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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
18
News from The Pas covers a busy period with Oak Sidewalk construction on Second Street, weddings at the Catholic Church, a dance at Dreamland theatre, and social visits by residents to Beaver Lake and Cedar Lake. Several trips by boats, launches, and canoes are noted along with local business updates and community arrivals.
Genuine extract of white barley malt and hops. Nourishing stimulating refreshing and non intoxicating brew. Brewed and bottled by Golden Lion Brewing Co of Prince Albert Sask Beware of imit ations Ask for Golden Lion brand.
The sale of lots at public auction has spurred substantial building activity in The Pas with many houses under construction and the sound of hammer and saw heard across the town.
A Utah or Yellowstone tourist tale describes travelers using boiling springs as wash tubs. A bag of clothes left in the Old Faithful basin was torn apart when the geyser erupted, scattering garments. The piece jokes about nature providing washing aids and a busy housewife finding easy laundering in the park.
The Liu Li Chang stationery traders in Peking send agents to obtain rubbings from famous monuments. They collect from sites including Nestorian tablets at Sianfu, the Mohammedan tablet, and Confucius temple at Chefoo Shantung. Prohibitions have been issued due to fading inscriptions.
In Slaney's hall Judge R H Myers of Winnipeg presides over the court of revision. A difference of opinion exists on the outcome with Myers reportedly the only one qualified to decide. Conservatives claim about one hundred names were struck. Liberals dispute this, listing figures: Old list 1913 6 600, names added at registration 626, added at Court of Revision 24.
A small number of readers report not receiving The Pas Herald. The office seeks to rectify all mistakes and asks subscribers to notify the paper promptly of any delivery irregularities or service issues.
T H P Lamb of Moose Lake returned from The Pas with a barge of lumber for a new Moose Lake school. Miss E Cooks will lead the school. Rev H Deacon, Cedar Lake missionary, spoke at Moose Lake services and rode with Lamb to the synod in Prince Albert. Lamb reports C T Mitchell, formerly of Philadelphia and late Indian school teacher, has become a Canadian citizen.
The Minasin returned Sunday from her first trip to the Beaver Lake portage with twenty passengers onboard. Capt. Ross reports a good water route all the way and predicts heavy traffic for the season. The boat stopped where the Beaver Lake road begins, picking up twenty seven passengers at Cumberland and others from The Pas by land or by canoe and launch from Prince Albert. Passengers included K. Bancroft H. Parker Messrs Laughlin Winterton Hayes Metcalfe Olsen Tipping MacDonald Geer Farnsworth Nadler.
Mr. McDougall, from Beaver Lake, wintered at Lake la Brushei and found traces of copper and gold but not in paying quantities. The lake yields abundant fish like trout, jackfish, and whitefish and offers good trapping country, though his fur catch was not large.
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