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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1918
Page
4
Publication notice from a 19th century paper outlines advertising rates and submission deadlines. It lists costs per insertion, frequency, and office contact for the Hamicte publishing office. Names C. W. Vennables and H. Josby appear as office contacts for changes or inquiries.
The April 9 meeting welcomed the president back from Florida. A concert fund drive for the Navy League was announced with details to come. Private MacDonald’s lecture raised 133.05 for Red Cross, while donations totaled varying funds for prisoners of war and general relief. The group urged support for Grace Rebekah sewing and planned Easter time collections and plant sales by Mrs Henderson.
A call asks district ladies and wage earning girls to contribute regularly to Red Cross funds. The notice notes Winnipeg business girls already contribute and questions why women in smaller towns with lower expenses should not also give.
Donald MacKenzie died at his Rapid City home on April 4 1918 after a long illness. Born October 2 1847 in Rossshire Scotland he moved with parents to Minto Township Ontario at age six. He came to Manitoba in 1882 settling Arrow River as a farmer, retired 1913, then moved to Rapid City. Survived by widow and six grown children. Remains conveyed to Arrow River April 6 for internment.
A large crowd gathered at the cemetery with four members of the deceased’s family present along with a brother and sister of the deceased the day after the event.
A quirky rural note warns that swatting a fly as it emerges from its winter hideaway will reduce summer yields by a million, signaling economic impact on farming communities.
A reader condemns luxury and self adornment during the fourth year of war and urges neighbors to fund prisoners of war with modest shoes and clothing. The letter praises real patriotism, calls for government control of conspicuous spending, and commends those who donate to war funds.
Notice states the Hamiota Post Office wicket stays open noon to 12:30 and 1 to 6 p.m. on regular days. On train nights the wicket closes at 6:30 p.m. until mail is sorted, then reopens till 8 p.m.
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