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Vol. XV., 15th Ye»r, No, 24. DUNCAN, B. C., THDEsilAY, JUNE l?th, 1915. Subscription |1 Yearly hi Advance North Cowichan Cattle Question At the Front Casual^ List The Fortune of War Batepayers Pass Two Eesolutions—Matter flow Coiriehan Boys More Cowiclian Men To Be Decided By Plebiscite Behave Under Fire Among Wonnded The Leader is' indebted \ Last Thursday 'morning ’s list show­ The eatUe on roads question roads The point was that the nation J. H. Gillespie. DAA. and Q.M.C. ed that Cowiehan boys had been in shelved by North Cowiehan conneil was at war and they wanted to raise central camp, Vei the thick of the fighting. In addition on Monday at a qiecial meeting of I they could, as there B. Cw for the following letter written which no i^tifieation had been given would be. a meat ahorse all over 10 him by Sergeant Cleland, 7th Bat- Lance-Corporal J. C Ciceri, Lance to the pres? or the public. • * the world. She said that many had talion. in whose pbloon most of the Corporal Dennis Ashby and Private From the resolutions it is learned put all their available land ouder cul- Cowiehan men are (o be found. Dated J. L. A. -Gibbs, noted laR week as that Councilors Herd and Pahner trvation. ' from France, May 21st. he writes: ' wounded, and Private H. C. Bridges sponsored a luotion *that the pound Major Mntter said that if people "My dear Cspt. Gillespie:—This is bylaw be neither amended nor raid not feed their stock they had just a short letter to lell yon how suffering from shock, the list of pealed until the reanlt of the plebis­ > right W keep them. They were your old “F" Company boys are do­ wounded included Privates P. A. cite on thU question be bid before not farmers He objected to the ing. In the first place we are all Howard. T. G. de Denne and T. W. the council.'' Councillor McKinnon proposed change for ipany reasons, well and exceedingly cheerful. - V.'e Springett. opposed this. one of which was the danger to chil­ left Shorncliffe -’od May. My pbtoon. Private Patterson A Howard. Ifiih Two resolutions were passed at the dren. Some of those who wished to No. 9, and Major Bruce Powiey*s Battalion, late 30th, farmed near Dun- meeting'of North. Cosrichan rate­ the roads bad not fences in the company reinforced the 1st B. "C. payers in Somenos Station school best of cooditlqn. Where people bad Regiment Carstairs didn't come but ■ for some time before removing -bat Saturday afternoon, when ' pure bred stock it was impossible The above is taken from a photo s Lieut. W. D. Holmes,- of the 88th. Hillier's Crossing. He is mai Salisbury Pbin. The men from left t question of allowbg cattle to n keep the bulls out. He intended look charge. We all like him very and aged about 45. He served in (wounded): J. N. Jaynes (prisoner of war); Alfrey; P. C. Jaynes (pris­ br^e in the municipality waa oppose the change with all his much. He is very thoughtful of the South Africa with the Imperial Yeo­ cussed. might. oner of war); Bolitho; Priestley: J. Murphy; L. de B. Barntil and H. men’s welfare. manry. B. Hayward (prisoner of, war). The bst-named is holding a copy of The first resolution, proposed by Cr. Palmer had doubu abont mat- We laid round various baieis add Private T. G. de Dctine. 7th Batu- The Cowiehan Leader. Cr. A. Herd, seconded by Mr. Wil­ n. It was bnsinets to raise food. did a lot of foot slogging at nigljt lion, bie 30th, waf fariung near Dun­ liam Baxett, waa that no iWter how If feed was being wasted It wonld be until the night of the I9th, when 'we’ can and was b|terly employed by the council nay decide now, the an adeaiitage to turn it to use,' but went to reserve dugohu behind the Messrs. Bacett, ReU Go. He is 25 question be referred to a pbbiscite at was that advantage worth what it firbg line.- Mr. Holmes left ns to years of age and haUs from Sid- Citv Council North Cowiehan the genera] eleetioa. For thb 35 would COR? take cha^ of. the bomb thrqwcrs mouth, Devon. . •' — ' voted, none against OM Ham' Vim with another battaUon. At 7 p.qa, Private Thomas W. Springettv 7th The seconTrewilntion. propose.^ lo response to a' reqimt for the 20th, three pbtoopit mclnding Battalion, ble 30th Battalion, is Mr. -P. W. AnkieteU Jones, SMonded viewb' of'^d timers, Mr. W. H. Elk- Electrician ’s Positfon- Chemainus School and fell in to do bligne work for' Hie of Mr. and Iflca. L. C. Springett, hy Mr. W. H. Elkington, Iras that ingtou ^ke from thirty years ’ ex­ Eogiueers in the trenches. I h^ Maple Bv, and grandson of the bte Dam Complete Court House . the conncD be requested to let the perience. It had beu always im­ command of my own pbtoon. We Mijor Henry P^ HHl. 9th Nslive present pound bybw stand and that possible to keep Indian cattle out of had to maTcb one and a half tnileb Infantry (Madras and Bombay), That there Is some trouble in eon- li a reportrt by thell road so- the matter of holdmg a plebiacite growing crops. He asked whether down 'a road under a heavy ahell and is aged 21. bection with the city power house perintendenj : Chem the qnestioa be left to the diacretion war time, affected the amalie^ farms. shrapnel fire, ebiefiy direeted at ttt Private H. CasteU Bridges. 7th Bat­ and the city electricbn waa evidenced house qu^tion, North of the eonncD. For thb 23 voted and Mm, o( thm nenth M-d „„ ^ ^rd. talion. bte 30th, was in partnership at Duncan city council on Monday 17 agmhist it. cleared to grow hay to keep slock right,Hehtkeep with Mr. WoUey-Dod, and farmed night when the last-named put in a Bam Opaan. ibrongfa the winter. He cited the * Sight for B. C Bazettis Comers, Dnncan. He is letter asking that hit position be constraction of a new building and al­ There were about forty preacnt„tt- ‘Tndbn catUe as thin as rails m the The way the bds went down aged 24, and bit rebtives are in l-on- clearly defined. ternative tenders for the repair of , clnding half a dozen bdiea. Reeve spring" and dymg after roaming out don, England. . rnnnr:i ;ntr, 4-ommittee the existing court house. Evans opened with an ontlinc of the ■■ M j u t- j t -*•* “ picture to gladden Ml wi^. He saM he ^ been re- hearts of their people and to make Unce- Corporal Dennis Ashby. 7lh ipon rising did not report,.rt. They The schoolhousb and school site situation. said that many con­ tponaiblc for getting Ml the names b. C. proud of her boys. At a good Battalion, late 30th, is aged 35, was afterwards inspected the powerver piplant. sidered it a misuke to have a..pound -1 the petmon which Mr. Jones had .^ja^hig walk we followed the other born in Stains, Kent, and edneated al The electricbn has since handed in bybw here,and outside, in unorgan ­ ” ■ ' pbtoons untU we came to the rains St Dunstan's College, London. He his resignation to take effect for twenty years at $50 a year to ised districts, cattle were elloiyed to Mr. W.T. Jaynes protested strong I of , vfUage. We bad to double had. been in Cowiehan some eight end of the. mooch. date from January 1st next, entry to the proposed ebangs. H« through that Si shelli Were striking yeit-s at Somenos and Quamieban Mr. Cameron reported that work be immediate. had been one of ttc •“/' the houses; and then .on until the Lake. Two years ago. with the ble a the upper dam had been completed It was decided to insnre the muni­ He said that beef was scarcer to­ ferers from "road bfmers." Roads' ...... ®**"- R. ^ officer took charge. Sentt-Uajor Willyams. he establish- and that on Sunday it held water np cipal machinery, shed and stables for day in Cowiehan than he bad ever generallr led to bis grain field, I was ordered to take my platoon to within fifteen inches of the top. $5,000. Hitherto it has carried none. known. There was a lot of wild land was the first to import pure bred ' ...... ^Ple back to the vilbge we had just Bay. He was secretary of the Mapiple he water committee will report The Tyee Mill road bybw was not bebg ntilis^ for young Rock'to cattle here but had had much dis- Ibrongb and■ load• ■ - ■ witi Bay Aquatic Club, which he was- in- the damage done whieh Mr. D. finally passed. The municipal sur­ eoaragement throttgh bulls and In­ stakes . five feet : sfrnmenMl in starting, and has B. Holmes cUims has been done veyor is to survey and define the Referring to the petition, objecting dbn cattle breaking into bis crops. there—BO mean 1 brothers in Duncan. > bb potato crop by flooding. I Tyee road on its present location and to any cbgpge, signed by 1S7 per Stock soon ate all there was on the full marching order with a Bugler C. L. Harris, should read wrote that this was the third season the road b to be gazetted a public the reeve said a niunher of these roads and then looked over the fence. Private L. G. Marrs, of Duncan, who “« ‘>®*" suojecieo lo me sam. highway. not ratepayers and residents. It was an abomboble thing and enluted among the first in the presumably to the The cast end of Sumpi road b to Mr. Anketell Jonas bviired for the rent detriment to t^ diRriet. advance through the second Gordons bst fall. He was a bugle^c'ty waterworks, be located by the surveyor and rood petitiensi They hid not been brengbt With regard to the reeve’s sttte- trenches np tb^ eoimecting trench, in the 16th Batalion, but has since The ™y«i- reported on aet.o. trinlendent^ to the schooL Be questioned the mene that not so mneh meat was pro- hand over the poles to the R. E. offi­ d to the ISth Battalion, re-'when concerning the transportation r. McKinnon reported on his b- reeve's statement. The petitions ask­ dneed ’ cer in the firing line and retire to the verting I o private. He b reported 1“' mechanics to British machine lionof the road work done by Mr. ing for the amendment of the bybw, said years ago popnbr bvour veered road and report for orders. Omte Rtffering__ „4U i, 5,- ^ Blackwood-WMdeman and pro­ he said, were' signed by nine and poultry. Now % was the reverse. trip over a raQe to pack. pital posed that $15be given him as com- fifteen people. He knew that i There would be lots of beef by end When I reported again we carried H,™ 4.4 .4,™. 4, pensation. Cr. Herd seconded. An of these -bad not enough gronud to by. up ammunition to the lOib in the C. P. R. gardens for nearly two years. amendment that he be paid nothing, keep two eattie. One of the signm- ICiiorily Bob? firing line and then retired to the He came from London, is 31 years o('at ChiUiwack. Resolutions must by Crs. Boudot and Palmer, was tories haiLsince admitted he had not Mr. William R^tt said that* if second Ime of trenches to await ' age, and had served seven yeai in submitted before September 1st. carried. thongbt of the toberenlosU dang rery man toraed out a cow on the deh. At 2 a.m. today, 21st, I got the London Scottish. Hb wife__ The streets commruee. reported Crs. Herd and Palmer will go into While some resMenU' nsmei were road-there would be little gained, dcri to retire to our' regimental be children reside in Du^cas. that the roads bad been cleaned of the noxious weeds question and draft the big petition the bulk of them Not one tenth of the popnbtiofaj qnartars and report. : name of Private FrancU Chu. weeds and the cribbing on Hospital a bylaw dealing with it. wonld utiHse The graas and the other Hill. 7th Battalion, was overlooked hill completed. Aedounts totallbg It is to be noted that the next I would snffer inconveoi- among the musing after Langemarck. 82,521.56 were ordered paid. meeting of the council will be on of the people was in the petition though we had i»rrowcscapea. At we Word has been received by Mrs. Ste­ Monday, July Sth. against allowing Rock on the roads. OneRioned by Hr. E/C. Catling, COWICHAN BRANCH came throogh the village the first venson. Dnncan, that he U mbsinf. Baam of Poond ^daw. who opened fire at...... time we pasted two orderlies helping He was well known in Duncan, being Mr. Jones .oaid the pound t vals. and who dti wonnded man to hospital We haack at our dugouts very he was slighdy wounded and U now for district newt under which the away without public coostSt. The strawberry fete held by the not eat fdrns, daisies and thutiea. tired, bn chtaHul and very glad to a prisoner ol'war at Giessen ,Ger- following headbg appeals: Tzou- He held that the munieipality bad Ladies' Aid of the Duncan Methodut AJl were trying to improve their connect with a tot of ram all round. mny. He is a nephew of Mr. G. F. balem. It may be correct, but pos­ a revenue of flOflOO ffonfiilW ^nd. church proved a great success on . herds but some people wanted cheap 1j^u'm fit.. The boys ask me Walker. Tunhalem. sibly someone got the war maps Rock. He thought tie council wonld TTie holders of the land wotdd npeer mbed b with those of the Isbnd. Monday, last at the parsonage be doing a very foiUish thing if they be' able lo sell it to settlers as fesr .8*Beverme,-etc;,-^ - "The American schooner J. grounda. All those belonging to the altered the bybw. J6CK- CLELAND." wounded since writing the above. He WealhcTwax. which saQed last week chnrch who could attend were pres­ Mrs. BiH.ett. Westholme. said ing their cattle onti If tbwe land ia an old Gorffisn Highlander carries, a half 'millioa feet of lum­ ent, ss were msny from other congre ­ pie wasted to put young stoett on the . (Cndn-I <• Htcb SSVgeant Flrteher B. Qebnd was fanitri at Vargas Island. ber from the Cowiesan dbtriR.'' gations.

