The Chilliwack Progress from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada • Page 1

The section of the Trans Provln cial Highway between Chilliwack and Hope is again open tor traffic, after having been closed for two months while a new grade was being constructed through the grey granite rock of Jones' hill and beyond. A trip to Hope and return on Sunday revealed the fact that much new work had been done, and also the fact that much remains yet to be 1 done before the road could be said to be in good shape as roads are i known in these days. In its present state the road is better than it has ever been but it is not a path of roses for a tenderfoot motorist. From Chilliwack to some distance beyond Popcum the road hi in excellent condition, and very good to Jones' hill. The new grade over the hill is a great improvement over the former road.

It is an easy grade of generous width with a protecting curb. The approach to the hill from the east has been re surveyed and re built. The grade is good and the width ample. On Sunday the rock bottom was in process of being covered with earth, and this surface was rather uneven. Within the week, however, the bumps will be ironed out.

From the enstern end of the new work on the Jones' hill section the road has not been improved and the travelling will be familiar to any old time motoriBt. At Cheam View a diversion has been made around the hill and a stretch of rocky trail is replaced by a wide and very well surfaced road which sweeps along the railway track and nearer the river. For some distance east of Cheam View the old road has been straightened out and widened, but there are a number of stretches of the road further east to Jones Creek that remain as of yore, narrow, twisting and rough. A large camp in this section would indicate that work will be under aken on the section referred to, or else that an earlier programme underwent a contracting revision. The camp has been up for some time but shows no sign of having been occupied.

The run of twelve miles from Jones creek to Hope, for most part, is a delightful one. long stretches of the road being in excellent condition. The new bridge which crosses Silver Creek about three quarters of a mile up stream from the present or old crossing is completed except for the approaches, while the new grade along the face of the mountain on the eastern or Hope side of the stream is almost ready for traffic. Hope presents a rather tidy appearance. The streets have a cinder covering, and while a series of fires have removed many of the structures which were hives of activity during past periods of boom, mining and railway excitement, new buildings have many of the old ones.

"Save the Surface" has not been wholly overlooked and some of the new structures add to the charm of attractiveness of the place as a result. There is a garage and gas supply, hotels, stores of general supplies but save the kids no ice cream. The answer to enquiries was "the ice cream parlor burned down three weeks ago." An enterprising chap resident about ten miles west of the railway town, with an eye to the possibilities of the future, has the cones and the "filling," also a garage, gas supply, and service with a smile. The town of Hope is most delightfully situated and the scene to be viewed from almost any point, but particularly from the traffic and railway bridge across the Fraser river, is one that would be hard to duplicate even in this province where scenery abounds. It is now possible to motor east of Hope as far as the historic town of Yale, which is situated at the entrance to the Fraser canyon.

The re surveyed and re constructed sections of the highway between Popcum and Hope have added very materially to the visibility from the wantage points from whence the eyes feast on views of the towering and preclpituouB mountains rising sheer from the roadway, with snow fields resting In the hollows and crevices, the pretty farm steads along the base of the range, while the broad sweep of the Fraser river wiih the more gradually rising mountains on the north side of the narrow valley present an ever changing and wonderful scene that appeals and entertains. Many improvements In farm buildings and clearing of farm lands are noted. East of Laidlaw someone has erected a large modern bungalow and an equally commodious and modern barn, in a small clearing where the only crop is tall timber, surrounded by a wealth of scenery. Withal its narrow, trail like stretches for a road, the corkscrew turns, sudden dips and equally unexpected ascents, some thir The new road across the Sumas Reclaimed lands will be graded, gravelled and ready for traffic by this coming fall, according to Hon. E.

D. Barrow and Enigneer Stowe. It 13 understood that grading for the new road will be started at an early date. Beginning at a point a little east of the main dam and pumping station the highway will run due south a distance of five miles, and toward Vedder Mountain, to a point near KIdd siding on the B. C.

