Births and local notices from Creston and district
October 21 saw a son born to Mr and Mrs W H Crawford in Creston Floyd Rodgers later visited Cranbrook. Capt Mallandaine arrived from Morrissey Mines on business Mrs Martin Erickson returned from Cranbrook Miss Dalton returned to Hamonton Mrs Nina Attwood Moyle visited Creston Fruit Growers Union loading a potato car for export Spuds at 11 per ton No 1 McIntosh Red apples crop light Infant Joan Mary christened wild geese sold at 1 60 per head Spector Pletcher 13 pounder Landing Klingensmith bumper carrot yield Cartwright mangolds Littlejohn crop shipping Dr Henderson rushed to Sirdar accident eastbound arress treated at Cranbrook hospital
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mallandaine
Morrissey Mines
Martin
Erickson
Cranbrook
Miss Dalton
W. H. Hilton
Hamonton
Nina Attwood
Moyle
Creston
Fruit Growers Union
Union
T. E. Goodwin
Christchurch
Roy
Mahood
W. H. Hilston
Joan Mary
Spector
F. Klingensmith
E. Cartwright
Littlejohn
Dr. Henderson
Sirdar
Kootenay Landing
Cranbrook Hospital
Elko notes mix local politics and travel gossip
The Norris government is accused of helping friends while Mike McCarthy’s steam shovel crew cleans a sand slide near Eko. Reports cover meetings of the Elko Board of Trade and Conservative Association, local social events, visits by gardeners and families traveling to Fernie and Fort Steele, and a suspicious house fire at A. B. Newendorf’s residence in Fingatone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norris
Mike McCarthy
Eko
Eiko Board of Trade
Conservative Association
Pat Burns
Elko Literary and Social League
Presbyterian Church
Agnes Allen
Fernie
Belle Thomson
Columbia
Mrs. King
Waldo
C. M. Edwards
Baynes
Lodge Pole Creek
Jim Thistlebeak
Jim
Great Northern
A. B.newendorf
Fingatone
Elko board of trade backs taxes on aliens for war effort
A recorded meeting of the Elko board of trade on October 22nd urged taxing aliens working in the district at least 10 percent of earnings to aid wartime costs and ease burdens on Britishers and front line families. The letter to Major General Sam Hughes also requests internment of the 180 aliens at Morrissey, noting camps and railroad gangs employ 90 percent of them, disadvantaging locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elko Board of Trade
Sam Hughes
Ottawa
Ontario
Morrissey
Fernie News Briefs and Local Updates From Fernie Free Press
Fernie plots include visits from Torontonian Elias Rogers and a newborn daughter for Mr and Mrs Todhunter. Fernie hospital sees Rheumatic and typhoid cases. Patrotic Fund tallies show Cranbrook and Fernie raising substantial amounts. A London hospital report notes paralyses. marriages occur in Commerce and Fernie parsonages. police fines hit The Northern and Waldorf for liquor after hours.
Wardner Proceedings and Local Incidents Report
Wardner resident Chief George Welsby visiting on official business. Dan McGinnis learns three his heifers were killed on the C P R track near Jaffray. Crows Nest Pass Lumber Co plans logging camps on the little Bull this winter. Ole Holmes to grade a road to his Wallace street store. C P R mill at Bull River shut for season on Tuesday the 19th. Low water prevents log and tie removal. October 22 Ford of H Henderson overturned at the Wardner government bridge. injuries to passengers and driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Welsby
Fernie
Wardner
Dan McGinnis
Jaffray
Crows Nest Pass
Ole
Bull River
H. Henderson
Government Bridge
Without the Pale
Poem excerpt expressing deep anguish and seeking relief from suffering. The author Marle Brown from Cranbrook British Columbia writes of haunted nights and faith, asking if divine mercy might spare her from a bleak end beyond the pale. Dated October 28 1915.
Bard of the Rockies sings verse of war weariness
A local literary figure Tommy Atkins submits a verse mocking the Kaiser and praising Allied victory symbols. The poem notes surrender and German defeat, with a chorus of anti Kaiser sentiment and Allied triumph. The piece reflects wartime morale and public humor.
