= Serious Accident near Ignace. A vry serious accident occurred in the P:C:R: yards at Ignace, on Monday morning, when A. Witzell, of Fort William, during the performance of his FOR CASH OR ON duties slipped and fell across the track and had both legs severed, one at the knee and the other below, Medical aid was immediateyl summon- ed and number 3 was held until he could be placed on the train and brough to Dryden Hospital, where Mr Witzell's condition is Tepofied;s as most favour- able. EASY PAYMENTS Set Leedy DRUMS, full Orchestra size, Complete Jazz Outfit, cost $59.00 and only used a few times. rep ) Your Chance ate. 2.0. 4... a confer sibi ccna $40.00 @ ® ; 2 ®) BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, . twenty massive volumes © good as new, usual price $72.00 Special at....... $50.00 RADIO HEAD SET--Brandes Superior, worth 85.50 Myprice, set'... .....0. 0 cn sian $ 2.50 LARGE PHONOGRAPH, Mahogany finish, new Symphonic Reproducer, just as good as new, cost $130.00. © Very Special. &.. oo nal ane a $75.00 TABLE PHONOGRAPHS, loud, clear tone, one at..312.00 and ONE Bb iT. Sus vr avin ra as petri $15.00 RADIO SET--Westinghouse regenofiex, encased in a splendid Cabinet-only ........ccilvueinoos uns $35.00 TOYS-- We are discontinuing Toys and offer all our 0c. and soc. toysforeach ...... vain sia nr ss .25 EDISON CYLINDER PHONOGRAPH--with forty records, original cost was $131.00; all for ........ $25.00 WESTINGHOUSE SURERHETRODYNE, 6 tubes, Loud Speaker and complete equipment to run from . your electric current, original cost $447.00. In- © SE Se SUE ASR $170.00 (@ LADIES' AND CHILDRENS WINTER COATS-- Yes--the largest assortment reasonable prices, ten per cent off for an all-cash deal and only one of each style is stocked. SILK SCARFS FOR THE LADIES-- A large and beautiful assortment just received. stalled and guaranteed for in this diStrict-- Ralph J. Pronger CJ Winterbottom Lumber Yard DRUMHELLER HARD COAL LUMBER, COAL and BUILDERS' BLACKSMITH COAL Service -- and -- Quality. SUPPLIES LUMP COAL KOPPERS COKE DRYDEN Jas. Winterbottom, Ontario FROM NOW ON SANITARY A Full Stock of PARNELL'S BREAD. And it is not touched by the hand until you open it. I SHALL HAVE WRAPPED -- i -- i ------ FRESH OYSTERS IN STOCK These go good with good Bread. and Butter. ic. James Wright Phone 49 a oe faust aT hlL has ng THE DRYDEN OBSERVER Se W. I. Convention (Continued from page One) nature. It can restore the past to us; can show us the glory of the com- mon-place, and can give us the mastery of our own language. "What hand or heart went ever paired, What heart alike conceived and dared ? What act proved all its thoughts had been ? What will but felt the fleshly screen?" Mrs A, Faulkner, Nipigon favoured the audience with a fine solo, accom- panied by Miss Irene Dowd, with violin obbligato by Mr Lapoint, which was enthusiastically encored, Mr Geo. A. Putman Speaks Mr Geo, Putman, Superintendent of Institute work, addressed the Conven- tion, He congratulated the Districts on what had already been done and the spirit they had shown in the work. The ideal of Institute work, he said, is to give expression to the individual talent which every woman possesses but does not always have the opportunity to give expression to. Through Institute work her talents are" developed and an outlet found for her thoughts, Also the real neighbourly feeling towards each other both in prosperity and ad- versity is awakened--the ideal of service through united action: organiz- ed mother-love and neighbourliness, The Women's Institute, he declared, is the strongest women's organization the most envied branch of women's work, because it is a combination of duty and charity, which working in cooperation with others is mutually beneficial. It is service to your family, to the needy, to the community and to the Province. of proven methods, The Institute en- courages study of literature, and prop- er food for the family, Some more community singing was followed by a paper by Mrs Lowry Johnston B.A., "World Peace Through Education," which will be printed in full in a future issue, Dr McMurchy, Director of Child Welfare, Public Health Department, Ottawa, gave an address on the re- search work that has been carried on in connection with the infant and matern- ity mortality reports in Canada, which It provides education] = at present is on the increase, Miss K. Osborne, Public Health Nurse on Public Health Work in the District Miss Osborne gave an address on the progress of ths work carried on from headquarters at Dryden. Also of the help rendered by the Institutes in a financial way that has been a means of caring for a great number of cases in the rural districts, providing for treat- ment and hospital expenses, She said she had the co-operation of Institutes wherever she went, THURSDAY MORNING SESSION Thursday morning was filled with a more definite account of the work car- ried on by each branch. Mrs Parfitt of Keewatin_ helped to make the morn- T ing pleasant with a solo and encore. Final Session in the Afternoon Immediately after luncheon had been served the delegates were taken for a cruise among the islands on the S_S, Argyle. At 3 pm the sessions were rseumed by the singing of "The Maple Leaf™ followed by a shorf address by | Mr McCrea, district representative of {agriculture. Mr George Putman then | gave 2 brief talk, | Mrs Rivers, of Dryden favored with |a beautifully rendered solo and a de- {lightful