"b0a5f636-3b7c-4821-a60b-7e6b06c71c74"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2017-04-11"@en . "1915-01-30"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/fgherald/items/1.0344919/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " VOL. 5. NOJ2--\nHfi,\n'<'t,\n^a** ^ ^ ^ ^\u00C2\u00A3)*W {\u00C2\u00A7>mW % H. # V %'\nSUUTH FORT GEORGE. B.C., SATURDAY. JANURARY 30th, ~ 1915.\"\nIncorporation Delegates\nLeave For Victoria\n$3 PER ANNUM\nHaving received word from\nthe Government at Victoria appointing Monday, Feb. 1st as the\ndate for conference on the Incorporation Bill affecting the\nthree Georges, delegations representing the three towns left by\nSaturday's and Wednesday's\ntrains via Prince Rupert. Those\nfrom Prince George and South\nFort George were C. E. McElroy,\nW, H. Matthie. F. Ruggies, J.\nDaniell Jr., who will meet Messrs\nArmstrong, Melville Brown, Geo.\nMcLaughlin, A. G. Hamilton and\nFred Hood at the capitol.\nHaving thoroughly considered\nall the aspects of the situation,\nit was deemed the wisest and\nsafest course for\"'Prince George\nat this time to oppose incorporation at all, under any circumstances. And if the Government\ninsisted on some measure of incorporation, then only that area\nadopted in mass meeting by the\nPrince George people which lies\ninside the boundaries of D. L.\n343, or what is known as the\nGrand Trunk Pacific townsite,\nand not taking even all that area\nin. That was to be the utmost\narea the people would accept. It\nii understood the Grand Trunk\nPacific will not oppose this selected area, although they would\nlike very much to get their entire townsite in. But portions\nof this were characterized by\nCol. Thompson as absolutely impossible at this time for improvements necessary to drain it, that\nthc expense would be several\ntimes greater than the cost of\nthe property, and that the city\nshould not be asked to take it in\nfor some time. This has reference to the southwestern corner.\nIt is difficult to see how the\nGovernment can insist in the\nface of the expressed will of the\nlarge majority of the people a-\ngainst any other area, or a greater amount of property being\ntaken in at this time.\nIhe delegation from Prince\nGeorge took a bona fide carefully\nsecured petition of nearly 1000\nresidents and property owners in\nthat part of the townsite, protesting against the incorporation\nof Fort George with Prince\nGeorge.\nit is very easily to be seen\nwhere incorporation with Fort\nGeorge would lead the Financial\nHark of Incorporation. The\ncheaper and residential area is\nlocated in D. L. 937, 938 and\n1429, comprising part of the subdivided area of Fort George put\non the market by the Natural\nResources Co., headed by G.\nHammond, the townsite promoter. This cheap 25 ft. lot\narea although comprising about\nhalf of the portion of the town\nsought to be incorporated by\nHammond and his company, is\nassessed at less than $1,000,000\nwhile the Prince George area is\nassessed at 83,600,000; therefore\nthe Prince George area would\nhave to pay taxes as 3 to 1, and\nil will work out nearer 4 to 1.\nBesides this, the area most needing development is the Prince\nGeorge area which has not had a\ndollar of public money expended\n\u00C2\u00B0n it, although the Government\nhas taken over $200,000 out of it\nin the first payment on the sale\nof their lots last June and have\ntaken the taxes up to date, while\nHie Grand Trunk Pacific have\ndone little outside of grading and\nsidewalklng George Street despite all the money they took out\nof it in the sale of lots.\nIt has been estimated that on\nthe assessed valuation at the rate\n0|' 15 mills on the dollar there\nin taxes, as the maximum. The\nbest financial advice estimates\nthat owing to business conditions\nnot over one third of this, or\n$17,000, would actually be turned\ninto the city treasury. That it\nwould be necessary to borrow,\nand that there would be little\nlikelihood of a reasonable bargain\nbeing secured, is quite evident,\nas lenders of money would want\nhigh rates of interest and a discount of considerable proportion.\nSo the possibility of a successful\noutcome of the act of incorporation at this time is not promising.\nThe Fort George element, we\nfully understand, are fighting for\ntheir life (no matter at what\ncost to their neighbor) that they\nbe included in the incorporation.\nA census taken this week places\nthe population of Fort George on\nimproved property at about 325\nto 350 people, And it is quietly\ndwindling every week by migration to Prince George or out of\nthe country. The people have\nhung on as long as they\ncan and are giving up. We\nregret the situation; but\nas we have said before, it has\nbeen a forced growth, paid for\nout of a pay-roll collected of the\npeople and derived from the sale\nof these same lots. It has been\nan unnatural growth and as such\nis bound to disintegrate.\nIt has been said that it is the\nbest residential section in the\nsubdivided area about Fort\nGeorge, and we do not deny that\nit is well located for such purpose.\nBut it is ten years ahead of its\ndestiny, and in the meantime\nthe residential sections of Prince\nGeorge, both west and south of\nGeorge Street, must be filled up.\nThen why should the centre of\nthe town known as Prince George\nbe asked to carry this dead load\nof unimproved lots all this time?\nSouth Fort George early saw the\nsituation and voluntarily withdrew from the area intended for\nincorporation.\nMoreover, South Fort (ieorge\nand PrinceGeorge never did seek\nincorporation with Fort (leorge\nin one city. We were forced into that attitude by Victoria, when\nwe were told that we must get\ntogether or none of the towns\nwould get incorporation. This\nwas a false position, and we\nmust respectfully criticise the\nGovernment for ever taking such\na position on a subject in which\nthis great town to be was to be\ntied hand and foot. The people\no'f South and Prince earnestly\nsought to comply with the Government's desire; but it has\nfailed miserably. Oil and water\nwill not mix, and the people of\nthe west end and the rest, of the\ntown cannot get together. Forcing them together means discord\nand an unhappy marriage from\nits very inception. If Prince and\nSouth will be satisfied to let the\nlittle town of FortGeorge rule,\nwith its 350 people or less and\nthe non-resident Hammond, a-\ngainst 3000 actual residents and\nbusiness men. who have invested\nin the future welfare (not failure) of this city, then all might\nbe well. But up to now it has\nbeen Prince and South who have\nbeen the successful sections of\nthe town. And South realizes\nthat her destiny for a few years\nis to be retarded by the growth\nof Prince and voluntarily takes\nherself off the load. Why does\nnot Fort George do the same?\nSimply because she has many 25\nft. lots for sale (and they are\npressing for sale from the wide\nworld over); her real estate is\nfor sale; she hopes to get improvements on it by taxing Prince\nK. .. t.M If antl she\nGREAT NAVAL BATTLE!\"of Thrin*Naval Ba,tle\nAs Told by Participators of Both Sides\nEngagement Results in Running Fight\nand Great British Victory\nLondon, Jan. 27. -\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Scotsman I ing that during raid on Scar-\ntoday publishes a narrative of; borough men believed they were\nGerman Bluejacket, a survivor itaking Part in a \u00C2\u00A3reat naval ac-\nof the German cruiser Bluecher, jtion \"h^huwas extendin* a\"\n, ,.,.,.,. .over North Sea.