foo La oe ld Ot Vol. 38 “3 NEW HAZELTON, B, C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1931 we, NO, 23 a CN, President Is Optimistic For New Year Montrenl|—The improvement in the earnings of the Canadian National Railways which commenced in the lat- ter part of 1933, continued throughout Id, with the resnlt that the gross revenues of the &.N.R. all-inclusive system for this year will be approxt- ~- mately $16,000,000 grenter than in 1933 It is particularly significant that there was a substantial increase In the mov: ement of manufactired products and inerchandise, demonstrating increasing business activity. The improvement iu the automobile, Inmber’ and news- pint industries -is also indicated by inerensed movement these ‘products. The grain movement in 1934 was sligh ily less than in 1928, The bencfit -6f operntie economies mate during the depression is evidence. ed by the fact that the inereased trat- fie has heen handled in such a manner that the net operating revenue of the system will be approximately 87,000,- HO0 in excess of 1983, and this despite the fnet that approximately $4,500,000 more has been expendid on maintain- ing the property and on equipment. This result demonstrates in 9 very real tinuner the nbility of the system to tuke fll advantige of inereasing revenues fram traffic. One effect of the improvement in traffic has been that approximately 5.000 employees have returned to full ev part time employment for the nn- Bill Watson'of ~~ Bulkley Valley || Prince Rupert 95 Years Old Ry The sea There is a man in the Bulkley Val- ley, says the Sunday Province, in his 95th year, who has yet to have his first headache. This in spite of the fact that he always drank rum when he could get it—ns-a beverage and as k medicine. And it ia because of this in his opinion, that he hag lived ‘so long und is so healthy.” His name is W. RB. (Bill) Watson. . “Never took a spoonful of doctor's meiicine in my life,” he declares. Once when the flu was raging in the euly winter of "18 he sent over from Charlie Barrett's ranch at Barrett's Luke, to Hazelton for two quart bottles of goud old tum. Instead they sent him seme doctors medicine, whieh. Bill Watson promptly returned with the request that it be replaced with one bottle of rum if two could not be procured. (Not so easily done in the days of doctor's presevintions, ) . “They sent the rum and I cured my self in no time at a,” he ayows. Not only has Bill Watson been spar- ed the agony of herdache, but be also From Our Own Reporter Miss Alice Crulekshauk, for years librarian at Prince Rupert, will leave early in the year to visit in New York after which she will make her home in Ottawa. Miss Cruickshank, who has resigned her position recently, re- ceived a substantinl legacy from her father's: estate. = * * A derman scientist writing from Munich to Dr. Carter of the fisheries researeh bureau, lings asked for full cently tliseavered on Henry Island, a short way from here. “He niso asked for photos. Ife wrote prlor to Dy. (fonens classification that the — so- quiled monster is a basking shark, The incidout, however, illustrates the wide interest ‘taken in the find. eee Our Prince Rupert scribe had a very Merry Christmas with a fairy amount has never had a toothache, He Pull-[of steam up Christmas Eve. He was ed all of his own teeth. Most of thelto have travelled inland for the fes- hictspids, too, came easily with the! tive season, but the weather turned ald of a bit of fish-net twine. One,! enol too soon and early reports of sub- apparently was well anchored and he zero cold did not appeal to him. He was obliged te tie to a spike in the | showed good sense, too. When the wall, A quick drop to the floor in aitrain seriyed which should have car- sitting position left the tooth and a ried him to New Hazelton, it was 33 hit of jawbone dangling. “lbelaw zero and foing down. All local ; (ional railways in 1934. The increas- ofl Dasrol, distribution during the year “wis approximately $4,000,000. President Hungerford, the author of the a hove gives an outline of a num- ber of economies niready in effect and ‘hout to be put into effect, through a xoes on to state that the reduced rates co-operation with the C.P.R. He then und the excursion fares have resulted inf great increase in passenger traf- fie. The betterment of operating re- sits in 19384 will mean that for the (third snecessive yoar the new money requirements af the svstem will he re: amueert. ee ee ASH FOR AN OVERHEAD (CROSS- | ING ON TENTH . On Friday night hist . citizens of New Hazelton met in the community hall and tiahimously pased a resolu. tien asking the provineial government Jn. /8@, packshorseing, it. ip.i-fram.—the Rill Watson mined on Manson creck hboundry conatry, He — travelled by Way of Quesnel, Big Prairie (now Stratiaven on the Quesnel-Prince Geo- ree highway), Fort George, Fort St. James and the Nation river. He was born in England and left there when he was twenty. He's ney- er heen back, Efe wns in Nevade in ‘65 and made a stake in a Block Hills . \ mine in “Th Farmed seven years in York, Camui~—We — uuder- Manitoba and went baek mining in RS, stud oan confidential information ob- Tit B.C. a year litor-and has been ‘telzed for the exclusive henefit of our hore over xineo. Por the past thirty subscribers, that the eurrent adrer- venys, off and oon, he has made his sing for fhe Webster Aiv-Flow, Six heme rt Barrett's ranch in the Bull- ind Might, ix well on the flow ;. that in snit of authors correetions it is con- fidertiy expected to be seen in printed form at au early date. At a gathering oF the gontlemen- af the harware and plumbing trades, hekt at “The Sign ot The Two Pistons," hist Saturday night bright on the mountain tops and on missed it lot of other things too which ave not seen on the coast at Christmas tine, But he says he prefers the goo oF summer tine anyway, ee Upper ley Valley. Sitioiivpe, ‘There is prolly ne one in those parks whe onfors a wider ac amaiv(nveeship: than Old) Charlie. The travellers from the Atlantic to the Pa- cifle have gane ty his place at one the ; wh oo resus) Tid 41+, 4 at another and lal a big feod of fine | fC! enelicering evoked the strongest ty constriet as part of the main high- Wily throngh this Section, a hleh ievel | erossilg over the railway on Tenth | Avenne, and to ¢lose the two danger: | ons grade crossings on Ninth ahd near Meventh Aves, The request was that this work be done early in the spring. The resolution was sent te the local | menher, E. T. Kouney, and a copy te euotions Leaenth the bosoms of boreved audience, The Sales and Pro Motion mamiger far Horntio, Weepster Vuelo & Sons said, “Gentlemen, - we eonking, spd tlyase people always en- qiive for ¢he aldo mat when ever they Meet aayoue from New Tazelton, EORSH SPORENo ree Dollars Re- wootk--The gaenve oof the subseriber wis broken into last night and a /Stlt of any accident but by oa particulars of the marine creature re- cars were frozen up and he would have Hhad eaeeleme