Austin News Roundup Highlights Ice Hockey Tournament
Mrs Alf. Orr visited with Mr and Mrs R Price. No picture show due to Macgor ice hockey. Winter Fair draws Austinites to Braddon. Miss Fraser away ill from school. Auction sale posters for Wilfred T Peck near Sidney on Wednesday. Jock Houston returns to Firdale after two months with the Prices. Austin United Church Dramatic Society to stage Tempest and Shire on March 24 with Ladies Aid, follow a Juschard dance. Mrs R Lowe thanks friends for kindness after hospital stay. Local boys praised for helping Mrs Speed with cordwood during her cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alf. Orr
R. Price
Macgor
Brardon
The
Austin United Church Dramatic Society
Ladies Aid
Guaranteed Wheat Price Sought by Line Elevators
Charles E Hayles of the North-West Grain Dealers Association states that line country elevator companies support the Western Committee on Markets and Agricultural Readjustment in pushing for a Wheat Board for 1939-40 and a guaranteed at least 8 cent price for wheat at Fort William basis. The delegation also seeks subsidy aid for coarse grains farmers and drought victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E Hayles
North-West Grain Dealers’ Association
Line Country Elevator Companies
Western Committee Committee On Markets and
Ore Northern
Fort William
Bracken
Dominion Cabinet
Jacken
Manitoba barley fund aided seed quality improvements last year
The Shes-Drewry revolving fund of Brewery Ltd and The Drewry's Ltd of Winnipeg supported the Manitoba Barley Improvement Committee in supplying high quality barley seed to farmers in Northern Manitoba. The program covered Swan River Valley and area extending from St. Rose.
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Shes-Drewry Revolving Fund of Brewery Ltd
Drewry's Ltd
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Manitoba Barley Improvement Committee
Ceat
Swan River Valley
St. Rose
Seed barley program selects Riding Mountains area for 1939
The Manitoba Barley Improvement Committee reports the 1938 season yielded reduced amounts due to hail rains and rust, but high quality certified seed was distributed to farmers for 10 acre purchases on a cash at cost basis. The south slope of the Riding Mountains was chosen for 1939 distribution with applications via the Extension Service in Winnipeg.
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Roblin
Riding Mountains
Say Lake
Angusville
Riding
Manitoba Barley Improvement Committee
Extension Service
Department of Agriculture
Parliament Buildings
Winnipeg
Hen eggs and turkey eggs advertised with rates
Hen eggs at 2 50 per 100 and turkey eggs at 43e each. First setting March 16. Capacity limited to Arthur Palmer contact MacGre by phone 83.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Palmer
MacGre
Local merchants urged to support paper through ads
Readers are urged to patronize merchants who advertise in the paper and to shop where invitations from sponsors appear, reinforcing community business ties and newspaper funding.
Machinery and welding services advertise in season
A brief notice markets electrical and gas welding as well as acetylene welding and other machinery work. It emphasizes diverse services for the season and invites inquiries.
Beaver Social and Auction Notes in Beaver
Mrs Osler Lamont of Fun Fion visited Beaver with Mr and Mrs A Lamont en route to Winnipeg. The Ladies Aid plans a spring miscel ous sale with date to be announced. A social evening with games True or False and a CCF lecture moves by Mr Bussick Winnipeg. Whist Drive and Dance on March 10 with Ada Reid and Jim Shaw prize winners. Season leaders include Miss Mary Smallpiece 675 Miss Irene Mantion 673 and Art Graham 683.
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Arnt
Brandon
Osler Lamont
Mer
Lamont
Winnipeg
Ladies Aid
CCF
Bussick
Beaver
Ada Reid
Elva Lamont
Jim Shaw
Chris Thomason
Mary Smallpiece
Irene Mantion
Adne Graham
Adams
Art Graham
A. Barth
Howie Rodgers
J. D. Dankesreiter
Local Visitors and Exhibitions Highlight Portage and Bran don Events
Miss Minnie McCartney visits Portage friends of Norman Downie in Helston Maine and Miss Marjorie McGowan stays with her brother Melvin McGowan. W R Shaw currently in Brandon exhibiting two horses at the Manitoba Winter Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie McCartney
Portag
Norman Downie
Helston
Maine
O'Brien
Marjorie McGowan
Muir
Melvin McGowan
W. R. Shaw
Brandon
Manitoba
Leafs win at Rosehill in return game
Southend notes a hockey return match at Rosehill where the Leafs triumphed. The item also mentions Eyes of Love staged in Hartford and Rose Hill, plus community socials and a bean feed at Southend hall and Macauley school event on March 24 with free admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosehill
Leafs
Hartford
Bagot social and dance fund appeal for rink
A bagot box social and dance in the Hall on Friday to aid the rink fund. Lloyd Walden, long hospitalized for heart trouble, was allowed to return home Sunday after four months at Portage hospital and is recovering. A masquerade dance the previous Friday drew many in costume with prizes awarded to Miss Bowley Gypsy Mrs J J Walden Aunt Dinah Shirley Phillips Sailor Lassie Bert Nichol Cowboy Vic Larkin Clown Howard Nichol Gordon Farncombe Ferdinand the Bull. Judges were Mrs Walter Machan J H Adams and Cecil Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Walden
Portage Hospital
Lloyd
Miss Bowley
J. J. Walden
Dinah
Shirley Phillips
Lassie
Bert Nichol
Cowboy
Vic Larkin
Howard Nichol
Gordon Farncombe
Ferdinand the Bull
Walter Machan
J. H.adams
Cecil Williams
Engagement announced for Margaret Machan and George Francis
Mr and Mrs J H Smale of Bagot announce the engagement of their third eldest daughter Margaret Machan to George Francis youngest son of Mr E Albinet and the late Mrs Albinet of Winnipeg. The marriage is to take place the latter part of March.
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J. H.smale
Bagot
Thei
Margaret Machan
George Francis
E. Albinet
Mrs. Albinet
Winnipeg
Certified Renown Wheat Price at Granary
Thomas Carrothers & Sons publish grain rates at their granary in Austin Manitoba offering certified Renown wheat at 1.15 dollars per bushel. Local buyers are invited to secure supplies.
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Carrothers & Sons
Austin, Man
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Austin
Wilfred T. Peck
Sidney
S. C. Duff
Jock Houston
R. Lowe
Margaret
Chevrolet
MTA
Alka
J. R. McNeely Chevrolet
Macgregor
Tos
Wckillop
Servic
Portage LA Prairie
I C. Duff
Maxer Aucnom
Geo
Croucher
Katrime
Southend
Southend Hool
Rink St
Alfred Mackie
Spain
Arthur Chant
Vancouver
W.M.S
Macauley School
Rink Fund
H. McEachern
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