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NEW HAZELTON, B. C., JUNE 20, 1924

OVERUEARD AROUND
NEW HAZELTON

” The first 3 rain n for several: weeks
" arrived’. ‘on Monday afternoon,
preceded by a little sprinkle on
fe Sunday afternoon. ‘The gardens
mee have since taken on a new lease|
" oflife. They were looking pretty
me, sick previously. oO
Hay in the more favored spots
in this section will be ready to
may cutina week. .
moe 86W. Aird, of Pacific, 4s in the
* Hazelton Hospital witha broken
arm, ©

Leslie Forbes ‘has leased the
house just vacated by Mr. and
Mrs. Purvis,. and hie.expects Mrs.

early next month after an absence
-of gome two years,‘ They will
: ‘live here,
The Northern Prospecting. &|’
Development €o., with head-
me «quarters at New Hazelton, has
ia: recently been ofgnized with a
capital of $25; 00, The company
will operate in this vicinity.

The recent rain andthe : pre-t

’ eeding warm weather caused both
“the Skeerna- and” Bulkley “to rise:
several feet the first of the week,

been voted by the public works

@; department for improvements tu
fee the Nine-mile wagon-road, which
oe will be used extensively this year.
m. Five thousand dollars have been
e q also appropriated for the com.
” pletion of the Prince George-New

. Hazelton road.

Hugh MeMillan, of Smithers

Forbes to return from Scotland |.

Twelve hundred dollars. have} -:

Independent 2

Lorne Creek
Copper City:
Cedurvale ..,,

: 4
mo. {

wae was giver five years in Obkalla

by the county judge. The case}:

m was heard in Rupert but thel’,

ma crime was committed in Smithers. |

me = On Thursday at noon there was

Ba thunderstorm accompanied by

the heaviest hailstorm that has

visited this district for years, It

m lasted for only afew minutes,
but that was plenty Jong.

mm, extension of the road from South

ee ee ey

Victoria (four)

Poll SS Wrineh
South Hazelton .....5....0.....° 8
Hanall .::..... REE 10
Skeena Crossing :.-... vevevsees AL
New Hazelton eueitrgrnses 51 .
Remo ..... cece ccecvecssacceay 2°
Hazelton ...... poceveseees ee. 4Q
Kitwanga.. oo... eee eee vere 1D
ak o.oo... seceeseevediesee’ B
Moricetown ......... cones 5
Pacific 0... ..... 00. cece enh eee 7
Telkwa ..... hoe. levees 17
Glentanna ,..,.......ee0edseee5 Al
Smithers ............-005 I niteee 182
Terrace .............. feeds oe. 106 |
Port Essington coe 23

Chilliwack ..... seein Hon. Barrow
Nelson ..........

EK Campbell -
A road gang is. working on an Creston .

Sargent ~ Dockrill. Yes-
2 a) 12
a a!) ; g
“8. oe 18

Be a Al

or oo ace 6

O° Be “4
17. fh OA 86
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640° 187
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we gery st * A

: 2

~ Members Elected - .
Constituency. . ny - Liberal Conservative. - Provincial
Nanaimo........<.,. “rrr Sloan 7
New Westminster : .. Rothwell .
Skeena ....., Ceueeeee leds vesee DF, Wrinch —
North Vancouver es eiaes Lae R Fr Grae
Cowichan. Neweasilé o.....0. 2 v. Davie aaa
Fernie ...'.., Dede bewenaetaues ;
Revelstoke .... 2.5.00... vse Bom, Sithertand
Point Grey:-Richmond.......0.5.: a G. A Walkem
Saanich...... Boa, vee . 7 G ‘Coventry
Alberni o.oo... vee. ec ese, weaee I.
Esquimalt v.00... ....ciccce cee o R. H.-Pooley

>. J. Hinchliffe

‘Major Lyons

A,.D. Twigg A ” me :

Col. Listes 9°

LATE HOUR RETURNS "=Basitest
1 Show Liberals Return with Small Majority
DR. WRINCH IS ELECTED IN SKEENA

Flash. 11 p.m.: Standing of parties, 35 out of 48, give with Pratt, aeorhe ioake making
Liberals 16, Conservatives 13, Labor 3, Provineial 1,

Labor, ete”

; Thos. Ueki

Major Burde -

Frit Outlook —_
on the Skeena 7

There was perhaps never - ye
better show for fruit at:Terrice
than this year. The gods: ‘hi
been good, and trees and. buslie

and all iooking just 0.K...

Strawberries are in now, ship:
ping commencing ‘on the 15th,
four days ahead of last year and:

hot weather on Sunday just ripen-:
ed them up fine, and Monday saw
quite a lot of berries on sale and
over a dozen crates shipped. out, -
And they were the dandiest ever!
Rupert. licked up most of them
and at a nice price, too, - for

| there is an unusual shortage this
"| year.

The Washington supply
is reported only 50 per cent of
the normal; the southern B.C,
crop has been reduced heavily

‘lby large areas having been
_|ploughed under owing to the bad

returns last season, and to cap

_ | the edifice, the Associated Grow-
-.. fers, whe handle about 95 per cent
-, Jof the southern: B.C. fruit, have.

taken over the King-Beach can-
j hery. at. Mission. :

way onto the market, All these
factors will tend to make prices
stiffer this year, and the grower

_ {is sure due a little return for | all

his risk. and efforts. vee
Gooseberries are coming: in,

right: on time, and are in better

There is -
a big show for cherries, both -.-

shape than a year ago.

sweet and sour, and they ought —
to find a ready market soon after.
July is in. Raspberries - have -
never before been sa prolific and
there will be a big trade. from

There starting around. the second”
| week in July.

-Biaek rasps and

. : biack berries ‘Will be much: the -. :

g Hazelton west.

[a 6=—ss- Contractors Moved.

oy )6=—- Magoffin’s outtit that filled in
™ the several pullies west of town.
Bg bus been packed,
B shipped to Edmonton, the new
g headquarters for the company,
The oathit was employed in' this
[neighborhood for several years,
em although not steadily. . The fils]
oe are all niade now over priactically '

F. BR. Purvis,

Phas made his headquarters’ here
for the past two months, left the ;
Bend of lhe week with Mis. Pur-

will reside in future. They leave
behind them many warn friends,

O° more so. than’ they. regret
Beaving. | Mr. Purvis i ig in hopes}:
Snore work; will develop. in: this

loaded and’.

Mae ull the line west ‘of Edmonton,
oh who has been'in! ~
A charge’ of: the . work, and. who’ ~

vis for ‘Edmonton, where ' they’ °

yho ‘regret. their departure, ‘but Le

Hon, Ae NM... Manson, , probably on

Hon, 7. D, Pattullo, elected in
‘Prince. Rupert" on

eizhborhood

elected: n Otnineca.

fact that too large. a proportion

same as last year, the last: named
only being ready about the bee ae
ginning of August. , .
Tree fruit genexally. is. on ‘the
generous side and. but’ for the .

of local apples: are earlies.; -a more.
stable. sand more productive mar.

succeeded | j
tangle, left |

eleven days ahead of 1922, The” aa

This-will swai- :
Tow. up tons and ‘tons of berries
fe which otherwise would find their