Portage News Highlights Community Life and Reflections
Local column recounts greetings and birthdays in Portage with notices about residents and visitors from Winnipeg and Currie. It laments talk vs action, urges honest work and charitable use of money, and notes weather and hospital updates, plus a postponed church sale and recovery news from emergency surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. W. Bureh
Winnipeg
Roger Burch
W. MacDougall
Currie
E. N. Smith
Portage
J. M. Baskier
Looking Back at 1920s Local Life and Prices
A gas war cooled to two and a half cents a gallon while Bank of Montreal manager W A Young and assistant R R Wright run local banking. Sugar topped 7 75 per 100 pounds at Max Kirshner's as Beaver's Roy McLachlan sold feed wheat at $1 a bushel. Roadster Chevy at 625 and Imperial Sedan at 890 with Lake of the Woods Milling erecting a new elevator after 1927 fire. Austin Tennis Club formed led by Geo Camsell president and Mrs McLaren Keswick vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Young
Bank of Montreal
R. R. Wright
Max Kirshner
Roy McLachlan
D. G. McLachlan
General Motors
Alex Hay
J. Pears
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A.M. Hay
Treas
Ors
Facauer
Klenzo
Theing
Mabie
Dorant
Rexall
The
Denial Pharmacy
Bagot and District News
B. Hildebrand
G. Kelly
J. Purkess
Glenn
Fay
Ken Green
Purkess
E. Towerzey
J. H. Adams
Mel Baskier
A. W. Kalberg
Portage Hospital
E. T. Nichol
S. Coulthard
A.W. Kalberg
Alf Adams
R. Mahan
Donna Rands
Vancouver
P. Henry
Edmonton
R. Brown
K. Frostrant
Ro Mahan
Irler
George Ls Etd
MacGregor
Austin Melodiers
MacGregor Community Centre
John Deere
First Street
N.W
Portage la Prairie
Hong Kong
Hhonwigs Company
Lyttelton Road
Wong Kong
Bonanza
Sally
Fiat Se
Sea Faces
Timi Rae
Chevrolet
Bird
Macgregor Lye Motors Ltd
Man
Hanna
Time
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