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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 28, 1904
Page
9
Fragmentary local notices describe various purchases and trades, arrivals, and social events. Mentions trade items with prices, people visiting or associating with local businesses, weather fluctuations, and several community updates from Edrans, Brandon, and neighboring towns.
Local notes reveal Macgregor as a social hub with dances and entertainments. Visitors from Carberry, W Walker and J D Hunt, call on town business while Macgregor showcases its fashionable center. The MacGregor bachelors plan a grand ball, and a hockey game against Carberry juniors is set for next week with Lewin, Cairns, Murdoch, Merrill, Saunders and Perce among listed players. A Progressive lecture night ends with a late supper and lively dancing. An old Kansas governor Leap Year edict is whimsically noted. Bret Harte quotes on farming conclude the column.
The CPR steamer Lake reports eight days of rough weather after departure followed by some fair days and a gale on Saturday night. The Erie carried about 150 passengers, including several Scotch engineers bound for Japan who did not continue and may have gone to New York via Cunard. Mrs Jos Murgatroyd of Macgregor is noted as returning home after visiting her parents in Ireland.
Miss Fannie Edkins of Portage la Prairie wed Mr. Jas. Day Rathwell in a secret ceremony on Wednesday night. The groom was supported by Dr. Pennefather and the bride by Miss Gwennie Soulding. The couple left by train Thursday morning for their home at Rathwell Treberne Times.
A returning subscriber from the Old Country shares impressions of September weather. The notes mention coats and damp conditions, with hints of wind and rain. The fragmentary lines evoke chilly days and familiar seasonal cues.
A fragmentary news mix notes Chita intention to raise an army of 200000 for Japan. It mentions Tapley seeking J. J. Pierce, Winnipeg population tripling to 304, R. H. McLeod visiting Beaver, a local checker tournament idea, Prairie telegraph notes, and a dinner quip about a vegetarian guest likened to Nebuchadnezzar.
In Portage the east ward Forsyth and Prout resignations and Horing low ward move unsettle the board. Newman declined comment while Forsyth and Prout warned of a year of squabbling after last night’s session. The town buzzes over the political shuffle and a London court tragedy looms with Whitaker Wright’s seven year sentence and alleged poisoning.
Mr. Robert Adamson of the Immigration Branch announces a party of experienced farm hands to arrive in Winnipeg in April for a year at 225 dollars wages and board. Farmers wishing to hire should apply in writing with 25 dollars to cover passage, deducted from initial wages. Applications must reach J Osry Sanu, Commissioner of Immigration, Winnipeg, by February 15.
Church announcement lists a Bayer meeting at Beaver Creek with a Wednesday service led by Minister A Chisholm at 11 a.m. and a later gathering in the evening at 7 p.m. No further details provided.
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