ree ae ee nee ag ne " NEW HAZELTON, B. C., MAY 11, 1923 ee No. 45 — 24th As .. sual ! New I'azelton -» New Hazelton wil «wate the Twenty-fourth of May, as has ' been the custom for the past ten - or more years. There was a well- attended meeting of citizens held #. in the schoolhouse on Monday, 1 evening last, when committees | Were appointed to look after the B) different parts of the afternoon: a, and evening’ program. These of f committees have already started A { to work. The afternoon events will be | held on or adjacent to the school ai grounds, where the ladies will be et in charge of a refreshment booth wand will endeavor to supply the m public with all the‘nice things fm the season will afford. There will also be a long list of sports m for the rising generation, inelud- @ ing a football game, foot races, jumping, tennis, ete. There may m #lso be a couple of horse races # for those who have speedy steeds. m In the evening a dance will be f@ held in the hall, which is being B put into shape. It will be made @ to look artistic andthe committee ie @ that i is in charge of this part of : zm the program insures that the m dances will be up to the standard fof all New Hazelton dances. y This is the one day of the year that New .Hazelton invites the = people of the district to come for meday’s enjoyment, and there is no Badoubt that there will be a good mcrowd. The local people will do . heir best to give you a good time. Special Union Service me The special union services to He -held in Assembly Hall, Hazel- ton, on Sunday evening next mhould be quite attractive. Well- | xnown hymns will be sung and mhere will be at least two solos. mer. Petrie will give'a talk on meiospitals and Hospital Work. menev. T. D, Proctor will be in meharge of the service and will mereach the sermon. The hour of ervice wiil be 7.30 sharp. All mre invited ta attend. This ser- merice will not take the place of mene regular morning service in. gat. Peter’s church, It will be meld at theusual hour. During She union service the white Meople will-occupy one side of me hall and the natives will m-cupy the other side. f New Aviator Engaged fee Len Bell, president of the R. aa. I. and I. Association, passed geerough on Sunday on his way } Rupert, whither he went on siness in connection with the mpany. He stated that ‘'the >ys’”’ will have the ‘‘Hazelton”’ lonoplane in readiness for opera- n early in June, and that Capt. Wop” May, the well-known Ed- onton aviator, will pilot the big for conference, Church Circuits Show. Progress .-Finances Good ~ The district meeting in con- nection with the Methodist church was held in Hazelton on Wednes- day afternoon in the church. The following delegates were present: Ministerial—Rev.: J. R. Hewitt, chairman: Rev. M. W. Lees, Smithers, Rev. W. Mawhinney, Telkwa, Rev. Bruce Cousins, Top- ley, Rev, J. H. Young, Terrace, Dr. Wrinch and Robt. Tomlinson. Lay delegates—Mrs. Boyer, Smithers; Mrs. Sawle, New Ha- zelton; Wm, Grant and John Newick, Hazelton. The business for the year from the different points in the dis- trict was gone over, preparatory to completing the report for gen- eral conference next week. The finances of the different circuits are in good shape and the work in general showed progress, The lay delegates elected to go to New Westminster to the con- ference were: Mrs, Spouse, Telk- wa; Mrs. Boyer, Smithers; Mrs. Hewitt and Mrs, Sawle; Mrs. J. H. Young, Terrace. These dele- gates left Thursday morning, for the south. year to make two circuits of the Telkwa-Topley-Houston circuit. It is expected that this change would help the work and not in- crease the cost of operation, | Conference will.also be asked to do away with the office of superintendent of missions. It ia felt that the salary and cost of the office is an unnecessary expenditure of money needed so badly for other purposes. If conference thinks the office should be retained then there will be a demand for a British Columbia man being appointed instead of allowing an eastern man to pick off tne softest job in the gift of the conference, ‘Revs. Hewitt, Lees, Mawhin- ney and Cousins left Thursday Dr. Wrinch will ‘leave Saturday night, Rev. J. H. Young went only as far as Terrace. He is not going south this year. Big Lumber Order The Koyal Lumber Co., Hanall, | and the Geo, Little mill, Terrace, have accepted an order for a quarter of a million feet of lum- ber for shipment to Japan. As soon as this is assembled at Ru- pert a Canadian Government steamer will call, ‘A representa- tive of a brokerage firm in Van- couver was up north the first of the week to endeavor to place an month for export to Japan. This would mean the’ heginning of Rupert as a real. seqport. It would also mean quite an in- crease in the lumber business of s-metal machine this season. . the’ north. Conference will be asked this | -|last week and fixed:up the road order for half a million feet al” * TELKWA TALES | News from the Hub of Bulkley Vailey s mene 3 arm The annual meeting: of the Nursing Home was held last Fri- day night wheh there was a good attendance. The financial state- ment showed the institution to bein good shape. The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: Pres. J. P. Wheeler, Vice, T.J. Thorp, Sec. Rev. Bray- field, Treas. E. Hoops.. The baseball season was open- ed here on Sunday. last when Smithers and Telkwa met and put up the best game that has been seen here for the past two years. The local team won by a six-five score. Batteries—Smith- ers, Raby, Roberts and