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LT RTA TWA Re Na 7 AND KENORA. COVERING THE TERRITORY BETWEEN FORT WILLIAM THE NEWSPAPER a] OF THE DRYDEN DISTRICT J DRYDEN, ONTARIO, ® VOL. X. . DOUBLE JOTTINGS BY OUR COLUMNIST v > These bottles must be clean, labels removed and no oil bottles. Q.. a short time only so act at once. : ~-- The -- : Dryden Pharmacy Ltd. Dryden Ontairo = : Ee No. 23. After an absence of several weeks, I am impelled to say, in great humility, that I do not amount to very much. Like Haroun el Raschid, I think that was the name of the Per- sian chap, who prowled the slums of his bailiwick in dis- guise, trying to find out what was said of him, not always of course, to his edification, I have had my ears open. Unlike Mr, Aaron, because that is what the Jews would have called him, T was not even questionably flat- tered by eriticism. nobody gave me a thought. Well, well, T am not the first great man to suffer ignominy. * * * Apropos of this, IT made ex- haustive preparations for a won- ~derful speech, this speech full; of meat and liquor. i Speaking of liquor, but this for the next paragraph, | And so 1 went, but there was! no audience. Coming home, I met a preach- mine. Said he, ! er friend of "Why the doleful visage, and down cast wmien?"' I told him. He laughed and thusly voiced, 'What about me, Sunday after Sunday, great pre- parations, great aspirations, no congregations."' His philosophy, cheered me. We both shrugged our shoulders. Thus does greatness throw off the mantle of despair. Ed #» #* Now for the liquor. Several friends of mine, have sworn off lately, which causes me to moralize. These are. good friends and decent fellows. I hold no brief for prohibition, nor its antonymn, although of course, I have my thoughts. That they should swear off anything, proves I think, that subeonseiously they recognize an evil. One does not forswear the good. And naturally, you ask what are the results? Well, T see stern martyrdom depict in every face. No arti- ficial gaiety, and what is worse, no spontaneous generosity. No bubbling babble, contrariwise, cold calculated conversation, | Not particularly conversant with history, they have no knowledge of illustrious prece-| dent. Tell them' of Augustine | or Francis Xavier, and it is; meaningless. And what is still worse, they now have stomach aches and twinges. : : They see the doctor, and he poor beggar, scarce dare tell! them truth, And I am surely sorry for them, There ought to be a moral te all this. There is. Do not learn to drink when you are young, Boys and Girls To assist you purchasing your CHAUTAUQUA tickets, we will buy old medi- cine bottles from you. in to neglect | INSURANC J. E. GIBSON, Agent | tion? but if you have learned, and it has grown upon you, then taper off, as you tapered on, gradually and slowly, little by little, until you come to that blessed free- dom of desire, with placid dis- position and no alkalinity of stomach. Do nothing suddenly. All of which shows, that her. editarily 1 am imbued with strong temperance principles. * %® * Coming nearer home, What preparations are now being made for next winter? Are we giving it thought? Are those in semi-opulence thinking of what will he expected of them, by those in semi-destitu- Are those in semi-destitution conserving even their meagre store? This. is late Spring, it will soon be early Summer, then mid- Summer, and Summer over, It is easy to be cheerful, with the birds, and the warmth. But citizen, what of the Fall? They are already anticipating in Kenora, The Mayor has proclaimed. I hope to keep you in touch with the response of the Kenora people. Seriously, seriously, T am ring- ing the toecsin. *% #® Is it possible to be too scare minded ? I think so, and yet out of the mass of contribution to the re- lief of depression nothing comes. We expeet something from Lausanne, something from the Ottawa Conference. We hope for good, but still are pessimis- ic. We talk about Communism, with lowered voice. We talk of Soviet Russia,as of something of another world. We are a little frightened if we say too wmueh,| that the goblins would get us, and we be deported. I think in principle, Soviet Russia has more sense than any of us. Of course I recognize, the many imperfections of Sov- ietism, and I would sooner starve here, than merge my personality in the collectivism of Russia. But, what I like about Russia, "if T understand it correctly, is that it is willing to barter goods for merchandise. We, on the other hand, seemingly want to