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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 01, 1919
Page
4
The Eye Hamiota Echo announces weekly publication by Semicts Exhe Publishing Co with rates of 150 per year in advance for U S customers 21 for other currencies. It lists transient ads such as Wanted Lost Found for sale and more and details submission deadlines to ensure same week publication.
The town announces a cooperative plan to shut business places every Thursday afternoon from 12 noon starting May 15 through August 1919. Participating merchants include The Chambers Co and Manitoba Hardware & Lumber Co among others. McConnell Store will also close on Saturdays at noon and on Thursday afternoons if a baseball league forms.
The April 19 1919 Hamiota village council grants funds to Winnipeg Children’s Hospital the Boys and Girls Club school fair and the local board of trade. It authorizes cemetery plan copies and adopts the 1919 assessment roll plus unoccupied lands assessment under the Unoccupied Sami Tax Act. A petition seeks moving lands from Hamiota School District to Oak.
Village council discusses by law readings to submit to voters for Oakner No. 290, appoints William Juergens as arbitrator, approves a 400 grant to Hamida Agricultural Society, and petitions for a new post office building. Road pay set at 600 per day with 350 for single men. finance committee approves various accounts and road work payments.
The report of the finance committee is presented for adoption and cheques for the same are carried. The council approves payments to Ward 5 A F E McConnell for road work eight dollars and to Smith Stewart four hundred dollars. The council adjourns to meet again on Saturday May 3rd.
By law No 1 of Consolidated School District of Oakner No 290 seeks twenty five thousand dollars via debentures repayable in twenty years at six and a half percent interest to fund a new school house and furnishings. Electors vote Saturday May 17 1919 at the school house site Township 13 Range 23. Polls open 9 am to 5 pm. Secretary Treasurer to tally. Dated Hamiota April 23 1919. Jos Andrew Sec Treas.
A Hamiota note promotes local shopping after a citizen bought a cheap Winnipeg suit and lost two dollars from a torn pocket. The piece condemns sweat shop goods and urges buying reliable clothing locally for value and satisfaction.
Zion Church declares May 4 a day of special interest with Rev G F McCullogh ex president of Manitoba Conference preaching at both services. On May 5 he lectures How to Choose a Partner in Life under Ladies Aid. Admission 50c includes lunch after lecture. Sunday School 2 pm and service at 3 pm.
The Knox Presbyterian Church schedules 11 a.m. worship with Sunday School and a sermon on the theme The Jericho Road and the twentieth century neighbor. Oakner Sunday School at 2 p.m with 3 p.m. preaching. Junior Guild meets Wednesday 4 15 p.m. and mid week prayer meeting 8 p.m. An all are invited church social for May 1 at 8 p.m.
In a small ceremony at the Bennest home in Hamiota on April 30 1919 Miss May Ross wed Mr John Adams. Rev Geo Lockhart conducted the service with Miss Angus at the piano. The bride wore brown satin with georgette trim and was given away by Jas Angus of Scotia. The couple will reside on the farm four miles west of Hamiota.
Local column invites spring wants for sale and wanted items to support the hospital. Entries include gasoline iron scribbling scraps straw collie pups and a tent along with requests for a mangle Canadian Home Journal for March wild duck feathers rags rubber and a rooster laying hens a black kitten and empty flour sacks. Interested parties contact Mrs McNaught or Mrs Stevens by phone.
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