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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 28, 1913
Page
5
The River Show lists numerous prize winners across fruits vegetables flowers and crafts. Notable awards include 1st butter entries by Laura Ireton and J A Hyndman, landscape paintings by P Hess and G Bunn, and various sewing and needlework recognitions led by G Bunn and Mrs Venables.
An employee of Cummings and Day, Fred Campbell of Medicine Hat, drowned Sunday in the Saskatchewan River. Friends who were bathing with him attempted repeated rescues but he did not resurface and the body remains unrecovered.
At midnight Sunday two inmates Davis and Clark tried to escape New Westminster jail by cutting bars with shack-saw. Guard R P Day was knocked down but Day McMartin and Warden Brymer plus Hibben freed him, subduing Clark after a fierce struggle. Davis returned to his cell as Day lay injured in hospital with scalp wounds.
Harry Thaw, escaped convict from New York asylum, captured in Quebec, triggering a major legal battle over his liberty in the province as authorities pursue Thaw and the McAlpine case draws attention.
The THI London Directory published annually connects traders with English manufacturers and dealers across goods classes. It lists export merchants, colonial and foreign markets, steamship line sailings, and provincial trade notices, with forwardable editions and advertising options by price.
Six people died and three were injured in a collision between a Menon passenger train and a car near Cedar Lake and St Johns. A separate note mentions James Murray being appointed to an Alberta education board and a duck season accident near Namayo, Edmonton, where a youth lost his arm. The article also covers jewel theft rings, dairy farm payouts, and wireless station contracts in Manitoba.
Public concern rises in Mexico City as U S policy in Mexico's internal affairs hangs in balance. Huerta’s possible handling of correspondence fuels doubt while residents await Washington’s next move and a possible swift shift in relations if Congress debates Wilson’s stated facts.
Three clergymen and four lay men will soon arrive in Canada from the old country to assist with the Archbishops Western Island Fund. The current staff totals 37 clergymen, 25 lay men, and 5 ladies as the fund grows. Archbishop of Rupertsland praised the fund in England, noting its aid to regular diocesan work. Canon Beale, secretary, tours Canada visiting Edmonton and southern Alberta with possible stops in the Peace River district.
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