Hoskins; Telkwa, Wallace and Hunspergera Mrs. Spouse left on Thursday morning as a lay delegate from Telkwa to the Methodist general conference in New Westminster. Mas. Jones left on Thursday morning for Vancouyer, where she will visit for the next few weeks, J. P. Wheeler was a visitor in Rupert the past week, ‘Hon. A. M. Manso He wrecked his car and a lamp post trying to save a boy ona wheel, Fixed Their Road ~The Kispiox Indians gat busy leading to the village from the main highway. ‘this was al- wavs more or less of a nightmare to auto and wagon drivers, but) | it is now in good shape. The big mud hole has been filled and the fences moved hack. so that;two cars can pass without dahger.. The natives deserve credit for their enterprise. The road is in good shape new all the way from town to the Indian yillage. — EH. A. Beach gave the school children a talk on forestry. ‘sub-| jects in regard to.the fire situa- tion, and the knowledge imparted Report Man Shot Himself Near Terrace A startling occurence took place two miles north of Terrace on Tuescay when Isaac Bedore, a resident of Prince Rupert, shot himself in the house of his bro- ther, Albert A. Bedore, a ranch- er un the Kalum Valley road. The deceased man had been in trouble and had served three and a half yearsin Okalla and had recently been let out on ticket of leave, He was not liv- ing with his wife, who is alsoa resident of Rupert. It appears that he had been in an unsettled state of mind since his release from prison and took the opportunity to carry out his fell purpose when his brother's wife and children were tempo- rarily out of the houge. The coroner was communieat- ed with but had not intimated whether an inquest would be held at the time of this report. wt % OVERHEARD AROUND | \ x NEW HAZELTON Mrs. J. Short held a successful sale of household goods and farm and garden tools last Monday afternoon. Nearly everything was sold, but the articles left may be seen and purchased from Jos. Benson, Two-mile, who has the key to the house and authority to dispose of the goods. Mrs. Short and Mrs. Anger, of Smithers, were here over the week-end and returned to Smith- ers on Tuesday morning. Jas, Dyer was a week-ender on | his old atamping ground. ‘He also paid a visit to his mining proper- ty on Four-mile mountain. Rev..J. H. Young, of .Terrace, was a guest this week of Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Hewitt. Sunday, May 27, has been set aside as “‘Go to Sunday School Sunday’’, and it will be observed in both the New Hazelton and Hazelton Sunday schools, Spe- cial programs have been prepar- ed and these the children are be- ing trained in. S. Bergman arrived home Sun- day morning from Hanall. W.J. Larkworthy left Wednes- day morning for Prince Rupert and Vancouver on a business trip. The annual report from ‘the department of mines has been issued and a copy has been re- ceived at this office. Mr. and Mrs. O. Carlwood Jost their infant child on Saturday. E. A. Beaeh had an unfortun-. ate mishap, “while riding a horse, |T while on, forestry duty, and was will ‘certainly ‘prove useful. for years to: come, we forced. to:go' to.-Francois Lake: ‘hospital for attention ¢ on: n Sunday. \North’s Oldest Indian Dies in- | His 102nd Year Wasm la tha Robinson, the oldest Indian in the north, passed away on May Ist and was buried on May 4th. lived all his life in a cabin three. miles from Hazelton ‘and not: far from the Silver Standard mine. He was one hundred and two den for the past ten years, he retained ail his faculties to the last. Robinson never lived in a modern house, His place of shack with a fireplace in ‘the ‘cen- ter of the room. ot 7 He was looked upon by ‘the other Indians as the advisor, He knew all things and he had had conferred upon him all the honors in the gift of the Indians. Wasm la tha is survived by two sons, Jimmy Robinson and Robert Robinson, and one daughter, Alice. He was cared for in his old age by his niece, aceording to old customs, and the funeral cere- monies were carried out according to old customs. The feast before the’ funeral was for Indians only, andin the feast afterward the whites participated. All the old gongs were sung with great sol- emnity. The service was very impressive. The old man was buried on his own property and some two hunr- dred and fifty Indians were pre- sent to pay the last honor to the dead. Money was Refunded An Indian woman named Louise Elwitt living at Newtown near Vanaredol was charged at a special court at Terrace on Wed- nesday night with stealing $70 from Dave Mawhinney’s house near Vanarsdol on Sunday. She elected to be tried bv jury at Prince Rupert at the next court of criminal jurisdiction. Evi- dence was given to prove that the accused visited Mawhinney’s shack on Sunday afternoon and took away seven $10 bills from a box. Mawhinnev missed the money that. night and at - once instituted a search. - On the fol- lowing day Cons. Mancor was called in and challenged the ac- eused who denied all knowledge of the money but afterwards sent her mother with the money to have it returned to Mawhin- ney. The provincial forest branch reports that , the revenue. from the sale of timber, timber licen- ces, timber leases and.scale and royalty for April amounted to $225,776, as azainst $145,000 for the same month last year. . D. Pattullo reports the timher business in @ flourishing condi--" - tion. oo predicts a banner. year ss for: a} He was born and — years old, and, although bedrid- abode was an old-time Indian © Hon. .