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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
8
A Cranbrook column recalls veterans from Strathcona's Horse returning from South Africa. A telephone company forms, census underway, and Dr. J. H. King named health officer. New York reports Vilhjalmur Stefansson planning an 1800 mile Arctic row boat expedition from Alberta to study Eskimo cultures.
Children service at 11 o'clock with the subject The Boat Race. Girls and boys are especially invited. Sunday school and Bible class at o'clock, Men's Own meeting at 3.40, closing season social hour with refreshments. Evening service at 7.40 on The Plague of the Light Mind. Weeknight services Monday to Friday at 8. Rev W J Hall assisting. all invited.
Rubio, an outsider at fif to 1, won the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree near Liverpool last Friday. Owned by Major Pennant, Rubio becomes the first American bred horse to win the race.
The Cranbrook Herald marks its tenth anniversary under editor Fred Simpson. It rose from a Washington hand press to a modern Cranbrook office and has become a powerful weekly voice in the Kootenays. Locals praise its clean, up to date journalism and strong town history coverage.
The Cranbrook Herald marks its tenth anniversary as a thriving weekly in British Columbia. Gratitude is extended to Cranbrook residents, the editor, and staff for a progressive journal with strong community support and future success anticipated.
The Cranbrook Herald marks ten years with a twelve page issue illustrated by Cranbrook progress scenes and portraits of prominent locals. Letters of congratulation flood in from the interior while Editor Mantor Simpson receives praise for the paper’s growth and impact in southeastern British Columbia.
The Cranbrook Herald marked ten years with a special souvenir edition. The paper is praised as a town credit and its longevity noted by local readers and editors.
The Cranbrook Herald celebrates its tenth anniversary with a special illustrated edition. The newspaper notes the office has never been raided by the sheriff nor has its editor ever been shot at.
The Cranbrook Herald marks its tenth year with a profusely illustrated twelve page anniversary edition. Editor F. B. Simpson, a longtime Cranbrook business leader, features prominently in the history and founding of the publication.
A Cranbrook letter-trade note expresses town pride and thanks for Mr. Brown’s service, while reports from Atlin, British Columbia describe a fatal mining accident at Spruce Creek. Two unnamed miners, We Bennett and W.S. Bowley, entombed by a cave-in as rescuers labored to reach them, with Elliott presumed dead after late-night recovery efforts.
Samuel Vila of James Turner & Co Hamilton Ontario writes from Hamilton on March 86 1908 thanking A L McDermot for the Cranbrook Herald souvenir. He notes reading with interest and sharing with firm members to learn about locals and recalls arriving in Cranbrook around early days. He signs sincerely.
The week brings excellent pictures at the new opera house. Films depict Karl Hackenbach's Hamburg zoological gardens with favorable reviews, plus Reeves' songs and a colored life of Christ at Edison theatre costing over ten thousand dollars and spanning nine to ten scenes.
A new passenger train timetable is set to begin in early April along the Crow line. A daytime Cranbrook to Medicine Hat service will traverse popular sections both directions. The Macleod to Cranbrook mixed train will be discontinued, with mail and Soo-Spokane Flyer schedules likely adjusted or restored.
FR Reid has sold his drug business to H Allison of Toronto. Allison will take possession on April 15. Reid started the business four and a half years ago and built a splendid trade by strict attention to business and by handling only the best goods. Health concerns require the move to the coast, and Mr. and Mrs. Reid will be missed in social and religious circles.
Vancouver Saturday Sunset comments on The Wranbrook Werald as a Kootenay paper and lauds its editor for steady optimism and outspoken stance. The Herald marks its tenth anniversary, praising a decade of usefulness to the Kootenay and supporters across the province.
A fragmented 1808 letter from VanDecar Victoria British Columbia to Cranbrook Herald editor expresses congratulations and praise for the publication. It notes many familiar faces and mentions receiving no circular yet. The text reflects historical local correspondence and printer-era errors.
Dominion geologist R. G. McConnell says the Findlay river district has plentiful gold potential due to many streams and favorable rock formations. He notes he visited the area years ago and identifies gneiss and schists as conducive to gold discoveries.
Dawson of London editor of the Standard travels to Winn Peg with C G Meer to collect material for a large Canadian supplement. He plans to issue the issue after close personal observation and investigation across the country.
A notice seeks moose or elk horn pairs for sale describing large specimens and lengths. A separate line references the Oxford and Cambridge boat race from Putney to Mortlake with Cambridge as the betting favorite this year.
Cranbrook reports numerous visitors from Fernie Elko and Marysville plus plans for Hill & Co millinery opening April 3 4. The post office windows gain plate glass and the Canadian Northwest Oil company marks rapid progress with over nine hundred feet drilled. Local tradesmen and residents move between Cranbrook Fernie and Vancouver.
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