q ek lt nee peas ery on Ailver monntaln.: Ney Hagsitin who: aM Trecttie” school next “ toncunce. cM a a ist Th ae el dnnelng E NEW HAZELTON, B. C., JULY 22, 1927 oe 4 ay ENO. Babine Indians Had Big Time A Week Ago the tribes at. Bobine, Hagwilget, practice of exchanging . wives. Two couples had heen guilty of leaving the home of their family and Hved with brought before the chiefs and the priest and they’ are now all back’ where they belong. At these meetings Rev. Father Allard was others.” They were chairman. Usk Skeena’s Industrial Centre ~~, Rev. and Mrs, Robinson were lust Week, J. Mamblet his returned to Usk for _ the summer, — ‘The home. of Mas. A. Butt was the svene af a pleasant surprise party on: the evening of the: 12th, the occasion heing the hirthday of Miss Eva Butt. The bonse overflowed with young peo- ; ple, and dancing and ecards were in- . dulged in‘until the eastern sky: gave warning of the new day. Hev. und Mrs. Bobinson entertained tennis members and friends to a ten- nis ten on the Usk court on the nfter- _, hoon of the 18th.. Refreshments were served under the trees on the bauke of the Skeena ner the heme of Mrs. Whitlow, the hostess being assisted in serving ter by Mrs. Goodridge, Mys. Rell nnd Mya. Whitlow. Amongthose present were :—Mesiliames Goodridge, Rell, Durham, Adama, Creelman,Drake {fflbert, Stewart, Eggenberger, Clar- rhige. Matthews, Roberts, Whitlow, Afr. tnd Mrs, Skinner, Misses Durham, Alger, Butt and Capt.” Willman. . . ; ; A hitrd times dqnce was viven Sat- Tweaaiy night in Bethurem’s halt by the havea nnd. there were some very hard ; times costnines, Howe ever every oe had a good tine. ‘ * Mossrs. Hnamblet nd Dr: ike have - started assessment. work on their pro- Miss Irene Durham ts visiting with “Mi iss Kenney in Terrace, | Mrs, Chas. Bann = hinds Rupert is morn f holiday at VanArsdal, Dorreen Willson of Ter tree is the | sunt of Dorothy Whitlow this week, ‘ at “Monday by ning phere, Ww 1s nu Tetve: aul ot ool Wa rhe stl ue the. gel A“ ui added of wif. ih ‘whinets: nih hi ht B Auder- 4 he prize: ow ere. There was quite a gathering of na- tives at Babine. a: week or so ago when chiefs. and representative men from Moyr- vicetown, Stella, Fort ‘Fraser, Burns Lake and Fort St. James were present “The uattves put on. shows in the open nnd concerts and. dances in the hall. A feature of the gathering was -that at no time was. there anything object- jonable from the standpoint of the teachings of the church, Another im- portant feature was the stand the ne- tives took in’ regard to the old Indian a l ( rome the guests of Mr, and Mrs. P. R. Skinner ; jtlon , a most eee report of this At Cedarvale. During Week Plans were complete for swinging the boom across.the Skeenn river. at Cedarvale to catch the cedar poles to be driven from the upper Skeeua and the lower Kispiox rivers. The Hanson Timber & Lumber Co. have the great- est lot of cedar poles on the banks of the rivers this year that has ever been eut in this district. They expected to start driving this week. There will be three driving crews this season und at Cedarvale there will be tw load- ing crews. Orders have been placed with the railway for at least thirty fiat cars a week for the entive shipping season. In addition to more than a niillion lineal feet that will he shipped from the Cedarvale yards. rbere are many carloads to go ont. from other Boom Swung Hon. John Oliver who Consented .t0 Continue as Premier of B. ©, Good Surplus _ Celebration at The first of July committee met on Tuesday evening to formally wind up the business incidental to the day's do- ings. The finance committee report. brought forth the chief discussion as it showed a balance on hand of prac- tically one hundred dollars. The total receipts were $852.25 and the total ex- penises were $252.70 leaving ‘a balance of $99.95 and Mr. Cassel, chairman of the advertising committee, by nego- tiating a loan from Mrs. Cassel, made It the even hundred. Chairman B. T. Kenney of the cen- tral organization; congratulated this committee as well as other committees on the manner in whieh they had car- ried out their work; and stressed the fact that this was the first celebration of any kind ever held in Terrace for puipts along ile Hne with New Mazel- ton as the biggest conteibutor,: At this potut several cars a week have been goalne forward" since the winter and there are many waure-ear lonils to bbe brought i in and lewtled. TAKING.A HOLIDAY Last SundaytHans George