Estavan Progress Memter Announcement
The Estavan progress notes provide a terse publication update from the local printing office. It mentions a schedule change and plea for readers to send in notices for the upcoming issue.
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Newspaper
Estevan Progress
Location
Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
4
The Estavan progress notes provide a terse publication update from the local printing office. It mentions a schedule change and plea for readers to send in notices for the upcoming issue.
The Board of Trade urges quick progress on the experimental briquetting plant to be built with Dominion Manitoba and Saskatchewan funding at approximately 400 000 dollars. It argues the project would boost local industry, reduce freight costs by using lignite briquettes, and require cooperative effort from mines and the Board to accelerate regional development.
The editorial praises Estevan’s Board of Trade for uniting merchants and citizens to drive community progress amid war. It cites past achievements, calls for renewed effort, and stresses collective action to sustain the town, its economy, and morale as Allied victory advances.
The piece urges constant productive effort and warns against idleness. It compares those who rest to drones and favors regular holidays, noting work sustains humanity and avoids stagnation. It reflects with a quotation about finding joy in summer days and the balance between duty and rest.
Pte. P. Dies returns home from Regina on leave. Kinart improving after accident. Mrs. K Hildah of Estevan visits relatives. Mr. and Mrs. A P Main of Estevan visit Kinart. L Taylor attends M E district meeting at Midale. Geo Davidson and J Pritchard visitors to D Gates home. Spurrier of Macoun visits J Pritchard home. Mrs. J Penstock learns of sister's death in Vermont. Wm Conrad, H Wilson families visit D Gates home. Mrs. Hayward of Estevan visits daughter and View Hill Ladies Aid. L Taylor, W Conrad, W Gates attend M B board meeting in Betavar.
M J Hawkinson left for Brandon to attend auto races. Henry Hassard vacationing with brother Rubt Hassard at Bienfait mine. Mrs Bert Tubbs of Estevan visiting Chas Carroll, Men Maurice Hawkinson visiting Weyburn. Red Cross dance at Black Diamond school Friday. School Trustees met to plan decorator work and a new teacher. G J Oliver and family and others motored to Carlyle Lake for Indian Sports.
Community notices report on hail damage across the region with wheat and oats losses. Education results include North Portal school VIII graduates and Estevan area seniors passing exams. Pearl Curtis and local students acknowledged. A motor incident and charity receipts from Chau Tau Chau Tauk Society are mentioned alongside a car breakdown and a rescue at Estevan.
Early Tuesday hours were disturbed by loud squeals heard in the east side of town. Readers learn the sounds were not humans but pigs being loaded into freight cars along the railroad, mistaken for a nightmare.
Noting rising material costs, C Hool announces new picture post card prices. If a future run includes more than four people, price rises to 2.50 per dozen. the existing 1.50 per dozen remains for a single figure per card.
The Salvation Army holds a Holiness meeting at 11 a.m and a Praise meeting at 3 15 p.m on Sunday followed by Salvation services.
Vancouver resident Private Martin Mooney of the 249th Battalion arrives home Saturday evening to visit family after nearly two years service. He is suffering from wounds gas and shell shock and will be admitted to a military hospital for treatment.
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