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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
1
Local items list fruit arrivals for August shipments from Ontario and Glenboro commerce updates. Shipped cattle and hogs, used wagon for sale, canary birds, visitors in town, livery and boiler duties, and warnings to keep children off streets.
Miss Enma Sanderson hosted a picnic at the A C grounds on August 6 with guests from Glenboro and nearby. Attendees included Misses Myrtle Johnson Evelyn Stewart Almeda Stewart Ruby Trimble Tutsy Reystrom Sarah Sander son Ruth Sanderson and Masters George Carlton Clare Reystrom Clifford Trimble James Stewart Robert Sanderson. Also present were Mrs J H Stewart Mrs Smith Mr and Mrs Reystrom Mr C Reystrom of St Cloud Mrs Hanson and Mrs Collins of Minneapolis. After refreshments the group toured the college grounds and returned by car in the evening.
The August 4 1908 Glenboro council minutes record adoption of the prior minutes and a refund approval for H Leader of 12. A plan to build a lockup and fire engine house in Clenboro at about 1005 is endorsed with next meeting review. The levy for the year is set at nine mills and various small expense payments are approved. Cemetery caretaker appointments and lot pricing are fixed with caretakers earning ten percent of fees. The council adjourns to meet at the Reeve’s call.
A humorous exchange shows the editor asserting advertising pays. The grocer Sands advertised for a boy and the next day Sands’s wife gave birth to twins, both boys, illustrating a comic link between ads and outcomes.
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