8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Wednesda

The Domon

June 28, 1972

That Cerfain House on Alnd, Castleaar
Where Lives the Hideous Demon Mensfer

By Barry Perehudoff
There is a certain house
in Castlegar which has been
vacant for the last.30 years.
Tt has been that long since
anyone has built up enough
courage to enter it. It is in-
habited by a hidious creat-
known as the Demon of
street,

In 1939 the house was
first rented to a man by
the name of John Miller.
Everything was all right un-
til one night John's brother
Bill came for a visit. He

‘sslept’ in the guest room.
That night the demon
showed himself as soon as
Bill touched the bed. U
rose a horrid spirit wit!

‘Gold Skeleton

pale white eyes and a green
slimy body, When the mon-
ster looked in Bill's eyes,
the boy was instantly blind-
ed, The Miller brothers ne-
ver came near Castlegar
again,

house remained

vacant for four more years,

In 1943 Joe Jonson ren-

ted the house and on the

very first night slept in the

bedevelled bed, This time

the demon again rose but

spoke these words, “give it
back, give it back.”

Now Bill. was very sup-
erstitious so he faid out ev-
ery movable thing in the

house; Into that dreaded
room,

Tt made no difference.
Every night the demon
would come out chanting
those same words, Joe never
went In the room again,
One night the Monster came
out and Joe was seen no
more.

No one knows what the
spectore wanted or why he
rose when the room was en-
tered but all Js peace-
ful now and if some night
you feel like having a real
geare go down to the little
white louse on the corner
of 42'nd street in Castlegar.

That Discovery of Gold Whoop For Joy
Led to a Lonely Unmarked Resting Place

By Bonnie Shlakoff
In the Fraser river val-

‘wilderness trapping fox and
beaver. Their names were
Fred Stichfield and Tom
hertof. They were low on
money for trapping wasn't
good and they were desper-
ate for a catch.

One day while searching
a river in hope of sighting
a beaver dam, Fred spotted
a glitter in the riverbed. He
quickly went there and dug
it up with his shovel. It tur-
ned out to be a nugget of
gold! He dug his shovel in
once more and brought up
a huge shoveful of more
partner Tom, gave
of joy after seeing

up the gold. He
id said “This

sure e us quite a
pit of money, Tom.”
Fred stared ul

greed and gold fe
struck him and his eyes
gave an evil glance at Tom,
“What do you mean, make
us a bit of money, I found
it, it’s all mine.”

* Tom gave an unsure
Jook at ‘his partner and re-
plied, “I'm your partner re-
member, we share the gold
equally.” At Tom's reply,
Fred swung his shovel upon
Tom’s skull and cracked it

open. He fell to the ground
Dead!

With his partner dead
Fred panned out some of
the gold which he estimated
ate itay £000 worth. He

cl athered the go!
and set, at for the town of

er Ville.

He travelled ail night
and arrived at the town at
dawn. Fred went directly to
ihe bank. The banker. saw

worth He
roceded to spill out the
ags contents. Piles and
piles dust came out. Fred
stood silent in awe.

ie banker laughed
“More like one cent worth!
For the bag that is!”

With that Fred trudged
all the way back to where
he killed his partner. But
Tom's body wasn’t there

any more, Instead there was -

huge nugget of gold in the
shape of a skeleton. He

Picked it up greedily. But
all of a sudden the weight
became tremendous and fell
backwards with the gold
skeleton on . He

budge. After a few minutes
Pred lay quiet exhausted
and looked at the gold skel-

All of a sudden he

and began choking him.
Fred died, a few hours lat-
er!

Some prospectors came
up a few "years later and

they saw pi

Two skeletons lying on top
of each other. The top skel-
etons hands were grasped
tightly around the bottom
skeletons neck. They were
so frightened the pr ec
tors reburied the skeletons
and quickly left the valley.

Elgar Choir Seeks Recruits

The Elgar Choir of Bri-
tish Columbia, led by C. E.
Findlater of West Vancou-
ver, will make its “farewell
tour” of Europe and Russia
in the summer of 1973,

‘er, 2332 Bellevue Ave., West
Vancouver, giving age,
school and grade, musical
knowledge and experience

and with personal recom-
ions from the school

the ages of 12 and 18
should write to Mr. Findlat-

rincipal and a church min-
Aster.

