Marsh Family News From The Dauphin Herald
The Dauphin Herald reports Marsh activities at Helen F Marsh events and community notices involving the Marsh family.
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Newspaper
Dauphin Herald And Press
Location
Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1950
Page
2
The Dauphin Herald reports Marsh activities at Helen F Marsh events and community notices involving the Marsh family.
The Dauphin Ochre area column argues for proceeding with the large area school administration, citing gains in equality of opportunity, school modernization, and cost efficiency. It endorses supervisor E. Johansen to oversee building repairs and improvements and urges better public reporting of progress to Manitoba’s education system readers.
Britain will source North American wheat under the International Wheat Agreement after July 31, moving to multilateral trade. Canada expects to supply Britain at prices within the new range, with no fixed quantities, while the U.S. faces criticism over previous sales.
A Stelck display presents about two dozen student made articles from D C T I in school shops. Each piece bears its maker’s name and includes professional looking woodwork such as a free table and bowls, and metal pieces like a hammer head and torchiere lamps. The exhibit attracts notice for its skilled craftsmanship.
A bouquet of paper white narcissus rests on the desk as a gift from Mrs J A McPhee. The flowers, unusual for Manitoba gardens, seem artificial at first glance but are hardy and were grown in her garden for about four years with clumps left over winter.
A jalopie driven by a young college man lacks a horn but uses a Halloween noise maker to attract attention. The improvised horn substitute serves to grab the notice of his girl friend and bystanders.
Sunday evening at United church saw members of the 70 and Over club gathering in a body with their badges. Girl Guides sold oranges to raise funds for summer camps while libraries highlight Britannica usage. Town enjoys flowering shrubs and a sunny June. Saskatchewan teachers must be patriotic, Monday King’s birthday holiday noted for banks and government workers.
A woman from the flood zone south of Winnipeg stays with relatives as her home dries. Her son reports the interior soaked, piano and dining furniture ruined, appliances spoiled, and linoleum peeling. A note ends with a bitter joke that two privies remain on the lawn.
Helping Hands profiles a graduation show at DCT1 where gowns were mostly made by the girls' mothers. Ethel's mother finished her daughter's blue evening dress two days before graduation while another girl relied on her friend to complete a last minute ivory off the shoulder gown. The piece notes the morale boost from a glamorous dress.
The piece recalls 1682 diary mentions of Papin's digestors used at a Royal Society supper to soften bones and make gravy with little coal. A Hertfordshire shop owner unearthed a circa 1700 digester in a cellar, stoking debate over the pressure cooker's invention, likely not by Britain but credited to M Papin in France.
Rev H R Stowell quoted a cryptic phrase about authenticity during his Friday evening address to the graduates. Two mothers discussed the first schools Dauphin offers, one recalling children entering as fledglings and grown to fly, the other grimly noting the risk of being plucked.
A true tale near Dauphin recalls an eight year old girl retelling the Easter story to her four year old brother. She asks what he would say if the Lord walked in the door and he replies with practical humor, saying he would have baked a cake if he had known.
Art Szewczyk aged 14 and his brother Bob with their father built two boats in their basement last winter. The finished five passenger model with outboard motor performed a successful test at the Valley river mouth, yielding five fish on its first run. The brothers seek names for both craft.
Early Tuesday morning signs and portents predict rain as students discuss weather. Despite a sunny start, locals insist the day will bring showers during the collegiate field day event.
A country road survey shows saskatoon berries, pincherry, and wild plum in full bloom along woods. Delayed spring delayed fruit, but the plants escaped late frosts and look to yield a fine wild fruit harvest with pincherry and wild plum making tasty jellies and saskatoon yielding fresh fruit desserts.
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