A prize of $10, formerly donated by the late Dr. Swift to the entrance student obtaining the highest marks, will be provided this year by Mr. A. Wattle, a goes to Sylvie Hulton-Harrop. Pupils may obtain their certificates on application to Mr. E. Webster. R. Topper, of Mission, is engaged as high school principal, succeeding Mrs, Blackie. Mr, Topper formerly taught at Dennison school, where he was found very satisfactory. fives being made, the Ladner plant will take care of canned milk orders, after which the Delta plant will be closed and as much equipment as can be utilized will be moyed to Delair. At present, the local factory has a daily productive ca- pacity of 41,000 pounds of milk. It is planned to add another vacuum pan, the two for op- eration, and three sterilizers and other equipment, which will make possible an output of about 100,000 pounds of ‘milk daily, The new condensary will be the largest and most up-to-date in Western Canada. A cement floor will be poured in the old building, which is to be used as a warehouse, Export orders are being filled at pre- sent for the United Kingdom, South DR.E.E. GRAVES DENTIST Office Hours: 9 a.m, to 4.30 p.m. (Office closed Saturdays and Sundays) Lady Assistant in Attendance SUMAS, WASH. ia Located in the Busy Shopping America, and the British Navy (sta- Centre, Essendene East Phone 48 tioned in China) — 5 ABBOTSFORD J. E. Parton “has just completed Clocks Watches Jewellery Novelties A well selected stock of Jewellry Watches, Clocks, Brooches, Pins, Novelties, Etc. at Low Prices. J. C. TUCKER MANN, BLOCK, ASBOTSFORD DR. J.F. WOOD VETERINARY SURGEON MATSQUTI, B.C. Phone Ab. 108L J. H. JONES Funeral Director and Embalmer Agent for Headstones and Monumental Work _ Phone 4903 MISSION OITY A. E. Humphrey B, C. LAND SURVEYOR & CIVIL ENGINEER Room 6, Hart Block, Chilliwack P.O. Box 422, Chilliwack. YARWOOD & DURRANT 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 al on declaring intention to become British su S, conditional upon resi- dence, o and improvement for agrie nIEUEAT purposes, Full information concerning regula- tions regarding pre-emptions 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 covering only land suitable for agricultural purposes, and which is not timber-land, i.e, car rying over 8,000 board feet per acre west of the Const Range and 5,000 fect per acre east of that Range. Applications for pre-emptions are to be addressed to the Land Commissioner of the Land Recording Division, in which the land applied for is situated, and are made on printed forms, copies Commissioner. P. and Notaries Public Vancouver office— 703-4 Holdem Bldg. Branch Office at Abbotsford open every Friday DR. J. M. MCDIARMID PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office Hours: Morning by Appointment; 1—4 P.M. 7—8.30 Tel.: B.C. Abbotsford 3; Farmers X552 MANN BLOCK, ABBOTSFORD, B.C. WM. ATKINSON Auctioneer LIVE STOCK SPECIALIST Graduate of Jones’ School of Auction- eering, Chicago, Il. Address: Box 222 CHILLIWACK H. G. MYHRE AUCTIONEER Notary, Conveyancing, Wills Drawn | General Farm Agen Real Estate Life and Fire Insurance MATSQUL, B.C. Phone Ab, 108R Practical Maternity Nurse MRS. D. PATERSON Pully Qualified & Experienced GIFFORD, B. C. A real Snap---for immediate sale: ti must be occupied for five years and improvements made to 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 see 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) land is $5 per sere, and second -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 Jand, not exceeding 40 acres. many be purchased or leased, the con ditions including payment of stumpage . HOMESITE LEASES Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 acres, may be leased as homesites, con ditional upon a dwelling heing erected in the first year, title being obtain able after residence and improvement conditions are fulfilled and land has been surveyed. LEASES For grazing and industrial purposer areas not exceeding 640 ucres may be leased by ono person or a company. Under the Grazing Act the Province is divided into grazing districts and fhecrange 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 —— able for settlers, campers and travellers up to ten head. lf 135 ACRES of land, partly cleared; H $2 5 00 2-storey house; good-sized barn; > fruit trees; shrubs; sheds and other outbuildings; half-mile from Yale road west of Abbotsford. Act Quick. 