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THE GHOSTS WALK IN TARRYS

A few months ago, News Editor Bruce Ramsey went
out to Tarrys Elementary School to participate in teaching a
class on “Ghosts from Coast to Coast.” His theme was the
ghosts of British Columbia, and when the class was over
he suggested the students make up ghost stories about Bri-
tith Columbia, and he offered as prizes copies of his book
“The Big Dam Couniry,” a pictorial history of the Peace

River Country.

The following stories are the winning entries. The
Castlegar News hopes its readers will enjoy this little mag-
azine-type feature.

GHOST WRITERS of Tarrys Elementary met
with Bruce Ramsey (centre) to receive their
prize for the best ghost story. From left to

The Guarding Ghost

Northern B.C. Ghost Wafches
Over a Secret Cache of Gold

By Olga Koorbatoff

In the year 1878 dur-
ing the, gold rush days,
many people had come to
look for their fortunes in
B.C. ‘Many mining camps
that were scattered about
were. beginnin;
Northern Brith Columbia.

er many years of
mining, the mines had to
close because there was no
more ore left. One particu-
lar town called Mantle
Town, when it had became
ies and an old man stayed
and an old man stayed

ere.
It was said that when
the children played among
the old b of the
town they heard the lively
music took place every
night in the saloons, and
the turning of rusty old
wheels of the wagons, dri-
ven by trotting horses.
One day the old man
that lived in the town went
for a walk by the creek. He
spotted a glittering piece of
rock in the water. He ignor-
ed it, but when he walk-
ed a little closer it glitter-
ed more from the suns
light. Quickly he turned
around and dug his fingers
into the watery sand and
scooped up a handful. It
was mixed with pebbles and
sand but was quite clear
there ‘was gold in it.
Now this man was look-

to: settle. in ~

‘ang for gold for 25 years,

and never found any, so he
wasn't going to tell his sec
ret. Without telling anybody
he got a pan and pan-
ned it out, right there, was
8

gain.

Somebody. had found
out, and told the people he
was keeping it for himself.
The greed of the people had
made a man go out and
murder the old man.

When the People went
back for more gold, they
distinctly saw the reflection
of the man in the rippling
water. He was holding a
handful of gold dust. There
was a movement of the faint

would happen to every per-
son that would go near to
the spot where all the gold
was. So nobody would go
there any more.

The guarding ghost and
his gold were now safe.

Ferry Back

The Kootenay Lake fer- .

ry MS Anscomb is back in
business.

Following a complete
overhaul the ship is expect-
ing heavier than usual sum-
mer runs, Cost of the re-
fitting was $647,000.

» the earl:

H :
right are {back row) Olga Koorbatoff and
Barry Perehudoff. Front row, Kathleen Kin
akin, Bonnie Shlakoff and Eilenna Denisoff.

PHOTO
BY
PAUL MEDVEDOFF

Restless Charlie

A Strange Thing Happened.
In the House Up Pass Creek

By Kathleen Kinakin

the created moon craw-
led over the peak of tho
mountain as the sun sank
deep into the great ocean
called space. As the moon
scanned the country with
its golden eye you could
see an old two storey Rus-
sian house, And in this
house dwells a tale.

The tale was born in
1900's in a small
community
Creek. In the large old
house (new in its time) liv-
ed a couple by the name of
Bill and Teena. They had
but one child (if you can
call him a child.)

ery month Charlie
would have a weird feeling
as if a spirit was
possess his body.
ents were poor and could
not afford to take him to a
doctor. When he turned 10
he died after a loud eerie
scream. He was buried in
the cellar with his favorite
possessions. But one was
missing: his tail of a cat. A

. black cat.

Strange things began to
happen. Everynight Teena
would hear a kind of plead-

up as if someane wus look-
Ing. for something: eena
knew it was Charlie). Even
after his parents death he
kept coming and searching
for his cat tall.

On lonely nights when

Signs Requested
At Oollschenla

New traffic facilities for
Ootischenia have been re-
quested by Bill Gatrell, dir-
ector for Area J.

le asked. for speed
limit signs, road signs and
no-passing lanes in the sec-
tion south of the Brilliant
Bridge.

named Pass +

fis Sar.

