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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 08, 1915
Page
2
Classified ad rates listed for Cranbrook Herald show display ads at 26 cents per column inch and reading notices or classified ads at 10 cents per line per month. Editor L P Sullivan and manager Re Thompson oversee advertising.
Editorial urges Cranbrook farmers to band together to market surplus gooseberries strawberries currants and other small fruits at a central point. Co operation is urged to reduce waste grow more fruit and create a steady revenue stream for the district.
Sir Richard McBride testified before a Royal Commission on war scandals. He defended himself while denying charges, detailing spending of 1,150,000 on two submarines that reportedly failed to swim as intended. The bill, initially 1,060.00, was raised to 1,160,000 and then increased by 100,000 after telegrams arrives.
Want ads seek a first class democrat or light wagon for gale at a cheap price, contact Joe Belanger in the city. For rent a small furnished house with bath and modern conveniences, newly papered and painted, no children preferred, careful tenant. Apply Herald office.
Five one acre Ray mond Alberta lots offered at bargain. For rent five rooms freshly papered with water included twelve dollars monthly. Convenient three room house for sale or cheap rent with electric fittings garden and outbuildings. Lost belt with gilt buckle found return Herald office. Church notices for Christ Church and Methodist Church with service times and rector names.
Morning service at 11 with The Gospel of the Flowers. Sunday School and Bible Class at 3. Evening service at 7 80 with The Unsealing of the Heart of Humanity. The desire of a man is his kindness, and a poor man is better than a lar. Proy 19 22.
Joyce Bros two mills at Elko and Magstone have been down since last fall and will not operate this season unless conditions change. C P R tie mill at Bull River near Waardner runs at full capacity, producing many ties daily. Hanbury and Rodgers Lumber set to restart after the prairie harvest. North Star planing mill at Elko not operating this season. manager Ayres seeks sale. Otis Staples Lumber at Wycliffe starts late but now at full capacity employing 150 loggers. Crow's Nest area near Fernie sees Malcolm McInnes Lumber cutting with 10 to 12 million feet in the woods. Standard Lumber Cranbrook plans for sawmill at Wasa to commence soon, moved from Yuk. East Kootenay opens at Jaffray then cuts at Loco. 25 000 feet daily. Edgewood Lumber Castlegar delays no long, has three million feet to mill. Baker and Ross-Saskatoon operate in Elko Valley while Adolph Lumber Baynes Lake will idle for first time missing last winter logs. Shipments continue despite mill idling.
John Armour revised and rewritten his promised poem, passed by Censor No 0036, and presented to the public. The Herald notes he promised a fishing trip poem and delivers a production viewed as an added gem to twentieth century literature.
John Armour of Cranbrook British Columbia writes a humorous poem after a fruitless angling day at Irishman Creek. The verses praise sport and rhythm, describe a creek without a fish, and end noting the author’s identity and date July 7 1915.
A Women’s Institute talk by Mrs J Burton on the role of music in the army. It traces how regimental bands aid morale, social life, and marching spirit, notes the Royal Military School of Music founded in 1867, Kneller Hall’s history, and the training of musicians for bandmasters over a two year course.
The article notes army bands rely on bandmasters from a dedicated school with about twenty men leaving annually to join regiments as warrant officers. It covers training for wind and string players, drums and fifes, pipers, buglers, and trumpeters, plus ceremonial calls and salutes. It also discusses the debated origins of God Save the Queen and favors Carey as author.
Bruce Brown returns from the coast to find a letter from James Milne praising his bravery and iron cross. Milne writes from St Martins Plain Shorncliffe praising a man who endures gas and danger and questions the front line surrenders while hoping for Cranbrook shells and urging the town not to fade away as the war continues.
A correspondent describes casualties in France and London front lines. A Canadian Bank of Commerce staffer is wounded in the abdomen and a man shot in the rear laments the sniper’s position. The writer notes nerves, discharge, and a fellow wounded forearm. He mentions a nephew in London and ends with a cheerful sign off.
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