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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 15, 1909
Page
6
A reflective piece urges attention to home manners and parental influence. It argues keeping children indoors after school, praising family members, and teaching chores to boys to foster responsibility. It warns against street vice and stresses female virtue as vital to societal well being.
Notices list several individuals in Cranbrook and Marysville seeking permission to purchase land in the South East Kootenay district. Names include Beverly Arthur Carter, Paul Handley, Daniel Howe, and B. W. Higgins, with land descriptions and dates in 1908 and 1909. Separate coal and petroleum notices cite Sigrid Jeldaoess and Randie Jellness as claimants, with 640 acres and 40 acres respectively, plus agent notes and dates.
A devotional exhortation urges mothers to cultivate beauty in daily life with objects, songs, and nature study for children. The notice then details a petroleum lease application by Olaus Jeldness covering 640 acres in a tract near the C P R survey, dated June 18, with A Hackett acting as agent.
The locator Marie Hendriksen marks the southwest corner of her claim on June 18 1909. Survey directions describe a square boundary: north 80 chains east 80 chains south 80 chains and west 80 chains. Property description appears in a formal locator notice from that date.
Notice is given 930 days after date to apply petroleum on the Alice Overland claim. Commences at a post in the northeast corner, runs south 80 chains, then north 80 chains along the C.PAR survey, then east 80 chains to the starting point, containing 640 acres more or less. Locator: Alice Overland. Opened this 18th day of June, 1900.
80 days after date I intend to apply to Crown for the northwest corner of M. M. Bomgard’s coal claim, from that point 80 chains south, 80 chains east, 80 chains north, 80 chains west back to the start, containing 640 acres more or less. Locator M. M. Bomgard. Peary this 18th day of June.
No 7 southwest corner of W J McMellin s claim runs north 80 chains west 80 chains to the CPR survey line then south along the CPR survey then east 80 chains to the starting point containing 640 acres more or less Locator W J McMellin A Hackett A 9
Notice states 610 acres located at a post on the southwest corner of Frank Bomgard's claim. It details measurements north 80 chains, south 80 chains, and west 80 chains. Locator: Frank Bomgard. Dated June 18.
Notice outlines a land claim in the south east district, describing an 80 chain square bordering the C P R survey line and totaling about 410 acres. The locator is C V McMellin and the notice is dated June 18.
Notice details a claim location in the South West Koo bia district. It specifies the Northwest corner of Florence Hackett's claim, then bounds BU chains south cast 80 chains and north 80 chains totaling about 610 acres more or less. Florence Hackett, Locator. 1016-66
Notices by Robert Stark George Lloyd Agent seeking to purchase 160 acres at Lot 6247 in Cranbrook Land District. Other filings include Robinson McKenzie Lumber Co. Ltd. seeking five acres near Lot 8558, plus Maurice Quain Edward McKinstry and Malcolm Coldelough Engineeering seeking 80 to 160 acres. Also Tarrant Mineral Claim notice near Lake Creek with certificate process. Dated May to July 1909.
Herbert Howard McClure of Cranbrook B C rancher intends to stake a 60 acre tract in Cranbrook District South Kootenay bound by a 40 chain square beginning at a post near Lot 7317. Claim staked April 24 1909.
District of Kootenay warns that Peter Stewart Idington of Cranbrook British Columbia cashier seeks permission to parcel 250 acres along the Canadian Pacific Railway right of way near Benedict's Siding. Describes a land tract with metes and bounds ending at the starting post. Dated May 11 1909.
Notice take notice that T George Hungerford of Cranbrook BC Timber Cruiser intends to describe lands in South East Kootenay NE corner of Lot 2311. From there go 40 chains south 13.9 chains east 11.63 chains north 6.91 chains east 40 chains north 6.91 chains west 11.63 chains to start. Contains eighty acres more or less. Staked June 3 1909. 11 06
Notice to transfer lands in Cranbrook Land District. James Horace King of Cranbrook BC a physician seeks permission to purchase Lot 6286 area about 820 acres. Boundary details describe a rectangle with 80 chain sides and 40 chain offsets. Staked March 13. George Hungerford listed as agent.
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