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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
7
M Florence proclaims as provincial licensed auctioneer and valuator serving Saskatchewan and Alberta. He highlights experience in farm and stock sales and offers personal attention to all sales. Arrangements by phone or wire, at his expense, with contact details for Wilkie Saskatchewan.
A writ of execution in the Saskatchewan Supreme Court District of Scott orders the sale of Gua A. Beckevold’s interest in the NW quarter of section 16, township 38, range 16 W 3rd, 160 acres plus an excluded trail, plan 1886, at noon on May 1, 1917, in Scott. Sheriff A. Ramsay oversees the sale with terms to be announced.
Honor list recognizes soldiers and officers including sergeants corporals privates and lance corporals from units such as Lance Corp Ed Miller and Corp Cunningham. It notes Killed in Action names Herman Grenkie and others and lists many servicemen with ranks and initials.
Mr. E Gillespie travels to Moose Jaw for weeks. Mrs Spring and Bruce return from Manitoba. W B Taylor comes back from Lloydminster. Mrs MeChargue and Gladys visit Saskatoon. A grain buyer arrives in Landis. Train eastbound delayed thirteen hours due to a Winnipeg storm. R B Nunn upgrades showrooms for better displays. Sunday and holiday exchange hours posted. Harriman Co vaudeville in Landis last week. dance follow-up enjoyed. Landis Ladies' Association ships clothes to Winnipeg mission. more on the way. White Shore Telephone Co plans three new circuits when spring opens. applications by March 15. Miss Mabel Cunningham marries Freeman Martin of Springwater in Moose Jaw on Feb 15. couple honeymooning in Saskatoon.
Excerpts from letters by Lance Corp Stanley Laird Pte Ackrill and Pte Dutch recount Christmas injuries and close calls near the front. They thank Pete for cigarettes and share reunions with John Dickson Le Gallais Schermuly and others amid frost, bombing shifts, and trench rest periods.
About Boys at the Front W. Sedgwick from Oban faces leg amputation in an English hospital. Pte Victor Edwaria of the 5th battalion is wounded from Thiepval and remains at South Sea hospital. Ernest Paisley and J. Macey join the honor roll now among those who made the supreme sacrifice. Ernest Gilmer is listed among killed in action. John McKenzie, who enlisted with a Highland regiment at Edmonton in fall, is added.
Sixteen hundred bushels of Pure Marquis Wheat from Angus McKay Seed Co Indian Head sold last spring. No foul seed, well threshed. $1.90 per bushel available thirty days. Sample at office. Also about one thousand bushels of seed oats, ripe and cut before frost, 65 cents per bushel. T R Stewart secretary. P O Wolfe Sask.
A $20 reward is offered for the return of a Strayer from the premises of Frank Park in Scott Saskatchewan. Describes two mares: a sorrel mare eight years old about 1500 pounds with a facial stripe and white on hind feet, and a dark brown nine-year-old about 1400 pounds with a star and white on a hind foot. Any information leading to recovery should be reported to Frank Park.
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