Phursday, November 6, 1989.

HH TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LARS, 8.6.

Remembrance Day Program

The following program for Re- membrance Day November 11th. has been released by Branch 139 Cana- dian Legion.

10:30 a.m.—Parade assembles at Fire Hall. a.m.—Parade moves off. a.m.—R<emembrance S:ryice at Elks Hall. a.m.—Last Post two minutes silence — Revielle

ATTENDED BY 400 TOWN CHILDREN

(Ed. Note: Because one of our news staff of two was away at the coast and the other was engaged in putting out a fire at The Tribune, we were not present at the Elks purty. As a result names of winners in the contests were not.taken at the time but were pieced together later with the help of several p op e. par- ticularly George Morris. Where names are missed we would 1 ke to

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HALLOWE'EN PARTY

Following service parade pro- ceeds to War Memorial Hospital for laying of wreaths.

:30 p.m.— Annual Banquet in Elks Hall. (This is open to alf] ex-service personnel and Wom- en’s Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion, each of whom may bring one guest, and to widows and mothers of deceased ex-service personnel). Tickets may be ob- tained from C. Rhodes. Jim Stitt, Ed Anderson, Bill Smith and Don Mars.

10:00 p.m.—Publié Dance.

Main address at the Remembrance Day service will be given by Rev. Father B. Johnson. Names of The Fallen will be read by Rey. J. Col- clough and the reading will be given by Rey. Geo. Fielder.

Prices Hold At Big Sale

Concensus among cattlemen and buyers appears to be that they were quite satisfied with the new method of selling that featured the weekend cattle sale here when 1489 head of cattle and 213 sheep were put through the ring for a total gross of $217,440.

Prices held steady at the sale and several buyers seemed to think they were about a cent higher than mar- ket price,

Top prices paid out for grass fed steers was $22.50 for two head con tributed by Me! Mayfield. Top for grain fed was $23.50 paid to Bil) Stafford for two head. Huston Duna- way’s two carloads of good steers brought $22. ,

Generally speaking feeder steers Grought from $17 to $19; fat steérs] ; from $19 to $22; heifers from $15! to $19; heiferettes from $14 to $16; cows trom $10 to $13 and canners from $6 to $9.

Heaviest buyer at the sale was Bert Crawford of Swift & Company who bought 235 head for $42,555. Pacific Meat bought 202 head’ fer $37,800 and Rus Phillips of Alberta Meat bought 149 head for $23,150.

Two district ranches bought fairly heayy on feeder offerings. Chilco Ranch purchased 114 head for $13,- 313 and Circle S bought 95 head for $14,793.

Principal contributors were Alkali Lake, 40; A. Christensen, 51; A. Knoll, 115; H. Dunaway 83 and Fred Hinsche, 58 (50 of these were calves).

Because of the large number of head in the sale it was impossible to put them through the ring in one day. The sale started Saturday just after 10 a.m. and by 4:30-in the afternoon 690 head had been soid. The next day the balance were put through the ring,

Little trouble Was experienced by association men in running the sale although the method of weighing stock affer the animals had been

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Four hundred children jammed

the floor space in the Elks Hall Fri-

day evening for their annual Hal- lowe’en party.

The fact that most of the mothers in town had been working for days to outfit their youngsters for the party was evident in the array of original costumes. Probably some fathers got into the act too if little Harold Cunliffe’s special entry was an indication. He was outfitted as an engineer and pulled a wagon made into a replica of an engine — the PGE extension influence.

Judges for the contest, Dr. and Mrs. H. K. Atwood, were stumped timé and again as the various age groups paraded in front of thei. 4s the judges deliberated Benny- Abbott

}as master of ceremonies kept up a

running line of chatter. Following the judging all of the children were given a bag of candy and an apple on leaving the hall.

