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A meeting of the First Dryden Troop Scout and Committee will be held in the Parish Hall, Monday, October 3rd, at 8 p Election of officers 101. on on the farm of J. S. Corner, Ox- | drift, d October 6th, starting at 1.30. --ting A Turkey Shoot will be held on Thursday afternoon, VOL. X.- DRYDEN, ONTARIO, SEPTEMBER 30th, 1932, No. 40. ANNUAL FAIR SETS HIGH STANDARD FOR EXHIBITS A splendidly attended Old - Time Dance in the Pulp Mill Hall brought to a close the two day Silver Jubilee Annual Ex-! ~ hibition of the Dryden and Dis- trict Agricultural Society, held, last Wednesday and Thursday. The Fair was officailly open- ed Wednesday evening by Mayor Pitt. Rev. J. W. Howes acted as chairman for this occasion, and other speakers were Hon. Peter Heenan, M.P., Earle Hut- chinson, M.I.A. and D. Frejd of Kenora. Elimination contests in sing- ing and oratory in connection with the School Fair Champion- ship were held and proved most interesting and displayed an amazing amount of talent among! the younger folk. The Pronger and Armstrong cup for the best 3-minute speech was won by, Misg Jean Tait of Ignace. Other winners were: Singing,! Mary Archibald, 1st; John Brown' 2nd; Mildred Wright 3rd; Opal, Pinkerton 4th; Gordon Bramp-! ton 5th. Speeches, Jean Tait 1st; Ralph Pronger 2ud; John Berg 3rd. Recitations, Dorothy With. row 1st; Irene Stovel 2nd; Ele- lyn' Ripley 3rd. | Following the close of the pro- gramme the exhibits were view- ed: hy the exceptionally large; crowd present. While the number of the ex-: hibits was not as large as that of last year, which may have been due to the inclemency of the weather the day exhibits, were to be placed, the quality! was the finest that has ever been seen locally. Sid 'Prinee, Secretary of the! Lakehead Exhibition, who acted; as judge, pronounced the quality | of all vegetables Al and said the potatoes were the finest he had seen in North West Ontaric.' There was also a noticeable in-| crease in exhibits of fruits plums and crabapples, and more, ripe tomatoes than the writer can recall ever seeing exhibited locally. There was not much shown, due probably to the eut- ting out of the Field Crop Com- petition. Homeeooking was well up to the usual high standard and there was a good display as to quantity as well. Mra. Hahn of Port Arthur, judged the homecooking and Mrs. Bos- ler of Schrieber the sewing. which also showed a wery good display. Flowers and art were l grain! | i 3 3 INSURANCE GIBSON A rr J. E. S 9 ent ® o at Dyment, week by motor for Ottawa. HON. P. HEENAN VISITS DISTRICT Hon. Peter Heenan and Mrs. Heenan, who were down from Kenora to attend the Exhibition, spent a few days visiting in Dryden and District during the weekend. On Friday Mr. Heenan ad- dressed a well-attended meeting | and on Saturday night, the Waldhof Community Hall was packed to capacity to hear the Hon. Peter, who was at his best on this oceassion. Various questions of vital im- portance to this district was dis- cussed. ! Mr. and Mrs. Heenan left: Sunday morning far Kenora. | On Monday evening, a recep-' in honour of their Silver I tion | Wedding Anniversary was held | by Kenora citizens in the Lake- view Hall and a presentation made to both Mr. and Mrs! Heenan. On the same evening the Liberal Executive of Kenora! also presented Mr. and Mrs. Heenan with a handsome &ilver cake plate to mark the occasion of their twenty-fifth anniversary.' Mr. and. Mrs. Heenan and family will leave Kenora this MISSION AT ST. £ JOSEPH'S CHURCH The Parishoners of St. Joseph's Parish again welcomed Rev. Father D. Vezina, CSSR, a Redemptorist Father of St. Anne, Manitoba, who returned last week to preach the Renewal of the Mission he preached here last year. The Church was filled to capa- city to hear the messages the Missionary had for everyone and the encouraging advice to enable Christians to journey on with higher ideals in this life. The Altar was prettily decor- ated with fresh flowers and the choir rendered beautiful music at all the services. The Renewal closed Friday evening with even S more fervour than it commenced. Rev. Father Belanger, P.P., thanked the Rev. Vezina for the great good that had been done. by