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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 27, 1950
Page
2
The fragment appears to reference a local publication in MacGregor with a section on provision or improvement. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR but indicate an advertised public notice or community item tied to a specific address in the United States.
News from Bagot and District notes the annual clean-up day with Mrs D Ainge of Penhold Alay hosting. The Comum club meets Monday May 1 at 3 pm in Bagot Hall, with plans for Bagot’s Day. Also mentions birthday for Mr David Naylor in Winnipeg and local visits and hospital stays in Portage.
The column records a string of community notes from Bagot including Mrs Wo Burch’s visit, Mr and Mrs Alex Paul’s 1850 Austin cas, and a severe deck wrench incident. It highlights a Bagot Beef Ring spring meeting with rising prices, an accident near Ben Cros land, and a WMS meeting with prayers and a lunch for 13 members and 2 visitors.
Swartz visits with cousins Myrna and Linda Nichol while Miss Lynne Boyer and Garry Pogue spend the weekend at home. H D Ritchie and H Boyer travel to Winnipeg and Ontario. Michael Herbert of Portage Prairie visits. two new pupils Myrna Nichol and Smith start school. April birthdays toasted for Mrs. Elliott Let Beaeeeee hip C Lamont and A Pogue. Junior Baseball Club hosts a Memorial Hall dance tonight with Telford’s providing music. admission.
Local column records social visits and greetings in Gladstone and Golden Stream districts. Names include Mrs S Cooper, Mrs E Duncan, Bernard Fox, Harold Barber, Roy Barber, and others. mentions trips to Toronto, England, and Manitoba, plus school trustees visiting the Golden Stream school and a heart attack at McGowan.
Fortage la Prairie residents Mr and Mrs Sid Thompson visited at the M Smith home. Mr and Mrs Allan Smith of Burnside were guests at Roy Harkness’s. Walter Kelly and family joined Cecil Graham’s at Newdale. T F Graham returned from Glenboro after weeks with Arthur Smith’s family. Portage Consumers Co op annual meeting named Maurie Smith to the Board and Harry Dankesreiter to the Board for the past term.
Six years since Clarence Hanna returned to the district where he attended public school. He spent three years in Peru and plans to remain, noting steady 85 degree temperatures and low living costs. Mr and Mrs Hanna of Portage and George and Eva Cooper of MacGregor attended, with Clarence to begin an 18 month mining course at the College of Mining and Technology in Mayton, Mich, before moving to Lima. Flying time Chicago to Lima is about 21 hours.
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