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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 15, 1924
Page
9
Kimberley residents attended a free Carnival amid snow while the hockey team traveled to Fernie. Community gatherings included dances, whist, and music at Club Cafe Cranbrook with prizes awarded in various age groups. Local notices promote life insurance via Martin Bros Cranbrook and home building by Geo. R. Leask.
The Methodist Sunday school fundraiser at Kimberley church raised money to reduce the building fund debt. A three part program featured The Dumb Bachelor, recitations, songs, and The Girl and the Undergraduate with strong turns by Anna Tofelt and Mrs. Gougeon. Proceeds support church and parsonage debt reduction. Also listed are ore receipts received at Trail Smelter for February 1 to 7 from mines including Isaac Brisco B C Knebhill Lone Pine Paradise Quilp Republic Roseberry Surprise Sally Beaverdell Silversmith and others.
An Iowa youth fell for boxing after service and drags his father to a show. The son bets the dad will see more action for $2 than ever before, while the father quips $2 bought his marriage license. A quip about love and development follows.
The report notes whitefish shipments from Lesser Slave Lake to Canadian and U S cities, grain loadings across Western Provinces rising to 82 219 cars and 136 958 448 bushels since September 1. It highlights Dr Murray MacLaren urging rail routes for Maritime prosperity and Yukon caribou trekking southward.
Cranbrook Rinkrats defeated Wycliffe Sawdust Leaguers 4 1 in a postponed Monday game amid bad weather. The match featured fast skating, some fogbound play, and a standout performance by Cranbrook. Local figures A Erbanks Monk Aubrey Kemp Harold Comery and Teddy Charters are noted alongside community visits and a gymnastic postgame scene.
A stranger smiles and offers help to a destitute man who pleads for his wife and children. The stranger declines the family as a prize, saying he does not want them and urges the man to keep his wife and little ones. The exchange ends with unexpected mercy rather than reward.
The Shenandoah dirigible, damaged at Lakehurst, N J, repaired and sent aloft for a surprise North Pole course. Navy aeronautics chiefs hailed the unscheduled flight as vindication of the polar voyage this summer and quelled criticism.
W C White of Ingle nook near Birmingham Alabama overcomes severe early losses including total blindness after a table accident. Despite poverty he attends Talladega School for the Blind and builds a varied career from running a profitable baseball team to leading an eighty piece orchestra and mastering shorthand and typing. He is described as among the more than rich with multiple paying ventures.
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