\nwho once hved in the Un.tedJ The Edinburgh Scotsman also\nHe said German fleet | prints accounts of the naval bat -\nthis week as gathered\nattack British Coast when Brit- from men engaged in it. They\nSn f_rn c ;*bnA,.r\u00E2\u0080\u009E \u00E2\u0084\u00A2i\u00E2\u0080\u009E ioo ntn.AT.1 t . *'ish Warships were sighted, describe it as one of the greatest\nbo tar as lb known, only 123 of the Bluecher's crew of Thereupon Germans turned and struggles in naval history and\n| made for port. The Bluecher thrilling in every respect. From\nwhich was comparatively slow, position of German fleet when it\nmade desperate efforts to keep I was first encountered these men\nup her maximum speed, but assumed that it is virtually cer-\nAn attempt by German cruiser squadron to repeat\nattack recently made on the East Coast of England was\nfrustrated Monday by British patrolling squadron, and in\nrunning fight German armored cruiser Bluecher was sunk! States>\nand two German battle cruisers were seriously damaged. was advancing at full speed to tie o\nBritish ships suffered only slight injury. \"\"\"\"'' \"\"'''\"'' \" '\n885 were saved.\nBritish were superior in ships engaged, weight of armament\nand speed, and flight of German ships into mine and submarine\ninfested field possibly saved them from greater losses.\nThe Bluecher was a cruiser of 15,540 tons displacement and\nalthough commissioned in 1908 was completely rerigged last year.\nShe was not listed as a battle cruiser but was in next class to those\nformidable fighters.\nOther German cruisers participating were Derfiinger, the\nlatest battle cruiser which has just left the builders' hands, and\nthe battle cruisers Seydlitz and Moltke, the latter being a sister\nship of the Goeben formerly of German but now of Turkish fleet,\nwhich was recently reported damaged by Russians in Black Sea.\nBritish squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Sir David shell burst in heart of ship where\nBritish overhauled her and opened fire at a range of about ten\nmiles. \"We were under fire\nfrom first to last,\" Bluejacket\ncontinues. \"British centred their\nfire on us. Their fire was awful. Our guns were put out of\naction, our decks were swept and\nevery gun crew wiped out. One\nBeatty, who also was in command at battle off Holigoland last\nAugust, consisted of battle cruisers Tiger, Lion, Princess Roval,\nNew Zealand, and Indomitable. First three of these cruisers carry\neight 13.5 inch guns, and even New Zealand and Indomitable\ncarry 12-inch guns, which are equal to those of Derfiinger, the\nonly one of the German ships that had better than 11-inch guns.\nGermans Loss Heavy, Say Late Reports\nLondon. \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Official Statement\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"German cruiser\nKolberg is reported to have been sunk in Sunday's battle\nin North Sea.\"\nKolberg was third class cruiser of 4,252 tons, sister ship of\nMainz, which was sunk by Vice-Admiral Beatty's fleet, in battle\nof Heligoland fight. She carried a crew of .379 and twelve 4-inch\nand four 2-inch gunB. She was built at Danzig in 1910. Her\nspeed was 25.5 knots.\nLondon.- An account of the naval battle printed in\nThursday's Daily Mail says: \"At close of action the Derfiinger disappeared from view with funnel shot away and\nblazing from stem to stern. Moltke was in no better\nplight and Seydlitz was awash astern.\nAccording to German prisoner, air craft mistook the sinking\nBluecher for British ship and dropped bombs on her, hastening her\nend.\nmany men who had collected\nwere killed. I saw five killed by\none shell next to me. What finished our ship, I do not know, as\nshe was full of holes. 1 heard\nshe struck a torpedo; if so, we\ncan thank torpedo for saving\nhundreds of lives from murderous gun fire.\nWhen ship was sinking, I\njumped dear of her into terribly\ncold water, water full of dead\nmen and men with shattered\ntain its objective was Newcastle.\nThe strength of raiding squadron was quickly ascertained, and\nas entire raiding force sheered\noff immediately after it was discovered, chase was long one\nbefore guns began their work.\nFor forty minutes the two fleets\nraced along over shortest route\nfor Heligoland before guns did\nany real damage. Then the Lion\nwhich was leading, overhauled\nthe slow Bluecher, and in passing her gave her a broadside\ncausing frightful damage. The\nLion did not wait, however, but\ncontinued in pursuit of fleeing\nDerfiinger, Seydlitz and Moltke.\nThe Tiger, which came next, also\npoured broadside into Bluecher\nas did also the Princess Royal,\nboth of which were speeding on\nto join in chase of others, lt\nlimbs who were crying for assist- was already evident at this time,\nance. After being rescued by according to the newspaper's in-\nBritish, we were warmed, fed formants, that the Bluecher,\nand clothed.\n! abandoned hy her swifter con-\nWork Resumed on Pacific Great Eastern\nThe fact that a number of tie camps were to be\nopened up, and that work on bridge building and track\nlaying on the P. G. E. was to be resumed came as welcome news to a large number of men who have beenjaithough\nThe sailor is credited with say- sorts, was a doomed ship.\nHOCKEY provide good opposition for the\n'South town.\nThe game was capably handled\nNumerous devotees of our by Bancroft, of the Bank of Ot-\nnational game, proved by their | tawa- and McPhee. judge of play\npresence and rooting, are still wag the most overworked man\nwilling to assist in upholding the!on the jce\ntraditions of the old towns against; a return game is expected at\nthe new. The occasion was a pritlce in the near future. The\nspectacular contest between the teams lined up as follows :\nBankers of Prince George and ^ ^ \u00C2\u00A3e^\nCache versus the financial mag- pM( ^\nnates of South and Central Fort\nGeorge.\nBoth teams were evenly matched\ni the coin handlers of:\n! South were in better condition to\nSiaene ie,.. ^,ee,,,,eee^ |,wvv\nin favor of:\nSouth and Central, was a decisive\n'marking time\" here this winter.\nSupplies are being sent down the line daily, accompa-1 stand the gruelling pace set.\nnied by happy bunches of workmen. The resu,t'5 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 nil>'\nIn all, it is expected, about 800 men will be employed e.^, .,.. e score wm)|d havp\nbetween Print* George and the Cottonwood to the south been ,arger but for the brilHant\nfor the next three months or more.\nSome of the bridges to be constructed are from 600 to\n1000 feet long, while the height of several will be 50 to\n75 feet.\nThe contractors are experiencing no trouble in securing workmen, of whom there seemingly are a goodly\nnumber in the district.\nLouden\nMcLean\nLoekhart\nForrest\nWhittle\nWalilie\nPrince George and\nthe Cache\nGoal Munro\nPoint Montgomery\nCover Point Duncan\nCentre Bathurst\nUight Wing Neelands\nLeft Wing Fraser\nRussia Sinks Turkish Ship C. N. R. Line Completed\nAnd Aereal Fleet\nLondon\nto Times\nhave sunk near Sinope, Asia Minor, steamer Georgies, on board\nof which were sixteen aeroplanes comprising entire Turkish\naereal fleet.\nDo you know anything ahout flirting?\nNo- he replied sadly- I thought I\ndid, but when 1 tried it the girl married\nwork of John Munro, of the B.\nN. A. in the nets.\nFor South and Central, Whittle\nof the B. N. A. and Waidie of\nthe Royal Bank, both scored goals\nand should loom up in the senior\nranks in the days to come. Forrest, of the Royal Bank, Central,\nwas the star man of the forwards\nalways being in the right place.\nThe defence led by Loekhart\nthe heavy check man of the Royal\nBank, was invincible, and on the\nfew occasions when pierced,\nLouden, the custodian was on\nhand for some brilliant saves; on\nPredict War Will\nEnd in May\nLondon.\u00E2\u0080\u0094-In leading financial\ncircles here predictions are being\nmade that the war will end much\nsooner than commonly believed\nowing to Germany's inability to\nsupport financial strain. Next\nMay is mentioned as probable\ndate of German collapse.