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Newspaper
Abbotsford Post
Location
Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
2
The Abbotsford Post publishes weekly notice of advertising rates for legal notices and inter est items. Rates are 2 cents per line for first insertion and a line for each subsequent consecutive insertion. The paper lists government notices and legal advertising details.
Damp weather greeted the weekly market yet strong attendance from farmers and buyers persisted. Meat supply was tight but price levels held, vegetables moved freely including beets parsnips and turnips. Potatoes edged up near 30 dollars per ton while seed potatoes remained scarce and egg prices ranged around 27 to 60 cents per dozen with demand tied to levels.
Provincial public works plans maintenance gangs along the Canadian Highway and other roads to improve road standards. A recent conference of road superintendents supported continuous maintenance with crews, gravel and grading equipment, ditch cleaning, and weed control. The first gang is on the Shawnigan Drive, part of the Island highway from Victoria to Nanaimo, praised for its systematic upkeep.
Each week new families settle on small plots within two to three miles of Abbotsford. On Thursday this week the Se district population grew with families of Messrs. Allsop and Simmons joining the area.
The piece profiles W. J. Robson the Windsor station Montreal advertising chief for Canadian Pacific Railway advertising over half a million dollars in annual spend. Born in Lindsay Ontario he built a career in journalism and New York advertising before returning to Canada leading CP ads and shaping the New York branch of the Canadian Club.
Robert Laird Borden, premier of Canada, is linked to the Kentish Bordens of Headcorn and Borden near Maidstone. A lineage table traces from Henry Borden in 1380 to Richard Porden who left Headcorn in 1658, to Matthew the first white Rhode Island birth, John Samuel’s Nova Scotia land purchases, and to Borden’s rise as Canada’s head.
Jean Blewett, a Canadian poet, merges common sense and feeling in verse. She is noted as one of the country's most popular poets, author of The Galaflower and Heart Songs.
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