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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 04, 1924
Page
2
The piece discusses political tensions in Cranbrook with two strong tickets for mayor and city council, school board vacancies, and questions about ministerial seats. It reflects on New Year resolutions, retrospection, and ongoing civic interest amid local debates and upcoming elections.
Old subscribers of the Family Herald and Weekly Star in Montreal are promised vast improvements and greater value this year. A free picture titled The Wonderful Heroine will be given to new subscribers and renewing ones who renew in time for another year. A pamphlet sketch of The Wonderful Heroine’s life is available free by postcard request.
The Georgia Minstrels, a renowned colored performers company, return to Cranbrook Auditorium on Friday January 18 for a fresh show. It features a new folio of fifteen vaudeville acts with old favorites retained, bright costumes, lively singing, and distinctive music that aims to draw a crowded house.
The Sisters of St. Hugene Hospital express gratitude to friends bene factors and inmates during Christmas and New Year. Mrs Daniel McGinnis of WardanER was admitted in serious condition from pneumonia. Hon Dr King minister of public works will visit Fernie for a couple of days next week and attend a Rotary Club banquet.
Twenty years ago in Ile Cranbrook Herald 1903 note M Metnnis meat market sold to Calgary Cattle Co. Proceeds from a hospital benefit smok ing event at Wentworth Hall reached about one hundred dollars. J Paterson of Fort Steele Mercantile Co. spends Christmas New Year in the east. Cranbrook Scots celebrate Burns night January 25 with a supper. The first annual C P R ball planned for New Year’s Night promising a big event.
Calendar style notes list daily Bible thoughts from January 5 to January 10. Entries cite verses like Ezekiel 2 6 Psalm 87 23 Hebrews 4 12 Isaiah 85 6 Philippians 4 6 7 and Matthew 7 7 with themes of courage guidance joy prayer and seeking.
Charlie Chaplin appears in his first major feature since The Kid in The Pilgrim a four reeler to screen on Friday and Saturday. He plays a fugitive who dons a minister's robes and ends up in a church chase with an eloping couple and a fraught rescue. The tale follows a handcapped convict turned lay pastor as The Girl offers sympathy and the plot thickens.
A story of mother Joyo is finely developed in the Gloria Swanson Paramount picture The Impossible Mrs Bellew, which will be the feature at the Star theatre.
A new film style from the school of modern comedy appears in Thomas H. Tee’s latent farce Bell Boy 18 at the Stir Theatre for Monday and Tuesday. The plot follows a bond salesman who becomes a bell boy after disinheritance, with vivid hotel setting shots from San Francisco and a strike by kitchen staff. MacLean delivers a lively lead as the bell boy, while Henry Elrod provides a romantic counterpoint. the piece promises old time entertainment with a fresh perspective and a dramatic fire sequence staged by Los Angeles fire crews.
The article spotlights Charlie Chaplin as The Pilgrim in a humorously sharp portrait of a temporary parson and outlines his missteps in the pulpit. It also reviews The Impossible Mrs Bellew a modern mother love story about a divorce court, a missing son, and a society pariah, with Sam Wood directing and a Paramount Stock Company cast including Nagel Cain Dunbar Elvidge and Standing.
Incroaved Wheat Exports Canada shipped nearly nine million bushels in November 1928, higher than the same month a year earlier. Canada National Railways slowed overall exports totaling 64,196,968 bushels worth 62,147,065 in November 1922. October 1928 exports stood at 29,070,547 bushels valued at 20,528,796. Over the year ending November 380th Just, exports reached 26,106,325 bushels valued at 250,205,601 compared with 203,1162,229 bushels valued at 287,290,875 in 1922.
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