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VOL. 7, NO. 25 ALICE ARM, B. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927 5 cents each.

Logging Camp of F. L. Coastwise Steamship & Estate of Late J. 0. Tre —« Stewart Short Line May Housley Finally thewey Divided Among Barge Co. Buy More Be Extended to Peace Children and Relatives Barges River

Another day or two will witness Net estate amounting to $587, Capt. James Griffiths of Seattle, It is expeoted in many quarters the dosing of the logging oamp of 239 was left by J. O. Trethewey head of the Coastwise Steamship that should the C. P. R, decide to F. L. Housley who has logged the the well known lumberman and & Barge Co., announces that he build a railway from the Peace has purchased the steamers El Kitsault Flats for the past 18 mining owner. The late Mr. Trer River Country to the coast that months. For the past few weeks thevvey was owner of several Abeta, El Cedro and El Ciouta they will make Stewart the ter only a small crew has been em mining properties at Alice Arm, from the Los Angeles Lumber Pro minus. During the past few- ployed taking up railway track, also oond noted logging operations 3(Ca$ (he coming duct Co. and will place them in the weeks several things have pointed ore carrying service between and gathering equipment together, here for several years. The estate Year he the most to the possibility of such an event. most of whioh has been shipped to will be divided among children and Stewart and Anyox and Tacoma. Following is an article published Anyox. relatives. Happy and prosperous The three vessels, whioh for some in the Portland Canal News deal years were engaged in carrying Since Mr. Housley oommenoed To a son, Joseph Edgar Tre In your life, and ing with the matter: lumber and logs between Massett logging he has put approximately thewey of Abbotsford, he bequeath ' Railway construction has been May it be the stepping Inlet and Seattle and other Amer 12 million feet in the water. Of ed $60,000 and one-sixth of the re the chief topic of conversation iu ican ports, are now being drydock this amount 85 per cent was spruce siduary estate. One-sixth shares Stone to increased Stewart during the week. Last ed in Los Angeles before being Sunday the Portland Canal News 10 per cent hemlock, and the re of the residue were eaoh left to his Prosperity in the turned over to the Coastwise Com maining 5 per cent oottonwood. other children, May Simmonds, received by wireless, aud bulletined, pany to enter service on the Brit The spruce and hemlock was sold 1260 Bid well street, Margaret Gray Years to come is our confirmation of the sale of the Can ish Columbia coast. to the Powell Biver Paper Co. and of Abbotsford, Myrtle Bird, 4750 Wish to you. adian Northeastern Railway, better the cottonwood to the Laminated Hudson avenue, Cora Trethewey of Capt. Griffiths also announces known as the Portland Canal Materials Co. of New Westminster. Newton Lower Falls, Mass, and the sale by the Coastwise Steam Short Line, to English capitalists, and the faot that finances were av Fourteen thousand feet of new William Trethewey, 1758 Kings ship & Barge Co. of the steamer ailable for a rehabiliation of the railway traok was laid during the way, New Westminster. Griffco, long in service on this old road to its terminus at Americ past 18 months, and a bridge 70 A brother, James, Trethewey, 530 coast, to the Inter-Island Steam an creek. feet in length was also built across Ash street. New Westminster, re Officers of Catala Not To Navigation Co. of Honolulu. The the North-East Fork of the Kit ceives a $10,000 legacy, and two Blame For Recent Wreck Griffco will leave Puget Sound al 'Later iu the week word came of sault River. From 35 to 40 men sisters, Elizabeth Dolby of Chilli most immediately for Honolulu to activities by the C. P. R. in the Captain E. A. Dickson and Chief were employed, with a monthly waok and Emma Brett of Chilli enter the Hawaiian inter-island Peace River section which it is ex Officer Ernest Sheppard have been payroll of $5,800. waok receive the same. service. pected will eventually result in exonerated from all blame in con All the railway track has been An annuity of $2400 for life was direct connection between the nection with the grounding of the We are again on the threshold of taken up except 2,400 feet on the left by the testator to his divorced great farming area and the sea-port S. S. Catala, at a court of inquiry another year. Another year has tide flats. This