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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 19, 1961
Page
5
The text outlines cash rates for classified ads with per word charges and discounts for timely payment. It lists several obituaries and memorial notices from Manitoba families, detailing births, engagements, weddings and expressions of thanks and gratitude to friends, relatives, and hospital staff.
A collection of notices from MacGregor area items includes multiple card of thanks messages from families Johanna and Wallace Martin Carole Murray and Brent Graham and others thanking friends neighbors and relatives for fruit boxes cards and support. The notices also offer for sale goods including a registered Short horn bull four years old a Mersey Harris No 11 manure spreader season wood several house items and a piano with bench plus stoves and a dwelling house. Tenders are invited for a frame barn gate pump planks and a radio and for logging timber to the Agricultural Memorial Museum of Manitoba near Austin with a March 31 1961 completion deadline.
MacGregor Midgets lost 8 to Portage Indian Residential School in Portage while Bantams fell 21 to Portage West End. This Saturday MacGregor Arena hosts a 12 and under tournament with four teams MacGregor Carbery Austin and Portage starting at 11am. Support from local fans is urged.
The local weather shows near freezing temperatures with sparse snow and good road conditions. Community updates report Mrs Wm Corrigal and Mrs R Muir in MacGregor hospital, with wishes for speedy recovery. Weekend visitors from Winnipeg and a hockey game attendance are noted along with funeral attendance for the late Mrs Creighton in Winnipeg. Keys turned in last week can be collected at the Herald office.
Elmer Nelson has returning home from MacGregor hospital and is feeling well. Sympathy is offered to the Manns and Sladek families on the death of Thomas Sladek. Numerous visits and social gatherings occur across MacGregor Portage and surrounding farms with the Livingstones Hughsons Uhrin and Knox families among those entertaining or visiting.
Maxwell of Winnipeg were hospitalized after a car accident. Mr and Mrs Clarence Pennell visited Winnipeg. A turkey supper featured guests including the MacWilliam Harkness Clark and Heselwood families. Hector McDonald moved the former Pennell home to his Currie district farm. Weekend visits to parental homes included Shirley Hay Denis Snaith and Murray Hodgins. MFA meeting at Austin and school trustees election were reported. Cuff Lee joined the rink that won the British Consols hurling game in MacGregor.
A Social Evening at Bagot Hall on January 13 featured eight tables of whist. Roy Nichol won gent’s high and low. Charles Stewart’s tie for ladies high and low was broken. Mrs. A Pettitt won ladies high and Miss Audrey Coubrough won ladies low. Wright’s orchestra provided dancing and a concluding lunch made the evening enjoyable.
The last whist drive on January 12 saw Mrs Kilfoyle win the ladies first and Alex McIntosh take the gentlemen's prize. Consolation prizes went to Mrs Fred Wright and Mrs McLaughry. The next drive is set for Thursday January 26 at 4 pm in the Senior Citizens club room.
The Annual Meeting of the United Church congregation will be held in the church hall on Monday January 23 at 8 p.m.
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