Re,

: Cold Day Base

the ball game ‘between, the Smithers
a high school and Hazelton-New Haz-

B ‘thing.on the bali that had the boys all

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NEW HAZELTON, B. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE %, 1935

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Ball on Sunday.
Locals Victors

It was eold on sunday afternoon and.

elton was not nearly so snappy 4s the
games ustially are, The boys did net
xevem to be able to hit the ball. Smi-
thers got a few cracks at the ball, but
most of them went to Parent and to
John Smith, but for the most part all
(he bating was to the infield. The
home team gut only one hit to the out
field and it was a grounder. One of
the most. depenilable local batters was
up four times and: fanned four ‘times.
Mike O'Neill was in the box for the
visitors amd he apparently has some-

swinging their bats. York was hardly,
np to his average .on Snuduy, but he
vot pretty goed support from the field.
Qne Smithers man hit 1 three sacker
for the outstanding hit of the day. It
emme in-the ath inning. but. he wns not
ahle to gef home, Smithers ‘ald not
scare til the seventh. York got an
easy grounder aid was golng to throw
to third to éatch the man rapning
fram. second, but there was no one cov-
eving the bag. By the time he turned
wud threw to first” ‘the ‘runner was on
his base, The man on first went to
socamd and then a goud hit to the out
fleld brought in the ‘only two runs the
visitors got, although they often got
on the bases.. New Hazelton got one
run in each of the second, Aifth and
cighth ‘tnuin MER, hus the score was
3 ‘to 2 8 in: favor of- the thome tenm, | The

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WET TRIP ‘To BABINE RESERVE

Capt. G, _ Mortimer; Inlian “Agent,
returned on Friday last from a trip to
Rabine to which plaice he took a lot of
farm and garden seed. He says it
rained nearly all the time he was out
and. that there was no pleasnre in the
trip at all. Had it not been for the
hit of exceptionally good fishing he
had a couple of days the trip would
have heen n flop from. the pleasure
end, He found the Indians
well off although they bad the usual

_ imount of differences that needed pute} °
‘Altogether it.was a busy
He is well plensed with his new
boat. The biz engine had not arrived
An thie. to. vse flie boat. chut-it: is. there
low sink fiture trips w it] le tinde: by

ting right.-
. trip.

the department's: 0 own front.

“PUBLIC WORKS GETTING BUSY

Looks Like a Visit From the Minister |’

ing some work on the Sinithers end of
the wnain highway.

pretty |

_ is Antieipated—Working on the
Smithers-Mortcetown end

The public works department is dd-

At Moricetdwn 0
had corner is being cut wider and the
grade, reduced. Further east a lot of
new survey sticks which indicate that
it Is the intention to do.-furher work
in the way of improving corners and it
also appeirs hat it is the Intention to
complete a cut off that wag started by.
the lete government. This work will
all help to increase traffic. It is re-
porte. that the grader will be sent ov-
er yond between here and Moricetown
Tint looks ns if the minister. of public
works wis expected through this suin-
mer. In the old days when the late
Walter Williscraft was foreman and
superintendent und engineer, they al-
ways seit the grader ov drag over the
vord aid got all: the men and horses
ent to make a smooth path for the

‘Prince Rupert

“By The fea

Krom Our Own Reporter

f .

The marriage of Miss Netta Clark
and Reginald W. Sinclair of Inverness
is to (ake place soon in Priyce Rupert.
Miss Clark was formerly school teach-
erat Driftw ‘oud, central British Colum
hia. Subsequently she conducted the
Arctic Studio here, later moving to
Victoria, Her parents are Mr. and
Mrs. A. Cy ‘Clark of Prince Rupert and
Mr. Sinelaly is identified with the snl-

mon camming industry.
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THe longshore strike In Vancotver
did not embarrass Prince Rupert to
any noticelblé extent. Her shipping [*
maintiined schedule. “Cargoes were |!
proniptly “handled. “The local  steve-
dores, more as a matter of principle,
refrained frome work, and the goods

nunister. The driving team got an
extra feed of oats or two and evaery-

road ‘foreman could be depended upon
to deliver the required number of good |

yotes,
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CROP OUTLOOK IS VERY GOOD
The senson thus far has been good
for the farmers, The erops in all sec-
tions: we Lave visited thus far, are In:
tine shape und. this promises to be-a
hig hay evop and, fodder <crop. The

