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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1939
Page
4
A note urges customers to ask for brooms made by the blind at the Red A White store in Hamiota. The label on the broom is visible, guiding buyers to the social enterprise item.
The Decker school hosts a Saturday event for Norton's Sports Day with about 125 representatives from Binscarth Rossburn Birtle Strathclair Hamiota Oak River McConnell and Decker. A rally featured soft ball and tennis tournaments directed by several organizers and ended with a friendship circle and song. Welcome guests include Mr and Mrs Jas Perry and little Donald of Calgary and Mr and Mrs N McLeod announce a newborn.
The Royal Train travels with a pioneering in- train switchboard interconnecting fourteen telephones across twelve cars enabling King and Queen to reach any entourage member. At stops, operators and Bell Canada delegates maintain the system with Trans-Canada Telephone System cooperation ensuring near instant voice contact across land and sea.
Manitoba farmers plan a Brandon convention on June 21 to unite farm bodies into a single educational organization. Delegates from all locals and nonlocal groups will be credentialed for representation in the proposed Manitoba Federation of Agriculture. The draft constitution outlines non political status and equal eligibility for women delegates.
The Legislature expanded the Gasoline Tax Act granting a 5 cent refund for gasoline used in operating agricultural machinery. Farmers must obtain a purchase permit before buying, shop only with permit dealers, receive an invoice detailing dealer and purchaser data and gallons, then submit invoices to the Gasoline Tax Branch in Winnipeg with the refund application before March 6 of the following year. Also notices for woodworking and furniture repair services appear.
Dr F M Coombs operates a medical practice in Hamiota Manitoba on Main Street. The listing includes contact details and a local office address for patient referrals and appointments.
Court Hamiota No 407 holds its secular meeting in the Orange Hall on the first Wednesday of the month at 2 pm. Visiting Brethren welcome.
King and Queen are pictured with Sir Edward Beatty GBE KC LL.D. chairman and president of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Sir Herbert Holt at a public gathering. The scene captures prominent figures in a formal audience. The event underscores ties between Canadian industry and the monarchy.
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