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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1914
Page
2
Cranbrook Herald lists subscription rates with J. R. Thompson as editor and manager. Rates shown: one year two dollars, six months fifty cents, three months three dollars? The OCR yields unclear figures.
Cranbrook editorial notes from February 19 1914 urge fathers and mothers to guide children with brave example. The piece cites Captain Scott dying after polar exploration, urging: make boys interested in natural history, keep them outdoors, guard against indolence, and be a strenuous person. It closes with the comforting death message.
The Moyie column lists local arrivals departures and visits including Mrs and Mr P Nead returning to Lethbridge Alta and Mrs Richard Brown back from Rossland. It notes the Hoo Doo Ball hosted by Cranbrook’s Bachelor Girls with attendees Verle Martin J J Browning and others, plus multiple trips and church events.
Saturday of last week featured a well attended social hop at the Kootenay Dance Hall. Mentions include Mrs. Fred Lang joining her husband in Frank, Alto, where he works nights for the CPR. Miss Edith Quance starting a Cranbrook job with Mr. G. A. Patmore. Mr. John Blackburn selling his dairy stock in Cranbrook. and plans for the Peroglia family to move into town after Frank’s Kimberley visit en route to Ainsworth. St Valentines Day was celebrated in Kingsgate with a masquerade at Redpaths Hall and a late supper at S. & I. Restaurant. Other notes record Mrs. L. A. Horne’s confinement at home and Mr. Percy Adams visiting from Lethbridge two days prior, with Mrs. Lang’s departure Sunday afternoon. The Moyle residents congratulated Miss Lottie Fyles on winning the piano in the C. C. S. competition.
Invermere B C February 17 1914 A serious mishap injures a Portage la Prairie Manitoba man attached to a Kootenay Central railway survey camp when a dentonating cap and fuse exploded burning his thumb and breaking his forefinger. A prior local incident damaged a child’s fingers. Caps of fulminate of mercury resemble a blank revolver cartridge and are used with dynamite charges. Also noted is a record donation by Sir Hildred Carlile M P to Bedford College for Women amounting to one hundred thousand Ruineas about Canadian five hundred twenty five thousand dollars. Sir Hildred’s son EB H H Carlile of the Windermere mining division is visiting. The piece ends noting the harvest season.
The November census notes the Dominion Experimental Station as the province’s only dry belt irrigated project. Parham reports ground thawed after frost, poultry houses housing 25 Leghorn hens and 24 Barred Rock pullets, honey bees placed in winter quarters, and bridge work on the Kootenay River at Canal Flats. Arctic explorer Captain Henry Tooke Munn, once English resident, eyes a fifth Arctic trip from his Cob lat estate amid tales of riches in New Ontario.
An advertisement extols Parisian Sage as a remedy for thinning hair and dandruff, touting rapid effects and broad use for all ages with Beattle-Murphy Co. as a distributor. The report notes Monday’s opening of the Kootenay Grill in Hanson block basement, run by A Yanine and Robinson, drawing a large crowd and praising the decor, service, and staff.
Stable room for one horse at Warn stable with electric heat offered for $1.40 per month. Apply Box A, Terald. Also an ad claiming a hair growth product SALVIA promises dandruff banishment and hair growth with a 4 cent bottle at Crinbrook Drug & Book store, guaranteed or money back.
Harry Washington Barr of Wasa BC applies to take six cubic feet per second from Lewis Creek for industrial use on Lot 1266 in East Kootenay. Water would be diverted 400 feet upstream from the west line of Lot 1266, source in the Rocky Mountains, near Kootenay River. Objections may be filed with the Water Recorder in Fernie or the Comptroller in Victoria.
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