ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS AND MATSQUI NEWS

Our Butcher
Knows His Cuts

Choice Chops, Roasts or Tender
Steaks—Cured and Cooked Meats
all good, wholesome, government-
inspected foods. When you buy
foods—particularly meats—why
not insist on the best?

That's the only kind we sell.

Matsqui Trustees Let Contract To
Nels Olund For New School

Matsqui school trustees held a spe-
cial meeting ih Matsqui school on Mon-
day afternoon, and opened tenders for
the new school house, The contract
was awarded to Nels Olund at a price
of $5,122.95, the other tenders submit-
ted being: ©. Olund $6,437.00; Cather-
wood $6,325; McRae $7,650. Work is
to commence immediately.

Trustee Carmichael again voiced his
objection to any school being built in
Matsqui. Ex-trustee Lancaster spoke
at some length, remarking strongly on
the opposition manifested by trustees
from high land sections, and drew from
‘Prustee Carmichael an admission that
in past years the building of a high
school at Dennison and other school

Fire Destroys Barn

Granted Musio Teachers’ Certificate
Examination results just published

by the Associated Board of the Royal

Academy of Music accord to Miss

Stella J. C. Hurum, 21, daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. H. Hurum, Matsqui, the LAB.

teachers’ certificate. Examinations

were conducted in the Vancouver hotel
on October 3

On McCallum Road
destroyed

Fire of unknown origin

a barn and sheds belonging to G.
McKay,
a pure-bred bull which was
building at the time being rescued by

McCallum road on Monday,
in the

A. M. Ham, who noticed the blaze.

Several tons of hay and a quantity of
tools and equipment were destroyed.

PICNIC TIME IS HERE, :

SHRIMPS, per tin ...-- davese 25°
HAM, Swifts Premium Boiled, Ib. 60°

ist 3 tins 25°
per bottle .. 25°
ALADDIN JOURNEY JUG

(gallon size); keeps food or liquid hot
or cold, reg. $5.00 for $

POTTED MEATS
SWEET PICKL

PINEAPPLE, per tin
RIPE OLIVES, per tin

Pioneer Store

R. DesMazes, Prop.

A new Chevrolet truck was com-|
pletely wrecked at Vye gro
week, by a slide of earth.

was being loaded under.

improvements provided the high land
reas had néyer been opposed by any
low land trustee. On the contrary, he
contended, there had always been a

el pit last STUFFED OLIVES, per bot. ...-

The truck ! C.&B. FRESH HERRING, tin ..]5¢
bunker, when | 3 is

ABBOTSFORD. Phone 16

spirit of goodwill shown.

Gooop PORK
GoopD REEF,
GooD MUS&TON
Good Meats of All Kind Always
You can always rely ypon what
you buy at King¥.

KING'S wri

MARKET

's Original
Located in the Busy Shopping
Centre, Essendene East Phone 48

unfortunate that the question of hi
school consolidation had been brought
into the recent agitation, and stated
that at the first meeting called to dis-
cuss the new bullding Trustee Car-
michael had asked for an understand-
ing, and had been assured by each
trustee present that it was not intend-
ed in any way to affect development
of Dennison high school. Trustee Car-
michael, Trustee Smith said, had then
stated that with this assurance, he
would not oppose the present building
scheme, but had not kept his word.
‘Trustees Beharrel and Cooper spoke
endorsing the chairman’s remarks.

Others taking part in the discussion
were Mrs. Fearn and Mrs. Gamsby of

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DR.E.E. GRAVES’ |
DENTIST

Mt. Lehman, Mrs. M. Hougen, and Mr.
'T. Goodchild. Mrs. Gamsby, on be-
half of the Mt. Lehman delegates said
that the people of her district had been
mis-informed, and had they known the
facts, would not have presented any
opposition, The Matsqui school mat-

Trustee Smith remarked that it was

the slide occurred, sweeping down the |
pues and crushing the truck eo
complttely that only the engine was
salvaged.

igh

Phillips;
Flowers, Roots and Rhubarb, Mrs. Nels

jhe machine was owned by Mrs. R.

McCrimmon, and insured.

