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Newspaper
Birtle Observer
Location
Birtle, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 11, 1886
Page
1
Advertising copy promises comfortable ample accommodations and first class stabling as standard features, describing a well appointed house with every convenient facility and ample spaces for guests and horses.
The undersigned announces the hotel has been renovated and refitted and is equal to any house in the Province. A first class table with seasonal delicacies, attentive service at all hours, excellent sample rooms for merchants, first class stabling, and rates aligned with current times.
The June 16 vote in Birtle will decide a by law authorizing a $10,000 debenture for public improvements including a direct road to the station. The article warns the town must secure a good route to the railway to avoid business drift to centers north of the river and highlights the looming costs of a bridges and earthworks over the Bird Tail valley. It discusses land speculation, immigration, and railway influence on future growth, plus local notes on river, wheat prices, and new freight rates.
The Winnipeg based Commercial Bank, led by president Mr. McArthur, reports growing capital from 100000 to 205680 and strong overall progress. He notes expanding province trade, railways, mills, and grain wealth, while urging productive use of vacant land and addressing cattle herding issues and humane racing practices.
Strangers to the region are surprised to see a number of peculiar birds running among grazing cattle. They perch on oxen and horns, following the herd, to catch insects disturbed by the animals' movement and feeding.
Twelve men work to haul railway ties down the Dird Tail while the river remains unusually low causing drive difficulties. An attempt to release lake water onto the Mountains was abandoned due to lingering frost. At Cartwrights mill workers cut a channel to move ties past a lumber crowd. ties still lie some distance upstream.
A young man named Chas Patterson acts as a peddler and newsdealer along the railway line under construction. He supplies workers with small necessities, delivers letters and papers, and returns mail for those who require it, serving over five hundred men at work.
The Railway Company selected twenty acres offered by town site owners. Seven two acre blocks were accepted along the northern end of the town plot and in the eastern corner. Additional portions of the Company land were taken south of the river on Main and St Clair streets.
The Winnipeg Free Press and Commercial accuse Mr Lease of slander by calling Mr Ashdown a tinsmith, framing the working man as a low social tier amid a tempest of wrath and abuse.
At Calgary on the 27th May 1886 the wife of Michael Harris Evq Dominion Lands gave birth to a son.
May attendance averaged 43 with a high of 49 and low of 38. The list highlights students achieving 80 percent or more across standards I and II, including Maggie Flynn Laura Hill Emily Tibbatts Nellie McDougall John Grant Mervin Markle Birdie Haines Annie McLeod Florence Morton Angie Morton Jos Flynn George Dunlop Willie Henderson Frank Brown Henry Brown.
The Rossburn Council acting as Court of Revision on May 22 considered appeals then met for public business. They authorized writing to MP E. P. Leacock about ward division, approved $10 for the Ag Society, paid $20 to the Assessor and $3.75 for postage. The Judicial Board was asked to credit $83 for Rossburn School District taxes to Russell County and to credit $20,300 for personal property exemptions. Pathmasters were appointed and Reeve and councillors’ remuneration set at $2 per day plus mileage. The council will meet as called by the Reeve.
J Henry Vitchea announces his candidacy for Lee Legislature amid critique of Dominion government, disallowance of provincial rights, and alleged public fund extravagance. He pledges integrity and opposition to corrupt government, urging electors to hear Manitoba’s voice in 1886.
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