NEW HAZELTON, B, €., MARCH 25, 1927

. Skeena’s Industrial Centre ~
At the home talent vaudeville, un-
_ der the auspices. of the Ladies Auzil-
iary to the Usk church, the sum ‘of
‘$39.00 was = realized. The program
from start to finish was most enjoy-
B able. The voca“Isolos by.Rev. Wm.
ye 6SfséAlem) were - esiiecially ‘appreciated “as
me = sell. as a reudition by Mrs. Lowrie of
am-Indlan. medicine woman in native
paraphenalia, curing an aillpg person
aa by driving out the evil spirits from her
body. Th Ladies Auxiliary wishes’ to
_ thang both performers and audience
for thie krin adssistance and patron-

ige. Those taking part were :—
Sulo, Mr. Wilson; recitation, Miss
Dorothy Whitlow; sketch, Miss Jac-
«que, Mrs. Bell, Miss Butt, Mr. Martin ;
Cudian costume, “Lhe Medicine Wo-
h man", Mis. Lowrie, Mrs. Amos, Mr.
mf Morgan; solo, Rev. W. Allen: hum-
eros duet, Messrs. Dinke and Valp}:
contortionist exhibition, Mr,, Drake:
readings, Mr. Wilson; sketch, Mrs.
Turthbert, Miss Whitlow, Miss O’Brien,
J. 1. Bethurem, Mr.’ Martin; violin
solo, W. Morgnn. SG

Friends were pleased to welcome.
Milton Allison to town. last week.

Rev. Mv, Robinson ‘gave: an inter- |
esting: lecture on Hindustan boys and
girls at the school house Inst ‘Mondny.

War on the Mosquitos

Perpetual warfare “against misqui-.
toes, as well as against all other kinds
of insects, is maintained by the Hto-
moalugieal branch of the Domihion De-
partment of Agriculture. For severn)
years the rocky mountains, with Banff
Alt. as headquarters, have. been .af-
forded ‘special attention in the contro!
fof the mosquito and has been’ very sue-
( cessful In addition to the.oiling of
y the waters, much ditching, dyking ‘aud

jtradl eutting, other work of, a perman-
@ ‘ent nature has been accomplished.

” Miles of uarvow trails have been ett

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{mit of the oiling of otherwise inncees-
side places. So mich rood has resnit-

fificd in saying that adverse criticism
i the district on account of mosqul-
ytoes is a thing of the past. The de-
partment is nlso working on,the cradi-
cation of the pest in astern Canada.

NIAY BRIDGE THIS YEAR

According to a Victoria despatch to
ithe Vancouver papers the provinalal
nubile works depitiment proposes to
+O Ahead with the new bridge over the
aiulidey river at or near Hagwilpet
= this year, Ft is . reported that the

7 peo traffic, “When the exact location

8 has been decided upon the style of thr
Vp ‘lige will be decided: The Tocal ‘re-
wesentatire, Dr, “Wrinch: told the Fer:

aki that the Victoria officials had not
vet taken the matter up with. him.

, A Piiie Works “englacer. v was en-
gaged sury eying - the rond Gown ahd
h tlong the bench going: ‘Into old Hizel-
ton with the’ ‘view, possibile, ‘to make it

“the Innd. will, stand for, dt, It'is under
‘stand that this is to he ‘part. of the main
me highway" between » Prince: Rupert: ‘and

the Albreta . ‘honnd ; ;

Mhrough dense willow growth to per- |

fea that the office in charge feels jus- |.

struetuve wlll be’ a hundred thousand |
dollar one and ‘will ‘provide for twol[:

ED sixteen. foot "yond: ov even wider ata

| there permanently

FARMERS IN STITUTE, TERRACE

Now Interested ‘in the Dairy Cow In-
- dustry——May Bring in Car -

‘Yhe “Lower Skeena Farmers Instl-
tute held ‘their quarteriy meeting in
the G,.W. V..A. hall-at ‘Terrace on
Tuesday evening last. when. President:
H. .L. Frank occupied the chair, He
made a report to the members of the
trip he. recently made to the Bukiley
Valley in connection with organizing

milk producérs and thet he found
the Valley farmers already organized.
He gathered considerable information
which will be of yalue in getting the
local farmers started on the | right
track, Interest-in the dalry. business
around Terrace and-along-the Skeena
is increasing very satisfactorily. If it
is possible to get that interest up to a
certain point a earignd of good milk
cows will he brought in from the out:
side. There.are no- good cows for snle
in thes northern interior, In connec-
tion with this movement It was propos-
ed to apply to’ the’ government for an
inspection. of the. district for bovine
tb.

The Institute also decided to order
a car load of fertalizer for distribution
timong thase who. need’ it and orders
will be vecelved up to April Ist, After
the dariy business gets started no more
commeteial fértalizer will need be pur:
chased in this. district.”

