Ogilvie Rolled Oats 20\b. sack, $1°°° Heintz Pork & Beans -3 ts for 55¢ Buy Your Sugar and Flour Now Before They . Go Higher THE PIONEER STORE WE NEED GOOD FOOD Well ndfirished people, ticularl; childron pars are seldon down with prevail ing epidemics of minor sicknosses, for strength building foods like good beef ward off these troubles. King cai a completo stock, but aboyo all, it is GOOD and whe to consider quality aboye all in foods. A. M. KING MEAT MARKET People are wise ssome. E ; “9 } Reliable Merchandise with Low Prices R. DesMAZES Prop. | CE CHR Bie. | —— ——=-—)} a « EES Se es = z a > : oh) a eee Fee i x Varwood & Durrant Abhntsford, Sumas & Matsqui News Barristers and Sollltors $ is GERALD H. HELLER * — _ — Editor and Publisher Notaries Public oe Published at Abbotsford, B. C. Every Thursday Phone 58- | Vancouver office 703-4 Holdén Bldg. 2 SS B: th offi t EDITORTAL OPINION ranch office ere open every A 50-room chateau and fifty cottages, with other imp: including A Vancouver golf links and tennis courts, are in prospect at Harrison Lake. syndicate is preparing to spend $200,006 to make the lake estate an up-~ health aud tourist resort. Located as this district is on the main Valley is pleasing news. But the scenic beauties and resort yield a-maximum crop of tourists until to-date highway between the coast and Harrison Lake, this promise of substantial development at the head of the attractions of this district will never the main highway is paved. Then, Cameron & Cameron Barristers and Solicitors Commissioner, Notary Public, Ets. , BO A B.O. 818 Rogers Bldg. Every Tuesday Phone Sey. 846 Phone 36 People Like to Stay With Us The traveling public do not “pass up’? Abbotsford, They find in tho Abbotsford » Hotel mfort anil cleanlinoss at reasonable rates. The dining room service is pat excellence and the menu always palatable. Abbotsford has a good hotel. Pass tho word-along. eS eee The Abbotsford Hotel = - = == DISCONTINUANCE PRICES 25 per cent discount on BOYS SUI ‘Ss | $10 suits for $7.50 » $12 suits for $9 Suits have two pairs of bloomer pants and are Sizes 25 to 34 These special , values. $2 Men’s Straw’ Hats, special $1.50 Bovs Blue Jerseys Bizos 26 to 32 45¢: ‘Théso are all sacrifice prices ALBERT LE Baker, Grocer and General Merchant ie : Phone 55 Abbotsford W. 8S. GARDINER H. L. ATKINS ee Buy a Good Watch at a reasonable price at Gendrickson Bros. Towelers G, N. B. Local Watch Inspectors Victrola and Brunswick Talking Machines and Records Sumas, Wash instead of the monotonous but paved Pacific Hig! y entirely the week-end motorist caravan from the coast cars weekly would swarm out here to our own resort spots x Cultus Lakes, the Vedder and over to the North Shore. would bea petition, but on the other hand it facilitate transportation for every resident of the tributary district. almost centres, thousands of of Harrison and for outside business com- would create a large compensating trade and By calling a joint meeting of the interested municipalities to project a gitation for the A d . this imp: t Village Commis- i a sioners have taken a useful initiative in the matter. i ’ | eae ee |The O.P-R. bridge at Mission is to be planked for vehfcular traffic, ac- cording to reports from the Auto Club of that town. we This should be one of the best bits of news our north shore neighbors z have heard in recent years. For/not only will opening of the bridge give a x great impetus to auto traffic, but it will also make accessible a trading territory 7 hitherto not completely available to the Mission merchant. i ——————-2-—— Way down in a corner of the Ariz ona little town, entirely bare of any attractions, which for its . on a duplicating machine. desert not far from> Phoenix is a population and re- fources, claims more attention than any other on the continent, Its principal establishment is the Laughing