genius are all ooking | fine ané “the

: | opts: ane vegetables are growing nice- |

ly. ‘Phere’ lias heen a. good: deal .of
uoisture and it. has been neither too,
hot nor too cold. There ere, of course
amall sections where the erops are lat-
er than others, but that is not "the
fdult of uatuve or the weather
Timothy seed will be one of the big
crops “ngain ‘this year and ‘the pros-
pects are for goad. prices ngain for the
extru good sec of the Bulkley Valley.
It is reported that offe¥s: are being
made now of 12¢ a Ib.

CAME TO GRIEF ON SUNDAY

metavad to
Suuday

an. daughters,
andy New Hazelton on

jlimts for a feip with bis: family
Calitornia, On the old part of

i ALLED THE PREMIER A LIAR
: . ‘* a :

Just w hat the Communists who went
ti meet. Premier -Bennett In. Ottawa:
expected to eet... for the benetit | their.

» followers, it: they expected or. wanted:
wnything,. in. not. known, but certalniy
w ling the premier’ n » Har several
Hite: in not. it ‘good way t6 get auiy'
speck: considerntion®, ‘Premier Ben-
Hott dealt with the delegy tes in, ‘the on-
"Ly possible “way, when,: at the conelt-

sion of the. intery few he told) Mr. Er:
nna to go back to his followers, anid tell

. them: té beturn, to: thet. quae and wait
for an, opportunity to work nS. others
wane doing. The’ guvermnent |
malta! ‘law. ‘and)-order.0 Tk ds" . stich |
personp, or’ “ petgons lividing auch ylews

to grief.

which’ there was no lack. There was

thing was fovely, Things have not
changed much since a quarter of@ a
century ago. In those days n° good

man. |

Mr, ond Mys. Willams, § Sam Mey ers
Havelten
in a
jew! end pereutly bevight ‘by Mie. WHE 4
to
the
read Gust of New Hazelton they came
The vond was slippery and |

were unloaded hy, rolunteer labor, of:

never, nt any time, the slightest indi-
cation of a- disturbance, The  long-

sharemen themselves took care of that
nd * ?

Tonrist travel is setting in. Boats
as a rule are crowded. One can usual’
ly “spot” a tourist. Girls as a rule
run to lipstick anf rouge, . and some-
thing smart, or daring, in the way of
midsiammer dress. Slung over the
shoulder «is a camera or field glasses.
Men, strolling up town, often disdain
hats. There is*a preference for plus
legate, free? waid easy - jacket; soy ewhite |:
awenter, All are apt’ te be. social |-
souls. ‘They want to go places: and see
| things. and perhaps do a bit of spend-
ing if the mood is on them. And how
they do like to be told something about
what they are seeing. And, hailing
from the brown hills of Cnlifornia,
they loudly -praise the freshness and

yerdure of the British Columbia coast
eee : .

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Cy Arnott, who did: contracting at
Priuce Rupert when dollurs were more
plentiful than niekles are today, and
whon folks smiled more than - onee
every fWo.uyenrs, Tassed through town
last week, on his-wnry to Alice Awa.

‘Hs lnsiness there is niderstond to be|

connected with the mine rathwayy, Int
just what is in the breeze no ane seenis
to know—nuless the recent, stir in Si,
ver values has’ “something to ‘do swirl
the case. , ‘

SMALL BOYS TOOK KNIVES.

Interested in Mining ‘and is Looking

: | Teen interested in inining in. this dist-
vict for a number of years, _
visit here last week.
he has held property on Four Mile
mountain and has had considerable

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WM. GIEBE ON A view HERE

For a New Préperty—Was Ate
eompanied : -by His Son

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Mr. Glebe af Ferguson, Mo, who has

paid a
For some years

ye ‘done on it, but this year be de-
ided to abandon those claims and he
authorized Pete Ober to look elsewhere
for a new property. On his way here
he stopped off at Topley and looked
over the Topley-Richfield proper ty:
He expressed a willingness to take a
small interest in that property, but he
could not see any merit in taking over
the whole thing. My. Giebe was this
year accompanied” by his son who was
greatly taken with the north. and he
would like to locate around. New Haz
elton. According to Mr Giehe and bis
son conditions in the United States
are a long way from being satisfactory
and the immediate future dues not
look too bright.

