The Omineca Herald NEW HAZELTON, BC, - Published Every Wednesday CG. IL Sawle. poblisher Advertising tate, Display 35¢ per inch per issue: reading notices 13c for the first insertion and 10e each subse- quent insertion; legal notices 12c and se. Transient Display 40c per inch. To Charles. Montgomery, one- time switch-tender and at pres- ent elevator operator at the Can- adian Pacific uptown office build- ing in Winnipeg, go all honors for having constructed what is probably the most perfectly fin- ished model of a locomotive on the continent, It is a five-foot replica of a Canadian Pacific class ‘2300”, finished in brass, and copper, and: took five years to construct. ° Out of active service for some years past, Canadian Pacific Liner Melita has been sold to Italian shipbreakers. She was built in Glasgow in 1918, “Never betray a trust: be hon- est; do what other man can do; and work your eight hours. a day,” is the recipe for success ‘enunciated by Caleb R, Smith, in- ternational chairman of the ‘Mil- lion-Doliar Round Table, speak- ing to the Life Underwriters in ‘tonvention at the ‘Royal York Hotel, Toronto, recently, Jamas G Millar, Medicine Hat, veteran Canadian Pacific engin- eer, recently celebrated his 32nd birthday, when railway acquant- amces and relatives gathered to congratulate him. He wag born in Drummondville, Que., and has been drawing a “railroad cheque ~ for more than 64 years. A couple of score of fine old railroaders who five decades ago helped push the steel around the north shore of Lake Superior for the Canadian Pacific Railway, gathered near Jackfish, Ont. re- cently, to re-enact the driving of the last spike at Noslo on May 16, 1885, ® Alex. Anderson, Port Ar- thur, who. held the spike when it was driven fifty years agof drove home a new gilded spike with 2 vigor that belied his 81 yeara. Hy the end of this week or early riet, will have. been finished. For the first year of operating. i public outfit] - quite’ a nuinber. of farmera grew grain for threshing” and they * ‘were pleas’ antly surprised at the amount of grain secured. Most of those who grew will not hare to buy any fed for. the horses or -entle ‘this -year. The: next thing required locally is a grist mill so that local’ grain can be converted in the most economical kinds of feed. eee RHUBARB FOR WINTER Frish, crisp, pink rhubarl can be had during the winter. months if. the ulans are made now to provide. roots for forcing, The root system of this Hlant is a store honse in which the necesary food bas been stored and when given the required check and rest period, will pradnce abundance of leaf stalks. First arrange’ for. crowns that. have .hoen in a plantation for -at leust two years or until they are well developed. Crowns: that rare over 4 veirs in a pantation do not force as ‘vell as those of the younger plants, ™T Inte Oetoher or early November, | c inst hefore the ground freezes up, the roots should be dug. altawing-a good Nall of earth to ndhere. Leave these on the surface of the ground withont ‘wotection until they beeome frozen thrareh, Suh zero freezing, however, ‘e-not recommended, Four or six of than ermons of fair size, will as a -i% nroduce. enough vanhath for a “emily of three or fonr, Tho crowns or reats belng given the ~asnited period of dormancy are then twourht inta a davk cellar where the tomnoerature can be maintained at 50 derrecs F, placed on the cellar floor sed eaveved with earth, sand or. cin fers, The soil, sand. or cinders hold the moishire. around the roots. An other. gxond way is to place one large evern in-p bushel Ramper or box and Where severnl roots or crowns sre to he used they can each be placed in a hamper. or box. This method is very convenient for handling where small pnmbhers of roots are to be for eed. Tn commercial forcing, the roots are placed as closely together as pos dler Blanch and: “shred the almonds, mix with other ingredients and cook until thick ond clear, glasses. cold. Pour ‘into sterilized Senl with paraffin wax -when . ¥ Clee Day, November 7, apike, fitial- completion of the Cenedian Pacific line from Mont- -real to “Vancouver and. the final federation, . now being made for its. fitting ' - celebration: -g0! that Canadian ‘. “general ‘maybe reminded of the Bart this Company haa played in ' national, development. . It ‘is particularly fitting” that the: Company's jubilee -year toe | a . should be marked by the appear-. “anee. ‘of an. ‘important: book bear- ing: ‘on, dts history,. and the: new. volume by J. Murray. Gibbon, a a TORO picture, is: jhown: above; ‘will he the.more welcome ‘on’. that _secdital” Ita entitled, “Steel of ond’ apart “from. ite epaolal ‘interest to® ‘Canadian * ‘Pat apd: nieresting: history of their hensive and. fascinating | @ tale. of the. dlscovory, pnd: ‘develonm-“t at Catiada thet it Ww. a nm t ehroag next marks the fiftieth anni- versary of the driving of the last Tale of Heroic Achievement = 3 - —- : Marks C. P. R.’s 50th Anniversary _ appeal to all who | are interested in th{s country, It is published by the Bobbs Merrill Company In A Mr, Gibbon very largely ignores ; a the common-place history “book °°. 8 wt consummation ‘of -Canadian’ Con- Arrrangements are. ‘Pacific people and the country in. loific‘jpeople. as -a. 0s t completa ip * Own: ‘Company, Hig cso ‘pompre:: the Untied States and ‘by’ McClel- land & Stewart in’ Canada and appears a8 an extremely hand- some Volume... Sixteen full ‘colour: illustrations and over two ‘hun-| dred in black and white hetp car- ry_the ‘Interest throughout; “aidett’ by’ & Berles. of explanatory maps. Jt sells at $3.50 a‘copy: “ Despite its wide ranze of information and the, vast, amount..of. reading “and résearch’ that clearly has gone, jato its; Ynaking; it ig full’ of human ord oF and ig an absorb- & record ‘of. umen' desires did ambitions ae Hinve bootie the’ foundation atones of Conadian nationality, ; Pes om i? History of 4 the Canadian’ Pacttia'| and Amportant book jong ‘before the “author. geté around to’ ‘that |. great’ Institution,” The: early. ‘hig- ‘Land: :dange-4e) told. in ‘af yebith, Veuld.:o pliched wit oknon nt, tales heodnns. 7as it may ‘ba, Jt jg. a. ‘tastinnting |: ‘the’ tory: - of. -trangportat on; iby, trail |) pf chatty iicident “ond Ris the | eat” readablo |. tyle,- ‘that. one |’ stories of early settlement and . lays-before us new. incidents, and hitherto neglected ‘ movements. : that led. to the _ Sxploration. . and ‘final ‘conquerhig of the Canadian *’ wilderness. Thus;hé recalls “that . dn. the..tlme:-of Queen: Anne: the... a ; new demand for tea and the itre-) fmendous vogue for Chinese por--’ celhin and for Chinese house dec« ‘orationg ; turned. merchant. “eyes < towards the Orient and sharpens = = red: the désire to find ithe’ ‘North West passage. In a large. Sena ‘tha \bools; is ther 7 tory. Bs tha: Beatelsfor: and theultimate. build ‘