\nBank of Vancouver May Reopen\nThe Canadian Northern rail-\n~~\" way in British Columbia was\n-Petrograd despatch compieted Saturday last so far\nasserts that Russians as tracklaying is concerned. The]\ntrack from east to west is joined I .-.,<\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 nrtu \u00E2\u0096\u00A0,_,, \u00E2\u0080\u009E.,i ,_\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u009E,..,i\n. n , . ... ! one occasion getting too far from nttn annual general\nup at Basque, a short distance,, __j ,_._ ..\u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E,.!\u00E2\u0080\u009E ,.\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nwest of Kamloops. There was\nno official ceremony. This, however, will probably take place in\nMay, when the \"golden spike\"\nwill be driven.\nand\nshe is the incorporated city and\nthus sell thousands of lots all\nover again to the great public.\nThe money from the sale of\nthese lots will go into the pockets of the sellers, not into the\ncity treasury. But the city\ntreasury will be kept lean and\nstarving all the time to carry on\nthe advertising stunts of the\ntownsite promoters. A real estate game from start to finish is\nthe present crusade of \"rule or\nshe ruin\" you-must-take-us-in cry\nc\u00C2\u00ABn be collected in the first year George to pay for it,-- jj,fmm(iul.,nMrM\n^incorporation not over $El,000,hopes to advertise to the world from FortGeorge.\nhis nets and being unable to\nstand up, fell on the puck iaving\na certain goal.\nFor Prince tieorge, Sandy\nFraser was the star man, always\nThe\" western terminus of the! being very energetic and took his\nnumerous collisions with Lock-\nhart with a smiling face; the\n! work of Bathurst might have had\n; a more telling effect had he not\nspent so much time on the penalty bench for tripping. Duncan\nLondon. -. It is officially an- was at all times dangerous and\nnounced at the Admiralty today showed that in the\nthat the Bri! ish armored rner\nPossibility that sufficient fresh\ncapital might be secured to permit of this institution re-opening\nbefore its charter became forfeited, was suggested at the\nmeeting of\nthe Bank of Vancouver. The\nbank closed its doors on December 14. It has until next March\nto complete financial arrangements for continuing in business.\nC.N.R. is Port Mann, about 15\nmiles east of Vancouver.\nBritish Armored Merchant Vessel Lost\nSwiss Firms Get Large Order\nchant vessel Viknor has been\nlost off Ireland with all hands.\nThe vessel, it was stated, either\nstruck mine or foundered.\nThe Viknor was formerly the\nViking and was commandered by\nthe admiralty on Dec. 12.\nA despatch from Geneva states\nthat the Russian Government has\nplaced large orders for medical\nrequisites with a number of Swiss\nfirms. The total figures of these\ndays of his i orders is said to be in the neigh-\nyouth he must have been hard to j borhood of a million crown.\nhold. Montgomery was slightly |\t\ndisabled in the region of the wind I Roumania Gets\nduring the first period from a Loan From London\ncollision with Loekhart and did! \t\nnot loom up as well as was anti- J London, \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Agreements have\ncipated. i been signed here for a loan of\nNeelands played well and will I \u00C2\u00A35,000,000 to Roumania. A Weekly Journal of Local General News, Published\nl'.'vp.k? Saturday Morning at its Printing\nOffice in South Fort George.\nSUBSCRIPTION RATES\nPrice One Year in Advance - - \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nSix Months in Advance - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nThree Months in Advance\nTo Thc- United Stales - - -\nNo paper stopped until all arrearages are\nthe option of the publishers.\nRATES OF ADVERTISING\nTwelve cants per lino for thc lirst insertion\ncents per line for each subsequent insertion\nFor Sale, Lost anel Found A _ __\nper insertion, limited to one inch, Other rates furnished on\napplication.\nNORTHERN INTERIOR PRINTING COMPANY, LTD.,\nPublishers and Proprietors,\nSouth Fort Georce, 13. C.\n.A TIMID AY, JAN TARY, .Oth, IU I\n$3 00\n1.75\n1.00\n3.50\npaid except at\nancl eight\nminimum charge e'>ft cents\nActivity Or Stagnation-Which Shall it Se?\nJT is always an interesting\nproceeding to speculate in\nregard to the financial future\nbut it is inadvisable for anyone to attempt this task un-\nimreui'iiiiieiu cmuuiu jiup\nEx-Mayor Robinson, of Kamloops, says: \"There lias been\ntalk of blue ruin in this province\nlung enough. This talk of economy is very good, but it has gone\ntoo far. We have beard of retrenchment and nothing but retrenchment. For the past twenty-three or twenty-four months\nthe doctrine of economy has been\ndinned into our ears. During\nthe last six months there may\nhave been reason for this by\nvirtue of the war. But I think\nit is about time to right-about-\nface and get busy and develop\nbusiness and prosperity. I think\nthat the time has now come to do\nthis.\n\"As far as Kamloops is concerned conditions there are very\nfair. There has been no more\nunemployment there at this period of the year than last. We\nhave a mild winter, and the regular commercial life of this city\nis proceeding as usual. Kamloops has several departments of\nWhat conditions will pre-\nj vail after the war, is another\ninteresting phase of the situation dealt with. The popular impression is that things\nless possessed of the requisite' will be much better. What\nspecial knowledge. There is may happen, thinks the writ.\nperhaps no better informed er, is that a period of general! the provincial government and in\nfinancial prophet in Canada'activity will follow the dec-! addition it is profiting from min-\nthan Mr. P. W. Field, editor laration of peace, so far as ^al and agricultural activity and\n,,,... . m- m -iii . i mi ii the development of other nearby\not the Monetary Times, Tor-,available capital will allow, \nahu.a] ,..annpf,Pa\nonto. In a lengthy review to be followed in turn by a\npublished in the \"Annual\" of; period of stagnation. The\nthe past year's events in fin- [ writer also deals in his article\nance and business Mr. Field I with the working of the\ntakes a conservatively opti- world's credit machine,\nmistic view. A careful anal-[emergency, currency, Can-\nysis of the position, he says,\nleads one to the belief expressed by Sir George Foster\nthat of all the countries in\nthe world, Canada today occupies the best position. That\nis the case only if we reorganize, says Mr. Field, the\nfundamental points of the\nnational position, and chief\namong these is the imperative necessity of increasing\nCanadian production. In the\nsame article, the probable\nduration of the war is discussed and authorities quoted. The question, however,\ncannot be decided with the\nada's measures to prevent\nnatural resources.\n\"Another factor in a new period of prosperity which might be\nmentioned as beginning for Kamloops is the completion of an\nhydro-electric power plant on\nthe Barriere river, forty miles\naway. This will provide power\nnot only to Kamloops but to the\nfinancial disaster, the posi- j country miles around. My per-\ntion of Canadian borrowersj sonal opinion is that it will de-\nin 1915, the United States as | vel\u00C2\u00B0Pland settlement as well as\nbanker to Canada, the cost| ^ustries in Kamloops. Power\nof the war, the Canadian sit-\nwill be used to pump water on\n, , . the irrigated lands when gravity\nuation, including agriculture, is not possible.\nindustry, immigration, em-j \"Kamloops is looking forward\nployment, trade and com-', to the completion of the Canadi-\nmerce, banking accommoda- ian Northern. It is of course a\nARE Y?U AFRAID\nThat your competitor will get ahead of you ? He surely will\nif you don't keep your name before the people, and let them\nknow what you have for sale. You'll admit that it isn't\nvery pleasant, searching for the article one wants, in store\nwindows this kind of weather, therefore the buyer of to-day\nwants to see the kind and price of goods for disposal in\nplain figures on paper.