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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1924
Page
7
Official thermometer readings at Cranbrook show highs and lows in a string of figures while Blonde Bess opines that women should not complain when husbands attend ball games. She quips that a man cannot go to the dogs while eating peanuts and rooting for another run to win.
The Marion Oliver Mission Band of Knox Presbyterian Church drew a full house Friday night. The program featured a speech by Master Maleland, a Mother Goose Missionary Family number, junior chorus performances, piano solos by Donna Leitch and Herbert Potter, and a two act play The Missionary Barrel with cast including Jean Warren and Sherman Harris. The event closed with the Band Motto and Rally Song.
The Hockey Pictorial, a lavish new publication, offers a complete history of Canadian hockey with group pictures of champions from 1ReS to 1024 and features on Bellevue Bulldogs and Blairmore’s Ollie Reinikka. It includes a record of players and teams up to the 1924 Olympic champions and costs two dollars plus mail order from 84 Victoria Street, Toronto.
The report chronicles camp 19 activities with Harry Deraukt attending his brother's wedding in Lethbridge while logging contracts near completion. Alfred Farstead starts tie hauling. Oscar Ostram & Co. deliver goods. A radio delights crew as Grover Kifer returns after Canyon City rafting mishap. John Sikora sustains a foot wound from an axe and is treated at Cranbrook hospital.
Provincial orders funded by Road Engineer Hayne to widen the Crow’s Nest Hill road and fill the gully at the hairpin turn. About 100 men will be employed at $3.75 per day, with an estimated cost of $5,000, despite cold weather deterring some workers who prefer mines for higher pay. Winnipeg Free Press notes national context with 442,085,018 bushels of marketable wheat produced in the prairie provinces: Alberta 134,495,350 Saskatchewan 270,660,510 Manitoba 86,878,053.
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