Ir Not cutting. TI. WILLARD'S and Get Them 4 VOLUME VII. DRYDEN, Ontario March 26th, 1926. No. XXXIX. . Paul Aug. Hutter Photographer, Amateur Finishing, Enlarging, Sic, ele, WALDHOF, P.O., Ontario PORTRAITS, GROUPS, CHILDREN, etc, taken at your home. Daylight or Flashlight Exposures. Highest Grade Amateur Finishing All Work Guaranteed by Long Experience. Kindly leave your films for developing and printing with The Dryden Pharmacy. REASONABLE PRICE. Honesty and Quick Service. BRING YOUR CLOCKS IN that need Repair, As I am going away about - the end of this month. All Jewellery in stock is ON SALE at Sacrifice Prices, as I must dispose of it before going out of Town. E. NADON, EXPERT REPAIRS. Quick Service Guaranteed. DRYDEN ONTARIO Don't Grumble ABOUT THOSE SCISSORS Bring Them In To SHARPENED. We have just put in an up-to-date machine for the purpose. at H WILLARD'S CASH STORE ROOT & SHOE REPAIRER and HARNESS STORE * For Sale HOUSES, TOWN LOTS & FARMS FOR SALE --WANTED TO RENT-- Several Empty Houses If you have a House for rent List it with Me. 4 J LOCK --Real Estate and Insurance.-- Issuer of Hunting and Trapping Licences Office Phone, No. 20 Farm Crop Experiments We are informed by Dr C. A. Zavitz, Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario, that 2832 Ont- ario Farmers conducted experi- ments with field crops on their own farms in 1925. The number is increasing from year to year. Choice seed of some of the best varieties is being distributed now free of cost. - Any farmer who asks for it may have the seed for an experiment with one of the classes of farm crops such as oats, ficld corn, mangles, turnips, alfalfa, sweet corn, etc. The dis- tribution will likely continue well into April or until the supply of seed of the different crops is ex- hausted. These co-operative tests of the Experimental Union have greatly increased crop- yields, making Ontario outstand- ing in this respect. Aprlication forms may be ob- tained on application to M. F. Cook, Agricultural Representative Drydex. Better Roads-- Public-spirited car owners are requested to assist the Roads and Bridge Committee by not runn- ing their cars while the roads are soft, as the greatest possible damage is done to the roads in the few days after the snow disap- pears. The Committee intend to get all the holes filled up as quick- ly as possible, and have them in good shape during the summer seasoll. TO SHAREHOLDERS-- TAKE NOTICE that the annual general meeting of the share- holders of Wabigoon-Contact Bay Gold Mines Limited (no personal liabilities) will be held at the office of Mr EL. A. Klose, Dryden, Ontario, on Tuesday, the 3oth day lof - Mareh,--3926, -at-the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, to consider the financial statement of the Company, to appoint Direc- tors and Auditors for the ensuing year, to authorize an application for supplementary letters patent allowing meetings of shareholders, directers and executive commit- tees te be held out of Ontario, and for the transaction of such other business as may be properly brought before this meeting. ROD AND GUN Of considerable interest in view of the recent controversy in Ontario over the usefulness or not of the crow, is a series of articles on Jack Miner's work that is running in Rod and Gun, the sporting magazine. The April issue contains an interesting article with reference to his advice on the establish ing of a lorge bird sanctuary. The April issue of Rod and Gun also contains a very good offering of read- ing matter of interest to the sports- man, the lover of wild life and the outdoors and the casual general read- er. An account of a tenderfoot bear hunt in the Wilds of British Columbia makes very interesting reading as do the current articles of Raymond Thom- son's series "In the Big Woods of Canada" and A. Bryan William's "Breezes from. the West." The regular department on fishing, outdoor life, guns, dogs, and trapping, contoin some good reading matter as well as instructive material. Rod & Gun is published by W. J. Taylor, Limite, Woodstock, Ontario. ED) Will it brin DROSPERE or MISFORTUNE Mo need to worry about Financial Misfortune if you have Adequate INSURANCE see ou 2 J. E. GIBSON, Agent, Dryden W | ST. LUKE'S JUNIOR W.A. WILL | : HOLD A SALE OF HOME COOK- | | ING ON SATURDAY, THE 3rd | | OF APRIL, IN WRIGHT'S GROC | | ERY STORE, AT 4.00 pm. | -- TOWN OF DRYDEN Tenders for Scavenger. "TENDLRS will be received by the undersigned until April 1st, 1926 for Scavenging and other team-work for the Town of Dryden, for the year 1926. Duties to commence on 15th of April, and continue for six months. An extra team and outfit to be used during thee Spring clean-up. Faull particulars can be obtained from John McKay, Merchant, Chairman of Sani- tation Committee. The lowest or any tender not neces- zarily accepted. J. E. GIBSON, Clerk. vison] The weekly half-holiday of the Dryden stores will commence on Thursday the 8th of April this year. IJ. P. Earngey is Conservative Candidate Ex-Mayor J. P. Earngey, editor of the Kenora Miner & News, will be the Conservative candidate at the next election in this Province. which is expected will shortly be announced. Mr Earngey was the choice of party convention held in Dryden Friday last, carrying off the honour against two opponents ex-Mayor Alfred Pitt of Dryden, and G. Farlinger of Sioux Look- out. Gut of 