The Orchard City Record
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2016-08-30
issued: 1909-06-10
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note: \ Job Printing, Special Facilities for Executing High- Class Half-Tone and General Letterpress Work. VOL. I. NO. 28. KELOWNA. BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1909. $1.50 Per Annum. City Council Meetings Special Meeting Held to Deal with Situation Caused by Fire at the Power House city u~ I - A meeting of the city council was held on June the fourth, the object being to discuss the position of the city in regard to the recent fire at the power house. Aldermen Bailey, Ball and Rowcliffe were present, the Mayor taking the chair.' The minutes of the previous meeting having been read- and adopted, Aid. Ball informed the council that during the past few days " arrangements had been made .with E. W. Dunn, brother bf the city clerk to take a temporary position during ihe press of work. - • Mr. D. Lloyd-Jones attended and asked the council if they would accept the offer- of two or three teams for a few months so as to get on with any work they required to do. ' He was willing to rent these for a nominal fee of $5 each, and hoped the council would find a use for them. 7(11 he wanted to know was that they would be well cared for and well fed, he consoled with the council at the loss the city has sustained by the burning of the power house, and had made this offer in the hope of relieving the expense, and 'urging on the work of the new power house. He also offered free use of his' lathes and water pressure should such be desired. - The Mayor and Aldermen in accepting, thanked Mr. Jones for his kind offer. ' The Mayor, in explaining the fire, remarked that misleading statements had been rumored. The true extent of the damage would . not be known until the engineer of the Fairbanks'Go. arrived. He then read a telegram from Hinton to the effect that they had notified the Canadian Fairbanks Co., but as there was no train that. day Mr. Smith would leave as soon as possible on the morrow. * Aid. Ball thought a strict investigation ought to be gone into and a written report obtai…
note: Titled The Orchard City Record from 1908 to 1911-11-16. Titled Kelowna Orchard City Record from 1911-11-23 to 1915-01-14. Titled Kelowna Record from 1915-01-21 to 1920-09-30 Print Run: 1912-1920 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Kelowna (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0184715
language: English
lat: 49.8880556
long: -119.495556
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Kelowna, B.C. : Chas H. Leathley
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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