Thistlebeak Claims Duty To Spread Mustard And Food Aid
District notes quote Jim Thistlebeak as Retail Merchants Food Control chairman urging defense pledges and food use discipline. The piece mentions local families camping in Canyon Park and Riverside Park, a trout tale at Gospel Hill, and a Fernie plumber trip to Roosville Falls as townsfolk share wartime routines and camp life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim ‘Thistlebeak
Lethbridge
Elko
Johnny
Mabel
Waldo Hotel
Classified Ad Rates and Size Guidelines
Want ads outline rates for classified columns. Three lines cost 26e for one insertion, three insertions of the same ad count as 30e. Larger ads are charged in proportion to size.
Roll Lot Sell Off Dawns on Discount Dickens Works Cook Stove
Property sale listing offers a complete set of Dickens works in splendid condition for 12 dollars from a 3 volume bundle, with reference volumes and Davenport items priced at 22 dollars and a cook stove discounted from 55 to 33 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burpet
Local Travels and Visitors Spark Elko Area Buzz
Mr and Mrs Harry Blakey of Liberty Bell Copper Property Roos ville Valley travel to Fernie for records attracting outsiders. Kalispell families camp at Mike Sunday en route to Calgary and Band then Windermere Valley return. Mrs Mary Dragon of Fernie visits Elko guest of Mrs M Gorman. CPR painters brighten Elko. Depot Master Bill Swope welcomes the change. Fred Archer and Windermere Valley ranchers visit. Fred Roo travels with mining party to Butte and tobacco Plains. Contractor Billy Woods secures Alberta timber order for 100 cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalispell
Mike
Calsary
Windermere Valley
Mary Dragon
Fernie
Elko
M. Gorman
Government House Court Ave
CPR
Bill Swope
Fred Archer
Inal Mills
Fred Roo
Montana
Tobacco Plains
Butte City
New York
Billy Woods
Alberta
Appendicitis Treatments Advised By Warm Water Cure
An old advertisement promotes internal bathing with the J B L Cascade as a cure for appendicitis. It claims many operations are avoidable, reports a Winnipeg testimonial, and urges readers to request a booklet from Beattie Murphy Co to learn how the cascade keeps the colon clean for health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas McLaughlin
Evanston Street
Winnipeg
Tyrrell
Beattie-Murphy Co., Ltd
Moyie Notes Highlights Local Social and Death Notices
Local notes record Miss Keir leaving for the coast and list several deaths including John Fergin of Wallace Idaho on July 8 and Charles W. Crossman in Brigham City on June 28. Readers are told of visitors and travels among Moyie residents and friends across Cranbrook Kimberley and Calgary communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keir
Coast
Moyle
John Ferghin
Wallace
Idaho
Charles W. Crossman
Brigham City
Under New Management at Star Shoe Repair Shop
The Star Shoe Repair Shop transfers repair business to Cranbrook Saddlery Co. They will operate with their harness and saddlery business at Van Horne Street opposite the depot. They invite old and new customers to visit on and after August 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star Shoe Repair Shop
Cranbrook Saddlery Co
van Horne Street
Cranbrook Rod and Gun Club Proposes Game Conservation Rules
The Cranbrook Rod and Gun Club meeting on July 9 1918 in Cranbrook BC calls for systematic game conservation. They seek a game warden or deputy to enforce licences and laws, extend enforcement to inland fish, and set bounty levels for coyotes owls and raptors. They urge permit limits for Indians and propose an October elk season and Willow and Blue Grouse season to aid deer and game management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranbrook Rod and Gun Club
Cranbrook
B. C
West Fernie residents demand A I Fisher resignation
At a July 7 1918 meeting in the West Fernie school room property owners protested Elk River threats to their rights and urged their legislator A I Fisher to resign citing government failure to secure aid and objection to a party caucus. The Cranbrook note adds a quiet celebration of the glorious Twefth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Fernie
West Fernie and Annex Extension
A. S. Fisher
Elk River
Ernie Annex
West Forrie
A. I. Fisher
Fernie Free Pregs
Deer and game counts hover amid dwindling predators
In 1918 game across East Kooteney shows deer numbers rising with Black and White tails more common. Mountain lions, coyotes, and Indians decline. Willow and Blue Grouse thrive due to 1117 closed season. About 40 deer killed in East Kooteney this spring, mostly Black and Brown. few Grizzlies killed, one large on White River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Kooteney
White River
Woman Presides Over Mining Convention in Revelstoke
Mrs. Ralph Smith M. L. A. opened the International Mining Convention at Revelstoke with about 150 delegates from Spokane Nelson and prairie points attending. L Langley spoke on discovery and development of prospector work while Bruce White addressed geology and mineral resources of the Revelstoke district. J J Warren of the Consolidated company outlined the empire work and zinc history begun in 1910 detailing experimental attempts to separate zinc and lead in Sullivan ores and subsequent igneous methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Smith
