nam Marian always remembers Ever since the were our neighbours in ilarian has never missed an opportunity of greeting me on my birthday But to think that Yes those thoughtful words over the telephone mean a great deal I Indeed they As soon I her voice I real ized v hat it really means to be able to say that distance is no longer a barrier Its wonder ful to be alive in this age of marvels when one can sit at home and chat with friends miles away Long Distance Is growing in favour day by day For mes sages of congratulation and en couragement there Is nothing nient just A BROKEN HEART never quite the Well done biddy An Inspector visiting a school in the country was asking the children general knowledge children said he I wonder if any of you can lell me What an average is Jumped up and Please sir its a thing to lay on A thing lay eggs on But my Well hen lays Efficiency Expert You too much time on your personal appearance Stenographer its not wast ed Ive only been hero six months and Im already engaged ho junior partner Our Puzzle Corner Know About It What flower yields What Is altar of rosea What county Is far growing flowers for perfum From what source Is fromT What garden flower odor of to List Wright finding him much improved and able lo up for a lime each day Air Frank Oliver of The feel proud well the record of the town by the financial ucd The general show a credit balance of with alt accounts paid The icliools received The elec tric light account shows a credit Of 3607 amounting to During the year following lave been A well was bored and a settling put in the reservoirs were cleaned and improved thus assuring citizens of a good supply of ex cellent drinking water built Hie Grading and foundations were in for a sidewalk lo St Andrews grounds The report of the only two Informations and during The report of two fires during the of In the town health and r00 was coll to provide ark and milk for school About collect relief association and all will be used this win- Hudsons BayMarland to prosecute oil work in the field in Northeastern Alberta This is the area where the quest for oil started following a favorable report j by Dr Q S Hume head of the Do- j Geological Survey Christmas travel over the Pacific routes to the Old Coun try has been heavier this year than ever before experienced Special I trains have been run from Winnipeg irectly to the ships side at Saint John The westerners credit this heavy movement to England for Christmas to the excellent con- I that prevail throughout the That to light of IT NOTHING YOU The hundred settler families from the British Isles brought out by the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society to form the Clan Donald Colony doing splendidly according to a field supervisors report just sub mitted When they landed at their destination they found farms Of thing to you O Christians e sit around the board he feast is spread before And the wine is pom That a mighty spirit of evit Dwells In that bright wines That pleasure floats on the surf But danger is hiding below Is it nothing to you thou Walks to and fro through I Scattering the seeds of Broadcast on every are yielding a death and wot Yes still does Whisper his Into the ears Ye shall no Ye may drink Do they not King City Dec A tragedy near here today when Isaac Wesley son of Herman or King City Instant ly killed while working itt the woods McBride with his brother Alfred McBride was cutting lim ber in bush near noon They had sawed on a number of 12foot from a huge beech log The last cutting nearly sever- Alfred had begun to finish the an axe when Wesley to get on the opposite to is brother dodged under log which suspended a pie of feet from the ground At that moment the culling separated heavy log crashed down upon McBridea neck Dr George Lockhart of King Cily was immed iately called and life was declared extinct Funeral on Wednesday On Wednesday afternoon at the funeral of the late Isaac Wesley McBride of King City look from the Union Church to King Cemetery WOULD NOT GO ROUND Put McCarthy gave a dinner lo invited three or four of is neighbors Pal had allowed la wife to cook only one chicken dinner was ready took of the carvingknife lone so that no Turkish tobacco grown in is better than that grown Turkey or Greece according to Mr Baker here who grew I pounds as an experiment this season He plotted nut three quarters of an j to ten varieties of tobacco seed crop was harvested ripe before of frost and of the ten ties Turkish White and thrived best Nearly overseas vessels en- For art has lost Its the Harbor of Montreal and And learning has over 350 coastal vessels docked there And the llghl of re the season just closed This makes i very favorable showing compared Before that spirit the overseas and 215 will vou vom vessels of the previoua ion During the period of open lis not into navigation over 113850000 bushels And then lead grain were shipped from the port there and flour shipments totalled The Is slipper barrels j Which they secy look at the right ml An what pari will have Would yoz like some th white Pat inquired of Mrs O Hooligan the fowl desired was given What part will have J Pat blandly inquired his neighbor liaise will have a said Hoik in his usual way wishing to follow in footsteps of the rest of the are unaware as they look towards the that there is to be found anything to interest except the prairies and prairie tow miles distant from the rail cuts through the pn the Bad Lands This the Rocky mountains are young a valley bottomlands record that In oh lived those walking creeping Each season adds not only to the number of col ing parties but also to the number of tourists are attracted by the picturesque character of tho yon and who i of the When and how did these was the world like during the thm ished How would this very valley have appeared At animal haps at the tima whom they may hi is likely to think of all these extinct rely prehistoric living hundreds of but per- i- the earth The written records is based extend back comparatively speaking few centuries even the those of Egypt and cover but sixty centuries The still earlier periods when man lived in savag and barbaric tribea back only one hundred as fossil remains are found in strata of that date it is evident that these huge reptiles had lor at that been exceeded The the largest they browsed on the rushy and among the ferna bushes stood up aid out of reach of the