The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 5

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1946 An honorary life membership in the Mission city and district Board of Trade was awarded to T. W. Davies recently. A Dominion Income tax office is to be opened in Kelowna which will be one of 14 new district offices to be opened across Canada. When your chickens come home to have you a place for them? A Prefabricated Chicken Mouse comes complete Floors and Doors, Roof and Roosts in fact everything you need, from nails to simple erection diagrams.

All delivered in one load. Quick and easy to erect. We have the answer to your building problem. Come in or phone McALPINE ELECTRIC 89 Wellington Chilliwack Phone 4332 Opposite Strand Theatre ST. PATRICK'S DANCE Atchclitz Hall Friday, March 15 Dancing 9 till 2 Music by Sandy and His Serenaders Refreshments Admission 75c ANNIVERSARY DANCE ATCHELITZ HALL Friday, February 22 Dancing 9 till 2 MUSIC BY THE AMBASSADORS Admission 75c Refreshments Available Sponsored by Atchelitz Farmers Institute Basketball Agricultural Hall Saturday, Feb.

23 Cloverdale Senior vs. Valleys Game time 10 p.m. Cloverdale Intermediate A vs. Sardis 8:45 p.m. Admission 25c or by Membership Ticket This is "Sardis Night" net proceeds to Sardis Community Hall funds.

GIRLS I Date Up tie 60 Friend for the Annual Nodus Tonus Club "Turnabout" Dance AGRICULTURAL HALL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Dancing 9 till 2 MUSIC BY NEALE UNRUH with GERRY WHEN BUYING CIGARETTES JUST SAY G. E. W. Clarke, provincial hor ticulturist, reporting production acreages for 19 16, estimated a possible 3,000 to 3,500 tons of strawberries and 5,000 tons of raspberries. L.

It. Wilson, reporting on the rM'Hsod Ix'rry deal, told the nun ting that over 1,100 tons of SOi raspberries had been exported to the I'nited Kingdom in 1945, and in addition to this sev eral hundred tuns of tree fruit were sent. Emphasis was given to the neeessity of supplying the I'nited Kingdom market with the largest possible quantity of fruit pulp for 1946. This information followed a meeting with Sir Andrew Jones, representing the British Food Ministry, held in Vancouver last week when the entire situation was diseussed and when berrymen were assured a definite outlet for a maximum quantity of processed berries for 1940. Important resolutions dealing with the following subjects were passed reciprocal trade with Brit tain; agricultural research; plant propagation; that the Dominion department of agriculture establish a branch in Mission City and appoint fieldman; primary producers of fruits be given increased sugar rations; that local offices of the Dominion provincial Emergency Farm Labor Service be kept open and that prairie help be brought in i if necessary; prices of farm prod ucts be stabilized with a floor price; opposing marketing legislation as effecting small fruits.

The same officers were elected 1946 consisting of the following: president, Robert E. Knight, Mission; vice William Ker Isey, Saanichton; secy. L. R. 1 Wilson, Mission.

Directors: A. N. McKim, Steves ton; N. C. Collier, Ladner; D.

W. Poppy, Aldergrove; C. Goodchild, Mission; Harold Aish, Matsqui; A. C. Fisher, Hatzic Huntingdon; Frank Sumas.

Chilliwack Dairyman Buys Powell River Firm William Lewis, formerly of Chilliwack, and his four sons have purchased DeGroot's Dairy, Powell River. They hold equal shares in the business. Mr. Lewis has resided in Powell River shortly over a year. The new owners have departmentalized the dairy and Ernie is in charge of pasteurizing and bottling, Jack and George on sales and deliveries, Sidney is herdsman, and Gertrude, Mr.

Lewis' daughter, is bookkeeper. Lewis and Sons' herd is comprised of Jerseys and Guernseys. PRINGLE rilOCEEDS FOR SERVICE WORK $2.00 Per Couple Refreshments Included SWEET CAPORAL CIGARETTES "Tht purxf form In which tobacco can tmoktd" THE CHILLIWACK PROGRESS Page Five even Million lollar ffalley rop Great Britain Will Take Maximum SO Production Delegates attending the eleventh annual meeting of the Federated Coast Growers association in Mission, Wednesday, heard that the total net value of fruits and vegetables in the Fraser Yalley for last year was $7,000,000. Berry growers of the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland received $3,000,000 for their 1945 crop. This equals the highest price ever paid in the history of the small fruits industry.

