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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 22, 1903
Page
2
The Herald notes upcoming March district house meeting and county court sessions moving to Fernie. It laments Cranbrook politics and the eight mile court travel, while jokes about a Cranbrook legislator hustling and a Nanaimo powder mill incident with Chinamen victims.
Morrissey Miner K B Gillis of Carberry arrives to reside and likely open a jewelry and optical shop. Miner John Kenbus suffers crushed legs after being caught in a rope at No 1 mine entrance and rushed to hospital. Charles Linge and W Anderson, Macleod, reminisce on early town days with Fred Kanouse and Cald y Morris. A Sheridan opens a new bakery with Sam Keyes from Elko and drayage work planned. Harry Chapman of Michel injured by glass near eye while in Spokane seeking specialist care.
Fernie residents report travel to Pennsylvania and Ontario. K M Fullerton buys an Intercat for $8000 at Hayes Lumber. J F Armstrong says County Court will sit in Fernie on February with Judge Forth presiding. J H Tonkin returns from a business trip to Nelson and the east, where brick for coke ovens at Morrissey and Michel is being sourced.
Mr and Mrs E A Elton returned from an extended visit to Pincher Creek last Saturday. Chas Armstrong rode from Cranbrook Monday to swap stories with Harry Reineman. R L T Galbraith, Indian agent, left Thursday on an official visit to the West Kootenay reserve. J W Robinson came from Cranbrook Monday and attended the Opera House entertainment.
Promotion for a local district newspaper praising its independence and value. It notes ownership by the editor, appeals to readers to subscribe, and lists a price of ten dollars with a subscription cost of two dollars. The message emphasizes district-wide news usefulness and impartiality.
A fragment streams with a Waltonian fishing toast praising kings and nature, then shifts to Wales Patagonian matters. Messages from Welsh settlers arriving in Canada express pride in joining the British Empire and hopes for prosperity in the Northwest, with officials sending congratulations and notes on loyalty.
The text argues culture and taste rise with literary study alongside scientific study. It notes English leisure and university life, criticizes compulsory classics, and praises selective reading for serious students. It mentions reforming classics under free study and references Goldwin Smith and a stray line about ping pong balls.
On the Kaiser Wilhelm during shore leave Enid Ashburton and her aunt Miss Winter face suitors. Harry Bronson declares his love, hints at an opinion of European titles, and plans a moonlit wedding with a chaperone aboard. A clergyman is aboard, bribed for a vacation, as the couple contemplates vows and a voyage ashore.
Globe fish such as diodon and tetrodon can inflate loose belly skin to float on their backs and swim upside down. Darwin confirmed they can move forward and backward while inverted. Sharks and dogfish also turn on their backs to strike, using fins and tail, not a special globefish mechanism. London Answers.
A humorous item notes Mohammed planned a mountain vacation but due to short funds must remain in the city for two weeks. He later used the saying to gain a seaside trip, highlighting a playful money twist and social wit from New York papers.
The Park Mitchell sawmill is torn and moved to Yahk while Moyle Lumber & Milling expands its plant with over twenty thousand dollars of new machinery. M A Beale and Dr Green returned from the coast. Moyle Lumber & Milling buys land north of Moyle from Galbraith, Grassick and Dempsey of Fort Steele. Od Mellows elect officers with WP Tate officiating. A D Drammond grand, C A Poote vice grand, J Nope secretary, F J Smyth treasurer.
Notice declares sixty days to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to dive use lands described as fallow and situated on St Marys river in the South Raakootenay region. The claim begins at Enigene LeClerc preemption corner and runs along the river to a point north of commencement then south to the starting point. Dated Cranbrook November 20, Eugene Laclarc.
Notice announces a sixty day period to apply to the Chief Commissioner of Laws and Works for permission to lease described lands in South West Kootenay. Metes described as starting at a marked post near the southeast corner, running north forty chains, west six chains, south eighty chains, and east thirty chains to the starting point. Contains imperfect OCR.
Notice states that within seventy days the applicant must apply to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to paceh deserted lands described as commencing at Gourley corner and bounded by Rick Creek and Lotus group in Kootenay district. The tract covers 610 acres and 108s, dated the 5th day of Dev wy.
Notice filed sixty days after date intending to apply to the Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase described lands. Describes parcels starting at a point marked near the northeast corner of Lots in group one, Kootenay district, with bounds West South East North to complete parcel. Dated December.
Notice hereby given that 9 days after date an application will be made to the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for permission to purchase lands described as starting at a wind post on the east bank of the Kootenay River in East Kootenay district about 30 miles below the head, then following the river downstream 60 chains, then east 20 chains, then north 60 chains, then west 20 chains to the starting point, containing 40 acres more or less. Dated 20 October War A Good, Dau Hayes, Agent.
Notice is given that within thirty days we intend to apply to the governor in council at Ottawa for approval of plans for improvements on the Kootenay river in the county of Kootenay British Columbia. A copy of the plans and description are with the Minister of Public Works in Ottawa and the registrar of deeds in Nelson BC. The Crows’ Neat Pasa Lumber Co. 44 Limited dated at Fort Steele, Canada, 17th, 105.
Sixty days after date will apply to the chief Commissioner of Lands and Works for leave to purchase the described land. Beginning at the initial post at the northwest corner of block Axi South East Kootenay, 40 chains east to the rail right of way, along the right of way west to Arnold's senior pre-emption line, 13 chains to the cat boundary, south 20 chains, east 34 chains to the commencement point, containing 60 acres more or less. Robert Rabson, Cranbrook, January 14, 1903.
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