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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 22, 1965
Page
4
Rates for want ads and memorials are outlined with per word charges and minimum word counts. Special notices include Birth Cards of Thanks and In Memoriams with local reader charges and deadlines. Death and funeral notices cost per column inch and photos incur a separate per inch fee.
Sam Little Word, a yardman by trade, died recently with a life path from Winnipeg in 1618 to California. He settled in Los, leaving a widow Mary, a son Bruce, six grandchildren, and three brothers, as surviving relatives.
Card of Thanks from Esther Muir expresses gratitude for hospital visits cards fruit candies and flowers. Wanted day work or baby sitting via Box 26 or phone 1323 MacGregor. Unusual opportunity offers high commission earnings with Goodyear maintenance products from Consolidated Paint & Varnish Canada Ltd. Destroyer for outdoor toilets marketed by Logo Cabin Products.
A collage of classifieds and notices reads like a rural town chronicle with thanks for wedding gifts from Jim and Ruth, sale offers for farm machinery and a brick house, multiple farm related items, cats, a 1956 Meteor, a case 77 combine, a 31 by 8 trailer, land parcels near MacGregor, and public tenders for transporting schoolchildren.
An advertisement fragment invites travelers to London or Glasgow via Air Canada and BOAC with O'Brien Travel Service in Portage. It also touts Hill's East Rexall Drug and Denwal Pharmacy offering Dr. Eddie's Lumbago drops with an unconditional money back guarantee.
Tenders will be received by the undersigned up to August Tth for building or barn formerly Southend School and land formerly Macaulay School plus Emmeline School site. Items include two oil furnaces two fuel tanks one well pump one sump pump and hose 13 benches and a 10 ft bench. Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Frank Hay MacGregor Consol. S.D. No. 2434
Resources Minister Sterling Lyon announced on Friday that a film about fish marketing will be produced for the Manitoba government this year. The documentary will be financed jointly by federal and provincial governments and will feature narration in Cree and English. The Cree soundtrack is described as essential to the educational film, noting the significant Cree presence in the commercial fish industry and the importance of native participation.
The Good Neighbors Club schedules a tea and bake sale in Katrime hall on Wednesday July 28 from 3 to 5 pm with donations to the bazaar and produce table welcome. Beaver UCW tea and bazaar set for July 29 is canceled. organizers plan a fall event instead.
Mrs J Coltart and daughter Christine of Winnipeg returned from Banff. Mr and Mrs 3 M Kinniburgh and family of Tabor visited L Hyde. Ray Askin and Clark Munro spent a week at Camp Torogan. Olson family enjoyed Minnedosa Fair. Arlene Aikin shown reserve grand champion 4-H calf at Portage Fair. Clark Munro had champion calf in Poplar Bluff club. Edmontonians Coppen, Pamela and Mrs Raesler visited Braden family. Burnside church service on July 25 at 10 30 a.m. Bob Kayes in charge. Mrs Gourley returned from holiday with Neil McKenzie family.
More than 70 languages are spoken by newcomers to the Israeli section of Jerusalem, making it one of the most multilingual areas in the city.
Church notices list MacGregor United Church services and Sunday School closures for July and August, Austin Church activities on July 25 with no July services, Calvary Tabernacle and Evangelical Mennonite Church timing details. Reverend H P Dyck leads East End MacGregor services at 9:45 and 10:45. Calvary Tabernacle holds Wednesday prayer and Bible study with morning and evening hours. Church announcements reflect a quiet July schedule.
Allan and Margaret Rodgers are named junior councillors at Camp Wasaga during this week. An event planned for June 29 is noted, with references to legal matters and confirmation of local rules.
Feeres and others spend two weeks at Youth Leadership Training Camp in Gimli. Numerous local residents visit relatives in Winnipeg Selkirk Dauphin and Regina while weddings and holidays are noted. a promotion correction appears for MacGregor Elementary School and several family trips are recorded across Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Dr E J Tyler of Brandon proposes a Farm Land Handling Agency to buy and sell farm land to relieve rural poverty. The plan would let retiring farmers sell land to the authority, which would reallocate to young men with agricultural degrees and access to credit. The idea stems from a western Manitoba study in seven municipalities.
Crops on four Shoal Lake area sections suffered total loss from a Friday hail storm. Belmont reports another severe storm breaking windows killing 30 chickens and disrupting telephone service. Additional damage noted in Vista and Brandon with broken windows and battered trees and gardens.
Mr and Mrs E Duncan were Sunday dinner guests at Mrs Tom Kelly and Roy Lavenham. Mr and Mrs J R Caskey and Beverley visited with Mr and Mrs Bruce Lyall Blake and Robert of Oakland. Katrime Hall hosts an event on Wednesday July 28 from 3 to 5 with donations to ae.
TV star Joey Bishop once performed in a vaunted act called the Bishop Brothers. The former onstage duo split, leaving Bishop to pursue solo television fame.
Catherine Sullivan revealed to Wellington coworkers her fifth birthday and the management granted the day off. Mrs. Sullivan continues to work at a girdle factory where she has been employed for nearly 80 years.
Potash exploration near St Lazare expands with a new permit granting Prairie Potash Mines Limited 7500 additional crown acres east of the original area. The firm must raise minimum investment to 6 million for shaft and development work, with potential leases and further spending over five years. Minister Sterling Lyon notes Canada’s large deposits and growing global demand as INCO and Metal Mines Limited had already invested heavily in the initial area.
Wasyl Fofanoff, once believed Canada’s oldest man at about 118, died at his Buchanan Saskatchewan farm Saturday night. A Russian immigrant who homesteaded nearby in 1899, he lived there for decades and remained active in community affairs until poor health. Survivors include two daughters from his first marriage, a son and daughter from his second, plus grandchildren and great relatives. Funeral planned for Tuesday in Buchanan.
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