PRINCE GEORGE Vc! 19. No. 42 PRINCE GEORGE. B. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22. 193G Members of Knox United Church will Celebrate their 25th Anniversary First Church Was Started Dur- Five Cent* ing jn the Height of Great Boom Summer of 1910 THE HELL" An Incident Connected With First Church Which is Still Remembered by Old-Timers tor figured the net assets of the new} church at $7000. The congregation I about this time elected a board of managers, a ladies' aid was organized, Sunday school established, as well as a Y P.S. and a circulating- library for the us? of all residents of the district. > The first board of managers consisted cf J. a. Shearer, fother of F j I Shearer. H. W. Gross, who continued in | business in Prince George for many years as a plumber, Dave McLarty who was farming a p:ece of "land on. the rhe congregation cf Knox United north side of the Nechako, and George h wui celebrate the twenty-fifth, Rcujell. On June 8th, following Messrs mvers-uv oi its founding next | Gross and Roussll removed from Cen-�u!' It was not a United Church in [ tral and tendered, their resignations "�� beginnii*?, because its found.ng < their places being filled by Alex. Hun- Start Made to Secure Library In This City Incorporation Will Be Asked for Under the Benevolent Societies Act . before church union. Neither was ter and K. J. Kerr. The former is now ' luircli : first located in JPrince j employed in the provincial forestry "..........�"""" "A the latter was a relative Ga*kill, who with Hiram emoted the Fort Georg-e & legraph and telephone ilne. all the blandishments of town- j On October 8th, 1912, A. Sinclair suc- i ceedrd Mr. Hunter as secretary of the came riuuch � ni �,,,. because at the time the site service, and the latter was a relative bl pmce George was still an Indian re- of C. A LIBRARY MAY EXPAND ,,w0 George w tflvc and a great many people believed Carney ir.-cmo it would-continue to hold this status i Alberta telegr f j O Otb 8 Residents of Incorporated Areas In the Interior May Be Willing to Co=Opcrate Prince George is to have a public library which will be available to citizens and residents of surrounding districts. This decision was reached at a meeting: in the ballroom of the Prince George hotel on Monday evening when it was also decided to have the library society incorporated under the Benevolent Societies Act. it would despite rite speculators. "kjiox church had its beginning in : board, and continued to serve 1910., and Rev. C. M. Wright Wjurthe first pastor. He came or the (rest of one of the B�-""�" 1u-nd other war munitions from. Portugal, Italy and Germany, and has threatened to intervene unless such supplies are shut off. A Norwegian vasssl loaded -wfilh amis in a Russian port, is reported as on her way to Spain to assist the government foiccv.. A speech delivered by Josef Statin on Thursday last is considered very disturbing. He said tne laboring- population ol Russia is fulfilling its duty toward the people of Spain, and that they realize the maintenance of the Spanish government means the maintenance of freedom in Spain and has become the concern of progressive humanity throughout the entire world. These workers are demanding the Spanish government be given everything necessary tc carry on its struggle aga:n�t Fascists 'uppcrted by Germany, Italy and Portugal. DUTCH PASSENGER LINER Loans Are Made Available For Repair of Homes V ��� i Chartered Banks Will Advance Loans of #2000 Up To Total of #50,000,000 NO ENDORSING ASKED Interest Cut" is Small But Plan Permits Banks to Advance on Realty Security Ottawa. Oct. 17�Hon. Charles Dunning, minister of finance, announced today a further move to increase employment throughout the dominion It involves making: available loans up to $2000, and aggregating $50,000,000 ^he money for the loans is to be made available through an arrangement on the part of the federal government and chattered banks. The loans will be available for housing repair and renovation. The effect of the arrangement , Is that property owners will be able j to borrow up to $2000 at a total i'nter-j est cost of 6.32 per cent over a one- 3 are to be lable to WRECKED OFF JAVA AND j owners or residential property includ- HEAVY LOSS OF T TFF ^S farm houses, frr repairs, alterations v i LU^ur Lim and additions, including built-in London. Oct. 20-Word was received SSSblj5?ffi*52 l�i ^ t"^ ln jjc;.x,;t.iiu,t;i uuei uu me coast oi Java, as niav be n�?"t.'s � v A subterranean earthquake is believed [ tion of the hu'n'-H to have been the cause of une wreck- ' ("'" ing. The liner has a passenger list of 254. and when planes and fishermen's boats reached the scene the crew arid passengers were floating around in shark-infested waters. It is said 24 persons perished, half of which number were passengers. to fit the cordi-il borrower and repaying; may be sutv.id over live � years The maximum charge for loans shall be J'4 per cent discount for a one-year loan, repayable m equal monthly instalments and proportionate rates for other periods. No ehdorae-| ment or other security will be required in connection, with the loans } Hon. Mr. Dunning explained the ! loan plan hod been worked out in co-j operation with National Employment i Commission, and this commission will 'be responsible for organizing the co-� operative community effort. It is csti-Regina, Oct. 20�Miss Gruchy, of j mated it will require at least two weeks Moose Jaw, has realized her life's am- j before the loan plan can be put into � l - accepted as the first I effect, but prospective borrowers are MISS GRUCHY BECOMES FIRST FEMALE MINISTER OF UNITED CHURCH bition in bein female minister of the United Church ] invited to make application for loniv: "�...... 