. hor is not framing up for onappeal to

: her brother in the east recently and tn

, its and 2900 people there just to see
” fhe quints,.. most of the: visitors being

-thused ayer: the, five slaters os “ever,
Phere is. 9 small stage now in. front of
. he hospital fund twlee, _Mlaily, 10 am
ce! ond 4 pm. 4
ae hetore, ‘th
Wea Ba

VOL. 2 2
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| THE OMINECA HERALD, NEW

HAZELTON,

B. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 7% I 1936

NO. 4

Fred | Watson of
Smithers Died
A Long Illness'.

After suffering for a long time from
an incurable trouble Pred Watson died
-in the Hospital at Smithers Sunday
morning last. The deceased was one
of the prominent business men in the
interfor and he was one of the pioneers
of Smithers as well as a pioneer in
I'rince Rupert and New Hazelton. ‘A
xood many years ago he joined the
staff of Lyneh Bros, in Prince Rupert
and when they opened a store in, New
Hazelton a quarter of a century ago
Fred came along with them. ‘When
Lynch Bros, retired from business in
the interior Fred Watson weat to
Ninithers and entered business for him
self, Tle worked up a large trade and
made a success of his undertaking,
aud at the time of his death, had the

inet lis bride (Miss Downey) and she
nieng with several children survive
him.

thers cemetery. The services
conducted by the resident priest of the!
Roman Catholic church, and a grent.
number of peaple from the town and
countryside attended to pay their re-
speets to one who had been highly re-
varded during life.

Liberals Meeting

On Friday of this, week Premier T.
1D. Patiuilo will go. io. ‘the mac’ with at’
number of his, ‘followers wha are. of
the opinion, or were of ‘that opinion,

that some one else could lead the party’

hetter. The Premier has never admit-

fed any such thing to any-of his fol-' const Sunday night.

tuwers, nov to himself, He cannat sea!
how those other people figure things, |
broviding of course that they figure at
all. The executive of the Liberal As-

eiition of British Columbia is meet-
ing in Vancouver the latter part of the
mrosent week, and a few of the mem-
Tors will try to have discussed the
qhestion of leadership and also the
matter of a, convention before the falt
sessfotnn Tale not likely that the Pre-
mer will allow those fellows to get
very fue bith either matter.

logisInturre: the tite "part-of: October or.

the forepart of November and finished ; :e

hefore the Christinns holidays, The’
Premier has been very busy for some
xnevess pained there he does not pro-
vince. He has been very busy with
the Ottawa boys, and the measure of
success gained there he does not pro-
lose to loose by permitting a few dis-
thne visiting various parts of the pra-

It would not, be at al! surprising, in
fact it would be surprising if the Pre-

the eleetovs pretty. soon stter the fal
session. There are plenty of reasons
why the Premler should go to the
people. Tt would be good policies and
Perhaps head off sure disaster later on

Mrs. W. BL Gow had a letter from

te. he said that he and family bad tak:
‘en a ‘drive to Calendar, Ont, to see
the quints. He said it was just an or-
dinary day, no holiday or anything ike
that.: But there wore that day 800

Amerleans who apparently. are - as ent

‘the tl «parade: and.

TERRACE

a

The wayteelght Inst ‘tuesday after-
noon brought in a good supply of food
stuffs, including the first, watermelon
of the season. .
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The -big bridge over the Skeena will

Prince Rupert |

By The Fen

Krum Our Own Reporter

he open for traffic this week Even| Jo

&

i ;
{CA NADIAN PUBLISHER PRAISES
PRE ESS FOR GOOD LEADERSHIP

In | a recent - address given by John
Bassett, vice-president of the Montreal
Gazette, a mewspaper of 158 years of
service, no better illustration has been
given of the important roll played by
the press of this country, Mr, Bassett

stated that one of the greatest factors

with the high water and the other ditf-
ficulties, good progress was made with
the repnirs and now the job is a per-
manent gne Good conerete founda-
tions have been put in There is still
one base to go in, but that must wait
until the water goes still lowerer in the |}
river There is a great pile of. drift
wood and great trees piled against the
bridge and it is a wonder that the stru-
cture stood as long ns it did or stood at
al 7