gell and not to buy. The slo- gan, buy made in goods, has a weakness. There is altogether too mueh of ourselves first, the other fel- low last. It is contrary to Christianity, it will yet be found, contrary to common genge. Someday, all war will be wiped out. Years too late. Some of us in humble places said this years ago. I say further, and put myself on recorid, because it seems to me that I am (boundless egoist), ten years ahead of the times, reparations ) that the sacrosanct item of in- consideration, revolutionary terest will and possibly short shrift. : It is coming. If you doubt it, watch the veering writings of the economists. So it does not need a very wise man to state that we are in the midst of change. The old order is, labouring, and we are suffering in its par turition. It is not a twilight slcep. Meantime, if it is any comfort to you, we are holding on to the old. We are instinctively Brit- ish in" our Conservatism. It is not metaphor altogether, to say that we are grim bulldogs, hang- ing on. | 3 As proof, I cite last Satur: day's election in West York. get Conservatives ......... 6,863 Taberals uo... 0.0... BABS EE i SOR SE 3,859 Socialist T.abour ....... 106 There must be suffering in West York, and the Socialist that offered a nebulous panacea received but 106 out-of nearly 17,000 votes. I do not doubt that had you and I wandered around West York a week or so hefore the election, we would have heard a lot of justified grumbling. Yet sce what happens. But T weary, perhaps you too, and 59 to work at other things. DRYDEN PUBLIC SCHOOL MERIT LIST March, April and May Room 9-- Howard Reany, George With- row, Edie Wright, Mildred Rip- ley, Helen Johnson, Bertha Wil- ton*, Tom Crawley*, Ruby Mec- Guire, Frank Brisson, Berthil Moline, Edna Martinson, Grant Buchanan, Emma Strutf, Jim McMonagle, Eileen Wigle, Annie Makuch, Gladys Byington, Isa- belle Norgate, Mary McMonagle, Harry Martingon. Teacher--H. FE. Froud, Principal, and Q. Me- Kinney, Assistant. 4 Room 8 -- Winnifred Cole, Stanley Lock, Audrey Tew, Mary Archibald, Marilyn Wil- son, Doris Harris* Bella Hud- son* Clair FErnewein, Marie Heard, Margaret Buchanan, | Mike Cook, Marjorie Boom-' hower, Tom Cooper, Ivadelle Bowes, Hjalmer Moline, Ger. trude Fleming, Albert Ferguson, Emma Fleming, Freda Pox, Jim Loutitt. Teacher--W. Weeks. Room 7---Jr. IV--Tom Leach, Jim Reid, Bert Kellar, Nellie Sfreddo, Gladys Buchanan, Ar. thur Edwards, Addie Cole, Ver. na Hntechigon, Gordon Nymark, Ralph Pronger, Mildred Taylor, Nora Bauer. Sr. IIT_Ethel Beck, Miriam Livingstone, Bea-! trice Dagg, John Kloge* Earl Smith¥*, Roy Evans, Mary Tiese, Hughie Reid. Teacher--Beth Robinson, Room 6--Charlie Reany, Mae- garet Ripley, Francis Fraser, Bryan Crawley, John Brown, ! Irene Stovel, Evan Jones, Betty Brown, Mildred Wright, George Barber®, Elsie Yaworski®, Bar- bara Humphries, Henry Johnson, Albert Klose, Christina Makmeh, Opal Pinkerton, Harold Reany, Mildred Robertson, Carl White- head, Francis Browne, Teacher MM MeGonegal: es ~Room 5 -- Shirley Pronger, Evelyn Ripley, Margaret Beck, Merla Warren, Charlie Steiner, Gertrude Murray, Leonard Mol- ine, Alice Batchelor; Mildred Van Sickle, Nora Cook*, Violet Davis*, Billy Saskoley, Muriel Anderson, Mae Wigle, Paul Cook, Frances Koshon, Rubena Wice, Tommy Hawke®, George Makuch®, John Livingston, Teacher--Miss R. Reany. : Room 4 -- Elsie MacDonald, Mary Rohatynski, Gertrude Hut- chison, Dorothy Withrow, Mer. in Brampton*, Donald Wright®, Phyllis French, Verna Orr, Aus tin Hardy, Leone Sweeney®, Norgate*, Taduic Hu. o < Lallian menuic, Albert Batchelor, May Goldrup, William Kushner, Hel- en Austin, Audrey Winterbott- om, John Vost, Denver Pearson, Merle Van Sickle. Teacher. E. Reany. Room 3--Clags IT---Patricia Barber, Mary Jo Humphreys. Max Pietseh, Margaret Chas- chowy, Lawrence Wilton, Harry Hatch, John Vankoughnett, Olive Knatuk, Class I--Jack Demp- ster, Rueben Rutter, George Pronger, Ross Hutchison, Dor- othy Watt, John Klementik, Jim Beomhower, - Jimmy Whiting, Russel McIntyle, Tommy Nor gate, Joil Yarashuk, Teacher --@. Robinson. Room 2--Sr. 1---TI'rances Mac. Kenzie, Vincent Moline, Gwen Bailey, Vietoria Strutt, Rose Steiner®, Evelyn Wintersgill®, Russel Christianson, Marjory Harris, Margaret Loutitt* Kath. leen Sanderson®, Verna Reid®, Gwen Mercer®, Jimmy Beath,$ Frances Wright. Jr. 1--Annie Marten, Ivy Pronger, Neil Skene, Reg. Klose, Myrtle Stovel, Shir- ley Austin. Teacher--M. Heard. Room I--Division C--Mildred Weaver, Billie Graham, Mar." garet Sherwood, Dorothy