@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "25d7f7f7-f3c3-44fd-ae6d-8a3da8e8e176"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "BC Historical Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:issued "2013-01-23"@en, "1921-07-28"@en ; dcterms:description "Okanagan Commoner is merged with the Enderby Press and Walker's Weekly."@en, ""@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/xenderby/items/1.0179300/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note " m0ntt IN WHICH IS MERGED THE ENDERBY PRESS AND WAL KER'S WEEKLY. Vol. 14, No. 17, Whole No. 092 Thursday, July 28, 1921 Subscription $3 per year Local News and Comment on Men, Things and Events Good morning! Here's when nobody gets cold feet. Mrs. Jas. Bell was a visitor from Mara on Monday. Major Feilden was a visitor to Enderby on Wednesday, from Mara. Mrs. Ing, of New Westminster, is visiting,, her mother and father, Mi\\ and Mrs. Tedford. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Dill and daughter of Nelson, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Dill this week. I-ast Sunday saw many autos from Enderby at Mara Lake, where the bathing was greatly enjoyed. During\" the month of August the doors of- the Walker Press office will be closed Thursday afternoons. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Oppertshauser are visiting their son, Charles, and family, from Stoney Plains, 'Alta. Over half of British Columbia's fruit crop will this-year be shipped from the Okanagan���������������������������nearly 3,000 cars: r\"v-2ed cloth and woolen blankets are now being manufactured in B.C. from the wool off the backs of B.\" C. sheep: Ten. million dollars was paid out by the people\"' of B. C. last year in exchange, for which there was no return. Mrs. T. E. Woods is visiting her son. W. J., ana family, accompanied by a neice, Miss Weiss, of New Westminster. The.. Provincial government paid out $700 in bounty on crows in the vicinity--of Oyster Harbour, Vancouver Island..Q ���������������������������. - . The wholesale price of sugar !s down to $7, a hundred in Montreal. Wl\"be extended to Monday, August 1st. Dep ancl Wing are reported to have taken over the Union Hotel on a five- year^ lease, and are closing their restaurant on Cliff street. It is understood , Chas. Johnson will open a barber shop in the restaurant block. IC Vernon carries out the plan now proposed of oiling the roads leading into and within that city, it will soon be the most attractive centre in the Okanagan. And the beauty of it will be in the example it will set for other localities to emulate. In the little town of Werda, in the kingdom of Dahomey, there is a long building in which priests keep upwards of 4,000 serpents of all sizes. They have no moderation law in Dahomey, and no doubt the priests use the snakes with good effect. Lightens the Darkness on Question of Highways Some Last Friday City Clerk Rosoman I It was apparent at the drop of the roceived word that on Saturday the hat when thc Minister and Dr. Mac- KXXSKX :t XXXX X X X X X X X MjVRA ITEMS X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Wm.Owen went to Vernon on Wednesday. Ben Green was a passenger to Vernon on Saturday. IMrs. I. Campbell and children is visiting here from the Coast. James Bruco returned from Van- cials questions of road work ancl couver, having undergone an opera- other matters affecting the city and tion oh his eyes, which promises, in' the Provincial Government. Some time, to give ihim much-improved time ago the City Council received sight. ' j the following communication from The haying is about finished, and the Department of Public Works, has been put under cover in first-'under date of May 7th: class condition. Taking it all around,1 To the City Clerk, Enderby, B.C. the crop is the best this locality has' Sir: On Vjehalf of the Honorable tart \"entered into an explanation that town would be visited by Hon. ���������������������������Dr. King, minister of Public Works, who desired to take up with tlie city offl- donald met the c)(.ty officials, that neither was feeling in the spirit of listening to what the city had to\" put before them. It was hot, and Dr. Mcadonald carried a chip on his shoulder. , \"Another attempt to, get something out of. tho Government,\" he threw in the . teeth of the officials .before they had time to explain their object. c Snapped up