Retail Store Topics
Miss Vera Solick has recently been promoted as assistant to Mr. Briggs in the whitewear section.
Miss Winnie Campbell, of the whitewear department, is leaving, to be married. The event will take place the latter part of June.
Miss A. Lavoy, of the underwear department, leaves on the 1st of July for the coast, a change being absolutely necessary for her health.
Mrs. K. Duncan, our corsetiere, is leaving for Calgary to attend the "Gossard School of Instruction" which is being held in that city.
Miss Ritchie, of the transfer desk, has changed her name. Mr. Yuill, of H.B.C. wholesale department, is the cause of this drastic procedure. The whole store staff tenders them their most hearty congratulations.
Miss Opal Jobe, recently of the whitewear section, has been transferred to the drug department.
Miss E. Rudder, of the library, is once more back in her old place at the stationery counter.
Mr. Saunders, of the drug department, is a newcomer and we welcome him to our ranks.
Miss Lillian Ritchie, bride-to-be, was the recipient of a linen shower, given June 4th by her friends of the store, at the home of Miss Jennie Jones, Bonnie Doon.
A certain buyer on the main floor went fishing during May, but reports that all he caught was a "bully cold." Our buyer didn't get a bite, but as he sat with his friend on the bank of the river he imagined that a big one was trying to take away his pole which was propped among rocks while he went for a drink of gingerbeer. He made a dash for the pole, stumbled on a stone and in trying to avoid a fall, grabbed his companion. They both rolled into the cold waters of the river. Thus ended disastrously a promising fishing excursion.
A. & A.A. Early Season Sports Events
Football—Our team continues to win and is at the head of the league table, having played four league games and won them all by scores of 4-0, 1-0, 5-0, and 7-0, and there seems to be nothing to stop us from annexing the league championship.
Baseball—The baseball team has played three league games so far, and won them all, so they too are strongly in the running, being the only unbeaten side so far.
Basketball—Our girls have played three games since the last report and have won one of them, losing the others by a single point in each instance.
Tennis—The two new tennis courts which have been in course of construction were opened on Friday, June 3rd, and a great number took advantage of the sport provided.
A tournament is being planned. Judging by the number of entrants, it should be a great success.
LET'S FORGET IT
BY J. PREST
If you see a tall fellow ahead of a crowd, A leader of men, marching fearless and proud, And you know of a tale whose mere telling aloud Would cause his proud head in grief to be bowed, It's a pretty good plan to forget it.
If you know of a skeleton hidden away In a closet, and guarded, and kept from the day, In the dark, and whose showing, whose sudden display Would cause grief and sorrow and lifelong dismay, It's a pretty good plan to forget it.
If you know of a thing that will darken the joy Of a man or a woman, a girl or a boy, That will wipe out a smile or leastway annoy, Or cause a fellow any gladness to cloy, It's a pretty good plan to forget it.
How much brighter and how much more joyful would this old world be if we all got together and practised that old adage, "Do unto others as ye would that they do unto you."
This world is too full of sorrow and pain already, and we are all too ready to condemn when we ought to condone.
What is the matter with us anyway? If one has taken a false step in the past, is there any reason why they should be given the "cold shoulder," especially when they are endeavouring to lead a straight life?
Man or woman is entitled to a square deal, no matter what the past may have been.
Once the turning point has been passed between right and wrong, and a firm endeavor is made to keep to the "narrow way," then let us help and encourage instead of raking up the past and by so doing help wreck a human soul.
We are all human; many are subject to temptations from which others are immune. It is usually a case of environment, therefore judge not your neighbor harshly.
Let's all try to practice the suggestions in the above poem; let's judge fellow beings by the present—not by the past.