is built on a trestle, wife, Rita Belle Trethewey, of Ab of Stewart. held in Vancouver. passed away, and it has not dealt the timbers of whioh are in good botsford, and an annuity of $600 "Dispatohes from Winnipeg, Ed Chief Officer Sheppard was in unkindly with the Anyox and Alioe condition, aud will be lifted in the to her son, Joseph Massen Treth monton and Vancouver all concede charge at the time the ship struck Arm distriot. Everyone has made spring when the snow is off the ewey, until he is 21 years of age. that Stewart will be the western the rocks. He stated that a mirage a living, many have increased their ground. The principal asset comprises outlet for the Peace River country, existed at the time the ship struck, savings; some have gained further The closing of the camp marks 585,000 shares in Abbotsford Lum and this consumation may be eff which deceived the officers as to experience, and uot many have lost the end of logging iu the Alice ber, Mining & Development Co. ected much sooner than even the the ship's position. As the acci ground. Abject poverty, as it is Arm district, except on a small Ltd., valued at $468,000. There most optimistic have hoped for. dent happened at the height of the known in the big cities is a stranger scale. The whole of the Kitsault is also a balance owing by Joseph tide it was also presumed that to us, and we have a lot to be "According to last Sunday's mes Flats has now been logged. Some Edgar Trethewey on the purohase Sparrowhawk buoy had drifted a thankful for. > sage, reconditioning of the road good stands of timber, however of shares in the company for $113, short distance. The big Anyox plant of the will start at the beginning of the remain, but not enough in one 086 of $84,400. The many friends of these popular Granby Co. has operated uninter- New Year, when 15 miles of line place to pay a profit at present The exeoutors are Joseph Edgar officers in the north will be pleased uptedly throughout the past year, from Stewart to Red Cliff will be prices. Trethewey, William Gray, who is to learn that they are held blameless. producinga yellow stream of wealth put in shape. It will be ready for the deceased's son-in-law, and R. that creates many happy homes in operation by August, 1928. Alice Arm Logs Being Ship W. Harris, K. C. Cold Weather Prevailing this district, and adds considerably "This section of the road will ped South to the prosperity of the whole serve a number of mines which are To date, this winter has been the No Anyox News This Week province. being developed in the district. It The log- carrying barge, Biscayne coldest on record, and a record will also be utilized as a logging arrived at Alice Arm early on Tues Owing to the indisposition of our snowfall has also been experienced. Alice Arm has passed a success railway in connection with a saw day morning. She was towed north Anyox correspondent, Mr. M. J. The coldest weather of the season ful year and while no big develop mill to be ereoted in the vicinity of by the powerful tug Pacific Monarch. Sheen, with an attack of grippe, occurred this week, when the ther ments have taken place, steady The Biscayne has been loading logs no Anyox news arrived at the mometer registered three below progress has been made, from Stewart. throughout the week from F. L, Herald office this week. This, we zero. From present indications it which everyone will benefit in the "An extension of six miles up Housley's camp. The logs are very much regret, especially as is very probable that the weather years to come. Bear River will be undertaken and destined for Powell River and will several important news items were will continue to get colder. It is true that the price of all finished by August. 1929. This be the last logs to leave the Kitsault awaiting publication. Our readers metals were at a low ebb during will serve the George Copper, Ar the biggest part of the year, but Flats this winter. can rest assured that everything genta, Rufus and Red Top mines. New Year Party Tonight at all signs point to a steady increase possible was done to prooure the "The present project is fully fi Alice Arm Hotel in price during the coining year. The coming year will be a pros news, but the late announcement nanced for 1928-29. and Hon. H. perous one for you, if you order made it impossible. All this week's The annual New Year party will National Debt Decrease H. Stevens is now in England in your new suit from Stan Ballard, news will be oarried in our next be held at the Alice Arm Hotel on connection with ambitious plans and appear prosperous. issue. Saturday evening when the resid The national debt of Canada de which the oompany has in view. ents of Alice Arm will be the guests creased by $70,189,814 in the first "The company hopes, after re Start the New Year right by buy Today is the last of the old year. of Mr. and Mrs. O. Evindson. Re half of the current fiscal year, that ing a box of El Doro Cigars. The It should also be the last of your old freshments will be served at mid is from April 1st to September 30, conditioning the first 15 miles, to best obtainable. suit. A. Galy. night. 