New Bank I Head Here E. A. Rolsted, who succeeds F. A. Murray as manager of the Bank of Montreal here, arrived in Chilliwack Tuesday.

Mrs. Rolsted accompanied him. At present they are guests at the Empress hotel, seeking a house in this district. Mr. Rolsted commenced his new duties Friday.

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mr. Rolsted obtained his early training there with the Danish Labourers' bank, and came to Canada in 1911. He joined the bank that same year at Semans, and, after serving at several branches in the prairie provinces, was appointed manager of the Wa kaw branch of the bank In 1919. He later served successively as manager of the Minburn, Man ville, Cardston and Magrath offices, and in 1936 took charge of the office at Camrose. Always active in community life, Mr.

Rolsted was secretary treasurer of the Camrose branch of the Red Cross and a director and secretary of the Camrose Exhibi tion association. He was also president of the Board of Trade and i director of the Rotary club and the Camrose club. During his leisure hours the new manager finds recreation in golf and bridge and in his favorite hobby of gardening. OBITUARY Mrs. Elsie Ray McCaffrey Many friends learned with deep regret of the death of Mrs.

Elsie J. D. Brown, Ray McCaffrey, wife of Dr. Robert Aish, Upper McCaffrey, at her home, Mill street, I late Saturday afternoon. Mrs.

Mc Caffrey had not been in the best of health for some three months. While arranging some flowers Thursday afternoon of the previous week she suddenly collapsed and while she revived somewhat her condition continued grave through out the 10 day period. The late Mrs. McCaffrey was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.

James L. Chadsey, a Chilliwack valley pioneer family. Her mother was born at Gibraltar, and came to British Columbia with her par ents, her father being a member of the party of sappers and miners who assisted in colonization work on the mainland area. Married about 38 years ago, Mrs. McCaffrey had resided here ever since.

Her happy and cheerful personality, ready hospitality and her unique trait of never saying an, unkind word, even by implication, about anyone, made her many warm and constant friendships. Her concern for the comfort and welfare of bird and animal life was also notable. Scores of friends will hold the late Mrs. McCaffrey in affectionate remembrance throughout their lives. Much sympathy is felt for her bereaved husband whose life here as a pioneer physician has been one of constant concern and service for and in the welfare of others.

Besides her husband, Mrs. McCaffrey is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Arthur Kipp and Mrs. H. T.

Reed, Victoria; two brothers, Roy and Alex. Chadsey, Chilliwack Mrs. Vern Foster and Mrs. Chris Allum are nieces. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 1:30 at Cooke's Pres byterian church, Rev.

H. G. Fun ston officiating. Cremation at Ocean View Burial Park, Vancou ver, followed. Pallbearers were Thomas Robertson, P.

H. Wilson, A. S. Watson, C. A.

Barber, Guy Curwen and Major A. E. Humphrey. Mrs. Susan Irwin A highly respected pioneer, Mrs.

Susan Irwin, passed away Sunday at her home in Chilliwack. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday from Henderson's funeral home, Rev. E. Bishop officiating Interment will take place in IOOK cemetery. Pallbearers will be wai ter Carman, Roy Pyvis, Reuben Bonfield, William Simpson, Earl McLeod and Kenneth Boake.

The late Mrs. Irwin was born in Belfast, Ireland, 77 years ago. In 1879 she came to Canada with her father, James Bunting, and settled in Sourls, Man, In 1883 she came west with Rev. and Mrs. T.

Hall and family by way of San Francisco and Victoria. She trav elled up the Fraser by steamer to Yale and by stage to Clinton. In 1887 she moved to Sumas where she married Thomas Irwin who predeceased her 21 years ago They made their home on the farm three miles west of Chilliwack for 37 years. Mrs. Irwin had many friends and she took pleasure in lending a help Third Division Leaves Germany In Early Autumn Prime Minister Mackenzie King has announced that Canada's 25, 000 man occupation force will leave Germany in April.

The third Canadian division, plus ancilliary troops has composed the army occupation force. One B. C. unit is affected, the 4 th Bn. Canadian Scottish.

