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July 29, 1927. THE WEST VAN NEWS 3 PHONE 4 6 8 L J. H. REID Sand, Gravel and General Teamwork 16th and FULTON Manure For Sale Ferguson's Freight Schedule Trucks leave West Van 8 A. M., 1 P. M.--Saturday 8 A. M. Trucks leave Vancouver 11 A. M., 4 P. M.--Saturday 1 P. M. Phones: West 85 -- Seymour 6217. USEFUL RECIPES Gooseberry Jelly. Take as many green gooseber­ ries as you wish. Wash well, remove any leaves and put in a preserving pan with just enough water to cover. Bring to the boil, and cook till broken. Strain through a clean cloth and to every pint of juice allow one and one-half cups of sugar. Re­ turn the juice to the pan, add the sugar, and stir gently till it boils and then let it cook till a little will "jell" when tried in a saucer. Pour into glass pots, tie down, and store. Economical Spice Cake. Two cup brown sugar, two cups of water, one teaspoon each cinnamon and cloves, one-quar­ ter teaspoon each nutmeg and allspice, two tablespoons butter or other fat, two cups chopped raisins, one-half teaspoon salt, three cups flour, one teaspoon soda. Boil sugar, water and spices five minutes. Remove from fire and add butter. Add raisins and allow to cool. Sift flour, salt and soda together and add. Mix well. Pour into two greased loaf pans and bake in a moderate oven forty-five to sixty minutes. This cake is sim­ ilar to fruit cake and it will keep a long time. Fudge Icing. Two squares unsweetened chocloate, two tablespoons but­ ter, one-half supful sugar, one- third cupful cream. Dissolve butter and chocolate over hot water, add the sugar and cream, let come to boil and let boil one minute, and beat till cool enough to spread. Nut Bread. 2 eggs. 1 cupful of sugar. 2 cupfuls of milk. 2 cupfuls of white flour. 2 cupfuls of graham flour. 4 teaspoonfuls of baking pow­ der. 1 teaspoonful of salt. 1 cupful of chopped nuts . 1 cupful of chopped dates, figs, or seedless raisins. Combine in order given. Put into greased bread pans and bake sixty minutes at about 375 degrees. West Vancouver's Ogopogo MONTY GOES FISHING A question which is agitating the editorial sanctum of this paper is: Has the famous Ogopogo appeared in English Bay? Or was our editorial vision at fault ? Some days ago--to wit, Sunday the 17th inst.--as we stood upon the beach admiring the fair bathers, sporting their gay, if somewhat scant, bathing attire, our attention was at­ tracted by a commotion some short distance off-shore. There was a tremendous disturbance in the waters of the bay and great excitement amongst some people in a boat. One of the party had hooked a monster of some kind. That it was some­ thing very unusual was so evident from the shouts and gestic­ ulations that our newspaper instincts were aroused and our journalistic nose began to scent copy. The commotion in the water we discovered was due to the prodigious efforts of the captured monster to free himself. (Note: All monsters are masculines and all masculines are monsters.) The quick transition from the graceful forms of the sweet mermaids on the beach to the horrible contortions of a fighting monster may have distorted our vision; and so we do not wish it to be understood that we are actually posi­ tive as to the identity of the brute which a bold and deter­ mined fisherman was at the moment struggling with. But, as the business end of the taut line was drawn by mighty efforts, ever closer and closer to the boat, what appeared for all the world like curves of old ogopogo's back as we have seen them described, appeared amidst the splashing of the water. On came the monster, drawn by a determined hand and a strong arm, the arches of its back showing now here, now there, as it were in wild undulations, as the horrible thing-- no doubt with a mental picture of itself cooped up in a zoo somewhere--made unavailing efforts to free itself. With blanching cheek and bulging eye we followed the struggle, expecting at any moment to see the boat and its occupants made a meal of by the fierce denizen of the deep; when suddenly--kerflop! went the fisherman in the bottom of the boat and up came the line with a nice big cod, which was most neatly landed in the lap of a lady passenger! To say the lady was surprised is to put it very mildly; her screams attested to an even keener appreciation of the situa­ tion. Offers of help were promptly made by others in the vicinity, and as promptly rejected, as the undismayed fisher­ man jumped on his feet and boldly attacked his capture with a stout stick. We thought he might have taken the precau­ tion of removing the fish from the lady's lap before attempt­ ing to kill it--and it was quite apparent the lady was of our opinion--but there would have been nothing original about that and our hero was not anything if not original in his methods. First he slammed the poor fish on the tail, then on the head and then somewhere else, until it ceased to flop. Whether or not he accidentally slammed the lady between times we are not prepared to say; though our opinion is that if she had been his wife she would have had good grounds for a divorce, on the plea of physical violence. Now the question is, was there never anything fiercer than a cod on that hook? Others may form their own con­ clusions but the opinion of this paper must ever be that the captured cod was followed by a hungry ogopogo and that we actually beheld the much talked-of sea-seprent with our own eyes. We heard someone call the fisherman "Monty," and me- thinks there's something "white" about Monty. At any rate he doesn't live so very far from the "News" office. Such a doughty hunter as this should go after bear. Perhaps some of his friends will throw some light on the subject for us? THE CAPILANO TIMBER C0„ LTD. Main Office NORTH 305 West Vancouver Office WEST 102 Cor. 18th and Marine Residence W E S T 3 1 6 Builders and Contractors ATTENTION! W e carry a large stock of Fir, Hemlock & Cedar Lumber of all dimensions. Rough and Finished Lumber, Sash & Doors, Lath & Shingles G r a d e , Q u a l i t y a n d S e r v ic e G u a r a n t e e d . O n ly W h i t e H e lp E m p lo y e d G E T OUR PRICES