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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 05, 1942
Page
4
Rev Turnbull's fall sermon blends memories of a mother’s garden with images from a Scottish home. The narrator recalls large windows, geraniums, fuchsias, musk, roses, lilac, and a famed ashrab bush, weaving in Jimmie the Piper and a verdant valley meadow.
Mrs J Richardson and son Mervin of Brandon visited with Mr J M Richardson and Miss Margaret Gammack toured relatives. Frank Rosenberger injures his left foot in a farming accident and is hospitalized at Hamiota. A second Education Pictures show is set for August 14 in Decker Memorial Hall with a Red Cross dance to follow. Numerous Winnipeg and Portage guests visit area homes, while Beaver Lumber Co appoints a new manager after J Penner resigns.
The Chumah Girls Circle met at the Ferris home with fifteen members. Mrs Mildred Hazelwood spoke on the Passion Play seen in Germany in 1930 and several local visits were noted including Velma Smith of Winnipeg visiting her parents, and various KIRK and Smith family gatherings.
The all inclusive Canadian National Railways system reports weekly revenues of 7,457,000 for the week ending July 21, 1942, up from 5,845,000 the previous year, an increase of 1,642,000. Also notes requests for and Bay Brooms made by the blind with a label on the broom.
The cropped text indicates a piece titled The World Wheat by G G dsiaags, claiming to be a director and discussing The Crop Testing Plan. The available fragments are insufficient to determine the full scope or publication context.
The piece notes a likely labor shortage for harvest and threshing as many men join the armed forces and women enter munitions work. It urges high school leave, temporary returns from training, assistance from professionals, neighbourly help, and importing skilled American labor cross-border with simple regulations to boost harvest.
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