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Le

finest. grocery business In the interior.:ent work This wns proven during the
While in New Hazelton Mr, Watson‘ revent ‘floods

The funernl was held Tuesday be that so much work could not be ae
afternoon with interment in the Smi- ‘complished in a given year, but it sure-
were ly would stay and over a term of years

; Kalun: for a number of years his dis-

jleaving this week for Prince Rupert to

In Vancouver :

Auot, get into Terrnce and if they had

Little entertained a large gathering of
lacnl people at an ald fashioned barn
dance,
Motion of the large stack barn Mr, Lit- |»
tle has built on Park Ave. Old time
dances were carried on in varlous sec-
tions of the barn which is in separate
sections for catle, horses and
Musie was supplied by Toe McLaren.
During the evening Mr, and Mrs. Little
served refreshments that were
There is going to be a session of the . and enjoynble.

went to camp on
The community camp this yenr is loca-
ted at the summer home of Mr, and
Mrs. Christy, near the main landing at
the north end of Lakelse -Lake.
of the Christy place has-been given for
cooking and for the Indies who are {i
charge of the eamp,

In the district last week looking over
the possibilities for export ‘material to
supply their home market,
wns headed by Mv,
was accompanted by Mr. Uneyaka, tim
her. exporter: of Vancouver,
making a general survey of the lumber
resources of. this section.
they were tuken ar oune iy Ranger 8.
Cooper: boo, es

trustee for Lakelse Valley last Wednes-
day night, : 4

Prince Rupert on Wednestiny afternoon
He is stil! laid up with the knee Injur-
‘les. mmsteined in a ‘speeder accident.

i ws. of Vie. ‘the: firetoat: the week unt retar ned '9 on
ee “the meet trate ars

Wherever -yiossible ~ the provincial
government should lat in dil _perman-

The goad work and the
permanent work stood the test whild
other work was washed away It mny

far more would have been aecomplish-
ed and at less cost
-¢ wt

>Mrs John MeRae who lias lved at
posed of her household property and is

speml a few days before going to Van-
trouver She will take-up her home in

the south some place
aen

Business at Lakelse Lake has not yet
come up to the ustal Outsiders could

they: “would. fave: “Been “ted: tip “at they
bridge Jt. is hoped there will be an im:
prov ement during, the ‘next fei weeks

eee

Lawrence Greig. went down. to: they

¥ = = *
On Friday night Mr. and Mrs, Geo.

The event. celebrated the com-

“sheep. |

_ tasty |p

; Cn
at, t Me

nwenty-four, girls and “fou leaders is

Tuesday morning.

Use

s

Oe a vt
A party af Tapanese lumbermen were

pa

The party
Fukukawa‘, He

‘They were

While here

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oe Bae
wna elected school

a

B. L Pearson.

TRondmaster Pret Walton . ‘left, ‘for é
a

ation: “Ande: Grant: sent to. Rupert ‘pol

them of home,:

effects,
sisters, fewer orders given
fewer store customers, disgruntled taxi
dvivers, short tempers and shorter poc-
kethooks—actually no body
The first throngh train was a joyous
sight and made sweet music.

on a corner.

portant commercial and shipping inter-
ests controlling extensive Hmits on. the
Queen Charlotte Tslands, and along the
Skeenn river, have been spending abont

luspection of the holdings. Tf they can
_ | make: satisfactory arrangements there

shipping through Prince
Inieht menn a monthly boat for an in-
definite period. One of the four
port captain of Kobe,

Skeenn river, not far fro, mPort Passing
ton is heeaming more and more a fay-
orite resort for Prince. Rupert visitors.
The place is convenient, and the. ger-
vice nll that could be wished for, A

were there for a day or. 80° ‘Yecontly,
thonght so much of the waters, that
they -hnthed at 4.00 in -the morning,
again at. seven: and then to breakfast,

‘BEAR BLOCKED THEIR PATH
Early on Saturday morningMys. B.

