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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1964
Page
5
Classified ads must be in the crud Office by Tuesday 1:30 pm to avoid charges. Death and funeral notices priced at 60 cents per column inch. Photos cost 2.00 per column inch. Limited account holders may face restrictions.
The obituary notes the passing of a 73 year old man, a World War I veteran, and husband of Katherine McGee since 1912. They lived in Carnevale, Sask, before moving to Austin in 1943. Funeral was at McMaster Chapel Portage la Prairie with burial at Portage Memorial Gardens. Surviving are his wife, two sons in Esterhazy and Regina, two daughters in Windsor and Hamilton, five sisters, one brother, fifteen grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. Pallbearers were Austin residents. A subsequent card of thanks thanks St Pauls W A and hospital visitors.
Miscellaneous notices list a Winnipeg club for unattached adults, a mastitis treatment product sold in MacGregor with money back guarantee, a calf sire identification service, a found yearling, and several MacGregor rental listings. Names include Reg Sharp, Bob Waton, Ernie Bueckert, Lyn Brown. Phone numbers and addresses provided.
Sincere thanks to Springbrook and friends for support after the death of the wife and mother, George Giesbrecht family. Items for sale include Christmas turkeys, oats, a 3-year-old Red Shorthorn bull, beef quarters, land, three bedroom house, farm equipment, and several No. 66 balers, rakes, and a house listing in MacGregor with contact names and phone numbers. The local sale notices list equipment prices and farm land details with incentives to buy now. Headlines reflect a mix of condolences, farm equipment sales, animal offerings, and real estate listings across Sidney and MacGregor.
Multiple local classified items list assets for sale including a seven year old Hereford cow to freshen in March priced at 150 dollars or exchange for hay. A two bedroom MacGregor house with forced air heat waterworks and cupboards. Geese listed by live weight. Twenty purebred Yorkshire weanling pigs from J E Pool. Contact numbers provided for each item.
Sealed tenders addressed to the Secretary Public Works Canada call for alterations and additions to the Dairy Barn Building F-24 at Mani toba Penitentiary Stony Mountain Man. Tenders due 8:00 p.m. EST December 16 1964 with deposit and forms, lowest bid not guaranteed.
The December meeting of the Beaver Katrime Beef Club will be held on December 7 at 7 p.m. at the home of Bruce Graham. Members are advised to arrive on time and bring any club reports for discussion.
A mother Mrs. Gilbert Nault 56 and her son Rich mond 30 both of St Boniface Manitoba died along with Louis Nault 48 of St Pierre in a car truck crash near St Pierre Manitoba. The couple’s spouses aged 57 and 24 were in hospital in fair condition. The Naults were returning from a Winnipeg wedding to Gilbert Nault’s home four miles south of St Pierre, where a reception was planned. The truck's lone occupant Louis Nault was killed. The accident occurred 2 ½ miles south of St Pierre, about 25 miles south of Winnipeg.
The Manitoba government issued an order in council establishing a five member commission to supervise marketing of table and seed potatoes in the province. It will draft regulations for a marketing plan, with processing and seed potatoes under contract excluded. Chairman Kenneth T. Todd heads the commission, the first of its kind in Manitoba.
Winnipeg health committee urges impounding any cat that bites a person for ten days with a licensed veterinarian to test for rabies. Owners reclaiming healthy pets would pay impounding costs. Dr Roper Cadham said the issue grows yearly with 15 rabid cats in Manitoba since 1961, mainly in the Winnipeg area.
Local tensors recount visits and travels among MacGregor residents and surrounding towns. Harveys Kane and Gordon Kane were in Winnipeg for medical attention. Marginets and Work families visited Treherne Minnedosa. Free Border Scotch Collie ad appears. Community calendars and curling entries request participation and rink signups through Lyla Lamb, Dorothy Smith, Ruth Muirhead, and Jean Wright.
Mr and Mrs Maurice Smith and Mrs A Giercke visited Winnipeg on Monday. Miss Mary Jane Rusk, nurse in training, stayed with her uncle and aunt Raymond Smiftyi and family. Wes Thompson admitted to Portage hospital for surgery. Get well wishes from friends. Sunday visitors included Ray Smith family, C Smith and Heather from Portage, plus Howard Cobbe family from Winnipeg. Gordon Stewart of Matsqui visited Alf Graham and family as Sally Graham spent weekend at home.
The Beaver U C W will meet on December 9 at 2 p m at Mrs Ina Asmundson s home. It is the Christmas meeting with an exchange of gifts and a social time. An appeal for old nylons is made with contact Mrs Rose Thomasson by Dec 9. Reminders that annual report forms are with the recording secretary and secrets must have information ready for the next meeting.
Mrs Russell Gilbert hosts with Donna and Wayne Townsend and Leanne Townsend joining Mr and Mrs B W Gilbert for Wednesday supper. Ken Green of Winnipeg visited the Russell Gilbert home. The district extends sympathy to the relatives of the late Frank Davey of Edrans who died on November 28.
Sterling Lyon Manitoba minister of natural resources told the Association of Professional Engineers of Manitoba that Canada faces shrinking ideal park lands as leisure time increases. He cited six developed provincial parks covering 2700 square miles and three more planned as centennial projects, plus 40 recreation areas and over 75 picnic sites, all at capacity and showing wear from overuse.
The Children’s Aid held their annual canvass and collected 151 dollars 85 cents. Nell Bogue thanks all collectors and donors for supporting the project and the worthy cause.
Julius Berkowitz of Monarch Ware Canada Limited joined two other businessmen on a Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce panel. He warned Manitoba manufacturers that mass producing apparel for the United States is unlikely. He said only specialty items might succeed abroad, noting Americans can match or surpass Manitoba on scale and market access.
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