14

cat's

near the grave under a bit®
of soll is an old dusty black
_ cat's tall,

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mm LITTLE LASSIE LEAGUE trophy winners at
Kinnaird Elementary School are Mrs. Doro-
thy Martini’s “Red” team which downed

mame Mrs, Marlene Wallace's “Gold” team 5-2
p last week, Back row are Marlene De Vries,
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Delivered by Hand, af Your Front Door

By Lois Hughes
The summer has offici-

Sally started as far as moth-

ers are concerned. While
older brothers and sisters
have had somewhat irregu-
“lar school attendance in the
past two  weel
school is truly out and June
is on the waie.
1 wonder if anyone had
f noticed that last Monday,
June 26, was the origi al
date set for door-to-door
mail delivery?
Circumstances have
since had that date set a-
‘head, a date which could
stl be altered if any more
3 are experi
en this service does
arrive I understand it will
be with mixed emotions.
Questions are flying:
Does ecome
e with the main

oor’

. _ As I understand it, the
individual has eve:
to th e

mbers will include the dir-
fection north while Kinnaird-
‘d's will include south.
Twenty-eight postal box-
es to drop outgoing letters
are ady available in
readiness to be scattered at
‘practical spots throughout

both towns ts well as ser-
ving Blueberry Creek.

elivery} to your door
is complete with both par-
cels and letters being han-
dled, Should a person not
be home to receive a pack-
age however, it is returned
to the main post office for
that on to pick up per-
sonally, If a second delivery
is requested I understand
it can be done for a fee
which at present is
25 cents.

A sub-post office has
already been established in
Kinnaird at the Castleaird
Plaza, but I am not aware
of another one being open-
ed to the south of town for
the residents’ convenience.

If anyone forsees a pro-
blem, the best avenue for
correction would be your
own town council. I am sure
they would also be happy to
answer. any questions.

set at

‘The weather may be
questionable but it sure
seems to agree with the gar-
dens.

It is the first year we
haven’t planted a garden,
not even a tomato plant,
and everyone else’s yard
looks that much more invi-
ting. And it is not my im-
agination as the old adage
goes, “the other side of the

ill always looks greener.”
neighbor showed
me some iful

‘most was the fact she had
hat appealed to me
most was the fact she

Her success, she ex-
plained, is by adopting the
concept of companion plant-
ing. This appears to be plan-
ting one vegetable with an-
other that will be benefic-
ial to the good of both.

tt sounded extremely

ig.

Her guide at this time
is a book called Companion
Plants and how to use them
and bears the names Helen
Philbrick-Richard Gregg. :

I can't say if this is the
answer to again enjoying
gardening that produces an
unmarked produce at mat-
urity, but it makes for in-
teresting reading.

Now Tourist Lodge
At Manning Park

dollars the new public ac-

ig
round radishes. The kind
where one radish will make
a whole sandwich. They are
firm and free of worms.

40
rental units, including some
with housekeeping facilities,
and a large banquet-meet-
ing room. The building is
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places a smaller structure
that was destroyed by fire
in November, 1970.

The new chalet was de-
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Warner Architects of Vict-
oria and prime contractor
was CNA Construction of
Vancouver. Engineering sup.
ervision was by the Sngin-
eering Division, Provincial
Parks Branch. 2

With completion of the
new chalet visitors to Man-
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ther on a summer vacation
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Selkirk Lions Club Stage Gourmet Meal
At Installation of New Executive Slate

New Selkirk Lions Club
officers were installed last
week at a gourmet dinner
held in the HI Arrow Arms
Motor Hotel.

Guest speaker was ‘Ted
Hardy of the Nelson club
who also performed the of-
ficial installation of the
new executive,

ton, They will join serving
directors Garnet Smalley
and doe Zibin, i

er appointments
within the clut were Don

* Jones, the Tail ‘Twister and

Walter Holuboff, the Lion
Tamer.

Don Jones piped in the
new. execulive with a flare

Jim Chapman, is Lawrence
Popoff, with Frank Stasila
as first vice, Jim Penman,
second vice, and Paul Kina-
kin as third vice-president.

Secretary is Robert Na-
ber and treasurer Mickey
Killough. i

Two new directors were
installed, they being. Rudy
Quaedviieg and Dave Riding

of “Ye Olde Selk-
irk Scots,”

Outgoing president Jim
Chapman spuke to the meet-
ing of members, wives and
guests about the problems
of building a new club and
spreading the good word
about the Lionism.,

He expressed his ap-

reclation to the. members
lor supporting him through

what he called “a progres:
sive first year of Lionism in
Castlegar and Kinnaird.”

Two new members were
installed that evening. They
were Martin Cook, 2 super-
visor with Celgar and Arn-
old Wier of Safeway,

A_ surprise guest was
Burt Johnson, of the Can-
adian National Institute for
the Blind of Penticton. He
spoke to the gathering on
i ae blind in British Colum-

A standing ovation was
iven the ladies who had
elped in the various pro-

jects carried out during the
year,

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