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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
8
Thousands of women credit their youthful look to Newbro's Herpicide claimed to keep the scalp dandruff free and hair from falling out. The ad touts a genuine germ destroyer, notes a one dollar bottle with a druggist guarantee, and offers samples via mail from The Herpicide Co. Detroit.
At a city council meeting the sewerage system contract was awarded to John Galt Engineer Company for supervision at ten percent of actual cost. The agreement will be drawn by the city solicitor and installed by November 30, 1912 at an estimated cost of about ninety four thousand dollars including engineers' fees. Mayor Hunt and aldermen Johnson Campbell Taylor Bowness attended.
The Cranbrook sewer system project will provide employment for at least 110 men and increase the city's payroll substantially. The agreement specifies that no Chinese or Japanese workers shall be employed.
The Hanson block construction paused for several days awaiting steel delivery. East and west brick walls rise and west wall pillars stand. Geo Ro Leask and company, in charge, have moved bricklayers to the new city hall, where work progresses well with eighteen men employed.
The wedding of Mr Fred Ege and Miss Alice Ferris was held yesterday at the Ferris home. The ceremony was performed by Rey WT Mrie of Cranbrook with James Able as groomsman and Lottie Ferris as bridesmaid. The couple will reside in Kimberley.
A garbled fragment notes a character named Willis calling himself a human dynamo. The text hints at danger and charged items, but lacks clear events, dates, or affiliations.
Vancouver hosts the Made in Canada Fair from June 21 to 22 with concerts vaudeville and choruses. The event marks Vancouver’s 25th anniversary and King George coronation with fireworks flying machine displays and grand product exhibitions. Proceeds support a convalescent home and hospitals. Ticket stock totals 100000 with low excursion rates to draw crowds.
The Boundary country anticipates a general good time at the Knights of Pythias picnic to be held at Christena lake on Coronation day June 22. Lodges in Phoenix Greenwood Grand Forks and Midway will participate.
Editor The Herald reports a forestry model lesson contest judged by A S Good eve M P and F J Fulton KC. Miss Annie S Clark principal of the girls central school New Westminster B C won the prize and a check was mailed to Miss Clark A C Flumerfelt May 25th 111.
The Grand Trunk Pacific railway placed what is described as the largest single lumber order in the Puget Sound district with a Seattle firm. The contract covers eight million feet of lumber for railroad construction in British Columbia, to be sawed by Seattle mills.
An engineering term for the rate of doing work. One horsepower theoretically raises 33 000 pounds one foot in a minute. Watt coined the term, though modern experts say the figure is too high.
A playful riff on Dickens notes how a modern retort would tweak his phrases to praise endless resilience. The quip imagines Dickens writing for today, swapping moral lines for sharper, humorous takes on chronic issues.
M J Torpy and Michael Gill of Moyle contemplate a 160 acre tract near Curzon Junction, subdividing into ten acre blocks. They report strong progress in Moyle Valley, likening the climate to Creston and predicting a good fruit and vegetable crop this year.
A Madison Hustler note weighs the common sense choice between a mule and an automobile. The mule requires corn hay oats or grass and can buck jump into mud or onto rocks. The automobile needs only gasoline and is harmless at rest but may behave dangerously when running. Both carry risks, so the writers conclude, we walk.
At the Cosmopolitan hotel a Dublin fair tale about a goat escaping its pen leads a judge to deliver a long ornate narration. The judge claims the animal’s forceful charge and weight create a momentum that carries the investigation beyond the goat’s jurisdiction.
The piece explains that a gink is an indefinable term for a person, used as a catchall descriptor for busy or foolish men. It notes it does not apply to women and humorously suggests a feminine form might be a skirt, citing an example from Fernie Free Press.
A Denver opera house legend recounts how Colorado Senator Mr. Tabor funded a Leadville theatre. He questioned a decorator's Shakespeare portrait, insisting the display should feature him instead. The anecdote ends with his portrait reportedly watching over the auditorium.
Fitch and Hazelwood of Moyie tie contractors announce an application to the Water Commissioner on the sixth day of July 111 at eleven o clock forenoon for a license to take and use ten cubic feet of water per second from Bridge Creek a tributary of the Moyie River in the Cranbrook Water District. Water to be taken about two and a half miles above its mouth and used on Timber Permit of Lot 1501 for fuming ties and logs.
Managing editor F. J. Deane of the Herald departed last Friday with his wife and daughter for the coast. They expect to be away about a month mainly in Victoria. FOR SALE: second-hand McGregor and Gourley planer and matcher 6x15. Apply Crows Nest Pass Lumber Co Limited, Galloway, B.C. 14-3
Curzon rancher T Allen Earnhardt to apply July 12 to Cranbrook Water Commissioner for license to take one cfs from Elmera Creek in Cranbrook Water District. Water to be used on Lot 9101 for irrigation near Lot 101, Group One, Kootenay District. Signed Allen Barnhardt.
Cranbrook Land District notice states Bridges Lumber Company seeks permission to purchase a 40 acre mill site in South East Kootenay District. Locator J F Bridges dated April 26 1911. 10%
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