The Nicola Valley News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2012-12-21
issued: 1915-06-18
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note: r i A-d**?-*-*-*-^*^ THE HOME PAPER FOR THE GTY OF MERRITT AND THE NICOLA^ALLEY Vol. 5. No. 30 MERRITT, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1915 Price 5 Cents WEEK-- B ITT ON T New Home Guard Held Fine Smoker Fun and Plenty of it at Armory on Saturday Night Last. O. C. Present VISIT NICOLA VALLEY NEXT -QUILCHENA WEDNESDAY The first smoker under the anspices ; of the recently formed Home Guard attached to "D" Squadron 31st Regiment B, C. Horse was held in the Armory on Saturday night under the . chairmanship of Capt. C. Tyner. There . was a large attendance including all ��� the nbn commissioned officers and the majority of. the 84.troopers enrolled. Patriotic songs and barracks room recitations were rendered with vim the company joining with1 liveliness the ;i choruses. Capt. Tyner proving a genial and happy chairman���and comrade. An amusing feature of the entertainment which proceeded amid dense clouds of smoke was a series of boxing bouts, r The first between Sergt. Larcombe J and Sergt. Smith was well contested ';��� and spirited affair. Another, betraying 7 exhibition of fisticuffe. more ludicrously .: amusing than instructive and having ; more somersaults than fine technique ; was a bantam fight between two "'four foot-fours.,"'-These sometimes looked like'bantams, oftentimes as crabs, but never as boxers. Trooper Dave '������ Cpupland was the "ref." In this contest the knock-out blows in the three rounds were-timed by the proximity of the medicine. During the evening the toost "The King'' was lustily accorded with much fervor, on the call of the Captain, "God Save The King" being sung. Capt. Tyner said the Home Guard] was formed with the best patriotic motives,simply to carry out an obvious duty and to be prepared in any case of of any local trouble. Neither the officers nor the troopers bore any inwill to any persons in Merritt and the district but were to defend themselves if the contingency arose and not to satisfy any personal grievances (cheers and cries That's right…
note: Print Run: 1910-1916 Frequency: Weekly
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Merritt (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0184658
language: English
lat: 50.1125000
long: -120.7916999
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Merritt, B.C. : Edward C. Bell
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
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