The Coming Victory Loan Drive Opens Monday
Canada launches its Eighth Victory Loan with a quota of 50 000 to 100 000 and officials plan to mobilize rural communities. The drive features moving pictures from overseas including Allied docks to Normandy English Channel attacks by German robot bombs and a Canadian Corvette convoy tale. The Tivoli Theatre in MacGregor will show the films on Tuesday April 24.
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Canada
Nations
English Channel
Normandy
England
Tivoli Theatre
MacGregor
Great Divide in War and Civilizational Choices
A wartime letter from overseas reflects on the twofold nature of war, urging nations to fight moral fear and hate as they prepare for a decisive conference. The author warns against materialism, division, and decay, calling for restoring God and moral law as the foundation of civilization.
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Berlin
United Nations
Canada
Germany
Japan
Questioning Faith and Nation's Rebirth in Crisis
An overseas conversation asks what answer a rebuilt nation without ancestral lands should give to the passion for the Christian faith. The dialogue contemplates how the fathers once hacked a nation from the wilderness and what legacy remains as the homeland reemerges.
Community V E Day plans emerge after ratepayers meeting
About twenty ratepayers and business men met at the Curling rink for a postponed annual meeting. S R Lamb was elected chairman and G E Lewin secretary. Finances showed expenses of 2210.35 with 326.68 in bank and 1537.30 owed by the municipality. A celebration for V E Day was organized with a welcome parade and Thanksgiving service at the school and cenotaph site.
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S.r.lamb
G. E. Lewin
R. W. Cobbe
Brandon Fire
F. C. Barton
Messrs
F.C. Barton
EW. Lamb
Fire Brigade
Chas. Pogue
Hitler
Red Cross Drive Surpasses $900000 In Manitoba Effort
Manitoba Red Cross fund drive ends March List with about $900,000 collected, surpassing quota by over $300. MacGregor Community reports roughly $1,573 raised.
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Red Cross Drive
Manitoba
MacGregor
Jelford's Orchestra Performs in Stratton and MacGregor
Notice lists two performances by Jelford's Orchestra at Stratton's Barn on April 1 and MacGregor on April 13. The Co-op Pool elevator will halt grain intake for two weeks due to repairs. Cecil Mansfield is the agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratton
MacGregor
Jelford
Co-op
Cecil Mansfield
Local Curlers Hold Annual Meeting At MacGregor Club
MacGregor Curling Club members closed a successful season with the March 28 annual meeting at the rink. Sixteen men’s and six women’s rinks competed, with notable bonspiels in December and February and over 200 dollars raised for the Manitoba Curling Association Prisoners of War Parcel Fund. New officers for 1945 46 were elected and dance floor improvements were completed to boost summer use.
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MacGregor Curling Club
Red Cross
Manitoba Curling Association
Fred Orchard
R. D. Davis
John Emerson
M. W. Pepper
Ladies’ Club
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the Herald
HT. Trethewey
the Prices and Trade Board
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Humphrey Mrrcut
Labour
Louis J. Trottier
R. J. Tallon
Allan M. Mitchell
Gray
Jean Fox
McKillop’s
Portage LA Prairie
M. Kirshner
General Merchant
PHONE
Moresco
Sec.-Treas
H. A. Lye
Melvin McRae
Cecil King
S. R. Lamb
H. T. Trethewey
R. O. McKelvy
R. Lye
Laurie Smith
F. C. Borton
Cyril Palmer
J. L. Lamb
Robt. Harvey
A. Weber
Ladies’ Curling Club
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