Sher- wood, Muriel Sherwood, Derothy French, Joyee Hewitson, Frank Wice, Mildred Anderson, Grace | @ Cooper. Division B--Peter Mar.! tin, (race Shatsky, Francis Wheeler, Eric Sedeen, Lloyd Field. Division - Phyllis Hadley, George Hatch, Jacek & 3 Miller, Doris Dagg, Trevor Coward. Teacher--Laura Loek.. ing. ! * Means Equal. Born at Dryden Red Cross Hospital on Friday, May 27th, to Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Foster, HOW, Phen TE fem 2 'ment June 9, Dryden June 10, fo +Ruby. McTavish left. Wednes- i ANNOUNCEMENTS The Oxdrift Country Fair wili be held at the pifniec ground on the afternoon of June 3. Watch for the posters. #® The Senior Girl's Auxiliary of St. Luke's Church will hold 3 Homecooking Sale in Pronger & Armstrong's Store on Satur- day afternoon, June 4th. * © ® Don't forget the illustrated lecture on Yellowstone in the Baptist Church to-night, The W. A. of St. Lmke's Church will hold a Strawberry Tea and Apron Sale on Friday, July 8th, in the Parish Hall front 3 to 6 p.m, : I' fer ¢ Al special meeting of the dir ectors- of the icu Society will ber held Agricultural office June 4th, at 8 pu i J * ® Ladies' Aid will. meet at home of Mrs. Harry Gammon, on Menday, June 6th, at 8 o'clock. All members are re- quested to. be pr sent. W.I Summer Speaker Miss M. Petty of the Depart- ment of Agricultnre, Toronto, will be the speaker at a series of summer meetings at the fol- lowing places :-- Kenora June 6, Tazle River June 7, Amesdale June 8, Dy- Ignace June 11. The public cordially invited. SOCIAL 'Miss Pauline Powell of Port Arthur was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. 8. 0. Swanson this week.. igl Cmelph, Ont. Mr. and Mrs, Jas. Oliphant and family have left to reside at Dinorwie, where Mr. Oliphant is managing the store that was formerly owned by the Hudson's Bay Co., for O. H. Pronger. Mr. and Mrs. John Cole from Guelph, are honeymooning in Dryden with Mr. Cole's parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. E. Cole, OXDRIFT W.L day night for The Oxdrift Women's Insti- tute held their monthly meeting at the home of Mrs, J. Spalding on Thursday, May 19th. = The meeting opened by singing the Ingtitute Ode, after which the minutes of the previous meeting were read and adopted, also the report for the year. The election of officers for the coming year were then held. Officers elected: President Mes, W. McTavish Viece-Pres. Mrs. J. Spalding, Sec Treas. Miss B. Spalding, Direc- tors Mrs. Pateman, Mrs. Find- lay, Mrs. Coutts, Mrs. Amog, Digtriet, Director Mrs. Browning, The meeting closed by singing the Institute Anthem. away, 'ed for the tourist camp for the FROM DRYDEN TO VANCOUVER (Continued from Last Week) Leaving Brandon at about 3 am. (and by the bye there is a lunatic asylum there, so we were rather fortunate in getting away, perhaps) we started on one of the saddest and most | dreary parts of the whole trip, you have probably read in your papers at times of the drought in Southern Saskatchewan, we had heard of it but did not real- ize just how terrible it was. It so happened that we struck the second bad dust storm that they had had this summer, we fought a gale all day and the air was 80 loaded with dust that we had to burn our head-lights all the time, the land is very dry and fine and is literally being blown there were no ditches, they were all filled level and the dust had banked all along the fence five feet high, this state of things has been going on for several years, until what used to be a most successful farming district, is now a barren waste, fine farm buildings are aban- doned and the people have all moved to other parts, many of them ruined after years of hard work. One farm that we went to, on the way, the owner told! us that he had 1,200 acres and' he planted seed for three years in succession and it all had blown out, never getting a blade of grass, but he was going to have another try next year in hopes that he would have better success, I don't know whether to call that pluck or foolhardi- ness. The end of our days run was Regina, called the wheat city, it is here that the great inter- national grain exhibit is to be held in 1933, we naturally head- night but found it a most deso- late place; alongside the river it had been one of the beauty gpots, but owing to lack of mois- ture and the winds, all the grass had been blown away and the trees died, so we hunted up' some rooms for the night and ate at a restaurant, The trip from Brandon to; Regina was 198 miles, this is the place where they