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Newspaper
Prince Rupert Journal
Location
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 23, 1916
Page
3
Courtenay Condensed Milk Co. of Courtenay Vancouver Island produces Buttercup Condensed Milk praised for quality. The local process yields less of the usual flavor, a point in its favor. Kelly, Douglas & Company report growing local and distant demand for the product.
Lieut.-Col. Victor W. Odlum writes from Poperinghe that he and Canadian officers found and improved the grave of Lieut.-Col. Hart McHarg. Private Bryenton, an amateur artist, painted the cemetery with French Belgian and British graves and the nearby Belgian hospital. the artwork is being sent to the Hart McHarg Auxiliary in Vancouver.
Captain Barney Johnson, formerly of the Prince Rupert, joined the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve in 1914 and survived a German mine strike that blew off the bow rudder and two tanks. He later commands a larger craft after the perilous voyage to an English port.
Pioneer piano tuner and oger expert Sfarry G Evans advertises tuning services. Orders take at Bu ger and Denike's, Wark's jewelry store, with a note to leave details there.
The department reduces lighting and upkeep from 12 cents to 7 cents per unit. Under the new plan the lighting costs about $90 per light annually, down from $146.
I J Fred Ritchie agent for Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting Power Co Ltd acts to file for Certificate of Improvements to obtain Crown Grant for Kaien Fraction Commo Dore Nabob Fraction mineral claims in Skeena Mining Division Cassiar District adjacent to Hidden Creek Granby Bay B C. Action under section 85 must be started before certificate issue. Dated May 19 1916.
Robert Cecil Gosse of Vancouver Canneryman will apply to lease lands in Skeena Land District near the Grand Trunk Pacific right of way. The parcel covers about 10 acres along low water and boundary lines described from Lot 117 Range 5 Quast District. Date May 17, 1916.
The Surf Inlet Power Company Limited deposits site and plan descriptions with the Minister of Public Works in Ottawa and the District Registrar at Prince Rupert for wharves and a power house at Surf Inlet Princess Royal Island B C It will apply for approval and leave to construct after one month from the first publication dated May 29 1916 Vancouver BC
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