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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 20, 1949
Page
7
Kent Farish endures a tense wedding to Marie while Kay Landers, invited by the bride, disrupts the ceremony with a bold display. Marie remains radiant as Kent battles nerves, recalling a past romance and a threat of scandal.
The ad promotes Anne Adams pattern 4554 for sizes 12 to 20 with fabric needs of 41 1/4 yards of 35 inch material. It highlights a new flange detail and easy sewing, tested for fit, with complete illustrated instructions. Send 25 cents in coins to the Winnipeg Pattern Dept. at 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg Man.
A complete collection of photographs of the lieutenant governors from 1876 to 1905 is now on display in the Legislative Library Regina. Arranged by the archives division, the exhibit marks the first public showing of the set.
Doctors hail one-year-old Elizabeth Turke as a miracle baby after she Plunged twenty feet from a second story landing and emerged with no bruise or serious injury.
Summary of regional items: City Tourist Camp in Cranbrook begins construction of extra bungalows and quarters for a June opening. Vermilion elects Donald Taylor to a fourth term as Canadian Postmasters’ Association president. Manitoba cattle breeders report a record bull sale average of 561.92 dollars at the Manitoba Winter Fair. Carman pursues semi pro baseball with local financing plans. Mountain Park mine in Alberta closes, leaving about 130 miners out of work due to rising costs. Winnipeg hosts Boer War veterans gathering with participants from multiple provinces and states.
Lt Gen Charles Foulkes head of the Canadian Army reports strong interest in the Reserve Army in western Canada and says military conditions there are excellent. A new summer scheme will establish trade training schools in each command for cadets with courses in motor mechanics signals work and medical assistance. A $60 bonus will be awarded to cadets who complete the courses. There are about 10 000 species of wasps known to science.
Tom Creighton 75 longtime prospector and founder of the Flin Flon mining story died after a long illness. He named the town after a pulp mystery and discovered the property in January 1915 guiding a project that yielded about 250 million dollars in copper zinc gold and silver. The mine was developed after heavy investment and trials by New York interests leading Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting to own the property. Creighton led Hudson Bay Air Transport and directed prospecting for the Hudson Bay company at his death.
This recipe combines unsweetened chocolate water evaporated milk and sugars over low heat until smooth. It describes boiling until a soft ball forms in cold water then cooling adding butter vanilla and chopped nuts before pouring into a greased pan and cutting into squares.
Agriculture Minister James Gardiner said Canada would ship 160 million pounds of bacon to Britain after year end under the Anglo-Canadian bacon agreement. He noted Canadians are now eating about double the prewar pork products and that deliveries may extend beyond the agreement’s end.
Construction on the St Mary River irrigation project near Lethbridge Alberta advances with over 3 million dollars allocated this year. About 2.75 million has been spent so far on developing the scheme which will irrigate 513000 acres once completed with a massive earth-filled dam and canals expected to finish in fall 1950.
Leo Kustush of Yorkton Collegiate told the local natural history society that glacial action thousands of years ago shaped Saskatchewan. He described how moving ice tore up limestone in Manitoba and redistributed it across the province, affecting geological history.
Parliamentary assistant Robert McCubbin told the commons the government has no plan to pay a subsidy on butter. This statement clarifies subsidy policy amid ongoing dairy pricing debates.
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