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(This story of Harry Durant | origially as Trochu Valley. The|and family have now taken up passed a suddenly |her home here on Wednesday, Au- ae eee ; ery on .

4 and his harvest excursion from |town’s development began with |residence in Harmony where|at her home at Woodstock. gust 5, after being a patient im} Bennett Howard and son of Lo

Prince Edward Island to Trouc-|uilding of hotel and general |Mrs. Arsenault is going to teach; Mrs. Ernest Arsenault and fam-'the Western Hospital. - 7 were in Howlan recently.

: hu, Alberta was clipped from |store in 1907. The general store | School. ily who were visiting in How-| ‘Frank Gallant and Firmin Per-| Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Carruthers Ken Liddell’s column in the Cal-|had five departments and was| .Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gallant|lan- went to Summersiq: omjry motored to on| and son Bonnie, and Mrs. Bruce gary Herald by Mrs, Majorie | one of the largest in a wide area of Chelsea, Mass., and Mrs. Mar-| Thursday August 6, then to Char-|Friday, August 7, accompanied|Carruthers motored over to Ta Howard, Margate.) 4 of central Alberta. garet Seargeant of Paterson, N./lottetown on Friday from where | by Mr. Mrs. Oscar Perry|tamouche, N.S. on Saturday, Au

When Harry Durant is in fine | ON THE HOUSE J. who spent the past ten days|they left for their home on Sun-| and daughter, Ellen, on the first|gust 8, where Mr. Carruthers is Settle to end that’s) The ‘Trochy hotel however. visiting here, left on Wednesday,|day in Halifax, N.S. lap of their journey back to their | visiting. . ae, nee its difficult to |lacked the excitement of the | August 5 on return home. Motoring to Egmont Bay on | home at Saint John, N.B. on Mon-| Albert and Pauline Finnan re ae, which af bla onan’ deity Noida: ot Sante wham ho Miss Patricia Finnan who is|Thursday were- Mr. and Mrs. | day. cently went on a visit to their oT. fy les = Seat jue employed at Prince County Hos-| Frank Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Ten-| “Mr. and Mrs..Fred Jones and|aunt and cousins, Mrs. Albert —those he got > drink each day was about | pital, \as nurses aid, spent her|is Peters, Mrs; Bertha Arsenault | Mrs Frank Gallant, motored to|Finnan and family at Souris. .| West or what happened after he most popular. - was on the | day off at her home in Howlan.|and daughter Sandra where they |Summerside on Friday where they Mr. and Mrs. Camillus Gallant arrived. house and ‘was. known es the! Mr. and Mrs. Rosamund Casey| visited relatives. visited at the home of Mr. . Ss. amillus Mr. yoga 7 ao — ee aor oe ont son Kanee & Renteee: Me, one Miss Paula Perry is the|Mrs. John Cahill and family. 494 son of Summerside, were te sponded There wholesale or; who spent a few days wi guest r aunt and uncle, Mr.!- Howlan Sc interior |Howlan during the weekend. vest hands in 1901,-and to hear | firm in Cranbrook and the hotels |j-—seee= — Sian = him tell it, his trip from Prince | bottled their own booze. Most a* ; ; Island was pretty well a | were hdnest, but in some, no mat- ‘ i ‘s ball on wheels. ter what brand a customer order- , ae Si The harvest excusion of half a| ed the contents of the bottle came Ace aaa 4 ago, Mr. Durant is con-| from the same keg. © pa 3 ; was a vilainous scheme| “Some printer,” recalled: Mr. ' f West, people who were | Durant, “must have made a for- 3] broke they could not get |tune bootlegging those fake lab- : a 4 : they had to stay to set-| els.” $3 le the country, ~ One of Mr. Durant’s claims fo ’ tad oe local fame is the fact that he dug - bs x : vet oe MONEY the grave for one of Trochu’s y ge oe R\ ‘ of He was joking, of course, be- | first burials in the old cemetery. me °> : +t cause it was the “big money”— | It was in winter, of course. Mr. e $1.50 a day—for threshing im 1910 | Durant was delegated to dig a | - “ that so influenced him he return- | grave three feet wide, six feet | oe * ed in 1902 to gather more Of /Geep and six feet long. | , ge A y same, 4nd in 1906 he came back When the funeral party arriv- . a ; ; For the 1,400 harvest hands who Sao _ oat ; left Summerside on that 1901 ex-| yo, ee re Ap Msn that | ; ion, to go to Winnipeg was the difficulty could be solved {

— like going to the moon, and most | using s fast fren sachs ead of ee e : of them would have preferred to the coffin, which was a plain af- ¢ have been going to the moon be- | gir | . cause 1,200 got sick crossing| «

