Ranchers Visit Town for Horse Care and Feeding
Ranchers passing through town can access care and feeding for their horses. Local services offer stabling, grooming, and nourishment to support traveling livestock.
11 Apr 1901
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1901
Page
1
Ranchers passing through town can access care and feeding for their horses. Local services offer stabling, grooming, and nourishment to support traveling livestock.
The Excelsior Bakery announces a full line of Bread Cakes and Pastry with daily freshness. Foreman Mr Reeves returns from a holiday trip to the east bringing the latest designs and receipts from Toronto bakeries. Parties can rely on up to date baking offerings.
The adjourned town council meeting approved amended waterworks rates replacing bath and tub charges with a public bath house rate. Tenders for waterworks connections were opened from Williamson Rae Tilsley Bishop Greenwood B C and others with multiple pipe sizes and prices. The union joint was substituted for wiped joint on corporation cock and inspections of ferry noted with McBurney paid for two checks. A range of routine orders on property assessment, police matters, and health reports were moved forward.
A Saturday gathering in Council Chambers of the local Stock Association produced a slate of resolutions for the Western Stock Growers Association annual meeting. Proposals cover grazing and water reservations at Walsh and Dunmore Junction, springs on the Red Deer trail, lower grazing lease rentals, and compulsory hide inspection when cattle are killed. Also urged are a Medicine Hat district sheep ranching reserve, public lease notices specify animal type, possible creation of a Live Stock Exchange, and a wolf bounty inspector. Additional items call for beef shipments of estrayed cattle, bull removal rules, and leaseholder purchase options. A committee was named to locate water sources and report, and Bray was chosen as Medicine Hat delegate with travel costs covered by the association.
The council adjourned without decisive steps on the accident case, leaving the town or contractor dispute unresolved and no clear determination announced.
The Maple Creek small-pox quarantine has been raised and the Medical Hall will reopen with druggists goods stationery and more. The Sheep Growers Association holds its annual meeting on Monday the 12th and a public meeting with Mr F W Hodson Dominion Live Stock Commissioner may be held at Medicine Hat next week to discuss industry topics.
Dr Mc Eachren of Montreal informs Secretary Bray that Col Dent will tour Alberta and the Northwest Territories in May to buy army horses for South Africa. He will spend April in Ontario and Quebec, with exact dates and buying sites to be published later.
The spring outbreak prompted a quarantine around an isolated hospital that burned. Two policemen, initially quarantined for eruptions, were released after vaccination showed strong immunity. No illness developed in the hospital companion, and the home quarantine of Jas. S. McCichan was also lifted with no further developments.
The Medicine Hat Cricket Club announces its annual meeting for Friday night April 12 at 8 pm in the Assiniboia Hotel. Large attendance is requested. A. E. Whiffin, Secretary. Also advertised are buggies buckboards and a notice about order books and receipts for sale at the News Office.
April from Josephburg reports unsettled weather with frosts at night and day storms. Residents note returning Germans, Strathcona seen in good condition, prairie fires and fines for arson near Eagle Butte, census work, and a church service planned for April 14. Rumors of marriages surface as the town eyeing the C P R plans to clear Donald ruins this summer.
ShaNnNnon infant George Arthur, son of W J Shannon, aged months and 15 days, dies at Medicine Hat with funeral set for Friday at 2 pm. Rossetti Peter Rossetti, age 23, also reported at Medicine Hat on the 7th inst.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.