Phursday, February ¥, i998, uy FH) RYPUNH, WELLIARS LARY, BAL Rage F “Old 40,50,602” Seed Tree s | Trees purposely left by forest op- d surrounding erators to re vested lands are called “seed ‘trees. These “sced trees” may re i Tey or feclthg, this zie oxy 60. =| many as sveral hundred or several ere. War Memorial Hospital Society |”, M | biccked wi y neighbours, Mr, Jones ANNUAL MEETING ake. We b enter the on Webruar cov of Southern Cariboo ! oe @ 6 Ze Monday - February 11th | a _at the Courthouse jing better Armes W: ck. RSEELY Couple Snow-Shoe * To Neighbor's For Aid °° million seeds. : | ~L. Jones took Mr. 2 |to Williams Lake wednes th snow so he and had to snow shoe out to th the took * that V We ope he has a quick re- now. But the ranchers are worrying about not having enough hay to: thre ow MR soon. 8. BILL REID lef. for Kamlocps Jannary 21. Mrs. Reid is going to Kamploops for medical attention, We hope she will be feel- of the country for a site for a planer | mail While in Horsefly Mr. Heller | visiting old acquaintances, The last time Mr, Heller visit 1 here was Jin the early 20's. We says tnere are a lot of changes since he was here | QUITE A NUMBER of people at- |_| tended the old time dance Saturday night. } MR. and Mrs, VIC VAUGHAN ar- rived back in Horsefly from their trip to Langley Prairie where they spent a month visiting their family aud friends. ] and their road was Jones, From there them to William: Mr. Hospital | ocr Gn can ‘apoentes: Keithley News i UBREY McBURNIE made a — business trip to the Lake. Ernie Me- Burney sent a week-end with their nephew, Gordon, at Likely. THE MISSES Bthel and Beatrice k at school again in rmer weather) : ee ‘ \ ouzh unlil spring. Kinvig are b and cold has been Quesnel. RIGHT NOW we are all waiting on the road being opened up to Like- ly. This happens every winter to the Keithley people. It’s more serious now in that the mail courier lives at this end, hence none of the post offices en route can be served with Meeting Starts at $ p.m. | GBRALD HELLER of Vancouver | mail, end Len Enstrom trom Wright Sta- tion were looking about in our part] ature so far this year was 28° below. OUR LOWEST recorded temper- . The Cracker The reference last week to the buiiding of a canoe with which to effect a crossing of the Fraser re- vived memories of the terry which subsequently replaced it and of Bill Wright who piloted it to and fro for many yea Bill hailed from the U.S.A originally, where he was tele- graph operator, train despatcher, ete., in his younger days. He was also quite competent with a set of car- penter tools. After coming to B.C. he acted for some time @s telegraph operator at Cache Creek. He then moved northward and eventually arrived at Dog Creek. 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