Edvans Bonspiel to Start February Fourteen
Edvans news notes the annual bonspiel opens February fourteen. Get well wishes go to Mrs. Fulford. Local families and friends from Worby Winnipeg Wellwood Por tage and Winnipeg figure in Sunday visits. Farmers Union met Friday with nine members and plans an open bonspiel and dance for February twenty eight sponsored by the union.
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Edvans
Fulford
George Hyde
Worby
Ken Smith
Chas. Seamans
Margaret Wood
Winnipeg
Seamans
Bert Seamans
McCullough
Bill Deman
Wayne
Portage
Art Wright
Wellwood
Byron McGowan
Steve Kakowchyk
Kakowchyk
Farmers’ Union
FOR SALE Wild Hay and straw items and farm gear
Classifieds list loose hay at 7 per ton with contact J Wiebe near Orangeville School. Wheat and oat straw bales offered by Jas Cox with phone 315-14 MacGregor. Typesetter sales ad for Underwood Remington Typewriters and other adding machines from Canadian Typewriter Sales, 113 McCormack St Toronto. Two quiet mares for cash or grain offered by Ivan Foster Austin with phone 307-22. Team of horses mares and gelding with Parkland Barley listed by Abe Friesen Austin with phone 306-32. A 1949 Ford four door in good shape plus a 35 HP portable gas engine and drill available from Nelson MacDonald MacGregor. A Z-car garage wanted by P O Box 56 Gladstone.
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J. Wiebe
South
Orangeville
Jas
Cox
MacGregor
McCormack St
Toronto
Ivan Foster
Austin
Parkland
Abe Friesen
Nelson MacDonald
Auto sale listing with multiple used cars and prices
Trade now for top value offers Mercury Montclair with power steering brakes and auto transmission priced at 51499. Ford sedan two tone one owner with 30 day warranty 959. Oldsmobile sedan good condition warranty 550. Ford sedan with many miles left 200. Fargo ton with new factory motor good tires 775. Mercury ton 4 transmission and ply tires 500. Chevrolet grain box listed at unknown level.
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Fargo
Mercury
Chevrolet
Community News From Portage Area Snaith Visit and Births
News from Austin and District lists Sunday visits to Art Leckie home. Birth announcements include a son Roland Allan to Ralph Blaine and family in Halifax on January 18, a daughter to Cyril Clarkson on January 25, and a son Neil Allan to Harold Wicklund at Fox Memorial Hospital in Carberry on February 1, with other local social notes and bereavement sympathies. The United Church Ladies Aid plans a Valentine Supper February 15, and several local families visited Ralph Brydon in Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg weekend trips are noted.
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Ralph Blaine
Halifax
Roland Allan
Cyril Clarkson
Harold Wicklund
Fox Memorial Hospital
Carberry
Neil Allan
Marvin Remple
Ben. Dyck
Thomas Stephenson
Charles Campbell
United Church Ladies Aid
Owen Jones
Raymond
Art Kolke
MacGregor
Ronald Kolke
Winnipeg
Ralph Brydon
Portage la Pratrie
Austin Native Son Retires From M T S
Austin native Joe Collier retires from the Manitoba Telephone System after 37 years of service. A Portage la Prairie testimonial dinner presented him a gold watch on Friday January 31. Collier, a postwar MTS recruit, long served in the garage and vehicle department and was active in Portage sport circles with the Southside Athletic Club and as hockey time-keeper at the Arena rink.
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J. E
Joe) Collier
Portage la Prairie
Manitoba
Austin
Collier
MTS
Portage
Joe
Southside Athletic Club
Arena
Siloch Daze Shines At Austin High Curling Bonspiel
Austin High curlers led by Barry Calvert defeated Darwin Anderson to win MacGregor's Bonspiel on January 31 February 1. Montie Lowe rink finished third in the second event. The paper notes the Gladstone rink had mixed luck, announces a February 14 15 bonspiel with Rhythm Rockets, and extends sympathy for Louise Judy and Beth Stephenson.
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Austin
Barry Calvert
Jim Lowe
Louise Stephenson
Deanne Ewen
MacGregor
Darwin Anderson
Darwin
Montie Lowe
Gladstone
Ron Russell
Rhythm Rockets
Cypress River
Johnny Tycholtz
Ontario
Lend
Switzerland
Austin High School
Louise Judy
Beth Stephenson
Queen Victoria Empire Title in India Established
The piece notes Victoria proclaimed the British government would assume control of India from the East India Company, with 1876 marking her as Empress of India. It mentions viceroys, ending with Lord Mountbatten.
