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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
6
Reports from The Pas and Beaver Lake cover arrivals and departures, road and street work, boating activity, and local business mentions. Notable items include new launches, gas boat operations, construction of cottages, a side path on Second Street, and a busy transport and trade scene with several residents and visitors named.
In Yellowstone National Park visitors use boiling springs as washing tubs. A family bag of clothes is hung in a spring basin and emerges clean but sometimes is ripped apart when the spring erupts, scattering garments as the party wanders away.
The New York Sun notes Chinese scholars value rubbings from stone monuments. Traders, notably Liu Li Chang, send agents to obtain paper rubbings from shrines and famous stones. Rubbings from Nestorian sites and the Confucius temple at Chefoo attract foreign interest, with government limits on further copies.
Judge R. H. Myers of Winnipeg presides over the Slaney district court of revision where a split opinion leaves only Myers able to rule. Conservatives claim about 100 names were struck from the Golden Lion list while Liberals dispute the extract and cite brewing details and registration notes from Prince Albert Sask. The Pas sees rising building activity as lots sell at auction spurring construction, even as readers report missed deliveries and request corrections.
T H P Lamb of Moose Lake returned from The Pas with a lumber charge for a new Moose Lake school. Miss E Cooks will lead the school. Rev B Deacon, Cedar Lake missionary, spoke at Moose Lake, and Lamb rode the Avis to Prince Albert for the synod. Lamb notes C T Mitchell, former Philadelphia teacher, has obtained Canadian citizenship.
The Minasin completed its first voyage Sunday carrying twenty passengers. Capt. Ross reports a smooth water route with expected heavy traffic for the season. The boat stopped at Beaver Lake portage and picked up twenty seven passengers at Cumberland. Returning travelers include G K Bancroft H Parker Messrs Laughlin Winterton Hayes Metcalf Olsen Tipping MacDonald Geer Farnsworth and Nudler.
Mr McDougall, from Beaver Lake, spent last winter at Lake la Brushei where he found traces of copper and gold though not in paying quantities. The lake yields trout jackfish and whitefish and is good trapping country though he did not secure a large fur catch.
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