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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 26, 1902
Page
1
The notice outlines office publication every Wednesday with a $1 yearly subscription. Contract rates require at least three months. Transient ads cost 12 cents per line first week and 5 cents per line each following week. Special notices charge 5 cents first insertion and 25 cents subsequent. Church events with admission follow transient rates. local column ads exclude non advertisements.
The Department of Agriculture reports supplies including hay oats and flour shipped to South Africa for the War Office total five million five hundred thousand dollars to date. Spring prompts ward councillors and sanitary inspectors to ensure backyards are cleaned after snow and kept tidy through summer. Premier Ross notes liquor revenue funds about a third of public institutions education and justice costs.
The list includes Oranges Nuts Figs Raisins Dates and other dried fruits. Vendors note steady demand for preservedProduce in season with price ranges varying by quality and origin.
A promotional notice touts life insurance as protection for dependents and estate security. It extols North American Life's plans as modern and reliable, urging readers to insure early to avoid financial loss if illness or death strikes, signed by agent Malcolm Thompson in Hamiota.
The piece condemns the public librarian Lancefield of Hamilton Ontario as a gambling defaulter tied to pool rooms and racing losses. It urges suppression of such resorts and questions if law alone can curb gambling evils while noting Lancefield’s fall reflects a failing mind.
A soldier recounts a night march with Da Maller's column on the sixth of last month. They fought Brant’s four hundred with one thousand men and four guns, suffered casualties, captured gear, and killed Boers. Rations improve as reports of Christmas pudding and gifts arrive amid a locust plague.
A humorous verse praising the steady subscriber who pays in advance at year’s end. The reader is thanked for supporting the paper, ensuring continued delivery and reader loyalty, with playful lines about readers who cover costs and keep the office humming.
A Manitoba License Holders association meeting in Winnipeg drew many delegates from across the province. They passed a resolution insisting the Liquor Act be enforced only with a majority vote from all registered provincial voters and demanded compensation if enforcement proceeds.
The province depends on railways for agricultural and commercial prosperity as wheat exports and imports drive traffic. Much of the population grows wheat for export and seeks imports of poultry meat dairy products that Manitoba could likely produce locally. Railways appear profitable yet overtaxed by continuous freight movement.
The district hosts a dance at Lenore hall with oyster supper and ball under C O F auspices. A Wednesday referendum discussion via the Literary society precedes a hoped large turnout. Ball proceeds fund the local Baseball Club while C O F plans an $800 hall with public space. Geo Leavens begins a blacksmith shop in Dauphin. Methodist At Home yields fair attendance. Delegates prepare for Miniota council talks to open a village school.
Ed ward Harrison of Shoal Lake writes from Bustyontein after joining Baden-Powell police in South Africa. He details guarding a line between Bloemfontein and Kimberly, building a sand-filled iron blockhouse, daily town reports, and a five day patrol that brought in sixty six prisoners with one wounded.
At St Stephens church Winnipeg on Sunday evening W R Malock K C urged temperance supporters to place placards at every polling booth requesting electors abstain from voting. He challenged the government to tell the lieutenant governor they deceived the public when passing the law.
Mr R Adamson of the Department of Immigration will depart for the Old Gentry around March 1 to recruit farm hands for a year long engagement with Manitoba and the Northwest Territories farmers. Wages are 200 dollars plus board and lodging for experienced men aged twenty to thirty, capable of horse work and stock care. Applicants must provide a farmer certificate and character reference, send 25 dollars for passage to be deducted from wages, and apply by March 1. Arrival in Manitoba is planned for June 15. prior groups have been satisfactory.
Market list shows wheat varieties No 1 No 2 and hard wheat quoted with a few prices. Also includes oats butter eggs hay per ton potatoes flour bran shorts chop and per hundredweight values. Some entries appear incomplete or damaged but reflect a local grain and farm product market snapshot.
Deaths reported including Mrs. George Gray in Crandall and Ernest Victor Colbeck, aged 82 months, in Scotia. W A Peden of Ress Burn offers reward for information on missing ponies and stock from McDonnell settlement. Man drought acres available for lease in McLean district with one third crop share. inquiries to Mrs. P Jares, Hamiota.
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