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The High River Times 1914-12-31 - 1912-01-04
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HIGH RIVER TIMES THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE HAVE INSTALLED IN THEIR VAULT A NEST OF SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES HIGH RIVER, A i PUBLIC NOTICE. 21S HEREBY GIVEN that Couneil of the Town of Hh River intends on Monday. the 20th day of May, 1912, to pass a-By-law to de for the closing of those portion: 0 Street East, Fifth Street East Sixth Street East and Seventh Styget Fact in the Town of High 1y described as follows NOTH thi Mumiet of. Tb ver, Wore particul 1. That portion of Third Street Bast onmencing: at the intersection: of the IF YOU HAVE ANY TITLE DEEDS, MORTGAGES, INSURANCE POLICIES, OR OTHER VALUABLES i BE LODGEDIN-ONE OF THESE BOXES uw FOR FURTHER INFORMETION-APPLY TO HIGH RIVER BRANCH : . A. 6: VERCHERE, Manager. PROPERTY FARM for one to ten years on either the instalment plan We make loans on farm lands sterms of -or for a straight period with no payntents to meet but the, interest Lowest Current Rates and No Delays ROBERTS. HUNT HIGH RIVER ALBERTA ESTABLISHED 1865. The Pioneer Bank oithe West, Union Bank Pajd Up. 4,672,280. Total Assets. (over) 52,000,000, * Reserve and Undivided Protits a responsi- Department smmodation that their stan bility. warrant 1 on Deposits in Savi and compounded: every onthe. the alin of this bank t provide not only a safe-and-protitable depository for tioney, but place where its depositors may feel that anything the t can do for them will be considered pleasure. Collections carefully and promptly attended to, Draftsissued.on-all principal points in Canada, U nited States, Great Britain and Burope ARTHUR DUNBAR, MANAGER: HIGH RIVER BRANCH BRANCH OFFICE AT BLACKIE. s At-Half-Price We have decided to sell the Balance of our stoc cutin two. The following are some of the: figt will quote you: c Offers to its Patrons every ac Interest allo we 1 at 12.00, now 1 at 15.00, now 1 at 18.60, now. 1 at 20.00, now 1 at 23.00, now 1 at 25.00, now 1 at 40.00, now If you have-any-notion ef pur e Chan e to get one Chey f qsipst a violin now Jeweller Issuer a eae SRE OEE RTE we eee eee ee eT INSURANCE Live Stock and Automobile Accident, Sickn ss, Insurance placed in Best Companies Rents Collectet Fstate Bought and Sbld on Gommission -Loans Negotiated at Lowest Rates Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited Fire, Life, Real aindary thereet erty the baat Avenue, thence houbdary wt, thence Second orth ods ly along t thereof One Hundred South rly parallel tO the said. East buundary of Second Avenue to the South boundary of Third-Street, th Westerly along the South boundary of third Street One Hundred (100) feet to point of intersection o Doundary wit Che sand of Second Avenue. 2 hat portion of voninencing atthe intersection-of the North boundary thereof with the East bounaary of Second Avenue, t Easterly aloiig the North beundary thereof One Hundred (100) feet, thencel southerly parallel ta the said East Leundary of Second Avenue to the South boundary. of Fifth Btreet, thence- West erly along the Sout Boundary of Fifth Stivet One Hundred (100) feet to the point of jntersection of the said South boundary: with the said Bast boundary of Second Avent That portion of Sixth Street Batt omiencing at the intersection of the North boundary thereof, with ;the East boundary af Second Avenue, thence Easterly along the North boundary ereof One Hundred (180 feet), thence Southerly parallel to the saidi East bout, dary of Second Avenue to the South indary of Sixth Strect, thence West ng the South boundary of Sixth Hundred(100) feet to the y rsection of the Said South boundary with the said Eagt boundary of Second Avenue 5 1. That portion of Seventh Street East couumeficing at the intersection of the North boundary thereof with the Hast boundary of Second. Avenue, thense Wasterly along the North houn dary thereof One Hundred (160) fet thence Southerly sparallel to the said Kast boundary of Second Avenue to the South be ry of Seventh Street thence Westerly along the, South boundary of Seventh Street One Hun dred (100) feet to thie point