| a, Member Consulted Settlers |

@ Institute was held in the school-
house on Thursday afternoon,

. session, the members were ad-
mm dressed by Dr.

ed was the urgent need of a road
Ma from Woodcock to Kitwanga.
aa Members from the latter place

Me the way to attend the meetings

2 own district are opening up new
mM Jand and would greatly benefit by

i) was well attended, and all those
@ present expressed the desire that
Me the road be built. A dance took

® place in the evening and was
m= considered by all a decided suc-
me cess.

am that H, F, Doll had purchased

Ba The purchase was made by Mrs.
om FH. Doll.

7 few days in Prince Rupert.
me pert.

: enjoyed a dance in the school

§ the week-end with friends here.

a ver last Sunday night.

oy

Ma to cut his left foot and was taken

me. from his ranch at Telkwa, where
® he has been for a few days.
} Mrs, Paullis was a guest of

: q
ai Rupert so that he will have his
| hog run in time.

met
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a} for the.purchase of the Premier
qi mine at Stewart. and. if succes
ful wi amalgamate i it: with ¢

A Vou. 17

Be business as a means of using his}:

out his poles, _— i,

| ‘alls are involved in the: deal:

NEW HAZELTON, BS C., APL Hf 1995 |

Woodcock - Francois Lake | Usk OVERHEARD AROUND 113 = Terrace
; ' See ; a 7 Skeena’s Industrial Centre .. || NEW HAZELTON I ;

A meeting of the Farmers’

@ April 9. After ashort business

H.C. Wrineh,
PM.L.A. Among matters discuss-

are compelled to walk oyer half

here, while five settlers in our

the proposed road. The meeting

In a recent issue we reported

some land from Geo, Hartley.

W. C. Little recently, spent a

H, Brennan is visiting in Ru-

serene =

Apri een

A ‘number of “Woodeosk folks

house Saturday night.
T. W. Baker, of Usk, spent

Ed, Brennan left: for Vancou-

C, Buchan had the misfortune

' to Hazelton for hospital” treat-
ment. ‘
W. Elliott returned on Monday

Mrs. J. Borsuk on the 3rd.

-Mr. and Mra. Leach and son
are leaving this week for a trip
to Edmonton.

W. Brand has been buflding a
hog run and is entering the hog

surplus milk. Bill is looking: for-

ward to the establishment of the
elgvator and the creamery at

“Capt. Li Clive, of Kitwanga,

tt attended Dr.: Wrinch’s mesting, -

| here last week.
Ted Hodkins is ‘busy hauling

wd Se vip

Police nepestoi rarsond “will

be moving’ shorfly:t ‘to ‘Vietotia’t to
make his headquarters, *

An English. Co. is negotiating |

bth

Silver. mings,”

~|geveral years.

\sary thing in the country.

A dance. was held i in the Tches-

day, March: 2B, at which a good
crowd was: present. | The music
was all that could be desired. At
midnight a delightful Juncheon
was served and Mrs. Connor pave
astep dance which was greatly
appreciated. Mr. Moore was
also ealled-apon to perform, and
obliged. with four varieties of
step. dance. Dancing was then
resumed and continued to the
wee hours of the morning.

The snow is rapidly disappear-
ing, and mud is taking its place.
If the latter stays all summer
the farmers need not fear @rass-
hoppers, as it will be impossible
for them to hon,

The camps up the lake have
taken on a new lease of life, and
on Thursday last eight sturdy
tie-hackers went up to Unger’s
camp.

A. Atkinson and daughter,
Miss Selma, have returned to the
country after being absent for

The F, R. Keefe sawmill is now
running and M. McDonald, J.
Stanyer and D. Diskoll are kept
busy hauling lumber to. the dam-
fred ‘bridge™on" the Burne ‘Lalie’
road,

‘Edwin Loveseth, of Danskin,
was @ recent visitor. to Francois
Lake,

It is reported that G.. B, Robb.
‘is contemplating - building a new
store in Burns Lake, to. replace
the one recently destroyed by
fire. We hope this is true, as a
hardware store is a.very neces-

Mrs. J. H. Keefe, accompanied
by her daughters, is visiting her
sister, Mrs, A. A. "Connon, in
Hazelton.

