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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1969
Page
1
A retrospective from MacGregor detailing January to July notes on sports events, bonspiels, school and community activities, weather, new local business changes, births, anniversaries, and the 1969 Manitoba election. Key names include Betty Quinn, Tom Lowe, Joyce Lye, Jim Boaz, and Schreyer as premier.
Highlights note New Year wishes and local events in Austin from early January 1969. Items include water system plans in January, Ewen rink top honors at MacGregor curling, Mennonite Mission Band visits for bereaved seniors, deaths of Walter S. Duncan and Fred Green, 4 H Sharpshooters bingo and holiday lists, New Year visit notes, hockey and curling enthusiasm, a shower for Mrs Patricia Kowalchuk, and marriages and community obituaries in Austin United church records.
The 1969 review covers Bagot community events. Winter curling skating and social functions. spring farm prep cleaning, gardening. Bagot Hall remodelling and the church sale on April 30 raising about 260 dollars. Summer moisture boosted crops wheat 20-35 bu/acre oats 40-60 barley 30+. potatoes and flax good but fall harvest delayed and yields lower. Local fairs Brandon Winter Sume n ’s Reunion at Austin noted. markets for produce weak.
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