CAPTAIN NORMAN FREAKLEY, Superintendent of Transport for the Company, with headquarters at Montreal, came to Winnipeg last month to claim a bride from the head office staff of the Fur Trade Department. The captain was wedded December 30th to Miss Frances Menagh, at St. George's Church, Winnipeg. Miss Menagh, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Menagh of Cork, Ireland, had been engaged with the Company at Winnipeg for several years. ======================================== Two Ends to Every Stick By J. M. GREEN, Portage la Loche. _Oh, it's easy for to sit and grouch when letters don't arrive; Letters you've been waitin' for and letters that you prize; And you sit and cuss the postman, and you cuss the bloomin' mail, And maybe you cuss the writer and pile it good and thick, But have you ever stopped to think of his end of the stick?_ _You can sit in cosy rooms back home, the Post does all the rest. Perhaps to post a letter you walk a block at best. And then you sit and wonder why the devil don't he write? To keep us all awaitin', it's a shame--it isn't right. And you growl like a grizzly. Sure; you'd make an Indian sick, Just because you don't know anything of his end of the stick._ _Suppose the nearest mail box was a hundred miles or more. And no one but yourself to pack the letters to your door; And suppose there ain't no street cars, no motors, not a road. Just a team of mangy mongrels to help you pack your load; And its forty below zero, and your feet both feel like brick, I wonder what would happen were that your end of the stick?_ _And s'pose the mail man ain't arrived an' spring's set in at last, And there ain't no snow but just the ice arotten' good and fast; And you know to miss the mail man means to wait three months or so Before you read a letter, and you don't want for to go, But you can't wait any longer and your heart is mighty sick, I wonder would you grumble, would you grin, or would you stick?_ +-------------------+ | LETHBRIDGE | +-------------------+ MR. JAMES YOUNG originally hails from Scotland, and comes to us from the Macleod store to take charge of the dry goods department. Mr. Young has had wide experience, both in Canada and in the Old Land. MR. P. K. SANGSTER, of New Westminster, B.C., has joined the Lethbridge staff as Advertising Manager. Mr. Sangster was with the I. H. Smith Co., of New Westminster for twelve years, excepting for the period when he was overseas. Mr. Sangster was one of the fortunate Canadian exchanged prisoners from Germany. He was picked up on the field in the Paschendaele affair, having had four inches of bone blown out of one of his legs. Mr. Sangster was a prisoner in Germany eight months prior to his exchange.