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last ~ Fowl Supper. 1€ Dryden Ob mnt VOL. IX. DRYDEN, ONTARIO, AUGUST 28th, 1931. ----------TET -- w No. 35. School Opens Sepiember 1st) The Public and Continuation schools will re-open Tuesday, September 1st. No change has been made in the personnel of the teaching staff except in the Primary room where Miss Laura -Locking will take the place of Miss Prichard. BASEBALL FOR LABOR DAY "The local Baseball Club has made arrangements to have the Sioux Lookout team play two games on Labour Day, Sept 7th, the president, Joe Russell, in- forms us. They are also arrang- ing a program of sports for the afternoon. More details will be published later. THE PONY CONTEST The pony contest ends this week and the results will be an- nounced at the Strand Theatre, on Saturday night. The past. week has been particularly interesting with all the eandi- dates working like nailers to stack up a high count for the final. With all the talk of votes, results and winners, it only needed the word 'prosperity' instead of '""pony" to make us believe we were going through year's election campaign. Seriously though, the Pony Con- test has been a pleasant and profitable scheme. It has given the kids an interesting contest and the merchants participating, readily admit that .it has been quite a stimulus to trade. Who- ever the winner is, the child will surely be the envy of the whole juvenile population for in spite of all the talk of our modern young ones a pony is just as big a thrill as it was In the days be- fore the auto and the aeroplane. SECOND DRYDEN COMPANY, C.G.G. Regular weekly meetings of the above company will re-com- mence on Tuesday, September 8th at 7.30 p.m. A full attend- ance of Guides and Rangsrs is requested so that Fall activities may start without delay. The first Fall meeting of the Second Dryden Brownie Pack will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Fri- day, September 4th. Will moth- ers please note The time and date, so that we may get away to a good start for the coming season. : TG Dryden 1.O.L: in conjunction with all district Orange lodges will hold a Decoration Serviee at Dryden Cemetery on Sunday, August 30th. Meet at the Town Hall at 2 o'clock. All members please bring flowers. Reserve the date for the Ox. drift United Church First Anni versary service, September 13th. and Monday, September 14th. 3% " There will be a Church Picnic at Eagle River on Labour Day. September 7th. in aid of church funds and a Dance in the even- ing in the school, Eagle River. Full announcement in next week's issue. Are you ready for such an eme ? Complete automobile insurance saféguards your dri - INSURE "J. E. GIBSON, Agent 8 @ High Assay on Saitioles From Local Property Samples taken from the Lost Mine section of the Wabigoon- Contact Bay Company's proper- ty, by Mr. Gus Larson, which were forwarded to Winnipeg to] Manitou Lake District The town of Dryden, is a name familiar to many of the older residents of Pipestone and Res- ton. Immediately the town is mentioned, most of our readers know it as the home of Mr. Alfred Pitt, formerly of Pipe- stone, of the firm of McNicol & Pitt. This town 1s the centre of a large agricultural distriet, gituated about sixty miles east of Kenora on the main line of the C.P.R. It has for a town gite an ideal spot on the banks of the Wabiboon river. Dryden is beautifully situated, being high and dry and easily drained. It is the centre of a district sixty miles from east to west and from ten to forty miles north and south. The soil is a clay loam and immensely fertile growing a great variety of crops to advantage. Alsike clover and red clover is produced for seed purposes and many farmers have made well out of these two crops. Potatoes are also a paying erop. The farmers also have found the jack pine cutting profitable, as a pulp and paper mill is located in the town. Located through- out the district are innumerable lakes that are a mecca for sport with the rod, while the distriet teems with a great variety of game, large and small, fur and feather. Dryden itself has its pulp mill its creamery, its splendid schools, its up-to-date hospital, stores, garages ete. Leading into the town are almost seven hundred miles of roads, in addition to 'a forty mile highway that ulti- mately will be part of the high- way that will eventually stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacifie. The homes of Dryden are beau- tifully kept and the town will eventually become a centre for tourists. Wabigoon, a town that was once the centre of a gold mining industry, lies on a lake of the same name and is noted for the many vacant houses. Its glories have faded with the petering out of the gold mines and is but a shadow of its former self. The agent at the station there is Mr. Armstrong, formerly agent at Sinclair and well known and favorably remembered by the people of that district. Wabigoon lake is about forty miles long, and varies in width from a few miles to eight or ten. It is studded with numerous is- 5 from a size of a small gar- lands den to acres in extent, all being crowned with trees varying in size and kind. It is a beauty spot and would excite the admir- ation of lovers of the open spaces. lake farms have been taken up and farmers in past years have done well. The pulp wood on the farms has been hauled to the bank of the lake and hauled to the mill at Dryden. 