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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 01, 1939
Page
10
WADDELLS TINSHOP is the Beatty Ww Bros. Agency with a full line of galvanized well piping and fittings pump heads cast and brass lined cylinders leathers and repairs. Also Beatty windmills barn equipment engine drive power washers electric washers Renfrew cream separators hand washers and tinshop services. Visit to discuss tanks and complete installations.
Hamiota United Church notes a discussion on the need for a local athletic club and its limits. The sermon Sunday March 5 1939 and the address cover topics including China, home leadership, Catholic priest marriage, and family happiness with the question box session.
The parish outlines a Lenten study on the cross with sermons and addresses by Rev. S. B. Guile and a joint evangelization committee. March 12 focuses on The Cross in Redemption, March 19 on The Cross as Emancipation, March 25 on The Cross as Power, April 2 on The Cross as the Supreme Moral and Social Ideal, and Easter April 9 on The Finality of the Cross.
Three birthday honorees are listed: Mr. Wm Simpson of Ham ilota born March 3 1858 in Moore Township near Sarnia Ont Mr J T Pollock of McConnell Man born March 5 1859 in Darlington Township Durham Ont and Mr Jos Skayman of Victoria BC born March 6 1864 in Reepham Lincolnshire England Readers are urged to submit additional names and birth details to Echo Office to expand the birthday book and publish near dates.
Severe weather caused two weeks of canceled church and Sunday school in Lavinia. Last Sunday services resumed with Viekctor Killoh Sr addressing the Sunday School and Rev J Savage giving a thoughtful address. The Lavinia junior hockey team hosted McDonnell juniors in a friendly. The Mission Band concert and tea, postponed twice, featured children's choruses and recitations with lunch after. Local youths gathered at the Homes of the Knights and the Boyds for Friday evenings with Bob Milne’s band providing music.
Local notice lists rate changes and associated officials. Names appear as Hamiota and Hemphill with references to treasurer roles and applications. Details are partial due to OCR fragments but indicate financial charges and governance terms.
The page lists for sale Renown wheat at $100 per bushel with farm contacts in Hamiota, plus bids for Renown seed, a farm equipment auction set for mid March, a dog derby on Main Street, and the amalgamation notice of Hamiton and Scotia Clydesdale Horse Clubs. Also details on a farmers picture show by International Harvester and curling results from Winnipeg paths.
The Young People's Union of Hamiota met in the church parlors after services on February 26. Walter Hunsaker read Scripture, minutes were approved, and Ivy Knight Phyllis Strickland Barnett and Wm Moor served lunch. Jane Hudson read Vox Populorum, Barnett led a religious comparison talk, Beth Steardown played piano, and Mavis Reid offered a prayer.
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