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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 23, 1925
Page
4
Winnipeg breeder advertises pure bred baby chicks guaranteed to lay and weekly shipments. Offers hatching eggs incubators brooders and custom hatelling poultry supplies with free catalogue.
Local advertisement for mutual fire insurance offered by A Dod McConnell. The text promotes farm fire coverage and service through an agent, located beside the Printing Office with a contact phone number 45.
Union Bank of Canada reports from Mr T Geliey Divisional Commissioner for Immigration Winnipeg that a large number of immigrants will arrive soon. He seeks active cooperation to place the majority on farms and invites applications for employment of male or female help at the Union Bank of Canada Bamitta.
The note urges customers to visit during summer openings and two local meat markets. It invites people who run short of beef or tire of it to pay with cash and switch to fish, pork or sausage, emphasizing a change in meat choices.
Rev S A Martin conducts 11am and 7pm services at Knox Presbyterian Church with special choir music and Oakner preaching at 12 10. Sunday School and Bible Class offered. Orchestra music noted. Oakner Sunday School at p m and preaching service at 3.
Anglican Sunday schedule lists Rev T B Butler incumbent at 10 15 am Sunday School 2pm Bible Class 3pm Afternoon Service with Evening Communion on fifth Sunday. Rev W F Bushe to conduct in Hamiota and Oak River. Butler at Shoal Lake. Reflections urge truthful living and deeds.
An article discusses using well rotted barnyard manure as a fertilizer and compares yields from large versus small potato seed. It reports three year trial data showing higher per acre yields with rotted manure and large seed potatoes, including specific bushel results and seed set guidance.
Comparative figures show 35 percent of U S farms are tenant operated versus 8 percent in Canada. Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta have millions of acres awaiting settlement with average occupied farm values about 2800 dollars in Manitoba and 2400 in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Canadian yields and cheaper lands give lower costs per bushel of wheat, per US Tariff Commission data from 1923. The note also mentions spring cleanup advice and Merchants’ Short Course at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg from April 27 to May 1 with details from W G Spence and the Merchants’ Association.
A town meeting of Storekeepers and Businessmen decided to observe a Thursday half holiday during summer. Stores will close at 12 noon from April 23 to August 13, or August 6 if an early harvest occurs. Participating businesses include Bennett & Squibb Harrison & Burgess Bank of Commerce Imperial Lumber Yards The Chambers Co Hamiota Book Store Hamiota Echo Ed Roberts Barber Shop A Wildfong Barber Shop Post Office Lenion's Store Dr H M Reid Union Bank Manitoba Hardware & Lumber Co A L Wildfong D Wildfong Bernard Fox James Fraser J P Moore B R McNaught.
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