112 delegates the first ballot gave Farngey 57 votes, Pitt following with 42, and Farlinger 12. On the motion of his two op- ponents the. nomination was made unanimous. The Convention attracted a big attendance from every part of the Kenora District, which filled the Farmer-Labour Party Will Run Candidate That the Farmer-Labour party is alert to the possibilities of the political situation was proved on Wednesday night, when they met in Lakeview Hall, Kenora, to con- sider the advisability of putting up a candidate to contest this con- stituency at the coming election. After electing their officers and other routine business, the chair- man, H. McKinnon, called upon M. S. Campbell of Dryden for his views on the general situation. In emphasizing his opinion that the party would be lacking in spirit if it failed to at least enter a candi- date, Mr Campbell expressed the conviction that the man of their selection should represent the widest and freest choice of the new Town Hall to overflowing. Following their nomination thes people for whose votes he would Too often New Prices on Amateur Film Finishings for 1926. DEVELOPING--6 expusure Films, all sizes ....... . 15¢ per roll PRINTING--Glossy or Dull Finish: Se I. Bl hat it sey ..each 4c. Sedalia TL i eR eh A 4c. Bie BY Ae i a ee » BC Bee BIL md el a a, ,, Oc. Re ae We SE ,, bc. Sire SL A i . Bo GIVE US A TRIAL ----SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Quick Service. later have to appeal. names of the candidates were put; he mistake of preferring a party into a hat, and drawn by some of j lather than a popular candidate the many ladies present, when: had proved as objectionable to the § they were given an opportunity to. address the assembly. Mr Pitt, who was given a great ovation, opened the hall with an appeal for the great need especially in the rural sections, for roads to assist settlers to develop the tremendous agricultural resources of the dis- trict. So long as we continued to be divided into isolated communi- ties, with the handicap to inter- course and business, we could not hope te make equal progress with the rest of Canada. Mr Farlinger, who also made a splendid impression when he des- cribed the isolated position of his own town, arguing that a candi- date with personal experience of the disadvantages of smaller com- munities would be better qualified to carry out the wishes of people! living under similar conditions. "If IT were elected," he said, "and any communty, however small, brought a good case to me, and I took it up, I'd see it through. It's political 1mportance would mean nothing to me. I'd regard it as a purely business matter. J. P. Earngey declared his pur- pose, if given the nomination, to devote his whole time before and after election: to getting in touch with the people in every part of the riding, to acquaint himself with the needs of the district at first hand. He was convinced that Premier Ferguson would again be : returned to power, than whom no | !dorse what he had said regarding would never want any prefercnce electors as it had been disastrous to the candidate. In addition, it was antagonistic to the declared policy of the Farmer-Labor party itself, and if ,as he hoped, they should decide to hold a convention in the near future, he thought the delegates should come to it with- out being pledged in advance to any one candidate: otherwise the convention would simply become a farce, and the people on whom they depended for support at the polls would be certain to resent having a candidate forced upon them. So far as he was personally concerned, he would walk out of any meeting that appeared to be under the direction or control of any individual or group. Hugh McKinnon, in thanking Mr Campbell for his address, said that he wanted to thoroughly er the pledging of candidates. It was absolutely undemocratic to bind a delegate to support any policy or party at any price, even against his own conscience. He himself from a party unless it was backed by the goodwill and unfettered support of the people. The new Executive will meet shortly to decide upon a suitable place and date for the Convention, which will probably be at Dryden on or about the 15th of April next. WEDDING. one of the leading politicians had' At the United Church, Dryden, on more understandng or sympathy Wednesday, March 24th 1926, Gertrude for the needs of the north country.! Gangloff, Vermillion Bay was united With that advantage, if he were so jin marriage to Ole Olson of the same fortunate as to get the support of place. The parties were supported by this constituency, the largest, he} Miss Elizabeth von Theban, bridesmaid believed, in Ontario, he had no: doubt that this important district would at last come into its own in the matter of government assist- ance. Ex-Mayor G. A. Toole, who as president of the District Associa- tion occupied the chair, informed the meeting that the Executive had obtained from Mr Crane, the District engineer, a list of roads in the district left unfinished in 1925, roads promised by Mr Lyons, late minister of northern development, and roads petitioned for in various localities. Reading the list, and displaying a map showing the lo- cation of the different roads, he called for a resolution adopting them into the policy of the party. This was carried unanimously. (A complete copy of the list will be found