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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 12, 1948
Page
1
McNaught’s Drug Store advertises low prices on deodorants and gopher poison, moth products, and a May 24 display of fireworks including Chinese firecrackers, Roman candles, sparklers, lawn lights and snakes. Also promotes Rexall and Nyal Drug Store brands.
Local agent in Neepawa offers W H Cox Monumental Engraver services plus insurance loans and collections, farm lands and real estate for sale. Patronage solicited for monument work and property dealings.
Rev. H. J. H. Oldfield rector guides services at 7.30 p.m. Evening service at Hamiota United Church. Morning service at 11 a.m. and evening service at 7 p.m. Everyone welcome.
Local items list church services at Orange Hall with Pastor G N Fulford and Sunday School. Birthdays, travel, and hospital news for residents. a congregational meeting for the Hamiota United Church pastoral vacancy. play and dance events at the Hamiota Theatre and McConnell’s Hall. musical festival dates. notices on vaccination and RCMP recruiting tour across the Prairies for 1948.
Grocery circular lists multiple discounted items with prices per unit and case deals including Grape Nut Flakes 7-oz 2 for 27 cents and Jelly Powders 7 flavors 7 pkgs 63c per lb. Free comic book with each purchase. other items include Ginger Snaps 29c, Pork and Beans 20-oz 39c per case 24 yields $4.39, Fruit Cakes 11% lb, Pineapple Marmalade 35c, Rice No 1 White 19c lb, Velvet Cake Flour 2 tins 75c.
Under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce the Old-Timers Picnic will be held at the Narrows on Shoal Lake in Hamiota and Shoal Lake Cham on the last Wednesday in July.
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