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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1969
Page
4
Local readers are reminded that a 10 percent late charge applies if classified ads are unpaid within one month. Deadlines demand Herald Office submission by Tuesday 1 30 p.m. Death notices cost 60 cents per column inch while photos are 9 dollars per column inch. For sale a Moto Ski demonstrator offers a special price. contact MacGre at 885-2622.
Obituary items for Walter Scott Little aged 80 from Winnipeg, born Wellington Man, CPR veteran of 42 years, survived by wife Lucille and two brothers. Funeral at Clark Leatherdale 232 Kennedy St with Pastor H H Egler. interment Pineview Gardens. Also memorial notices for O'Brien Duncan Pearson and others, plus a card of thanks and small classified items including farm produce for sale and oats and flax listings.
Smith Motors Ltd advertises a 1967 Ford Custom sedan with six cylinders and automatic transmission, a 1967 Ford Custom 500 with V eight and automatic transmission, a 1964 Ford Comet station wagon six cylinder auto, a 1965 Mercury two door hardtop, a 1962 Dodge six cylinder automatic, a 1963 Ford six cylinder automatic, a 1961 Ford six cylinder standard, and a 1965 Dodge six cylinder standard transmission.
Hundreds of 1969 models including Fury I and Monaco sedans feature light bronze and briar metallic finishes. Cars boast V8 engines, automatic transmissions, whitewall tires, power steering, and undercoating. List prices around $4,000 to $5,500 with $800 savings and special reduced prices for multiple trims.
Public auction conducted by C W Slork on March 20 1969 at 10 am CST at Charles W Sing office Portage la Prairie Manitoba offers the north half of section twenty five twelve and west of the principal meridian with a public road exclusion. Located six miles north and one and a half miles west of junction Highways 34 and 1 the land includes an old house barn and granaries. Twenty percent of the purchase price to be paid in cash with the remainder per terms to be announced. Sale subject to a reserve bid. For details contact Charles W Sing QC solicitor Portage la Prairie Manitoba.
Two Salmon Valley men, John Griffiths and Phil lipe Dube, were arrested on theft over 50 dollars charges after 44 tons of grain disappeared from a derailed train in John Griffiths. RCMP said a road was bulldozed into the wreck, a four wheel drive hauled out the wheat, and six box cars of grain plus ten tank cars of propane derailed during two weeks after the wreck. A broken line in minus 52 degree weather is blamed for the derailment.
The hockey game of the year will be staged at the local rink next Friday or the date of the Ol key game. Proceeds go to the Retarded Children's Association. Details will appear in next week's issue.
MacGregor locals report visits to Misericordia Hospital in Winnipeg for Mrs. A A Dyck and Wiene family members. Weekend guests include Lunn Duncan Rogers and other ties to Deer Lodge, Oak Bank, Portage and Transcona. Lions conference held at Thief River Falls. get well wishes to J Hoeppner and Bessie Ritter. Belle Shilling ton and Ed Berry attend Regina lumber and hardware show.
Agriculture Minister J. Doug las Watt announced the appointment of Robert J. MacPherson of Brandon to the Manitoba Milk Control Board. He joins chair man Russell W. Scott and Dr. J.M. Nesbitt on the three member board which sets prices and quotas in Greater Winnipeg Portage la Prairie Brandon and Neepawa.
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