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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
3
Kilby frames pictures and many residents are noted in Cranbrook society items. Recruits for the Army Medical Corps are urged. Boots and shoes stocked. a safety deposit vault is advertised. Various locals, visitors, and events fill this town column, including weddings, funerals, court work, and sports announcements.
An early 1900s health note warns of wood tick bites posing danger to children. It advises close head-to-head inspection, removal by ensuring the tick’s breathing pores are blocked with oil or vaseline, and cautions that a fully fed tick may leave its capitulum head embedded in the skin.
A London correspondent describes the Silver Thhoble fund started in July 1915 to gather old silver and gold items to raise two thousand dollars for an ambulance. In eighteen months the drive collected seventy five thousand dollars, funding motor boats, ambulances, trench disinfectors, the Navy Employment Agency for Disabled Soldiers, and the Star and Garter Fund. Raworth Bros. Store hosts a Melting Pot to receive donations of precious metal for Red Cross war work.
Canadians are urged to salvage waste paper to ease shortages and reduce pulpwood costs. Schools, Scout groups, and organizations are encouraged to collect newspapers, books, magazines, and cartons, with Ottawa divisions already yielding significant monthly totals. The initiative could supply materials for building papers and boxboard while easing forest resource strain.
Collections from Wycliffe and Kimberley totaled 7 25.00 with 1.25 from belated collector, bringing the running total to 283.00 26.95 dollars.
Dr A B Wickware, assistant pathologist, is assigned to poultry disease research at the Central Experimental Farm Ottawa. He will focus on Black Head in turkeys and chick diseases, seeking to reduce vast annual losses from poultry ailments. Farmers urged to send sick birds for study to the Biological Laboratory, Experimental Farm, Ottawa.
A quiet wedding solemnized at Mrs W S Ryckmans Creston home on May 17 at 6 pm. Annie Ryckman former St Eugene Hospital Cranbrook nurse married L B Paulsen of Dundee Scotland Rev J S Mahood officiated. Newlyweds to reside in Creston.
In loving remembrance of our darling girl Merle Gladys Taylor who died May 20 1915. This lovely bud so young and fair called hence by early doom. She came to show low sweet a flower in Paradise would bloom. Her Aunt extends the sentiment of loss and care.
Reports show scarce wood pulp as forestry recruits pull workers abroad and woodcutting drops below average. Demand rises for Canadian pulp and newsprint due to shipping limits from Norway and Sweden. The war boosts sales of hewn papers, further tightening supplies.
Mrs Y R Howrovan of Waynesboro Pennsylvania describes a recovery from bronchitis after using Vinci. The advertisement claims Vinci built her up, restored energy for housework, improved appetite and digestion, and produced pure blood with a money back guarantee through Cranbrook Drug & Book Co in Cranbrook BC and other druggists in British Columbia towns.
Corbin School seeks bids for erecting a large one room schoolhouse in Corbin Fernie Electoral District. Tenders due by noon May 22 1917. plans and specs available May 1 1917 at designated government offices. Bid accompanies 20 percent certified cheque. tender forms required. lowest bid not guaranteed. Public Works Engineer A B Aporeman Victoria BC April 26 1917.
Dominion lands in Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories and parts of British Columbia may be leased for twenty one years at one dollar per acre with a maximum of 2580 acres per applicant. Applications must be in person to the district Agent or Sub-Agent and staking is required in unsurveyed areas. A five dollar application fee is refundable if rights are unavailable. Royalties are five cents per ton of mine output with annual returns. The lease covers coal mining rights only, surface rights may be bought at ten dollars per acre. For details contact the Secretary of the Interior Ottawa or a Dominion Lands Agent.
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