440

Date 1912-09-09

From 440

Estates Handled Farm Tracts Specialty City Property T. Claxton condu ting a on business gt;1lid companies le Fire, Life, and in fact any i farm property you to call rate funds to shall be glad are ina nents and we business. collect rents, rvisicn. snd we have two gt; thousand See us for city les and do so be glad to ee Ltronage, 3 consideration COMPANY. ston and Pembroke Rall 5 miles; Alberta Central miles; St. Mary's and tario railways are to be will be asked to acquire yf all of the debenture Dominion Atlantic 'Rail- issue of Canadian Pacific . consolidated debenture t to be mage with the ay and Seaboard Railway 0 increase limit of that bond issue, the construc road having proved more an anticipated, British Columibia secured tion of Columbian and British Columbia South- s became subject to taxa- anadian Pacific Railway 3 decided to Teconvey to Columbia government the: jon of these lands with n of 543,496 acres. This? Township e, for sale a half per per acre of Hight five per d within Biclnivinfelnivieiniinieinleieiet pply Co. VE., MEDICINE HAT Work and a little less ex- - success is high class AS THE BIG. ONES, 3D FREE. ebicititicivivicin Owing to a calay ioe ot POPS Meee shoei tosoetostocte choco eSeetenteatestestodiesiestesiedtortoste diesen, California Native Sons Will Few nations, Sta.cs or Provinces celebrate any, momentous anniversary in their history with so much en- thusiasm as the native son of the Golden West brings to the obser- vance of Admission: Day in Califor- nia. It was sixty two years ago to- day that California became a State, two years after it had been seded by Mexico to the United States. The Order of the Native Sons of the Golden. West, which is charge of today s Admission Day observance, was founded by Gen, A. M. Winn, who called a meeting to form such an or- ganization in San Francisco on June 29, 1875. The Native Sons first Sppeared in public In a Fourth of July parade in 1875, three score young men marching under the ban- ner of the new order. The Admis- sion Day Anniversary to be observed by the Native Sons was on Sept. 9, 1875, The order immediately gained in popularity and in 1878 a grand parlor or supreme governing board, yas constituted. Today there are Celebrate To-day nearly 200 parlors, or Id al bodies, and the total membership is about 20,000. The principal purpose of the order is to perpetuate in.the minds of all Californians the memories of-the early history of the Golden State, and especially of the days of 49. The order also has various soclal features and sick benefits, The descendants of the pioneers who constitute the membership of the order have been accused of undue pride in their an- cestry, but none can deny that they come from one of the sturdiest and most stalwart and progressive pion- eer ancestries the world has ever known. No other State celebrates its birthday with so wiueh ectat California, and the native Galiforn- fan, no matter where he may have wanderer, will tell you today that the people of no other State have so much reason for celebrating. The pioneer spirit and ideals of the Great West are well worthy of perpetuat- ing and the Native Sons and Daugh- ters may be forgiven the air of juperiority they will wear toda; William Courtleigh Quit Law for the Drammer William Courtleigh, who now heads the cast fi Augustas Thomas new comedy, The Model, had a narrow shave in escaping the legal profes. sion. Mr. Courtleigh was born in Guelph, Ont. In 1869, and today is the anniversary of the beginning of his stage carcer in 1888. His family left Canada and settled in St. Louis when little Willie was only a wee kid, and be was educated in the pub- lic schools of the Missouri metropo- lis. Having decided on a legal car- eer he entered Washington Univer- sity,.and he might now be a shin- ing light of the bar except for one circumstance: He was induced to become a member of the McCulloch Club, an amateur dramatic organi- zation, and in a little while had demonstrated that the had in him the raw material for a sure-enough actor. His fate was not definitely decided, however, until the manager of a road company, Impressed by Mr. Courtleigh s talents, offered him chance to become a professional. That was in September 1888, when Mr. Courtleigh was still in his eens, He accepted the offer, put away his law books, and commenced the car. eer that was to bring him fame and a fair-share of fortune. One of his first stunts was to write a melodrama Brother and Sister, for his first manager, His rise was rapid, and he was still little more than a big boy when Fanny Devenport engaged him to play the parts of Thyseno in Cleopatra ? and Jena de Sereux in Fedora. In Miss Davenport's. com- pany Mr. Courtleigh made his bow on Broadway, Gotham, where he hes since become a famillar figure. Mr. Courtleigh next appeared with Augustin Daly's stock company, play- , , ing with Ada Rehan in The Fores- ters and in Phe Taming-of the Shrew. When Robert Hilliard re- tired as the hero of Blue Jeans, Mr. Courtleigh became his successor. A little later he stepped into the shoes of Wilton Lackaye in the prin- cipal role in Northern Lights. The Canadian-Missour actor was no mean Romeo to Margaret Math- er's Juliet, and he also appeared with that actress in other Shakespearean plays, Daniel Frohman next engaged Ris services, and he succeeded James K. Hackett in the chief role of The Princess and the Butterfly. He was period. On the whole, without cast- IM -TO THE PUBLIC REGARDING in the preparati the public eat it will be some i the full particulars regarding the and accept any deposits to G. G. MacBean ee BANK BUILDING with William Crane in A Rich Man's Son, and with Henrietta Crosman In Mistress Nell, and also appeared in Sporting Life, and other popular plays of the period. Next he starred in Lost River, and was leading man to Maxine Elliot in Her Own Way yaii * 8 Virginia Harnod in Alice of Old Vincennes. He was also seen with Clara Bloodgood. in The Cor onet of the Duchess and with James K. Hackett in The Fortunes of the King. He was featured in The Redemption of David Corson. but David was not redeemed at the box office, and the production . slumped with a dull thud Into oblivion. Vau- deville next claimed Mr. Courtleigh, and he made a big hit in a one-act playlet entitled The Third. Degree. ? Mr. Courtleigh has not attained to the very front rank among American actors, but he is far from being a rater, Whatever the iegal profession has lost by his defection, the stage has gained much. Lacking the spark of genius that goes to the making of a Booth or of-an Irving, he is an actor of ability: who has made full use of his talents. His: ersatility 1s shown by the fact tliat h has run the entire theatrical gamut from vaudeville to Shakespeare, and he has been as admirable in the one as in the other. In the course of his twenty-four years on the stage he has: played with nearly all the great Am- erican actors and actresses of that ing any asparagus on the legal pro- fession, Mr. Courtleigh is glad that he sidestepped it. A year from today will be the four hundredth anniversary of the battle of Plodden Field, which was fought between En; . James IV of Scotland was killed, with thirty of his nobles and 10,000 of his soldiers. The loss of the vic- torious English was comparatively city 8c a month. LEREPRAEE EES EE + FIRST THINGS. * + * 8 Fe obo oho oho oe oho oho obs fe oh obs oe che The first telegraph line between New York City and Albany was opened sixty-six years ago today, Sept. 9, 1846, About the same time a line was completed from Philadel- phia to Harrisburg, and before the end of the year stretched as for west as Pittsburgh. The same year wit nessed the completion of telegraph communication between New York and Boston, Boston and Buffalo, and we: wish. we Cah ac ms, os latter line, however, the mesages Paddington to West Drayton, . Ex were carried actos sthe Hudson land, built in 1839 by Sir Willi River by boatmen: A copper wire F, Cooke, who, in connection wi covered with pitch-saturated cotton - Sir Charles Wheatstone, had pi and en losed in a lead pipe had been ented an clectric needle telegra tried aga conductor of the current 1844. In 1847 gutta percha was sug- the Great Western Railway, from in England in 1887. We Can t All Be Farmers We Can t All Be Wage Earners We Can t All Be Captains of Industry But we can all of us make big money in safe investments. REDCLIFF is the Safest and Best Investment now offered to the public. REDCLIFF has four large factories in operation and making REDCLIFF famous as the high-grade Building Products centre of Western Canada. These factories have a present pay roll of over 30,- 000.00 per month, i More Factories Are Coming f More Railroads Are Coming 4 Real Estate Is Booming We also have Medicine Hat snaps.and good farm lands at low prices and easy terms. ASK THE STONER AGENCY ABOUT IT 395 Toronto Street ne 396 Philadelphia and New On the

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Attribution Image 440 (1912-09-09), from microfilm reel 440, (CU1772636). Courtesy of Early Alberta Newspapers Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.