el a N-- » : GR SA Bos BELL - La M. J. CROSIER General-Merchant, OXDRIFT, Ont. - dealer in Dry Goods Groceries 'Boots and Shoes Hardware and Farm Produce 9 - Agent for : 3 Yorkshire Insurance Company Frost & Wood and . Cockshutt Implements Look to your Shoes ~~ IN GOOD TIME Get Ready for the spring thaw. Have your Shoes put in proper Repair, and protect your Health. Coloured Boots and Shoes dyed _biack, and made to look like new. 9 RUBBER BOOTS SOLED H. WILLARD, Boot and Harness Repairer. secaerese esses RD. T. TRIST DRYDEN ONT 5 0000000000000 S0000000000 LOL : $ and Exchange Bara Dryden Lodge No. 1694 + meets the first Wednesday of each month at 8 pm in the Town Hall. Visiting brethren cordially invited. ) W. J. Robinson, W.M. D. Anderson, Rec. Sec. P300C00000000000000000000¢ 4 A.J.GARDINER General Merchant EAGLE RIVER, ONT. AGENT FOR Cockshutt Plow Go. Frost & Wood Implements Charnla'e Praam Canavabara VMI FIV UO viva VVNUs wiv gy Aaw Furs Bought and Sold 108060040000 0000000003000¢ VPIOICOVNG0I9099099060000600 [] HOUSES For Sale and Reut ~ WATERFRONT LOTS FOR SALE --ALSO-- Fire Insurance 448. MCFADYEN. oulphite and Pager Jill Workers Dryden Lodge No. 105 Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month, at 7.30, in the Mill Hall. TL. -HILL, H. J. ADAIR, Pres. Rec. Sec. n Dryden lodge No, Lp .G.0.F Dod at the Town a every Monday evening wi-8 o'clock: O. M. Nymark, N. G., D. Anderson. Recording Visiting bhrethro cordially mvited, ' Dec, Golden Star Lodge J A / gy \F No. 484 WA, AF. &A.M.,G.R.C. ets in the Masonic Fall, the secord Tuesday of 'each month. Visitors cordially invited. Alfred Pitt, W. M. A. E. Berrey, Secretary tof ICE CREAM | CAKES FRUITS GOUGH'S CANDY KODAKS SUPPLIES | CONFECTIONERY NEILSON'S CHOCOLATES DRYDEN ---- ONTARIO THE 3 AB BIG VALUE BOX Pastes for Black; "Tan, Oxblood and Brown Shoes White Cake and Liquid for White Shoes THE F. F. DALLEY CORPORATIONS LTD, LX HAMILTON, CAN, D#1-20-20" § RED ROSE TEA 'he CASH STORE 65c a 1b PED ROSE COFFEE, in sealed tins that preserve its delicate flavor Red Rose Baking Powder. ; ' 70¢ aplb 29calh If you have used these Red Rose goods, you know their quality. If you have not used them give them a trial. T. J. LATIMER wil H Pai foodstuffs. | paid for breeding ~ collapsed. tematios Brotherhood of Pulp! "work. - obviously that it was nota rabbit] English or Flemish, are not to be the Dutch rabbit, with its black, blue, } blaze down the face. | rabbit, with its snowy white, fieecy p cannot jump high enough to get its ' be expected that boys will aid in the [HE ONE PRICE STORE 21020 874% 6204404% 4% 4% £90 Pu ote a ---- So ere efelilu etude de cloateelo Toate steel haha Rabbit is Now : in Demand oe' Pee® ot RS Se SANE RR NEA APA Pp MOVEMENT is obseivakle in the United Slates to page the rabbit in an effort to com- pete with the high price of 0 +% XI o RS o> RS Oe %* > Ko) % °, * Soitontotodiih oR ° "f 2, », iar o, ks THE DRYDEN OBSERVER Twenty years ago there | was a tremendous booni in many parts of the continent, including Canada, to put the Belgian hare on the market. As most people are aware, the Belgian hare is a rabbit of a brownish red color, weighing ten pounds or more, bred primarily for grace of outline. and: richness of coloring, and, secondly, as a substi-| tute for beef and other meals. In California the Belgian hare boom ! must have reminded the old-timers | of the boom in 1849. Everybody took' to breeding Belgian hares. The cli-- mate was eminently suitable, for the hares could remain outdoors the year Tremendous prices were stock. Several hundred dollars were freely handed round. { over for a prize buck. There were innumerable shows. Then. the boom It was found that to breed successfully required much skill and attention. This discouraged those who had rushed into the busi- ness without any particular aptitude or training for it. In those days, too, mieats were cheap, and there wag practically no demand for rabbit skins on 'the part of the Buntings." The new rabbit boom is caused as much by the insatiable demand for | cheap fur as for cheaper food. At!' the recent New York sales tremen- dous numbers of rabbit skins were: sold. A few years ago, when wild animal furs were more abundant, or when the demand for them was smaller, there was no market for the rabbit skin. It is not a strong skin; it tears easily. T'wo years of not too careful use