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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 18, 1942
Page
8
The notice lists a Sanday morning service at McConnell Church starting at Li o'clock with family welcome and mentions Miss Bettie Turnball visiting Franklin and Nepawa. It notes Mr Rees to oversee Sanday School in Mr C C Browns absence and updates on local residents and events.
Mrs Stanley Brunton died at Brandon General Hospital at 44. After an appendectomy she did not recover. Survived by husband and sisters Ed Tilloteton and M Lief, and brother Frank. Funeral at Decker United Church. Also reports: Oddfellows event, United Church St Patrick dinner, letters from Scotland on wartime life, and local WI and Red Cross activities with plans for dances and charity events in Memorial Hall.
Oakner School pupils have raised 277.00 for War Savings Stamps during a four week campaign organized as a three force salvage army. Garth Strachan leads the Airforce, Jim McFeeley heads Navy, and Llady Anderson commands Army. Helen Sobkowich and Fay Francis visited Hamiets a over the weekend, while Norman Smith applies to enlist in the RCAF.
The gross revenues of the Canadian National Railways System for the week ending March 7, 1942, were $6,415,000, up from $5,094,000 for the same period in 1941, an increase of $1,324,000.
Susanna Coppin born 1844 in Ballwogan Ireland came to Ontario in 1882. She married Rev. Robert Baker in 1871, widowed 1882, then John Stephen Coppin in 1898. Now 98, she lives with daughter Mrs. Fred Houck, has two living children and a son in Toronto.
Public auction in Manitoba at McConnell Brothers rooms on April 1 1942 for the North East Quarter of Sec 21 Twp 13 Rge 23 West with 130 cultivated acres, 10 arable, 23 scrub, black loam soil, no buildings or wells, subject to reserve bid and 20 percent cash down. Solicitors Pitblado Hoskin Grundy Bennett Drummond-Hay. Dated Winnipeg February 24 1942.
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