of interse tion of the said south boundary with the said Hast boundary of Second Avenue, This Notice is.given pursuant to. the Oo of Chapter 2 of the Statutes of Al berta 1911-12, bemg.An Act respecting Towns, DATE of April AST HoTINTATS Yat High River, this 2rd day GEO. B. MACK, Secretary Treasurer The Flathead Inturbau Railway company has written Calgary rela- tive-tothe construction of a rail- way from Montana through south. ern Alberta to Calgafy Owing to inclement weather, on Saturday tast, the monthly ane- tion sale held by auctionser Geo. Walker was largely attended and the bidding was: very. brisk. One team of mares sald at 525, and a A a ECE su Milk cows cold at 60, Mr. Walker-will hold his next -sale at prices on May 18th, and'every two weeks during the summer, It you breed horses at all breed only + THE BEST At the reaent taternational Show at Chicago, the championship for the best gelding of any draft breed, was a Shire gelding, weighing beating the Clydesdal s, rch rons and Belgians, proving: oto be the finest draft breedin-t the world : We have here in our stables stallions-that cannot be beaten for size, weight and guality anywhere. One of our horses, inst-over 4 years old, won 5 championships in succes. sion last year from Winnipeg to Van courer, have another one which rai Swrtiretr some judge: id equally, if not better than hisstable.mate. W. have also several more, If you want to.breid big colts with bene. w and juality, you cannot do better te kx and. sea our Sh: Reasonable and it wanted Our farm is ten miles south: of Calgary, on Macleod Trail, and 0wa uth of Midnapore tation, prices terms miles C.P.R, HOLMES BROS. .. + Phone, 122. .FOURTH STREET w. RRR RK EEE EER ORE EE EE 3 Drawer235 5 Schroeder Son Midnapore, Alta. F thence LBERTA, MAY m2 Bowe ewe cee neene Observations Present, and t J.C, Stead If you follow the questson of the high cost of living back t it will take you where the mis s and social reformers su. ought to go back to the The re are, of course, cases, such as careless credits aud bigh interest rates, with which we dealt a few weeks ago, but the basis of the trouble will be found in the fact that people are crowd ecouo. you the, produce ble to have all the banks clube fata, gewdee; GroGend aid dairy is not keeping pace with th demani. This in turn affects a tines of industry. When a work man is paying forty cents-for but- ter-and-twenty- cen is-for beef fou 5 ad kee ir shoes ora suit of clothes or ite coal or run upins for the same wages he raceived when he-ased to buy butter for fifteey cents -and beef for eight. In order to pay these higher prices he must have a higher waye, and the higher -wege in dure again. raises the price of living, which makes it necessary to again increase the wages, and so on, IVs acase of a dog chasing his own ta ity in the performance. No opera tion you may perform o the tail will make any difference; you may unionize it or socialize it or bring it, under government pwatrship, bat the chase will continue: Alberta is, essentially, an ag cultural province, yet one quaeler of her population in Probably another quarter-make up the towns and population, this proviac not balf the peopleAre engaged, inh producing the necessitex of life from the soil, And-prices-are tell ing the tale.- I remember, hot so many years ago when iu Manitoba eggs eolil for six cents a dozen, but- Ter ten to twelve cents. cheese trom the factory. at five aud whalf cents, potatoes went begging at twenty ents a bushel, pork commanded 2.75 a hundred and beef 2.2 and the farmers used to say that if only they could yet fifty cents a bushel for their wheat they would never ask for anything more, . 