Two MacGregorites In 14th Student Fair
Two MacGregor Area students Darwin Anderson and Edwin Douglas will take part in the fourteenth annual Students' Winter Fair at the Fort Garry campus University of Manitoba on February 12 and 13. The event features judging in livestock grain dairy products and insect identification with practical agricultural displays and open houses by the Agricultural Buildings and Home Economics. The fair draws thousands and ends with prizes a crowning Miss Aggie Winter Fair entertainment and a dance.
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MacGregor
Fort Garry
University of Manitoba
Darwin Anderson
Edwin Douglas
Hockey Needs MacGregor Support From Fans Again
A Letter To The Editor urges MacGregor and district residents to back winter hockey as players coaches and managers toil amid rising deficits. The writer warns that dwindling crowds turn the rink into a morgue and questions whether the community will let hockey dwindle away.
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MacGregor
MacGregor and District Hockey Association
Hospital Notes Hockey And Curling News In MacGregor
MacGregor district hockey summaries include MacGregor Midgets beating Gladstone Midgets 6-3 with McRitchie Palmer goals, a 16-3 win over Poplar Point Midgets, and intermediates posting wins and losses. Beauchamp Beauchamp led scoring against Treherne with multiple players contributing. An Intermediates victory over Gladstone 15-6 drew a sparse crowd, while a St. Vital Bruins visit looms. Curling notes report 19 rinks in the Mrs Bonspiel with nine from MacGregor and District, listing many local participants.
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MacGregor
Don McRitchie
Rick
Doug Palmer
Poplar Point
Norman “Rocket” Beauchamp
Rick Pamer
Bob McKelvy
Dailis Barber
Ken Green
Westbourne
Treherne Down
Treherne
Rathwell
Holland
Chas Townsend
Carberry
Doug Barber
Ken Gair
Rocket” Beauchamp
Gary Buchanan
Singletons
Barry Barber
Pete McGregor
Gladstone
Wes. McGilvray
Trev. Albinet
Don Mc Ritchie
Norman Beauchamp
Blyth
Maurice Oakes
Wally Wilson
Kent McDougall
Oakes
Bergson
Trevor Albinet
Garry Buchanan
Scot
St. Vital Bruins
Austin Ladies
MacGregor and District
Florence Sims
Butterfield
H. Barton
Marion Barber
Bernice Haskett
Lillian Tarr
Annie Barber
Marg. Cobbe
C. Pennell
Ivy Bergquist
A. Nichol
Audrey Hay
Marge Denham
Rose Thomason
Martinnizen
Audrey Telford
Bev Barber
Mary Allan
E. Beaudin
Helen Borton
Muriel Snaith
Marion McGregor
Phyllis Lee
S. Hay
Dorothy Smith
Audrey Smith
Gladys Stone
Lil Glover
Mary Stratton
Connie Nohlgren
Ethel North
Vera Lamb
Katrime
Jean McRae
Muriel Duncan
Norma McLachlan
Jenkins
Central Aid Meeting and Purchases Reported
Central Aid noted a meeting on Wednesday January 20 to plan buying bedding and dining items including bed spreads plates and cups. The group purchased an engraved silver mug for the New Years Baby and Christmas lights for a tree. A special meeting of all aids was held January 25 to discuss distributing the Bursary Fund with details to follow.
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Central Aid
Aids
Hockey fans urge support to save club from folding
A hockey fan appeals for continued community backing to prevent the intermed iate club from folding despite strong minor hockey growth and a promising cohort of rookies. The letter urges fans in MacGregor and surrounding districts to back the players and push the team to reach the top.
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MacGregor
Stella Richardson Dead After Long Life Of Community Service
Stella May Lake born 1883 in Oakwood Ontario moved to Katrime district in 1907. She married Benjamin Richardson in 1910 and lived on the Beaver farm for 35 years. A lifelong church member and active in the Beaver United Church and Portage WMS she reported Beaver News to the MacGregor Herald for over twenty years. She and her husband moved to Portage la Prairie in 1945. he died 1951. Survived by siblings Fred and Ed Lake and sisters Laura Chapman Zetta Workman Elsie Keillor. Funeral Jan 25 at 2 p.m. from United Church in MacGregor.
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Peat
Portage Hospital
Beaver
S. Richardson
Portage W. M. S
Salvation Army Church League
Richardson
Beaver News
MacGregor Herald
Portage la Prairie
Fred Lake
Ketrime
Ed Lake
Winnipeg
L. Chapman
Laura
Regina
F. Workman
Zetta
E. Keillor Elsie
Toronto
G. Grantham
Cora
Marsh
James
Charles Lake
United Church In
MacGregor
J. L. Fargy
Collegiate Charter Curling Results and Ring Discovery
Curling results from Wednesday January 20 show K Butterfield over L Stewart and L Moore over L Macintosh. January 23 results include K Butterfield over Ron Pettit and L Stewart over D Palmer, with Don na Butterfield, Trev Albinet, and L Snaith winning their matches. Six dollars seventy seven cents was collected from students for the March of Dimes. A ring found with the letters MAC is available for inquiry at the Collegiate.
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K Butterfield
L. Stewart
L. Moore
L. Macintosh
T. Albinet
D. Butterfield
K. Butterfield
Ron Pettit
D. Palmer
B. Briscoe
B. McKelvy
Donna Butterfield
G. Walker
Trev. Albinet
S. Chapman
L. Snaith
Funeral service and burial details for local family
The Mac Gregor choir attended the service and burial took place in Beaver Cemetery. Pallbearers were James Beaudin Roy Harkness Jim Irwin Bob Barber Cecil Cooper and Maurice Smith. Flower bearers were Lord Beaudin Sr Herb Barton Geo Thompson and Stanley Cooper. McKillop's Funeral Home arranged the services.
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MacGregor Choir
Beaver Cemetery
James Beaudin
Roy Harkness
Jim Irwin
Bob Barber
Cecil Cooper
Maurice Smith
Lord Beaudin Sr
Herb Barton
Geo. Thompson
Stanley Cooper
United Church Holds Annual Meeting
A representative number of congregants met in the church hall on Monday evening January 18 to hear committee reports and plan for the year ahead. Finances were strong with about 18000 raised. indebtedness on the building stands at 39600 and 1900 on the organ over three years. Membership stands at 170 with 28 new members and nine removals.
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Stewards
WMS
M. and
L. B. Patterson
C. Pennell
L. McDonnold
Mr. Muskett
Home of Fred Taylorsons Burned In January Fire
The 70 year old home of Mr and Mrs Fred Taylorson and Glenn in Path Head District was leveled by a Saturday morning fire around 11 00 resulting in total loss of house and contents with only a TV salvaged Insurance partially covers the loss Mrs Taylorson born in the house had lived there all her life The Taylorsons attempted to call for help but their phone was out of order due to the blaze.
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Fred Taylorson
Glenn
Path-Head
Mr. Taylorson
Glenn Taylorson
Martin Farm
Taylorson Place
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