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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1901
Page
4
The churches announce Sunday services at 7 pm and prayer meetings on Thursdays at 8 pm. Mission groups and societies meet weekly including the Young People Society of Christian Endeavor on Thursdays 7 30 pm and Epworth League on Tuesdays 6 15 pm. Union Sabbath School meets Sundays at 2 pm at the Methodist church with visitors welcome.
Local residents in Miniota and surrounding towns are mentioned with travel, visits, and business changes. Names include Hanter, Wilcox, Mills, Milne, Glazier, Jones, Dennison, Best, Silcox, Ferruson, Brydon, Lawson, Brandon, Jackson, Langdale, Scott, Murray, and Lidster. Activities cover trains, trips to Brandon and Winnipeg, a threshing tool purchase, a fire recovery, lectures, a fire sale, and a ball in Aperth hall. Civic notes list new health officer and auditors. Churchill lectures in Winnipeg. church meetings discuss separate Sunday schools.
Notices list B Jackson, Barrister-at-Law Solicitor and Conveyancer Notary, Minnesota. The entry names professional credentials and location in a terse legal notice style.
Agricultural interests and local notices fill the page. Fire relief gift to Wm. Smith follows a recent blaze. Curling association hosts its sixth annual bonspiel with results from Grand Challenge draws. Ladies Aid meets in the Presbyterian church, electing officers and reporting progress on church furnace debt. Council to set a new assessment and Thos. Parkinson named to a $100 salary post. A major fire destroys Taylor Breen Frazer store in Beulah with $4,000 loss and partial insurance. Allan Eby buys Houck butcher business and shifts focus to cattle trade. CPR service disrupted by a severe storm. Hamiota Farmer's Institute set for February 2 with speakers M. Young and R.G. O'Malley.
The Hamieta Council met on January 16 with full attendance. O J White took seat, minutes of prior meeting read, By-law No 214 appeal and error in Edgar Alexander time discussed, By-law 219 repealed and $5 paid to appellants. Assessor candidates listed. Thos Parkinson appointed assessor. Road and license committees named. next meeting set for 1 PM.
The meeting approved appointing D. D. Fraser as health officer for 1901 with salary set by license and salary committee, and named several officers and auditors. A loan of 4000 dollars to pay school balances was authorized, a town bell grant discussed, and by-laws 218 210 and 22 were read and signed. Additional expenses and salaries for staff, weed inspector, and road work were approved along with audit arrangements.
Rankin McConnell moves acceptance of the Finance Committee report and cheques be issued. Murdoch McConnell moves adjournment. The council agrees to reconvene on Tuesday February 12 at 1 oclock. Meeting carried and adjourned.
Wheat values posted for No. 1 hard and No. 3 hard grades with July and November quotations. Prices show declines for some futures while cash bids trend mixed. details include rejected wheat figures and related market notes from Hamiota.
OCR fragment lists oats, feed, white butter, hay per ton, potatoes per bushel, indicating a rural market price snapshot. No complete context or dates, but items suggest agricultural commodity notes for a local exchange.
Notice to creditors of the estate of William John Cowan deceased dated January Lov. The executrix Mary Cowan requests claims by February 1 with full names addresses and details of claims and securities. After that date assets will be distributed. executrix not liable for unfiled claims. MH Jackson solicitor for Caroling Mary Cowan Executrix. January Lov. LUT.
The Canadian Northern Railway Company seeks an act from Parliament to confirm arrangements with Ontario and Manitoba rail interests and Maine Eastern Railway. The proposal authorizes construction of multiple lines across Manitoba and adjacent regions, including routes near Carman Portes la Prairie Emerson and Brandon, and extending toward the Saskatchewan boundary. Dated January 2, 1401, J. M. Smith, Secretary.
Advertises money to loan at 6 to 8 percent with repayment tailored to the borrower. Claims no patent combination or life insurance manipulation and emphasizes quick work fair dealing and low charges.
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