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Newspaper
Penticton Press
Location
Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1908
Page
2
The Penticton Press lists subscription rates, including $1.00 per year in advance and $1.50 for foreign subscribers. It details transient ads, lodge notices, professional cards, land and timber notices, legal advertising charges, reading notices, and contract ad rates with deadlines for changes.
Four hours on horseback reach the Ellis Creek reservoir head, built by S. O. Land Co. near Penticton. The ascent climbs about twenty five hundred feet over fifteen miles through parklike timber, with mills, gardens, and a tamarack rich landscape. The reservoir dam stands four hundred yards long and twenty five feet high, storing water for bottom land irrigation by mid July, with larger plans for Penticton creek conservation and beach lands.
Richards and Pringle's Famous Minstrels announce bold reforms and a large investment to renew and modernize their act. The managers credit the changes with establishing them as leaders in the field and set a high expectation for continued success.
A well informed student of the stage outlines a touring company that travels in its own palace cars and numbers forty people. The group features twelve nationally known comedians, twenty trained singers, a nimble six person dance sextet, eight vaudeville acts, and a band of twenty solo musicians.
Hours 9 a m to 6 p m registered letter and money order wicket closes at 6 p m. Wicket opens for a half hour after mail distribution. Arrivals per steamer Okanagan daily except Sunday 6 p m from Hedley Keremeos Olalla Allen Grove Oroville Fairview White Lake Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays 6 p m. Closing per boat and stages 9 p m daily except Saturday. For Mondays boat and stages 45 p m Sundays
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