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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
5
A Cranbrook city roundup lists numerous visitors including Mr Vollemin and Mr Vollrath, government contacts, and business trips. Notes mention the Jubilee Singers at the opera house for Presbyterian church benefits, a moose head gift to the Cranbrook hotel, and a sale with coal stoves and Christmas fruit.
Experts ignore box flamboyance and price tags and instead judge cigars by flavor aroma and smoking quality. The ad urges choosing EL BRAVO for superior taste at a surprisingly low price.
WANTED position as teamster or other work around Cranbrook with address W Walsh Cosmopolitan hotel. Pure bred Brown Leghorns and voline cocks for sale. J Williams Box 29 Creston B C. Mrs 5 E Trombley of Creston travels to Calgary and Seattle. WD Hill Co furniture building on Armstrong avenue nearly finished. Charles Smith transferred to Calgary. I W Reeves stays as superintendent’s accountant. Mr Smith’s departure noted with best wishes. S J Miller from Victoria requests Herald be sent to his new address. Tiffany show cases delivered to W Wilson. Argonaut club dance at new opera house in honor of Miss Baird. CP rail offers low round trips to Ontario and Quebec. 90 day tickets. Christmas gifts suggestion featuring Kootenay range from Patmore Bros. Miss Baird to depart for New Brunswick. Cranbrook residents sail on Empress of Britain on the 14th for Old World. Italians book passage via New York. A Mutz gains mining property interests near Kingsgate with 200 ft tunnel at 85 ft depth. ore shows silver lead and gold. A Rollins receives word of father William Rollins’ death in Lucan Ontario. family left behind.
Mayor Finley and four aldermen attended a short session. Minutes approved, a clock project filed, and a finance report showing 2041.26 dollars was ordered paid. A petition over unsightly buildings failed for lack of power, and election and revision procedures were set for December 31 and a future council meeting.
Agnosticism yields no converts at the tomb. Love mocks locksmiths not goldsmiths. Friendship with money rarely becomes asset. Salvation is free yet costly to maintain. Joining a church does not make a Christian but helps. It is robbing it to ad vie a man with cold feet. The longer a man works at a job the more he knows about it.
Commissioner King wraps up the Vancouver probe as testimony reveals Gotch and the Wellington Col lieries Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway contracts to supply Japanese labor. The Wellington deal covered five hundred men at daily wages of 1.35 to 1.90 for five years with a sixty day termination notice, while the CPR contract ran to 1912 with a 30 day notice and wage guarantees from 1.35 to 1.65. A Busfield letter notes 400 to 2000 Japanese could be taken this year, with men employed as far as Swift Current and on sorting work.
On Tuesday evening Charles G. Jamieson a Cranbrook carpenter married Miss Elizabeth A. Sharpe of Winnipeg by Rev. Main at the manse. The couple will reside at the Troyal hotel for the winter.
City notice cites Section 150 Chapter 32 of Municipal Clauses Act. Taxes unpaid by December 1 accrue interest at eight percent per year until paid in full. Thos M Roberts, Cranbrook City Clerk, Cranbrook BC.
A notice from A F MacLeod District Registrar at Nelson B C states an intention to issue a duplicate Certificate of Title for part five acres of Lot 80 Hay in Koote nay District to Valentine Hyde Baker. The certificate dated March 24 1906 carries number 5416 A. The one month period from first publication ends after November 28 1907.
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