All Poll Chairmen delegates. CHARLOTTETOWN, ON TUESDAY, JULY 20th, AT 8 PM. ANNUAL MEETING The Regular Annual Meeti gressive Conservative Association will WHALEN MEMORIAL HALL, GRAFTON ST., REAGH BAGNALL, President. ng of Queen's County Pro- be held the are requested to send five accredited I ' (By Thornton W. OLD MI. TOAD l ‘That constant change ls always rife walk of life. —Old Mr. ‘mad. ._.._._. [Ia true in every l lhad been in the amiriing < Quickies 8 AM. — 9:30 P.M. DURING SUMMER MONTHS ELLIS BROS. WH IUY BETTER St. Peter's Rd. PHONE 1786-} R. H. Charlottetown, REL, July l4, 1948. ERE YOU BUY CHEAPER J ENKINS. Secretary dlegiatrar. By Ken Reynolds OPEN WEDNESDAYS Central Royalty {he Public Notice The Board of Examiners of (he Pharmaceutical Association will meet in Charlottetown on July 28th and 2 candidates offering for Persons whose crr-dcntials have been selves at 10:00 A31. on that date. Prince Edward Island i at Queen Square School 9th for the purpose of ex- i-egistratinn as Pharmacists. approved will present them- iwhen he had left, the garden, shortly after wakening from his; winter sleep, it had been bare. Now. he found it filled with green grcui-i lng things as he remembered it to‘ have been the summer before. It: was the same, yet different The‘. some kinds 01 plants were ZTOWUU!‘ there but not in the same places They had been changed around; At first this made it confusing. ' He had found so many of thesc changes that it. was a relief to find that one thing hadn't been irhanged the "wide ‘bn-arci under iwhich he rind lived for several summers in a corner of the RnrdCn that he likes to think of as his own. When after making the rounds of the garden lhrG-llgh the niglht he came to that comer just as day- light ivas beginning, he sighed gently with relief at sight of that wide old hoard just as he reimicm-li bered it. That was the best place in the whole garden-for a Toad. 'I'h:it corner was shaded, and it was al- ways a little dtimp tlicre even in the dryest weather. No Toad can‘ sea-nus nowiv, f I Old Mr. Toad was back home in' [Farmer Brown's garden and glad! thy be there. For several weeks he; ‘ Smiling Pool. iapring chorus of Frogs and Toads‘ -. i h we id go back to the ',s,"i)§.:g0ieiii= ubirth soi- the 11m what he fi i “mp5 Toad of t e Wor-d. TTREFFTRETOYATYATJFFTEN‘ l- n u, "W-Yr" r I... A/i sodzsrnvmo: DOGEOA/E/T 4'0 ' -~ ”’””"‘"”.§ » ‘ififfiiét? £€t$t?‘$’£2"‘;.%v° ""2. r/uenzm i. H,” M‘! mlmflmnfl :‘~r_ ‘r Burgess) YA MAD! ME MAKE A 5A? l 007A MY5ELF! WHAY D10 1A NAFTA M‘ '57 ‘THAT W09!‘ WAYER SWIM ER .-. I ~ soiowWor-r use A iuiorl: was so IMBABAIST! ... -~ i a Old Ml’. wad. u ti" Ofltcjip-Eéiliibliid toward the 0th" end of the hoard learned the wisdom of bF-‘llli l‘ snectiul to your Me"- . ‘to Tim young Toad went 0°51’ the other end vi" the “M”! bu“? stopping lie was ‘well grown! figlw many a good-looking yoimt e as Toads so. This W" "w “"1"” ning of nu third year 11"“ e ‘my fellow no blazer "m" m" Crldm‘ m. sometimes oauzht "OW. he hid left the smiling Pool M"! staff“: out to 59¢ mo Great World. hex “ma, Then he would really be liked to think himself "Growing youth is like that I ll " \\ )4: goiis. 72.. § h |1,_:—,-_-_ w. h‘ u "Km §ca-. Ewe». [____ "it says here in the Guardian . . , I n bitious men - well that lets me out! Want Ad: they want an ‘am- y”. <- iilfl‘ r Ncuw r fiiiuirt lbpimril U fl new 07in Napoleon and llncle Elhy By lillfloril Maolrlile 7-14 be comfortable in a very dry place. If it is too dry he cannot even live there long. To live in comtiort he must be where it is cool and moist. Farmer Brown's boy knows this so when he planned what he calls i "Toadville (Io-operative Home." he chose the coolest, dampest place in the whole garden. There he dug up the ground. worked it over until the soil was fine and loose easy to he carefully placed the wide old board raised on stones just enough for a Toad to get under it easilyf and there in the fine. soft. cool earth to dig in or nc-t as he pleased. Old Mr Toad always has had one place to go in and nut under‘ the board. He ‘considers it his pri-i vate entrance. He headed straight: for it now. Because he hadn't. beeni there before this summer that en-i trance should not. have been usedi Bu" it had been. Old in. Tran‘ saw this at once, The earth had’ | been dug away a little just thenei iWhat did it mean? Who had done lthls? The mere Old Mr. Toad indignant. 