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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 15, 1948
Page
2
MacGregor Herald is issued every Thursday from the Herald Printing Office in MacGregor Manitoba. The note lists post office mail handling through Ottawa and a publisher’s fee of $230 in the United States, with references to the publisher and author.
Bagot residents report weekend trips to Portage la Prairie Calgary and Kenora Ontario. Local gatherings include Carberry Fair attendance and a Portage General Hospital birth. A Winnipeg meeting discussed hydro wiring, with Bagot and district attendees. Shorthorn Calf Club results and Edwin Club thanks noted in community roundup.
A roundup of local social activities includes Alton and Raymond Birkett attending a church service in Winnipgon, various visitors to Winnipeg, and numerous family gatherings at the Lake home and Clear Lake. Attendance lists include Katrime, Moose Jaw, Melville, Portage la Prairie, and Sioux Lookout residents with trips to Kenora and Calgary Stampede.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Walker of Portage la Prairie and John Martinaizm of Beaver Man wed at First Presbyterian Church Portage la Prairie on Saturday July 3 with Rev HL Henderson performing the ceremony. The bride wore pale blue crepe, carried a white Bible, and wore red rose corsage. the groom wore formal attire with pearl necklace and earrings. After the ceremony they drove to Winnipeg for a honeymoon. The couple will reside at Beaver.
Multiple ads list items for sale including a 1931 Chevrolet sedan overhauled for 400 dollars with best offer, an International Farmall Tractor with take-off priced at 650, a 16 by 30 barn with loft and lean-tos, a six room house in MacGregor with basement furnace garage and two lots, an Aetna oil burner, a 1940 Ford Truck three ton dual reduction with grain net tires and tool kit, and contact details for sellers including G W Little Westbourne Supply Stan Wm Moore J Switzer Ronald McMillan and R H Harvey all in MacGregor Manitoba plus Austin Manitoba.
For sale a pony with harness and cart suitable for children going to school. Contact R. D. Peck at Sidney, phone 15-12. Also listed: 1940 Massey Harris binder with power drive in good condition for 300, team of work horses eight years old for 175, Cliff Tyerman phone 34-3 Sidney, and McCormick binder in good shape with F. Thomas phone 27-13 Austin. Lockers and Meats 22 MacGregor Sidney Man.
Sealed tenders addressed to the undersigned will be received up to July 24, 1868 for supplying automatic stop furnaces in the MacGrego. No tender necessary ace and G. E Lewin.
In loving memory of our dear daughter and sister Elizabeth Marion who passed away July 4 1947. She was taken without warning. Her going left hearts full of pain. But though she is gone from us in our hearts she will always be missed by Dad, Mother, sisters and brothers.
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