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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 23, 1970
Page
4
Local readers 10 percent surcharge after one month for unpaid ads. Deadline for classified and local reader notices is Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. Death notices charge per column inch, photos extra, and memoriams priced per line. For sale items include wool rugs, baling services offered by Harry Harder with contact phone.
Obituary and memorial notices from MacGregor region. Mrs Kate Gertrude Leckie died July 11 and funeral held July 14 at MacGregor United Church with Rev Ritchie officiating. Interment at Rosehill. pallbearers and flowerbearers named. Memorials include Lowe remembrance, card of thanks for care and weddings and hospital thanks. Names include Leckie, Blyth, Barbers, Pogue, Barton, Hew, McCarl, Fotheringham.
Thank you note from Mr. and Mrs. C. Wong expresses sincere gratitude for friends neighbors floral tributes and cards following the death of their brother Peter. Also lists various for sale notices and telephones from local ads and a couple of personal notices from Brandon Manitoba.
residents and visitors around Southend share greetings and visits. Jack Frank receives July 26 birthday wishes from local friends. Marcel Kane and Carol Suavey Kane, Vernon Forrest, Barbara of Vancouver, and Winnipeg guests among those noted in social rounds with the Frank and Bueckert families.
A jet crashed in Gimli Friday afternoon with no injuries. A spokesman from Forces Base Gimli said the pilot of the 7-33 Silver Star ejected safely before the crash. The aircraft went down behind a lumber yard, with only a brief fire noted.
Beaver district residents and visitors are listed from Manitoba and British Columbia. People include Ronnie Owne Alta and Mrs Geraldine Bell Winnipeg visiting Wallace Stone, plus Earl Forrest Murray and Randy Chilwack BC and Keith Forrest Abbotsford BC. Camp Totogan and 4 H camp at Killarney are noted for Timmy Stone Ross Harkness Kenny Wright and others.
Edith Perkins travels with the Laurie Perkins family to Portage and meets the Queen at Island Park. The Perkins family hosts and visits relatives in Portage while others attend stock car races at Salt Plains. Local residents report hospital stays, family visits, and upcoming cemetery and church notices.
Edwin district notes visitors from New Westminster Victoria Mission City Vancouver Penticton and Campbell River. Families Ernie Painter Glen Jackie Orville Henry Patterson and others exchange greetings and extend sympathy for Robert Henry's death. A fragmentary line mentions Clarence Patterson and Portage relatives with unclear details.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Zachary and son Melvin of Summerland B C visited with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor on Monday. Others visiting the A Giereke home included Mr. and Mrs. William Brown of Vernon B C, and last weekend guests were L McKinstry and boys Ray Langall F M MacWilliam Myrna Clark Merton Lindsay of Winnipeg and Sid Hay of MacGregor with Mr. and Mrs. J Clark and family for Lesley’s 15th birthday. Sunday visitors with the Gierekes were M Mulligan and family and R Irvine of Portage and Mr. R Brown of Poplar Point.
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