would make a rabbit skin coat not worth the moth balls that preserved it from one season to an- other. In those days when one bought a fur coat he, or Tather she, expected it to last for the best part of a lifetime. Now, since styles have seized upon furs as they formerly seized upon silks, ladies get tired of a particular fur coat in a season or two. Durability has no greater attraction for them than piety. They want change, and if a rabbit skin coat will only look smart for a year, it will be held to have given service. Its cheapness is another advantage, for a rabbit skin coat can be bought for from $65 to $150. Ermine and seal are no longer available except for those of great wealth, and every year finds mink and otter and beaver and other fury that once were as common as the old- fashioned buffalo robes, becom- ing more scarce. This has led to the advance in price and fashion of such furs as muskrat, skunk, cat and rabbit. The muskrat, when dyed and clipped, looks very much like seal at a distance of 'a hundred yards and under the name of Hudson seal sells for several hundred dollars a suit. There is also another difference not visible to the naked eye. A genuine sealgskin coat would last almost a lifetime or even longer if it happen- ed to be a short and merry one; a muskrat coat will last about half as long. As observed, a rabbit skin coat may last almost as long as a rabbit that lives next door to a terrier. It is to be noted, too, as Frederic J. Haskin points out in the Pittsburg Gazette-Times, that the skin--of the American rabbit is too tender for use as coats and it is only the Buro- bean rabbit skin that can be thus employed. ; The tanning of rabbit skins is a brand-new industry, and a result of the war. With the great fur-produec- ing countries, Russia and Canada, en- gaged in the war, they were prac- tically sealed as sources of supply. This suggested to a Belgian in the; United States that use might be made of tanned rabbit skins as trim- mings. In Belgium he had been long familiar with the process, and so he hired a barn in New Jersey, adver- tised for rabbit skins and set to In*'1915 he is said to have made $250,000. This year he is advertising for 10,000,000 hides. As pointed out, the rabbit, unlike sev- eral®other domestic animals, is use- ful both for its pelt and as food. The flesh is delicate and nourishing, and with the prices of pork and beef at their present altitudes, there is a greater demand for rabbit flesh than can be supplied. The rabbits are ex- tremely prolific, as everybody knows, except Mr. Ellis Parker Butler, who wrote an American classic called "Pigs is Pigs," under the delusion but a guinea pig that held the record in this respect. These domestic rabbits, whether Dutch, Belgian, Siberian, Lop Ear, confounded with the true English hare, even though some of them are called hares. Nor is it to be supposed that their names are derived from the countries of their origin. If the Belgian hare ever saw Belgium, there is not much chance at least that the "Siberian ever saw Siberia. All thege varieties and a dozen more have been bred, somé of them for centuries, some for only short times as domes- tic pets for show purposes. - The smallest and prettiest, perhaps, is fawn or grey body and ears, its white collar, breast and feet and the white The largest is the Flemish giant, weighing twenty pounds. Then there is the French wool, and the English lop ear, which ears off the ground. But it is not to effort to popularize rabbit flesh and rabbit skins, the boy's idea being that all rabbits ought to die, if at all, through hardening of the arteries, and be buried with pomp and affee- tion in a flower bed. £0 The Quality Grocers BRINE On & Watch the Cash and Carry Surprise Counter. RUNES di iil offer THIS WEEK 15c Ib. ® 288 "on oo ry LLL LTP LH RCE LRS °9 Tet -- ABOUT DRINKING a Dear Mr Editor, I recently bought one of Ralph Pronger's self-filling foun- cain pens which he cracks' up so much, and I am sore about it and in no mood to be trifled with. When. I got home I placed the self-filling pen within a few inches of an inkwell full of ink, then I sat down, folded my arms and waited. Nothing happened; then I waited some more, but still nothing took; place; that blamend pen néver moved--it just.laid there quietly within reach of a whole ink well full of delicious ink without even takng a sip of it. Do you think, editor, this pen could be trained to fill itself as he advertises? Have you ever had, any experience teaching fountain pens to drink? If so, T wish you would give me the advantage of your experience; I am anxioi ind out if I have done anything to cause such a stubborn, balky spirit oh the part of the pen. ~J Ed.