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Newspaper
Birtle Observer
Location
Birtle, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 13, 1885
Page
1
The Birtle Observer highlights widespread well contamination in Manitoba with putrid water carrying disease and dead animals. It urges health officers to act and proposes a creamery to boost butter quality, provide a market, and encourage dairy farming in a clean, cooled facility using pure water.
A creamery company is formed in Eirtle to manage the establishment and operation of a creamery. It notes keeping a few cows and delivering cream for churning, with emphasis that old cream may not yield best utility.
Mr Wilcocks receives a full blooded Ply mouth Rock from New York. The Yankee rooster clashes with locals in the barnyard after friendly advances turn to jealousy. He defeats rivals but a strong gobbler joins the fray, forcing his temporary removal for safety and resolution.
Archie residents welcome the Manitoba Central Railway as stock sales attract English investors. The line is graded to Rapid City and planned toward Fort Ellice with petitions urging equal land grant treatment. The railway promises regional growth for Birtle and west bank settlers while Ruselea Trustees secure lumber for a new school house and J. C. Orr wins the drawing contract with local suppliers.
William Peden of Shellmouth hires men and buys provisions for timber removal for a new Shell River bridge contract. The Obes look to earn a few dollars with the project. Rev Hodnett of Birtle preached at the School House on Sabbath evening to a congregation. The text notes schooling and language progress as creditable.
Silver Creek Council meets with full attendance except the Reeve. Petitions seek a modern Municipal Act tariff and abolition of Judicial Boards. Two School District petitions granted. By-laws 15 16 for districts and 17 for a cemetery pass after readings. Committee to mark cemetery grounds named. Accounts approved.
Archie Council met at H Ayerst's house at 10 a.m. with all members present to approve last meeting minutes and sign a petition to abolish the Judicial District Boards. They discussed taxation, by law amendments, appointment of pathmasters, tree planting, and the 1885 municipal budget and committees.
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