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PROVINCIAL
_ LIBRARY

VOL. 2

THE OMINECA HERALD, ‘NEW HAZELTON EB. C., WEDNESDAY MARCH, 13, 1937 -

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Men Serve
at ‘Kitsecugkla

“Owing fo ‘once-in-n-while mail ser-
vice given ‘Skeene Crossing and Kitse-
eugkla, the following report is some-
what beluted.

On Sunday, March 7th the natives.
of Kitsecngkla showed their deep re-
xpect for their late schoo] teacher, mis-
‘slonary. preacher and general advisor,
The Ipfe Mr,’ Goodridgé; passed away
in Hazelton just one year ago on Mar.
7. Aftez’, i fe. days illness he return-
i to-the-seHool work ané taught until
the day before, he died.; Avery help-
Tul service ‘wh ‘condiicted ‘to his mem-
ory in the United Church at 11 a.m.
hy Rev, B, Black. The service pro-
gram was as follows :—Doxology and
invocation, bymn “Jesus Saviour Pilot
Me", aud seripture lesson by Mr, A.
Howard, hymneby“the school children,
zythem hy the choir “Rock of Ages,"
sola by Mr. ‘Douglas Wesley, address

by Mr. -Mases Jones, followed. by. the.
~ Neadebfrirch, din Saul played. by Mr. W.
Wesley. >The service closed with the

henedigtian -by the the pastor.
ake

rywvorth Bent ute rervices—A few
weeks age Our, ‘Epyorth League paid
a very interesting ‘visit, fo Kitwangr
amd came back full. of zeal and a de-

cided increase in enthusiasm. ;
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cer

Last Sundar night nn, unique ser-
vice was held in Kitseengkla. wader the
leadership of Mr. Peter Mark and Mr.
Sain Wesley, A beautiful | incident
was the purade of banners, acecompani-
on to the hyial* Litt up the Gospel
Banner npon the=¥funtain side,

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‘ll ose

Fee o

1
This + ssunaat ‘there Is* to be a apeclai
“re ee, to the memory of. the late Mr.
“aGoitidye. 7 Sultable? “yimais |"
somite and: testindial

Mr. Goodrldge Was well’ Liked and: loy-

vd by his many fiends in Kitseengkih
nnd they realize the loss that his rh

ily has sustained.a ga

What, ho! The Premier..and, bis min-
ister af finance got honie to: Victoria
with three inillion dollars, and every-
thing fs set for the election. A road |’
building program of proportions will
he got under way and a lof.of things
will be dene. . The chief feature now: 1s
Will the eleetion: he held before. that.
thousand British: Columbians: get off]
to the coromtion ° ‘ov after they’ are
gone? ‘ : ey

Mr, Martin (Buckskin) ‘1s itching to
; pet Into the hospltal garden again. He
‘has been dened up in one of: the wards,
al) wliter and he- wants a change, of
‘exercise and to wateb: ‘things groay and:
to hel along the: weaklings.“Tohi

pauiber, of. weeks ‘and: he’ too wanis, to
ret. nto the, eariden and atic things up .

W. to ‘by Margaret: “Willan.

ts will De- “given .

y Smith and resporided to by Rev,. D. Ww.

fice in‘ a.sveuk or two.

Mothers and
Daughters Eat
: ‘Hazelton .

‘thr Friday; Mirth th, at 6,30 p.m.
1 Very enjoyable evening. was spent in

|

Or GILT. plils, lield their. Mofher and
‘Daughter. hanquet. The : ‘tables’ “were
very tastefully decorated in thea "C.G.1,
T, colors. “In'“chatge.. of, ‘the’ detorat-
ing were “Rosemary. Fraser, Bat. Rus:
sell, Joycs "Bracéwell aind Miss, Min-
mien. The chairman for the evening
wos Winnle Grant, and rhe topst list
vec an TOllowss—

The King, proposed by Winnie Grant
rhe Mothers—praposed »y Par Rus-
seli und Tesponded to by Mrs. Grant.
{The Church—proposed jy! “Joyce
Eracewell, and responded te- ly - «Mrs,
D. W. More. .
The New Hazelton  C.t Lf--pro-
pored ‘br ‘Norn “Cary “and Tesponded
“The Trail: “Rangera—propoxen by
Rosemary Fraser and responded’ to by
Stanley: Hunter.
The Visitors—proposed by Mrs. Th
W. More and régponded to hy Miss Cox
vs The speaker of the evening wat Rev
7, W. More jin’ pince af Miss”. Tretiak
who was unable to get in on account of
deep snow. and bad roads.
- Those whe: helped with the serving
were Misx..Cox, ‘Miss Kate. York and
Sissi. tide, : + toe
-yA ntinber. of songs given by the C.
G.17T. were nich enjoyed by the-moth-
ere and others present. . There was al-
so q. hearty sing song in which every-
one joined, | ~

