B A Good Record
- For Four: Year

Period i is. Made aa

The muntefpal: elections: in "Pertace {*
w ill be held - tomorrow, (Thursday)
7 nud there will be entirely new. -lot. of
a ~ conunissioners to handle’ the affairs o
- (he people of Terrace. For four. year:
the same commissioners were elected
“nid remained in office until. the ast
part of the last yéar. .B.., Kenney
a. was the last-to- stay on’ the job and:
few days before the nominations h -
gnve out that-He wouid not be in the
contest again, -He gave: ‘as his‘ yease)
it desire to. devote more. time. to bir
own business, .

The auditor's report is now in. pro.
cess of being printed, -.-Froim. it will be
found that after, four years, the tota_
of the outstandnig. taxes is only $221.
The commissioners : ‘started off, withan. -
it dollar in the- treasuty, At the en.
af the last. year there- -were $1860‘ cash
on hand, -A’ Boodly: sportion of. this ts
earmarked for relief Work. which: ‘will
he undertakelsiny “goon, as the weather
will permit, Tt’ wottld have been done
long ago. ‘oxpepe” "for. delay of authority.
arriving from: ‘Vietorla.- “The -neees-
wary authority only arrived: this nonth
m ‘The village has sssets ‘of over: $10,000.
oe. including. the water. works system, and
ce it might be mentioned that the. water,
* system is paying aR. dividend of ‘better

than 8 per cent. .The commissionerr

have opened, up. pew roads, including
some expensive pieces ‘Which ‘the pro-
vinejal ; public- Works department: dic.
not’ like to. ‘taekle, owing - to ‘the. cost”

™ At the same time:the’ commissioner: “

- watehed. the, » OXE res: closely: ant

j sjastonere alse

. gave thelr time to the ¥itlive’ gratis
Altogether the commissioners - -ERVe
splendid service -to’ the. miunteipality |

and set. up- a’ record which. the new. |

and succeeding ‘commissionérs‘imight |.

well try to equal or éxceed. ‘The’ ‘onl.

fault with the old commission-iwas

, toa keen a desire to keep down: expen-

" ditares, even to na point.- of buying. ou:
; cot town. inorder to. Save, a ‘small: ‘sum.

7 A, WONDERFUL wilttie aa e 4

Weather conditions are ‘about a

“changeable as on girls mind, Whi,

, ithe east bonsts of flowers, song: “bind

Aud farming operations, | ani the sout!

! ‘bunats of snow for ‘the. first, time in +
rent luminy years, our-own country #

tanly rble to boust of y most. delighttu

winter,

- having started in six weeks toa’ 801).

but there"hns been no ‘very. hard frosts ee

suchas Is the custom the First part O°
the year, Fourteen: helow is the: cold

ext, yet recorded, “and that only on ont a

or two ,oecaslous, For the rest of t,
_finie’ t haw been” niore spring like: thi
“Wintel toil there ha been rain-mon:
Hines wthen it” shiptild” ha¥e Déen snow, |
But do tot wet’, too, optomiatle for M.
Man Winter 1s quite fn joker’ and thers
tire six or elght weeks yet durtig.

= which time the Old Fellow might hand

me out any old kind of dessert. ‘Tuat . Ie.

. [enged for what We are ge tting, oP

MANY CUTS AND BRUISES *. |.

' Geerve Jalcron, ollie of the section
_hands n Ikte ‘anyon; is in the ‘hos
spit ant Bh ipsitr ‘there for a weel .

o£ two, apne t Monday, he wi:
ertting ei tat fhe track, and 't

_ the” “edge orn “eeEy ‘gteap “bank, °- Hi
“foot slippe: nnd ihe went. hurtling ‘dow!
‘tthe 200. foot, bank: Enrout he colide
owt at a tree, hend, on. The: vest of thi
“hen wider - Férenian” Be Hegstad, hac
at big wfab? zetting, the ; Anjured. man. v-.
vathe hit. ‘ugnin,. Ho: had: ‘rechived mai.
“penises and @ number’: oe: ‘nusty cut
anid tares about:the® face:head and onc
_ Ander ‘the chin, . He “a: tooth ‘and
“savng, injured ‘in: the’ “mouth, "He : wa
. jvought’ into; New. Hayelton: on a “shee

It has heen: long, "tis true; F.|.

