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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 18, 1954
Page
4
Cardale residents and farm families attend the Brandon Experimental Farm Field Day. Attendees enjoyed a tractor train ride and praised the informative program. Mrs M Shaw and Gordon Shaw returned from Ontario by plane for the funeral of Gleason Gill, Mitchell Ontario, aged 64. Fred Porter visits sister Mrs Andrews for holidays.
Pope and Rivers families plus friends from Empress Alta Stoughton MacAuley Regina Welwyn and Melita spent weekends visiting relatives across towns. Other groups included the Grist and Gray households at Welwyn and Melita respectively and the Morison Colbeck Beasley families enjoying time at Oak Lake and Nano Alta. Marlene Morison spent holidays at home.
A Tea on August 12 at Mrs Harvey Pangman’s home drew residents for a McConnell church fund shower. Dishes and $9.45 in cash were collected. Guests included former Hamiota members and new village arrivals. Mrs Knight led the register while Mrs Richardson and Mary Brown staged a balloon passing contest and a pretend ball game. corsages of sweet peas were given to the winners.
Records show afternoon pictures added to the community album and a tea under a beach umbrella hosted for W.A. members led by Mrs Fowlie. Several visitors arrived including Mr and Mrs J Morgan of Vancouver BC and families from Souris and Whiteside Cape Breton.
Manitoba reports four Portage la Prairie railway crossings now lit by Sodium Vapor Light generating a bright yellow glow that effectively warns motorists at night. The 1954 area programme advances in July, extending service to Piney Stuartdurm Alexander North Mountain Alonso and farms in Stan ley Rhineland Montcalm South Cypress Strathcona Argyle Swan River Minitonas Wallace Cl anwilliam. Supplementary groups in Brok enhead St Clements Alexander Whitemouth Lac du Bonnet Franklin De Salaberry Morton Coldwell Eriksdale Fisher Bifrost Portage La Prairie Lakeview Mountain Ethelbert Pipestone also on summer schedule.
Local notes report OARNER School will reopen for fall term on Tuesday August 31 at 9. Several residents are on holiday or visiting relatives in Winnipeg and Saskatoon. Church services resume August 22 at 3 pm.
The Canadian National Railways loaded 2 100 bushels of Manitoba’s new barley crop last week at Letellier. The shipment, 47 pounds per bushel for a faded 30W six row, was sent to Manitoba Pool Elevators. Producers listed were C C Schroeder L Forrester and G Pappel.
Rural Manitoba consumed 37 162 300 kilowatt hours in July up 12 percent from a year earlier according to the Manitoba Power Commission. Hydro crews worked to restore production after bad weather and major transmission and distribution upgrades were completed across the province including Manitou to Boissevain and Virden to Birtle projects with new substations and street lighting improvements in Portage la Prairie.
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