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Newspaper
Birtle Observer
Location
Birtle, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 14, 1887
Page
1
The article argues the Red River Railway scheme harms Winnipeg by diverting Southern Manitoba trade to Emerson and West Lynne. It claims Canada Pacific and rival lines have already displaced local traffic, with grain flows and carloads moving toward Winnipeg’s rivals, risking provincial prosperity.
In Ontario a gardener kept many honey bee hives and when sweet clover flourished in the garden it spread to prairie soils after eight years in the country. The plant matures in two years, then dies but seeds abundantly for regrowth. It grows two feet tall in year one and four feet with fragrant white blossoms in year two, potentially valuable as fodder and ideal for beekeeping on large fields.
The article notes varied animal curiosity indicating thought and memory. Birds, waterfowl, loons, divers, and crows show observation before flight or social concern. Deer, elk, cows, and antelopes reveal cautious curiosity leveraged by hunters. Weasel family and other small mammals investigate objects. some can be domesticated, including an otter that aided humans by canoe.
A wolf was shot on Thomas Lane's farm. An entertainment is set for Russell on Friday Oct 28. S Adams team hauled a wagon along Main Street. Ferguson's boy dislocated his arm. Trains run from Peurbina to St Paul on the new road. Carberry elevators fill with wheat and more cars are needed. Brandon area shows thirteen threshing machines at once. Many homestead entries filed at the land office. Bagshaw Bros report dry goods delayed by a railway accident. Eighty two cars of wheat arrived at Winnipeg on the Southwestern. A large water tank rises at the railway station with a building planned over it. No Red River Valley road work this season. Robins and blackbirds linger as most birds head south. Twelve new buildings rise in Birtle including four stores. Wolves howl near town as bands pass. Great Lakes fall storms cause vessel losses. Fifty four car wheat train from Portage la Prairie eastward. Northwest Central may build fifty miles this season but snow grading needed. Manitoba potatoes ship to Owen Sound reduce prices to 50 cents. Two inches of snow fall Sunday night and sleighs appear Monday. No prairie fire disasters yet. Potatoes ~20000 bushels shipped east. carriage cost ~19 cents per cwt. The Presbyterian church hot air furnace tested. seems to work.
Mitchell and Bucknall strike abundant water in a new well at nineteen feet. Warning about the Christie Brown crossing on the M and N W Railway. Descriptions of maple sugar making and tribal wigwams, river life, and flood levels. A horse breaks a leg and will be shot. Wheat and stock prospects improve in dry weather. Winnipeg illustrated news received. railway debates in Manitoba. Death of Mr Guire from England. local relief efforts planned for a destitute widow and six children. Benefactors Hesketh, Dutton, Wilkinson organize future supper supplies.
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