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Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THfRSDAY, MAY 17th, 1928 Against That Day THE fabled yea Egyp"s fulness a your natural personal instinct by in store" by adding regulai menis to a savings account Standard Bank. THE STANDARD BANK S. SUTTON ■Manager, Colborne Branch Brighton, Cartleton. Cobourg, Grafton New Wall Paper Stock IS NOW IN All the Newest Patterns and Colorings PRICES VERY MODERATE See the "Special" we are running ! Before buying, look over our stock! Jas. Redfearn &-Son Phone 1 Division Street Colborne A pail of water costs nothing in Canada as a rule but the trouble of dipping it up. Put out your camp fire and help save Canada's diminishing forests. Twelve million dollars worth of timber is being burnt up every year simply for lack of a few pails of water at the proper time. If yoi , and I buy buy out of ut of town, and all the neighbours >uy out of town, what in thunder till become of our town. Did you ■ver think about it? At last session of Percy Township Council a resolution was passed to abolish statute labor in the Town- Is Ironing Hard Work'/ if you have to stand over a hot stoves heating old-fashioned sad-irons, and walk backwards and forwards between the stove and your ironing board, it u»> doubtedly is. But, if you use a SOVEREIGN Electric Iron you can do your ironing on the back porch if necessary. The "Sovereign" Electric Iron is truly the housewife's friend. It has a cool handle, tapering nose, and is beautifully balanced. Telephone us, and we wii! deliver a "Sovereign" immediately. It sells for the remarkably low ; rkc of *6 '•"ADE IN CANADA'S Sold in Colborne by . M. PEEBLES ESTATE Indian Day Celebrations at Banff "VTo section of Canada can claim a monopoly of In-i^ dian Summer, but, txr-Banff, Alta., belongs Indian Days. Indian Summer occurs in the fall and may last two or three weeks; Indian Days occur in July and are only three in number; but, for those for whom they are named, there is more real pleasure crowded into that short time than they experience during the other three hundred and sixty-two days of the year. For three days the Indian is "King of Banff". He pitches his tepees under the steep cliffs of Cascade Mountain, known to the Indians from ancestral days as "Stoney Chief". Close to "Stoney Chief" and still known by its original name stands "Stoney all. The „'inal choic pretty mountain, much , but with an appealing l. The reason, then, for of names is obvious to For these three festival days the Indian is lord of all he surveys, and all through the village of Banff and in and around the famous Banff Springs Hotel the scene resembles a veritable monster Indian camp. The event that probably led up to the adoption of Indian Days occurred in July 1889 when rail traffic, both east and west of Banff was tied up for a period ■of ten days, as heavy rains had washed out the tracts in bo-„h directions. The Banff ^ Springs Hotel, then feu:,:; t!:: :.ar.;., h.avily on their hands. The hotel "manager at that time and Tom Wilson, the famous Rocky Mountain guide, then put their heads together and decided to invite urp the whole Stoney Indian Tribe from the Morley Reserve to make friends with the visitors. What is today the main road to the hotel was on that occasion staked off as a race track, the winning post being placed at the hotel entrance. Every form of race and sport known to the Indians was held, in addition to many suggested by the white spectators. Altogether the visit of the Indians was a marvellous success, and it ultimately led to the establishment in .1907 of an annual Indian Day, wWch in time grew into the continent-wide advertised Indian Days. The Indians look forward to these days with the greatest enthusiasm and early on in the year start counting "only so many days now till we go to Banff". The Indian village of a hundred tepees is, as said before, located at the foot of Cascade Mountain for this festival, and is semi-circular in form, each band of the tribe having a section to themselves. Rations are served directlv the Indian village is in shape. The Government donates three buffalo annually to the Indians, and the first one of these is then shot by a game guardian and quickly cut up by the redskin butchers. So skilled and speedy are the few Indian butchers employed, that within thirty minutes after the shot is fired, there is not a vestige left of what was once a lordly animal weighing approximately I one ton. IS id The -Winnipeg.--The British boy immigration scheme has been adopted by the Manitoba Provincial Government, and about fifty lads will be brought here this year for placement on farms in the province, Hon. A. Prefontaine, Minister of Immigration, announced. First, the boys will be placed at the Manitoba Agriculture College for preliminary training in farm work. Calgary.