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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 12, 1917
Page
5
The office will close for two weeks starting the third Monday with Dr Reid visiting multiple towns. Closures include Oot River, Midota on Monday and Tuesday, Crandall Wednesday and Thursday, Lenore Branch the fourth Monday week, with Friday and Saturday schedules in Crandall.
Chas A Inger of Shoal Lake advertises about 900 cords of green poplar for sale. Wood available in poles, cordwood, or stove lengths with prices on application. Contact details not fully clear.
The Dominion Chemist Dr Frank T Shutt notes over four thousand samples analyzed in the year to March 31 1916 covering flour meats preservatives fertilizers and other materials. A poisoned wheat formula using strychnine details a method to destroy gophers with warnings of its deadly nature. Copies of the report are available free at Ottawa Publications Branch.
Receipts from the special war taxation have greatly exceeded forecasts. Canadian banking institutions, loan and insurance companies contribute about one million dollars annually, with postal war tax, draft and cheque stamp taxes, and railway ticket taxes also yielding substantial sums. Excess Profits Tax returns surpassed estimates by Sir Thomas White.
The report projects a first year tax intake of about fourteen to fifteen million dollars, with 1916 yielding twenty to twenty five million. The first two years total more than the three year estimate, 1917 should bring another twenty five million, and final results nearly double initial expectations.
The March issue of Red and Gun features outdoor life stories and regular departments for gun, rifle, and rod enthusiasts. Readers will find tales such as Gentleman Jones and The Treacherous Snow, along with other outdoor pieces by authors like Wm. McMullen and F. W. Williams. W. J. Taylor, Ltd. of Woodstock, Ontario publishes the magazine.
The District Registrar directs service of the application to foreclose the mortgage held by the Haitian American Investment Company Limited. A final order for preclosure will be issued if no caveat is filed within one month. The notice warns that failure to respond grants the mortgagee rights to final order and extinguishes any later claims to the land described, located in Portage la Prairie Manitoba, Section 28 and Section 22 Township 27 Range 11 West, excluding right of way for the Canadian Pacific Railway Plan No 214.
Notice under The Manitoba Trustee Act requires all creditors and claimants against Timothy Pangman late of Keaudon Manitoba to send their claims by May 4 1917 to William J. Stinson and Percy W Raymer at Hamiota Manitoba. After that date the executors will distribute assets to those they deem rightful without liability for unknown claims. Dated Hamiota March 28 1913.
Returned Soldiers Convalescent Home Winnipeg appeals for eggs to feed maimed veterans weakened by gas exposure. They request any spare hen fruit and offer printed donor tags with name and return address for crates.
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