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NATIVE SONS 16 CELEBRATE

Have Started Movement for Diamond.
Jubilee Observance—Have. Asked...
- Other Societies to Join

»

The
asked. each of - the. local organizations |
joint committee to arrange ‘Zor a fitting
celebration ‘of the Diamond. Jubilee. of

It is hoped that this will be one of the
best celebrations ever held in Terrace
aud all will be asked to lend their co-
operation so that ‘no detail will-be over
lgoked, or no pains spared to make the
loval - affalr compare. favorably with
any other celebration held in the north
on that day. :

.

HAD A SCRAP

Two patrons of ‘the local beer par-
lors decided. on Saturday evening ta
settle their differences of opinion on
eurtent topics by the old ‘fashioned
method, viz, with the fists. Untfor-
tunately the affoir just got nicely un-
dor way when the local guardian of
law and order dropped around and
took: them. in. tow. . ‘When they ap-
peared in the police ‘court in due @urse
they were fotd about ‘the offence of
causing a disturbance on the pthblic
highway and were also fined so that
the lecture anight be mete impressive

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| DEATH Is PRESUMED

Voncotiver ate, Jistice D. -A: Me-
Donald in Supreme Court, on Mareh

in ‘Mareh 1924, of Charles. McClair;:o
inifhing engineer hwo was never: heard
from. after departing, from

_tpecting trip, Dyidence indicnted that
he: lid pérished: in. a river below. Kit-
chener Lake’: Go Mi Belrnes. was: “one
of the. witnesses. ar

Tee wee St ee reer ene rete

My, ‘and’ “Mrs. olyae Hunt wir be’ ‘B0-

April: for a: tlme ond. herhaps to, locnte |:

Native Sons of Canada have },

Canndian confederation on” July. 1st. |

17, made an order presuming the death |.

j Hazelton |
fox the. Finlay river district on n pros-

ing to Decker “Lake about the fret of |:

Bucking the Peace River

. The Domiiton ‘Government. through
its engineers is in. To way enclined to
give. the Peace River country an outlet
to the ocean: through northern British
Columbia. - The - engineers’ report. in
favor of-a prairie route. That is only’
natural when the minister of railways
is an enthusiastic prairie man, and he
is quite young yet too. Yortunately,.
Northern British Columbia has one
public man in Hon. T. D. Pattullo who
has voiced’ lis protest against the un-,
faiv: and'unealled remarks made by the
Dominion engineers. When party, re-
venge and home town stuff is allowed
to interfer with national policies, it ss.
time that petty party polities was put
in the background. ;

‘Hon. Mr. Dunning, and his “party-
first” organ in Prince Rupert have
given. Skeenn and the great undevelop-
ed country in. the north. to understand
‘that punishment and revenge will be
meted ont ju -large packages for send-
a Tory to Ottawa. : Unfortunately the
sufferink will be born equally by their
own supporters, nad that is going to’
hart.

mere eee on a ene erent mana”

“‘BULKLEY VALLEY AUTO. ASSO.

. The anual meeting of this associa-
tion wilt be held in the Municipal Of.
fice at Smithers on Monday, March
28th at Spm. Wlection of officers for|
1927, Questions of policy and all oth-
er important business will come be-
fore this meeting. A large yeqresent-
ative attendance Of members ‘is “Te-
quested.
J. i. GROAT
Secretary

vee,

“Perri

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Miss masthsne entertained the pu-
pils of hes room to a party in-the G.
W..Y, Avball las, Saturday evening as
a farewell to David. Monsell, ° Over’ 50
childy eb were ‘present and they had a
wonderful time, especially when they
were let lodse at the refreshment table
where there was ice,cream, candy nné
peanuts © in abundance. The supper
was a grand windup to a big event.
Miss Basthope was ‘assisted by Misses
Mallott, Peters and Sibary and Rev.
aL W, Robinson and Mr.- Willlums.

A niunber of residents in town are
busy cleaning up their gardens and the
lawns aud preparing flower beds for
the spring planting. The home mak-
ers who--have taken” an interest in
beautifying thie *gournds are well re
warded for thelr efforts. Were fhe
practice nwre generil Terrace ‘would
be ‘the real beauty spot along the ruil
way, oy iy the horth, re

St. Patrick's Day was as an ordi.
ary day until evening when the sons

| and daughters’ and the great grand-

daughters amd sons of. Brin showed, up
in. their colors’ at the dance in G, Ww.
vy. AG hall, Shamrocks und. green: gar-
‘ters were very prominnt and ‘some baad
green gurters and divil a drop of Trish
hleod.
sent and it was. a very ively dance.

