| Smithers Garage & Electric Smithers, B.C. General Motors Parts and Service | Acetylene Welding Experts ie The Hazelton Hospital The Hazelton Hospital issues ti‘kets for any period at $1.50 a vonth in advance, This rate Inludes office consultations, medicines, as well as all costa while at the Hospital. Tickets ure obtainable in Hazelton at the Drug Store, or by mall from the Medical Superintend- Of Interest * Gathered from Here, There and Beyond to Most Folk NEW YEARS’ EVE DANCE in the ‘Horticultural hall, under the auspices of the Horticultural A‘s- sociation, Plan to. be there. a6 + Hazelton hall on Friday, the winter and will be very comfort- Table The music will be good too. " se Do not leave off too long ordering your Christmas.cards. It takes a lit- tle time to get them after you have placed yonr order. See santples at the Herat office. . sere FIRST CATHOLIC SOCIAL The Catholic Ladies Aid of New IInzelion invite you to a social even- ing, Wednesday, Dec. 29, in the New ent at the Hospital. Hoskin’s Garage 0. H, Hoskins, proprietor Official Sub-Ford Dealers for the Haz- elton and Smithers Districts Demonstrations of new models and in- formation on, Request. A full’ stock of Pord Parts carried, BEST GARAGE SERVICE IN THE NORTHERN INTERIOR Martin's Garage VIRESTONE TIRES BATTERIES noME gas 2 GAS aad OIL FREE COMPRESSION TESTING FORD V-5 SERVICE ING TRUCK WELDING. No charge to test and fill your battery Service Day and Night , WRECE- OXY-ACETYLENE ' HAZELTON WHEN IN Smithers Eat at the Canadian Cafe Prompt Service, business. Always Open for Reasonable Charges - Good Cook aa B.C. UNDERTAKERS EMBALMING FOR SHEPMENT A SPECIALTY , PO. Box 948 PRINCE RUPERI, B.C. A wire | will bring ua Prince ce Raper A real ‘good hotel serving the ‘aseth. land | Prinae Report I B. C. . HB. Rochester, manager : Rates—§1.60 per day and.up_ ,; Should be growing by leaps ond -by been in power * long enough. for another "/ Hazelton hall. There will be draw- ing end guessing contests, fortune tell- ing and a program .of comic and high class- ‘entertrinment. — Rerfreshments will be available. A good time is as- sured yor. . The Dominion Government has ap- pointed Albert Matthews as lieutenant govenor of Ontario. Premier Hep- burn of that province practically dis- missed the last lieut.-govenor and says the province will tear down govern- ment house, Possibly another split between Premier King and Premier Hepburn.. Gr, it might be that the new official is a good Grit, see The. Japanese are now collecting all the customs at Shanghai. The pyro- fits of the war against China are be- ing counted. The paint gang has finished work at the depot and now the serub gang is winding up its Inbors. In a day or so now Mr. Parent thinks he and his family will have very comfortable and very attractive living quarters. se o* After spending a couple of months in Toronto and Montreal Mrs. Geo. D. Parent has returned to New Hazelton. eee : Don’t forget the dance In the New November 26th. The hall has been fixed up for depression to get started—history re- peating itself, aee The boys of New Hazelton started the first day of the week to prepare an open air ice rink for the winter's sport, It will be located near the de- pot and it is hoped to have it ready ag soon os the first cdéld weather comes. Le ed The smaller boys of town who pre- fer a real he-man’s sport as a chango now and again, have started to make ready the big, ski-jump at the back of town where it was located last year. zee There are quite a number of mocse and deer in the district, but there are s0-many hunters chasing them from one end of the country to the other that no one has a chance at a shot at present. The animals are as wild as March hare, eee Alberta and Saskatchewan have a reduction in the price ‘of gasoline, ‘but B, G's government has not indicated that it proposes to pay any. attention do the Macdonalt report on gas: and ‘coal, ** THE ANNUAL BAZAAR The Annual Christmas Bazaar will be held by the