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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
4
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From our own correspondent the Elko area greets tourists from Zululand and South mp with a lively scene. locals recount the midways the air, and the jovial Kerrigan visiting Elko amid notes of rain and foundation work by Dunn & Co. familiar faces from Calgary to Vancouver tour the district while educators and athletes prepare for school and spring sports.
The Gateway International reports a lively Elko area scene with baseball wins, travel notes from Missoula to Alberta, local visits, and community hustle. Mentions of Fernie fires, Elk River bridge work, and town improvements frame a week of small town activity and varied travel.
Dave Elmer, relief committee member, visited Fernie and Cranbrook where locals recalled the fire and an English widow lamented Canada. The Fennie Fort Steele Brewing company advances a new 200000 dollar brewery with architect Stanley overseeing on site. Trites Wood’s temporary building nears completion beside the Royal hotel, and Crows Nest Trading plans to operate next to their former site.
W H Wilson Cranbrook jeweler in town. Mr and Mrs J Patrequin and son Georgy Cranbrook visitors. Marry Gamble St Eugene foreman in Cranbrook. Ed Barr and wife attended Rebekahs meeting. Miss Christina Blackburn visiting from Cranbrook. C Kamm accountant at St Eugene learned his Michigan-born father is ill and they travel east. KK D Stinson improving in Cranbrook hospital. H T Fulton Old Fellows BC grand master to visit Moyie lodge Sept 8. Capt and Mrs Sanborn left Vancouver for Prince Rupert to oversee steamers for Foley Welch Larson on Grand Trunk Pacific contract.
The Frank Paper reports Beresford at the Sanitarium demonstrating the Frank springs waters for rheumatism. James McLean arrives crippled but departs cured. Michel hospital patients moved after a fire and later by box car transport. A CP rail worker, Robinette, injured by a cow on a slide. Harvest on the prairie promises a record wheat crop with large hay yields. oats shortened due to drought and late rains.
A political column discusses changes to the province's executive council after the Constitution Act amendment increasing paid ministers from five to six. It critiques the motive as creating a well paid post for favored Conservatives, naming potential candidates like Tom Taylor Revelstoke and Ross Fernie, and notes concerns about debating strength and suitability.
The article recalls a former attorney general who spoke often in the house before becoming a minister and faced defeat in 1903. It notes he has claims on McBride and potential reentry to government for strong qualities. Price Ellison of Vernon, a dozen-year Conservative, is praised as a decisive administrator likely to secure a vacant portfolio, though uncertainty lingers.
The Conservatives nominate A. B. Goodeve of Rossland for the next Dominion election in Kootenay district. He once led Rossland as mayor during a miners’ union dispute and later served as provincial secretary but was defeated by J. A. Macdonald. Support comes from W. H. Aldridge, yet rival Smith Curtis is favored to win.
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