Gas Station operated by Dick Wick Hall, who also issues an original little newspaper ‘‘The Salome Snn’’ in his spare time Placed in the hands of his filling station customers this pamphlet has circulated into every corner of the country, so that hundreds of tourists en route or from California go out of their way to meet Dick and is see his home town.. As spokesman for his country the desert humorist writes aa as follows in the Standard Oil Bulletin: ' ~ t << «Salome—Where She Danced’ was first Found by Dick Wick Hall in = 1904, 4 population of One, consisting mostly of Himself, plus some Faith j Pd and a Good Imagination. For many years the town prospered and hi ly Average Annual Growth of 100%—the Population in 1923, after k 5 Years, being Just Ninetcen People. Something went wrong in 1924, and there i was No Increase, but in January, 1 ack Ewing and fis Wife were trans- ferred to Clifton, and Alec Vaughn, with a Wife and Two Children, came to of Salome, mi take charge. The Two Children Saves the Populatio: Population Twenty-One and allowing it to catch up Years since & me Started to Dance. i The Principal Industries of Salpme are Selling Gasoline to Mining, and Getting its Name in the papers. Salome makes a ~ for a little Place, but it has to do it, otherwise a Lot of People é the in with the twenty-one Tourists, Lot of Noise might go & Right on Through without knowing it!’’ > “ee a An expert’s advice has just been received by one of our steady adver- 3 tisers, It reads thus: vs i “Y «J don’t like your advertisin arraignement or displayy. The edotorial 4 matter too, consists of strong statements without no. attempt at convincing f argumens, like i would rite. ‘The border is not very good and it is a mistak to use it in every ad. It ives a Samness to the display and does not add any to its attractiveness. rs F iy i The permiscuss use of type faces makes confussing display and don’t L 4 make the ad. redily reedable. “Phe ais. are very seldom nicely balanced. The poorest grammar is of- } ten used 25 percent of the cost of everyad. is waisted in just such ways as i I have mentioned. i ‘The foregoing and much more will be borne out by any advertising man what knows his bizness. 7. ‘*You're spelling aint rite cether.’’ es 5 ' —_-s-——_ : A man is usually considered ignorant because he doesn’t happen to know ‘ the same things you happen to know. sas eee ; The old-fashioned boy a rabbit trap now has a grandson who thinks nothing ars just what he likes. ¢ Papers say the Prince of Wale f he’ll be married, just like the rest of us & e 2s -* sy: One o fthe best habits a fellow can have is trying to takes before somebody else does. who used to consider it smart to be able to build of building a radio set. Sut some day discover his mis- DR. F. J. Van KIRK Special Practieo Limited to EYE, DAR, NOSE, THROAT Bellingham National Bonk Bldg. BELLINGHAM, WASH. Thos. H. Ingram CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT AUDITOR P.O. Box 85 Abbotsford, B.0. 501 Crown Bldg. Vancouver, B.C. Accounting Systems Installed soos es asesesesesesesesesesesesesesd J. H. JONES Funeral Director and 4 Embalmer “Phone 4903 ‘MISSION, B.C. (Special service arrangements for south side of river.) ra Accidents occur most unexpectedly and no car driver is absolutely immune, — Should your machine breakdown, run into a ditch or mett any damage re- | momber we are specially prepared for such an exigency. Our equipment complete for both TOWING ‘WRECKING ~ Equipment for day or night work that will handle your machine no matter where or in what condition—carefully and at least expense a, WEIR’S GARAGE Phone Abbotsford 36 Powerful Truck and Crane ~ Always Ready Complete Garage Service Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the Dominidh of Canada and . Newfoundland LLY Aldergrove Lodge No. 66 ——————— Regular Meetings First and