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Cumberland Islander

Location

Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada

Date

Mar 11, 1916

Page

8

Town Topics for Sale at Kierstead's Blacksmith Shop

Advertisement notes five sets of Market Sleds priced from 40 dollars, plus auto wheels repairs offered. Local news items include residents traveling to Nanaimo Seattle and Cumberland, Council meeting to be reported, a snow and rain spell, an injury aboard S S Baroda, auditors from Vancouver visiting Canadian Collieries, a funeral for Pete Jionandla, a social by the Ladies Basketball Club with Cumberland Symphony Orchestra, and an incident of Muggsy losing his staff at the Band Hall with a bystander helping through the snow.

A.R. Kierstead West Cumberland Band Hall D.C. Macfarlane Cumberland Symphony Orchestra J. H. McMillan

Canadian Pioneers Drafts Open as Victoria Raises 100 Men

A second draft of 100 men is being raised in Victoria for the Canadian Pioneers battalion. Applicants should contact Corporal Hunt in Cumberland on March 17 at Cumberland Hotel. Miners loggers engineers road men carpenters and other trades are sought. The prior draft left for England within six weeks of starting recruitment and this one is expected to depart in about the same period.

Victoria Hunt Cumberland Cumberland Hotel England

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E. I. Reynolds Nanaimo Fred Bell Samones Wm. Harrison John Frame Seattle Brandon S. S. Baroda Union Bay Messrs. Hunter & Morton Vancouver Buttar and Chiene Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Limited Pietro Jionandla Pete Union and Comox Hospital Vincent Picketti Muggsy Guriyamai Simon Leiser & Co., Limited
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