Electric, which Is situated about half way between Bellrose station and the Railway substation. This stretch will parallel the main drainage ditch through the lake bed on the east side and about half a mile distant. From Kidd siding the road will turn west a distance of four miles to the Evan Thomas road, and south along that road for one mile to the Vye road running west toward Huntingdon and Abbotsford. Last fall the Chilliwack Municipality cleared and graded a new right of way along the McGilllvray slough from Zlnk's gate to the new bridge across the Vedder Diversion Canal. From the west end of the bridge to the main dam and pumping plant the road was recently graded, and these two sections are now being gravelled by the Provincial department of public works.

Itis now possible to drive from Chilliwack to the dam and pumping plant, and by following a trail along the west side of the main drainage canal, the motorist may travel across what a couple of short years ago was Sumas lake. The lake bottom is dry and firm and the going is very good. The drive across the lake bottom, while minus some of the thrills experienced in motoring over the Vedder Mountain road, will have the advantage of fewer hazards, other than that of speed. The scenic attraction of the remit on the higher level will not be wholly lost in traversing the new road, as the view obtained as one travels acrose the valley and over the level plain of Sumas, is a panorama of scenic grandeur and verdant promise. HAS NARROW ESCAPE WHEN BULL CHARGES Joe Robinson is Saved From Dentil By Timely Presence of Father Neck and Shoulder Hurt.

Joe Robinson, son of J. W. Robinson, had a narrow escape from being gored to death by a bull on his father's farm, McConnel road, Sunday morning. Robinson was picking some plums in the orchard, in which the bull was pasturing, when the animal attacked him. Robinson escaped unhurt from the first assault and was running for a tree when he tripped and foil, the bull giving him a nasty wound in the neck and wrenching his shoulder badly, before Mr.

Robinson, who fortunately was but a short distance away, grabbed the pitch fork the boy had been carrying, and prevented the bull from doing fuijher damage. Had it not been for the near presence of Mr. Robinson, there is no doubt the young man would have been killed. The latter is employed on the farm of Wm. Standeven, Camp River road, and was spending Sunday at home.

teen railway crossings, newly made and more newly surfaced sections of roadway, a moter drive to Hope has a charm and grandeur that lingers long in the memory and bids the traveller come again. When this section of the highway is completed and add Its milage to that of the route through the Fraser Canyon Its contribution to the pleasure of the tourist will be very considerable indeed. To the tourist, should he be travelling west, the pleasure of the trip will be enhanced greatly as the road leads him out into the broad expanse of the Chilliwack Valley, as it greets him with comfortable homes, growing crops, flower gardens, and every evidence of progress and modern conveniences, presenting an Invita ilon to relax his grip on the wheel, throw back his shoulders, breathe deeply and tafry a while, that few will resist. Although dairying Is one of Canada's leading Industries a trade report states that cheese Is Imported til. the rate of 3,000,000 pounds per month.

The imports consist of fancy brands. Plans are now being made to reduce importations by home manufacture. Fifty tWO OUt Of thn flftv alcrlit pupils writing on the matriculation examination at the Chilliwack were successful. While the vnr rilri tint produce any outstanding successes. iue percentage or passes is very Kratifvine.

Last venr thlrtv nrlr the examination, twenty five being successiui. mis year's total la the highest to take the twenty ume ana tnirty Demg the highest number going up prior to the Dres ent year. NORMAL, ENTRANCE In order of merit, with aeereirntn. Doris Thompson 625; Ada Currie 619; Ella Currie 614; Hazel Nichols 586; Louisa Swanson 555; El len Grafton 538; Helen McBean 537; Kathleen Tinkler 534; Percy Par triquin 527: Etta Hutchison K2B Edith Wilson 516; Harold Putnam ti6; warion Banks 510; Jean Keith 503; Marjorie Readey 493; Lavina Gowanlock 4 82; Myrtle McConnell 478; Christina Wickham 473; Olive Kipp 4 68; Beryl Banford 467; Helen Currie 467: Edith Fettnrlv 467; Alma Nichols 464; Ethel Mc Taggart 451; Russ Bowlby 450; Harriett Storey 4 50. JUNIOR MATRICULATION In order of merit with aggregate: Be.ty Richmond 638; Verna Stin son 622; Margaret Smith 609; Fred Walker 597; Pearl Amos 596; Dor, othy Raine 587; Ronald McGregor 585; Helen Goard 573; Sybil Rogers 564; Mary Swanson 564; Ethel Davis 563; Elva Denike 560; Winnie Parker 548; Percy Darling 547; Harry Taylor 53 Mary Kerr 531; Fern Floyd 495; Menotah Gilbert 477; Donald Martin 472; Margaret Lyle 466; Grace Grossman 465.