1t unthinkable that any one sliouYl use his private entrance just as l: it belonged to them. He would! find out about this, and he would’ waste no time in doing it. Hei started to creep in under the’ board. . But; his head ii-as no more than) side when some sand was kicked in his face and a voice ordered him out. It was a rude voice, 1t was an impudent voice. "Can't you see that scene one is living here already? Anyway, old warty L»). Con: like you are riot ‘wanted’ said the voice Old Mr. Toad moved quickly. He fdidrfi move back. 'No, air. he didn't move back. He went ahead and he went fast. He scrambled under that wide old board so fast that he almost humped into an- other Toad sitting Just inside the entrance. It was he who did the hacking. and he did it Old Mr. Toad buffed ruffed and he swelled hlntself to nearly tvxoe his former size. At least it looked like that to the other Toad. It was indignation Just that and nothing more, that Svlelifld Old Mr. Toad so. "Scat!" cried Old Mr. Toad as the other scrambled toward the other end of the board. "Ami don't. let me ever find you up this end again. I've lived here ever since this home was new. and that was before you were even p. pally. this. young t0 be impo~ ‘HID J07 l Sléti (Y W?! VIE CALI. ‘(mid i _ §r1l'~'.l§§¥** ~ Q.‘ . ‘ ’ooii'i as nioicuiate! vro vousaio never iivr 00m w: saimi THINK oflsv Business! to have warts and go b ck t ti. r Smiling Pool f0! a o e the first time enalty to l00 points. lfwest had taken the alight _prilns to count, he would haie known beyond the possibility of error that South's original dia- iributlon had been precisely six Th - diamonds and three hearts. hence M ’. an-Fmal mum's o’ file that he must have four clubs. It asonic ample Company will be held in the office of E. R. "my 8- 8o». I44 Richmond st, on Wednesday the 14th day of Jill)‘ Pwllmv, at 7 o'clock p.m. J. s. snow, m S t . Charlottetown, P.E.l., n" my June 29th, I948. in burrow into. Over this loose earth} i A Mara-an or COUNTING mend king, new fell panic. It was (mite obvious that neclarer could finesse successIvcl through West's remaining K-lil-o of hearts and in dummys entire suit. and apparent- ly West had visions club discarding by- the forestall any such calamity, West promptly put down the ace of clubs, and followed up wth the Jack. Declarer, of course, won the trick and that was the end. 'I‘he contract had been and South's rims not to be hoped that East had the icing and queen of clubs he- cnuse with that holding and with the seven spades to the king-queen that he had already shown, he surely would have lumped to four spades on the first round of bid- the declarer run the hearts, wait- lnevitably woud come to him" was one mysgil." thought Old Mr. Toad as he settled down comfort- ahly to spend the day. . The next story: “The ASSiSl/lm Gardener." \ a i‘ i; Contract Brzdgeé i By Josephine Culbertson iaaa """~"ge7.oepese9¢rx.'vv'\i§i\l$i‘a f.‘~"\\'vizvcoa‘“ eA ifii West's failure to make an easy count of the declarefs distribution was responsible for a bad defense in today's deal: South dealer. _ n Both aides vulnerable. I A Q B 7 l ' ¢os14 4msz 4AJm eKQ86 14 y N as: e QKl063 VV E 91 qua S 02 q. A J 4Q 7.5 3 o ti» oooz gAQjiosa BRINGING U .,§K854 "-_"“"" The bidding ~ South \l’elt North Elly" - 3 Q Dble. Pass 3 Q‘ soar-Niven: Pass 4 Q 5 O 5 O 6 g Pass Pass Dble. Pass Pass Pass West's pass to the six-diamond hid nvas a forcing pass, demanding that East either go on to six-odd, i1" his hand warranted that action, or that he double the opponents, Thus, East's actual double meant no more than that he did not choose to go on to a spade slam. Observe that this was sound jud- gment on East's part, since North~ South could have taken two aoes. west opened ‘the spade ace, and declare: promptly ruffed. A low heart was now led and the queen was flnessed, East's jack falling. A trump was returned and deciarer played his own queen. West. back On lead with the dia- vlctim to that way run of profuse declsrer. To set. only one honors reduced the HS- . So West simply should have let EIGHTEEN HORACE. ILL NEED i EIGHTEEN DOLLARS d WHAT l<iNl7 O THATS A SAV OPEN ‘IDES, HUH P lNG LEATHER. l5N"l' rr ‘P " GOLLv-vn-iav OUSHTA moccm 0;: A LYTTLE lF THEY HAVE - HOLES o~ u r!‘ .~. .1 _ ‘m’ i!!! PM!!! t. i... u“. -.....- i CAM, Auozr: on -—' 7'14 YOU -' E6$iQ--AL Q MY VAST HOLD\N’S GWQYTl-HNG" HE P FATHER . WHAT MAGGIE WLL, 0o I5 WHAT l5 QE-aciy ivvoizravrf/ H-DE Benton THAT PIANO-QUICK’! 0L2 WE'LL GET A EEATlk/Gl’ WILL so "ro N worsens-- / 1'7 TELL NE ./ ' ‘ W "Iii ‘u’, ' _. \L ll !///'/'/i/lii//...ii'///¢i;//i n; ‘l/(if/y . v if 0i win. 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