The Portland Cement company’s
plant at ‘the top of the hill six miles

east of Sumas (Wash). is now employ-
ing between ninety and a hundred men
steadily, but the plant has not yet been

developed to its full capacity. The

lime in these quarries is considered

the best on the coast.

M. S. A. Hospital list for April, May
and June:—Flowers—Mr. Reyburn,
Mrs. Gillen, Trinity Church; Butter-
milk,Mrs. CAmeron; Rhubarb, Mrs. EB.
Flower Roots, Mrs. Waterson;

Fore; Cream, Mrs E. Phillips; Aspara-

gus, Mr. J. Trusler; Magazines, Mrs. W
Grey, (mill); Tomatoes, M. H. Wattle;

Magazines, Weir's Drug Store; Straw-

Mr. Wattie; Flowers, Mrs.

ALBERT LEER
BAKER AND GROCER te
High Quality with Low Prices. B.C. Phone 54; Far, 1916

VACATION TIM

is here again, with its call to the Great
Outdoors. In the course of the next
few weeks, thousands of people will
forsake the cities to seek rest and re-
creation by lake and stream and in the
depths of the‘cool, green forests.

ter was characterized vas provision of berries,

ingdon); Buttermilk, Mrs
needed public school accommodation, Davies, (Huntingdon

well SUR ae ae Cameron; Strawberries, Mr. McAllister

(Office closed Saturdays
and Sundgya).

A well selected stock of Jewellry
Watches, Clocks, Brooches, Pins,
Novelties, Etc. at Low Prices.

J.C. TUCKER

Reliable Watch, Clock and
Jewellery Repairs.

Tady Assistant in Atheadunce

SUMAS, WASH. |

a

not a high-school question.

In conclusion, the chairman appeal-
ed to those present for co-operation in
educating ratep: to

Cherries, Mr. Wallace; Bananas, Mr.

Wattie.

the
of consolidating Matsqui’s schools.

Correction—Mrs. J. Tamboline and
Mrs. W. Y. Porter, Sumas Prairie, en-
tertained at a miscellaneous shower,

given in the latter's home on July 5,
honoring Mrs. Samuel Austin, a re-

returned an

« G
Essex coach, stolen on Saturday by two

boys, to its owner at New Westminster.
The machine was located near Hun-
tingdon school.

REMEMBER ! ~

° aa
‘This ‘is the month of July when the
Fire Hazard {s at its height. ..Be ri-
gidly careful with Fire. .Get your camp

fire permit; have it always with you

DR. J. F. W@OD

VETERINARY
/ SURGEON_

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Bhone Ab. 108L

and follow its simple instructions. The

After the Show

Call at the

Jubilee Tea Rooms
for Light Lunch

ICE CREAM and
COOL DRINKS

cent bride. ‘Forty-two guests were
present, and extended their felicita-
tions. Little Misses Winifred Harris
and Shirley Stewart wheeled in the
gifts, which were numerous and beau-
tiful. Seasonable blossoms, with white
and pink streamers, provided the room

SYNOPSIS OF
LAND ACT AMENDMENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS

Vacant, unreserved, suryeyed Crown
lands may be p pted by British
subjects over 18 years of age, and by
aliens on declaring intention to become
British subjects, conditional upon resi-
dence, occupation, and improyement
for agricultural purposes.

Full information concerning regula-
tions regarding pre-cmptions is given
in Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, ‘‘How
\to Pre-empt Land?’ copies of which ean
be obtained! free of charge by address

consciousness of doing your part to
Protect the Forests will add materially

E to your enjoyment of them.
MATSQUT, B.C.

, Mrs. Austin is sister of Mrs, J. Tam-
boline.
J. H. JONES
Funeral Director and
Embalmer

Agent for Headstes and
Monumental Wout

Mrs. McMillan has returned home
after an enjoyable visit with her sister,
Mrs. Currie, in Vancouver, and with
friends in Barnet.

Mrs, H. P. Knoll is visiting in Vic-
toria this week, and expects to go from
ing the Department of Lands, Victoria | there to Hughenden, Alberta, to visit
B.C., or to any Government Agent, relatives.

