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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 06, 1926
Page
7
Inter provincial highway near Moyie mill now open to public. Local events include Mass at St Peter's on Thursday and a fundraising meeting for school grounds. Visitors from Cranbrook and Trail, and several social activities such as a basket dance planned for Saturday.
Public works engineer Mr. Brady visited Yahk to inspect road work between Kingsgate and Cranbrook for tourist traffic. Local events include dances, visits, mining boom, a baseball win over Kitchener, and social promotions for Miss Ethel Hamilton. An accident near Yahk caused minor damage with no serious injuries.
A reader’s question about overbidding partner’s No 1 trump after second hand passes is examined. The author shares conditions for an overbid, including original bid in a major, six cards in a major, two five card suits, or a five card major with void or singleton in hand. A sample hand is given to challenge ingenuity.
Among ten prominent University of British Columbia students in the spring play Pygmalion is the Rhodes scholar elect Harry Verney Warren who will reside at Oxford in the fall. Warren is a 1926 graduate of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and a Vernon/Vancouver native. He helped represent UBC in the Western Intercollegiate Meet and is joined by Peter Price D’Arcy Marsh and Willoughby Matthews in key male roles while Isobel Barton stars as Eliza. The Players' Club production has earned strong reviews and will be shown at the Auditorium on Friday May 18.
Harmony Chapter O E S was instituted at the Masonic Hall in Kimberley on April 22 with Mrs. Maria B. Foster of Vancouver directing as deputy for the absent Graham K. Holmes. Officers named include Worthy Matron Mrs. Bentley, Worthy Patron J H Harris, and multiple matron, conductress, chaplain, and warder posts with delegations from Kamloops Port Coquitlam and other communities.
A large shower honored Miss Annie Frater at McKay's hall Athalmer as her coming marriage to William Hillier of the locality was announced. The couple plans to marry on the sixth of May. Noel Stewart has joined the Imperial Bank as junior. Immigration into western Canada shows a 145 percent rise through April with CN Railways reporting large farm employment placements.
Freight officials report over 1000 euro worth of potatoes shipped east via Canadian National lines during March and April. Carloads originated up to twenty five miles north of Winnipeg for consumption in central and eastern United States.
A bush fire on North Star Hill near All Saints Church in Kim berley sparked by nearby clearing operations was quickly controlled after Kinderley's volunteer brigade and town residents responded to the alarm. Sirens sounded and hoses, aided by auto owners, halted the blaze before it caused major damage.
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