Mrs. MacKay will haye on dis-
play at Mrs. Sawle’s home a fine
line of spring millinery and spring | -
and summer dress goods, this
coming week. At

Johnson's: home on Wednesday
afternoon.’ The meeting day has
beer changed from Wednesdays
to Thursdays. The ladies. have
also started to prepare tor the
bazaar next fall.

Amos Wells has been norsinga
sore finger which he had crushed
between a couple of ties.

School cloded ‘Thureday, after-
noon with a very successful social
hour, Studies will resume on’ the
20th of April. |

. Maintenance work: on the road
from Hazelton has been started,
There will be two, government
teama working: this' season and ‘it
€/is. expected several more yards

Numerous

son ¢ on the main road

inkut Lake schoolhouse on Satur-|

The Ladies’ Aid met at Mis

of gravel will.be spread this sea-|

Dai Mason, foreman of the
Skeena ferries, arrived in town
and is getting the ferry in shape
for launching.

J. G. Bjornstad, president of
the Skeena Lumber Co., left Usk
for Minneapoiis last week.

T. P, Scully, who was forced to
make a trip to the Prince Rupert
Hospital,’ is back again in very
much improved: ‘health.

Gus Nyberg and Erling Will-
man are leaving this week for
Trona group on Kleanza Creek,
to commence development work
for the owners, represented: by
Capt, J, Willman.

Rev. Rural Dean Marsh, of
Terrace, held service at River-
side House on Tuesday night.

A pool-room licence has been
granted to H. D. Gazanoff, in
respect to the Webb-Taylor build-
ing, opposite Usk.

G. E. York, of Terrace, was a
visitor in town on Monday. He
expects to return here shortly to
open up in business.

Mrs. G. W. Graves returned
from her sojourn East, and is
glad to he back again to sunshine |,
and ‘salubsidis ‘spring weather. t
When she arrived at Edmonton.a
short time since it was 40 below.
a striking contrast to the 60 above
in Usk at the time.

Milton ‘Allison was in from the
Usk group, one and a half miles
east of town and on Bornite
Mountain, where has been doing
prospecting work and has built a
splendid cabin and camp quar-
ters. He stated that he had
opened. the vein at lower eleva-
tions and shown the mineral
portion of the vein, four feet
wide, and carrying fine-grained
galena and grey copper, from
which a high-grade shipping ore
can be sorted,

James Brown came in on Tues-
day trom Legate Creek, and with

him brought a sample of ore from
his Regina Group, on Legate.
The sample shows a fine grey
‘copper carrying 286 ounces of
silver to the ton, - Among other
samples from a weathered out-
crop on a vein three feet wide,
a recent discovery, native gold
‘tand silver eould be plainly. dis-
cerned. nestling among the sul-
phide crystals of galena and cop-
per. These discoveries with sev-
eral. other ores. of the. higher
‘grade type are. beginning’ to be
recognized, as existing in. a; well-
defined ° ‘mineral: zone. occupying
the region between the’ ‘Skeena
and,. the . interior. ‘plateau; : ‘and}
having a northwest and southeast |
trend. The Silver Basin’ Ties
within this area. ae

1 Smithers the first of the week.

Several cars of piling and poles
were loaded here this week.

Fred Peterson made a trip to

Easter services will be held in
New Hazelton Sunday morning.

Miss Sheasgreen is spending
the Haster holidays with her sis-
ter in Prince Rupert.

Preparations are complete for
the big Easter dance in the Nor-
thern hotel on Monday night. A
good crowd will be present and a
bie time is anticipated.

The Methodist conference will
open in Metropolitan church, Vie-
toria, on May 11. Arrangements
are being made for local and dis-
trict meetings and for the ap-
pointment of. delegates.