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natant tal mont || en Tabae | Jon A. McDonald

rying over 8,000 board feet per acre

west of the Coast Range and 5,000 feet|] Yale Road (Interprovincial Hi- |

per acre east of that Range. way, just west of Abbotsford)
BOARD RESIDENCE

Applications for pre-emptions are to
be addressed to the Land Commissioner|} yzome Comfort Modern
Reasonable Rates

of the Land Recording Division, in
which the land applied for is situated,
and are made on printed forms, copies
of which ean be obtained from the Land
Commissioner.

Pre-emptions 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 bé received.

For more detailed information sec
the Bulletin ‘How to Pre-empt Land’?

PURCHASE

Applications are received for pureliase
of vacant and unreserved Crown lands,
not being timberland, for agricultural
purposes; minimum price for high-class
(arable) land is $5 per acre, and second
class (grazing) land $2.50 per aere.
Further information regarding purchase
or lease of Crown lands is given in Bul
letin No. 10, Land Series, ‘Purchase
and Lease of Crown. Lands,?’

Mill, factory, or industrial sites on
timber land, not exceeding 40 neres
many be purchased or leased, the cou
ditions including payment of stumpage

HOMESITE LEASES

Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20
acres, may be leased as homesites, con-
ditional upon a dwelling being 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 purposes
areas not exceeding 640 ucres may be
leased by One person or a company.

GR.

E. A. HUNT, Proprietor
Essendene Ave., Abbotsford

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SERVICE | Pi

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Miss#em CITY

Phone! 4903

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY

admitted to the hospital for

treatment recently, is recovel
Mr. W. Phillips, Abbotsford,

jously ill at his home.

Sunday School at 1 am,
Service Sunday at 11 au
fn L.0.0.F. all, Sut

A. E. Humphrey
B. C, LAND SUBVEYOR
& CIVIL ENGINEER
Room 6, Hart Block, Chilfwack
P.O. Box 422, Chilliwack.

GENERAL

CONTRACTOR

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
& REPAIRS

Editorial Comment—Merely Our Opirion. ~- ‘
INTERESTING reading sometimes merely as an expression of
opinion, yet continual editorial commcnt by publishers of small org
as this cannot but lose its potency as time goes on, mainly because
iliar personal contact with readers, and partly because of the
of its utterance. lly the self. ed of publi
to comment upon any and everything within their sphere of interest becom
an irritation to mahy readers, who will regard it only as a manifest
privileged egoism—coming from one who is virtually a next-door n
THIS preachment, for the little weekly paper, where the one m
sonsible must live his life, and mingle humanly with his readers,
particularly here, a

MRS, J) DOWNIE, Proprietress

YARWOOD & DURRANT. Telephone 7

Barristers and Solicitors
~ Notaries Publio
Vancouver office— 703-4 Holden Bldg.
Branch Office at Albotsfomi open every
Friday

Frame, Concrete, or Brick

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Promptitude and Thoroughnese
Reliable Workmanship

Electrolysis
puts fifty
telephones out
of order

McCallum Roed Abbotsford, B.C.
DR. J. M. MCDIARMID
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office Hours:

Morning by Appointment; 1—4 P.M.

78.30 P.M.

{ eee

Suggestive Reporting (Not One of the Lost Arts).

BUT there is a way of treating news matter, known to all wt
and to many who are not writers—which does not leave their sheet |
barren of editorial opinion, o: devoid of constructive influence.
hering strictly to facts, and free of obvious personal coloring, such |
tive” writing can be made far more effective than direct comment. |
to promote worthy movements, to create goodwill between men oF }
—or even to cloak minor failings of fellow beings, this instrument 4

one. P ’ ethics are sharply defined on this poin
have been properly observed by the News publisher, who appreciates §
sponsibility in reporting, week by week, to many hunderds of readers,
events and doings of the people in this wide district,

S. F. WHITE

? ABBOTSFORD

Tel.: B.C. Abbotsford 3; Farmers X552
MANN BLOCK, ABBOTSFORD, B.C.