Copper City ! Notes

The Copper School children, teacher
and mothers had. their annual pienic
at Laketse Lake on Friday last. They
left Copper at ten asm. by truck. The
day was fine and all enjoyed themgel-
ves With many kinds of sport. Some
of the residents of the Lake helped ao

fier was ‘ade “about eight. o'clock:
os, oe °

tion in Usk assisting Mr. Bethurem.

hy: caterpillars, ,

Ue
Ste
tty

Roswilenc., Perey nnd Lillian Down-

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fbe , CORE - au Wexdax. coe

. SMALL BOYS BEAT SMITHERS

great deat to mike the day a: suceess
by their kindness in lending boats to

the dren, . etc...The return to Cop. |...
“) oP Pri
 Jand-Abys. Dan. Scherk, Ninth Ave, W..

Miss’ Ella Wilson has taken a most |

vee
“The gar den look well, the strawber-
vies unusually ‘good. The ranchers

on Straw-berry Hil’ are getting that
worried. expression always ‘associated
with the stawberry season. The ap-
ples will be of a minus quantity this
ear owing. to the attack made on them

tne left far their home in Seaton as
yi "
their ‘school term: had been complete.

Perey Gladstone, tencher of the Klt-
selan Indian sehoat, Fanarsdol, | left for

The Sprithers bile school ball boys

they went off inte the diteh and- in|
getting back.onte the road they got_in-:

The snmll bors from Smithers were

—ret

would

to the deepints thet have heen there. dawn here last, Saturdity to play bal.
The’ resnlt ‘after the ume they were: taken to
was, that: the battery on the car was Thizeltoy ‘ud had ice cream and ‘other
broken ‘and: the men had to walks to things.
New Hazelton -to get ‘nother buttery, |
Jtis time-aither that old rond was put
into decent, repaty or: the cut: oft that ¢
was started SON: YORTS azo Was‘ flu-
It is such
neglect as that that wastes the public.
‘wud recuees the ability
S attul cae orrnons to meet

forthe 'last severnl yours,

ished: and “made -passibles
works rirouey
‘OF tux DANCER
their obligatlons.

Aone. How. wy

“MORE | ALASIEA, HIGHWAY

. it My. Evans, which defeats: ‘every coud | --

_ siture thatsts: defented:
stvikers made; rf big, mistnke, dn, choos-:
tug seb. delegntes’: ag. vans. - thelr.
eruse lost: any morlt’, dt; ever, haa uht
the instant..Byang, yras chosen, ge

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»The.'s0- “ented

7 ian’ =:

The “Amevienn' ROV ermuent has: dle-'
(per “Siccena | in BE ‘to’ Fairbanks,

: ermine, hefore: they.. start: the® BUTYeY.

Ona

“Sam, should be uble to ‘get: ‘Aomething.

-¢hded to. send 0. plave-over: Chnada . to! —
snrvey: a route for, the road ‘froin ‘the |

‘to ‘Washington’. told. Senator. ‘Diamond

in the early evening: ¥

“graph album. | Soon ‘attoy ‘hoys”.

ashort distance. out of ‘Smnfther ;
thy: zouils’ were | ali ecovered.!

_ ed w bat’ to’ go:

woot

“from: i 1

‘Ty one ‘of ‘the ‘storés ‘they. saw
some things that? Appenled to them ‘and
while they were
tempor avily unguarded they - ‘returned
to that. store and, by keeping the. own-
er busy some at the boys” got away
with five expensive knives and ni auto
had
gone the Long was reported ‘to the police
Word was sent to Sniithers’ and. the
“paltes there went. ont:rind:- met, the bord!”

Up io
this w rittny thie” police | hai! “not dectde.

