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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
8
Prices on Thursday listed for Northern No 2 live weight with reference to the market. The report notes figures and bidders, highlighting the rate for Gregor maz du and related categories in the Northern market segment.
Mrs F T Course visits friends at Oak Lake. Mr Norman McLean travels to Oak Lake, returns Tuesday. Jno C Watson made a Winnipeg business trip, back Wednesday. Mr N Chant returns from Wapella after business days away. Misses Ethel and Bessie Merrick return from Kenora after a month with friends. Mrs M Ward and children return from Port la Prairie after visiting. Wheat cutting 1906 in district finished. Stacking thresh is underway. Oscar Murdoch arrives from Calgary with Mor ses for sale at Carberry. Mr Wr Shirriff building a new residence to be among town’s finest. Beryl Fryer sails to England and the continent aboard the Manitoba to spend winter with relatives.
Monday will be tabor day and the duck season opens Saturday. Winnipeg visitors include Dr Fletcher and McKechnie while R A Douglas visits Carberry. Mrs Smalley and Mr Hunt are in town for major threshing, Pearlman returns from Regina, and a lost black collie with tag 18 is reported. Mail trains run late causing post office mail delay.
Mr George Well informed The Herald that he finished harvesting one hundred acres of wheat in a week using a single binder. He began on August Lith and completed August 25. Last year he started on August 19.
Harvest timing shifts as farmers report September harvest and the town awaits end of week stock updates. Fred Merrick heads to Winnipeg to join service. MacGregor hardware owners Oldershaw and Barrie take over the Read shop with Sept. 1 start. Elevators reopen under Dea com, Cooks, and Young. A Red River Special outfit purchased and ships to cover the week. a large wheat crop from Win Burrows Roebill is touched on. Community voices discuss charity and moral advice amid local happenings.
Announcement from MacGregor dated August 9 1906 offers free advice and binders from recommended implement dealers. Reading as a merchants notice, it invites farmers to obtain aid and materials at no charge from local firms in MacGregor.
A household warning stresses readiness for sudden illness with dysentery diarrhoea and cholera. It recommends Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a trusted medicine to have on hand and treat promptly, noting it is widely sold by druggists and dealers.
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