encore. Dr Ferguson's address on Public Health was immensley interesting and | educative. Concise, to the point, not a |word wasted, an unbelievable amount | of information given in a short | He opened by saying everyone should | consider themselves a health officer, re- | sponsible for their own their children's ame, {and their neighbours bh : Only during the past century the microbe has been discovered and in spite of the natural immunity and acquired immun- lity, these ivade our bodies at times, in greater numbers than the white cor- puseles can destroy, causing illness. He also pointed out how important it was to have absolutely clean milk taken from tuberculin tested cattle, cooled quickly and kept cool. The only cows and a pasturization plant Another important thing he said was the water supply. He dealt with hte typhoid epi- demics at Portsmouth caused by trow- ing excretia from a typhoid patient upon the ice of the river durng the winter and cousing hundreds of cases in the spring; also the Cochrane epi- demic caused by careless disposal of sewage. Considering that ninety per cent enter through the respiratory system he gaid, it behooves us to see that our childrens' tonsils and adenoids do not handicap them. Mouth breathers are germ carriers, Their teeth should be taken care of also, : | Mrs Locking of Emo, read a paper -e written by Mrs O'Neill oof Rainy River on pioneer days and when the first W, I. was organized in Rat Portage seven- teen years ago, Mrs Garrity of Fort William, as head of the resolution committee, read reso- lutions to be placed before the various department by the federation delegates Among them were resolutions asking| == a place for deranged people & one for a tuberculosis sanitorium in this por- tion of the province, Another asked for more representaton on the feder- ation board and there were various others pertaining to institute work. All were carried, one with a slight change in form, Mrs Wigle of Dryden, was appoint- de federate delegate. - Mrs Gilbert, of Fort Frances, read a paper entitled "Home," written by Mrs Dalf, of Fort Frances, It stressed the cooperative spirit among the members of a home and the beauty of helping to bear each others burden. After many expressions of appreci- ation of the hospitality of the Kenora ladies by the visitors the session closed by singing "God Save The King". WATKIN'S PRODUCTS SPICES, EXTRACTS," Etc. STOCK & POULTRY TONIC PIE FILLERS, FRUIT SALTS, TOOTH PASTE AND BRUSH HOLDER LINIMENT, COUGH MEDICINES, LAXATIVES, SALVES, MEDICINES, E. T. (DAD) ROWLAND Oxdrift Trading Co OXDRIFT, ONTARIO GENERAL MERCHANTS FIOUR AND FEED FRESH EGGS, and BUTTER Daily. BEEF AND PORK ALL MAIL ORDERS PROMTLY ATTENDED TO 4 ANDERSON & HARRIS FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT CALLS , PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO PHONE- Dey, 62 B 2; Night, 62 B 4 ROBT. SWEENEY General Blacksmith AGENTS FOR-- : Kassey- Harris Implements CARBON REMOVED FROM CYLINDER by Acetylene Burning AAAI NTS PPP LIVERY AND DRAY PROMPT SERVICE AT ALL HOURS A. WEAVER, Phone 56 Dryden, Ontario OO ANPP AS New Fall Goods Suits and Overcoats The line of Scotch and Irish Tweeds for this season are the best that have evere been seen. Come in and Look Them Over. T. PROUDFOOT "The Dryden Tailor.' THE DRYDEN OBSERVER Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. Published at DRYDEN, Ontario Every Friday Morning Largest circulation of any weeldy paper in the Kenexa District. Subscription, $1.50 per year. ge -- 5] A STRUTT == General Blacksmith and Woodworker Where work is done to suit your Purse. Dryden, Ontario ----R LO. 0. F DRYDEN LODGE, Ne 417 meets at the Town Hall, every Monday night. : INITIATORY DEGREE WEDNESDAY NIGHT H. MORISON, N.G, Bro F. WHITELEY, Rec.-Sec, cman L.O. L. DRYDEN LODGE No. 168: meets the first and third Wednesday of each month, at eight p.m., in the Town Hall, Visiting brethren cordially invited. J.D, NICHOLSON, W:M. BADEN SMITH, See'y. Golden Star Lodre AF & AM No. 484, G.R.C. Meets in the Masonic Hall, Dryden, the Second Tuesday of each month, Visiters Cordially invited. H, WILDE, W.M, A. E. BERRY, Secretary SEE W. A. WEARE Qeneral Merchant AIINNITAKI, ONTARIO Agent For-- JOHN DEERE PLOW CO. Ciere is John Deere Equipment for Every Farm Use. Cet QUALITY and SERVICE TIME PAYMENTS Arranged ) Suit Purchasers. Das es a Eee REAR te FY "Making the Canadian Dol far Go Farther#a«. Fver Before MCLAUGHLIN-BUICK LA SALLE GENE RAL N the purchase of the com- mon commodities of life, the Canadian dollar has de- creased in value during the past decade. But, in the purchase of an automobile, the dollar is now worth one hundred to two hundred per cent more than it was seven to ten years ago--is worth more, in fact, than ever before in history. While constantly raising the quality standard of its products, General Motors of Canada has CHEVROLET PONTIAC increased the purchasing powee of the Canadian car-buyer's dollar. . by the economies of volume purchasing and production, . by the close co-ordination of resources and facilities, ; by improved labor- and time-saving methods of manus facture, . by sharing with Canada the savings effected by increased production. In quality and in value, the Cana< dian dollar now goes farther than ever before in the purchase of a General Motors car. OLDSMOBILE OAKLAND ofr CANADA imi Home Office and Factories: OSHAWA, ONTARIO - NE CADILLAC GENERAL MOTORS TRUCK MOTORS GM-2288 rt eg