Creston District News Notes Canning Plant Plans and Local Events
Creston items report Watsons planning a one ton daily canning factory with expansion potential. Loyal Orange order formed with 17 charter members. next meeting August 2. Schofield family camping trip starting from Trail to Kitchener. Mrs. Schofield to join later. Body of Alex Muir found in Bridgeport after drowning in Slocan river. New port veterinary Kenneth Chester to oversee glanders tests for horses at Rykerts. Labor Day celebration canvass committee to report progress and funding. Fred Watson to Cranbrook for East Kootenay Lumber job. Mrs. Ramsey dies in Nanaimo. mourning note to daughter Mrs. Mallandaine. J Usher meets old friends. Fernie residents view land. Fernicites and others scout local fruit lands.
Michel Reporter News Roundup and Local Happenings
Mrs. St H Moore leaves for Spokane and Michel miners plan their seventh annual Labor Day picnic. Travelers include Howard McGuire of Plains and Carl Connor visiting a ill brother in Butte. Jimmy Regan injured, and several executives from Medicine Hat fishing South Fork. Elk Prairie Agricultural Society organized. A school to be opened for twenty nine children. Local figures visiting Fernie Hosmer and Elk Valley area. Black Hand scare alleged but not confirmed.
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Michel
Howard McGuire
Plains
Elk Prairie Agricultural Society
W. Weaver
I. A. Rhodes
W. J. Cook
F. Harmour
A. J. Rhodes
J. Mansfield
Tom Patterson
John Kristal
Elko News Notes Local Visitors And Events
Elko reports include Mr and Mrs James McKee visiting from Brook visitors, J Hanbury and family arriving for a vacation, C G A Klingensmith on Fernie business, Ed Prettie socializing with friends, Mrs J Todhunter hosting progress whist, and R Hirtz illness. A baseball game saw Elko defeat Michel 22 to 5. A Sunday school picnic for Michel and Fernie attracted about 1200 attendees. Lauretta Armstrong visiting Mrs C A Klingensmith, J Houston staying at home, W S Herron in town on mill business, D McDougal sailing to Moose Jaw, H Durrant and B J McLellan planning a Calgary homestead.
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Michel
Fernie
Fernie News Roundup From Moyie to Victoria
Fernie reports Fergus McDonald and Bert Whinster as guests at Lake View camp Moyie. Brick for Fernie courthouse will come from Calgary. Thomas J. Knox new Secretary of Coal Creek colliery Board of examiners. A planned Fernie Elko roadway claimed to be a future premier route. Water pipe for city expected from New Westminster by rail, seven cars, wire wound. Bush fire near Morrissey. Fire-Warden Murphy contained it. Four thousand cedar fence posts lost by Farquharson and Boissol. Fire west of Elko possibly from campers. No fires allowed in park until fall. Double wedding at Presbyterian manse: William Greiner and Ida Frey. Gustave Mueller and Hermine Kierney. Grant performed the knot tying.
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City Line
New Westminster
Morrissey
Murphy
Farquharson
Boissol
Elko
Wm. Greiner
Digby & Wahlie
Ida Frey
Gustave Mueller
Hermine Kierney
Grant
Local notes from Frank area and region events
Frank Engineer Wilcox leaves the Canadian for Bankhead to join S. M. Moore of the Pacific Coal company as his family follows later. Albion Ridge school board chairman Wm. Northam and Mrs. E. B. Palmer wed at Knox church. The couple heads to the Seattle fair. A nameless rural youth snoozes on a ride home after a Saturday night escapade, horse saddle missing. Police trace Mike Kulczycki after a Friday fight with Angus Russ. Kulczycki’s knife history in Alberta and BC remains unconfirmed. CPR calls for bids to grade and bridge the Cameron Lake to Alberni branch linking Victoria Nanaimo road to the West Coast port.
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Coal Company
Bankhead
S. M. Moore
Wm. Northam
Albion Ridge
Lethbridge
E. B. Palmer
Knox Church
Frank
Coleman
Mike Kulczycki
Angus Russ
Kulczycki
Edmonton
Alberta
British Columbia
Moyie Social Highlights and Moyie School Plan
A Moyie Thursday gathering honored Mrs. J Swinnerton with local ladies in attendance. Notables include F J Tanner new Long building jeweler and G T McGregor returned from Vancouver. A Moyie baby funeral in Cranbrook, families cottage on lake, Kempston Irish visit, and a push to build a larger four room Moyie school.
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F. J. Tanner
Wardner Social Notes and Local Movements
Mrs H Tierney returned to Cranbrook after a week here while R H Bohart visited on business. St Andrew's Presbyterian church women plan a social Friday August 6 in Library hall with free admission and plenty of ice cream and cake. Miss K Rowland came back from a two week visit with Mrs T Gaffney. Friends mourn for the Jones child Richard as the note ends.
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Cranbrook
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
K. Rowland
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