Cranbrook Notes: 0050.0293
ABOUT PEOPLE – Living In or Visiting
C.J. Campbell, of Wardner, was a visitor this week.
Contractor Wellman was down from
V. Liddecoat recently arrived from
Joe Laidlaw made a trip over to the North Star mines this week.
Contractor Campbell and wife are sojourning at the Commercial.
Thomas Kennedy, the merchant was a visitor to
W.R. Stewart, of McLeod, a well-known cattleman, was in town a few days ago.
Contractor Campbell, wife and children are sojourning at the Commercial these days.
F.A. McHugh, a well-known contractor, was in circulation around town during the week.
George K. Leeson, of the bridge contracting firm Leeson & McGilvary, was in town Saturday.
I. Isbester, from
William Carlin, the heavy-weight merchant of
R.B. Dixon, of Egan & Co., contractors, arrived in town Tuesday, en route to the camp west of town. Mr. Dixon says their work will be finished up in a few days.
William Eschwig, of the Kootenay House, Wardner, was in town Monday; he came with the intention of building a hotel if he could find a suitable location.
Fred Smythe, the enterprising editor of the Moyie Leader, was in town Saturday and Sunday. Fred thinks both
Gold Commissioner Armstrong was a visitor to
R.E. Beattie, dispenser of castor oil, Epsom salts and other sweetmeats too numerous to mention, drove down to Wardner Sunday evening, returning Monday.
S. McCrimmon, one of the pleasantest and highly esteemed of many gentlemen who had contracts on the C.N.P.R., departed for his home in
G.R. Leask, wife and child, arrived Sunday from
George Lietch departed Sunday night for Coal Creek; he will be engaged there for about 30 days in assisting in setting up the machinery in the mammoth sawmill at that point and getting it running.
Judge Fraser, of Moyie, was a
T.W. Leask, of
Messrs. W.C.J. Wakefield and J.C. Forster of the Fort Steele Mercantile Company, residing at
Hugh Stephens, of Stephens & Crahan, proprietors of the Wardner hotel, was in town Sunday; Mr. Stephens has a boundless amount of faith in the future of Wardner, but being an American western man, the railroad having reached him he will tru to find some place where there is none.
Miss Jennie Burge, of Kalispell, is visiting her father, Oliver Burge, of the