Jir q.ntember 8, 1938. KERN THE PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN Page Three Handsamtf' Features H nn a large scale witih a prodU(S leaded toy Irene Dunne, stellar cast ** ^ Handsome» te a "Hig1^ J ture built around the open-color? Se Western Pennsylvania oil filds in «*» • revoivlng about the We snf the fanners in that area to strUgtteir rich oiL properties from be-save tbeir railroads and f^S "men, is excitingly even greater appeal is tihe well Tprome Kern music sung by %U»T The music is so inter-Irf?H thS;it becomes an Important t the p cture. The film was pro-v Oscar Haramerstein n. ?(S are Irene Dunne Doro- r Randolph Scott and Alan Se VSture is playing at the Theatre starting tonight for three ^____o.__________ Hal Rogers of the staff of the ™nelle Quartz Gold mines on Hixon SSte in toim for a few days' visit with'his parents. _—_________o-------------------¦ 1 Dr A Knight, Victoria, veterinarian of the provincial department of agriculture was a passenger from Port St. John on the U. A. T. plane yesterday, and is registered at the Prince George hotel. CARIBOO LODGE No. 65 I. O. O. F. Meets every Tuesday in I-O.OJT. Hall, Third avenue, Prlnoo George, B. O. J. C. FISH D. C M. C. CHIROPRACTOR Room 7 Princess Block * ? DO NOT HESITATE to call number 172L1 or 76L2 at any hour of the day or sight. For you can have the utmost confidence in the fairness and moderation of our charges, just as you can confidently allot to them a most sacred trust.. ASSMAN Funeral Chapel George St. Prince George, B.C. PHONE — 16 Overwaitea Specials EFFECTIVE FROM SEPT. 9 TO SEPT. 15 Icing Sugar, 2 lbs. for....... Pure Strawberry Jam, 4 lb, can for.............__ Quaker Quick Oats, pkt. .. Quaker Roiled Wheat, 5 lb. Bag for..............„ OVERWAITEA Creamery BUTTER— First Grade JT r Alberta, 2 lbs. OO DairY Salt, 50 lb. sack for Fresh Popping Corn, lb. .... Oxydol, per pkt............ The BEST COFFEE is Our MYS OK « Pound COFFEE— F^kes, 2 lbs. for [ Oranges, 2 doz. Grapes, per lb. .. ;» per doz. Shipment of— PEACHES M SATURDAY Your Order Now qppemnas The O. E. s. tea scheduled to be held at Mrs. V. M. Morgan's home on September 10 has been postponed until September 17. ? 4. A Monday, October 10 has been set aside as Thanksgiving Day by a proclamation issued from the department of the minister of justice, Ottawa. * ?:> Harry Bowman, colonization agent for the Canadian National Railways, is back in the city, " P. E. Wilson, K.C., has returned from a professional visit to Quesnel and Baxkerville. f 4- * ! The regular meetings of the Junior Women's Institute will commence on Wednesday, September 14 at the home of Elsie Miller. * -*¦ •* Operation of the Tom Kelley Logging Co.'s steam shovel placer works on Tom Creek, Omineca district, has been temporarily closed down on account of shortage of water. Last Friday's Vancouver Sun carries a picture,of Prince George's popular Jimmy James holding his 17.%- Prince Rupert to Vancouver last week. ? + ? The funeral of Edward Lane, aged 61, of Newlands, took place September 1- from Assman's Funeral Chapel, Rev. S. Pollinger officiating. + ? + Rev. S. Pollinger will hold divine services in Mud River school at 2 pm. and in Isle Pierre school at 4 pxn. next Sunday. Men's elimination competition for the Ewert Cup-will begin- Sunday, September 11, when all golfers wlsn-ing to compete are requested to be at the club house at 10 a.m. ? ? ? Mdss Eve Lynn Whiting left the city Tuesday for Kamloops where she will join her sister, Miss Joan Whiting. While in her former home town. Evelyn intends to study commercial subjects for a year. ? 4- ? Fashion Craft announce their new fall and winter samples for men's made-to-measure clothes are on display at Baird'3. Imported cloths of pure wool commence at, per suit $26.95. 