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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 17, 1900
Page
1
Harvesting and threshing dominate the scene as pleasant weather invites field work. C Hunter recovers from typhoid fever and convalesces. Mrs G Clendening slowly recovers from illness. Miss Atkins of Winnipeg left after a month with C S Clendening. Miss Moyer from Walkerton departed for Winnipeg after a brief stay.
Farmers praise the recent fine weather with wheat nearly stacked and flocks of chickens roving the yard. The Allingham family arrives from the east and stays with Mr. Allingham. Young people hold improving weeknight meetings while the teacher visits Birtle for convention week. Robert Calvert plans to move away, a loss to the community.
A SNAP offers 3 Baskets of Grapes for 1.00 this week Crab Apples 60c per pail Plums 1.55 per crate All other fruits at correspondingly low prices P Heddesheimer
The office of Pumplion offers contract advertising at $1 per year with a minimum three month term. Transient ads 12e per line first week and 1e per line each week after. Special notices like wants lost founds require base and subsequent insertion fees. Notices under ten lines and ads not in the local column are restricted.
The article notes Canada’s four-year trade surpassing the prior four by 312 million dollars, iron firms in Toronto employing 1560 vs 790 in 1805, and July August 1900 trade 7 million higher than 1899 and 20 million higher than 1896. It covers W S Fielding leaving Queen's Shelbourne to contest Pictou against Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, a Winnipeg Tribune piece on Crow’s Nest Pass Railway Bill, and a Kirkwood Mission jail sentence where Mose the vagrant is fined and imprisoned, with him reportedly enjoying the sentence.
A jailer blocks Mose from attending neighborhood events after offering escape. In Brandon last Nov Sir Charles Tupper faced libel claims from A. E. Philip, with letters read by Sifton in Winnipeg about settlement terms. The draft letter admits no personal reflection and seeks to end the dispute.
Stacks rise with fair weather as T J Wallace begins threshing on Wednesday. Miss May Ball returns from Brandon on Friday. Our school closes for three weeks as G E Gunning works in the harvest field. Last year Galacians served as harvest hands. this year preachers teachers and saddlers are at work. Seymour Middleton buys another fine horse while Wm Norton leaves Orrwold for Woburn Ontario and may settle here given favorable impressions.
Weather permitting, stocking remains light and oats for seed are scarce due to grain damage. Miss Ethel Adams will visit Winnipe g er this week for an eye specialist, while Miss Lizzie Swalm visits Rapid City. Mrs. Hetherington reportedly went to the asylum last week. G E Lewis moves to a new house next week. J Young and H D McMahon plan a large lumber mill at Clearwater Lake this winter. Potatoes yield a fair crop and the Newdale creamery expects operations through November.
John Oliver of Philadelphia recounts a near death experience with jaundiced skin and failing health, then credits Electric Bitters with a dramatic recovery after three weeks. He asserts the remedy saved him where physicians had given up and urges others to try it, available at Lawson's drug store.
An advertisement touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for vitality and success. It claims the product improves stomach liver kidneys and bowels and notes a price of 25 cents at Lawson’s drug store.
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