1927. Continued on Page 4 ALIOE ARM AND ANYOX HERALD, Saturday, December ;31 1927

Alice Arm & Anyox Herald Consolidated Enormous Issued every Saturday at Alice Arm SYNOPSIS OF Alice Arm and Anyox $2.50 Yearly Dividends INSURANCE Other Parts of Canada, $2.75 Fire, Life, Accident British Isles and United States, $3.00 Consolidated Mining & Smelting and Sickness Al. Falconer LANDACTAMENDMENTS Notices for Crown Grants - - $15.00 Alice Arm Company of Canada will pay a] Guaranty Savings & Loan Society Land Notices .... $15.00 PRE-EMPTION8 Transient Advertising, 50c. per inch dividend of $3,176,381 to its share NOTARY PUBLIC Baggage, Freighting, Pack Vacant, unreserved, aurveyed Contract Rates on Application. holders on January 1. and Saddle Horses Yown land* may be pre-empted by Irltleh subjeot* over II years of age, E. MOSS, Editor and Publisher. F. B. McLELLAN This is at the rate of 5 per cent, COAL & FINISHED LUMBER ind by aliens en declaring- Intention P. O. Box 264, Anyox >.o become British subjects, oondi- on its issued capitalization of $12,- 1 ional upon residence, occupation, 705,525 and a bonus of $5 a share Slab Wood Cut any Length md Improvement tor agricultural An appeal has been put forward purposes. on the 508,221 shares issued. Full Information concerning regu for forming one more Province, so Thedividendisforthesix months For Results Advertise £i;ery Order Given lations regarding pre-emptions Is Immediate Attention given In Bulletin No. 1, Land Series, as to cover the Peace River Dis ended Deoember 3rd. This divi "How to Pre-empt Land," copies of which can be obtained free of charge trict. dend and another of approximately in The Herald jy addressing the Department of Lands, Victoria, B.C., or to any (Jov- equal size, declared by the company •inment Agent. Is it necessary or even advisable? for the first half of the year, will Records will be granted covering inly land suitable for agricultural Sometime ago the Winnipeg make the largest paid by a mining purposes, and which is nut timber- and smelting company of the land, i.e., carrying over 6,000 board "Tribune" analyzed the situation feet per aore west ot the Coast Range Northwest, it is believed here, and 8,000 feet per acre east of that in Canada under the title of "Too Flange, being at the rate of 10 per cent, STEAMSHIP AND TRAIN Much Government". Applications for pre-emptions urn for the year with a $10 bonus. SERVICE J be addressed to the Land Com Some of the figures were: S. S. Prince Rupert leaves Anyox for Prince Rup missioner of the Land Recording 1)1 ert, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, and intermed lslon, ln which the land applied for la situated, and are made on printed There are 905 persons engaged in iate points, each Thursday, at 11.00 p.m. arms, copies of which can be ob- Premier Dividends Are S. S. Prince John leaves Prince Rupert, for legislating, being one for every 9.74 alned from the Land Commissioner. North ami South'Queen Charlotte Islands, fort Pre-emptions must be occupied for persons. These gentlemen—and nightly. I'lve years and improvements made NearlyJMMOOO to value of (10 per acre, iiic.iiu.n.! ladies draw $2,700,000 yearly. PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE FROM PRINCE RUPERT clearing and cultivating at least live The usual quarterly dividend of Trains leave Prince Rupert each Monday Wednesday, and Saturday acres, before a Crown Grant can be ecelved. The Federal Parliament has 235 $400,000 will be paid by the Prem at 11.80 a.m., for Jasper, Edmonton, Winnipeg, direct connec tions for all points East and South. For more detailed Information set members and the Senate 87; these ier Gold Mining Company on Jan the Bulletin "Ho-- to Pre-empt Land." nary 4. This will bring the grand Use Canadian National Express for Money Orders, Foreign PURCHASE draw $4,000 each a year; making