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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1914
Page
4
Publication notice lists advertising rates from 150 per annum in advance and 12 per inch for draping advertising. It details municipal and legal advertising charges, first insertion cost plus 4 per line for subsequent insertions. A deadline for copy by noon Tuesday to publish the same week is given, with names C. W. Venables and W. H. Josey referenced for the office.
The Echo thanks advertisers for supporting the paper despite the European war cloud and expresses gratitude to subscribers. It asks those who have not paid to settle their subscriptions by year end and hopes for continued support in the future.
The Canadian Peace Centenary Association continues educational work with school literature and essay prizes on Anglo American relations. Church services are planned for February 14, and the group aims to keep intact for a postwar public celebration. The Photo Drama of Creation, shown at McConnell Hall, featured C T Stansell and impressive color slides with strong gramophone records, drawing large audiences and moving from town to town.
The Hamiota Curling Club met in the Connell Chamber to prepare for a 1915 bonspiel with a $2500 Patriotic Fund and twelve skips listed for the season. Sides for the President vs Vice-President contest were drawn and a long roster of players and rink assignments announced as plans proceed for the January event.
Notice declares a by law to tax all arable and pasture land in Ham Iota Rural Municipality under the Inter Municipal Hail Insurance Act. Electors vote on December 15, 1914, at designated election sites. Four cents per acre with 85.00 per acre compensation for total loss.
All life members and yearly subscribers of 2.00 or more may vote and hold office. Subscriptions increasing to 50.00 gain life membership. Unpaid subscriptions toward the building fund of the Hamita General Hospital must be paid soon to cover a bank overdraft.
The Ladies Patriotic Society of Hamiton district thanks Lavinia's Ladies Aid via Mrs Ben Wyatt for 15 dollars to the Patriotic Fund and 15 dollars to Belgian Relief. Subscriptions from many women raise Belgian Relief to 109 dollars. four boxes of aid weigh 1130 lbs. The group also sent five boxes to the Belgian Consul in Winnipeg and two boxes from the school children.
Percy C W Raymer serves as a commissioner in B R Eve a notary public and conveyancer. He handles real estate insurance money loans on farm and town property from his office located one door east of the Hotel Cecil and reachable by phone at 127.
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