03 Apr 1919
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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
1
Cranbrook residents thwart a Bolshevik style meeting in a store near the Imperial hotel. Veterans and locals expelled the organizer and demanded return of funds paid by attendees to a purported loggers union allied with the enemy. Recovery details set at the Herald office.
Cranbrook Automobile Association asks Creston and Nelson Boards of Trade to back a summer completion of a Sirdar to Kuskanook road using the Great Northern grade with a ferry link to Nelson. They note state resolutions for an East West Kootenay link and urge provincial and federal support to start the project now to boost tourism and land sales.
Grant Hall the CPR vice president and PD C Coleman the western lines general manager visited Cranbrook Tuesday evening on a western system tour. A Board of Trade delegation raised issues including increased train service and Waldo railway matters with a rumor of Yahk to Biko cut off. Hall said service would rise with traffic, he would investigate Waldo, and Cranbrook would not be cut from the main line. They left for the next leg Wednesday morning with Supt C S Maharg.
Premier Oliver of British Columbia calls for broad savings to fund development and reduce foreign debt. He argues current heavy interest payments drain national wealth and urges Canadians to invest savings back into domestic industry and resources for a prosperous future.
Cranbrook beat Nelson in a telegraphic bowling contest held Wednesday night. The home team built a 78 pin lead after the first game and extended it with 158 more pins in the second, finishing with 286 total. Leumin and Dallas starred for Cranbrook with 174 averages across three games.
The note highlights Geo Hays as a long time agri cultural representative and praises the Live Stock Union's sales. It urges extending advisory boards and securing a livestock dairy specialist for Columbia Fernie and Cranbrook districts. It mentions a forthcoming creamery amid warning of hemorrhagic septicemia from Okanogan and BC outbreaks with Dr Rutledge leading preventive study and response efforts.
A wedding united Gladys Brown of Saskatoon and Albert Joe Neuman of Kimberley on Tuesday evening at Mrs Robertson's residence Norbury Avenue. Rev H M Lyon officiated. The bride wore blue travelling dress and bouquet carried with the bridesmaid Miss Bertha M Brown. A buffet luncheon followed. The couple will reside in Kimberley where Neuman works as a carpenter at the Sullivan mine.
Local Overflow s Staples of Wycliffe notes wood ticks return. Friday May 2 big united G W V A and City Band dance in the Auditorium Special orchestra. Complete line of caps and hats at Moffatt's Variety Store. Private A Kenbow arrived home and is greeted by friends. Tennis shoes on display at Moffatt's. Mrs Geo Leitch won knitted item from Duchess of Connaught raffled by Women's Institute. Business improves as world looks to reconstruction post war. Cranbrook Poultry Association annual meeting moved to City Hall April 5 at 8 pm. Baptist church hosts meeting for local People’s Prohibition Association on Monday evening next at 7 o'clock. seeks attendees for information on a pheasant shooting incident near Watt Avenue on March 26. Bh T Cooper
The Stockbreeders Association of Southeast Kootenay held its first annual meeting on March 29 with good turnout despite bad roads. President Peter Woods outlined year goals including gains from a Provincial ranch expert visit and urged broad support to strengthen livestock industry conditions. Officers elected include President P Woods, Vice-president W Carlin, and Secretary-treasurer K H McPhere, with a slate of directors from Cranbrook, Jaffray, Moyie, Fort Steele and other towns.
Capt McCreery arrived home to a hearty welcome after serving with the 226th and 158th battalions. He fought in France with the 16th Canadian Scottish, was wounded at Hill 70 and Cambrai, rose to captain in July 1918, received the M C in August, and was praised by the London Gazette for directing his men and capturing machine guns.
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