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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 28, 1963
Page
3
Local ads charge per word with minimums and flat rates, plus 10 percent late fees. Death notices cost per column inch, photos priced separately, and card of thanks examples shown. Estate claim notices require filing by March 30 1963 with details and contact at MacGregor Manitoba.
The MacGregor Ladies Curling Club expresses gratitude to local merchants for cash and merchandise donations and to Carl Bergquist for drawmaster duties. Thanks go to the Women's Institute for dinner and lunch helpers, to Ronnie Telford for help at the men’s bonspiel, and to members for birthday surprises and gifts.
Harvey Duncan expresses gratitude to all who sent cards and letters and to the Farmers Union for the fruit box during his hospital stay at Misericordia. He extends special thanks to the doctors and nurses.
The MacGregor W J thanks the ladies and relatives who helped at the Ladies Banquet and those who sent floral tributes and sympathy messages after the loss of their brother and uncle. Special thanks to Rev Hicks Temple Lodge 49 pallbearers and others who aided with cars, cakes, and lunch after services.
The Heselwood family thanks friends for cards, visits, cigarettes, fruit, and letters during Albert’s long illness at the hospital and J Heselwood home. Special thanks go to doctors and hospital staff for their kind attention. Also notices two for sale ads: dry stove wood and white poplar posts at 7 cents delivered, oak posts 25 cents. contact Gordon Taylorson. Cow with a three week old calf for sale. contact Reg Sharp.
Advertisements seek old brass bulb horn brass headlights and tail lights plus owners manuals and old auto literature. Reply with James Whittier RR 1 Galt. Also seeking a good half section with buildings in Austin district with offer and terms via Jake Wieller Phone 93 Sidney. Lost key ring with five keys. finder to leave at Herald office.
Eight university students unearthed artifacts dated 3000 to 1000 BC near Batiscan about 45 miles east. The items are thought to be from a transitory civilization. Separately a British firm plans to invest 30 million dollars by 1967 to modernize Canada’s ten pin bowling alleys.
MacGregor locals visit with George Currie as Hank Bruce family members call on Sparling. Mrs Tarr injures wrist last week. L B Patterson and friends spend weekend at Bowsman. Wes McGillvray visits from Stonewall and curled in a bonspiel. Larry Moore relocates to Charleswood, Murray McFarlane replaces him at Pine Creek Bank. Y W C meets March 13 at Mrs Harkness home to make puppet oven mitts.
ARCTIC life has jumped from the stone age to the nuclear age in one generation. Eskimos now enjoy radios and deep freezers, and some even own television on radios while others crave ice cream. Yet many still follow traditional hunts and sealskin tasks as experts note no special Arctic diet is needed beyond proper clothing.
Advertises payments for coins from 1858 to 1956 with specific per coin values in cents and dollars, including special rates for Newfoundland and U S gold. Requests readers to mail coins to Querbes Coin Exchange in Montreal with mailing address details.
EDINBURGH CP A Scottish brewery has opened a pub in Nice on the French Riviera resort. Attending the opening ceremony was Roy Thomson the Canadian publisher who owns Scottish newspapers and television stations.
Agricultural representative notes mustard yields in Manitoba last year despite late sowing. Early sowing in May yields better. flea beetle can threaten seedlings. Recommend Gammasan seed treatment for two weeks of control, mixing ½ ounce per pound of seed. For untreated or re-infested fields, use 1 pound DDT per acre. Local firms contracting for yellow mustard listed. three day short course announced at Portage la Prairie March 11–13 with sessions on cereals, special crops, weed control, livestock and insects, and home economics.
Federal pesticides director Dr Henry Hurtig spoke at a three day national committee session on the use of pesticides in agriculture. He noted the effort to separate fact from fantasy amid public interest and said the department has studied aspects of pesticide use and aims to prevent harmful effects on humans wildlife and other resources through extension staff who are closest to users.
Mark 25th continued from page one lists callers including Colin of El Paso and Doug of Thompson with the Schmidles of Montreal. Guests arrived from Winnipeg Portage Wawanesa Worthy Austin Katrime and MacGregor for the gathering.
Vancouver talk by Donald Stewart of the Vancouver School of Art says contemporary art is in a revolution. Artists currently aim to create for themselves, using varied objects to form abstract parts. Communication with the audience must be reestablished to complete the artistic shift.
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