09 Jul 1908
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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
1
A minor exhibition between the CPR team and the Independents on Tuesday was unremarkable due to several missing players. No games were played this week.
The Cranbrook city band gave an enjoyable open air concert last evening. Selections rendered well and the audience clearly appreciated the music.
Cranbrook ministers circulated a circular alleging Cranbrook is lawless, provoking hostile eastern coverage. The Cranbrook Herald protests the misrepresentation, urging harmony and urging support for local churches and civic prosperity while condemning attacks on the town.
Parliament renewed the lead bounty for five years. the scheme ties payments to London lead prices and caps annual payouts at 500,000 dollars. Canada’s lead output rose from a 1903 record to 47 million pounds last year, with miners in British Columbia benefiting during price fluctuations.
The Cranbrook area sees fruit land values rising from unclear safety to 400 to 1000 dollars per acre as irrigation improves. Beach lands west of Cranbrook prove fertile for fruit with five acre plots selling at 100 dollars per acre on easy terms. Beale and Elwell market Home tract lots while urging locals to invest and farm to secure future prosperity.
Creston will ship 5 000 to 6 000 crates of strawberries this season with thirty growers. Prices in open market favor Creston at about four dollars per crate while Spokane and Calgary fetch two forty. Shippers use whole field packing, full measures, and neat crates to ensure quality. The crop also includes raspberries and apples valued around twenty thousand dollars, with fruit trees doubling from 28 711 to 53 740 this year.
Mackenzie King recommends damages of 25996 for Chinese claims and 1000 for legal expenses from the Vancouver riots. Japanese residents receive 9086 for property damages. Total government cost cited is 36026, excluding enquiry costs.
Cranbrook traveled to Bonners Ferry for a May race meeting and lost 4 to 1 to a mixed Bonners Ferry squad. Sunday’s game, dubbed Eagle day, ended in an American win. Local Cranbrook businessmen joined the trip and praised Bonners Ferry hospitality. the home team included several Spokane imports.
A Lacombe district farmer has invented a four horse cultivator now in the patent office at Kingston DC. The machine thoroughly cultivates land, tears out roots, and dumps trash into twelve foot wide rows. It handles about twenty acres daily and includes a levelling attachment for finishing touches.
Mrs John Laurie reports vandals damaged gooseberry bushes on her ranch three miles southwest of the city while her husband lies ill at St Magene hospital. She noted fruit trees and bushes had thrived, with most croptaken and branches broken, suspecting harm at Milton's ranch on Sunday. She pleas for justice to stop such acts against cultivators.
A party led by the Rev Robert Hughes and including J Broughton Baker Selby Dr Connolly and Miss Baker and Miss Hickenbotham left Cranbrook at 4 am last Morday to climb Baker Mountain. They reached the summit at 10:40 am and raised the Union Jack on an improvised flagstaff. They returned to Cranbrook at 5:15 pm, a thirteen hour and fifteen minute round trip.
P B Fowler manager of the Bank of Commerce hosted a luncheon for Creston celebration committees and visitors at his home Sunnyside. The informal gathering offered elaborate fare and cigars with stories and anecdotes before participants returned to the day’s duties.
The British Columbia lumber output and shipments for 1907 show a 6,000,000 foot rise in coast mill production and a 39,000,000 foot drop for mountain mills. Coast mills held 80,000,000 feet less stock than mountain mills on Jan 1, 1908, and coast mills shipped just over 40 percent of output while mountain mills shipped just over 65 percent. Coast stock at year start was a little over 23 percent, maintaining a little under 60 percent of output.
Neil McLem Curran, manager of the North Star mine, reports the year focused on ore mining near the oil works with prospecting yielding new ore bodies. Three diamond drilled holes, each 634 feet, produced encouraging results as further drilling proceeds. The mine shipped 4,000 tons of ore for a profit, signaling a hopeful future.
Creston expresses gratitude to Cranbrook citizens for a splendid Dominion Day turnout. The Cranbrook band aided the celebration and the committee hopes for another joint event next Dominion Day.
