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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 1961
Page
5
A cluttered notice page shows thanks and memorials from Mrs Myrtle Taylorson and Mr and Mrs W Prosser alongside sale offers for a girl’s dress and a tridget. Lost cow part Holstein with brand marks is listed with contact details in Portage and Austin. WANTED land packers seeks workers with brief contact through V McNair Gladstone.
Christmas and Boxing Day visits through Neepawa and surrounding communities feature families such as Orchard, Taylor, McLaughlin, Heselwood, Brugger, and Walker visiting relatives in Winnipeg Portage MacGregor Franklin Worby and Beaver. Multiple dinners and suppers mark the holiday period with neighbors and relatives gathering at various homes.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude for 30th anniversary celebration with gifts from MacGregor district Ba got Bagot Y L W L and Bagot WF. Also ads list hay oats a crusher sump pump motors and two boats for sale with contact details in MacGregor Manitoba.
Vancouver shattered previous records with 52.51 inches of rain last year, 4.75 inches above the 1959 mark. Total precipitation including snow reached 59.82 inches, exceeding the 1950 total of 19.95. The city’s average annual rainfall is 38.97 inches.
Leonard Burnan, 35, was jailed for three months after a fluorescent paste on his clothes, glowing under ultraviolet light, tied him to handling a fire box treated by fire wardens. The incident led to a false fire alarm in Vancouver.
Former heavyweight contender Lou Nova and actor Cliff Norton headline an NBC television drama about a Nazi wartime plot airing October 15.
Pine Creek area residents exchanged Christmas and New Year visits with relatives in Austin Winnipeg MacGregor Rosling Uhrin Uhrin Patterson Hanna Bagley and Hughson families. Several gatherings included Raymond MacEachern visiting Kenora and Isabelle O’Brien planning travel to Victoria.
At the Polar Bear Club New Year swim in English Bay, 57 minutes in 43 degree water left Wolfe Schuldt 24 Anne Cronin 17 and Barry Salvia 19 unable to quit. Cronin, Schuldt, and Salvia finally surfaced together as equal winners. Cronin, a six time entrant, and others aged from 83 to a three year old joined the fog shrouded scene. An unnamed man in clothes swam but was not allowed a prize.
Si Har vid Caccia aged 56, former British ambassador in Washington, Monday assumed the role of permanent undersecretary at the foreign office, the highest career post in the department.
Christmas and New Year greetings fill Beaver listings as locals host guests from Winnipeg Stonewall MacGregor Portage and other towns. Families welcome relatives visiting from Winnipeg and Manitoba towns. community club Christmas party features Santa and a chair-purchase initiative.
Correction for the December birth announcement lists Odette Marvis as the newborn daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russ Thompson. Several local families left the area for new homes in Portage Moose Jaw and The Pas while many residents faced changing winter weather and travel conditions.
A Bagot area club reports Dec events including a sewing machine purchase, a mothers and daughters social, lunch by the girls, and a Dec 21 raffle won by Mrs. H Currie. Christmas concerts by Miss Mason and pupils are noted along with numerous family visits over the holidays, best wishes for 1962. The 1901 to 1962 Bagot District notes mention curling, a bonspiel, and hopes for better moisture and crops in the new year.
The booklet lists multiple church services for United Church and nearby Ethel Church in MacGregor and Bagot with times from morning to evangelistic services. Rev D L McNutt leads morning worship in MacGregor and a Young Peoples Service is scheduled Friday evening.
Calvary Tabernacle in Sidney presents worship and study times led by Pastor D. L. McNutt. Sunday service at 2:15 p.m. Sunday School at 3:00 p.m. The Hour of Prayer is scheduled for Tuesday January 9 at 2:00 p.m. An additional worship service follows.
Minister of state for Scotland Lora Haggighton asserts haggis is a unique dish and jokes that if it could be described as a la Edinburgh it would appear on menus worldwide, underscoring its cultural reach.
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