Flaming August in Flin Flon and Manitoba Notes
The column blends travel notes from Flin Flon to Sandy Lake with cottage names and new residents. It recalls visitors Bob and Vi Coombs, the Bray family, and local hosts, plus mining-town changes, hospitality, and a mounted fishing description. It also mentions R.C.M.P. personnel shifts, regional farmland, and a closing nudge to prune viewings before frost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coombs
the Narrows
Flin Flon
Bob
Vi Coombs
Annie Bray
Don
Gav Bray
Brandon
Sandy
Kay Morrice
Jack
Pauline Martin
Hamiota
Ida Wilkinson
Bea Armstrong
Hume
Local notes mix dances fishing and long friendships
A lively community column covers the Marksmen dance crowd at Oak River with manager Fred Glinz, summer curling, and Fred’s rare dance-floor absence. It also recalls fishing at Beaver Lake, Victoria ties through the Frazer breakfast, travel plans to the old country, Monk's Bread mislabel, and memories from Melita to Newdale with Hamiota exhibitors at a horticultural show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marksmen
Oak River
Fred Glinz
Fred
Victoria B.C
R. O. Frazer
Gordon Webb
The
Royal Bank
Fred Spriggs
Grace Decker
Frazer
Hamiota
Victoria
Webb
Ralph
Peggy
Old Country
Ethel Baldwin
Doris
Winnipeg
Baldwin
Church Notices from Hamiota and Nearby United Churches
Sunday August 23 services listed for Hamiota United Church with ministers R E Clark and others. Additional services at Oarn er United Church Decker and Strathclair Pastoral Charge led by Rev A McColl and Rev J Harland with service times noted. The notice promotes worship and Sunday school times.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Emia
Hamiota Echo
Manitoba
Canada
U.S.A
F. S. Venables
Jack Coombs
Mother
Bonnie
Beaver Lake
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Co-operative Fish Plant
Glen Stewart
Ray Downey
Bill Henry
Clare Sparling
Howell
Decker
Wiley
Mcconnell
Bob King
Wyve
Sandy Lake
Ross
Eleanor Waddell
Nellie Woods
Jim Mathison
Clifford Robinson
Lori Duncan
Lion’s Club
John Ramsay
Charlie Randell
John
Jack Houck
Shoal Lake Narrows
Randell’s
R.C.M.P
Cst
Lorne Wagner
Portage la Prairie
Cpl
John Check
Constable Wagner
Clear Lake
Swan River Valley
Shield
Pratt
Melita
J. M. Williams
Williams
Newdale
T. Dillon
E. A. Dixon
Simpson Sears
Harry Gray
B.C
Reggie
Hamiota United Church
R. E. Clark
Kennell & Strange
Kenton
S. Perlmutter Naaeeren
Hamiet Rivers
Birtle Hotel
Gospel Chapel
Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
E. Myers
God
Christ Jesus
I Timothy
Hamiota Baptist Fellowship
Pastor C. Davis, Rivers
Doug
Hamiotea
B. P. Strickland General Insurance & Real Estate
F. A. Hodge
Hamic TA
Cec’s Barber Shop
Cecil Cormack
W. H. Brooks
Hamiltea
Darroch
Oak River Man
John Smyth
Duncan’s
Doak, Buckingham
Presley
Coward
Doak - Rutherford & Co
Hamic« Echo Building
Hamieta Or
Virden
McConnell Bros