Sourdoughs in Dease Lake are According to Edmonton reports jfrom the Dease Lake country no eold to speak of has been found as yet. The original locators did Ynot encotrage anyone to go into Wthe country and Hankin of Haz- elton, who has been there a: long time discouraged anyone. leaving 1 Ny \p f \ i iB F \ . uy ‘ ft; their happy home, The old sour doughs are reported to be leav- Jing the country and that is the #firat favorable sign that has yet reached the outside. The new Sceneration of prospectors will not be’ hampered with the old sour fdough’s superior knowledge nor ; this tales of woe and how “we did Bit in 798 or *76,” ‘be turned down on a sourdough’s : sayso. No country can The green prospector is a a shot but he is the best bet. has ambition, enthusiasm and romance to stack against the old man’s satisfaction in his own knowledge. Thus the worth, or Hack of it, of Dease Lake as a real “Placer country will not be known this summer. +E lazelton Promotion Exams | The public sehool” at” Hazelton ; losed.on Tuesday afternoon for e ‘summer. vacation | ‘and was marked by the présentation of ¥eports and honor rolis, The suc- essful pupils were as follows:— Honor Rolls ’Proficiency-Wm: ‘Sargent ‘Deportment—Rubby Duggan Regularity and Punctality—Agnes Ster- ritt Promotions E To. grade 6— William Sargent, Ella Cox Mary Sargent, Ethel Tomlinson @To grade 5~Thelma Cox, Margaret \ rf 1 Marshall, Helen Cline, Bernard Hin- F dle, Neil Sterritt, Walter Sterritt, | yy Charlotte Graef ._ From juniox third to senior third— Earl Sweet’ @ To Grade 8—Agnes Sterritt, Jack Cline ‘ Marion. MacKay, s Hleanor “Fomlinson Spy ten To grade “2—Roy “Winsby and. ‘Helen othy Hindle, Robt. Duggan. ' Sweet Peas in Bloom _ The first sweet peas to bloom (this year are in the garden of , t ! | qy ‘i , y 2 gy Smithers Tuesday, night... this vear.’ wo § Ed. Hyde, he having: picked some Blast week. ‘These’ are the plants | = that he started i in the hot bed and |: set out in the’ open about the middle of May.’ Mr. Hyde now mis making a minature sunken fgarden in which he will endeavor to grow a number of water plants including the calla;jilly which: is so plentifui in.McMullen pond ‘at = New Hazelton. ~ has this year a thougand: gladiola F bulbs,. including a shipment im; Borie direct; froth : ‘Holland. He/ looks for sortie very Sposial bloom | _{erqn‘of Vancouver motored over - "I the line this week on an inspee- Nelson ‘and: Pulson went up to Now Pessimistic | : Breckenden tie, Marjory. Pound, Dor- |: ‘In his garden he| wish for, NEW HAZELTON, B.C., J UNE 26, 1925 No. 52 Annual School | Meeting July 11 School ‘Matters The new school for New Haz- elton is assured, The school boarP has received communica- tions from both the public works and educational departments in regard to the site and the plans, There is no reason why the build- ing should not be ready for the opening of the fall term. The secretary of the board has also received the resignation of Miss Sheasgreen who has: been teacher for the past few terms. This resignation is regretted by both parents and pupils as Miss Sheasgreen has given satisfac- tion in every way and the pupils have made splendid progress, - The second Saturday in July is the annual meeting of the school district and it will be the most impertant meeting yet held in this district, especially to pro- perty holders, There will be two trustees to elect; the new school and grounds to consider; a new teacher _to engage, and double the amount of taxes to provide. The status of the school is being changed from an assisted school to a rural school and there is also|, the matter of the teacher's salary and the teacher’s qualifications |. to consider. Everyone interested in the fu-|: ture of the town, and especially4: property owners should be at the meeting. ; Found a New Lake Miss C. D. Todd of San Fran- cisco, was'o guest this week of Mrs. C. W. Dawson. She is en- route to Juneau. On Sunday Mr and Mrs. Dawson, Miss Todd and Mr. Utterstrom motored out to the Kispiox und fished.in Finni- gan Lake which Dawson Bays is the most beautiful. lake. in. this distiict, ‘It is about’ three-quar- ters, ot.a mile back from the road towards. Cariboo mountain. ‘He .says there are fish. i in the Jake, too, but not so many as there ¥ ere ¢ on. Sat- urday last. rns: Dominion Day in Hazelton| The Hazelton Athiletic-Associa- tion have arranged - for a good |. afternoon's program on the new athletic grounds. There will al- 80 be a ball game, probably be- tween the married and single men as the put up about as interest. ing a.scrap as. the. spectators can music will be ‘good, .Aalat, General Manager Cani- tion‘tour. ; The: Herald i is spaly v2 00 ayear It is’ ‘lan easy” lake to get to and’ has a {good hard shore line. ‘At night there will be. 1a dance in Assembly Hall and the ance if ity was is tidied up. eer Made Money P. G. E. Stock - Reduced Debt | ’ The Bulkley Valley Automobile The minister of finance, Hon, Dr. McLean, has completed satis- factory arrangements for the re- demption of an issue of bonds made for the P. G. E. in 1920, The company secured a loan of $4,828,000 on a note some years ago, and as-collateral security it pledged $5,925,125. worth of its stock guaranteed by the province After the line was taken over by the province pavment of this note was demanded and to meet it an issue of bonds was sold. bearing interest at six per cent and ma- turing in five years, that is, this month, The provinee acquired the P.G. E. stock which, at the time was worth 65. It is now worth 90. At that price it could be sold and leave a handsome progt over and above the amount of the out- standing loan. The minister has sold the stock and paid off the 1920 loan. The public debt thus ig.reduced by close on five million dollars, and in addition three- quarters of a million dollars pro- fit goes into the revenue. - OVERHEARD AROUND | NEW HAZELTON o Dave Thompson of Toronto ar- rived Saturday night and with W. 8S. Harris went up to the Sil- ver Cup the first of the week to make an examination for Toronto men. The spent the week on the mountain. Three entrance pupils from the New Hazelton school are writing their exams at Hazelton this week, John Salt was a visitor to the coast during the past week. The Babine Indians arrived at Hagwilget this week on their an- nual visit.. The Canadian’ National boats are now. making three trips per Soe’ b 4 week between Prince Ruper and]. ‘the south: They leave-Rupert jon Monday, Wednesday and Sat day, ‘Avis Wall of Smithers ' was & guest last week of Jessie Smith, Owing to the late spring and the cool weather since the Han- son Timber and Lumber Com- pany do not expect to get their poles'the water before the mid: dle of July. Along the Skeena| river the company has stored lialf of last winter’s cut and. thess poles have to be floated to Cedar-| { vale before they can, be loaded: A'good many poles have been shipped’ : ‘gut recently and it is]. now possible to approach the de- pot-with:a-car. The place‘ could | he: materially i improyed in appear- Auto. Fans had _ _A Meeting and Chose Emblem Association met on Monday night in the public library at Telkwa when about fifteen members yot together. The emblem of the association will be a sticker for the upper part of the, windshield with a small sticker for the year below. These have been ordered and upon arrival will be sent to the members at a naminal charge |; of fifty cents each. The matter of the railway cross- ing at. Telkwa to serve the new bridge over the Telkwa river and which the railway company clos- ed is now in the hands of provin- cial authorities. The committee handling the matter of gates on the public highways reported pre- gress, Cooper H. Wrinch of Hazelton drew attention to the need of placing. danger signs and direc- tion signs on the highways in the central part of the riding. This matter is being referred to the rovernment to deal with, On the suggestion of Secretary Groat the Association decided to prepare a map this .fall of road “(improvements and new:.roads to be built next year and submit it to the public works department ‘las a guide for next season’s pro- gram. Many other things were talked about but owing to a fin- ancial stringency no action ‘was taken; Copper mining is being started again by the Granby people. in the Princton-Grand Forks dis- trict and the immediate future of the copper market is more hope- ful than for years. ‘The game board meets in Haz- | elton on July 9th. ‘Rev. A. C. Pound motored to Moricetown on Sunday and con- ducted a service. He also bap- tised six children, two belonging to Mr, and Mrs, Daniel Pritehard and four belonging to Mr. and and Mrs, H. Perkins, Next Sunday patriotic services will be held in the United church Bill Wallace, Dan Quinliven and others. motored down from Telkwa on Sunday to see the boys and to get a good square at Old Charlie’s, A farmer in the Quick district reports that on June 18th he had suring wheat 26 inches high and oats the same height. He would like to know if there is any spring grain in the interior that can beat ‘If'so the Herald. would. giad- ty tell the world about ite. One of the most exciting: all games of the season was played on the athletic grounds Saturday night’ when the married men and single men: “of the. two towns. met » for the firet time, Closing School - Fine Program Scholars Pass A very entertaining program was presented last Thursday af- | ternoon by the public school pu-- pils. Quite a number of the par- ents were present and felt quite chesty over the art. displayed by their children; One of the most interesting features of the after- noon was the presentation of the honor rolls, the prizes and the re- sults of the examinations. These were ag follows, the names being in order of merit:— _ Promoted to grade 8—Jean Burne, Oakley Senkpiel, Omer Spooner, Anna ~ Johnson, -Promoted to grade 7~Stanley Stoy- noff, Wayne MeMullen, Eddie-Denno. Promoted to grade 6—Josephine Wea- ver, Dorotha Stoynoff, John Willan, Billy Sargent, Earl Spooner, Thomas Willan. Promojed to grade 5—John Smith and Arthur Willan, . Promoted to grade 4—Orrice Sargent Hugo Johnson. Promoted to grade 8—John Sargent, Fred Thornton, Alice Stoynoff, Harry Weaver, Lawrence Weaver, Charles P, Smith, Katherine Smith, Crawford Harris, ; Rolls of Honor - Proficiency in studies—Jean Burns Regularity and punctuality — Oakley Senkpiel Deportment—J ohn Willan ‘Prizes. ‘for: “Spelling” Hee: Tom Marshall, Stanley Stoynofi and Josephine Weaver, each winner was ” a different prade. Foreatry Essay prize, Prince Rupert district—Jean Burns | For two or more years the ‘de- portment honor roll has. ‘gone toa boy—must be something wrong with the boys, Refreshments were served af- ter the exercises, fellows had it over the dads a little, -but the old men abused the umpire the most and atill feel they are right. They may, meet azainon Dominion Day. Quite a crowd saw the last game. Albert Mercer has taken a con- tract to put up a raise on the Mo-- hawk claim on Four Mile moun- tain. He started last. Friday. Miss Lauder, presiding exam- iner at the high school examina- . tions has been.a guest of Mrs. Thornton this week, remembers Lord Byng as a boy and has a copy of a program the General’s sister prepared in which ‘| they both took part. The Gener. al rattled the bones in the orehes- tra and did it well. . . The following. children have the Woodeock school—Efficieney, A Jessie Brand; for:regularity and punctuality, “Alberta. Dentinger; , deportment, Jean Doll; five pupils : were awarded. writing certificates | by H. B. MeLean of the’ Vancou-.' ver Normal: school Alberta Den- tinger,.. Tessie: Brand, Minerva The e youn : Mrs, Houghton of Glen Vowell. - been awarded‘rolla. of honor for.