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LIBERAL MEETING DREW LARGE AUDIENCE HERE (From the Fraser Valley Record) It- was a large crowd that greeted the Liberal speakers in the Imperial hall on Friday evening last���������in fact rather larger than was or could be expected at a time when there was no election in sight. There were a very large number however from outside points ���������all the way from Coquit lam to Agassiz. The speakers of the evening were Messrs H. C. Brewster and M. A. ' Macdonald; ancl Mrs. Ralph Smith as representing the Woman's Equality League. Throughout the evening the audience, many women among them, gave the speakers a fair hearing and showed deep attention, but that is like a Mission City audience, as they will always give any speaker a good hearing. Not much consolation can therefore be coming to the speakers or the party on that score, although there is much credit coming to Mission City for maintaining the past record of letting every man have his say and a chance to make good. Mr. A. Parr, president of the Liber- eral Association was chairman. A- mong those on the platform were Mr. D. B. Martyn, president of the Dewdney Liberal Association; .Mr. J. H. McNeice of Port Moody, Mrs. R. Smith and several ladies. Mr. Brewster was the first speaker and began his remarks by stating that "This movement against the gov ernment of British Columbia is .beyond a political movement, it. lias a patriotic significance. ��������� ' . ' "The presence of so many women here tonight indicates to ray mind that the political problems of British Columbia are beginning to act on the home. ' We are making these little trips into the municipal centres at a time when ��������� there is no election in sight and when we can ail discuss these questions calmly and dispassidn ateiy.' We want you to examine the record of the government during its twelve years of power and see if you are satisfied. The functions, of gooU government are or should work out i'or the benefit of the whole of the people, not a part of the people. We must not spend so much of our pub- lie funds today that we are bankrupt tomorrow. It is just as easy for the government to waste the funds of the public as it is for the heir of a fortune to .'dissipate his fortune. "1 am convinced that the present government is not a Conservative government. Eleven years ago the government published its platform after their meeting in Revelstoke. It was a good platform. No Liberal need have been ashamed of that platform. But I defy any supporter of the government to say that they have fuliilled. the promises of that platform, although they have had eleven years to do it. We have been in parts of British Columbia ancl we. have met a great many people of British Columbia. So far we have been met on a public platform by only one cabinet minister. "Not long ago Mr. Bowser spoke in Vancouver. He said in the course of his speech: 'When the Liberals are in power they will not repeal any of my legislation.' Why is this great change? I cau remember when he declared that he had wiped out the Liberal party. Now he prophecies our return to power. Mr. Bowser has said that.the Conservative party is leaving monuments for the people to remember'their work. Well, monuments presuppose decease. (Laughter). One of the monuments they are leaving is al. monumental idebt, which you, the electors, will have to pay. Mr. Bowser sfiys wc will not repeal any ot! his acts. Wc don't have to. Twothirds of the'time of the legislature is spent in repealing its own acts. -.':'.'���������. I wonder if'you- can understand what it means to have a house so tremendously one-sided���������two Social ist members against a house of forty- two. Two men' cant keep track of the volume of business. The house is voting half the time for things they don't know what they are voting for J understand that the people of this section are largely born under the British flag. I want to see what you have to say about a man who enacts legislation which draws the line of demarcation between the British born and. the -man who comes here at the age of intelligence and takes out his ctizenship papers. In order to get on the voters' list, hitherto, both kinds have merely taken an oath that they are British subjectss'. Now the British subject makes out a paper of one color asserting' that he is-a British subject. The naturalized sub ject must<make out another; colored, paper and also attach his' naturalization paper. This man's oath is good in any court in the land, but it is not good enough for Mr. Bowser's voting list. Why-is this? The penalty for false swearing is 14 years. Now suppose a man takes the chance of fourteen yearr\ in jail by swearing falsely that' he'-'is a-naturalized subject. Why couldn't he jump over this step and swear he is a British subject in the first place? This legislation Mr. Bowser, did not know, disfranchised a large part of the inhabitants of British Columbia. The sons of the naturalized citizens are barred. The son cannot take the oath- that he is a British subject, nor can he say he is a naturalized subject. This bill was-pointed out to Mr. Bowser. ITo again tried to correct this legisla>itm He corrected tne law to read thai the son must take an oath that he was resident with his father at the time he was naturalized. Now suppose the son was living in some other part of the province when ihe father was naturalized. He is barred from the votwrs' lists. This shows that the rubber stamp brigade behind Mr. Eov.Per did just'as he told them aud did not read tr.i--. lej.iilaii'.i. '; i.r-. are not to blame. You the electors a .(.