Northumbertend Strait to the| 115 pen mnt ite cal tn , mainiand. : what seemed to be hours before Those in Mr. Durant’s bunch |] gy the grave big enough to ¢ were so happy to reach shore that | tuck the coffin in to their satis full console model ; upon boarding their train theY faction,” recalled Mr. Durant. | al f eet unscrewed all their seats in (he | ns ethos 1 de pemeber chou . \ coach, piled the seats at the end line service is the deceased was | j of the car and to music of fiddles |. protestant but he wes buried | walnut finish and mouth organs proceeded to by a Catholic priest. The priest | if have themselves a ball that last- | was the only man within reach- " : ae . ed for days on end. ing distance. We did the best we | front speaker i AS AUTUMN approaches Can-jfrom the monster Canadian Na- ing exhibition. Nova Scotia. plam) ie could in those days.” |

are|tional Exhibition at Toronto to ning 12 fall fairs, had North Am- than | smalier local fairs like this one | erica’s’ first agricultural fair at Woodbridge, Ont., where the Windsor in 1765 watches an open-air jump-!

edians from coast-to-coast getting ready for the more 410 annual fail. fairs scheduled | at for this season They range in site crowd

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~ amen ae tena tee |binition will be held in’ October. | hibition, Aug. 21-29, will go heavy land but thousands of Canadians} For Prince Edward Island, the | on grandsiand and midway are preparing in barns and farm-|provincial exhibition at Char- | events and commercial displays, yards and exhibition buildings for | lottetown opened the schedule | and will also inciude tivestock ex- the annual fall fairs. with its Aug. 10-15 run. hibits and competitions. The ex-

When Mr. Durant returned ia B : 1906 with intention of staying, he (CP Phote) somehow was directed to a south- eastern British Columbia min- | ing town called Moyie which then as he recalled, had 5,000 people who found most of their amuse- /ment in six licensed hotels

He went to a mine to get a job | but on the way met a party car-

LITTLE SANDS |

Mr. James MacConneli Massachusetts has been visiting at his niece's, Mrs. Stewart Mc- Kay, Little Sands.

Mrs. James Harris and three children, who were visiting their ing for what was left of a mam | mother, Mrs. A. D. MacNeill, Lit- who had met a rather unfortun- ‘tle Sands, left some time ago by ate accident. The man had been | plane on return for her home in a trifle careless with the result |Ottawa, They planned to fly | \that after the explosion what |from Charlottetown to Ottawa. was left of them was gathered While in Charlottetown they vis- in a basket ited Mrs. Harris’ sister, Mrs. | Mr. Durant returned to one of | Alex Stewart and family. fi p

the hotels and got a job a6 8) wv Ewes Hume of Vigsg, ' porter.

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Bev tlingrs ade. aan Most of the @ exhibitions | agriculture is carried on, across scheduled in Quebec province this the country. They range from year are held in August and Sep- picturesque fairs maintaining | tember, with Sherbrooke planning local traditions to the Canadian|a winter fair in ee . National Exhibition at Toronto,| Oldest and largest of these | world’s largest annual exhibition. |the nine-day Quebec Provin :

While prize livestock and grains | Exhibition at Quebec City. Sep retain a feature place, fairs and|4 to 13. Attendance is expected | larger exhibitions nowadays play|to’be more than 300,000. saa! a part in showing citizens new in-| During the Quebec exhibi dustrial developments, and the| provincial government ot gone ™ new ways in which the country’s|the Quebec agricultural — mineral and manufacturing re-| awards and youns aor agg sources are being used. award — will be present - “All continue to provide prize | farmers who rate the best a 1 money and other forms of en- (nual contests red aS couragement to those who excel | Quebec agriculture deparimen iz raising livestock, pet stock and| In Ontario the Niagara Agric

1792, field products. tural Society, founded about 1792. | PIONEER EVENT apparently held the first fair ip)

Upper Canada and by 1940 there |

Nova Scotia had the first agri-| York,

hibition is expected to be atten- | ded by about 400,000.

The Ottawa Winter fair, this year Oct. 26 to 31, will stage a championship livestock show, a- tered by ribbon - winners from smaller fairs throughout eastern Ontario and Westgrn Quebec. It will also present what is believed to be Canada’s largest 4-H calf club show, with more than 500 | youngsters taking part.

Elsewhere in Ontario there are about 160 fall fairs, some of the largest being the Lindsay Central Exhibition Sept. 23 to 26, the Nor- | folk County agricultural fair at. Simcoe, Ont., Oct. 6 to. 10: the | Peterborough exhibition which | apparently, to establish a corne. ran from Aug. 12 to 15; the Soutin |of France in Alberta. The home- Waterloo agricultural society feir | steaders, however, began nibbi- at Galt, Sept. 24 to 26. and the big | ing into the ranching area. The Western Fair at London, Ont.,|St. Anne went under as a ranch

Then he met a chap who haa decided to homestead in Alberta. The man made the decision in the summer but changed his mind in the winter. Mr. Durant negotiated for the land which |was at Trochu and which he lo-

sore trip of 42 miles on a hired at Olds.

