Internment camp shifts to Morrissey Mines and related items
Frank Newnham to run the Morrissey Mines military canteen while Capt. Mallandaine becomes resident officer in charge at Morrissey. Camp detachment moves in readiness. camp and hotel heating updates. Also notes jurors for the 18th assize, a Liberal picnic critique, two weddings at Liphardt and Laithwaite homes, and minor legal cases involving firearms licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Newnham
Morrissey
Mallandaine
Creaton
Court House
M. A. Kastner
Sun Life
British Columbia
Local charity drive yields fruit for hospital needs
Sister Superior and Sister Mary Ann of St. Eugene hospital at Cranbrook, with Mrs. Egan of Creston, toured Duck Creek soliciting gifts of fruit and vegetables and collected a substantial donation. Meanwhile, Louie Guseppe, a local resident near the Mission, has died at about 44 from consumption, leaving a wife and three children. Geo. Cam, recalled to England in 1914, is on three months furlough and expected home soon. A collision at Smith crossing involved a C P R road master and Webster's dog, derailing a speeder and injuring the road master while the dog sustained a bad cut to its hind leg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ann
St. Eugene Hospital
Cranbrook
Egan
Creston
Duck Creek
Louie Guseppe
Smith Crossing
Pleasant Binkley's Return and Septembers Quiet News
From the Creston Review Cranbrook homecoming of Miss Pleasant Binkley after a Duck Creek visit. September passes with no marriage license demand and no deaths. four births reported, three girls and one boy. A grain glut scare eased by a Friday arrival of feed car for the Farmers Institute, wheat prices down 60 cents per hundred. Hugh McCreath learns of his father's Toronto hospital operation death in the day before his 66th year in Ontario. Strawberry picking continues on the J. J. Grady ranch with three crates brought in on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hhree
Farmers Institute
Hugh McCreath
Toronto
Kincardine
Ontario
J. J. Grady
Dinsdo
Elko Notes Tangles of Travel and People Across Regions
Elko notes recount visits by A Lindley and C E Ayre, added to a parade of travelers, merchants, and miners moving through the Roosville valley and Calgary to Winnipeg. Mentions include Spread Eagle codfish gear in Hiko, Jim Bates and Sam Pyke tied to Winnipeg, and a Calgary News Telegrams boast. Various sightings shed light on regional links between Elko, Cranbrook, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Golden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Lindley
Creston Fruit
Elko
C. E. Ayre
North Star Lumber Company
Brandon
Fernie
Roosville
Lowe
Swift Canadian Co
Travers
Alberta
Dan
Jaffray
Jim Thistlebeak
Jock Thomson
Cranbrook
Columbia Hotel
Jamieson
James A. Black
Bill Dingwall
Vancouver
Mr. Marshall
Mr. Booth
Calgary
Max Brown
Harry Thornhill
Winnipeg
William Henry Jackson
Yorkshire Pudding Club
Winnibeg
Wis
Roosville Valley
Hiko
Gorrie
Corbin
Lancaster
Jim Bates
Sam Pyke
Calgary News-Telegrams
Mitchell
South Fork Fruit Tracts
Frank DeBois
Mountain Lumbermen's Association
Golden
Hootenay Kootenay
Bull River
Mrs. Klingensmith
Eureka fair notes and town talk from Elko
A column from Elko recounts fair weather crowds down from Eureka and villagers trading quips. It mentions Miss Inez Holbrook, Jim Thistlebeak, a Winnipeg minister, John Fabrio leaving for Italy, and locals debating Victoria’s merit. Anecdotes cover hay, apples, Sunkist Orchard sales, and Cranbrook’s press comparison to Elko.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eureka Fair
Inez Holbrook
Elko
Wardner Tales Include Teeth, Deer and Local Visits
On Saturday O Stenberg visited Cranbrook to have teeth pulled. Stanley Pratt of Vancouver tipped Wardner merchants on October 1 and hinted on nickel markets. Clark left for Ontario to finish his studies after three months serving Wardner Presbyterian church. Uncle Frost visited with a vast white blanket. Gus Johnson and Earl Kallman each brought in a deer within hours. Fred Hyde returned from a northern trip via Fort George Edson Edmonton and Calgary with plans for Wardner land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. Stenberg
Cranbrook
Stanley Pratt
Vancouver
Wardner
Pratt
Clark
Ontario
Wardner Presbyterian Church
Uncle Frost
Gus Johnson
Earl Kallman
Fred Hyde
Mr. Hyde
