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^be penticton flkese VOL. 4. No. 22. PENTICTON, B.C.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1909. $1.00 Per Year In Advance THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. B. E. Walker, President. Alexander Laird, General Manager. ESTABLISHED 1867 Paid-up Capital, $10,000,000 Reserve Fund, - 6,000,000 Branches throughout Canada, and in the United States and England. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT Deposits of $1 and upwards are received and interest allowed at current rates. Accounts may be opened in the names of two or more persons and withdrawals made by any one of them or by the survivor. Penticton Branch - - J. J. HUNTER, Manager. *��-^^.*�� mtzr^mm.**' m%* ���mMM, ��g�� ��^�� tt *mm, tt j XMAS SPECIALS ( I 20 Per Cent. DISCOUNT 20 ! (I will give this discount off any leather* / upholstered chair in stock. (Borne Early--Get First Qhoice J , ��� We have a large stock of other goods to choose from. 1 f Give a useful gift. It is money well spent if spent in I ' TT1!! fr\ i+i i fa L Furniture. J C. A. C. STEWARD, Phone 9. J Wt-^mmmAit -mjm. t2t **��* tt mmm. wS* -mm. tt "mam ��g�� ��<>�� tt ^mm tt 1 THE PENTICTON SADDLERY CO, 'PHONE No. 41. DEALERS IN Harness and Saddlery Goods of all kinds, Boots and Shoes, Trunks, Valises, Horse Blankets, Robes. Agricultural Machinery, Wagons, Etc. fire, Life and Accident Insurance. Boot and Shoe Repairing a specialty. What you don't- see step in and enquire for. AGENTS FOR V. TAYLOR, Summerland. DAN WILLIAMS, Penticton. W COMMERCIAL Livery, Feed and Sale Stable DIGNAN and WEEKS, Proprietors. If you ./ant a Stylish Outfit, this is the place to come. You can always get teams just when you want them. We make a specialty of keeping good horses, safe rigs, careful drivers and also saddle and pack horses. We are also putting in Hay and Grain for sale, and as we buy for cash we get the best rates and our patrons get the benefit. Special Attention To The Wants Of Commercial Men. CHRISTMAS GIFTS. Penticton Stage qnd Livery Stables. Stage Connects with Steamer "Okanagan" at Penticton, with Great Northern Railway at Keremeos, and with stage to Hedley and Princeton. Leaves at 6 a.m Pianos and Furniture moved to all points, and a general Draying Business transacted. Saddle and Pack Horses. Top Buggies, Four-horse Rigs for Commercial Men. W. E. Welby, Prop. Penticton. Christmas Specials The following is a short list of attractive goods particularly Suitable for Christmas Gifts : MEN'S FELT SLIPPERS, per pair $ .75 to $1.35 LADIES' FELT SLIPPERS, per pair 1.25 to 2.00 MISSES' FELT SLIPPERS, per pair 1.10 MEN'S SILK CROCHET TIES (individual boxes).... 1.00 FRY'S CHOCOLATE BON-BONS, box $ .65 to 1.50 JAPANESE WARE at reduced prices A. H. WADE, General Merchant Phone 6. Agent for Giant Powder Co. slippers, ladies' purses and handbags, and Japanese waste-paper baskets, are among the other Stores Prepared to Meet AH Re-1 special attractions in this store. quirements of Christmas1 Trade. Never in the history of Penticton have the merchants exercised themselves to such an extent to grapple with the Christmas trade that they have this year. This applies to every department of merchandise. There is no further need of sending out of town for Christmas presents as the most fastidious tastes may be gratified right here. Certain lines of furniture, dry goods, and hardware, as well as fancy goods and toys, make" excellent Christmas gifts. The following may assist some in making a choice. A perusal of H. W. Main's advertisement oh the back page of this issue will reveal a list of toys and dolls, Christmas and New Year's cards, souvenir goods, fancy mirrors, candies, fancy boxes of stationery, books, pipes and cigars, perfumes, brushes and combs, and leather goods. In addition to these will be found Christmas tree decorations and a host of other articles appropriate for the season. Nothing could be more suitable for a Christmas present than one of those fine easy chairs seen in C. A. C. Steward's furniture store. Take a look at his hanging lamps, book cases and parlor tables. Any of those articles are useful and ornamental, and they last, Norman Hill has, suitable for ladies, fancy silk or net waists, fancy collars and belts, handkerchiefs, shawls, linen centre pieces. For men, he has fine gauntlet gloves, ties, shirts, slippers, smoking jackets, braces, etc. In addition to those, suitable presents for children may also be found in Mr Hill's store. Fanciers of jewelery, silver ware, cut glass and fine china, should take a look at the stock of Gordon Harris. He also carries a fine line of watches, clocks, souvenirs and pipes. Don't forget that Mr. Harris issues marriage licences. Get a move on���a splendid buy for Christmas. A pair of skates makes a good present for a boy or girl. The Penticton Hardware Co. can supply them. Also take a look at the pocket and table cutlery, and fine parlor lamps carried in stock. Don't overlook the men's, lad- ies'and misses' felt slippers at A. H. Wade's store; also men's silk crochet ties, Fry's chocolate bonbons, and Japanese ware. Baltimore oysters may be had Christmas week at Chas. E. Burtch's butcher shop. To ensure a Christmas turkey you must get your order in by Wednesday, the 15th inst. A pair of carpet slippers make a very appropriate gift. Lamb's wool soles and insoles may be had at Taylor & William's store. Jos. A. Nesbitt has a line of toys including dolls, doll heads, doll carriages, skates, sleighs and children's wagons, as well as local views and stereoscopic views. W. R. King & Co. have, in addition to their Ellis Street store, opened up a branch on Main Street. The latter is being | stocked exclusively with Christmas goods. Christmas confectionery, including Christmas crackers, Christmas fruits, nuts, and four-crown raisins, are found 1 in the grocery department. Pre- : sentation boxes of cigars, Christmas stockings for the children, cards, calendars, local views, fancy china, handkerchiefs in fancy boxes, fancy pin cushions, tie racks, leather cushion covers, , fancy cushion covers, fancy Same Old Advice. Do your Christmas shopping early for the clerks are human, too, and it makes them sore and surly, and it makes them sour and blue, when the mob comes in a-whooping just before the day arrives; when the crowds came in a-snooping for the bargains of their lives. Buy a rawhide for the teacher, and his soul will cease to moan; for the loved and loving preacher buy a nice new megaphone; buy a lid for Annie, and a gun for brother Frank, and a pair of skates for granny, and a kite for Uncle Hank. Try to make this Christmas sunny, joyous as a day in May; lossen up and blow your money, in the good old fashion way. Press into the hurly-burly, where the Christmas shoppers go; blow your wealth, but blow it early-give the weary clerks a'show! It's our thoughtlessness that smothers all the little good we do; we're forgetful of the others who their heavy tasks pursue; better let the children clamor vainly at old Santa's doors, than to bring more katzen- jammer to the tired folks in the stores. Buy the children nice red autos, buy a monkey on a stick: buy them dolls with tresses curly, buy them wooden bears that dance; blow yourself, but do it early���give the weary clerks a chance! Walt Whitman. Analysis of Water. Samples of water taken from Ellis Creek on Oct. 20. and fronf Penticton Creek on Oct. 21, which were forwarded for analysis by the Penticton Bpard of Trade to the Provincial Laboratory at Victoria, have proved, upon test, to be very satisfactory. The letter received along with the analysis states that all three samples are fit for use. At the time the water was taken from the creeks, it was believed that it would possses as many, if. not more, impurities than any other season of the year, it being just after a heavy rain in the early fall when a considerable amount of impurities from decaded vegetable matter would be expected to wash into the stream. The facts hereby elicited should prove of value in view of the contemplated installation of a domestic water system. If the water close by town is fit for human consumption, there is little to be gained by going farther up stream. The cost to the municipality of a water system would be reduced to a fraction compared to that entailed by going seven miles back. Following is the result of the test: WATER ANALYSIS NORTH FORK OP ELLIS CREEK. Sample of water taken from the running water of the North Fork of Ellis Creek at the point where Carmi-Beaverdale Trail intersects. Sample taken by J. J. Hunter and M. C. Kendall. Total Solids 4 grs. per gal. Chlorine .5 " " " Free Ammonia .048 parts per M. Albuminoid Ammonia .08 parts per M. ' ELLIS CREEK. Sample of Ellis Creek water taken from the running water at at a point about 60 yards above the intake dam of the Ellis Creek Irrigation System, sample taken by W. J. Clement. Total Solids 7 grs, per gal. Free Ammonia .012 parts per M. Albuminoid Ammonia .12 parts per M. Chlorine .3 grs per gal. PENTICTON CREEK. Sample of Penticton Creek, taken from running water at a point about 150 yards above the head-gate dam of the Penticton Creek Irrigation System. Sample taken by H. L. DeBeck. Total Solids 5 grs. per gal. Chlorine .4 " " " Free Ammonia .016 parts per M. Albuminoid Ammonia .08 parts per M. Local and Personal Those having friends visiting them will confer a favor by acquainting the Press with the fact. All other local news thankfully received. Hand-painted Brooches Harris the Jeweler's. Miss M. Clement of Kelowna, is at present visiting her brother, W. J. Clement. It is expected that the V. V. & E. will be opened for passenger traffic about Dec. 5. W. R. King & Co. have opened up a bazaar in Mrs. Hood's old stand on Main Street. Miss Gladys Prentiss, of Wallace, Idaho, is visiting her sister Mrs. Chas. Burtch for the winter. Steward's ad. offers an inducement to buy a useful Xmas gift. Miss Margaret Scott, of the B. C. Hotel, returned on Wednesday after a few months' absence at the coast. f> On account of the anniversary service to be held in the Methodist church on Sunday evening, the Baptist service will be cancelled. Preparations are being made by the Literary Society for a mock trial to be held in Steward's Hall next Thursday evening. Don't miss it. The Anniversary of the Methodist Church will be held on Sunday evening next. Rev. R. J. Mclntyre, of Summerland, will preach. Whether or not railroad prospects are responsible, conditions in Penticton appear to be improving. There is hardly a vacant house in town. Durable and lasting presents for everybody at the Jeweller's. E. J. Finch, Chief of the Fire Brigade, has called a practice meeting of the Brigade in the Council Chamber next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. The Methodist Ladies' Aid will hold their anniversary dinner and concert in the church on Monday evening. Mrs. McGregor will recite. Admission, 50 cts. For the balance of the present month I am offering special inducements on beef by the quarter or side. Chas. E. Burtch. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dracass, arrived on Monday from Payn- ton, Sas., and will make their home in Penticton, Mr. Dracass having previously purchased some fruit property here. A meeting of the Fire Brigade was held in the council chamber on Monday evening for the purpose of- electing officers. E. J. Finch was elected Chief and J. Power and J. Partridge lieutenants. Two and three fourths inches of snow fell on Wednesday. This is the first of the season with the exception of a quarter of an inch that fell on the sixteenth of last month, Warmer weather should follow. Acceptable Xmas present from 20c. up at Harris the Jeweller's. Municipal nominations will take place on the second Monday in January, and the elections on the following Saturday. Three school trustees in addition to the council, will be elected. Trustees Wilton, Rogers and Mitchell retire. An old maids' convention will be held (D.V.) in Steward's Hall on Feiday, Dec. 17. Any who are interested in the suffragette question should not fail to attend. Bachelors, come early and get first choice of seats. Doors open at 7:30. Admission 50c.; children 25c. John Conlin, of Kelowna, this year sold $600 worth of tomatoes from U acres of land at i of a cent per pound. Mr. Fleming, of the same place, this year sold $500 worth of onions and last year $600 worth from li acres. John Casarso grew thirty tons of onions to the acre this year. See Jos. A. Nesbitt's Christmas ad. in this issue. The Press has just received a copy of "Progressive Fernie," the city that grew in a year. It is a large illustrated booklet containing an account of that city's rise from the ashes after the disastrous fire of August, 1908, to August of the present year. The booklet is replete with cuts of the city before and after the fire, views, public buildings, leading citizens, and bodies corporate. On Saturday last, when the lake was rougher than the1 oldest inhabitant ever remembers having seen it and the Okanagan was held up by the severe storm, Mr. E. Bentley of the Okanagan Lake Boat company, safely crossed from Naramata to Summer- land in the Greybird, which a few months ago was turned out of their workshops. The launch behaved beautifully and proved its thorough seaworthiness. ��� Summerland Review. The Press cannot publish anonymous contributions. No paper will; and we do not think we should be expected to bear the responsibility for articles to which the writers hesitate to append their names. We do not object to publishing an article under a nom de plume if the writer does not wish his name to appear in print, but the name of the writer must be made known to the editor in order that he may satisfy himself that the contribution has been written by a responsible person. Come and inspect our stock anyway; its your own fault if you don't buy. See our free watch guessing contest in this issue, Harris the Jeweller. S. C. Richards, D. V. S., of Kelowna, will visit Penticton next Tuesday, and will be prepared to do all kinds of veterinary and dental work at reasonable prices. Dr. Richards, who has been located at Kelowna for a year, is a graduate of McGill University and a member of the B. C. Veterinary Association, jtnd has had fifteen years practical experience. He purposes making regular visits to Penticton if the amount of work justifies. Refer to any prominent business man in Kelowna. T. G. Wanless, agent for the Kaleden subdivision, spent Thursday in Penticton. Work has been discontinued on the Kaleden irrigation and domestic water system for the winter, but it is expected that the water will be running in good time in the spring. The dams for the storage reservoirs, to insure permanency will be built with cores of cement instead of timber. An electric lighting plant will be installed in connection with the water system. Mr. Wanless believes that a domestic water system is the great need of Penticton. THE PENTICTON PRESS, PENTICTON, B.C. DECEMBER 11, 1909. DIRECTORY. PENTICTON Population, wo. Area, 7,044 acres. Maximum temperature 1908, 95b F.; minimum temperature 1908, ���! Si F. ineorxiuratnd inw a District Municipality Jan. 1, 1909. Located at south end of Okanagan Lake. Communication by C. P. K. t-team- ejs un ii:.aiiaKitn Lake. Wub m mad connect! with PumtnevJri'id on west skfu of lake and all point* to the iwrtft; sIm with Naramata pn ea��t ."ide of lake, Okomuratl Falls, Fairview and Boundary country to the south, and all Similkameen points to ta.* sout;iwe&t. The milueBt climate in Canada east of the coast. Public school with four departmeats. Nursing Home. Cannery. Two nurseries. Chief industry, the growing of fruit. more particularly peaches and other teniier kinds. Twelve hundred acres planted. Excellent boating and bathing in the summer. Beautiful scenery. A sunny climate. An ideal place to spend either tLe .4u;ninei- or winter months. For oupinw nlaeea see our advertising columns. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL M<*?ts Thurnlay ��-vtjninp�� in Council Koom, Smith rtrwt a. U. Wade, Beove, Cha*. Were, Clerk. SCHOOL BOARD meets lsi Monday in each month at - p. m. K. Wilton, Sec'y-Treas. BOARD OF TRADE Annual general meeting. 2nd Wednesday \a January uf each year. General Quarterij nu < i iiigs, '/..io. \\t (lac days in January, Ap il July and October al a p.m. Affiliated ��vitl Ul ana* gan Buavda of Trade. J. J. Hunter, fctefc,; IL C. Aendall, Sec'y. CHURCH SERVICES St. Saviour'* Church, Fairview Avenue ; Vicar hev. J. A. Cleland. Celebration of Holy Com- muuiott tne 1st and 3rd Sundays of the mom) after 11 o'clock matins; the and nnd 4th Sunday at 8 a. in. Morning prayei at 11 a. n. Evensong ai 7:30 p. rn. Preshyteriaii services each Sunday in church a( 11 a.m. or 7:00 p.m. Kev. W. .1. Allen, pusu.:. Baptist services each Sunday in church, at 11 a. m. or 7:30 p. m. Presbytt-rian and Baptist services alternate, morning and evening. Methodist services in church each Sunday at 7:00 p.m.; .iunday bchool 2:45 p.m. Kev. G. G. Fallis. B. A., pastor. Young Peoples' Christian Union meets in tin irtuthudist church every Tuesday at i> p.m. THE PENTICTON PRESS rSSUED EVERY SATURDAY AT PENTICTON, B.C. BY W. J. CLEMENT. ���Subscription $1.00 Per Year in Advance. Foreign, $1.50. Advertising Rates: Transient Advertisements���Not exceeding one inch, one insertion, 50c.; for each additional insertion, 25c. Lodge Notices, Professional Cards, &c. $LO0 per inch, per month. Land and Timber Notices���30 ''ays, $C; 60 days, $7. Legal Advertising- First insertion, 10 cents per line; each subsequent insertion, 5c. per line. heading Notices in Local News Column 15c. per line, lir.-:t insertion; 10e. per line, each subsequent insertion. Contract Advertisements-Rater, arranged acc-jr''i.'��tr to space taken. Chric ore All changes in uo.itract auv.?rtfae- :ricnts mast be in the hnrjils of the printer by Tuesday evening to ensure publication in the next, issue. MAIN STREET. For the Christmas season we have opened up a nice assorted stock of Christmas goods in Mrs. Hood's old stand, Main Street, where we ^will be able to serve our customers to better advantage, as we are crowded for room in our Ellis Street premises. It will be to your advantage to visit this store when doing your Christinas shopping* Here are a few of the lines carried:��� SOCIETIES A. P. & A. M. meet in Mason's Hall, Main St., lsi Tuesday in each month at 8 p.m, W. O. \V. meet in Wood mens' ifail, Ellis St., 2HC1 and 4th Saturday in each month at & p.m. i. O. O. F. meet in Odd Fellows' Hail, Main St. every Monday at H p.m. L. O. L. meet in Woodmen's Hall 2nd and 4t! Friday in eacli month at 8 p. m. STAGES Stajre leaves for Keremeos, Hedley and Prince ton, a: 6 a. m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Keturns on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days. Stage leaves for Fairview and Oroviile on Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays at tjitfu a. m. He turns on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays ai POST OFFICE Hours 9 a. in. to 5 p. m. Registered Letter and Money Order wickc closes 6 p. in. Wicket opened for half an hour after mail ii distributed. Arrivals���Per Str, Okanagan: Daily except Sunday ii p, nu; Per Stage from Hedley, Here meos, Olalla, Allen Grove, Oroviile, Fairview ami White Lake: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days at 6 p. in, Closing��� Kor boat and stages: 8 p. m. daily. C P. R. TIME TABLE SHUSWAP & OKANAGAN BRANCH Daily both way* during summer except Sunda.. Str. Ol'-anagan leaves Penticton 5 a. m. Train arrives nt Sienmous 6.16 p. m'. Train leaves feicamous H.2& a. m. Str. Okanagan arrives at Penticton 6 p. m. HOTEL. I'KNTICTC >N. First-Class Accommodation For Tour ists or Commercial Men. RATiiS $2.50 PER DAY; A. Barnes - - Prop. PENTICTON. B.C. W.'H. T. GAHAN BARRISTER and SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC PENTICTON, - - B.C. R. B. KERR, BARRISTER & SOLICITOR Notary Public. KELOWNA, - - P.. C Dr.CAJACKSON DENTIST S. O. Land Company's Block PENTICTON. B. C. 'Phone It. Engineers Report on Value of j Summerland irrigation System. CHAS WERE Accountant & Auditor, Notary Public PENTICTON, B. C The Herris Nursery Co., Ltd. PENTICTON, B.C. WE SOLICIT YOUR ORDERS for HOME-GROWN FRUIT TREES Deserving of particular mention are our CHERRIES, and DWARF and STANDARD PEARS all the best varieties. We also have Shade Trees, Shrubbery, Climbing Vines and Roses. (From Summerland Keview.) There was a special meeting of the municipal council on Nov. 30th when the councillors met with Mr. J. M. Robinson, manager of the Summerland Development Company, for the purpose of receiving the reports of the engineers who have been valuing the holdings of the Summerland Development Company and the Garnett Valley Land Company. The reports in part were as follows: IRRIGATION SYSTEM. Summerland Development Co's Irrigation System : Value of system $75,000 Expenditure on same necessary during 1910, before 1911 s 58.000 When this is done, the net revenue therefrom in '11 and after will be 10.030 . Capital value on which a net revenue of $10,000 is earned, calculated is, say 133.000 Less capital expend'ro required 58,000 Present value 75,000 Estimated cost of necessary improvements, $58,000. The total irrigable area under the system is 4489 acres on which 3184 are sold and on which water rates were paid in 1909.. Of the unsold lands, we estimate that 600 acres will be payirg rates in the near future and 405 acres not cultivable. Under the Trout Creek Main and dependent upon it for water supply are 2600 acres, and in addition to this, conveyor is used to augment the supply in Prairie Creek and ^Gneas Creek. Water records and sources : Trout Creek 2700 inches ^Eneas Creek 400 " Prairie Creek 300 " Town Spring 200 " Head water lakes 1600 " Total 5200 " There oppears to be m'pre than suffiicient water in the natural flow of the stream up to the end of June. From our examination of the Headwaters of Trout Creek, there is sufficient 'storage area to meet demands to end of season. DOMESTIC WATER SYSTEM In connection with the Domestic Water system the engineers reported��� The value of the work based on the cost of installing, less depreciation is $17,000. . The net revenue derivable therefrom, without allowing any FANCY CKINAWARE Hand-Painted and Hand-Decorated, in a variety of articles. Tea Sets, Sugar and Creams, Chocolate Jars. Fruit Sets, Cups and Saucers. Etc. Fancy Decorated Jardiniers, in all sizes, at exceptionally low prices. FANCY DRY GOODS and NOTIONS Fancy Belts, Belt Buckles, Collars, Handkerchiefs, Etc. NOVEKTY CHRISTMAS GOODS Hat Pin Holders, Match Scratches, Pin Cushions, Pipe Racks, Tie Racks, Watch Pockets, Souvenir Calendars of Penticton, Christmas Cards. MEN'S FURNISHINGS Silk Suspenders, Kid Gloves, Lined Mocha Gloves, Neckties, etc. FRUITS and CONFECTIONERY Apples, Oranges, Dates, Figs, Turkish Delight, Glace Fruits, etc. NUTS and CANDIES Walnuts, Almonds, Filberts, Brazils, Pea- Nuts. A big assortment of Lowney's, McCormick's, and Victoria Cross Chocolates in 1 and \ pound boxes. Cadbury's English Chocolates in great variety. Our stock of Candies is too large to enumerate here is now being used for lighting. The only expansion of revenue from the present plant would be in developing a market for power in the day time. There are 831 lights connected and there are outlets for 1000. GAUNETT VALLEY SYSTEM The value of the Garnett Valley Irrigation System at this date is $23,000. The net revenue derivable therefrom after due allowance for operating, maintenace and improvement sinking fund is $1950. There requiries to be spent on the system in the immediate future, $5000. The capital value on which a net revenue of $1950.00 is earned calculated at 7 per cent, is $28,- 000, less capital expenditure required, $5000. Present value $23,000. Estimated cost of necessary impiovements, $5000. AREA UNDER SYSTEM The total irrigable area under the system is 950 acres, of which 793 are sold 157 unsold. Computing the maximum revenue charbeable under the Summer- land Development Co's contract $5 per acre on the whole of the sold lands and on one half of the unsold, there would be 872 acres at $5 per acre-$4350.00 gross annual revenue. Ask for one of our 1910 Calendars. Remember our main store is still on Ellis Street where we have a duplicate stock of above. W. R. KING & CO. Ellis Street. Main Street. �� FREE CUES To everybody. (�� HOW LONG WILL IT RUN? m HARRIS, The Jeweller. <g) KEEP YOUR E\K ON OUR WINDOW. ��� Quick, p0 y0yr pipes neec| Cleaning ? Clean ASK F0R Though. "IMP" SOOT DESTROYER. FULL LINES IN HEATERS, ROASTERS, CARVER:,, SKATES.. SEE OUR "BEIXE OAK" C'OAI. tSi WOOD ID5ATER. PENTICTON HARDWARE CO. Still Unsold FROM LAYRITZ NURSERIES, Victoria and Kelowna. A few thousand JONATHAN, McINTOSH RED, WAGNER, NORTHERN SPY, ITALIAN PRUNES, Etc. All good stock and true to name. 20,000 trees grown at Kelowna this year, and can still supply the above from here, as well as from Victoria. Write to ALBERT E. BOYER, Kelowna, for information. V. V. & E. over Hope Mts. WANTED���BEACH ACRE LOTS. List them with us. KENDALL & M,... sinking fund for depreciation is AGENTS FOR KAT I^I^ITTIV Compete domestic a $705.00, about 41-4 per cent, on J^Jt^M-aJLaM^ X^l^l rigsbc-p system by s MONEY TO LOAN-NOW ON HAND For Pall Planting BULBS from tho best European and Japan growers. HOME GROWN fruit and ornamental trees���grown on upland soil without irrigation in the only part of the American continent not infested with San Jose scale. Garden, Field, and Flower Seeds��� tested stock from the best growers in the world. Wire Fencing nnd Gates. Spray Pumps, Fertilisers; see Supplies, Ciit Flowers, Spraying Materials, Etc. White labor only. New lf>7 page Catalogue free. M. J. HENRY, Greenhouses and Seedhouses��� 3010 Westminster Road, Vancouver, B. C. Branch Nursery���S. Vancouver. (From Similkameen Star.) Word has been received in Keremeos that the C. N. R. Co.'s right-of-way agent has orders to proceed at once to the upper valley and complete the purchases of right of way along the survey west of Princeton; also that the contracts for "a considerable distance will be let at once so that work can be continued during the winter in those portions where it is mostly rock work. A despatch from New Westminister states that a party of Great Northern engineers who have been in that city awaiting orders, received word on the 17th inst. to finish the survey of the line eastward from Abbotsford, the present terminus of the V. V. & E. Only a few details remain to be completed. It will be a welcome announcement to the people of the Similk- meen that the work of building is to be carried on without stopping for the winter; for though they have not as a rule shared the pessimism as to the Hope route that had seized many outsiders���even the Premier himself���yet they had become used to long interruption in the work, and would not have been surprised at further delay. Chief of construction, J. H. Kennedy, is reported to be under orders to proceed to Abbotsford, the prsent end of construction from the coast. L. M. Hale will be resident engineer here. Construction will begin from Abbotsford east and from Princeton westwards. Steel is expected to be laid on the coal spur in about a week. To Insure Getting Your Christmas Turkey Orders Must be in by Dec. 15. Baltimore Oysters In Lulk. For sale Xmas week. Phone 2i CHAS. E. BURTCH. $705, the capital. The system is capable to extension and incorj oration v ith a general system ovtr the mui.ic- pality. ELECTRIC LIGHT SYSTEM The total value of the Electric Light plant and equipment was placed at $17,000. Net revenue at presents derivable therefrom per annum��� showing a return of 10 per cent, without allowing for a sinking fund, $1,700.00 The full capacity of the plant and ir- spring. Motor launches Repairs, Batteries, Spark Plugs, Gasoline, Oil, Grease, Etr, OKANAGAN LAKE BOAT CO., Limited, NARAMATA, - B.C. tstos Attention ���MMH1K MM^i^ Grape Vines finest stock $10 to $15 per 100. Largest list of varieties. If interested send for free price list on general nursery stock. ROSKFIKJ J.1 Nt liSKRY 179 GELLATLY, B. C. & At J. A. NESBITT'S Ellis Street Toronto. I 850 acres; largest Nursery in Canada. 35 years experience. Mr. Edmondson, Sunny Glen Ranch, Proctor, B. C., under date Oct. 9, says ? We have planted 2000 trees' and they are all Stone & Wellington, and we are so well pleaded with their trees that we have ordered 2000 more for this fall delivery. It lias always been our belief that it was better to plant out trees from a more severe climate than our own, and last winter's experience has greatly strengthened that belief. Not one inch of wood was damaged last winter in the trees we had out j at that time. We have only about 60 trees that are bearing and they are only 4 years planted, but they are all true to name. We have never had any fear but that Stone & Wellington wonld be ..hove suspicion or we would not plant their trees to the extent we are doing. i Why not plant Canadian-grown stock? Guaranteed true to name and healthy, i Phone or write me. i S. J. KINNEY, Penticton, B. C. I / It Pays to Advertise XMAS GOODS CARDS, DOLLS, DOLL CARRIAGES, TINSEL GARLANDS, FESTOONING, GAMES, BOOKS, DOMINOES AND MASKS. Etc., Etc. THE PENTICTON PRESS, PENTICTON, B.C. DECEMBER 11, 1909. # K THE CONQUEST t CANAAN By BOOTH TARKINGTON, Author of "Cherry." "Monsieur B��uc��lre." Etc. COPYRIGHT. 1 DOS. BY HARPER BROTHERS t- "No. sir." cried the other, "mars the trouble; ye don't Uuow. There'8 more iu Canaan than ye've understood. Listen to this: Why was the Tocsin's attack harder this uioruing than ever before? On yer soul didn't it sound so bitter that it sounded desprit? Now, why? It looked to ue as If It had ���tarted to ruiu ye, this time fer good and all! WhvV What liave ye had to do with Martin I'ike lately? Bag the old wolf got to lujure ye?" Mr. Shee- han's voice rose and bis eyes gleamed uuder bushy brows. "Think," be finished. "What's happened lately to make bim bite so bard?" There were some laded rosea oo the desk, and as Joe's haggard eyes fell upon Ihem the answer came. "What makes you tbink Jud:,'e Pike Isn't trustworthy?" be bad asked Ariel, and her reply had been. "Nothing very definite, unless It was bis look when I told hhu that 1 meaut to ask you to take charge of things lor me." He got slowly aud amazedly to bis feet "You've got It!" be said. "Ye see?" cried Mike Bbecban, slapping his thigh witU a ig band. "On my soul I have the penetration! Ye dou't need to tell me oue thing except this: 1 told ye I'd lead ye somewhere. Haven't I kept me word?" "Yes," said Joe. "But I have the penetration!" exclaimed Mr. Sheehan. "Should I miss my guess If I said that ye tbink Pike may be scared ye'll stumble on bis track in some queer performances? Should I miss it?" "No," said Joe, "you wouldn't miss it" "Just one thing more." The red bearded man rose, mopping the Inner band of his straw bat. "In the matter of yer running fer mayor, now"��� Joe, who had begun to pace up and down the room, made au impatient gesture. "Pshaw!" he interrupted, but his friend stopped him with a hand laid on his arm. "Don't be treatln' it as clean out of . all possibility, Joe Louden. If ye do, It shows ye haven't sense to know that nobody can say what way the wind's blowin' week after next All the boys want ye; Louie Farbach wants ye, nnd Louie has a big say. Who Is it that doesn't want ye?" "Canaan," said Joe. "Hold up! It's Pike's Canaan ye mean. If ye git the nomination ye'd be elected, wouldn't yeT* "I couldn't be nominated." "I ain't claimin' ye'd git Martin Pike's vote," returned Mr. Sheehan sharply, "though I don't say It's Impossible. Ye've got to beat him, thafs all Ye've got to do to him what he's done to you and what he's try In' to do now worse than ever before. Well, there may be ways to do it and if he tempts me enough I may fergit my troth and honor as a noble gentleman and help ye with a word ye'd never guess yerself." "You've hinted at such mysteries before, Mike," Joe smiled. "I'd be glad to know what you mean If there's anything in tbem." "It may come to that" said the other, with some embarrassment "It may come to that some day if the old wolf presses me too hard In the matter o* tqriR' to git the little man across the street hanged by tbe neck and yerself mobbed fer belpln' him. But today I'U say no more." "Very well, Mike." Joe turned wearily to his desk. "I don't wait yea to break any'promises." Mr. Sheehan had gone to the deor, but he paused on the threshold and wiped his forehead again. "And I don't want to break any," he said, "but If ever tbe time should come when I couldn't help It"���he lowered his voice to a hoarse, but piercing, whisper��� "that will be tbe devouriu' angel's da/ fer Martin Piker* m4 CHAPTER XVIII. IT was a morning of the warmest week of mid-July, and Canaan lay inert and helpless beneath a broiling sun. The few people who moved about the streets went langaid- ly, keeping close to the wall on the shady side; the women In thin white fabrics; the men, often coatleas, carrying palm leaf fans and replacing col- ] lars with handkerchiefs. In the court- i bouse yard the maple leaves, gray with blown dust and grown to great breadth, drooped heavily, depressing the long, motionless branches with their weight- so low that the four or five shabb* idlers upon the benches beneath now and then flicked them sleepily with whittled sprigs. | The doors and windows of the stores stood open, displaying limp wares or trade, but few tokens of life, tbe clerks hanging over dim counters as far as possible from the glare in frout, gossiping fragmentarily. usually about the Cory murder and anon upon a subject suggested by the sight of au occasional I pedestrian passing perspiring by with scrooged eyelids and purpling skin, j From street and sidewalk transparent hot waves swam up and danced themselves Into nothing, while from tlie riv er bank a half mile away came a sound hotter than even the locust's midsummer rasp, the drone of a planing mill. Greater heat thnn that of these blazing days could not hnve kept one of the sages from attending the conclave | now. for the battle was on in Canaan, nnd here upon tbe National House corner, under the shadow of the west wall. It waxed even keener. Perhaps we may find full justification for calling what was happening a battle in so far as we restrict the figure to apply to this one spot. Elsewhere In the Canaan of the Tocsin the conflict was too one sided. The Tocsin had indeed tried the case of Happy Fenr in advance, hnd convicted and condemned and every day grew more bitter. Nor was the urgent vigor of Its attack without effect. Sleepy as Main street seemed In the beat, the town was Incensed and roused to a tensity of feeling It had not kuown sluce the civil war. when, ou occasion. It bad set out to hang half n dozen "Knights of the Gol en Circle." Joe had been hissed ou tlie street many times since the Inimical clerk had whistled at him. Probably demonstrations of that sort would have continued bad he remained in Canaan, but for almost a month he had been absent and his office closed. Its threshold gray with du;t. There were people who believed that he had run away again, this time uever to return, among those who he'd to this opinion being Mrs. Louden and her sister. Joe's step-aunt. Upon only one point was everybody agreed���that twelve men could not be found In the county who could be so far persuaded and befud died by Loudeu that they would dare allow Happy Fear to escape. The women of Canaan, incensed by the ter rible circumstances of the case, as the Tocsin colored It���a Man shot down in the act of begging his enemy's for giveness���clamored as loudly as the men. There was only the difference that the latter vociferated for the hanging of Happy: their good ladles used the word "punishment." And yet, while the plac,�� rang with condemnation of the little man in the Jail and his attorney, there were voices here and there uplifted on tbe other side. People existed, it astonishingly appeared, who liked Happy Fear These were for the greater part obscure and even darkling In their lives, yet quite demonstrably human beings, able to smile, suffer, leap, run and to entertain fancies: even to have, according to their degree, a certain nidi- nientary sense of right and wrong, in spite of which they strongly favored the prisoner's acquittal. Precisely ou that account. It was argued, an ac qulttal would outrage Canaan and lay it open to unt.ild danger. Such people needed a lesson. Tlie Tocsin interviewed the town's great ones, printing tbelr opinions of the heiuousuess of the crime aud the character of the defendant's lawyer. "The Hon. P. J. Parrott, who so ably represented this county in the legislature some fourteen years ago, could scarcely restrain himself when approached by a reporter as to his sentiments aneut the repulsive deed, i should like lo kuow how loug Canaan is going to put up with this sort of business,' were his words, i am a law abiding citizen, aud I have served faithfully aud with my full endeavor and ability to enact the laws and statutes of my state, but there is a Itolnt lu iny patience, I would state, which lawbreakers and their lawyers may not safely pass. Of what use are our most solemn enactments. I may eveu ask of what use Is the legislature Itself."chosen by the will of the people. if they tire to ruthlessly be set aside by criminals and their shifty protectors? The blame should be put upou the lawyers who by tricks enable such rascals to escape the rigors of the carefully enacted laws, the fruits of the solon's labor, more than upon the criminals themselves. In this case if there Is any miscarriage of justice I will say here anil now that in ray opinion tbe people of this county will be sorely templed, and., while I do uot believe in lynch law, yet If thnt should be tbe result It is my unalterable conviction that the vigilantes may well turn their Attention to the lawyers or lawyer who brings about such miscarriage. I am ���Ick of It'" The Tocsin did not print the interview it obtained from Louie Farbach��� the same Louie Farbach who long ago hud owned a beer saloon with a little room behind the bar. where a shabby boy sometimes played dominoes and seven up with loafers; not quite the same Louie Farbach, however, in outward circumstance, for be was now tbe brewer of Farbach beer and making Canaan famous. His rise bad been Teutonic and sure, and be contributed one-twentieth of his Income to the German Orphau asylum and one-tenth to his party's campaign fund. Tbe twentieth saved the orphans from the county, while the tithe gave the county to his party. He occupied a kitchen chair, enjoying the society of some chickens in a wired inclosure behind the new Italian villa he had erected in that part of Canaan where he would be most uncomfortable, and he looked woodenly at the reporter when the latter put his question. "Hit you any agualntunce off Mitster Fear?" he Inquired lu return, with no expression decipherable either upon his Gargantuan face or In bis heaviH enfolded eyes. "No, sir," replied the reporter, grin- SUN LIGHT Sunlight Soap cannot spoil your clothes. There are no injurious chemicals in Sun- light Soap to bite holes in even the most delicate fabric. $5,000 are offered to anyone finding: adulteration in Sunlight Soap. ,, wmwH Lifebuoy Soap is delightfully refreshing for Bath or Toilet in. For washing underclothing it is unequalled. Cleanses and purifies. aing. "I never ran across him." "Dot iss a goot t'ing fer you," said Mr. Farbach stoully. "He lss not a man poebles bedder try to run across, it iss what Gory tried. Now Gory Iss dead." The reporter, slightly puzzled, lit a cigarette. "See here, Mr. Farbach," he urged, "I ouly want a word or two about this thing, and you might give me a brief expression concerning that man Louden besides, Just a hint of what you ttaiuk of his influence here. you know, and of the kind of sharp work he practices. Something like that." "I see," said the brewer slowly "Happy Fear I bef knowt lor a goot many years. He iss a goot frieut of mine." "What?" "Choe Louten Iss a bedder one," con- luued Mr. Farbach, turning again to tare at his chickens. "Git owit" "What?" ��� "Git owit," repeated the other with iut passion, without anger, without my expression whatsoever. "Git owit." The reporter's prejudice against the let'ttiud nation dated from that mo :nent. ' There were others, here nud there, who wer;> less self contained than the brewer A farmband struck a felloe laborer lu the harvest field for speak ing ill of Joe, and the unraveling of u strange stre.'t light oue day disclosed as Its cause a I.Ue resentment on tin part of a blind broommaker, eugon dered by a like offense, Tlie broom maker's coinpau.on. reading the Toe sin as the two walked together, ha;! begun the quarrel by remarking thai Happy Fear ought to be hauged once for his owu sake and twice more "t<> show up that shyster Loudeu." Warm words followed, leading to extremely material conflict, in which, in spite of his blindness, the broommaker had so much the best of it thnt he was re moved from the triumphant attitude he had assumed toward tbe person of Uis adversary, which was au admirable imitation of the dismounted St. George and the dragon, aud conveyed to the jail. Keenest Investigation failed to reveal anything oblique iu the man's record. To the astonishment of Ca uann, there was nolhing against him. He was blind aud moderately poor, but a respectable, h:\rdworklng artisan and ���\ pride to the church in which lie was what has beeu called an "active work er." It was discovered that his sens! tiveness to his companion's attack on Joseph Louden arose from the fact thai Joe had obtained the acquittal of an imbecile sister of the blind man. a two thirds witted woman who bad been charged with bigamy. The Tocsin made what it could o' this, and so dexterously that the wrath of Canaan was one farther Jot Increas ed against the shyster. Aye, the town was hot. Inside and out. Let us consider the forum. Wn> there ever b.'fore stub a summer foi the National House corner? How voices first thundered there, then cracked and piped, is uot to be rcn dered in all the tales of the fathers One who would make vivid the grem doings must indeed "dip h's brush i earthquake and eclipse." Even then lie could but picture the credible ami must despair of this���the silence of Eskew Arp. Not tbat Eskew held his tongue, not that be was chary of Jpeech���no! O tempora, O mores! No! But that he refused the subject In baud, that he eschewed expression up on It and resolutely drove the argu ment in other directions, that he achieved such superbly ut\Arpllke In consistency, and with such rich mate rial for his sardonic humors, not at arm's length, not even so far as his finger tips, but beneath his very palms lie rejected it. This was the Impossible fact. Eskew���there Is no option but to de clnre���was no longer Eskew. It is the truth. Since the moruiug when Ariel Tabor came down from Joe's office, leaving her offering of white roses In that dingy, dusty, shady place. Eskew had not been himself. His comrades observed It somewhat in a physical dif Terence, one of those alterations which may come upou men of his years sud ilenly. like a "sea change." His fact- was whiter, his walk slower, his voice filed thinner. He creaked louder wheu he rose or snt. Old always from his boyhood, he had in the turn of a hand become aged. But such things come aud such things go. After eighty there nre tips nnd downs. People fading away one week bloom out pleasantly the next, and resiliency Is not at all a patent belonging to youth alone. The material change In Mr. Arp might have been thought little worth remarking. Whnt caused Peter Bradbury, Squire Buckulew aud the colonel to shake ..ic. ueaut srvicnj lu our auumn Dull wonder If their good old friend's mind had not "begun to go" was something very different. To come straight down to It. he not only abstained from aJl argument upon the "Cory murder" and the case of Happy Fear, refusing to discuss either in any terms or under auy circumstances, but he also declined to speak of Ariel Tabor or of Joseph Louden or of their affairs, singular or plural, masculine, feminine or neuter, or in any declension. Not a word committal or noncommittal. None! And his face when he was silent fell Into sorrowful and troubled lines. The voices of the fathers fell to the pitch of ordinary discourse; the drowsy town was quiet again; the whine of the planing mill boring its way through the sizzling nlr to every wakening ear. Far away on a quiet street it sounded faint ly, like the hum of a bee across a creek, and was drowned in the noise of men at work on the old Tabor honse. 11 seemed the only busy place In Canaan thut day, the shade of tbe big beech trees which surrounded it affordini; some shelter from the destroying suu to tbe dripping laborers who were sawing, hammering, painting, plumbing, papering and ripping open old and new packing boxes. There were many changes In tbe old bouse���pleasantly in keeping with Its simple character���airy enlargements now almost completed so that some of the rooms were already finished and stood, furnished and Immaculate, ready for tenancy. Iu that which had been Roger Tabor's studio sat Ariel, alone. She had caused some chests and cases stored there to be opened and had taken out of them a few of Roger's canvasses anil set them along the wall. Tears filled "/ want to know," he pursued, "why it was kept secret from me." her eyes as she looked at them, seeing the tragedy of labor the old man had expended upon tbem. but she felt the recompense. Hard, tight, literal as they were, he had had his moment of Joy In each of them before he saw them coljly and kliuw the truth. And he had been given his years of Paris at Inst nnd had seen "how the other fellows did It." a heavy foot strode through the hall, coming abruptly to a halt iu the doorway, and. turning, sbe discovered Martin Pike, his big Henry VIII. face flushed more with anger than with the heat. His hat was upon bis head and remained there, nor did he offer any token or word of greeting whatever, but demanded to know when the work upon tlie bouse bud been begun. "The second morning after my return," she answered. "I waut to know." he pursued, "why It was kept secret from me, and I want to kuow quick." "Secret?" she echoed, with a wave of her band to indicate the uolse which the workmen were making. "Upon whose authority was It begun V" "Mine. Who else could give it?" "Look here," he said, advancing toward her. "don't try to fool me! Yon haven't d me all tills by yourself. Who hired these workmen?" Remembering be/ lirst interview with hint, she rose quickly before be could come near her. "Mr. Louden made most of llle arrangements for me," she replied quietly, "before he went away. He will'take charge of everything wheu he returns. You haven't forgotten thnt I told you I intended to place my affairs In his bands?" He had started forward, but at this he stopped and stared at ber inarticulately. "You remember?" she said, her hands resting negligently upon the back of the chair. "Surely you remember?" She was not In the least afraid of him, but coolly watchful of him. This had beeu her habit with him since her return. She had seen little of him except at table, when he was usually grimly laconic, thot gh now and then she would hear him joking heavily with Sam Warden lu the yard, or, with evidently humorous intent, groaning at Mamie over Eugene's health; but it had not escaped Ariel that he was ou bis part watchful of herself and upon his guard. He did not answer her question, and it seemed to ber as she continued steadily to meet his hot eyes that he wus trying to hold