.-Ly* THB- COW4CHAN bBADBR • Jnnc lyth, 1915. J

News of Cowichan Districts Rompers! Rompers!

COWICHAN LAKE Vista and on the hill will be com ed in a day or so now. . • Mr. D. O. McIntyre, depoty mini Mr. and Mr*. PoDoclr ah^ their of Btberies for the prorince, were ap .jn have taken one of Mr. King*- at the lake this week to look into the cote’s cotttge* for the aeason. matwr of weirs placed neross the UNDER TBB AUSPICES OP riTCf at the falls and the sawing of . CHBMAINV8 BON TON MILLINERY PARLOR THE KING’S DAUGHTERS promotion “for valor in the field" Mi»LE.B>nmPn» e outcome of tl has been won by E. H. Henry, is not yet known, bat it is claimed Mr. and Mr*. R. O. Henry, of Che- that the site of tbc mesh used by the mainos. who was one of the first to Don’t Send Money SUMMER Indians does not comply with the law enlist in the 72nd regiment. snd that the fish are unable to get When the Seaforths were absorbed in a Letter op the river. It is also a well-known Into the 16th Battalion and encamped FLOWER fact that many fish are being kflled ^ Salisbury Plains promoted HEN yon tciKl gnbterlpdoBa to DsggziDctt or order goodg out of by sawdust in the lake. tro be corporal and when the Cana- w j>wn, or pay small aecOuota at A It is rumoured that one of the 1dm- crossed to France he became SHOW her companies is trying to-get peer dutance, do not place the actual cash io Ibo mission to drive logs down the rivir, eovetepB.______Tteigai^ of doUioUara are lost every the excuse being a rash order. It is diroulli fire, robbety or mia-directsoii. Use and baa been given die Bank Money Ordei^ isaoed by ihig baalL JUNE 30, 1915, 2 P.M. to be hoped that, in the interest .of ne by the War Office, “for vdor in They are payable in Canada Iba Umtod Cowichan Lake, this request will not le field." AGRICULTURAL HALL be granted. StatM in any sum up to fifty doatra. The meftibers of the I. O. D. E. Their proiectioa ia wanwordi.dieiranallooat. DUNCAN, B.C. Mr. John Spouse, goverame« were more than delighted at the great school inspector, esrae up on Friday ess which attended their socid THE and the school has been closed down ling in aid of the Red Croas So­ ■ANK AdDlMloii: for the summer holidays two weeks ciety, which was given in the Recrea- eaflier than nstial. presu^bly on go- Pf Adult*. 25 cent*; ChUdfoi. 10 emts. sn hall on Friday last, ^ose in Britisil North AniBiica count of the peculiar state of school large of ^hc ice cream, str^berries, Jtklging begins promptly *t 12:30 TOVoarahi affairs obtaining her at present No . id ether refreshmeou did a roaring A. W. HANHAH, 1 doubt matters will be straighten^ trade, while the provision stdl was DUNCAN BRANCH, out before next term. entirely Sold out before the end of A meeting of the Red Cross Socie^ the evening. was held in the ball last Saturday One-of the chief attraetiont and arraogemenU were made for a le shooting gdlery. where fete to be held in the grounds of the flocked to help “Hang the Kaiaer." MAPLE BAY Riverside Inn next Friday, June 18th. The bdl’s eye of the target was an In the afternoon there will be tennis iron cross, which on being hit and games of various kinds, and in the kaiser Bying to the top there srill be dancing. gibbet The prises were won by Mis* Messra. Stelly and Geiger have very Monk, Mr. C Smith and Master P. HOTEL PRICES FROM 1600 and up. kindly offered to donate the refreah- Dry. ments, consisting of strawberries, ice An excellent mnsied progiamme cream, etc. ss rendered during th evening, con­ RITZ An inforaal dance was held at the ning of violin solos'. Toed, sextette, Riverside Inn last Saturday in honour patriotic, songs, with cborases, in of the officers of H. M. S. Kent. TO LET under the management of which -the Everyone enjoyed hew______g4oBay. OoodwMlvntar Ootfl* Fortlii Henry Fortin mensely, and the hope was generally the weU-known hotel men bte of dl by their really excellent render­ on lot. expresed that the officers of the Kent ing of severd sdeetton* during the $15.00per month aneh. wodd be able to repeat their visit evening. I the lake before resuming their Speeid mention must be mgde of arduous duties at sea. Among those little Roy Jacobson, aged four years, present were also Mr. W. H. Hay ­ whose singing of -“Tipperary" was table~d*bote^ffin^ faj^dt^ ward. M.P.Pn Mr. Henry Croft, l' reaUy wonderful for so small a per- D. 0. McIntyre, and several offici and evoked stonhs ot ap- H. W. DICKIE Free Bn* Meets Train* and Boatt. of H. M. C. S. Shearwater. Otber attraction* word BCONOMY WITH COMFORT UUttESMIBIUI PUI NTR Visitora to the lake this week were .^"’lighting, bran tub, quoits, Hr, Pickthorne, Ll- Com. Redhead. vision* gueuing competitions. IIWESTOIfilUU P. O. Box93 Duncia. V; L B. & wiimOTnitiMii.mi Lt.-Com. Dunn and Lt.-Com. How- Anketell Jones as a Dutch auctioneer mma.wi ard. of H.M.S. Kent; Lt-Com. Han­ -s a decided tnccess, and succeeded $1.50up son, Paymaster Haddon and Assist. i» realising fancy prices. The total ■Mtuoaaao.sntn Taaim Paymaster Kennab, of H. U. C S. Bvopcan Flan-75e per day and op. laca^s amounted to the substantial THE CANADIAN B^K 200ROOMS. 100 BATHS Shearwater; W. H. Hayward, M.P.P., coro of $142110 ...... *i.M Ka nav ur anaawaii Kan Duncan, Hen^ Croft, P. N. Walker, Earlier in the evening a ball game Centrally Located •• ,e« ran ear nr euaoKaN run D. O. McIntyre. H. Ai as played. The teams being a OFCOMMERGR Fort Street, at Dots^ka, ermCM kONgS. »«ewnoa Spouse, C. G. Simpson, H. C. Anstie, scratch Cbemainni against Lady- SIR EDMUND WALKER. CV.O„ LL.D., D.CL„ I VICTORIA. B.C. nm nv*. wmrc raa rotaca Mr. Pitsner, C C. Van Camp. R. A. smidi. thi result being 9 —4 in favour ALEXANDER LAIRD, Qcoeral Manager JOHN AIRD. Amt Oen. Mgr. Bainbridge. J. W. Noble. W. H. La- of Ladysmith. The receipts from tbe CAPITAL. §15,000.000 ______BK8BB VN PTHD. S1S.500.000 ' game were very kindly handed to the treasurer of the I. O. D. E. for the FARHSRS’ BUSINESS Red Cross Society. GEORGE T. MICHEIi lings, J. C. GoodfeUow. Mr. and Mrs. Tbe many friends of Mr. H. E. The Garden John R. Green. R. A. Green, of Vic- Donald will be pleased to bear that Livery and Dray Stable BANKING BY HAIL Pniit, Plants and Flowers COWICHAN STATION etarion*for appendicitis, which be on sale at Market A. Wright and Mr. Bolton, of Dun- derwent at the Jubilee Hospital. Car for hire (night or day) George B. Schmidt and Dr. W. Victoria, on Thursday last ORDER BULBS EARLY F. Luton, of Cheroainus: Miss Norma or withdrawn in this way as satisfactorily a Phone XS8 Mrs. Fetterley has returned to Che- T. Harder, Tacoma, Wash.; E. E. D. iminns after spending a very plr- B. W. C. WTT.TQM— —,-Mnnn^er DUNCAN BRANCH Mn. F. Leather, F.R.H.S,, Wood and coal depot Clarke, Australia; Hr. and Mrs. Ber­ holiday • New We* MEaESlCE. Prompt attention given to all tram Grovesnor Goodhue, Hiss Fran­ Nr*. A. Howe spent the week - end ESQUIMALT' AND NANAIMO RAILWAY TelapbeneEiuS DneanP.O. orders ces and Master Hugh Goodhue, New With her sUeer, Mrs, EHIIingbam, jo York. ’ Victoria. Miss Henry returned on Saturday after visiting friend* to COWICHAN BAT I6.U ALDERLEA ALLMAN & CAVIN ss. Olympic. Capt Hansen, U.*6 arrived at Genoa Bay < bronght to a large boom of logs of ia.ng Parksvllle Jt. lAB. FUILY WICiEia day. 6ih inst., cleared on TI sixteen sections, from Unitm Bay. lWBlmiDa«tLUoBl(sB,W«d.tBdM.cawOra uPIASml AiM«Tew.nms.»d8«.nU*.m.(wVIMscle. . HOTEL kh. with 725.000 feet Captain Bond, of the V. L. ft M. Co.'s tug "Chemainna” left for Vancouver ’ B. STOCK, Proprietor. Ssmwes aw«iality. stock for San Francisco. The steamer was given smart loading, three and a op Monday. ______half days being all tbe time taken to B. C. FawroU. Agent L. D. Cmmutt, Dlst. Faa. Agmrt. BEST WINES AND SPIRITS load her. 8HAWNIOAN LAKE PALACE MEAT MARKET The t*. Wellington, recently over­ 'Die seventh cottsignmeDt of ar- hauled at Union Bay, arrived at noon MeaU at 3 Cowichan Station tijea made by the members of the last Saturday, to take on about 1,300,- TelecAene IL 000 feet for New York. p>.«wni^n Women’s Institute QUAMIOHAN HOTEL, Genoa Bay mill ba* been runnins been forwarded to the Red Cross So­ (DUISCAN, B. C.) ^ full time for the past month and bai ciety in Victoria, for despatch to tbe UCBOaS liN Tracks b been hanging up some record cuts central depot It comprised THE POF-UUAR MOUSE The liest to date is a eut of 140,000 Banne! shirts, S convalescent suits, Tzouhalem Hotel feet in twelve hours. psirs of socks (largely the pro- Pt^Ur Vith Tourists and Otmmerdal Men, for its HwneMk The fishery cruiser Malaspina an­ Noted for its t of “Sock Day" at Cobble HUI comforts, excellent meals, and extenrive sample rooms. chored off CovcMiaa Bay wharf on Shawnigan Lake), 'two pairs of Sunday night. She left on Monday- wristleu, one pair of slippers, 60 rol­ Fine Wines and Spirits Many have mistaken ' her for the ler bandages, with which were en­ Shearwater, her build being similar closed the product of the “Old Linen” The following is from a .distance. shower held by the Cobble HiU Red Many people are arriviug at the Croas work parties orgaala^ by the ty to camp or take up tbeir sum.- Insthnte jnembert. EXCEPTIONAL VALUE er residences and enjoy the cool This eoniisted of 8 sheets, 16 pil- Enc istry b7 oslnR only breeze* across the bay. Most of the THE CALEDONIAN UQUEUR WHISKY iw slips. 5 towels, 5 taUe cloths, 10 boat bouses are already rented. tny dotfai. 80 handkerchiefs. -ISO c COWICHAN BtTTER at ILOO per bottle, blended and Lbck attends some of tbe anglers, cover*. ISO wash cloths, 1,100 mirath and. tom the milk of toted coWB. ASedlotel, toe from bottled in SCOTLAND .jme three pound trout ^d young wipes, 7 fiannel bandages. 2 nighi saljnon being caught thii week. shirts, 2 day shirts, and foroenutior pramrvative dnn«. ______Sold every»lmre. by the well known blenders of King George Liqueur Whuky. The road work near tbe Buena SsMcls. Thanks to tbe funds Also eentiy collected tbe weekly output of work can continue on the part of to- rente! Ur. T- A. Dund.,- home lor fdtn'e members. few weeks. Mrs. NevUl Armstrong tl .for Mr.E. F. Roberuon, thelee expert, CifwiMotorBMt England >n Wednesday, as her hns- is building a residence for himself — band wiU shortly be foUowiag her his property. and Repair Works when tbe 48.♦8 th Bai._Battalion . led^ The Misses Clarke have returaed Ur. W. E. Scott. Victoria, writes Hri. from ihdr vUit to Cowichan Lake. Ihst the total amonnt subscribed by Where they had a most succeatful tbe Farmers’ and Women's Inititutes towaids the Institutes’ Patriotic,fund fishing expedition. A FINE CLARET Is $1948.55. Up to January I2th to« Mr. “Jack" AUk^* for Eng ­ Zhtfandel, bottled by M. de la Conre, Bordeanx, France, per qL 55c. land on Satnr^ to order to try and $4,350.65. bad. bten gWetw ,01 ^ The aBevt Bass are ant bottled-ben, ttiv «N fct a billet to the motor transport £500 was'given to the Belgmn Relief £3911*: 5d; » the Frtoce of cot^ in Prance. . ' Genuine Case Goods Miss Thompson and a friend .have

