You VI, NO.29 01 ¢

| HAZELTON; B; Cy SATURDAY, “MARCH 16, “1918

PRICE $2.00 A YEAR |

-|THE WEER’S —
- HAPPENINGS

| LOCAL NEWS
oe AT TELKWA||

PARAGRAPHS

f° Items. of Personal Interest From
| Hazelton and Surrounding
foes District

(From Our Special Correspondent)
Charlie Barrett is enlarging his
house _by adding three or four
rooms, - We. don’t know. the

_T. aA Stephens, of / ‘Vancouver,
“isin,town, —

o rumors,

po 5 8. Noyes, of Calgdty, was) Walter Gale, of Hubert, and
here this week.

oa

united’ in the bonds of holy ‘mut-
rimony’ on Wednesday night,
Rev. Larter, of Smithers, per-
formed the ceremony. .

"Weddings and rumors of wed-
dings are rife i in the land.
mor -tells_us that Nels White is
thinking, ‘of surrendering his!”

Ww. Laing came up from Van-
couver on Monday. i

Frank Sullivan eame in from
Fort St. James on Monday.

HL c. Evang, the piano tuner,
of. Prince Rupert, was here this
week, .

a wife, -

The above points a Tioral~|
Come and live i in Telkwa,
os oo “Another car of coal was ‘ship-

: oy A. Rogers, of: Prince Ru- ped west this week.
| pert, was*a visitor, i in town this | | Miss M. Ca. npbell. has, bought
ia po week, _ Dave Scott’s cabin,

Me, Clute, of. P: Burns, made’
his: wasn’. monthly visit during
‘the week,’

. Mra. Sceatt left : for Rupert on
.  “|Thursday’s ‘train to join her
' Ruddy & WtacKay are “havitig husband.

; thelr a autdmobileg overhauled and Mra. McColl and her son eéx-

_ put into shape. for ; the Bummer | pect to-be leaving for Rupert on
season n by Stuart Jack, ¢ Sunday’ 4 train, ot

’ Mr, Fletcher, of the Canadian

the Hazelton View during t the

i .

if * . -D. B.’Mor}ill came down from |
|

; _ week, -

4 ce We AL “Watiie went. down’ “to
a Port’ Essington on Sunday, Te-
turning on, Monday. oo

On Sunday. évening Jast the
“chemical: wagons were called out
to extinguish a ‘chimney fire on
the premises occupied . by the
Royal Luneb.. Damage was-nil.

itor i in town this. week.”
Don’t forget, the bid dange- on
Mondiy, - April 1, Proceeds in
aid of the Red. Cross. ma

“Constable Fairbaien “held a
post mortem on, one of his chick- |.
ens’ this week. | His verdict was
that the poor bird had. come to

; ‘the cold spell at the bekinning |

of the week wag of short dura.

_ tion, being followed by a period,
/+ of very spring-like, weather un-

i der’ the. softening. Influence of)

its end br eating three ping, We
_ .- Which the snow w ls disappearing know that feed is high, “but. we
ae - rapidly.

a VE "0 | think that poultry owners. might
find a-better substitute than pins.
on which to feed their hens «

“Bl Fergusson, ra: prominent
Bulkley Valley tanchet, is spend)
inga: ‘few days in town, . Mr: "Weather Halts: Operations.
-Fergusson recently sotd hia rainch|

" Jamea B. Rowley came in this

:: 40 a. prairie farmer™ for what i is
oan ‘aid to be a hand ‘A i} week: from the, Eureka coal prop-
e a handsome figure,an erty, . about” thirty. ~mileg » fron

intends. to make. his h th
ome in ° .| Hazelton, : :on the’ Babine - rail,

ne Kigpiox Valley. .
eo! a Operations on the property, ‘which
oe a ‘Card of Thanks eo. [gre ‘being made under Mr: Row:
The president and. members of ley'a “direction, have™heen un-
the We A. ‘wish to express their fortunately ‘curtailed for aome

° grateful thanks to- ‘all the con-. ‘time, bad weather and danger of
tributors of refréshments for the snaWwslides necessitating the lay-1 :

4 : co Soldiers" ‘Aid ten held today, and. inpeoff of most of the crew and

to the many’-kiaid: friends who the stoppage of.operations until
“helped in-any way towards mak- fnore favorable conditiona : “pre.

7 Shei a success of. the. affair. ryail. Mir. Rowley; who. wilt re

meaning of it, but we have heard 1

Miss Smyth, of Vancouver, were

Ru-}

freedom and taking unto hhimself| |

~_| Benzes’ were: also. bombed.

| plants were Gestroved.

Consolidated, was a business vis. .

“| dressed a meeting of townspeople

He. gave many examples. of when

a placed great stress. on. the. con-

vad turn: to the: ‘Eureka: f for. a -Bliort bey

‘One Torpeto—?i"?"1_
HILADELPHIA, “Mareh —
16: ‘~The. ‘dread secret
ofan aerial torpedo 50 pow- .
erful in range and destrue-
tiveness that. it could blot
out the city. of Berlin fram
the face of the earth and
bring the German Empire
: face to face’ with its doom; 7
_ is in the possession of the”
“United States: government.
Without: vévedling details of
the torpedo;. athe, inventor
says, it -has- a range of he. -
7 tween 400 af 600. viles,

| Mrs. Wileocks gave a tea on
Wednesday afternoon in. honor of |.

Air Raids
and More
Air Raids

‘Londoti, Mareh: 16: =o a zep-
pelin raid’ last ~hight on Hartle-
poo! five were Killed and nine in-
jured, vo

‘ped on ‘Freiburg, | Germany, by
British airmen,.. The docks. ‘at}

-. Monday? sg air raid on Coblenz
caused great damage | Munitiéns

Gave Good
Address on.
Conservation
ton ‘St. Andrew's Hall on Mon-
day afternoon, Rev. Ferrier, ad-

in regard to ‘the _ Gver-growing
need for faod conservation.

