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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Oct 24, 1924
Page
6
A brief urging local support of regional producers stresses the role of community buying in sustaining industry. It notes that domestic demand bolsters employment and economic resilience, inviting residents to favor local goods.
A. B. Cummings of Tell City Indiana calls Walter Nixon of Invermere the finest guide he has hunted with after a month in the Kootenay region. Cummings, seeking a moose and a grizzly, commends Nixon’s knowledge while noting early season regulatory delays hinder timely plans for eastern hunters.
A Florida chamber of commerce asks Calgary leaders to back a bold project connecting Florida with a northwest route to the Canadian Rockies. The plan envisions a near straight beeline highway from the southeast to the Alberta boundary, then north to Calgary and Banff, with support from the Banff Calgary Tourist Association.
A shipment of two carloads of buffalo hides moved through Winnipeg from Wainwright Alberta to Quebec for robe production for auto and sleigh use. The hides come from buffalo killed in the spring drive ordered to reduce herd numbers in the national park.
The November Rod and Gun in Canada showcases Raymond Thompson with The Sins of the Fathers and Bonnycastle Dale's Some Wild Animal Trails. Hubert J. Black offers Foxes about an English tenderfoot duped by a fur buyer, plus Henry Braithwaite Moose Calling and A Fishing Trip to the Island Province by A. F. Atkinson. Regular writers F. W. Williams Martin Hunter and J. W. Vinson contribute, along with active departments.
Provincial BC event requires districts to display eight potato lots grown by eight different growers. Each lot has thirty-two potatoes of the same size and variety. Districts may choose one or two varieties, no decorations allowed, with grower and district names on cards.
Mr and Mrs Cretney and family visited the Cooper ranch on Wednesday. Harry Chamnings spent Sunday at home, returning to Kimberley in the evening. Annie Fulton left for Waldo to join her father. Mr and Mrs Ward and family of Kimberley visited the Richardsons. Mrs George Barr and baby of Yahk visit D and D Cameron. Potato crop is light this season, most ranchers reporting about half quantity.
From last year Mrs. F. W. Cooper has been laid up with a bad attack of influenza.
Invermere BC October 18 Special to the Herald Christian Troyer a Windermere resident aged 83 passed away in hospital Born July 1 1841 in Vaughan Ontario His career spanned Ontario California Manitoba and British Columbia He helped name Alameda Saskatchewan and was an early investor in the Le Roi mine He is survived by his widow and three sons buried in Windermere cemetery with Masonic honors
The White Cat mine on Horsethief Creek road above Wilmer, owned by J. G. Pitts of Invermere, is listed among Windermere district shipping mines to the Trail smelter. It is operated by a Stettler Alta syndicate who took it in bond last year and the ore is said to be high grade with strong values in silver and lead lacking.
The B C Supreme Court registrar in Vancouver was authorized to proceed with an accounting to determine the amount due A P Denby from Alice Arm Holding Limited on a Briscoe area mine mortgage. Denby seeks foreclosure claiming about 38 000 with bondholders and creditors to be paid from a potential five percent share of a 40 000 refinancing. In Toronto a major American financial firm notes Canada’s per capita income rose to 266 17 in 1928 from pre war 250 with total Canadian income at 2 840 000 000, the only wartime nation showing an increase.
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