■'fe June 17th, 1915. THE CfOWICHAN LEADER

Four-Piece Glass Table Sets

Grocery Bulletin Sununer Comforts 65 cents G>mpare Our Prices At Reduced Prices Two only Bon Ami OU Stoves at Very Special Prices to Clear. Saturday Only Just at the commencement of the warm weather comes this remarkable offer on oor remaining stock of Bon Ami'Oil Stoves. Only two left snd we wish to get rid of them at once, hence the

to be b«d here, stncertly good Mticlet^itsudard brsndi—correctly One only, galvanized i^on ice box, nicely grained in imitation of priced. No epumodic prices, but ewiy srtide ii priced to give the FOR CASH oal^ special reduced price ...... SAM beetYslne. Compere them. One only, oak refrigerator, special rcdneed price ...... $UJ0 On' Satarday we wOl sdl lor eaah at die tmlieard ol price ol 65c. good quality pressed glaai table acts, conatatiDg of 900& bolder, Ralcteti'a Cocoa. %i-Xb csna - ...... 30® covered sogar bowl and covered boner dish. Ba^ worth tt.25. Saturday only, in the Glassware Section on the gallery, per set of Men’s White. Flannel and SSSS^^E:;e;;;;;;e;S Serge Pants STRONGLY UNDERPRICED TO REDUCE STOCK. Fine quality white flannel pants, made by Welsh. Margetson Co„ of London, our regular $4.50 seller, reduced to...... $3.50 Same as above in white serge, $5.00 value, now...... $3.75 65c . CREPE AND TAPPBTA SKIRTS FOR LESS. -

Ltoj J,J«. pto». „,b ...... :...... «c TIN TOP Hen's white wool taSeta shirts, n JELLY GLASSES Early Summer aearance Prices Two ttylea. per doi...... SOe B C. TotMtoea, per tia ...... Siogapore AU-Briiish Pmeapplc, 1-Ib tma, three lor...... »c Good quality pressed glass tumblers, de^ pattern, especially good for jellies, per dozen...... Wc on Cool Footwear .ii'i;^:::;::::::;:::; y. a regulai . . We Have a Mail Order Department Ladies' white buckskin pumps, excellent style and quality, a regu ­ lar $4.00 pump, now, per pair...... $2. f?gslS®s^E'S2>$ At Your Service

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ough knowledge of French and Ger­ are certain to win through to a glori ­ . KioneSl ' P;a'B THaphona 1S3 goes welL Inspiring Message to J. Blackstoek D. Blaclcttock Front Street, near McKinnon's Ranch On Saturday, at Beaver Point, Mrs. will do his duty. ” SALT 8PB1NG ISLAND H. Ruckle and Mrs. A. Ruckle gave Allied Troops One Cowichan officer was killed The Red Cross stall made.a record garden party to raise money for id another wounded dnring the ANDREW CHISHOLM HAPPY HOLLOW FARM landing operations. last Saturdsy when the snm of $32,70 patriotic purposes. The day was pro- The following special force order, CeucRte WoA Contractor B. W. BXVAV, Png. mod the event most success- was taken. This now brings the total issued by General Sir Ian Hamilton, M «l Swtk: Tank! sad suariw FOR SALE fi^, as was to be expected. It is un­ on April 2U:. 1915. to the troops Registered Jerseys and to $70.20. It is a great achievement derstood that the amount realized Chunber Spanlela for such a small district and great (some zixty-seven dollars) it der bis eommand at the Dardanelles Cow Quality credit ia doe to the members of the bsnded to the local chapter of the ,, reminiscent of the annals of the J. U. Can^hcU O.CBra; Ganges diapter lor the business-like L O. D. E. for Red Cross purposes. I p.*,, „hieh adorn the pages of H. CORNET way in which everything hae been British history. How to Lower Cost of CITY CYCLE WORKS carried out "Soldere of France and the Kingl ' Front St Congratulationa to Mr. and Mrs. F. TBBnS ISLAND "Before us lies an adventure unpre Milk Production ■wgaah and^^to Crdtt mad A. WaU on the birth ol a daughter News has been received from A D. cedeuted in modem war. Together P. O. Boa W DUNCAN. B. C laat week. Jansoa,who has been terribly ill vriib with onr comrades of the Fleet we a In many dairy sections in Canadait Bapain n Spedidty A chapel dedicated to the Holy is quite possible, judging from official WILLIAM R. BURGESS Ghost, was blessed by Father Cori< figures, tc find a herd of cows pro­ XLXCTSICAL CONTRACTOR CITY' CIGAR STORE raad. S.M.M., of Saanich, at Vesuvius but he has taken a turn for the bet- been vaunted by onr enemica as im- Estimates Fsmished S. Wright, Pro^ Bay, SaltSail Spring Island,Island. on Pentecost and wOI shortly be invalided back pregnable. The landing will be made ducing milk at a feed cost of only Promptly TOBACCO Sunday. For decades to England. good by the help of God and the sixty-two cents, or less, per hundred priests, on their missionary tours. pounds, while on a farm two miles Tolapbhaa M. Cigaia Cigarettes Mr. Janson left here in Anguit, and y; the positions will be stormed, FnmtSttMt. DUNCAN, B. C. have been in the habit of celebrating for the last sue months has been the war brought one step nearer away, milk costs perhaps ninety cents the Divine Mysteries in one of the working for the French Red Cross in glorious close. or more, per hundred pounds for feed. - J. L. BIRD rooms of Mr. E. J. Bittancourt's bos- the Vosges, running an ambulance Remember,' said Lord Kitchener, And on that farm where milk costs LAND SURVEYOR. piubl-: home. The Idnd-hearted an when bidding adieu to your command­ more, msy often be foui^d some dairy FLUMBm^-jmCiMnNO AND t has now erected er. 'Remember, once you set foot upon —luisilcs, such as pure bred dairy J. B. GHEBH. aC*US. chapel in honour, and under the invo­ e, good ensilage, etc. .Other re­ KUPBR ISLAND the Gallipoli Peninsula, you must Offices in Victoria and Duncan cation of the Holy Ghost, towards fight the thing through to a finish.' quisites may be lacking, well rounded Telepbooe 1(H Duncan. whom aO Portuguese foster a ipecial A dramatic and a “The v ' ole world will be watching dairy judgment, cow quality. devotion. roent will be given on Friday, 2Sth ir r-egre Let os prove ourselves Solid and lasting success is atuined R.& ANDERSON A SON The ceremony was enhanced by iast, at Kuper Island acbools, nndci wo.thy of i great feat of both easier and quicker by the intelli­ A. KRNNINGTON the pretence of the children of the gent use of dairy re^rds, this is just PLUMBINQ < the management of Mr.-Arthur Legge trusted to us. sense selection of paying R^EMateand ~'.nper Island Industrial School, who WDlis in aid of the overseas tobacco Each man .1 so received the follow­ Heating and Sheet Metal laeurance _t all times, ocenpy a warm spot in ing personal note from Major-Gener­ cows, instead of the indiscrimimte Woricera boarding of "just cows." The indi- OSeea- Mr. Bittancourt's heart, who recipro­ The following Udies and'gentlemen al Aylmer Honter-Weston, CB., Fboaea 5» and 12$ vidtial cow of good promise is qnick- Cowlehaa 'twioB and Cobblt Hm cated the old gendeman's kmdncss by are kindly giving their assistance: D.S.O.. on the occasion of their first and unerringly spotted by the use ng a selection of hymns sppro- Meadames Legge WPlit. Randle Bar­ priste to the occasion. It is to be simple dairy records and fed for WM. DOBSON BAT8TONB ft BAUNDBRS, rington Foote. Vera and Audrey Major-General < hoped that Mr. Bittanconrt will be s the Division < better production at less cost; while Proctor. Nellie Wniis. Mesara. antique souvenir, useless as a Dnnean, B. C spared many a year yet to pray snd Pooley, Randle Btrington Foote, selected for an enterprise the success profit-maker, is beefed because tbe worship in the chapel of the Holy and Mr. and Mrs. BurcheU, of Thetis. of whiehi wfil have a decisive eSeet Fbone-ldS. Ghost on the war. The eyes of the world lacks ability to produce milk at a First Clasa Wo^ at Working Rates. The play to be presented will be Ret. Phone RI34 are upon os and your deeds will live reasonable cost for feed. "Niobe all Smiles.” The entertain­ The man who raises his own calves SOUTH SALT SPRING ment will take place in the gymna- in history. To us now is'given nn LUMBBR can take quick strides in building up The very many frienda of Mr. C C ahim, by the kind permission of oppi ly of avenging our friends D.E.KERR Mma TOa, Camant, Coal a good herd, for he keeps only his Hedges will be interested to leant Father Superior Lemans. CnrUin at' and relatives who have fallen in I France and Flanders. Our comrades best cows and knows jnst what he has FARMBRB’ BUFPLIB8 that he eiqieeU to be at the front in 8 o'clock. got. The man who sells, often tells h month. Early itf the war be gave As_ Mr._ A. W. is there willingly gave their lives in L O. O. F. BmMtag, Phom 113 KNOX BROS. bis best cows for a song (this is the np his post here to "do his bit" in resident of ThetU Island and has thousands and lens of thoossitds for DIUCUI, B. C. . TtL 31 Dnci pUin history of some world-champion the firing line, but is only now within been at tbe front since October Isst, our king and country, and by tbeir rcaidents feel that they cannot do glorious courage and dogged tenacity cows) just because he does not know FOR SALE of his goal. what good cow quality he has. Dairy better than send ‘smokes’ to bis regi- they defeated the invaders and broke joined the 5th ■Garrison A. aiery in records would have informed him. Victoria—the only regiment requiring It—the llth^Hossara. A matter of ten minntes per cow per at that tiiUe — and, though be month spent in recording will pat sur­ R. h: whidden, qnlddy got his first step in promo­ be heavy loases, by buUets, by sbells, by prising, most illuminating, results be­ PbonaR-74 P.O.BeaMl tion, seemed no nearer France. Another '^ee“ or two will fore any herd owner, iadicathre of completion ot a new wire fenceice ...... minea, by drowning. But if each man So be has now joined the CA.M.C great poaaibilities at present dormsnt KWOHOBANO, $100 IN CASH and ia at Vernon for a month. Here around the chnreh and cemetery____ atatjfeeli feels, as it, true, that on him Indiridu- The old'ally, however small, or however greai in fats dairy cows^ F. W. Given away he met Dr. Beech, who is evidently a great Mvonrite with his men. It is fence was badly rotted. Mr. F. H.jbis task, rest tbe success or the taH- safe to prophecy that Mr. Hedge) Maitlsnd-Dougall U supplying the nre of the Expedition, ind, therefore, ORILL CAFB will gbt on nearly as rapidly as hii pom for the new fence, the labour the honour of the Empire and the Market bunding on friesda would like, in which his thor- is given gratis also. j welfare of hU own folk at home, we 23rd. . THEUCOWICHAN LEADER - June 17th,11915.'

