mm Conservatives under Hon. J. B,

7 = were in the field, but none met
mee the favor of the electorate, and
mom the two latter lost their deposits,

Me ter of lands, Hon. J. A. Dysart,
Sand the minister of mines, Hon,

. a of the legislature piloted through

Mm did not oppose the scheme, but

wa people should be consulted at the|;
me Dolls.

me formed campaign material, and
mq the opposition made an issue of
athe. administration of the pro-
@hibitory law, flagrant. violations

Be minister in the government and
mma number of years until 1921;
aa when he resigned to become min-
mister of customs in the Dominion

fa the spring of this year he return-
maonce more to the provincial field

=| “4 (Conservative forces,

Mnon had accepted a position on

VoL. 18

Tories Triumph
At The Polls In

New Brunswick]

Another maritime province has
ee turned away from Liberalism for
y atime, at least:. On Monday the
Beople of New Brunswick dis-
g’carded the government of Hon.
e P. J. Veniot and returned the

= M. Baxter; who will have, as a
result of Monday’s polling, a
| total of 36 seats in a legislature
of 48. The Liberals hold the.
¥ remaining twelve, Three farmer
m candidates and two independents

® lwo cabinet ministers went down
# to defeat, these being the minis-

J.B. Mechaud.
m The outstanding issue of the
a campaign was the proposed hydro
electric development at Grand
= Falls, in connection with which
@ the government at the last session

m/2 measure to provide for the| j;
m expenditure of $10,000,000 as an
B initial outlay. - The opposition

. held. that, the _Royernment was
@ insufficiently. prepared’ with data|*

ma and that.the financial burden of
i the project was so great that the

Charges of extravagance | in the

i matter of highway expenditures

sof which were charged. _
™ Hon. J.-B. M. Baxter, the new
fpremier, was formerly a cabinet

a was leader of the opposition for

ay eovernment under Meighen, In

and was re-elected to lead the|.

Goes to Prince Rupert

= It was learned with feelings of
mioy and reprét that A. A. Con-

mavhe office staff of F. G. Dawson
a por three times since construction

lis alive wire and. was prominet
mment and advancement of the

Bie much misged from: Hazeltor;

ng circles. Mrs.)Connon ‘and |'
yonne left Monday niht-for her]:
old home at Francois Lake: for |

ome

' ‘NEW. HAZELTON; ‘B. C., AUGUST 14, 1925

2

Mrs. Mary: Ellen
Smith To Judge
At Flower Show |

His Worship Mayo. Newton of
Prince Rupert has accepted the
invitation to open the second

annual flower show in Hazelton
next Friday; August 21,
Worship will arrive on Thursday
evening and will give the district
the once-over before the show
starts the next afternoon.

Mrs. Marv Ellen Smith, M.L.A.
of Vancouver, and Mrs. R: Lb,
McIntosh, of Prince Rupert and
Terrace, . have consented to act as
judges at the show. ©
of Kamloops was, unfortunately,
unable to get away at this time.

The flower show. promises to
be a big success from the stand-
point of entries and attendance.
The flower gardens are doing
| well. now -and’ the recent tains
have helped wonderfully. -
dance committee is busy and will
be busier from now on, 48 there
isa reputation to uphold. If the:
weather is fine there will be a
record crowd in town on Friday

Caravan of 240
Cars Will Come
Over. Highway| Mere 5-[b. Minnow

It is expected that theconnect-| Hunt and Dawson went fishing
ing link of the main highway/|!ast Sunday and got so many fish
between Prince George and New that Mr. Boden suspects them of
Hazelton and Hazelton will be

completed on Sunday.
through cars may be expected to
arrive any time after that.
Prince George Automobile Asgo-
ciation proposes to do some spec.
tacular advertising this fall to
popularize the trip from the south
north to the Central Interior and
through the Interior.
stunt will beon Sept. 7th, when
two hundred and forty cars will
arrive at Telitwa for theBarbecue.
While in the vicinity many of the
cars will’ come on. through to
New Hazelton and Hazelton and
spend at least part of the day off the bottom.
here: As a return compliment
this end of the district should
aim to send three hundred cars
over the road tothe Prince George
Such stunts will
receive America-wide publicity
and will attract many thousands|:
_|o£ tourists to the -north next]:

The first

The | throats and they fished side by

t
‘The mayor The firs

fair this fall,

Rain Fought Bush Fire
Aided by the copious rainfall

Dealt Chappell One
Off the Bottom: A

trawling with a net. The boys
tell a good yarn, however. They
used a fly and one got all Dolly
Varden and the other got all cut

each. They did not, they say,
exceed the limit, but they got
awful big fishes. They put all
the small fishes in the bottom of
the sack and the big ones in the
top. They started giving fish
away to wayfarers, friends and
enemies, beginning with John
Love of the Kispiox who got one
of the big ones off thetop. Bert
Chappell, being more of a beef
eater than a fish eater, got one
He put it on
the scales and it weighed fiye
and a half pounds. Mr. Boden is
of the opinion that Hunt and
Dawson had berter start going to
church if they want to impress
Constable Sperry Cline and Mag-
istrate Wm. Grant.

Prince Rupert has a big labor
strike on its hands again, .The

on- Wednesday, . the. crew. which |
‘is ‘tighting fire at Beament now
has the blaze practically. extin-
The fire, -which’ was

OVERHEARD AROUND
_ NEW. HAZELTON

elevator ctew demanded . ‘more
‘pay and ‘Jess work: Thete are

not be ready to handle grain this

jin an old burn on.a hillside, was
extremely hard to combat, owing
to a total lack of water and the
shallow earth covering on the
About one square mile of
territory was burned over, but
the flames were kept from the
merchantable timber. in the near

Haye you started your prepara- 7 ;
tions for exhibiting at the big|. Mrs. Harry Thornton and Fred
Prince’ Rupert fair.on Sept, 8th spent -several days with Mrs.
to 12th? -To show at Rupert and Stoynoff at Bulkley Canyon. :

to.win means winning against! The cedar pole business is get-
the whole of the north and only ting under way again and the
high class stuff should. be sent, outlook is pretty good for the fall
The interior produces hieh class and winter. Since the Hanson
stuff and can clean-up the prizes Lumber and Timber Co, let their
by exercising a little care from logs loose in the Skeena river ‘the

Ss. EL Senkpiel has his new pole
camp on. the. Nine Mile wagon
road open and is working about
Mike George has
a buneh of men working in the
same Vicinity. Both. outfits are
experiencing a good deal of diff-
culty on aecount of the condition
of the wagon road: and unless it
is improved the probability is the
[camps will have to close, -

“Sealy & Doodson, of Smithers, of the poles are hung up on the
will start today to make weekly shores, - The fall rains, it is ex-
trips to New Hazelton, Hazelton, | pected, will carry them down.
and South Hazelton, with a full
supply of fresh meats, -
for the truck. ,

Miss Grant of Victoria and Miss] some household goods. The sale
Grogan of San Francisco Were! is on Saturday, Aug. 29th, at ten
guests of Mrs. Geo, D. Parent at o’clock. Mrs. Schultzic will move
“Mountain View’? the past week, | into town and place. her children
‘Father Cooper of Washington ‘in school.

University was a visitor here the{ John Salt was able to be about
past week and with Father Al-/the first of the week after ‘heing
lard held services at Harwilget on his back some days,

Father Cooper is. a!
specialist in Indian languages and
‘Indian lore, He found. much of
interest in- this. country andthe
first of the week left for‘Babine
to follow up. his investigations,
The harvesters: excursions on
the C..N. R. started the first of

‘the week - ‘and about a: hundred
wot. away.on the ‘first train.

a dozen men.

