7 ss HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925

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- Corp. Hall of the R C. M p.,
B arrived on Thursday to take over
athe charge of the local. force af-
ter an absence of about a year in.
‘Prince Rupert.

A wedding of interest to Tele?
Ewa end community, took place at
two p. m. on Thursday at St.
BStephen’s church; when Harry
@ Willis and Miss Annie Green were
mM married by Rev. J. &. Brayfield..
B The bride was attended by Miss
® Mabel: Fox and the best man -was
Tom Brandon. After the cere-
7 mony a reception was held at the
a home of the bride’s Parents.

H. ©. Fraser, school inspector,
Bpaid an official-eall to the local
Bschool this week.

~. Miss Jessie Fairbairn who has
B BVven dn Toronto for. some.time is
B back in Telkwa, At. the begin-
Mining of the month she will -join
@ the staff at the post office. _
Mrs. H. H. Phillips was called
@io Vancouver jast week owing to
A the illness of ber mother,
On Wednesday, April 29th, the
BW. A. to the Nursing Hume will
SF hold a bridge whist drive in the
SB library. 7 .
m The W. A. of St. Stephen’s
mex church held their regular. meet-

view Hotel, left on the 12th for

sae
wien

Vancouver to attend her sister,
Mrs. Harvey, who was lying seri-
ously: ill-there,
death intervened before Mrs.
Gillies, who was. accompanied by
her daughter Sarah, could arrive.
Mr. Gillies proceeded south later,
The sympathy: of many friends
is” extended to the bereaved.

The i ice on Francois Lake proy-
ed itself most unsafe on Satur-
day,-the 11th, when four teams
of horses were: drowned at dif-
ferent points on its treacherous},

surface. The losers were KF.
Hawley, AD. Harker, Arthur
Prebble, and-‘Wm, Bickle. Mr.

flarker was the heaviest loser,
for 1800-pounds of grain which
made up. the load on his sleigh
went down with his whole outfit.

The road to Burns Lake has at
last freed itself of. snow. Un the
17th Breee Kerr was- able to
make the journey to’ Francois by
car...

Miss. K. Ward sia, the guest
last week of Miss M. V. Deane.

Miss Elsa Bostrom of Grassy
Plains, was visiting Mrs. B. H.
Little recently.

- Bruce Little has installed .a
radio set with a loud speaker

attachment. The set works fine
and ‘Southbank felks often have

Unfortunately, |.

| TELKWA TALES: {| Hl " Franctis Lake P U k

News from the Hub « Bulkley ae “ Skeena's Industrial Centre”
Valiey. ; | ont .

| “@ Mrs. John Gillies, of the Lake- |* ~?

Mise ‘Weatherhead returned

to Prince ‘Rupert at the end of
the week.
Miss L Marshall, formerly ot
Hanall school, spent the week-
end as the guest of Mrs. D. Me-
Clarty.!

B, Ellingson, sometime pros-
pector in the Yukon, is now in-
vestigating Kileanza Creek, in
connection with Joe Marchildon’ 8
placer holdings.

Mrs.. Cassell and her daughter,
Miss Opal, and Mrs, Wurko were
week-end visitors from Terrace,
and were present at. the tennis
club dance.

Mr. and Mrs. 1. Evans have
returned to town and have taken
up residence in the house recent-
ly vacated by J. Bush.

T. W. Shackleton was 3 visitor
to Prince Rupert: early. in the
week, and on his return opened
up his new beer emporium, which
occupies half .the commodious
ground floor of the Shackleton
Hotel.

On Saturday night the ‘Usk
Tennis Club gave another dance..
The attendance was large,. and
the club’s funds were appreciably
augmented thereby. -

_A deal of real significance to

ming on Tuesday at the home of
* Mrs. Noonan, ;

the pleasure of hearing ihe broad-
casts.

the community of Usk took place

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q Priscilla Dean, Popular Movie Actress,

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Assumes Role of Locomotive Engineer

PRISCILLA DEAN
GEIS ORDERS AS
ENGINGER..