field: Hider had long. walt on ‘the road
out of town. ‘towards the. Skeena bridge
They ‘Wwere.on their way, home from. the
barn dance. when ‘a: big. bear blocked
their pagsage ‘and refused: to arbitrate

along but the ‘pear’. still held her: ‘ground
Then | Sain. Kirkaldy, téok' hia car out
and drave the part

California tourists,
neve

iosite. They freely confess that th

verdure and freshness of the north af- |
fers a happy contrast to the brown hot:
hills of California where they have’
eareens, but most of them feel thirsty '
and Jonk the part.

se #

Six weeks of ratlroad paralysis play- !
ed the merry
in Prince Rupert,
Fewer signatures on hotel re-
cafes,

mischief with busines
Everybody felt it

in

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- Now, soon Prince Rupert's

“net this tinie: “British” ‘Otumbia’s : “pi
arms to the Vimy Ridge memorial un-
veiling , are about to syitness the cere-
mony. which wit! take place on July 26.
Tt. has taken el¢ven years to complete
‘Canada’s, tribute to her dead,
those: Whe have fone from Prince Ru-
hert to he present at what will be an
stor leat occasion, nre TNonald Crerar,
anil Wttle son Alistair, Bill
Alen Davies. Norman Watt. Jack Plint
Theo, Collart ns well ag sev eral athers.

Marra ¥,

a

Four Japanese. said to represent imn-

woek in the district, making personal

fl strong probability of cottenwond
Rupert. It

is

ue #

The Frizzell Tot Springa on the

rty of Tannnese business meétr, whoa

-

Pearson, Mrs.: ‘Wr Elder’ and: Whit-

all, “AZ coupld' of: Other. men‘ ‘came

because that’s
where most of them are from,
fail to fall for Prince Rupert gardens,
The visions of loveliness hever remind |.
In faet. quite the op-

escaped.

public
building will start is a matter of some
sheenlation, but there. is every indicn-
tion that the question of a site is just
ahont decided. ‘Negotiations are in pro
gress between the Provincial and the
Dominion fovernment, and wiseacres
declare that the post office will stand
Gond guessers place ft at
the junction of Third Ave. and Third
Street—just neross from the .
Block. ,

Besner

Among

‘} heen

sustaining the morale of the nation
in the past few years of diffienlty has
heen. the strong Jeadership given hy
the press of Canada. Despite leanings
in some quarters. to the radio (like oll
new things getting an early break) for
the prapagation of ideas, the newspa-
bers will ocenpy first position in the
‘scheme of ‘things. In all movements
ifor the good of the people the news-
/Daters have always stood first, and al-
ways will be in that position. The
sneaker urged all those who fee] inclin-
sed to sponk bitterly of: “the power of
8 | ithe press”. to measure how much of
5 tut power is for good. (PNS)

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ea

CONSTRUCTION

Prohably no lessm has been better

leirned from the ;lepression period
than that we as a people are absolu-
tely dependent one upon the other
Hard times in one industry affeet all
more or less, But perhaps the indus-
try which reflects or is affected by
conditions more than any other is Con
struction, The clang of the hammer
and the staccato tap tap of the rivet-
ting machine are not heard upon the
city streets where huge buillings
should be rising high up into the air,
and in the big and the little places all
over fhe Thominion the erection’ of
dwellings to make new and happy
homes is stopped This influences: a
whole world of production of. goods
and “supplies,”
rying as they were wont to do and that
one element .2lone in aur social life
rocks aur economic system to its very
foundations.
Tn 1929, the creat rear of this Dom-
inion. there were 77.000 marringes and
bv 1982 this had dropped to over 62,-
000. It can be said that in the inter-
yal the depression hail resulted in the
; non-exista nee of some 30,000 house-
holds which would otherwise have
established. Here, therefore, is
a single fact’ which wielded an influ-
jenee upon ‘business in Cfnada that is
not ensily calculated, to say nothing of
the effeet an ‘the birth rate which this
pronounced decline in marriages in-
evitably produced, :

1 See 8 0 eee

WHAT OF ROADS?