heques, etc., also for your next shipment. total of dividend payments to $11, Applications are received for pur a total expense of $1,463,000. chase of vaoant and unreserved 75(1,947, In recent months there For Atlantic Steamship Sailing: or further information, apply to any Canadian N:„ onal Agent, or to R. F. McNAUGHTON, District Passenger Agent Crown lands, pot being tlmWlnnd, Ontario, for a population of 2, for agricultural purposes; jiunlmutii has been a movement of Premier Prince Rupert, B. C. prloe of ftrst-olass (..'able) laud Is (5 933,682 has a Legislature of III, shares to British Columbia and it per acre, and seconu-claas (grazing) .J land I2.E0 per acre. Further Infor who draw, with the Ministers, is stated ou good authority that mation regarding purchase or :eas« of Crown lands is given ln Bulletin $228,400. about 2,000,000 shares are now No, It, Land Series, "Purohase and held in the province. Lease of Crown Lands." '"ami factory, or Industrial sites on Quebec has two houses, with timber land, not exceeding 40 acres, may be purchased or leased, the con 24 and 81 members respectively, We wish our many friends of Alice ditions Including payment of Fortunes Made in Provincial stumpagw who draw $279,000. Mining Stock HOMESITE LEASES Nova Scotia has 21 members jj Arm and Anyox a happy and pros Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 20 acres, may be leased as homes!tea, drawing $1,500 and 43 drawing The registry books of Coast conditional upon a dwelling being Copper shareholders show one perous year throughout 1928. erected ln the first year, title being $750; this gives a total of $63,400, obtainable after residence and im pool of Vancouver wholesale men provement conditions are fulfilled and land has been surveyed. exclusive of Ministers. holds over eight thousand shares. When the stock reached $40 in LEA8ES New Brunswick has 48 mem For graslng and industrial pur Montreal the profits for the pool BRUGGY'S STORE Alice Arm poses areas not exceeding 640 acres bers drawing $73,000. may be leased by one person or a amounted to $200,000 since the company. Prince Edward Island has 30 stock started to soar. OBE GRAZING members drawing $15,800, exclus The total profits are much great Under the Vrasihg Aot the Prov inoe la divided into graslng districts ive of Ministers. er than the amount mentioned r *^\ and the rang* administered under .n because the stock was bought a r Graslng Commissioner. Annual erasing permits are Issued based on Alberta has 60 members draw year ago when selling around three numbers ranged, priority being given to established owners. Stock-owners ing $175,500. and four dollars a share. Launch "Awake" may form associations for range management Free, or partially free, British Columbia has 47 mem WINTER SCHEDULE permits art available for settlers, What makes a country really campers and travellers, np to ten bers drawing $ 148,500. Leaves Alice Arm on Tuesday at 9 a.m. Returning head. great? same day, leaving Anyox at 3 p.m. The members of Saskatchewan Nor lands nor forts nor gold nor Leaves Alice Arm on Thursday 2 p.m. Returning draw $131,200; and those of dross, on Friday, leaving Anyox at 10 a.m. But citizens whose lives are set Manitoba, $118,500. Leaves Alice Arm on Saturday, at 9 a.m. Returning The Herald To service and to righteousness. same day leaving Anyox at 3 p.m. To these figures must be added A mansion oan not make a home, Special Trips by Arrangement $2.50 a Year the expenses of the Lieutenant- Nor nature's dower make a state; Governors and their staffs, as well The, greatness of her sons alone >b =^ Anyox & Alice Arm as the officials of the Parliament Can make a country really great. That is, indeed, a goodly land, and Legislatures. Happy and strong and beautiful. The Peace River is exceedingly Where each promotes the public BRITISH COLUMBIA prosperous, but why load the cost good The Mineral Province of Western Canada of a separate Provincial Govern And all are brave and dutiful. Has produced Mherals as follows: Placer Gold, #78,018,548; Lode Gold, $126,972,318; Silver, $80,- God speed the day in every land, 787,003; Lead. $106,976,442; Copper. $209,967,068; Zinc, $50,512,557; Coal and Coke, $284,699,133; ment on it? When selfishness and discontent Structural Materials and Miscellaneous Minerals, $50,175,407, making its mineral production to the end A wise move is that towards Shall yield to brotherhood, and all of 1926, show au uniting the three Maritime Prov Shall seek the common