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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 1902
Page
4
Elko residents and visitors are noted in town last week with McBride’s paint shop urged as the place to buy paint. Others return home from Cranbrook to Elko while C. P. R. and local firms announce improvements and deliveries. Fire protection questions arise as new wagons arrive for Fort Steele and King Mercantile.
A long list of visitors and local notes fill Cranbrook and district items. Mentions include James Greer in Fernie and J R Downes in Marysville, Rev Beacham to Lethbridge, McConnell fruit and eggs, and various townspeople visiting Cranbrook, Kimberley, Fort Steele, and Calgary. Reports cover local commerce, property, weather, hospital ball help, and upcoming church services.
British Columbia labor representatives meet in Kamloops with officers elected led by Chris Foley as president and James Wilkes as vice president. The platform calls for tax shifts to land values, government ownership of railways, universal public schooling, women's suffrage, restricted land subsidies, compulsory arbitration, and limits on private franchises and immigration, among other measures.
The Fernie Free Press argues for town incorporation as the only feasible path to local self government and public financing. While merchants see no opposition to incorporation, some fear initial costs and ongoing civil governance expenses, but the paper notes these are manageable and tied to city council decisions.
Marysville residents received a stream of visitors this week. G H Miner from Cranbrook drove up Sunday. L Ernst of Nelson visited Thursday. Miss Ryan and her nephew visited Mrs. McMillan. R Braldy, CPR night operator, saw friends in Kimberley. L Sage of Cranbrook made his first Marysville visit. Gr Thompson, Cranbrook solicitor, opened a Marysville branch office and plans regular visits. J Armstrong of Fort Steele visited Saturday to select government lots. F Clapp of the Hist Kootenay betting company of Cranbrook was in town this week.
In a satirical exchange a fakir hawks free “solid gold diamonds” to a sucker. The text explains the scam: the fakir seeks money from the sucker who, eager for easy gain, sends cash by mail. The fakir profits, sometimes via running a newspaper or the person who runs it, while the sucker gains nothing but a figurative “neck” for trying.
Sealed tenders addressed to the Postmaster General must arrive at Ottawa by noon Friday May doth for a four year contract for four trips weekly each way between Cranbrook West on the Crow's Nest Pass Railway Station commencing July next. Notices with further information are available at Cranbrook Post Office and Vancouver Post Office. Post Office Inspector W. I. Dorman signs April 1902.
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