4- + ? George Brooks has purchased the interest of Charles Houghtaling in the Brooks Motor Freight, operating a weekly truck freighting line between Prince George and Vancouver. Mr. Brooks is now sole proprietor of the line. ? ? -f The annual general meeting of the Quesnelle Quartz Gold Mining Co. Ltd. will be held in Vancouver on Saturday, September 10 to transact the general business of the company pass reports of the directors and statement of accounts. ? ? v T. M. Spencer, pioneer C. N. R, conductor, suffered an internal hem-morrhage while in charge of his train from Smithers to Prince Rupert last Thursday. He is now in the Prince Rupert hospital where it is reported he is resting comfortably. during his recent fishing there. The Eastern Star Auxiliary will hold a tea and sale of home cooking in aid of the hospital at the home of Mrs. V. M. Morgan on Saturday, September 10. Sl-2bc FRUIT JARS & ACCESSORIES Gem Screiv Top Jars, Dominion Wide Mouth Jars, Metal Rings for Screw Top Jars, Complete Tops for Old Style Mason Jars, Complete Tops and Lids for Wide Mouth Mason or Dominion Jars, Economy Caps and Glass Lids for Fruit Jars. C. C. REID TELEPHONE—No. 1 ^iiiiiiiiiRiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirj FALL CAPS FOR MEN 8c YOUNG MEN -at Baird's We have just unpacked a very smart shipment of Tweed Caps for Fall, made by "Wolfe," the rehouned Canadian Cap Maker. The Patterns are Smart and New The Price #1.25 and #1.50. Irish Donegals from #1.25 to #2.00. Jack McGrath, popular tobacco! salesman who has been stationed an Prince George for tlhe past several I months, lefit last Tuesday evening for Vancouver, enroute to Kingston, Jamaica, where he has been transferred in the interests of his employers. ' ? ? ? Miss Beverly McCorkell, Vancouver U. B. C. student, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCorkell of Ger-mansen, passed through the city Friday on her way north to visit her parents before returning to the university. ? ? ? At a baseball game at Hazelton last week Smithers was defeated by a score of 21 to 9. Although Smitners changed pitchers twice and catchers three times they failed to stop the Hazelton boys in their free hitting and scoring spree, *¦ ? ? Jack G, McKenzie, elder son of City Engineer Jack and Mrs. McKenzie, left the city Friday to assume' his teaching duties at Anyox public school where he will be in full charge of tuition. Jack intends to spend two or ¦three years in the teaching profession ¦and then return to university to enter •the faculty of medicine. ¦?¦ ? ? The well known Silver King group of mineral claims situated at the head of Driftwood 'Creek in the Babine range, near Smithers, has been optioned to Metal, Limited, of Vancouver. The bond calls for $150,000 worth of development and work to be started by November 1 and prosecuted continuously., -*¦ ¦*¦-?- William Irvine formerly member of parliament for an Alberta constituency in the House of Commons at Ottawa and author of several-books dealing with social and economic subjects, is holding a series of meetings throughout the district and will address Prince George citizens on September 17 ? ? ? Beginners, primary, junior and in termediate classes of Knox United Church school will hold opening session Sunday. September 11 at 2 p.m. Parents and pupils are particularly asked to remember the date. The senior classes will meet for the first time at the Rally Day service. Sunday. September 11 at 11 a.m. Brooks Motor Freight (Successors to Robertson Bros.) Member Rural Truck Lines 33 Water Street, Vancouver Phone Sey. 1295 GENERAL TRUCK FREIGHTING BUSINESS Lve. Vancouver Saturdays 11 a.m. Arr. Prince George Mondays, a.m. Lve. Prince George Tuesdays 11 ajm. Arr. Vancouver Thursdays, a.m. Phone 171L1, CITY CARTAGE, PRINCE GEORGE ^¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦iHiiumMimiHMmnS. Strand Thurs., Fri. 8C Satur. "High Wide and Handsome" STARRING — IRENE DUNNE, RANDOLPH SCOTT DOROTHY LAMOUR MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY While New Sound Equipment is Being Installed. Re-Opening September 15 with — "DEAD END" Heard with the New Op-eradio Sound. The adjourned meeting Prince George Conservative of the Associa- Mrs. Len Waagen was a passenger' from Edmonton to Vancouver/on yesterday's southbound plane. -/ During Sunday night's electrical storm a boLt of lightniing struck a building at Henry House