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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 21, 1916
Page
4
The advertisement rate notice lists Price Pallering Co as the publisher with annual price per year in USD and per insertion charges. It instructs copy to be submitted by Tuesday to ensure publication and mentions offices of C. W. Venables and W. H. Josey as proprietors.
The Hamiota village council met September 11 1914 with Mayor F C Beonest and councillors present. Minutes approved. Arbitrators awards on Wateon and Hamiota school districts discussed and accepted. Finance committee reviews payments including police salaries and street work. By-law No 42 on current year rates read passed with total municipal rates 28 mills. Council adjourned.
On Sabbath at 11 o’clock a united church and Sunday School service will celebrate Rally Day with the theme Doing One’s Bit. Special music by the Intermediate C E Society and talks by Mayor F C Bennett Principal Cresswell Rev E Turkington. Scholars urged to sit with parents. Rally Day slogan Every member and scholar present. Intermediate Society meets Tuesday at 8 p.m.
The notice lists a leadership meeting led by Mise Dolly Heidenheimer and a Union Prayer Meeting scheduled for Wednesday afternoon and evening. A quotation warns that outward blows can shape the inner character, attributed to M D Balcock.
The Knox Church Senior Society lays out a winter program listing officers and committees. A dense schedule runs weekly from October through December with themes on gratitude, school life, social life, debate on banking and conscription, island missions, and a Dickens social, aiming for active member participation.
Historical program notes list multiple event titles and participants from 1916 1917 era. Names such as Violet Lief Charlee Kerr Christiania McMarachy and Jamon Clark appear as chairmen with dates like Nov 7 Dec 31 1916 1917. Topics include religious instruction mercy work and missions with biblical references and associated officers across several meetings.
Bonnycastle Dale, a noted naturalist writer, compares shooting with the gun to shooting with the camera in Two Bags of Wild Ducks. Duck Days own Pitt Meadows outlines a British Columbia duck hunting expedition. A Bit of Selkirk Bush offers a Selkirks expedition humor, and With Dad in the Forests of Quebec covers hunting in Quebec. The issue includes Guns and Ammunition, Conservation, Fishing Notes, The Kennel and more, published at Woodstock by W. J. Taylor, Limited.
At a meeting of the airborne society held at Mrs Reld’s home on Friday afternoon the group decided to donate their entire proceeds to the Patriotic Society. One portion funds are to aid Germany relief and a hed run for a Canadian hospital in Fogia. Miss G McConnell was named secretary treasurer replacing Mr W Metherson.
Sportsmen are urged to obtain a Game Bird License for the open season on wild ducks and other birds. Residents on farms may hunt with a farm license. non residents face higher fees and must secure a separate hunting permit. Open season runs September 5 through November 30 with strict enforcement of the Game Act.
The Knox Church Intermediate C E Society meets with two topics listed. Sept 26 involves a rally week programme ex taken by Milavinia Lief, chairman Oliie Jordan. Oct 3 asks what new work should our Society undertake, led by Gordon Hansen, chairman Christiania McMurachy.
Miss Lillie Scott Miss McTage Mart and Miss Adcock are appointed by the Sunday school to attend the gene ladies' Sunday Select Convention at Krawla this week. The Methodist Church installs an acetylene gas plant lighting the church parsonage and Sunday school area. Rev John Pepper and Mrs Pepper return from West Toronto.
A poetic fragment urges whistling as balm for pain and dark days. It suggests piping melodies when voices fail and the sky remains overcast, framing music as a personal remedy.
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