Women Institute Achievement Night Show Shines
The Women’s InstituteAchievement Night and Fashion Show filled the School Auditorium on a February evening with a Valentine theme. Members showcased sewing classes The Clippers The Rippers and The Zippers totaling 34 participants along with spring fashions and a parade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Institute
Scholol
O Canada
Jean Smith
Ethel Randell
Mesdames
Ida Strachan
Nora Kirk
Vera Beamish
Geneva Thompson
Alice Russell
Douglas Rutherford
Canada
Janie
Nan Emerson
Heather Houck
Norah Kirk
Ruth Gregory
Inza Houck
Margaret Corley
Mesdames Stine
Jean McBain
Little Gensler Doreen
Eula Woods
Phyllis Chappell
Dot Campbell
Geneva Thomp
Hamiota Collegiate Auditorium Time Allocation
Principal Frank McKinnon notes the auditorium operates 60 hours weekly over five days from 9:00 to 18:00 and 19:00 to 22:00. High School use includes after school, week nights, noon hours, PE classes, and glee, totaling 32 1/2 hours overall and 11 1/4 hours during school hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glee Club
Auditorum
Frank McKinnon
Hamiota Collegiate Institute
Canadian literacy rise over decades
The excerpt notes a rise in the literacy rate from 41 to 43 percent in the 1940s, reaching 69 percent in 1961. It highlights a broad trend in Canadian education and reading habits across mid‑20th century years.
Hamiota Senior Citizens Club Meet
The Hamiota Senior Citizens Club reports steady weekly gatherings with about 44 attendees in January despite cold weather. A January 24 program featured Burns themed festivities with G Baxter and Rockley on accordion and banjo, Edwina Killoh dancing, readings by Mrs. Yeo, and Robbies poem read by a group led by Mrs. Frazer. Families provided Scotch lunch, birthday celebrations were held for eight members, and three members were noted as having passed away. Seventeen different ladies have acted as hostess each week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Burns
Jannuary 24
G. Baxter
Rockley
Rothney
Edwina Killoh
Jack Boyd
Nettie Yeo
R. O. Frazer
M. Hemphill
A. Decker
W. Pittendreigh
J. Anderson
Bonnie Coombs
Sally Robinson
C. Venables
E. J. Venables
Dan Cowling
Minnie Elliott
Herb Asselstine
F. Wyatt
J. Knight
J. Stewart
Lawn
James
Geo. Bray
Children Aid Society Board Meeting Highlights
The board reported expenses ten months into the fiscal year were 19000 under budget. Jeanette Smith was hired as switchboard operator and receptionist. Fund appeal in rural areas remained 1100 under the 16000 objective. Social workers attended Brandon College and Indian integration discussions. Riesberry’s January report noted 72 cases closed and 1122 active cases. 20 children were processed that month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Children’s Aid Society
Jeanette Smith
Moose Jaw
J. A. Greaves
J. Stevenson
P. Westerson
Nick Pereski
John Chudzik
Brandon College
Council of Christian and Jews
M. Goodman
H.C. Riesberry
Community Welfare Planning Committee
Winni Society
Parliament Comes to Life in House of Commons
Report from Parliament Hill notes the Commons continues its legislative program with social measures on pensions and aid for the blind and disabled passing through the House and heading to the Senate. The Conservatives host two farm briefs from the National Farm Union and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture while Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton, ill, could not meet the delegations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Senate
Conservative Agriculture Caucus Committee
National Farm Union
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Alvin Hamilton
Hamilton
Cabinet
Hamiota Clothing Club Holds Fourth Meeting
The Hamiota Clothing Club met in the church basement on February 12 with 16 members and 3 leaders. They donated $5 to the Club Council and $10 to the church, while Project I girls spoke on conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamiota Clothing Club
Project I Girls
Miss English
World Day of Prayer Promotes Prayer Aid and Literacy
The World Day of Prayer on Friday March 9 1962 aims to unite in prayer and to support world wide needs including refugees. Canadian Women in 1961 funded grants through the Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada to Christian Literature Societies across many countries. Braille publications reach sightless children and adults via the John Milton Society and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Non English Christian literature in Canada reaches thousands of minority readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Inter - Church Council of Canada
John Milton Society
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
Canada
Adult Education Trend Expands to Norway House Manitoba
Adult Education, essential in Canada, extends to Norway House 280 air miles north of Winnipeg. A local committee organizes carpentry engines cooking and shopping classes for residents. First sessions on January 31 enroll 45 students rising to 49 by week two. Courses run two nights weekly for five weeks at the United Church residential school with both theory and practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Manitoba
I Rway
Winnipeg
United Church
John A. Christianson
Centenarian Fraser mourned in Melita funeral rites
John Robert Fraser died February 8 at Hamiota Hospital after a month of illness. Born 1861 in Springbrook Ontario he lived as farmer in Elva-Melita district until 1947 and enjoyed hockey, travel, and reading. He leaves daughters Jennie Hopley and Lucy G. Hopley and multiple grandchildren. services held February 9 and 12 in Melita with interment in Melita Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Robert Fraser
Oak River
Hamiota Hospital
Springbrook
Ont
Fortrose
Rosshire
Scotland
Elva-Melita
Elva
Hester Mabel Pringle
Madoc
T. W. Hopley
Jennie
Elkhorn
G. Hopley
Lucy
Fraser
T.V
Michigan
Ontario
McConnell Bros
W. Christie
John Snowdon
Jesus
D. A. Patterson
Presbyterian Church of
Melita
R. Krepps
Virden
Robert Hopley
William Howley
Russell McKague
William Hutchings
Wesley Sherris
Peter Giesbrecht
H. Skelton
K. Furtney
K. Baily
R. Skelton
R. Banks
A. Snyder
L. Holmes
Lyleton
Oak River Curling Notes and Early Bonspiel Results
Coverage highlights curling events at Oak River and Hamiota with Eula Woods and Jean Morton among prize winners. Houck’s rink dominates Bonspiel play and Consols. next week’s Hamiota Bonspiel teased with Peep's weather omens and juvenile hockey victory over Virden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T.V
John Glenn
CBC Curling
Oak River
Eula Woods
Nita Campbell
Jean Morton
Liza McFeely
Oakner
Hamiota
Brandon
Peep
Houck
Braunstein
Glazier
Greenslade
Virden
Also Mentioned on This Page
W.I. Achievment
Rippers
Nelson Kreager
Maxine English
Gordon Smith
Mary Coupland
Hamiota Collegiate
Hamiota Senior Citizens Club
Mr. F. Wyatt
Children Aid Society Board Meeting
Parliament Hill
M.P
Marquette
N.F.A
Stanley Jackson
Inglis
Bernice Gurr
Hamiota Sewing Club
Phyllis Mathison
World Day of Prayer
Norway House
Centennarian
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