on page 3 of this issue.) The chairman proceeded to say that, following the Convention, a number of delegates would leave for Toronto to attend the Conser- vative provincial conference, and the opportunity would be found to lay the resolution and the road policy before the Premier. He did not agree with the view that the expenditure in northern Ontario should be limited approximately to what the Government collected in revenue from this part of the province; a sound policy would regard any outlay for development as an investment which there was not the least doubt would prove to be the most remunerative that Ontario had ever made when the unlimited resources of the country were given an opportunity for development. The delegates who accompanied the candidate from paper regarding this country, anc Sime nd 1 [ras EEE Farmatien of Oxdriit & district Branch of the Canadian Legion. OXDRIFT--Scattered throughout the district of Oxdrift and Minnitaki ave forty Veterans of the Great War. For some time there has been a growing feeling that an organization should be formed to perpetuate the sense of comradship developed during those eventful years of strife. The ilea 'cole tang'ble shape last January, when a meeting was held in the Oxdrifi Comiviunity "Hall, to decide upon a course of action. The matter was talked over, and the object of the association explained. All present unanimously voted to form a branch to be known as the "Oxdrift and Dis- trict Branch oi the G:W:V:A." Th discussion having been arrived at, ap- plication was made to Winnipeg for a charter of incorporation, and the fol- lowing officers were elected by vote: --- President--J. Saville, Oxdrift. a lst Vice-Pres--Alf Jones, Minnitaki 2nd Vice | res~--S. McLennan, Minui- taki. Sec-T Las--Ernest Griffiths, Oxdrift. The charter members are: J. Coutts, S Gibson, G. Lyle, W. W. Howell, L Pateman, J Spalding, A Philbrook, and W H Wall. On Saturday last, a second meeting was held and three new members were admitted in the persons of Sidney Lyle and Gustave M. Gangloff, brother of i the bride, as best man. Rev. H. A. | Rivers perfermed the ceremony. ; : | this Convention would endeavour to impress this view upon Premier Ferguson and the members of his! Government. The delegation, including J. P. Earngey, Col. Machin, G. E. Far- linger and Geo. A. Toole, left for Toronto last Saturday morning. Other matters of interest to the | district in general were introduced | by varous speakers. G. McManus | submitted a resolution expressing | the views of Labour which was] received with unanimous approval TT. H. Crowley, Quibell, fresh from his aeroplane adventures at: Red [.ake, described the glowing enthusiasm that had been raised: by the ¢plendid showing in the' new geld district. Nothing except! a gold boom could ever attract the attention of the world to this un-| developed country he claimed, and; whether the new mine met their expectations or not, the result ¢ the great advertising could not be other than beneficial to the whole district. He believed that the only. practical road to the gold fields' would De the route from Quibel. | I. Spears, Richan delegate, im-] pressed the meeting with his elo-; quent description of the greatness of this country. He drew attention: to some misleading propaganda that had appeared in some eastern ] urged that the truth be published; to the public. Friday, April 2nd, is Good Friday. i § § ? Colin McLaughlin and Jas Cock. Whils a dozen cthers have given in their names to become admitted on the break-up of the hauling season. The HAE STAR SAND dX STAI STA SE TIE 5M Se SE aD REVEL x pr NEN Na meeting also discussed the approach- ing visit of G. C. MacNeill, General Secretary of the Dominion Command, who has been making a series of ad- aresses on behalf of the returned men in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. This well-known worker in the Veterans' ranks will visit Oxdrift on Wednesday, Marci 51st, bringing with him some of the official films showing the Cana- dians in action. The meeting will be held in the Oxdrift Community Hall, and is open to the Vetearns, their families, and any one interested un the Jy welfare of those wie fought fu: couniry. It is hoped that as Veterans as possible will endesv be present from the surrounding dis vict, net only to welcome Comrade Mac- Neill, and his interesting address, but to give a hand to boost the new branch now formed, to look after the inerasts of the reiurned mien in the oulymg settlement. The Oxdrift Branch meets the frst Saturday in every month, at S.00 p.m., except April, when the n ing is called for 3:00 p.m. yolk 8ey- CANADIAN BOY, 10-14 YEARS OF AGE, wanted in this locality to rep- resent Young Canadian Booster Club and Canada's National Magazine. Reg- ular income twice a month, besides prizes, including bycicle, radio, carpen- ters' tools, musical instruments, camp- ing outfits and supplies, sporting goods, ete, all described in sixty page free catalogue of prizes and informution. Rasy work looking after route of customers. Free start sent on applica- tion, to Dryden Observer, Box 300, y, Omntarie. : Sn BR eS a Selling Prices, Dryden Effective February lith, 1926. WOOD WHEELS WIRE WHEELS Standard. Balloon. Standard, Balloon. Bouin i el es $620.00 $655.00 .... $650.00 .... $685.00 Runabout ..... 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