Bee et

" Bor—In Terrace: on Mouday. Mure |
21st, "to Mr, and" Mrs: Joe, Cook.
daughter, 70 0 hs

” Mire, 0. “tp, Sumdat w was: a ten “hostess
on Monday aftrnoon “in honor of Miss
Donald who" is: leaving: shortly. for the:
pont. ° an 7 a _ ss OS Wate os

Phere was a-good crowd pre-|

‘CANADA'S DIAMOND JUBILEE

Many Places now. Organizing to. Carry
‘Out Program “in Connection with

' the National Committee
. bo .
_Many places ore now organizing for
Canada's Diamond Jubilee celebration
on July ist.-next. This. is to be a big

ational event, much more so'than the

ordinary Dominion Day holiday. The
national committee has been- appoint-
ed and it has held its first meeting.
‘It is proposed that Ilis Majesty, King
George LV shall touch a button in Lon-
don, Eng. which wili'strrt the ringing
of the new cariHon in the House of
Commons tower ‘at Ottawa. This: will
signify. the opening of the celebration
in Canada. Many suggestions are be-
ing put forward and in jlue course
these will be put into shape and made
available for all centres. to follow.
As we understand it the present idea is
thet there will be no set form of cele-
bbration, but that ench community is
to select what ever features from the
official list which bests sults them.
One feature which all sections will be
able to follow will be the bencon fire

Jot night.

* The aim is that every section in the
Dominion participate and make it a
truly national celebration. ,

THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY| -

Hes Money in the Bank and Consider-
able Assets to Carry on Work

tion. .
up and" preliminary Dusiness frans-
acted. Before going on. with the elec.

the sume time and the same place.’

financial’ statement which showed that.
society had a cash balance in the’ bank
of $118.00 and that they owned pro-
perty worth $150.00. Members made
quite a number of suggestions with a
view to enlarging the scone of © the
work, These’ will be further diseus-
sed ut the next meeting.

“RUPERT IMPROVING

Rupert. Recently a Jady  yisitor” to
that eity picked a nickle off the side
wall.

DR, WALLACE, GONE SOUTH

. ; ;
To tue regret of a yoat, many 9nd

Sunday merning for Virncouyer’ and
Vietovia. They have been here unly
twa and a half months, yet they won
for: themselves a very warm spot in
th regard of the citizens.
wins in charge of. the -hogpital during
the absence of Dr, Wrineh nt Victorii.
He is a very clever surgeon and amo
dern medical ductor, It is Dr, “Wal-
luce’s intention to ‘spend a short time
weound Vancouver’ and’ Vietorly . be-
fore he wets perthnuently located.

”

* poys AND. SLING | axons

Me e,

a!

or Wse sling -shots.’
boys yreout again. ‘with: the:
tand-some of the boys ‘are’
men,

The. nniinl meeting of he Hazelton
Hortienltural Society was called for
last Monday ¢vening in the police sta-
Hight ar nine members turned

tion. of atficeys. for ‘the’ ensuing, year
~ Pte: ‘preshientstiggested “that: -apotl er Hi
-j meeting. be, held, aid dt WAS decided to
fidjourn until next “Monday. night ‘Bt
Th
the. aneintime the secretary: read’ the

Conditions are improving im Prince

friends Dr, and Mrs; Wallace leave ony.

Dr. Wallace {"

Ruel apring it “seenis - necessiry to .
remind parents: ‘that: it: is: Gontrary, To |:
the ‘Oriuiinal Code for “boys to* ‘Carry | ra °
This. spring ‘the |:

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Windows are: ‘made - for. -other |;

Telkwa Tales

. Mrs. W. #H. VYanhorn returned home
Sunday after o couple of months holl-
daying with relatives in Montana.

week end the guésts of : Mrs
Gould at Houston. ‘ ‘

fessional visit to Telswa.

at

&

of the coal mine.

Mines “Tnspe — “of Prince.
Rupert was an official’ isitor, the
coal mine, also to the Casstar. Crown
works on Grouse mountain this week.

A. Tr. Neve spent a few. days i in Ru-
pert Jast week for medical attention. :

The bridge drive in the- iursing home
last: ‘Thursday attracted 2. darge -mum-
ber of people fand™ it was’ ‘a “deeided .
Success.
W. Nooan and Mrs,
meister. .

‘Gus | ‘Timmer-

“Ms Chapman and Mrs, Clarence
Goodacre of Smithers spent last Sun-
day with their mother, Mrs. T.. Me-
Donald. .

A BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN,

“8 great dea) i is heard: aliout the on-
aerful Mount’ Robson and many thous-
ands: at dollars are spent. in ‘advertis-

ers or creeks, mountain: “Inkes,
falls..and, natural ‘heauty, - th “say noth
ine of fishing and “hunting,
Robsou. has nothing . On, Rocher.
Boule. * 7

" SPHAKER OF THR NB, LEG
. ISLATURB so
Hon, J. Leonard O'Brien, wie is the.

Speaker. of the
Legislature,
County of: Northumberland,” the: .
game ‘county that “his: late | father

New Bransvick -

Legislature tor- thirteen years, .

a

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Slavin spent last:°
John .: :

Mrs. Munro of Vancouver is visit-’:
ing her daughter, Mrs... ADE) ‘Paine. wo

‘The prizes were won by TW. |

“Mount.
de

John Q’Brien,- represented. in the. -

Land Surveyor- Scheldjerup ‘of Burns " a
Lake atrived Sunday to make a survey” ‘

+ Uma

He. represents the. -

Dr “Wallace of Hazelton ‘paid ¢ a pro-, ,