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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
3
A dense list of course items including soups fish entrées meats vegetables salads relishes and desserts. Dishes named include Lobster Cream Oyster Marguerite style soup boiled trout rabbit a la minute and various game and poultry options with sauces and dressings.
A long menu lists entrees including tenderloin of beef and roast turkey with cranberry sauce, goose with apple sauce, duck with red currant jelly, and multiple seafood and paté dishes. Desserts feature peach meringue pie, New York plum pudding, and various creams and jellies.
A list of dishes appears with various meats and preparations including fried bass with buttered potatoes, halibut with maitre d hotel sauce, spring chicken with Maryland style sauces, pigeon, fried sweetbreads with mushrooms, jack rabbit pie, consommé royal, multiple jellies and puddings, roasted turkey and goose, and festive desserts such as mince pie and plum pudding.
Washington forecast notes a sequence of disturbances from Dec 24 to early Jan, with a strong cold wave in January and widespread cold temperatures. It warns of heavy rains and snow southward, advising farmers to hold grains and refrain from selling to maximize prices into 1909.
In Butte a fatal stabbing occurred after a dispute over wild ducks. George Morin, a well known local restaurant owner, was attacked with a meat knife and died of the wounds. The assailant, Arthur B., was involved in the incident at Donlan's department store area. Investigators outline the sequence of events and motive as the case proceeds.
A man shot near Fish Creek, 18 miles south of town, was found with $2000 to $3000 in gold in his shack and no killer clue. The suspect, known as Tomato Can Bill Waterhouse, reportedly died by suicide in the same city over the weekend.
Dividend payments of 8 percent on multiple issues, totaling 480,000 noted. Balance carried forward 400,997.94. Deposits at call and to other banks listed. Dominion notes on hand 8,018,230.00. Call and short loans substantial. total assets 1,118,685.08 shown. directors proposed for election. staff praised for loyalty. annual report adopted.
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