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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
4
The Che Bamiota Echo published weekly on Thursdays by Foho Patciehing in Hamiota Manitoba offers annual subscriptions and advertising rates. Notices include wanted lost property and places for sale. copy for changes must be in the office promptly to appear in the same week. Venables W H and Jos ey list contact details.
May 17 entry reports rags and rubbers salvaged by boys netting 16 dollars. Donations of 15 and 10 dollars support Canadian prisoners fund. proceeds from a quilt sale aid Red Cross. Miss Henderson offers houseplants. Miss Liefstills contributes 200 dollars. A letter from Winnipeg convalescent home thanks for eggs sent to sick soldiers and invites visitors.
The Grand Trunk Pacific states it will not let land along its line stay idle and offers the entire right-of-way for gardening at no charge to employees. Any crops grown will belong to the employees who work the land.
The Marquis of Qoronebary, after completing a tour of Cansole and Alaska, writes to Girand Trunk and Ciand Track Pacific Railways praising the dining car service and staff efficiency. He notes courtesy and excellent food, calling the journey across Canada enjoyable. A Red Cross stall will auction items at Savions annual picnic on May 24 with bills on display.
The Ellenville Patriotic Society hosts a bazaar and junk sale at the home of Mr and Mrs A E B McConnell eight miles north of Hamliota near Ed McConnells on Thursday evening June 7. Tea will be available and admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children over seven. E W McConnell and Jas Reid oversee the junk sale.
A Dominion of Agriculture bulletin by F. C. Aiford, titled The Principles of Poultry House Construction with General and Detailed Plans, argues that book learning supports practical poultry keeping. The 55 page guide covers palatial to modest housing, materials, and dimensions, and is available free from Ottawa Publication Branch.
The May Rod and Gun magazine from Woodstock Ontario features Bonnycastle Dale on a midnight study of the wild duck in The Terror that Passeth by Night. It also covers a Rockies fishing holiday near Waterton Lakes, Ontario camps for youths, Georgian Bay fishing tales, Robert Page Lincoln’s Fishing Notes, gun topics, the Toronto Kennel Club Spring Show results, and trap-shooting scores from the Hamilton Tournament.
Visiting hours set for private wards from 5 PM to 8 PM and 9 PM to 10 PM on Wednesdays Fridays and Sundays with 10 semi private wards from 4 to 6 PM on same days. No more than two visitors per patient. Overnight stays forbidden without superintendent permission. Visitors must register in the Visitor’s book.
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