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Newspaper
Moyie Leader
Location
Moyie, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1907
Page
4
A town feature on Moyie Lake and its busy season notes the public school needs painting and camp spots for visitors. It recalls Peck MacSwain taking over the Leader, mentions Fernie’s express delivery idea, and critiques San Francisco mayor Schmitz’s graft scandal while discussing Orchard and Durant in the Haywood case with broad local reflections.
The British Columbia Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met for two days in Nanaimo on June 12 and 13. East Kootenay delegates attended including F E Simpson, H Higgenbotham, F J Smyth, and T H White. An amendment to limit lodge representation to 100 members per lodge plus one for over 100 was approved, changing the prior per 50 member rule. Officers were elected with Thomas Imbleton as grand master and D G Daly and D L McKenzie as grand representatives. The Nanaimo lodges hosted a steamboat excursion and a large banquet with about 200 attendees, including MP Ralph Smith. The next session will be in New Westminster.
A Grand Forks Sun report notes a spring graft attempt pairing a strawberry plant with milkweed aimed at yielding both fruit and cream. The result favors cream production over berries, considered not entirely satisfactory.
A playful meditation on marriage versus single life. The speaker weighs marrying and disappointing one woman against remaining single and disappointing several, pondering the tradeoffs of life choices and love.
The Greater Norris and Rowe show promises two complete performances with one admission, featuring superbly trained wild beasts, aerials, gymnasts, and acrobats. I Norris, famed wild animal trainer, with John Carroll, equestrian director, has prepared a broad program including Arabian stallions and Shetland ponies, set to tour this season beginning at Cranbrook on Monday, June 24th.
In Prince Rupert the village sits idle as 890 residents await action on Karen Island townsite talks with natives. Half the population cleared land after the last steamer, while others survey or watch. A stalled company negotiation prolongs delay, possibly for a year or more. Also advertised are Chamberlain’s remedies as affordable home treatments for common ailments, with a $1.25 set of five products sold by Moyie Drug & Stationery Co.
Notice in the Cranbrook Land District states David John Elmer of Kingsgate BC a hotel keeper intends to pay for and purchase 40 acres described from a Moyie river post at the northwest corner of lot 6423. The parcel runs 20 chains south and west, then north to the Boyle river and downstream to the start. Dated June 10, 1407.
Byron C. St. Clair timber ranger of Cranbrook applies for a special timber license on 610 acres described by a boundary involving Moyie Lake and Portland Mineral Claim. The locator is Byron Campbell St. Clair, dated May 4 1907, noting prior mineral rights.
At this season of the year the first unnatural looseness of a child's bowels should have immediate attention. The best thing that can be given is Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by castor oil as directed with each bottle of the remedy. For sale by the Moyie Drug and Stationery Co.
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