Completed Normal Entrance; Ena Brown, Dorothy Davles, Anna Jess. Completed Junior Matriculation: Clara Maitland, Norman McFet rldge. Completed Normal Entrance and' Junior Matriculation: Bertha Stade. Agassiz High School Normal Entrance Mabel Edna Hunt (S). Junior Matriculation Edith Adelaide Boynton, Madeline Elizabeth Boynton (S), William James Fleck, Doris Eileen Hardy (S), Andrea Marie Rose Martin, George Henry Standbrook Morrow, Mamie MacCal lum, Joyce McRae.

Comple.ed Junior Matriculation Herbert Reginald Roach. Normal Entrance and Junior Matriculation Mary G. Wadel (S). Abbotsford H(gh School Normal Entrance Mabel Elnora Austin, Francis I. McPhail, Nellie Pernoski.

Junior Matriculation Jessie Evelyn Coogan (S), Mary Elizabeth L. Millard (S), Alexander McRae. Normal Entrance and Junior Matriculation Eleanor Anora Blatch ford, Marlon Campbell, Betty West, Gladys York. CITY PRINCIPAL GETS IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT Gordon S. Wilson Appointed Assistant Principal on Staff of Dawson School, Vancouver.

Principal G. S. Wilson of Chill wack Central School has been appointed to the staff of Dawson school, the second largest public school in Vancouver. Mr. Wilson was advised of his appointment on Tuesday evening of last week and on Wednesday sent his resignation as principal of the local school to the School Board.

The Board is now advertising for appllcattons'for the position. Dawson school has twenty six rooms, and we understand that the scheme of specialization in subjects of the curriculum, as was inaugurated here by Mr. Wilson, Is followed. Mr. Wilson will be assistant to the principal and has been given supervision over arithematic and grammar in four entrance classes.

Mr. Wilson has been principal of the Central School for nearly five years, for a short time being assistant to Principal Sheffield. On the latter going to Fernie, Mr. Wilson was appointed principal. Mr.

Wilson has given good satisfaction, as a principal and teacher, has taken a lively interest in athletics, including cadet work, and last winter most successfully' handled the arrangements In connection with the night school. In this work he was ably ussisted by Mrs. Wilson, who since coining to Chiliiwack has taken a valued Interest in educational, church and young people's activities. Many friends will wish tor Mr. Wilson a full measure of success in his new field.

CHILLIWACK'S FAIR SEPT. 2 3 4 twain ivt 041x00 GREEN FIELDS ARE NEAREST HOME THIRTY FIFTH YEAR, VOL. No. 17 CHILLIWACK, B. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1925 11.50 A YEAB HIGHWAY TO HOPE IS AGAIN OPEN Jones' Hill and Other Sections Have Been Greatly Improved in Grade and Width NEW ROAD ACROSS SUMAS THIS AUTUMN Grading of Nine Miles of Road to be Started Soon Now Gravelling Recently Built Section HIGH SCLOOL ENTRANCE EXMRESULTS Fifty Two Out of Fifty Eight Students Are Successful in Passing Out of High School PERCENTAGE IS GOOD IN MATRIC EXAMS 1 Bortha Vickerson of Lotbiniere School Wins Highest Marks in Chilliwack District.

The results of the examination for entrance to high school are announced by the department of education today. Of the 5540 candidates who sat for this examination in June, 3568, or 64 per have been succes ful, and, in addition to these, 2128 pupils who have been attending graded schools of seven or more divisions are promoted by the department on the recommendation of their principals. In all, 5696 pupils will be given certificates entitling them to enter high school next September. Candidates were required to write on five papers only, namely, geography, drawing, arithmetic, penmanship and dictation and spelling, and grammar and composition. To secure certificates It was necessary for those taking the examination to obtain an average of 60 per cent, in these subjects, and also to submit a statement from their teachers or principals certifying that they had covered the work prescribed for entrance classes In history, literature, nature study and hygiene.

