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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 28, 1938
Page
8
Mrs H B Hay received birthday wishes yesterday for her 18th birthday. About fifty friends and neighbors called and attended tea. The family gathered including four sons and four daughters, grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Ms Hay has lived in MacGregor since 1879 and has long supported church and community groups.
Rev Dr Geo A Dickson purchases the 500 acre Clarke farm at Bagot four corners on Highway 1. He plans mixed farming with Hereford cattle and Suffolk sheep. He will miss his Toronto University graduation while his son George completes exams. Family details are given with schooling plans and pastorship resignation noted.
Full details report the death of David Laidlaw who perished April 19 while crossing a lake near Grand Bay Ontario. He was supervising timber extraction, riding as a passenger on a snowmobile driven by a young Indigenous driver when the machine broke through ice about a hundred yards from shore. The driver escaped after some difficulty and reached shore. Laidlaw remained trapped and could not escape. The body was recovered and the funeral was held at his home near Seaforth Ontario last Thursday.
Miss J Boones spent Easter at home in Midsota. Miss F Tempter returned home from Winnipeg. Two one act plays The Eleventh Mayor and Old Moores Almanac to be staged by the MacGregor Young Peoples Union at Southend School on Monday May 2 at p.m. Admission 25c and 10c. Come and enjoy this Miss Maud Stewart Lorne Pesce and Raymond Chant students attending MacGregor High School returned to
Students resume studies Monday following the Easter holidays spent at their respective homes in this district, as schools reopen and teachers prepare for a regular week of classes and activities.
Bagot May 1st will be Go to Church Sunday. Local residents note community events and social visits including Farncombe Bros acquiring a 1938 Ford De-Luxe Sedan and several residents traveling or visiting relatives around Portage la Prairie.
Anglican church Rev GL Armstrong rector announces Second Sunday after Easter services at St Pauls MacGregor with Sunday School and Bible Class at 7 pm and Evensong. United Church Rev Sr McLeod pastor hosts services at MacGregor with morning and evening worship and Bagot Beaver locations listed.
Marjorie Isobel Robertshaw of Langruth died at Portage la Prairie Hospital on April 15 at age nine after accidentally ingesting lye water at school and later developing pneumonia. Funeral held at Langruth Cemetery with Rev. F McKinney officiating. family mourns loss of daughter and sister.
Miller, Sweet Clover and A4 Banner Oats offered for sale by Graham Bros in Beaver with contact MacGregor at phone 81-13.
In memory of Elsie Pogue wife of Clarence R Bell who died May 3 1802 and Blanche May who died in April remembered by family. Quick, sudden death brought shock yet Heaven gained one of the best. loved by husband, children, siblings.
An advertisement extols Watkins Fly Spray as cost effective and potent, claiming flies die after contact and that the product is odorless and stain free. It asserts lower consumption, noting dairymen use half as many gallons to achieve the same results and that it can be used in the home.
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