Volume IV. Dryden, Ont. November 3rd 1922 KYD PHARMACY EYE DAY DREAM . The Exquisite Boudior Creation Consisting of all the essentials of perfect Toilette-- oa PERFUME--HUNTING FRAGRANT FACE POWDER--IT STAYS ON POWDER CREME--A VANISHING CREAM : 'COLD CREAM--SOOTHING AND HEALING ROUGE--COMPACT TALCUM--SMOOTH, NO GRIT x ck ok XR PICARDY CHOCOLATES AND CANDIES kk SERVICE * QUALITY' When in need of GOOD BOOTS--MEN'S OR BOYS or MEN'S RUBBERS HARNESS Horse Blankets Boots or Harness Repairs li CALL AT WILLARDS The Store of Service and Quality. | If you are needing HOCKY BOOTS, or SKATES this Winter, I shall have a good assortment on hand shortly. Sizes to fit all feet and prices to suit all pockets. ey Good assortment of PULLOVER & WOOLLEN MITTS "on hand A full Supply of Dr Scholl's remedies «always on hand. Service Free. Ed *h WILLARD, Boot and Harness Repairer. wn POS PPO UVT POEVIDBOVOVETY Dick Trist § Dryden Livery, Transfer and Exchange Baru DRYDEN SVVOPRT DEH 5HP £2 £0 2 CNT. 0 DR BD OG Pr po wa FOR S&F POR SALE-- Good FARM, excellent quality of land 156 acres with 60 acres cleared, 20 acres cultivated, 20 more under cultivation. 2% miles from Dyment, good road to Dyment, well timbered with upland pulpwood, land easily cleared. Log house 18x22 with i cellar; hay barn 22x28; stable 16x20 'inside, cutside stable 12x15. Also a 5 year old team of horses in good con dition; 2 milk cows and 3 pigs, cheap with full complement of farm machin- Tov awaly, ED SWANSON, Dyment or OBSERVER OFFICE sik Dryden Bakery : WALTERS' DRYDEN MAID BREAD It's wrapped Bock CAKES AND PASTIES ) Bread and Cakes on Sale at the bakery : Special attention given to phone orders. T WALT ERS Phone 86 FOR SALE--TWO TEAMS CF GOOD Good General Purpose HGRSES. For partienlars apply to W.D. NEELY 26-10 Oxdrift, Ontario . FOR SALE---TEN ROOMED HOUSE, with furnace; cistern, electric stove, and electric fixtures. Also complete with storm windows. --Apply 26-10 Mrs 8. B. BLACK Took our law in fusion. Water Power Committee A sitting of the Select Committee, of the Legislature appointed to con- sider Bill No. 249 Respecting Water Rights was held at the = Public Ac- counts Committee Room, Parliament Buildings, Toronto on Tuesday, Octo- her 3 at 10 a.m., at which those who wishéd to present orally to the Com- mittee their views upon the above Bill was, heard. All the members were present. ! The Chairman addressed those present as follow: "Complaints have from time to time been made in regard to the use of water. Lumbermen have complained that the licensees of water powers have made use of the water in such a way as to deprive the lumbermen of their rghtful use of the water, which use, they clam, was for their ob- ligations as licensees of the Govern- ment for the driving of logs down the streams of the Province. It has been found that lumbermen cannot always agree among them- selves as to the use of water for their purposes and have frequently come to this department to adjust differencs between them. The Canadian Pacific Railway also found that the con- struction of a dam upon one of the streams of the Province, with the sub- sequent result of its breaking and washing away . portion of their track, resulted'in very serious damage to them, a damage which they found themselves unable to recover from any other person. Then we found that in many cases settlerrs claimed that lumbermen were using the streams improperly in a way that interfered with privileges and rights of the settlers. Then owners of land also often find themselves involv- .ed in controversy over the use of water In most of these cases, hitherto, the only method of ascertaining and dex claring the rights of the respective parties was by litigation which often protracted and expensive and, even when it determined the rights as be- tween the two parties to the litigation, left the rights of other persons to the same water undeterined and capable of being ascertained only by other law suits. I mentioned that applieation have often heen ade to the Department to settle these disputes. The Depatment has no effective machinery for these purposes. 4 The settlement by litigation is not satisfactory in that one action, does not determine the rights of all parties. Therefore in many cases several actions would be necessary to deter- mine the rights of parties to the use of one body or stream of water. In many cases the matter involved is not of sufficient importance to justify the expense of litigation, yet the continual existence of matlers which nie com- plained 'of is a constant soarce ol irritation. The question of expense | is a very important ilem in setiung these disputes oy litigation Couits of Law. Cue object to tha pre in eur sent condition regacd tothe use of the number of ciffevent Acts deshng with the gueation. Thera are no than sevan Acts which this present Bill propeses to repeal aud while