1a those times. the unskilled laborer Snpported his wife and family on thirty dollars a mouth, and the farm hand who commanded-a dol- lar a day was a district curiosity A comparison of the.prices quot ed ubove with those prevailing today shows wh in the cost of liy duction of food live ug comes in. PFO is not keeping pace with increase of population ought re wort ie hottertng tor popu tion, and it can't feed what ready bas. . In the older where production .is at its limit, the situation is little short of des: perate. In this country, of course, production may be said to have hardly conimenced, and when prices get high enough people who are now flocking tothe cities will flock back to the conitry and be come producers as well as consum jers. The great back tothe langl moventent will probably come time, not as the result of any orar ized effort or any process of educa tion, bat in obedience to jlaw-whiet-ordeins-thag supply and demand.must in some way tind level : The editor of the Ladies Home Journal thinks that the high eost jof living may bea blessing in dis- guise. - Por one thing, he says. it has t ugbt people that meat. three times a day is by, no means essen: tie They have cnt down their heavy diets ant as. a coesequence are enjoying better h alth. . More- over, they have learned to place a real value pon their vegetable gar- -dens and-in-the production of gar- and using up bis vital. cities. Itayes atid tosging re the big advance nator PRICE FLL. -PER YEAR tote, ated permits be lund these modern residential the goverament whieh them to be titles sa fit sabject for nission jn lunacy. The pb re ze this outrage when it +, t correct It registered in tees a Na mevting of the High River Brass Band held in the baud rooat Friday evening last. the follow ing otlic ra were by aoola pation lay now that sees no pasa and wil 18 too late Mayor Wallace Harry Mack George Eyles George Mack Te Cuttle Jos. Pontana W. Stribling Mitiar: It's a dul new bank merger brought to la is growing by leaps aeler-tetiel hor bake eee wer, The latest combination is-that of the Tralers-shd the Executive t Royal. Froar a baukinge pont of reba Hf view: probably thege mergers. ure From the same point From the interest shown in this musical organization by the men of view it would perhaps be desir- bers, we predict a very successful bi merged. year for them. At. present they s but Tan ure tha? are sixteen strong, and daring the the publi. wonld. agree, although summer may Tres opearetr oo sucha metger-could hardly have certs will be giveu. The towns: more.complete control than las the people-should lend hearty. support Canadian Bankers Association at to maRe the band a strong organ the present moment, The ave . citi Kittle knowl se8, oF principe rs a man. has no erate ular need of mouey the banks have lots of it, but when gets hard up the financial institutions hav. an unfortunate babit. of hard up at the same tine It seems to me that t proper view to take of bank that it is a great co operative trast institation. When you ney fro bank it isn t the Til. ve your neighbors. wie has The Royal Hotel, Calgagy. will qutrusted his ito the.bawk for safe, Tittprobebility lose its sTicense. Keeping. And becanse of that Mnony complaints have been made trust the bank hag every reason to as tothe unsanitary condition of e conservative, andto take every the premises. possible precantion guainst losses lize citin ns of Calgary are Sof these trust funds.- Banks re atthe QAR. for not hasten- not to be blamed for being careful the building of their road.into A reckless bank luary. It is said they will join baye nothing to do with, No per- igeues with the Uirand Trunk soh or firm ghonld. be allowed tol pyeiiedrentering the city, + use a dotlar of this trust unless he of they cau.stiow to. justify the batik s contidence But when such assets are shown the people-should nor be charged An unreasonable price for athe use E their a e in round numbers; o1 lars of the peoples mone inthe banks-pf Canada this noaey draws three interest: much of it he interest on half threg per-cent. amounts lions a year which the pe the use of this money est an the whol -sum at cent..amaunts to eighty millions a) 4 year whick the people pay for the use of the uioney A differenge of sixty-five millious a yeat Seems a heavy privewnpay for the han Hing of jt, don t,yon think? desirable not ization a when Local and General News . B, W. Thompaon, bead, of the Ogilvie Flour Malls, died in London -Hngland, recently, after a short illness from acute indigestion je Sacrament of the Lord's observed in Chalm er's Church, ou Sunday, May 12th getting re a borrow wre 8 a goo thing toi va Che Great MoE wen and Capable, Company of Associates, in mirth; mystery and. vaudeville, at