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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
1
A stream of visitors arrives in town from Newdale Winnipeg Regina Kenora Ont Altamont and Carlyle while families await overseas mail news and local improvements. Residents discuss China trip reflections and church events at a tea. Harvesting progresses with farmers cutting grain and threshing as sunny weather holds.
A London issued special communique reports four day German retreat aided by wear on the Western front. Patriots swell ranks to 50 000 with hundreds of thousands joining to end Nazi rule as Paris falls in June 1950. United Nations progress and Allied landings at Bordeaux are noted while Churchill predicts the war may end sooner than hoped. Russian troops reach Riga as Allied forces press on all fronts.
Mr and Mrs R C Mansfield and Mr and Mrs E J Mansfield together with Donna of Moore Park and Miss Jean Williams of Winnipegosis spent Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs A Mansfield.
A village warning reports youths moving residents and damaging crossings on private walks. Some offenders are named and the notice threatens police action if the behavior continues. Signed by the village council.
The MacGregor region reports numerous social visits from Winnipeg and Lac Vert residents, with Miss Peterson of Manitoba University visiting over the weekend. Hydro power connections are now in four west end homes, and Lieut. Kant remains in an English hospital. Pte. Robert ONeill, wounded in France, has had a leg amputated in England.
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