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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 07, 1954
Page
5
School calendar notes a two holiday period and a slogan about fun and sheeping. The text mentions Manitoba High School and last week in December as a busy time with interesting and hard played games. School curling starts Saturday and mid term exams end of January, signaling busy weeks ahead.
Local Austin district notes Christmas visits and New Year gatherings at multiple homes in Portage la Prairie and surrounding towns. Engagement announced for Elizabeth Ellen Williams to John Collins with wedding plans in Austin United Church. Card of thanks from Mrs. Art Johnston for hospital stay and home support. Community events include WMS meeting, Patriotic Club, and High Bonspiel participation in Winnipeg. Obituaries mention H J Davis's death at Vegerville and condolences extend to Mrs. Green and family.
At the Austin Theatre the film Thestep Trap plays January 7 and 9, a drama of love and greed with Joseph Cotton and Teresa Wright delivering strong performances. Corridors, showing January 14 and 16, follows hospital life with clever handling of everyday incidents, offering drama humor and pathos for a wide audience.
Sidney News notes numerous Christmas and New Year visits as families and friends from Winnipeg, Minnedosa, Carberry, Brandon, Virden, MacGregor, Austin, Regina, Worley, and Brandon areas spend holidays with relatives. Names include H Thorn Betty Edmundson G Inman B Smitland Moffatt Brown Catley Sylvester Head Remple Funk Abe Remple Peck Lintott Lintott Howie and Carl Howie.
To our many friends for gifts and kind wishes on the wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Robert Storie.
The Rural Municipality of North Norfolk schedules a regular council meeting at the Austin Community Hall for February 5 1954 to introduce a by law to open and establish a street extending south of Leyton Street in Austin and subdivison plans 3 and 348 define the lands involved. The council will hear from any person whose property may be affected by the by law.
The Winnipeg Tribune obituary notes Mrs. Booth, formerly of Austin and married to William S. Booth in Winnipeg in 1901, lived in Austin until 1929. Mr. Booth died in 1930. A member of Young United Church and active WMS worker, she is survived by her daughter Ted Ryan, Vancouver, two grandchildren, four sisters including Miss G Whiteley and Mrs Booth of Winnipeg, and others.
In 1882 the Winnipeg to Brandon line became the first organized railway mail service route in western Canada, marking an early federal effort to speed mail across the prairies.
Classified advertisement list offers items for sale including solid brass hames and collars, a 300 gallon gasoline tank with a 3 horsepower motor for grain auger, a fresh milk cow with calves, and a stove length rope water heater sale within 15 miles of Austin. Also available are rental notices for four unfurnished rooms in a MacGregor house starting January 1 1954.
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