'to their local bank. .......' Apart from a betterment of home.? ing tho library, and for attendance oi to act in the capacity oJ The logical crossing of the Fraser for | Central was in sight. The World War �!,�� railways was in th.e vicinitjr of | fcroke in the following August. Rail-South Fort George, and if this crossing i u-ay coastruction was finished and the had boon utilized what is now known ! thousands cf men encaged with it as Central afforded the much better : moved out of the district! The lots In ! tion later- , ...... townsite. It lies higher than the site' the railway townsite went on the mar-I Thc status of u\c Provincial ibrarj cf Prince George, admitting of a sew- j ket in November. Most of the owners : f'id I10t appear to be very clearly image system, and a soft-water supply ; cf building premises in Central then ; dferstood bv .some of those in aiteii-which. would have been appreciated. put skids under their buildings and dance at the meeting, ine L\pta.ia-Rev. Mr. Wright beat the. steel into |lUu.leti Hauling them to the railway tion is that the provincial-libraries.are Prince Geor&e by about three years, > t.ownsite*. The members of the church to find not one but two thriving towns, j fcun{j themselves saddled with a debt peopled with the most enthusiastic and j they had no hope of meeting. Services of Canada. Muss Gruehy's brother was studying for the ministry when the World War started. He enlisted and Mt is believed the loans will provide'a was killed. The sister's ambition was j great deal of labor during a compai/a'- to replace him .in the ministry. Her ' tively inactive building season, and a ters of detal1 and wl ] be maintained for the benefit of those living in unorganized districts, to the him .in ordination is to' take place on No- j stimulus to all lines of business "and builders' supplies, while from the vember 4th. and will be attended by the many dignatories of the United church, j standpoint of tho municipalities bene- energetic souls that ever gathered to build a town in North America. It was not only the towns. The people had rushed to the vacant lands within fi radius of ten miles from the towns. Chief Lake was the most favored area-, and it alone had almost as many men upen the land as there are now in the ten-mile radius. There was a great j Ret j Men W;n paratfe the mining activity in the foothills south and west of the townsites, and the lumbering industry was getting under way. There was not a pessimist in the ("Continued on rage rv> ARMISTICE DAY WILL BE CELEBRATED BY CANADIAN LEGION City and Attend Public Services in Their Hall exclusion of tho.se living in atcd cities and villages so that the extending of the facilities of the library to residents of the city of Prince George would open the door to like : requests from the residents of other 1 incorporated centers throughout the J province, and seriously disturb the or-| icinal plan of furnishing library fa-� cilities to less favored communities. There is believed to be the perm for community save for the odd man who had purchased a town-let in the east \ The officer* and members of There a very considerable library in the plan now being- advanced by Prince George residents." The residents of Quesnel Smithers. Vanderhoof and McBride the j stand in the same relation to the pro- fit will be derived from a reduction in the relief lists by the labor absorbed in the new employment. ' There i.s. however, provision in the loan arrangements that the borrowers -;hall not be penalized by the municipality New York. Oct. 20�Rev. Gerald | putting higher taxes on the properties Smith, who succeeded to Huey Long's j orL the ground the- property -has beeit DR. TOWNSEND READS REV. GERALD* SMITH OUT OF POLITICAL CAMP political theories, has ceased to be a factor in the presidential election. Smith had joined up with Father ! ! unproved a.s the result of loan ex- penciitures. The advantage to the borrower un- Coughlan to -support the Union presi-!