worked wonders.- In spite of paralleled difficulties, they have For Rd Gross ^ ...... >..S.-t«at»ier . -^ertphose 39 ‘ H. W. Bevaa emam Ccadtr arranged for the importation into Belgium Of food worth molt than H*rt t»aU th4 Preu tkt firefU's ngU £i8.0X).000. M Pasfe Ii,oboio Uuama ty. imfimtmu aad mabriitd They have not hitherto appeal- Leather& B6van d to the United Kingdom for -More Needed ^ Htrt patriot 7V«/* ktr ghriout prt- that neutrals S.S2SS:‘s ttpitam. as far as possible, make ■...... PUdgtd to XoHcioa. Liberty aad tn. their appeal elsewhere. BiIritish Joupb Story. A. D., 1779- ...... helped the ....,, „ Americans in generously provid­ Branch Offices^- ing funds. Such a limitation is Cowichan Bay. B. C. Duncan, B. C ,>aiaira-{..'as.!rei.s‘.rfe no longer possible. Mr. Hoover, Bk-““ the.chairman of the Commission, Bt’CU SAVAGE. Uu^K EBritish Columbia the varieties are favoured in Ibis order: -Carman l^o. ROBERT McEIyT* number of cattlp would be in­ Agent. creased if the bylaw were altered. 1. Burbank, Gold Coin. Early Roae. On the contrary many farmers Up-to-date. Wee MacGregor ...... 2.pQ, have augmented their crop acre­ Money Maker. age this year in order to comply Secretary Newman of the Canadian ' wt"? ■■ amripfS; THE HUT0EI. Ll^AMpEMCHCOMPAinf OF CAHABA with the call for increased pro­ Seed Growers’ Asociation. deals with $1 yearly)- UWtM OF COkl H'lHM RE6UUTIQIS duction in a national criris. the importance of good seed, and R. E. T. Cresswell :...... $1-00' _ . . With fences in bad condition H. Crosby, of Markham, Ont., con- Mra Cresswell and two months' feed of ques­ tribntes diagrams showing variation Mrs. Lament Phone m. LO.O.F. Bidldng Dmesa tionable value on the roadsides, in yield of individual rows of pota­ Mrs. it becomes plain that the "in­ toes grown on Special seed plots in creased production" ideas of the 1909. Manitoba makes a second con­ rancher with roaming cattle and tribution to this valuable monograph of the farmer with growing min on the most important and most ne­ NOTICE^ Swted nrrherr Oirtiitd man be dcs- The TELEPHONE would have frequent sequels m cessary of all vegetable crops in a _ _ whom it may conce—. -.. George Koenig, merebant. Harry the police court rather■ :r th; compilation of rules for potato-grow ­ pHSr=5«'S= suit in « e to the country ing contests, coupled with instruc­ money in anyb.,- H. N. aLA&TJE minority will recognise that, prove the breeding ed in Ifae Registry- Office at the City while times have changed. North Motbei-horoe; of Victoria, we renounced the said British Colombia Land Surveyor and .Civil Engineer surname of Koenig and declared that Cowichan has not reverted to its What tho’ the buglca sound ?*Retire", Land. Mine and '^imber Surveys, etc. ; we bad assumed and adopted on all condition of twenty years ago. Midst shrapnel's bail and petard's occasions and for all purposes what ANTiile pioneer conditions are to ruthless fire, soever, the name of.Kingsley inste TctUMnnt «mi not be^ lor.—JUM ■pi4a« 127 DUNCd^, B. C be encountered, if they are Von'rs to obey and stay the sought, there are few of our farm­ band. ers who would willingly go back Curbing yonr rigbteons rage, to make ond day of June, 1915. to them. the impending atandt The man who honestly believes that he could increase his stock Steady! h'lREST IN THE WORLD and do no haijn to anyone by The hellish fumes I stealing o’er having it run loose deserves sym ­ yonr lines, pathy. He will doubtless uld- Tho’ forced to bow the bead yonr That's what we claim for “SHELL" OAS^.^ - mately realise that the greatest undaunted reigns; LINE Actual teats in ew P«t of ^.,- good to the majority means a Steeled for the grip of death, out­ wbild have proved its euperior qaaBty and general advancement for the numbered ten to one, community in whose welfare he Sunneb and snpreme, yon wait tbe also participates. carrion Hnnl Steady! The fearsome cloud flouts by; for there are many calls open , i the public just now. but we two dire days aad nighta. make no apology for again direct­ Wrecked by hunger, thirst and grne- ADVERTISme SPRAGGE & COY. ing atention to the needs of Bel­ eights. Yon ateod tbe test: at last the leash offito Wmhoure. VireSda Hred, VictoriA gium. While her plight is better V is tbe ( known than that of Poland or is loose ‘ Box 942 of the pubUc at to who you are, So'bia, both of which conntnes You charge, to vietoiy or death, and deserve our aid, the following scora baae trncel where you are, and ^t you facts from The Spectator hm to offer in tite way of sMU. show more clearly- lyhot how urgent Perchance amongst the honoured talent or commo^ty. The oriy the need for help in Belgium 1 dead yonr name is numbered. And distant loved ones at your brave man wio should i»t advertise is fhe mas vihtx has sofhisg to ^^he German army of occupation deeds wondered; has notoriously refused to feed For hearth and home yon sacrificed offer the world in the wy of the Belgians, hundreds of thous­ yonr all— commodity or service.—Elbert Steady and true yon met your James Bay Hotel ands of whom arc the owners of Hubbard. ruined farms and heaps of ashes Maker’s call! . (Under new management) VICTORIA.- B.C- which were once their homes. A quiet Family Hotel, close to Uib Park, wd within a The people have so far been kept few mHiutcs’ walk of the Post Office. alive, by the intervention of a History is being made very faM In tral Commission for Relief, 1915. Tomorow ia Ihe 100th anidver- Room Fraa $1.00 SpodalWasUriUlM ducted by American and Spam* aary of Waterloo, and Saturday it the Ante MmU Trata ami Bento diplomatic agents in Brussels and 700rii anniversary of the signing of London. ‘I^e Commission Magna Charts. Jane 17ttt, 1915. THE COWTCHAN tEXl^Ete "Duncm School Basra tapoint- Rstes For 25 words or noder, 25 , -Ty ^tine nstnre. ed to the vsesnt ratnigership of the cents per issue; four insertions. IS nOTTER&DDRCAR victoria branch of the Oswicluui The Goods cents. For over 23 words, one cent Fanners inS ownwsAiJl Iw^ «k Cnaraery at North Park street. per word per Issue. Cssb must be ; NoUriM Public,. smiiid^ that a remount^oWr^^ There were eighty-foor applicsnts for sent with order not later Uian Wed- t ia Daacan tomorrow to porebsse nesdsy-noon. L^pd, insurance and Fi- tlft pcin. Mr. Sillenee began his faorsn {or the Goyeininenv. ' nancial Agents. mce last week. WANTED—New subscribers to knew The layiog of the cement sidewalk that from any dale in June the »uNe«M.v.u •.«. ^everal Cowichan members of the subscription price of The Leader to ronad the mnnieipal offices has bcKuo. 4Sh Battalion were o° leave laA week December 31, 1915, is SS cents in A cement walk is also to be laid from end, saying another farewell to their advance. the sidcsralk to the neps of the friends. They are experiencing the FOR SALE — Thoroughbred Irish i] half. BraNTn conditions which their predecessors Setters, three months, sire, Killar- HOUS^ TO imNT ' in the 30th went through. They will Middy Blontea. New lot. worth $1.75. for...... $155 oey Kim. champion dog on the Pa­ Waterwor-KS pipe and electee light cific coast; dam. Lady Derry, of the $5.09 to $1&00 per raontfa. poWare tcto be removed to'city prop­ reach the firing line in due course, famous Wulffsohn strain. Cheap. erty shortly and the .qncttion of tnov- and will undoubtedly give as g9od an Cole, Cowichan. aconnt of ' Mea^ Bodta-Exeeptlonal quality and value, for .... $3.75and $4.75 ing the old electric’engiiie is being FOR SALE—Good grade Jersey cow, debated by the city conncil. wm. nn- Thbs. Pitt's grounds, was very suc­ of our stock and have now received a large supply of New Dress so buckboard and harness. F. H. can. This afternoon is matM by the cessful, and the amount realised— Sergea, lincna, DiiUs and 1«.M«ii Head. Streeten, Ganges. SL Peter’s, Qaamichan. over $40—will ensure an early con­ : FARMS TO RENT Also Embroideries, Uces. and Crepe Underwear. FOR SALE — Dump Carl and Har­ nection with the electric light de­ ness. Apply T. Kingscoie, Cowichan $jaoo to $25.00 per month partment and the end of the old fsmTliar oil lamps in St. Andrew's FOR SALE—Smart Shetland Pony, chnrch, Duncan. saddle and bridle. $Sa G. C. Baiss, MONEY TO LOAN A meeting is called for Saturday FOR SALE-Cbicken Houses. 8x8, On Firet Mortgage at ext. at 2 p.m., at the Agricultural DUNCAN TRADING COMPANY tatea of intereat Five alien enemies, who bad been , on sleds, and 12 x 12 Wbbt offers garnered from the camps at Cowich- Hall, Duncan, when Mr. A. B. Alt- G-Dccriet, Hardware, Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes. to Mke away? Neel, Cowichan an Lake, were bronght down to Dun­ wood will be present to go into the Question of sUrting a cannery here. Phone 78. FOR SALS can on 'Tuesday night and conveyed to the internment depot at Nanaimo. It;is understood that he is prepared become financially interested i On Monday next either Mr. Robert- the scheme and that its fOR SALE, CHEAP-At Duncan on or Mr. Thomber, of the Depart­ depends upon the amount of similar Flower shm, few pieces of lacc and ment of Agricultnre. .will address a support to be obtained locally. veiling, at less than wholesale. Al­ meeting Of the Cowieban Growers’ so two Persian kittens. Saturdays W. H. Hayward, M.P.P., Will be in only. Mrs. Troughion. assoeiatipa m the Agricoltnrel Hall, the chair. New Dancam’at 8 p.m. FOR SALE-Singer ’s Hand Sewing Long distance telepbon . Machine, in go^ condition. Only ffotter & Donew Mr. W. Morley, of Tioohalem, $15. Of no further use to adver­ Kfmtenay is now an actual fact. It brooghi in to The Leader office tiser. Write P. O. Box 121, Scune- Phone 27 Dnacaii..B. C Dos. B. C. Tuesday a white strawberry shaped Arrivals ing like a pansy and mcasni COWS FOR SALE — Five Jersey cows. Apply C. Doering. Duncan o and a bhlf inches in width. the eastern .part of the'urovince, as it if between points on the Mainland ■nie IdaM Garden, al’$1.7S. Has !6 coloured plates wd 96 photo- graphs. It appeals to all, recognising that the ideal garden diSers DO YOU APPRECIATE a fine, Private A. F. Wallace, "B" Co.. and Vancouver Island. - Commercial according to tastes. freshly-cutjt Cauliflower or a largela 47th Battalion, C £. F.. was one of eaUs are now taken^or kll pomts fn white-heartec- ...... ! ways c the draft which left New Westmins- the territory of the'B. C. Telephone grown. Fo Plimley's for garden at home. ket, Rudkin,kin. Phone X-159. ently for England to reinforce Co, in the Kootenay and Boundary -Garden Flowers. As. Tbsy.r Grow, i : $175. Photographed in colour talioDs at the front He' was dirtricts, and already many calls have direct from nature. SHAWNIGAN LAKE RESIDENCE —Consisting of bungalow, bam, formerly ^ the ^ of The Leader. beitn bandied to the satisfa^ns of .WQd>Flosren At The] Grow,' at $1.75. Fbolognphcd in colour tbSeompan/spati^n;.. stare. poultry ana inenbator houses, or­ Bicycles ir.3s bop^ Ihatherter weather than For Antsteon, at $175. Beaueifnlly iUiistrated chard (bearing), vegetable garden, throngbont hay field; situated five hundred has been meted out in the past will Useful for aU Horticulturists. Sixteen yards east of post office; view of :e in the ■US?” lean, on who will buy the bouse furnishings, Thursday next, 3 P-m. Among the at­ Corfield-To Mr. and Mra H..Cor- piano, horse, harness, buggies, wag­ tractions are living w.hist, dock golf, field, Pender Iiland. on Tbnrsd^, on, implements and tools, I will and'sbootii^. June lOtfa, 1915, a daughter. H, F. Prevost, Stationer give two years' lease as bonus, also option on realty. Particulars, E. M. Two antoaobil^ta' baQing from Aikens-To Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Walbank (owner), Shawnigan Lake Victoria were charged with fnrious n.. __Cl______r____V .1.. ,i>___ A ' B. C. driving last wpek. f - The a daughter. At Dun- FENCES-For poultry, cattle and heard on Friday by Police Magistrate in Hospital. sheep; best materials always in C. H, Price, sitting in Dnncan, and. stock; estimates free: contracts taken. Knocker 4 Parker, Cow­ after an adjoummeat to Monday, the jBTnes—To. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. A NOTICE Jaynes, Dnnean, on Tuesday. June ichan Station. case whs d 15tb. 1915, a sou.. At Dun«|n Hos­ BABY CHICKS, ducklings and eggs VEEDOL The Cowichan Valley Cadets pital. . ’ To Married People and for hatching. Poultry and fruits inspected at the public school grounds, Duncan, yesterday after­ rants lOc; gooseberries ISc: rasp­ Motor QU noon, by Major Belsbn, of Victoria. Housekeepers berries 5c; rhubarb 10c. Fruit trees, Tonight there is an- exhibition of Annonneements perennial flowers, roses, dahlias, pansies, etc. Car^ge-prepaid. Cat- mannai training and domestic science Large or small automobiles for hire engine. It’s nsriviUed Inbricating. work afthe school. — ... Before purchasing your Hams, Bacon, English Backs, Lard,. IS for those desirous of getting TO RENT for summer, a modern h with the British Commission Butter and Compound, see onr quality and enquire as to prices. house, fully fumislied. in large Beware of imitation oils with a of Inquiry upon Armament ,Labodr We pcrtainly can produce the goods and save money for you. shady grounds and gardens, ten similar name. Remember to ask for Wednesday, the 23rd. Drop in and minutes from Post Office, near Supply, may be obramed now look the goods over. OUR PHONE IS 60 river, cricket and tennis grounds. VEEDOL Board of Trade offices, Duncan. Al- Phone and garage. Terms very Write.^fer prices to the sole dis- A public meeting will be held in the ready several. mechanics have made ‘ OUR FIRM IS P. BURNS » 'cO. moderate to riglu parlies. Families appliclication for them. with small children need not apply. conver, will speak on the possibilities H. F. Prevost. Stationer. The Rev. J. J. Nixon and Mrs. BSp'riX .S',.” TO RENT—Partly furnished Cottage THOS. PLIMLEY Nixon, late of Roisland, have taken facing sea. three minutes from store, p their residence in Duncan. 1 I wish to deny the reporu that un­ post office, hotel. Water laid on. lixon preaehed bis first sermon scrupulous persons are circulating in P. Burns & Co., Limited Kingscoie. Cowichan Bay. Phone hincan Methodist, church last Sun­ reference to my nationality. M' parents are of English descent an. day evening. He was at Maple Bay STORE TO RENT — East comer my grandfathers. Colonel Johnsoi J. Sandersop, Branch Manager, Duncan. store in the Agricultural Hall Build­ in the morning. and General Sir Edward Miles, botl ing. For terms apply to the Secre­ fought for England, the former beim tary, F. A. Jackson. "ngUsh. the latter Irish. GEORGEORGE R. MILES TO LET—At Maple Bay. good camp­ commanding, Will hold parades at ing ground, with w'ell and a tent 0. It HATTIE supplied. Small kitchen with range 7 pjo. on Tuesday and Friday in each THE WESTHOLME Uaaiarln UeUaghliD feiniages and wide verandah. Rent $8 per week nutil further notice. Mr,.E. W. month. Apply Box 432, Duncan. Bazett been i Chnrch Services. HOTEL AND GRILL BdTiag and Bam and Mr. R. Wicks is secretary. Htnass and Bepairiag CHURCH OF ENGLAND Calf, sire £...... - . . 2nd., out of 14.000 lb cow; also HfibaliaAeto and BieveU llrw u laurels are doe to Mr. P. T. 'Third In addition to ihi vice bull. 18 months old. sire Hiieng- B.8 Ai aid Otfaar Makes of Cyeles Skrimshire,. Qnamichan Lake school, rates, we liave. in d inction with the G-'' which caters to the ervcld Mingo. A choice individ—., AU Kinds of WliMls Babbwod for having again sent a sncceufnt Qoasnlehan-St. Peter's t exacting ( nearly all white. Cheap for prompt candidate to.the ...... 11 a.m.—LHany and Celebration of sale. Apply Brooksliy Farm, Kok- Holy Eucharist. GENERAL REPAIRING 9.45 .a.m.-Sundat School. Communicants’ GtiBd, last Friday ADVERTISER v pnt in one s aged 1 y anti fruit in month, 4 p.m. farm in return for board and lodg ­ lEWUlUOM tm ist for C CTimchjyardens, Messrt. ing with family. Many years gen ­ eral farming experience. Apply lETJUU Iri EUMMB W. B. CoUyer. Burdette House, John Ambulance' brigade Burdette Avenue. Victoria. wbich has been formed in Duncan. SECOND - HAND CARPENTER. Painter. Grainer. up- J.A.OWEN The old school house is being used Commnnicanu' Guild, last T It is often possible to get the thing yon require second-hand for drills Bod-arrangdmenli for light ­ day ia mouth. 4 p.m. to-date workman, who has a large Tel. les. DUNCAN Cfanrehwardenk Messrs. ,Hs9 '.and save 40 or 50 per cent, of cost We sell New and Second-hand family to support, requires work, ing it ate being made. The brigade goods, so that a periodical visit to ohr store is an economic necessity day or job. at your own price. S. hope to have stretchers, etc., in doe 'to the thrifty householder. Second-hand goods include Ranges, course. Their energy is commend­ Dining Tables. Chairs, Sofas, Refrigerator, Sewing Machines, Beds able. - Dressers, Oa Stoves, etc.'' Referring to the German gas, Cor­ Wedding Rings 8t. Mery's Somenox poral F. J. Greene, late of Duncan, Read The Leader June 20tb, 1915. THORPE’S of the finest qaality. in 14 and desiiatch rider, 5tb Signal Co., II aA—Matins. DUNCAN FURNITURE STORE ISkarat^oId. Both wide 6t John Baptlit, Doneait. B. C. 0)1 GsnbT Pillle StlNl Bop’ and narrow stytee . about five miles from the trenches yon can feel the eSecU here.* \Vhen F. GranviUe Christmas, Vicar David Switzer he wrote ol^ May 24. "the old chy Cobble HiU Traders C: are requested to communicate the JEWELEB of Ypres was geting it hot." St Andrew’s Pieity teriais Church following information to the Secre­ JAYNESSLOCK STATION ST. Servias at 11 a.m. and 7J0 p.m. Are clearing odd linea of Men’s PnraisUiigs. and Dry Goods tary of the Association: DDRCAIf, B. G. Members of Maple Lodge. K. ot P.. oC Dnuean, journey ed last Sunday to AT LESS THAN COST PRICE Chemainns to join the brothers there the jrcsiienec. of Mrs. Mnnro. ' Now Agents for TBs Honsa of Hohberlin High ,Class OotUng. in bolding memorial service.} and dec­ p.m.' $ Stclttlti Minuter— Rev. A. R Munro. M.A orating the graves of the departed brothera Next Sunday the members JAS. V. WATSON, will meet at 1.30 p.m. at the Somenos > D^can'Mediodst Chnrdi grayeyaid, English ehurcbi for"^e ServicM at 13 a.m. and 7 p.n S3Si- Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. THE COBBLE HHX TRADERS purpose of decorating the graves of Prayer meetog every Thnrsday Address to the Secretary. —A. B those brotbers who are at rest there. evening at .8 o’do^ I Sherwood. Box 812 Viciorut. B. C Poultry_Notes Book on Weeds opera House, Duncan English Utility Club Ulnstrations for Farm and Garden Charles Sets Standard The secretary of the Utility Potd- "In order to produce high-class* Y Club, England, has recently wril- clean seed, farmers must be constai^t- Chaplin ..n wishing the Cowichan Utility ly on the alert to keep the weeds on Pictures Will Be Shomi On Pooltry Association eeery success. their farms in check and to prevent He says that they are conaidering a the introductiqp and spread of new Tliursilay. June 17th acbeme for reconstituting the dab bn varieties." ^us commences Bulletin , broader basis and changing ahe No. SA recently published by the jrac to possibly the National Utdity Seed branch of the Dominion Depart­ Poultry Society, in order to adeance ment of Agriculture, under the title further the industry which will be a of "Weeds and Weed Seeds", and necessity as one of the resulth of the which can be had free on addressing war. , the I»ublications Branch of the de­ partment at Otuwa. —ALSO------He has kindly sent the locsd secre­ tary a large amount of literature, in- After telling of the wastage caused elod'ing the year book Md laying by weeds, the bulletin proceeds to ex- The Million mpetiiion reports, and promises' to plain, or rather the seed commis­ send all future publications. A short sioner. Mr. G. H. Clark, does, how Dollar Mystery summary of this literature tent may weeds are introduced and their exun- be of mterest to local poultrymen. sive prevalence. They are classified which is the greatest Photo­ 1 may give seme valnable hints according to the length of thae they play Drama of its kind ever t the local association would do live, as annuals, biennials and peren­ product. well to take. nials From the Hospitals, Dressing Useful Obiectt. In eradicating weeds it is of im­ portance to know under 'which head CbwiM Cb«pUii U the worid’. The objeeu of the Utility Pouhry Stations and Trenches, along the greUMt Pleton CooedUn, mnd b« Club are: they come. Annuals, it is explained, lu jBit rehswd tweotyOr* »•»>"■ (1) To encourage the breeding of may be eradicated from land, how­ entire battle front of Flanders and ud dolUra for two woekt’work. pure or cross-bred birds on ntility ever badly infested it may be, through lines, by breeding only from selected any method by which germination is Northern France comes the in­ ThU u not an ordinaiy proirmniBio layers.' hastened and the yonng plants des­ bat a ahow that baa boon obtainod (2) To obuin the best advice for troyed before they produce seed. Bi­ sistent never-ending appeal for members on all matters relating to ennials, which require two seasons to the selection, breeding and kecpiug of complete their growth, must be either