Livery stables offer care for visiting ranchers
Wood in blocks or slab cuttings noted. Ranchers visiting town can have their horses well cared for and fed at the livery, feed and sale stables.
21 Mar 1901
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
1
Wood in blocks or slab cuttings noted. Ranchers visiting town can have their horses well cared for and fed at the livery, feed and sale stables.
The Excelsior Bakery advertises a full line of bread cakes and pastry with latest designs and receipts after the foreman R Reeves returned from a trip east to Toronto. It promotes private balls parties and wedding cakes made on short notice from their Montreal Street location.
A Monday Town Council meeting records quorums debate as By-law 127 deemed ineffective versus Municipal Ordinance. It notes authorizations to finance school site costs, waterworks valve installation, fire brigade purchases, and gas burner procurement while adjournment set for next Monday.
A special meeting at the Assiniboia Hotel chaired by W. Cousins discussed buying land for society exhibitions. A committee was formed to organize a joint stock company, open subscriptions, and begin incorporation work. The secretary was directed to advertise land for sale south-west of town. A later committee meeting renamed the body the Medicine Hat Exhibition Association with 200 shares of $50 each.
Executive Committee chaired by 2nd Vice-President Forster held in Weliband's Spring gathering for bulls tendered by St McKay and Moise Daze. Moise Daze tender accepted at 50 cents per head per month to gather at Weliband's Spring until April 15. April 6 general meeting set. annual Freezing fixed for April 20 at 2 pm.
The article notes beef as Egypt’s favorite meat in antiquity, with a butcher cutting oxen by knife and steel, leather use and tanning, and blood used for cooking. It mentions Da mascus as an ancient great cattle market and hints at possible refrigeration and canning in the distant past. It also references Cypress Hills lumber plans and Calgary beer priced at $2 per four gallon keg at Whifin's Liquor Store.
Maple Creek hosts a Tuesday evening show at Parson's Halls featuring a mixed programme of solos duets trios music and recitations plus a farce Paddy Miles the Limerick Boy The event appears in the Maple Creek notice column.
The funeral of Charles Guernsey age 29 who was killed cutting timber in Cypress Hills last week was held Friday. Fort Qu Appelle native and son of Major F W Guernsey Port Hope Ontario, formerly with the N W M Police, came from Macleod AB for the service. Mericine Hat Masonic Lodge officiated with Alberta Lodge A F and A M and Masons gave full rites at St Barabas Church after a service at Tom and Martins undertaking. Pall bearers were Jas Cook W Crawford W N Adsit T M McKay T E Carbery A W R Markley. The service included burial rites and a final address by Rev W Nicolls.
Frontier I O L No 1549 Medicine Hat drafts a condolence letter to the family of the late Robert Watson. The notice praises his sterling qualities and expresses sympathy and faith to sustain the family through their grief. Signed by W J Reid J A Darke and S W Sprague on behalf of the Lodge.
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