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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1949
Page
18
A catalog of fruits and vegetables including oranges in California and Japan, grapefruits in Texas, apples from British Columbia, grapes, lettuce, cranberries, tomatoes, cauliflower, celery and waxed vegetables appears amid market woes.
The line lists the Hamiota Echo price at $2.00 per year in advance and $2.50 to the United States. Publishers C. W. Venables and W. H. Josey are named, with a date of December 21, 1949.
Lavinia reports a W A and W M S gathering hosted by Mrs W A A McConnell on December 14 with seventeen attendees. The W M S presented a Christmas program and elected 1950 officers led by Mrs E A Dixon and Mrs Lloyd McConnell with various secretaries and committees. Mr Norman Stewart departed Thursday for the winter in Flin Flon.
Miss Phyllis Brown visited friends in Winnipeg last weekend. Mrs. R. McFeely spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Ivan Kirk, in Saskatoon. The Christmas Tree Concert will be held at the school on Friday at 8 p.m.
The message urges faith in harvests and producing food for a hungry world. It notes droughts and disasters in 1949 but overall prosperity in the Prairie Provinces. It calls for better farm use of products and care for one another, ending with season’s greetings from Line Elevator Companies and sponsors.
The Hamiota Curling Club announces skating on Tuesdays Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays with no hockey then. Mondays and Wednesdays are reserved for hockey only and skating is not held on those nights.
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