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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
4
The grand lodge convenes in Cranbrook next week drawing visitors from across the province. Subordinate AGREE send their best men to these conventions. The Odd Fellows order, a large secret society, aims to promote the common good and Cranbrook hospitality.
A reflective piece discusses money versus character and the value of time. It references Cranbrook’s reputation, a New York style fountain of youth notion, a Spokane beer and ice cream binge, and notes on Saint Lawrence and Roosevelt. It quotes a Calgary Eye Opener correspondent and defends honest wealth.
An H. Scobell Drug Co. advertisement promotes Phosphonol as a nerve restorer and vitality booster at $8 per box or two for £5, mailed to any address in Hamilton area. The note from the Hamilton Herald laughs at George's fund criticism as a sign of public fatigue with ongoing appeals.
Patrick Casey, doomed for murder in Goldfield Nevada, acted as umpire in a possible final ball game at the state penitentiary. He watched convict teams practice nearby and appealed to Warden Ray Baker for one last game, and was permitted to rule despite old rules.
Two hundred delegates attended the Masonic grand lodge session in Bani. The Alberta grand lodge has expanded from eighteen lodges and about 1800 members in 1905 to at least sixty four lodges and about 4000 members in the latest report.
Jack London and Martin I. Johnson present a travelogue through the South Sea Islands at the Auditorium for three nights. Richard Penny hosts with Miss Osa Johnson singing and Willard performing magic and mind reading.
Lodge officers from Cranbrook Masonic and Key City lodge No 12 are announced for the coming term. Masons elect Marnest Patmore as Junior Past Grand and J A Berguson as Noble Grand Hl Rendall as Vice-Grand with Harr as secretary and Hall as treasurer. Knights of Pythias elect C C Gomer Jones as commander and J Porter as vice commander with N Houston as Prelate and J Clark as Master of Work. Installations set for July. additional elections noted with several names listed.
A Winning Miss a new musical comedy by Woolfolk and Atteridge will be staged at the Auditorium for one night on Wednesday June 11. The show promises action scenic effects and a large chorus of pretty girls with bright catchy songs in the Woolfolk style. Woolfolk presents A Winning Miss and has assembled strong support around May Bloom to deliver a gala production.
Church column lists Mass times for Sundays 6 30 a m and 10 30 a m, Sunday school 2 to 8 p m, Rosary and Benediction 7 30 p m, Mondays 8 a m Mass, weekdays 6 a m at hospital, Father Plamondon Parish Priest. CHRIST CHURCH Trinity Sunday St Barnabas Day Holy Communion times, Matins and Litany 11 00 a m, Children's service 3 00 p m, Evensong 7 50 p m.
A collection of brief items notes varied topics from telegraph linemen to a Calgary construction boom. It mentions a Spokane banker urging restraint, infant mortality in Montreal, a North Vancouver scenic railway plan, New Jersey governor salary dock, rising Japan population, and Canada importing U S cars at high volume.
Revelstoke is confronted with two damage lawsuits seeking ten thousand and seventeen thousand dollars. T. G. Wynn arrives from Prince Rupert to lead the Hazelton police district. A grand ball is set for Coronation day June 22 in Creston.
The Trades and Labor Congress will convene in Calgary this year with the opening set between September 11 and 26. Also noted are local petitions in Sheep Creek to appoint a deputy mining recorder and other regional developments in British Columbia.
In 1874 gold excitement on Ruby Creek near Hope led Flood Corrigan and others to build a raft from Steamboat Landing on the Skagit. The raft inspired the name Steamboat for the locality and later Steen teat Mountain as recorded by Hope News.
Dr English of Rossland pursues a European post graduate course. Hope to Steamboat supply costs ten cents a pound. Alaska notes 5198 miles of roads and trails. Calgary Eye Opener circulation 26000. Republic mines ship ore to Anaconda Montana. Goat River bridge finished this week. P Land owns fifty acres potatoes at Wardner. Kootenay Jam company opens new factory at Missions City. Ireland population down eighty thousand since 10 years ago. Sons of England in Winnipeg parade. Health ideals touted by advertisement for digestion. J J Ruttan mayor Enderby. Tablets offered to correct digestion by local dealers. An automobile purchased and to be taken to Fort George this summer. Over four hundred employed on Kettle Valley railroad grading.
The Cranbrook Prospector will issue a coronation number about June 20. Folding rubber-tired go carts priced at 1.75 dollars are advertised as durable and cheap. Mrs. Murphy of Creston visited the Cosmopolitan hotel. No Cranbrook deaths occurred in May. Monday was observed as a town holiday with merchants closed. Three years were killed at the Sullivan in quick succession. A large residence in course.
Snow forecast and high water expected this month. Erection at Sullivan mine for foreman Harry Gamble. For rent two furnished rooms with or without board. Mrs G B Powell Garden avenue. Horses and cattle for pasture 1.50 per head per month. Sh Corbett Cranbrook B C. A B Trites of Trites Wood company, Cranbrook on business. Ferris foreman of carpenter gangs at St Magene and Sullivan mines. James Gill former Cranbrook resident now in New Westminster en route to Pincher Creek. Swenson's Stamping Machine for sale at Cranbrook Trading Company. Tennis club tournament held last Monday. Nelson challenges Cranbrook to Coronation day match at Nelson R1 Beatle returned from Vancouver. Coast flourishing. Wagner go carts. Bookkeeper and stenographer desires position. Married. TErdal office. Lumbering and mining experience.
Land values in Revelstoke jumped one hundred percent in a month as DomineIon Securities Limited plans to dam the river and build a sawmill capable of cutting two hundred thousand feet daily and a pulp mill. A river lock may be built for steamer passage, and unsold portions of three townsites are under single ownership.
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