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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 13, 1952
Page
1
Local weather turns mild after a cold week as residents recount blizzards and 24 below records. Reports touch on remodelling, burglaries, hockey crowds, gravel for airport construction, and quirky town anecdotes from Ivor Olson to roving jokes.
Mrs Margaret Jane Speed dies March 1 1952 at age unspecified after months of illness cared for by daughter A J Stevenson. Born in Ontario she moved to Manitoba in 1867 later living in Austin Gimli MacGregor and finally Austin where she attended United Church Ladies Aid and WMS. Survived by daughter grandson and siblings with funeral held March 4 at Austin United Church. interment in Austin cemetery.
About thirty parents and community adults attended a MacGregor School discussion on Education A Cooperative Enterprise. They voiced concerns about discipline, praised active teacher efforts and parental support, and debated the Larger Area and individualized instruction amid winter-road barriers.
William Henry Telford a respected Beaver district farmer died Saturday morning in General Hospital Portage la Prairie at age 60. Funeral at MacGregor United Church drew a large crowd with burial at Beaver Creek Cemetery, McKillops Portage in charge.
The MacGregor Tractor Club announces its annual re organization meeting will be at Memorial Hall on Tuesday April 1. All past and present members are urged to attend and boys aged 15 to 20 interested in joining are invited to attend.
On Friday March 21 at 2 PM in Memorial Hall the MacGregor Calf Club hosts a public meeting for farmers. Speakers include Thos Klinkhamer assistant Livestock Commissioner on Nutritional Problems in Livestock Feeding and Percy Ford Provincial Agronomist on Cereal and Forage Crop Varieties.
A church calendar lists services at Christ Church Austin and St. Pauls MacGregor with times in March and April. O Lamb, student from St Johns College, conducts sessions. Easter Communion and Lent Service led by Rev. R Milburn on April 6 with worship at 11 am and 7 pm, plus Sunday School at 10 am and Revivaltime Wednesday 7:30. United Church timing includes 11 am Sunday School and 2 pm Bagot Tom MacGregor activities.
At the March 6 meeting in MacGregor the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk kept the mill rate at 40 for 1952. The budget totals 138,343.95 with school taxes 56,48.62 and bylaw for taxation rates three readings were given. The council approved grants and pensions and adjourned to April 4 in Austin.
A Manitoba high school column reports on choir plans for Gladstone Spring Festival in May and a spring recital requiring practice. It notes leadership square dancing courses in Austin and student participation from MacGregor as well as skating party success and a bicycle of club events.
Directors of the North Norfolk and District Agricultural Society will meet in the Memorial Hall next Thursday at 7 pm. All Directors are requested to be present for an important meeting.
Poster notices advertise sales by auctioneer Robt Douglas. Wm Sparrow sale 4 miles west and 5 miles north of MacGregor on Wednesday March 26 features machinery cattle oats grain and some household furniture. D Thun sale 1 mile west and of a mile south of Austin on Friday March 28 includes horses machinery hay household effects and other articles.
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