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Newspaper
Dauphin Herald And Press
Location
Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
5
Conditioning in Wasagaming is underway and a new sewer is being built to serve all businesses along Wasagaming Drive. The passage notes a busy weekend with visitors and ongoing improvements in the town. The report also provides Canada farm capital values for June 1, 1939 and June 1, 1938.
Over 150 Dauphin-area residents attended a poultry field day at R. E. Fisher Farm last Saturday. Chair Charles McLean of Grandview presided as experts from the University of Manitoba and Manitoba Poultry Pool spoke on bird quality and best practices, with welcome by Harry Timm and community singing led by J. A. McKillop.
The latest agriculture department bulletin shows cool, generally satisfactory weather through late May benefiting grain and garden crops. In Dauphin and surrounding areas over an inch of rain improved the outlook. hog farrowing up about 60 percent year to date. sweet clover weevil concerns persist. dairy and poultry sectors report mixed yields with exports to Great Britain rising and beef colonies rebuilding.
Canada adds one new daily newspaper three new weekly papers ten new semi monthly and four fewer monthly publications in the 1940 McKim's Directory of Canadian Publications Published by A McKim Limited with offices in Montreal Toronto Winnipeg Vancouver and London England The volume reviews markets media and population across towns with publications and advertising in wartime context.
Dauphin Agricultural society outlines July 11 12 and 13 fair with restrictions entry area west from McCreary to Saskatchewan border north of Riding Mountain. No grandstand attractions on opening day no admission charge. Harness races Friday afternoon revue Death Dodgers show Friday and Saturday nights. Half days declared by Dauphin Ochre River towns. Ticket collectors gate police and midway staff appointed. Directors to meet next Saturday.
The Weekly Garden Graph notes cutworms harm both vegetable and flower gardens. Daytime activity under soil cover, nocturnal feeding on young plant roots, and climbing cutworms that attack foliage are described. Tips include collars and hollowed citrus traps to deter and trap them.
Floyd Anson Stelck of Dauphin, longtime farmer turned fur rancher in the Dauphin district, died recently. Funeral from Lodge's Funeral Home to Riverside Cemetery Tuesday at 2 30 p m. Survived by his parents Mr and Mrs L D Stelck of Dauphin Plains and four others.
Albert W. Durston died suddenly at his Mountview farm on June 19 at age 59. Funeral services will be at Riverside Cemetery on Friday June 21 at 3 oclock with Rev. D K Burns officiating. He had been a farmer in the Dauphin district since arriving in 1889 and married to Mary Jane Carruthers in 1908. Survived by wife two sons Lawrence and Gordon two daughters Mrs Arthur Lunstead Mrs Wilfred McRoberts and Mrs Joe Steadman four brothers Will Charlie Harry and Angus.
A June 20 wedding at the bride’s parents home officiated by Dr D K Burns with Mrs E McNabb playing the wedding march. The bride wore white silk net Chantilly lace with orange blossom veil and bridal roses. bridesmaid Miss Mary Forbes wore peach silk net. The groom Mr Wm Hoskins and travel dress included dusty rose silk crepe. Guests included Mrs Buchannon and Mrs Pollard.
A large Dauphin Legion service honors war dead with prayers and wreaths led by Rev. E King and D Justice. Veterans recall WWI lines as a Union Jack is lowered at the grave. More than 80 cars ferried citizens to the cemetery under rainy skies shaping a solemn ceremony.
Mrs. R M Penman learns of the sudden death of her brother Chester Ted Whiteman in Vancouver British Columbia on June 8 after years of poor health. Born in Dauphin in 1905 he moved to Vancouver at age 15 and worked as a baggage man at the C N R depot. He leaves a wife a young daughter Sharls his mother several brothers and sisters including J Whiteman Mrs Vincent Denegres Mrs L E Mills William Kamloops Ernie Port Arthur Ont Mrs J J Troyer Edmonton Alto Mrs Jas Mackie Prince Albert Sask Mrs O H Harvey Humboldt and Mrs Penman of Dauphin.
Saturday June 29 features Holy Communion at 7 30. Sunday June 30 offers Morning Prayer and Litany at 11 a m and Evening Prayer at 7 p m.
Funeral services were held for Caroline Bumstead 55 of 382 West Queen's Road North Vancouver who died Saturday at home. She left a husband Elmer four daughters Hattie Bert Fairchild and two others. two sons Carl Clifford. Also five brothers and five sisters. The couple formerly lived near Dauphin and farmed east of town. Burial was in North Vancouver cemetery.
Entries for the Brandon Provincial Fair closed on June 13 and exhibiters largely plan to keep their herds intact. The strong turnout and year over year improvement suggest exhibitors remain confident despite missing a grant.
To Get B C A F Pay Royal Air Force personnel loaned under provisions of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan will receive the same pay as members of the Royal Canadian Air Force from the date of their arrival in Canada. Outfit allowances and non effective benefits are not included.
Minister of Justice Ernest Lapointe announces all enemy aliens in Canada have been registered examined and fingerprinted. Similar measures were recently urged in the United States.
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