Olson of Smithers left for a two weeks hollday. He went to Rupert and joined R. 3B. Allen and on Wednesday morning they started far a ernise to and around the Queen Charlotte Islands. They. were looking forward to a huge tite. Each year in the past Mr. Olson has ‘gone south or abroad for his holidays, but ‘he. has ‘decided to see what-our own country. is : like. ...He. has. heard..much about its glories and good fishing from people from New York: and Philadel- phia and begins to _ believe that this mnust be.a pretty good place to spends real holiday. to wo VISITORS FROM OREGAN Mr. and Mrs. D. Froman and W. F. Dawson und, wife of Albany, Oregan, motered through to visit CO. W. Dawson and Mrs, Dawson at Hazelton. They arrived last Friday and ave having a big time with the fish in the numerous streams and lukes in the vicinity. They ave both keen fly fishermen and appreciate what Bud has to offer them in that line. My.; Froman fs also an enthusiastic amateur gardener and he has bten seeing a lot of things grow- ing which he had not expected to find. The visitors «report n wonderful trip to the-north, The ouly bid roads en- countered was just west of Prince ; Georee, They hit that part’ Just after |- some radu storms. They will he “here ‘for another week at least and they W ill give the rest of the people in their sec eouutrr. Wy. 1 Dawson. is a- brother, of Bud’s and Mr. Froman ds an uncle. DAVIS. ‘NOT IN THE DEAL A few weeks nyo niention xyas made of a dent an-the Silver Basin property owned by the Ins. D. Wells estate. It was silid that S. A. Davis and Jack | Hony had taken the bond. We now are informed that. Mr. Davis was, not connected with ‘the deni .in. any own: und Is not interested with Mr. Hoar. ing HAZELTON PUBLIC SCHOOL tor. 1 4 . The annual school meeting was hell in the Hazelton public school house on Saturday: night, Iuiy fth. Iniprove- ments to ‘the achool house were DPasred “and the: ‘trustees: were” authorized | to one. | "After! athe Mr. Baien is ‘auditor, enry cg the~ same, ‘The. ‘trostees on . . Bargent. ‘and Wr . 56 by 80 feet. ‘this, tat see enriler. Natives Build Church, at Old ‘Fort Babine A new church is being erected Old Fort Babine by the natives to be Logs will be used for construction and it should be finish- ef this fall, : Mining Notes Gq. Brown of Vancoty er wao hes a loud on the Little Joe property in rhe Babines was expected at Smithers on Tuesday or Wi ednesday sturt operations on the imine. Paddy Higgins “arrived Saturday for the stumer, Brbines ani adjoining the: ‘Cronin pira- perty, , His property Is in the New York interests are dealing for the Cronin. property in the Babines and it is expected the deal will be com- pleted at an early date and that. a plant’ will ‘be put on the property this |. sumer big scale. and operations sturted on i " Russel Smith and Slim Tordan aré sending a holiday. in‘ the hills from and doing assessmien work, out Pacific,- They are prospecting Hugh Harris is now in churge of the work belng. éurried on at the Amer! can Hoy naiiie, and with d couple of men is getting the camp und the workings in shape for r dey: elopment progrm, that will soon be under w ay. the hands of new people and it is ex: pected, that a lot of work will be done thore 1 in, the. near Future. . He went up last week The- American Boy is. in ARE MAKING ANOTHER SURVEY " Lovnting ‘Engineer Whittaker of the provinelal public works department is here: with & party and are, endeavor- to, locnte | a alte and. rond ‘to and from the new site Ovhen they, get. one) the new. bridge over the Bulkley tlver to. reptace | the: high level bridge tit Hagwilget, Jtds. expected that: Mr. Whittaker’ ‘a -AULVEY, Will be the final The new bridge : is to. be. started: at wilh u plint! ine. A-Jut of w ‘ork bas alrendy péen done wn {be Tittle Joe antl ‘the ang Inw about: to he carried out wil! put the property janong the shippiug miues. Smithers Tuesday, evening, which the public was not directly ap- pealed to.; The affair was financed on its merits, The greatest difficulty of the whole affair was what to do with all the money left over. Thera was n lot of discussion, but no decision will be made until another general meeting is held. The flags and bunting will be for public use in the future. The commit- tee extends hearty thauks to the pul- lic for its whole hearted support. LOUIS HANSON PASSED 071 «After a lingering i!ness of several months in the Hazelton Hospital, Louis Hanson, one of the old timers