Thestre. on Menday and Tuesday nights next, Entire change of pro- gram nightly Prices Reserved seats second section 35c. and gallery Plan at neual place. Hope eterna sprangyin High River lust Saturday, when-a banch of engineers.arrived in High Kiver and commenced. surveying -opera-: tions. It is quite possible that High River will-become the centre. of-yreat intemest within a short eight pet apace of tit assets billion y deposited Some of per cent draws fiove this sum at to 15) mil ople get for The inter- members of the Alberta Oabinet ate from Brace, which leads the Lethbridge Herald to remark that you cannot keep those Bruce boys from occupying the Most prominent places. The two It's a noteworthy fact that members are Dancan Marshall matt r how scarce money becomes id Malcolm MeKenzie. the banks never -pay than Sat ie three per cent to their itor JB Parney Com When wheat somes: ree and) have. beet awarded the contract for dealsrs are noable to fill. their the wooden pipe forthe n w water Silere.the price of wheat goes up system at High River. TaeTara. But when money becomes scarce Y firm's success. in getting thig and the dealers in money are una- Contract is gratifying.in view of the able to mevt the demand the price fact that they were competing with of money---to the lender does not arge coast companies. Lethbridge go up. Lam speaking of the price Hergld to tt Rev 0 -D Reid B-D-Presby Ia seems -to+terian Superintendent of Missions be one dase where the Jaw.of sup- for Alberta, will address a publiv ply and denmynd is inoperative. fj meeting; in Chalmer' s -Chareh, we had a law that in no case may Friday evening, May 10thatS p.m a bank charge more than twice as Mr: Reid ie one-of the ablest ang ; much for money as it-pays for it it most interesting speakers in the wight help. A-hwndred per cent West, The public are. invited to is considered a pretty faiF profit tr+heaehim on this occasion most lines of business. There's another-way in whicti the.people might help themselves That is far men who have money to lend - it. direct to those who w to borrow. This is done i somronses and might in more, and wh it become universal tt may easity the parve-tacumivatein Lilie, Paintas power and protect all parties from injustice no more dey ac H niding institutions. deal of moisture is to pnt the straw back on the land instead of burn. ing it. This strase polds 150-1bs, of water to every 1001s, of rough- age, ltadds hamns to the land at he same time, though the richness ofthe soil has not begun-to worry. the western farmer yet, The time lis coming, when fertilizer wittnot be an unknown farm aid This time draws rapidly near for those farms which are ram at an all.wheat gait year after year with be -done will never The High River Brass Band Que wiy of conserving a great den truck have. lengthened their Ldays-atid-tound- tew aetto fife. a Spark York. where land is cheap, but it Is out like tpg sca for like Philadelphia and Ne ofthe question in a country Alberta, wheretand is so thatthe subdivision artists compelled to limit the-size to twenty-five feet frontage. you bnild a house twenty feet from street and allow -toom for thr col man to get in from behind how twenty-five foot lot? In all history speculative greed probably inflicted a greater injostice Peto-be foumt are Fa Tot After never upon South African Scrip monton Homestent from a CPR engine ignited the gravs on G. A, Lynch's farm. near Blackie, on Wednesday jest. and before the tire was con- trolled, it burned four sections ol prairie grase-and 1 i ing 4,000 bushels i z Mr O. W. Bowlus Speaking of the fire, Mr: Lynoh, says he and four other men had to o-Mr Lynch s house to es- the fire When the Hames rashed past the house, Mr. Lynch proce: to extinguish the fi around the h use, They all nar. trowly excaped being scorched The Office Calgary Dominion Land has received instruction Ottawa that Se Afric mp wil be accepted tor upto December 31st, 191 This refers only to scrip assizied sinc Jannary Istelgh2 Seripassign N prior to that date will not now accepted location of oats be The ( reat McEwen is + Liars, bypogrites and are still fond of warming See ing gamblers church
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