Prize winners were: Pre-school, girls — most original, two ‘ Fab” girls, Beverley Rhodes and Vicki Moore; Comical, Mammy — Judy

Berglund; Best dressed — Mediaeval lady (not known). Pre-school boys—

most original, jhottentot: Larry Sloan; comical, pumpkin: Iau Ni- quidet; Best Dressed, witch (not

known). 6 to 10 gitls—most original Daisy Mae, Little Abner and Mammy Yokum. Penny Wike, Karon Singer Singer; comical (not known); Best dressed, tie between a rag doll and a tramp: Dixie Montjoy and Wendy Rottacker. 6 to 10, boys —most original (not known); comi- cal, longshoreman striker: Tommy Irvine; Best Dressed, pumpkin: Ted- dy Gaspard. 18 to 14 Girls — most original, owl and pussycat; Jean Stevenson and Audrey Friesen; comi- cal, chimney sweep: Donelda Mac- Kay; Best Dressed, tie between a chinese Ey and cowgirl: Mar- jorie Robertson “(ot known). 10 to 14 ea — most original, bear: Gordon Fairley; comical, girl in grey suit: Michael Hargreaves; best dress- ed, two boys in leopard skins; Cam and Paul Mackenzie.

Following the judging of the cos- tumes the youngsters went over to the Fire Hall to enjoy the fireworks display. The night before the Fir2- men had switched the showing time of the display from before the hall party to after it.

sold in the ring was an entirely new one to most of them.

An interesting sidelight on the ability of the packing house buycrs to judge their weights was provided by Bert Crawford of Swift & Com- pany.

rhe veteran buyer had purchased a total of 235 head, without know: ing what the actual weight on iiis purchases was. Much of these ani- mals were bought in small lots, even singles, because ownership can’t be split using this method. After the sale Mr. Crawford came up to the

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REMEMBRANCE DAY

Next Tuesday, November 1ith, is Remembrance Day.

It is a day dedicated to the memory of those thou- sands of young Men who gave their lives in the service of their country during oe World Wars.

sea. This heritage of freedoni we enjoy—they bought for

too much to ask to remember them, and remember why

way to show that we remember. help to assist ex-: -servicemen who have fallen on hard times, and handicapped ex-servicemen who carefully fashion the little red “Badge of Remembrance.”

future, only eternal rest on foreign land or the rolling

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Day, which offers a tangible. The poppies you buy

It was the Board of Trade’s hope that Williams Lake would be well enough to the forefront of the PGE", cpening celebrations that everyone would know our ‘Cowtown’ was there. It is generally conceded that this was accomplished.

Highlight of the Williams Lake provision to the Celebration at Prince George was the Mission Boys Band. The 30 youngsters were won- derful and the crowds loved them. Onder a headline reading Band Stars in PGE Parade, Kiddies’ what the George Citizen has to say:

“A score of intent dark-haired youngsters, some of them scarcely tall enough to see over the drums they were enthusiastically beuting, drew some of the heurtiest applause in the PGE Day parade Saturday, and were hit of the children's cele- bration- in the Civic Centre whicl

followed. “Band of the Cariboo Indian School, directed by Brother Mac-

| Donald and accompanied by Father Royer, provided some of ‘the brisk music for the march from First Ay- enue station to the Civie Centre. Later, massed‘ in the boxing ring in the middle of the Civic Centre, the youthful bandsmen performed sey- eral appreciated numbers.’”

George by the “local Board of Trade committee by special bus. To provide funds for their trip a special dance was held last Friday by the Junior Chamber of Commerce with the Col- umbus Club donating the hall and Vie Imhoff’s orchestra donating the music. A total of $109 was raised. At Prince the band was met by mem- bers of the Junior Chamber of that city and were sat down to a hot meal.

The main parade at Prince George, which was led by the Legion Band and included floats, children in cos- tume and the William$ Lake-Quesnel- Prince George massed band under the baton of Tony Woodland, well out of sight by the time the lo- calites got their part of the parade in order.

Finally everyone was assigned a placard bearing a letter that would spell out ‘Williams Lake,’’ and our own parade moved off, with the hoys.

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Mission Boys Band Scores Hit At Prince George Celebrations

band providing the music.

And just in case Prince George residents forgot to cheer for the local effort or perhaps failed to re- alize where we were from, Benny Abbott, Clive Stangoe and Bob Blair t well out in front and exhorted totorists to honk their horns, and shook hands with everyone so in- clined. Arriving at the arena the band was led around the crowded building and then moved over to the Civie Centre for the children’s pro-

gram.

But Williams Lake still wasn’t through. The Rube Band couldn't get enough insirumentalists togeth<r but they did haye their buckirg jdlopy made over for the occasiox to represent a locomotive.