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Victoria
India
East India Company
Book of Knowledge
Lord Mountbatten
Memorial for Mrs. Catherine Campbell at Austin United Church
Mrs. Catherine Campbell of Austin Manitoba died January 25 1958 in Winnipeg at 78. She married Charles Campbell and farmed at Bergen before moving to Austin in 1912. Funeral held January 28 with extensive attendance. survivors include six daughters and one son, many grandchildren and relatives. Interment in Austin cemetery.
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Princes, Elizabeth Hospital
Winnipeg
Charles Campbell
Austin
Catherine Campbell
Orillia
Ontario
Reuben Tiffin
Manitoba
Bergen
Man
Austn
Donald
Ralph
Wilfred
Rose Valley
Sask
Reg Johnson
Mary
Beresford
John Kreuger
Jane
Oakbank
R. H. Stewart
Helen
Portage
Robena Campbell
Herb North
Iris
Joe Hyde
Doreen
Robert Storie
George Beatty
Rocanville
M. D. Tiffin
Marine City
Michigan
John Gilmour
Roy Storie
Jack Boyd
George Graham
Charles Wallace
Jim Hay
Austin Cemetry
Campbell
Reg. Johnson
J. Kreuger
Oak Bank
Wilfred Campbell
Geo. Beatty
Anne McDougald
Virden
D. A Campbell
Reuben Storie
Lockport
Messers
Jack
Bob Stewart
E. Moore
Allan
Howard Avery
Arthur Collier
Charles Duncan
G. McRae
Tanner
Card of Thanks to Friends and Dr Patterson
We express gratitude to kind friends and neighbors who prayed comforted and supported us at the bedside of Mr. Giesbrecht and remembered us in sorrow also thanks to Dr Patterson and the nurses and staff of Fox Memorial Hospital Carberry from Mrs C H Giesbrecht and Family
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Harland
Cole
T. Eaton Co. Ltd
C. Wallace
Campbell
Giesbrecht
Patterson
Fox Memorial Hospital
Carberry
C. H. Giesbrecht
Brick through history as sun dried clay technology endures
The Brick text notes early bricks were clay mud mixed with straw to bind them and dried in the sun. The Book of Knowledge states that this ancient method persists nearly unchanged, with bricks still produced much as they were two millennia ago.
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Book of Knowledge
Sidney News Highlights Weekend Visits and Local Races
Sidney residents and visitors fill weekend with travel to Winnipeg MacGregor and Wellwood events. Notable items include the MacGregor High School Bonspiel, a 4H bonspiel won by Sidney Calf Club, and a community social planned for February 20 hosted by Sidney Garden Club.
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Sidney Garden Club
Bette Thorn
Sidney Calf Club
Eddie Bird
Iskip
Doug Tyerman
Terry Maben
Paul Ham
Wellwood Calf Club
Jim Humeston
Keith Humeston
Sandra Clark
Shirley Ranson
Worthy Calf Club
Walter Surminsky
Einar Inman
Lorraine Willis
Marjorie Peck
Ravenshoe Swine Club
Lawrence Hay
Bert Alton
Donnie Hay
Bill Alton
Thank you note from Mrs James McPherson
Sincere thanks to relatives and friends for cards fruit flowers and visits while patient at Fox Memorial Hospital and after returning home Special gratitude to Dr McNeill and nurses for their kind attention from Mrs James McPherson
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Fox Memorial Hospital
Dr. McNeill
James McPherson
Manitoba 1956 census shows 49201 farms statewide
The 1956 census reports Manitoba with 49,201 farms spanning 17,931,817 acres. This data highlights farm distribution across the province, reflecting agricultural scale and land use during mid century Manitoba.
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Manitoba
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Brandon
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Exshaw
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Lyle Ruth
Bob Young
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Wilf Peck
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Henry Dueck, Jr
Henry Dueck
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Wilfred Thorn
Myrna
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George Douglas
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Rickey
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Frank Dankesreiter
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Wm. Alton
MacGregor’s New Collegiate
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Norfolk Secondary
Clare Williams
Don
Laurie-Jean
Leonard Muirhead
Summerville
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Carberry Ladies
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Marian Dunton
Bob Ruth
Jas. Hay
Glenboro
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Earl Cline
Ted Lintott
Bert Calvert
Carberry Hospital
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Reiter
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Stephenson
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MacGregor Hospital
Ron Calvert
Philip Stephenson
Charlie McKay
Gerald Sylvester
Murray
Our High School
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Garry Bredin
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