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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 20, 1955
Page
1
Clare Bailey reports prize winners from the Bartle 4-H Club Rally held July 11 1955 with awards in parade clothing garden calf seed and clothing displays. The notice lists group prizes project participants fashion queen and princess titles and asks Returns for Home Ground Competitions by July 27 with office closures listed and a call for harvest workers from Eastern Canada before July 25.
Local names and events include visits and travel notes for residents such as Mrs. Norman Dale and Mr. G. L. Davidson. The Ham iota Agricultural Society announces a directors meeting on July 23. Notices praise Vacation School support and Thank You cards from hospital staff. Civic Holiday on August 1 prompts store closures. wedding guests attend the Dale slimmon event.
Charles Butler died in Hamiota Hospital on Saturday July 9 1955 aged 50. Born in England he came to the district at age two. Survived by three brothers and five sisters. Funeral from Christ Church Hamiota with Forresters as pallbearers and flower bearers. Interment in Hamiota Cemetery.
A total of 215 exhibitors entered about 1300 exhibits at the 1955 Hamiota Fair. The Regional Shorthorn Show drew 89 cattle, the largest of its kind in Manitoba. Fodder grain and garden produce were well filled and high quality. Attendance ran about 2000 with prize winners to be published later.
A Tuesday evening shower in the United church parlor honored Miss Evelyn Vickery a July 9 1955 bride elect. The event featured a wedds march, corsages for Evelyn and her mother, musical numbers by Edith Ann Russell and Doreen Edwards, and gifts presented by several beaming hosts.
Mrs. E. Kirk is visiting relatives in Winnipeg. Mr. Elmer Houck left for Winnipeg to receive medical treatment. The weekend of July 9th, Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrnet of Niagara Falls New York visited at the home of Mrs. M. Kirk.
En the Oak River area a baseball tournament is scheduled for August 10, 1955. Local teams will compete with fans invited to attend at the Oak River fields.
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