Originally the car was supposed to be waiting for the band at the sta- tion, but it was found still in a box- car at the south‘end of the bridge so some of the party had to .go over, unload it and drive it back to town.

As an attention-getter the delay worked out alright though. By the time the jalopy wheeled on to the main street, bucking from curb to curb and emitting dense black smoke, normal traffic had resumed and the [confusion was terrific. Bill Sharpe }@nd_ Board of Trade president. Bert ol: over the:yocak-part of and by Monday morming ee Sharpe, Stangoe and Ab- bott cculdn’t produce more than a whisper.

The local contingent wasn’t with- cut signs either. Johnny Erickson provided two that ran the whole length of two cars. They were 2t- tached to the train at Quesnel.

If there was any cue given,‘ our local commissioners missed it when the time came for a representative from Williams Lake to extend greet- ings at the arena ceremonies in the afternoon. However Tony Woodland stepped into the spot and made a creditable appearance.

From that point on the Williams Lake contingent took in the enter- tainment provided. There were three large banquets in the evening and a gigantic fireworks display. A street dance was getting underway when the train left.

Not all of the passengers on the! inaugural run to Prince George were boisterous in their celebration of the event. Spotted along the coaches were pioneers, many of whom were taking in the event with a quiet air of satisfaction that years of political promises had at least resulted in two ribbons of steel being laid to Prince George.

Most of them had seen all the modes of transportation that opened up the Carivoo — the stage coach the steamers and finally the cars and People from. our own district Norman Lee of Hanceville, come synonymous country, or like

trains. like Mrs. whose name has b with the Chilcotin

were along to swell the old-timers ranks. Arthur came to the souta Cariboo in 1886 and was driving stagecoach on the Cariboo Road in

Quesnel contributed heavily to the contingent of pioneers like Mrs. Rob- ert Yorston, who came to Quesnel} to teach schoo) in 1903 was married three years later and spent the ui 31 years on the huge Australian Ranch.

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PIONEERS ADDED HISTORY TO TRIP

picture we took as they reminisced about’ days in the past. Captain Dou- ald (Cap) Foster, who came to the country from a career as decp sea captain to take over the third steam- er ever to ply the Fraser. Joha Strand, who thought his 57 years residence in Qu

tels. The third person was Mrs. B. H Smith, daughter of a pioneer family, the Johnstons. Mrs. Smith and her

brothers Alvin and Clifford were! born in Quesnel and another brother George, was born in Barkerville. Al-

vin is the man who sparked the for

Mrs. John Hargreaves, who has fol-|™@Uon of the Cariboo Historica) lowed the fortunes of the PGE since| Society.

it stretehed across Deep Creek in] -We spoke to Mrs. Christine 1920 and through the Hargreaves| Broughton, who came froin Asherott ranch. ‘This was Mrs. Hargreaves’|by stage to the tiny settlement ot second trip to Prince George, the} Quesnel in 1892 fresh from her 1 Jast time she went by river steamer] tive Alsace France. Her husband w up the Fraser in 1910. a fireman on the old BX steamer,

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Haddock] payavayypnw

Then there were the retired rail- waymen. who made the inaugural run, We saw Mat Latin and Harry Lassman from Williams Lake; Har-

93. ; ry’s brother Al from Squamish and J. K: Purdie, of Lillooet.

A proud old railroader was Jack) Allan who joined the line in 19 and retired as sleeping car conduc- tor in 1950. His son Gordon Allan was the conductor on the run from Williams Lake to Prince,

5000 Meet PGE Train at Prince

Residents of Three Centres Join In Historic Celebration

The inaugural run over the Pacific Great Eastern Rail- way company’s Quesnel-Prince George extension will be one

that will be long remembered

At Prince George an estimated crowd of 5000 people were on hand to cheer the inaugural train as it moved into the CNR station, with a ON engine havling the PGE’s two large diesels.

For the 60 Williams Lake passen- gers, the reception at Prince marked the half-way point of a long, some- times tiring and generally boisterous trip.

At 3:30 Saturday morning the 14- car special slipped into the local station and town passengers tuok over two empty cars. Some of them had come straight from the dance held at Columbus Hall Friday aight, held to raise funds for the Mission Boys Band, and the station platform was also crowded with people see- ing the passengers off. Maurice Bour- geois had his guitar with him and while the train waited for departure time a dance was held on the plat- form.

