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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1950
Page
4
The Hamiota Branch No. 174 of the Canadian Legion will hold its meetings in the Rest Room on the third Tuesday of each month at 8 p.m. Members are reminded to attend and participate in monthly discussions and plans.
Attendance at the combined church and Sunday School service was large with room for more. 20 new voices joined the choir under Mrs. Geo Pearson’s leadership. Visitors Gordon Rivers and new arrivals from Winnipeg Riverton Silverton Mather and Riverton welcomed at village tea.
All claims against the estate, verified by Statutory Declaration, must be sent to the undersigned at his office in Shoal Lake Manitoba on or before the 9th day of October, A.D. 1950.
Mrs A L Decker notes help from Decker women and visitors to Willis Doherty. P N Patterson and family plan to move to Flin Flon. Reston obituary records James R Duncan aged 78 with funeral at Reston cemetery after death on Sept 4. Mrs Duncan died sixteen days earlier. Ford Richardson of Dryden visited Decker friends. Harvesting interrupted by rain. district grading 2 and 3 Northern.
The Country Guide recounts how Mrs. J. G. Lewis and family faced rising floodwaters at Morris Manitoba. They evacuated cattle, moved grain, and salvaged belongings while Lorne aided neighbors and endured ice cold rescues. Mrs. Lewis returned June 25 vowing to begin cleanup after six weeks away.
A woman recalls Lorne cleaning the downstairs and returning furnishings while she spends a full day and uses three packages of steel wool to scrub a cream separator. Other articles similarly demand time and effort.
Raw fruits flowers winners at the Hamiota Fair continue with redcurrants gooseberries strawberries everbearing strawberries geraniums tuberous begonia hydrangeas and more. Cooking and canning prizes include breads pies cakes biscuits and confections with numerous winners such as Houck Abel Smith Venables Gray and Johnson across multiple categories.
A catalog of assorted foods and goods listing orange marmalade to Mrs R Peel and rhubarb marmalade to Mrs J J Ward. A Woods collection of pickles to Mrs A Armstrong and other items including extracted honey to Miss D Cochrane and bacon to Mrs J A Smith. Continued next week.
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