greater and yet greater supplies of Admission 25 ceirts ploughed or eut down -before they * ”(3)^0 facilitate between members flower. Surgical Dressings, Hospital change of blood from good laying Perennials are the most troublesoi ■trains. owing to the extension and firmnets Equipment and Linen. (4) To etublish laying competi- of their roots. A single ploughing ions between pens of birds under often does more harm than good by breaking up the root-stocks and stim- (5) To give priaes for Uble pdol- nlating growth. For shallow-rooted Tens of thousands of our Fathers, tiy and eggs and for the most effi­ perennials, infested Isnd should be To Cowichan Pottltrpai ploughed so lightly tbst the roott are Brothers, Sons and Friends lie cient and economical system of pack­ ing and marketing the same. exposed to the sun to dry up. " - THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF STOCK, plus ATTEN­ (6) To encourage the formation of deep - robted ’ ‘ "’‘'• tortured hy the most shocking TION TO BUSINESS, plus ADVERTISING, INPAL- local dobs pledged to carry out de­ dismemherment, wounds and LIBLY PRODUCES PROFITS in good timei or in bad. velopment and improvement of nUl- possible, the Mature of the mining the depth of the ploughing, Without Advertising, inferior remilts only can be looked for. ity characteristics in poultry. (7) To promote and protect the i The best time to destroy weeds is burns. In every case the lives of :crests of the utility poultry pdasti within two or three days after the YOU HAVE THE STOCK. A year book of 220 pages it ps first pair of leaves has formed on the the wounded depend upon an un­ WE HAVE THE SPACE IN WHICH TO ADVERTISE. lisbed. also a register of membets. seedling plant. For friable soils the limited and constat replenishing with breeds kept aud various partiet^ use of the “weeder" is advised. ' lars as to strain, sod, etc. It con- Uins over 1,000 entries. Tradingr by for comparatively loose soils and of surgical and medical supplies. deposit, cheaper advertising, an preferred as a weed destroyer THE COWKHAN LEADER visory board, insurance, etc., or clayey land. The bulletin, after detailing results CALL IN, OR TELBPHONK 26 some of the benefits given to metot This supply depends upon YC)U. ben. of investigation by officers of the seed branch as far aa grain, grasses The following shows that assist­ The reporu of Isying eontesU and clover are affected, and bow the .jll of detailed information. speds are spread, and in what qnad- ance is within your power. Iasi contest, October, 1913, to Octo­ titles they have been found in diSer- Harwey Combe Martin. Esq.. R. H. ber, 1914,' consisted of fifty pens ol tiit localities covering four proviaees, • ~ -...... - . - Banister, Esq., and otbera, I will leU at six birds each. Trap neats were ns«d proceeds to describe the nature and nseful information was methods of eradication of one hun­ thereby ohuined. The first prise dred and fourteen varieties, of which was won by a pen of White Wyan- twenty-eight are classed "noxiooV* doties. which laid 1,339 eggs, value under the Order in Council of 1911 What Our RED GROSS can do £7 9s. 8d. ($34.30) in the twelve d by the Seed Control Act, months. This was just nine eggs in passed in the same year. PUBLIC AUCTION excess of the winning White Wyan ­ Bach of the twenty-eight and each e , in the dotte pen at the last Victoria contest for a wounded Soldier in Ail these six birds laid over 200 eggs, oni^ minutely t and the highest 23& The highest in­ act illnstratioo of weed and seed se- Market Building, Agricultural Grounds dividual score of the contest war compsnies esch description. The record for any contest, vis, 288 twenty-eight are Wild Oats, False Europe with your DUNCAN eggs, laid by a White Leghorn. wad Osts, Common Dsroel, Docks Prises are mainly given for the value (curled, clustered and bitter), Purple not the number oi eggs laid. OKkle, Campions (including White Eggs for Wounded. Cockle. Night Flowerinj: Cstchfly. money: A national egg collection has been and Bladder Campion), Cow Cockle, \ recently atarted in the Old Country False Flsx, Ball Mustard, IF YOU CANNOT OFFER TOUR OWN UFE TO PROTECT obuin gifts of eggs for the wad Carrot, Field Bindweed. Dover Wednesday, June 23rd YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR HOMELAND. GIVE YOUR Dodder. Blue Bur or SUcktecd. Blue wounded in hospitals la England and MONEY TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE RI8KINO AI«D France. This has been an onqualt Weed. Ribgrass, Ragweeds, (Oreav OnONO THEIR LIVES TO SAVE YOU AND YOURS. at 11 a.m. sharp fied success. Since the eoUeetion was Common and' Perennial), (ix-eye (he following goods: started (shortly before Christmas) Daisy. Canada Thistle. Chicory. Sow WHAT THE RED CROSS CAM DO FOR THE WOUMbED over two million eggs have been sent, TbUties (Perennisi or IHeld Sow, An­ AT THE FRONT. IF ONLY YOU WILL HELP THEM: Drawing Room and now about 325,000 eggs a week nual or Common. Spiny-leaved or 1 CMt irill buy iodfaw to firinfoct • wdoaA by means of this national egg Prickly Sow). 1 cent wm pw fof ewwgb gmwo for Xeepeia of Boca. keu or'are offered for tale Joeal)|^ and it occurs to him that our renders may be interested in the :ting bees, bsvmg :e in different parU Subscribe at either of the Kockert, ,^a*^w^_e_.^ Umpfc Wash Boiler. Tin, Groaiie, given out by'the live Aock brantt made its a... •e. relative to the practice of candling of this province, it u important for the welfare of the growing industry eggs. banks in Pantry He encloses a pamphlet (Pamphlet of hce-keeping that all bee-keepers Handsome Dinner Set. Combined Breakfast and Tea Set, 00 No. 3, Poultry Division, revised e(U- should exercise every possible care r- Stove. English Glass Ware, etc, etc. tion). entitled ‘The Csndling ^ prevest Hs spreading. Eggs", a copy of which he will be It also is advisable that all pertoi Outside pleated -to furnish free to any of our intending to buy bees should write i tnfascriben toother with one of the the Department of Agricnlture, Vic­ toria, or to one of the Provincial DUNCAN candling appliances' described therein. The latter maybe ntilited either for Apiary Inspe^on, (1) Mr. L Harris, Vernon, for the Okanagan Dist^j and get in touch with your Local commerciri pnipotes (2) Mr. P, Dnndai Todd. Victoria, Sub-Committee or Branch (Tommy, the Rod for the Lower Mainland and Vancou­ ver Island; (3) Mr. W. J. Sheppard, oraian poultrymen are elated be- Nelson, for the Kootenay and Bound­ „ s the Chinese egg b; *i have been Qothing ary distrieti; for information signed by the governor and are now where the danger exists law. Under the otw acts dealers I The inspectots will be prepared to using any kind of .imported eggv mfltt examine and report on Uvia it is oiiplay a card six feet long tnd one Let every maa wnan proposed to move from one district TSSM8 CASH. foot high hearing the words "Im­ to another. ported Eggs Used Here" in letters BIX inches high and one inch wMe. G. BAZETT, Resunrants and bakeries must dis- aM pi X# AUenOKBBS. DUNCAN. plcr cards of lisROar style but small- in dfanentloa. ^ day U esc dtjr too fete. June \7ih, WtS. - THE COWICHAW LEADER ly by the Cowichan Girl Guides, has been remitted to Victoria. It is of interest to note that the girU luc- I Women ’s Work and Interests ceeded in contributing the largest the list in Victoria RED CSOS8 WORK. Mrs.' Croft, Mrs. Burgess, Mr. D. for the “Khakr' fund for prisoners. Alexander, Mrt; R. S Henderson, Dnrio* the pa$t week work h«« WOMEN AND THE WAR. Mrs. Mutter, Mrs. McConoel, Mrs. Increasing Your Prosperity beep STTci) oat br the Red CroM So­ An English paper says that a good ciety in Dnacao, to the Cowiehu Kird, Mrs. E. Price. U.-s. Higbitead, Mra. BromUow. MUi SmHb, Mrs. A. deal ia heard about tbe nation's apa­ Lake work party' the Daagbtera of thy and incapacity regarding the war. the Empire,,Chemaintia, the St Fe- That it from those arm chair politi­ 'J'HE surest way to get rich is to iocreare the multiplier; which means for the mer­ ter’i Sewisfr Society, the King ’a cians who expect the conntry to ac­ chants of Cowichan—increase your customers rather than add to the lines you are Dauehtera, tbe Koksilab lehool work- complish in forty weeks all that it has , to* party, Somenoa working party, taken Germany forty years to or­ selling, or the stock yon are carrying. and tbe Qnarateban Lake working SCHOOL- WORK EXHIBIT. ganise and perfect. party at Mra. Hadwen’a, at well at to Today tbe ehOdren who bare been Hist Marie Corelli it not one of aereral iadividaal ladiet asd gentle* tangbt tince lait September in the these critics, but the bas aomething to say in The Navy about tbe levity Adding to the number of the lines or grow that doesn’t add many ena- A donation of two paira of flannel manual training and domeatic tcit departmenta at tbe pnbHc aehool, of our women, their craxy new fash­ yon sell or to the volume of tbe tomera each year. pyjamaa and a flladnel bed jacket ions. their dinners, dances, and bridge exhibiting their arork for the inapee- Customera most be added by pnr- from lira. Clogitcrun. fire bolta of parties. There is no doubt a good stock you carry ia not the anrcit flannelette, two bolu of cotton, aer­ tion of their pareote, the aehool trna- posefnl effort—by seeking them. tees and their frienda f deal of frivolity of this kind' going way to proeperity. Indeed, tbit bas eral grata of tafety pint and battona, on, but upon the whole women of Waiting for them to find you is folly. Tbe exhibition ia to be from 7 ruined thousands of men. hare come from the Vanconrer It- all classes, from the Queen down to Seek them by the newspaper adver- land headqnarteri in Victoria, and it 9 o’clock tonight, and U open to all mtereated.i the factory girl, who works long The furer way ia to multiply cus­ tisiug. This is the only sure way it expected that a teeond large pack­ hours of overtime at cartridge-mak- tomers. No business can prosper ing cate will be aent oS tbit week. WOMEN’S INSTITUTE iftg or other work, have t>eeo not only to build up numbers. Twelre bolti bf bandage i material willing but eager to undertake any it on order and thonld be ready for duty that will assist in this great work thit week. It it reported that whh Mrs. Hayward in tbe chair, at bandagcf are not being tent forward the meeting of the Women’s Insti­ ) some women pleasuring and To the Merchants of Cowichan qnickly enongh to meet tbe demand. tute held on Tuesday afternoon of love of finery come before everything According to an unofficial letter tacka bat week. Mrs. Maguire reported else, but