Phone Belmont 1

E. F. Le Quesne & Sons

Paints, Groceries, Hardware

Island Highway
Langford, V. I., B. C.

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GENERAL MERCHANTS

SOOKE B. C.

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Phone 31

LOCAL MEAT
MARKET

A. D. Harvey

Dealer in

DRESSED MEATS
FISH AND
FRESH VEGETABLES

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SIDNEY, B.C.

DAVID HOLDEN

Sporting Goods, Fishing Tackle

TOYS BICYCLES and REPAIRS
Beacon Avenue
SIDNEY British Columbia

Phones: Sidney (Day) 6; (Night) 60-Y, 152-Y

Mitchell & Anderson
Lumber Co. Ltd.

All Kinds of Lumber, Mill
Work and Hardware

va
SIDNEY, B. C.

Page Eighteen

were rewarded with the object of their
quest, a broken door. handle with the
attachment plate that fitted onto the door.
Without further ado they mated the
handle which they had brought with them,
to the broken part. It was a perfect
match. At last luck had broken their
way. The garage owner was able to
identify the broken piece as the one he
had taken from the suspected car.

The owner was subsequently charged
in Provincial Police Court at Qualicum
Beach with failing to return to the scene
of an accident where someone had sus-
tained injury. He pleaded “Not Guilty”
and the various persons who had been
eye-witnesses testified. The officers and
the garage man introduced the evidence
of the two pieces of door handle, and
demonstrated how they matched perfectly.
However the defence contended that the
door handle had been broken while the
car was being backed out of the garage.
This was refuted in rebuttal testimony
by the man who had repaired the car.

He demonstrated to the court that the
break occured in such a way that the
car must have been moving forward and
could not have been in reverse when the
handle snapped off.

The evidence was conclusive, and the
court found the defendant “guilty as
charged”. He was sentenced to three
months imprisonment and his right to
drive any motor vehicle was taken away
from him for a period of twelve months.

While there was a possibility that
witnesses could be mistaken in their
identification, the accusing door handle
mutely pointed to the defendant’s guilt.
Happily the child has recovered from her
injuries.

SENSE OF SMELL

AT A CRIMINAL trial in New York
several years ago, a clever trick employed
by the lawyer for the defence discredited
the claim of the State’s chief witness that
he was an expert in distinguishing odours.
Producing ten small bottles containing
liquids with familiar odours, the lawyer
asked the witness to identify them. In
the test the expert was unable to name
nine because the first bottle handed to him
contained gasoline, the fumes of which
so deaden the sense of smell that no other
odour can be distinguished for several
minutes.

THEY WERE entertaining the vicar to

lunch and the guest remarked to the
small son of the house: “Don’t you ever
say prayers before your meals, Tommy.”

“Oh no,” said the youngster. “Dad
says our cook is perfectly reliable.”

ABSENT-MINDED POET
THERE IS A delightful story told about
the poet, Robert Nichols, who died
recently.

He was a restless man, but very like-
able. His friends were always telling

stories about his incapacity to keep still.
One of these is that, while lecturing in
Tokyo as professor of English literature,
Nichols paced the platform so abstract-
edly that he fell over the parapet.
Without saying a word, he left the
room and returned with a rope which he
tied round his middle, fixing the other
end to a staple. Revolving round this
orbit, he finished his lecture safely.

Phone Sidney 135
COAL AND RANGE OIL

SIDNEY |
FREIGHT SERVICE LTD.

B.C.

SIDNEY, V.I.

WILSONA INN

Mrs. A. Wilson, Proprietress - |

FISHING — BOATING

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Home Cooked Meals

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Reasonable Rates
| A Good Quiet Place to Spend
| Your Holidays |
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| Deep Cove, Sidney, B. C.

| Sidney Cash & Carr

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W. W. Gardner, Proprietor }
Groceries and Fresh Vegetables
PHONE 91
/ Sidney, B.C.

When in Sidney Call At

Baal’s Drug Store

SOUVENIRS, NOVELTIES, KODAKS AND

FILMS—EXPERT PHOTO FINISHING,
MAGAZINES, ETC.
Your Doctor's Prescription Filled Promptly
and Carefully

BEACON AVENUE SIDNEY, B.C.

Avenue Cafe and News-Stand —

Stage Depot -:- Taxi Service

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