short. Alderman Col- ever harvested. the Minister of Public Works, I beg to advise, pursuant to Sec. 39 (1) (a) and (b) of the Highways Act Amend- increased the heat of the afternoon considerably. - He called attention to the Act itself; its classifications, ancl the proposal that came unsolicited from the Department. The visit same, after which an agreement!of the Minister, as he understood it. covering secondary highways will was to hear what the town had to. XXXXXXXXXXXXX)! ment Act 1920, that the highways re X . GRINDROD NOTES X ferred to in attached statement have XXXXXXXXXXXXX)! bcen classified as stated thereon. ��������������������������������������������������������������� ti i T.. . _ , s. Kindly signify your approval of Miss Helen Monk returned home ������������������-������������������\"������������������.> a *> from Revelstoke this week. Miss D. Bouch left on Monday for be submitted to yau for ratification lay before him. While he did not Vernon to be'.absent for the summer, by by-law of your Municipal Council Haymaking is about finished here. Some wonderful crops are reported. Mr. Jereau, of the V.C.X.L. powder company, was in Grindrod on business last week. \"W. J. Monk and'S., MacAusland returned to Grindrod after a few weeks spent on \"the Prairie. , . * Miss J. Crandlemire ancl. Miss In response to this letter from thc Department the City Clerk wrote as follows, under date of May 17th: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the -7th inst. enclosing statement showing that the portion of the Vernon-Salmon-- Arm -road lying between the\" south and north boundaries of the City of Enderby, ,has been classified as a primary Kennedy, of Alberta, are visiting ^ highway, and (2) requesting cthat friends here a short time. - j approval of .this classification be Mr. and Mrs. Wilfrid Crandlemire signified, after which you will sub- ���������������������������,���������������������������! tan., arrived _*������������������-..��������������������������� Bru���������������������������, '.#������������������* ZSr^^Z W' In reply I am instructed by thc wick last week on an extended visit to Mrs. C. Crandlemire. Municipal Council of this' city tq thank you for your letter and to re- What a pity that C. N. R. railway'x KXXXXXXXXXXXXX x\"turn the statement above referred to grade into the Okanagan from Kan,-, X GRANDVIEW BENCH NOTES X.^Ptie TgnaTure rtHh WorS loops to Kelowna .cannot be. turned XXXXXXXXXXXXX XX X 'the Mayor their approval of such A. Watkins left on.^Monday to help classification of men at work keeping the fire confined. On the principle that a good tennis player should not be spoiled splitting wood, there are men who find time to play the game while their wives do the splitting of the wood. The people of B. C. paid out in exchange during 1920 an amoint sufficient to have irrigated the whole of the Interior fruit districts by means of hydro-electric power. Think it over. Mrs. Jas. Graham and hcr sister, Mrs.. Treat, spent a few days in the Peachland district last week, visiting the cherry orchards and enjoying picking and packing this luscious fruit. \"Does the baby take- after your husband, Mrs. Smith?\" \"Yes, indeed; we have taken his bottle away from him and the other day the little darling tried to creep down the cellar steps.\" Vernon is- to stage its third annual stampede next week, and promises big events of interest on the 3rd and 4th. On the night of the 4th a special train will leave Vernon for Sicamous at 11.30. ��������������������������� Superintendent Godfrey was over the Mabel Lake Valley road on Tuesday looking into the prospects for business for the telephone line which is being extended to the lake from Enderby. into an auto road. Despite all early reports of the-certainty that the rails would be laid this year, there is no i. indication that the. rails will be laid in the next- ten years. - Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Murphy and children returned form a visit of a few weeks at Ironwood. on Saturday, land report en exceptionally:, enjoyable time.