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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 23, 1924
Page
4
Cranbrook announces a summer Chautauqua in early June with high quality entertainment and guarantors including new backers. Proponents say the program offers strong value, varied merit, and a wholesome relaxation amid other influences.
The Oliver government faced criticism for delaying a final route choice for the coast range link of the trans provincial highway. Earlier plans proposed the Slope Mountains, with later shifts to Fraser Canyon via Kamloops and north via Edmonton. Critics say the new Yale to Princeton route ties favors to a minister and a million and a quarter road, but disgust grows in Kamloops and Princeton as political expediency appears to trump engineering advice and best provincial interests.
The Cranbrook Herald notes a two storey addition built at the Beattie Noble drug store and the post office moved into the building. The St Eugene Mission hospital is up for sale with a plan to haul it to the city if no bids appear. Gillier of Jaffray was acquitted in Nelson after a drunken brawl involving a man shot.
Note recounts discovery of bones from a century old Prank slide after a road cut uncovers a mass grave of around hundred victims. It recalls Crow's Nest bank burial and early tragedy. Touring to California hindered by foot and mouth disease quarantines forces cattle slaughter and widespread vehicle disinfection.
Moyie's Saint Eugene mine is back in full blast with 275 workers employed in and around the mine. A recent hospital fundraiser by the Hospital Ladies' Aid netted about $200 after expenses.
Rey W. MacKay preached a Mothers Day sermon titled Mothers Day that drew on quotable lines and reflective verses. The address highlighted maternal influence in family life and cited sentiments honoring mothers with hopeful, faith centered language.
A dated devotional passge collection notes May 24 to 28 with Bible verses from 1 John 4 18 Isaiah 1 18 1 Samuel 12 24 and Isaiah 32 17 18 plus a long homily about a mother's unwavering love and duty to her son, stressing repentance faith and gratitude toward a mother as a lifelong companion. The text blends scripture with a heartfelt message about a mother protecting guiding and forgiving her child.
The Galliher inquiry exonerates Bowser and government on the P.G.E. charges while the debate over the coast-interior highway links and ministerial seats intensifies. Premier Oliver faces a tough political climate as voters weigh the report amid broader provincial and international leadership pressures.
Inland British Columbia hosts about 160 sawmills and shingle mills with a daily capacity of 4,000,000 feet. The interior timber sectors employ roughly 8,000 workers with a payroll near 10 million, while total investment reaches up to 30 million dollars.
The article notes that southern and central British Columbia is becoming a key lumber region with vast pulpwood resources, while no pulp and paper plant currently operates in the interior, underscoring the inland industry’s significance to the province.
A profile of Marcus L. Bell, born in Pine Bluff Arkansas, who rose from a kerosene lamp teaching early life to becoming vice president and general counsel of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway. His path included stenography in Pine Bluff, court work, Chicago Law School, and steady advancement to top company litigation and leadership. He advocates steady work and perseverance.
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