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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 23, 1911
Page
6
A compact roundup from Elko and nearby towns highlights social events, visits, store openings, and community concerns. Mentions include Mr. Bull singing. Agnes Deans Cameron references. Baynes Lake writeup upcoming. numerous residents and businesses noted for travel, court news, education, and entertainment.
Wardner correspondent notes Mr Geo Powell of Cranbrook in town last Thursday. Chief Constable Munroe of Fernie visited on business Friday. Miss Trene Mcbee of Mike spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs RCA Green. Mr Rantz of the King Hed ward hotel was in Cranbrook Friday on business. Miss Minnie Service of Cranbrook also referenced.
Marysville special correspondence notes Harvey Handley visiting, CRO cruiser in town on business, Fred Payne of London a guest. A Conservative association meeting elected HH L Sawyer as vice president to strike off dead members and absentees, add sixteen new names, and correct two records.
Special correspondent reports on activity at Bull River area with notes on snow slides, placer claim development, and the Bull River Electric Power Company. Geo. K. Henderson praises the winter run of the big slime and the intact flume project as the season opens.
The Napanee hotel opened on March 17 marking a milestone for Fernie. A Catholic concert and ball Saturday night drew a large, appreciative crowd. Miss Cochrane from Nanton began teaching at Central school on Monday, with plans for a 16 room enlargement and more teachers after Easter. A prisoner Pat Kelly hanged himself in his cell at the city jail last Thursday. Funeral services were held Saturday. Several visitors and clergy arrivals were noted, including Rev. Alex Dunn from India and Rev. Grant from Vancouver. Local discussions covered school expansions, carpentry and carriage work, and the Liberal association backing reciprocity.
Broadwood, wintering near Sheep Creek, arrived in Wasa last week and plans a permanent home on his Sheep Creek lake land. CoP Tt. sealers Campbell and Wiseman traveled from Skookene to log scale. An attempted car trip to Cranbrook by Ju Kh Wirteh and G Hanson was made last week.
Dr Martel s Female Pills are advertised as eight e years the standard for women s ailments with a quick permanent remedy sold at drug stores. A winter storm stalled road progress and several locals like Bailey and Burgess visited Cranbrook and Canal Flats. An accident at Skookumehuck Hospitalized a man with broken ribs. Birteh reports logging over 1200 acres is finished and plans fruit planting. A mineral exhibit by W Johnson of Wasa gathers ore samples to attract interest and advertise local mines.
The year’s pension outlay is projected at £12,115,000 up from £9,720,000. Survivor William Tuck recalls Birkenhead wreck fifty nine years on. Ruskin College Oxford plans a new fifty student block and a scholarship endowment scheme. A Liverpool magistrate chronicles a baby gang theft spree of forty charges led by a seven year old. Lord Lansdowne offers £100,000 for Rembrandt The Mill with a £5,000 pledge to the National Gallery. The Descent from the Cross once sold for £78,000. Rembrandt landscapes feature a sunset windmill. James Hodgkinson sells salt patent rights for £1,000,000 to an American syndicate. the invention promises major salt yield gains and smoke reduction. Canadian rights sold to CPR. Hatch of work-at-home ads appears.
An old advertisement for Phosphonol claims it restores nerve tension and vitality, prevents premature decay, and makes a “new man.” Sold at $3 per box or two for $5, mailed to any address, through The Scobell Drug Co in St. Catharines, Ontario, with Beattie Murphy & Co. as retailers.
The Industrial Disputes Investigation Act saved Canada over 16 million dollars in four years. One hundred conciliation boards operated with strikes prevented in 91 cases. The average strike lasted 24 days. 9,612 workers were involved earning 2.50 daily, saving wages of 5,972,020 and producing goods valued at 10,000,000. The Hon. W L Mackenzie Wing led the discussion.
The minister of labor says most cases secured fair settlements through board awards, and in many instances workers who rejected awards and struck later returned to work on board terms or better. Also ad suggests Chamberlains Liniment for rheumatism with a quarter price through dealers.
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