7 A ends a] elters at serategie

Carlot Cockerels
= Go to Ontario ©
: For Poultrymen

* > tthe fist CLE: lot of ‘government’ ins

apecteil ‘male birds- distributed by the
ly the poultry: division’ of the Dominfon

of ‘the cockeral. distribution policy’ ane

tonto hist week, Included in the “car
were 440 birds, 84 of which came from
British Cotumbia, points and the others
cnse- were selected: for: “shipment by
breeders entered under.the federal pol-

ley of R. O. Por Registration. They
‘Were described. by a poultry authority
of. international standing: as ‘the larg.

est: and finest It of ‘br ceding birds he.
had e ever seeh assembled at one time,:

‘Incidentally this‘is the firs occasion
on which a carlot of cockerels has: tra-
velled on oue of Canada’s crack .troins

ac private cnr passengers, On theh
arrival in. the early morning at. the
Union Station in Toronto their. lusty.
eulls made the rafters ring; and as ont,
observer who came up to the car, to Bee
‘the birds expressed ‘f , “from their ap

pearance they certiinly. had the right
to crow.”

vin the. (Hillpment were 26 white Jeg:

‘| Domjnian - Department ‘of ‘Agrienlturc

Live Stock Branch, tinder be provisions | PTusht from “Western Canada to tak

‘nounced last’ fall: by* the minister of

igvieulture, was ‘distributed. from Ton od. “with: ‘carefully, ‘selected ; flocks “ap:

‘proved: by- government: ‘Inspection; ane
‘these ‘flocks - will in’ turn: supply Appre a

‘trom Manitoba.’ These’ birds: in each.

government ,inspecora’ from flocks of |: an te
HORSES Pay. THEME OWN WAY

sonstrated that horses pay. for the! ,

| horns, 19 -wWeandottes and. the. other:

were all Barred: Plymouth Rocks.
: |The , birds. were -reshipped iminediatel;|

for distribution at the Ontario. point: a!

to which they were éoisigned. . All ‘oi
the birds were on order: ‘through th:

which pays one third of the eqst, ‘ang
on: shipnients, of ten birds or mnore, paz
the ‘rauisportation . ecosts. They wer.

cate’ of. the heavy demand: “which. wa::
grently incexeess ‘of: the. ‘qualified. bird -
in. Ontario. -Thesé. birds *Will -be mat.

red. ‘Hatching eres during ‘he comin,
hatching season.

"The Dominion goy ernment has dein

keep... Tt has been showh that-the ‘en -.
of keeping a heavy draught horse j.
$198. 95, and charge. ‘against, this 1
nuniber of hours, labor | worked. durin,
the year, 1925, he arrives.at' a cos
ten,.cents per hour... With this as .
basis to: work from . W. Ww. Baird
Nappan, ; N, Be. . experinientiL ‘station
charges’ ‘against horvge * ‘Tabor, F192 |
the cost” of feed: during’ the, year being
$111.76,. leaving. ‘ge credit balance 0;
$80.74, which-the horse’ carted over r the
cost “of seal.

‘the tabtes ii. ‘local: households.

Jonsérvea: ‘the ‘doctor holding - fhe fiand

: campaigns: or siving of prizes ‘to, the

. come and iear ‘our new organist.”

: roemeen pas

- Sait: “andy. Fairbairg, OL Smithers
who ‘tis head. of. the ‘proyineial’ police i in
the* ‘district, pent a “few? edays * ‘ia. ‘Haz.
alten elving’ thé’ ‘Boye tie: ‘once over,
“Honey producers , are ‘being. urged t
look: to- their! containers to see’ that]
they -Ay@: hot only. clean, but: ativacive:
‘Some producers of inferior honey have
heen. ‘butting: out fancy containers ond
getting away with the market.

The fruit growers of the- Okanaga:
have. heen, urged by the Dean of thi
U, SBec.-to advertise: their fritits ane
especially” those ‘that: are ‘good for the,
verioits disenses: hat inflict mini.

» Phe wlltiws are now. decorat™

It
somewhat ently: and the. pussys may
wish they had not got 8 So abitions.-

Fon. have 2 a “very. ‘poor clrenilation.”

of. the’ ‘editor and counting. his piilse.

“Sint P said - the editor; “T want" you
ta: understand that I have the ‘largest,
eirenlation. in al northern British Col-
umbin, and. 1. didn't get it with any

an wary.”

Miich merriment was caused: by a
sign. in front of a Toronto church that
rend t-— —“Subject ‘Of Sunday evening's
sermon; Do you know “what hell is?”
Undernenth | it in smaller, letters: “Do

ote

a Were: comin
enthusiasts gene
after the fkrhobs:!!
; -'Beenéry and factlitles
- rival'even in ‘Euko
- Funes, pad seh

ee a fisting foot above Ba

oints

: ae

A er and here Skertiff’s' track took: hii’,
is «Mp dhe hoxpttal, for Fe.