Mr, Ferrier, who i is connected
with the Industriat- ‘School at.
Brandon; Man., directed his, ut-
terances specially to ‘the. ladies,
laying great emphagia on their
duty in. the matter of economy.

economy" can. be: exercised, and

servation of beef, Pork and
wheat, | tes

“As an. instance ot: what'i is’ ‘be.
ing ‘done - towards: ‘that end, the|-

women in his own ‘town, - who]
give 1 teas, but. serve ‘nothing but
substitutes for’: -whieat and the
like, - To he

x ae the apeaker's: remark are
taken ta heart and: ‘acted - “upon
by™ the ladies’ locally, thelr pact
Hn ‘wining. the: ‘war. willybe: Mio
mean one, :

_ nesday, |

Ten tons of bombs were drop-|-:

. . Carv’s ranch on Wednesday,

410n- ‘Saturday. night to’ visit. his

apeaker | ‘cited the. example -of | .

er, was gotally destroyed by-fire,:

NEWS OF THE |
WEEK FROM |
 SMITHERS|

and daughter. left for Vancouver
(on Thursday morning's train.”
The stork visited the Carr
ranch on Monday ast, and Mr,
and Mrs. Carr are the proud
parents of an 84-lb, baby girl,

Mrs. O'Neill,

’ FB. G. Heal, of Telkwa,.. was a
-business visitor. in town on Wed-

Mrs. Strickland entertalved a
few friends on ‘Tuesday evening.

A. Naslund, an old Bulkley
Valley pioneer, lett for his form-
jer hame at Everett, Wash.,. on
Thursday. — oe

Mr. and Mrs. .Ellwarger have
as their puest their daughter
from Edmonton. — ;

H.. H. Little; of Hazelton, was

iowa during the, week. °

Dr J, P.: McKie, J, 8 -Gray
Land Mrs, Hetherington drove ‘to

Jas. Brindly returned. from
Prince Rupert on Monday night,
after spending. a short vacation
there. - ;

Mrs, J. Lynch will occupy the

O’Neill and son, Mike, will be her
guests for a-short time.
Mr. atid. Mrs. A. Pinkerton,
who have been spending the last
two months with their daughter,
Mrs. Strickland, expect to leave
shortly for their home at Fran-
edis Lake, ~ .

Among ranchers visiting town
during the week :were Pat Me-
Phee, . Chas, Chapman, John La-
padat,: Wilson. Bros., Pat Carr,
John Maney, Hmneat Morin, and
Mark Hanna...

John Goold went to Houston

cousin, Frank Mavnaghan.

Burned Oat |
While Kolding school at. Kitae-
guécla: on Tuesday last,.- the resi-
dence of Miss Wright, the,teach

The contents of the houge, were
entirely . consumed - ‘in’ the: blaze, |.

aind included all of the unfortan: }in

ate: occupant’s worldly. posses- |:
sions,

"(From Our Special Correspondent) _- .
Rev. W. S..A. Larter,’ wife

a visitor i in town Saturday night. ;

| REAL BOOSTER

. DIES IN SOUTH

“of the North, Passed Away -.
7” om Tuesday =!

most citizens has passed away-ih
hospital af Victoria, where he

_| had- undergone ' an operation for
inthe person of

appendicitis,
Frank C, MeKinnon.

Frank took a keen. interest in,
‘lanything that meant development
and .devoted hig time entirely to
the study of the natural resources

' of the district in “which he had.

lived for the past ‘eight or ten
yeirs.: But perhaps his logs.
will be most keenly felt in our
mining: circles, “He “knew.-the
mining game and piayed it likea
man.
every mining deal of importance
almost on Rocher de Boule hill,
and held an interest in “the Del-
ta and Highland Boy groups,
which he. was later instrumental

“Pat. Cart’ apent-aeveral days. tnd

Larter residence, where Mra.].

» Mina Wright came upto |
os Hazelton “on, “Wednesday night, |
“Vand ig cat ‘present: the muest: of
OL Dr: and Mrs, Welnch,

[Edmonton | capitalists ‘known as

_ ‘the: Delta. Copper Co,

Frank McKinnon, we. ‘consider,

try, and his sudden. call leaves a
blank in the Hazelton community,

in Prince Edward; ‘Island, was: 42.
years of age.

a widow in Vancouver, “The fu-
rieral . took place yesterday: in-
Vancouver. _ as
Our sincere sympathy goes ‘out.
to. his. widow, mining partners .
and: friends.

Methodist Charch

Rev. R. C. “Scott will preach a at:
7:20 tomorrow evening on the -

“Special, music, .

‘The Bible Study ~ ‘group “will
meet every Thursday evening in

cuss . ‘'The. -Meséage of Jesus: to.

ews, president. of ‘Chicago ° Uni-
versity, “4

All are cordially invited.

ae - - Aylitte-Stseo’
f ‘The ‘marriage. was, solerinized

Frank McKinnon, ‘Prominent Man

Lp

_ One of Omineca district's fore-

He was. connected with -- .

in. turning « over ta. the ‘eivele of.

wad a man who. was-boundto
have made his mark'in this’ couin-

.Mr. MeKinnon, who i was born —

He was.matried- ..
eighteen months ago, and jeaves. -

subject: “The Gospel of Christ, n :

St. Andrew’s Hall, and: will digs = :

-> {Our Modern, Life,” | the. _widely-°
a circulated. work of Shailer ‘Math-

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