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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
5
A notice states that Chas A Grobb Man will visit the jewelry store every second month with the next appointment scheduled for Thursday October 15. The message notes regular visits and ongoing business engagements.
The December Rod and Gun in Canada profiles Bonnycastle Dale, who recounts Christmas Day among Gulf of Georgia harbor seals and water life after coastal Pacific collecting. The issue also features The Reyholed Bullet by George Gilbert, In the Basin by H C Haddon, Silver Tip A Tale of The Far North by Robert Hewes, Propagation of Brook Trout by John W Titcomb, plus regular Fishing Guns and Trap Line departments.
The Hamiota Hospital Latins Aid announces a carnival at the Ohie rink on Monday December 2. Admission 25¢ for all ages. Prizes awarded for fancy dress and comic categories with separate divisions for men women and children. Prizes displayed at Manitoba Hardware Co. window.
About fifty locals gathered at the Strachan home on Friday night December 12 to bid Mr and Mrs Claud Kemp farewell as they depart for their new home in Kelowna British Columbia. The event featured Progressive Euchre and a luncheon. Mr Bredour presented the couple with a silverware set and several speakers praised them before dancing closed the evening.
A new year subscription to The Youths Companion is promoted as the best Christmas present with 52 issues in 1920 plus all remaining 1919 issues and the 1928 Home Calendar for 2.50. Benefits include stories for all ages, editorial pages, and comment on major events, with Capt Theodore Robert Upriver Folk Stories and Canadas Sons of Liberty promised to new subscribers.
A 1919 Winnipeg letter from Miss F M Cochrane secretary to the Community Club expresses sincere gratitude for a substantial cheque from Harmiota Man and district. The note calls Harmiota supporters staunch friends and records a “real top” fund-raising result for the Christmas season with best wishes for the coming year from W A Weston general secretary of the Children’s Aid Society of Winnipeg.
Zion Methodist Church invites all to end the year in worship on December 28. Rev E Spence will deliver an Old Year Message with a sermon for boys and girls and a talk titled If I were Twenty One Again. Manitoba Saskatchewan Bible Society rep Rev Bo Salter preaches at 3 pm with Sunday School review at 2 pm. Christmas services drew large crowds with special choir music under Mr Squibb and organ by Mrs H M Reid.
The Knox Presbyterian Church invites all to Sunday services led by Pastor Geo Lockhart and Rev E O Salter from Winnipeg representing the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Bible Society. Sunday School at 2 PM, preaching at 3 PM with special choir music. The theme Dawn of a New Day Prospects Possibilities.
The Hamiota Hospital Laces Aid plans a carnival in the rink on Monday December 29 with prizes for fancy and comic costumes. Prizes will be displayed in the Manitoba Hardware window and proceeds support hospital funds.
The Winnipeg convention outlines aims to unite rural credit societies, expand lending to farmers, and boost provincial wealth. Experts from universities and government agencies will speak on farm management, credit conditions, and cooperative organization, with a reception at government buildings and talks by Premier Norris.
The Kamiota school district lists trustees and committee heads including Mrs M K McLean as chair of Ward 1 and J H Houck and John Lewon in Ward 2. Committees cover Van Routes caretaking grounds buildings and staff and finance with J Delbridge and A C Kemp as chairs. Meetings are on the first Thursday each month in the Council Chamber with winter and summer times specified.
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