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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
4
A digest of town visits births sales dances and plans across Moyie Cranbrook Fernie Marysville and surrounding areas. Residents include J Dill Fred Dumont Fred Murphy and others with notes on visits by Miss Inez Blanchard and Mrs W J Henderson. A deer hunt by Tom Wellman and Frank Dickerson and a Moyie Miners Ball are mentioned along with local business updates and real estate activity.
A Marysville note column reports plans for a Marysville board of trade formation with businessmen and residents invited to join. The Methodist church seeks townsite lots to build a church and Mr McDonald of Fort Steele seeks a hotel license in the Handley and Wolf block. Work on an addition starts as about twenty teams build the Marysville spur of the North Star railway, expected to finish in a month with track layers following the construction crew. Bale and Small announce a doubled dining room and kitchen due to expanding business.
An American narrator recountsLeon Messerge a 25 year old heir whose sudden ruin prompts a disappearance. The narrator is questioned by police accused of aiding a possible suicide and faces detention while investigators search for the missing man and evidence.
A narrator describes legal troubles in France and a trial for raising a false alarm, then shifts to a reflection on smoking while blind. The piece contrasts taste and scent with sight, defending ongoing cigarette use despite blindness and noting personal experiences with police and court measures.
A buck and fawn discuss a hunter killed by the deer. The father boasts of tracking the man, wading through deceit, and shooting him while he swam. The fawn questions the bravery of such acts as the deer plans more bloodshed, claiming pride will come with age.
The late Louisiana bishop Joseph Wilmer once traveled in England with cousin Bishop Richard Wilmer. At a party a husband boasted of his wife’s talent while the two bishops watched near the piano. Bishop Joseph gently asked if the touch was natural or acquired. The husband replied natural, and the bishop quipped that such a touch could not be acquired.
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