1 A. MCCALLUM A Reliable Brok Phones: Office 43; House 72 Sound C Adjoining P.O. ABBOTSFORD of which ean be obtained from the Land |. painting J. E. Beck's Tesidence, Just west of the Manse. W. Crossley’s poultry house was des- troyed by fire of unknown origin last week, 50 hens being destroyed. Mrs, Ira Serl and Mrs. H. Bryenton are holidaying at Birch Bay. Mrs. E. S, Plaxton has returned home from a vacation at the beach. Mrs. Gray, the Mill, is spending a holiday at Salt Springs Island. Misses Stenerson and Effie Wattie are yisiting friends in San Francisco. Miss Mary Bemnett is holidaying at Crescent Beach with Mr. and Mrs. Wall Mrs. Geo. Grant and Mrs. D. Mac- Kenzie are holidaying at White Rock in Mrs, Yarwood's cottage. Miss Beryl White is holidaying at Marpole for two weeks. Mrs. T. C. Bailey and two daughters Ivy and Naomi visited friends and re- latives for a week in Vancouver, Miss Violet Rudge is visiting her parents in Victoria. Mrs. Rudge has just returned from the Capital. Mrs. Downie and cuildren are ya- as at Birch Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Trussell have returned from a yacation in Vancouver. Abbotsford merchants are inclined to believe that the best—or buying— element of the local population dre either at White *k or Birch Bay. Ladies’ Hats fr 252 up; Ladies’ fashionable shoes from $1.75 atthe Pioneer Store. J, H. LAWRENCE AUCTIONEER & VALUATOR Auction Sales Conducted: Farm Stock, Machinery, Household Goods, Etc. See Our Store Stock. MISSION CITY. Phone 6503-2221 Long-Distance Locates Logger | He was in the woods far from the point called A Philadelphia party put a long-distance tele- call for the a man woods phone working in “near Campbell River". Persistent inquiry by our operating staff there fin- ally revealed that the man wanted was working as a 40 miles River and 10 logger, from Campbell from miles the nearest telephone. Two hours after the Campbell River staff was asked to locate him, he with the party who had called, B. C. TELEPHONE CO. Was conversing Philadelphia NE SHOE REPAIRING That's All—Conyince Yourself— Jackson’s aes oe Directly opposite the NEW SHOPPING CENTRE, under construction on ESSENDENE AVENUE EAST ABBOTSFORD of New We: { Miss Benedict's place as teacher in the high school. | No changes are pene in the public school staff | | Public School enialed (Matric.) MATSQUI CENTRE. Aberdeen—Eileen © Henry, 380; M. Alice Gledhill, 329; Evelyn Catto, 302; Elizabeth I. Weatherby, 300. Bradner—Dorace E; Earle, 416; Kikue Imamura, 390; J. May, Orton, 388; Violet H. Nelson, 345; Wilfrid Chittenden, 344; Malcolm MacKinnon, 341; Ruth C. Jackman, 321. Glenmore—Norah M. Jhonston, 410; Doris M. White, 316; Vivian E. Ostrom, 300. Matsqui—Frederick W. Simpson, 381 Orval T. White, 380; Lucy H. Gibson, 370; Audrey J. Mailes, 368; William Macbeth, 359; Lily M. Ebbeson, 349; Charles G. Davies, 344; Joyce E, Mundy 341; C. Stuart Thompson, 337; Bessie J, Adams, 333; Alexander J. A. Kerr, Wilfred H. Young, 330; Lily V. Smith, 324; Herbert S, Smith, 321; Ellen D. Erickson, 318; Blanche Nicho- Jas, 317; Richard A. See 307; omnes . ALBERT Ge SHRIMPS, per tin ....-- wes 95° HAM, Swifts Premiurn Bolled, Ib. 60° POTTED MEATS ....-..- 3 tins 25° SWEET PICKLES, per bottle . - 25°. JUG ALADDIN JOURNEY (gallon size); keeps food.or liquid hot or cold, reg. $5,00 for - $3: 50 PINEAPPLE, | per tim .......0++ 12’ RIPE OLIVES, per tin ..... eeeee 25° STUFFED OLIVES, per bot. .... 