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Newspaper
Landis Record
Location
Landis, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
11
The Landis Record lists advertising rates: 12 cents per line for the first insertion and 8 cents per line for each subsequent insertion for government and legal ads. Transient ads: 50 cents for the first insertion and 25 cents for each subsequent. Display ads available on application. Subscriptions are $100 yearly paid in advance or $150 when not prepaid. A M Bock is the publisher.
Porter's Church held its annual bazaar on Friday evening with a concert lunch and auction. Notable participants included R. B. Nunn Bert Russell E. G. Younger Mrs Laird and Gamble and Porter's school children with Laird as auctioneer. Proceeds totaled $131 with $25 donated to the Red Cross Society.
A large turnout from Naseby attended the Biggar stock sale on Saturday. Residents in the Landis district wonder if any kept rainfall records for the past summer. Miss Lottie Young returns home to Traynor after two months with Mrs Affleck. The Red Cross Society begins sending Christmas boxes to the soldiers at the front this week.
The American government urged farmers to increase hog production to supply the military with meat. The appeal stresses rapid expansion of hog farming to meet wartime food demands and support troops.
Gerald Gillies, living a mile east of Cavell, was killed when the car he rode in overturned Thursday evening near Cavell. Driver Vincent Merkosky lost control, both men were thrown from the vehicle, Merkosky suffered a fractured arm, and Merkosky’s young son, also present, saved himself by jumping. Gillies leaves a wife and three children.
Tax sale of lands in Rural Municipality No 379 Reford will be held to recover arrears on Wednesday in Cavell Saskatchewan at two o clock. Arrears costs must be paid earlier. A full land list is in Wilkie Press Scott Herald Landis Record and other issues. Dated Cavell August 25 1917. E R Dunnett Secretary Treasurer.
Monthly standing of pupils in grades four to seven for subjects arithmetic spelling geography and history. Stars mark missed exams. Grades list Cecil DeRoche George Bell Ruth Weber Beatrice Miller Irene Bell Mary Connolly John Hemmerling Dorothy Cahill Howard Grenkie Evelyn Stephenson Irene Hemmerling with scores and the teacher L M Whetpton.
Auction notices list events for Saturday November 3 at the livery barn Spring Water and at Landis with cattle horses and implements. Auctioneers include J Murchison and Clay Nuno. A Monday November 5 cattle sale is planned eleven miles south of Landis at one o'clock with W J Cunningham as owner.
Avenson records a stillborn daughter born Oct 26 south of Cavell to Mr. and Mrs. Avenson. Jacobs shows Oct 27 a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscam Jacobs near Handel. Dani reports Oct 20 a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Everet Dahl of Salter.
Writs for the Dominion elections were expected to be issued yesterday ahead of a ballot scheduled for December 17 or 19.
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