First Home Game Tonight Keyes Enter Ball League
The MacGregor Keyes fastball team joins a five club league including Portage South Port Poplar Point Westbourne and MacGregor. Each club will play home and away series with all others. No games June 15 to July 4 due to exams. The girls play Southport tonight for their first home game.
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MacGregor Keyes
Portage
Southport
Poplar Point
Westbourne
MacGregor
Keys
Portage la Prairie
Keyes
Sharon Bergquist
Pat Bogue
Mary Lawrence
Gail Walker
Donna Stratton
Donna Butter
Dot Dagenais
George Little
Tom Park
J. Scharten
Mac Donna Stratton
Village council approves DST trial in MacGregor
MacGregor village council votes to observe daylight saving time for July and August this year in a trial period. The rural council reportedly opposed the measure and no school is in session during the trial. Further details expected next week.
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MacGregor
Machinery Field Day Demonstration Near MacGregor
Machinery Field Day will be held on the Clarence Pennell farm two miles south of MacGregor at 1.30 pm. Demonstrations include different cultivator types and uses of the heavy duty cultivator, plus sprayer instruction and spraying demonstrations. Attend this tillage and spraying event.
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Apa
Clarence Pennell
MacGregor
C.S
George Nesbit Dies at Carberry
George Nesbit, 84, longtime Sidney area resident, died Saturday at Fox Memorial Hospital Carberry. Born December 3 1876 in Wooler England he came to Canada in 1912. He married Hazel McIntyre in 1915 and had a son Thomas who died in 1950. He later lived with his son's widow Edith MacGregor.
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George Nexbit
Sidney
Fox Memorial Hospital
Carberry
Mr Nesbit
Wooler
Northumberland
England
Canada
Firdale
Melbourne
Arizona
Hazel McIntyre
Thomas
Calves to Be Sold at North Norfolk Fat Stock Sale
Over sixty calves to be shown at the North Norfolk and District Fat Stock Show and sale during the district fair. Weighed calves, judged by Beaver Katrimne and others, with prizes, specials, and junior senior showmanship contests. Auctioneer Buck Rogers behind the sale. Saturday July 8.
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North Norfolk and District
Beaver-Katrimne
MacGregor
Firdale Norfolk
Bago
Sidney
Wilf Davies
Buck Rogers
Mackinnon
Chant
R Douglas
S. Coulthard
Sidney Club
Ho Borton
H. Barnsley
North Norfolk and Thet Agricultural Society
Amateur Contest Shines in Sidney Fair
A Sidney amateur event featured junior and senior divisions with surprises. Prizes went to Myrna Peck, Roxy Peck, Sharon Peck, and Laurie-Jean Williams in the seniors. Dave Wood and Ivan Addison from Portage la Prairie won second for instrumental. Ellen Bates of Carberry claimed third with a vocal, Eldon Mills fourth. Junior honors went to Helen Stephenson of Austin, with Vernon Baron of Carberry second and Austin Junior choir third led by Myrna Peck. Sidney Primary room placed fourth for a song and rhythm band. Murphy Therry taught the junior group. The program drew a large crowd from MacGregor, Austin, Carberry, Holland, Pine Creek, and Sidney. Sidney Women’s Institute sold the event. Accompanists included Mrs. Lucas, Myrna Peck, Muriel Cherry, Mrs. Adams. Rev. D. M. Sly hosted and performed a Scotch number.
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Dave Wood
Ivan Addison
Portage la Prairie
Ellen Bates
Carberry
Eldon Mills
Helen Stephenson
Austin
Vernon Baron
Myrna’ Peck
Sidney
Muriel Therry
MacGregor
Holland
Pine Creek '4
Sidney c
Sidney Women’s In
Mrs. Lucas
Myrna Peck
Muriel Cherry
A Lams
D. M. Sly
Omedy
Census Takers Begin MacGregor District Door to Door
On Census Day in MacGregor and across Canada, about 26 000 census takers start visiting households to collect data. They face rain, dogs, and mud while promising strict confidentiality and using the results for statistical purposes only. Women play a vital role, often answering for the household during the day, including husbands' earnings.
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MacGregor
Canada
Rover
Manitoba Weed Essay Contest Opens For 1961 Entries
Manitoba rural youths ages 12 to 18 may enter the 1961 Weed Essay Competition. Essays up to 1000 words must cover weed control practices on the farm run by the writer's parents and be judged on content and presentation. Prizes include a $300 scholarship, $25 top Manitoba award, and $15 to second place.
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Manitoba
North Central
Saskatchewan
Alberta
United States
Agriculural College
School of Home Economics
Grandview Farmer Dies In Tractor Accident
GRANDVIEW Man 38 was killed near Grandview district when he fell from a tractor and was run over by a discing machine pulled by the tractor RCMP reported no inquest will be held.
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Grandview
Man
Clark Cowling
Winnipeg
RCMP
Manitoba 4H Kay Manns Scholarship Open Again
The Canadian National Exhibition offers a $600 Kay Manns 1961 winner scholarship for Manitoba 4H members or former members. Applicants must be 17 by July 1961, with two years 4H work, and education toward Home Economics or Agriculture at the University of Manitoba. Deadline July 14 with interviews in Winnipeg.
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Manitoba
Canadian National Exhibition
Manitoba Department of Agriculture and Conservation
Kay Manns
Firdale
Manns
School of Home Economics
Faculty of Agriculture
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg
The
Extension Service
Regent Billiards Club Closes Doors in MacGregor
The MacGregor Regent Billiard Hall shut last week after owner Norman Critchlow sold the equipment to a Winnipeg firm and moved it out last Thursday. Poor business, blamed on television and other entertainments, ends a local era as the town loses its single remaining pool hall.
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MacGregor Regent Billiard Hall
Norman Critchlow
Winnipeg
Critchlow
MacGregor
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Ball League
DST
George Nesbit
Perete
RJ Kerr
EB Duncan
A. W Kalberg
Bank of Montreal
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Firdale Club
Fridateriai
Ir. C. E. Cole
John Faw
I. Kennedy
Sidney District
Myrna
Roxy
Sharon Peck
Laurie-Jean Williams
Zibbon
Gurney Evans
Economis
Regent Billiards
Greta Lowe
R.N
Misericordia School
Norsi
Lowe
Springbrook School
Austin High School
Carberry Fox Memorial Hospital
Ted Lowe
Gilbert Ay Anne
George A. Lowe
Louise Stephenson
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