Between farming his own prop- |erty he worked for Armand Tore- hu, a French military officer who with two partners, L.C. Eckenfel- der and Frank Deveider, had es- tablished the St. Anne Ranch, about 1904

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@ultural fair in North America,| were fairs at London, | Sept. 14 to 19. The latter draws in 112. Those of military age re ia 1765. at Windsor on the Mi | Guelph, Ottawa, Port Hope, a an annual attendance around turned to France in 1914 and Basin 50 miles north of Halifax.|bourg, Brantford Hamilton | 450,000. | many did not return

Nova Scotia residents will see 12| several other places. ‘os WESTERN CELEBRATIONS Mr. Durant’s choice, sight ua- fall fairs this season, the largest} The Toronto exhibition Manitoba has scheduled three seen, of homestead land was @

vas first id Aug. B to Sept. 12 was held in 184% and was incorporated in 1978 as the Canadian National Exhibition. WORLD'S LARGEST Today it is the world’s largest | annual exhibition. Land, | nd equipment, occupying ; are valued at $50,000 000.

being the Nova Scotia Provincial Exposition at , Aug. 25-28.

For New nswick eight events have been arranged the season opening with the Saint Jobn exhibition Aug. %Sept. & Saint John had its first provin- cial industrial exhibition in 1851.

Another large N.B. show is the | acres, han 19,000 Fredericton Exhibition Sept 7-12,| Every year more than aie which features special grand-| commercial, industrial and &

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stand performances and\ harness feet exhibition's 2,25.000 square

racing, as does. the Saint John pate. of display space. The average

In Newfoundland the govern-| yearly attendance is about 3,000,- ment - sponsored Newfoundiand \ 000. |

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several Central High School|‘Arkansas, just after school let| Waiting for a car to pick him up. | Sands is being congratulated for |

principal fall fairs, Winkler open- | good one because when the town ing with an agricultural society |of Trochu grew he was but a

|event on Sept. 3. Others are at | mile away. He continued to farm Ployed

Altona and Kelwood. The Calgary | until the Thirties, although in 1910 Stampede was first on the Al-| he built a home in Trochu. berta list of celebrations, opening| Trochu, he said, was knowm last July 6, and the list of more | than 28 fairs ends with the show | couver exhibition was first held at Vauxhall, in the Medicine Mat |im 1910 and has been known @s area. Sept. 9. the PNE since 1946 British Columbia boasts 30 ex: | Eight fairs are being held on hibitions this season, with more | dates to be set. Among the larg- | in the Fraser-Valley, eight in the est, the Pacifie National Exhibi- | Okanagan area, four in the Koot- tion at Vancouver runs from Aug. | enays and nine in northern B.C. 22 to Sept. 7. This 15-day Vas and the Peace River region.

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im Little Sands.

Dr. Stewart MacDonald and i\Mrs. MacDonald and fam- | ily, Charlottetown, are now spend- ling their holidays at the Dr.’s

jhome in Little Sands.

Mr. Lester White. Wood Is- land. East has recovered from his lear accident.

Mrs. R. C. MacLeod. Kinross, accompanied her daughter Mar- jian, Mrs. Leafe and Mr. Leafe and daughter to ‘Little Sands, re- | icently to visit at her’ brother's, Mr. Hugh MacNeills.

Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Leafe and daughter recently returned | from a three months trip to Eng- land. ‘Mr. Leafe’s former home). |The Leafes reside in Vancouver. Two of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald MacLeod's daughters, Margaret and Florence. Halifax. accompan- | ied. the Leafe’s to Little Sands | to visit relatives at Hughie Mac- | Neil's. | Miss Violet Daley, who is em- in Charlottetown, was spending her vacation at her , home in Little Sands.

j j | Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bruce and family, Bunbury, spend part of itheir vacation with relatives in’ | Little Sands where they had a tent at the shore.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bower, Brookline, Mass., spent their va- cation in Little Sands visiting re- lativess.

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Mr. A. P. Spencer, Mattapan, Mass.. arrived in Little Sands on July 31, to spend his vacation with relatives at Alex Blue's. His | +brother Wm. H. Spencer and Miss Marian Spencer arrived at the Blue's on Aug 6, after spending over a month visiting relatives in Fortune, Newfoundland. While here, they visited other relativ-' es, Mrs. Rowan Sencabaugh and | Mr. Sencabaugh, Oak Valley. | The Spencers, all left here by | Car, Aug. 9, by Wood Island and Caribou for their homes in Matta- pan, Mass., and Oberlin, Ohio.

Miss Minnie MacLeod, of Bos- ton, Mass., is visiting relatives in Hopefield at the home of Mr. | Albert Blue. |

Miss Minnie Sickles, and her cousin Miss Edna Thompson, and , other girl friends, all of Boston Mass., were visiting relatives and friends in Little Sands recently.

Mr. Neston Blue, in Victoria | General Hospital, Halifax, is ex- pected to be able to soon come | to his home in Little Sands.

Mr. and Mrs. Rowan Senca- baugh, Oak Valley, accompanied | their son Victor and Mrs. Sen- | cabaugh, and, Mrs. Lommori of | Toronto, to visit relatives at Alex | Blue’s Friday evening. !

The first coat of the pavement Zonnecting Little Sands to the| trans-Canada Highway at Wood) Island was completed yesterday, } August 12.

Everything went quietly as the Thomas was | school started full classes

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