| 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 ma i! ~ i o if " 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 + + 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 -