THE ‘TERRACE NEWS, TERRACE B. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16,

1938

Basketball

League .features held the floor on
Saturday night in basketball circles.
The previous evening the club had put
on a dace and it, was reflected in the
play Saturday. However, the girls
section was- closely contested. In the
first half the, Nits got a.good lead and
went into the rest period with a score
of 6 to 1. But the tale was different
in the remaining stanza and at the end
the Wits were leading, 9 to 8.

When the boys and girls got under
way for..the battle between the Tar-
Zand and the Apes the tale was dif-
ferent again. The Tarzans were not
out in full strength and several play-
2s had to be substituted The regul-

‘Many Sad Hearts Since
Liquor Store Fire Terrace *
Inspector early on the job

The Terrace liquor store has hid its is the Gevermment Telegraph operator
rll share of ups and downs. What /and his office was in the same build
with three or four robberies with ¢on-|jmz, so that when he got back from
siderable losses, tt was bummed down fis lunch he found the fire was going
on Wednesday of Jast week at the | pretty good. It was in the Vendor's
hoon hour, together with all the wet‘ nurt of the building and flames were
goods and dry goods, and what have | coming through a thin partition 80
you. ‘that Tommy couwd not save much of

Following the robberi ies vertain pré pis qwn stuft. He called all the folk
cautions were taken to prevent a re- | from the Philbert Hotel and then re-
curance of such robberies, Armour | tnmed te salvage his instruments
plate re-dngerced the frout door on ang what else he could. Time was too c
substantia! braces braced the rear ghort to do much. ar reeporter was. suffering from the
oor, avhile the front window was bar-)  pntrance to the liquor store was out Cold yet so he seat.a cub along and he
red nicely. The result was that While of the question beeanse of the reein- said. it was a rip roaring game. The
burgulirs were kept ont for a time, 80! gorcements,. Imt finally some of the ‘first half was o.ding dong battle and
were. those who were willing to help’ json bars were ripped off the windows half timé score was* 20 to 18 in favor
salvage some of the goods when fire oud the hack door was forced a few, of the Tarzang,, Maccy Llewellyn did
broke ont .and: was consuming -all, inches by someone. That gave the fire ‘some wonderful work. In the second
with no goad to anyone, :a direct draft and there was nothing | Just as the train pulled in at ten

Perhaps the most touching feature to be done but stand and watch her go. , ‘o'clock Wednesday night the fire sir-
of ull was that Inspector Thal of the It was'a sad sight for some because it, en went off again. Eddie. Huglish saw
Liqnor Board was in Rupert when he -was not known how long it would take a wavering flame in the back of the
heard of the fire. He took the train’ .the government to get snother stock , office of Dr. S. G. Mills, and pon - in-
that evening and raced to Terrace tot) town; But there was one consola. | Yestigation found the room full of
iake over the salvaged. wet goods—'tion, It is snid that good liquor will "0ke and flames. Eddie and some
how—was that a nice thing to d0? minke quite an explosion when the °f the neighbors soon had the fire un-
ile did not need be in such a ‘rush. feat breaks the botle. Poor liquor 9¢? control without much damage. It
‘The boys in Terrace would have look- will just ooze out of the broken bottle happened that Cons, McKenney. came
cd after the salvaged goods quite as gid help the firemen’ damp down the 19 on.the evening train and he under
capulily as anyone could possibly look binges. It is reported that there was ‘00k an investigation, He broke
after salvaged wet goods. The early only an occasional small ‘explosion, |40Wn a partion in the building and
appearance of the inspector, was quite | The fire only took a few minutes found that the sawdust insulation had
resented. nut that there were any gal- tq knock down the walls, but owing to t#ken fire in several places. This was,

vage wet goods to ‘take over es the all the moisture scattered about, end 2! put out in time,
fire had too goud a start before it was the percentage of alcohol that needed |. ~
discovered, and the bullding was much: burning, the fire was not considered |
tao well protected—but _it was - the really out until the evening train ar- |
luvks of the thing... . ~Erived ” bringing “thé itispéctér ‘to™ “take ¢* a