Fifty telephones were
put out of order in Van-
couver on June 18th as
the result of stray parti-
cles of electric current eat~
ing holes in the metal
sheath that encloses a
50-pair underground cable
—an action known tech-
nically as electrolysis. The
holes permitted moisture,
the deadly enemy of tele-
phone circuits, to enter the
cable, causing a cessation
of service on the lines
effected.

WM. ATKINSON
Auctioneer
LIVE STOCK SPECIALIST

Graduate of Jones’ School of Auction
eering, Chicago, Ul.
Box 222 CHILLIWACK

Pioneer Butcher of
the Fraser Valley

Wholesale and Retail

Address: Must Speak Up Sometimes. itt
ATT TIMES, however, only direct comment is adequate. Last Sal
annual School Board meeting is an instance. Whether insufficlen
vertised, or whatever the cause, but a handful of ratepayers al
a condition is a most discouraging indication of public interest
tional affairs—in the welfare of the young people of our districts
was brought out at this gathering, that the school taxes just
the Provincial Collector had been so substantially and generally
that they might easily, in the aggregate, amount to a considt
For this apparently no satisfactory explanation is forthcoming to
After the air had been cleared of complaints over taxes, the B
estimates for the ensuing year, asking for an increase to provide for)
higher maintenance expense, and were turned down. Need for
high-school was also 1 a
meeting—as a matter of pressing concern to many parents and
and affecting the pocket-books of us all. Yet but a bare score
payers attended,

H. G. MYHRE

AUCTIONEBR
Notary, Conveyancing, Wills Drawn
General Farm Agéat
Real Estate Life and Fire Insurance

Phone 41

Prices Are Lower
in Clayburn

MATSQUI, B.C. Phone Ab. 108R | yn der the Grazing Act the Proviner
is divided into grazing districts and
the range administered under a Graz
ing Commissioner. Annual grazing
permits are issued based on numbers
ranged, priority being given to estab
Jished owners. Stock-owners may form
associations for range management
Free, or partly free, permits are. avail
able for settlers, campers and travellers
up to ten head.

The trouble necessitated
the replacement of 200 feet
of cable, Thanks to
speedy work by our re-
pairmen, telephone service
was restored the same day
the trouble occurred.

B. C. TELEPHONE CO.

Practical Maternity Nurse
MRS. D. PATERSON

Fully Qualified & Experienced
GIFFORD, B. C.

AGENTS FOR
Connor Electric

Washers

$7.00 places the machine in your home

TheVillage Store

R. A. COOPER CLAYBURN

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MASSEY-HARRIS
Farm Implements

ARE THE BEST

W.C. BLINCH |

Local Agent

.
Always Let the Public Know.

IT MAY be that the School Boards (as a
a mistake in not keeping the public regularly, thoroughly,
ally hrough reports of all
ceedings, and that the public is humanly apathetic to a sudden
attention to matters of which it is not adequately informed.
is in a spirit of kindly criticism, by a community publicity
which seeks to advance the best interests of the district, Im
publication of details of proceedings has at times precipitated ©
before it was convenient, often blinding those concerned to the
keeping the public at all times aware of every detail in the tral
its purines But ultimately, it will be realized that the public
“gold,”

FINE SHOE
REPAIRING

‘That's All—Conyince Yourself—

Jackson's ene

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Directly opposite the NEW
SHOPPING CENTRE, under

A real Snap---/or immediate sale:
ACRES of Jand, partly cleared;

$2 500 135 2-storey house; good-sized barn;
, fruit trees; shrubs; sheds and other
outbuildings; half-mile from Yale road

west of Abbotsford. Act Quick,

desiring it, the News, however, does not
bodies not inviting or appreciating it.

intend

A. McCALLUM
A Responsible, Re@ible Broker— Representing Sound Companies coasteiston on
ms n
Phones: Office 43; House 72 Adjoining P.O.,, ABBOTSFORD ESSENDENE AVENUE
f . ABBOTSFORD

INCIDENTALLY, it must be very discouraging to men |
our community who give of their time and effort in disch
of public office, to find almost complete lack of interest,
casion warrants criticism, “iets

WHATCOM ROA)
Municipal Hall

EAST

Phone 23M