\nTO\naccomplish this, isn't a big task, and it costs very little\u00E2\u0080\u0094A\nthousand handbills 12 x 9 inches would cost you only $6.25,\nand these properly and regularly distributed would work\nwonders, besides lifting you out of the rut of ordinary tradesmen. Perhaps you have forgotten the old motto, \"All who\napproach the door of success will find it labelled PUSH,\"\nso why not push your way to the Herald Office and\nADVERTISE?\nWar is a Blessing.\nSTARTUNC REMARK OF Mr. H. H. STEVENS\ntion, the stock exchange out-\ndivisional point on the Canadian\n... j i i Pacific, and with two transconti-\nlook, insurance and real es- nentalg u will likely be connected\ntate. Concluding, he _&yi: witj, the pacific Great Eastern\n\"The country had previously j to the Grand Trunk Pacific,, an-\naccepted the fact that a re- j other transcontinental.\nI adjustment of conditions was i \"l&m supposing the proposi-\ndue. The war is aggravating\nthe process to some extent,\nbut the final result of the re-\naid of figures theories and; adjustment m be whole\nopinions, says the writer. It\nby\ntion to connect the city with the\nP. G. E. at a point near Clinton,\njust 51 miles away from Kamloops. The line would pass\n^^^^_^^___^^^_ through the Mammette copper\n.... , , . , , ,, | some. Favorable facts, con-; country, through Kamloops and\nwill be determined by the\" fi(jence and good business down to the coal fields at Mer-\nstrength of British arms, de- sentiment may trek forward iritt- Ifc would devel\u00C2\u00B0P an im-\ntermination, funds and con-\together without trepida- P\u00C2\u00B0rtantterritory and materially\nfidence. tion.\" aid Kamloops.\n_ _ > ____ _ | Mr. Robinson has completed\nu i j t il e n 's'x years service as mayor of\nNoted Author bays Fro* ' Kamloops, retiring at the end of\nperity Will Soon Return j 1913. it is possible that he will\nbe a candidate in the next Dominion elections, being mentioned as probable representative of\nGreat Clothing Order\nGiven to Canada\nOttawa. -Orders for $4,000,000\nworth of uniforms are being\nplaced among 50 Canadian clothing manufacturers by British\nwar office agents. The orders\nwill be placed in proportion to\nthe capacity of the factories.\nFive hundred thousand coats and\na like number of trousers are required.\nThis order is the largest of its\nkind ever placed in Canada. Over\nMr. Arthur Stringer, of Cedar\nSprings, Ont., author of \"The\nCounterfeiters,\" \"The Wire-Tap-! the% nfw riding of Cariboo, which\n\"Silver Poppy,\" \"Open j '\"eludes Kamloops and was cut\nand a new novel entitled |from the old Yale-Cariboo riding.\nHe is very well known and highly esteemed.\npers,\"\nWater \t\n\"The Prairie Wife,\" which is\nnow appearing in the Saturday\nEvening Post, in discussing general conditions, expressed the\nopinion that in a year or two at\nthe latest Canada would again\nenter on a prosperous period. He\ncould see no reason why good\nOne Fanner in Three Loses\nMoney Says U. S. Expert\nA plea for more efficiency in\none million and a half yards of Mnd1\u00C2\u00ABOT8 should^t ta'^to^l1*' b\"a!ne8B \u00C2\u00B0f \"* T\nkhaki cloth and eleven million' within a comparatively short l^^il^n^.^!^6\nbuttons will be used to complete I time aml he sa'ys that \"from an\nthe uniforms. Wherever possible, I observation of general conditions\nhe is convinced that when prosperity does come back it will\ncome for a long stay.\nHe bases his assumption upon\nthe claim that there will be a\ntremendous demand for Canadian wheat during the next three\nyears, and this demand will be\nattended by high prices. Canada\nwill become in fact as well as in\nname the granary of the empire\nand in addition Canada will at\ncloth manufactured in Canada\nwill be employed, but as the capacity of Canadian mills is very\nlimited, and they are for the\nmost part busy on Canadian government requirements, it will be\nnecessary to use a large quantity\nof American made cloth,\nWeekly shipments of the\nclothing are to go forward, and\nall orders must be completed by\ntbe end of March,\nThe terms of purchase are\n\"cash on approval.\" Dominion\ngovernment orders for clothing\nhave'been partially placed and\ntbe remainder soon will be. This\norder will be about one-fourth as\nlarge as that placed by the British government.\nInternational Dry Farming Con\ngress at Wichita, Kansas, by\nThomas Cooper, Director of the\nSoutii Dakota Experiment Sta>\ntion.\n\"Estimates indicate that the\naverage farmer in this country\nreceives forty-five to fifty-five\ncents from each dollar expended\nby the consumer,\" he said,\n\"while farmers in most European countries receive sixty to\nsixty-five cents.\n\"In an investigation of groups\nAny policeman will tell you that \t\nis nothing to be gained from i adventures of a family of Cana-\n: up a bud egg. I dian prairie settlers.\n, ,! of farms located in townships in\ntract tremendous amounts of i T ,. ,,,. , , ,\n.. , ,. .. , .[Indiana, Illinois and Iowa it was\ncapital as well as thousands of , . ., . , . .\n, ,i . found that one farmer out of\ngood European immigrants. ,... . . ,\n,, '. 1/1 ii every twenty-two received a a-\nMr. Stringer is a Canadian.1, . , ., .OAnn\n,, , , ., bor income ol more than $2000 a\nHe was formerly a railway re- . , ,, .,\n., . , . , ., year; one out of every three paid\nporter on a Montreal journal. He , '. ... - , .\nentered the short story field and f.r the ljnvlleSe of working;\nstory | that is, after deducting five per\ncent, interest on their investment, they lost money.\"\nPeace is the breeder of vice and\nimmorality, war is tbe harbinger of\nvirtue and a high standard of\nthought, was the startling statement\nmade by Mr. 11. H. Stevens, M. P.\nThe speaker quoted several trite\nphrases which are frequently heard,\nsuch as \"Peace and Plenty,\" \"Peace\nand Learning,\" and so on but stated\nthat history bad liorne out the contradictory phrases \" Peace and Oppression ,\" \" Peace ancl Sensuality.''\nDuring the past quarter century the\nworld has experienced such peace as\nwa9 never before known. Has the\nresult been an increase in the world's\nstandard of living, an upward tendency in morals ? The speaker declared there had been an increase in\nviciousness, Peace has not given\nthe stimulus to higher things, but\nrather the reverse. The world has\nbeen living too luxuriously and too\neasily.\nIt had been observed in all ages\nthat those who live in luxury are\nusually the oppressors of the poor\nHuskin, said the speaker, has observed that \"it is worthier to live by\nwar than by play, to ride a war\nhorse than a race horse, to light\nwith one's neighbor than to cheat\nhim.\" War, declared Mr. Stevens,\nbrings out the Ifest in mankind.\nThere was never a time he said,\nwhen greater sympathy was shown\nby the stronger nations for the\nstricken ones, than at present. Ong\nof the blessings of the war would be\nthat h. large number of persons\nwould \"find themselves.\" That is\nto say they would Im- weaned away\nfrom the sloth of indifference into\nwhieh they had been led by past\nluxury and ease. The basic principles of lho national character will\nre-assert themselves. The nation\nwill be better for having performed\nits duty in this present world crisis\nwith every confidence and all honor.\nJ. W. SANDIFORD,\nUndertaker and Funeral Director.\nCaskets, Funeral Supplies, & Shipping Cases always on hand,\nOut-of-town calls promptly attended to.\nPhone 23 Fort George.\nPrince George and Fort George.\nr\n'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2%\nAMERICAN PLAN\nEXCELLENT CUISINE\nCorner Hamilton & Third\nSouth Fort George. B.C.