Ladies’ Aid to the Unit- ed Church in the Hortienitural hall, Hazelton, B. C, on Friday, Dec. 8rd, at 8 o'clock p.m. There will be home- cooking, Fancy Work, Candy and No- velties, €.G.LT. stall. Refreshments. Hat ‘Trimming Contest. and other amusements for the men, St THE NAME CANADA . How Canada got its name hag been a matter of controversy for a long her- iod of time, but the historians now seem generally agreed that the Iroqu- ois word “Kanata” is the real deriva- tion, Kanata is still used in the Iro- ques language to mean a collection of dwellings or settlements. — Cartier, in one of his vocdbularies of the Iroquois speech, says of it, “they call a town Canada.” Its evolution in Mr. Holowitz returned last Satur- . day to his home in Kitwanga after be- a patient in the Hazelton Hospital for a week, | Le Mrs. Andy Grant has been appoint- ei secretary to the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Hazelton Hospital, succeeding Mrs, Jasper Stanyer.’ Mrs. Grant. has filled the office before and knows" what it is all about, © aae The New Hazelton Badminton Club has been organized and aon order has been sent off for rackets and shuttle- eocks. Delcourt Parent. is president and David Goodrich is secretary and treasurer. Arrangements -have _ been mae for the use of the hall and as soon as the machinery arrives play Will be started. a . Dominion politicians ore once more messing about: with the tarriffs. It ig not. enough that Canada's trade bounds,. but the politicians .must add to the worrles of some and make it 9 lot easier for some others (thelr own party frlends.) MacKenzie. King hag ‘ern “city to ‘the provinece, here haye been other explanations |" to the place-name Canada can be fully | followed in the narrative of the ex- | plorer, where it appears first in his ac- ‘count of his second voyage in 1585. (The two Iroquois Indians whom he ihad seized at Gaspe and taken to . France the preceding year informed him on entering the great river (now the St, Lawrence) that their home was in Canada, which: proved later ‘to be fn alternative native name for the vile Ingé of. Stadacona on the site of mod- Quebec Clty. Cartier himself. seems to have extended the word to the surrounding Tegion ag a conven- ient territorial name—much as the}: Quebec has-been extended from the of the derivation of the name, such as “Seguada Canada”, Ineaning in Indian “men seeking Innd”, but they appear to be just Suesses ‘based on chance re-|' Probably the]. view of the authorities ig the correct semblance. of words, one, that Cartler was the originator of the name, and ‘that he took it from : the Troquois tongue, - as Untess- ‘you tell. the people what you ° a, “Want. they will not know. . Use. -the Herald to tell them. Tickets 5 50e The "Kean Theatre presents - | | s Little Bit of Flatt cA farce i in, three acts by Walter. Ellis . ~~ Saturday, November 7 : “In, Horticattural hall, ‘Hazelton: 7 po sod bouts ‘ap Iatighter Curtain ait 8, 30 aliaro. - Chern: 25e | ‘ British Columbia ‘has produced mint erals’ of an aggregate value of $1,515,728,149.00. The gross value of the industry for the first als months of 1937 ig estimated to be $86,883,540.00. Thisis an increase of 53.4% over the value for the corresponding period in 1936. Indications are that this year’s, Pro duction wili exceed that of _ any previous year in value, which is a splendid commentary apou the stablilty of the mining industry in this’ province. New proper- ties are being brought into production and with the reopening of old properties, mill capacity will be considerably increased over last year. FE ta rine sta nag gee SE ve PORE LO, oe aw ast For authorative information regarding the mining industry ap ply to; . DEPARTMENT OF MINES ' VICTORIA, B. C. — — i A GRAND DANCE IN New Hazelton Hall Friday, November 26 Under the auspices of Citizens Association Admission 50c Good Music . Is Your Subscription Due? It j is J ust. Two. 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