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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
5
After leasing the Blacksmith shop east of Glover's Hardware Store the business offers general smithing and machine work with focus on plows binders separator engines. They invite trial orders and promise prompt service at reasonable prices to gain local patronage.
Fragmented OCR reads of a 19th century page mention bagot storm, heavy stones, Burnside, Gee Booth f MacGregor, MrT 1 Poot Law weather. Radetyge commenced ext. barley on Wednesday. Smallpiece intends to st ing wheat on Friday.
Heavy rain hit Orangeville on Tuesday morning marking the heaviest precipitation of the season. Mr and Mrs J M Jamieson and Mr and Mrs J B Fox are among residents mentioned with weekend travels and visits. James Bowen credited with the district’s best wheat crop, all pure red grown from one kernel. Relatives return home, Rev Jas Wilkins renews ties with Moose Mountain area, and Mrs Sparrow visits old friends preferring British Columbia to Manitoba.
The list shows successful students across third class parts and names such as Clara Poyser Albina Danica Dancan Edna Durrant George Dunbar Mary Emerson Loretta McDougall Annie Poyser Florence Keeping Henry Lye Betsy Povser.
Bert Cadham of Five Island killed when struck by lightning while ploughing in a field near Portage In Prairie. Bert Owens reached him first, but Cadham was already dead. He was thirty, a popular farmer. the storm brought torrential rain and hail the size of eggs.
Ontario and eastern farm laborers are organized for westward movement by special excursions similar to last year’s operation. This time workers must travel by the south route or the CPR toward Winnipeg with no option to choose alternative paths.
A jumble of antiquated notes describes tea and coffee excess destroying taste, a social portrait of a London gentleman with robes and hats, and a comical venting about red tape in government departments. It shifts to a royal anecdote about Queen Victoria's daughter and a sailor’s polite remark, ending with various curious lines about doctors and old scenes.
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