repealing, to ¢onssiidazz by the ona Bill, : Then there is the fuck that diferent purposes ins control of waler hai: leen placed vader more tha: one of the Departments, with the result that occasionally there may be con- fliet in, the exercife of thes powers by water ig: tn e550 Ff ar Will Develop Deposit Near Wabigoon --Used for Lining Kraft Mill Furn- Uses. Toronto Mail & Empire:-- The Wa- bigoon Soapstone' has been organized, with a capital of $500.000 and with head office in Tor- onto to mine Soapstone. pany owns one of the largest soap- stone deposits known and the only commercially it is claimed. ; The development of this industry "| will be of interest to the pulp and paper companies who use this tone for lining kraft mill furnaces and pulp digesters. It is also used exten- sively in the electrical, rubber goods and other fields. % kok x An examination of the property re- ferred to in the above quoted from the Toronto Mail & Empire, was made by Mr E. S. Spence of the Mines Branch of the department of Mines, Ottawa, October 1921, and the followng is an extract from his report. Judging from its tenor the Wabigoon Soapstone Company has taken hold of what will prove an excellent proposition. An interesting and extensive deposit of so-called soapstone occurs one mile west of Wabigoon Station, on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, near Dryden, Ontario. The occurrence is close to Wabigoon Lake, in the township of Zealand, and the distant is only five hundred yards from the railroad. It is well situated for work- ing, the outcrop being on the top of a low ridge, thus affording good drain- age for quarry operations. The min- ing location is numbered H.W. 133, and the deposit is owned by Mr E. Pidgeon, Wabigoon, Ontario. Description of Deposit.-- Two well defined band of soapstone occur, sep- arated by about one hundred feet of hard grit rock, the nature of which has not been determined. The trend of the band is N.W. and the apparent ip is approximately vertical." The and west slope of a low ridge that crosses a small peninsula extending from the north shore of Wabigoon | Lake. The northern band has a prov- | with a width of thirty-five feet. The extent of the southern band has not been determined but from the visible outeron, is probably considerably the larger of the two bodies. There is very little overburden on the deposit and only a light stand of second growth timber. Possible Use.-- The use that sug- gests itself most strongly for the stone of this deposit is for brick for lin- ing the smelting furnace of sulphate pulp (Kraft) mills. These furnaces require a refactory material that is structurally strong and that does not 'spall or crack under the heat to which 'it is subjected. There are more than a dozen sulphate pulp mills in Can- ada, and the aggregate amount of soapstone brick used considerable. All of these bricks are imported from the United States. (If the Wabigoon stone proves suitable under actual working conditions for the above purpose, the cost of soapstone to domestic pulp mills should be materially lessened.} Conclusion:--This deposit is the niost promising, from the economic stand- .j point, of any of the soapstone oceurr- ences seen in Canada. There is un- doubtly =a large tonnage of stone available; the deposit lies within a few hundred yards of the railroad; and the location could not be bettered for the different Departments, and on the | a quarry ie other hand, that no Department feels that it has sufiicient jurisdiction. . Then scattered through the Acts, it will be found that the conrol of water for one purpose is given .to one Tribunal while the control of the same war for other purposes is given to other Tribunals. Si As it can readily be seen, all these conflicting claims and methods of as- certaining and determining what the rghts of the parties are cause con- Persons interested ofen do not know where to come to get a claim adjusted or a wrong righted, and in many cases, in fact in nearly all cases, the adjustment would be very incomplete, leaving it open to' other parties to come in subsequently and claim that they have a right. Then there was the lack of effective machin- ery, first, to deal promptly with the complaint. Oftentimes quick action is very essential. If the matter cannct be attended to at once serious damage may result. © Recourse to the Courts Wabigoon Soapstone Co. aces and Pulp Digesters.