Blast from the Past - December 9th to 15th 100 Years Ago

100 Years Ago

The week Dec 9^th to Dec 15th

Readers please note that we would not use some of this wording today - however these headlines and articles are taken directly   From The Cranbrook Herald December 12th, 1912.

 Pictures of the 101 Ranch will be shown at the Auditorium Friday night.

— The popular comic opera “The Cingalee” is to be performed by the Cranbrook Opera Society next week.

— The Cranbrook Farmers’ Institute held a meeting at the Government building last Wednesday.  A motion was unanimously carried protesting against the action of some local merchants, who, in spite of the well-known fact that hundreds of acres of potatoes were grown in this district this past season have ordered their winter supply from outside the district.

— A large supply of Japanese oranges for the holiday trade arrived this week for the local merchants.

— It is expected that the new Indian School, at the St. Eugene Mission, will be taken over from the contractor during the coming week. There will be a formal opening later on.

— The Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church conducted a very enjoyable and profitable Bean Feast.  There were eight booths, all beautifully decorated and filled with timely Christmas Gifts.  The bean supper was a rare feast to which quite a large number did justice.  The takings were substantial which will be used to wipe out the debt on the new organ.

— The Kootenay Central Railway has a rail laying gang busily at work between Fort Steele and Wasa.

— Two carloads of horses were landed here this week by J. Turpin from the State of Washington.

— Dr. Hugh Watt has permanently taken up residence at Elko, where he is building a home and a small hospital. He has been gazetted medical health officer for the Elko district.

— Miss Amy Woodland has been engaged as principal of the Fort Steele public school. She will be assisted in her work by Miss Eleanor Curley, a recent arrival from Liverpool, England.

— Mr. and Mrs. A. H. DeWolf will shortly take up residence in the Geo. Powell house for the winter months, but expect to build a home for themselves in the city in the coming spring.

— J. S. Campbell. C.P.R. locomotive engineer, left yesterday for the Old Country, Where he will spend his Christmas holidays, returning here in the spring.

— James Finlay while out on Vancouver Island last week purchased the tourist hotel at Shawnigan Lake and has put a good man in charge to run the place.

— The Cranbrook Conservative Association is putting forward the name of J. D. McBride for appointment to the senate, and West Kootenay Conservatives are boosting for the appointment of R. F. Green, M.P.

— With the object of cutting timber from limits adjoining the international boundary line on the Canadian side. A. E. Watts is building a small mill a short distance north of Port Hill, Idaho. This will be the third sawmill under operation by the Wattsburg Lumber Company.

— The fine brick and concrete garage on Norbury Avenue opposite the curling rink, built by Contractor Geo. R. Leask, is now practically completed and presents a very handsome appearance. Cranbrook can now boast of the best garage between Winnipeg and the coast. A. J. Mott is the local manager.

— Cranbrook to Toronto and return $72.15; Cranbrook to Montreal and return $77.15. Take the Canadian Pacific Railway Annual Eastern Excursions.

— SACRIFICE SALE – 132 foot frontage on Norbury and 122 feet on Edward.  Positively the best available close-in corner in the City. Price $2,000.00 Half cash.