This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 01, 1954
Page
5
The unjust meeting of the Austin Community Theatre will be held in the Community Hall on Tuesday April 1. It will be preceded by whist at 8:20. A good attendance is requested as several community matters of interest will be discussed.
Community notices from Austin include church meetings at homes on April 7 and Easter arrangements, a charity tea raising 1250 dollars, a Sweet and Low concert coming April 19, and a Pat riot Club sponsored dance April 9. Local residents, sales, and hockey club winnings are noted along with a store sale and a hospital eye operation for Mr. Heselwood.
Gothic Lodge No. 75 AF AM held its annual At Home in Community Hall last Friday March 26 Whist opened the evening a short program followed including a duet Hazel McGillvray and Yvonne Hanson sang Dark Town Strutters Ball and Woman Mrs A Manns and son Jack gave piano and violin selections Musical chairs delighted the young folks Whist prizes awarded Traveling prize to Mrs S Ormiston MacGregor and Jas Durward Raeburn High Miss Annie McGillvray and Mr A Beresford Low prizes to Mrs R Hay and Jimmie Randall A bountiful lunch followed by dancing to Bentons Orchestra
The Austin Skating Rink Committee staged a late season hockey tournament in MacGregor with over 300 attendees despite poor weather. Four teams competed after three failed to appear, with MacGregor defeating Austin 10-5, Wellwood beating Keyes 10-5, Keyes beating Austin 7-6, and MacGregor narrowly beating Wellwood 5-4 in a crowd-pleasing final exchanges ending the day as a lively local showcase.
The Firdale 4H Garden Club started the year with officer elections led by George Moffatt. Officers named were Jack Manns president Edward Bird vice president Marjorie McLachan secretary Barry Robertson treasurer and Robert Manns club reporter. The club plus members competed at the Carberry Plains Bonspiel earning top place in the second event. A February soil conservation talk was sponsored by the club. One bonspiel day was devoted to serving lunches for charity with proceeds going to the March of Dimes.
Classifieds show a flood of farm and household items for sale in MacGregor and surrounding areas. Listings include tractors such as John Deere AR models with accessories, wagons, plows, and a Massey Harris implement set. seed wheat and oats, oak posts, barbed wire, and seed treater rental. Also offered are washing machines, used tires, a 1947 1948 tractor group, a variety of cattle and farm tools, and several houses and furniture items for sale. Contact details list K H Anderson Maurice Smith Harvey Gilbert Konrad Amann J B Reid & Son LYE'S Adams Bros Mrs Embree C E Holliday A E Chant H S Barton G W Jones G W Croucher.
A film night and dance took place at the school on March 19 as plans form to enter the public speaking contest. The club membership currently stands at an unspecified count after a sum of $82.00 was noted.
Classified notice seeks pasture for fifty head of cattle for full season and arrangement of fire with herd. Contact J A La Chance at Bernard Siding rural area by calling Else Ex 307-2. Also listings for sale of Fortune Oats and Marine Flax and a 46 acre property with multiple outbuildings listed by J Lunn and J L Pogue with local phone numbers.
Mr S H McLachlan attended the Poultry Pool Convention in Winnipeg as a delegate held last week. Quartettes performed Saturday evening at Prince Charles School in Portage la Prairie. E Thiessen and sister Betty entertained at Oak Lake Amateur Hour. Thiessen spent the weekend at Griswold. Junior Red Cross social and sale of work set for Friday April 9 at 8:15 pm, featuring children’s crafts and home cooking. United Grain Growers film show themed evening at the school with four films and prize awards for whist season winners Mrs E G Ritchie, Georgina Barth, H D Ritchie, and Glen Barth.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.