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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 08, 1949
Page
1
A Christmas column recalls children asking Santa for gifts in leaner homes and urges community help with donated toys and clothes. It notes hunting season winding down, cold weather aiding skating and hockey, and playful local anecdotes from MacKinnon’s chimney fire to fox fat used for beauty care. It also highlights Christmas Seals helping TB prevention and urges readers to send mail with seals.
The new Manitoba Telephone Directory is out with updated rural numbers in the MacGregor Exchange. Rural blocks now run 301 to 325 while town numbers stay, and the book notes many changes, additions, and disconnections as phones updated. Public urging to use the new directory speeds connections and reduces dialing errors.
Santa Claus is due to arrive in MacGregor this afternoon around 4 o clock. He will set up at Hazel Dress Shop with a bag of candies for every child who comes to see him. Children are urged to hurry home from school and visit Hazel's.
The YILS presented an engraved rosebowl to the church in memory of Viola McIntosh, a former society member. Mrs. A Shaw quoted a poem about footprints as Rev. C D Rupp dedicated the memorial and Mrs. W Critchlow assisted.
Canada accounts for 28 percent of the British Commonwealth’s total area, highlighting its vast geographic footprint within the group. The statistic contrasts with other member nations and underscores Canada’s expansive territories.
Britannia Chapter LODE sponsors a Soap Drive to aid Europe amid soap shortages. Aims to collect one cake of soap per person by placing boxes in stores for donations to help babies and children avoid skin trouble from dirt and infection.
The Mac Gregor Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday evening December 13 in the Memorial Room at 8 pm. Members and interested outsiders are urged to attend as this will be the final meeting for 1949.
Lye Motors showroom crowds view the 1950 Ford entry with new safety and comfort upgrades. Highlights include a V-8 100 hp engine, enhanced sealing and insulation, a one piece stabilizer bar, the Lifeguard body, Mazic Air heater, new zig zag front seat springs, and improved road clearance for a smoother ride. This model emphasizes roominess and quiet operation at a low price.
The long awaited skating season will start Saturday if the weather holds. Temperatures are below zero and caretaker John Emerson is ready, inviting all to glide on the ice with curlers expected next week.
MacGregor Calf Club members and guests gathered at leader A E Chant’s home on Friday evening for a business meeting social time and lunch. Junior Clubs of Manitoba are highlighted as key to the province’s agricultural development. A new 18 minute CBW radio segment began in October with farm commentator Bob Knowles interviewing juniors on Saturdays at 12 15 p m.
This week Bay High School celebrates a new electric clock in the Grade XI room on the east wall as time awareness grows amid exams. Students report flu and an ankle injury to star basketball player Vivien Dankesreiter, with team and school wishing her a speedy recovery. The heating system upgrade and a record choir practice of twenty seven members mark campus improvements and morale.
A Southend Encyopaedia sports note previews NHL and senior leagues. Clare Tarr lists teams by position, predicts contenders and cellar dwellers, notes Calgary and Saskatoon threats, and cites weak offense for Boston. Also mentions curling entries and a late fan rush to enter.
Marceline Joan Denault wed John Allan Roberts in a Sacristy ceremony at a Keewatin church on Saturday November 26. Attendants Miss Donalda Farbrother wore blue gabardine. Bill Roberts and Mrs Denault supported the couple. The couple will reside in Kenora after a wedding trip to Minneapolis.
Unavoidably omitted from the week's Gilbert Telford nuptials the paragraph noting Mrs. Gilbert the mother of the groom wore a blue grey crepe dress with black accessories and carried a pink rose corsage.
Regular meetings of the Rural and Municipal Councils will be held this month as final sessions of the 1949 Boards. Village of MacGregor meets Monday December 12 and Municipal district North Norfolk attends Monday December 19 at MacGregor.
Annual Christmas concerts will occur in multiple districts with dates posted for Beaver Fathead Orangeville Katrime MacAulay Austin Springbrook Norfolk Ravenshoe Melvin Light Hill Elsmith Eagot Image Creek UC MacGregor on December 20th to 23rd.
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