Chilliwack Free Press Advertising Rates Notice
Advertising rates are listed by the publisher C. A. Barber. Subscription is $1.00 per year in advance for British Empire, $1.50 to the United States. Classified ads priced per word. Display ads require copy in by Wednesday morning. Printed weekly at Westminster Street, Chilliwack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New Era
Westminster Street
Chilliwack
British Empire
United States
Applio
C. A. Barber
Municipal Council Minutes Describe Gravel Contracts and Street Work
The Municipal Council met in City hall with Acting Reeve Evans. It approved graveling contracts on Nevin road Camp Slouhy Breakwater and other roads with prices per yard and deadlines before July 10. It accepted bids for grading and cribbing the Young street bridge and First avenue gravelling. Obstructions on Spruce Drive and Second avenue were rejected, a $25 grant to the Women's Institute approved, and subdivision plans for church and district land noted. Council adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evans
Coun
Brett
Nevin Road
W. J. Thompson
Knowles
Count Marrs
Camp Slouhy
Muirhead
Breakwater
W. Hamilton
Chapman Road
Castlemian Road
J. McLeod
Rod
L. A. Thornton
Chilliwack
Young Street Bridge
C. Ecert
First Avenue
McNaught
C. E. Eckert
S. Pearson
Spruce Drive
Second Avenue
Women’s Institute
Methodist Church
School Street
School Street the Council Will Accept the Plans of Mr Moore For N. BE
F. Beldam
Prest Road
Killing a Town Advises Peddler Boycott and Denouncement
The piece urges residents to buy from peddlers and denounce local merchants, celebrate a merchant’s downfall, hinder town improvements, resist unity for shared progress, accuse merchants of extortion, and warn outsiders that markets are overpriced and doomed to crash.
A Town Advice Rant On Newspapers and Merchants
A harsh excerpt urges merchants to patronize rival papers and denounce local ones as a means to force cheaper ads. It sneers at one horse town markets, suggests using a rubber stamp for letterheads, and tells farmers to curse the place to lower property values while urging continued defiance.
Peculiar Boundary Situation Affects Lumber Mills
A cross border dispute centers on Einitingdon where Smeriein Lumber operates on the American side and Bleetrie Lumber on the Canadian side. A proposed 25 percent duty on finished lumber aims to push American mills into Canada, but workers live in Sumas and cross daily, complicating enforcement and raising questions about cross border residency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Einitingdon
Dominion
Tiltingdon
Boundary
Boundary Line
Anil
Smeriein Lumber Company
Bleetrie Lumber Company
Sumas
Chester
Canada
Abbotsford
United States
Trade offer for Percheron mare on Ford Road
Registered Percheron mare one year old weighs 1600 pounds. Open to trades for a work team. Apply to H. Craig located on Ford Road in South Saints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Craig
Ford Road
South Saints
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Chilliwack Free Press
the Municipal Council
British Columbia
STONE
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Navy
Toronto
ONT
the Merchants Bank
N. S. MacKenzie
Chilliwack Implement @ Produce Company
New Railroad
Chilliwack Land and Development Co. Ltd
Tox
P. O. Box
Chilliwack Planing Mills
F. J. Hart & Co., Ltd
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion Express
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