Alberni Pioneer News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2024-04-09
issued: 1907-11-30
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note: DEC 4-1907 ?IA, ONEER NEWS. -O VOL. 1. ALBERNI, B. C, NOV. 30. 1907. NO. 16. NEWS GENERAL AND PERSONAL Walter Grieve, of Laggan, arrived last night on a visit to his parents. A business meeting of the Alberni Athletic and Social club will be held in Brand's hall this evening at 7:30. Miss Ivy Dawson, of Beaver Creek, who has been attending school in Nanaimo, returned home last evening. Albert Raymond, brother of Mrs. W. R. H. Prescott, arrived in town last night and will spend a short holiday here. H. G. Leslie, topographer of the C. P. R. location party, who has been on a trip to Vancouver, returned last night. The Alberni Athletic club will hold an informal entertainment tonight. A couple of boxing bouts will be on the programme. Non-members will be admitted for a small fee, payable at the door. 4 Clarke's Red Humber car is in town, anc will leave for Nanaimo again on Monday. All other cars seem to be out of commission for the present, but Clarke has no idea of tying up as long as there is any travel in sight. He has certainly made a splendid showing on the road between here and Nanaimo, going and coming in all sorts of weather, in daylight or in black darkness, and never a mishap. W. E. Knapp Injured. W. E. Knapp, general manager of the Red Cliff Lumber company, who left here last week for Duluth, is in the Jubilee hospital at Victoria with a bullet wound in his leg. Up to latest reports Mr. Knapp was not in a condition to explain how he recieved the wound and the shooting is a mystery. It is thought by the police that it was an accident. It was about 8:35 on Wednesday evening when a couple of people in the barroom of the Willows hotel heard cries for help, and rushing out they found Mr. Knapp lying on the road with blood oozing from a wound in his leg. A few feet from him a loaded revolver, with one chamber empty, was found. The injured man was taken to the hospital and attended by Dr. Herman Robertson. Delirium followed his arrival at the hospital, and he was u…
note: Alberni Pioneer News ran from 1907-08-17 to 1912-02-24. The name was changed to Port Alberni News starting 1912-03-02.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Port Alberni (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0441207
language: English
lat: 49.234444
long: -124.805833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Alberni, B.C. : R. J. Burde
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