his coming and the St. Joseph's congregation hoped to be blessed with the opportunity of having another Mission con- ducted by the Missionary Father. judged by Mrs. Hutchison and Mrs. Melntyre. Both these sec- tions have had larger entries. As usual the School Fair work was outstanding and admired by all. Prof. Brown, of Winnipeg, judged the livestock show held] Thursday afternoon. There was! a fair showing in this section| while the poultry entries were well up to the usual standard. The public school held their, annual field day also and [a large crowd was present to wit-1 ness these events as well as the horseshoe pitching contest won by Mr. Ankmney and O. Adair. The added comfort afforded by the new seating accomodation and stage arrangement in the Curling rink was a credit to, the president, Mr. Tew and the' Directors. Their many improve-| ments in arranging the exhibits also afforded much more con- venience in viewing the show and the dust nuisance was corm- pletely done away with. The prize list ig being prepar- ed by Mr. Austin, the secretary, and will be published shortly. 7 Ericksen's On Monday, October 3rd, Newspapers, Ete. ping in town. Annecuncing the opening of MONDAY, OCTOBER 3rd. of Dryden and District our new Drug Store in the McFadyen Block, next to Frank Willards. a graduate Druggist in charge, we will carry a full line of Drugs, Medicines, Toilet Preparations, Magazines, We are agents for the famous - REXALL PRODUCTS Call in :and look our store over when you are ghop- BN Drug Store ONTARIO we will open to the people Here, with Phone 69 ERICKSEN'S DRUG STORE N. Ericksen, Prop. = | you to read the book yourselves. THE COLUMNIST I am greatly interested weel by week, in the associations I make, in the comments I hear, and in the agreements and disa- greements with my course. Every-| one does not fall in with me, but thank goodness, so far, no- one has fallen out. Some frank- ly tell me, they do not bother, to read what I write, which I! take kindly, knowing it to be, swank on their part. Otherwise,' how could they discuss the sub- Jeet over which they are cow cerned. I was much amused at the correspondent from Waldhof. He emulates me in prose, I do hope with you, that no one rushes in- to poetry. Well, anyhow, all this is in passing. My theme varies this week. It ig about a book: * 0% 9» There is a book in the Dryden Library that anyone may, and that all should read. It is en- titled, 'Father Lacombe,"' and written by Katherine Hughes. If you belong to the. Roman Catholic Church, you will he] proud of that Institution, that stretching itself into the extreme confines of earth, gave mission- aries and martyrs to the cause of mankind, possibly unequalle- | in history. If you are not a member of the Romish faith, if you have found yourself by ancestry, birth environment prejudiced against it, then wait your turn at the Library, spend a day and a night, for you will not lay down, with a book that may not. be the very highest type of It erature, such as Strachey, ha is withal well written because its sympathy and interesting de- tail. ids : You may be bothered a little with the Franciscans, Domini cans, Oblates, ete., but you will be gripped, by the sacrifice of a priest, who born, and educated in Quebec between 1840 or 1850 spent nearly half or the nine- teenth century, and almost =a quarter of the twentieth around Fort Garry, Calgary and El monton, who exercised an in- fluence in Montreal and Ottawa and with the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, when western history was being made, because of his intimate relations, an held respect with the Indians and Metis. You will read a heart gripp- ing story of poverty, and sufter- ing, of near starvation, and des perate outlook. You will marvel that human nature in the tribes and colonies, could stand such adversities. When to these you find the added scourges of scarlet fever, typhoid and small pox, without hospital or nurse, and this lone priest saving the peoples from despair, you will probably say with me, '"What small propor: tion is our present depression." I could go on, but I have no such intention, because I want We, who are not of pioneer breed, call this present