Many British Columbians are serving in other units, arms or services of the force. According to the prime minister's announcement the shipping forecast Is that all troops now in Germany should be home by September or October. It had previously been announced that Canada's occupational air force of 10,000 men would start coming home June 30 but it is understood that negotiations now being conducted may make earlier withdrawal possible. The third Canadian division is a force drawn from the entire re sources of the former First Cana dian Army and was based on units of the former Third Canadian In fantry Division which division's units were considered most representative of the country. The force is in the main voluntary but some categories of tradesmen and craftsmen have been retained on a nonvoluntary basis.

It is probable that the force will be withdrawn gradually as successive British units are found to re lieve Canadian units. It is prob able that a repatriation depot in the U. K. will be maintained through which the units will pass for administration prior to em barking for Canada. Maj.

Gen. Chris Vokes is GOC, and the division has been deployed in western Germany, acting in com bination with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's British troops in the British occupational area. Rotary Observes 41st Anniversary Rotary clubs throughout the world are this week celebrating the 41st anniversary of the founding of the international Rotary organi zation. In tracing the growth of Rotary, President W. J.

"Bill Pearce of the Chilliwack club relates that On Feb. 23, 1905, the first Rotary club in the world was organized in Chicago by Paul P. Harris, a young lawyer who sug gested the idea to a group of his friends and with them organized a club which was called the Rotary club, because their first meetings were held, in rotation, in the offices of the various members. "During these past 41 years, the ideas of Paul Harris and his friends ideas of friendship, fellowship and of service to others have been accepted by men of practically all nationalities, of all political and religious beliefs. Today there are Rotary clubs in Algeria and Argentina, in Chile and China, in Egypt and England, In Switzerland and Syria in 66 different coun tries and geographical regions throughout the world.

"Rotary has grown in an amazing fashion during these 41 years. During the last six months, for example, 209 new Rotary clubs have been organized in 20 different countries, and today there are 5641 Rotary clubs in nearly every country of the world, with a membership of 260,000 business and professional executives." The Chilliwack club was organized March 15, 1934, with a membership of 38, of whom 17 still retain membership. Present membership is 65. Divorces at Royal City Divorces were granted four men and three women by Mr. Justice Coady in supreme court, New Westminster, Friday.

A decree went to Morris G. Dan dell, soldier, Chilliwack, from Vera A. Dandell, Chilliwack, married in Prince Rupert in 1943; Sgt. Kenneth Bishop, co respondent. ing hand, and providing comforts for servicemen.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Cloverdale, and Mrs. R. A. Coulter, Chilliwack; one son, Harry Irwin, Sardis.

There are nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Besides her husband, a son, Arthur, and a grandson, FO Leslie Coulter, predeceased her. OUYER'S JUJT ACR05 THI 5ICONB NARROWS RIPB BARNEY POTTS and His Orchestra Featuring THORA ANDERS "Song Bird of th? Air" PINE "DANCE SYTMTIKlt'E 4 9 p. 1 Thirteenth Time Re elected Field Crop Head Harold W. German has been reelected president of the B.

C. Field Crop Union for the 13th consecutive year, it is announced. At the provincial convention in Victoria, Woodburn. Salmon Arm. was elected first vice, and H.

Young, Vancouver Island, second vice president. J. Travis, former district agriculturist at Grand Forks, is secretary. Principal work to be undertaken by the union this year is the testing of 3Q varieties of hybrid corn. Students' Council Favors Revival Of Valley Meet Students' council of Chilliwack junior senior high school favors a revival of the Fraser Valley track meet, providing staff sanction is forthcoming, and will offer to spon sor this track meet here this year.

a leuer irom the council outlining the projected plan of the event will be presented to the next staff meet ing. Principal G. W. Graham told The Progress Tuesday that the students had planned the revival without consultation with the staff. The Fraser Valley track meet of previous years has been arranged at the teachers' convention and teachers have been responsible for it.

Last track meet was held at Chilliwack in 1941 with Richmond high school amassing the most total points. Since that time shortage of transportation has made it impossible to hold the interschool meet. In other years the individual schools have conducted their own track meet and those who placed in the various events were eligible for the valley track meet. Community center when? YOUR DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL BILLS PAID through Sickness and Accident! For information consult D. J.

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