sod _ NEW HAZELTON 8, (cG, WEDNESD i, », OCTOBER 30, 1985 4 a sae dae hk _ NEW HAZELTON, B.C. Published Every Wednesday C. I., Sawle Publisher Advertising rate, Display 35¢ per inch per issue; reading notices 15¢ for the first. insertion and-10ec. each. subse- quent insertion: Tegal notices 12¢ and ‘se. Transient Display 40c¢ per inch. To Charles ‘Montgomery, one- time switch-tender and at pres- - ent elevator operator at the Can- adian Pacific uptown office build- ing in Winnipeg, go all honors for having constructed what is probably the most perfecily fin- ished model of a locomotive on the ‘continent, It is a five-foot replica of a een Pacific class: 2300", finished *- brass, and copper, and took tke years to construct ft. Out of.active service for: some years past, Canadian Pacific liner Melita has-been | sold to Ttallan shipbreakers, She * was built in Glasgow in 1918. “Never betray a trust; be hon- est; do what other -man ‘can do; and work your eight hours a_ day,” is the recipe for success - enunciated by Caleb R. Smith, in- ternational chairman of the Mil- lion-Dollar Round Table, speak- ing to the “Life ' ‘Underwriters in convention at* the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, recently, James cm Millar, Medicine Hat, veteran Canadian Pacific engin- eer, Tecently celebrated his §2nd - birthday, ‘when railway acauant- ances and relatives gathered to. congratulate him, He wag born in Drummondville, Que, and -has been..drawing a railroad cheque ~ for more: than th years. ‘ A couple of score of fine old railroaders .whé five decades ago helped push tha steel around the north‘shore of Lake Superior for the Canadian Pacific Railway, gathered near Jackfish, Ont, re- cently, to re-enact the driving of. the last spike at Noslo on May 16, 1885, *% Alex, Anderson, Port Ar- thur, who held the spike when it was driven fifty years ago’ drove home a new gilded spike with a vigor that belied his 81 years, eee The Omineca Herald!" -|in suck abundance at all points and in | from the Mount ef Oliv es, 80 sparingly {high level bridges. would have saved LESSON FROM, thE BIG FLOOD: ——ee he floods in the Northern Interior of British Columbia last week should department in future. Thig is one of the world’s best timber countries—all ‘British Columbia is. We ship timber logs, oles, “manufactured lumber of Inany kinds to all parts of the world. Yet, from the’ beginning of ‘time in the north at least, the department of pub lie works has’ expended vast sums of money on ruck work, mud cuts and in every other possible way, in ‘order to avoid using our own, timber Ww hich. is all directions. One would think that timber for bridges had ‘ to be brought. has it been used. Throughout thenorthern part of the province when the public works. de paréinent has had to cross a _treek, fl stream or a tlyer, every effort has been’ mide: to crass it as.close to the waiter as posible’ To do: this many nies of side hill-mud euts and rock To See i four bildges were Carried away com he of great value to the public: works — a vt a Pear, miles. - “AL the present writing at least pletely or were badly damaged, anil must he replaced. . That is not all, Trattie has ° “been shut off till new bridges’ are ‘bullt. ar temporary crossings: provided. Gangs of mien are kept ‘working all summor to open roads for traffic, and n fall freshet carries aw ny the bridges and closes the ronds that were just] ( opened, and in some cuses leave the men on the other side of .the stream, One might say, “But look at the railway. and the megs they ave in,” That is an entirely different matter The railway is obliged to keep to a certnl grade, and the department of public works can, or at least does, go where it, Pleases, nnd it is usually down to the surfaceof the stream, no mutter how far down. — rR, C. needs higher grade crossings over most of the streams. About Hallowe'en Aamo ta snes muti have been made so that traffic could get down to the lower reaches | and cross over the short spanhbridge. ; Ali know that hundreds of thous amis of dollars have been spent ‘on the : have been spent on maintenance of the’ side hill ents. Gwe refer only to those | pen th, particularly apples, side hilt cuts, and everyone knows that’ ¢ hin more hundreds of thousands of dollars’ jis Tallow" en. in spite of its. legendary spopks, may be snid to linve had an ‘harvest: and other. ceremonies in ‘vari 7 of. this festival (Hallowe'en sos we ee. masé: ‘or AL: ‘Saints Day. ‘Before thie Sist of October was the occasion «of ous. countries ; ‘and the ‘festivities that gradually gathered . ‘around Christian Haliowe’en at a later date originated | for the most part in’ countries under the’ away of the Druid, religion, chiefly Britain, plus’ a few indoor’ and” out door’ celebrations borrowed ‘from the pagan. ‘Roman festival -to: the Er¢dess of fruit. - . : “The “two chief characteristics of an cient Hallowe’ en were the lighting’ ‘of [ ‘onfires and the belief that Hallowe'en |’ was thé ‘only’ night of ‘the year in which ghosts, warlocks, . witches. and evil’ spirits” were permitted to wander the ‘earth, “On the ‘Ist of November the Druids: held. their great fall festi val and ‘lighted fires in honor of ‘the: smigod in _ thanksgiving’. for harvest. It wes also a firm belief in the re ligion of the Druids that on the eve know it), ‘Snman, lord of death, called together the wicked souls that within. the past twelve months had been con. dened to