situation, depression. Those who laid 'the foundations of Manitoba, Sas- katchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, would have thought it affluence. I have no brief for poverty, inequality, unfairness, injustice. I have no argument for extremes of wealth, comfort, education, I firmly believe that. we are in the transition of doing away with much that now exists, and that we face a revolution that may or not be bloodless. I know that all of wus cannot be heroes, reformers and redeem- ers, and I further sense, that with a proper system, prosperity would have turned the corner, or never gone around it. And yet, I cannot help but read the life of Father Lacombe with appreciation, that I never suffered, nor am I likely to suf- fer as he did, that this District could never get into the depths of need of the North West Terri- tories of the 60's and T0's. . os x And so with due humility for my powerlessness; I offer this week an antidote to depression. Think. that somebody, some time, was worse off than you. HIGHWAY WORK WILL BE URGED Messrs J. 8. Wilson and A McIntyre, Dri Po H.. B. Wood? and Dr. D. G. Dingwall attended the Second Annual Convention of the Northwestern Ontario Associated Boards of Trade ani Chambers of Commerce held as Fort William this week. The Convention was declared to be the most representative i gathering of business and com- munity leaders ever held in these parts and a long list of resolutions were introduced by the various delegates. Some of the more important of these pub- lished in. the Fort William, Times MRS. F. RODTKA PASSES AT REGINA Mrs. Florentina Rodtka, wid- ow of the late Frederick Rodtka, passed away early Sunday morn- FAREWELL FOR MR. & MRS. FERNS On Tuesday evening, Septem- ber 20th, a number of members and adherants of the Dryden ing at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Stewart, Regina. Mrs. Rodtka was eighty-fiv years of age and wag Germany, coming to Canada' over fifty years ago. The late! Mr. and Mrs. Rodtka resided in Wainwright township and were or of the earliest pioneer fami- ies. Frederick Rodtka predeceased his wife eight years ago and since the time of his death, Mrs. | é born in, i Journal appear below. Declaring the convention the most representative gathering of Northwestern Ontario leaders Rodtka has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Stewart at Reg- ina. The late Mrs. Rodtka is sur- i 38-mile projected tween Sioux Lookout ang Din-! he said, yet held, Earl C. Popham, presi- dent of the association, said that the primary function of the or- ganization will continue to be the co-ordination and centraliza- tion of activities of those com munities that make up North- western Ontario. Adoption of broad principles and policies will do more for development of this region than any other agency, he said. : Fishing Licenses The first of the 15 resolutions presented at the morning session was sponsored by Dr. P. H. B. Wood of Dryden and A. A. J. MacDonald of Sioux Lookout. This resolution asked that the government extend the privilege of reduced fishing fees to non- residents of the districts of Ken- ora and Rainy River. Manitoha residents summering in resorts close to the provincial border have paid $1.00 instead of the regular $5.50 fee, the convention was informed, and with the gradual extension of the resorts eastward it is felt in the best interests of the province, to ex- tend the privilege. Trans-Canada Road William Webster, secretary of the Fort William chamber of commerce, presented the resolu- tion that the Ontario govern- ment vigorously proceed with the construction and completion of the Fort William-Kenora unit |E2 of the Trans-Canada highway. particularly stressing that por-| 58 tion of the route between Fort William and Upsala and that portion between Kenora Dryden. Mr. Webster that the highway is completed ject and they represented frozen assets unless the government tion. of Dryden, moved that the gov- ernment complete the highway Dinorwie, giving the railway center an outlet to the Trans- Canada highway. Mr. Mae- vived by three daughters, Mrs. Stewart of Regina, and Mrs. Hiecles and Mrs. Halstead of Vancouver; and two sons, R. D. Rodtka of Vancouver and Wil liam Rodtka of Dryden. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved family. The remains were brought to Dryden for burial accompan') d by Mrs. Stewart and the funeral was held from Dryden United Church Tuesday afternoon, Rev. J. W. Howes conducting the ser- viee. The following acted as pall- bearers: Messrs John Reid, Chas. Morton, F. Vancoughnett, W. Newton, J. Fisher and Swan Swanson. There were many lovely floral tributes. Mrs. Madder left Wednesday for England, where she will visit her brothers for some time. Baptist Church gathered at the home of Mr. Murry to bid fare- | well to their pastor, Rev. Edgar and Mrs. Ferns. ; After enjoying a time of Chris- tian fellowship, of prayer and sacred music, led by Mr. Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. Ferns were called forward to hear an address read by Mr. Boyd and to be present- ed with a purse of considerable amount on behalf of all present. Mr. and Mrs. Ferns hoth res- ponded, especially thanking Mrs. Van Sickle and Mr. Murry for the home opened to them for the evening. Luneh was then served and a little later all departed to their several homes, wishing Mr. and Mrs. Ferns every success in their new field of lobour. ANNOUNCEMENTS A Duck shoot will be held at 'W. D. Neely's, Oxdrift, on Mon- day, October 3rd, at 2 o'clock. The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion, B.E.S.L., will hold a sale of work and home- cooking in the Pulp Mill Hall, on the afternoon of Saturday, October 15th. ; ; The First and Second Company Guides will hold the Children's Hallowe'en Party again this year. All children are welcome. Begin to plan your costume now. There will be prizes for costumes and eats. Admission 15c¢. Date and place will be announced later. : and § argued | fi partially, great sums of money | §8 have been expended on the pro-|@ continues the project to comple- = A. A. J. MacDonald of Sioux |G Lookout, and Dr. P. H. B. Wood to connect Sioux Lookout and | Donald said that Sioux Look: out now has a population of 1,800 and possesses 200 automo- bile owners. Ten miles of the highway be orwic are completed, and camps already are erected that can be utilized in the com- pletion of the road. rent for jobless residents of both centers also is needed, he said. : Mr. King introduced a resolu- tion again requesting the gov- ernment to apwoint a royal com. mission to investigate the resour- ces of Northwestern Ontario and outline a policy for their rapid development and utilization. The resolution was supported by C. McLennan of Fort Frances and it also urged that the appoint- ment of a fact finding commis- sion be made without undue de- lay. One of the most inteersting resolutions introduced at the morning's session involved an invitation to the members of the Ontario legislature to make a general tour of Northwestern Ontario in 1933. Not only would the legislature members be in- vited to see this part of the province, said Mr. Young, but all newspapers in the east would be asked to send representatives on the tour which would include visits to Schreiber, Port Arthur, Nipigon, Fort William Kenora, Sioux Lookout, Dryden and other district centers. on Employ-| STRAND NOW SHOWING WARNER "THE AMATEUR DADDY" A pleasing little western whole ADDED-- "Queenie of Hollywood?' Educational-- 'Wrestling Swordfish" 'Over The Yukon Trail" THEATRE, BAXTER in comedy that will suit the family. MAURICE This is positively on Next Week--Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the biggest musical sensation of the year "ONE HOUR WITH YOU" CHEVALIER e of our best pictures. Thursday, Frid SLIM SUMMERVILLE Here's an e ADDED-- 'Sold at Auction" ADDED--" What Price Pants" 'Your Driving Me Crazy' in a high speed laugh producer "RACING YOUTH" With thrills, spills and speed at the auto races. ay and Saturday and LOUISE FAZENDA yeful for you. OCTOBER 10th, 11th and 12th KEN MAYNARD in '"'BRANDED MEN?' OCTOBER 13th, 14th and 15th WARREN WILLIAM in "THE MOUTHPIECE" Blue Bird Toffee, tb Picardy Chocolates, tb .... Picardy Bridge Mixture, ib Picardy Fruit Jellies, tb Picardy Fruit Drops, 1b | CANDY SPECIALS Neilson's Brazil Nut Bars, each Drryde n Pharmacy Prescription Specialists EL ia itd. Ti ~