It was 1.30 on Wednesday afternoon ! over the salvaged goods. . half’ the Apes - weakened and: the ‘Tar-
of last week that the fire siren was” At the present writing there hag ‘not gans took a‘stronger lead atid continu:
heeartl wad that the good folk of ‘Ter- arrived any word as to the reopening ‘eq to forge ahead,’ To quote the cub:
rece sot a Wiggle on to see what was of the store, or where it will be ff it is. “shots made in quick succession, At-
what.” When it was known that it; Following the fire Tommy Walsh tree 2 Arlington 2‘ checking closeer in
was the community's centre ‘of joy got busy rigg ing up some place to do poth teams, and: still Maccy -is right |
ihat was burning, there was 2 general his work. He gave almost an immed- with the boys. The finish was a big
Tush to the scene, some tu help, some iate resumption of business by set- score, Tarzans 45 and Apes 22. ° The
to munrn and a few to rejoice that the ting up in the Philbert Hotel, but a5 scoring was done ss follows—Tar- |
devil liad once more had a set back. soon as possible got moved to a build- zunus, Arlington 16: Attree 15; Seaton

The day of the fire was a half holi- ing just west of bis old office, so now 8; Maccy Llewellyn 6. -

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day in town and Vendor Dan McKin-:
non had locked up and gone home, and

#8 Le was sure, bad left everything in -

everything is 0. K

Mrs. A. ©. Head left on Thursday

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Apes, Bruce, Smith 12; Jim Smith 2:
Fred Nash 6; Lioyd Cramer 2.

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On Wednesday evening between fires
the village’ commissioners held their
first official meeting for 1938 and T.
H: Walsh, the new commissioner was
introduced. Route business was put
through and provision made for re-
buildimg the sidewalk in trout of -the
liquor store that was.

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The compressor went out to “the
ruck camp on Monday and work is to
lie’ stanrted shortly, mostly for relief
men,

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Word has goue out to all and sun-
dry that if going to Terrace take one
with you.

| . Following the fire at noon hour the
other’ day our reporter took cold and
' suffered several days disability. If
he had not tried to get too close to the
‘fire he would not have got his feet
‘Wet, . ‘

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_GREAT HUNTERS -

Butterfield, writing in his column

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‘Standing orders shipped —
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All kinds of cake. Get our price.

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Pownyy Walsh to spend a few days in Prince Rupert.

On Saturday afternoon the Junior jin the Province, has the following to
LW. A. of St. Matthews church held a aay about Great Hunters: “A great

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The monthly meeting’ of the Audet
Tean W. A. was heeld at'the home ‘of
‘Mrs, ‘Greig ‘on Thursday afternoon.
The meeting was made the occasion
for a Valentine party and the room
‘was tastefully decorated in ‘accordance
with -the spirit of the ‘occasion, The
hostess served refreshments.
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Mrs, E. 8. Cole and daughter Shir-
ley are visiting Prince: Rupert as the
suests of Mrs. Stewart, daughter of
Mrs. Cole.

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A. H. Butt and H.:A. Butt of Usk
were Visitors here on Wednesday. *
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The Vanarsdol assault cases were
heard by Judge Fisher in Prince Ru-
pert last week,» Arthur Bolton was
fined $75 and Myry.. Ryan dreew a efx
months term of suspended sentence.

‘Ralph, Branch abd ‘Sim Werseen, of
Usk: appeared. fh court here on''Wed-

Jnesday morning and. paid $10 wod the)

costs each for hunting without. itcen-,
ses... Game Warden Muirhead. Brose,
cuted.

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The . “first ‘fire | ‘Tast | weeek: ‘to cause,

damage in the; district. WEB, ‘along’ the
bank of the ‘Copper: River. When ‘Thos,

‘Tyrer I, wos burned out ‘of ‘his pros- |'
 pector's cthin ata very ‘ently’ hour’ and.

14 year old boy up at Bella Coola who

and finally shot a 500 Ib: black bear
after peppering the animal with thirty
rounds of amunition. “He found bruin
denned up—as isthe ursine custom—
among the roots of a tree for the win-
ter and turned loose on him.

“This scems hardiy a1 occasion for
praise nnd adulation,’ There can’t be
much sport in shooting a sleeping
bear; it would have been a great den!
better if his noble father hed spanked
him’ and taken away his gua instead

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ated in the injét
was’ a very red

there’ ‘ig fone, ,
‘Tneed to. kill:
cept to ‘tha
and pass the
distant wilaced? t

that these &

ud “will find]:
pe do do not shoot

| ‘Tommy . had no time to pave “anything |*
vbut himseelf. and. what he: could grab
enroute, | He ix Boing to start ™D. “in

‘thet of ‘it fae

went out to shoot squirrels with a 22.

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