--TI think the reason you: self-filling pen does not walk right ip to the inkwell and drink its fil is Lecause you watch it too close ly. It is probably shy and doesn't like to fill'up while you are look ing... Why don't you try leaving it beside an inkwell over night' Or keep changing your brand o° ~ralid reasons. _vho neglects or refuses to cause ink. If you don't get results by these methods, seize it firmly and pus hits head into the ink up as far as its earse--and ho ldit there until it drinks or drowns. WEDDING BELLS St. Lukes Church was the scene of a pretty wedding on Monday morning at 10 o'clock, when Miss Annie May Bennet, third daugh- ter of Mr and Mrs Albert Bennett of Minnitaki, became the bride of Mr Frederick Harold Morton .of Dryden. : The bride was given away by her father, and was accompanied by her sister, Miss Doris Bennett as bridesmaid. Mr Albert Mar- chant of Kenora acted as grooms- man. . The bride was dressed in a navy blue suit wtih hat to match. Many relatives and friends attended the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. Robert Wilson. = =r great national importance in cir- SCHOOL MATTERS The School Board wishes to draw the attention of parents and, the public school of their duty in seeing to it that children attend regularly. Owing to the great; number of absentees from school | the teachers are greatly handi-| capped in their work, and conse- quently all classes are held back to a greater or less extent. The School Act is very clear on this matter, and unless an im- provement in attendance of schol- ars is apparent steps will be taken to enforce the Act, as follows: i Every child between 8 and 14: years. of age shall attend school: for the full term during which the School of the Section or Munici-: pality in which he resides:is open ~ach year, unless excused for I § 'A parent, guardian or other per-| son having the charge or control | of .any child between such ages ;nch #hild to attend School, unless the child is excused from attend ance as provided by the Act, shali incur a penalty of not less than Five - nor more than Twenty iollars. bop! J: S. GOLDEN, . Secy. Dryden School Board. A GLORIOUS RECORD. . The visit of the Rev. R. H, A. Haslam M. A., one of thesecretar- ies of the Upper Canada Bible So- ciety, reminds one of the great- ness of the work that is being accomplished by the parent or- ganization--the British and forei- gn Bible Society. Founded n 1804 for the eingle purpose of giving to every man a copy of the scriptures in his own tongue, already in 520 languages and dialects the Society has circu- lated over three hnudred millions copies, and to-day is bringing ouf a new edition in some language every seven weeks. The bind of the world are being provided with the Word in raised type, in thirty six different languages. Every immigrant to Canada is given a copy in his own tongue on his ar- rival at our shores. The normal circulation amongst these is in 88 languages.'- - The Society does a work of culating bi-lingual or diglot ver- 3 rhe three : shift, instead of one poor fellow having to make himself busy for, the wholé twenty-four hours. sions. Books of the. Bible are printed in both the tongue of the foreigner and in English, in paral- lel columns, so that the immigrant may learn English as he reads its equivalent in his own dialect. We bespeak the hearty suppotr of the people of Dryden for the work of this grand old organiza- tion. SALE AT OXDRIFT. James Bullwer will hold an un- reserved Credit Auction Sale of Household Furniture, &c., on Monday May 17th, 1920, at Lot 4, Con. 5, 214 miles south of Oxdrift, miles west of Dryden. Full list and particulars in hand bills. Sale starts at 12 o'clock. A citizen would like to put it up to the Council to explain why, in a union town, they don't put on constables on the 8-hour Stracciati | Makes Records Exclusively : for Columbia -- Here Are ~ Some of His Best ; Cere'Ngrato (Cardillo) . . 49522 , $1.50 Elegio(Massenet) 49333 . 1.50 There's a Long, : Long Trail . . 49517. 1.50 Other Good Recprds 7