betterment! Aggregate Value of $988,108,470 inces, and thus curtailing the heavy The substantial progress of the Mining industry of this Province is strikingly exhibited in the following figures, which show the value of production for successive five-year periods: For all years to 1895, inclus burden they have to bear. Customer:—"Has the red-haired girl left yet?" ive $94,547,241; forfive years, 1896-1900, $57,607,967; for five years, 1901-1905, $96,507,968; for five yearf- Curtailment of governmental ex Waiter:—"Yes sir." 1906-1910, $125,534,474; forjve years, 1911-1915 $142,072,603; for five years, 1916-1920, $189,922,725; Customer:—"I thought so, I for five years, 1921-1925, $214,726,650; for 1926, $67,188,842. pense is far wiser than adding to found a black hair in the soup Production Last Ten Years, $429,547,755 it. today." Lode mining has only been in progress for about 25 years, and only about one-half of the Province has been even prospected; 200,000 square miles of unexplored mineral bearing land are open for prospeoting. The Mining Laws of this Province are more liberal and the fees lower than those of any other Province in the Dominion, or any Colony in the British Empire. Mineral locations are granted to discoverers for nominal fees. The Bonanza Silver Absolute Titles are obtained by developing such properties, security of which is guaranteed by Alice Arm Camp of B. C. Crown Grants. We invite you to investigate the mining shares now Practically all British Columbia Mineral Properties upon whioh development work has been done being offered in Alice Arm properties and recommend are described ill some one of the Annual Reports of the Minister of Mines. Those considering Kitsault-Eagle Silver Mines Ltd. (N.P.L.) mining investments should refer to such reports. They are available without oharge on applicatiou to the Department of Mines. Viotoria, B. C. Reports covering eaoh of the six mineral Survey British Colonial Securities Ltd. Districts are published separately, and are available on application. Reports of the Geological Suite 325, Standard Bank Building, Vancouver Survey of Canada, Winch Building, Vancouver, are recommended as valuable sources of inform-tioh. Alice Arm Representative: A. McGuire Full information, together with Mining Reports and Maps, may b6 obtained gratis by addressing THE HON. THE MINISTER OF MINES, VICTORIA. British Columbia L (Cl

ALICE ARM AND ANYOX HERALD, Saturday, December 31 1927

B. P. O. ELKS WATER NOTIOE DIVERSION AND USE H dTL ere Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland TAKE NOTICE that W. A. Wilson ere an ANYOX LODGE No. 47 whose address is P. O. Box 32, Alice Arm, B. O, will apply for a licence to Establishing; what is believed to Meets every second and fourth Monday of i the month take and use fifteen cubic feet be a world jjecord, J. H. Hoover, of of water per second out of Battleford, Sask., reoently dug a Hall far rent for dances, social functions, etc. Falls Creek, which flows easterly total of 171 potatoes from one hill. on application to cluk manager and drains into Kitsault River, aboufpno quarter of a mile from the A new record for the Port of mouth of the Kitsault River. The Montreal was set up Saturday, Octo water will be diverted from the ber 22nd, With 1,045 ocean-going stream at a point about 1000 feet west steamers having entered the port M. M. STEPHENS & Co. Ltd. of the west boundary of the Wolf this season (with five weeks or so Mining Claim and will be used for yet to run) as compared with 1,042 power purpose upon the mine describ for the whole of last season. INSURANCE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES ed as Success Group Mine. This not WRITTEN ANYWHERE ice was posted on tne ground on the All wheat yields in a season of 9th. day of December 1927. A copy of amazing returns went by the board The oldest Financial Office in Northern B. C. this notice and an application pursu on October 26th when J. F. Cook, of ant thereto and to the "Water Act" Magrath, 24 miles south of Leth- will be filed in the office of the Water bridge, Alberta, reported a return Office: PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. Recorder at Prince Bupert, B. C. of 176 bushels on a piece of fal Objections to the application may lowed land measuring slightly over be filed with the said Water Recorder two acres. . or with the Comptroller of Water Rights, Parliament Buildings, Victor Hon. W. E. Foster, Chairman of Worthy of your Support ia, B. C, within thirty