Cranbrook Daily Townsman, August 07, 2014

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Dumper caught, cleans up junked trailer

Pictured here are the first Cranbrook volunteers for what became the First World War, on the steps of the Cranbrook Courthouse, August, 1914. (Cranbrook Historical Archives: 1976-063-004)

A R N E P E T R YS H E N Townsman Staff

‘The World Convulsed:’ Part III T B A R R Y CO U LT E R

he front page of the Cranbrook Herald of Thursday, August 20, was busy with all the news fit to print, including the death of Pope Pius X earlier that same morning, the Australian victory over the Americans in the Davis Cup of Tennis, the coroner’s inquest into the murder of Sasamoto the Japanese truck farmer, and the narrow escape of Mrs. W.T.

Part III in a four-part series describing the outbreak of World War One, 100 years ago this week, as seen through the pages of the Cranbrook Herald

Matthews, who was nearly struck by a stray bullet. Joe Taylor, it turns out, who operated Peerless Dairy, was shooting at a hawk with 30-30 rifle at his ranch on the edge of the city. One of the bullets, the Herald reported, went about 600

yards, striking the residence of Mrs. Chambers, where Mrs. Matthews was visiting. The bullet “passed through several walls and partitions and proceeded on its way,” but not before shattering some glass over Mrs. Matthews.

Meanwhile in Europe, on August 20, the British Expeditionary Force, having landed in France, was advancing to its forward positions near the Belgium frontier, to hold the line of the Mons–Condé Canal against the advanc-

ing German 1st Army, who had driven the Belgian army back westward. The British position on the French flank meant that the British stood in the path of the German First Army, the outermost wing of the massive “right hook” intended by the Schlieffen Plan to encircle and destroy the Allies.

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Last week, an old camper fifth-wheel dumped unceremoniously in the backwoods south of Cranbrook was finally cleaned up, and in twist of old fashioned justice, it was the original dumper that did the cleaning. An article in the Townsman from July 3 documented the dumping of a trailer on Peavine Road. The trailer had recently been given away, so when the person that gave it away saw the old trailer she contacted natural resource officers with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, who launched an investigation. Craig Gentle, the Natural Resource Officer (NRO) in charge of the investigation said once they talked to the former owner, it didn’t take long to track down the man who dumped the camper. “We caught the person and fines were levied,” Gentle said. “We got him to clean it up.” The fines under the Environmental Management Act can be up to $1 million if brought before the court.

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