ummerianö &etoteto DEVOTED TO THE.INTERESTS OF SUMMERLAND, PEACHLAND AND N ARAM ATA' Vol. 8, No. 5. Whole No. 370. SUMMERLAND, B.C., SEPTEMBER 3, 1915. $2.00, pay/ ^ in advance. Council Retains Solicitor Fruit Shippers Will Finish New Tax Sale ort Tuesday To Fight Law Suit Should Note Th.s Lne In November ^ Fruit Package Mast Show Variety Hope-Coqaihalla Section Of The And Grade Of Contents. Also Kettle Valley Railway Near- Case Will Be Heard In Summerland. Name & Address Of Packer. ing Completion. Much Land Passes To Municipality. uT™^ I™* £ Z Construction on the Hope-Coqui- There were-possibly a dozen in The serving of a writ ón the Mun• the cellar under his' house lately calledon the Review this week.to; ta section Kettle Valley! attendance at the Council Chamber For those who found the heat of icipal authorities last Friday by from a leaky flume. About two feet ask this paper to make clear some approaching the Rfi at 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning, ast week-end unusually oppressive, of water had found its way in and Messrs Clayton & : Abercrombie, provisions of the '.'Fruit" f^^JJ final Btagw. The line is expected when Collector F. J. Nixon; com• with the added discomfort of so caused the concrete walls to cave and Sale Act" that are not being Barristers, of Penticton, on behalf to be completed by the middle of I menced the sale of lands by public much smoke in the air, there in. Coun. Johnston pointed out complied^with by ..some local fruit 1 of their client,- -T. J. McAlpine, November, according to the latest auction, on which rates' and taxes should have been cooling thought- in this connection how the flumes shippers. Small express shippers,; .was the occasion of a special ses• reports. -.Track is being laid, and have become delinquent. He read in the knowledge that just about seemed liable to leak more than us• he says, are the worst offenders with sion of the Council on Tuesday the system of snowsheds designed first the statutory declaration of the same time there were , frosts morning this week, to consider ual at this time of year, there be• heir peaches. It may riot be gener• to protect the tracks is,, almost fin• in different parts of the prairies. the sale as advertised, and/ after• p ing little sedimerit in the water ally known just what is requi red of what steps should be taken in the ished. wards the conditions of the sale. oints in Manitoba and Saskatche• com i ng from the creeks, and what the packer and shipper. matter, ; and the appointment of a The completion of the Kettle Val• Replying to a question, he said the wan had as much as three, four sediment was in the joints of the Section 320 of the Act requires arid five degrees of frost recorded, legal representative to handle thè ley Railway from Hope to Coquihal- Council had no power to prevent flumes was getting washed out. hat the person who owns the fruit with formations of ice three-quar• case óf the Municipality.. The la Summit will open up a new route bidding on property belonging to The Board of Works was to go to. when it is packed in closed barrels ters of an inch thick. ' meeting was held at 9 a.m., the to the Coast for both the C. P.R; and men now bii.war service, but if no the spot and look into the.-matter or boxes must mark plainly on each Reeve and a full Board being pres• the G.N.R.' At present a service is bids were goffered, such properties immediately. .i< package:— ent. being operated.by the K.V.R. in would pass irito the- hands of the . W. J. Beattie was also before the i 1. His name and post office ad• conjunction .with the C.P.R. from Municipality alohgiwith any other "Tag Day" Wholly Counci 1 with a.. vi gorous. complaint 1 A total sum of $765.00 is dress, preceded by the words Midway, via Merritt and the Nic• lots which/likewise called forth no of irrigation water shortage in his claimed by Mr McAlpine' for 'Packed by". ola Valley branch, to Spence's bids. A Success. damage to his residential property section of Siwash Flat. He claim• 2. The name of the variety of Bridge.. Under the terms of a joint A number of propeties advertised '. •', *' '•- •' ' ".'(''•• - V " ' '''' - .' '"'" .•;'''...-•.. ' ' - at the corner of Beach Avenue ed that every year his district was the fruit. agreement between the Kettle Val• promised relief, but' what was done v were not offered for sale, having Citizens Continue Liberal Support and Fourteenth Street, alleged to 3 The grade of the. fruit, whe- ley and the Great Northern theCoq- did not amount to anything. He been redeemed in the meantime. To Cause Of Empire. result from a defective water pipe ther it is "Fancy;" "No. 1," uihalla portion of the new Hope The. seven bids made: during the along the latter thoroughfare. also thought that -what water there Mountain route will be used by the 'No. 2," or "No. 3." course of the sale were not for large One hundred and sixty-eight dol• The necessary notice of dispute re• was avai lable was not distributed latter road ' as well. -At Hope the If he marks the package amounts, the highest being $83.39, lars has been forwarded' from* here pudiating the claim, and announ• as. evenly as it might be. The G.N.R. will link up with the Can 'Fancy," the fruit must be prac• this. being the amount owing on as à contribution in aid of the 5th cing the intention of tfte Council Reeve and Council were unanimous adian Northern Pacific Railway, and in the opinion that improvements tically perfect, as described in sec• the College Gymnasium/property. General Hospital, C.E.F.tp be es• to contest the suit,; will.;, be for• 1 over that company's lines run into tion 321 (b) (i). W. C. Kelley bid this in. W. J. tablished "somewhere in France" needed to be effected in that- dis Vancouver; The completion of the warded forthwith: By. a resolu• On reading subsections (b) (i) Gibbons made "upset'', price;bids for the purpose, of caring for our trict. Mr Beattie's complaint pro• line <; will furnish the G';N;R. with tion put through, Mr.A. O. Coch• carefully, it wi 11 be seen that the on four small lots in-District Lots wounded soldiers. This sum is the voked a general discussion on the a direct route through the Bound rane, of the legal firm of Billings packer should aim in packing grade 454 and 673; amounting in all to result of the Tag Day held last Sat• subject, and the Clerk made the ary, Similkameen districts, and the & Cochrane, Vernon, was entrust• No. 1 to discard every injured' or $13.50. A. B. Williams offered urday by the ladies df the Ambu• suggestion that if it were possible Interior, to Vancouver. ed with the conduct of the Council's defective fruit, and not to delib the outstanding amount of $30.19 lance League? with which result case. The Reeve was given the the old Dunsdon dam should be re The Kettle Valley Railway will placed, to allow the storage of more; erately include tenner cent, of in on lots 2 and 3, Block 5, D. L. 455, the ladies are well pleased. Booths power to authorize a trip to Vernon 1 join the C.P.R; main line near the water on Eneas Creek . Coun. erior• specimens. ^ This margin is and C. Napier Higgin was the.re• were set up early in the morning of someone to confer with Mr Coch• meant to make the work of grading station of Hope, on the north side maining bidder with- $25.26 on;D at a number of Convenient points rane on the case,: if this isnecessary. Johnston was of the opinion, that if of the Fraser River. A bridge has the; money could possibly be^ found, easier and more rapid than if ab Clark's; Balcomo property, the por• throughout;the district, and these The case will be tried ; in Summer- been; built across the river and con. improvements should certainly be solute perfection ; were exacted/ tion above the ditch: were: augmented by autos which; „ land in due course.. hecting trackshave vbeen "> laid in carried .but;; while Counv Simpson Ten per cent, is presumed to be the The purchasers were allowed till called: at homes in the 'outlying, . With this important item of bus-: margin within, which an honest readiness for the inauguration of 6 o'clock on the same day to make sections as well as by some good . suggested .that there might be some service when•" the Hope-Coquihalla iness placed on its proper course, men in thatsection who would con packer, can do rapid work, using their payments, and the sale was work : done by Boy Scouts: Thev the Council turned its attention for every endeavor to make each speci section has been finished. The Ok• ad j ourned till the- following morn• ladies of the Naramata Branch also; tribute labor, or possibly cash; to anagan Valley and (the "districts a short time to matters of lesser be applied on future taxes, ena men conform: to the general stan• ing, when.any lands on. which the did'good work; The- amount col-. dard for the grade. served by the K.V. will' be afford payments offered had not been made , A letter from Engineer.