of this district, passed away Triday morning. but had lived more than forty years in the United ‘States and the last fifteen years in British | Columbia, most of that time being speht in New: Hazelton He was burned out a few months. ago and was then transferred by the pro- vinclal authorities to Hazelton. The funeral ‘was ‘held on Saturday after- noon and was conducted by Rev, J. H. Young. The deceased was about 17 Yeivs of age ond had been engaged in prospecting and mining. Like so many of his profession, yery little is known of his past or of his relatives. MRS. HANSON ENTERTAINED Last Friday night Mr. and hrs. Olof Hanson entertained at heir summer home at Lake Kathlyn about forty odd wards. The nffuir was in honor of Mrs. George Little of Terrace and her guest, Mrs. Allen of Honolulu and -H. G. Olson on the eve of his departure for his vacation. It was a most en- joyable pary. oo Last. Saturday night Lee Tuey op- ened a restanrant in the Jas. Rich- mond block and is now prepared to serve meals at. all hours, He also bas furnished a number of rooms for tray- ellersa. -Lea Tuey was for a long time nt cook at fhe hospital.” WW, Dornherg ‘of ‘Bellingham was in town Monday and Tuesday a guest of W. 8. Harris. He is interested in the Silver Cup property. He vent on to -” My, and Mrs, George Clark and the youngest: ‘daughter of Francois - Lake were gilests last iveek' end ‘of: Mr. ata Mri. Yorke. - They. motored down with These. people all chased, batter files’ ‘around the’ ‘sume | R Terrace July 1 The deceased w oso ative of Denmark friends to a bridge with a danee after- |. | will be the ‘preacher at both: morning ehiy Fehi Me. and Mrs." J. LR. Stanyer who: ‘were : ‘| guests , of. “Mrs, Sale, Annual CN. R Picni¢e Rupert . ‘Terrace Sunday The al ial oN. N. R. picnic from | from Pri; + Rupert. was held in Ter- rece, Sunaay, July 17th and it was by far the lurgest ever held. Over 70 visitors were in town’ that’ ‘doy. The conunittee in charge arrived Saturday and arranged for® accommodations,the main party arriving at 11 o’clock Sun-" day morning. The boys band was in the porty. and enlived the day. A program of sports “was run off and the ball game between visitors and loc- al players was broken up by a shower. ‘The yisitors were ahead. The tug of war between the visitors and the local ladies was won. by the home girls, The lecal men also won their tug of war. The G. W, Y. A. hall was-placed at the disposal. of the visitorg and they made goad use of ft until train time. One or two unfortunate accidents happened but they were not serious. The weather was ideal for the out- ing and most of the Ioceal ears were brought ‘into use to show the visitore fround the district. It used up @ lot of gus.. A nasty feature was that a number of smart Alecks helped then- selves to fruit and flowers from gar- dens and destroyed much in their ex- citement and greed. Those wild eren-, tuxes will be watched another time. Local News Notes. Miss Hilda Spooner of Smithers was home for a couple of days last week. She was accompanied back by her sis- ter. who spent. several days ™ Smithers_. iE ‘ 2 There is @ > swondertul crop of: wil] wet straw. berries in. -the distrie: “Ue mani. local _people, have: been: rout getting ‘sup-- plies’ for tke ‘winter. : ut + ‘Rev, Dr, Grant of Fort William and formerly in charge of the Presbyterian ehurch.nt Prince Rupert, arrived at Terrace last Sunday to look over his fruit farm and to renew. old acquaint- ances. Later in the week he went te Prince Rupert. Lois Anderson entertained at tenn: last Monday afternvon a nimber «’ her girl friends with dinner afterward. ‘Mrs. Mary LL. ‘MacKay of Calgary and two daughters arriy ed from Burns On July 12th. the “Vaneouy er. Pro- vince carried a story from Victoria to the effect that the Dublic works depart- ment had used up alreny the four mil- lions of- dotlars - provided by the per- manent ronds loan and that more mon- ey would he reanived ‘to carry on, Local flower. gardens nre now gett- ing into their stride and- much bloom is to he seen, ‘Sweet peas and asters are flowering. Other flowers are now making good headway and there prom- Pind ises, s to be as fine a flower. show as ever oA large portion of the hay in this district and west is now safely in the — | barns. Some of the ‘larger nerenges _ are now being cut, Axeh Deacon Ris, of! Prince Rupert ; and evening services in "St. Peter's on Sunday ‘next. The: Archdencon is én- route to” the general _aseembily, a .