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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
5
Cranbrook briefs list visitors and residents from nearby towns. shopping ads for rooms rentals and millinery openings. local events include a dance at the Edison theatre and a boys brigade drill. Notables include Dr F W Green, Captain C Padson, and S J Mighton returning from the east.
Miss Nellie Grace Crandall of Chipman wed Irving Hewand Willson of Cranbrook B C in a morning ceremony at the Baptist church. The couple plans to travel to St John Toronto Buffalo and Cranbrook before settling on Armstrong Avenue. A large luncheon followed with family and friends attending.
A vivid Cranbrook window display at Horns Bros features a Fall Millinery theme with wheat sheaf decorations and a display of hats many imported from Paris and others replicas of Paris London and New York styles. Burns Bros. earns praise for organizing the notable exhibit and its bright color array and inventive presentation.
A branch of the Young People’s Society has been inaugurated in the smelter town with officers including President Mrs. Chisholme and Vice Presidents Mrs. F. E. Baird and Mrs. Watters. Secretary Mrs. James. Arrangements will provide pleasant profitable winter evenings with devotional missionary literary and social recreations.
The Methodist Church lists services for Sunday September 20 with morning worship at 11 and evening sermon for young men titled Your Young Men Shall See Visions. Sunday school and Bible classes meet at 3. The church invites town men and visitors to attend. Tuesday league social at 8. Prayer meeting Wednesday. Choir practice Friday. Ladies Aid prepares for the church anniversary and Harvest Festival supper to be held Tuesday the 29th. Rev Dr B B Ryckman will preach special sermons for the Harvest Festival on Sunday September 27.
The Nelson fruit fair secretary reports single fare return tickets will be issued by two railways from the 21st to 26th with final return on the 28th. The Crows Nest line from Medicine Hat offers the same terms. Half fare for children. Visitors from East Kootenay and prairie towns are expected. the fair promises broad exhibits and strong turnout.
Rome reports the Propaganda appoints Mabel Dontenwell, bishop of New Westminster, as archbishop of Victoria replacing Archbishop Orth. Rev Alexander McDonald of Antigonish succeeds Dontenwell. Dontenwell, well known in Cranbrook, will base headquarters in Vancouver.
A baptismal service at Marali conducted by Rev. R. ugnes Joe elie Artes welcomed the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Watkins. Also at Cranbrook on the 14th Da Burton, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Moore, was baptized.
For sale five square miles of timber located three miles from Crows Nest Pass Railway near Cranbrook British Columbia, estimated at 15 million feet. Easy logging and downhill roads. Apply to Mrs E H Husband 121 Main St Hamilton Ont. 24-81? 1
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