“Young ‘folk-are-not-mar--

Lloyd Thomas
Terrace Drowns
Tuesday Night

Terrace, July 22—Lloyd Thomas
youngest son of Mr, and Mrs. C. H.
Thomas, was drowned in Braun’s Is]-
and stough ebout nine o’elock.
Tuesday had ‘been very warm and
young Thomas, along with Billy Llew-
ellyn, had been working all day in the
hey fleld. After supper. they went for
aoswin. Thomas jumped into the
waiter first while Llewellyn built a
fire on the bank of the slough, He
heard the splashing made‘by Thomas
and looking around saw him disappear
near the south shore. Llewellyn went
across Braun’s Island to 8. G. Cooper's
home in search of help, Cooper was
working in his garden. Cooper, Bunt-
ing aud Ralph Heppél soon got a bont
und dragged it up the river from the
Lambley .place and ‘probed ‘near the
seene of the drowning with poles. The
water Was seven feet’ deep at that
point and little could be done with the
poles, About ten o’clock Frank Green
went. up town for Cons. H. L. McKen-
hey and ag soon as he could’ be found
drag nets were got together and it
took only a few. minutes.to ‘find the
body and bring it to the surface,.

The coroner was notified, but after
a preliminary enquiry decided thet an
inquest was not necessary. -

The cause of the.¥ rng man! 8 drown
Ing was cramps. "s
“The slough has aly hee been edad
ed as a sate place té bnétie, . Owing. to
the very high water oF: the last few:
weeks the slough was higher: than us-
tml. although. therd. /Wwhs, no
water. eaten at

Toya Tomas was silie youneeat “ot
the family and the only one left at
home, the others being married, and
most of them away from Terrace. Ho
was still under twenty-one years: of
‘ge, He wns known to everyone and
was a favorite among the young folk.
Mueh sympathy is felt for the pnr-
ents and members of the family. © *

WHISTLED 100 YEARS AGO

Canada celebrated last Tuesday the
10) anniversary of the first train te
run in this country. and the event was
marked hy an order issned to all rnil-
Way engineers, factories and ronnd-
honses to blow the whistle for cone
minute at noon hon. It was at noon

{ou July 20, 1836, that the Dorchester.

The establishment hy the Dominion
government of a department of com-
munications ealls to mind some great
Policies of the past which have left
distinct impressions upon history and
progress. Toland communication was
a more difficult problem than by water
and the Romans solved it magnificent-
ly in thei day with wonderfally con-
structed roads. Speed in travel was
greatly nccelerated and territories op-
ened up for organization and. develop-
ment. It was in the beginning a mili-
tary policy. More recent history telJs
us that the pacification of the Jacob-
ites was brought about speedily by the
building of roads after the last rising.
Tt wos rv military undertaking _ Also
carried out by soldiers,

road policy. carried: ‘out. in, Canada, An.
thé early days was the: great highway |:
which was built by. the military from:
end ‘to end of Ontario. Its western: ter-
minus was Windgor, | Tt became known
as the govenor's road, ‘in honor of Gov
enor Simcoe. It stimulated | settlement

The most outstanding example of |.

the first® Cheing ‘ti Canhaa’ © “Started
from Laprairie for St, Johns, Quebec,
hauling the first passenger train over
the Champlain and: St.-Lawreuee rail. :
way, the first link in the ehain of rail-
Ways that are now component parts of
the Canadian National System.. Just.
100 years later the engines of the sys-
tem echoed the starting Whistle, of the
Dorchester.

BR. UT. Kenney, MIA, went enst on

the Tuesday train‘‘to* attend the mect-
ing of the Provincial ‘Liberal Execntiv re
In Yaneouyver on Friday: of this: week,
He expects. to be away about. ‘ten days.

service, | "Today: we have. over 400, 000

| passed the. danger
nt. Ih bear. Had a:eub close by.

miles.of liighways in- “Canada, of which
lose: te 100,000 are ‘surfaced, “Truly a
muatrvellons development, In less: than a

and trade, and did a Temarkable: ‘Social | _. o

running, ae