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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 12, 1944
Page
8
A Friday January 21 event in the school features a novelty dance and euchre drive with cards at 8 30. McCallum's orchestra plays for dancing and admission is 40 cents. Tickets sold in a groceries hamper to aid the Red Cross.
Pulpwood cutters who left for Christmas and New Year holidays are asked to return to woods work promptly to prevent disruption of vital war work. The Pulp and Paper Industry of Canada urges workers to rejoin and notes farmers and farm workers may leave farms temporarily for winter pulpwood jobs with meals camps wages and transport arranged. Applications should go through Selective Service officers provincial agricultural representatives or local Farm Production Committees. Arthur MacNamara states postponement of military service for farmers and farm workers will not be affected.
The Manitoba Department of Agriculture convened a November 30 session for 156 farmers across 50 municipalities to discuss weed control methods for leafy spurge. Officials and farmers alike agreed on better outreach and cooperation to protect soils and reduce weed impact.
Mr and Mrs Nelson Henderson hosted a Friday night event with four tables of 900. Mrs Roy Kerr and Mr N Henderson shared top scores as a cake with candles was unveiled during a birthday song. Plans included a biweekly 500 party and a Milk for Britain collection. Next party set for January 31 at the Kerrs.
Shipped to Red Cross headquart ers last month include towels shirts skirts handkerchiefs pillow cases quilts and knitted items The annual Red Cross meeting occurred January 5 with officers elected Shackleford president Wallace vice-president McConnell secretary treasurer and a finance committee named Also notes on residents visiting Winnipeg and others leaving for Winnipeg with Mrs Cochrae under medical care plus Mrs Lief on the sick list.
The annual congregational meeting is set for Wednesday January 19 at two o clock in the afternoon in the Church. John Allen a local store keeper is a patient in Hamiota Hospital and well wishes are extended for a speedy recovery. John Killoh has returned from a visit to friends in southern Manitoba. Mrs Dick Allen has returned from Winnipeg where she was receiving treatment and is now visiting friends in Shoal Lake. The Sadie Hawkins entertainment was a success with large attendance. Elmer Partridge of New Brunswick is home on leave. Mrs J Arbuthnott and family have returned to Portage la Prairie from a visit to Mr and Mrs J A Pollock. Mrs J W McDougall visited her ill father in St Boniface Hospital.
Pilot Officer Douglas Halliday from Rivers stayed with Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Alexander LAC during a two week leave. Hugh Alexander visited Winnipeg. Allan Anderson fractured his right hip in an elevator fall. Nelson Hodgson plans a Saskatoon and Lloydminster trip. Decker United Church holds annual meeting January 18 at 2 pm in the church parlor. Mrs. L. W. Cochrane and the Mission Band opened the New Year meeting in the school. A Decker rink named W Cumberland J D Quinton F W Decker and R. Anderson curling in the Hamiota Red Cross bonspiel. Red Cross reports 18 girls sweaters 10 boys shirts 40 handkerchiefs 7 patched quilts from Decker.
Seed stocks of oats and barley are disappearing rapidly this winter due to frost damage in eastern Canada and extensive areas of Alberta and northwestern Saskatchewan. Germination tests on 407 oat samples show 34.9 percent germinated at 60 percent or less and 128 percent? 52 samples germinated 30 percent or less. Poor seed lowers vigor, reduces stand, invites weeds.
A country elevator with an authorized seed distributor for the Provincial Crop Improvement Association offers seed order forms and information on officially recommended varieties. The associations are sponsored by Dominion and provincial governments, universities, seed growers’ associations, and elevator companies.
The Agricultural Department and Northwest Line Elevators Association publish winter 1944 wheat variety recommendations. Zone maps guide farmers to suitable varieties, with 3.1 to 28.4 percent of acreage growing nonrecommended types. Saskatchewan shows 0.9 to 16.6 percent nonrecommended, Marquis removal cited. Manitoba not represented. Farmers urged to consult agents for details.
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