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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 20, 1948
Page
4
October 20 1948 issue of the Hamiota Echo lists subscription prices at 2.00 per year in advance and 2.50 to the United States with publishers C. W. Venables and W. H. Josey.
The Hamiota Agricultural Society and the Chamber of Commerce announce Dean J W C MacEwan of the University of Manitoba will speak at an open meeting in Hamiota United Church on Wednesday October 27 1948. A dinner at 6:30 p m costs 1 00 with tickets from local organizers. the 8 p m talk follows a musical program and is free to all attending.
The notice lists an October 24 anniversary service at 7 30 p m with Rev Oldfield from Hamiota as guest speaker. A fowl supper follows on October 26 at 5 50 p m with admission 75 and 35 cents. W A and W M S met October 13 with Mrs Sharpe and Mrs Harvey Skinner assisting. twenty ladies and three Crandall ladies attended.
Mrs. John Youngson of Decker Manitoba died peacefully at her home on Sunday Oct 17 1948 after a lengthy illness. She leaves husband and four sons in Canada and two Winnipeg grandchildren, with ties to the Sutherland family and Scotland. The community notes a W I meeting with films on VD and district board findings, plus WI girls sewing and a WC T U collection. In Decker United Church, Dorothy Jean Lints and Robert John Ramsey wed with Rev W Welsh presiding.
Community notices list visitors from Thornhill Manitoba and Pilot Mound to Winnipeg and Haney with stays at local homes.items include Lloyd McConnell and family greetings from Crandall WW MS, plus Gerald Reid recovering from a broken arm after an incident at school.
The W I meeting shifts date to Wednesday October 27 at 2 30 p m at Mrs Nellie Patterson home. Remembrance Day observed November 11 with Legion Carnival and Dance slated for November 12 in the Orange Hall. Also listed are a lot for sale near Hamiota Rest Room and local sale notices for a 1940 Chevrolet coupe and a high yield threshing separator.
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