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Newspaper
Battleford Press
Location
Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 03, 1917
Page
1
Prongua News reports steady turnout for Sunday afternoon service at Christ Chapel despite bad weather. Vestry votes to hold rogation service Wednesday afternoon May 13 on Gowing Frost farm with all denominations invited.
The article discusses the rise of laying strains in Canadian poultry, stressing the need to shift from average flocks to bred to lay birds. It explains trap nesting, selection of heavy layers, and two main methods: buying eggs from breeders or improving with males, plus feeding and housing for best results.
A council meeting with Deputy Mayor Boughey and Councillors Ewart Hut chins and Law approved a Local Government Board document ratifying a Wood-Gowdy Co agreement from last year and ordered bondholders to accept new town bonds in place of paid debentures. St Vital P S Board proposed 4860 and High School 4160. Boughey may sell lumber from soldiers' huts at the school and Windsor Hotel for best town advantage.
A Saskatchewan farmer aged over 50 made his first railway journey from Lebret on the Grand Trunk Pacific to Regina for medical care. After 35 years away, he witnessed Regina’s growth and modern amenities, contrasting with his ox cart past. A neighbor recalls the station wait and the wide eyed anticipation of this planned field day.
Reports indicate plans to establish a large Mounted Police training camp at Battleford or near the American boundary to house 1000 men. The main military reserve for the barracks is the favored site at present. Bridges south of Waseca and Maidstone were destroyed by ice break up on the Battle River, though Lashburn and Paynton bridges survived with minor damage. This disrupts farmers’ access to Waseca and Maidstone, their trading centers.
The Grain Growers district held a busy April meeting with delegates present and plans to install 6 lamp fixtures for school use. A Chariton elevator project was discussed to gauge subscriber support by July 1. The group hosted a lively April 20 dance raising 38.25 for association funds and promoted the gopher campaign for school children.
The WAL cites Berlin rumors that the German chancellor will present a national outline today. Reports claim widespread strikes and social unrest supported by Socialists, with talk of forming a German republic amid wartime strain. Allies win ground while submarine losses grow and a hard response is anticipated. The U.S. may send an army if shipping can be diverted from food transport.
A local merchant urges potato growers to separate varieties or plant one variety to meet buyers demand for unmixed size and grade. He notes buyers visiting the district for car shipments seek uniform potatoes and punish price differences for mixed lots. Small potatoes have little value when mixed with marketable sizes.
Word arrived that Jack Munro died in an English hospital at age 17 from meningitis. Red Cross sewing meetings plan a Tuesday session at Mrs. Champagne’s home with a $320 donation to headquarters from the last monthly drive. A Halifax quarantine delay may affect 232nd battalion overseas departure. Weed-burning campaign may be adjourned due to snow. Local Social Service leaders asked Senators Prince and A Champagne for Dominion prohibition support. Methodist Church services May 6 include sacraments and Bible study with themed talks and music. L E Moore known as Lorney died in Gravenhurst Ontario from tuberculosis, after living in Starview district. his wife had died earlier. Wilkie Press.
Reward offered for information leading to the recovery of a bay team, one with a cracked hoof and a colt with a star on its forehead. Also listed bay mare and colt. Contact details unspecified. notice notes time 6 to 8 p.m.
Tenders invited for breaking discing harrowing and preparing all ready for crop three hundred acres of open prairie near Thirteen Mile lake in Township 18 west Jed 12 30 day of April AvD 1917. Apply with K R Earle Battleford Sask.
Eggs for hatching from a single comic White Leghorns line bred by Tom Barron’s famous laylog strain. Pen bred by a winner at Winnipeg Red Show. Price 13 for $1.50 per dozen.
Sale notice for Banner seed oats cleaned free from weed seeds. Also a team of young geldings named Aleo weighing about 24 bun to. Listed under Webb box 208 Batleford. Girl wanted for person job Francis Proogua P. e's. 4-6.
A town column mixes domestic chores with wartime concerns. Lieut.-Colonel Glue muses on daily duties, garden plans, and rising prices as food scarcity looms. It urges practical home gardens to ease the food shortage and notes Allied needs and potential ration talk.
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