��������� to blam?. Yo-i sent theni to the hot ������e. * mother ur'.ii :i;i.il wlnc'i Mi. Tow- sei" has iru\D ;��������� ���������.���������.-at-.'d iu his .fiws re- ve.sos one of the leading points uf British, jus'-ii.-i, . . Mr Bi.������������������..>. or s l:<\v says this: 'The onus of prof shall be upon the accused inn il lie i.j pro-'- ro innocen!.1 And i!t-;i in.- says that we wouldiiV reyei! any of i'mo la-vs: (Cheers) I.feil yrd some of his la-.-h woiidn't'live >.<��������� we-:': i:nhr a Lil.rtal le&iitLe. Mr. Bowser has prophesied that wo would criticise the administration of justice in Mission City. We were in I-lazelton when the bank robbery took' place. That robbery was the direct result of the political uses to which the provincial police have been put, After the citizens Had put five out of the seven robbers out of business, tho provincial police arrived. The citizens got six, and the one man left to the attentiin of the police got away Every man .in the north carries a weapon. At one hotel at night there were over sixty guns in sight, altho' there is a law against carrying gum in the statute books. This is not the only case Avhere the police have bungled. There is the case of Gun-a- noot chase. One man who was paid to chase an Indian, told me that he heard more champagne corks popping than rifles. The country is full of ridicule for the provincial police. There is a great-deal of difference between the management of the P.. N. W. W. P. and the provincial police 1 used to think that I knew something of the land situation in this province. But when 1 went along the line of the new G..T. P. I found the land filled with the stakes of speculation. You must develop the land but the settler can't get any land alongside the lines. You must go away back into the woods. When you speak of the'land you are speak, ing of a circle of trade. The man"' on the land is one of a series of units which are interdependent. When the present government came into power the treasury was empty. The gov ernment solcKoff- vast quantities of land and the money went to railroads and the treasury is still empty. You have received about $11,000,000 for your timber lands worth $400,000,- 000. Then money was used to keep HOY WHO DISAPPEARED HEARD FROM AGAIN About a year ago the town of Abbotsford had a sensation when le was learned that one of the town's best known youths had strangely disappeared without one word of farewell to anyone, even his aged parents did not know of his intentions. It was at first surmised that he. had been accidental}' drowned or that, he'had met with foul play and accordingly a large search party ivas immediately, organized but failed in their efforts to find the missing boy. A-year passed by ancl the matter was partly forgotten by all except the boy's sorrowing parents. The mother, lying on a sick bed one night had a' vivid dream in which she seemed to hear from her the work gangs going so that they sori) it was ^n very realistic, but alas, Avould be ready for election day. That _ it was only a dreanit The next day, hoAve^er,- her dream came true. In the mail there came a letter from an absolut stranger in the state of Iowa, stating that the writer was a friend of the youth and he took it upon himself to write to the parents. - The following lines were hastily penned by, a friend of the family and were handed to us for publication: is the mess of pottage for which Premier Esau McBride sold your heritage. I have here'a'list of 144 syndicates owning land along, the railroads I have leters from one broker alone offering me 300,000 acres of land Wherever the land is held out of pro ductivity there is trouble. Look at England and New Zealand... The land act of B. C. limits the staker of land to so many acres, but it permits a syndicate to stake by power of attorney. So that if you will go thro' the north woods .you will find stakes with names of dummy men 'and women, whose names are used as proxies. .The. first case taken/to the privy council found that the land obtained this way had been done by a fraud on the land act, supporting our position. This land act is unconstitutional. Instead of your roads and bridges and trails bing constructed by the receipts from the sale of lands, every dollar so spent is borrowed money. The government made a great howl about removing the personal head-tax This affected the men who never pay any other tax, Hindus, etc, but it dosen't affect the man with lands to pay for. You remember the fine speeches Sir Richard made when he introduced "the nation builders" Mackenzie & Mann. They are now merely insolvent railway contractors. The responsibility of this province for the C. N. R. is enough to mortgage every farm in the province to the limit if the government takes over the C. N. R. bonds it means that every man woman and child of the province,"and counting the population at 400,000, will be responsible for $500 each. Unless there is a change in the policy .of B. C. not only the railway will be insolvent, but the province will be in- Mother dreams of her boy far away, She dreams-of his smiles of bygone days. She hoped as she'lay. on her bed of pain ' ��������� ��������� That one day she would see her boy ' ������������������' again. ��������� \; She" dreamed that a'"man" so-kind and good Took a pencil from the table where he stood, And she dreamed'that her boy. bowed his head'and sighed��������� Then someone awoke her, she, hen her dream laid aside. A letter came to her 'one day from the well known State of Iowa. The letter read like this: We're strangers,.yes, but brothers too In the sight of God if our hearts are true. I am a stranger and I've found it joy To .look after some loved ones boy. While the boy is with me I'll do ail- that I' can ��������� To make of him a better man. I'll have him think of his home far away, And his father and mother who are fast turning grey. solvent also. We have looked in vain for evidence of good government in this province We can legislate for our dollars and cents arid industries, but if you fail to legislate for the moral uplift of the people you are on the road to ruin and public conscience is dead in the province. We need an awakened public conscience that will stay witli it ancl say right is right whether parties go smash or not. (Cheers) Mr. M. A. Macdonald, who characterised the present government as a "Star chamber of political charlatans" 'was the next speaker. The Sun says he was greeted with applause'when he rose to deliver his address in response to the invitation of the chairman. In opening his remarks, Mr. Macdonald expressed the pleasure it gave him to speak to such (Continued on Page Two) Have him think of those who watch day ancl night By the windowpane in the dim star light. Thinking.that perchance he may return home From that long, tiresome trig he has journeyed alone. W. J. Fraser, who was injured at the railway crossing on C Street, Huntingdon, and who was discharged from the Sumas Hospital, has returned to that institution again to have further repairs made to the injured member. l He drifted away like' a ship at sea��������� Someone stole its sails and let it be A wanderer on some distant shore Where we'll never see that ship any more. Somone caused him to lose that dear mother's love Like someone caused the ship to lose its sails; And our Father looks from the heavens above Listening. Listening to her sobs and wails. He can see that father failing fast Since the time the boy had seen him last.. Mother longs for a glimpse of her dear boy's face Her arms outstretched, ready to embrace. I .hope the time -it soon shall come When she can hear from her dear son En his own handwriting, 'tis true her Troubles then shall be very few. ������������������Composed by Miss Mabel Burrow, Abotsford. r*> ufttffe THE ABBOTSFORD POST, ABBOTSFORD, B. C. ;������������������&-. THE ABBOTSFORD POST. Published Every Friday by The Post Publishing Company A weekly Journal devoted-to the'interests of Abbotsford'and district Advertising rates made known on application Our Shibboleth���������-Neither i'or nor agin' the. Government PR I DAY, J UN 15 f;th, ,19 14 LIBERAL MEETING AT MISSION Mission City has been treated to a visit from the big guns of the Liberal party of the province who were accorded a full house and a very attentive audience to all the members of the speaking- staff of the evening. As to whether the Liberal speakers made an impression on the hearers 'of courso none are prepared to say, at least this paper i3 not. Certainly old timers in the province, which have takon a deep interest ol! the development of the country, would hardly like to' believe that the province has gone to the dogs so absolutely as tho speakers tried to make out on Friday evening. No doubt the Liberals, not being represented in the house, cannot be as thoroughly familiar with the workings of the legislature as though represented there by half a dozen members, even. Ancl it is also true that no Conservative government is ever likely to meet with the approval of a Liberal party no matter how they try to govern the province. "Granted that the McBride government has not done as well by the province, in the past twelve years as they might have, it is shocking to hear from a public speaker such epithets, when speaking of the cabinet, as "star chamber of political charlatans",' especially outside of the heated debate of the.hustings on an election eve. During the calmness that is supposed to reign between elections when men 'discuss political questions more calmly and make a tour of the province for the purpose 'which Mr. Brewster" and party are doing, the common ordinary words of everyday life should be strong enough, but then possibly Mr. MacDonald partly forgot himself. The Liberal -party of the province certainly stand in an unique position in the province, with not a representative in the legislature, and the opposition purely Socialist, with the hand of the Liberal leaders, detected, as Mr. Brewster said, in some of the opposition tactics; and the government of the day not as "popular as it was when the treasury flowed with milk and honey over the province. But it is not yet the day of election. With the Fraser Valley Development League .looking after the .products, of the Fraser Valley in the Vancouver arid New Westminster markets, and the Associated Boards of Trade dealing with ,the .mutual business interests of the district marketing the products, the 'Fraser Valley should now be in a . better way to "prosperity than ever before��������� coming to her own asthe saying is. There is ample rom for both organizations. . One thing at' a'time and that done well is always a very good rule, and the past attempts of an organization has been to attempt too many things That which will appeal to the producers of the Fraser Valley more than any one thing that we know of is how and where to successfully market the product's of the Valley In the past, and it may hapen this year again, is the growing of products with no proper or systematic manner of marketing "with profit to the producer. The idea of bringing into the markets of Vancouver any kind of product that' is' to be found in plenty in the .Fraser Valley, does not make for the prosperity of the various communities contiguous to Vancouver ' and. New .Westminster. It has been shown that products of ..the Fraser Valley have been lying rotting on the .ground while at the same time foreign cabbages; potatoes, etc., have been sold on the markets of Vancouver and New Westminster ��������� If the .B. C. product were properly marketed-this would .not be the case. The quality ot the Fraser ���������Valley product is the best grown���������wholesome and 'fit to grace the table of any British Columbian citizen, 'arid; there, is no earthly reason why the very large part of the money sent" but ������������������ of the coast cities should not be distributed among'the farmers of the Fraser Valley. A couple of millions distributed this summer and fall yould. help most wonderfully in making the coming winter a very comfortable one.; for the son of the soil who lives in .the Fraser Valley. It is up to the commissioner " of the Fraser ��������� Valley Development League when appointed to solve the problem, assisted by the "Valley League, and make the producers of the Fraser Valley more numerous and also more prosperous. Mil. LOWERY, TAKH A VISIT. There is,one person in this province whom we would like to see at work. Col. R. T. Low'ery, editor and financier of the Greenwood Ledge, is the man. .Each week he edits a couple of'columns of concentrated news, humor and philosophy under the heading of "Western Float' It is safe to say that more people read that column with more real interest than anw other column in any other paper in this province. It is the week's news boiled down and spiced to suit the taste of the mostfinicky reader. Lazy editors throughout the province lasso Lowery's good stuff with their long shears and their readers thank them for it. We don't blame the aforementioned lazy editors and we'll stab our own shears into Western Float whenever we feel like it, whether the colonel'likea it or not. We would like to see the old hoss at work. We would like to know how he does it between drinks. In our mind's eye we hs.ve him pictured as a six-and-half-footer with eyebrow;-* sticking straight out in front and with a jaw that would cause John L. to edge over in a crowded street car" But at that we may be wrong. He may be an a large audience as had . assembled that evening. -A few years ago, he said, it would 'have been impossible to have asembled such a gathering to- listen to a political discussion, ex- old-maidish looking geyser, with watery eyes and a lisp. You can never tell what form genius will affect.���������Revelstoke Review. , We have often wondered ourselves what manner of man Lewory was to enable him to get together such a column ol! interesting "dope" and as for ourselves we would hardly find the time to devote to such a column, even if we had the patience or the genius. UN CLIO WALT ON STATESMEN Tehy do not sow they don ot reap, they do not shear the gentle sheep, or milk the sad-eyed cow; they clo not build, they do not till, they toil not in the noisy mill, nor guide the mule-drawn plow. We've heard them tell us we are grand, the bone and sinew of the-ancl, and we have cheered and ' grinned; but words were all we ever got from all that smiling statesmen lot, for they all sell in wind We take our-produce to the stpre, and haul it twenty miles or more, to- get provisions tinned; but statesmen get all things they need, the very finest goods, indeed, and all they pay is wind. Wo work till we are halt and blind,, and if wc get a month behind, threats in our ears are dinned; but statesmen do not work at all; they loaf in palace and in hallj and square the bill with wind. They drink the noblest wines of Spain, and eat tho but- , ter of tho Dane, and fruits from- tropic l'nd; the luxuries of every land are evermore at their command, and all they pay.is wind. What chumps we are to toil and strain, and worry till we go insane, supporting such a group of parasites, who live,at ease, while wo are spavining our knees to get the children soup! In Mrs. Smith the Woman's Equality League has a most excellent champion for their cause and with Mrs. Smith back of the Woman ' Suffrage plank in the Liberal platform, one would imagine that the Liberal party would be the gainers thereby dt might be that the Woman .Suffrage would be one of the strongest planks in the platform as public opinion is gotting stronger and stronger in favor of giving the women of British Columbia a voice in the political make-up of theprovYnce. Now that the poll tax, has been- done away with-there are a certain class of voter in the' province who is hot interested to any great extent in the govern- "me'nt of the province, certainly not in the financial .workings, and that is the non-property holder, who can sell his vote to any party and .be the^.gainer therby. Surely a woman with a family, or owning - property, is more, entitled to the rights of citizenship in- this, respect, but has no say. If then as Mrs. Smith says the 2 0th century is woman's she should have a voice in saying who shall govern the country. It is sure a great election dodge. The Revelstoke Review has reached our sanctum sanctorum. It is a bright newsy paper and well prin lent showing of advertisements and also well printed. It is Mr. W. H. Bohannan's latest venture in the journalistic field and if he keeps on he will be giving Revelstoke the best paper . the towrn ever had, and that is saying some too. He is an experienced newspaper man and knows how and what pleases a community. Long live the Review. The board of trade of Vancouver has been after the wild cats of Vancouver and wants , the poor . creatures choked off as they are too numerous. They live on oil. There is only one wild cat in Mission City and Walter has that chained on the house top where it does no person anw harm. Vancouver could take a lesson thereby. cept when an election was in progress. The reason why such a large number as he saw before him could be gathered now was because the peo pie were beginning to realize that the McBride government had beehplaying fast- arid loose with our.,provincial heritage, and that it was necessary that they should be immediately dismissed from office: Mr. .Macdonald, dwelt at some length on the merits and demerits of the system of party government, ancl he pointed out that, as conducted in this province, the system had been open Lo the developments'of tendencies not at all desirable. The tendency had been especially developed by the Conservative government and the leaders of the Conservative" party in this province to place the interests of the party before the intrests of the country, and to follow the party regardless of the public acts of the government. The question of good roads in B. C. is an important .matter, as good roads mean good schools well filled churches, and ..also a prosperous people -The roads of the Fraser Valley have .greatly' improved during the past five years, yet there is room for improvement. Our roads in the Fraser Valley compare favorably with the roads of the State of Washington. It will be good news to the people of the Fraser Valley to know that the contract for the Pitt River bridge has been let and it will be better.news when it is anounced that the bridge has beert completed Then the next event will be the tram liine. relieve this province from the maladministration of a government which we cannot afford in the public, interests,to tolerate any longer. And, sir, I believe that this sentiment of. independent thought arid judgment, arid of independent criticism which I am endeavoring to arouse, is making great headway in this province to day. . ' " ������ , It was evident, Mr. Macdonald said that the spirit of revolt was abroad among the people. The people were getting sick and tired of machine politics ancl Mackenzie & Mann policies. Of this the shrewd Sir Rich,, ai'd himself was well aware, and as a consequence he had been offering .to immolate himself on his country's altar by showing a touching willing- nes to accept an appointment as high commissioner in London. In support of this contention that there was a strong undercurrent of deep rooted dissatisfaction, with the present government, Mr. Macdonald There should be no doubt as towhere the office of the commissioner for the Fraser Valley Development League should be. It should be -where'" the products of the Fraser Valley is marketed���������-in New Westminster on market clay, and in.Vancouver on certain other days of the week; with-several days to be spent throughout the Valley, finding the total area of the various products for the coning year, and advising the farmers accordingly. Rolleotion would lead-to the belief 1 went fully into the financial condition tlvtf exS ive par visni as had been of British Columbia today. , I e was p'ractSeTherV was responsible for justified lie ja.d In siting that no Perhaps the market commissioner could induce the managers of the market in New Westminster to have delivery for the products purchased by the ladies of New Westminster on, that day. The time is past when any woman will purchase vegetables on the market ar.d carry thorn home. ],1 ,vv., .. more political corruption and loose pernicious legislation than any other influence. It could distribute graft from the public treasury to party henchmen; it could sanction ancl con done, land frauds with impunity; it could allow a Matson to got its hands into the public treasury and by value not received make off with, $75,000 or a Rcid or an Alexander with $40- 000 each. Tho government could do this because it realized that the party would suport it; the rank and. file' bo ing party men all the'time at all cost Mr. Macdonald contended that, the Liberal party did not appeal for support on narrow party grounds. It appealed to all; to the best judgment ot tho people regardless of party afli- liations. " We say at the present time, not in any dogmatic way, but simply as an argument for you to accept or reject according as you believe ' it, sound or unsound, that tho McBride government in the public interests should be defeated at the first opor- tunity: that it is too muclvto ask the electors of this province to tolerate it any further; that the waste, extravagance, graft and exploitation, both of the natural resources and the public credit by alarming railway, guarantees should be ended. These are a few of the issues. These are the changes we (mak'e. .It is for the electors to say if they are well founded" and if they are then let us all unite ���������men of all parties���������in order to do. some much needed political house cleaning, after which the house itself can be set in .order. . 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Almost every clay the "gentleman" who toils neither does he spin, goes through Mission City .on ��������� freight trains on his " way whither? yes, whither? lnit he goes ancl possibly keeps going until he stops or is frilled on the track or meets his death in ���������some other way, but he keeps moving round. The country is full of them, "woods'* are full of them���������perhaps good men too, once upon a' time. On several- days this week as high as fifteen and twenty, passed through in open daylight on freight trains, in, ing usually that ho-one'will-ask them of ccurue. search of work, and' trust to work. One evening not long ago our policemen while standing at the station saw as many as CO or 70 on 'one freight train, all bound for the east. . it used to be "go west young man and' grow up with the country and possibly at one time or another these young men went west, but they failed to grow up with the country The struggle was too hard or the 'booze' too strong and-they dropped by the wayside. There must be something radically wrong Willi the make up of the present generation that eight per cent of the population of the west are travelling gentlemen with no occupation. .All-shoes now in stock to be cleared out at cost price, including English K Boots, the "regular price ofwhich are $6.00, 6.50 and 7.50.for $4.50, $5.50 and $6.00 per pair. Prices on other Sines cut as ' Call and see this offering, possibly secure anything like the money elsewhere. You can not value for ff^wwiMHi^fwaim: JMfcJjtt & rcapCTJ^groaWBiraiiBg^^ wqyJilWJWht.wi.'arJriln ABBOTSFORD, B. C , Strictly first-class in every respect. The' bar is stocked with the best of wines, liquor and cigars, RATES, $1.50 TO ,$2.00 PER DAY A. J, HENDERSONS, SONS PROPRIETORS . ^ppMMMMMMMBflBMI^M BUTCHER Pork, Mutton, Beef-, Veal, Pork Sausages Wiene^ and Balogna always on hand. Fish every Thursday. President, Chas. HilKTout Secretary, S. A. Morley of Abbotsford, B. C. Meeting Held FirstMonday of Each Month 3322= is of as much importance to you in your daily routine of business as any part of your organization. Your printed matter should be executed in such a manner as to be thoroly representative of your your line. is the kind that will develop your business and to keep it up to the top- notch of efficiency. We are equipped to handle your every demand in the shape of printed matter without exception. You cannot do better than by sending your or- ders for Job Printing to us. Prices are cons istent with the quality for which we are noted. rt<> ���������~&. ������������������- *ii������j Abbotsford 1'Ost abbotsfwsb, b. o. tf IN BUILDERS1 Si,TPLH<:S :, From IViunufiiciurer to. Coiisum- "-^-'er Direct. "n You effect an enormous saving on Windows, Doors, Mouldings, .Porch Columns, etc., Building Paper and Builders' Hardware, by buying direct by mall. Note these prices: 5-Cross panel doors for stain or oil $1.70 5 oroN.s panel doors i'or dark Htuiii or paint Window Frames Door Frames JCverything in stock for immediate shipment. Wo sell to anyone. Ship anywhere. Write for our new illustrated Catalogue. A. JJ. GUSHING LUMBER CO., Limited 822 Powell St., Vancouver, B.C. light $3.SO 'KINO G'KOltftK" SOCIAL WAS A BIG' SUCCESS JJorn���������To Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Ruck- er, on May 20tli, a daughter. 'Mr. Walter Wells made to Chilliwack Wednesday a flying- trip Mrs, McNab spent a few days this ���������week visiting friends in Vancouver. Miss Mabel Burrows, of Nooksack, Wash., is at present, visiting with Mr. and Mrs. H. Gazley. That the social given by tho Woman's AuxilJiary at. the residence of Mrs. Boyd was a grand success goes without saying. The affair had been planned for the spacious lawns that surround the residence of the hostess but weather conditions on the evening were such as necessitated an adjourn ment indoors. ' The residence was appropriately decorated I'or the event. Japanese lanterns surrounded the electric lights and shed a soft, radiance over the merry-makers. The evening .was made particularly enjoyable' by the very excellent music provided by Miss Jackson, Violin; Miss A. Steed, piano; and Mr. Mix, cello. There were no vocal numbers rendered as ho programme had boen prepared, it being originally intended that the orchestra be located on the verandah. Ice cream, strawberries .from Mission District, cake, tea and coffee were the good tiling? provided for those present who numbered about one hundred and twenty. The social, which is the finst of the summer series to be given by the.W. A. was brought to a close at .1.0:30, the success of which was attested by the fact that the next one, to be held at. the residence of Mrs. l-l. Alanson is being eagerly looked forward to. hinmi'AT* MI3J0TJNG AT MISSION Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hill-Tout have returned after an enjoyable trip to Toronto and other eastern points. Mr. F. J. Boulter, the popular C.P. R. agent here, lias assumed liis duties after having enjoyed several week's holidays. Visitors at the Manse on Tuesday were Mrs. Gardner, Miss Morsei and Messrs. Birrell and Harmon, all of Huntingdon.,, Abbotsford and vicinity was visited by a heavy hail storm Wednesday. The shower of ice, .though severe, did no damage to the crops. Mr. and Mrs. T. DeLair have .returned from their honeymoon trip and will now take up their residence on their farm near town. Mrs. H. Gazley, who has been confined to her home for the past several months, is now slowly improving and Aye hope to report her complete recovery in a short time. ��������� Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Smith left today for Seattle where Mrs. Smith will meet her parents from Ohio. The party will then return to Abbotsford where Mrs. Smith's parents will visit her for some time. ABBOTSFORD CAN BOAST ' A KINK FRUIT FARM NOW Of all the well regulated fruit ranches on this side of the river in the district surrounding Abbotsford probably the most desirable tract is that, owned :uul operated by Mr. D. H. Nelson, located but a scant half mile from the very centre of town. Out of what was practically virgin forest live years ago, Mr. Nelson, by dint of much hard labor and perse- verence, has transformed about forty acres into a well kept, fruit bearing orchard. Trees that were set out five years ago are now loaded down with fruit, especially is this true of some peach,' cherry and plum trees. Apple and pear trees are not in bearing but next season should see the whole orchard, numbering in the neighborhood of one thousand trees bearing fruit. Mr. Nelson, being 'an experienced nurseryman and horticulturist, is of the opinion that it is much more profitable to cultivate the larger fruits in preferance to berries, and with that end in view is devoting his whole attention towards the rearing of-what promises to become one of the finest orchards in the entire Fraser Valley. KNJOVABIjW PICNIC DESPITE' V N FA VOli A B LK Wil ATHEB " Mr. S. .Kravoski, who is now in St. Paul's hospital, Vancouver, was operated on recently for an abcess of the bone of the leg. Mr. Kravoski is now improving rapidly and expects to be home again in a week or ten days. A number of Abbotsford Odd Fellows will journey to Chilliwack tonight where they will be initiated into the. Rebekah Order of the lodge. These members will then be in a position to institue a Rebekah lodge here which will be welcome news to many Abbotsford ladies who are'desirous of joining. Mr. J. Sanson, C. P. R. checker at this point, has returned from a two month's sojourn at Nakusp where he was employed by the company in the capacity of tie inspector. Mr. Sanson states that the land and climate of the Fraser Valley is ahead of anything he has seen in the interior of the province, and further stated that some of the socalled fruit lands that were being sold around Nakusp and Nelson at. sums ranging from $300 to $400 an acre may be all right if it were not for the fact that in order to get down to the soil it was necessary to dig through a foot or more of sand.. This is vastly different from soil conditions in these parts. An out of doors holidaj* was planned by the Presbyterian Teachers Training Class last Wednesday, the King's birthday, at Atkinson's Point beyond Kilgard, but as the rain came down in great showers the merrymakers decided to go to Whatcom road to the Municipal hall. Some forty young people congregated, the larger number going over in Mr. Rucker's big hay rack. The party reached the hall at 11:30 and immediately prepared dinner from the bountiful baskets of the ladies. After dinner a number played.ball and they others went for a swim, thus the afr ternoon soon passed away. - The pic- nicers reassembled to supper at 5:30 after which sppeches' were made, songs were sung and a merry good time was enjoyed. The national anthem was heartily sung and all then journeyed homeward feeling that a good outing had been had. (Confiued'.f'rom Page 2.) ial 'welfare of tho people than the McBride government had. ' The years during the long period of the McBride tenure of office had been growing years, years of great expansion and development; years of golden opportunity ������when revenues were buoyant. As a consequence the government's rocord should have been a splendid one. Yet, Mr. Macdonald asked, what is the financial state today? They had been compeled to admit that a boasted cash balance in the bank of about?!),000,000 scarcely over, a year ago had disappeared; that in two years they had been confronted with the enormous deficit of $13,- 000,000 in excess of estimated expenditure over our rervenue they had been forced to report to a loan of $10,000,000 not to increase the capital wealth of the province but to provide for ordinary expenditure If this government so fond of appointing commissioners, would appoint one to investigate tho public expenditures in this province it would reveal a condition, Mr. Macdonald predicted, of waste and potty graft which would'shock thu moral sense of the people.- In saying this he was not. making random statements he contended. He said, he could point to electroal districts where the enormous sum of half a million dollars had been, spent in three years apparently for building roads and'bridges. A review of the reports of, the minister of public .works containing the number of the miles of roads constructed or repaired would cause the people to wonder whether it had not ,. been railway building that had been in progress. This was the condition all over the country. He had been told time and time again, he said, by responsible men located in the district where this satrunalia of waste had been going on that 50 per cent of efficiency on the work was altogether too high an estimate. Look over the public accounts for the past two years, Mr. Macdonald said, consider the millions of public money 'spent under the loose political methods which prevailed-apart altogether from the graft bills paid to the Matsons, the' Reids' and the Alexander, and you need not be surprised at the alarming financial condition which these administrative'prodigals find themselves today. Mrs Ralph Smith next addressed the "meeting on behalf of the Equality League. For thirteen years the Woman's Equality League had been, to the government and had been turned away each time without the request for the suffrage granted. The Liberals had promised that when they got into pow er that they would give women the privilege to vote. She had firm faith in the Liberals and the party. One of the reasons advanced _a gainst woman suffrage was that the men did not think it right for the women to go to the polls. But in all walks of life the men were met by the women���������they married them, they jostled up against them on the street bought from the men, they lived with the men, and wiiy not vote with the men. GOOD WORK is what you will, say when you have seen our bath room after we have installed the plumbing Sanitary bath room appurtenances are as-requisite to health as a doctor is when you are ill. Our work is always A-l, and our tory. WM. ROBERTS Plumbing Shop Q.ld Creamery Bldfj. Abbotsford /pi? 1 a ^i Fine fresh supply of "Haida" LtlOeOlateSl and���������' "Ganongs" Celebrated Chocolates. Ico Cream, Sundaes, Soft Drinks, etc. We are hot weather specialists. Tryriis. WW PAY CASK FOH FKFSH UGGS. ALBERT LEE, Be. Abbotsford Baker ���������..uujiuuatiaBBg E. O. Brundage Painter and Decorator If you want any artistic work in Painting, Paperhanging ancl Decorating give us a call. Practical work at practical prices IMtlSSliYTHItlAN CHUHOTI NOTICE Pastor���������J. B. D. Gladys Ave. Abbotsford Hote atsqui MISSION CITY, B.C. M. MacDoriald. TL Watson, Mgr. EUROPEAN PLAN ' Rates 50c, 75c and $1.00 per day First Class Grill and Bar. in Connection. Free Sample Room. The leading Commercial House of the Fraser Valley. Porfer meets all trains L. Campboll, B. A. Abbotsford Services���������Sunday Cchool 1.0 a. m. Public Worship 11 a. in. , ; Teacher's training Class 3 p.m. Publllc Worship 7:30 p. m.. Choir Practice, Friday at 8 p. m. Meeting for Bible Study and Prayer, Wednesday at 8 p. m. Huntingdon Sunday School, 2:15 p. m. ��������� ; Public Worship, 3:30 p. m. HOUSE TO RENT���������At Abbotsford High situation, newly painted. Apply to James M. Milstead, Abbotsford. . WANTED to rent 100 to 150 acres, house and barn, with option to buy. W. P. Challes, Box, 20, Eburne Station, Eburne, B, C. f63'I ' . H. JONES Funeral Director Furnisher of Funeral Supplies Phono Connection. Mission City gMMwiUlllg^lIlMlMI tmsazi m������������m^ji..lif|ln.���������..Hir"^,'l,j'llJ''"'������,���������^'���������mra m-^KmraJ*���������,,ii,,.,vlmWm������uiu*irm* NOTICE Mrs. J., F. Boyd leaves todayt for Milwaukee, Wis. where she will witness the graduation exercises ot the Kindergarten Teachers' Normal class in which her daughter will be a participant. After these exercises Mrs. Boyd will proceed to Green Bay, Wis., i'or a brief visit to relatives. Mrs. and Miss Boyd will then leave for Winnipeg where Miss Boyd lias been appointed Playgrounds Supervisor for the two months of July and August. Mrs. Boyd will meet Mr. Boyd's mother, from Hanover, Ont., at Winnipeg :Or Edmonton and, the two ladies will then come through to Abbotsford. HOTEL ARRIVALS Abbotsford Hotel��������� Jas. E." Martin from Vancouver J. Younger, from Vancouver Ben Way, from Vancouver Joe Baines, from Kilgard Lome Jackson, from Vancouver J. M. Clark, Abbotsford John Lockhart, from Vancouver A. Lehman, from New York 13. H. Lees, from Vancouver Hert Lindsay, New Westminster C. F. Robinson, New Westminster Jno. Elliott, from Vancouver W. Mil!, from Vancouver II. Brown, from Vancouver F. Elliott, from Vancouver W. .). Rodgers, New Westminster U. S. Ross, New Westminster J. Windcjuist, Huntingdon Davis, from Aldergrove M. Wilson, form Vancouver G. Dnun, New Westminster Brown, New Westminster Application 'for the ' position of Market Commissioner will be received by the secretary of the Fraser Valley Development League, Box 149, Now Westminster, up to Monday noon, June loth. Applicants to state qualifications, salary expected, and their experience, if any,'in any similar line of work. J. W. CUNNINGHAM orseshoer an ������& A Good Stock kept for Carriage and Wagon lirs First-class Carriage Fainter, in Connection c A. E. w II. i KILN DIIIBI) Hoard Ends can now he obtaiisod' from tho mill.....Order at once while the stock lasts. #2.50 for a. large double wagon-box full dc- livevcd Cheapest and best summer wood you can buy. Abbotsford Timber & Trading Co. m. h r���������if ,r,m UK a The Guaranteed ������OW������ DYE for B<B8T)d3.of Cloth. Clean, Simple, No Chanco of MiMnkcs. TRY IT ! Si'Rd f������>r I'r������e Color Curd nnil Unohlct. -Richardson Co. Limited ,&#>fl ... I i There are many lines of work about the farm which may be don by the electric, current to great advantage. The first cost of installing a small motor is insignificant compared with the time and labor which will be saved by its work at a small cost for current Pumping water, grinding feed, sawing wood, operating cream separators, churns, etc.,,are classes of farm work for which electricity is now generally used. ' The provision of electric current also makes it possible for you to have the convenience of modern lighting as well as the facilities for using electric labor saving apliances such as Irons, Washing Machines, etc., in the house. . See our Light and Power representative at Abbotsford if you are interested in saving of time and labor.made possible by using the electric current. n SEE THIS APPLIANCE AT OUR SALESROOMS. ��������� B. C'Electric LIGHT & POWER OFFICE, AD JOINING STATION, ABBOTSFORD "��������������� III m
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Title | The Abbotsford Post |
Publisher | Abbotsford, B.C. : J.A. Bates |
Date Issued | 1914-06-05 |
Description | The Abbotsford Post was published in Abbotsford, in the Fraser Valley region of southwestern British Columbia. The Post was published and edited by John Alexander Bates, and it was the first paper targeted specifically at the Abbotsford area. The paper has since been bought and sold a number of times, and continues to be published to this day under the title of the Abbotsford News. |
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Abbotsford (B.C.) |
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Language | English |
Notes | Print Run: 1910-1924 Frequency: Weekly |
Identifier | Abbotsford_Post_1914_06_05 |
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Source | Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives. |
Date Available | 2011-10-05 |
Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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AIPUUID | 409b67c4-f07e-40bb-8520-b121cbc96af9 |
DOI | 10.14288/1.0168758 |
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Longitude | -122.329167 |
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