near Jasper, and caused some property damage. ? ? +¦ Major M. A. Burbank, divisional engineer of the Canadian National Railway, with headquarters in Prince Rupert, is in town for a few days. Miss May McMorris, Vancouver, who has been visiting her paents here for the past two months, returned to the coast by U. A. T. plane yesterday. ? t +¦ A fishing party made up of Walter Seymour, Mickey Brown, Orrin Wheeler and John Neilson spent the weekend at Bobtail lake, but conflicting stories of 'the catch make it difficult CANADA'S MINERAL PRODUCTION INCREASES to figure out the party. the best fisherman in J. R. Macdonald, Vancouver, who arrived from Vancouver by U. A. T plane last Friday left for the coast yesterday jpn the return flight of the plane. ? ? ? Charged before Magistrate George Milburn Wednesday John Nehring of Prince George and Gerard Caron of Salmon Valley were convicted of setting fires without permits in contravention of the Forest Act and were given suspended sentences. ? ? + Charged before Magistrate George Milburn Wednesday, Ernest Levesque of Round Meadow was convicted for failing to do his utmost to control and extinguish a fire burning on his property in contravention of the Forest Act and was fined $25 or ten days in jail. Sergeant Ernest Gammon, who pre- room on Friday evening, September 9 to elect delegates to the provincial convention being held at Kamloops on tion will be held in the Princess Ball-, vious to being transferred from Prince Geoi-ge to Prince Rupert in January last, was officer in charge of B. C. provincial police" stationed here for September 23 and 24 to elect a pro-( several years past, has been promot-ed vincial leader of the party to succeed j ^ the rank of staff sergeant, the late Dr. F. P. Patterson. | . -f .+.., -f ? ?•¦••*• The play-offs for the ladies' golf Mayne D. Hamilton, superintendent, championship will commence next of the Bank of Commerce for the province, was in town Thursday after- Wednesday afternoon. Any member ____ wishing to enter should turn her han- noon last in the course of one of his djcap jn before Sunday to the club periodical inspection trips of branches officers. Tea will be served at the throughout the central interior. Mr. Hamilton, as inspector for the Bank of Commerce, opened the first branch club house Wednesday afternoon. The ladies' auxiliary of the Prince in Prince George, and has many Qeorge city hospital are holding their friends throughout the district. j jTjOnthlv meeting on Friday, Septem- ? 4- -¥ ' * • - " -'¦ Miss Dorothy Bayne. R.N., was honored with a surprise farewell party by a group of friends at the home of ber 16 a 3 p.m. Louies Blair. a the home of Mrs. The U. A. T. regular mail and pas- her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Miers senger plane from Vancouver to Wliitehorse today will be in charge of Pilot Ginger Coote. It carries one passenger for Quesnel, Wo for Prince George and one for Dawson Creek. -------------o------------- INSTALLING NEW CITY STREET SIGNS last Thursday evening on the eve of her departure for Los Angeles, Calif. Miss Bayne has been on the nursing staff of the city hospital here for several years past and will continue in her nursing career in southern cities. .-;¦¦¦•? -4- ;> Thomas King, an old time prospector in the Hazelton and Omineca districts, died in the Smithers hospital last week at the age of 73. The late Hazelton uv 1907 and had owned ex- j tensive mining interests in- the sue-, ceeding years. His mining operations I had to do with the development of the Little Joe group in the Babine Lake Dr. J. H. Faust and Dr. W. A. Taylor of Ellensburg. Wash., with a party of friends, have returned to Prince Georee on their way home after spending two weeks at Ootsa Lake and in Tweedsmuir Park. They thoroughly enjoyed the fishing and marvellous scenery and took many moving j picture shots of moose and other big game, and have made all arranee-ments for a return visit next year. Unfortunately Dr. Faust was taken ill at the Prince George hotel on Monday evening necessitating his removal to the city hospital where