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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 1919
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows a weekly paper titled Che Bamiota Echo with publishing details. It lists a subscription rate and mentions transient advertisements including lost items and sales. The legibility is poor and no coherent event or larger context is discernible.
Council met with Mayor presiding and all members present. Items include referring J P Moore slaughter house permit to Sanitary and Health Committee, purchasing fire extinguishers with citizen share, lamp post installation at Rosas and Edith, rescinding by law amendment, paying A F Basler rent, reviewing Finance Committee accounts, and by law to raise 10000 by debentures with first reading. Council adjourned.
A large Friday meeting in the Council Chamber approved enlarging Board of Trade membership without fees and seeking 25 from Rural and Village Councils for running costs. Jas A Stewart was elected president with Dr Reid as vice president and W Raymer as secretary treasurer. The group discussed a town rest room, a memorial for fallen and returned soldiers, a Dominion Day reception on the Fair Grounds, and coordination with Crandall sports. Ellenville Ladies Patriotic Society funded part of the day.
D N Morrison staged a monumental sale of grade stock, implements, and household furniture on his Cardale area farm two miles northeast of Cardale. The event drew about 1000 buyers from across the province and Saskatchewan, with horses selling up to 425 and cattle to 175, cash nearly 10000, auctioneers McConnell Bros. keeping order and high prices. Morrison, a western settler for 28 years, was praised for arranging everything in prime condition.
A Cardale district settler started with $2000 and home steaded there. He added land until he owned three sections, selling it days before the sale at prices from $3.00 to $42.00 per acre. Mrs Morrison and he are mourned and well regarded as they leave the district.
Public notice states Consolidated School District of Oakner No 290 proposes to borrow 25000 dollars via debentures for building and furnishing a new school. Ninety-nine hundred dollar and two hundred eighty debentures fund the project, at 6.5 percent interest, to be approved by electors on Saturday May 17 1919 at the school house site township 13 range 23. Secretary-Treasurer to tally results.
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