Justice in Wetaskiwin District Woman faces death sentence
A Canadian newspaper notes a Wetaskiwin district woman has been sentenced to death for shooting a rival in a marriage where the husband lived openly with another woman. The piece argues the husband caused the collapse of the home and society, while the Bulletin supports the judge's harsh verdict as aligned with the evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wetaskiwin
Drunkenness Cure Sold At Med Acura
An advertised remedy Alcura claims to cure alcoholism and aid sobriety. It offers Alcura No 1 secretly in coffee or food and Alcura No 2 as a voluntary treatment. A free booklet is promised, with Druggists Beattie Murphy Co Limited Cranbrook BC selling for $1 per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beattie - Murphy Co., Limited
Cranbrock
B. C
Frederick James Gavin
Waldo
Baynes Lake Land Company, Limited
Slater
Land Registry Office
Samuel R. Rub
Lida Harriet Putnam
Eles
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lodge and Society
Loyal Orange Lodge
Royal Black Knights of Ireland Hall
Baker Street
Garrett
W.M. T. O. Horsman
KEY City Lodge
Fraternity Hall
Belourning Odéfellows
W. M. Harris
W. Russell
Sec
Knights OF
Pythias Cranbrook, B.C
Carr
C.C. F
Christian
Maple Leaf Rebekae Lodge
Fraternity Mall
Rebeka
Sis. C. Bennet
N. G
Sis. A. Hickenlothain
Overseas Club
Maple Hall
E. Y. Brake
Agerate
Xanle
Women’s Institute
W. B. McFarlane
John Shaw
P.O. Box
Cranbrook Farmers’ Institute
A. B. Smith
Alb. H. Webb
B.C
Arnold Wallinger Phlone
Cranbrook, B.C
Parker
Lethbridge Coal Xl-Ite Powder Imperial Ol Co
The
Kootenay Orchestra
R. W. Edmondson Cranbrook
Joe Marapodi
Chah
Minard
Liniment
DR. Devan
Mbar
Murphy Us
Thomas T. Mecredy
W. F. Gurd
BES
King & Green
Ovr
Ferencons
Bresings Guadeys
Armetreagie
F. B. Miles
Hanson
Granbrook
Granbrook Cottage Hospital
Nurelag
Arden Ave
A Galmon
P. O
P. O. Box
W. BR. Beatty
Fenwick Avenue
Baker St
MacPherson
Wertury Ave
City Hall
C. F. Nidd
Organist Methodist Church
Norbury Ave
Montana Laundry
General Merchant Employments Agente
Mercury Ave
City Mall
L. M. Smith
Ladies and Gentlemen's Hats
Peerless
J. Taylor
Perry Creek Hotel
Perry Creek
Britah Columbia
Arthur A
Creston Review
W. H. Crawford
Floyd Rodgers
ELEC
Preé Ben
Asya Jim Thistlebeak
Mra. Ferguson
Spokane
Eiko
North Star Park
Mrs. Klingensmith
Mra
J. M. Agnew and Son
Fort Steele
St. Eugene Mission
John Livingstone
Sunkist Orchard Co
Roosville Valley
J. A. Broley
Sun
Klst. Orchards
Rocnville
Elko
A, Birnie
Fred Roe
Fernie Free Press
Elias Rogers
Toronto
Wm. Todhunter
Corp. B
Bruce Brown
Edgar Dudley
Vernon
Hosmer
Frank Labelle
Ald
Robichaud
Patriotic Fund
Wm. Bird
Home Bank
Winnipeg
Billy
R. Morton
41 Market Co
Edmonton
Swift & Co
Jonas Gerrard
Margaret Brown
D. M. Perley
Tom Corsan
London
Taber
Robi. W. Croft
Olive Peacock
Commerce
Alta
Methodiat Parsonage
Alstead
Coal Creek
Manondene
Cranbrook, B. C
Rockies
Tommy Atkins
Berlin
Wilhelm
Justice
Med Acura
Zam Buk
Coleman
Bulletin
Bezes
Central Hotel
Maryeville
British Columbia
Paul Handley
Bell Manor
North Star Hotel
Kimberley
H. W. Drew
Kootenay
British Columbia Gasette
R. A. Renwick
Department of Pane
Victoria
Kootwnay District
Province OF
Arthur Edward Blunden
Valetta
Malta
Samuel R. Roe
District Register
Kootenay District
Thomas Lowndes Washington
Marsa
Baynes Lake Lao’ Company, Limited
Lis Pendens
William Freeman Wright
Bowness
A. C. Bowness
Imperial Bank of Canada
Toronto Capital
Savings Department
Savings Bank
Reams
Athalmer, B.C
Irving C. Wedd
Cranbrook Branch
H. W. Supple
Coeur D'Alene
Spokane, Washington
New Union Station
Goo
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