30 Dec 1897
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 30, 1897
Page
1
We announce a two week sale of boots shoes and winter goods bought at 65 cents on the dollar with 20 percent discount for spot cash only. Stock must go and some items may be sold below cost as we start stock taking and reduce inventory. Call for bargains and cash customers preferred.
The News lists numerous new buildings erected in Medicine Hat during 1897 and a wide range of accompanying improvements. Homes on Main Street and Toronto Street, stone foundations, frame cottages, stables, fences, and verandahs are described, with additions to churches, schools, and commercial properties. Real estate activity includes townsite sales and transfers, totaling about 10,000 in value for the period, plus new heating installations and a large CP Railway structure program.
The 1897 year end June 30 public accounts report receipts of 37,820,778 and expenditures of 38,349,750, a deficit of 510,081. Capital outlay totaled 3,505,921 with railway and canal spends including Intercolonial 149,112 and St. Lawrence canal 1,355,525. Depositors’ savings reach 48,034,975, Dominion notes rise by 1,945,481, and net debt climbs to 261,528,596 with average gross interest 3.20 percent and net rate 2.76 percent.
On December 22 in the Presbyterian church Rev Lawson united Daniel Black and Jennia Hastie of Maple Creek in matrimony. A division annual dinner occurred on Christmas in the troop mess room with ex police present. The Klondyke fate looms for A division as troop changes are discussed. A school concert at Dixon's Hall drew good attendance amid mild weather with chinook conditions. Miss Ferguson left for the east and Mrs Poet and Miss Poet are listed as sick.
Our Own Corrspondent reports a large rancher and cowboy gathering at Bovine hall to form The Cypress Cowboys Club with Cockney Charlie as president and Bill Smiler as vice president. The piece notes local cattle prospects, moves of Sergt Charles Allen, and Dinkey Holland’s return as winter wanes.
A sheep rancher named Shubert reports placer gold finds in Cypress Hills creeks with samples brought in recently. Police scout Louis Cobelle also visited for a separate find on the south side. harsh weather halts both efforts, but geology suggests a northern gold belt extends from Yukon toward Cypress Hills.
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