\nThe newest and most modern\nhotel in the northern interior\nRates $2.50 and $3\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0loathly and weekly raid aa at-\npllcatloa\nB*\u00C2\u00BBt of wines,\nI.iejuori and cigan\nAlbert Johnson, prop.\nJ\nCarried Little\nWar Insurance.\nshort\nis one of the good\nwriters of the day.\nOf his new novel, Mr. Stringer\nsays it will picture the life and\nWhen the ollice seeks the man there\nis nothing in it.\nRaid ea English Cowl Cut Uwlerwriters\nAbout \u00C2\u00A345,000.\nLondon.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 It has been estimated\nroughly that underwriters have settled about \u00C2\u00A345,000 for losses on the\neast coast caused by the German\nbombardment, Of this total about\n\u00C2\u00A325,000 war was due lo the Ifartle-\npools, \u00C2\u00A315,000 tu Scarborough, and\n\u00C2\u00A36,000 to Whitby. Tbis estimate\nis no criterion of the full extent of\nthe damage done, for only a very\nsmall proportion of the total value\nof property in the districts shelled\nwas insured against enemy risks.\nIs your family doctor of the new or\nthe old school ?\nThe newest - 1 believe.\nWhat ia his distinguishing peculiarity?\nSmall doses and big fees.\nJust Stop and Think\nof the risk and inconvenience of burning coal oil.\nWhy not be up-to-date? Have your house wired,\nit costs but a trifle more. Rates on application at\nour office - Rooms 7 & 8, Post Building, George\nStreet, and at the plant, South Fort George. We\nhave a stock of lamps, shades, fixtures, irons, and\nhandle all utility devices.\nNorthern Telephone & Power Co., Ltd.\nElectric Light Service and Power Furnished.\nHouse Wiring and Electrical Fixtures of all kinds.\nPhone 19- Four Rings, South Fort George.\nPhone 10, Prince George.\nFARMS\nFOR INFORMATION REGARDING THE BEST\nAGRICULTURAL LANDS IN THE\nDISTRICT. CALL ON\nOR WRITE\nNorth Coast Land Co., Ltd.,\nPhone IS. PRINCE GEORGE, B.C.\nL. R. WALKER, General Agant. lauses Anxiety!\nAll the German papers, without exception, have suddenly\nvakened to the seriousness of\nthe food question. Under the\nheading1 \"Mobilizing the Housewives\" attention is called to the\nincreasing' economic difficulties.\nA woman's service in Berlin is\ntaking special measures to instruct housewives in economy in\nthe kitchen.\nOn one day, recently, ten huge\nmeetings were held in Berlin to\nimpress upon the housewives the\nseriousness of the situation and\ntheir responsibilities in the kitchen in war time. Women are\nanxious to be instructed in a way\nto face the coming terrors in the\nhome.\nBaron von Schorlemer, Prussian Minister of Agriculture, has\nissued a document, giving official\ncountenance to the movement\nfor economizing supplies of meat.\nHe tells the people plainly that\nshould the war be of long duration, they must be prepared for\nheavy sacrifices. He does not\nthin': th .t agricultuinsts will fail\nsupplying he market, but the\n' t- . j ,^t. , cry\ncarefully treated,\nHe is really concerned about\npork, and in most serious language appeals to municipalities\nand authorities, as well as to individual families, to do all in\ntheir power to lay in a stock of\nsmoked and preserved pork. All\nkinds of foods, he mentions, may\nbe manufactured from pork, and\nin carrying out the wishes of the\nMinistry, he tells the nation, the\npeople will all be performing a\npatriotic duty, second only to the\nwork carried out at the front.\nNo less serious is an exhortation addressed to the nation by\nDr. Harms, professor of state\nsciences at the University of\nKiel. It is a very fervid appeal,\nand the extravagance of his\nlanguage provokes a smile. Here\nis a specimen:\n\"Do not let a crumb of bread,\nthis gift of God, be wasted. Eat\nonly war bread. Regard the potato as a vegetable that will\nassist you in holding out. Blush\nwith 3hame if your desire for\ndelicacies tempts you to eat\ncakes and tarts. Look with contempt on those who are so immoral as to eat cakes, and by\ntheir greed diminish our supplies\nof flour.\"\nA serious spill on the Newark, N. J. \"saucer\" track, where several famous racers trained for\nthe International Six Day Bicycle Race at Madison Square Garden, New York.\nJanuary 1st,\n1915.\nVictory follows\nthc flag.\nWn wish you health, ami wish you wealth,\nAnd many a merry clay,\nAnil a happy heart to play thi> part\nOn the great highway,\nl'ioneot-\nManufacturers\nof\nLumber.\nphone 1\nPrim* George\nFORT GEORGE TRADING\nAND\n*^ CO**\nApt* umrw ^\nr ('. McEl.nOY, MelieieeeeT \"*\nl'ionecr\nOperators\nof\nSteamboats.\nPhone 11\nSeeulll Fori Ctorst\nDomestic Coal\nOf the highest grade obtainable and specially\nsifted for domestic use.\nLath, Kiln Dried Coast and Local Lumber, Cedar Siding,\nSash and Doors, Building Papers, Ready\nRoofings, Wall Boards, etc.\nInteresting Items About Mining Progress in B. C.\nMr. C. S. Meek of Vancouver\nhas arganized a company in Seattle to drill for oil in the State\nof Washington and at Abbots-\nford, on the British Columbia\nside.\nThe Northern Oil Company\nLimited of Vancouver proposes\nto start drilling operations on its\nholdings on Graham Island in\nMarch next.\nPoverty is not a crime, but it ia generally punished with a term at hard\nlabor.\nJ. F. CAMPBELL\nCIVIL ENGINEER\nBritish Columbia Land Surveyor\nLand Agent Timber Cruiser\nRepreMnttng GORE & McGItKGO R. Limited\nMcGregor Building, Third Street, SOUTII\nFORT GEORGE. R. C.\nHARRY M. BURNETT\nArchitect and Civil Engineer\nTemporary Oflice :\nCorner Vancouver and Eighth Streets,\nI'RINCE GEORGE, B. C.\nt e.rt George, B.C. Victoria, B.C.\nr. V. Burden, Mgr. F. C. Green, Mgr.\nNelson. B.C., A. H. Green, Mgr.\nGreen Bros., Burden & Co.\n0vil Eotiieeri, Dmubn 1B. C. lull S\u00C2\u00ABrvr\u00C2\u00ABi\nSiirveyaof Unda, Mine*, TownBite. Timber\nLimitn. Etc.\nTheB. C. Oil Company Limited\nof Vancouver has resumed drilling at Ostard Bay, on the west\ncoast of Graham Island.\nThe Columbia Oil Company\nLimited, which has holdings on\nAkamina Brook in the Flathead\nValley. East Kootenay, has a\nforce of men at work constructing roads and trails, erecting\nbuildings, tanks, etc, with a\nview of resuming drilling in\nspring. In the first well drilled\nby this company, oil was struck\non two horizons.\nHard times have brought a revival in placer mining. Several\nparties are at work on the bars\nof the Fraser and Thompson rivers, and two new strikes have\nbeen made where it is stated\ngood pay has been obtained. At\nThompson Siding, on the north j\nside of the Thompson River, a '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nsteam pumping plant has been\ninstalled to raise water to wash\na bench where, in the clayey de-;\nposit, considerable fine gold has]\nbeen obtained. On the bars of\nthe Columbia River, north of\nRevelstoke, placer mining is going on, and parties are also reported at work on the Peace and\nPine rivers. A Vancouver syndicate is putting in a small hydraulic plant on Granite Creek,\nin the Similkameen, and has\nbrought out nice samples of gold\nand platinum obtained there. It\nis estimated that through the increased activity in placer mining\nin the Similkameen the output of\nplacer gold from that section\nthis season is about $20,000 - a\nconsiderable increase over recent\nyears.\nThe mines branch of the department of mines at Ottawa,\nhas issued a special report on\ngypsum in Canada, Full reference is made to the deposits of\nthis mineral in British Columbia,\nwhere deposits are reported at\nSpence's Bridge, Spatsum, Mer-\nritt, Grand Prairie and North\nThompson. The report states\n\"there is a large field open for a\ngood plaster industry in this\nprovince, and the quality of gypsum found is such that a plaster\nmade from any of the deposits\nwould readily find sale in the\nrapidly increasing markets.