\" Intense heat was encountered at many places, and there was considerable interruption of\" business and not a few deaths as a result of the-hot wave. ' The other Sunday at Mabel Lake a .young man flipped the butt of a burning cigarette into the bush by tho .roadside, and did not step on it. It set fire to-the dry leaves and soon there was the start of what might have been a most destructive forest fire. \" Fortunately another happened that way before the fire go.t headway and carried water from the river to put it out. The log drive will be down the river in^ariothVr^ln^^or^fou^ season's drive was one of the longest and most difficult the lumber company has had in many years, owing to the rapid fall of hl'ghwater. Orders were given this year, too, to clean up the banks, and many,thousands of feet of timber was recovered that has been lost to the company, some of it several seasons. -One hundred and fifty poles for the Peep Creek telephone line already are up. By a change in the route an additional 200 poles will be needed, and some delay may be experienced in getting them on the ground, but the wire will go up as soon as possible so the phone may be of service to Deep Creek farmers in handling this season's harvest by keeping a close touch on the market. The social held last Friday evening on the lawn of Mr. Peel's residence, by the Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian Church, proved -a most enjoyable affair, there being a large crowd in attendance, and the ice cream tables were kept full most of the time. Mr. Hoover with the thieshing. Mrs. -Frew and ,littleJJ daughter.- aro .visiting.,Mrs. .-.IS' Enoeti,.���������������������������' from -the Kootenays. ' ._ Mrs. J. Jamieson. and children, of Kamloops, are visiting Mrs. M. E. Jamieson. The timothy hay harvest is nearly over. There are some good crops \"in evidence. The Council will be- glad to receive^ and to ratify' by^ by-law at the earliest, possible date the agreement regarding, secondary- highwpy...-.r.ien= tioned in your letter. \" ���������������������������>_ ,-_. ENTRANCE EXAMS The results of the annual exams for entrance to High School, were announced on' Tuesday by the department of education. Of the 255n candidates who wrote, 1306 were successful. The names of those passing in the Enderby school are: ii Enderby���������������������������Mary C. McKay, 720: Kenneth W. Burnham, 666; Edna C. Demerling. 661; Alvin E. Woods. 6RS; Rena A. Dill. 627; J. Thomas Folkard. 627; William J. Dale, 615; Ernest-N-Eeel- 5S9 Grindrod���������������������������Constance Spence, 646. Huplc���������������������������Lloyd W. Large, 559. Mara���������������������������A. I-Iilma E. Witala, 703; Esther S. M. Witala, 662; Edward A. Robertson, 632. A Well-Merited Presentation A very enjoyable evening was spent in the Methodist Church. last Thursday. July 21st, ' when the members gave a surprise reception to Mr. and Mrs. Frod Johnson, nee Margaret Hartry. The church was tastefully In reply to this letter the Department of Public Works wrote, under date of.May 27th: , Referring to yours of the, 17th inst. the letter-sent you was similar to that sent to all municipalities andi obviously, iri cases where <4here are ho secondary highways', no agreement is necessary. The Highways Act's classification of a primary Vighway reads: (a) 'Primary highways,' comprising such highways affording main channels of communication connecting with important ; extra>>provincial highways, or connecting important centres of population or important terminal points, as, on the recommendation of the Minister approved by order of the Lieutenant-Governor Xn Council, are classed as primary highways: - (b .-'Secondary highways'/- _ com prising such of less general importance as, on the recommendation of the Minister approved by order of the Lieutenant-Governer in Council, are classed as secondary highways These classifications are those of the Act itself; the communication re. primary and secondary highways was sent by the Department, evidently setting' forth the Government's road policy which it was proposed to carry out. In view of this correspondence, and as the old original Salmon Arm road by way of the Teece corner answered in every de- decorated with flowers by the choir A beautiful electric table lamp and J tail the classification of the Act for electric grill was presented to Mrs. a \"secondary highway,\" and in view Johnson as an expression of appre-jof the Work of grading and gravelling elation for the faithful services ren-'of this road now being finished by dered by her in the choir. Several the city and property owners, it was speeches were made by the members felt by the Mayor and Aldermen who expressed their pleasure in being that this