24 Feb 1899
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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 24, 1899
Page
1
The item lists actions by companies involving loans secured on town and farm properties. It notes the offices overseeing the agreements and the likely impact on local holdings and collateral arrangements.
Direct factory sale advertises organs priced from sixty dollars with mouse-proof pedals, urging buyers to avoid commission and travel costs. The notice cites a gold medal award at the World's Fair and names Chas. Armitage of Glenboro as contact.
Wheat prices listed at 53 cents. The Stockton Hockey team visits Glenboro at the rink Saturday night. Three Ontario freight cars contain horses for Frank Drake and H. Day, with several fine animals in transit. Anniversaries and sermons reported at the Methodist church with Rev G F McCullough preaching. A scissors grinder and bicycle ads appear, along with an Icelandic congregation sermon time.
The Cypress team aims to recover fortunes tonight in the return match at their home court. The Methods Ladies Aid Society hosts an At Home in Oddfellow's Hall next Monday evening the 27th with parlor games and a short programme. Ice cream cake sandwiches and coffee will be served with admission 24 cents. A humorous ranch notice warns against supporting the wife of a man named in a playful local quarrel. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society held an open Methodist Church meeting with a fair turnout and a program of mission work led by President Mrs Moore. Readings were given by Mrs Armitage Rev J J Crookshanks and W T Shipley. a recitation by Mrs J P Shannon and solos by Mrs J W Morrow and Miss Alice Moore accompanied a liberal collection.
Personal notices list Mrs W Jones and Mr G B Andrews both ill, plus several residents visiting towns from Belmont to Baldur. Others include Dr Lougheed returning from Winnipeg, J F Fumerton from Winnipeg, and a Baker Ball attendee J Leybourne in Holl. Several relatives visit Holland, Helland, Treherne, and Winnipeg trips noted.
Joe Mathers prepares to lead the Atna Lake party on a gold hunting expedition as they plan the trek and search for mineral wealth.
Tuesday program featured short essays on Victoria's life by Alice Moore and on Legislation Literature and Science by W T Shipley J J Crookshanks Alf Osborne and Walter Douglas provided historical sketches and readings. Recitations and a choir item completed the event.
The Monday evening event drew nearly one hundred couples with many visitors from Holland Cypress River Stockton Wawanesa Belmont and Baldur. Mr Wigston of Winnipeg supplied music and Mr Lyons of Winnipeg called the dances. Mrs Cline provided a fine lunch between program parts as dancing ran late into the night.
The Glenboro Presbyterian Church held its annual meeting on Tuesday the 14th with Mr. Duncan in the chair. The session reported 100 members at year start, 31 joined, 1 removed, and listed year receipts of 1751.87 dollars with 1198.75 from envelopes and open collections, 256.61 from Ladies' Aid, 86.10 from WFM, and 236.41 from Sunday School. Officers elected: Secretary F. H. Mitchell, Treasurer Samuel Christie, Managers R. H. Ferguson and J. A. Locke, Ushers Truman Calder, B. Holden, Jno. McLean, Collectors P. Butchart and Jno. Steele.
The Virginia Colored Jubilee Singers performed an entertaining show to a small crowd. The choruses and quartets impressed, with Blair delivering a rich bass in tunes like Old Black Joe and I ve Gwine Back to Dixie. McKenzie and Lyons offered fine guitar and mandolin duets. Overall the company provided a good performance.
An old advertisement touts Shiloh's Cough and Consumption Cure as a proven prevention and cure for cold and cough, with a bold guarantee for over fifty years. It promotes sale at a local post Ulises Drug Score in Geuboro.
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