\"\nThe most important of these\ndeposits is that at Grand Prairie,\nin the Kamloops district, where\nthere is a large bed of pure grade\nof massive white gypsum. This\ndeposit was recently acquired by\nMr. Andrew Laidlaw, who got\nthe Manitoba (iypsum Company\ninterested. The Kamloops-Oka-\nnagan branch of the Canadian\n.Northern Railway system is located adjacent to the deposit and\nthe plan is to erect calcining\nworks at Vernon, on the completion of that branch, and calcine and market the manufactured product from that point. The\ndeposit has been exposed for a\nworkable width of 120 feet up\nthe hillside, but its total extent\nhas not as yet been defined by\ndevelopment work.\nThe Spatsum deposit, on the\nnorth side of the Thompson River, will be made available to\ntransportation by the Canadian\nNorthern Railway. It has a\nfrontage to the river of about\nj 3300 feet and covers 450 acres.\n: The mass is stated to be badly\nI disintegrated and highly altered,\nI but a band of pure gypsum five\nfeet wide is exposed in the tunnel.\nThe deposit at Merritt is in\nreality a gypsite, deposited by\nwater. It is accompanied by\nselenite or fibrous gypsum. It\noccurs in a finely divided state,\nwhich saves crushing, and forms\na quick-setting, strong and reliable plaster, suitable for stucco,\nas a retarder for cement, and for\nfertilizer. The deposit is said to\nhave a width of 1500 feet and!\nshows for 100U feet up the mountain side.\nA similar deposit to that at\nMerritt is reported from Tulameen, having been located by\nMr. H. Churchill of Rossland.\nTHE CHURCHES\nChurch of England\nHoly Communion 1st and 3rd\nSundays at 8 a. m.\nEvery Sunday at 11 a.m. Holy\n(\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0ommunion Sung v .th sermon.\nMorning prayer at 10:45.\nEvening prayer and sermon\n8:15,\nPresbyterian Church\nRev, A. 0. Justice, pastor,\nServices: 11 a. m. and 7.30\nI'- m. Gospel service.\n11 a, m.-The Minister.\n7.30 p. m.-The Minister.\nSunday School 2 p. m.\nA. C. Justice, Minister.\nExtraordinary Variety\nof Fighting Material.\nNever before in the history of\nwarfare have bo many men of such\ndiverse races, creeds and colors been\ncomprehended in such an army as\ntlmt which is now upholding the\ncause of the Allies on French fields.\nWhen Romo garrisoned the Great\nWall which formed tho most northerly defensive line of Britain, she\narrayed Italians, Iberians, Batovians\nScythians, Britons, and others in\nthe motley force wliich struggled\nincessantly to beat back the \"slim''\nand persistent l'ict; but even this\nmedley of races cannot compare for\nfl moment with the extraordinary\nvariety of lighting material now\nunder arms in the westeen theatre\nof war. Britain and France hold\nempires which Ctesar never knew,\nflIKl are enabled to draw troops from\nevery continent and every habitable\ndime on the face ofthe globe, ling-\nlishman, Scot, Welshman, Irishman\nCanadian, Australian, New Zealand-\ner, Frenchman, Spaniard, Polo, an I\n[tftlian, 8tftnd cheek by jowlwith\nPttUian, Clhurlca, Sikh, Bengah,\nBaluchi, Sonegainbian, Arab, Berbe\na\u00E2\u0080\u009EdMoo.^hviStian,Molmmmeclan\nHindu, and heathen-all united ...\nS army with one heart and on\nmind in the prosecution oi tbtii\ncommon purpose.\nIndian Rope Makers\nof British Columbia\nThe Indians of Central British\nColumbia, both those living in\nthe Coast villages and in the Interior, are ingenious and clever\nin certain crafts and arts. As\nweavers, carvers, carpenters,\nand boat builders their reputation is well known, but few are\naware that they are skillful rope\nmakers. From the wild hemp\nwhich is indigenous to the country, they make a very fine and\nexceedingly strong rope, with a\nfinish that any rope factory in\nthe world would be proud of.\nThe pliability and strength of\nthis rope are remarkable, and its\nwearing qualities under the hardest usage are said to be equal to\nthe best rope that can be purchased. The Indians use it for\n\"tracking\" their heavily laden\ncanoes up the swift rivers in a\ntow, a test that proves its qualities beyond the question of a\ndoubt. From the same hemp\nthe Indians also make a stout\ntwine and also sewing thread,\nbut not so much as in former\ndays when those articles were\nmuch more costly than they are\ntoday. The twine was used\n16,452,807 Food Animals\nReach Chicago in Year\nChicago.-More than 16,000,-\n000 animals for human consumption were sold for $409,134,000\nspot cash in Chicago during 1914,\naccording to figures made public\nat the Union Stock Yards recently. This is an average of about\n$25 for each animal,\nDuring the third week in Dec,\nthere were received and sold\n70,394 cattle, 6,354 calves, 230,-\n608 hogs, 133,110 sheep and 1,980\nhorses, making a total of 442,453\nanimals, or 7,332 carloads of live\nstock, bringing $11,134,210. During the year the arrivals numbered 16,452,807 head in 257,701\ncars.\nchiefly for making fishing nets.\nIn view of the present interest\nin Canadian industrial development the question naturally suggests itself to experts, could not\nthis hemp be cultivated for the\nmanufacture, say, of binder\ntwine for which there is such a\ngreat demand in the agricultural\nregions of Western Canada, and\nfor which the raw material has\nto be imported from distant\ncountries. This wild hemp might\nbe made to contribute not only\nto the industrial wealth of Canada, but also be made a source of\nemployment.\nSTOVES\nfor COAL or WOOD\nHEATERS RANGES\nof all lands ud sizes for every Kitchen\nWe are exclusive agents for the famous\n\"GURNEY STOVES.\" Our PRICES\nare right.\nWe are allowing a special 10 per cent,\ndiscount on every article in our stores.\nOrders will be taken at our Prince George\nYard as well as at our store at South.\nLOOK UP YOUR STOVE REQUIREMENTS\nRemember the 10 per cent. CASH Discount.\nTHE NORTHERN LUMBER & MERCANTILE CO., LTD.\nW. F. COOKE, Ni.\nRUSSELL PEDEN, Vice-Pi.s.\nc. e. Mclaughlin. s\u00C2\u00AB .iu;\nBEFORE BUILDING\nSEE\nDanforth & Mclnnis,\nSOUTH FORT GEORGE\nPRINCE GEORGE, B. C.\nG\u00C2\u00AB T\u00C2\u00BB P\u00C2\u00AB _R.\nEdmonton - Prince George\nPrince Rupert\nTHROUGH STANDARD SLEEPER\nNo. 1 Leave Edmonton Tuesdays anil Fridays 10-00 p.m.\nWest Bound- Arrive I'rince George Wednesdays & Saturdays 8 00 p.m.\nLeave ,, ,, ,, ,, 8-15 ,,\nArrive Prince Rupert Thursdays and Sundays 0-30p.m.\nNo. 8 Leave Prince Rupert Wednesdays and Saturdays 10 a.m.\nEast Bound- Arrive Prince George Thursdays and Sundays 8-30 a.m.\nLeave ,. ,, ,, ,, 8-45 ,,\nArrive Edmonton Fridays and MondnyB 8-30 a.m.\nCONNECTIONS AT EDMONTON FROM ALL POINTS EAST\nTravel via the\nBEST NEW RAILWAY\nEVER CONSTRUCTED.\nOur Agents will be pleased to furnish any\ninformation desired.\nW. J. QUINI.AN,\nDistriot l'at_enRer Agent,\nWinnipeg, Man,\nAutomobiles for hire.\nMachinery Repaired. Skates Sharpened.\nLathe Work.\nCITY GARAGE\nSouth Fort fteorge.\nHARRY COUTTS,\nPROPftllTO*.\nDRUMMOND & MaKAY,\nMACHINIST!.\nLaunches Overhauled and Repaired. Storage.\nGasoline Oils and Accessories.\nPhone 57. Developments.\nAl. Young handling the ribbons of j Mr. Henry Avison, Provincial\n, his tour-up team. The' party safely . Sanitary Inspector, has removed his\nJ. W. Stewart, President of the ftI1'v'ng :lt 'TaggitJi's, were given residence from Soutii Fort (leorge\nPacific Ureal Eastern, spent a imm-\nfull possession of the big hog Cabin to a more central point on Queens\nAl. Haggith has one nf the besl\n* * * # #\nthil, \u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u009E;,;',,;,:,, \u00E2\u0080\u009E\u00E2\u0080\u009E (r;;ni;,:'--\u00E2\u0080\u009E ,0,1.,-., ,i,,,i,,,\u00E2\u0080\u009E. ^Hs ^ Sod D Feb 5\nPacific property north of the [ m the I-mser Ri\ wcountry, and Al. | ^ ^ ^ ^\n5th.\nher of days' in town this* week'in Iand oulhuilding.. 