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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 07, 1945
Page
8
The note urges readers with due or overdue subscriptions to renew to avoid a reminder dinner. It asks recipients to check the label on their paper and visit to settle balances, easing the publisher’s outreach.
A reader discussion on the 64 dollar question before the Royal Commission on Co-Operatives asks whether savings farmers gain from marketing grain through their own elevators should belong to the farmers or be taxed before distribution. It notes farmers prefer to control their own money and oppose taxation on trust-held savings until received.
Francis Stanley Morris died at Deer Lodge Hospital Winnipeg last Friday March 2. He was born in England and came to Canada with his parents about 36 years ago. He lived in Hamiota three years before illness required hospitalization. He leaves a wife a step sister and a step brother. Funeral was held Sunday from the Anglican Church at Melita with interment in the family plot.
The Canadian Red Cross notes that three blood donations are needed for one bottle of dried serum. It takes nine donations to give a wounded man a chance to live, and ten donations roughly equal the total blood in the human body.
A recent drive for the Boys Overseas Boxes raised substantial support through Canadian Order of Foresters contributions and multiple bridge and tea fundraisers. The Box Committee ships 16 boxes monthly at about 53 dollars each, with each boy receiving a box quarterly and Christmas boxes sent to all.
Sealed tenders addressed to Lamont, Layton, Swyston & Buriak will bid for an undivided one half of the West half of Section Ten, Township Fourteen, Range Twenty-four West, Manitoba. Sale subject to 1945 lease and court approval. Lowest bid not guaranteed acceptance. Offers due March 20.
A whist drive and dance will be held at the Oakner School on Friday March 16 with cards starting 8 30 p m. Music by the Hamiota orchestra admission 50e. Oakner Calf Club thanks those who brought lunch and helped on February 23 with proceeds of 46 60 after expenses. Red Cross contributions to be left at the post office.
Mrs. William Angus died February 28 1945 in her 85th year a Scotia Church pioneer who came from Gamrie Scotland in 1882. The Logoch post office connected her family life and she and her husband ran the home farm. funeral Saturday at 2 pm from their residence with Rev S B Guille officiating. Pallbearers were James Angus McLean Angus Gordon Angus William and Herbert Lorimer and George Creighton. Interment Scotia cemetery. Her children grandchildren and great grandchildren survive across Canada including Vancouver Kelowna and Westbank. The community extends sympathy to Mr Angus and family.
The United Lenton Service will be held at United Church next week Wednesday. Blood donors urgently needed for the Red Cross Blood Bank. give your name to Dr Hudson or Rev W G Onions. A brown purse containing a registration card pictures and money was stolen on Feb 23 from Orange Hall. return to Bus Depot in Hamiota.
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