Neighbors News Bits From Prairie Mornings
A trio of light items from Canadian papers in late September 1957. A Westlock News note suggests a dog helps a hunter who returns with eight ducks. Kinistino Post reports a turkey supper hosted by men at St George's Church after the women. St George's Church men claim they can match the ladies in hosting a grand meal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westlock News
Kinistino Post
Sask
St George's Church
Charlie Dodd
Rimbey
Alta
Martin Biondin
Canova Courier
Fred Osachoff
Kinistine Post
Cecil Hobbs
Barry Chytyk
Delburne Times
A. Federishen
Esterhazy Observer
A Ponscok
Stockholm
E. Sletmoen
Rain River
Ont
Vita
Man
Carillon News
Walden
Indoor games and distant records in a neighborhood notes
A collage of notices describes a home workshop shuffleboard pattern, farm produce feats from Saskatchewan and Alberta, oldtimers celebrations, a railway payroll scare, travels of pioneers, and humorous local vignettes. It blends hobby guidance with light community trivia and reminiscences.
Skyway Shelves Brightened by Luminous Paint
A fragment notes Skyway shelves painted with luminous coating and a child mounting upward. It mentions Pattern 398 providing actual size cutting guides and directions for assembly.
Railway crossing crash wrecks car near Bienfait
A derailed CPR spur line box car wrecked a new model car at a Bienfait level crossing noon on the east end. Driver Donald Allen Smith escaped unhurt as the engine string of 18 cars bulldozed the car 100 feet along the right of way. Brakeman John Todd escaped injury by holding brake control as the end car left the track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bienfait
CPR
Donald Allen Smith
John Todd
Smith
Mercury
Estevan
Sask
A New Kind of Hallowe'en for UNICEF
Canadian youth organize a UNICEF Hallowe'en to collect pennies to dollars for underprivileged children worldwide. The program, already popular two years, aims for a $100000 national gift in 1957 with local groups, supervision, publicity, and school or religious involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Unicef
United Nations Children’s Fund
United Nations
Hallowe'en
Unicef Hallowe'en
Hallowe’en
Also Mentioned on This Page
CBC
BY C. F. Greene
Wan Valley
Norman Ediger
Drake
Tiefengrund
Ediger
John R Friesen
Saskatoon St. Paul's Hospital
Anna Glenn
Naco
James Ramsay
Macgregor
T. E. Pye
Red Deer
Richard Williams
Melita
J. N. Coolidge
Saskatoon
D. A. Shaw
Low
Robert Nurse
Eston
Humboldt Journal
George Stokes
Old Dobbin
Wakaw Recorder
J. J. Weixel
Brandon
Portage la Prai
Rie Enterprise
Portage la Prairie
D. C. Mackintosh
Anglican Diocese of
Toronto
Anglican Church
Regina
Dimsdale
Yorkton Enterprise
Cecil Straker
Waldron
Lloydminster Times
S. T. Phillpots
Lloydminster
British Columbia
Bolton
Lancashire
England
Rogers
British Coumbia
Pioner
Camrose
Hattie Simonson
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Alex Johnson
Kamsack Times
Atten
the Times
Wetaskiwin
50 Avenue
Department P.P.L
West Lud Avenue
Vancouver
B.C
Deedons
Aiche UE
Bloor Street West
Ontario
Acw
Saskatchewan
Unicef Committee
Westgate Ave
Manitoba
Curry Building
Winnipeg 2
Alberta
Edmonton
4 “Shell
Bloor St. West
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