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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1914
Page
5
Local notices list visitors and residents in Cranbrook and Moyle with several business trips to Fernie Moyle Wardner and Spokane. Items include purchases at Ward & Harris and Cranbrook Meat Market, a birth at Cottage Hospital, a dressmaker from Victoria, and plans for a Farmers Institute tuber culture discussion.
Saturday listings note a two reel Kalem feature The Treachery of Indian Hillman at the Rex, plus an Auditrium farce An Afternoon Tea in Friendly Village 1862 offered Friday March 12th. Local visits include Mrs J Gordon Sutherland of Calgary and A Fairbairn of Marysville with farmers preparing spring work.
Refreshments served by Mrs D Kennedy and others at 10 o'clock with 25 cent admission. Ward Harris advertises Raxana Tea and oranges. Appointed aldermen Cameron Caslake and Hickenbotham Derall join Cranbrook boards. Mrs T Mecredy hosted a reception with attire descriptions. Easter Monday April 13 marks the Annual Charity Ball for St Eugene hospital with fundraising efforts noted. Whist winners were Mrs G Hougham and Mr H Gridley. Dance in Maple hall on Tuesday the 24th inst.
The Salvation Army held religious services in Cranbrook lumber camps aided by gramophone loans from D. M. Ferry & Co and McKenzies, and a Garden Seeds loan from Rev. C. E. Harrin Kendall. "The Life of Christ" was shown in pictures and the visits may return. Capt. Car Tuthers, Scott Hill, and Mr. Chas. McLean led the campaign and thank supporters for a successful effort.
Overseas Club members held a whist drive and concert in Maple Hall after the regular meeting with about sixty attendees. A committee will arrange April’s first meeting night program with speakers named in upcoming columns. The post meeting program featured songs by Mrs. Ismay, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Hougham, Mrs. Kennedy, and others, plus a Planoforte solo and a Banjo selection by Mr. Scott.
The Ladies Aid Society of Knox Presbyterian church hosts a Shamrock tea at Mrs. Simon Taylor’s home next Tuesday afternoon March 17 from 3 to 6. A musical program features vocal and instrumental solos and duets by Mrs. Quain Misses M and H Taylor Mrs. Ryckman Macpherson Patterson Fink J L Walker Mrs Sinclair Ismay and others with pieces by Kuhe Mulloy Leybach and traditional Kerry Dance.
The British Columbia Poultry Association reports Ottawa is close to amending the Contagious Diseases of Animals Act to let Dominion Veterinary Inspectors check all poultry entering the province. Live birds are sold cheaply to settlers after being damaged by diseases, spreading infections to healthier districts. J H Hare of Ottawa’s Poultry Division will visit to investigate, while 28 affiliated associations press the matter in March.
At Baynes Lake near Waldo Adolph Lumber Co plans to refit for an early start while Porto Rico Lumber Moyle plant likely won’t operate next season. Beaver Lumber of Winnipeg holds controlling interest as others adjust capacity and staffing across Kimberley Wycliffe Fort Steele and Fernie regions.
Logs are moved into a warm hot pond using steam pipes to keep winter runs steady. Baker Lumber Company plans an early start using dynamite to clear ice, while the plant undergoes boiler overhauls with four Watrous boilers retubed. Joyce Brothers shifts supply, and Standard Lumber renounces rebuilding Cranbrook mill, relocating Yahk operations near St. Eugene’s Mission.
Rev. A. B. Reckia, on fur lough in Canada, is noted as the first missionary to establish permanent Christian work in Bolivia. A McMaster University graduate (1899), he dedicated his life to uplift in the inland empire, witnessing Bolivia's transformation through missionary influence. He will speak at all Sunday services in the Baptist church.
Want ads show items for sale including harness pigs a gander turkey craigslist style. Includes strong Democrat wagon bug wheels pruning services a nursing governer for four children a large eight room house rental and a 30 acre irrigated farm plus a theatre event and a furnished house for rent all with application details and dates.
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