Thousands are said to perish of thirst while sales pitch touts crushed fruit sodas at The Palm. Home made candies offered at 20 cents with a Saturday only sale.
The selected delegates attend the Conservative convention at Nelson on the 2nd of this month. From Cranbrook include D. Johnson, A. Leitch, J. A. Harvey, A. Rollins, Home, and G. Thompson. Alternates listed as G. T. Rogers, J. D. McBride, A. J. Grace, T. D. Caven, Wmn. Small, and A. McCowan. F. J. Smythe to represent Moyie. T. T. McVittie, Fort Steele, O. Staples, Wycliffe, J. Finlay, Marysville, and A. J. Watts, Wattsburg.
In a local note from Indianapolis News two farming families named Sunday and Day near Martinton intertwine as three Sunday sons marry Day daughters. With two Sunday brothers courting the remaining Day sisters, the farms may unite in a future Sunday by and by.
At the Dominion fair in Calgary the British Columbia government display near the main entrance features fruits preserved in clear jars and packed for shipping, along with museum specimens of fish and game from Victoria. The stand highlights apples, pears, peaches, grapes, plums, cherries, raspberries, gooseberries and small fruits, plus fresh provincial produce in cartons.
The temperance department of the Methodist church warns against intoxicating liquors and provides free cool drinks at the parsonage. The offer targets men, not children, and invites tired and thirsty people to rest on a shady verandah. Pastor Robt. Hughes signs the notice.
The Methodist church announces services at 11 and 7 30 with cooling and shortened formats. Sunday school and Bible classes meet at o'clock, evening sermon titled Heaven for All Who Want It. Leanne missionary meeting at 8, prayer service 5, church picnic near grounds two miles out. visitors welcome. Fare for school members 50c.
Mrs Ann O Rourke died at Star on July 8 age 80 5 months 12 days widow of John O Rourke born December 24 1828 in RDS Banten Tipperary Ireland married at Rytown now Ottawa April 7 1847 mother of Mrs M J McPeak Sirdar funeral from Roman Catholic church Creston Wednesday.
Thousands have perished of thirst. Why die when you can get those delicious crushed fruits at Palm. Home-made candies 20c per pound Saturday only.
A playful verse recounts Mary buying a small car at a store and driving it where she did not intend. She collides with a cart, breaking a rule, and the magistrate orders her to pay a fine and return to school.
Grace Cameron and her company perform in Little Dolly Dimples at the Lyric, drawing a large, appreciative Calgary audience last night with chorus girls and a lineup of singers. The advance agent notes the show comes to the Auditorium next Monday and Tuesday.
Doily Dimples is a light comic opera with no real plot a merry romp from start to finish. Miss Cameron leads lively chorus numbers in multiple roles supported by Philbrick as a popular country bumpkin and humorous fanmaker.
At the Edison the pictures were particularly good with Othello Spring Cleaning and Won by Strategy praised. Mrs Divett's singing of Love Me and the World is Mine and other songs drew strong applause and encores at each show. New set of pictures tonight.
Last evening Maple Leaf Lodge No 19 Rebekahs initiated several candidates including Crawford Small Rose Ward of Cranbrook Oswald McDougal James McDougal R Sanday KE G Gwynne M Hanna J Stewart E Hutt JF Ege C White Howes of Moyie After the lodge refreshments followed by dancing until about 1 midnight At Dawson City Yukon Territory on Thursday July 2 Myles McDermot an elder brother of A L McDermot of this city died in Yukon residence for nearly ten years Interment has taken place at Dawson City
Clan Fraser will meet Lord Lovat and Frasers from both sides of the Atlantic on the Heights of Abraham after Quebec celebrations in July. The article recalls the 1759 capture of the heights before Wolfe fell, noting the clan’s prominent role and the governor general’s great grandfather, the first Earl Grey, who died November 14, 1807, as the last surviving British officer to witness Wolfe's death.
The session will close on July 16 as Parliament plans to prorogue. Roree announced the Domia House action, finalizing a prior decision on prorogation.
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