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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
3
A nostalgic meditation on memory's tokens from a faded home garden. It lists personal relics such as a ring, Bible, tress, locket, violets, letters in blue ribbon, and a baby's shoe, then shifts to moral reflections on kindness, usefulness, and family harmony, urging gentle deeds and warm homes as life’s true riches.
Notice states William A. Rollins seeks transfer of the Cranbrook liquor license to W Hyde Baker for the Wentworth Hotel located on Lots 1% and 14, Block 94. August 29, 1801 date appears. Also includes mining and land registry notices for Hosmer plan amendment and Crown grant actions in British Columbia with dates in August 1908.
An essay urges husbands to support household labor saving devices on farms. It argues women face equal hardship, and machines reduce toil without fostering idleness. The piece extols domestic piety and the dream of reunion in heaven as comfort amid separation and bereavement. It ends with a hopeful note on motherhood’s enduring influence.
Tickets on sale May 4 and 18. Jones six, Wand twenty. July 6, 7, 22 and 28. August 6, 7, 20 and 22. 10S. First Class Rotini Trips Ninety Days' Limit. Routes allow travel via any recognized routes in one or both directions. To destination cast at Chicago are good via the Great Lakes.
Notice by G C Beattie F M C No B63 that within 60 days from the date he will apply to the Mining Reeds for a Certificate of Improvements for the price of a crown grant of the Matthew Creek claim located in the Fort Steele Mining Division East Kootenay District. Further notice that action is pending.
Notices announce intentions to apply for licenses to purchase land parcels along rivers and rail lines in the Crow Nest and Fort Steele districts. Names include Charles Klingensmith and Catherine McInnes, with details of lot boundaries, boundaries, and acreage. Also a separate 1908 notice for Blue Bull Fraction Mineral Claim improvements by James A. Harvey for James T. Laidlaw, seeking a Crown Grant.
The notice describes homestead eligibility in the Railway Belt British Columbia. Any core family head or male over 14 may claim one quarter section about 100 acres. Entry is at the local land office, with limited proxy rights for close relatives. Plans require six months residence and cultivation annually for three years, or alternatives allowing residence with a nearby farm or on the homestead land. Six months notice to Ottawa for patent. Coal rights may be leased for 21 years at $1 per acre annually, with a 2570 acre cap per holder and five cents per ton royalty on merchantable coal. W. W. Cory, Deputy Minister of the Interior.
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