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Newspaper
Cut Knife Grinder
Location
Cut Knife, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
4
A notice says the Cat Knife branch will run three trains weekly effective October 3. The days are Tuesday Thursday and Saturday with Tuesday service at 7 45 a m. and Saturday’s train arriving at the same time as the current schedule. It is unclear if mail arrival will increase beyond twice weekly.
Notice to subscribers and interested parties that the Font Knife telegraph line considers moving ahead with a service change. The board of directors and secretary treasurer W W Johnston announce the date and action under review for October 1915.
The Allies have captured Hill No. 70 near Lens and taken over 20,000 prisoners in two days. They report dominates Loos and Soushez, threaten to outflank, and note fierce fighting with heavy casualties as the offensive advances on multiple fronts.
Notice to threshermen regarding telephone wires warns of penalties for causing damage or accidents to lines.
A number of milch cows offered for sale or to freshen in to Thos Sawyer at Gallivan P O 800n. The notice lists cows available for purchase and contact details for the seller.
A Cob and Nephet village roll lists volunteers who served King and Country in the Great War. Names from the second contingent include Robinson Ernest who died of wounds and Woodall R among others, with the third contingent noted.
Ballinora party including Messrs H W Dion Dr Duv al and Gee Laliberte traveled from Cut Knife for a Wednesday shoot. Laliberte bagged three geese while the others took only ducks and chickens. Mrs Gee returned to Mr Rea's after a two week Saskatoon visit. Miss Emma Forest visits Mrs C A Loranger.
Galivan reports threshing progress with strong yield and grade. Les Dewar presides over the Hierator at Galivan. Rev Mr Small led last week’s church service to a large reception. Rally Day featured a talk on Euilisting and a Sale of Work scheduled for October 27 with four booths chaired by local ladies across Fancy Booth, Fishpond, Candy and Fruit, Cakes and Vegetable, Plain Sewing, and Entertainments categories.
Triple Lake News reports the Parker-Head Machine threshing in the sand hills with wheat turning out well. On the John Andersson farm Stanley wheat yielded 28 bushels per acre and barley 25, with other fields yet to thresh showing promise.
A fragmentary exchange notes a list of paradoxical royal traits praising diligence, laziness, appetite, cunning, and popularity. The wording rhymes and tenses blur, suggesting a stylized meditation on kingly virtues and vices without a clear narrative.
The Department of Agriculture urges farmers in heavier and later crop districts to begin stacking grain immediately. With only about twenty one workable days left in October and the threat of freeze up or snow, they caution that heavier crops cannot be stock-threshed in time. Farmers not threshing are advised to stack now and reserve stacks for November threshing, weather permitting.
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