20° C.&B, FRESH HERRING, tin’. BAKER AND GROCER High Quality with Low Prices: B.C. Phone 54; Fs = AS B.&K. Quality is recognized by all farmersand poultrymen of the Fraser Va Very Complete Stocks Kept at Our Abbotsford branch GRAINS, POULTRY AND STOCK FEEDS, a Bay, ALL THE PROVEN VARIETIES A. Virtue, 302; Henry George A. Gilles, 300; “Ralph E. tee prud, 300; George A. Lidstrom, 300; Kathleen H. Mander, 300. Mt, Lehman—Fred MacDonald, 385; Marjorie MacLean, 371; Carolyn J. Bloomfield, 363; Clifford Israel, 332; Hubert Farber, 300, ~ Poplar—E. George eee Tebbutt, 343; Vincent, 380; Jennie A. Frey, ar pldgedale—Clalre P, Olson, 387; Marjorie M. Moore, 368; Fred W. Mundy, 327; Bengt E. Borg, 326; Lin- nie Little, 302. HUNTINGDON CENTRE Huntingdon—Edith M. Beck, 350; Lawrence L. Caul, 344; Mabel C. eunay 338; Lloyd G. Caul, 327; JohnyR. Fraser, 305; Ernest McConnell, 3 305; Janet Christena Fraser, 31 Kilgard—Bessie Blackham, 353; Leslie Barker, 323; May Harris, 318. Straiton—James Bonar, 366; Phyllis J. Farmer, 314. Sumas Upper—Allan C. Watson, 351; Oliver Blatchford, 302; Jean D. Mc- Garva, 300. ABBOTSFORD CENTRE and goes to Sylvia Hulton-Harrop. Frankling White, 372; Sadie E. J. Groat, 368; Gordon A. Gosling, 347; Albert Whalman, 344; Ivy Bailey, 339; Tola Walker, 339; Mary Bennett, 336; Marie Moret, 326; Ethel Johnson, 321; Ethel Combs, 319; Margaret Slater, 317 Ervin Wright, 311; Tony Fraser, 309; David Rooney, 305; Dorothy Spaulding 303; Boydell Hill, 301; Elizabeth Irvine 300; Thomas Irvine, 300; Selma Schlu- ter, 300. d on Ethel G. Serl. Thirty pupils wrote entrance papers. Highest marks in province were 447 out of a possible 500 won by BRACKMAN & KER MILLING COMPANY, LI Abbotsford. Phone 52 _F, Marshall, local mana Much has been said recently about re ‘forestation in B.C, | The present forest is the result of natural re- when the human hazard was not present to defeat nature. forestation . \ R 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. H. Largue of Nanaimo, High School Examinations Matsqui High School— Grade XI.—Edwin W. Diffner, Har- ry E. Diffmer (S), Agnes B. Ebbeson (S) Grace R. C. Hurum (S), William Lan- caster, Ethel M. Lidstnom (S),’ Harold W. Smith, Ian Trimnell (S). Completed Grade XI—Mayy Rk. Beharrell; two granted partial standing. Dennison High School— Grade XI.—Jean A Catto Edith C. Clark (S), Constance E, Mott (S), Anna V. Olund (S), Edwin C, Olund, Julia Prasiloski, John J. Roche, One candidate granted partial stand- ing. Abbotsford High School— In order of total marks gained (list furnished by Mrs. Blackie) Grade 9 (passed)—Kenneth Shore, Harvey Walker, Effie Wattie, Robert Groat, Eva Marcy (S), Alice Anderson Elsie McDonald, Howard Ralston, Al- bert Beard, Ethel Lamson) (S), Cleo Porter (S), Elsie Stady (S), Irwin Fountain, Granted partial standing.— Leslie Bates, Julia Mitchell, Thelma Yar- wood, Georgia Coogan, Carry Leary. (four pupils failed). Grade 10 (passed)—Hazel Vanetta, (S), Vera Bedlow, Sidney Swift (S), Robert Webster (S), Myrtle Watson (S) Partial standing—Ralph Fountain, Flossie Hunt, Peggy Hill. (three pupils failed). Grade 11—(passed— Gladys Day, Marjorie Green, Myrtle Sayce (S) Amy Gough, Atigare Smith, Margaret Pra- ser (S) Partial standing—Edna Green. No pupils failed. Ungraded.—Olga Okulitch passed Grade 10 examinations and also pass- ed part Grade 11, ranking exceedingly high. Jenny Stobbs and Kenneth Plowright passed with a supplemen- tary each. HMuivend Lodge Yale Road (Interprovincial Hi- way, just west of Abbotsford) BOARD RESIDENCE Home Comfort — Modern Reasonable Rates MRS. J. DOWNIE, Proprietress Telephone 27 e smiles of the tw the hold eee of the two Roumanian delegates to th ist we it ch was chartered There were thirty-eight aiferea Vongrers from Burope: