The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 1

Police Court Blotter For operating a car without the owner consent, a driver was hned $25 and costs; for driving without current license plates the same man was assessed $10. Two stolen bicycles recovered from two Indian youths; one given suspended sentence, the other a term in Boys' Industrial School. One driver failed to produce his license on the scene of an accident. Fine $5 and costs. Two drunks and disorderlies.

stration at the Canadian National crowd estimated at 500 shouted and waved goodbye to ten Chilli Joyce Watson. No hard surfacing of the Chilli wack Hope section of the Trans Canada highway is planned this year, according to information released Monday by Hon. F. M. Mac Pherson, minister of public works.

The work is distributed in small stretches over the southern half of the province from Vancouver depot as Sunday afternoon when a Is)and to ne southern interior. Black topping will be done only on roads already prepared. Altogeth wack men and women who boarded er fifty.six mUes of road will be special train for Montreal route to Vimy. Hilarious but well ordered, the huge crowd bantered and joked easily and happily, exchanged surfaced road since last year, the reminiscences, asKeu muse depart i minister placated north side inter ing to remember them to the ests with one flush coat on top of mademoiselle from Armentieres The Legion band serenaded departing veterans and relatives. Not a a better understanding of the prob I few of the mass of well wishers lems of the West.

Mr. Brockington were sorry that they had not made has the reputation of being the best after dinner speaker in America, and will be the speaker at the annual dinner of the American Law Society this year. Reply was made at these functions by President C. A. Barber, of the Newspaper Association.

Mr. Barber also presided at a dinner given by the Weekly Newspapermen in the Fort Garry Hotel Friday evening, at which representatives of host organizations were present. The convention was well attended by publishers throughout Canada, the farthest east being Curling, New Foundland, and farthest west, Duncan, Vancouver Island. Temperatures at Winnipeg during the convention reached an all time high, Saturday's official reading being 108. Winnipeg newspapers published extensive reports of convention proceedings, and many photographs.

Following are editorial references: The Free Press. They are here from all over Canada, members of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers' Association, editors who have been with the "sheet" for most of their lives; editors who have inherited "the editors from the North who have taken in the type with the mining machinery. Press people are always welcomed in any community which is willing i share its excellencies with the re of the world, and certainly the weeklies' representatives may be assured that Winnipeg has reservations in its greeting. Especially is this true of their fellow newspaper workers. Dailies are sometimes of the opinion that getting out a weekly must be very simple matter; they think this before they are allowed to know a few of the troubles that attend the job.

But the weeklies of Canada, whatever the difficulties, have succeeded in establishing themselves and are not an adjunct in the journalistic field, but a separate and well developed section. The best among them are very good indeed, and, far from being inadequate imitations of the metropolitan press, have a distinction and character of their own, a character which comes of "cultivating their own garden." They do the job all the better because at their conventions thoy step outside to see the rest of Canada. May their stay here be a pleasure to them personally and a profit to them professionally! The Tribune. Winnipeg this week welcomes the members of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, whose convention opens Thursday. Weekly editors from all over the Dominion are meeting here to discuss the good and welfare of this important section of journalism.

People living in the cities and towns in which daily newspapers are accepted as a matter of course are likely to overlook the importance of the service which the weekly newspaper renders in a country such as Canada with its vast rural areas. In spite of increasing interest which everyone takes these days in national and international affairs, the greater portion of our attention is still necessarily concentrated on our own local affairs. It is right that it should be so. We are all influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by our environment. If the community in which we live is well run we respond by taking pride in it, and by trying to make it still better.

An honest, well conducted weekly newspaper can do more than any other single agency in building up local pride and a spirit of service in its community. The weekly press of Canada takes second place to none in this respect. Long may it thrive. arrangements to go on the trip. Leaving aboard the train were Mrs.

S. F. Boucher, Mrs. George Bryant, Mr. and Mrs.

J. V. Logan, Mrs. W. McGrath, Miss Christine Robbins, Mr.

and Mrs. Nelson Johnston, Mr. Bruce Gleig. Music Pupils Successful Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London, as announced by the examiners, William Alwyn, professor of the Royal Academy of Music, and Lloyd Powell, professor of the Royal College of Music: Singing Grade IV (Lower) Honorable! Mention Mollie George. Grade I Primary Pass Uldeane i Marie Brett, Shirley streeier.

Pianoforte Grade VIII (Final) Pass Ruth Arnold. Grade VI (Intermediate) Pass Passed practical only; theory to be completed later, Julia Doreen Moss. Grade IV (Lower) Pass Marion Alice Caine. Grade IV (Grammar of Music) hard surfaced this year as against 288 miles last year. With voters on the south side of the Fraser satisfied with a hard last year's surfacing on the eight mile stretch between Deroche and Dewdney; between Deroche and Harrison Mills (six miles) a new double spray coat.

This completes a paved road between Vancouver and Harrison Mills, leaves unpaved the tortuous 13 mile section over the mountain to Agassiz. Only hard surfacing between this point and Kamloops is five miles of mulching near Spences Bridge, two miles at Savona. The remainder is to be done in the Okanagan, the Kootenays and on Vancouver Island. Interesting is the statement of expenditures by the public works department of British Columbia. Relative to the number of miles.

this district received the second mw I highest appropriation. With 138 Royal SchOOlS Ot MUSIC miles in the riding, the department til sPent $120,795 or an average of AnnOUllCe AlinUal a mile. Highest was New i Westminster with an appropriation Examination ReSUltS of $5000 per mile. Lowest was i Cariboo with $00 per mile. Officials of the department of Following is a complete list of i public works hope to begin British the successful candidates from i Columbia's new road program next Chilliwack and Sardis in the annual week.

They expect approval of examinations of the Associated their road plans from the federal government during the next few days and immediately it is received they will call for tenders for the major contracts. In the meantime work to be done by day labor will be started. Local Man Watches Stars Grade III (Transitional I Honor 1 nipucantlv snrnHsed hv able Mention Margaret Mortison, thg manners and mpthods of movie Clarinda Stevenson. Pass Mary ami W. McDonald.

Grade I (Primary) Honorable Mention Marie Anne Dafoe. Preliminary Pianoforte Uldeane Marie Brett. Over Skyline Trail to Princeton R. G. Philipson Impressed By Filming Pictures at play in Revelstoke," reported R.

G. Philipson after a leisurely month's trip to the Interior. "They do not behave in the least as they are usually pictured," he states. They are mannerly and unassuming; quiet and efficient. Mr.

Philipson was surprised at the painstaking care with which small shots are made. An ardent ama A party of Chilliwack hikers, teur photographer, he attached Miss Pearl Amos, Miss Verna Gil i himself to one of the cameramen landers, Henry Creasey, Ronnie I who took him out to the point West, and Allan Minter made the where a scene was being filmed, trip over the Skyline Trail from "They took a good part of a day Hope to Princeton last week. doing one 'shot' that would occupy The first three returned by train, i about three seconds before your but Messrs. West and Minter are 1 eyes. A mistake would be made, remaining for an additional week's they would rehearse it, then go vacation there.

Compulsory Milk Pool Possible Under New Law There can be no pooling of the returns from the sale of Fraser Valley milk, as suggested by the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association, it was stated at the department of agriculture, Victoria, on Tuesday, following conferences between marketing officials and representatives of the association. Pooling, long the objective of the co operative dairymen, is not possible under the new Provincial Marketing Act, it was explained. But when the new marketing scheme is set up in the dairy industry shortly, it will be possible, if a single agency is established, through it before the camera." The performance was repeated several times before directors thought it was good enough. Mr. Philipson was also interested in the street of frame "false front" buildings.

They are done, he says, in close imitation of old saloons, stores and hotels, and are remarkably like the originals. No movie fan, Mr. Philipson had any difficulty in recognizing Richard Arlen and others taking part in the picture. The film is being produced by the British Gaumont Company in collaboration with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Federated Shippers To Help Growers The Federated Shippers Association is to co operate to pay each producer the same with the growers in their efforts to amount per pound butterfat and to control marketing.

This was the allow him a fixed quota of the fluid decision at the meeting of the market. shippers held in Kelowna recently. With this information represent A committee consisting of E. J. atives of the co operative associa Chambers, J.

E. Montague and A. tion went home to consider their C. Lander was named to have a future position. The provincial share in the preparation of any marketing board is ready to estab plan for controlled marketing lish a marketing scheme in the which may be devised by the B.

C. valley, but it must be proposed by F. G. A. and the Tree Fruit Board, the Lower Mainland Dairy Board, It was explained that the grow not by any one section of the pro ers' committee and the board plan ducers.

to establish a voluntary cartel, with It was learned that independent I the Tree Fruit Board doing the dairy interests, now operating i clerical work, through their own agencies, are definitely opposed to the establish Sheep Judfje at Regimi mem VI Blllfcic uiim as long advocated by Hon. K. C. MacDonald, minister of agriculture. John D.

Rockefeller, became 97 years old Wednesday, proclaiming his "good condition of health simply a miracle" and hoping he will live to be 100. Leonard Higginson, well known purebred sheep breeder of Sardis, will be judge of the sheep section of Regina Fair which starts next Monday. Professor H. M. King, University of B.

is attending the Calgary Stampede as judge of the Jersey and Holstein dairy cattle section. Statement to the Public Mr. Brett and Mr. Menties desire to make the following announcement in reseet to the standing of their daughters, I'rineess Belva and Princess Jean, in the recent Chilliwack Cherry Carnival Queen Contest: Owing to the unfortunate errors which have occurred in the counting of the votes in Ihe 'recent queen contest, we believe that the fairest way out of the diflieulty which has occurred is in the agreement which has been reached between Princess lielva and Princess Jean in respect to the matter at issue which agreement is entirely satisfactory to the parents of each Princess. The Princesses have mutually agreed to adjust the difficulty caused by the errors in question by a division of the honors in the queen contest.

Princess Jean is agreeable that Princess lielva retain the honors us Queen of the Chilliwack Cherry Carnival, and Princess Belva desires that Princess Jean should stand for the honors in the contest for Miss British Columbia, which contest she will enter under the title of Miss Chilliwack. Due to erroneous checking and to a misunderstanding owing to lack of regulations governing the contest, both Princesses have been placed in an unfortunate position. Twelve hundred votes were omitted from the ctfuiit of I'rineess Jean's tickets. The Carnival Committee failed to define definitely the rules of the contest or to issue any printed instructions resccting the sale of tickets, in consequence of which a question arose in resM'ct to the validity of the five dollar tickets sold. The validity of these tickets, in the absence of proper regulations rested upon the understanding of the sillers and upon the decision of the Carnival Committee.

So close was the competition between the Princesses after the error in counting I'rineess Jean's 1200 votes had bi en adjusted that the invalidation of these five dollar tickets would have placed her at the head of the contest. If, on the other hand, the tickets were accepted as valid, Princess Belva would remain Queen. As the Carnival Committee have failed to make any public announcement to clear this matter, we feel that In justice to the Princesses and to the public generally, an explanation should be made and we therefore make this statement on hclinlf of the Princesses. Both Princesses and those intimately associated with them fed that the arrangement which they have mutually agreed upon is the fairest to all concerned, and in announcing this decision to the public they hope that their friends and all those who have given them such generous support will accept this agreement as a final settlement of an unfortunate error. They thank all friends und supporters again for their generous help.

We both withdraw any statements publicly or privately made previous to this announcement. EARL BKETT, IKED A. MKNZIKS. Statement to the Public A. I A.

At a meeting of the sponsors of the Auntie Marion Story Club, held Tuesday afternoon, it was learned that Miss Belva Brett, the "Children's Princess," and Queen of the Chilliwack Cherry Carnival, had on Saturday last returned her crown and robe to the Carnival Committee. With these she sent the following letter: Chilliwack, B.C., July 11, lHSd. II. I). Hipwell, President, The Chilliwack Cherry Carnival Committee.

Dear Sir: I am returning to you the crown and robe, symbols of Queen of the Chilliwack Cherry Carnival. When I accepted the honor of wearing these on July 1st, I did so lclicving that I was chosen Queen by popular vote. I still believe this, and know it to be true, but I cannot keep these symbols of a now empty honor. My friends, sponsors and supporters bought tickets for me believing that if I became Queen I would also be eligible for "Miss B.C." Because your Carnival Committee failed to a dispute arising after the 1st, my father was given the unhappy task of trying to arrange a settlement. In an endeavor to mak; peace in an intolerable situation, he signed an agreement which lie hoped would mend matters.

It has not done so. I am sorry he did this, for I cannot see my way clear to step aside in honor of Princess Jean. Your committee gave me the honor of being Carnival Queen and Miss B. C. candidate.

You have not the right to take that honor from me without a legal recount of tickets. For these reasons I am returning this crown and robe. I do not deem it any honor now to te your Queen. In view of the fact that I turned in over fourteen hundred dollars that my tickets were nearly all one dollar tickets, I know that I was chosen Queen by Chilliwack people. This means more to me than any decision jour committee can make.

Yours truly, BELVA BKETT. The majority of the sponsors namely, the Chilliwac branch of the Canadian legion. Keg's Bakery, The City Grocery, Andrews Meat Market, feel that their I'rineess has done a wise thing in refusing to share her honors. They take the stand that the Carnival Comnuttee should never have allowed the recount of the few tickets held in Chilliwack, unless they were prepared to grant a recount of all the tickets. Sufficient hours elapsed between the announcement June 80 of the Queen Contest election, and the actual coronation July 1st to allow any unsatisfied contestants to recheck their figures.

Any complaints should have been made at that time and a satisfactory settlement made. The sponsors of Belva want the public to know that they do not approve of the manner in which this affair is supposed to have lieen settled. They feel that a full legal recount should Is made, a clear statement made to the public, and a definite stand taken by the Carnival Committee. I'ntil such time us this is done, they are agreed that their Princess is right in renouncing all claims to Carnival Queen. The sponsors wish to thank Mr.

Brett for his generous efforts In trying to bring about a settlement, the copy of which apH ars in this paier. This was made and signed before Mr. Brett had S4 cn the latest edition of the Chilliwack News, carrying as it did, unfair statements. The sponsors feel that the public in general will approve of Miss Belva's stand in this matter, and agree with the sKinsors that the families of the Princesses should never have been called in in this dispute. The firms and organizations comprising the sponsors of the Auntie Marion Story Club wish to take this opportunity of expressing their appreciation to the public for the very generous support given Princess Belva.

(Signed) A. I. ANDREWS. REG. E.

STONE. CANADIAN LEGION, per T. McCammon. CITY GROCERY, per Lyle Turvey. HOW horrified Hit world is whi Home disaster kills a lot of people who aren't In uniform.

BAD I are so no had thing could su ic if it didn't get a lot of support from Rood people. FOUTY SIXTII YEAR, Vol. No. 14 CII1LL1WACK, B. WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1936 $2.00 PER YEAR Winnipeg Host City To Rural Publishers Winnipeg as the host city to the convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, Thursday and' Friday, was generously hospitable.

The newspapermen and their wives were guests of the city at a luncheon at Assinaboine Park on Thursday, at which Alderman E. D. Honeyman and Mayor John Queen extended the city's welcome. Friday evening the provincial government gave a dinner at the University buildings, Premier John Bracken, who was out of the city, being represented by Hon. J.

S. McUairmid, minister of mines. The principal speaker was W. L. Mac Tavish, vice president, editor in chief of the Winnipeg Tribune.

Friday noon the newspaper people were guests of the Winnipeg Free Press and the Winnipeg Tribune at luncheon. Dr. F. W. Dafoe, editor of the Free Press, presided, and Wesley Curdy, editor of the Tribune extended greetings.

L. W. Brockington, K.C., of Winnipeg and, formerly of Calgary, was the guest speaker. The address was an eloquent tribute to the men and women who have laid the foundations of Western Canada, and a plea for Pilgrims Get Send off Five Hundred People See Ten Local Representatives Off Not since the troops returned in 1918 has there been such a demon Paving Program Released No Allotment Made This District; Section Of North Fraser Road To Be Black topped Battle of Boyne Celebrated Local Orangemen Participate in Glorious Twelfth At Vancouver Headed by Philip Abbot, W.M. of L.O.L.

1470, and Miss Helen Currie, W.M. of Jubilee Lodge No. 774, L.O.L., twenty five members of the two local lodges celebrated the "Glorious Twelfth" in true Orange style Saturday with other Loyal Orange lodges of Vancouver county at the coast. A large parade through the principal streets in the morning was followed by an afternoon of sport and speeches at Hastings Park in the afternoon. Five thous and attended.

Mayor G. G. Mc Geer welcomed visiting Orangemen. Lodges passed three resolutions unanimously: loyalty to the i King, opposition to the bi lingual I currency, opposition to Fascism and Socialism. They were supported by C.

W. Glass of Hope, grand I master of the L.O.L. in B. C. I Following the afternoon program Orangemen held a banquet in the I Hotel Vancouver and later a dance.