1 lancing nnd nt- j Street, M i 11 a r A d d i I i e> n. Any\nconnection with work on the rail- tertamment was enjoyed until the complaints, or anything requiring\nroad, li i- believed that pluns ai. ear'y '10UW' '\"\"' ''\"' n,|,lni ,M lown Ihis services, will he attended to by\nunder way to start construction on wns as *llk]<' :\"\"1 na e'Wa'ily re- calling at his office on Queens Str.\nthe line north, in the spring, Some I Peale(l \"* the *>'oin6' !or l'ill-in- l1!' P'\u00C2\u00BBone 6f\nlinn' ago ihe contractors were givei\nnotice I\nTrunk Pacilic propwu uuiwi ui un- i _., , ,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 .\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 , ., i- a \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ,\n(i. T. P. track, along the Nechaco, I '\u00C2\u00BB <\"\" \"'ell-known to n 1 introdue- , lie lad.es eel thebunxhine Society\n, , , \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 . i i ., , n ! tie-in (,, ti,., i r..,-,i. l \u00E2\u0096\u00A0. i.pnrlni-s in flip I wish to announce that a dunce has\nnad heen terminated and that all\nbuildings occupied by the contractors, their families and oltiees would , ^^^^^m^m^^^m^^m^^^^^m^^^^^m \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 m i\n,,, rem0V(!(, heforo (!i(. firs( ,.\u00E2\u0080\u009E. M may someday have tlie pleasure of \.may evening, February Slh.\n1915. But renin, to new conditions \u00E2\u0084\u00A2ct'tin8 '\"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 and visiting his ranch., The proceeds will go to the credit\nin which i, is fully expected that The latch string is always hanging oflhe fcoce y s Local Relief Fund,\nmoneywillhe forthcoming to pros- out'for g\u00C2\u00B0\u00C2\u00B0(1 pcopl1' \" S . 1\"'\"\"\ncento the work north, the lea,-, hJ sl\u00E2\u0084\u00A2ki\"K '\"' l-'onsling, some of the recent heavy demands on same,\nbeen renewed. The contractors areHdenta \u00E2\u0084\u00A2M lUk m\u00E2\u0084\u00A2ni sp0ltP'^ . \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 T S .?\n.1 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 e the imst week mlher di .1-1 ruii-lv 1 suppled with the necessities Of life\nnot to remove their property and u\" ' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 iu\u00C2\u00BBu..iruu.^ 11\nto some of the participants. Doc.. tor some time past.\nLayne and Capt.in Foster are report- Let every one turn out and help\ned among the has-beens in the sport, make the dance a success. The\nbeing sn old as to have lost the art cause is a worthy one.\nof riding down hill on a pair of hobs] There will be no ticket sellers\ntion to lie' Herald's readers in the j wish to announce \t\ndistrict, but to those on the outside, been arranged for at the Fort George\nIthe best wc can wish you is that you j Theatre, South Fori (ieorge, on\nwocery specials\nCombining the Highest Quality\nWith the Lowest Cost.\nequipment, but will wait the opening of spring to start work.\nSurprise Sleigh Ride to\nHaggitk\nwithout gelling an ankle and a knee\nbadly hun and put out cf business.\n[jack Robarts is said not tu he in\nmaking the rounds. This announcement and personal advertising by those interested should do the\nwork. Therefore, \"boost.\"\nWhat hetween the private and much better shape. It is suggested\nthe Club Dance parties, Hockey, that these Coasters put mufflers orl Admission 50c; refr\nCoasting parties, etc., the winter of football suits on their exlermities\nquietness and waiting for the end of, for protection. The rest of the\nthe war and resumption of develop- coasting parties are enjoying the dis-\nment and business in the old town comfiture of the injured ones, and, .\u00E2\u0080\u009E,,,\u00E2\u0080\u009E.\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nt o . ,1 t . n \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 , , I wil hold their first meeting in\not bouth Fort George, is passing are enjoying themselves at the sport. |p%i.\nvery pleasantly. \t\n.hments free.\n\u00C2\u00BB # # \u00C2\u00BB #\nOddfellows to Hold Meeting\nThe Oddfellows of the District\nOur people will not be discourag- j Seeds for your Gardens this Spring\ned in their absolute faith in the \t\nNorthern Interior of British Coluin-' Our readers' attention is called to\nhia and tin' City of the George-to the advertisement of .Messrs. Steele,\nhe. Briggs it Co. of Winnipeg, in this\nHence such pleasant occasions as paper. Their seeds are noted all\na sleigh ride by about twenty of the over Canada. We have tried them\nyoung people to Al. Haggith's ranch with uniform success, and our read-\neast nf the Fraser River, about six ers will not be disappointed iu the\nmile distant, on Wednesday night, results of planting this Company's\nmakes the living in this most seeds. Remember,\u00E2\u0080\u0094Steele, Briggs\npleasant of winter resorts an event it Co., Winnipeg, Celebrated Seeds.\nDrugs, Medicines, Prescriptions,\nCigars, Cigarettes, Tobaccos, at Wholesale and Retail.\nStationery. Magazines, Newspapers, Confections, and\nToilet Articles.\nFort George Drug Co., Ltd.\nLaselle Avenue, South Fort George. :: George Street, Prince George.\nKodaks - Gramophones - Records\nPrince George Wednesday evening,\nFeb. 3, nt the Moose Hall on Fifth\nAvenue, 2 blocks west of George\nStreet. All Oddfellows are urged\nto attend.\n# 4 # \u00C2\u00BB e,\nDONATIONS TO SUNSHINE CLUB.\nThe. Sunshine Society disire to\nthank the gentlemen of Foley's\nCache, who have shown their appreciation of the work being done by\nthe society in relieving destitution\nin the district by generously contributing to the funds as follows :\nMr. .1. Stewart - \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 8200.00\nMr. Burns (of Bums and\nJordan) - - - 25.00\nMr. 11. E.Carleton - 20.00\nMr. Griffiths - - - 20.00\nPOTATOES.\nLarge size and mealy.\nThe best we ever had.\n$2.25 per 100 lbs.\nONIONS.\nEveryone sound.\n7 lbs. for 25c.\nSYRUP.\nLyles Golden\n21b. Tin for 20c.\nJAM.\nOrchard Brand - Pure Fruit.\n51b. Tins for 65c.\nTEA.\nJA blend of Ceylon and Indian Teas|\nWonderful Value\n40 Cents per lb.\nFIGS.\nVery Choice Table Figs.\n15c per lb.\nKennedy, Blair & Co., Limited.\nLetter From The Front\nW.T.Bond Writes Dixie Moore.\n820,5.00\n* # # # #\nFort George Hardware Co.\n~ * '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\" '-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \"\"f \u00E2\u0096\u00A0.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0'. I ..i.e. e \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I \u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094 -. nil. II\nSheet Metal. Furnaces a Specialty.\nPlumbing, Steam and Hot Water\nHeating.\nGENERAL REPAIRING.\nPhnnPG Na- ' south fort geoiige.\nniUIICS No. ij prince GEORGE.\nP. BURNS & CO. Ltd.\nWholesale and Retail Dealers in all Kinds of\nButter, Cheese, Eggs; |\nHighest Prices Paid for Hides and Live Stock\nGOODS DELIVERED TO ALL\nPARTS OF CITY.\nPhone as\nFort George and South Fort George.\nPhone 36\nCONTRACTORS & BUILDERS\nNO BUILDING IS TOO LARGE OR TOO SMALL TO\nRECIEVE OUR CAREFUL ATTENTION\n_, i Our Estimated Free of Cleurif* :> J.,b Wejil. N.nlly nml Promptly Executed\nPhone 20\nHI GEORGE PRINCE GEORGE\noppioe and shopi\nTHIRD AVENUE EAST\nOND ST KEF.T\nD STREET\nJas. Richardson, of Willow River,\nChairman of the School board of\nthat town, visited the City for several clays this week. Mr. Richardson\nis an enthusiastic believer in Willow\nHiver, and says all it needs is the\nclose of the war, the revival of business, and opening of the Willow\nRiver Lumber C'o's. plant to start\nWillow River on its deferred prosperity.\n\u00C2\u00BB * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 * \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nThe First Annual Dance of the\nLoyal Order of Moose, in Ritts\nKifer Hall, last evening, was a decided success, and an enjoyable time\nwas had by all.