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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 30, 1914
Page
4
Woman’s Auxiliary of St Matthew’s Wins copal charm event at Mr and Mrs Boyd residence in Abbotsford on Wednesday evening. Attendees enjoyed a pleasing social, with remarks noting generosity and hospitality.
An informal report notes a large birthday gathering hosted by Miss Zelgter at her residence on Wednesday evening, with guests enjoying refreshments and the celebration reportedly ending around 1 a.m. Nearby residents observed activity and the Abbotsford firm announced completion of sections of a construction project including a new foundation setback and planned timber camp resumption within days.
The Abbotsford Boys Scouts and Mission City troop will present a varied program of recitations readings and sketches in Mission City on Meb The receipts will be shared between the two teams and the show will later be repeated in Abbotsford.
Assistant Livestock Commissioner Dr Tolmie of British Columbia and Dr Creamer from the prairie provinces travel to Ottawa to confer with Livestock Commissioner John Bright on next year’s program. This year the Dominion government spent 200000 dollars to place pure bred male stock with farmers, much of it in the west. Next year 400000 dollars will be devoted to this purchase and again the majority will be spent in the four western provinces.
The Rev G A Wilson, superintendent for missions for British Columbia, addressed Aldergrove church workers and managers. He highlighted the need for self supporting missions to reach Canada’s immigrant population, showed northern province scenes by magic lantern, and noted strong local contributions. Residents welcomed Mrs McDonald and wished success to her enterprise as other local notes included a cottage exchange, a churnyart gathering, and a corrected price remark on Sumas Lie Manufacturing.
Mrs. D Miller of Wiley died while wintering in Long Beach California. A member of the Chadseys pioneer family from Chilliwack since the sixties, she was predeceased by her husband. Her sisters Mrs W A Stose and Mrs G W Chadsey and Mr and Mrs Isaac Kipp were with her. A large stone house near Suinns Lanting on the Fraser remains as a land mark of the family.
A Canadian Magazine promo in Toronto touts a subscription offer paired with a land lot east of the New Hazelton townsite in Central British Columbia. The deal combines a $2.50 yearly magazine with a $31 lot, with payment details and names of supposed readers sprinkled through a chaotic, promotional notice.
A published notice indicates no Sumas Diking Commissioners have served for about five years in Victoria. The missing commission has halted talks with Rice & Co. for the Sumas Dyke construction. Local residents fear the dyking scheme may stall and urge the commissioners to explain the situation promptly.
New York correspondent reports Harriet Lebadie just returned from studying Ife in Alaska and finds no women’s rights issue there. She quotes the London Standard saying even the men up there haven’t.
In a Douglas Alaska tale a group of twenty women formed an art class during a bitter winter. They staged a small exhibition to raise funds for prints for Boston and faced a 40 license fee, which they could not pay. The piece contrasts Alaska’s high living costs, food shortages, dog sleds, and wages, noting a miner’s workers earn about $5 a day while staples like tomatoes and lettuce are government grown.
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