Sunday a church parade was held and the Cenotaph decorated in I memory of fallen Orangemen, con eluding the cert monies honor of I the 246th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. This Sunday, members of the two local lodges will participate in a church parade and services at St. Thomas' Anglican Church. Dr. Telford Declares Scrip Will Be Issued I "Scrip will be issued against the wealth of the province to facilitate the distribution of goods and serv ices, when the C.C.F.

gains power at the next provincial election," Dr. Lyle Telford, newlv elected leader of the C.C.F. in told an overflow audience on Sunday night at the South Hill (Vancouver) C.C.F. Club. Speaking on one of the main planks of the new plat form adopted at the recent conven I tion of the party, he discussed in detail "socialization of finance and credit." I Dr.

Telford spoke enthusiastically of the recent convention. He ad mitted there had been differences of opinion, but asserted there was no split in the party. Dominion, Provincial Governments Plan To Appeal To Privy Council HORATIO WEBB velopment of the entire Chilliwack area. He reached the Fraser Valley as a lad of 17 when first settlers were beginning to take up land here. Mr.

Webb was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1852. When he emigrated to the New World seventeen years later, in search of gold, he crossed the continent from New York State in the first transcontinental train, the trip occupying fourteen days. On his arrival at Chilliwack in the spring of 1870 he was engaged as a farmhand by Jonathan Reece, first white man to take up land in the district. One of Mr. Webb's favorite recollections was his operation of the first revolving hay rake used in the Valley.

Prior to Mr. Reece's construction of the machine, all hay had been cut with a scythe and raked by hand. At the end of his apprenticeship, Mr. Webb purchased eighty acres of land at Sardis, two miles west of here, where he had resided ever since. It was at that time that he married Miss Lucy Ada Hopkins of New York, a member of a family whose history dates back to the early settlement of the New England states.

Miss Hopkins was Young Breeders Meet Will Hold Field Day at T. E. Law's August 2 Decision to hold a field day at the home of T. E. Law, prominent breeder, was made at the second meeting of a young, enthusiastic Chilliwack Jersey Calf Club held Monday at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. R. A. Coulter. The meet will be held August 2, it is planned.

President Dick George and Secretary Bruce Richardson led a discussion on the idea of having the club represented at the Vancouver and Victoria exhibitions but action was delayed until next meeting. J. E. Manning, cow testing association supervisor, delivered an interesting address to 25 club members on "The Scott Expedition to the South Pole." Reg. Unsworth and Leonard Zink were welcomed as representatives from the Guernsey Calf Club.

Neil MacPherson conveyed the best wishes of the Chilliwack Jer sey Breeders' Association. Serving of refreshments closed the evening. Anglican Camp Sixteen boys of St. Thomas' Anglican Sunday School left Tuesday morning for a camp at Chilliwack Lake, where they will remain until Friday. The boys arc under the leadership of Canon M.

W. Holdom, Charles Finney, F. Emerson, H. D. Hipwell, H.

Denxham, W. Middleton. Horatio Webb, Chilliwack Valley Pioneer, Passes British Columbia lost one of its' best known and most highly respected pioneers when Horatio Webb, a resident of Fraser Valley since his arrival on April 28, 1870, passed away Friday at his home in Sardis in his 85th year. He was the picture of health until recently and his passing comes as a distinct shock to his many friends. To him had been given much of the credit for the progress and de brought to the West by the late Isaac Kipp.

on Mr. Webb's request, Mrs. Webb predeceased her hus band by slightly more than a decade. From the time of his arrival, Mr. Webb was actively engaged in al 1 most every phase of community I life, and particularly in everything pertaining to agriculture.

His in terests went far beyond his home centre, and perhaps no man was more widely or favorably known in provincial agricultural circles. In 1873 he promoted the first plowing match in the Fraser Valley and proved his practical ability by winning first prize. He was also one of the promoters of the Chilliwack Fair in the next year, an event in which he never lost interest. When the New Westminster fair' was originated in 1879 he was a gatekeeper, and received hearty congratulations in 1929 when he again stood at the gate and re 1 ceived tickets. Even last year Mr.

Webb's serv 1 ices were still in demand. In recog nition of aid rendered to Vancou ver's Canada Pacific Exhibition he was made a life member of the association. Similar honors were I conferred upon him by Victoria and Chilliwack fairs. Mr. Webb was an enthusiastic lawn bowler, his winters in California affording added opportunities to indulge in this favorite sport.

A staunch supporter of the Anglican Church, Mr. Webb was one of those who assisted in bringing material for the first church in the district by canoe from Fort Douglas, a distance of some sixty miles down Harrison Lake, Harrison River and across the Fraser to Chilliwack. He retired from actual farming more than twenty years ago, but his interest in agriculture in the province never lessened. He was a well known figure at almost every major fair in the province, and for years was included on the list of judges in sheep and swine classes at Vancouver, Victoria. New Westminster: and Chilliwack.