“B
‘Nesey St Ski Lodge,

na .
a ‘

Cha en visitors are enj

kLtrack' across vir
glow Camp'‘at’

1009 feet above
he Towers, on Wonder Pass,

TOR: a8 * t oainibotse
iu we, Ptarmigan, Malley: ant
‘Ski-ing-oyer some.of th

D ‘
Heys below.’ Butthe E, Bport.

sia. Fa

Quarters *fomtteing.
anf, eos ta th nA

near Mt. Assiniboine,

fh November each year. :
a bout an Hour out feo the town is the ski lodge built on the | ans aoe
" etwee en. a Maus Norquay and | Stoney. Sau Pron thé-club house runs radint inal diractions with cabins .

3 for ret’ ‘and even ment. ga

Where the pick of- Canadin .
ne, iL, 800: fect ect Hl h, i backgrotind;

6: Bow River, ot or: Geain in, for
one™ of the finest ‘winter ' scene: in t e Rockies.

etre Jump at Buffalo Park and |”

Assiniboine (8) Mount |:

fj Reon,

. | Den along at. that time..

1 cane along and ‘he: found ‘the: hill, th:
\aee half. of, it not 00 ‘paid’'to a

fifth: wedding anniversary. 80 ‘Dletsa
and memorable, . Phe-many: kind: wok:
“ oxpressed and ‘the. good wishes’ ‘extend

chee Mrs. Newick wish, to dank thes

Smithers Grits
~ Favor An: All
‘Interior Riding

ers is not in favor of any reduction f1-
the representation in the Legislatur
from’ the uorth, but if there is a “pri
portlonate reduction of seats in othe: .
parts of the province then the Sinith
“ers Assoclation asks that the bound
‘vies of Skeena be so arranged that tl
“xen coast part of the’ riding: is eut off
nud: the eastern boundry:’ extended t-
the eastward as far.as.they like. Th
Association: favors an: all interior con”
stituency at any rate, - and. pointed on
that, without reducing the number «
seats from the: north, that the born
Ties be. re-arranged 50. as. to leave tl
coast: part of. the riding: off, *: .
The™ Association : members ifiso a’
cussed | the. proposed. reduction: of the,
niimber ‘of ‘memberg and ‘agreed ‘iit?
a news article in the Herald last wee!
that any saving by reducing -the num
her Of members: would - be offset hy,
having’ to provide travelling expense’ |

| for those members whose ridings hac

been enlarged, The . Association als. -
went on record as agreeing: with th.
general public that the eivil service 7
far too cumbersome, ‘and that a ver.
much ‘larger saving could. be made by
ctitting: out,-all the unecessary Ser:
vices performed by the © governmen*
and. that took large staffs of civil ser

“| vints to- ‘perform. | Hundreds * of. civil.

servants ‘at ‘Victoria:. and‘. . thronghon
the province could she dispenaed Wit!
to the benefit: of the treasury . and a

_ | the publie’at large. :
v4") Phere wag 'a Jarge’ ‘attendance, at.t the test

‘nbeting’ and~ Dr: -H.C. -Wrinch, “MEL.

proceedings,

Te ected fo.
the ensuing year with H. L.. Kenney a
‘president,:; and’.that-old. “veteran Sit

‘

| Meyer as. Secretary. . ee Lobe

' DID Hs STATUTE LABOR”

Austin Goodenough on. Mud Crees hits

_ Proved Hiniself,, Efficient as
- _ An: Aman

seeks

"Sutin ¥ Goodénough had ® merry sev. -
sion on Mud‘ Créak hill. Monday ‘after -
“Hé was co mE down “fror
‘Smitherd) He start¢ ‘ap: Mud Cree!
hill and: had Bol i Mar up: -to. tiny
budk when -he/@Ail} ed: that it’ we:
just one sheet oi rad tice all the wa;
‘To, bick’ down; "takin ‘st ag: daigerot:
iis to RO. abedd,: ‘bait Cat ont halt: wart:
his ear’ turned’ on, him and: was facia:
the steep and‘ rugged: ‘bank. of thei Cre
He got the’ thing stopped .£ ‘the- ed:
For ‘some minjites he worrled: over fp) .-
situation: all alone. , Jt ‘didn’t ‘look a
all hiviting, but he natuxatty decide:

ra

(| be could -not sto) there: all night ash.

wus -short on B. number of things, i
pajumas, for Instance... He . did: hav:
an ox in the ent, 80. with, this he start.
ed cutting | ft ‘path in’ the ice, and h.
‘had to cut right away to the top, 11
did not like it. a lléttle bit; put he got
into ‘town: about five, O'clock, Fortun- _
ately Foreman MacDonald nor Public:
Works Minister Brohn’ did ‘not “hap.
Some -hour.
afterward, however,” Sarst,' Fairbair:,

F ho: -Jolnec
w ith: ‘then. tn ‘making their tiventy-

give them.a new-iiles: of: life.

round and ...

ay thea yet TONG

S Tyyhe: contributed to the murses: and he
a Contents. Cole ye

‘The: Liberal: Association at Smith ~.

Ay Was: ‘present and took part. in, ‘thy: a

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