--Also Other | Company Limited, iting the Dryden Schools at present. The Com-| ' deposit in Canada that can he woked | of Oxdrift, died in Kenora hospital 'Wednesday and was buried here on returned Sunday from an extended visit to eastern Ontario. undertook a oute march, Monday eve- The Moving Finger "Mr W.'W, French of Osdris pail Dryden a visit Wednesday. Mr Ralph Pronger visited Quibell Monday. Major J. W. Hamilton, inspector of public schools for this district is vis- Mr Ralph Pronger has been appoin- ted issuer of game and trapping li- censes for Dryden and District. Mzrs Chant of this town, formerly Friday. Mrs M. S. Campbell and son Neil, and her mother Mrs Jas. McFadyen A new frame school has been built by School Section No. 1, Rugby and Baton townships. Mr Oliver Keene was the builder and Miss Barker of Oxdrift will be the teacher. ~ Mrs Keene of Oxdrift had the mis- fortune while walking the other day to break a small bone in her foot. She is now staying in Dryden at the home of Mr Perrin. Mrs Crosier made a trip to Winn- ipeg this = week, accompanying her daughter Alva, who will remain in the city for the winter taking a special business course. Kenora Light Infantry, D company, ning as far as Mr J. Hutchison's farm. After annihilating an imaginary foe, they were brought back to barracks by the O.C. Mr A. E. Chase of Port Arthur is in Dryden taking over Mr James Me- Fadyen's duties at the Custom Office, while that gentleman is on his holi- days,, a part of which will be spent in Winnipeg. Myr Bailey regrets that the visit of the Arlle Marks Company, announced stone is well exposed on the summit] ed length of over five hundred feet, of Law could provide no effective or sufficient remedy. Then there was no effective machin- ery to investigate the facts at first hand and thoroughly. And thirdly, the machinery for adjusting these matters could not consider and deter-. mine all interests and Highs | in the one proceeding. Therefore it was thought advisable to consolidate all these various Acts and powers into one Act with one Tribunal with power to act promptly, investigate with its own Officers and machinery of investigation, bring all parties interested before it and de- termine the conflicting interests and rights, free from expense of lengthy and expensive and often inconclusive litigation. conimittee is being held in Port Ar- thur, Friday, November 3rd at which anyone desiring SO to do may present their views. A sitting by the above referred to for Thursday, Friday and Saturday {this week has been postponed. The Strand will run a Pauline Frederick : Picture fomorrow ! stead. The Forest Girls Club of Quibell have discovered the secret of making entertainments pay. Being bright, clever people, they are willing to pass the tip to any other committee or Club. If you want to know how to hold entertainments that entertain, ask the Forest Girls Club. The verdict of not guilty in the case of Geo. Knudson on the assumption that the killing of Neil Martin at In- golf last June was perpetrated in self- defence, meets with the approval of many of Knudson's acquaintances in Kenora and Keewatin, perhaps largely for sentimental reasons. When one of the weak lings, living under the "Thou Shalt Not" edicts of the O.T.A. comes before a Montreal Magistrate after running up against a Quebec beverage, and admits: he hails from Ontario, the magistrate merely says, "Go back home, its pun- ishment enough for you to live there, I shall not add to your already heavy and Saturday in- 3 "fireat Is Their Reward" A HALLOWEEN Party and Dance arranged by the capable members of the Girls Guild of St Luke's, was held in the Mill Hall on Tuesday night. Despite the wretched, rainy weather a great number were present io enjoy the celebration of the ancient festival. The Guild overlooked no detail that would produce the time-honoured at- mosphere associated with Hallowz'en. The decorations redolent of the occult were well planned to suggest mys- ticism, while even the eyes of the giils scintillated with witchery. The games indulged in with great enjoyment were also appropriate and seasonable, while the fortune-telling by Mrs Withrow was conducted wiih appropriate rites, and was calculated to take the jov out of life for some, while giving a new start fo other en- QUIYEYS, After lunch was served the company participated in a joyful dance, to which 5-piece Orchestra, under the leader- i of Mr Gammon. s the rewa-d for their cnergy, oe have the, splendid sum of $115 at their disposal to apply to the bene- volent and helpful purposes for which they are organized. te BIBLE CLASS ENTERTAINS The Bible Class of the Union Church {7 had as their guests at a halloween party in the basement of the Church, party offered no other attraction would the pupils of the intermediate depart- ments. Fortune telling and bobbing for apples were the two main features of the evening entertainment. Ghostly visitors visited the dark corners anid shook hands with all who were brave enough to pass though the ordeal. The costumes were wonderful 'and had the party offeed no other attraction, would have amply repaid the onlookers. The prize for the prettiest costume was won by Miss Eva Spears; for the cleverist, Jack Foote and family; the ugliest, Fred Byington and simplicity and attractiveness, Miss Minnie Reid. The