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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 25, 1917
Page
4
On Thursday January 26 1917 a public meeting about weeds is announced to discuss control and the spread of dangerous recent weeds. Manitoba Weeds Commission meetings are advertised and urged attendance by farmers reeves and municipal councillors.
The Ravine Red Cross Society reports money on hand at end of June 1916 and donations from July to December including ice cream sales and tickets. It lists items sent to Winnipeg returned soldiers and a prisoner of war fund including provision shipments. The January Rod and Gun features various authors and regular departments, with Reginald Gourlay and W. J. Taylor noted as contributors and publisher.
The January sewing meeting was crowded despite bad weather. Quilts from Miss Sproat’s room and Swastika Club will go to the R.S.A. in Winnipeg. Donations total 7.25 dollars as tea was served by society members. Letters from Dr. Kerr Mann Heddesheimer and Fred Heddesheimer were read, with requests to share further letters. A call for extra razors for soldiers and comfort bags for hospital boys was issued. Messages from St John Ambulance Winnipeg praise wartime work. A February 2 concert at McConnell's Hall is announced. Letters from prisoners of war and grateful soldiers arrive, noting shipments to Mesopotamia and India, including cases sent for the 14th Hampshires.
A person in Shoal Lake offers about 200 cords of green poplar for sale. Available as poles, cordwood, or stove wood lengths. Prices on application. Contact CHAS A INGER at Soll Soll Lake.
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