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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1970
Page
4
An assortment of local notices and ads including birth and memorial cards, thank you notes, sales listings for vehicles farm equipment and real estate, and lost or found items. Entries mention names such as Garry Berry Bessie Stinson Andrew Raven Earl Muir Louis Quinn and Carol Quinn plus businesses and locations in MacGregor Portage and area with contact phone numbers and prices for items like GMC truck parts and farm produce.
A notice addresses farmers about possible income tax liability and the need to contribute to the Canada Pension Plan. It lists contact for tax form assistance as C. H. Bergquist and provides the phone number 685-2008 in MacGregor.
Public auction to sell four acre suburb property eight miles south of Austin on Highway 34. Bid reserve set, twenty percent cash due at sale. Contact Charles W. Sing QC for details and conditions of sale.
Sealed tenders marked Painting will be received by L L Brown Pine Creek School Division up to 5 00 p m Friday April 1970 for labour to paint trim doors windows inside and outside and all classrooms and corridors at Rossendale Elementary Rossendale MacGregor Collegiate MacGregor and MacGregor New Elementary MacGregor Manitoba All paint to be supplied by the Division tender for each school separately as they may be let on a separate basis contact principal or caretaker for assessment indicate date of commencement of job which may be negotiated Secretaries Treasurer Pine Creek School Division Box 469 Gladstone Manitoba
East End Evangelical Mennonite Church holds Sunday School at 9 45 and worship at 10 45. MacGregor United Church offers a combined service at 10 30. Bethel Calvary and Pentecostal venues list morning worships with guest speakers Wesley and Dorothy Pearce from Winnipeg. Austin United Church and Anglican St Pauls MacGregor present morning prayer and Sunday School, with Christ Church Austin starting at 10 00.
MacGregor U.C.W. met March 5 at 2 30 pm in the church with 10 members present. Devotional by Mary Martinnizen and talk by Mrs L Collier on Involvement Aging is for Everyone followed by discussions. Committee appointed for noon luncheon April 8 11 30 to 1 pm. Guest speaker Mrs R Atkinson Portage. Next meeting April 2 at 8 pm.
Premier Schreyer and Liberal House Leader Gordon Johnston debated auto insurance on a TV program. Johnston warned of a plan competing with private firms. Schreyer called Johnston's forecast a pretty fair analysis but said no cabinet decision had been made on the plan type.
The revenue department has assessed 470,800 of the 2,006,900 tax returns for 1969 received so far and prepared refund cheques for 411,612 taxpayers totaling 44,807,154. Personal returns are due April 30 with about 8,000,000 returns expected. the average refund is 108 dollars, up from 87 last year.
Officials announce bonus prizes to be awarded in the spring Manitoba Centennial sweepstakes draw.
MacGregor community items list visitors from Winnipeg Steinbach and Brandon with weekend trips and plane travel. Congratulates Mr and Mrs Fred Hartholl on their 50th anniversary. Sympathy extended to Pennell and Collins families. A birthday party for Mrs Isaac Unran and a large family gathering are described along with get well wishes and visits across towns in Manitoba and British Columbia.
MacGregor Billiards will hold a benefit day for the MacGregor and District Minor Hockey Association. All proceeds go to the Hockey Association. Jim Turner sets hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. He urges families to attend and support minor hockey.
The Pine Creek 4-H Club held its March meeting at Mr and Mrs G Manns home with 7:30 p.m. start. Murray Lewis earned an interprovincial trip, a toboggan party was enjoyed, and a bazaar bake sale is set for March 28 in Austin from 2 to 5. Speeches by Bry an Stewart Joyce Pool Nancy Smith and Robert Smith followed. The next meeting is planned for 7:30 p.m with speakers Laurie Stewart Kelvin Smith Murray Lewis Beverly Uhrin and Joanne Uhrin.
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