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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
8
The Department of Education asks Manitoba school children to provide a free will offering to the Canadian Red Cross Society. Teachers at Hamiota Consolidated School will collect signatures on special forms. Each child may contribute up to 25 cents from their own savings.
The Ladies Patriotic Society expresses gratitude to The Echo editors for kindness in aiding their war effort. A Winnipeg circular asks 1.5 Vis in ten days to buy a Made in Canada Motor Ambulance for troops at the front. Captain A L Laughton thanks Miss Cochrane for a sleeping bag gift and notes transfers and training for new battalions.
Hamiota Rural Council meets on Saturday March 27 at 10 am. Good Friday service April 2 at 1 am. Public holiday. businesses closed. Job ads for a general servant, housekeeper, dressmaker apprentices, and more. For sale items include brood sows and a gas stove. The Crandall Enterprise ceases publication. Notices on by law, hospital funds, contests, and local demonstrations follow. The Gold Standard demonstration is planned, plus annual Manitoba Educational Association conference details. Curling notes include Miniota cup incident and skips Morrison and Kerr.
W Collie, an early Scotia settler who moved from Scotland via California, died Monday March 1 1915 after farming locally. He leaves a wife two sons Robert and George and two daughters Mrs Anderson and Mrs McLaughlin, all present at funeral. The community offers sincere sympathy.
Davis family welcomed a son at Viola Dale on March 18 1915. Wheeler family welcomed a daughter Rosy Evelin at Hamiota Hospital on March 19 1915. Davis family announced an infant son at Viola Dale on March 19 1915.
Public notice seeking bids to paint the Ellenville School interior and the shed exterior. Bids must be submitted by March 31 to the School Trustees at Box 15 Hamits Je, with work slated for Easter week.
Guidance on mail delivery to British forces lists the format to follow with rank name regimental number unit battalion brigade and contingent details. The address specifies Army Post Office London England for the First or Second Canadian Contingent and the British Expeditionary Force.
Help wanted advertising circulars explaining factory to families Trading plan. Redpaths granulated sugar price listed at 4.00 per hundred. Samples free. Co-Operative Union Windsor Ontario.
Alex Smith and Colena Watt wed on March 10 1915 at Brandon and later settled in Oskner Village. Neighbors gave a silver ware cabinet parlor table and upholstered couch as a wedding gift at a surprise party attended by about 50 with music games and a rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
Lord Rosebery extols insurance as a clear sign of thrift in youth and a future repay. Agent Lorne S. Taylor of Hamiota promotes The Mutual Life Assurance Co of Canada, Waterloo head office.
Jim Hall offers sawing and chopping services with a six horsepower Waterloo Gasoline outfit featuring a circular saw and chopper. For details contact Box 41, Hamiota P.O. Immediate service on short notice.
Pioneer Cash Stores announces a fresh shipment of spring coats for ladies misses and children in modern styles. Includes skirts new works and crepe goods, plus a large stock of McPherson shoes for women and men. Boots, oxfords, and slippers for all ages featured with guaranteed quality.
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