Local News and Classifieds from Cumberland B C
Local notices list items for sale including a Chevrolet touring car in good running order and Cumberland Waterworks shares. Several residents travel or visit Victoria Nanaimo Vancouver Prince Rupert and Toronto. Military and civic figures visit or depart with local events and a Christmas holiday school closure noted. A sale of work by Holy Trinity Church and help wanted for a general servant position are listed.
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Chevrolet
B. Grieves
Cumberland
Enormous British Navy and Mercantile Marine Effort Praised
Leeds reporter recalls Lloyd George speech praising American aid and Britain’s wartime sea effort. He notes 1.9 million Americans crossed, 1.1 million aboard British ships, and Britain’s fleet defending liberty across eras. He describes German subs in British ports and the British army crossing the Rhine into Germany.
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Leeds
Eng
Wilson
Europe
Lloyd George
Joseph McClay
Downing Street
America
British Mercantile Marine
Britain
Queen Elizabeth
Louis XIV
Napoleon
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Germany
Rhine
Victory Loan 1918 finances and local notices
The Cumberland Bevan and Union Bay Patriotic War Fund reports receipts of 431,463.41 since 1914 with 31,802.25 expended and 11,661.16 remaining in Royal Bank of Canada Cumberland. The fund has 41 families supported. no salaries, monthly grants from 20 up to 67.50. Also noted: Spanish influenza expenses 1,787.29 for School Isolation Hospital, possible provincial aid. Neelands Stock Co. to stage Princess Chrysanthemum Jan 2. thanks for sympathy and florals after illness. A. McQuillan of Royal Flying Corps back. lost child mitt. thanks to community. Mike Glazbrook back in town.
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Cumberland, Bevan and Union Bay
Royal Bank of Canada
Cumberland
W. W. Willard
J. Sutherland
F. A. McCarthy
Geo. K. MacNaughton
M.D. Beyan
J. Quinn
G. Leask
G. J. McLeod
W. Simpson
Union Bay
W. Hill
A. C. Dunn
G. Russell
Cumberland B.C
Yours Truly
Red Cross Society
Derwent and Allen
Vancouver Island
Dunsmuir Ave
Shawnigan
Penrith Ave
Cobble Hill
Maryport Ave
Windermere
Duncan
Chemainus
Camp
Central Alberni
Eva Bickle Cumberland
Richardson Courtenay
J. Shaw
T. Graham
Alberni
Marsh
City Council Holds Dec 8 Meeting Briefly
The regular City Council session in the Council Chambers on Tuesday evening December 8, with Mayor Harrison presiding, adopted minutes and addressed hospital and financial items. Nurses who aided during the influenza epidemic were to be thanked and possibly paid, and the court of revision updated voters lists with several removals and additions.
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Harrison
Banks, Braes
Halliday
Pearson
Abe Peacock
Campbell Bros
Thos. H. Bate
Royston Lumber Co
Alex. McKinnon
Cumberland Waterworks Co
B. & K. Milling Co
B.C. Telephone
Cumberland Electric Light Co
Joseph Shaw
Leiser & Co
Scripbel Bros
A. H. Peacey
City Meat Market
K. Nakanishi Surahane Sess Light Co
Thos. H. Mumford
Ald
Carey
Ald. Braes
Court of Revision
Pearce
Cumberland Bevan and Union Bay Patriotic War Fund
November 1918 statement reports balance 11845.74 dollars and collections 1216.90 dollars with 114.48 dollars interest paid by Royal Bank for three months.
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Royal Bank
Provincial Court Convicts Two in Deer Hunting Case
In Courtenay the Provincial Police Court found A R Kierstead and Charles Reynolds guilty of hunting deer with a head light near Oyster River. Each received 80 days imprisonment with no hard labor. Appeals were filed and bail of 250 dollars each was set.
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Courtenay
A. R. Kierstead
Charles Reynolds
P. P. Harrison
Reynolds
Jeremy
Vancouver
Kierstead
A. T. Stephenson
Oyster River
Christmas Window Displays At Campbell Bros Store
The dry goods windows of Campbell Bros. are praised for their Christmas attire and continental taste. The display was designed under the direction of Mr. Charles McDonald, earning credit for placing elaborate presents in position.
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Campbell Bros
Charles McDonald
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Charles S. Whittlesey
Argonne Forest
R. P. Christie
Victoria
Thomas Watson
Nanaimo
Nature
Miss Turner
John Furbow
Bert Jones
J. W. Montgomery
Henry Devlin
C .H. MacIntosh
Dudley Michell
The
Provincial Mines Department
F. Porritt
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Prince Rupert
R. L. Rideout
Thomas Rickson
William McFadyen
Aviation Corps
Toronto
Ame Horne
Mrs. Owen
H. B. Conrad
Flossie Horwood
Lisla Carroll
Minto
Holy Trinity Church
Haster
Amy B. Clinton
Sec
W. J. Jeffrey
Varcouver
F. J. Dalby
Kilda Watson
Geo. IX. MacNaughton
Cumberland, B.C
Elsie Janis
England
British Navy
Mercantile Marine
George Wilkinson
Neelands Stock Co
Iloilo Theatre
Hilda Watson
M. Watson
A. McQuillan
Royal Flying Corps
W. C. Harrison
Mike Glazbrook
the City Council
City of
John Clark
Robert Walker
William Gleason
John P. Watson
W. B. Lawrence
Joseph Walker
Andrew Bogo
Antone Tomassi
Edwina ‘Tomassi
Peter Shearer
B. E. Chandler
Cumberland, Bevan, and
Union Bay Patriotic War Fund
United States
France
Mr. House
Newton D. Baker
Robert Lansing
George Creel
Joseph Tumulty
Charles E. Hughes
David F. Houston
President Wilson
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