they are comparatively few. bad been torn ap in tome placet that the Institute now has one hun­ andwðer it is sick nursing, charit­ make bandpgea dred membera able work, or doing a man's job, the You can multiply your customers through a series of good advertisements in The According to the laieaTbooUet of Letters from tbe department raajorhy of women are only too ■ for work there b a grants to Women’! Inatitutea for ready to help in every way possible. Cowichan Leader. Ask us about the cost of advertising. qneat for aU tbe h------Dower abowa were aent to tbe King's ahiru and pyjamaa that can be aent. Danghtera, at was also the sugges ­ WOMEN MUNITION MAKERS Haadkercbiefa are men’a ordinary tions re cottage hospitals. Prises With the booksull girl, the mi1k- abe and are to be ready laundered. were offered to institutes showing the oman, the news girl, the lifi girl, These can be made of any soft, thin best percentage of attendances and the woman railway porter, and the The Nimble Penny Beats the Slow DoDar ■pnalin, hemmed. Dog biaeait taeka, for the best designed programmes for girl raestengcr, Londoneri are al­ angar and oatmeal tacka, and any the monthly meetings and for the ready famfliar. The Victoria Ex­ tbto 20-lb sack wOl make rery good best papers on certain subjecta change is now staffed entirely by onea It baa been nggetted that Letters of thanks were received women operators, who do night and ^la who bare jnat lenrned to aew from MUs Hadwen and Mra Hodd- work. Three tboosand six hun­ eonld make tbete rery well. tng for tbe Institute's letters of ap­ dred women have expressed a wish U’hen yon see an article that you need advertised at a price below its ordinary selling price There b a recpieat that aU old preciation of the good work they to be employed on armament work, linen aent tboold be well washed and bad done during the past year, and and by the middle of June tbe great­ you expect to get a bargain. Do you always get it? boiled: that all pyjamaa, n«htthirta, from Miss SavenhiU on her appoint­ er number of these will be maldog If you need Shoes, Furnishings or Clothing, and want to be sure of saving money visit our Bocka, etc, ahonld be bondered be­ ment to the Advisory Board. shells from the first to the tost pro- fore being sent A resolution from the Sbawnigan As the Agriealtnral Hall hat been Women’s Institute, tent for approval The firms now turning out shells let to tbe King'a Danghtera for tbrir to aU 6. C Inatitutet, taking tbe :e laying down machinery specially flower abow on tbe 30th inat the government to shorten the hours of to be <^eraeed by women. Tbe num­ work party wQl be held on Tbnraday, school children, and to include man­ ber of women employed in ammuni­ Jnly lit, nt 2 o’cloek. ual training and domes.tic icicnce in tion factories increases daily: in Bandage ronert bard been made .by the poblic sehoola was not approved clothing the soldiers | about four Mr. Elkington and Mr. Walker, and in its wording, but a retolutioa was thousand women are in tbe service of RETIRING SALE aereral gentlemen of tbe dbtrict are passed expresting ap­ You will not be disappointed. Betting tbdr meehanical powers to proval of the policy already adopted bear on ™kifig them. by tbe deparfment of fnrthering do- WOMEN PIONEERS. At tbe worfctog pvtim the men, to meitie tcience, manual training and Women are Uking the place of n far, bare been able to roll bandages agricultural science in tbe tebooli, in so many unexpected fields of la­ BOYS’ SCHOOL SHOES YOUTHS’ SCHOOL SHOES. mneb quicker riian tbe women. and also tbe principle of shortening bour that it is difficult to keep pace Box Kip Uppers and Solid Soles. Same as Boys ’. Sizes 11-13. Sale Price the boors of younger children in the with tbe various appointments. In COMINO FLOWER SHOW Regular to $3.00. Sale Price sMtooli. tbe bnhiing field several todies are $1.65 Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Mosket ' In tbe ditcustiott on this the duties of $1.85 hare rerr kindly conaentcd to ctme tbe feeling of most of tbe those M. F. H. who have left for the MEN’S UNDERWEAR. to Dnncan B tbe 30th bat to jodge mothers present that tbe school' front. MEN’S UMBRELLAS Penman’s 95. Sale Price, per garment boors in tbe months of March and the flowen It the King ’s Danghtera' The Danish Parliament bu abol­ 40 per cent Discount abow. October might weU be reduced to ished sex privileges, and women 90c At the toft show there was a.diffi- tbe heoia during tbe winter schedule, twenty-five will in future vote equally MEN’S TWEED AND WORSTED StHTS, cnlty to getting tbe flowert in place Le.. from 9:30 am. to 3 pm., with with men; they may abo become MEN’S SHIRTS an hour’s recess at noon and fifteen Regular Price to $20.00. Sale Price in time for the judging and the com­ ibers of the Rigsdag. Western One lot aU $1.50 Regular Price. Must go at mittee eapeeially atk exhibitors to ar­ minotea dering the morning setaion. Australia has women magistrates. $11.00 range their flowera as mueh as pos­ Mrs. Maguire reported that the In- Tbe War Office has appointed a 75c sible on tbe day before the show. stitote had given up, tbe room in woman recruiting officer at Chester. MEN’S 10-in. and 12-in. HIGH BOOTS The cooler weather for the tost which the North Cowichan Lending Hitherto men only have been em­ fortnight baa held the rosea back a Library is kept owing to tbe expense ployed (n music engraving, but as an Regular Price to $7.00. Sale Price bit so that from ML but the earliest and ia asking the Agricnltural Society outcome of the war. women i $3.95 gardens there should be an excellent to rednee tbe rent of the remaining entering this Inerative field. $5.00 showing. Sweet peas are just begin ­ room. Germans were tbe principal music MEN'S PURE GUM BOOTS ning to bloom* now and ahonld gire Fifteen books belonging to the engravers, and they employed wom­ MEN’S STRAW HATS Government travelling library have FIRST QUALITY KNEE BOOTS la fair showing by the 30th. Thou^ en, as also did the French. Regular $1.75. Sale Price there is no especial class for delpfain- not been returned and an urgent re­ Regular $4.50. Sale Price mms they are just beginning to make quest was made to the members to $1.10 a splendid showing, and are this year look over their shelves and return $3.15 being grown to many varieties in .these books at the earliest date aa- Nobles^ Oblige STORM KING, three- .Regular $1.00. Sale Price tbe gardens of tbe district There otherwiae the Institnie must pay for Segulai Price $6.00; baa never been a better year for aum- them. Owing to the difficulty in get ­ 60c______mer vegetables.. So, aU things con- ting these books returned, and aa no Record of the Untitled H15 aidered, tbe flowera this year should one is in charge at tbe room, the GIRLS’, and LITTLE GENT’S BOOTS, make an aftracrive ahosring. The Institute will not ask tbe Govern­ NoWity MEN’S FELT HATS Sizes 8-105L Regular Price to $2.00. Watch ment for another supply. The books catalogue provides for the perion It has been said that the upper and Up to $3.50 and $4.00. Sale Price our -windows for this lot Sale Price belonging to tbe Cowichan lending who growl only a few of each sort lower classes, in the British Isles have library urn still avaiUble for use. of flowers. Ta ctoisei L L 3 and « rallied in stronger numbers to the call $1.50 $1.15 Mrs. Hayward was appointed dele­ the large grower may show his com- of the country than have the members gate to a district conference of Wom­ pleu colleetiona. and if be does of the middle classes. There is never en's Institutes for Vancouver Island, he is debarred from abowtng a casualty list published that does to be held in Victoria IbOut tbe end claaiea 12, 13, 14. and 15. in order to contain the name of some killed If you don’t see what you want advertised here, come and pay us a visit anyway. VVe have of August give tbe analler g^ena a c wounded soldier of noble family, but many more just as big bargains. ^ Claaaea S to n are open to Ml. I| was decided to adjourn until the lists as cabled to this country do 'September. Any goods in our store sent to anv -tsidc towns. Free of Charge. The following ladies aad gentle ­ not, as a rale, mention those members men have contributed to the prixesi PRISONER’S FUND. of an aristocracy that holds itself Mrs. 1 M. Palmer, tbq Rev. F. L above even that which is distinguished Stepbentou. Mrs. Leather, .Mrs. Bui- A further *1.10 has c by titles, namely, the old unUtled no­ len. Mrs. Geobegan, Mrs. Estridge, the preeeeda of the stall held recent- bility of the BriHah Isles. To most^of us here their names meaning, and prob- Northwestern Creamery, Ltd. Snt tbe fact i« to be borne In mind Kibler & Christmas that- there are in England scores of Victoria, B.C. famflies aa prond of the' fact that head of the house, for the time being, aud their caaile figures prominently and ye described in old they are without titles as many a ^has______alvrayi...... refused a heridhary title to tbe war between King and Parlia- heraldic phraseology "a cock to ' ...... - - - ...... - - <-■- -.r-.A.” ,,iA duke U of hit ancient lineage. These and inatead of bring called Lord Dan- n . . . are the old country famOica of Eng ­ by. M any Scrope might have been of 160 days. | moreland long before the Norman land, asd no class in the community called for hondreda of years, after the lo tbe past nine centuries Dunster Conqueat. has made greater lacrifiees to propor­ ancestral home in Yorkshire, he has Cattle bas been to poMession of oo1y| The Townleys of Townley, in Lan- tion to numbers in the present war. preferred to be called Mr. Scrope. two families, the de Mohuns, who eashire. are another ancient and un- Does TMt Msi You? Danby Hall, by the way, has been reigned from 1066 to 1350, and the tided famUy in which the profession Hw Yackabire Scropea. m. pda, « Id-, pdd lor nmatot dido Ao Id Jdioorp. One of the fismilies that hat already in the possession of the Seropes for Luttrella. of arms is a tradition. Townley Hall made sacrifice to the war is that of the past four hundred years. Another ancient house is that of has passed in unbroken possession to Scrape, of Yotksfaire, now beaded by Back to Alfred. the SneySs, of Keele Hall, Stafford- no fewer than thirty-six owners from Gervaae Scrope. This famil though The chief of another grand old Eng- shire, who trace tLeir descent from the time of Alfred the Great. They untitled, has fumUhed to tht nation lisli family is Col Alexander Fownes Aedwyn, daaghter and heiress of are a Doled Catholic famfly, and it ia five Archbishops, two Lord High Luttrdl. who is now serving in France Aetbelred. tost King of Mercia, and said that the lamp burning before the The Luttrella have been territorial grandfather of King Alfred the Great altar in the private chapel has not tori Chancellors, five Knights of the Gar­ ter, severM earls and tweqty barons. raagnatea in the weit -of England The present bead o( this venerable been extinguished for one thousand Three of them'have been tnunertal- since the days of the Norman Con- house ia Col, Ralph Sneyi snd be, years. ised by Shakespeare. quest, and they, like the Scrapes, too, u to France with hii regiment | The Le Stranges, though untitled In the days of Edward the Confes­ have disdained titles. as are several otber members of bit as far as the head of the house it Ship Us Your Cream sor the Seropes were reckoned one of The LuttreUs first came into prom- farnHy. tbe oldest families to the realm, and. inenee to tbe reign of Richard the, For a Tbowand Yea though .to tbe cosrse of the centuries They have provided, The Stricktonda of V' ' PAYMENTS PROMPTLY members of thii « Tor tbe ser-'also represented upon tbe firing s received peeragu and other tiDea, tbe vice of the country in peace and war. have borne for more than one Ibona- century. —Toronto Mail and Expreaa. t9i5. T^E COWTCHAW IDnngnnnirnnntinnnnnnnir Ncw-VUud. Uri. Bir- Disteiet -lews I HI[inrrrrrrnnnnntninmTTrTriiit? comer. Mid «tock would follow c«irei ' as witncfi !)