The Secretary

4 most. ‘enjoyabte time. w ‘as: spent by;
all ‘who attended othe. Mother. ' and
Daughter ‘pinquet in, the’ New: Hazel- 7
ton hited church mn Friday -evening
last. The C.G, LP. decorated the table
with pussy willows and with streamers
of (.G.LT, colors’, A number of guests.
hesides the mothers were present. . In
all, 25 ant. down’ to the apread... Mra.’
Wm. H, Greer-and Mrs. Arrioid ‘Peter-;
son and - -Miss Catherine Smith served.
After supper toasts. wefe proposed and!
responded to. as’ follows :—~. I
The -Mother s-=proposed ‘Dy. Margaret
Willin and -respanded to by Mrs. Sib-
ley. followed: hy-a_ chorus by the C.
G.LY. entitled. “Mother.”

The Chnreh—-propused “by “Nettle."!

wee

More. i
The Huzelton OG. —-proposta by |
Esther Hugg und responded, to by Mar-

jory Sherman.
he Young-- People's | ‘Boctety—pro-
posed by Betty ‘Sibley ‘and Yesponded.
to by Miss Dimock. ‘

The  . ¥isitors—proposed “by Mrs.
More und responded to by Mrs. Martin
and Mrs. Greer... .

_ Following: the toast list ‘the COGLT
sing a group of songs and the rest of |.
the evening was spent in ‘community

yen

ee

a

week end in Smithers with his dangh- j.
ter, Mra, Norman. “Kilpatrick, «

¥ - ‘. =
 Toeul trains: started ‘to. mn: om, ‘thme
this week. ° Some officials-of sthe - Taik
way hope ‘the slides® are over for this
season. j ; 4

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Dy. Hankinson ‘of Prince™ “Rupert
paid ‘a “visit to. the "Hazelton. Hospital |
on Tuésday. and: took: ‘Part in an opera: |.
‘tion ‘on’ ‘Capt: GC. He Mortimer, “Phe
Captain: expects to :be back. ot his of-
He has been in
the. hosnitat aince before. Cheistinas.

the United Church, Hazelton, when the |)

‘Tera elaim on. Gibson..Island, off the

_ it " " _|.Skeena, . ‘to . the Timmins interests.
see Me Hazelton, ope ty ing be sane sage, beliexed..to-be abrong.in
“Vbase ‘metals, The: ‘ground: was. staked

‘OE course back théie,* they eat ‘Atlan-

'

r “Wms dranty -of ‘Havelton ‘spent Inst. ,

badly’ and should be kept off for’ a few
"| days. :
‘+ | from: Smithers:
that was last-year. euiverted
‘best. plece. ‘of, road.’ ‘in the district: fa: ft
wile and a deep; bog-hole, and At’ ‘only:
costten thousand: dollars, to. do: (. Ag

yet no’ one: wih i assume. responalblilty
for that. nnfortunate waste of perfect,

: ly, good, public. money.,
gineer. ‘doed. not: know,
'do, atleast he does not ‘admit: that: h
of ‘knows: .

Prince Rupert’
The Garden City by the Sea

By Our Own Correspondent

Tndge W. E. Fisher and Harry Mc-.
Leod sailed this week for Vancouver,
but: they até not going to stop there.,
‘They -will board the liner Empress of
Japan and sojourn for .a while at the
cross roads of the Pacific—the delectt-
able and alluring islands of Hawail.

* * ball

A visitor’, froni ‘Beaver Lodge ‘in. the
Peace River ‘regiqn has ¢ome to. Prince
Rupert for the fitst time, and he ad-
mits to a few agreeable. surprises. He
is Mr.'D. Hatris, a farmer, and he is
scouting around in the coast country,
on a combined ‘business and Pleasure
outing. Mr.’ Harris. says Prince Ru-
hert.is regarded as the hest- -location,
from. all- points: of view,,.a8_ an ‘outlet.
for the ‘great agricultural] empire of
the nerth. -He says there is the nucle-
us of a fine city here, and as for the
harbor, he has just one descriptive
¥ ‘ord—magnificent., .

ses @&
‘The. hospital board had a heart to
heart -talk. at their monthly meeting
on Friday evening,.and there was a lot
or candid speaking between members
on ‘snbjects ranging all the way from
the fire marshall’s condemnatory re-
port, and, ‘its jniblication, to, fire. .risks
in“the x-ray’ room ; attendance of the
hurses nat meetings, and equitable treat

juent, of undertakers,
on co . . a a

MLM. Stephens hns “bonded his mip-

‘the late

nearly: thirty-yeors ago’ by
7 :

George ‘Keays. . .

