The Similkameen Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Taylor, Dave]
issued: 2023-05-16
issued: 1937-03-04
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note: «N Similkameen Focus of Current Events • Reports On Amalgamated Mining' Engineer A. M. Richmond * His Health Plan Ditched Hon. G. M. Weir • Local Mining Magnate 111 Mr. W. R. Wilson THE SUN Rises 7:11; Sets 4:54 'O Hi THE MOON Last Quarter 5th Imilk me A CQMML'/.22 Y PAPER Published in tHe Interests of the Rich Tulameen and Similkameen Valleys Incorporating The Hedley Gazette, The Keremeos Trumpet and The Coalmont Courier, The Star is the Official Newspaper of the Similkameen Thirty-Seventh Year; No. 13PRINCETON, B.C., THURSDAY, 4th MARCH, 1937. Two Dollars Per Annum. GRANBY WORK MARCHING ON Programme Accelerated As Good Weather Approaches THE advance of the Granby work army, which continued relentlessly despite winter's bitterest moods is quickening with the retreat of the weather's severity. Steam and generating units have now been installed at the power plant, and construction is keeping pace. A regiment of steel workers and brick-layers is at work. Good progress continues to be made by Elias Freding and his crew clearing the the right of way for the power line and a good start has been made on the stringing of wire. Meanwhile the' West Kootenay power is being used at Allenby and Copper Mountain. A crew of some 70 men ar,e .preparing y^jnine^tog activity, ana Snowierjerlw^s cleaning up at Allenby. It is reported that the full programme of railway work will be launched next week, with some 200 men at work. The bridge crews have been engaged for a fortnight. It is expected that the rail way will be ready for use by the end of April and the power plant in operation by the middle of this month. jps -a- • Takes Well Earned Rest Diplomat Anthony Eden Hedley Ousted From Senior Hoop Series —ft— At Summerland 27 Hedley 18 Summerland 39 at Hedley 32 66 50 IIEDLEY'S fighting senior hoopsters passed out of the playoff race for the year as they succumbed for the second time to Summerland on the latter's floor Tuesday. Hedley played heads up ball, in no wise beaten before the …
note: Title changes in chronological order: Similkameen Star (1900-03-31 to 1900-07-28), The Similkameen Star (1900-08-04 to 1900-10-20), Similkameen Star (1900-10-27 to 1918-05-10), The Princeton Star (1918-05-17 to 1935-08-29), The Similkameen Star (1935-09-05 to 1939-12-28). Third page has wrong annotation about date and misprinted issue number as 12.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Princeton, B.C.
spatial: Princeton
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0432322
language: English
lat: 49.460278
long: -120.507778
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: [Princeton : Dave Taylor]
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source: Original Format: Princeton and District Museum and Archives
type: Text