Old Country News Interesting Items
Robert Tomlinson resends from head of the South Notts Hussars after forty years service. Loch Lomond and connected streams restocked with 12000 fish. London auction sells Western Australia 4d blue stamp with inverted center for £400. Home Office: 1882 Betting Duty payments. Gladstone memorial by Sir William Richmond completed for Hawarden church, to be unveiled July 28. Retirements, creche plans in Glasgow, high birthrate in Stepney, beggars in Lytham with bank book cash, Bishop of Norwich on Education Bill, zoo gift to Japan, death of Sir Willoughby Wade, odd accidents and commissions in Dublin. Ipswich guardians buy yacht piano for workhouse enjoyment. Rev R T Sauler to Willingale Doe with two churches in one churchyard. John Kirby of Shepshed, 77 years at one firm, started as child. Government House fete features 1487 instruments in Allied Bands from Aldershot Army Corps. Twelve-year-old Staples drowns after being punished for sweets. Prince of Wales wins stamp medals at philatelic show. Burleigh Court peasant pageant to honor Glastonbury history.
Disputed Dressmaker Bill and Malice Plea Reach Verdict
The case centers on a commitment order for £100 to a dressmaker for the Marquis’s wife. the Marquis claimed no independent funds, living with his income earning wife. Alice Westbury faced Middlesex sessions for attempting suicide. she refused to plead and the jury found malice behind the refusal, resulting in a twelve month sentence. A Liverpool police inquiry reports disappearance of ancient Egyptian treasures including four gold clips from Luxor dated around 2000 BCD, brought to England for sale, then vanished during negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Westbury
Middlesex
Liverpool
Luxor
England
Cranbrook's 100 Club Members List Read
The roster for Cranbrook's 100 Club includes J A Harvey F L Simpson W T Reid Dr W S Belt RK E Beattie James Greer A Moffat G T Rogers J H Cassaki Dr Miles J M Roberts J D McBride A W McVitt II S J Mighton W F Gurd J G McCallum W D Hill J Harris F C Malpas C E Reid V Hyde Baker Hoggarth & Rollins E H Small W H Wilson D J McSwnhy n A B Fenwick Port Steele Cc A Cook W F Tate & Son A B Grace J P Fink E Paterson J F Huchcroft Marysville D J Johnson H White J F B M Pinkham H D Curtis Dr F E King Perry & Fitzgerald T Wardman P Devere Hunt A L McDermot A C Bowness C H Dunbar George Leask G H Thompson Drs King & Green Patmore Bros B H Short P Matheson Clapp & Rollins Queens Hotel Royal Hotel K South C A Gaskill D J Elmer M D Mallandrine Re B Benedict Moyie Ald Jos Jackson Reale & Elwell T Vt McVittie Fort Steele Eugene Doberer Joseph Ryan A Jollife John Lease Rev Fortune Joseph Brault D B Murphy
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Harvey
F. £. Simpson
W. T. Reid
W. S. Belt
E. Beattie
James Greer
A. Moffat
G. T. Rogers
J. H. Cassakl
DR. Miles
J. M. Roberts
J.D. McBride
A.W. McVitt II
S. J. Mighton
W. F. Gurd
J. G. McCallum
W. D. Hill
J. Harris
Free Reading Room in Cranbrook Lets Local Residents Borrow Books
The Free Reading Room in the Watts block Cranbrook offers one hundred new volumes across social science natural science useful arts literature description travel fiction and more. Residents may borrow up to two books for two weeks with a five cent daily fine for late returns. Reservations possible within forty eight hours after a book’s return. The room also features leading newspapers magazines and periodicals and sits on the second floor of the Watts block over Migh ton’s tobacco store. Vancouver June 18 large trees in British Columbia forests have been felled at Rock Bay a Douglas fir measuring 99 feet long with diameters of 11 feet 6 inches at the butt and a top diameter of 4 feet 10 inches. The tree yielded 18500 feet of merchantable lumber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watts Block
Cranbrook
Atlantic
Ifk
Mighton
Baker Street
Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
Rock Bay
Marquis of Huntly
Justice Bingham
Notice of land purchase and public bids in Cranbrook
Two month notice to apply for land purchase in South East Kootenay. Description begins at James Ryan’s north east corner post and covers 77 acres. Also mentions tenders for two Reel Siads and a yard foreman position at China Creek Lumber Co. Ltd in China Creek B C. Date April 30 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Kootenay
Lands and Works
South
Kootenay
James Ryan
St. Marys River
Cranbrook
B.C
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Serges
Reid & Company
P, Burns & Company
MIMS
Fede
James Kerrigan
L. Clapp
Quest W. Rollins
Auer
Railroad
the Cosmopolitan
E. Hl
OLD Country News
Robert Tomlinson
South Notts Hussars
Loch Lomond
Western Australia
London
Messrs
Ventom
Bull and Cooper
Home Office
Betti Lines
Gladstone
Sir William Richmond
Hawarden
T. W. Openshaw
Oswald 1
Twistle
Lancashire
Foxhill Bank United Methodist Free Church
J. K. Sharpe
Christ's Hospital
Hertford
Glasgow
St. George’s-in-the- Fast
Stepney
Kingdom
Thomas Howarth
Lytham
Norwich
W. Simpson Cross
Zoological Park
Southport
Buldog
Q Imemento
Willoughby Wade
Birmingham
Rome
William Keeling
Leicester
S. H. Butcher
University of Edlinburgh
Trinity College, Dublin
University of Dublin
Ipswich
R. T. Sauler
Moulsham
Willingale Doe
Essex
Uader
John Kirby
Shepshed
Leicestershire
Messrs. Cartwright & Warner
Sane Post
Jericho
Government House
Aldershot
Staples
Pattiswick
Coggeshall
Foo
Prince of Wales
Hong Kong
Great Britain
King Elwaml
Harlow
Burleigh Court
Glastonbury
Sedgmoor
Cranbrook’s
Tovay
Mn Merk
H. Prest
Robt. Stewart
China Creek
Fernie
Beenie
Baker Hill
St. Joseph's Creek
Fred Dumont
Gum Lee
Spokane
Calgary
A. Grenier
Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg
Port Arthur
Duluth
St. Paul
Toronto
Montreal
Maritime Provinces
New York
New England
Great Lakes
Geo. Hillier
J. S. Carter, D. P. A. Nelson, B.C
B. C. Sugar Refining Co., Ltd
Manitoba
Dan McDonald
Cranbrook, B. C
Portland
McCallum & Company
Beale & Elwell
Neal Estate
Kootenay Valleys Company
Kootenay Valley
Canal Flat
Rocky Mountains
Rockies
Nootenay
Kootenay Central
T. G. Proctor
Nelson, B. Co
Otto Joseph Ryan Cranbrook
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