days after tbe^ the Saint John Board of Harbor first appearance of this notice in a' Commissioners, announces that plans THE local newspaper. for the first unit in the enlarged W. A. WILSON, Applicant. harbor facilities for Saint John By J. A. Wilson, Agent. would include four new steamship Anyox Community League The date of the flrst publication of berths and an elevator of 2,000,000 this notice is December 17th. 1927. bushel capacity and that plans for Reading Room and Library these would be prepared at once. They will be located on the western side of the harbor. A wide range of Newspapers, Increasing interest is being mani Magazines and Periodicals on ANYOX fested throughout the country in the project sponsored by the Depart file. New books regularly ment of National Defence regarding COMMUNITY light-aeroplane clubs, and two received. queries have been received formally requiring the Government to fulfil LEAGUE its part of the scheme by shipping Join Up! the two Moth planes promised under the provisions of the plan. Mont real and Edmonton are the first two Make the League better applicants. through your influence Beach Recreation Hall: Inaugurating a direct mail service Pictures: Tuesdays, by air from Quebec City to Ottawa and bringing British mail to the Thursdays, and Saturdays Capital 48 hours ahead of regular train schedule, a seaplane with first First Aid Champions of C.P.R. Lines class mail from the Canadian Pa Mine Recreation Hall: cific liner "Montroyal" landed on "The Shaughnessy grand challenge cup, team secured a total of 419 points out ALICE ARM Pictures: Wednesdays and .. emblematic of the First Aid Gham- of a possible 610, while the Winnipeg the Ottawa River near the Parlia ionship for all lines of the Canadian team were 16 points behind. The com ment Buildings. This is the first Fridays Pacific Railway Company was carried petitions were in accordance with the mail to reach Ottawa by the air, and FREIGHTING off recently by the Toronto Freight St. John Ambulance Association re is part of a more general experi COMPANY Offices in competition with the Weston quirements. ment on the part of the postal POOL, BILLIARDS, SMOKES, Etc Shops of Winnipeg, holders of the In addition to the all lines champion authorities. GENERAL CONTRACTORS western lines cup. The competition took ship, the Toronto F-eight Offices team place at the Place Viger Hotel in Mont was winner this year of the Wallace- Manitoba's first fox show will be real recently between the two teams Nesbitt Cup won in competition with held from November 30th to Decem Pack Trains, Saddle Horses who were declared winners of eastern over 40 teams from all railroad organ ber 3rd, in the old Hudson's Bay and Heavy Teams and western lines competitions held izations in Canada and the states cf store at Winnipeg. J. H. Evans, Help the Organization *ior to the final tests. The winning Maine and Michigan. Deputy Minister of Agriculture, will No Contract too Large or be superintendent, and A. M. Doyle too Small general manager. There will be that Serves You i eight classes including one for the best pair of matched foxes, one for MILES DONALD Manager groups or herds and one for the most desirable fox from a pelt standpoint. Several championships —\ will be awarded, all of which are open to all classes. I~ •1 PIONEER What is said to be the most valu BUILDING LOTS able shipment of horses ever to reach Canada arrived in Montreal ALICE ARM recently aboard the Canadian Pa HOTEL To all our satisfied customers of Alice Arm cific freighter? "Bosworth" and Business Lots from $200 to "Bolingbroke." The owner is W. J. McCallum, of Brompton, Ont., and $500 Comfortable Rooms for Rent the past year, we wish a happy Regina, who secured these prize By Day, Week or Month at animals in England, Scotland, Residential Lots from $200 Reasonable Rates France and Belgium. They include to $300 the famous "Lord Willingdon," for New Year which Mr. McCallum paid $10,000. N. Sutilovich Prop. The horses will be sold throughout the West after being exhibited at .J Toronto, Chicago, Guelph and Ot Robertson & Dumas tawa. Agents for Alice Arm Mining LEW LUN & Go. Canadians would be cor«;derably and Development Co. For Results Advertise in the surprised if they were given full de General Merchants, Anyox West side of Smelter tails of the British investment go Herald ing into Canadian channels at the .present time, according to E. R. OPEN UNTIL 10 P.M. Peacock, director of the Bank of England and of the Canadian Pa