inhabit the bodies of ani jaerienitural origin, aud to’ the present | i ay is associated with fruits of the : reasons for this: the name fiven to the evening of the! Rist of October ; | interesting. to note that in parts of Ire ‘There are land, the 31st of October wus, and is In the ° Christian’ stil] known as Oidhché: ‘Shambna, “the “ch Hallowe! en or All Tailows Bye" vigil oF Suman.” as the vigil of Hallow s0.the Roman festival .in honor af mils. With regard to this belief, it ig On or ¢ about the 1st of November at ‘I Christian era;' however, the eve of fie, jEve of: Bist of: October. hers. of the fire, it ‘was usnal to place as. maiy snaall: stones a their were per ons Rround and next morning a sentch Was Made, displaced; it Wiis, regarded 4s fn omen that the person represented would ilic w [thin twelve months, Poinona as peta: Poinona’ was the fe goddess 64 frait of ‘trees, hence the words, pomolosist, grower of fruit andum pomology.~At~ this -Pomona:. festival} nuts and apples, as representing thef Whiter Store of fruits, played an im portant part.. and. thus orlginated the ‘custom ‘of: roasting. Nuts ‘and ‘ apple } ducking, attempting. to selze with the | teeth nn apple floating in tub of water fl spp. in: which many, later genera tions of. young folk have celebrated the Some cynics | aver that the evil spirits. of all Druid 3 ical times still. vexist in the shape of | thoughtless y ouths whose rough pranks On. Hallowe'en often , resultin injury to ; persons: rand] | ‘mneh, ‘lamage to property Their prauks Are the. survival of the ligentious , part of, the Pomonn fruit festiy al. The-enstom .of lighting. Hallowe’ en fives survived generally until recent years dy the Highlands ofScotland and Wales, nnd stilt ia tn. vogue in’ some ot ihe ‘remoter- ‘parts, - In. the dying em Jf any, of the stones were os “Very heavy snow is reported from Alberta and in’ places, the-ronds — are locked. ~— side hill ents approaching a bridge on} n low level}, “And no good has ‘come of ‘thate tast expenditures. ; Tn lundreds of places in this pro vinee ihe use of local timber to build | iidgees on high levels would have been economical in the first instance, and in the matter of ‘maintenance: The hundreds of thousands of dullars to |tax payers in horse flesh in the early |‘ - day aud in gasoline and ofl and ware Tan “autos, Tt would save aj” | great deal ‘of time and add ‘wonderful ‘ly to'the pleasure of 2 trip and in at | and tear on autos, tractiy eness | ‘to tourists. But the greatest boon of ‘all would he that the high lev cl bridges would |. stay put and not. Wash out every time ial str eam took a ‘notion to. £0 on @ Tam pase. The storms instw eck, cost this pro vince , many, thousarids of dollars on Has rer sabserigtion beon paid yel? the Bulkley and Skeena rivers between Doughty and Prince Rupert. about 200 * : - “You s sweep out, ¥ you ‘tri in the “you Tmalke: up new price cards, you u dim your merchandise’ showings, you Me ary Jobs, REGULARLY i in, ihe normal car. edb vet of your business, ‘ et tee wt, \ i , dg they them repeatedly that you are in business and-have.the 700 teed Do en that REGULARLY? Do-you- -figure you are: going, to yet your’ ‘share of the available busine merchandise and setvice at REGULAR tnteryals instead ‘of doing the Job spasmodieally or not at all? vert: Aewspeper, A newspapor going * youte- rospiertive euMuners, not only i territery as well, makes it easy enoug _ pewsmyieec fers ye dhe finest Ie Use’ espace: ‘REGULARLY. 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Con- éderation:' . ‘Arrangements’. ara ‘its fitting celebration. so. that . Canadian _ Péeléle, people. and the counjry in ve general may’ be’ reminded of ‘the park. ational: development, ‘ 18 Partlenlarly . ‘fitthig that ubiiee. ..-year. ] dare d ‘by, the -appear- Bnde 68d '‘ithportant- k' bear- io history | and: thd sew | Marks C. BP. RY ‘s Sr hs Atinive appedl to’ all wh 5 nw ae ten Te eee ed rary ate ‘by & series of exp, At pelle at.$3.50.0 5 Company: has played ing | tts: 0 are interested | in this country. , .It:is published | th bythe Bobbs” Merrill Wompany in the United States and by McClel- land &, _ Stewart in Canada ‘and ‘ADPeRrE * ‘a8: ‘any ‘extremely hand: some volume.’ Sixteen full colour Tlustrations and... over..two hun-, dred ti’black hind ‘white. help car- ry. the interest throughout,- aided | lanatory maps. copy. Despite|” wide rhige of “internation “and, the :vast- amount of-reading and research "that;’ clearly hag. gone into. its making, human: ing reat and ing record“of the hi and. Ambitions the foundatio: ‘stones’ oF Canadian | nationality, Wane : History « of th Cohiadian Pabitic: md ; 7 fascinating long before tty, ‘Angtdent,::and-: | wit is. full-of | ed: Je ofall ats thad. ‘hava become £0 Mr. Gibbon very largely ignores. i} the,, common-place ‘history book: - ‘stories of early vsettlément “and | ~ ‘ lays before us new incidents ; ‘and. hitherto °- neglected. movements.’ that. led” to. the.-bxploration : ‘and final conquering: of the anadian: 2} HHlderneds: Thus he réchlis: qHat. in the time of. Queen -Anne: the ..”. Dew. demand: for t6a and the. ire~ mendous: ‘vogue for Chin 1 eelitn and for Chinése” house ec— ‘orations ‘turned merchan oo ‘towards thé heen? and sharned- the. lesire : W ‘road tothe. Pacific, trade, Bold«.discover fs and timately the opening’ upc ithe: country, ‘asiai janid! for’ . ment, each played: thet bl reir } pdable atylo.. nd. oxnace fr.