1008 EDMONTON DAILY OCT 29, 1907 FOSTER, J.W. COULSON, John CROSS, "Charlie" W.J. Foster, the local undertaker has lately formed a partnership with Mr. John Coulson, of Stratcona, and they are building up-to-date undertaking parlors in that city. Mr. Foster has also purchased tow lots in Stratcona. Fort Saskatchewan Reporter. Toronto Saturday Night When "Charlie" Cross in 1897 turned his back on college halls and set out from Toronto to Edmonton, Alta., it is scarcely probable he foresaw his own rapid advancement, Ten years have made him a man of prominence in Premier Rutherford's cabinet of all the virtues he is one of the shining lights. It is no exaggeration to say that the skill with which he had conducted the attorney general's department has given him a reputation for sagacious administrative ability such as many an older statesman might well envy. His action this last summer in enforcing the Lord's Day act and in prosecuting the Retail Lumber Dealer's association for combine, which by the way, is still pending has drawn upon him the attention of the whole Canadian West. An this too, indeed without any attempt to pose in the limelight. Mr. Cross, will be able to count 35 years on November 30 Born at Madoc, Hastings county, Ontario, he obtained his education at Upper Canada College, Toronto university and Osgoode Hall. At varsity he belonged to the year "95, famous for the brilliant group which was graduated from the course in economics. In this group Cross was a leading figure. More to article see original