A statement of the marks obtained by their candidates will be sent to the teachers and the secretaries of the school boards concerned in the course of 'the next few days. Sheldon vKothwell, son of Dr. E. J. Rothwell, of New Westminster, won the Governor General's bronze medal for having won the highest marks in District No.

5, which Includes the Chilliwack and other districts of the Fraser Valley. His marks were 448. Miss Bertha A. Vickerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

C. E. Vickerson, Prairie Central road, won the highest marks of any pupil in the Chilliwack Valley, her mark being 425, and 23 less than the winner of the medal of district No. 5. In the city Miss M.

Enid Carmichael, daughter of Mrs. M. Carmichael headed the list with 385 marks. Miss Vickerson wins the set of first year high school books given as a prize to the pupil winning the highest marks in the district, including the city, by Mr. Harry D.

Hipwell. A Japanese boy, Nobuichi Yama oka, of Vancouver, led the province with 457 marks. Nobuichi Yamaoka arrived in Vancouver only throe years ago from Japan, coming to join his father, who is employed on coast boats. At that time he could not speak a word of English and his accomplishment in winning one of the highest primary school honors in British Columbia is all the more outstanding. Central M.

Enid Carmichael 385, Eleanor I. Maurer 377 Albert Dolman 361, Lennard E. Cary 360, William A. Manfield 351, DeLos M. Minor 349, I'hylliB M.

Martin 34 3, Oril A. Camp hell 342, Marjorie E. Brown 340, Walter A. Smith 335, Nathaniel A. Anderson 334, Norma I.

Watson 334, Marjorie A. Knight 332, Janet T. Richardson 331, Lillian M. Maurer 326, Jenny L. Manfield 321, Robert J.

McNeill 321, Hugh M. Bowlby 320, Wilber A. Robertson 318, Donald W. Hasler 313, Thomas B. West 313.

Peter E. Brown 308, Arthur C. Cunningham 308, Berna E. Cath cart 306 Evelyn B. Porter 303, A.

Earl Caldwell 300, Arthur G. Goard 300, Louis Marriott 300, Alan G. Minter 300, A. Bernice Nelems 300, Katherine MacK. Sutherland 300.

Promoted on recommendation Kathleen E. Thompson. Atchelitz Joshua Simpson 351, I. Wilfred Clark 330, A. Jean Webster 304, Ed gar W.

Clark 300. Camp Slough Samuel W. Walmsley 385, Doug las H. Munro 347, F. Carlyle Laugh lin 320.

Cheam Walter H. Armstrong 369, Thelma 1). Snider 340, Ethel E. Short 321, E. Calvin Short 321, Edna V.

Gould 303. Chilliwack East Roy D. Kelly 370. Fairfield Island Kathleen Wlldman 332. Lotbiniere Bertha A.

Vickerson 425, Gladys I. Edwards 396, Marguerite M. P. Burns 350, Roderick J. Mercer 332, Marjorie M.

Scott 316, Sidney J. G. Hardy 305, Sheila B. McCutcheon 300, George L. Putnam 300.

Robertson Margarlte M. Raine 377 Lillian M. Larson 361, Vivian M. Sniith 359, M. Ella Fowler 354, Gwendolyne E.

Parker 353, E. Lorraine White 344, Sylvia Robson 337,. Lawrence E. Stade 334, Ralph B. Hallman 328.

Dorothy N. Collins 32S, Eli Joseph Kodgers 324, Doris V. Thiemer 310, Newton A. Vickerson 307. Koscdnto Evelyn M.

Peterson 358, Susie S. Morgan 339, Eleanor M. Mercer 336, Donald McC. Archibald 311. Sardis Muriel F.