■> fence broken down J.H.Wbittoinc& Co. MAPLE BAY ciUing itill eooght Summertime Is The fir« church or «««on room ,^cfinHioa of a legal fence on «he towniite u a^oni to be bndL. Ownertftip of tOMto. HHherto services have beei^ hfld by., coostable DUNCANf V. L the rector of St Peter's, Quatnicfau. impoood cattle if they were at Mrs. Springett ’a Now a site, ^ complainant's property. He ^ — , 166 by U2, has been purehased on ,,„„jhed into a statement that the Real Estate, Insurance the main road at the top of U.e bDl none of the roads Mr. Aitken's and on it a buUd- „„ subdivisions. He pMd ing is to be erected forthwith. ,(>,d eve, which he SaladTime KOK5ILAH IB*ve the public passage and had We have everything necessary for the making'of Salads, and there is nothing better A most enjoyable event took place right to the pasture, Financial Agents last Thursday when the Rev. and Mrs. 1 Mr. Bazeit demurred. Mr. Anlee- for warm, weather. Try' some of these. ^ ; C R. Sing were tendered a fareweU tell Jones said the goveramMt t^k Cann^ Salmon..* Canned Fruits Duncan Methodisla A picnii the imnk road in bis term. n the Methodist Indian Mission He took pains to find out bow the municipality stood when that was Honey to loan on done. The road is the property of the municipality. - Tihe reeve held that there cotdd HBUtetiw E—SSS not be two registered owners ttf'ooe duets, and other itema' There pie* of property. The topic ewnag ) the road through the Indian re- mm msm large attendance and Mr, and Mrs. Hre. life, Aeddest and Sing were given a sincere demonstra­ •rve. Mr. Anketell Jones aaid^e AitooubUe Insorance tion of the regard in which they »d there was the property of Oi held here. Mr. Birkett said a genet J att^ was being made to make the*t||ftd N. COWICHAN CATTLE "too citified." The resolutions were ir^ .■ A n .then put, Mr. Anketell Jones' pri- Mosuod Salad D,..aing„po, bot . “a. MaU Vioogar, por bob ISO «.d 25c Wo b.v'o ovoirtbing io .bo Uno of Froab FwlB and VogOtabloa in so«oo; Hoad ICE! lOT! ICE! The fixed charges of the municipal-; p - Lettoco, Spring Onion,. Young BooU. Ca^t,. Turnipi Green Poaa, Now Polatoe., Mint. iiy were between $6,000 and $7,000,1 ^ w. . , Parsley, Green Gooseberries, Red Cuirants. Rhubarb, Local Cherries, Strawberries. TheCowichan Meat Market Public Market Local Cucumber! and Black Currants exptttted thU week. n supply you with ice in done if the $10,000 revenue from un­ any quantity. improved land was lost? As loiTg as - Local Greenhouse Tomatoes, now 20c per Ib Local CauUfiojrers, very fine ones. 20c and 2Se Deliverylfree. he was in the council he was going A Good Demand For to insist on the bylaw being repealed. Talephoiae IS. He advened to Mr. Jaynes as a ven- Clotted Cream ' dor of unbreakable fence and thought G. B.'mAIMS that the S. P. C. A. might help in There was a good sale for berries I dealing with Indian cattle. and clotted cream at the market last Preserving , Hr. Horace Davy said that pre? Saturday, vendors of the latter hav- vious to the passing of the pound ,ing itinsufficient to meet the demand, the beef sold jWhii. strawberries were offered in R. Nelson sqppHes. , ' ______I tuberculosis until Ontario cattle per crate, For,r jam m^gm 16-tb tubs . Phone 48 or 147 for Prompt Soyice. CARPENTER ft CONTRACTOK ij^ponti. were told for $1$1.00 ^ A .. ______Mr. David Evins recalled the early Lamb was the only meat on the Plana and Spedffeaffmfnndibod. He and others conid not have market and it tpcedUy disappeared at stayed had they been enable to nm|25c per poiiilind. A dressed Bel^ their cattle in the bush. Now like. 1,^,8 offered at 60 centa. others he had got to that he could dressed poultry, ready for the 'do without it. _ (oven, is well maintained. BAZETT, BELL CO, LTD. Screen doors and windows made and Value to Diapnte. Prices follow: fixed promptly. Prices reasonable., Cr. A. A. Herd said sincee.he bad' Meats and Rah. Twonioom-ShippingU?: General 48. i been in the country tlthere badid alwaysal, Chickens, dressed, per lb, 21-27Hc- Rural Detnery to all puts of Uw DWrieb _ been a pound bylaw t never one' Lamb. per Ib. 2Sc. Times werei CUms. per bag. 25c. good when the’bylaw was passed Cod, per lb, 8c. For Express here. It was always a matter of give! Floundera, per lb, 8e. and lake. He had heard argnmenu' Egga and Blitter. Tomitoc*. per Ib. 12M-2Sc gbt and llMvy Teaming.' Oec concerning waste feed on the roads, Driring Uotset Butter, per Ib. 3S-40c. Turnips (young), per bnneb, 10c and danger from fire, but tbe greatest Cream, per plot. 25e. ■“ b Pnrim. wa: the Indian cattle question. They Devonshire cream, per pint, 25c. Cherries, per Ib. 8-lOc . Automobiles liad had difficulty in winning out be­ Devonshire Cream, per H-Ib, 20e. Gooseberries, per Jb, 8c . . fore and- it would be serious if it Gooseberries, per box, 10c A Word to Eggs, per do*, 225<-2Sc. Strawberries, per box, 8'12ric- The Central Livery **He and h*is brother had been "road Eggs, small, per do*, 20c Egg*, cracked, per do*, ISc farmers" Their cows ran out but For PfatBttog. Stable Cheese. Bondon, per^ H'lh, 10c it was an open question whether this Brussels SprontA per 100.75c J. MABSa. PBOP. was not offset by the time it took VentahlM. Cauliflowers, per bdle, Z5-50c Cucumbers, toch, 5-lOc the Wise hunting these eowa Apples, per lb. 20c Respecting the value of the feed in Asparagus, per bdle, JOc Geraniums, each. 15c dispute he asserted...that tbe gruing Asparagus Rale, per bdle, 10 c Harrows. 3 for 10c The City of Duncau Power Houac. which is emiiM Foutdes, per Ib, 2Mc wltti tbe latest typt of prime movers, in-tbe shape of alo on freerange__ „- was not what it Cabbage, each, 5-lOc Strathcona Feed on the roads was dusty and in Carrots (young), per bnneh, 5c Sage roots, each, lOc speed Diesel "eug^ is boaUy engaged day and night the woods it waa not sp good Cauliflower, each, 7J6-25C -.r Tomatoes, per doa, 2Sc tnndng tht energy ofoU into eleetrie power, and it ia tc I Tomatoes, per tOO, $2J043.00; formerly. Leeks, per bnneh, 7X-10c interest of ratqmyers, whom csphil is suakin ^ ma^ Hotel Lettuce, per bnneh, 2j4c . Cat Flowan. to know that a li^e supph? of electricity ih iom Mr. G. Bradley Dyne Mid_be had Lettuce Cos, per bunch. 7yit. Roses, per do*, 20c • never heard of the. ‘ ' Mint, per bunch, 5c Caraflo^ers, per buuch. Sc fair way was to put the matter to Mnshrooms, per box. ISc . Sweet Wniiaiu.' per baoeb, 10c Light, Heat and ballot of the whole district. , Six Parslejk per bnoeh. 5c months' residents had no right Peas, green, per 3 Ibe 25c Bread, per loaf. 10c TERMS MODERATE. vote. PoUtoet, per bag. $1.25. Boner, per comb, 25c Power Potatoes, per Ib.. 2c SPECIAL WEEKLY SATES Mr. Anketell Jones said he bad Hon^.'per bottle, 35-50c meant by reeidenU. people who did Potatoes, new, per B>., Sc InCiDou cheese, per jar, 10-25c is araOable at all hours at very moderate rates.. not own their houses, bnt who lived RadUhee per boneb. Sc Loga sberry Jan, per pint, 2Sc Rhubarb, field, per Ib, 3c. One electric nnit, cosdog 12 cents, will keep fear I in .he district. There were many ps lit for ten houra. and keep a 6-Ib iron I such at Cbemainus. They ahould have Sage per bunch. Sc gawAln power lanqts ------— woridng heat for two hours, at any timerime of day «^ aome consideration. Spring Oniotu, per bunch, 5c Pound Bylaw except______JieamaUhthe small hours...... between 4 and 8 sjb., and d(iriii$< Bead The Leailer . Cr. Palmer quoted South Austra- Spinach, per bunch, 5c liao conditioiu. Mr. R. B. Halbed Spinage Beet, per bnneh 5c day OB Sundays. ' Port Albemi andNight

, Maianders RING UP — Port Alberul is having its o*.n' WHAT IS HAPPENING EVERY DAY trouble* anent the pound bylaw and epforcemnL Tbe city councU Duncan Electrical Dept 'Scently rtsblved to take proceeding* agatost all owaera who allow animals D. CAMERON, Btoctridan. to ma at large during the uighl Uac In reference to this aAocal rhyme ­ ster send* the foUowing to the Port A Phone Order Albemi News. It may be of « in North Cowlchan at'this jemetnre. Qulom..: Plmc, CaWA 8l'« ■»« ««• Vo-* ’* Tbe RetntB'Of My Neifhbour’a Cow. Do You Intend Building Halo, I. Ua. Hipy S? 1 (The Pound Bylaw baa been McKay ’s Spednl Scotch at $1,25 a bottle r trtiat their war price waa—$1J0 a bottle am^). , than buy it at the hotel because I remei A year or more ha* passed away and you had only Since last I wrote about it. to^laoor^. I thought the cow had gen* to stay Lombdr and labour ere down ia price—better bniU NOW. One Price A Fair Price In fact I did not doubt it. Derigu nod ettUmtet fanflahed. Victoria Price My heart was feeling blithe and gay Well was my garden doing. and 1 know I dull alwaya be able to buy at the saou price from you But DOW 1 find that every day Bidldi.,! Co-y^ They loose four-legged rum. It Will Never bo Up—War or No War Tis true the cow keeps better hours And stays at home at night, ' But how can dahlias and snsflowen Roch s Family Wine and Spirit House Thrive by electric light? I DUNCAN COAL, D^PQ Front Street, DnseaB, B.a All*, 'til only worms and wcMs OpmtiU 11p.m. That have noct^ habits, .. So 1 shall tell my pUnts find seeds I And start to kccpfdg rabb^ ] p.o.n>i. UORTICUS iCJlim \