Presentation and At Home for Mr and Mrs Steele in Hamiota
Over one hundred residents gathered in McConnell's hall for a complimentary At Home honoring Mr and Mrs Charles Steele before their move to Victoria BC. A varied program featured readings songs speeches and a bracelet watch and travel bag presented to the Steeles plus fond tributes from Rev Turkington Dr Whimster and Mr Chambers. The event closed with Auld Lang Syne and praise for the organizing committee and hall renovations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamiota
McConnell
Chas. Steels
Vietuie
CL Bennest
J. J. McConnell
Euch
Mr. Turkington
Steele
Mr. Douglas
Mr. Steele
Flora MacDonald
Scotland
Whimster
A. S. Kirk
Miss Mackay
Flhl Squibb
Miss Robinson
Chambers
Taasinces Fife
Ape
Hat Toth
Robert
Shoal Lake
Scott & Chambers
Bambda
Mamiota
Hlamida
McConnell Bros
Strathclair Fire Destroys Large Part Of Town
A major blaze early Wednesday Sept 3 gutted about half the Strathclair business district. It started at 4 30 am in the northeast corner of the drug store and was fanned by a strong east wind. The drug store post office bank lumber yard and warehouse among others were destroyed with only a gasoline pump and hose saving the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strathclair
Hamiota General Hospital Building Advances
Subscriptions to the Building Fund are being paid and the hospital is ready for plaster. Rain troughs and two fifty barrel soft water tanks are installed in the basement. A petition for incorporation has been granted under the Charitable Associations Act by Lt Governor D. Cameron dated August 8 1913. Unpaid claims may be recovered by law and debtors pursued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamiota General Hospital
Charitable Associations
D. Cameron
Manitoba
Three Eclipses Foreseen and Noted for North America
A sequence of three eclipses lies ahead with one invisible in Canada. Two occurred this year including a total lunar eclipse visible in Canada on March 22 and a partial solar eclipse on April 6. The upcoming eclipse will be partly visible locally, followed by a total lunar eclipse on September 6 visible across North America except the far north, and the final 1913 eclipse on September 29 will be invisible here with a noted partial sea distortion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
North America
Manitoba Protestant Girls Barred from Convent School
In St Claude Manitoba the trustees refused to admit Protestant girls to the public school, sending them to the nearby Convent of the Five Wounds. Protestants and Irish Catholics show mixed responses as parents opt for the public school over the convent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
St. Claude
Alten
Inns
Cr Ted
Tadern
Department of Education
Asphyxiation in a Well Leaves Two Men Trapped
A Lancashire well sinker named James Anderson died from gas while being lowered into a farm well near Brandon. His rope slackened and a companion, then a second man lowered, also succumbed to the fumes and required extraction. The body of Anderson was recovered. (Topic also mentions Chamberlains remedy in a different ad fragment.)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Anderson
Lancashire
England
G. E. Langstaff
Brandon
Anderson
Three Local Death Notices From Manitoba in 1913
Deaths recorded for Elsie Andrew of Chumah aged 9 years 8 months 25 days, William Henry Greenaway of Hamiota aged 5 months, and Henry Vernor King of McConnell aged 26 years 1 month 26 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew
Chumah
Elsie
Henry Andrew
King
McConnell
Henry Vernor
Robert King
Miss Florence Robinson Offers Vocal Culture Lessons
Miss Florence Robinson, pupil of Mr F W Wodell of Boston and Mrs Bradley of Toronto Conservatory, offers vocal culture lessons with best peace. Mrs Coloeck can be reached at phone 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. W. Wodell
Boston
Mass
Coloeck
Extermination of Mosquitoes Through Marsh Drainage
For two decades various methods fought the New Jersey coast mosquito menace. Oil treatment proved costly and limited. Marsh drainage under skilled engineers on Staten Island sharply reduced malaria cases from 120 in one year to 2 after drainage. Inland waters respond to oil or filling depressions. The figures speak for themselves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New Jersey
Staten Island
Rivers Consolidated Board adopts plan for four vans
The Rivers Consolidated Board passed a motion to order four vans at once. Calgary city council secured a one year loan of 1,000,000 at six percent. C P R prepares for fall grain rush by filling sidings with box cars. A Lethbridge boy jailed two months for killing a colt after it refused to lead. Grenik ships car load of vegetables to Yorkton Sask. Union Bank Gull Lake manager C D Saunders marries Miss Hood Moosomin Aug. 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rivers Consolidated Board
Calgary
C.D. Saunders
The
Union Bank
Gull Lake
Sask
Moosomin
Miss Hood
Oak Lake
Man
Grieve and Dodds Tie The Knot At Virden Church
On Tuesday August six at ten in the forenoon the Presbyterian Church of Virden witnessed the marriage of Thomas R Grieve of Rivers Manitoba to Margaret Mo Dodds eldest daughter of Mrs Samuel Dodds of Virden. Rev P E Scott officiated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G Rievve— Dopps
Presbyterian
Virden
Thomas R. Grieve
Rivers, Mun
Margaret Mo Dodds
Samuel Dodds
P. E. Scott
Also Mentioned on This Page
Florence Robinson
Hamiota, Man
Hamsota Book Store
Mason
John van Male
Unesiota
Lethbridge
Grenik
Yorkton
Chamberlain
All Deelers
Prince Arthur of
Connaught
Duke
the Pioneer Stores
Coats
Pioneer Stores
John Lemon
Prop
Harmers
Hamiota Flour Mills
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