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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1925
Page
4
Spring arrives with warmer breezes and the first rain. Manitoba reports widespread thawing and flows as households and farms anticipate the season ahead. The piece notes renewed energy, restless housewives, and farmers preparing for new efforts and hopes amid the aging winter.
Visitors report Brandon Winter Fair as the best ever with cattle and horses among the finest on the North American continent. Over seventy entries in the boys calf class. George Teit of Warren wins with a 1,040 pound calf sold at 45.9 cents per pound. Registered bulls average about $207 for 46 animals. A two year old Clydesdale stallion fetches $6,000 and a two year old Gilly sells for $3,000. a four year old Clydesdale stallion also brings a high price.
J notes a return to prosperity with improving agricultural conditions and better prices. He warns that farmers will not invest unless they are confident the future will justify the costs.
D L Smith sales manager of the Canadian Wheat Pools and Jackson Dodds of the Bank of Montreal state there is no truth to reports that banks forced pools to unload holdings or that pools will be crippled by deliveries. They affirm pools followed established selling policies and will not affect contracts or cause market manipulation.
A New York World account recalls a July Nipigon River fishing episode where an angler fought a massive rainbow trout with a tiny red feathered lure on a bamboo rod. The moment of capture, amid cold air and rushing current, stands as the writer’s greatest thrill from thirty years of sport.
The House of Commons stated that revenue from excise tax stamps in 1924 totaled 9,300,724 dollars in reply to a recent question.
Notice of sale by public auction at the Municipal Hall MacGregor on March 26 1928 for parcel 1 frame stable and parcel 2 described land with specified reservations. Each parcel offered subject to reserve bid current years taxes cash or 35 cash plus two installments with security to vendors Mackinnon Mackinnon solicitors details dated March 11 1925 MacGregor Manitoba.
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