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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Nov 13, 1919
Page
6
A Cranbrook notice sheet reports icy sidewalks and cold snaps with Jack Frost’s effects. Beale and Elwell announce sales of irrigated land at 85.00 per acre and invite inquiries through the Cranbrook Agency Company. Commandant Meikle and Ensign Brown depart for Vancouver before heading east.
P. W. Willis of the Parisian Dyer Works Calgary arrived Tuesday to take over Cranbrook cleaners and dyers. Wilbur Hill and Mrs Hill arrived from Vancouver. Willis recently returned from four years overseas and brings wide expertise to Cranbrook.
Mrs McBinnie is a patient at St Eugene hospital. Matson of Prince George arrived here last Saturday. C C Rogers of Creston was here over the last weekend.
A Victoria Colonist writer from Spokane, with Calgary arrivals and Cranbrook visitors, notes the Kootenay Valley’s potential to shift from lumber to sheep raising. He cites Harvey of Milk River guiding 20 000 sheep, foreseeing up to a million in pasture, and suggests winter hay needs and Dominion support to develop sheep farming as a key regional industry.
Want ads list two pianos with prices 150 and 250 dollars. Describes one as good tone for learners and another as magnificent and up to date. Indicates sale by Star Second Hand Store with date 11 6 1f.
Superintendent G Montgomery of the Sullivan mine at Kimberley came home from a business trip west on Monday evening. Mrs W J Atchison won a tea cloth raffle held by the G I A on Friday night October 1 at Maple Hall. J B Deschamps of Rossland was among lumbermen arriving for Mountain Lumbermen’s Association meeting. G F Dickenson departs for Nelson to finish a commercial course. News notes many local social events and visits including Mrs Simon Taylor’s return from Calgary after her grandson’s death. James Harvey of John B Stetson Co. was in town yesterday.
Banks and many businesses were shut all day Tuesday Armistice Day in Cranbrook. The day was generally quiet, with financial institutions remaining closed and little activity reported across the town.
John John, formerly Cranbrook night patrolman, is appointed caretaker for the season at the skating and curling rink. If his teeing is as good as his patrolman performance, curlers will have a worthwhile winter.
A six reel Anita Stewart mystery romance will be shown at the Rex Theatre Friday and Saturday. Lois Weber directed this production with settings filmed in a Los Angeles hotel to create realism beyond studio limits.
J M McLean of the C P R telegraph office married Alice Pletcher of Fernie on August 27 in Cranbrook. Rev R W Lee of the Methodist church officiated. McLean recently came to Cranbrook to lead the local office and friends extend congratulations.
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