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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 26, 1918
Page
3
Mt Lehman correspondent reports Neil McLean son of M McLean Hast Burnaby wounded in the arm while serving with the Canadian Engineers overseas for over a year. Clarence Marsh seeks nose treatment at New Westminster hospital after infancy infection. Mrs Lacroix welcomed a healthy baby boy. Nicholson bought a five year old trotting mare in Vancouver with speed to burn.
The Clayburn Society hosted a whist drive and dance on Friday. Linden Seiden won the gentlemen’s first in whist. Mrs. Hunt took the Indies’ dish. Attendees included J. J. Plummer, T. Shone, Mont, F. Seldon, L. Seldon, D. McMorran, Virtue, and several others. J. M. Curtis of Huntingdon owns twenty five acres near Huntingdon and plans to hire girl berry-pickers.
The legislature voted unanimously to give 5000 to Lady McBride and a similar amount to the infant children of the late Premier Brewster in honor of Sir Richard McBride and the late premier. The note adds a line about small white onion sets being best for planting, with yellow and red onion varieties as alternatives.
A garbled excerpt lists abstract concepts and social categories with quirky definitions and quotes. It pairs phrases like immortality and justice with odd descriptors such as dewdrop galley and waiting for fate, mixing prosaic terms with playful misprints. The piece reads as fragmented glosses or a lexicon fragment from a periodical.
Mrs. Fred Pakenham of New Westminster thanks Mission City and Hatzle friends for kindness since enlistment. She especially praises Patriotic Fund officers for unfailing support during military service in an April 24 1918 message.
Government discussions on the taxation act covered canneries farms and mines. Farm improvements remain exempt up to 1600 dollars while the 1917 mining tax was altered significantly. The 1917 act taxed mining output at two percent plus a ten percent income levy.
The YMCA reports extensive wartime support across France and England with 96 branches in France and 79 in England plus dug-out camps, over 120 overseas secretaries, and 300000 letters daily. It outlines $133000 for athletic gear, beds, pianos, gramophones, and moving pictures, and notes free tea and coffee, magazines, and huts built in 1917. Concerts, lectures, and personal interviews boost morale, with profits reinvested for soldiers.
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