was a matter to be con- present on such an occasion, and also ' sidered by the Minister on his visit, wishing the happy couple every joy'and it was submitted by the Mayor in their married life. A lovely bou-! ancl Aldermen Coltart and Gaylord, quet of roses was presented by Miss in the hope that the Department May Miller, in the name of the choir, would continue the' good work and and was accepted by Mrs. Johnson, grade the road to the railway cross- Several selections were played by the who, in reply, thanked the members ing where it joins the provincial for their kindness. highway to Salmon Arm. Under the - Musical items were rendered by ' Act, the Goverment contributes 75 consider it was a capital crime to attempt to get anything out of the Department for th.e work mentioned, he wished the local representative to understand that .the Minister was there at his own solicitation, and all the city was .asking for Was .that .the Department would carry out the, requirements of the Act itself. The City and individual property' owners already had graded the road within the city limits, and all they wanted - r. the Department to do was to carry on the grading beyond the city limits to the primary road. Minister King said the Department would not ..recognize, more than the. primary highway. \"-,.\". Mayor Barnes interjected rather heatedly -the remark that work-by the Department cm.'the road \"accepted; as the ; primary^road . had been ycon- .. spicuousby. its, absence, ~and>He\"prer:; sumed- Enderby';.could'icontinue..J'toJ;doJ' the work as 'it had .done, in , the past. 5 .At this Dr.' Macdonald observed J that he did not think' it would be. difficult for Enderby .to keep up to its reputation. ' ' \", -*. - Naturally there was - little accomplished by the conference. .\"It was, in fact; rather difficult to understand; what -it was that prompted Minister. King'\" to come to Enderby if he had nothing to offer and nothing to hear. ' 't'l '- you, loVe your i.t run. it> cloWn, all you, C&ri j L let -U?i$ pLce, n TRADED wfjfL r&tfe, Si Al] anything that i.s contrary to the {railway eompanv. Shifting the Responsibility Every trade and calling today is apparently trying to convince every other branch of commerce that IT is not responsible for thc prevailing business stagnation. Tlie latest to come forward with a denial that IT is responsible is thc ..wish of his leaders, and, no mailer what thc people ask for hc has lhe unhappy faculty of turning lhat request into a partisan channel lhat usually ends in a blind alley. What h_.s been true of politics in thc United States, and in countries in Europe, is as true today of politics, in Canada, and thc_pcople of the Dominion arc as certain lo..bc heard as the people of othcr countries havc been heard. Tlie present movement of the\" people under what is known as thc United Farmers' party, is much morc than agrarian. It is the people of town, counlry and city joining in making a political clean-up. The root of lhc wrongs which hurt, the people is thc fact lhat thc people's government has been taken away from them���������������������������an invisible government has usurped thc people's government. Their government must be given hack to the people. 7\\\\id in Canada the people are going about il in thc right way to get it- In Canada, as elsewhere, special have usurped the people's government, arc bipartisan. They use both old parlies. Thcy are the invisible government behind the visible \"government- Rightly or wrongly, Ihc people feci lhat Conservative and Liberal bosses alike arc brother officers of this hidden power, .and that no matter how fiercely lhcy pretend to fight one another before election on the US riff issue, they work together\" after election���������������������������and always in the interest of the invisible government behind the visible government. It is this invisible government, which is the real danger to Can wilh the declaration that thc increased railway rates havc had nothing to do with the raising of prices and subsequent business depression. This is a good one. Unquestionably, the rais-, ing of freight and passenger rates by the railways had as much to. do with bringing on thc existing business depression as any other raise in rates by anyone else. Increased . railway rates hil everything and everybody. Every businessman had to add so much morc to his prices; every shipper of