PRISCILLA
-DEAN

an

ronto.” Priscilla is

ies nearly 8,000 miles apart. °

Priscilla’s

bright: eyes. opened
even wider wilh astonishment when
she was. told. that this wonderful
train was‘In'veality pei fully equip-
ped traingy, four. of hich ale niin

ing westward’ and four eastward
at the same time, while two addi-
tional trains are being cleaned, re-
fitted and turned around, one at
Vancouver and the other at Mont-
real ond Toronto, The equipment,
of each train is limited to one -bag-
gage car, one dining .car, -four
standard, sleepers,.one ,10-compart-
iment cor,’ Vancouver and Montreal,.
and oné.“10-compartment. car. To-
ronto and Winnipeg, with a draw-
ing: room-8-eompartment observa-

ver. Slee eping car passen era only
are carried, and-last year there was
‘a one-nigh t use. of. approximately
‘190,000: bertha for the.119 days the
‘train was in-service. The east and
west bound trains together: covered | vi
6,292 miles every day, ‘The season's
mileage for - the. 288. trips - was
758,748. miles, or three. times the.
distance. from th arth’ ‘tocithe

: Canada
‘tion ‘aleeper’*Montreal and:Vantou- ;

_ + Canada.

ONE TRAIN, THAT iS REALLY “TEA TRAINS
9 Prigcilla Dean, movie actress,
is not to be the engineer.of the
Trans-Canada Limited, the only

limited, all-sleeper train across
Canada, even though she donned
engineer’s garb, ran a_ real
Trans-Canada locomotive, and act-
ed also as station “master for one
hour: in. Yonge Street: ‘Station, :To-
‘interdsted in
railroading, and was. much intrig-
ued with.a Conadian. Pacific Rail-.
way ticket ‘around’ tha: world, ‘thd’
first coupon of which called: for a
journey on this -train' which,': be-

ginning May, . 17, is” scheduled © ‘to
' Tietier’. ita - “90-hdur’” run. between
Montreal ‘and Vancouver, two cit-

There ara 48 engine runs dsily.
Including these engine stops, tha |
trains make only 26 stops on thelr
cross-continent run,: Owing to the -
necessity of changing train erews
on such: a long ‘run,” about.: 14
crews, or about,.84 men, are re-
quired for one. trip ‘on ‘each’ ‘train,

while 48. sleeping and dining’ car’.
employces are at work each trip,
‘on al ter ta “train, or,  neark

400 ~~
‘ans

“Banff. sien ‘Louieé “and’ ‘the
scenic: wonders | ‘of the Canadian
Rockies have ‘proved. frreaiatible to
singera and: musicians, ‘actors and

men. for this: branch of ‘the.

actresses, and movie, stars. Am Mh
_ edlebrated “artists who hate. mi 2
sited Banff:are' Damd Clara Butt,:, ||

Galll:Curel, Elsie . Janis, . Jascha .
Hoeifatz," Jack: Holt: ¢and’ our own
Doug. and Mary :who-all ‘travél“oit:
Canada's finest, flyer, the Tram

|property, -haa: been acquired by

by..the purchase of land adjoin.
ing the Usk townsite, This land,
Lot 4118, known as the Labbe

Usk parties and will be plotted
into homesites under the agency
of J. D.. Wells. Those who have
been living upon the land for
yeara will be able to acquire title,
which will be a great relief:

’ Mts. Basha has joined Mr.
" | Basha, who is superintendent at
the Skeena Lu mber Co.’s mill.

G. York accompanied Cons-
table Eggleshaw to Terrace: this
week, having got enmeshed un-
der the liquor regulations.

A carioad of dressed lumber is
being loaded for shipment every
day.

‘Beer by the glass became-an
actuality. at the Shackleton on
Tuesday. It was met by a thirs-
ty throng which enjoyed the
freedom of old-time discussion
over a glass, Although the bev-
erage needs to be taken witha
grasshopper to get a kick out of

it, it had’ i refreshing aapect and

the atock < on hand was materially
lowered.

ee a tame,

Student tours, operated by the
Canadian Pacitic in conjunction with
McGill University, are to be extended
this summer to include students from
the British Isles. “Heretofore, these
tours have been restricted to sehel-
ara in-other parts of Canada and in
the United States.. As Montreal is
regarded as an ideal centre for the
atudy of the French language, it is
anticipated that the new project will
attract many visitors to the Cana-
dian metropolis.

- The body. of Dr.. Sun Yat Sen,
President of Southern China lay in

> state in a wonderful blue-tiled old

‘Temple near the “Altar of Heaven,”
during. the long drawn out ceremon-
fea at Peking attendant upon ‘his
interment. Through the courtesy of
the government the bier was viewed
by-a large party of Canadians and ~
Americana touring the world on the
Canadian Pacific 5.5. “Empress of
France.” They were also invited to
attend the final burial rites which,
with a wealth of coicrful Chinese
eeremony took place later in the
Western hills. :

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