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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 17, 1921
Page
6
An advertisement notes linoleum grade 13 priced at $1.25 per square yard and promotes Cranbrook Exchange with "Our low prices win every time" alongside Quaker Bread at MacDonald’s Grocery.
A Cranbrook page details a three member Q W V A delegation meeting the Police Commission over the life chief’s dismissal for liquor case negligence. Stores advertise half price dresses from W D Hill, and multiple listings cover groceries and household goods. Local crime reports include fines for a disorderly house and opium possession as well as transfers in RCMP posts and social notes from Jaffray to Fernie.
Local items include a Moscow conservatoire baritone offering voice production and violin, a Taber preacher occupying Knox Church for two Sundays, and basketball teams from Nelson possibly touring Cranbrook and Fernie. Also reported are a CP rail entourage arriving by the Kootenay Central train, a successful Methodist Ladies Aid sale raising about 130 dollars, a new Easter hat stock at Hill's exclusive ladies wear, and late winter temperatures dipping to ten degrees below zero with prairie points experiencing storms.
Lost or stolen about mid February an Airedale dog age year and a half with collar marked Rex answers to that name. Leave information at Herald office. Also notices seeking a suitable dog friendly to children and a live agent for The J R Watkins Co Winnipeg. Hay and alfalfa prices listed by Neptune Hay & Grain Co Lethbridge with freight terms to Nelson B C and government inspection references.
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