Elko District News Highlights from January Meeting and Local Life
The Elko Board of Trade met January 18 at the Elk Hotel with about twenty attendees due to hockey and Conservative events. R. R. T. Hirtz was elected President, Ayre Vice President, Fred Roo as Treasurer, and a booster club formed. Community chatter covers C P R delays, local hospitality, social dances, and a restless push for progress amid hard times. Notables include R. F. Green passing through for Ottawa, Joyce brothers heading to Western Canada College, and local residents visiting Fernie, Calgary, and Passburg. The Elko Dramatic Club plans comedies. a sleeping sickness note appears as a somber local curiosity.
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Elko’ Board of Trade
Flk
RR T Hirtz
Cob Ayre
Fred Roo
J.P. Sve'Aytreas
Grand Opera House
Burg
Elko
Belle Thompson
Hirtz
Holbrook
McKee
Johnson and Taylor
C. BE. Ayre
Cranbrook Orchestra
Baynes and Waldo Community News and Notes
Special correspondence from Baynes and Waldo reports on Mrs. J. H. Ross's successful appendicitis operation funded by a Presbyterian Church Ladies Society subscription and a bouquet for thanks. Also covered are local lectures by Rev. C. L. Cowan on John Knox, junior hockey results, church activities, a Girls Club in the Manse, foresters meeting, and local employment and accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Society of the Presbyterian Church
R. J. Waddell
Winnipeg
Killarney
Baynes Hall
C. L. Cowan
John Knox
Presbyterian Church
C. J. Cowan
Manitoba University
Lq. Anderson
Waldo
Crows’ Nest Pass
Kootenay
Mild weather delays Invermere bonspiel and rail progress
In Invermere British Columbia on January 21 officials postponed the district bonspiel for a week due to unusually mild weather preventing natural ice formation. A district board of trade meeting discussed urging provincial road building and a forthcoming annual meeting is planned for February 6. Officials report rapid progress on the CPR connecting link and the Columbia River bridge approaches with expectations of freight and passenger service within a month and potential double tracking on the main line this year. An incident recalls an En gine crossing Columbia Lake where ice broke and his team drowned, though he survived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Invermere
B.C
District Board of Trade
H. C. Rayson
Board of Trade
Ster
Ootenay Central
Canadian Pacific Railway
Nest Pass
Columbia River
Kicking Horse Pass
Prairies
Orient
Golden
Columbia Lake
The Grouch Described By George Fitch
The Grouch is the only other person who wears clothes and pays taxes. He looks like a man yet his bile is in the brain not the liver, spoiling him for ordinary conversation. He has a built in frown and smiles only when his son hurts himself. He never believes in anything and resists every suggestion to change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Fitch
Good Ol Siwash
Tim
The Grouch and the Wisdom of Self Love in Town Life
The piece lampoons a perpetual grouch who spares himself from blame, loves himself, and resents any charm or nature that might please others. It argues such a figure would prolong life and even bless a town by not depriving it of its funeral rites.
Lord Strathcona and the Red River Rebellion Legacy
A historical sketch recounts Lord Strathcona as Commissioner of Canada and the era of the Red River rebellion. It notes the Winnipeg settlement’s mixed population, Louis Riel’s leadership, Donald A. Smith’s mediation, his rise to the Dominion Parliament, abolition of Indian liquor traffic, the Smith Act prohibiting intoxicants across boundaries, and the push to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Red River
Great Company
France
Canada
London
Northwest
Louis Reil
Wolseley
Riel
Scot
Donald A. Smith
Archibald
Mr. Smith
Winnipeg
Dominion House
Selkirk
Hudson's Bay Company
Pluck and Energy Fund a Railway to Montreal Finish
The text recalls Mr. Smith and Mr. Stephen pledging private funds to keep the project alive amid huge costs. Meetings in Montreal show directors grappling with money as progress is reported slowly. On November 7, 1885, after five and a half years, the railway was finished and public praise followed. The Daily Citizen suggests naval spending may increase with eight to ten dirigibles, with one rigid airship under construction in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Smith
Mr. Stephen
Montreal
Smith
Tye
London Daily Citizen
England
For Sale Ten-Horse Power Engine and Saws
Classified notice offers a cheap ten horsepower engine with boiler and circular saw plus drag saw for wood cutting. Interested buyers should apply J. J. Hayes at Fort Steele in British Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Hayes
Fort Steele
B.C
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Zzzer News of the District
Portugal
Africa
Great Britain
Germany
Aork
Elko Conservatives
C.P.R
R. F. Green
Elko Sunday
Ottawa
Joyce
Western Canada College
Calagary
F. B. Hawthorne
Nelson
Miss Todd
Fernie
Miss Belle Thompson
Columbia
J.B. Tiffany
J. B
Finley Robson
Western Canada Wholesale Co
Kootenay River
Passburg
Calgary
Macleod
Elko Dramatic Club
Mr. Bruce
Robert
Jess
Wr. M. Edwards
Baynes Lake
Ekio
Miss Alvertson
Cranbrook
R. Joyce
Riverside. Ave
Canyon Park
Fred Roe
Flagstone and
Roosville
Harvey Young
Gateway
Montana
Tobacco Plains
Mayo Brothers’ Hospital
Rochester
Minn
Hugh Watt
Mrs. Clark
Trail
Jim Thistlebeak
Baynes
J. H. Ross
Fred Adolph
Edmonton
Henry Berquest
Mesdames T. Anderson
N. H. Ross
S. Bruce
C. D. McNabb
Canadian Order of Foresters
Baker Hall
R. F. Nilne
J. W. Ross
Street Shumard
Baker
A. M. Beattie
Cranbrook Poultry and Pet Stock Association
Grouch
Lord Strathgona
Barhurst
St. Luranne
Ohio
Beattie-Murphy Co.,td
Methodiet Chueh
Ernurlinur T.en
Spokane
Court Reporting Company
Axk
Raymond P. Kelley
Jones Bldg
Manilla Rope Tailors
Dominion Iron & Metal Co, KB
Smythe St
Ncouver, Ro
Kelley
DR. Kelley’s
Howard Spokane
Sendyur
Uni
The
Nousme
Sunkist
California Fruit Growers
Exchange Street
East
Cor. Church
Imperial Bank of Canada
Toronto
D. R. Wilkie
Robert Jaffray
Savings Depar
W. Supple
Mér
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