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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 18, 1900
Page
2
The Cranbrook Herald item references the O. O. F. Block in Cranbrook British Columbia. Details are sparse in the fragment but indicate a local page listing or event connection to the Cooperative or fraternal lodge activities in Cranbrook.
Citizens plan receptions and honors for veterans from South Africa but warn against forgetting their postwar transition to civilian work. Advocates creation of local organizations in every city to help veterans find employment and rejoin normal life, ensuring they prosper after sacrifice. Also notes Cranbrook’s good year, West Kootenay politics, Rockefeller comment, Kaslo sea serpent sighting, and post election labor expectations.
Early Tuesday miner L McLean suffered severe facial and hand burns from an open light igniting gas in No 2 mine. The Fernie item notes gas in the shaft, progress on Sand Creek trail, legal cases involving ex-Constable Bullick, Jast week’s speedy trial confession, and Walker’s discharge after Ray’s absence. Bentley remains confined in Lethbridge after a leg surgery.
Olive Torrey, clever yet restless, neglects her uncomposed husband at a frontier post and bonds with Gordon, a West Point recruit, through a web of books, ambition, and romantic manipulation. Her influence shapes his career while she confronts the emptiness of a life spent in social maneuvering and unfulfilled dreams. Gordon’s rise and downfall unfold as Olive's ambitions collide with duty and heartache.
Sam Mitchell acts as assistant to Reid Campbell Company. A Moyie Water Works surveyor will arrive next week. The Society Girl shipped three car loads of ore to Trail smelter. W P White, former St Eugene foreman, left for Colorado. Al Richardson sold his team and gear to Kennedy and Dallas. Dallas will run freighting. About 270 men drew $25,798 in wages this month. total area around $30,000. Contractor Grant of Cranbrook wins tender to build a two story Morley block opposite the depot on South Victoria street with a fireproof, stone foundation.
A historical rail notice describes direct connecting service to and from Kootenay country with first class sleepers on all trains. Tourist cars operate daily through Medicine Hat for St Paul, Saturdays for Montreal and Boston, Mondays and Thursdays for Toronto, with connections continuing to Vancouver and Nelgun.
The Skookumchuck wagon road is being worked on while the Wild Horse road has not started. Sheep Creek is cited as growing with a railroad expected next spring. Higbye and wife visited town. Hedley takes a holiday, Lanson at Fernie covers. ballot box case to be heard in Nelson next week. A thief is reportedly operating in outskirts, targeting chickens.
A four year old dark bay horse branded on shoulder and hip will be sold at public auction on November 18 at Geary and Doyle stable in Cranbrook B C to meet expenses. J H McMullin.
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