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had it not been for the very busy : bring 85 cenes a box^f.o.b. This figure It would seen as If the very large time the man on the land Ss haying Just - aa ^p%6^t6.-'pjsssi ]• this is? interesting arid decidedly erieourag The big reclamation meeting, here exhibit of fruit, vegetables, etc., (Thuradiy^af^tnoori wb^dcoioa^a on the 29th was the piecede resistance this month due to the shortage of r ing, wheij;jt -is remembered that the "'.• A. rrr.ir?*% from Oreston: had taken the Cran help, and some of those who have from Sirda# that it/ iis; ^red 1916 price ofVTransparents of the three at the meeting of the Board of,Trade • - •'"'•'; '-jS-SI brook fair people completely by ? meeting on Tuesday night, which Apm surprise, and coupled with its late furnished stuff would have had a there;that Ipke: Glsisei* arid Joe grades wasunot higher than .65 : cents. arrival there-ftheway freight with greater variety had time permitted. Clubb, t-eirp Well-known Greston -The Union has shipped two straight was yery lai'gely attended. it not ieay ing here until &: o'clock A few of the bigg* r exhibitors are: citizens, have- been drowned cars within the past ten days—both to Practical assurance has been recoil mm Tuesday afternbon-^has upset the W- y. Jackson, with 24 entries, much somewhere vvbetweeii Kootenay ed that the gathering will be favored .vlliPl directors* calculations in the frut ; Calgary. Tiie brie east on Wednes department at a*np rate. of it in the box lot. Mrs. M. Young Landing an'd lie wis' Island. day of last week was heavy to crabs, with the presence of Hon. T. I>. ... Vvgllj has 14 entries and Mrs. Walmsley the The two - men , Were working some 407 boxes of these with 265 boxes Pattullp, minister of lands; Hon. Dr. Just about noori yesterday E. C. for Ike Lewis afc haying opera King, minister; of.works; Wm. Yx>ung, Gibbs, who ia in charge of the ex same. Mrs. G. Cartwright and T. of apples, making, up the car. The hibits, wired THB -REVIEW: Goodwin 13 each—the latter going to tions and had, 'gone to Creston price on theiapples in this lot will be comptroller ; of water rights; Messx*s. "Judging riot yet completed; be some overtime tffort on Monday night on the noon train Wednesday awaited with, interest as they were Biker and Forde,. the provincial and lieve we will do welL" to make up entries that the board was They returned bn: this ^affcernobri mostly cookers, produced by the gales federal resident engineers, 'Nelson; R. Yesterday; too; was the last day a little short on. Ed. Macbon and W. train to. the ^L^ that blew in parts of the Valley a f^y P. Green, M.P., and W. A. Amide, of the fair. Ordinarily the judging G. Littlejohn have 11 each—the latter's take a rbvvboati; to make the trip days prior to;that time. The car but tha Liberal candidate in West K!oote- is completed by noon of the first variety filling some classes that help back to the^ti^isipla,ee; . on Tuesday Was long on plums. There day; John Keen. M.P.P., J. H. Scho ..day. give the vegetable exhibit a much Ttlis morning : St coat, whiph is v/6re 490 of them in the load, arid of field, M.P.P., P. A. Starkey. president better all-round appearance. Mrs. presumed; t^fo^(^aser'Sj.'. and an these very close to 400 were Brad- of the associated boards of trade; A. If visitors to the Cranbrook fall fair McKelvey arid TeddyJHaskins register par were..-'fp^hjS;;rJBqatirig in the ;sba«;3. The 190 boxes of apples that C. Harshaw, C.P.B. superintendent; this week did not carry away with nine each, a big squash from the lat- lake near ythW paneling arid on helped fill the car were practically all as well as Maxwell Smith and C. B. them a very yivid recollection that ' ter and some green peas in the pod enquiry bfjpg made at. Lewis*' at Cellina pippin. To date the Union Ward, two members of the newly- there is a Creston Valley, along with from the .former lending a touch, of 9 a.in. (Thi^diay) ^tVwas learned has handled about 800 crates of plums, created Land Settlement Board. a lively remembrance of some of the quantity as well as quality. Mrs. that neither *& the men had got and considering the quality and the : From the Idaho side we are equally products ..for. which, this section is Speers and. -E. Cartwright have each back home. '^t,/th'at.v*.hbtir.. .As bumper[-->.€}. Orop of theni the prices sure to haye Engineers Bauiser aud justly famous, it certainly will not be eight and P. Putnam, D. S. Timmons, neither of the men hdd-beei! seen obtaining^are b.uite satisfactory. McCrpry, and a special effort is being* the fault of about four dozen of the S. W. Fraser, Jos. Compton and B. 3. anywhere ;aromid the Landing, Pears[.fire, just nicely starting this made to get Engineer Jones, who Valley i'ancherst^e Creston Board of Long each 7. Although F. G. Little Sirdar or otlier likely places up week, with the early varieties and spoke at the Bonners Ferry meeting, Trade, and the Iatter*V representatives musters but five. entries he certainly to 2 o'clock, Sunder all the some Bartletts on the move. Advices; but who has lately signed ovi for over at the fair* Mr. and Mrs. W.V, Jack ""iged with soase rare good apples, it X*.SM%J>V*i.*J9*, VAIV received are; to the effect that there is seas service. V Senator Borah is almost son and E. C., Gibbs, :who are down andin quantity, top...-••? V;-.- worst is eyery prospect of a healthy demand certain to • be here, as well as repre there with a display of fruit and The other exhibitors, who had Mike Gla^r is quite a real ol^^ for all the stuff of this sort oifferirig sentative public men frprii Idaho, and tomatoes that both for quan tity arid slightly; smaller quantities, but. ex timer in the Crestbri Valley, but this.year. a monster delegation of priyate quality can almost be termed a cellent stuff, eyery one of them, -are: Clubb hasybnly liy^d here about The prairie tomato market, which citizens who are directly interested in v.'onder—-this year-r-aa well as a very John BSinco. - p. G. Lyon, Mrs. Max three *y^a^,V although V by no; had .a .tendency, to V'oversupply .last- the project. The rounding up the representative display in other lines well, A. L; Cameron, 3. B. Miller,-A. means a nbwconier to the B^oote*f week,, js again getting back to normal, U-S. dignitaries is in the hands of the of vegetaables,roots, some flowers,' ••nayjcouritlr^v''' .-..yV'-V/; v; Miller, Av A. J. Coliis, W. A^ Mt^ and the. demand is good. Pricps for Bonners Ferry Commei-cial Club, and \. ":AAP, LJ/V??*i?H fancy work, etc., --stop. v Murtrie, B. S. Beyan, W. K. Brown. Should tlftevbad^ ne^ |^ye t*cue .th
