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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
4
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The district invites participation in its three rural fairs and urges everyone to improve from last year. Prepare exhibits across classes and involve youth by letting them enter and manage their own categories. Families should share transport and support to boost overall fair success.
During seeding and harvest farmers face difficulty as post offices close on time. Locals urge keeping the post office open until nine at night on Saturdays for better mail access, arguing small towns aren’t overworked and other businesses stay open later. This change would ease routine farm errands and mail pickups.
A party of United Statesans has arrived in Winnipeg from Grand Foaks by Loat, the first such delegation in twenty eight years, signaling a potential revival of steamboat navigation on the Red river.
After a heated Tem perance debate the Montreal Methodist Conference refused to condemn the three-fifths local option clause of the Whitney Government. Opponents argued a safe majority must back backers to carry out local option. Friends report MP Dr Roche recovering satisfactorily after a severe operation at Minnedosa.
Reports show widespread drought harming vast farming regions in China. Grain losses threaten food supplies and rural livelihoods across multiple provinces.
Members of the Oddfellows and Canadian Order of Foresters held a decoration day parade last Sunday. The Hamiota Band led the procession from the lodge to the cemetery where graves were decorated with flowers. The band played Onward Christian Soldiers and Flee as a Bird, drawing praise for the music.
Farmers in McConnell Settlement shift from seeding to construction with John Kellet planning a large barn and Smith Brothers preparing materials for a big stable. Rumors linger about railroad stations and sidings, but no site location activity yet. Grain seeding expands this spring, with more oats barley roots and Timothy than before.
Mr Robt Decker has passed his exams at the Dental College Toronto. Four pupils from Orrwold pursue entrance exams: Miss Bernice Park Miss Lily Decker Master Jess Richardson and Charles Stone. Baseball practice 22 players last Friday. football and basketball practices schedule noted.
Residents report a good game between Kenton and Hamiota with Oakner hosting transfer teams at the Narrows. Oakner continues freighting after wheat season and a church meeting planned July 1 features corner stone laying and a sporting day with races, baseball and football inviting surrounding towns.
The Rev Mr Moore former minister of Eden church is chosen to lay the corner stone. The ladies aid will run the meals booth and a refreshment stand will be waited by town men. A big picnic is advertised in this paper with Oakner on July 1st inviting nearby residents to visit and quote prices as stores bustle.
Dates are given for fairs in Hamiota July 28 Rapid City July 29 Harding July 30 Miniota August 4 Oak River August 5 Shoal Lake August 11 Strathclair August 12 Birtle August 13.
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