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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1944
Page
1
Advertises a wide range of holiday gift goods including toilet sets fountain pens watches and manicure sets with prices and brands. Also lists Christmas cards candles decorations and wrapping supplies, highlighting a low price display and assorted gift items for the season.
Church events include White Gift and Candle-Lighting service at Christ Church on Sunday 10 December 1944 with Rev B O Whitfield and Rev W G Onions. Community items note deaths, visits, agricultural society meeting, turkey sale, and a war savings draw at the Orange Hall on 8 December. News also mentions Norman Turnbull's CKY broadcast and local obituaries.
Sweid's Store features holiday towels and towel sets as gift options. Includes Fancy Towels and assorted towel sets with a focus on affordable options for Xmas shoppers.
A serious Saturday evening collision south of Harding involved a light delivery truck and Kenneth Fraser’s car. In the Fraser party were Mr and Mrs K Fraser, Mr and Mrs Ab Kirk, and Dr J M Williams, all injured. Dr Williams and Mrs Fraser were the most seriously hurt, with Williams unconscious and taken to Rivers Airport Hospital, where he remained unresponsive until the next day. Mrs Fraser went to Hamiota Hospital. Ken Fraser’s car was badly wrecked. reports say the truck crossed to the wrong side by four feet.
A British bride of a Canadian soldier in England arrived in Canada and, with other brides, sent a cable reading Happy Birthday. The sister puzzled by identical messages learns the phrase is wartime code meaning I arrived safely and am well and happy.
Call or visit Dr. Hudson or the Rev W G Onions to donate blood for the Red Cross Blood Bank. Immediate donors are requested, with names provided to the physicians for registration.
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