OMI 2ALD. NEW HAZELTON, B. C., MARCH 20, No. 38 an Basket Social Pe oar = ‘ Business Firms 1 7 1| Lhrough Trains And Dance A |! TELKWA TALES {| At Burns Lake NEW HUZELTON | For North In Great Success){_ UN” dt} «= are Burned Out}! 7 | New Schedule The New Hazelton Community League made its debut as a social organization on Tuesday njght with a St. Patrick’s dance and basket social, The affair was a great success in every way. The sale of baskets brought in $155 and there was considerable money received afterward from those unable to secure a basket, but | who had supper on the side. From the first waltz to the last there was life and jollity and not one but had a good time. The Kispiox orchestra furnish- ed the music and they never put ma more life into their music nor mm kept better time. They gave a such satisfaction that they were? fe re-engaged for a dance in the ho- tel on Easter Monday night, April 13th, under the auspices of the oa Community League. The floor was in fine shape and the hall was nicely decorated. The place was very comfortable and well lighted. The attend- ance of men was exceptionally and they out-numbered the ladies f two to one. The town ladies were | nearly all present and had a real good time. Only four ladies from oufside points found it con- venient to be present. But there was never 2 moment’s drag. The committee in charge are well satisfied with the suecess of the affair, §The net profit of f the dance was $140. by ® i ! | :* Terrace $ Gres i O. P. Brown left on Thursday for Seattle on business, Home’s Best _ Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Swann re- a turned to Terrace on Wednes- day night, being held up in Van- ma couver for a few days on account Z of illness, Their itinerary in- ’ cluded Scotland, England, and mm Ontario, but these sections of the me slobe failed to fulfill the expecta- A tations of the visitors in the way me Of prosperity. Toronto had many wm vacant business buildings, Me bankrupt sales were common. mm Vancouver was found to be the aa most prosperous-looking place in mm Canada, and Mr. and Mrs. Swann a iecl they made no mistake in mm settling in British Columbia. ma Their many friends welcome their a return. ie @ The Smithers batchelors are to ee ziye a dance -to tHetr friends at |: $2.50 per friend. Mrs. Herb. Haakia andé gon res me turned from the’ hospital. this i week and both are doing well. R. Doll hid tha misfortune to B working on hig new house. Ae wren, and | * {March 18 was 22: degrees and the . highest 48 degrees. Heut his foot ‘last week while| : After visiting friends in Smith- ers Miss Wakefield returned to Telkwa on Thursday. J. P. Wheeler, Soldier Settle- ment supervisor, visited Wood- cock and Houston this week, Cons. Andy Fairbairn went up to Burns Lake on Thursday in connection with the fire investi- gation. There was a big crowd went to the Smithers hospital dance on St. Patrick’s night and had. a big time, Guy Farrow and E. Wakefield aired their differences of opin- ion in the Smithers police court jon Thursday, Extensive alterations are being made at the Telkwa hotel which will add materially to the com- fort of the guests. All along the line the farmers are enthusing over the desired milk distribution depot at Prince Rupert. Some of the farmers are preparing, not only to hold on to their milk’ cows, but to in- crease their herds. The dance in-aid of the public library held on Friday evening of last week was verv well attended and some $30 was the net result, besides of course a very good time. The library is now free of debt, much to the joy of those j in charge of it. The Telkwa coal mine will be operated this summer and plans are being made to haul by trucks as soon as the roads dry out, A man well qualified to speak, in- formed the Herald trat the coal now being mined was the best the district had produced and as good as any he had ever seen in the province. Dan Quinliven and Tom Blyth- man have finished their winter’s operations and are now seratch- ing ground feathering Dan’s new nest for the spring hatch. The chicken market is more promis- ing this spring than usual and the boys want to be in on the rising market. m1 Lakelse Valley « 0. P. Brown has left for Seattle on a combined holiday and busi- ness trip. We understand that Pete Me- Donald is taking. over. the ferry at Remo. ° “HL -Freckman was home for the week-end. : The’ lowest _ temperature. re- corded ‘during: the week- ending Burns Lake is about $50,000 to the bad as a result of the fire on Wednesday morning which clean- ed out a good portion of their business houses. Starting about eight o’clock inthe morning in Robb's hardware store the flames rapidly spread until Aslins gener- al store, the O. K. Cafe, the tele- graph office, the. post office and Wood’s drug store were wiped out and the Royal Bank was very badly damaged. The heaviest losers were Robb’s hardware and Aslins general store, both of them having recently received heayy spring shipments and lost the bulk of their stocks, The other business places having had time to remove contents. Mr. Wood got all his stock and household goods out. He had planned on going to Prince George the end of this month anyway. The Village of Burns Lake is without fire protection and thus efforts of the citizens, no matter how strenuous, were greatty han- dicapped and the best they could do was to save contents‘and the more distant buildings: Every- one worked hard, The Burns Lake fire was a bad blow to that community. It will be a long time before the village will get back to its old position, Usk Skeena’s Industrial Centre hd i l wen Mrs. W.-S. Dobbie, of Copper River, was a week-end guest of her sister, Mrs. P. Post, Buckley Shannon, of the Skee- na Lumber Co. staff, was on the sick list for several days, James Darby made the round of acquaintances at Copper River and Vanarsdol during the week. Dr. B. E. Harley, and D. F. Harley, of Hutton, late logging contractors for the United Grain Growers, were in town during ‘| the week, .. T. Beshaw, formerly of the Beshaw Lumber Co., Dewey, was was a visitor at the Skeena Lum- ber Co.’s mill and was a Ruest there for several days, Mrs. G. W. Graves and Miss Victoria Batter have left for Edmonton, the former. on a. visit. In the meantime G. W. Graves, popular C.N,R. agent: may soon have a revulsion of feeling con- commune his: present bachelor role: A yery successful dance ‘tobk place in Bethurem Hall on Satur. day night, under the auspices of the Usk Tentiis Club. Some vis- bya late train; made vp for lost Reten your subsetnton today. time when they’ did arrive, by “ any others still living. itors from ‘Terracé, made tardy |- ' Fred Peterson was a visitor in town the first of the week. On Tuesday evening there will be a general meeting of the New Hazelton Community League in the school house. Clarence Corless returned to his home in Francois Lake Wed- nesday night after visiting here for a couple of weeks. Rev. A. C. Pound will conduct church service in New Hazelton on Sunday evening at 7.30. Sun- day schoo! at 2.30 p.m. Harry Thornton of the C. N.R. engineering department is spend- ing a couple of weeks at his home here before the springy work gets under way, Jock Laing of the ©. N. R. tie inspection department has been here all week loading ties. He has a string of fifteen box cars to load out immediately. The interior was visited by a zeneral snow storm Wednesday night, but Thursday was so mild that it all disappeared and took a Jot of old snow with it. There will be a dance in the hotel on Easter Monday night, under the auspices of the New Hazelton Community League, The Kispiox orchestra has been engaged. The Hanson Timber & Tie Co. were the successful bidders for the big tract of cedar on the north side of the Skeena and op- ‘|posite Carnaby. A cruiser is in j {the bush now looking over the possibilities for getting work un- der way thissummer. It may be they will have to wait until tall. Reginald L, Gale and his bride nee Miss Edith F. Buss, of Vie- |. toria, arrived in Smithers Thurs- day morning to take up their resi- dence. That evening a large}. number went up to the house to! five them the once over. The wedding took place in Victoria on March 7th and a short honey moon was spent in the south, Last of the Originals John C. Bryant died at Nanaimo recently at the age of 80 years, and with his passing the bio- graphy of the Ingenica pioneers who made Hazelton their winter quarters might be closed. Those who remember the old boys in- form us that they cannot recall “Phe late Mr. Bryant was a good friend of the late James May, Ezra Evans and the rést of the Ingenica men 80 well remembered hére,' There are some who feel that the de: teased should have been brought here.to lie-with his old friends. extending the festivities way on into thé’ ‘wee hours, a veo4 Viee-presidents Warren and | Hungerford of the C. N. R, made a trip over the line from Prince Rupert to Jasper on Thursday. At Smithers Olof Hanson, on be- half of the Board of Trade wait- ed on them in regard to getting the daily train and the summer schedule started early in April rather that in May as announced by the railway, The officials ex- plainéd that there were a num- ber of reasons why the change could not be made. Mr. Warren stated, however, that when the new schedule started, trains Nos, $ and 4 would run between Win- nipeg and Prince Ruvert and the Nos. 1 and 2 would run between Toronto and Vancouver. That does away with delays at Jasper and gives the G. T. P. a mainline status. He also reported that in the meantime there need be no fear about the fish business being neglected. The railway is pre- pared to move the fish as fast as it is landed at Rupert. Annual St, Patrick’s Tea Some seventy dollars were tak- en in by the W. A; of St. Peter’s church at their annual St, Pat- rick’s tea and sale. of work and candy held at the Mission House on Tuesday afternoon. There was a good attendance and an en- joyable afternoon was spent. ‘In. charge of the candy and work both were Miss Hogan and Mrs, A. A, Connon; Mrs. Sharpe and Mrs. Turnbull were in charge of the refreshments and Mrs, Wins- by was cashier. Has Lease on Gold Pan Mrs. E. R. Cox recently had a letter from her brother Phillip Hankin who has a placer lease on ‘Gold Pan creek. He states that no gold had been found on that ereek yet (that is on bed rock). He was going to sink the first shaft on the creek, starting first of March and would go to bed rock. He promised to report as goon as he got down. . He says every lease on the creek has been staked. There are many other creeks in the district from which food colors can be secured, but as yet no one had gone to bed rock and very little is known as to the value of the country, but there will be a stampede just the same and the country will be well prospected and tested this year, There is lots'of good ground. The Provincial government 18 preparing to sénd an exploration party into. the Dease Lake coun- try this summer. The Herald is $2,00 a year. Are you a subscriber yet?