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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1912
Page
10
A wide spread summary of Elko area notes. Regional migration to Elko increases with Cranbrook visitors and local business activity. Mentions of real estate ventures, investments, and amenities plus church services and community events in Fernie, Roosville, Macleod, and area.
Mr Wry Barclay left Friday afternoon on a business trip to Lethbridge and other points east. Miss Havel Lamd visits aunt Mrs Harold Darling in Cranbrook. Mr P Land returned after attending a luncher men s meeting. Mrs M Pennock was in Cranbrook on business. Dr Lyons of Bull River visited to see ill Anna Reinstrom. Verle Martin returned from the Norman school in Vancouver for Christmas. Residents plan a Christmas tree event December 28 inviting all.
The advertisement touts Rexall Orderlies as a safe pleasant remedy for bowel and digestive disorders. It claims inches of health restoration by clearing inactive bowels and liver issues and guarantees money back if not effective. It emphasizes gentle action, no nausea or diarrhea, and suitability for children and elderly, sold at Beattie Murphy Co. in Utah.
Paris observers say the voters largely defer to deputies and senators. Candidates include Paul Deschanel at 95, Alexandre Ribot, Mo Duhost, Leon Bourgeois, Theophile Delcasse, Raymond Poincare, and Paul Dotter, with Deschanel favored by many as a cautious reformer.
The article traces Russia's forest policy from the 17th century. Peter the Great established the first forest reserves and placed crown forests under formal administration to ensure timber for the navy. Earlier rulers Michael and Levie initiated early forestry concepts, with a 1878 commission drafting a comprehensive Forest Act.
An advertisement touts FIU PILLS as a cure for digestive and liver issues, with a user testimonial from Winnipeg in 1911. The text also summarizes empire forest policy, local protection councils, and government forest revenues totaling over 12 million dollars in 1911, led by European Russia and Siberia, warning against fires that threaten future yields.
Members gathered Tuesday evening December Sth for a Whist event with prizes won by Miss Betts and Mr H B Tooth. Vice president J Fingal Smith gave an address on the British Navy. Refreshments were provided by the ladies and dancing followed with R W Kettingham at the piano.
Wm. M. Campbell of Cranbrook BC applies for a license to take and use 40 acre feet of water from Paton's Lake Lot 2245 to irrigate Lot 2244 Group One Kootenay. He also seeks a license to store back 40 acre feet in a 10 acre foot reservoir at the lake outlet for irrigation.
On December 17 1912 a license to take and use water is applied for by Crows Nest Pass Lumber Co Ltd Wardner BC. Water rights seek 10 cubic feet per second from Little Hull River for logging activities across Lots 1313 Go 1 2059 2900 4839 1848 Group 1 with diversion at a government road and filing through Water Recorder Cranbrook and the Comptroller of Water Rights Victoria BC.
John Stanley Peck seeks permission to purchase 200 acres in Cranbrook district in 1912. The description covers multiple lots with specific compass directions and boundaries, beginning near a post 20 chains west of T 1 north-west corner. Also ad for Electric Restorer Phosphonol and a Beattie Murphy Co. drug listing.
Alfred Pigott of Cranbrook B C carpenter applies for permission to buy 40 acres described by a post at the southwest corner of Lot 9104 with a 20 chain square boundary. Agent Arthur Henry Pigott signs dated October 28 1912.
Benjamin B. Ralph of Winnipeg Manitoba a physician gives notice of intent to buy 10 acres in the Fernie land district South East Kootenay. The request covers land at a post on the south end of an island in the EIK River opposite Lot 227 and follows the island shore back to the start. Notice dated August 28 1912.
Meeks in Carmen's Hall on the first and third Thursday each month at 8 p.m. Mrs Lulu Hayward is recording secretary and W B McFarlane is chief ranger. Visiting brethren welcomed. Another group meets Wednesdays in Royal Black Knights Hall Baker Street.
For sale one Oxford engine 11 by 11. May be seen at Benedict Siding one mile east of Mayock in British Columbia. For further particulars apply to Leask and Johnson Elko BC.
Forty years in use and twenty years the Standard, prescribed and recommended by physicians for women's ailments. Available at your druggist.
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