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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 14, 1916
Page
4
Classified note advertises paid insertion opportunities for help wanted and office services. The text mentions a standard rate per month and references a change in subscription or solvertonemen terms. Venables is named as the contact.
Government bonds offered to readers with 971 2 price per bond. Subscriptions via local or chartered banks. scrip and bonds delivered through banks. Six months interest paid April 1 1917. proceeds for war purposes. Subscriptions close by September 23 1916.
The Ladies Patriotic Society urges members to finish garments at home and bring Graham Wafer tins for baking cakes to send to boys in the trenches. They plan Christmas boxes for England and France and discuss this at the September 19 meeting at the Methodist Church parlor.
Letters of hearty thanks have been received from the lads to whom parcels containing socks were sent some time ago. F M Cochrane and others are named, with Se. Tress Serut and Ed. Siemie noted. One former district resident Hamota Hower Keli was killed at the front while marching beside a transport wagon.
In the dark a train struck the wagon overturning it and killing the occupant. Sergt. David McDhll, formerly employed at Union Bank here, was also killed at the front a few months earlier.
A clearest readable line shows a local event at a Miami venue featuring notable names and a listed date. The fragment hints at a performance or appearance with a firm schedule, but the text remains garbled and partially unreadable.
The amateur theater group staged A Sent Cinterella before a crowd in Rapid City on Tuesday. The cast included Mises G. McConnell, M Mut Son, F. ae McConnnell, D Newlands, Esther Mitchell, Mrs De Ho M Reid, Mes Thos. Kerr, Mrs BE Homuth, with Mr. Wi. McPherson as Stage Manager. The proceeds supported patriotic soldiers, and townspeople praised the effort and hospitality.
The Minister of Finance offers bonds for subscription on behalf of the Government at 973 with payments on October 16 1916 November 15 1916 and December 15 1916. Total allotment capped at 100 million dollars excluding any surrender value under the War Loan prospectus of November 22 1915. Subscriptions require a ten percent deposit via chartered banks and Canada wide bank branches can receive and issue provisional receipts. Surplus deposits from partial allotments apply to the October instalment.
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