_ There: is thought :toybe a possibi-
ilty of the offer (of. the;Sisters of St.
Ann to build a $200,000 hospital here
not having been permanently: -with-
drawh. The-Commissioner has intim-
sated ‘as Tameh. ‘The subject Tay be
re-opened, : “fe

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Seores of hoats have put to sea, and
one more Prince Rupert's, life blood
lis*donrsing more freely, At midnight,
‘Mareh 15 fishing began on the halibut
banks with eraft? aYl the - way from
Pugent, “Cound to Yakutat, and, train
loads of fish, boxed in ice, will shortly
be" rolling away to tickle the jaded
apetites of Chicago;and.. New; York.

s @ a.

th halibut. but whether from enst or
w ost it. Is a delicacy. .
‘ . > s

Tynan Rodman’ dn ill health for
liniiy months, died .in,.the Prince Ru-
pert hospital an March, 15, 2 vietim of
cancer, and quite well known: in. the
nerth, - For, a long, time he, was in. the
lighthouse’ service. Tn’ bis youth, . in
Scotland, he formed part of a. crew
‘that saved life at sen, and for. his gal.
lantry he, with others, was decorated
by’ Royalty. 5) + Hes

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" ROADS. Aitouy > dike HERS

le the “smithera. ‘diatriet- “tha ond
foreman: will have. ‘hig. trouble this sep-
sO,
into: town sare cutting : the Touds, up

Then there: ig that rebuilt ropa

Wm, 9 ule’s, farm
ica red ee the

‘Byen. the; ; en"
Who, told him: 't

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Pho ™ ‘local

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member" ‘disclaims:
why: it} was" .

: [any knowledge ‘of
and: Aikewise the’ last. year president, af.

‘}To our amazement the staff of the

Those having. heavy. loads to iret, ;

Az Mr, Hutchison: says that-a‘mogtor road

province of: Alberta, .
:| Cariboo © 48 on this deal,

3 Ml

‘pol :
int: “nothin about whent

The Omineca Herald
NEW HAZELTON, B.C. -

Published Every Wednesday

OC. H. Sawle a

Publisher

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Water Notices

Is IT GROUSE OR GROUSES?
Somé years at int tte of this g.f.

J. motored t@’a neafpy town early one

bright fall morning and upon arrival

at their destination fhe staff dropped

Par

staff of that néerby town. “Will you?
said the visiting staff. ‘We don’t

staff. We did; In the prdcess of do-
ing we happened to mention that on
our Wiy ap we saw two grouses, An-
other «fellows resident’ in that nearby
town tenk exception to ‘our pronoinctia-
tion of the pinril of grotise. The boss
of ‘the home town staff undertook to
argue with the @ bystander that it was
quite correct,

we had some. business to ‘attend to
and pulled out. We attended to our
business and It resulted quite satisfac-
torily. We were busy until four or
five o’clock, and after preparing to go
home we dropped in to see a fellow.

nearby town piper were still arguing
about grouse or ‘grouses with the by-
stander of the nearby town, but the
statf-of the paper of the nearby tow;
had taken: ‘the “vpriosith side: t6 the: ‘on
he ‘hid’ started ‘out’ with; and‘he ‘has,

switched over, nor doea he: know yet;
to - his entire Satisfaction, “which side |.>
won,

About. 4 year ago we rgmarked in
this papdr that it was one thing to get
aug appropr iation passed by the House,
either provincil or Dominion but quite
another thing to get that appropriation
spent for the purpose if was. intended
and imithe place for Which it was in-
tended, «Last. year appropriatiops for
a lot of ‘iportant tntits were passed
at Ottawa for Skeena riding. ; Most
of the major sums will have te be pass
ed“again this yeat, and perflaps again
next yenrr, or whenever, ang er, Dom-
infin election is in the: rf ng. ’ But
that-is ‘Apparently y what the eop: le lke
anda e000 politician dilwayg, ascertains
what it is his people like best and thet

feed them’ ‘lots of jt.

ae
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Wen 1 ii os

“Wars and rumors of wat. Mining
denis and rumors of mining ‘deala,
lot of things. are. heard in the spring
when’ the, folks b:gin to-stlr, sfhempelves
ind . itek otf the -wintes’s accnmuln-
liven of. (fieqme. “2 ove whe probably,
Le saniething. stiring in thy inines this,
soar We thie theve ail Ue. and we:
nk that some qf n> stirrings will
be profitablg to this district, | There
will probably be some interesting and
important NEWS. throwgh shortly.

oe hd a

~Xeedtding oe B ‘Bruce. frutelitson . who
writes” for. The . Province, the Domin-
fon’ government . has. givei, up, thd: ‘idea
of rail route from the Peate: ‘River! to
the Pacific, coust. - That. would. be too
gient: a}; ‘hoopttgr. the orth, and to due
course,the balgnce of pawer might slip
out ofthe hends"6f.Vesicouver. But,

stey
pe!