ZKZ3DC cific Railway. The Britisher does =>a -J not seek publicity in his business deals, he stated, with the result that May the sun of happiness and large sump of money were often placed in the Dominion and never heard of. A case in point he men prosperity shine upon you tioned was the investment of him self and five other capitalists of throughout the coming year £200,000 in timber interests in Brit ish Columbia five years ago, and fr •^ upon the success of the venture the W. M* CummmgS, Agent for all Vancouver Daily Papers further investment of £300,000. Post Office Building, Alice Arm e wish you a Happy DC 3DDC 3D r~ anfr fraspraus Welcome Hotel Alice Arm Comfortable Rooms for Rent ALICE ARM MEAT Co. Tobacco ud Soft Drinks W. A. WILSON, Manager Cigars, Cigarettes Alice Arm T. W. FALCONER AH WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GENERAL MERCHANT A. BEAUDIN, Proprietor L~ Dealers in Fresh, Salt, and Smoked Meats, V^. Fish and Poultry

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Stewart Short Line May H ere an dTUer e Be Extended to Peace It is estimated thai 28,nuu.U00 acres will be sown to crops this River year in the West, an increase ot 2,600,000 acres over 1926. Continued from Page 1 undertake extensions by whioh tlie Canadians hold the record for eating eggs. The average Canadian line will eventually connect with last year consumed 337—-a record the Alberta railways. This was according to Dr. J H. Grisdale, Deputy Minister of Agriculture. the objective of Sir Donald Mann and will require a stretch of steel ToBacco-growing is flourishing in 535 miles long through a country Western Ontario, and this year the acreage will likely run to 45,000 or of vast potentialities. It would double that devoted to the produc- give the shortest connection possi tion of this plant in 1925 The crop last year was valued at $6,000,000. ble between the Pacifio Coast and the Peace River district. One of the most powerful radi> 'Two light locomotives for con stations in Canada will be erected ut Red Deer, Alberta, in the near struction work, flat cars and a future. Stations will be operated ie caboose will be shipped shortly Calgary and Edmonton by remote control to the main station. ! from Vancouver. A crew of 125 men will be used in the first devel New Zealand will be officially opment. represented at the World's Poultry Congress at Ottawa, July 27 to "Meanwhile the activities of H August 4. R, W. Hawke, one of thi 1.-H. R. H. th. Prince of Wales. J.-H. R. H. Prince Georte. 4\-Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prim. Minister of Great Britain. H. Stevens and W. A. Lewth- Island Dominion's best known pou!. try breeders, will represent that waite and tlieir London backers country. Smoothing the Path of Princes seem to have stirred others into hen Princes of the Blood Royal make their few private hours as com celebrities travelling C.P.R. across Cana" Besides the game fish hatchery Wvisit their Dominions Overseas they fortable as possible and this has been da. The chefs are men of European activity. A dispatch from Winni have to go through a great number of amply looked after in the Canadian which will be established by the Do ceremonies, receptions and functions Pacific Royal Train that is conveying reputation who are acknowledged experts peg says: minion Government in the Wateron which in the aggregate furnish a consider the distinguished guests across the in their line. They have accompanied able amount of hard work which makes Dominion. Grouped on the observation the Prince of Wales on his previous "It is understood here that the Lakes district in Southern Alberta, visits to Canada and so are known to a commercial fish hatchery will Da of their trip anything but a vacation end of the private car Mount Stephen C. P. R. has offered $30,000,000 time. -When, further, they are accom that has been assigned to the use of the His Royal Highness. Standing on the established in the north. The latter panied by the Prime Minister of the Old Royal guests are the personnel of the car from left to right they are: G. Hicks, i to the Alberta government for will also handle certain species of Country, although the latter may relieve attendants and others whose duty it W. Zoppi, H. T. Jolley, T. E. Evans, and game fish suitable to lake waters. them somewhat in the matter of speeches, will be to make the princes and the pre J. Bassett. Lower, left to right: j. B the Edmonton Dunvegan and the tour becomes all the more arduous