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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 02, 1916
Page
4
The sample notice outlines weekly publication by the Samiote Poho Patlehing Co with rates 81/0 per annum in advance and 61M for transient ads. It lists ad types such as Wanted For Sale To Let and requests copy for changes to be in the office by Tuesday to ensure the same week’s issue. C. W. Venables and Josey are connected to the notice.
The Ladies' Patriotic Society announces a November 10 concert for Belgian relief and thanks donors F Johnson and J Andrew. They report sending eighty Christmas boxes to soldiers, plus stockings and bags for wounded men, with bags to be made at home and delivered to local stores. A November 14 meeting features Mrs Willson. A front letter thanks Canadian women for support and describes wartime conditions.
A collection of brief items calls for wartime parcel sending to France with weight limits and postage rates, donations of potatoes and vegetables to Winnipeg convalescent homes, and disposal drives for old tires bottles brass copper and lead. It notes local Women’s Patriotic Society efforts and reports record potato weights by residents.
The Ellenville Patriotic Society invites attendance at a forthcoming Ladies Bazaar with many goods at reasonable prices. The event, run under Mission and Patriotic Society sponsorship, will feature sewing for Secours National and a drive for old rubber items and scrap metals worth shipment. A $10 donation from the Mission Band is acknowledged, with the next meeting set for November 8 at 2 30 p.m. at Mr George Knights.
The Hamiota Agricultural Society invites members to gather in the Conneil Chamber on Friday November 17 1916 at 2 pm for its annual meeting with a fall meeting requested by JAS A STEWART and presided by JAMES SCOTT Jr and the treasurer’s report to be seen.
New names join the Kenton district Hooor Roll for publication in the next issue. Orrwold and Decker conclude their Belgian Relief Food drive with a total of 40 dollars 50 cents. Halloween passes with quieter scenes as summer houses topple and crowd laughs at the reassembly under Chief Hibbert’s direction.
Under ministerial instruction a winter spring seed distribution will provide Ontario and Quebec with samples of spring wheat white oats barley field peas and three pounds of potatoes from several experimental farms. Ottawa central farm handles Ontario Quebec. One grain and one potato sample per farm. Free mail delivery. Apply early. requests after December end may be too late.
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