visitors and pupils remained at the church till all danger of temta- tion to commit hallowe'en pranks was past. Thanksgiving One of the most charming words upon the Canadian tongue is "Thanks- giving", What memories it brings hack [or the older ones among us, who can recall the old Thanksgiving which fell regularly en a November Thurs- day. vices in the church of our parents' parents, the turkey and all that vent the boys and girls, We fain would bring them back again! But no--we cannot--and would not if we could! For is not ours a better day? Note the blessings that we now enjoy, the discoveries of science, our growing and | comprehensive literature, our men! and women in every walk and calling their rich possessions of time and kind and a more practical and effective Church than the world has ever seen. Thanksgiving is a gift. = We have received many good things from cu cousins in the United States, but of all | these the richest is our national burden. ' We are informed by the authorities that no serious crimes were reporter as a result of the Hallowe'en pranks of the boys and girls, which is fine and as it should be. No reasonable man or woman can object to the young lads and lassies having a little harm- | less fun on such an historic occasion, | and it is to the crédit of our policeman |. and the good sense of our boys and girls that no serious disturbances have occurred. Last Saturday, beginning. at 2.30 and continuing until closing time, man- ager Brill of the Co-operative enter- tained his patrons to a buffet luncheon Tea, coffee, cocoa, sandwiches and cakes were dispensed by Mrs Brill and Miss Brignall. The three tables ord- jnarily used in the display of goods had been tastefully decorated and set with refreshments, and tea, coffee and cocoa was served at the counter of the department in which it has been ar- ranged to carry on the meat business of the Company. From 2 o'clock on, the usual patrons of the store kept Mrs Brill and Miss Brignall actively en- gaged, ministering to their respective tasts, and judging from the appreci- ation expressed on all sides, the guests auproved of Manager Brill's mixing of § Thantioglving. What a thought! A ! Domonion extending from sea to sea, | and from the river unto the ends of the earth, all on one day, and all of one accord praising the Giver of every good and perfect gift, for another har- vest and all its many kindred blessings Can we not already hear our land ex- claim: "When all thy mercies O my God, My rising soul survey, Transported in the view I'm lost In wonder, love and praise." Never was a people blessed with a richer gift than a National Thanks- giving. We can easily see a spiritual value in temporal blessings. Yet we know if they are withheld, it is for our good. In our blindness and weakness we may question and wonder; but our faith at its best can rise to heights sublims, and affirm that: "Light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come Through thorns of judgement mer- cies bloom : In sweet relief." TAKE NOTICE | that the adjourned Sale for Taxes will be held on Nov. 22nd in the Township Hall at 3 p.m. : pleasure and business. D. ANDERSON, Treas. music was supplied by the excellent} {basis The family gatherings, the ver- with ir, and the joyous reunion among QUI BELL--The Saturday by added Ss fund. been ma aittocied ] Sioux Lookout The ¥ ent playing was notl treat. The Forest Gi ing up the cided to make Next time they w chestra that w ing to hear whet The date will be rangements are cow a feat o > = cS = iY 5 o ES] i f= 2 F2 @ Ve) k= = Xl u dance or nol. nced when ai- Half he town is going 1 drift Masquer and that is t disappointed, i the best. Both Trist ¢ run trips during the evening rates. os APUG US RINE IRIE AT Sunday Services: 11 a.m--Ady " Bible Class 2.80 'a.m. Bible School 7 p-m.-- Pul os Worship. Monday, 7.30--C.G.LT F Business Meeting of Bibl Tuesday.--Teacher iast Tuesday of the month. Wednesday: 7.8 Tuxis Ladies' Aid on second Wednes Thursday---7.15--Con : Thursday 8.15--Choir Practice. Friday 7.30--Trail Rangers. First Friday, Monthly meeting of the Church Board. Those without a Town are invited tot of the meeting church. Leaders are goups of big boys. Thursday even mental studied, especial of Union ne e togel to unite in Cans On Sunday af school are ing." "The o the day. Sunday mornin will continue its s Luke, Chapt | Jesus the ( 12 Do m it {the Ch WEDNEST DA X dstructed G {par ticular p day: up wil of the questions to come tition: is applying the rule of stewardship to | 1 How fa th faith of othe 1 3 Should {4 Should it be "to. provide - well as chure ' missionaries ? A Scene from TURN 10 THE RIGHT TAKE NOTICE that I have been in- by the Township of = Van Horne to buy in all parcels of land that 'do not receive a bid sufficier pay the taxes and cost of adverti against them. ATID QR DN Sl ANDERSON, Treasurer.