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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 1956
Page
4
Numerous families and friends spent the Christmas holidays across MacAulay area including Winnipeg Portage la Prairie Brandon and Brandon areas. Visitors and extended greetings marked the season with many returning home for New Year celebrations.
Mr P McVannell visits in MacGregor with Smiths Berth family and Lamonts. Treherne visit with English family. New Year plans with Dobbyns. A large postponed whist drive at the school with Fern Green and J L Pogue high scores. Inez Leckie to Sasatoos for holidays. International Falls visitors Ritchie family. Winnipeg guests M Richie and Beverley Pogue. Christmas concert draws a good crowd. Santa visits. Red Cross collection. Roy Nichol to plow Bagot road. payment terms arranged for residents north of No. 1 Highway.
Local notices recount New Year’s visits in Portage la Prairie Gladstone and Edrans with families including Livingstones Johnsons Holmes Stevenson Critchlow Lamb Kerr and Kerrs. A typographical error is corrected from 90th to 82nd birthday for Jamieson Knox as previously reported.
Mrs M Stewart spent New Year’s day with sister Mrs McEachern. S E Knox hosted Sunday guests at Tilley Austin. Harvey Brennan from Gladstone visited Walter Lamonby. Arnold O’Brien and family from MacGregor visited Hughson. June Anderson spent weekend with Cliff Chambers. Paul Ubrin visited Sladik of Gladstone. John Ubrin celebrated New Year’s at D W Patterson home Helston. Mrs Williams and Mrs Kuebler visited Portage for business. Kasik of Gladstone visited Harold Manns. Wm Johnson and Livingstone district family marked New Year with McRae and Tom. Lois Pilgrim and Murray of Winnipeg stayed with S E Knox family Friday to Sunday. Charles Anderson family and Melford Smith hosted New Year guests Chambers. Margaret Livingstone Portage and Walter Livingstone listed as visitors.
Enon Ye Lam Hodge passed away January in an Emmanuel hospital. Survived by family members and friends. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the family in coming days.
In loving memory of our dear mother who died January 3 1952 and father who died September 5 1947. The years pass yet memories stay as near as yesterday. Time dulls grief but memories return each year. Ever remembered by the family.
Tomas Lewis Flowers Dade died at 71 in Deer Lodge Hospital on December 12. He first came to Canada in 1912, returned to England in 1914 to serve with the Coldstream Guards, and was twice wounded in France. He settled in Lavenham after the war. Survived by wife Anna, a sister in Italy, and two nieces in Italy and England. Funeral from Park Lawn Mortuary with Requiem at St James Anglican Church, burial in the Military Plot, Brookside Cemetery.
Stilton cheese draws its name from the English town where it was first sold in quantity to stagecoach travelers, linking the product to a specific origin in British commerce and travel routes.
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