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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 18, 1915
Page
4
The Hamiota Echo announces rates for subscriptions and various advertisements. Rates include 150 per annum for science content, US$1.00 for the paper, 12c per inch for display ads, 12c per line for first insertion and 8c per line for subsequent insertions, and transient ads priced at 25 per insertion after the first. Proposals for changes must be in the office by Tuesday noon for weekly publication.
A 1915 Canadian poem honors soldiers and mothers, then Winnipeg items report J H McConnell MP PPs maiden speech in Manitoba Legislature. He critiques previous speakers, urges premier focus on provincial business, supports compulsory education, touts English as dominating language, and backs referendum on prohibition. Monuments to Roblin era grain elevators noted as enduring symbols.
Local notes describe Mr and Mrs Norton arriving safely at Long Beach while Mr Jos Shayman sprained his back. Herb Mitchell built a coal shed and hauled coal this winter. Shoal Lake boasted a bonspiel with Eby of Hamiota hailed as a curling leader. A parlor debate on choir impact at Mr B Wyatt’s home favored the affirmative. Mrs Meakin impressed judges as the best speaker. A fire at Mrs Dixon’s house caused damage and $85 burned. firefighters saved the structure despite furnace suspicion.
A Winnipeg observer today urged the formation of an independent commission to thoroughly investigate vague election rumors, fix the blame if any, and expose the culprits.
A verse urges Bridget O Flyn to dry her tears and tend cows and steers in the stable. It mocks a matrimonial turn and calls for practical labor on the farm, with repeated address to Bridget and light regional dialect imagery.
Smut infection on Canadian farms is estimated to cost 84 cents per acre and about fifteen million dollars annually. Ot tawa Experiment Farm director Smut J. H. Grisdale urges farmers to order Formaldehyde now to ensure timely treatment before seeding.
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