himself under some measure of control.'aud a vain effort it proved. "You go back to my house.1" he burst out. shuutiug hoarsely. "You get back there! You stay there!" "No," she said, moving between him and tlie door. "Mamie and I are going for a drive." "You go back to my house!" He followed ber, waving au arm fiercely at her. "Don't vou come around hare trying to run over me! You talk about your 'affairs!' All you've got ou earth is this two for a nickel old shack over your bead and a bushel basket of distillery stock tbat you can sell by the pound for old paper!" He threw tbe words In her face, the bull bass voice seamed and cracked with falsetto. "Old paper, old rags, old iron, bottles, old clothes! Vou talk about your affairs! Who are you? Rothschild? You haven't got any affairs!" Not a look, uot a word, not a motion of liis escaped her in all the fury of sound and gesture in which he seemed fairly to envelop himself. Least of all did that shaking of his���the quivering of jaw and temple, the tumultuous agitation of bis bauds���evade her watchful ness. "When did yon find this out?" sbe said very quickly. "After you became administrator?" He struck the back of the chair she had vacated a vicious blow with his open hand. "No, you spendthrift! All there wns to your grandfather when you burled him was a basketful of distillery stock, 1 tell you! Old paper! Can't you hear me? Old paper, old rags"��� "You bave sent me the same Income," she lifted ber voice to interrupt "You have made the same quarterly payments since his death tbat you made before. If you knew, why did you do that?" He had been shouting at her with the frantic and incredulous exasperation of an intolerant man utterly unused to opposition, his face empurpled, his forehead dripping and his hands ruthlessly pounding the back of the chair, but this straight question stripped him suddenly of gesture nnd left bim standing limp and still before her. pale splotches beginning to show ou his hot cheeks. "If you knew, why did you do it?" she repeated. "You wrote me that my income was from dividends, nnd I knew and thought nothing about It. but If the stock which came to me was worthless bow could it pay dividends?" "It did not," be answered huskily. "That distillery stock, I tell you, isn't worth the matches to burn it." "But there has been no difference in my income," she persisted steadily. "Why? Can you explain that to me?" "Yes; I enn," he replied. And It seemed to her thnt he spoke with a pallid nud hitler desperation, like a mnn driven to the wall. "I can if you think you want to know." "I do." "I sent it." "Do you menu from your own"��� "I mean it was my own money." She had not taken her eyes from his, which met hers strnigbtly and angrily, and at this she loaned forward, gazing at him with profound scrutiny. "Why did you send il?" she asked. "Charity," be answered after palpable hesitation. Her eyes widcued, and she leaned back against tho lintel of tlie door, staring at him Incredulously. "Charity!" sho echoed in a whisper. Perhaps he mistook ber amazement at his performance for dismay caused by the sense of her own position, for as she seemed to weaken before him the strength of his own habit of dominance came back to bim. "Charity, madamT' he broke out. shouting intolerably. "Charity, d'ye hear? I was a. friend of tlie man that made the money you and your grandfather squandered; I was a friend of Jonas Tabor; I sayT That's why I was willing to support you for a year and over rather than let a niece of his suffer." " 'Suffer!' " she cried. " 'Support!' You sent me a hundred thousand francs!" The white splotches which had mottled Martin Pike's face disappeared as if they had been suddenly splashed with hot red. "You go back to my house," he said. "What I sent you only shows the extent of my"��� "Effrontery!" The word rang through the whole house, so loudly and clearly did she strike it- rang in his ears till it stung like a castigation. It was ominous, portentous of justice and of disaster. There wns more thnn doubt of hlin in It- there was conviction. lie fell buck from this word, and when he again advanced Ariel had left the house1. She had turned the next orner before lie enme out of tlie gate, ind ns he passed his own home on his ,va,V downtown be saw her white dress ningling with bis daughter's ntiar the lorse block beside tlie ttrs. where tbe wo, with their arms about each other, tood waiting for Sam Warden and the ���pen summer carriage. Judge I'ike walked on, the whrte plotches reappearing like a pale rash upon his face. A yellow butterfly zigzagged before him, knee high, across tlie sidewalk;. He raised his foot and half kicked nt it. CHAPTER XIX. jt S the judge continued his walk /\ down Main street he wished / \ profoundly that the butterfly, A. Ik which exhibited no annoyance, had been of greater bulk nnd more approachable, and it was the evil fortune of Joe's mongrel to encounter him in tlie sinister humor of such a wish unfulfilled. tTn he continued.) E.J.FINQH Painter, Paperhano\er and Sig\n Writer Picture Framing a Specialty. WALL PAPER Carried in Stock. MAIN STREET. Subscription $1.00 Year. THE LUMBER QUESTION. When it comes to a question of where to buy Lumber, you can decide quickly. At Smith's Lumber Yard, of course. We have Lumber here to suit all comers, no matter what their demands may be. It will pay you to get our prices on your next bill. S. C. SMITH LUMBER CO. Weather Report. Observations at Dominion Government Meteorological Station at Penticton for the month of November 1909: MAXIMUM MINIMUM TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE 1 46J 40 2 53J 40 3 56 351 4 471 36 5 46 28 6 50 29 7 45 40 8 51 42 9 511 31* 10 471 37$ 11 45 27 12 35 27 13 35 17 14 32 131 15 34 181 16 ...341 28 17 37 32 18 43 34 19 48 291 20 47 30 21 45 31 22 431 37 23 57 35 24 47 21 25 421 24 26 39 261 27 46 35 28 531 44 29 54 281 30 451 30 31 Average 44.93 30.93 The total rainfall was .68 inches. WATER NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that an application will be made under Part V. of the "Water Clauses Act, 1909," to obtain a license in the Similkameen Division of Yale District. [a] The name and occupation of the applicant: J. H. Ripley, C. Ripley, and B. Ripley, Myer's Flat, B. C, farmers. [bj The name of the lake, stream.or source : A lake west of Lot 3101 about thirty chains, now known as Bear Lake. [c] The point of diversion: In Lot 8101. [d] The quantity of water applied for (in cubic feet per second): Two (2). [e] The character of the proposed works: Ditch, flume and pipes, and a dam at lake. [f ] The premises on which the water is to be used: Lots 3101, 479, 450, 507. [g] The purposes for which the water is to be used: Domestic and irrigation. [h] If for irrigation describe the land intended to be irrigated, giving acreage: All of Lots 3101, 479, 450, and 507 that can be farmed. [j] Area of Crown land intended to be occupied by the proposed works : One acre. [k] This notice was posted on the 25th day of November, 1909, and application will be made to the Commissioner on the 25th day of December, 1909. J. H. RIPLEY, C. RIPLEY, 21-4 B. 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KDiMili MASON PENTICTON gwgBMBgyaasra Money to Loan. AGENTS. COMMUNICATIONS (We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of correspondents.) To the Editor of The Penticton Press : Dear Sir:���Re Cemetery site, I would like to make the following suggestions through the columns of your paper. Will those gentlemen, who subscribed their names to the attack on the Reeve in last week's paper, together with the councillors who for some reason are not supporting the Reeve when they are equally responsible for the selection of the site, constitute themselves a committee for the purpose of examining all sites they think are suitable, bearing in mind that rocks and sand are not acceptable to the vast majority and also where water is close to the surface it is not acceptable to those who drink from pumps. In passing, it is anyones privilege who can get the required number of signatures to petition to ask the council to introduce a by-law for a cemetery. Unlless people have somet hing DEFlNfTE and as (or more) suitable, they should not knock what is already before the people. I do not believe that Mr. Wade had any intention of being arbitrary in this matter however it may appear to those who object to it. Yours truly "One who drinks water from a pump on the Flat." is destined to become a railroad divisional point. It should also be a distributing centre for |the country north and south. Other Assets:==Unrivalled climate, thousands of acres of peach and apple orchards producing next year, beautiful lakes, rivers and sandy beaches. Investigate what property sells for at other Okanagan points that possess not half our advantages and then you will know what bargains we offer. Main Street Lots, 30 to 46 feet front, $250 to $400. Martin Street Lots, 30 to 46 feet front, $200 each. Lake Front Lots $10.00 a foot front. Some Lots in Old Townsite, per block, $10.00 each. ( ���BBaBBt*g���aMawgaaBM�� The Southern Okanagan Land Company, Limited. Additional Locals We have received a copy of "The Gospel Text Calendar." ,for 1910, published by H. S. Hallman of Berlin, Ont. It contains thirteen large sheets, beautifully printed in colors, suspended from a silk cord. Each sheet except the cover contains a design of a bible with a bible text for each day in the month, and at the lower end of the sheet a calendar for the month in large figures. The publisher desires an active agent in each county or city to sell the calendar. Price 25c, each; sample copy and prices to agent 15c. Send for a copy to H, S. Hallman. Berlin, Ont. On Friday of last week the P3ople of Penticton were afforded the pleasure^bf hearing and seeing J. W. Bengough, the famous cartoonist and entertainer. Steward's Hall was practically filled, and all were delighted with the entertainment given. Mr. Bengough not only draws cartoons but sings, and recites poems of his own composition. His cartoons were clever and amusing. One depicting Premier McBride with a lantern looking for the Liberal party solicited a great deal of merriment. Very lifelike cartoons were also drawn of Capt; Esta- brooke, of the Str. Okanagan, the Reeve, A. H. Wade, and Councillor, Henry Murk. Toys and Dolls Teddy Bears are still very popular. We have some splendid lines. Also a nice assortment of dolls and the more staple toys. Prices from 25 c. up. XMAS & NEW YEAR'S CARDS Call in and see our new assortment. We have some very beautiful cards from 2 for 5c up. Special value in boxes of 10s for 35, 50, 75, $1.00- Main's Pharmacy WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR CHRISTMAS GOODS Souvenir Goods We have some very pretty Views of Penticton. Very suitable as a present to absent friends. Prices from 20 cents to 60 cents' each. Fancy Mirrors We have a very fine line of fancy mirrors suitable for both ladies and gentlemen. From 50c to $5.00 The perplexing question at this time of the year is what to buy at moderate cost for a CHRISTMAS GIFT that will combine all the essentials of elegance, practicability and appropriateness. A visit to our store cannot fail to offer many valuable suggestions. , ^ WE SELL HONEST GOODS AT HONEST PRICES Candies We carry Lowney's and McCormick's goods because we know they are the best. They cost no more than inferior lines." In half-pound or one pound boxes. Also in bulk. FANCY BOXES of STATIONERY We pride ourselves in being able to give you splendid values in PRESENTATION BOXES Prices from 75 cents to $1.00 a box. Books A book is at all times a very acceptable gift. We carry some of the latest copyrights. Also some very nice books for boys and girls, and a lovely line of Leather Bound Poems. Pipes and Cigars For Christmas we are carrying some of the best imported lines. Also some very nice G. B. D. briar pipes. Perfumes Just received��� A beautiful line of French perfumes in very handsome boxes. Most lasting quality. Brushes & Combs We have a nice assortment of ebony goods ���something suitable as a gift for either lady or gentleman. We are Agents for Eastman's Kodak Supplies. Leather Goods We can show you as good assortment as you will see in iarger cities. You will find prices are right. Souvenir Leather Goods, Ladies' Hand Bags and Purses, Gents' Wallets, Cigar Cases, etc, ALLEN GROVE. . W. H. Crook and wife, of Mar- ron Lake, spent a Sunday recently at Fruitland Farm> T. G. McAlpine finished up the season's work on Ritchie's flume last week. John Thompson, from Vernon, a nephew of Angus Smith, will make his home here in future. Miss Edith Farleigh has gone to Penticton, where she will attend school. There is practically no snow in this locality at present. NARAMATA. Mrs. R. H. Giboney, of Kaleden, prior to an extended visit south to see her parents, is a guest for a few days at the home of Mrs. Pittman. The band boys were persuaded to hold their practice on Monday in the opera house, where Mr. Manchester was helping a few out with their dancing lessons. The result was quite a profitable evening and a good deal of sport. The outcome of it was that at Wednesday evening's dance the band provided music of quite a high order for several of the numbers. Hitherto the dancers have depended upon the gramophone. Messrs. McKay & Dawson have recently completed the construction of a substantial residence for Mr. and Mrs. Block, sr. A fair-s ized crowd went across the lake on Thursday evening to attend the opera "As You Like It." C. W. Davies has announced his intention to remove with his wife and family to Vancouver. The merry ring of axe and saw announces the advent of winter. Our first fall of the "earth's white mantle'' occurred here on Wednesday, much to the delight of the youth who were soon enjoying themselves on their rusty sleds. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Robinson and daughter left on Thursday morning on an extended trip to Toronto. Preparations for the annual ball to be given at New Year's are in progress. , This time the event will be conducted under the auspices of the Athletic Club and will be on a more elaborate scale than in the past. Further announcement will be made from week to week. cr 0) 3 z c 1 s to' VI - > mm *, 3 t> P I f^ H r o tt 50 . * o w o cr a 3 m v. rn r��� O O a tt>T.:nm 3 3 2.2 m e 3 ". S'cSJ Ol 1 ft 2 ^ rt S3=,���� E*�� ? 3 aw = a r.o 3.5,3 a Ka f<> ����� tt t�� < in % �� 11" CD H>0- & �� 3 O 3 3 -n c H t ft ft to FOR SALE Few S. C. Brown Leghorn Cockerels from prize winning stock.. Pullet mating. Brownie Poultry Yards. 19-4 W. K. McCORMACK. Artistic Hair Cut. Easy Shave. Hot Baths. At H. MURK'S. tub PENTICTON DAIRY Daily delivery of Fresh Milk to all parts of the town. H. M. McNeill, . Prop. DO IT NOW���SUBSCRIBE. Peterboro' Skiffs Canoes, Launches Are acknowledged to be the best on the market. We sell them f.o.b. Penticton at as low a figure as they can be bought at any other point in the Okanagan. Consult us before purchasing. 16�� foot Canoe Skiff, painted basswood, 1 pr oars $58.00 17 " " " " 2 ����� 62.50 18 " " " " 2 " 65.00 17�� *���*��� " " " 2 " 62.50 These are very seaworthy skiffs, easy to row, and well finished. With the exception of the 16& foot are all fitted with four seats, bow and stern seats removable. All are fitted with keel which adds to their steadiness^ Paddles furnished without extra cost with each canoe skiff. 16 foot Varnished Cedar Skiff, 2 pr. oars $65.00 17 do do do 70.00 18 do do do 75.00 Thes 9 are built after the clinker or lapstreak style ; are very strong an i are extremely safe boats. Four seats in each, and all fitted witl i keel and rudder. 16 foot Canoe, painted basswood, 2 paddles $45.00 164 47.50 Yj" n " " " 50.00 15 " varnished " " 50.00 |A ' H tl It " 60.00 J6 " varnished cedar strip " 65.00 Co' .isult us if you wish to purchase a Gasoline Launch. W. J. CLEMENT.
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