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Newspaper
Lumsden News Record
Location
Lumsden, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
5
News brief from Lumsden District detailing municipal plans, local visits, farm notes, and community events. Includes council tax discounts, a veranda tea, farm shipping ideas, student and service man updates, and a major poultry house fire with limited damage.
Canadian churches held Patriotic Sunday with sermons at St Anmio ws Lanmsden and Forest. An Honor Roll honoring district men who joined battalions was unveiled in Lumden and Lamwen, presented by the Young People's Guild. Names from three families appeared on local rolls, with lodge members marching to the service and a school honor roll displayed. Flags adorned the pulpit and chancel as hymns and anthems filled the day.
A Monday night meeting formed a local golf club with officers President W Binning Captain W Quarry Vice Captain A Hayworth Secretary Treasurer H H Tate. Men membership fee is 1 dollar and ladies fee is 1 dollar. The growing roll promises many town citizens joining as the course will be improved immediately.
Emmeline Pankhurst lectured at Metropolitan Methodist Church Regina. She praised Allied efforts, urged women's participation in work and voting, contrasted British and German troops, highlighted war babies care, and called for a collection to fund homes for illegitimate children.
The Nation's Business notes many senior leaders are Canadian born while others hail from England Ireland and Scotland. It argues continued promotion of capable officers and stresses the war's impact on Canadian business and the need to maintain official and sentimental ties.
The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture notes healthy crops with wheat nine to twelve inches high oats five to eight inches and barley three to six inches. Weather has been cool and showery. warmer days are wanted. Ground is soaked with ample moisture. slight cut worm damage observed and Indian Head wheat browned likely from frost. Plowing of summer fallows lags but at least thirty percent now is worked. Binder twine supply uncertainty worries some farmers.
A public meeting of ratepayers and citizens of Laumeden School District will be held in the council chamber Friday evening at o'clock to discuss Better Schools for Saskatchewan.
The piece argues Canada should insist on self command for its troops and promote capable officers, citing South Africa as an example. It warns against War Office favoritism and notes Hanley's 1916 tax rate of 14.6 mills with a further 14 mills for school purposes, alongside a one mill tax.
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