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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 20, 1952
Page
6
Local residents hosted relatives from Winnipeg and Douglas for weekend visits. Victoria BC visitors celebrate new birth in Portage area. St Paul W A thanks public for St Patrick's Tea and Sale profits of 48 dollars. Aug Weber returns from Portage Hospital healing. Family visits extend to Lavenham and Orangeville. Valerie recovers from illness. George Little family hosted in Pilot Mound.
Public school notes report Lorraine Fox’s update on Jimmy Little returning to class with a cast arm. The room features toy vehicles, a train locomotive, and a St Patrick’s Day themed display with Irish designs and bright pictures by the students.
Arrangements are complete for the Mac Gregor Young Ladies Society Variety Concert to be held at Bagot Community Hall on Wednesday April 2 at 8:30 pm. Admission is 50c and 25c. See advertisement on page one for the program.
Portage Foresters from the Portage Branch win the Foresters Challenge Trophy in MacGregor after a tight three rink contest with only five points separating the teams. Following the games, the Portage rinks joined the MacGregor team for luncheon as guests.
The Y L S meeting at United Church Annex on March 10 with 23 members voted to donate 5000 to the Osborne Home at Neepawa a home for the aged. A care parcel valued at 10.30 was sent to Italy. Next meeting is scheduled for April 14 in the annex.
Posters advertise sales by Wm Sparrow at a location 4 miles west and 5 miles north of MacGregor on March 20 selling machinery cattle pigs grain and household goods. D Thun sale 1 mile west and 2 miles south of Austin on March 26 with horses machinery hay and household effects. Mrs Fred Thomas farm sale March 25 at N E 29.10-11 five miles south of Austin on Holland Road includes household effects and some machinery. Auctioneer Robt Douglas invites attendance.
Court Hampton No. 1649 Canadian Order of Foresters installs MacGregor Lodge officers for the year. Junior Past Chief Ranger Butterfield, Chief Ranger Montgomery, other officers listed. Card of thanks expresses gratitude for support after illness and family losses.
In memoriam for Dorothy Struthers dated March 26 1950 notes she passed to the invisible side of life. The message says she is not dead but beyond shadows into light and looks forward to reunion with loved ones. Lovingly remembered by Dad Mother Avella Jim and Olina.
Mrs Norah Jones expresses heartfelt thanks to the Ladies' Curling Club USS and the W I for fruit flowers gifts cards and acts of kindness while she was a hospital patient.
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