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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 16, 1919
Page
4
Public notice from a publishing company notes rates for advertisements and deadlines. It specifies price for insertion and 2c for each subsequent insertion. Copy must be in the office by noon Tuesday for publication the same week. Names W Venables and W Hl Josey listed as Peoravirous.
The village council aims to borrow 12000 dollars over three years to lay concrete sidewalks and improve north south roads. Local workers would be hired and most funds spent locally, reducing long term repairs, with council seeking parliamentary approval to proceed.
A January 13 meeting at Hamiota School discussed the Boys and Girls Club in the district. Attendance was disappointing but officials expect strong support from interested parents and the community for children's education efforts.
The minutes read by Mr Cresswell were approved. The financial statement showed the previous year’s receipts 19268, disbursements 16330, balance 5638. Officers were reelected or elected: President J B Houck, Vice President Clark Fraser, Secretary Manager Cresswell, Treasurer Miss Coates. New members elected to the executive: Mrs Kerr, Mrs O Neill, Mrs Thring, Mrs Delbridge, Rev Mr Lockhart, Rev Spence, Messrs Kemp, Geo O’Neill, J Delbridge. Executive to meet soon at the President’s call. Meeting adjourned.
Classified items list rental, sales, and exchanges including a house to rent south of the track. Contact J. H. Houck in Hawiota for details and a cat sheaves for sale via H. G. Stone Lavinia or phone 77-14. Also offers a reed twin baby carriage and cat to Mrs. F. Collie McConnell St. MecLaughlin Car trade for young horses via Box 30 Hamiota.
The Executive of the Ladies Patriotic Society met January 13 to review sewing for French relief and pressing tasks. A £7300 fund will support six French orphans for two years with caregiver unity, and aid the Kiaki Club for children of French service members. donors urged to send regular contributions as meetings lag.
Local residents including Rev Wood and Rev E Spence attend services and conferences in Crandall and Toronto. A curling banquet follows the President prize series start on January 27 with three events. Obituaries note the death of Margaret Elizabeth Ingraas, with funeral at Knox Church and interment at Scotia cemetery. Birth notices record twins and a daughter in Hamiota and Eston. Sale ads offer Seed Banner Oats and Growed Barley. stray mare colt found near section 29. Also several farm births and animal sale notices alongside seed wheat and oats for sale by J Pollock and G McConnell.
An old advertisement promoting Hamlin's Wizard Oil as a universal pain reliever for rheumatism sciatica and stiff joints plus Wizard Liver Whips for constipation and headaches. It claims quick penetration and antiseptic healing and offers a 30 cent price with money back guarantee. The copy targets druggists and general readers.
For sale the Bamiot Fionr Mille 100 barrel capacity with two ground Teo engines 75 hp and Whp two boiler one TH hp and one 68 hp. Will sell and separate terms exist. Any reasonable offer accepted. Apply Paul Pfeifer Fort Garry Hotel Winnipeg. Sop.
Life companies join effort to popularize the Canadian War Savings Plan. Pendential Life forms a War Savings Society in Peterborough district with a pledge to purchase stamps under the national plan. Great West Life aggressively markets war savings stamps on all letterheads as literature circulates.
The Sec Treas will receive applications for the Police and General Utility Man post for the Village of Hamiota. Applications will be considered at the council meeting scheduled for Monday February 3.
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