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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 05, 1962
Page
2
Local note salutes Ross Sheardown known as Wimp for best run station and kept books in his division. A repeater shotgun is presented as thanks. Humorous items touch on highway safety, jokes about badgers, census correction, and community news from Hamiota and surrounding areas.
The Waterworks contractor reports water struck at two sites Gordon Smith Massey Ferguson agency and hospital. Sewer drains flood manhole at fair grounds as two machines dig about a block daily. Red Cross thanks donors with 240 giving at last clinic. Prepayment of frontage tax could save 179.50 on a 50 foot lot over 20 years.
Local entries list visitors and weekend guests at multiple Manitoba homes including the Smither, Vena, Foxton, Venables, McPhaden, Johnston, Sheardown, Lepine, Gibson, Pain families. Norman Russell Kirk, WWI veteran, died in Hamiota aged 63. Funeral at Hamiota United Church with interment at Hamiota Cemetery.
Local notice states Garber Beauty Shop opens Tuesday and Friday and Saturday nights with phone contact listed as 57 for appointments. The ad emphasizes evening hours and limited daily coverage.
A schedule of Sunday services and Sunday School times across Hamiota area churches. Hamiota United Church ministers R E Clark and Marn er United Church, Decker and Strathclair Pastoral Charge services, Cardale and McConnell church times noted.
Mrs. Will Orchard aged 71 died August 17 after a lengthy illness at Sandy Lake Nursing Home in Miami. Funeral services were held at 2 p m Tuesday in Miami with interment at Miami Cemetery. She was born in New Brunswick and taught in Manitoba from 1912 later marrying and living on a Deerwood farm until retiring to Miami in 1949. Survived by two sons Warden of Miami and Edward of Deerwood, five daughters and twenty six grandchildren. UNITED CHURCH NEWS notes upcoming Sunday School programs and the General Council meeting in London Ontario September 12 with a new Moderator to be elected.
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