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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1958
Page
4
Miss Marian Smuttel departed Thursday for Winnipeg to begin nurse training at St. Boniface Hospital.
Lavinia school reopened under teacher Mrs. Doherty from Decker. Students attending include Lillian Williams Glen Bridge Beverley Johns Bob Cochran Jimmie Park. Miss Margaret Skinner teaches first to third grades at Yandal School.
McConnell 1901 re opened on Tuesday with the teaching staff including Principal Mrs. C Mundell Intermediate Miss McLaughlin Primary Miss Lais and Eden Mr Larry McDougall spent a weekend at his home Miss Ann Symnyck of Brandon is spending a week at her home Mr and Mrs Clare Pangman and Scott of Elgin were recent guests at the former s home to attend the Pollock Dale wedding at Hamiota Miss Agnes Killoh returned to Saskatoon and Messrs Glad Wyn Scott to Hamiota and Glen is Scott to Miami to resume their teaching duties this week Miss Margaret Long visited Mr and Mrs J Killoh on her way home to Calgary Mrs Clare Pangman of Ham ia and Mrs Gertie Scott of Penticton BC spent a few days at the Pangman home last week Mr and Mrs Harold Kopetsky of Inglis were visitors at the Scott home on Sunday Miss Edwina Killoh returned from Saskatoon to spend a few days at the Henderson home.
Walter J Smyth 79 pioneer of Oak River district died August 18 at Hamiota. Funeral August 20 at Oak River United Church with interment in Hamiota cemetery. e A Friebert and Rev A Darland officiated. Mrs R Griffiths sang The Old Rugged Cross. Odd Fellows graveside rites. Survived by wife Janet Meerson, three sons John W Oak River, W J Winnipeg, Donald D Winnipeg, and daughter Mrs Roy Johnson Jean Port Arthur. sister Mrs J McNeil Vancouver. Smyth attended Manitoba Agricultural College first class in 1906 and member of LOOP edge for nearly fifty years. He married Janet Meerson in 1911.
Manitobans express disappointment at missing Princess Margaret’s Canadian tour while praising the royal family’s charm and the Queen’s example. The piece notes anxiety over funding and government priorities as Manitoba eyes future electoral success and industrial action under the new provincial leadership.
The text lists van drivers and routes including A Summon and G White with others, notes Olive Routledge leaving Sunday to teach at Ferris Sonoo nine miles from Portage La Prairie, and mentions Leslie Rankin returning from Camp Wasaga, Bobby Allan with cadets at Sea Island B C, Wayne Fleming visiting Winnipeg relatives, and Marjorie Gordon Thom with the Thompson family from Brandon visiting the C. M. And on Sunday various family visits occur locally.
Recent visitors and departures feature Misses Elsie Mason Louris and Organina Bowen Hamieda. Daisy Snowden from Winnipeg visited her parents the Snowdens. Hap Congdon Eilie and Fay returned from Glacier Park. Muriel Snowden plans a year ahead in Wataskiwin. Lyle Jyker family Winnipeg and Mrs Leishman visit the Hyndman home. Ormand Hynd Pan and family from Rivers were Sunday guests.
The October special session will reveal the new Roblin government’s immediate priorities. Observers expect a narrow agenda focusing on education agriculture and resources with a progressive practical plan likely to win legislative support despite a Liberal and CCF opposition.
In 1957 capital spending on Canadian railways for locomotives and machinery was estimated at 416 million dollars while repair expenditures totaled 357 million dollars.
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