Cumberland Fire Chief Urges Practical Advice for Summer Health
Grant Fleming M D associate secretary answers questions from the Canadian Medical Association urging care for babies in hot weather. Advice covers baths, clothing, thirst, diarrhoea prevention with breast feeding and milk pasteurization, and seeking medical care promptly. Also discusses Cumberland fire department needs and equipment, station, siren, and volunteer financing. Miss Marjorie Hopkins of Courtenay Commercial School passes Civil Service exam for Cumberland government office assignment.
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Marjorie Hopkins
Courtenay Commercial School
Cumberland
Local Car Dealers Change Hands to Selfe and Pigott
Blunt and Passie, noted local car dealers, have been acquired by Mr. R. J. Selfe and Mr. P. C. Pigott. The new owners stated the firms will be managed by them.
Visitors and social notes in Union Bay town event
Dr and Mrs Arthur Wilkinson and daughter from Oakland visit Mrs N Hudson. Miss Mary Brant honored by Ladies Sewing Club with framed picture. Capt and Mrs Andrew McCartney of Cassidy visit Mrs N McKay. Local families entertain guests from San Francisco Nanaimo Jordan River and Nanaimo. The Canadian Planter arrives from Nanoose to Port Alberni, then Eastern ports. The Walkawa arrives via Powell River and sails to San Francisco after bunkering.
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Union Bay
Arthur Wilkinson
Oakland
California
Wilkinson
Mary Brant
Ladies’ Sewing Club
M. H. Thomas
Andrew McCartney
Cassidy
N. McKay
Nanoose
Port Alberni
Banquet gifts of BC tobacco at Victoria convention
At a Canadian Manufacturers convention banquet in Victoria guests received cigarettes made from BC tobacco as gifts from the Markets Branch of the Department of Agriculture. In Comox Community Hall another lively old time dance drew a large crowd and continued into the early morning. Mr and Mrs L S Cokely of Vancouver plan a summer in Comox with Mrs T L Butters and Dennis as guests. Mrs H K Midwinter and sons of Brandon visit the Cliffe family. Miss E Finch returns to Comox Consolidated School after six weeks absent with diphtheria.
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Victoria
B. C
Markets
Department of Agriculture
Comox
E. Finch
Comox Consolidated School
Death by own action highest in West Coast regions
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada’s rate at 7.8 per 100000 and the United States at 12.1. California and British Columbia lead their regions, while Quebec posts the lowest Canadian rate. Differences by gender age race and religion are noted with calls for mental health awareness and public education.
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California
British Columbia
U.S
Canada
Quebec
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
United States
San Diego
Los Angeles
Alberta
Nova Scotian
Prussia
Georgia
Irish Free State
Mexico
Northern Ireland
New York
Three Years For Mail Thief Shrimpton Sentenced
Nanaimo B C June 9 Henry Shrimpton a transient pleaded guilty to stealing mail from a rural box on the Randwick Mail route and was sentenced by Judge Barker to three years in prison.
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S Nanaimo
B.C
Henry Shrimpton
Randwick
Barker
Shrimpton
Foresters visit Cumberland Court and social at large
Town notes report a visit by Duncan and Lady Smith district foresters to Court Cumberland Lady Foresters with addresses on their work and a social hour. Local events include a Welsh Society whist drive, a birthday party for Margaret Shortt, and various visits.
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Welsh Society
Cumberland Hall
Athletics Rally Past Happy Valley in Twilight League
The Cumberland game saw the Athletics defeat Happy Valley 7 to 2 last Thursday evening. Earlier Union Bay prevailed over the Eagles 4 to 2 in a close contest on Tuesday night.
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Cumberland
Athletics
Happy Valley
Union Bay
Eagles
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F Health Service
Canadian Medical Association
Grant Fleming, M.D
College St
Toronto
Vancouver
Alice St., Courtenay
Courtenay
W. Bruce Gordon
Dunsmuir Ave
Cumberland, B.C
Charlie Dalton
SUN Life Assurance Company OF Canada
Montreal
Hugh
Royston Lumber Co., Ltd
R. No
Cumberland, B. C
A. R. Horne
Mrs. Jones
B. Jones
Williams
L. Delatony
San Francisco
Cavalsky
Nanaimo
D. R. Haggart
A. Jack
Jordan River
Cecil Stubbs
Walkawa
Powell River
Ocean Falls
D. M. Lebourdais
Division of Education
Canadian National Committe For
West Coast
St. George St
Ont
J. Small
C. Small
A. Taylor
A. Brown
Bill Devoy
Andrew Brown
Wilbert Auchterlonie
Lang
Mrs
Roy Meikle
Dorothy Hunt
S. Hunt
Dorothy
J. C. Brown
G. Shearer
C. McDonald
Campbellton
Margaret McDonald
Bernice"Crawford
Ampheliton
Margaret Shortt
J. Shortt
Betty O'Brien
Margaret Beveridge
Margaret James
Trene Jackson
Margaret
Gwen Abrams
Annie Brown
Irene Jackson
Betty Short
Mrs. F. Dallas
H. Parkinson
Grand Assembly of the Oddfellows and Rebekahs
Local Harmony Lodge No. 22
Mary Cornes
Mrs. H. Buchanan
Jack Auchterlonie
Mann's Bakery
Capital
W. Stanaway
Seattle
Wash
Audrey Gear
Douglas Baird
Katherine Brown
Cyril Davis
Gril
Muriel Partridge
Bill Johnston
Tom Robertson
Dave Morgan
Mount Beecher
Jersey
Singapore
Matt Brown
Cumberland and Union
A. B. Clinton
E. L. Saunders
Riley
Henderson
David Hunden, Jr
Star Livery Stable
Alex Maxwell
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