Corner Stone Laying of Chilliwack High School
Premier Sir Richard McBride attends the corner stone ceremony for the new Chilliwack High School. The event includes 700 pupils, speeches by J D Taylor M P and Hon D M Ebert, a maple leaf song, a silver trowel presentation, and a luncheon at the Empress before departure to New Westminster.
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Chilliwack
City School Board
Sir Richard McBride
Richard McBride
Calvert
A. L. Coote
Canon Hinchliffe
Barber
the Childern
Maple Leaf Forever
J. D. Taylor
M. P
T. Gifford
Westminster
Wm. Manson
M.P. P
Dewdney
F. J. Mackenzie
Delta
J. P. Shaw
W. L. Macken
Board of Trade
G. H. W. Ashwell
J.D. Taylor
Eberts
Saanich
Canada
B.C
Valey
Jack Barber
Chilliwack High School
I. J. Barber
R. HL. Brock
A. EB. Roberts
Point Grey
B. C
Richard
C.N. R
McNiven
Messrs. F. 2. Glover
Allan Purvis
B.C. BH. R
New Westminster
Sports for the Fair Featured Horse Races and Rules
The Chilliwack fair lists local horse events scheduled for Sept 20 including Bonn tide Farmers Trotting Race Pony Race Farmers Slow Race Girls Race and Open Trotting Race. Races require local ownership for one month prior and feature purses from 4 to 25 dollars. The committee will decide bona fide farmers, with further details to come next issue.
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Bonn
Dedicated Anglican Church at Rosedale Opened by Bishop
On Tuesday evening September 8 the new Anglican Church at Rosedale was dedicated by the Bishop of New Westminster. The service began at 7 30 with a procession of clergy including Rev F E M Searles Rev C B Clarke Rev Jocelyn Perkins Rev Canon Hinchliffe and Rt Rev A A de Pencier. The Bishop gave a brief address and thanked God for the church while Canon Perkins preached on faithful labor. Afterward a supper at Mrs C Remers hosted workers and members with congratulatory speeches and the National Anthem to close.
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Rosedale
New Westminster
FE. M. Searles
L. H
C. B. Clarke
Sardis
Jocelyn Perkins
Westminster Abbey
England
Canon Hinchliffe
Chilliwack
A. A. de Pencier
C. Remers
Chilliwack Hosts Vancouver Progress Club Visitors
The Progress Club of Vancouver touring through the province visited Chilliwack on Thursday. A special tram brought about one hundred visitors who were welcomed by the Board of Trade at the depot and later entertained at the opera house with lunch and speeches. The program featured toasts, songs, and remarks from notable figures, ending with a toast to the city and a poem dedicated to Chilliwack by Felix Penne.
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Progress Club of
Vancouver
Chilliwack
Board of Trade
Progress Club
R. W. Holland
John T. Stevens
Carson
J. J. Miller
Bursill
Waddington
von Cramer
Canadian Club
H. J. Barber
Chilliwack B
J. N Harvey
Honeymoon Return and New Cottage for Ed Nelems Couple
Ed Nelems and his wife return from a two week honeymoon and plan to live in a new cottage at Carbould street and Reece avenue. They receive greetings and a fine gift from employer 8. A. Parsons. Also notes on Juvenile Bostonians upcoming show The Dream Girl at the Opera House next Wednesday September 11. Police Court August reports show eleven cases with fines totaling 195.25.
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Ed. Nelems
Mr. Nelems
Carbould Street
Reece Avenue
Opera House
EB. Lang
Rose Henry
Misa Doris Canfield
Dixie White
Thom Hellen
Kate Neill
Misa Ethel
Cosgrove and
Lang
Roller rink season opens with fair carnival plans
Local notes report the Roller Rink management proposing a season opening during the Fair with a grand carnival. Updates include C N R freight shipment of baled hay at 14 dollars per ton to Hope and a Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary meeting set in City Hall.
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Jos. Childerhose
Hope
Chilliwack Hospital
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Lahaima
Maui
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Frisco
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H. Day
J. L. Denholm
J. W. Galloway
G. K. Sproat
R. J. McIntosh
D. Larter
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Wim. Bathgate
D. E Stevenson
W. R. Stevenson
Gordon Denholm
Ivan Larter
Smiley
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British Columbia
Felix Penne
J. J. McRae
Agassiz
Tuesaday
Hope News
J. H. Ashwell
Puyallup
Wash
Free Press
Ashwell
M. H. Nelems
Chilliwack Dramatic Society
Sumas
Atchilitz
A. Cawley
J. M. Williams
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Lillooet
McGillivray Mountain
A. N. Muir
Sandwitch
Muir
Chilliwack Free Press
Interior
Vancouver Island
Nechaco
Fort George-Quesnel
Nelson
Rossland
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