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Newspaper
Fort Macleod Gazette
Location
Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
4
The Macleod Gazette in Alberta announces weekly Friday editions published by Wood and McLachlan. Subscription options include $1.50 per year in advance or $2.00 per year otherwise. no suspension continues until arrears are cleared, at publishers option.
A Calgary newspaper charges Liberal interference in local Mounted Rifles leadership. It says Col Evans backed Campbell as captain, Ottawa later installed Colin Genge, triggering resignations, reorganizations, and a surprise June transfer order before Coronation Day, with further undisclosed details emerging.
A bitter critique argues Capt. Campbell is an skilled post office employee unjustly displaced for political ends as Grady and local Liberal figures, including Mr. Oliver, face blame for patronage abuses. The piece condemns Ottawa’s ultimate responsibility and warns of damaged community trust and rising bitterness.
I wish to return my sincere thanks to all my friends whose expressions of sympathy and condolence have been so great a comfort to me in my recent bereavement. Those whose counsels decided and efforts carried out the arrangements for the burial of my late husband at old home at Macleod will kindle these expressions of aitilides. The A. F. and A. M., the I. F., the Veterans, and others will please accept this acknowledgment. Mrs. Janes Betti.
The article argues farming labor in Canada suffers from employers' unreasonableness and fierce capital versus labor rivalry. It notes farmers must enforce full year round work and still struggle to compete, urging consideration of steps to address the labor question.
The notice mentions a service on Coronation Day at 10 30 a m, with a note that it was previously announced for 11 o clock. It also references lost a black spaniel with a collar bearing the owner’s name and a reward for its return to Grady's Hardware Store.
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