Thursday, October 14, 1954.

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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Page 5

Big Creek Ranchers
Contribute To Sale

Contributing to the Annual Cattle
Sale at Williams Lake last week
were A. M, Piltz and Walter Bam-
brick. Gus had his beef moved out
on foot, while Hodgson trucks took
care of Walter’s.

We appreciate Gus Piltz’s pride in
the beautiful trophy which he won
again this year for his carload of
finished steers and which he will
keep permanently now.

ALL of the Big Creek guides are
an and out of the mountains thesel
days with hunters too numerous to
mention. Though moose are not too
plentiful, local guides have so far

WHILE DEER HUNTING with
Bruce Watt recently, Bill Trethewey
of Abbotsford marked out a landing
field on Watts’ Dry Farm, where he
can set down his aircraft-on future
trips. a

ROSALIE CHURCH _ returned
September 30 to Prairie Bible In-
stitute at Three Hills, Alberta, where
she will attend Bible School this
term. Rosalie’s mother, Mrs. R.
Church, drove her to Williams Lake
to catch the plane to Kamloops. From
there she travels by train and bus to
reach her destination.

MURRAY TAYLOR was a guest
at Bonners over the week-end. Mur-
|aay spent the summer at Chilco Lake
‘as patrolman for the Forestry De-
partment and is now stationed at
the 100 Mile as acting Assistant

been able to satisfy their clients.

Ranger.

designated by the Board

All wet matter, which

all offensive or unwho

NOTICE TO
HOUSEHOLDERS

Garbage placed in proper garbage cans at lanes
in rear of premises will be picked up, at intervals

premises within the Village.
destroyed by the occupiers of premises themselves.

THE BOARD

of Commissioners, at all

h will freeze to cans, and
lesome matter must be

By order of

OF COMMISSIONERS

VISITORS at Henrys’ and Wittes’
this week were Mr. and Mrs. Grant
Noble of Crescent City, Calif, and
Oliver Purjue of Nemiah Valley. We.
hayen’t seen Grant since 1935, and
it was a pleasure to find him entirely
unchanged, stepping out of the past
exactly as we remembered him.

OLIVER PURJUE is travelling
with Mr. and Mrs. Noble to Califor-
nia, and will visit friends and rela-
tives in Redwood City, Los Angeles
and San Francisco before returning
to Elkins Creek sometime next year.
Two nephews, Grant and Voyne Pur-
jue, are accompanying their uncle
and will attend school in California.

DUNCAN AMMIT of Stoney Re-
serve has sold his saddle, said good-
by to his friends, and changed his
address to Scapoose, Oregon. There
he will be working as stable boy for
Dewey Adams,

MR. and MRS. BLACKIE HEN-
DERSON and family of Williams
Lake are visiting at Hutchinsons ané
Wilsons. They plan to drop in on all
their other friends on Big Creek be-
fore returning home.

CHARLIE BAMBRICK was in to
spend the Thanksgiving weekend at
home. ‘

VISITING TOWN during Sale

week were: A. M. Piltz, W. Bambrick,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wilson and family;

Mabel Henry and four children,
Bruce Watt, John Seibert, John
Church, Olay Skjelbred and Veera

Bonner and two children.

Education is a matter of provin-
cial administration in Canada. ,

Canadian universities graduate
about 12,000 students annually.

Tn 1950 there were 20,000 living
Canadians more than 90 years of
age.

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Letter to, the Editor|

Williams Lake, B.C.,

October Sth, 1954.
The Editor,
Williams Lake Tribune,
Sir:
During the informal discussion

that followed the Annual Meeting of
the Cariboo Historical Society, two
points arose in one group, that might
lead to argument, thus: é
(1) Which was the first grain sep-
arator to be used in Cariboo, the one

at Soda Creek or the one at Williams

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Lake?

(2) Was the term Williams Lake
applied to the settlement as well as
to the body of water in the early days
or did it just come into use during
the present century with the advent
of the railway?

For what it is worth, I offer the fol-
lowing evidence: In September of
1928, I was a member of the gang
that threshed grain on Lot $854 with
the.old Pinchbeck machine. One noon
period was marked by two incidents
(a) a group of us examined the date
on the machine, 1867, associating it
with the Year of Confederation and
also of the year of birth of the late
‘Wm. Pinchbeck who ranched for
years.on Chimney Creek and ended
his working days as Brand Inspector
at the local stockyards, ()) I took a
snapshot of the group that included
one son and three grandsons of the
original owner.

As to the name, Bishop Hills in his
Journal of 18 under the date of
July 11th writes that ‘Williams Lake
farm and restaurant is run by David-
sou, an American.” Later, on Sept. 7,
he records staying at Woodward's
farm at Williams Lake. In
west Passage
Milton and Dr.
they walked from Soda Creek
teen miles to Davidson’s near Wil-
liams Lake”; this was in November
of 1863. In one of his stories of the
eary days, the late J. B. Leighton of
Savona mentioned Tom Manifee’s
Hotel at Williams Lake.

I have sent this to you in the hope
that it may induce the real oldtimers
to share, their knowledge and mem-
ories to supply the Historical Society
with more complete data, and some
interesting items for your readers.

Vv

ibe how
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elected area representative.

As an indication of how the living
witnesses of local history are passing
forever beyond our reach is seen in
the fact that of the group in the snap-
shot I took 26 years ago, four are now
resting in the local cemetery and a
fifth is buried at the coast.

Thanking you for the space and
hoping that this may lead to a profit-
able discussion.

Yours: truly,
B. F. Clarke

CANIMAHOOD NEWS

Elect School
Area Representative

Canim Lake East annual school
meeting was held Monday evening in
the school house with an attendance
of yeleven. B. Spencer McNeil was
Various
school matters were discussed par-

jticularly the need of a woodshed

and cloakroom. A resolution was
passed asking for a larger cleared
area in the school yard to give more
room for games.

MR. and MRS. RAY FLAHERTY
have moved to Mahood Lake for the
winter, Ray having taken a falling
contract from B. Spencer MeNei

VERN MURCHISON has returned
to Vancouver and Mr. and Mrs. Gliss
Winter to Penticton after their en-
joyable vacation, hunting and visit-
ing.

MR. and MRS. HAROLD BECK
and son Jimmy, formerly of Bam-
field, Vancouver Island, who have
recently purchased the Wolfgang
place near Lone Butte motored in
Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Herb
MeNeil, -the latter being an old ac-
quaintance at Bamfield.

B. SPENCER McNEIL motored to
Vancouver Sunday after driving his
daughters to schoo] at Williams Lake.

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