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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
6
Local Elko dispatch reports a busy week with fifteen ranchers selling spuds cabbage beets peppers and hay from Tobacco Plains. Visitors include Mrs Klingensmith and guests at the Elk hotel grand supper and ball marking a hotel expansion with crowds from Cranbrook Jaffray Wardner Rock Creek Baynes Lake and Fernie.
Miss Hazel Bohart visits Jaffray while Spokane visitors stay with Lindsay and Jones families. Moyie Water Co pays dividend as a public meeting plans a cooperative store. a blasting accident injures Tom Summers. five Cranbrook girls compete in elocution with Miss Kennedy winning a medal. Union hotel expansion and liquor depot employee Archi Acton returns from health trip. Measles strike hits Hssie Owens infant. Finlamer strikes Clarence Martin during work injury. Sirdar guest Miss Mangan departs town. sawmill outage prompts repairs.
Walter Harwood and Jack Ross returned from a timber cruising trip up the Kootenay reporting plentiful game. Wood McNab Lumber Company plans a new mill about three miles east of Fernie. Mrs J L McIntyre visits Pincher Creek with sister in law Mrs Reid of Cranbrook. Archie Grant narrowly escaped drowning after falling into Elk River. his father rescued him.
Moyie reports Chas Farrell and George Hunt back from travels, and a local civic holiday plan with ads. A fatal gas explosion at Coal Creek No 2 mine killed Robert Bell, trapping him as dust and gas swept the room. Richard son escaped minutes earlier. The funeral occurred at the Methodist church, and Chas T. Folliot of A Guthrie & Co arrived with contract officials in town.
Plans for immediate construction proceed with a full crew shipping to Pernie. Ninety days is expected to finish but bridges will slow progress. An old town shack stabbing left Frank A Matasco wounded by a razor. J Quiltire arrested and sentenced to two and a half years hard labor.
James Varley dies at Bellevue after a lingering illness. J W Stafford named Dominion land agent at Lethbridge. Hundred Thousand Club of Calgary plans August 7 excursion to Coleman. Cattle interests disrupt Spokane Plywood train with calf stoppers. The Thillcvest mine resumes operations. Lille hack-all dispute temporarily settles. optional back-hand system under arbitration.
The Moyie Leader reports editor J. Peck MacSwain vanished after leaving the paper three weeks ago. Fears for his safety rise as theories swirl from a Spokane beer stop to kidnapping or worse.
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