Wateh :
"06

About the Mission Fields.
Rev. Dr.Darwin of Vancouver,
superintendent of the Methodist
mission churches‘ in'B. C., gave
m& Co. of Prince Rupert, He has| lecture. to: the congregation i in the
7 been a resident of Hazelton two

on Sunday. .
New’ Hazelton church Jast Sun-
day. morning ‘that aimed at in-
melays when he was time keeper creasing the amount.of money to
Bator the late Duncan Ross. Alex. {be raised locally.: He told about:
. ‘the mission: work of the church
in all things for. the. entertain. | and pointed out..that’ sixty per
cent of the total mission: rivings
mown. Heand Mrs. Connon will} Was spent in’ ‘Canada, He “gave
‘a Bimilar.‘lécture: in Hazelton. in
and L. A. Graef will have to pack the evening and on Monday: af]
additional] reaponsibility i in‘dane- ternoon’ he: aud Rev. Pound: start.

' |@ maximum temperature of 8&8
‘The ‘Herald: learna‘'that B. La was the official reading. at-.Ne
Trace of Ocean Falls. got the _
tract to-erect. the new . acho vat

New Hazelton. at..a:eost. of three| tion of .63 in. deluged :thetoun-|

ed in the Jattér’s car for’ ‘Smith
+> |thougand. four hundfed-odd' dol

et and other: points. ue

month. Mr. Connon:goes to the
post the first of the month... mag

; The local amber, rhs had
we Ano: sword yet. aoe » wea

"
| fears. now that’ the elevator will
tt

year, Thos Prince Rupert has
progressed since the beginning.

water has dropped fast and many

Mrs. §, Schultzic is advertising |
in this issue an auction sale of
farm stock and implements and

On Friday,afternoon last while
unloading ties from a. moving car
at the depot Fred Sait suffered a
broken leg. A tie bounced back
‘jand hit him; He was: taken to
the hospital.

During the period. of extremely
warm weather which terminated
‘Ton Wednesday i in a thunderstorm,.

Hazelton, and this was reached
on: Tuesday. °A total-precipita

trvalde in a two-hout downpour

Committees For —
Telkwa Barbecue

The following officers and com.
mittees have been elected to
handle this .year’s’ Barbecue at
Telkwa on Labor Day:
Secretaries—T, M. Ovens. B.
H. Phillips, - E, Hoops.
Treasurer—T. J.-Thorp:.
Sports and Finance Committee
—d. P, Wheeler, Corp. Hall, G.
L. Murray, J. J. McNeil, Frank

Refreshments Committee—E,
Hoops, P, Slavin.. =. -

Track and. Grounds Committee
—J. P. Wheeler, G..L,- Murray,
N. Svenson, F. W. A. Mapleton,
B. M. Hoops.

* Advertising Committee—J. P."
Wheeler, H. H. Phillips, F. B.
Chetileburgh.

Barbecue—H. A. Beck,
Decorations—T, Smith,

A son was born at the hospital
last Thursday night, Aug. 6, to

Mr. and Mrs. John Spitzl, |

Anudder tunder storm hit here
on Wednesday, accompanied bya
The rain would
be just as acceptable without
the hetning and thunder—even
But then the prairie
people in this‘ section would not
feel any more: ‘at home without
thunder than. ‘the Vancouver
Board of Trade men did without

first-class rain,

H. W. Edwardson, on the re-
commendation of School Inspee-
tor Fraser, will have charge of
the local school after the holi-

He will continue the high
school work after hours,

highly recommended.

Usk Cubs Got

Hazelton Boys
N umber Early

Four innings: were all- that
could be played before darkness
halted the baseball game between _
Usk and Hazelton on the latter’s
diamond: last Saturday evening.
Promise of a close Struggle after
both sides had been turned back |
in ready order i in. the first frame
disappeared before an avalanche
of hits. which sent five ’Uskies :
across the plate’ in the second,
and which caused the retirement
of Benson j in favor of Gray. The |
homesters-then. began to connect
‘with ® Walberg? 8 curves, but: the
visitors likewise | took to Gray's
offerings to. A like: extent, and |
when. the. mame, was. ‘called. were
leading by 9: to: 6. bree} ae
spirited-rally in. the fast-di
‘light threatened this 1
proved frititless. ° -

Bale MecKeiizie “ha re-
; turned ‘to Her’ home: in. ‘Prince
Wedneiday: Rapert.. after spending. 9