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begin to notice that—and as to thc #v *% club, it's impossible. The club iri in Now Is The Time To Act School Land Moneys Profit By New enjoyment of a sober and righteous The Time to Make Such a Peace that Zealand's Blunder THE reputation. Therefore But, talk Increased Revenue For Provinces ing of the poliee, behold a constable!'' War Will Be Impossible Through Investment in As a result of this unwise system A policeman, walking in lordly Can man abolish this -Fur}- who War Bonds of drafting, the agric.ulaural area un AMARANTH leisure, hove round the corner and devastates the world, who slays der crop in New Zealand has fallen By the investment of the school advanced, his boots beating* rhythmic youth by the million, and who (ills by more than; 100,000 acres in one lands money held in trust by the Do Measure, towards the stroller in the tlu* homes of men with unutterable ycar. The crop of'* wheat this year is CLUB minion government in five per cent, m. grey tweed suit. He sized him up, agony? We are uot now thinking of two million bushels less than a year — BY — war bonds instead of three per cent, as he came, aud at first his eyes were war as an abstract idea, as a far off ago, and the reduction in the oat savings bank interest the revenue of inscrutable; then he suddenly re contingency, as something of which crop reaches a similar total." J. S. FLETCHER the three prairie, provinces will be in membered that lie had seen this gen iu limes of peace heroic men sing Having on hand already a National creased by over $220,000 a year. I: WARD. LOCK & CO.. LIMITED tleman before, and he. lifted a gloved Service register, the Canadian gov ! manful songs and coward men twit- ""Manitoba's'school land monies held l-nger. King swung up his stick in ernment should not fall into the er LMKW Malbuursw. *aCanada (Continued.) provulenual. officer. I have a nmui j neighbor; this bcastlv war that stinks increase in Saskatchewan's revenue at the maximum, particularly in agri A. 1!! g l O < f io smoke a cigar—this cigar—and 11 under heaven like some colossal fun- will be. slightly higher, namely $82,- '•*. oft i!S e\t niorumary culture, and they should know how town, and imd lhat 1 have not a match upon'gus rotting in a wood that nature revealed himself in a sail 000 per year, the amount of thc school many men are available for these pro oi irilk. nml me. Now. it 1 met a man who gave! made for poets aud lovers; this ruin- fe- •rw c;tr. lie took l'twin liis lands trust funds of this province be ductive works and who they are. And wardrobe . iiu* a UKitch. I might be considerably cms war that has destroyed the ac- plain ?-uit of grey tweed. ing .$4,093,063.30. Alberta has $3,- with this information in hand, there "••mi sn -.>. few minuU's had arranged iinlined to give him rather mote, than j cumulated centuries old' wealth of PV 091,579 in school land money- held in is no good reason why we. should not himself ir. it and in such irreproach its weight iu silver for il, eh?"' Europe in a few mouths; this ma r 1 rust by the Pominion government.j escape New Zealand's blunder.—Cal able, "men a< went liuingly with it, The constable gliuned. This, he lignant war which has made men Us revenue in consequence of the in gary- Daily Herald. ihat done, having con-adored him- thougih, was a merry gentleman, hate each other with such an acrid vestment of the funds in war bonds st-H in. Uic great mirror which uuidv with a nieus sense of humor. lie bitterness as lias destroyed even thc vill therefore bc increased by more hastened to produce a box of matches Unwritten poems and imprinted PV.JI-*.'! vo thc wardrobe, hcj chivalry and ceremonial of tbe bat than $60,000. a centrai irom some hidden recess of his uni songs make life endurable. rom a row oi hat**- which} tlefield; this war which has dragged For the enlightenment of our read selected i form. egs " soil" slouch whicli ef-j delicate women, defenseless children ers who desire to know something imiiir cm i "Tliere y'are sir." he said readily. fect;i-.-.liy ' ".•ncealed his unmanaueabk j and poor, decrepit old age into its about the school system of Western MONEY ORDERS ; picking up a pair of gloves' "Quite welcome, sir. Kice morning, steel net of blood and death—this Canada, it may be explained that hair. Am sir." Send a Dominion Express Money Order. .,ud :;. ilc'i i ',\a!Ling cane, he let him-* war, can it be abolished so that never school lands consist of two sections They are payable everywhere. "Charming! charming!" responded j again will it destroy a peasant's cot- -jest" e*H >. i; ;*!•*• rooms, and \hr< >w i"g} (1,280 acres) in every township (36 King. He slowly lighted his cigar, J4*'gc or break the heart of a mother? a whi IV.M a"i s:'luv.c<. .;•; A vow's door,! sections) in Alberta, Saskatchewan Secure the agency in vour district and when it was safely burning, re- j Let us make no mistake of the u <•• *.he s:airs audi and Manitoba, that is, approximately for PELHAM'S PEERLESS FRUIT stored the box. 'A delightful morn-i urgencv of this question. H is now, O'lt 1 one-eighteenth of the entire area of and ORNAMENTAL TREES. Good ms—and a peaoenil neighborhood in j ;,. the-*lour of death/ that we must the three provinces. These, lands, arc Th' 1 ;• i y e: pay; exclusive territory. Our agen tz*^; ;'.;ui wlnen to enjoy it. . . . j make answer. Let us wait till r over r PZx a!- administered by the Dominion gov cies are valuable. Write PEL HAM' ': S V. C i" \nd with a delicate manipulation j ''peace" returns, and it is like to be re:uiy lit lav. A- that ernment, in trust, with the object of NURSERY CO.; Toronto, Ont. : oi lingers and wrist he contrived in only that false peace which brought establishing a fund 'for educational ho.ir ill rt'ere Of: was | unobtrusive fashion to accompany this very war to our hearts. But purposes in the provinces mentioned. ii J > t r-vfi ..': 'iru; be to i the return oi the matches with a ROW, while the precious blood of They are disposed of, from time to s e «* n. H e •urnfcjl si b y the <.'o\\ n S'couple of half-crowns. youth is still draining into the cess time, at public auction only to the LAUNDRY BiL.L.3 very route v.i'ie'*v.' - *• . v o r -•' I "Thank yon, sir—much obliged, pits of death, now- if wc ask our highest bidder, and subject to a cer are unnecessary jf you-wear
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T been given widespread circulation throughout the country and and damaging statements is serious as emanating from a Govern* : ' PpKh''&\'~:M provoked public unrest.. ment official, from whom one looks for not only accurate statements s«s!i Whatever the technical wording of the report was, the effect has but correct conclusions. m , been that the newspapers have published'that "the profits o*n Bacon The William Davies -Company, being a private concern, has fol alone" of this Company "for I916?y were about "five millions of lowed the practice of all private corporations, except when it made a dollars." This interpretation of the official report is not surprising bond issue in 1911, in that it has not published reports of its assets and in view of certain statements that, the Commissioner of the Cost of liabilities or profit and loss. The present circumstance, however, in Living makes. The Commissioner is reported as saying that which a. Government Official has led the public to false conclusions, " There were two indi%ridual cases of profiteering in 1916 and that makes it advisable for this Company, for both the public interest an<| had these cases occurred since the passage of the cost of living its own interest, to publish particulars of its business as well as point Order-in-Council, he would consider it his duty to recommend that out the error of the statement of the Government Official.
