Town Topics notes from MacGregor area events and notices
Community round up showing births, enlistments, visits, and social events across MacGregor and nearby towns. A daughter born to Malcolm Shaw family. local hockey team leads Allan Cup race after 4 3 victory. evangelist W G Burns visits. court hosts a Home social at Masonic Hall with orchestra. two MacGregor men enlist in 18th Mounted Rifles. various town visits, hospital admission for Mary McLaughlin, and a St Paul’s W A social planned for Feb 4.
That the Forresters goat will attend the At Home tonight
A jumble of local notes mentions a goat from the Forresters attending an At Home event, upcoming curling and hockey chatter, weather notes, a Manitoba College extension program in MacGregor with stock judging and sewing demonstrations, and various community bulletins about meetings and bread prices.
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Forresters
MacGregor
Manitoba Agricultural College
Manitoba
Austin
Gilroy’s Picture Hall
Unclear fragmentary local report with references to war era items
An incomplete note mentions WoW OI figures and a race result, references German matrials for military robes, a carrier pigeon with a London message about a January raid, and a question about the presence of greenbacks amid changing currency.
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London
Eng
War updates from Ypres to East Prussia
Reports state German losses reach 2000 in attacks on Ypres and La Bass, while the Kaiser marks his sixth birthday. Allied leaders Wilson and the Austrian Emperor along with the Sultan of Turkey send greetings. In the east, Russian forces push into East Prussia and north of the Lower Vistula as German attacks continue in central Poland.
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Ypres
la Bast
Aga
Wilson
Austria
Turkey
East Prussia
Poland
Lower
Vistula
Votan
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Macgregor Cash Store
THE
Quality Store
Turner
Maccrecor
Merrick Bros
the Pioneers’ Corner Store
Soana
Boxs
Malcolm Shaw
Borxs
Bagot
Mrs. Andrew
Regina
Melville
W.G. Burns
Andrew Kilfoyle
Tompkins
Sils, Ont
Court McGregor
C.O.F
Masonic Hall
MacGregor Orchestra
W H. Stewart
Far North
Bert Lye
C. W- Lye
18Th Mounted Rifles
Portage la Prairie
Empire
Murray Elliott
Watt Luck
R. Ponton
E. H. Lloy
Portage Lasr
W.A
St. Paul's
C.F. Stewart
Mary McLaughlin
Winnipes Hospital
Otter
Ponton
Mack
J. A. Gray
Carberry
Gillie
1.C.C.E
Masomic
Canada
Britain
MacUreger
Germany
Jonally
Holland —Canada Loan Co
Winnipe
J. H. Watson, Macgregor
Braund
Maconeso
Chatham
R. E. Lamb, Macgregor
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