"bd7b320d-4b49-4f68-b497-88e3f407cfca"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "Rainbow Ranche Collection"@en . "[unknown]"@en . "2017-08-31"@en . "Newspaper clipping titled \"Files of the Vernon News\" under the circled sub-header \"Forty Years Ago - Thursday, Dec. 5, 1907\" regarding the gold medal awarded by The Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain and the City Council meeting."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/rainbow/items/1.0355346/source.json"@en . "1 clipping"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " From the\nFILES of THE VERNON NEWS\nTen Years Ago\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thursday, December Z, 1937.\nFarmers in the North Okanagan and Salmon Arm areas\nreceived approximately $40,000 this year for their commercial pea plantings.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Clair McPhee, a popular figure in\nOkanagan sports circles for the past two decades, died suddenly Monday night.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Suffering a cracked vertebra, Ernest\nSchunter, lumber pole contractor, drove his car over 25\nmiles of rutted, narrow road from Sugar Lake to Lumby\nSunday to medical attention.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Dr. J. E. Harvey was elected presidents of the Vernon Curling Club at a meeting\nTuesday. Ai C. Liphardt was named vice-president.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vernon's sports arena is to be supervised by a group of five\ntaxpayers acting as a board of directors with power to carry\nout any policies deemed beneficial.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Vancouver's Local\nCouncil of Women, the B.C.F.G.A. and the B.C. Fruit Board\nare co-operating in a campaign to develop a livelier and\nmore informed interest in the use of B.C. apples.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Last ;\nFriday's and Saturday's fall of heavy, moist snow played\nhavoc with communication lines in Vernon and Kelowna.\n# * #\nTwenty Years Ago\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thursday, December 8, 1927.\nL. L. Stewart has announced that he will seek re-election as Mayor of Vernon in the coming civic elections.\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nRepairs on. the local skating rink are progressing favorably and, weather permitting, hockey practices will begin\naround the -middle of the month.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Shareholders in the\nVernon Fruit Union authorized the directors to build a new\npacking house, if one was needed, at a shareholders' meeting held in the Agricultural Hall in the Courthouse on\nSaturday afternoon.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A musical comedy, \"Sylvia,\" was put\non in the Empress Theatre on Friday evening by the St.\nAndrew's Players, before a7 capacity crowd.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Rt. Rev. A. J.\nDoull, Bishop of the Kootenay, returned recently from a\nvisit to the Slocan and Nelson portion of his Diocese.\nThirty Years Ago\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thursday, Dec. 6, 1917.\nVernon and immediate vicinity has subscribed $239,000\nfor the Victory Loan Drive, it is announced by Mayor Shat-\nford, the general chairman.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A civic bylaw to which little\nattention is paid is that prohibiting riding of bicycles on\nthe sidewalks. G. Ross, of the customs Office, was knocked\ndown by a bicycle on the sidewalk last week. The rider did\nnot even stop.\u00E2\u0080\u0094W. A. Lang, formerly a prominent resident\nof Peachland and now chief of the division of publicity,\nDominion Department of Agriculture, was in Vernon this\nweek.\u00E2\u0080\u0094On Saturday night, November 26, the police-mada.-\na raid on Chinatown and in one house the keeper and 17\nplayers of fan tan were rounded up. The following Monday\nin court before Magistrate Heggie, their bail of $20 each\nfor the players and $50 for the keeper was estreated as they\ndid not put in an appearance.\u00E2\u0080\u0094A fire occurred last Friday\nafternoon in which a stable and storage shed on Lyons\nStreet were destroyed.\nporty Years Ago\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thursday, Dec. 5, 1907,\nV The Royal Horticultural Socje^*o#^tSreat Britain has\n^AHSWCdefiLid^^ Columbia govern\nment exhibit of fruit. Oscar Brown Shipping Co., Vernon,\nhas been given a gold medal also.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The third annual dinner of the St. Andrew's Society was held on Frdiay night\nin the Royal Hotel and about 80 men and women attended.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094At the City Council meeting on Monday night, Mutrie &\nMutrie submittejcyu^^ north \"of Him\nStrjeJ^4\u00C2\u00A9^T\",*5nown as Bushy Park.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The flour mill at\n^\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Enderby is working day and night at present get-\nf ting ready a big order of 50,000 sacks of flour for China\nand Japan.\u00E2\u0080\u0094V. C. Maddock states that eight cars of steel\npipe are now being laid at*Okanagan Centre, and he is quite 1\nconfident that the irrigation system will be completed bvA\nl^ttie first of April. ? _,\nFifty Years Ago\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thursday, Dec. 2, 1897.\nFrank McGowen, City Clerk, treasurer and collector,\nhas resigned because his private, business was encroaching\nso much upon his time as to make it a matter of difficulty\nfor him to attend to his public duties. Four applications\nfor the post have been received, but no decision has been\nmade yet.\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Council has appointed Fred Billings as\ncity solicitor at a salary of $150 per year. He is to handle\nall legal matters and to act as returning officer at the\npolls.\u00E2\u0080\u0094Thomas McK. Lambly, for many years a resident of\nthe Interior, passed away at Kelowna recently. With his\nbrother, he was for some years owner of the townsite at\nEnderby \u00E2\u0080\u0094 It will afford satisfaction to many old time\nfriends of Capt. T. D. Shorts, the pioneer navigator of\nOkanagan Lake, to learn that despite the many rumors to\nthe contrary, the gallant and irrepressible captain is very\nmuch alive. From the time he left Vernon for the distant\nnorth some two or three years ago, no word was received\nuntil recently when Thomas Ellis, of Penticton, was sent a\nletter. Capt. Shorts is in the Klondyke, it is reported."@en . "Clippings"@en . "Okanagan Valley (B.C. : Region)"@en . "2013_57_04_05_18"@en . "10.14288/1.0355346"@en . "English"@en . "http://www.lakecountrymuseum.com"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from The Lake Country Museum and Archives: http://www.lakecountrymuseum.com/contact/"@en . "Original Format: Lake Country Museum and Archives. Rainbow Ranche Collection. 2013_57_04_05_18"@en . "Farms"@en . "Farming"@en . "Orchards"@en . "Ranches"@en . "Pest control"@en . "Pesticides"@en . "Irrigation"@en . "Fruit"@en . "Fruit industry"@en . "Newspaper clipping titled \"Files of the Vernon News"@en . "Text"@en .