Pig toche: ngilt: from. Finleg ° ‘Forks. right
through te. Vancouver. and: ‘through. the
“The 1 meémber.for '!
Surely: ‘the
nber for: Bkeeng ‘hog: not: vee ‘heen:

per’ issue; reading notices 15¢ for the|'
firat insertion and 10¢ ench subse-

Certificates of Improvements...... $15.00
$15.00

in to sée’a fellow, and there met thé].

minds if ‘we dd,” says‘the’ hime towrt

not. figured out yet when it was he got|’

A’

; ty at Ottawa to pave the Gitasan T

OF, aml that, ‘the: Ottawa

Wm. Sibbald
Given Buriel

On Wednesday afternoon another old
timer was laid to rest when the Ter-
race Assembly of the Native Sons of
Canada bore William Sibbald to his
last resting place. Mr. Sibbald passed
dway a few days before and was a
native of Owen Sound, Ont., where -he
was born nearly 72 years age. Ag a
youth he learned the trade of carpen-
ter and cabinet maker at Listow, Ont.,
and throughout a busy Hfe turned his
skill to the benefit of his fellow man.
In the early- days of Prinee Rupert
he spent some years there and in 190
he bonght land south of Terrace, mov-
ing here shortly afterward. Since
then he has been a highly respected
resident of the community, and during
the last few years has lived a. retired
life ‘on His ‘farm. !

With the ineeption of the movement
to establish Agsembly No. 15 of the
Natiye Sons of Canada here he took. an
actives part in the work, and hig namé
is inseribed on the roll of.charter mem
bers.

The We Sibbald was one of a

family of 13 children and Ike so
many lafge families. his brothers and

sisters pave “ta taken. their. parts in the
developnent bf the land of their birth.

this, if places as widely scattered as.
Victoria, B.C, and their home province

Th¢ funeral services were held in
Kngx United Church with Rev, Adam
Grisp officiating. At the graveside
the ‘service was. taken by the Native
Sons, and was conducted by Vernou —
Glass, president of the Assembly, anti
J. A... Smnlth chaplain. The pall bexi-
ens,owere FT, Kenney, M.L.A., Geo.
Hippid. Cauthers, Ralph Hippel, Wan.
CurHigan and A. Creelman.

. Whaat

FOLED VANCOUVER “OFFICIALS

ast Saturday afternoon a. “couple
of American tourists, the kind Van-
couver pérmits to see other’ parts of
the province, were taken ‘off the ten-
der of the. west bound train. One was
man and the other was 'a@ woman
ey had come all the way fra Vau-
cfuver on the tender of locomotives or
i the rods, ‘They spent the week en:
ests of Cong. Grant and ‘on Tnes-
day fternoon proceeded. .to Frinee
Rupekt, enroute to: Ketchikan. They
ulled\a. good one. Vancouver. They
still bhd ‘money when authorities in
Vancouver chased .them. out. In fact
they Ba “plenty of money: and bought
first class tickets to Rupert. My, m my!
Vancouvel ‘Will never: forgive Buch an
oversight. :

Palm Sunday ‘will be celebrated in

the United Churches on Sunday next.

Music and message will be appropriate

to the occasion -in preparation for Fins-

ter‘Week. . Services: at New Hazelton

ab fl'am. and at Hazelton at 7.30 p.m.
roe.

eftert oo: bors

Might get some. . tater poles straight |
ened Wp at Kitwanga or anew. rel”
speeder or two, for, ithe railway in this

cowitry. ¢

|

tem poles at, Kitwanga. re-erected this
year. Some of ‘the poles: were’ report-
ed. to. have been- washed. out: when the:
Skeena. went.on. a. ramipage « “last year,
and’ the pole were ‘removed: t0- knoll.
Mr.: Hanson- suggests that: all: ‘local or-
ganizations. ‘interested. in, the. preser-
vation of these ‘poles | should awrite to:
Ottawa>—It seems that: the CNR, da
the ,one! oreantzation. that: particularly
‘benefits from. these: poles anil as the
government: ‘has. already ‘paid: for the
teatoration : ‘of: ‘mgst. of: them, it'Is up

4

Olof ‘Hanson,-MeP.. is moving activ

quired ‘to. be: done.” “Tt.peems;, that’ this...

part: of the. entry. tg ‘helig’ Teal away

sacg: River Outlet

: is te “pnd
Eovertiment is

é thing

aberal: Assotintion. : ‘

7 ‘{niental:tt iv

i

ind. nabhutea to “but

‘fo: the railway: to’ ilo ‘What: fg now re ae a