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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1914
Page
5
Calgary visitors and local happenings fill pages with social notes. Miss Irene Kirwin of Calgary attends Misses Robertson while Master Harold Haslam vacations in Calgary and Macleod. job shifts at Ward & Harris and Cranbrook exchanges mark business notes. July events, repairs, and garden lime juice promotions punctuate a busy community scene.
A teacher with 15 years of European practice offers French lessons. First pupils pay four dollars a month for eight lessons. He uses the most modern teaching method and provides contact details Box 81 Phone 406 344.
The Crenbrook Civitan Rifle association plans a competing squad for Nelson's upcoming shoot drawing teams from East and West Kootenay. Fred B. Simpson opens an Calgary oil brokerage and reports booming work with oil leading business. A special train departs Cranbrook Thursday for the Chahko Mika festival in Nelson with East Kootenay day Friday and lacrosse on schedule. Miss Drummond to act as city princess as visitors from the region gather for Hust Kootenay day and weeklong festivities.
Ottawa reports a new Connaught Issue two dollar bank note will enter circulation tomorrow. The note features the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and is issued by the Dominion of Canada.
J. Deschamps the Rossland lumberman has started driving piles for a new mill at the Nelson waterfront on the old Yale-Columbia site. The plant, built for Forest Mills Limited, will handle 40 000 feet daily and commence cutting around September 1. There are already three trillion feet of logs on site and workload at the China Creek mill will keep it operating for about a year.
Beautifi hair hypothesis extols Parisian Sage as a cure for dull lifeless hair and dandruff. It claims nightly scalp rubbing yields soft fluffy radiant hair, eliminates itching and hair loss, and offers a fifty cent bottle with Beattie Murphy Co refunds if unsatisfied.
In a letter to the Herald a reader appeals for space to condemn ongoing chicken stealing on town outskirts. The writer warns residents they face unsafe nights while hardworking poultry raisers lose birds, urging action and noting Cranbrook Poultry association efforts to stamp out the theft.
Rev. C. E. Kendall pastors a schedule of services at 11.00 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. Sunday school at 3.00 p.m. Fellowship Bible class and Baptist Young People's Union meet at 3.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m. respectively on Monday.
Winnipeg Man July 9 John Krafchenko was hanged at 7 oclock this morning in the courtyard of the provincial jail. The scaffold was shielded by a palisade from court house windows. Reverend W Bertal Heeney prepared the prisoner and visited him regularly. An appeal for commutation backed by 26000 names failed as the governor general in council refused to intervene.
An advertisement touts Salvia as a Great Hair Tonic that will grow hair and stop falling hair. It claims Salvia prevents baldness by stimulating the root and restores natural color, offering a guarantee of results for a full head of hair.
Ontcory Alta July 9. Mr Dennis assistant president Canadian Pacific Railway explains the Hosmer mine shutdown. He says six years of development costs, two years of monthly losses, and no chance of a profitable future led to closing. The move will inconvenience miners and reduce jobs in the Crows Nest district.
Mr. Dennis argues the CPR had no role in the townsite laid out by a local syndicate and asserts workers can seek other collieries in the Crow's Nest Pass. He says homes were provided near the mine and that those who bought land took their chances, noting hardships for landowners but no CPR accountability for the closure due to reduced orders or strikes.
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