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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 24, 1937
Page
1
It is a month till Christmas and the store displays Christmas goods with new items daily. The shop invites customers to browse and offers to reserve gifts until they are needed.
Local items report travels visits including George Deuchart’s return from Emo Ontario and Miss Pearl McConnell’s Winnipeg trip. Community notices list poultry shipping, births in Moose Jaw, fall sales, church services, dances and euchre drives, plus a Christmas bazaar at Christ Church and a furniture sale in Hamiota.
Week long sale features all white flannelette blankets 72 by large per pair 2.39 and striped 27 inch by yard 18 cents. Also 4 inch refuse woollette 34 per yard 29 cents 19 cent flannelette blue or scarlet 15 cents or 10 yards 1.35. Ladies wool cashmere hose 50 to 100 cents. Ski suits for women misses and children from 2.95.
Bulk tea orange pekoe at 39 cents per pound. Braid’s veails 49 cents per pound. Soda biscuits in wooden boxes 39 cents each. Coffee Blue Ribbon in glass jars 39 cents per pound. Raisins currants walnuts mixed peel citron lemon 2 pounds for 25 cents 19 cents 29 cents 39 cents. Glazed cherries fancy per pound 45 cents. Peanuts fresh roasted. Vanilla 16 ounce bottle 29 cents.
Fruits and vegetables advertised with apples emphasized. Prices listed include celery and lettuce at low per unit rates and onions at 10 cents per pound or 8 pounds for 25 cents. The tone promotes mild weather and bargain pricing.
The S. Sweid Phone One venue opens Friday and Saturday December 3 and 4 for the annual Children’s Aid Concert and Dance and Sale. The Orange Hall lectures, well attended, featured “Fisheries in Manitoba” and “Mining in Manitoba” with Hamiota scholars performing. Neighbors, about forty, honored bride-elect Miss Lottie Johnson with a wedding shower at Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Pedlow’s home, followed by lunch and song.
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