For the last fiscal year ending March 27th, 1917, The William Davies Com-- 8.45 per cent. pany bought and killed 1.048,000 head of Live Stock (Cattle, Hogs and Sheep.) The William Davies Company has assets of $13,385,000 of which $3,865,009 This, plus purchases of outside Meats, produced 160,000,000 pounds of Meats. is tied up in fixed investments. The Company handled 6,550,000 pounds of Butter and Cheese, 5,650,000 dozens To provide the necessary facilities for the increased volume of business th« of Eggs, and manufactured 26,500,000.tins of Canned Goods. Company expended $750,000 in buildings and equipment during the year. The net profits on these were .68 cents (or two-thirds of a cent) per pound on Companies of other character present no more reasonable statement of profife meats, 1.04 cents on Butter and Cheese, 1.04 cents per dozen on Eggs, and .47 and loss based upon the investments made in the business. - , < cents (or slightly less than one-half a cent) per tin on Canned Goods. These The William Davies Company offered to the Imperial authorities, a§ well as profits include profits on'all By-Products derived from these accounts. to the War Office Service (which represents the Imperial authorities in Canada^ During the year the Company served at its retail stores 7,500,000 customers, * to place the'output of its Factory with respect to Bacon supplies, Canned Beef the average purchase of each customer was 35c, and the net profit upon each and Pork and Beans at the service of the authorities, on the basis of cost plus aa sale was 5-8 of 1 cent. agreed percentage. These offers were successively dec-lined as the authorities The turnover of tiie Cbiftpany from all its operations for the last fiscal year evidently desired to purchase in the open market, and on this basis The Willianj • vwS?£sl ending March 27th, 1917, was $40,000,000. The net percentage of profit upon Davies Company has secured War Office business by open competition with tha this turnover, after deducting war tax, was 1,69 per cent., or including war tax world.* • •. ' Respecting the Report of the Commissioner on the Cost of Living:—
Last Winter the Commissioner, under authority of panies interpreted cold-storage product as "freezer" product sold—a proceeding quite proper, as the forms submited to \f*\ ©rder-j-ih-Council, required packers to submit statements only is evidenced by the smalLness or entire lack of filled in were indefinite and ambiguous, thus permitting with under oath for some years back and up to December .1st, figures on the Bacon list for some Plants, indicating that many out charge of evasion a variety of interpretation as to tha •$Pm 1916, of incoming stocks' of Meats and the cost of such, as Firms did not submit statements' of their complete stocks, information required. It is thus possible that of all th« well as statements of outgoing product, and the selling value. as did this Company. An Official of this Company pointed figures submitted by the different packers that no two set$ This Company represented.iu writing at the time that the out this cold-storage distinction to Mr. O'Connor and Miss of costs and sales prices are determined at the same common information as specifically, required was not in accordance McKenna in Ottawa a few weeks ago, and the failure to make point. It is this difference of interpretation of what wai with Packing House Accounting methods, and invited the the distinction after, having had it pointed out evidences lack required that accounts for the difference of the alleged Commissioner to scud an Officer to thellead Office of the of desire for accuracy of the real information desired. "margin" made by the different companies. Commo4 Company to examine the books for any information desired, conclusions, however, have been drawn by the author of the It is true The William Davies Company, iu 1916, exported and to secure a viewpoint as to the best way of collecting report from varying bases of premises. J data which would be of use to the Government, This offer 97,791,000 pounds of Bacon, but we do not know how the ••:•• :•'•::•,*,£ ;?Vjr" was declined, and there was nothing to do bnt fill ia the in margin of 5.05 cents per pound is arrived at by Mr. O'Connor, The figure,*** of the Egg business were aubiiiiiLed on this formation required as literally as we could determine it. as there were no figures to justify such a conclusion. The same basis as Bacon, and similar deductions must be made. Fcr example, there "was no recognition of the fact that a probabilities are that the margin is arrived at by taking the raw product may enter a factory under a specific classification average cost per pound of incoming product from the average (Second)—The above margin is further reduced in that and leave the factory as a finished product under some other selling price per pound of outgoing product. This may be the author of this inquiry singled out the Bacon figures as an classification. - - a rough way of estimating the gross margin when dealing item in which the selling price shows an alleged improper with small figures, but when dealing with figures the size advance over cost, but he did not give us credit for this We submitted a series of accurate figures based upon our that Mr. O'Connor has to deal with, a very small fraction of interpretation of the official requirements which made no statements of other productss of which figures were submitted a cent per pound of error makes a very important difference the selling prices of which were under cost. The reason provision for charges of any description other than incoming in the total, and one must be careful to make sure that the freight aud unloading charges to be included in the cost or of this was that through failure to inquire the Department outgoing product is the same finished merchandise of tho entirely overlooked the fact that product may come in as / to be deducted from the selling price. There was nothing incoming product reported ou. in the report which could be read so as to determine a profit pork and, through the process of manufacture, go out as Bacon and lfj;*.s statement. The very fact that with only a statement Allowing it to pass, however, as a rough estimate, we or, in another instance, enter the factory as beef and go out in based upon cost of raw products and value of sales in Great wish to point out—(first)—the inquiry of the Commissioner the form of canned meats; for example: much of the product Britain a Government Official has deduced "I,arge margins," allowed only for incoming freight and unloading charges, which came in as pork, and which was entered on the porlt; "Profit^'i-mg" and "Criminality" if it had occurred since and made no provision whatsoever for operating charges of sheet submitted to the Commissioner—about which he makes the passage of a recent Act, shows too -dangerous a trifling any kind, such as labor, curing materials, refrigeration, et no mention—was cured and left the factory in the form of and incapacity to be permitted to deal with any important cetera. Such actual charges on the 97,791,000 pounds Bacon, and was, therefore, entered on the outgoing side of tho situation. The statements of this Company have been treated exported were $l,162,000—or 1.2 cents per pound. This Bacon sheet—the result is that the Bacon sales are increased by thc