^er ^e new loan arrangement'is not dential candidate Lemkc. but the cam-j so much in the reduction in the rate p?ign managers of the party dropped of interest, which is not very impre-3-him for preaching Fascist doctrines, sive. but rather in the fact that it and Dr. Townsend followed this up i Pennits the banks under this arrange-by reading- Smith out of his party of I men l� make loam upon real estate. revplving pensioners. and on coming out to look it over I local branch of the Canadian Legion ; vintial library as cio citizens of prince , found it was lour or five miles from i have completed arrangements for the ! Georee in that thc shelves of the same due observance of Armistice or Re- ore closed to them. It is suggested membranee Day en Wednesday. No-, they will be found willing to co-op-vember 11th As has been customary crate with Prince Gecrge in the puv- cither of the towns which even the wildest dream of expansion would not icach, Rev. Mr. Wright came up the Fraser ; there will be a parade of returned men h-om Soda Creek on one of the B-X I resident in the city and surrounding ditit ate wt g a parade rlwe cf bocks for a Hbrary which will the city and surrounding bo open to them, mid with their co- idbl library operation a very considerable library ruM be got together, a library consist- id quite ek on one of the BX I steamers to get his first taste of the districts, and the Girl Guide and Boy p H.C.L. Plour was celling at from 812 Scout organizations have been request- rruM be got together, a library consist 1� SIC per cwt. with sugar at 15 and ; cd to co-operate and march with them. in�s cf 350 books being considered quit �Uii>- at 75 cents per pound with eges i The parade will fall in at the Legion , within tho realms of Probability wit '�anging from $ U)0 to $2ST'pS dozefv building at 9.45 a.m. and march ; the assistance which w.ll be forthcon �fht� they could be Bot There were !�hicvlfih the business section of the -m, from the provincial library author-cnipehsations however ' it ti t th Legion building ity as oats were '"'�nR at 12 cents per povind and hay �h bioo per ton. which looked good to ;. f' newly established farmers. The "ret church services were held in a ant m central. George J. Hammond ^�CT to add a church to his at-;. Mr. Wright and his wife ^pa in the tent for a couple of weeks, mn,3 , lime Mr- Hammond had a m�"se built for them and donated it. was nht"?68?age Mr- Wri&nt brought of r!,\ be cot>fi'ned to the residents ^"Ural an(i ^r fifteen months each Sunday at aiid South, morning and even-s alternating in the two s services in Central for tht �UnriiM? p eld in a tent servS y Mr> Hammond. which also WithinaS a dinin& room for his hotel. th>ovn Jnm�n"\a lon? building was �;n it fOl!'p:.and. th& services were held seme ten months. i , IU- ten month J�v 28th. 1911, there held the ' when was a meet-of Oent'-al decision city leturning to the Legion building ity. fcr the religious services at 11 oclock. j The members of the canvassing com-\\\ residents of the city and district ! mittee desire-it to be known they ap-are invited to attend the service:,. prcciate that many who may desire to Eollcwing these services thfi return- co-o|ierate in the establishment of a Ed men and citizens will pay a visit library have been,missed in the can- � * all such any PREMIER ABERHART IS UNEASY ON SUBMISSION TO THE COURTS Edmonton, Oct. 19�Premier Aber-hart is showing uneasiness over the submission of his interest legislation ' to the courts and has hinted that steps j may bo taken tc discipline members j of the bar of the province if they) assist in upsetting it. In this connec- them of the suggestion for the placing cf the newspapers of the province under licence. Ed men and citizens wil py y to the city cemetery to place wreaths vass. and they will appreciate all s unon the graves of veterans buried .persons getting in touch with b f th mitte and sign MAHATMA GANDHI'S SON PERSUADES FATHER TO CHANGE FAITH On his sixty-seventh birthday ! WO unon tnore persons gettig member of tho committee and signify Arrangements arc being made for j their willingness to co-operate, i th Li Arrangemn g thc holding of a smoker in the Lesion building en thc evening of Tuesday. November 10th. and on the evening of Armistice Day the annual Armistice dance will take place in the Princess ballroom, ABERHART PUTTING ON PRESSURE FOR HIS SOCIAL CREDIT MONEY SLOCAN MAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Nel^cir, Oct. 20�Leon Perry, a Slogan resident was killed today when his automobile left the roadway in the vicinity of this city. HUBBELL AND GEHRIG OUTSTANDING PLAYERS . 19-Premier Aber- IN MAJOR LEAGUES Edmonton. Oct hart :�; new putting on the pressure to promote the circulation of Alberta's social credit money. He is urging the New York. Oct. 20�Carl Hubbell. f-cuthpaw pitcher for the Giants, who - erect a church. Mr.! members of his cabinet and those em- j contributed most to the winning of the came across again with a plcved in the provincial civil service to j National Leefeue pennant, has been lots, and therfweredl- Spt a portion of their salaries in | acclaimed the most outstaying player labor and material so the sccial credit certificates. His mm- j in the National League for 1936. Hub-should comply )with his request beUwon a similar .honor tarthe season of the �iv.au? CaSh< of