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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
3
Elko notes a May 21 dance at the school house with a large crowd and music. Glen Campbell visited Cranbrook for the 24th. Fernie residents including Mrs Wiggins, Wurtz, and Ray Wurtz, plus officials like W. Ross MPP and Chief Sampson were in town on various business. A telegraph line to Great Northern is planned and the new bridge approach is nearing completion.
A Moyie Leader item notes a full carload of St Eugene ore will be shown at the Seattle fair. Postmaster R A Smith funds a new Moyie post office building 18 by 10 feet with a 12 foot ceiling, among the town’s best lighted spots.
Items from the Cranbrook Herald note a Knox Church Ladies Aid strawberry festival at the Leitch home on Coronation Day June 26. Also featured are social events at the King residence, business moves by W T Wilson in Armstrong avenue, and local river conditions with Kootenay rising.
Local items summarize police activity, visits, and business in Wardner including Constable Adney transporting a prisoner to Cranbrook and various town visitors from Elk, Fernie, and Lethbridge. An obituary reports Mrs. Win. Breckenridge of Peterborough died April 29 at 70, funeral set for Monday at Little Lake Cemetery.
Fernie May 27 The cornerstone laying for the new Methodist church follows a major fire with Rev W L Hall in charge and Mrs Hall laying the stone with a silver trowel. Digby Waldie won the contract for the superstructure and work starts next week. The foundation for the church and new parsonage is complete and the two buildings will cost about $18 000.
Judge Lampmen of Ottawa has accepted the chairmanship of the conciliation board over the Nicola Valley Coal & Coke company in Middlesboro BC. Discrimination against the United Mine Workers of America is alleged.
Mathias J. Weber of Lethbridge Alberta real estate dealer applies to purchase lands in the Cranbrook land district. The parcel begins 60 chains east of the S BE corner of Block 425 and totals about 400 acres. Dated April 21, 1909.
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