coal, lumber, wheat, meats and what-not had to add enough to his price to cover the additional freight, and the consumer had to pay the additional rate or not buy. Finally thc people stopped buying; hence the business depression. That business depression will continue just as long as high prices continue is certain. Nothing can be gained by the railroads in the attempt to shift the responsibility for business interests that depression. Every other business institution might follow thc same course, but this would not alter the case nor relieve the depression. Would it not be wiser for everybody to accept his share of the responsibility lor the depression and resolve to henceforth do his part to.reduce thc cost of living and bring back the measure of prosperity which should be ours? -1 Are We posing Ground? When a vote was taken by thc residents oi ��������������������������� jDecp Creek who arc to bc served by the tcle- ���������������������������===^adian^insl-itul/.ons^Mu.W^ minion arc alter. Thc problems which confront-Telephone Company, thcrc was only one vole in Canada today are economic and national; lhcy-favor of Enderby as thc exchange point. Thc have to do wilh a more just distribution of pros-! residents of thc norlh end of the district voted perily. They concern the living of thc people;'in favor of Salmon Arm and those of the IJuMcar and therefore the more direct government of the.end favored Armstrong- As a result of this vole people by themselves. j Salmon Arm and Armstrong will be thc cx- (change points for Peep Creek telephone service. j Naturally with thc telephone connection will go jthe business of thc district. . ... , What is the matter with Enderbv? It is much does not think much nc.���������������������������.cl. to Ocep Creek than either Salmon Arm law-providing a bounty on crows while the or Armstrong, and some vears ago was the tra- (.ovcrmncnl has no money for road (iini, point |-0V .,|| t|,;s district. Arc the business balablc question jmon lying down on the job, or arc those Salmon New overland 4 special , Now $1350 ';''*\"V> Regular <4\"f wow $JJ5Q If interested comedn and let ns show yon the points of supremacy of these ncwciirs. Carload just unloaded. They are T#$ light car of quality and duarability on the market, at a low price. Jas, McMahon & Son Fnderby The of Hull More on Roads, Less on Crows -advsmilh Chronicle rovmcia work. II says: '\"It is a wry ( as to whether crows do more, harm lhan good. True il is thai Ihey are accused of-destroying crops, and have been found in the fields of grain, etc.. but hugs tire in the habit of locating in fields of grain, and the Dominion Entomologist of -Manitoha. Mr. Norman CriddJe. makes the statement ''lhal six crows are capable 'of consuming three hushels of-'grasshoppers in onc season. To our way of thinking llie money expended on dead crows could he well used oii the roads' of lhe Province.\" Getting JResults NOT1CP! J am pveparetf to deliver m\\]}z to ������������������wy part of the Oity at }Qc a tmaweas depression waa mme by William Sproul, President of t*t Southern Pacific Railway Company, at the convention of tlie N������������������t������������������an������������������J Association of Credit ifwi ������������������t Sen Francisco last week. Jtyr. SprouJ, -ti ter alluding to the so-called \"frtyrw block; -��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� - - - -- ���������������������������aid=- hlockade\" that occurred to |! W. \"Just as it waa lightly _������������������U������������������ ~th������������������n-that_the_wilrdads_^ad_b>i>f*''r down, so now H is readily ftntfwj that tbe increase in railroad rates if responsible fo* the stagnation of business. Because transportation is so important a factor in business it would be a serious charge, jf it were true, that the railroad rates had produced the present stag-nation in business. But it is not true. _��������������������������� \"On the contrary, the railroad rates were not raised in time to enable the railroads to move the commerce of the country in its active period when the business of tht country at large could easily absorb thc increase. The fact ia that tht rates were raised and business declined at about the same time, but one had nothing to do with the otbtT as a related matter. \"In proof.of the suggestion, let we call your attention to tht water retee. The rates by water have been on the decline. Yet