The Ameriein 8 will, naturally. of Alaska, hevoralig. to. reports, that’

hive the: consent. ‘of the’ ‘Ganndlan gore.

met the New Hazelton boys on Sat:
uniiy ‘afternoon dita return game on
the New Hazelton grounds. The. game
got underyay about four o'clock and
the local boys won-by. a. score of 11 ta

of mostly smu boys and apparently
net sich good players ns. ‘those, ‘on. the
team that pluyed in| Smithers.
loeal term was fhe same except that

wis played in the: vacant mace.» The,
locn] team aise had thei - players. ‘in
positions. more to -theiv. liking... It was

ence wae ‘anal,

ee

Rees

1 wnten all ‘expressed a firt m:

ion election. and. ‘that

1. The Sinithera team was- -composed

“The

ove of the boys was [Land Happy Cox :

a proud seunie te wath, but: ‘the audl- {i

sf joy. team, “went * t9,
T kw 1 om “Sunday to: pliy Tnge. ball, :

od. The B.C. Conserv ative ‘executive | a

“ met. recently in Victoria and: ‘the dele-
. nelief. that;

_[the party. would win out: at tlie ‘Donia:
SB, Cc. would: ‘have’!
on-his” “next” wibit to: Ottawa. ‘he would mostly | -Conseryative | smemibers., .
present,’ to the’ Canadian’ " goverunient president w

 Herridge,”: Canaan’ § ‘commissioner the ‘mitten, of $66: uenactonal vel ar

AS: “quite: enthuslistie: fter

Try to Develop

Placer Miners
. Train i in’ Camp

« Spplieations are hetng filed with tlie
provincial police at Hazelton for oj-
portunitles to join a “placer. miners
training camp which the mines depart
ment is sponsoring. Jt is proposed te
estabblish several plicer-miner enmps —
in British Columbia to be under’ the
supervision of a competent man, The
young men who join will also be sai
pliel with free grub and ‘a. cook to
teach them to cook, free camp anid
working equipment, and in cnses of
distress certnin articles of clothing ate
fnvnixhed. The young men are given
t thorough training in placer mining
as the eunps will be established where
there Is known to be placer gold. The
mfieral secured will be divided in n-
way already -determined by -the fov-
ernment, When a fellow proves him-
self efficient enough he will be allow- -
al te pr ospect on other ground on his
own, In this way the wovernment: ix
hoping to train o number of young pre
spectors to take the rapidly thinine
rks of. that profession.” The plan ix
npt to stir the spirit of adventure in
the ‘breasts of the modern youth alse,
und that will be a good thing. ‘Thi-
plan, thus far, has everything to com-
mend ftself to the young mer and to.
nil citizens. ‘

Wedding a
. Hopson Mesures

oom tome: Sof Mr. .

“Riper

was: the scene of a pretty wedding at
mntdnight: when Miss ‘Maud MeMurray
of Vancouver and: Robert Haysom ct
Hazelton were united in wedlock, Rev.

BE. J. North officiating. ©. The bride.

gow ned in Alice blue georgette crepe,
trimmed with lace, entered ‘the prettily:
decorated sitting ‘yoom to! ‘the strains
of .the wedding . mareh, Mrs; W. Mat-
shall at thé piano. The bridesmaid.

Miss Ruth Scherk, was dressed in blne
erepe satin trimmed with velvet. Ver-
non Scherk was best gan. The bride
war giver away by D. Scherk. Mes.

BE. J. North. sang during the signing of
the register, . A very pleasant time
was. spent, after the cer emony when

“| Mys. Tnysom. will, reside.’ 6a: Hazel-
ton w here the groom has a farm.

Report that Columbia Power Co. has
_ Clased Deal With Commission
” era in. Terrace
“the Pri ince + “Rupert! News _ reports
that othe Coalwnbia Power’ Ob. which.

‘er td stich points as Sinithers,. Golden.
Wintans: ‘Lake and Hope, las bought
the pow er lines here and has’ under-
tuken with the loard of, commissioners
to* ‘provide a. 34° hour electric service
within twelve: nionths: Leith Murray,
cortipn ny. engineer,: is: expected here in

Phe shembers™: OF Mountain low.

held a very enjoyable plenie. at ‘Kalas

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ve 5°?

butfett luneheon was ser ‘ved. Mr. and-

ELECTRIC LIGHT SERVICE AGAIN -
LBCTRIC LIGHT

already pr ovides electric Nght aud pow | :

a short. time to; inake arrangements for.
| the dnstalntion of. 0 ‘lesal ‘plant pro- oe
et cheating banat _Betadty os

lodge ind the Lakelse Lodge,’ 1,0.0: te