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*, M111111H11H1111111 f III! 11111II11HI! 11J1111 f U M11IInIHIU111!1111!H1111 If 1111111111f11II1111f tlII11111*-fhich To Live and Work)istinguiih«d Canadians on Vital » Future Welfare of Canadao WcckU Newspapers* Association111111111 • H1111111111111 111111 i 111111111111111111111111111111111111 n II1111111111111111111111111111111111ill and Miss McCoy R.N is look-| i ing after him. We hope he will soon be well again.The Ladies’ Aid met at the home of Mrs. George Allen last Saturday. There was a good turnout of members and a lot ofbusiness was attended to, thenafter a dainty and plentiful luncheveryone went home happy. Thenext meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Frank Schwerdt theCIdecent library. Let the numbeF of books taken out each week bed;shThe-nolib-far-1published and let there be a campaign to get more people reading good books. The present situation is deplorable. Get our young folks reading — reading good books, that is a big job. The church is not doing it. school teacher is not doing it body is doing it. One good ' rarian is worth many goodmers or editors.(2) The other objective is to make our country folk “beauty conscious.” Our public properties are most ugly—Our school buildings are ug!y—our churchesin the country are ugly—our town halls are a horror of ness. Our cemeteries have in recent }e?.is redeemed their ugliness through a campaign. Note the surroundings of our schools, shrub’ess, treeless, rlowerless, and some of them grassless—their only ornament a pump, a woodshed and two outhouses. Most of our churchesfirst Saturday in October.Two of the ladies in our district were kept quite busy a few days ago hunting binder twine to finish cutting crops heavier than were expected. They were successful in their hunt.CbCSThe Social Credit Study Groupmet at the home of Harry SparkstcaihiSaturday for their regular meet-Attendance was small owingmg.to the busy season. Constable Walkeruili-beenfromin the district last Saturday.Many of the men in our district are preparing to go to work on Monday at Eureka River on ourWehighway extension. we are certainly glad to hear that something is at last being done to put a road through. This is an idealfall for such work as it is so dry. Here’s honing the roadgetshoping through to Clear Prairie.We have a fire burning in thethis vear. WeWithinoura(e in a similar setting, they are bare structures indeed. Every municipality should havea board of inspectors empowered to say what ought to be said about our abounding uglinesses.And lastly our roads and highways are a sight. The auto has d’iven away the sheep who once mowed to fine sward the margin oetween ditch and fence. Look at it now—all gone to seed and buried in dust.So there to do-twothings—takeyou a e-books and beauty your cho-ce but believe me I am not grouching for the fun of it. The depression is passing—surely something besioe economics might be in the minds of us all.Now another thii g. The art of advertising has become stereo-It shouldtyped in newspapers, oe rurned inside out and upsideuown by all being rewritten in ar \'Jruinnewsy a Mount of it sixu fold.style. And theshouldincrease!_____„ ., - Today I want to buysome young stockers, also some young pigs, also a disk harr w, ! etc. Today s rmeone in the vi-icinitv wants to sell these vervthiI )ijr lt;is a I vertimgNeither buyer or sellerbath have a nat-ural r pugnance to publicity. II I ovnu a rural Daner I wouldpaperd ive for buy and sell advertisements by publishing none andttmn a whole o.isre “free”a wnoie puge tree —jusi to get ’em started. It would be on condition I rewrote to suit nr self each advertisement, and not one was published which was not f i rl accurate in description an 1 wa h—this is important— exact price was stated. An ad without a price is a'bckly ad, notworih a I oot.Ever \ ours,R P B ) WLES,Ex-Chancellor. Victoriar) \?\ri v iL /DR.)Uwiver ity, Toronto.WORSLEYI -r* :»j*r I ** ( 'orreHpondhUt)I:—Mr. and*IWorsley, Sept.Mis. Alhed Childs, of Pontiac,Micbig n, and friends, who spenr a few lt;Ja\ s visiting Mr. Childs’ parents, Air. and Mrs. George Childs, and his sisters, Mrs. Lester Hoover and Mrs. Harold Melvin, left last Monday on their home ward journey.Mr. and Mrs. King, of Calgary, who have beendaughter, Mrs.theirvisitingC. Callett, alsoleft on Monday last.*E. B. Klme is clearing land for Alexander Poluka-hko.The harvest will soon he completed in this dst.net. Some of thecrops are very good whi e others are just fair. The wcai her has been very favo able. The e was some dair:age done by fiost on August 21 st, but 1 ght we hlt; pe.Mbs Lundblad arrived on VVed-nes ay 'o Uam at M tr ina -schoolWe Welcome her t the districtand ho e-hu will like our nor thernnoun*rv.Scot.Mr. S n i rfr\iground again mis year thought that the bad fires of last of last year would have been a sufficient lesson to the people here b-’t it appea s not. People can ill afford to lose any of their small store of hay this year.MONTAGNEUSEJHv I'he GhZHtte s CorrespondenUMontagneuse Valley, Sept. 10 —The school opened for its fall term September 0th.Men.! A word ofwarning. The women-folk are trimming up on their shooting ability. Morning and evening they are outpracticing.Noel Mason, Roy Paton andWait. Loos are expected back this week-end after spending a few da: s fishing at a near-by lake.'1 he first baby born in the Valley, Perry Stephenson, celebrated his ninth birthday on Friday.Many of the men of the district are returning Iron* a few days threshing in the settlement.M. Loritsen left Wednesday for FairviewmadeThe Bjornsen familycall on Mrs. Rav HooveraFridaynight.M’c Harold Wingfield preachedhis farewell service on Sunday,4th. It was wellSeptember a* tended.That greythe woolhorse rather pulledtheover your eyes other night. Were you annoyed,Ray?THOMPSONand DEER HILL• By Thf Cazette s Correspondent)Fairview, Sept., 12:—We are having splendid threshing weather in this country. Threshing is just about finished. The crops are turning out better than ex-Some of the boys whoFair-pectf d. have been out threshing at view are back.The Government grader, which is back in Fairview again, will be doing some more grading in the districts around here.schoolD a v i dThompsonopened on Sept. 1st with Miss O. Drozdeak in charge.Mrs. Pat O'Conner is teachingat Deer Hill school which openedthe 12th of Sept.Mr. L. Ashton is up on his trapline getting ready for the big •at oh as soon as it snows. Goodluck, Louis.LOTHROPWhitelaw, Sept. 15:—A danceis to be h Id in the CommunityHall in u:d of the Monkman Pass As-n.in (Mober. Watch for thedate.We rire glad to hear little Billy B ver dge i getting along so well after his accident and also JackT rider.Threshing is nearly finished inAnr r 1 i ^ b v i r • fEmIsthwlPiTJthdathMadreB(enMMthevCinCltoScIpn19:foiPcon19folLo8,16,1.231 t1711 1 1 1jelt;Mseitaimlt;anda2
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Peace River Northern Gazette
Peace River, Alberta, CA
Fri, Sep 23, 1938
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