Creston Notes on Business, Accident, and Local Happenings
Creston reports C. J. McClure buys the Barnes general store in Port Hill. George French, a millwright, injures his left hand severely at Rodger’s sawmill. Elko completes a new switchboard for three hundred subscribers with Kootenay Telephone Lines. Work begins on a new building and lot 114 in block 10. Other items include visits by Mrs. Dudley and Martin Burrell, and Lease issues for the Flatiron building contract.
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Creston Review
C. J. McClure
Great Northern
Port Hill
Ff. I. Barnes
George French
Rodgers
French
Mr. French
The
Kootenay Telephone Lines, Limited
Chicago
Jaffray News Notes On Rail Work And Local Happenings
Jaffray reports CPR has finished a new sidetrack and station moves with improved platform. East Kootenay Lumber adds a 82 ton Shay locomotive. Mills at North Star, East Kootenay, and Jewell run at full capacity. Dances, visitors from Cranbrook, and plans for a new school house are mentioned. Subscriptions to Cranbrook Herald encouraged at East Kootenay Lumber office. annual price is 2.00.
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East Kootenay Llnmber Company
Lite, & A
North Star Lumber Company
East Kootenay Lumber Company
Jewell Lumber Company
Cranbrook Herald
East
Fernie and Elko Notes From Fort Steele Region
R L T Galbraith Indian agent at Fort Steele registered in Silk Sunday. Fernie and Elko exchange baseball results with Fernie winning 2 1. Fernie defeats Elko 7 2 in Fer nie. Socials, visits, road improvements, and local movements fill a busy provincial week with many Fernicites picnicking and townspeople traveling.
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R. L. T. Galbraith
Fort Steele
Silk Sunday
Wardner News From Our Own? Gomer Jones in Cranbrook
Local notes report Gomer Jones visiting Cranbrook on business. A special train carried visitors to Bull River to Seavile Tuesday night. Families like the Bellshaws and Sharpe clan reshuffle as visits, homestead duties, and musical exams mark the week in Wardner.
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Gomer Jones
Cranbrook
Bull River
Seavile
Mr. Henderson
Moyie boat planned for lake rentals this summer
Moyie leader notes R Campbell plans a 12 by 27 foot house boat towed across Moyie lake for campers. It will have comfortable living quarters and aims to meet demand for two or three vessels. The piece also reports local happenings from Fernie to Cranbrook including road work, people leaving for Vancouver, and a new St Andrews church opening at Wardner with a generous offering.
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Moyie
R. Campbell
Moyie Lake
St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
Wardner
Main
Knox Presbyterian Church
Cranbrook
Gee. Custer
Michel Reporter Sees Tragic Mine Deaths and Transport Crash
Wm Pllis deputy customs officer in Fernie was crushed by Great Northern express wheels and rushed to hospital after a severe leg injury. Thomas Parker Kidd was killed in the Gebo mine while riding between coal cars, struck by an overhead pipe. Kootenay Telephone plans a street line in New Michel, adding a long distance system once subscribers are found, with five public phones currently in use.
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Michel
Wm. Pllis
Fernie
Great Northern Express
Thomas Parker Kidd
Gebo
Frank
The
Kootenay
Diphtheria Threat in Michel and Local Developments
Dr. Corsan visits Michel amid several diphtheria cases as an epidemic threat looms. High Kootenay waters nearly reached Pugh and Livingstone’s dining room. A Cummings plans Hough ranch subdivision for R C McClintock, a New York broker, and will survey a government wagon road from Michel to Crows Nest, with a bridge project likely next year.
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Kootenay River
Kootenay
Pugh & Livingstone
A Cummings
B.C.L.S
Hough Ranch
Krag
R. C. McClintock
New York
McClintock
A. Cummings
B.C.C
Michel
Crows Nest
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H. E. Hall
Mr. Short
Corby’s Whisky
Dawson’s Whisky
Schlitz Beer
A. C. Bowness
the Cosmopolitan
Cos
K.P
Steeuine
Rendell
B.C. P.O
Beale
Elwell
Dirch
Arnold & Roberts Cranbrook
Creston
Elko
Robert Dudley
Mrs. B. EE. Taylor
Shirttail
Tommy
R. C. McClure
Fred Ryckman
Martin Burrell
M.P
Yale- Cariboo
Philip C. Slayman
J. Seigle
Jaffray
Miss Slenders
A. J. Tullertand
C.P.R
PLC
Miss Taylor
Mr. W. Rt. Grubbe
Hanker
Our City
M. Phillips
Fruitlands Farm
Miss Wood
Marysville
Young
John Manbury
Brandon
Man
Church Building Fund
Mrs. Gladwin
Mrs
J. M. Agnew
Fernicites
J. McKay
Mrs. McKenzie
Peter Lund
Jack McKee
A. J. Carter
J. Millett
Columbia Hotel
R. Johnston
Arthur Houston
Okotoks, Alta
Bellshaw
Vancouver
Imrank
Bert Brown
Cowan
Hazel Bohart
Craftbrook
Adney
Williams
J. C. South
Childrens’ Aid Society of
Verle Martin
Hazel
Edith Lund
St. Joseph's School
Nelson
Rube
Hurley Scott
R. B. Scott
Rube Scott
MacEachern & Macdonald
St. Magene
J. T H. Wade
Tavistock Street
J. R. McDonald's
Campbell Street
Mr. Palmer
Mr. Scott
Slater Shoe Company
Montreal
P. Lund
Spokane
Wash
Dave Breckenridge
Wasa
Mr. Griffin
Turner Grocery Company
Hamilton, Ont
Gould
Fernie Free Press
Imperial Bank of Canada
Toront
D. R. Wilkie
Robert Jaffray
Savings Department
J. F. M. Pinkham
Mgr
Cranbrook Trading Co., Ltd
P.O
Box A
McLauchlin
East Kootenay Bottling Co
Homeseeker
East Kootenay Investment Co
Oillee
Liverpool
Cape Horn
B. H. Short, Painter
Pride of the West
Catedyke Baking Powder Inc
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