McTaggart 370, Lillian HARVESTING 800 ACRE CROP ON SUMAS PRAIRIE ML CHEAM UP AND OVER JULY 20 23 Wheat Cutting Will Commence on Monday Timothy, Clover, Oats and Peas Yield Well. Some eight hundred acres of crop Is being harvested on the government lands in the Sumas reclaimed area. An excellent crop of timothy and clover hay has been cut from two hundred acres. Part of this crop is housed in a new barn 36x74, erected a short distance south of the pumping plamt, while In a stack nearby is one hundred tons. The hay will be baled later.

Other of timothy will be cut for, seed, while on land where the growth has been lighter, the crop will be left for re seeding. Six hundred acres of grain crop is ripening for harvest, and includes oats, peas, wheat and barley. The latter crop is light owing to late seeding, but the others have yielded abundantly. Wheat cutting will begin with the week, and it is estimated the returns will run thirty five bushels to the acre. The clover patch Is generally good, and this crop appears to be particularly adapted to the lake bottom lands.

Dutch White and Alsike do exceedingly well. It is expected that next season the sandy stretches will be sown to sweet clover. At one point where one of the dredges got stuck and had to be dug up by another dredge a large quantity of sand was tbrqwn up, and this now blows across the land. It Is believed that the white clover, will "hold down" the sand, and prevent further drifting. Interesting experiments are being carried out in the growing of po tatoes, and various root crops.

A "root crop" that Is doing too well is the willow, and to deal with this not wanted growth is going to provide a difficult problem. The lake bottom offers a fruitful field for experiments In determining what crops are best suited to the area. Some kinds of crop yield abundantly while others do not, and there is a diversity in productivity even within a comparatively small area, indicating that parts of the soil are lacking in some essential to crop growing. This phase of the development of Sumas Is receiving attention, and on Friday Hon. E.

D. Barrow, spent the day in the area in this connection, accompanied by Prof. Boving of the B. C. University, C.

A. Tice of the department of agriculture, as technical agronomists, Alex. Patterson, M.L.A., Delta, Dr. Rothwell, M.L.A., New Westminster, and a number of others. CHILLIWACK ENTRIES WIN Alta Crest Robina shown by Wells of Sardis, B.C., took the Ayrshire female grand championship at the Saskatoon Industrial Exhibition.

The same animal took the junior championship while Bonalees Lassie owned by the name exhibitor, was adjudged senior female champion. W. H. Hawkshaw, Chilliwack, B. took one third, two fourth and three fifth prizes with Hampshire Down sheep.

A. Chambers 356, William J. M. Mc Paul 350, A. Lyle Chambers 318, Emily M.

Semerad 316, Kathleen M. Knight 309, Ruth K. Storey 304, Alma B. Bailey 301. Kenneth A.

Monkhouse 300, Gracie F. Thornton 300. St rat hernia Logan S. Phipps 341. R.

Henry Richmond 339, Alma R. Swanson 311. Vedder Creek Edith E. M. Emerson 367.

Pociim Clifford H. Patterson 383, Ronald T. Gray 300. Coqualeetza Institute (private) Annie Williams 337, Hope A. Castle 324, Arthur Angus 310.

ABBOTSFORD CENTRE Poplar Edna M. Green 364, William L. Coombs 313, Martha A. Smith 300. Abbotsford Willis Spaulding 363, Laura Mc Kinnon 335, Stella Jones 318, Kitty Hayne 306, Mina Bailey 300, Richard Millard 300.

AGASSIZ CENTRE Agassiz Duncan F. MacRae 417, M. Bet ina Jenkins 407, M. Helen Busselle 402. Lily M.

Dennis 39S, Gordon Stewart Hardy 392, Allan R. Clark 3S8, E. Melville Greyell 388, J. Gordon MacRae 381, Marvel E. Mac Phersou 359.

Jean G. Cameron 354, Edna M. Boynton 350, Beatrice E. Nurse 349, Evelyn M. Jacques 344, Iris C.

Fozzard 339, Marv O. Heath 324. E. Marjorie Wellington 317. Muriel Jacques 310.

