Elko Baseball Rally and May 21 Celebration Plans
The column notes a Michel vs Elko baseball game won by Michel and describes upcoming events for May 21 including a $100 prize baseball contest, an Indian parade, and a grand ball at the new opera house. It highlights local towns Wardner Calvary horse show and Kokanee region notes, with remarks on firewood and town improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Rae
Minty
Ferne
Dig Dill Leacey
Elko Boys
Michel
Forte Michel
Ti Sure
Telke
Jim
Thistlebeak
Bob Webb
Elko
France
Great Northern
Oxford
Cateway
Flagstone
Dorr
Ehrig
Walde
Baynes
Wardner
Wardner Boys
Fike Tt
Crows Nest Pass
Kootenay
Agnes Allen
Fernie
Columbia Hotel
Kiko
Tobtees Plains
Baynes Lake Community Notes on Visits and Local Progress
Special correspondence from Baynes Lake outlines visits by Mrs. Woffart and Mr. Adolph, a Union Dancing Club meeting at Old Waldo hall, and local assessments of land clearing, plowing, and home building projects. It highlights neighborhood observations of settlers and rising activity contrasted with a caution about a dubious scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woffart
Waldo
Harry Adolph
Brandon
Union Dancing Club
Old Waldo Hall
Baynes
Lovels
Col Gavin
New Wand
A. K. Tneram
Messrs
Wilkinson
Champain
Venable Bros
Linnher
Taylor
Peter Backs
Fernie
Mr Backs
Barnard
Mr. Barnard
Wilkinson and
Chanpatn
Robert Sehanweeker
Kootenay Silver Lend Company
Spokane
Schanweeker
Bull River Falls Camp Welcomes New Arrivals and Ventures
Ab Menvie of Winnipeg has taken a CPLR contract and opened a new tie camp one mile upstream from the com ings dam with a force of men. Fred Doulis returned from Taber Alberta after a week away. His brother Will, owner of the Pickering ranch, accompanies him home. JM Carpenter of Texas, stockholder in Bull River Electric Power, and his bride reached camp for their honeymoon. Mrs Eva Henderson wife of the company president and manager, is improving from bronchial illness. Henediet and Nelson started a new hydraulic outfit at their placer claim last Monday to wash dirt gravel and rock. The workers are pushing ahead and prospects look bright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I Ab Menvie
Winnipeg
CPLR
Comings Dam
Fred Doulis
Taber
Alta
Will
Pickering
JM. Carpenter
Texas
Bull River Electric Power Company
Eva Henderson
Whatis
Henediet
Nelson
Local Notes From Wardner and Cranbrook
Wardner timekeeper Ro White left for the coast while Rat Wardner spent a few days in Cranbrook. A police court case against three Hindus for injuring a man was dismissed as the injured man appeared to have inflicted his own wound. Powell of Cranbrook visited town, baseball players seek games with outside towns, and MissRese Couzens of Chatham Ont is visiting her sister Mia. Land Me tarold Darling of the Land and Development company is mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ro White
Burns
Jordan
Kootenay Central
Skead
Rat Wardner
Cranbrook
J. FP. Armstrong
Gee. Powell
Wardner
Ftese Couzens
Chatham, Ont
Mia
Land Me Tarold Darling
Land “Land and Development Company
Kimberley Social Scene and Mining Notes
Kimberley hosts a large Miners' union No 10 ball on May 11 reflecting strong recovery after Sullivan mine restart. The union has grown to about ninety to one hundred members with over four hundred dollars treasury under officers HL J Cooper president Geo McClelland vice president M P Villiaove secretary. Moyie Miners' union No 71 forms a baseball club with Gamble James as president and secretary-treasurer Rider Thos Hare as manager. two teams are Wm Barr and John Ward captains. Stemwinder mine ore sent to New Jersey for sampling shows about 20 percent lead with substantial zinc. Stemwinder and North Star are under Louis Johnson who previously served as assayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimberley Miners’ Union No. 10
Kimberley Miners’ Union
Sullivan
Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
J Cooper
Geo. McClelland
M. P. Villiaove
Moyie Miners’ Union No. 71
Moyie
KD. Stinson
S. Gamble
James Gamble
B. Rider
Thos. Hare
Wm. Barr