Revelstoke
Spokane
Nelson
Intermediate
Prairie Points
L. Langley
M. B
Bruce White
London
B. C
Canadian Mining Institute
Revelstoke District
J.J. Warren
Consolidated Company
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
St. Eugene Minles
Graham Cruickshank
Cruickshank
Zinc and lead processing history cited in early methods
The article reviews early attempts to extract zinc and lead from concentrates using carbonization in air, producing a mixed pigment product with limited Canadian demand. It notes 1911 investigations of the Silman process in England, tentative success, and 1912 experiments by Private Fred E. B. Lee on leaching and chloridizing sulphide and sulphate methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Stewart
England
Fred EB. Lee
Mr. Lee
Sealed tenders for 200000 feet Tamarack and Fir timber
The District Forester invites sealed tenders by noon July 27 1918 for Licence X1988 to cut 200000 feet of Tamarack and Fir on Crown land near Moyie Kootenay District adjoining S T 1 44848 One year to remove timber. Further details from Chief Forester Victoria or District Forester Cranbrook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. T
Monro Lake
Moyie
Kooteney District
Victoria
B. C
Cranbrook
Cranbrook Public Notice on Garbage and Health By Laws
The Corporation of the City of Cranbrook announces strict enforcement of disposal of garbage and refuse under the Traffic By Law and Health By Law. By order of the Council Wranhrool BC July 18 1827-2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranbrook
Wranhrool
Club members urged to notify secretary on shell needs
Notice requires all members to write to the secretary with the number of shotgun shells needed for the coming season and submit by July 20. No future mailed notices for meetings. meetings dates to be announced in the Herald. signed by E. I. Cooper, Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herald
Perl
E. I. Cooper
Land Registry Act Notice on Beatrice Williamson Land Claim
The Land Registry Office in Nelson issues notice under Section 134 that Beatrice Margaret Williamson seeks to register as owner in fee of Lot 8 Block 4 Map 1181 with a Certificate of Indefeasible Title. A 1916 conveyance from The Kaynes Lake Land Company Limited and unregistered contracts are cited. after thirty days from service or publication in Cranbrook Herald, proceedings may be taken to establish or defend claims. Schedule lists Contract 110 to R C Shureh for Lot 7, Contract 4 to W F Wright for north half of Lot 6, and Contract 121 to W S Frazier for Lot 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Margaret Williamson
Kaynes Lake Land Company Limited
Land Registry Office
Cranbrook Herald
Nelson
N. P
Church
W. F. Wright
Frazier
E. S. Stokes
Water Notice for John Lovell Diversion in Cranbrook BC
John Lovell of Cranbrook BC applies to take and use one second foot of water from St Josephs Creek flowing into St Mary's River for domestic and irrigation on the west half of lot 2595. Water to be diverted near lot 2596 corner post and returned 20 chains north. First published July 11, 1918. Objections due within thirty days to the Cranbrook Water Recorder or to the Comptroller of Water Rights in Victoria BC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lovell
Cranbrop
B. C
St. Joseph’s Creek
St. Mary's River
Water Recorder
Cranbrook
Comptralier
Parliament Buildings
Victora
B.C
Basil Bulket
Baker Post Office
Ha HA Creek
Kootenay
Wardner Station
Comptroller of Water Rights
Victorian
Basil Bulkot
Applicane
Notice Fort Steele Townsite Land Purchase Application
Harry Rymell of Kitchener Labourer intends to apply for permission to purchase 40 acres at the Fort Steele Townsite described by a 20 chain square with a CPR right of way exception. Location starts at a post at the 8 B corner of lot 3904. Date of first publication May 1 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Rymell
Kitchener
Canadian Pacific Tillway Company
Hite
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J. Armour
Fred Chirk
H. P. Saunders
Calgary
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Belmont Bldg
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Phi Neecham
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St. Eugene
Bates
Kingsgate
Joseph Bonner
Viola Bonner
Silverton
M. J. Bonner
Miss McKay
Regina
John Taylor
John Whitehead
Wm. Lindsay
A. Higgins
Kimberley
Ethel Clapp
Mary McFarlane
Rhodes
Warren
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Game Conservation Board
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M. L.A
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Moy Wilson
Leo
Breen
Cranbrook District and Gun Club
Rod
the Herald
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Wincarnia
Coleman & Co., Ltd
Wincarnie Works
Norwich
Eng
Portland St
Bhattie-Murphy Co., Ltd
Firestone
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Akron, Ohio
U.S. A
Land Registry Act
Fort Steele
North Star Avenue
Rocky Mountain Avenue
Galbraith Avenue
North Ster Avenue
Ket Teriof
Land Registry Offices
Kamerr
J. H W. King
East Kootenay
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