S. Caroline Chaplin 304, Albert W. Dodd 302. Harrison River Beatrice S. Picken 34 8, Donald Mcintosh 332.

Four Day Trip to Cheam Peak is Fear tured by Several Unuaual But Intereating Occurrences (By Miss Corday McKay) To the initiated and seasoned mountain scaler our four days scrambling up and about old father Cheam's contours would, we suppose be nothing unusual. For us, that uninitiated and green, they produced scenes and incidents and anecdotes which, we have no doubt, will flash upon our "inward eye" as Ions as memory holds. Their tale is as long as their trail is long but having In mind our Editor's blue pencil we will endeavor to touch only the salient peaks of the narrative. The members of our party werec Mr. and Mrs.

J. Gibson, Mrs. C. BL Reeves, Misses Edrie and Leila Boucher, Miss Dorothy Auld, Mr. Earl Marriott, Mr.

Glen Atkinson and the writer. For packers we were fortunate in securing the services of Messrs. Nelson Good and Harry Newlove and while on the trail had many occasions to congratulate ourselves on having such "patient" packers and excellent cooks. To begin at the start We left Chilliwack city at 5 a.m. (about) Monday morning and were driven to Popkum by Mr.

Lyle Knight and Mr. C. B. Reeves. Packs being duly assembled and adjusted we made the? first try out of our breathing apparatus by making the climb above Birdal Veil Falls in record time.

The first grade is always the worst they say, but in spite of that only one fell by the wayside during this sprint and that one not for long A "copious" lunch was eaten somewhere on the hog's back. Then for the balance of the afternoon the rpfrain In each one's mind was "I climb, you climb, they climb, we climb" with rests which will for ever remain unnumbered. Owing: to a miscalculation as to water and extreme heat, the going that day was the toughest we experienced. But Peck saved the day by making a rush journey to Prairie Camp and returning to the fallen oncB with the soul reviving water. We made camp that night amongst the snow drifts in the marshy confines of Prairie Flat, otherwise known as Klllarney Valley and re christened by us "Knight's Camp" in honor of Mr.

Wm. Knight, the veteran pilot of Cheam Mountain eering We will fll no tales of the chillsome damp of Prairie Flats for fear we might discourage future climbers, but we will advise a roaring fire and a willing guide, such as we had, to replenish It. The rising sun chased off the mist and shivers and a breakfast of flap jacks. bacon and coffee put us on tip toe for the "Let's go" which started ns up the sheer side of the ridge. And when its top was reached the spcret so jealously guarded by Cheam and Lady peaks was reveal ed to us.

An inimitable panorama of snow capped peaks, of craggy promontories, of velvet, green slopes bordered with mountain heather and multi colored wild flowers and of gleaming snow fields. It seems always to have been a tradition that Cheam is our Valley's guardian peak for its face Is turned benignan tly towards the level stretches below It. The tradition needs retouching. Cheam is really guarding that marvellous store of in spiring scenery waiting till the years have made the way less hard and hundreds may make their way from the stale flats to its invigorating heights. A permanent camp was made on the ridge in full view of the rocky peak to be attempted on Wednesday.

This snot we were told, and later ferventfy believed, was named "Endurance Camp." A wonderful afternoon replete with balmy breezes and warm sunlight was spent above the clouds, for Chilliwack was quite hidden from view. Towards evening the clouds lifted and we had a vision of the vale ot promise stretching towards the sea. Its maze of streams bathed to a blood red by the setting gun. The Agassiz ferry's whistle came weirdly up to us and a few minutes later we could plainly see the ferry make its way, beetle like, across the river. The evening was enlivened by a bazoo and comb band, an Indian pow wow, and old timer's "square" and a sword dance by a game chaperon.

Then, as night closed up (not down) on us and the lights of the city pinked themselves out of the murky depXhs below, we applied a brand to a huge pile of fire wood and, as our signal leaped Bkyward, we sang, with more patriotic feeling, perhaps, than we have experienced since Armistice Day 19 IS, Canada, we stand on guard for thee! Shortly afterwards we were ardently desiring Canada or Cheam to stand on guard for us. A storm rolled up from the East and West and like two opposing battalions met in direful conflict directly over our heads. Then we were treated to what was likely the most sub' mely awful sight of our lives lorked and chain and ball lightning piling Continued on. page eight..