John Ward
Sullivan Mine
Stemwinder
New Jersey
Mackenzie and Mann
East Kootenay
North Star
Louis Johnson
Johnson
Wasa Visitors and Local Property Transfers
WASA Mr and Mrs G Erickson visited Wasa last week. W S Santo sold Thunder Hill property to Lord Hindlip of England. Captain Hinks acts as Hindlip’s local representative and Mrs Benyon will operate the post office and traveler stopover. Crows Nest Pass Lumber log drive on the Kootenay under way pending high water. R L T Galbraith, Mrs T Benmore, and the Renwicks of Fort Steele passed through en route to Windermere. PF Patrick of Cranbrook Garage visits with a party of real estate buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Erickson
Wasa
W. S. Santo
Thunder Hill
Lord Hindlip
England
Captain Hinks
Benyon
Crows Nest Pass
R. L. T. Galbraith
T. Benmore
A. J. Renwick
Fort Steele
Windermere
PF. Patrick
Cranbrook Garage Company
Dr Martel's Female Pills Advertised as Sure Cure
An old newspaper fragment touts Dr Martel's Female Pills as a proven remedy for women's ailments. The ad claims quick, permanent results and lists drugstores as sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Martel
Farmers Institute plans fair and new town ventures at Golden
The Farmers Institute favors a fruit and flowers fair in Athelmer on Lithday with potential transport concessions and a combined display in Golden on September 18. A waterworks company is forming in the village, Bank of Montreal may open a regional office, and James J. Melay is building a Windermere lakeside home. A Tivermere hotel project advances as baseball and football teams train and await King’s birthday games with cups likely for Golden and Tower Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers Institute
Athelmer
Golden
Bank of Montreal
B. of M
James J. Melay
Windermere Lake
Tivermere
Invermere
What will you do when you dig Delta Oil ad
A senator recounted a tale of a religious evangelist who covered Pennsylvania hills with Bible verses. On a rock beside a highway he painted What will you do when you dig and an ad copy beneath urged Use Delta Oil Good for Burns. Meanwhile a restaurant owner and a diner sparred over a joke about killing a fowl and an old-age pension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Also Mentioned on This Page
Elro
Kootenay River Land Company
Sehanwecker
S of Morrow
J AN ‘Tormey
New Michel
Kootenay River Lal Company
Matson
Adolph Laimber Company
Oir Valley
Bernard Tormey
Gateway
Cologne
Krag
Ladies Whist Club
Waldo Opera House
Eiveryone
Louie Chenie
Louie
Otl Arnott
Kendrick
A. FB. Ingram
Adolph-Griffin
Williams
Valley View
Baynes Lake
B.C
The
Baynes Lake Trading Co
G. F E. Stevenson
Cranbrook Jobbers, Ltd
Ranta
Sam
Bull River
Chapman
Galloway
Clark
Prairie Revo Co
Main
St. Andrew's
Chorch
Sinclair
Fred
Leard
Kasio
J. T. Anderson
Cranbrook Hospital
Otto Becker
P. Lund
Montreal
Chatham
Constable Adney
TY. Gatley
Tay
Mr. Chapman
C.N.P.L
Garden of Eden
Bull River Falls
Kimberley
Me WS Santo
Miss Santo
Chinder Tam
Kingpton
Wilmer
Chamberlain
Cranbrook Plumbing Tinsmith & Heating CO
Swindon
Ron
W. F. Johnson & Son
Hanson Avenue
Serge
Fit Feform McCreery Bros
Anatomical Museum
North-west
Queen's Hotel
H. L. Stephens
Prop
Calgary, Alberta
Imperial Bank of Canada
Toronto
D. R. Wilkie
Robert Jaffray
Savings Department
W. Supple
Mgr
Kosmopallian
Be, H. Small
ANID
Crescent Lodge
Knights of Pythias Cranbrook
B. C
Dr. M. Boyse
I. M. Christian
Key City
New Fra ‘Naaternity Hall
Palmore W. M. Harris
N. G. Sevy
Cranbrook Lodge
A.M
KO Reculir
A. Shankland
WM. . Connolly
Maple Leaf Reberal Lodge
Fraternity Hall
W. F. Cameron
M. Hickentotham
Pythian Sisters
Fidelity Temple
T. Fraser
B.C. M. MacKinnon
M. R
Ancient Order OF Foresters Court Cranbrook
Carmen's Hall
Sharp
Wm. Anderson
Bent
Independent Order OF Foresters
S$ Pom
Lulu Hayward
Ree
W. J. McFarlane
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Guild
Charles W. King
Norbury Avenue
Phown
P.O. Box
Young Ladies’ Philothea and
Young Men's
Young Peoples
Robert
Robert F. Nerawender
Frank Dezall
C. C
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