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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 22, 1927
Page
5
Direct factory sales offer Mason and Risch high grade pianos on easy terms. Every piano is inspected and tested before delivery. Contact to arrange a discussion when the seller is in your district.
The Hamiota Agricultural Society held its annual meeting on Saturday December 10 with about forty members. Kilich presided as secretary treasurer reported the society in sound financial shape with nearly $2,000 in cash and reduced building indebtedness. President A Little reviewed a busy year including a fair and poultry show, beekeeping school, better farming meetings, a community banquet, plowing match, and plans for a larger next year.
The U. M. held its annual meeting in the church parlor on Tuesday December 13 with good attendance. The secretary M. Tremaine reported wood standing movements and the cooperative secretary E A Dixon summarized 1927 business and purchases totaling just over three thousand dollars including swine coal clover seed honey posts. A new board was elected led by E W McConnell as president with A Thompson vice president E A McConnell corresponding secretary and E A Dixon cooperative secretary, retaining most of the old board. Delegates to the Portage convention were put in abeyance a few days. Orders were taken for clover seed posts coal and live stock shipments for the year reached ten full cars and about six half cars with Decker and McConnell. The group hopes every farmer joins in 1928.
The piece recounts Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, its isolation from St. Helena, and its 19th century history starting with an English garrison and Jonathan Lambert the self-proclaimed sovereign. It notes a tiny, self-sufficient community of about 140 people, volcanic terrain, and upcoming radio contact when the Empress of France stops nearby in 1928.
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