3 It was at Wabigoon that the writer took the fishing launch owned and operated by Mr. Charles Merrill for the Manitou lake district. The first leg of the journey was up the lake, a trip that took about three hours, then by truck for about eight miles and we had reached Lake Manitou of which Mr. Merrill has the commercial fishing lease. The lake is said to be over forty miles long and is studded with many islands. Its shore is rock- bound and the water teem with white fish and lake trout. On the shore of this lake Mr. Merr- ill makes his home from early spring to late fall and employs a number of men to assist him in his fishing operations. He has two motor boats and next year he will add a third, In ad- dition he has a small motor boat and a number of canoes. He makes fishing his chief business, (Continued on Page 3) = Along the banks of the be assayed by D. W. Scott have proved to be very high in gold content. In fact the result of the assay has been pronounced as remarkable by several well known local mining men, who are not easily enthused or very ready to express opinions. The assaying was done by the Milton Heresey Company, Min- ing' Engineers 'and Assayers of Winnipeg of very high repute and their report reads as fol- lows: sample no. 1, 7.94 oz., ran | $158.00 to the ton; sample no. 2, 6.86 oz. sample ran $137.20 to the ton and sample no. 3, 7.04 0z.. ran $140.80 to the ton. These are very high averages and the samples were taken from a vein from five to twelve feet wide which is stripped for about 1,000 feet. The mine which yielded these splendid specimens is in Van Horne Townships and is known as the Lost Mine. BASEBALL Weakened by the loss of Sfreddo brothers and Whiting, Dryden was compensated with the services of a dark horse, Hallet, by name from places unknown. The first inning was airtight ball, Hallet fanning two and making a dandy pick up to catch Lundmark on first. Woods- worth struck out three. Ander- son was the first to hit, and scored for his efforts. Green hit first for Wabigoon but was caught out on third. Anderson and Upton scored in the third, and Gummerson scor- ed the only run for Wabigoon in the fourth. It was in this inning that Mitchell sueceeded in knocking over the grandstand with a foul ball, a feat most amazing. Upton made the nicest catch of the night at short, go- ing into the air and picking it off like a veteran. i Dryden seems to have turned its back to Wabigoon's pre-sea- them back thrice in succession son invasions and have turned but. that isn't defeating Kenora,' and if they have aspirations of, foolhardy advice to recommend plenty of practice, both in hitt- ing and in fielding. . Hallet gent 15 men to the benches, but the question is how many would Barber have sent there. As for, hitting, none of the regulars made 'a worth while hit all even-} ing, but heres hoping for the: best and may the god of luck' favour them generously if they | visit the Lake Shore City. M.E.S.' The September meeting of i Junior Ladies' Aid of the Unit-! ed Church will be held at the' Manse, Monday, September 14th at 8 pm. All members are re- quested to be present as this meeting is in the form of a shower for the fall bazaar. f ' Cairnbrogie. Cyril Wright has returned from a visit to Winnipeg. Archie McQuarrie left for Winnipeg Saturday after spend- guest of Mr. a visit in Winnipeg. returned from Winnipeg Sunday. Arthur General Hospital staff is spending a holiday with her On the evening of August| parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. 25th, Dryden again decisively | Wilson. defeated Wahigoon Tto 1. "Rev. J. W. Howes joined the party that went into (Gold Rock to fish on Tuesday. ters, Joyce and Audrey, spent the weekend in Winnipeg. Winnipeg Sunday. strong and Mr Tucker of the Willis spent a few days up the lake this week on a fishing trip. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. McPhail her mother Mrs. A. Storey. Migs Storey is training for the nurs- ing profession at Vancouver. short visit to Kenora this week. John have returned after visit- ing in Keewatin. Canadian Rockies to Vancouver and Vancouver Island, returning doing the latter it would be no' thorugh the Yellowstone Park. have returned from an enjoyable SOCIAL Miss Annie Hardie and Miss Nellie Hardie have returned af- ter spending : a week visiting friends in Keewatin. Mrs. A Taylor left Thursday on a visit to Winnipeg. D. KE. McRae, "Agricultural Representative, left yesterday for Kenora to attend the Annual Exhibition of the Kenora Agri- cultural Society which opens to- day. Miss Hazel McGogy of the Me- Kellar Hospital staff hag been spending a holiday with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. McGogy, ing a holiday in Dyment; the and Mrs. J. O. Gough. Mrs. C. J. Wright is spending J. L. Skillen is a visitor to Fort William. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. business Wright Miss Hazel Wilson of the Port Mrs. Winterbottom and daugh- IT'S THE DERBY NOW for your sex this fall. ladies will breeze forth in them over one eye, over hoth eyes, one ear and at all slants snd the result surely varied, but the least atrocious. Really though they are going to be awfully smart once we find: the right tilt and enough nerve to venture out ""tilted."' Gene Me- Monage looked stunning in a brown one with a fawn feather that he tried on in Prongers. SCHOOL FAIR DATES Waldhof--Saturday, Sept. 5th. Wabigoon--Monday, Sept. Tth. Dyment--Tuesday. Sept 8th. Osaquan-- Wednesday, Sept. 9th. Tonace--Thursday, Sept. 10th. Dryden--Friday, Sept 11th. Rice Lake--Monday, Sept. 14th. Minnitaki--- Tuesday, Sept. 15th. Eagle River--Wednesday, 16th Guibell--Thursday, Sept. 17th. Sioux Liookout--FTri., Sept. 18th. Oxdrift--Monday, Sept. 21st.' Championship air at Dryden, Wednesday and Thursday. Sep- tember 23vd and 24th. No boys, the derby hats you see with big feathers on are not The this time, and how! ""Tty all in the way you wear them," say the shop keepers and we fin: this to be true. We tried them we could not arrive at whieh was FIRST SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY NAMED | BY PREMIER HENRY First Step is Taken to Commence Work for Jobless TORONTO, Ont., Aug. 26th-- Designation of first seetions of the Trans-Canada highway in Ontario was announced today by Premier Henry, following app- roval by Cabinet. This is the first step in commencing work for unemployed in the Govern- ment work camps in the North in conjunction with federal Gov- ernment grants. Two sections are designated in the plan. The first section (Continued on Page Four) + A THING OF BEAUTY If you have reached the state of mind where nothng in these parts looks good to you, take a run out to Charlie Norgates on the river and behold a row of sweet peas about a hundred fect long, all colours and of such marvelous beauty that it can't be described. You'll feel better after the sight because they really are wonderful and take it from us we know because we were privileged to carry home a gorgeous armful of the blooms, about the tenth we've had from the same place this season. Miss Mona Morris left for R. J. Pronger and Joe Arm- Piano Co., Winnipeg, Arthur Rhodes of Winnipeg Miss May Storey is visting Dr. D. G. Dingwall paid a Mrs. Paul Klementick and son Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lock, Stanley and Mr. Froud have just returned from a very inter- esting auto trip througn the 7" unemployed. via "the Yellowstone Highway The trip covered approximately | 7,000 miles and was full of in- terest all the way. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Bartlett two weeks trip to Vancouver. It is important that all They also visited Miss Eva Bartlett at Tranquille Sahitor- egistration of Unemployed All Unemployed, both Married and Single, resident in Dryden and Surrounding District, are requested to Register at the Office of the Town Clerk on or Before Monday, August 3st, 193I Registration is required for the purpose of providing the Provincial and Dominion Governments on Septem- ber 1st with full information as to the total number of . : promptly, as full returns must be sent in to the depart- ment on September 1st next. i unemployed should register P, H. B. WOOD, Mayor. ium and on their return trip |g stopped off at Banff Unemployed in unorganized | % Districts surrounding are advised that they may regis-| ter at the office of Mr. J. KE. Gibson, Clerk of the Town of Dryden. Remember Scotts for Preser-| ving Fruit to arrive September 15th. All kinds of Ontario Fruit, Italian Prunes next week. Advt. oh rt WAMPOLE'S me Tastiless Fp ih «| ments necessary «Extract: racks opmentof health Liver ¢ ulent effect from of Cod Liver. i CRICE ONE BOLCAR Children Need #VITAMINES ;, EXTRACT OF COD LIVER Vitamines-- that mysterious "somiething" which makes the young grow--will be found in Wampsle"s Extract of Cod Liver, as well as other ele- Children who seem to be at a standstill--kacking in energy or vitality--and convalescents who do not improve readily, get just the needed tonic stim- ment with Wampole's Extract Price §1.00 per botile for the devel- andstrength, en ll i a short treat- eR L a rR Pc rg wire my Rete ---- Dryden : ER ---- me a A ts meen, BUY HERE AND Durance Bros. Hardware C. J. Wright Groceries Home Bakery & Candy Shop BE. W. Stansfield & Son Confectionery, Ice Cream and Bakery BO GREP () CEIERS- SE (GIES OO THES ) GEES ( IED O - aN (GRE () EEE O-ay THE FINAL RESULT OF THE CONTEST WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE STRAND THEATRE ON SAT- URDAY NIGHT AND THE PRESENTATION OF THE PONY MADE TO THE WINNER, THE FOLLOWING WEEK. BG () EE (ED (CR (0 -CESD (OS () S93 () GED () 0D O-GED () @iY Pony Contest Stores GET YOUR VOTES Pronger & Armstrong Books, Music and Stationery R. J. Pronger Dry Goods & Ready-to-wear Dryden Observer Newspaper Subscriptions Opening days and receive ATTEND THE STRAND THEATRE .to 5,000 votes.. Be on hand boys and girls.. an entry form entitling you