he is still a patient. Royal Bank of Canada's June Bulletin Gives Figures in Gold and Base Metal Mining Between 1926 and 1929 the total volume of mineral production increased by about 25 per cent. With the onset of the depression there was a heavy decline in demand for building materials, but this was largely offset by rapid expansion in gold -production, so that the total volume of mineral production fell off only a little. As compared with 100 in 1926, and 125 in 1929, the index of mineral production fell to 109 in 1933. In July, 1937 the index reached 215, almost double the level of 1929. By February 1938 it had fallen to 189. This was the low point, and in March it rose to 196. This last figure may be compared with 161, the index number of mineral production in March, 1937. Gold ' Production of gold amounted to 155,000 fine ounces per month in 1929. In 1937 it amounted to 345,000 fine ounces per month and in March 1938 to more than 400,000 fine ounces. At twenty dollars an ounce the value of monthly gold production in 1929 was $3,100,000. The value of gold production in March 1938 at $35 an ounce was more than $14,000,000. The gross revenue of Canadian gold mines is approaching a level five times that of 1929. Base Metals In 1929 nickel production amounted to eight million pounds a month. It is now being produced at a rate of twenty million pounds a month. Copper production which amounted to twenty-one million pounde a month in 1929 now amounts to almost fifty million pounds" a month. There has also been an increase of about twenty-seven per cent in lead production and the increase for zinc has amounted io nearly ninety per cent. With the rise in metal production has come an extraordinary increase in employment in this industry. Where gross output is double that of 1926, the number of workers" has tripled since the base year. Other kinds of mining show an actual decrease in employment. In coal mining, for instance, the number of workers is only 80 to 85 per cent as great as in the base year, and in all other types of non-metallic mining the volume of employment is only 54 per cent as great as in 1926. The low level of employment in this last group is due to reduced demand for building materials. A restoration of normal demand for building materials would bring the total volume of mining activity to more than double the level of 1929. CONSUMPTION OF DAIRY PRODUCTS The consumption of butter in Canada in 1937 was 363.759,626 pounds, or Erection of signs on city streets will I 3271 pounds per head of population. be undertaken this week-end as the improvements. Work on the signs was begun in July, and after a great deal of dis- This represented a gain of 7,900,000 pounds in the aggregate over 1936. and an advance of .44 pounds in capita consumption. Cheese consumed was estimated at 39.287.906 pounds in 1937, which was cussion and contemplation, straight | approximately 1.000,000 pounds less posts without cross-arms, painted yellow and black were given preference.. The first group of twenty-one signs will be placed at George street and First avenue to continue up George to Third and down -Third to Edmonton street. When the supply of twenty-one is exhausted new signs will be ready for outlying city arteries. This week, the Junior Chamber of Commerce made application to the city council for permission to paint the discolored silent policeman at the comer of George street and Third avenue. It is proposed to paint street names on this structure at Prance George's busiest traffic corner. than that recorded in 1936. On a per capita basis, the consumption was 3.53 pounds in 1937 and 3.65 in 1936. Consumption' of concentrated whole milk products reached a total of 73.-754,813 pounds in 1937. This was a eain of 13.100,000 pounds, while the per capita consumption increased xrom 5.5 pounds in 1936 to 6.63 pounds in 1937. Concentrated milk by-products con-sumution amounted to 30.733.556 pounds in 1937. registering a gain of 1,900.000 pounds over 1936. while the par cfmta consumption of 2.76 pounds was .14 pounds greater than that re-ccrded in 1936.