private owners are laying up their ships. The United States Shipping Board'* ships art laid up by the score because business is stagnant. The cause is found in the sheer inability of business to fret back on a peace basis. That is the reason business has halted. \"Yet the call of the day is that railroads reduce their rates because business is bad. This call for reduction comes from all sources and on all important commodities and from all sections of the country. I venture the opinion that if all tha railroads of this country were, by some edict, to reduce their rates one- half on every kind of traffic everywhere, there would be no appreciable increase in the volume of business moved, but the railroads would be prostrate in one common disaster that would shake the nation and call credits into question.\" The reason the newspaper graveyard is so full is shown by an editor who has been investigating the cause of so many newspaper demises. He figures out that in 1907 wages were at 100. In 1914 they had .advanced to 178, and in 1921 the figure was 393. Newsprint from 100 jumped to 177 in 1914, and to 623 in 1921. Newspaper postage, which cost the normal of 100 in 1907, was 147 in 1914, and 337 in 1921. Ink was 100 in 1907, 200 in 1914, and today stands at 331. Editorial expense jumped from 100 in 1907 to 120 in 1914, and 241 in 1921. Miscellaneous expenses went front 100 in 1907sto 125 in 1914, and to 244 in 1921. Taking the average of all newspaper costs it was found that, while the average of 1907 was 100, in 1914 it was 159. and in 1921 it reached the high mark of 411. It is not \"surprising with such figures that over 4,000 newspaper publications have gone out of existence in the United States, and a corresponding number of them in Canada. By using British Columbia fir instead of red pine in its new livestock arena, the Toronto city council and contractors on the building are saving $320,500. Lumber officials consider this quite a boost for lumber and it means that the product of this province is beginning to win its way in the jriarfccts___of__Ea&iern_jCanada__jn_co*m__. petition with pine from foreign countries. The New f*rice $842.60 complete with self-starter and all taxes paid You cannot make a mistake in buy- tig a 1921 Ford���������������������������the Universal car. Equipped with self-starter, demountable rims, one-man top. No car on the market at anything like the price will give you the satisfaction thiss car will. Let us demonstrate it to you. am Third Annual Vernon Amateur Athletic Association Sport Carnival Monster Stampede Vernon, B. G. $5, OOO in Prizes AUGUST 3 and 4. Special Train will leave Vernon for Sicamous at 11.30 p. m. on August 4th. v Hot Weather Goods Perfection and Florence Oil Stoves Screen Doors and Windows Lawn Mowers Lawn Hose and Sprinklers Watering Cans Electric Irons Plumbing & Tinsmithing McMAHON & MACK HEAVY AND SHELF HARDWARE PLUMBING AND FITTING ��������������������������������������������� APRICOTS LEAVE YOUR ORDERS NOW ! Everything you require for Preserving. Jelly Glasses; Para*wax Jars, all sizes; Jar Rings New Jar Lifters, Jar Caps of all kinds Teece & Son Hwne 48 flow.. T**4 * Groceri** u?rm$ of cww |^ro matter in wM p������������������rt pf tht wwW yw m*y f ^( travel yow cm tfw| money *t yow 4������������������{H>������������������*J f>y carry my a J-ettf r of Croftt iwwwj f������������������y tfrf pawjf of Montreal* Parncnfar* imy fit obt*mt4 from any frrencfr of thta flanV. A*-'A -*~mB.tfi PANIC of MQNTflPAL PSTABUSHEP OVP* 100 YEA** Capital Paid up JJ22.OOO.OO0 Rett #22.000.000 Total Aaaata in pxcaaa of 1500,000,000 :h A __u. PreservingTime Is always a time to \"economize in time and labor. When you start preserving fruit, see that you have everything yon need close at hand Save steps and avoid confusion. We have Sealers in all sizes and all styles of sealer tops. Ume awl Grape Juices, and all the Hot Weather Fancy Groceries in demand Men's Clothing, Boots & Shoes Groceries, J������������������tc Enderby KING EPWARP GEO. A. RANDS Ford Dealer, Enderby | King MWard ItOtel A name that stands for the best in hotel service Enderby P. H. MURPHY Proprietor"@en, "Titled Walker’s Weekly from 1908-04-023 to 1909-02-25.

Titled Enderby Press and Walker’s Weekly from 1909-03-04 to 1918-03-28.

Titled Okanagan Commoner from 1918-04-04 to 1921-12-29.

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