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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 30, 1948
Page
7
In loving memory of Elsie Maria Webber who died June 28 1947. A year has passed with sorrow since that day. The heavenly gates opened wide a voice said come. A light is from our household gone a wife and mother forever missed by husband and family.
The W I will meet at the home of Mrs A E McConnell on Thursday July 8 at 2 00 pm. School closed on Friday June 25 due to weather and a community picnic was unable to be held. Several ladies gathered at the school and gifts were exchanged between Miss Loney and her visitors.
Mr and Mrs Lipscombe and family visited Margaret Manitoba over the weekend. The W A met at Mrs McGhee’s with thirteen present led by the president and Mrs Rivers. Mrs Strachan gave a vivid account of prairie and mountain travel including a pottery plant and apple operations. Floods damaged dykes and farm fruit yields were described. Lunch followed. Geo Colbeck and Wm Colbeck of Los Angeles visited Clear Lake. Scotia Church held its annual meeting with officers elected and reports satisfactory.
The Oak River Agricultural Society announces its annual Fair and Sports Day on Tuesday July 20. Prizes include 200 dollars for Baseball and five dollars per win plus ten dollars for the final Ladies' Softball game. Bills note details.
Hamiota notices corrections to the fair prize list. In Canning a new Hudson Bay Special adds prizes for top scorers with 1st $3.00 2nd $2.00 3rd $1.00. Ladies Work section 297 is cancelled and the Reid Furniture Co. Special should read sections 228 to 294. Sports Day at Kenton July 7 features prizes for baseball and girls fastball. Special prizes by Winnipeg firms to be shown at McNaught's June 12 display.
turnout at the Hamisota Chamber meeting approved a Fair Day tag day for the Children’s Hospital Building Fund in Winnipeg and a Race Day donation booth for the B C Flood Relief Fund. Old-Timers’ Picnic at the Narrows set for July 28 and a new 20 bed hospital scheme plus a Wading Pool for children were announced. A serious accident Sunday involved Mr and Mrs Garnet Jeffries when their car (Max McConnell’s) was struck by a truck driven on the wrong side. Mrs Jeffries discharged next day and Mr Jeffries remained on danger list but later shown satisfactory. The truck driver is believed to have fallen asleep.
The Brandon program on July 3 schedules the band arriving on Princess Avenue in front of City Hall at 7 p.m. They march west to Stanley Park where a concert begins and continues until about 9 p.m.
A June 23 1948 shower in the United Church parlor celebrated Gwen Spearman bride elect. The event featured a model aero plane display showering petals, music by Eileen Wray, and gifts from C G I T girls and the choir.
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