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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 25, 1949
Page
5
A birthday note honors Mrs. W. W. Lewis of Winnipeg Manitoba born in Devonshire England in 1868 and lists her as a pioneer of 1889. The item preserves a local ceremonial tone celebrating an early settler.
Decker reports visitors from Balcarres Winnipeg Regent Virden and Morden attendances at a variety show in Memorial Hall. Isabella Players perform, Decker Musical Festival numbers, and a male quartet entertain. WMS and WA hear a conference report, and C.G.I.T. hosts a mother and daughter banquet with gifts for leaders and Helen Runchey.
Ad touts a tonic named Detragite tomes and Ostrex Tonte Tablets to build strength and nourishment. It claims thousands of girls and women and men gained shapely healthy bodies, improves appetite and digestion, and promises weight gain to reach a “normal size” with dosages of 5, 10, 15 or 2 tbs. available for 60 cents at drugists.
The W I group will gather at Mrs Laverne McConnells home on Thursday June 2 at 2 PM and plan cockerel caponizing in early June for 3 to 6 week old birds. Michael Kazakoff, recently honoured Electrical Engineering graduate, visits relatives in the Pearson home and will soon attend advanced electronics training in the East for RCAF service. Congratulations are extended to Hamiota Collegiate alumni who earned degrees at this year’s convocation including Lloyd Anderson Norman Currie Robert Dale Keith Dixon Lyle Gregory Robert Hedley Clarence Fraser Hugh Hunter Ronald Stacey William Webb and others as announced by Principal Geo H Ruttan.
Dr J M Williams lists office hours 9 am to 5 pm with phone numbers Office 138 and Residence 24 Man.
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