Fort George
Edson
Edmonton
Calgary
Perry Creek Hotel liquor license renewal notice
Notice that on December 1 a renewal application will be made to the Superintendent of Provincial Police for the Perry Creek Hotel to continue selling liquor by retail. Dated October 7, 1915, Arthur Burgh, applicant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Hotel
Magic
British Columbia
V. Desaulnier
Perry Creek Hotel
Perry Creek
Arthur Burgh
Notice of Liquor Sale at Queen's Hotel Cranbrook BC
On Wednesday the 8th day of December next an application will be made to the License Commissioners for the Municipality of Cranbrook BC for the sale of liquor by retail at the Queen's Hotel Cranbrook BC. The license transfer is from Elizabeth Johnson to Frank Carlson of Cranbrook BC. Dated October 2, 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranbrook
B. C
Queen's Hotel
BS Columbia
Elizabeth Johnson
Frank Carlson
British Columbia
Loty
Kootenay
R. A. Renwick
Department of Lands
Victoria
Notice of caveat to register ownership in fee simple
An application 26691 to register Thomas Lowndes Washington of The Marsa Malta as owner in fee simple of the above lots under a 1913 conveyance from Baynes Lake Land Company Limited. If no caveat or Lis Pendens certificate is filed within 80 days from first publication, Washington will be registered as owner. Dated at Land Registry Office September 18, 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick James Gavin
Waldo
B. C
Baynes Lake Land Company, Limited
Land Registry Office
Samuel R. Roe
William Freeman Wright
Lim
Nelson
Arthur Edward Blinden
Watetta
Malta
Arthur Edward Blunden
Thomas Lowndes Washington
Marsa
Lis Pondens
Thomas Lown Ides Washington
Lida Harriet Putnam
Lida Harriet Pillam
Quiet Outskirts Spur Cattle Losses Near Wardner
Mr Tyde notes a lack of industry and calm outside Wardner as two cows are killed on PR track west of Wardner and another on the same track east of Wardner. Wardner residents fault cattle guards but fear the company will avoid full animal valuation, asking whose fault it is—the company or the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Anderson
Taneh
Wardner
Roh Hobart
Lompany
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Lodge and Society
Jin Reval Knighte of Ireland
Bivast
Garrett
Horsman
Rec
C.F
KEY City Lodge
Ohéfellewe
W. M. Harris
R. W. Russell
Sec
Knights OF
Pythias Cranbrook, B.C
R. C. Carr
C.C. F. M. Christian
K. R
P. O
Maple Leaf Reebexar Lodge
Rebekahs
Bis. C. Bennet
N. G. Sis
A. Hicken Lotham
Bly. Brake
JF. Leve
Cardelly
Women’s Institute
Maple Hall
W. B. McFarlane
John Shaw
Cranbrook Farmers’ Institute
A. B. Smith
Alb. H. Webb
B.C
Arco Wallager
Cranbrook, B.C
Parker
R. W. Edmondson
Gallafaction
Jon Marapodi
Devan
Tae Econats
Dave NO
Pasa Consi
Dave Co
e-Murphy Os
Thomas T. Mecredy
W. F. Gurd
P. C. Box
PES
King & Green
Orn Perenoous
Armstrong
F. B. Miles
Hanson
Ranbrook
Granbrook Cottage Hospital
Maternity and General Nursing
Garden Ave
Galmon
P. O. Box
W. BR. Beatty
Fenwick Avenue
Baker St
MacPherson
Werbury Ave
City Mall
Prof. C. F. Nidd
Organist Methodist Church
Norbury Ave
Montana Laundry
Frank Provenzano
General Merchant Employments Agents
the Home Bakery
Bebt
Mesbury Ave
L. M. Smith
Ladies and Gentlemen's Hats
Mabel A. Roberts Curtis
R.A.M
London, Eng
the Rectory
Peerless
A. Taylor
The
Windsor and Alexandra
Q. H. Marlatt
Hosmer
Trail
St. Clair Marlett
St. Julien
Marlatt
A I. Fisher
Elk River
H. A. Liphardt
Elizabeth Smith
D. M. Per
Mar Chung
Waldo Restaurant
Mar Lon
Waldo Laundry
A. J. Joule
J.P
John Laithwaite
Lillian
Otto A. Gray
Kootenay Telephone Co
Thos, Boyce
Miss Hamilton
D. M. Perley
Adamson
Telephone Co
Treherne
Anderson
Pennell
Cecil Anderson
Miss Clapp
Miss Gideon
Mrs. Black
Mr. Colclough
Creston Review
Miss Pleasant Binkley
Fred Roo
Kootehay
Eljalis
John Fabrio
New York
Ms Regiment
Italy
Bilis Sweet
Mr. Sweet
Jon Jackson
Biko
Tom Caven
Tom
Stanley McLean Norton
Sunkist
J. A. Broley
Kootenay District
Province OF
Samuel R. Ror
Lena Andeen
Ottawa
Railway Station
C. P
Post
Nd. A. Bruce
Post Office Inspector's Office
Samuel KR. Roe
District Register
SR-41
Dors
Mr. Tyde
Wardnoer
Samuel R. Rok
Imperial Bank OF Canada
Toronto Capital
Savings Department
Athalmer
Irving
Cranbrook Branch
H. W. Supple
Coeur D'Alene
Spokane, Washington
Spokane
New Union Station
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