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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1960
Page
4
A personal musing describes taking up birdwatching during a warm spell, observing Jenny Wren and mate raise a nest, defended by a robin against a red squirrel, while the narrator wrestles with the hobby’s costs and the moralizing tone of bird lovers. The piece contrasts idealized feathered virtue with predator and thief threats in the avian world.
A warning describes mercury's danger to gold and a fatal outcome after a thermometer spill. The piece also notes a silver line on skin from mercury exposure and cites entomologists about an uncommon beetle defoliating western Manitoba poplars. Reports of leaf beetle infestations in Brandon hills and Minosedosa. spraying with DDT recommended.
Agronomists report seedling cereals and lax crops across the province suffer wilting from environmental stress. Extreme heat on June 11 and 12 burns leaf cells at the soil surface, causing yellow bands while growing points largely survive, ending rarely in plant death.
Crandall s Coburn H S Hyndman attended a municipal affairs course in Winnipeg, returning Wednesday. Mrs Hyndman visited her father in Hammond B C. A 50th wedding anniversary prompts a second honeymoon to Skagway Alaska for Mr and Mrs Wm Campbell Teulon. Glen ia Smith earns two Brandon College teaching awards. Crandall Church marks 60th anniversary with service and luncheon. Makinak church also observes 50th with Rev T B Pearson as speaker.
A call for enthusiastic participation in Canada's national birthday. Citizens are urged to involve Cler wy School Boards Councils and local officials, attend churches, explain to children why Canada is worthy, and decorate homes businesses or cars with flags and bunting to show allegiance.
The Strathclair Agricultural Society lays out a one dollar event on June 24 featuring blue ribbon beef supper, horse show, gymkhana games, horse shoe tournament, and ball games including Shoal Lake versus Strathclair. A star studded Bantam ABs vs a Hamitonata team adds league-style competition ahead of a monster street dance after 5 30 at the fair grounds with tickets at Red and White Store.
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