Third Tuesdays at Aldergrove, B.C, Visiting Brotheren Cordially Welcome ER.: E. Dobson Secy: M. C. Walker SUMMER GARMENTS Cleaned and Pressed Carefully Cheaply Quickly Thos. oogan Quality Tailoring Cleaning and Presving Farmers! . Your busy days are here. Around your farm are many pieces of equipment need- ing a seasonable overhaul before they are used. Buildings and barn fixtures need attention. Don’t fritter away val- uable time on inferior hardware. No matter what your needs I can supply you If We Haven’t Got It We Can Quickly Get It. We Have the Stock H. P. KNOLL LARGEST STOCK BUILDERS’ HARDWARE IN VALLEY Phone 28 Abbotsford, B.C. A Photographer PORTRAIT See lard NOVELTIES See Our Unique Stock BRAITHWAITE'S “THE CLARIDGE GIFT SHOP’ SUMAS, WASH. ““HLMS.’’ Pinafore’? Photographs 75c Cc. SUMNER agent DOMINION LIFE INSURANCE CO. Continental Casualty Co. Get My Rates Abbotsford, B.C. FIRE INSURANCE The London & Lancashire Assurance C Security $250,000,000.00 Cc. OD. BELL, JP. Resident Agent MATSQUI, B.C Telephone: Matsqui 2021 Transfer Work Quick Servico Reasonable Charges No Job Too Large To Be Undertaken None Too Small To Be Appreciated Gavden Plowing and General Draying 5 Accident Automobile In the' Motor Union Insurance Co, Ltd of London, Eng. Giving you complete insurance of $1000 while operating, driving or cranking an auto, in conse- quence of being struck by an auto on any highway or the burning or explo- sion of any auto, Policy covers com- pletely death, dismemberment or loss of sight. 00 is the cost of a Personal Policy f ; Can you afford to be without it? Reve A. McCALLUM jf NOTARY PUBLIO MARRIAGE LICENSES ALL INSURANCE G. A. MCKAY hone 13MMcCallum Rd. near ofl well Draying, Teaming, a On every sack (Quaker Flour- this guarantee ta = 1 Quaker Flour ‘Alwags the Sane-Alwags the Best pe ieee Goce - "ALBERT LEE Distributor | ABBOTSFORD THE DEW-DROPS Qualified Pharmacy || Service Plus Quality Medicines Conscientious pharmacy service demands the very best medicine: and the utmost skill and care in the filling of prescriptions. We assure you of that service ' ERIC T. WEIR PRESORIPTION DRUGGIST Phone 8 Abbotsford Magazines, Photographer Supplies, Chocolates, Stationery White’s Meat Market Phone 41 B ~ - Need ‘a Tire It pays to have those worn Tires and Tubes repaired at the Abbotsford Tire Hospital—the home of good tires and tubes, at the right price. ‘ rency for Royal City Laundry Windows Put In (By B. F, 8,, Abbotsford) I seemed to be On‘airy pinions borne, For every leaf and bi Shone with a silver ce, And here and there from stem to stem Shimméred a veil of lace. of gras¢ The golden poppies glowed with pride, For every one was dressed Tn jewelled garments, every one A sparkling crown possessed. The purple pansy, rubies wore, And emeralds, mignonette, ‘The stately zinnin’s Is were With glitterix Then soft and warm, the bright beams fe 5 From heayen's golden sun, jamonds set. BOYCE & WINTON GENERAL TRUCK & TRANSFER 8 Trucks & All Necessary Equipment Rapid Service and Reasonable Rates to eryone Our Success Depends on Your Satisfaction Aé¢ Phoné 39 joining Alexandra And Fairyland removed its spell, Its wondrous mission done. —_-->_—_ Mrs. H. I of Delair sent the first shipment of B.C. grown green peas to the Vancouver two weeks ago. They were grown on the fertile southern slope of Mrs. Day’s farm at Delair, so favorable for early garden produce, s shipped to Spencer's who advertised them as his year’s first crop in B.C,’ R, H .Eby is managing E. B. Smith’s store at Hammond during the owner’s iilness. The second of Rey. Mr,-Biddell’s pet Airdales was run down adn killed on Side Curtains 4 Abbotsford Tire Hospital A. L. BYRES, Prop, PHONE75F i A band con and dance will be held in the Poplar community 1 on Thurs. day wvening of this week Mrs. ist of Gifford spent in Abbotsford. D. Gil with fr Clean-Up Bargains