fierce carnivores of the whose skeleton found later and known as well over one hundred feet fles groups to the modern crocodile or lizard and far the bird or mammal Of these seem almost the last word in frightfulness It reached the length of fortyseven feet and in a standing tion the animal was eighteen to twenty feet against twelve feet for the largest African eleohant The long deep powerful Jaws were l with from three to six inches long and an Inch wide To protect them from these flesheating dlnjaurs many of the herbivorous ones were completely en cased in armor Such as Aukylosaurup tho skull neck back and hips and covered by a pliable mosaic of small EM protected by a movable plate that could dropped like a shutter over each eye Geological Surrey at Ottawa now has a re markably collection of dinosaurian remains mounted and on exhibition at the Victoria Museum Ottawa and are also to be seen at the Royal Ontario Museum Toronto The field baa by no been Under mile of land the I belly erosion Is rapid and Us banks away new fossils are to come the Red Deer River will I for collecting prehistoric treasures fossils continues For all DOMINION MISS MINTy again at the Chi- when the blue rib- in the Clydesdale division went to Forest Favorite owned by Haggerty and Black of Belle Saskatch ewan Last year the University of Saskatchewan took the coveted honor with Green Meadow Footsteps This year it is said the veteran Cana dian stallion waa an easy winner over all others There Is better hunting today in the Canadian than was the case when white men first began systematic exploration of them nearly fifty years ago said Tom Wilson of Banff one of the out standing pioneer mountain when- interviewed at Canadian headquarters recently Mr Wilson was the first white man to discover Lake Louise and Val ley A plaque or statue has been erected in the Valley in honor of him by the Treil Riders of the Canadian Rockies With ids struggling before I As child The annual report of the Dominion posed jtial Commissioner of Highways just is- was the inevitable const sued for the year ending March of her the big shows that mites of pepper lilghwajd have been the Canada Highway Act at cost of i8i2671300 the Department having made payment I the extent of at tfonryrPaynvthe Id have sleep one night and did not Ellen tho figure that summer but are twenty many things call and make you forget- luscious Four years later Ellen married that ami went to live in a city Life to dwell an inexhaustible was busier still there so busy supply in the queerlooking thai black velvet bag thai she always he street No child her without People laughed said says during the year very Utile change was made stopped buying in rales paid for labor mid materials peppermints Most of wa MflS of the nam ei e i a jar thul always whom with works cooklea for past three to five Their Every child in the vil laining and so fitted knew that lled down lo see an agent Katie let in by mistake her impulse was to refuse liaiply her all Then hat help will be availing It von hold not the end ould you draw the perishing drunkard Hack to the shore of hope must give Ids And must hold the ro c are railed with a holy colling Tint path having- an rod projecting cap from wlifch electricity projecting through the said Pal to Mickey HIS Lady Warwick told any good electioneering stories As everybody are wltli the Party and In the hc often engaged In canvassing for labor candidates when thus engaged she knocked at door of a house In take a good look The manpower the Belgian srmy Is to be reduced by per cent spring Number of men under arms will bo as compared with this t Callie lire face a memory fore she realized it she was in- impulsively You took tired Won let me give you something lea or chocolate was plainly hie and will no greater re was a largely Increased use emulsions for road Ing and dust laying during 1925 irlafs used being calcium chloride light asphalt lc road oils tars and medium These the of endowing But that was w had fUll fully and properly applied During the I I the char lenl of the liafflo It In called upon accomodate the time or within becoming more seriously with of moving care fully from step to step unlit Ihe best il behind her half a drunkard and none of the village- children had to do with her Ellen slopping at Miss Mini- a for a and a cooky one Cat I m with a whole plate of cookies and a S cup of cambric lea stood speech- wor less Miss Ml looking shining I Tlic fighting After had gone she army has been sprang up at Ibc sight of imelhlnl since prewar l oilier girl and slipped away two cookies in one swift Iter- The left the able Ellen Rising Sun put aside asked her unrated question Christmas to mourn the passing I23rd Hal look so happy and lo hall the event of til Miss who absently was whose and still Hie oh la in carry the rapidly Increasing and weight of Irafflo and heavy truck jThe regulating of Oil dimensions and loads to lie carried by faded guest down into the childs questJon i Windsor waa hungry Ellon- I guess young hungry most of the time man the flan diss of of the heathen ion draught ye taf darkncds the generally At the time the Improvements being made In development of the motor oar balloon broader wheel treads shock absorbers and other Improve ments it Is believed have decreased considerably the wear and tear on Ihe highway surface More and more have surveys on trio ground been studied to the best practical location well as Die rectification better mora Willi sudden if only I could feed all Ihe hungry people in tho I years flew swiftly after thai They changed Ellen quick ly although they did not seem change at nil But this were hurled I when the sedan In which they we riding stalled on the Canadian tracks at the village of Puce miles east of and struck by pu ffer The men were killed I and the died two later You lake Hie part of Hie foes Ihig the bondage of custom And Hie fetters of self for destroy with your strength knowledge souls for whom Jesus died I part of lures taken bring l These view present and future ro nients Mr Campbell slates that con in he naming and numbering of erecting direction and warning Butter Paper surely needs you and tho job you looking for is looking for you Wont work that vou heat fit for and want it for tho of doing good work as much as tot- pay and you will certainly Printed at the Era Office The Drop in Price Still Prevails it if got you OF ONTARIO TORONTO