.thought they were to be hurriedly pre-

.. nately some of the supports held after a

GOIN’ TO THE CORNER

which was due to the energy and ability of the manager, Basil MacNeill, who worked incessantly day and night to bring this about.

A collection wagon started in 1924. Charles Dunn was the collector and Basil MacNeill was manager. To enable the Elmsdale Circle to comply with requests from varying outlying settlements, it was deemed advisable to send the collection wagon over all routes traveled in 1923. They planned to enter the southern route as follows: down the Western Road to St. Anthony’s corner and through the Mill River Road to

Cascumpec, Fortune Cove and Mill River.

Mr. A.R. Jones, assistant manager of the PEI Egg and Poultry Association, then spoke to the gathering. He extolled the advances made by the Elmsdale Egg Circle #75 in having moved from the 25th position in 1922 to first position in 1923 in the number of new members, and in second place for the volume of business among all the circles on the Island, beaten only by Southern Kings by a very small

amount. Mr. Jones asked for an expres- sion of opinion from those present re— garding Circle managers being allowed to take eggs from country merchants.

This developed into such a lively dis- cussion and the arguments put forth, pro and con, were of such a strong and

weighty nature as to cause the floor' to

collapse. For a moment a great many

cipitated to the lower regions. Fortu-

drop of a foot or so with no serious re—

sults. As Mr. Jones was at that time OliveMacNeillC011- showing some of those present the dif— Basil MacNeill, Manager,

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