\n# \u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00BB \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00C2\u00BB\nBig Wrestling Match To-Night\nThere will be a Wrestling Match\nto-night, at the Rex Theatre, Prince\n(leorge, after second show. The\ncombatants are Alex Munro, heavyweight champion of Great Britain,\nJames McLeod, ex - heavyweight\nchampion of California, and Harold\nSandow, middleweight champion of\nthe north-west. Munro is matched\nagainst McLeod nd Sandow, and\nagrees to throw each twice within\nthe hour or forfeit $100.00. Mr.\nJack Robarts will referee. General\nadmission 50c.\nPremier and Sir Wilfrid To Spetk\nOttawa.\u00E2\u0080\u0094 With purpose of furthering recruiting in Ottawa and\ndistrict and driving home to all\nclasses the need for men, a mass\nmeeting will be held in the Russel\ntheatre within the next two or three\nweeks.\nAddresses will be delivered by\nSir Robert Borden, Sir Wilfrid\nLaurier and Hon. Arthur Meighen.\nA Winnipeg man called out to a\nburglar: \"I know you,\" and wus shot\nfor it, Had he been a poker player,\nhe would hnvo known that it was un-\nwlie to call unless he had something\nbetter in his hand than the other fellow.\nW. T. Bond, formerly auditor\nand later agent of the B. X. Co. in\nSouth Fort George, writes a very\ninteresting letter from the front to\nhis old companion in service Dixie\nMoore, which reads in part as follows :\nOn Active Service,\nJanuary, 1015.\nMy dear Dixie: .\n. . . Our particular gun detachment has been nicknamed \"the\nlocusts,\" for nothing in the food\nline has ever been known to be left\nover.\nAfter working hard Xmas eve,\nwe arrived at our gun positions at\n3 o'clock on Xmas morning. We\nwere so tired that we laid down and\nslept by our horses in a water logged\nploughed field. As one chap somewhat irreligiously remarked, \"I\nenvy the manger at Bethlehem and\nI am sure my horse does too.\"\nHowever, instead of a German attack, we were awakened by the\nchurch bells peeling \"Hark, the\nherald angels sing\". It appears\nthat in one of our companies were\nfour or five bell ringers who hit\nupon this appropriate method of\nsounding the reveille. The hymn\nsoon caught on, and down the whole\nline tlie refrain was taken up. This\nis quite a novelty for the average\nTommy Atkins, for when he wakes\nup an hour before dawn, at the\nsound of the reveille, his first, words\nare generally: \"Oh, damn the Kaiser.\"\nChristmas Day 1914 will be one\nof the most remarkable in history,\nfor on that day men and nations\nwho had been trying to exterminate\neach other for months, quit the\nshooting game and celebrated the\nday in the good old fashioned way.\nThc Germans had Christmas trees\nI in tlie trenches and invited Tommy\n[Atkins A Co., while T. A. had a\n| splendid Christmas dinner and in-\nj vit .tl the Germans to help to get rid\nof it. Wlien the Commanding Of-\nticer of our battery heard of it, he\nordered us back to our old billets,\nand we had a most \"scrumptious\"\nfeed\u00E2\u0080\u0094turkey, plum pudding, mince\npies, champagne nnd liquors, and\nwhat is more, we had (i hours of\nsolid sleep in a house that had a\nwhole roof on.\nI always thought the Americans\nvery smart when it came to organizations and systems, but Kitchener\nhas them all skinned a mile. If\nthe fellows in the moat advanced\ntrenches don't get a newspaper or\nthe news of the results of Saturday\nafternoons football matches on the\nfollowing Monday morning, why\n^Seleeted S^eds for the West\nAs a Canadian Seed House of Forty Years' Experience\nsupported by exhaustive comparative testing each season on\nOar Own Trial Grounds, our thorough knowledge of the\nadaptability of every known vegetable for Western climatic\nconditions enables us to maintain the\nUniform High Standard of Quality.\nfor which our seeds are famous.\nTHE GARDENER WHO BUILDS ON STEELE. BRIOiS SEEDS FROM\nYEAR TO YEAR IS ASSURED OF SUCCESS\nCultural booklets written by Mr. Jas.\nCocks, F.R.H.S., who haa had muny\nyuurtT prut-Ural experience in Weatci'n\nCanada, mailed to customers on request Our \"LION\" BRAND stocks\nof Field Seeds are, the acme of seed\nselection.\nWRITI PO* OUR iLLUiTBAT-\ngo Catalogue Today, \t\n& teele.Briggs SeedColum\nl' Winnipeg , manito\nthey grouse their heads off, When\nthe Emden sank, wc knew it all'in\nabout 24 hours. And weren't the\nGermans sore when they heard it!\nThey kept us up all night with their\nnight attacks. You see our chaps\nsimply love calling out to the Germans the latest tit-bits.\nWhen it comes to the question of\ngrub, why wc are fed infinitely better than anything the Cariboo country could put up a couple of winters\nago.\nYour present, packed as il was in\na thin cardboard box, arrived in\nbeautiful condition with not even\nthe wrapper torn. What would it\nhave looked like if it had travelled\nfrom Ashcroft to Fort George on\none of the B.X. Christmas extras?!\nOld England is gradually becoming aware of the fact that a war is\ngoing on. In her slow old fashioned way she is turning her male\npopulation between the ages of 19\nand 36 into soldiers. It is all voluntary, no excitement and no Hag\nwagging. Rumor hath it that Kitchener's army is already over the two\nmillion mark, but K of K still\nwants morc. If the Germans can\nonly be persuaded to bombard a\nfew more Scnrborouglis and kill off\nanother 100 women and children,\nKitchener's army will be three million strong by the 1st of April, Ancl\nthe men that belong to that army\ncan be likened only to the bull dog.\nThey will never let go of the German army until it is dead. It may\ntake a year or perhaps ten to do it,\nbut the job will be done all thc\nsame. Not that there is any hate\nin England for the individual Herman, for there is practically none...\n_ pall of mine will mail this in\nEngland,\nPeril in Baltic Sea Spreading\nLondon.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A despatch to Exchange Telegraph Company from\nCopenhagen says mine peril in\nBaltic Sea is spreading. In addition to loss of Swiss steamer\nDrott, which struck mine off\nRaumo, Finland, Thursday ami\nsank with loss of six men, steamer Appa is supposed to have met\nsame fate with loss of twelve of\nher crew.\nIt is feared that the steamer\nHamman also is lost, either in\nrough water or by hitting mine,\nBargain hunters often look shop-worn.\nROOMS TO RENT\nAT TIIE\nVictoria Hotel\n(Formerly Grand Union)\nOPPOSITE CLUB CAFE\nThird Street - South Fort George\nHot ud Cold Water Baths\nF.C. BURCH ' \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Proprietor\nNoted Actor Din.\nGeorge Frotheringham, the\noriginal \"Friar Tuck\" of the old\nBostonians, died suddenly of\nheart failure on the 20th inst. at\nBurlington, Vermont. He wa9\n75 years old,\nPioneer Bakery\nWe are the pioneers in the\nbaking business. Always has\nand always will be the best.\nCome and give ns a call.\nFRED TIEMEYER, Proprietor.\nOUR Telegraph Office at Prince\nGeorge is now open for bujines.\nAll telegrams for Prince George\nand Central Fort George will pe\nthrough this office. Free delivery\nbetween Prince and Central.\nFORI CEORCE _ ALBERTA TELEPHONE AND\nELECTRIC CO., LTD."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "South Fort George (B.C.)"@en . "Fort_George_Herald_1915_01_30"@en . "10.14288/1.0344919"@en . "English"@en . "53.9"@en . "-122.75"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "South Fort George : Northern Interior Printing Company, Ltd."@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "BC Historical Newspapers"@en . "Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives."@en . "Fort George Herald"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .