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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 07, 1925
Page
5
Kimberley residents gather for orchestra dance at the Orpheum. Dr Hanington and wife arrive from England. Mrs. Lindsay hosts guests. Baseball season prep, ball diamond ready, and local anglers report few big catches at Premier lake. সব
A large crowd watched the home team trounce the Concerrator nine 24 to 0 in the season opener. The losers misfired with weak hitting and shaky defense while the winners kept the pressure throughout the game. Johren resisted hit and run as Nal delivered strong pitching and defense.
CPR trains haul an average 70 cars of fill daily from east of Creston to the Kootenay Landing trestle. The project runs about 40 miles round trip and aims to finish by July. After earth works, plans call for steel between Kootenay Landing and Procter and removal of barge traffic and Nelson passenger service. Estimated cost to lay steel is $100,000.
The floral committee of the CPR speeds spring work with seed packets distributed to country stations along three thousand miles of tracks. From now to May large shipments of trees shrubs and perennials will go out and bedding plants including asters geraniums marigolds petunias trailers and pansies will be sent in hundreds of thousands by the end of May.
On or about May 1st the undersigned will take over the Glen Cafe restaurant in Kimberley. All accounts after that date are payable to the undersigned and any pre existing balances will be settled by the former owner. Dated Kimberley May 1st 1925 Dan Lee.
Ethel Derbyshire died at St Eugene Hospital after burns suffered in an accident last week. A prayerful funeral at the Baptist Church was followed by interment in Fernie on Monday. Rebekahs and Oddfellows led pallbearers, with Rev W T Tapscott and family among mourners.
Nick Bozinis the middleweight champion of Canada and Nels Moe staged a long title bout before about 200 fans at the Auditorium. Moe fought back from a wrist-lock and two arm-locks, forcing a draw as officials set a twelve oclock cutoff with no fall before Sunday.
Invermere B C May 6 special to the Herald Justice Morrison at Vancouver issues order declaring Catherine Beatrice Cay officially dead. The Cana Flat resident had left for a hurried trip to the Old Country to see her mother ending a sorrowful chapter for two young Lake Windermere area residents.
Sir Hugh Allen highlights Canada as a strong source of musical talent under the Royal College of Music as a touring program promotes the London institution. Canada exports include 148.6 million pounds of woodpulp with 183.9 million going to the US and Britain. newsprint value reaches about seven and a half million dollars. Parliament announces 260,000 acres in central and northern Alberta to be settled by the British Land Settlement Corporation, north of Edmonton. Tourism to Montreal tops 750,000 last year with growth expected. Geraldine Farrar faces a customs issue over champagne and near beer in her private car. The Aldershot Tattoo runs June 16–20 with a pageant of battle and a large audience. University and CP tours expand to include British Isles students, and a 28-day Montreal study trip for French language study is organized. Dr Sun Yat Sen’s body lies in state at a Chinese temple in Peking with world travelers attending burial rites in Western Hills.
Fragmentary Dundee aged notes recount a May 1801 Empress of Ireland voyage down the St Lawrence ending in a collision that sank the SS Steretad. Several locals from the neighborhood perished and one estate title dispute arose after the World War and a subsequent legal order by Justice Morrison regarding Thunder Hill.
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