had a tor- nado some years baek, when the main thorofare was laid waste in a few minutes, we decided that we would not want to live! on the prairie. The city is quite up-to-date and quite a nice place for those who like to live in such places. Our first and only ear trouble had to be attended to here, a bearing on the gener- ator wore out and had to be fired. This delayed wus until mid-day before we could get a start. We had marked a place called Gull Take as our next stop, that being about 200 miles distant and sounded like a place where there might be water and | scenery. After battling the wind' and dust all day we arrived at the place called Gull Lake There were no" gulls or lakes: and very little of anything eve | The auto camp was a small place | that they just let it burn. CHAUTAUQUA 30, July Come here June 29, 1 2 4, 5 The organization takes place to-night. The organizer this year Miss Irene MeLean. The programme is out. It is very good. 18 Mrs. W. J. Robinson returned from a visit to Winnipeg Wed- nesday evening. enclosed by a wire fence,to, split the wind. Merely a place to pitch a tent without a vestige of a shelter from the wind. We noticed a farm house across the way that had a shelter belt of trees, so asked the owner of the camp if we could get milk there and he said yes, therefore we thought it best to get the milk before putting up the tent. The old chap very kindly opened another gate for us to go out by, and alas for him, we never re- turned, as the farmer, in res- ponse to our request permitted us to tent among a grove of trees, and on a good thick bed of straw. So in the midst of the wilderness we were well pro- vided for. It was getting late end we were all hungry, so the supper of pork chops, green peas, new potatoes, weut down well, after which contrary to all laws of human nature, we slept soundly and well. Up in the morning with the cock crow, made breakfast, struck tent, loaded up and away at 8.30, the dust storm was past, though the 'scenery was not much improved. On our way this day, we passed through the city of Medicine Hat, the land was now more hilly and the city was nestling among the hills, it was a very clean and pretty city. Here we used the natural gas for the first time, apparent- ly it is so plentiful and cheap We only remained here long enough to make our mid-day meal, then pass on to Bassano. On arrival there we covered "255 miles for the day's trip. This was only a very small place, we pitched our tent in an enclosure made for the purpose. While we were eating supper, a man came along and introduced himself as one of the town council and wanted information as to what might be done to make their eamp spot more attractive. We were able to give him some valuable point- ers as the place was very medi- ocre, and we had stayed at some very nice ones. The inter- esting sight at Bassano was a huge irrigation dam. This was built by the C.P.R. and it turns thousands of acres of the so- called bad lands of Alberta into the most wonderful farming district. The dam wag quite a feat of engineering and diverts a river hundreds of feet wide, into a canal and: thence into a concrete aqueduct for many miles, from the duet it is piped over the various farms, this part of the. country was the most prosperous we had seen so far. (Continued Next Week) OXDRIFT WEDDING At. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Snider, Oxdrift, on May their only daughter Mar. Jorie was married to John Wil- liam Reavley, Provincial Con- stable stationed at Kenora, for- a captain in the British 26th, Army. The charming bride, with a beautiful bouquet of red roses, had Misg Phyllis Barber as her maid of honour and Mr, Fred Snider, her brother, took the role of "best man." The Rev. W. M. Clarke, Reect- or of Dryden, officiated, being a very close friend of the bride and bridegroom. The happy couple were show- ered with gifts from their num- erous friends, that had both in- trinsic and sentimental value to the recipients. The toast at the Wedding breakfast was made by young Bob Cunningham, who represented hig father, Chief of Police, Dryden. Shortly afterwards, amid the cheers and well-wishing of rela- tives and friends, Mr. and Mrs. Reavley left to spend a few week's honeymoon in Winnipeg, before taking their permanent abede in Kenora. = wr 1 A CSREES 3 LEMON ORANGE CHERRY All Pure Fruit Flavours eo ° Cold Drinks for Hot Days 26 cold drinks for 40c Monarch Fruit Syrups PINEAPPLE STRAWBERRY RASPBERRY and Totally Wholesome. ' 3 o pe Dryden Pharmacy Ltd. J