Harvest memories and small-town anecdotes from Prairie notes
The column recalls old threshing days, potatos and currants in fruit cake, and long harvest hours. It notes a 1920s Ford price around 625, cribbage games, mishaps with mail and stairs, patient Ted Venables in Winnipeg Hospital, and local nostalgia from Hamiota to Souris with community figures and sayings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Peacock
George
Percy Taylor
Ernie Wallace
Johnnie Riddell
Wallace
Ernie
Bill McConnell
Bill
Ted Venables
Winnipeg General Hospital
Ted
Glen Gregory
Marlene Caldwell
Glen
Letter Snippet and Local Notes From Hamiota Column
A collection of short items from Hamiota including a reader’s tip about fastening collar buttons, letters from Vi Kazakoff in Ottawa, travel notes about Bill Matthews’s Saskatchewan trip, a Christmas pardon story from Souris, a hospital accreditation in Rivers, a sports injury at a hockey game, CBC News critiques, local moves by the Lab Technican and nurse, a cancer pad material appeal, and a weekly thought on indigestion from words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decker
Jack
Bobbi
Mr. X
Ottawa
Canada
Vi Kazakoff
Kazakoff
Hamiota
Chas
Ruttan
Jimmy Kirk
Bill Coombs
Bill Matthews
Bill
Saskatoon
Regina
Estevan
Saskatchewan
Rough Riders
Brandon
Golden Year events stir at St Regis and Pan Am aims
The note highlights Bon spiels hockey tournaments and other season happenings at the St Regis drawing crowds en route to Pan Am Games. Laurier Lapierre urges students to consider forming labor unions for higher education, a bold, timely suggestion amid campus debate.
Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Service Schedule
Pastor E Myers leads church services with a Sunday 11 30am service and 10 30am Sunday School on Thursday 8pm prayer and Bible study. Today's scripture Psalm 25 17 asks for deliverance from distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Clark
D. L. Holtzman
Cardale
A.m. McConnell
Strathclair
Christ Church
Hamiota
Rev
W. D. Smith
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hamiota Echo
Manitoba
Post Office Department
U.S.A
F. S. Venables
Jack Coombs
Pat Patterson
Pat
Souris
Barry Sambrook
Buck Mathison
Sambrook
M Dora
Buck
Jim Ma
Rock
Ken
Mathison
Wimp
Percy Davis
Mary
West Coast
Shoal Lake
Bill Lewycky
Dr. Lawson
Don Kennedy
Elgin Hurst
Les Stimpson
Cassel Snyder
Mike Antonation
Charlie Bell
George Deller
Wilfin
Peter Funk
Bill Wherrett
Mel
Margaret Cochran
Lorraine Que
Decker-Hamiota
Loy Cochran
Wm. Edward
Rosemere
W. W. Kirk
Rod McLeod
Joan Hudson
Cochran
Lou
Mrs. Cochran
Venables
Evelyn Edward
Ruttans
Jamie Jamieson
Bill Webb
Jackes
Joan McLeod
Mel Cochran
Willard Oprak
Co-Op
Pittendreigh
Willard
Petticoat Junction
Geo. Peacock
Ken Mathison
Ponderosa
Ben
Clark
C. N. McArthur
McArthur’s
Rivers Hospital
Hamida Hospital
Rivers
Son Number Three
Son No. Three
Bruce
Hames
Dominion of Canada
CBC News
Earl Cameron
Red Cross Society
Lloyd Baker
Eisler
Lloyd
Jack Russell
Winnipeg Cancer Society
Hamiota Order of the Eastern Star
Rucrell
St Regs Hotel
Winnipeg
United Church of Canada
Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
E. Myers
H. Heath
Strickland
General Insurance
Kenton
Oak River
McConnell, Lavinia
Oakner
Harding
P.S.W
Virden
Neo Ats
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