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Newspaper
Grand Forks Sun
Location
Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1920
Page
4
City notes report a large audience at The Sun lecture in the Empress theater on Tuesday evening. Mentions of local residents and partial social updates follow, including property sale arrangements and visitors returning to Ottawa and Kingston after brief stays.
Dao Matheson, superintendent of the Rock Candy mine, visited the city Wednesday evening. G P Sharseh mid of Vancouver arrived for business tied to the Moderation league organization branch. The irrigation committee secretary says ranchers are signing the water municipality petition more slowly than expected.
An old warning explains genuine Aspirin bears the Bayer Cross on packaging. It notes Bayer tablets made in Canada, sold in Mundy tin boxes of 12, and finger sized packages. The ad urges public care to avoid imitations and to seek the Bayer trade mark.
Notice of a Court of Revision sitting on Monday September 13 1920 at ten in the forenoon at the Court House Grand Forks to revise the voter list for the electoral district. Persons may appear to be entered on the list or register at the sitting. The list may be inspected at the registrar of voters office in Grand Forks August.
The Marion of the Administration Act appoints Donald McGatlum as Official Administrator for the Velenee estate. Creditors must file verified claims by September 1, 1920 and debts are to be paid forthwith. Filed at Grandy Parks Electoral District on August 1, 1920.
Private brake checks use padlock safety paper kept in stock by The San Jose Department. A note invites those painting neat signs for their business places to call AW PB O'Connor, a returned soldier.
A water diversion and use notice announces Maple Leaf Mines Limited seeks a permit to divert 160 inches of water from the Fite Kertle River area near Franklin Creek for power at its Maple Leaf Mines beyond Wagon Bridge. The notice, posted at Grand Forks and Victoria offices, invites objections within 30 days of first publication.
The note claims printing costs at the TPhA Sun office remain nearly unchanged from prewar prices. It sarcastically warns that if you cannot see it the son, it didn’t happen or wasn’t worth mentioning.
The act lowers minimum land prices to five dollars per acre for first class and two eighty per acre for second class. Pre-emption tightens to surveyed lands only with records limited to viable agricultural, non timber land. It abolishes partnerships but allows up to four adjacent pre-emptions with joint residence and separate improvements.
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