Many times he was honored by appointment to the boards of directors of the various exhibitions. Mr. Webb is survived by one daughter, Mrs. F. J.

Barr, and three sons. Dr. Wilmot Webb of Los Angeles and J. Frederick and Harold F. here.

Funeral services were held from St. Thomas' Church Monday afternoon, Rev. Canon M. W. Holdom officiating.

Pallbearers were Messrs. William Dusterhoeft, Alex. Mercer, D. W. Chadsey, H.

W. Storey, H. H. Collinson, J. F.

McCutcheon. Members of Ionic Lodge No. 18. A. F.

A. had charge of the graveside service. The Dominion government will appeal judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada concerning the constitutional validity of the Employment and Social Insurance Act; an act providing for one day's rest in seven: the act providing for a 48 hour week, and the Minimum Wages Act, it was announced by Hon. Ernest Lapointe, minister of justice. Mr.

Lapointe also announced he had been advised some of the provinces intended to ask for leave to appeal in other references, particularly those concerning the constitutional validity of Section 4JSA of the Criminal Code, and the Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act. The announcement of Mr. Lapointe means that the Dominion will not carry the Marketing Act, declared invalid, to London. It is indicated, however, that the government intends to bring in next year new marketing legislation within the scope of judicial judgment of the Supreme Court and probably eliminating the compulsory feature. British Columbia will take two appeals to the Imperial Privy Council on the new deal legislation of the Bennett government.

It will appeal the decision of the Canadian Supreme Court upholding the Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act and Section 4 USA of the Criminal Code which governs discrimination in business. For Marketing Control British Columbia will carry its fight for controlled marketing to the Privy Council alone, Hon. K. C. MacDonald, minister of agriculture, announces.

The federal government having decided to let the Natural Products Marketing Act die in the Canadian Supreme Court, the provincial government will appeal the court's decision against the statute at the autumn session of Privy Council. Mr. MacDonald's announcement following a special cabinet meeting, at which the whole marketing situation was fully discussed. The government, the minister said, felt that there must be a final otcision on the Federal Marketing Act and that, as no other authority seemed prepared to take the case tc the court of the last i. Columbia, as one of the most interested parties concerned, should do so.

Meanwhile the provincial ment was advised by the federal marketing board that the Natural Products Marketing Act was still in effect, despite the Supreme Court's decision against it. icials of the federal board wrote that Ihi Supreme Court had merely given its opinion in 'a stated case and had not sejuashed the act. the province took the view that while the act might be technically in effect, no prosecutions unoer it could possibly succeed, so that it was really useless pending the Privy Council appeal now proposed. The B. C.

Coast Vegetable Marketing Board met a reverse in Supreme Court when Mr. Justice Murphy granted an injunction restraining it from interfering with Chung Chuck and Mah Lai, Ladner farmers, in the use of the highways and a warehouse for exporting their potatoes. The injunction extends to Leslie Gilmore of Steveston, A. V. Mc Lelan of Cloverdale.

and A. H. Peterson of Duncan, members of the board, and S. J. Creech and Harry A.

PaUison of 175 Water I. C. Alone Has Enjoyed Perfect Crop Condition Crop damage from heat and drought is most dirastrous in Canada, according to a report the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. There is serious feed shortage in parts of the prairies, the report said, with little hope of a cemmer cial crop in large areas of Southern and Southwestern Saskatchewan. British Columbia was said to have enjoyed almost ideal weather.

Prospects there for all crops are good. Canadian Lecrion Corner In recognition of their efforts during the past eighteen months, our Vimy Pilgrims were hosts to the members of the Pilgrimage Committee at a dinner in the Royal Hotel on Friday evening. Comrade Pat Hall was in the chair and much good advice was tenotred the pilgrims. The departure of Pat and Mrs. Hall on Saturday evening to the form of a "honeymoon" send off.

It is a well known fact that Mrs. Hall has for years been a grass widow and we all hope that she will see more of him during their sojourn over there. 'The Progress is being sent on to Pat. who of course is "on the staff" cf the Pilgrimage. The crowd at the CN R.

station on Sunday evening to see the troops off is ample evidence that the Pilgrimage has aroused considerable interest amongst the general public..