Chas, Barrett is on a holiday in
Vancouver—the first holiday for
along time.
‘Olof Hanson spent last. Tues-
day in town in connection with
the cedar business. On Wednes-
day morning he joined Mr, Dal-
rymple on his private car and
proceeded to Prince Rupert. Mr
Dalrymple is one of the vice
presidents of the Cc. N. RB. and he
Lia on atrinof inspection.. Sever-
‘al other officials were with him.
List week-end Mike George let
up on pole cutting until the bush
dries up some what. He has on
the road 6U,000 feet and another
30;000 feet cut in the bush which
he hopes to get out before the
final break-up of the roads. He
will be able to haul all summer
to the depot.

* As soon as the Easter dance is
over Albert Mercer says he is go-
ing to take some bacon and hard
tack and hit for the jungles with
his traps. He has been in the
bush all winter cutting poles, but
he says that life is too civilized.
He intends to remain in the jun-
gles until everyone.get their gar-
den’s planted,
Gus Christianson, who has been
working in Westerland’s camp all
winter, has sent ‘to Sweden for
his wife and son. They will be
here in & few weeks and will live
in New Hazelton.
The Community League has ar-
ranged for a children’s party in
the Northern Hotel for Thursday
afternoon next from 3 tob-o’clock
and‘all children and their par-
ents are invited.

Born to Mr. and Mrs, E.R.

Country. | Father... mother | ‘and
son-all doing well. - «Experts dis-

Father or Mother, but all agree

tures of both, and is a- ‘most won-

Purvis, of Prince: George, B. G,
jon “April 6, . the most. skoakum
boy ever produced. i in the North:

* jhe: has:.picked up the. best fea:

Se Per

The many friends of H. 8.
Creelman were pleased to see
him back in town after 2 few
months’ absence in the southern
part of the ‘province along the
line of the C.N.R.

Geo. Powers, who has been oc-
cupving the basement part of the
Richmond store. is moving his
equipment into -the Marchildon
building, where he will carry on
his bakery business in future.
He is moving his family into
more commodious quarters on
‘Hill Park’’, into the Smith house
lately oceupied bv the Downey
family.

Const. Eprleshaw had an of-
fender against the Game Act in

the toils last week. The appre-
hended person pleaded guilty to
the charge, but as his offence
was committed under extenuating
circumstances he was allowed his
liberty on suspended sentence
after paying the costs of the
court.

J. K. Gordon. has been busy
demolishing the old fence around
his town garden and erecting a
new one. This work greatly im-
proves the appearance of that
corner of the town. —

Other’ visitors conspicuous in Oo
town during the week-end were
Miss Dewar, of Dobies, 0. E.
Olson, of Remo, R..H. Eaton, of
Lakelse Hatchery, and C, F. Mit-
zinberg. of Hanall.

T. D. Simops is back at his old
job of driving the delivery truck
for Kenney Bros. & Co. -

Now that the snow has dis-
appeared and the “‘hay-maker’’
is doing his best to disperse the
chill of winter, people seem more
inclined to move farther away
from their firesides; consequently
Terrace has been favored during
the week .with many visitors
from all directions.

| WEDDING BELLS

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Minzimberg-Thayer

A very quiet wedding ‘was sol- fe
emnized at the home of the im
bride’s parents, Mr... and Mrs.
John Dye, of Vanarsdol, on Sat-
urday evening, April. 4, when
Mrs. Grace E..Thayer was united
in marriage to Charles F. Min- a
zimberg, of Hanall, by the Rev. . Bm
J. H. Young, of Terrace. Only. ~

The immediate ‘relatives of: the."

bride were in attendsnce.: The.

groom was supported by Mr. Geo. -*

Thain, of Prince. Rupert, while
the -bridesmaid was. Miss Rose -*
Dye. After.the ceremony ‘the |
guests sat down to a: sumptuous.
repast, after which all journeyed .
to the station;:.en ‘route for Han- -
all, where. the happy: couple. will |
reaide,..The wishes of all
acquaintances : and friends actom--

2 drous-alght to behold, Ian’t it
‘he ju ts’ only # 00 a a yese| 2 ; Lo

a ‘matrimonial career.

pany ‘the young. couple on their -