by"mie r forget their hard work in the lap of Ford, J. Tootles, S. Ferraris, E. McKea. luxury. They are all picked men who Great Waterways railways, with reason of its greater significance. Ac veney, L. Charney, P, Hugginson and G The Canadian Pacific steamship cordingly, there is all the more cause to have been out at one time or another with Highway. its 990 miles of track. passenger traffic through the port of Saint John during the winter "President E. W. Beatty, K. C, of season of 1926-7 was over 40 per of the C. P. R., is on his way west cent, greater than that of the previ rr ^ !; to Edmonton. ous season, and it is expected that the summer traffic through the St. "Purchase of the E. D. and G. W. Lawrence port will show a still railway will give the C. P R. con greater increase. trol of the whole of northern Al The last addition to the chain of i berta, and it is understood the Canadian Pacific hotels is the MEN'S I i company plans to oarry the line "Hotel Saskatchewan," located at / Regina, opening on May 24. It is through to Stewart. one of the finest of the chain of a "Sir Henry Thornton is under character in keeping with the im portance of the capital city of the DEPARTMENT stood to have offered Alberta the Province which furnishes 50 per physical valuation of the railways, cent, of the Dominion's wheat out Pure Wool Pullovers And Sweater Coats put. The hotel is 12 stories, con which would amount to the same A new line of heavy knit Black and White Pullovers, Pure Wool $7.50 taining 216 bedrooms with bath, and as tbe C. P. R. offer, but in this many beautiful public rooms and Heavjr Sweater Coats in all sizes 7.50 plan Sir Henry has been opposed administrative offices. Light Weight V-Neck Pullovers 6.25 Light Weight Sweater Coats .$5.75 to 7.75 by the minister of railways, Hon. The Canadian Pacific Railway BOYS' PULLOVER SWEATERS Chas. Dunning, who favors C. P. R. Company reports from Winnipeg acquisition. the marketing of grain at the pres A new line of Boys' Pullover sweaters witli Polo Collars in attractive patterns $1.75 I ent rate of 180,000 bushels daily, as "Those who are familiar with the compared with 123,376 for the cor situation claim that the outcome of responding season of last year. 1 this big fight for the northern Manitoba's 180,000 compares with < country will be an outstanding Saskatchewan's 533,000 and Alber DRY GOODS DRUG DEPT. ta's 366,827. Loadings are also event in the history of the west." SUITABLE DRESS MATERIAL MEDICATED THROAT DISCS above last year's record with 220 Flannels iu Red and Blues $1.00 per Efficient in the treatment of Coughs, cars daily. f*- Peru Increases Mineral yard. ^ hoarseness, irritation of the throat. Production The greater portion of the bells Flat Crepes in Pink, Mauve, Sands, Sixty for 25o. forming the carillon to be installed Blue and Black $2.30 per yard Syrup of Tar Cod Liver Oil for coughs, Peru's mineral production in 1926 In the Victory Tower, at Ottawa, Spun Silk in Pink, Mauve, Sand9, Blue colds, chill, sore throat and bronchial increased 24 per cent in value over were shipped from England on May and Black 95c. per yard trouble, 50o. per bottle. that for the preceding year, says the 17 by the Canadian Pacific steamship i "Balfour." The carillon, consisting U. S. Department of Commerce. of 63 bells, is regarded as the fin With the exception of vanadium est in the world, and have been cast and gold, all the metals mined in at the famous bell foundry at Croy Peru experienced a price decline. don. The bells are a portion of a i national memorial to thousands of SHOE DEPARTMENT The value of mineral production Canadians who laid down their SUITABLE NEW YEAR GIFTS AT LOWER PRICES amounted to ^22,453,627, an in lives in the Great War. crease of £4,392,845 over the Men's and Women's Felt Plaid Slippers, Sewn Leather Soles, Men's sizes figure for 1925. 6 to 10. Speoial Price $1.00. Women's sizes 3 to 7. Speoial Price $1.00. Anyox Community Men's Fancy Carpet Slippers, Leather Soles and Heels, Warm Linings, Speoial Price $1.50. Women's Boudoir Slippers in Patent, Tan, Blue and Bad habits are like a comfor Blaok, with stiff Counters and Military Heels, Speoial Price $1.75 table bed—easy to get into, but League hard to get out of. The Council of the League H. M. SELFE meets on the Second and GRANBY STORES REGISTERED OPTOMETRIST Fourth Wednesday of each ANYOX month, in Recreation Hall, sW Office: Opposite Liquor Store at 7.30 p.m.

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