--Two commercial airplane transport projects are being developed in Calgary. One calls for the use of airplanes carrying twelve persons each, to be used principally for passenger, freight and mail traffic between Calgary and Edmonton; the other calls for lighter machines, two or three passengers, for Calgary-Edmonton and mountain flight purposes. All the way from Camrose, Alta., to Glasgow, Scotland, unaccompanied, a distance of approximately 5,000 miles is the record of Donald James Campbell, nine years of age. He took the All-Red route of the C.P.R. across the Dominion to Saint John, where he embarked on the liner Montclare bound for Glasgow. He is visiting his aunt, who lives in Busby, Glasgow. All previous records in connection with the westbound movement of grain to Vancouver over Canadian Pacific Railway lines were broken during the first two weeks in January, according to E. Cotterell, superintendent of transportation, western lines of the company. Deliveries at Vancouver by the Canadian Pacific during the fortnight in question totalled approximately 22,500, 000 bushels of grain. Calgary.--Farm land values in Southern Alberta are tending to become firm as the result of the series j of good crops, and more inquiries for j farm acreage have been received in 1 the last few months, according to I real estate men, than in any similar | period in the past five or six years. Farms offered for sale last spring j at $15 Per acre an^ bringing no of- j fers are selling now for from $20 to j $25 per acre. The demand for farms both for purchase and rental is decidedly strong. .: In recognition of the fine work j by officers of the Canadian Pacific i Railway and the Canadian National | during the last summer tour of the second triennial Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress, presentations of gold and enamel cuff links were made recently, to fifteen employees of both companies, at a dinner held in Montreal. E. W. Beatty, president of the C.P.R. and Sir Henry Thornton of the C.N.R., were both present. Snowshoe week in Quebec got away to a good start when several >t*$&sand members of the Raquette Clubs paraded the streets of the old city and later some 1,300 snow-ehoers in full winter festival costume made an attack on the walls defended by the garrison and illuminated by a brilliant fireworks display. The chief center of interest there is the Internationa! Dog Derby, which is to be staged shortly arid for this, visitors from the entire Dominion and the United States are flocking to Quebec, taxing the Chateau Frontenac to its full capacity. (8) Invited to see Montreal by the hotels and the tourist and convention bureau of the city, 75 members of the Massachusetts Hotel Men's Association spent a week-end recently there and were given a royal reception. As their president, Emil Coulon, said, "We came to sell New England to Montreal, but you have sold Montreal and Quebec province During the usually quiet immigration months of December and January the Canadian Colonization Association colonized 75 families who took up land to the extent of 22,734 acres. In 1927 the Canadian Pacific Railway, through its land department and itB subsidiary (the C. C. A.) placed 2,694 families on Canadian farms, this including 626 families averaging 5 persons to the credit of the Association and 1,529 families on C. P. R. lands. The movement of British youth to Canada promises to be considerably heavier than usual, due to new arrangements made with the British Government. Ontario is taking 500 boys, Manitoba 50 and the Maritime Provinces and Saskatchewan an indeterminate number, while some hundreds are to be moved by private organizations. In all it is estimated some 2,000 boys will probably be brought out under the new scheme this Another body of sportsmen are finding Montreal and Eastern Canada good places in winter aa well as summer. The Appalachian Mountain Club, of Boston, picked the best period of the winter season to spend a week in the Lauren-tians mainly devoted to ski-ing, but with sleighing, dog-mushing and | tobogganing thrown in. It was the first time they had ever visited this district in winter and they are going to repeat it. Resignation of Colonel Walter Maughan as Canadian Pacific Steamship Passenger Traffic Manager has been followed by the appointment of William Baird, who was assistant European Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway in London, Eng. Mr. Baird, whose appointment is effective March 1, joined the Allan Line steamship company at Glasgow as junior clerk in 1905 and came into C. P. service when that company took over the Allan Line in 1916. OUR MOTTO : Canada learn that her Good Goods - Close Prices We do not claim to sell the lowest price goods in town, but we do claim to sell GROCERIES OF BEST QUALITY AT REASONABLE PRICES In our long business experience we have learned to know pretty well the requirements of every housekeeper, and we aim to carry a variety stock to meet your demands. We Purchase in the Very Best Markets We sell the famous BROWN'S BREAD, OF TORONTO None better. Try some to-day. Costs no more. Goods Delivered Promptly FULL WEIGHT FULL MEASURE R. 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Will exchange logs for roofing material Custom Sawing Done Promptly R. H. TYE ox 358 Planing and Saw Mill Phone 99 Notice re Corn Borer Act Every person who has corn stalks, pieces of stalks or cobs anywhere on his property is required by the Corn Borer Act to destroy all these and also all coarse weeds among or alongside them, and in addition to spade or plow the ground so that all small pieces which have been overlooked will be buried. The best method of destroying the corn remnants and other refuse is by gatherng ana burning them. Inspectors will be sent around in May to see that this work has been done. Anyone who disregards this notice will be liable to prosecution.