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Chilliwack Free Press

Location

Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Date

Oct 25, 1912

Page

8

City of Chilliwack opens inspection on sidewalk project

The City of Chilliwack announces a council approved plan to build a cement sidewalk on the north side of Henderson Avenue between Cook and Robson. The City Assessor’s report lists property charges and details. the report is open for inspection at City Hall. A petition by property owners may halt or modify the project within fifteen days of first publication.

City of Chilliwack Henderson Avenue Cook Street Robson Street City Hall Th. C Couneil

Church News and Local Notices in Chilliwack

The Women’s Auxiliary meets Thursdays in the Parish Hall starting Oct 24. Chilliwack delegates attend the Provincial Sunday School Convention in Victoria Nov 6–8 with speakers from Chicago Seattle and California. Harvest services at the Methodist Church Sunday with special choir music and sermons. A November Sunday School convention in Chilliwack hosts Rev. Brown Pratt Fisher Williamson and others with talks on religious education and world conquest. Also notes: Iowa hen nest patent jest, Germany insurance draft impacts, Sunflower uses, gas discovery at Birch Bay by Nicholas Kitzel, with Blaine Press report.

Mr. Davies Dickie i Maynard Chilliwack Baptist Sunday School Victoria Patten Epworth League British Columbia Sunday School Association Chilliwack W. A. Brown Chicago G. T. Pratt Seattle Chas. Ed. Fisher North California J. H Methodist Church Geo. T. Pratt Chas. W. Fisher

Halloween lore and rural notes mix with harvest fright

A sprawling excerpt covers Halloween customs in Scotland and broader folklore, detailing divination games, nut burning, apple viewing, and bonfires. It shifts to a Penticton ranch cucumber crop report and ends with Thanksgiving reflections and sharp social critique of dispirited youths.

The bell tolls and rings through social commentaries

The verse contrasts church bells with fashionable society noting a belle and beau, a ring on her finger, and mocks the idea of a price tag. It laments a long misidea while praising the honest value of the hard earned dollar despite clever scoops and foolscap schemes.

Misdirected Remedies Spotlighted in Humorous Domestic Anecdote

A comical fragment describes a woman scolding a chicken while a child and cigarette habit cure appear. The piece notes unconventional practices such as laying on hands and slipper therapy, claiming a mother cured a boy with one dose and a slipper applied to the neck.

Childern Christian Gelance

Also Mentioned on This Page

Lillie Bensin Fancy Sie Iris Rennie Lillie’s Lillie’s Cash Grocery G. A. Dunlop Hart Block Wellington St. Chilliwack, B. 0 J. H. Bowes Royal Bank of Canada B. C Chilliwack College of Music Trev J. Verroy J.A.B Royal Academy of Music Royal College of Music London England Henderson Ave Carleton Wie Marion & Marion University Catherine Montreal Church News St. Thomas’s Church Methodist Sunday F. Chapman M. Willerton Miss Ditcch Chara Cartmell M. Cartmell Iowa Germany Iate David Davis Nicholas Kitzel Birch Bay Blaine Blaine Press Hallowe'en Glendower Scotland Robert Burns Hallowe’en Kail Penticton Vancouver Enderby Press Dominion R. A. Hexperson Canadian Society OF Civil Engineers B.C. Lane Surveyor Rooms Westminster Trust Block Chulliwack, TC H. J. Barber Messrs. Burmeister Nelson Prairie Central Road Parker Farm Sharp Frost & Wood New Myers S Por Vent Ner Wnt Sale F. J. HART @ CO. LTD Chamberlain Madras G. P. Chamberlain Wellington Street Cyril Bayes Professor Duxbury School of Expression Manchester the Methodist Church Chilliwack, B. C Wesley Croop Boy Scouts Part Josepit Dothan Joseph Jacob Potiphar Pharaoh Phicrwol Egypt Simeon Benjamin Israel Goshen Violets Flossie Orr Fantasie Ballet Mr. H. Kelland God Save the King Roma Charles Dickens Bennot C, Hayes Harrison
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