author of this report as if the out-going product was amount covered all charges up to the. point of placing the by this amount over the incoming stocks of Bacon, aud, like identical with the incoming product, and from the series of Bacon on cars f.o.b. packing-house. In addition to this was wise, the sheet showing sales of pork is reduced by the amount pm reports he has singled out two items—the Bacon and Egg the actual cost to land and sell this 97,791.000 pounds in Eng that went out in the form of Bacon. If the Dcoartment* reports—and from them deduced an erroneous "margin'* land after leaving the packing house, which involved charges tskes one set of figures that show favorable to the Company which the newspapers have interpreted os "profit." The of 2.0 cents per pound—or *-2,83ti,000. Thus 2.9 cents per they should take another set of figures that show unfavorable, author of the inquiry shows a strange luck of even a funda pound included inland and ocean freight, landing charges, war as the principle in either case is the same, and failure to do 59 mental knowledge of simple bookkeeping and a dangerous and marine insurance, cables, and selling commission to agents. looks as if the author of the report wa9 exercising mora inability to co-ordinate figures. The following arc specific The ocean freight and war risk alone. would make up 2.4 enthusiasm than sound judgment ia his investigations. and outstanding- errors in thc report: cents of the charge of 2.9 cents per pound. This 1.2 cents. plus 2.9. cents—a total of 4.1 cents—must be deducted from (Third)—It is queried in the report, that "If the margin of The principal item that is causing excitement deals with Mr. O'Connor's margin of 5.0.5 cents per pound, leaving a 8.47 cents," alleged to have been made in 1915, "was satis, cold storage bacon. The ternv"cold-stomgc" is not defiued, margin of .95 cents, or slightly less than a cent j,..-, pound, factory, why was it necessary to show increased margin in and thi: public is allowed to make its own definitions. As all which still has to be reduced because of the error of premises 1910?" Assuming again for the moment the soundness of Bacon in a packing house is under refrigeration it is really and because of further factors which have to be considered the premises in asking such a question based on an erroneoui all cold-storage, and therefore this Company's figures of to determine net profits. "margin ", it will be found that the increased margin is chiefly cold storage Bacon represent the complete quantity of absorbed in increased ocean freight rates and war risk \vL- Bacon handled in its entire Plant, whether iu freezers or in It is quite evident some oF the other puckers did uot stirance in 1916, of which apparently the author of the reporfi process of cure for immediate shipment. That some com show selling values iu the country in which the goods were was in ignorance. ., n {' The Company does not challenge either the legal or moral right of the Govern adversely affect the live stock industry of this country, which is so valuable and ment to investigate business enterprises when public interests directs sueh an essential a wealth-producing power and, in the long run, are harmful to thc very people that the statement seeks to benefit. If the passing out of existence of a corporation such as The William Davies Company, or if nationalization of packing houses would materially and per manently reduce food priced, then in view of the present world tragedy it ought) disposal of the investigating committee, if it is considered they can to be consummated without delay. The fact of the matter is, however, that render any .service which will be of value. The Company has not now—nor with millions of people in Europe turning from producers into consumers becauso at any lime during the fifty years of its operation—anything lo conceal in method of the war, and the tremendous destruction of food products incident to war, ". or practice of currying on its business. Jt does, however, claim thri right to con- there is uo remedy for the high prices of food while such conditions last, except , duct its export business without abusive comment from Government civil thc remedy of thrift and increase of production. servants—especially when the conclusions drawn from the data asked for are improperandfal.se. One of ( 'anada's chief export industries is the packing business. It is essential . to the live stock industry, and, along with other export industries, it maintains the financial .stability of this country, aiul should, providing it is on a sound basis, receive encouragement and not slanderous abuse. Tn view of tho publicity given to the report of the Commissioner on the cost of living, the Company kinds of commodities declines also". Wlu»,t. can be done enn only l>e done bj demands the .same publicity iu having an official Government investigation of Food Controller. We wish to point out that nothing at all enn be nccompHuhcc this report to determine the truthfulness or untruthfulness of its conclusions. unless thc data .secured arc accurately and clearly irmdc and the dcductioii-D We do not .seek public consideration as a company, but we do sny ihnl untruth- jhmr-ojii .suuiul. Oidy public harm arises from dangerous incompctc•mpctcncjn r !n\ ofl'tfui] slide unruly, ov .s late men U the cHeel. of whicli is to create an mil nil li. in the haphaKMrd collection and cureless use of imporlaul figures.
An far an The William Davie* Compttmt is nmcerned thin terminate* all publio Memento of the* Company, and it will naif no more attention to sneeutativ* and haphazard xtatements mado either Inj newspapers or civil servants. The ont,, further statement that will bo made will Ur at an official wrestiaation.
E. C. FOX, General iVI&n&ger m* Ig Toronto, July 17th# 1917 THE WILUA." DAV2ES CGmPAJNY, LIMITED
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It means male membership, Here, at least, the establishment of boat lines on Fruit Qseii&ok the women have shown a go-ahead the river; new enterprises that up spirit, a little of which would help to the present time have not been a whole lot in some of our men's possible on account of the sparse If observations of market com organizations. population. It means all this and missioners and other market more in the increased valuation of authorities are to be -relied on it every acre of land. When one seems safe, at this writing, to pre stops to contemplate tho vast re dict that Valley apple growers are sources that are looked up in the due to get very satisfactory prices The Vancouver Sun, which is Kootenay valley on account of the for the somewhat limited crop this generally considered the official present flood condition, he is year. "Tffi* VERY man who has mouthpiece of B.C. mainland astounded. *W to carry* coal to a P In eastern Canada we are told Liberalism, makes some observa Government engineers have stove—and most of us the Ontario and Quebec crop will tions in a recent issue that are of assured us that drainage is possible do—•will find much to in be little larger than sufficient to interest locally. and at a very moderate cost. Is it terest him in the Heaters take care of the home demand, Possibly the most important is rot then the duty of every citizen and Kitchen Ranges we while Nova Scotia, with a crop 20 that Hon. Wm. Sloan, minister of to put his shoulder to the wheel have on otir* floors now. per cent, lighter than expected mines, is going to retire from pro and push, and keep on pushing B': early in August, will be the only You will be especially- vincial activities and run for the until we arrive at the end sought— pleased wiih our* display* of Canadian contender B.C. growers the complete reclamation of this self-feeding Heaters and will have on the prairie market. dominion house in Nanaimo, his successor to the mines portfolio to vast source of wealth and com Ranges. J. A. Grant, the B.C. fruit You can Bx. theni tip at night be J. E. Thompson, the Grand fortable homes ? markets' commissioner at" Calgary, and when you g«**i up in the morn Forks member. ing, you'll havc a fire. Simply is Just back from a visit to Wash shake it down a little, open the In view of the fact that the is- ington and Oregon fruit growing Kasto Favors draft and the heat conies. minister of education comes from Another thing-it is the ex centres, and his optimism is un Greenwood it seems incredible that perience of most of our customers bounded. In his last official At Kaslo, too, they are warming that one of these stoves pays for the Grand Forks representative itself in a winter's use just by the W' bulletin he states "that the panicy up to the Kootenay flats reclama BC'' should also be included in the way it saves coal. and uncertain state of the season's tion project, due to the fact that What kind of Shot cabinet, more especially when it is market for apples has disappeared the successful control of the waters gun do you shoot— recalled that the mines depart REMINGTON Single Shot, Double- and a very strong feeling that a of the Kootenay will eliminate all barrel or BLepeater? ment is essentially a Kootenay v uticV.'- return of the times ot seven or danger of flooding the lower lands Stop in and see our portfolio, and that in John Keen, REMINGTON - UMC eight years ago when prices were at that end of the lake each year. Pump Guns and Autoloading M.P.P., this country has the very of a kind to induce men into the On the subject the Kootenaian last Guns. Their advantages of bal best man possible for that position. ance, accuracy^ an-t easy operation fruit growing business has arrived week remarks: give REMINGTON-UMC Guns Mr. Sloan's rumored withdrawal peculiar superio-ity both at .the again. Kaslo people should give generous does not come as a surprise, though trans and in ths fi#»1d- ' An almost complete failure of support to the movement in Creston it is felt in certain quarters that the orange crop iu California, too, for the reclamation scheme, whieh along with him would go Hon. Dr. would result in the making available S. A. SPEERS f-•« • will involve a keener demand for King, minister of works, to contest of a large area of the richest. soil in apples both north and south of the Bast Kootenay for federal honors, British Columbia, lying along the If. border, with higher prices as a Kootenay river, aud which at' the with the guarantee of cabinet rank I*". consequence. peesent time is not available for at Ottawa in case the Liberals Another gratifying feature to agriculture. sweep the country. The Sun sizes While Creston and the territory on the Valley crop is that it is ex TUT"" up West Kootenay like this: the river, north and south of the in ceptionally clean, and the per I rlli- The redoubtoble Bob Green, the ternational boundary line will be the centage of number threes shipped chief beneficiary of such a scheme, Kootenay member, has in West this year will be light—some the plan has much to recommend it to OF COMMERCE Kootenay an opponent in W. A. thing to be grateful for in view of Kaslo's favorable consideration and in SI?* EDMUND WALKER, SIS JOHN AIRD. CefleraTttaWaser Anstie who has a good chance to fact to every resident along the shores C.V.O.. LLD.. D.C.L., President K. V. F. JON2S. Ass't Cen'I. Manager the low prices obtained last year beat him, though Green is known of Kootenay Lake and also along the on cars that were top heavy with as a seasoned campaigner. This is, West Arm. CAPITAL PAID UP.$15,000,000 X R^ys RJI;D, . $13,500,000 tl*1*5* low crt*a<^<-> tr«i«J*-. •n.... _'. 3 l x xi , ox til of course, conditioned on Green not Brum siur svtiiuxnyxjtuvvuti uts.tttmtt win : getting one of the three vacant be the removal of the high water 1 menace. By opening wider the outlet J—•» senatorships, which he is after, or from the main lake, so that the sur SAVINGS BANK BUSINES if. Hais Offf some other soft place in the gift of plus water in spring time may the the Borden administration. more easily find its route to the sea, Security, convenience and courtesy are assured to all A word of very hearty commend the high water level will be lowered ation is due the officers, directors by several feet, with the result that who deposit their savings with this Bank. and members generally of the local there will be no possibility of flooding Hear! Heart property at the lower end of town. If it is not convenient for you to visit thc Bank person Womens' Institute ou—the splendid A similar result will be gained for I all-round success of their annual Bonners Ferry Times: There is ranchers who live close to the edge of ally, you may open your account entirely by mail, ss fall fair last week. not a man in Boundary county the water along the West Arm. To show an almost 100 per cent, who would not be benefitted by the The plan would serve to make the C. G. BENNETT Manager Creston Branch high water level of the lake a fixed I increase in the number of classes draining of the Kootenay valley, one, and it could be relied upon each i in which prizes were offered, as and the same is true of the summer that the tide should go just well *s a doubling up in the num x. :-i *.„ •*.. i.u~ —ii — J.I.- jT^... r..., ,. _ J * xt tcaiuoiiva in uno v ouoy Ull OHO *UUi!l- ber of entries, as compared with adian side. It is to the interest of M 1916, is an accomplishment of the taxpayers of Boundary county; Several young Doukhobors of which the ladies may by rightly every rancher; every miner; every Brilliant haye enlisted in the army. proud, particularly in a season lumberman; every stockraiser; Nelson bakers report a steadily in- snch as has obtained this year, and every business man; every pro crensing demand for brown bread at in the critical times the Valley, in fessional man; to the railways and present. SHIP US YOUR CREAM common with all Canada, is feeling to the boat lineb. There is not a FOB RENT—Six-room house with k a little more acutely than hereto man, woman or child in the con half-acre of fruit and garden. Fur fore. fines of this county but would nace in basement and cellar 1*1x20 feet. Apply R. Boadway, Oreston. Sweet Cream Butterfat 46c per lb. The Women's Institute here profit in a greater or lesser degree J.l... seems to havo the faculty of mak by the successful completion of an The Canada Copper Co. at Green Sour Cream Butterfat 44c per lb. Iii'! adequate drainage system, even if wood has received notice from 08 of ing a success of almost everything its employees at. the Mother Lode f.o.b, Nelflon it enters upon. Whether that the cost was ijjilOO per acre of tho mine stating that they uo longer WRITE US FOB SHIPPING TAGS succees is due to the whole-souled land involved. wish to contribute to the Canadian energy of the rank and file of the It may not be generally known, Patriotic Fund. members, or to the enterprise and but it is true that the soil of the Ono day last week chute contractors, Curlew Creamery Co. BOX 1192 faithfulness of the leaders remains Kootenay valley has sufficient Nich Sjodln and Gust Forsborg, work NELSON, B.C. to be seen, but at all events it is potash in its natural stato to insure ing in ono of the Canadian Pacific •ua tmrn railway camps at Bull River, woro very seldom that the Institute fails tho growing of record eorps of instantly killed by a log jumping out upon any project it entertains. grain, hay, vegetables and fruits, of thc chute and ntrlking them whilo If a more man might offer some year after yoar for a century with thoy were sitting on a log nearby thing for the good and welfare of out artificial fertilization. Bo- talking. the exhibition might we suggest poated and recent soil analyses At Penticton at present persons aro that thc prize list covering ati much have proven this condition. With required to BU»pend entirely thu IIHO of Transfer, Livery and Feed Stables as possible of the awards to be tho danger of annual inundation water for any purpose other than those requirements which can bo made in needlework bo announced removed this thirty to forty thoun- clatiHt'd JIH doiucHtic. No water IIUIBI Sleighs and Cutters. Team Sleighs ,',.Y*y <>•-'*»*!y \\\ tb<* ?!"v.' "/enr r/> (Jin*. ar.d novo:", of land on the, American bc ut,cd i'or tlic irrigation oi land, thu Single aud Double Harness and Supplies tJw winter month-- can be utilized side, and as muoh or moro on the sprinkling of lawns, gardens, aide- Several Sots of Second-Hand Harness for the making up of these articles, Canadian sido of tho boundary walks or streets, tho wasljlng of win From early summer until early fall line, will bo ready for intensive dows or automobiles. l)i<- ladieii on local ranches have cultivation. Coal and Wood For Sale. little ov no time available for work What this ineaiiH to the people ROBT. LAMONT of thi'*- H«ji I- inoit:
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Wft^*i^**Pft.'tl***i*W)('*',,i,-,\ ^ti,%'^-f.'--^".*Xf? —^* •-—-*wc.-. Ij^Hli'W.'j'****^.*--*'*-*^*^^ lllHHMliMI(lllllll MAKE MONEY BY SAVING MONEY AAA:4AMMSS& The simplest and best method of saving Bill and Dan AIGN FA v:yA\s;ia$g|_ money is by^ an Endowment Policy in the •VVVfSSfliftt ..".••"•-."..'WjlaWSW Talk Seriously i pAppt W%i EXCELSIOR LIFE INSURANCE €0. „•" Well, anuhow." grumbled A I. "Opfiinlhyme, •:^0M if you ao save a dollar here and there, dealing Write for pamphlet today. out o' town, you soon drop it, and otfters 'long •AAmzsm HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO with It, hauling on a bad road that ought io be a DISSATISFACTION IN GERMANY OVER RESULT good road." lSl§r :'->v,."W;''rv#.^'s No Falling Off Is Shown In The Use Of Ports By Neutral Or --. •'"•'Vtitrtn&l'M It may be remembered that not so ":V* 1-~L'£.&££?E very long ago, Bill Harvey, a coun .Allied SHfnnirxi* Arsrl ¥?•«**t-w*.- Is? I?««mm.is.ingl laripoiency Of Ai:AA&r!?m try merchant, and Dan Brodie, a JHJSADE MUST BE CARRIED farmer, two old friends who had Strong Arm On Which Their Faith Was Pinned come West together more than twen _» _ ty years ago, had a- proper confab 0 L OR ALL HUMANITY WILL about their hometown, and the dry and Mr. Piggett soonest of all, who The naval correspondent of" Th« rot by which it seemed threatened. has lost twenty dollars in the value- London Times, commenting on thc WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL ON WAR AIMS Bill pointed out that about fifty of his farm lands for every one hc submarine returns, says: thousand" dollars was sent out of has saved through the mail." "There Is no material change ih . their community every year, the ."What you going to do to stop it?" the situation and assurdcly no im x'&mi Great Britain Is The Centre Of A Mighty League Of Nations spending of which, at home, would by asks old-timer Piggett. provement—it is, perhaps, not to be now have doubled the size and popu "1 could name you a number of wondered tliere should be growing And If She Should Break AH Of The Allied Powers Must lation of .their town, besides provid toiyns that have turned dry rot into dissatisfaction in^ Germany at the Go With Her To Defeat ing better markets, better schools, soliel prosperity and development, results of the submarine campaign. better roads, aird have brought-pros and they've all done it the same way. The hopes awakened by the high re perity to the entire district. The principle they've worked on is sults of April are not fulfilled. It is Dan finally admitted that '"kissing this. They regard their town and its due, no doubt, to this state of things "The commonwealth of people Trench Tales good-b3*e forever to fifty thousand tributary district as all one, with and for the purpose of encouraging should continue to carry forward the dollars each year, seemed bad busi identical interests. Take Starcross, German public opinion that German :'-V'iM crusade in which they are engaged leaders obtained and used to hearten Germans Have Lost Superiority ness," and suggested that Bill bring for example. The farmers think of to lhe point where no autocratic, the town, with its jnerchanls and the people, wether with any real despotic government remains," said Which They Will Never one or.two of liis friends out to his farm, and he. would have in one or doctors and bankers, as something satisfaction can be felt, the cryptic Winston Spencer Churchill, recently Regain utterances of Grand Admiral Tirpttz. iippointcd minister of munitions, in two of his neighbors, so that they quite foreign to their own farming might see what could be done to put interests. The merchants think of "U-boat extremely effective, but it speaking to his constituents at Dun A thoughtful looking Australian neeies time," or the still more mys dee. sat up in his cot when asked to tell things right. the farmers in the same way. I guess sonic of his experiences. And here we find them, one even tnis is all wrong, gentlemen, and thai terious saying of Hindenburg: "U- "Henceforth," hc continued, "it ing, after thc day's work, gathered we should think of Starcross as one boat war performs its office," must must not be true that in any part of "To hear some people talk you'd be doubtful. The soldier himself think Ave liked fighting for fighting's! together in Dan's roomj- parlor, all big community, .anel our interests all the. world a government owns the a bit ill at ease at first, but ready to so bound up together that you can seems to have no great faith in the •people'fxbut, on the-contrary, every sake. That's pure nonsense. You! naval weapon, while, the originator ci.n't go on fighting and not get fed: give their 'best attention. Bill had not separate them without suffering where lhc people must control their been 'somewhat surprised to find what yourself." of the submarine \var who has to ask fortune and their fate. The hateful up with the beastliness of it, but you more lime yet, must know that time can take it from me thut we're in to quick interest the local banker had "Well, that wo.,uld mean a lot of system of military autocratic tyranny shown in the subject, and Mr. De- is working on our side. must cease. see the complete finish. If we could give and takc on both sides," re get all that we are fighting for to bored had come out with Bill to marks Joe Liggett. "Commerce has been well main "If this war does not end in vic morrow,-I'll bet there isnyt a man night, also Mr. Jack Derrick, another "You've said '. it, Mr. Piggett," tained. There is no material falling tory, if it ends in an inconclusive that wouldn't welcoiiTc peace. But solid, level-headed merchant. snaps the banker; "a lot of give and off iu the use of our ports by ships •peace, it will, leave Germany strong live. Germans are still pretty strong, For his. part, Dan had brought in Ldce. The thing is, wc have to smash of all allied neutral nations. er and impenitent under autocratic and if we slopped now-, we'd have old Joe Piggett, a rather short-tem these old-time prejudices that exist "The traffic returns of the allies do rulership. Then good-bye to the the same game in a few years' time. pered but successful old-timer, who here and there between the town and not indicate any.more than one sub hopes for a brighter and belter fu I've got kiddies and 1 don't want to had made money by raising hogs thc farm, and have a little more so marine having the success expected ture. We should merely enter upon think that they might have to go v IMH|J*»iWjiJ.i'ulW| h* 1 SUM mm THE CBESTON REVIEW i*4 T. Harris is spending a few days years, and barring this week ideal vited a definite programme will be this good cause in mind and set aside Local and Personal with friends in Nelson this week. weather has prevailed. The local issued by thoso in charge of the as few or as many boxes of wintef. R. Lamont was a passenger west on Indians alone will cut close to 1000reclamatio n meeting here on the 20th. varieties of this fruit as they can Miss Swayne of Kelowena is a Monday, on a business visit to Nelson. tons, to winter almost 600 head of Already replies are to hand from the spare. A definite announcement ns Greston visitor this week, with Mrs. cattle natives of the reserve now own. B.C. cabinet ministers, engineers, and to the date of shipping will be made 0. H Bird. Pies FOR SALS—Two brood sows other desirable delegates, assuring later; Conscription is getting nearer every for sale, one year old. L. Leamy, that from the Canadian standpoint The next-announced social is the day. On Monday W. S. Watson, Creston. the drainage conference will be a very band dance, which will be held on J.P., was advised that he had been •1 definite and important gathering. Fridry, Sept. 28th. Mrs. Jos. Wilson left on Wednes named as one o£ the two members day for Cranbrook, where she is an Bert Patterson arrived from Phoe from Creston on the selective draft Bonners Ferry Herald: It is ex exhibition visisor. Wigen and nix yesterday on a visit to his aunt, exemption tribunal. There are eight pected that a large crowd from Bon Miss Olga and Monrad Cranbrook Mrs. Gordon Smith. -• Gordon Smith is here from Wolter, of these in West Kootenay, with ners Ferry will attend the Creston Clarence Ogilvie are vici'-.sifv'l m-ytia x*tao\r tskifiS!- 6,1*---o -fuit*. Montana, spending a .few days with GunSiSOn <*3 CiinH'iiUin. di'ttiiiitgo ijiegtiug uilii a. committee a^mjxxm.xx.fi,*tftf,tr, ***. »\ tm- Irtximr his wife and family. composed of K. L. Olaveomb. 8. EL John Huscroft-. who spent a few days this week with Cranbrook friends Notwithstanding the 2000-crate Henry andd Frank Bottum was'ap days in Nelson last week, returned on and taking in the exhibition. FOB SAMS, YOUNG PIGS—Choice shortage in the strawberry shipments stock, just a few left, SO each.—J. Creston Fruit Growers Union financial pointed to look after securing trans Tuesday. Leu Mawson, who is now in charge Arrowsmith, Creston. turnover so far this season is the portation for all who will go. Capt. Mrs. Waldon McKay and daughter, of the C.P.R. section crew at Marys- largest in tho Union's history, and A. B. Wilson has offered his steam Evelyn, who has been the guests of ville, was home for over Sunday. Mrs. Jim Cameron of Cranbrook was boat for the purpose and can take a week-end visitor with Mrs. A. LJ there is every indication that the Miss Bathie, returned to Cranbrook Mrs. Palmer arrived from Kaslo on care of 50 persons comfortably. It is Cameron, returning on Monday. year's business will also outstrip any Sunday. Monday, and will spend a short visit expected that at least 20 autos will go previous year since it has been in Mrs. Ashley Cooper is spending a here with her daughter, Mrs. Chas. YOUNG PIGS FOB SAX^—10 young business. to Creston also. i few days with Nelson friends this Moore. pigs, six weeks oid, ..$8 each.—W. H. Owing to no previous notice being The bridge on Wilson Avenue lead week. Smith, Porthill, (Canadian sitie). ing to the cemetery was closed for Creston has a house-fe~»r-rent famine. given not a solitary passenger was Mrs. McWilliams, Miss Barbat-& At present tolerably habitable resi traffic on Wednesday. That morning Miss Alberta Markwick of Medicine picked up hero Wednesday for the Mawson and Miss Gladys Wiley of dences are not to be had in any part one of the horses. in H. S. McOreath's Hat, who has spent the summer with Cranbrook fair via tho special accom Creston were Wynndel visitors em of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Cook, returned modation provided by the C.P.R. iron grey team went through the planking with both front feet, up to Sunday. FOB KENT OK SALE—Six-room home on Sunday. attaching a passenger coach on a through freight which pulled out at the collar. Fortunately the animal Miss Ruth Cooper has gone to house with half-acre of fruit. Furnace Thanksgiving Day has been an 7 a.m. Had people known of it quite is a quiet one and was extrirated with Victoria where she will attend Normal in basement. Cellar 14x20 feet.—R. nounced for the first Monday in a number would have made the trip. out injury to itself. Had it done School for the term. Boadway, Creston. October, the 1st—also the first day of much floundering around with its prohibition in B.C. The local Indian tribe has a scandal weight it is possible team, dray and Creston visitors for the week in Ben Long left on Wednesday for cluded Mrs. H. Rosendale, Mrs. F. J. the northern Aibei-ta country, and all its own. It involves the misappro driyer might have taken the drop to Mi*s. Beeby and family left on Fri May, Monrad W igen. Matt. Hagen, will help with harvest operations in priation of $400 of the tribe's funds, terra firrim, about 50 feet below. day for Calgary, Alta., where they Mrs. Ofner and E. Butterfield. the section around Edmonton. which one of the higher-ups is report- will be joined in a few days by Mr. Creston Red Crose have decided to etl to have extracted by picking the Norman Craigie has gone te> Hos- R. S. Bevan was a motor visitor to Beehy. and will reside in future. lock on this particular cash box. The again this year undertake the sending mea, B.C., where he has secured a- Cranbrook fair this week, leaving on sudden burst of prosperity shown by of as many boxes of apples as they can Mrs. and Miss Peacock of Berkley, position for the winter. In his ab Wednesday, along with M. J. Boyd thesuspected redman in the possession get to the soldiers at the front, in California, arrived on Wednesday, sence .S. Moon is taking care of the and C. H. bird of the Kibg George. of a new team of horses, harness and conjunction with the province-wide and are spent)ing a few days here, apple -ind pear crop. Mr., Mrs. and Miss E. Vandervoort, guests of Mi*, and Mrs. J. A. Lidgate. wagon gave the snap away, it is said. effort the B.C. branch of the Canadian who have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Red Cross is making in this line. Last Thejnuging iu the Prize Garden The first deer of the season—a lively Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Jackson and E. R. M. Reid for the -past month, left year Creston Vaiiey supplied over 200 Competition took place last week. E. looking four-prong buck, was brought C, Gibbs left on Tuesday with the dis for their home at Trenton, Ont., on boxes, and that their effort was warm C. Hunt being judge. Considering in on Saturday by John Alexander, play of stuff the board <»f trarle and Sunday. ly appreciated is indicated in the letters the dry summer the gardens were in wbo bagged it in the Goat Mountain local ranchers are making at the Cran acknowledging receipt of the fruit very good *shape, and W. J. Cooper The September meeting of the school country. brook fair this week. All told there that have been received all over the carried off first prize, with S. Moon board is called for Monday night. The J^ D, and Mrs, Spiers, Pte. Jack were 246 entries of products from 41 • T» .. —~t —— ... , 3 A- m— -• — ijecunu auu J. vv igen LIIUU. jLkn.11uuj5rcx1.rc OSM;« tAJ n.tmy water dispute is still in abeyance as no Smith and Capt. Forrester made up Valley ranches. 170 of these were in word has been received from the another auto load to the Cranbrook the fruit section. In apples alone officials at Victoria. fair on Wednesday, going up in the there were 22 box lots and 84 plates representiog 21 varieties. Estimates turned in at the Creston former's car. Fruit Growers Unisn indicate that the Dr. and Mrs. Henderson and child CORRECTION—Two erreirs are report Valley apple crop this year will run ren motored to Cranbrook on Wed ed in the list of fall fair prize-winners about 35 per cent, ones, 40 per cent* nesday and were visitors at East published last week. In the C. O. NFORM ATSON WANTED f wos, and 25 per cent threes. Kootenay's big fair on opening day, Rodgers special for brown bread of the whereabouts of Messrs. Constable, Oatway and returning yesterday evening. second prize was won by Mrs. Stocks, Bennett will be responsible for the not Mrs.. Crisler as -shown. In the Board of Trade members are remind .™.-.,.... EUGENE W. STONER, formerly of display of Valley products in the juvenile section, the prize for the best ed of the special session of the board board of trade cabinets on the C.P.R, packed, box of., apples (Cook special) Creston and Port Hill platform fo^ the next four weeks. on Wednesday evening, to further second prize should be credited to arrangements for the reclamation Phyllis Lyne, not Frances Lyn6 as Communicate wiih Payments to the Creston Valley meetings on the 28th and 29th. stated last week. A. S. Browne* 158Pearl St. Buffalo* NY., U.S. A. branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund for August are $108. Of this Mrs. W. C. Forrester and Mrs. C. F. As soon as definite replies -are re It ,-- X HIE * Oi 3 mm..^ ._ Hayes were Cranbrook visitors the ceived from the U.S. authorities inr •JUJUUIIU mpimj wno xxmjts* Jo*i.uc»a. f^x*o*x<.tx— tors and $17 from C.P.R. employees. early part of the week, where they officiated as judges of cooking, etc,, A string of half a dozen Indian at East Kootenay's big exhibition. -i horses have been sent on to Cranbrook for the races at the fair there this The 1917 cut of hay on the flats is 1 wet*k. Last T,ear the local Siwashes figured to run about 3000 tons. Local I won pretty nearly all the prize money ranchers will have a third of it, and 1 in this class. the balance will be divided between the Reclamation Farm and the Another death is reported at the Indians. Indian reserve this week,Mrs. Tommy Prepare for the Coool The harvest festival in the Methodist Jacobs passing to her last reward on : Tuesday. She was a daughter of the Church is to be held on Sept. 80th, to i j/f -*._.- • ... -—' J .'• y?- *-* old patriarch, Colville Joe, and mother be followed by a pie social on Thanks of Albin White. giving Day, Oct. 1st. Gifts of fruit,, flowers and vegetables will be grate The weather statistics for August fully received. shows the 2nd as the hottest day of that are coming by buying I the month when the mercury got up Creston & District Women's In m to 90, and thc coolest on the 20th when stitute has its September meeting this m. it climbed down to 37. The rainfall afternoon. Tho big feature will be for the month was .67. the paying of prize money won at the 1 fair last week, as well as winding up Watsons Underwear The Union loaded out its third car fair affairs generally. load lot of fruit on Tuesday. It was that wears and does not shrink I Freel Ryckman. Indian constable, largely plums, about 400 crates in the lot. The car out about five days Cranbrook, was here on an official previous was long on crabs, with 407 visit the early part of tho week. With boxes in it. Both cars went to baled timothy selling locally at $25 a I Calgary. ton, local redmen are putting up I'U" hirgor stocks of hay than ever before for sale. There will be morning and ovening We have opened up and placed in stock a big service in Christ Church on Sunday, ^^^j^Mk ^3dfc jflftah ^0m^ ^3 shipment of the above for men, women and children. A ^ffgW R[SmmimmiSEm*^&mW with celebration of Holy Communion after morning prayer. Tho usual few prices follow— harvest thanksgiving servico will Supplies likely ho held about tho middle of Women's Vests and Drawers at 50, 75, 05, $1.45. October. A now lot of books for tho govern Ladies' Combination Suits in sizes 36, 38 and 40, at 1.50, 1.65, 1.85, 2.00, ment library camo in on Monday and 2.25, $3.00. Complete new line aro now opened up and roady to hand out to mombet'H at the V. II. Jackson Misses Medium Weight in sizes 34 to 44, at $1.25. Exercise Books store. This is thc first now batch of A better line in all sizes at $1.50'per garment. tending matter to comc Iu in about Scribblers, Pencils two years. Children's Combination Suits— Children's Vests and Drawers— Size 22 $1 00 Size 22 $ 60 Paints The news reached Croston tho latter a 24 1 05 " 24 65 part of tho week of another casualty a 26 1 10 " 26 65 ill and all necersary supplies that will interest local road ore. The 11' i 1 15 " 28 70 \.i • victim is William Gunn, a son of " 28 l! Exercise and Scribbler former polico constable Gunn, who is " 30 I 20 " SO '. 75 •tt for 25c. in a French hospital suffering from " 32 1 25 " 32 75 gunshot wounds hi tho shoulder. il:'. •I • Call and sec our line. C. It. Ward, Cranbrook, director of lis tho Lund HclMomont Board for tho Houth-oasteun in ten lor, wtih a visitor hcro fen* a couplo of days tho fore part of tin* week, looking over properties £f • «, mx 0** *—. JSL .*** j* mm. /B /B Sm. jt* m+ m*m\ mTmil * 0m\ *£***, B *Tm% JT J$T% •m- xfjf in tlio Valley on winch trio govorn* urestonurug&Bookuo. ini'iil, hate heen asked to make loanii. PHONE «7 OKK8TON The cutting of hay on tho HatH this 1,4,.!,',!, in i'-potUel thc heaviest in ss ll III lillilUHlliWiiUJiUJrKMIJilMJiliUli j I llll I MMIMIIMH^^ immm mJ.