TO QUESNEI,

At 4 o'clock the special pulled out for the run north, arriving at day- break at Quesnel. There the train was met by the Quesnel band, its members looking far from comfort- able as they played in the frosty at- mosphere. Here Premier Bennett got off the train and was introduced to many of the people on the platform.

With another 60 people from Quesnel the train travelled on to Ahbau Creek, scene of the spike- driving ceremony.

Ahbau proyed a bit of a surprise for most peopie. When construction of the line was on the emphasis was placed on Cottonwood Bridge, but the one at Ahbau must run it a close

One Major Vandalism Act Mars Hallowe'en

by those making the trip.

second for length. Just north of the bridge the passengers alighted and the train pulled back down the track to allow room for a Jamieson Con- struction train to move‘in carrying close to 300 Prince George citizens.

With the crowd now swelled to 600 people, preparations were made for the spike driving ceremony.

PREMIER SPEAKS

From an open observation car Premier Bennett delivered a- brief address from a prepared text. He was introduced by Hon. Ralph Chet- wynd, Minister of Railways.

Said the Premier in part: “Toda marks the opening of a new era [or this part of British Columbia, which is an empire in itself. I am confident that the expansion of this area, along with the Peace River Country, through agriculture, forestry, min- ing, water power, oil, natural gas and industry in general is only its be- ginning and holds out greater prom- ise of development and expansion than any other part of the North American continent.”

Following the Premier’s address the official party descended from the observation car for the spike driving.

Premier Bennett produced a sily railroad spike and it was held in®

‘place by Miss Nellie Law, old-timer

and first hotel hostess in Prince George.

John A. Fraser of Quesnel and L. C. Gunn of Prince George their hammers and drove the spike home. Silver replicas of the sp were given to Mr. Fraser and Mr. Gunn.

CEREMONY MARRED

But the spike driving ceremony marred the day’s program.

With the brilliant sun shining and a clay hill nearby to provide miany vantage points for the spec- tators, no one should have had any diftfeulty the of

“Only one Major “act: of v: was reported in town over Hallow- "en. 4

At the planer mill of Columbia Valley Lumber company about five | thousand feet of lumber was strewn around the yard and a heavy Loder- mobile was driven over the lumber causing an éstimated $200 worth of damage. Police are investigating.

Carelessness with firecrackers re- ulted in the awning in front of The ‘tribune office catching fire early ia the evening. About 7:30 a group of youngsters went down the letting off the firecrackers and Len iminutes later passerby Miss Madeline ‘ullerton noticed flames in the rolled awning and rushed upstairs to the apartment above the office to warn owner Clive Stangoe.

He opened the office and brought out an extinguisher to douse the flames and Les Pigeon brought one trom the store of Western Rife & Vigeon to assist. Loss was confined

to the awning estimated at around $75. Other than those two incidents,

damage was mostly confined to lost ates and broken fences. Some one with a bucket of light blue paint worked over some of the town fire hydrants and the door haridles of the theatre. Police caught one group of youngsters scattering piles of lumber in the yard of H. J. Gardner and Sons. and the joke backfired when the lumber scatterers had to send an hour and a half rebuilding the piles under police supervision:

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theSdriving ‘of the Spike. What hap-~ pened however was that the tight knot of dignitaries and others who could crowd on the railway embank- ment effectively hid from view any- thing of the ceremony at all.

After the ceremony was over the passengers climbed aboard the train again, this time their numbers aus- mented by the 300 people who hat made the trip down from Prince. 11 was a happy and crowded trip into Prince and as the train moved across the bridge into the city hundreds of caressounded their horns to gree! the in-coming train.

Following the afternoon and eve- ning celebrations at Prince George the train pulled out at 9 p.m. leay- ing from the south side of the Fraser an hour later.

Passengers kept up the celebia- tion on the way home.

In ease of an overflow crowd, the

company had placed three extra baggage - cars in the front of the train and these were lined with

benches. Only one of them was used to accommodate the overflow and a dance started up in the front car. This went on all the way down to Quesnel when the impromptu band lost most of its members.

For most of the Williams Late passengers the late hours weve bee ning to take their toll by now au. from Quesnel the cars quietened down.-considerably. The train arrived back in town about 6:45 Sunday morning.

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