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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1942
Page
5
Austin residents share weekend visits with family friends and military comings and goings. Brando event attendees include Jos. Robinson Leo Westman and others. Community news reports deaths, Red Cross aid to Britain and an auction sale of farm stock near Austin. J. S. Woodsworth death noted. CCF leader honored.
Lease opportunity on 97 acres with 72 acres fall plowed and good clean heavy loam soil. Location listed as Ls Ausita Man. Apply to S.C. Duff or Jas. Gilmour for details.
Rev. L. J. Avans presides at morning prayer Sunday March 29 at 11 a.m. Sunday School follows at 2 p.m. Lenten service set for Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Christ Church Austin.
An event shows a 3 pm activity at SFETWIN and a 7 30 pm service at Austin. Details are sparse but indicate two timed events in different locations. Authorities or organizers are not named in the readable text.
George Hay and Ted spent last Tuesday in Winnipeg. A dance is planned at Sight Hill on Friday March 27. Mrs. Owen Jones visited Portage la Prairie last Thursday. Miss Ethel Jones of Austin visited with Mr. and Mrs. H. Jones this week. The Ladies Red Cross Society met at the Hall on Wednesday and turned in 38 diapers 1 pair wristlets 1 pair seamen's socks 5 pairs overalls 2 dresses 5 pairs girl bloomers and 1 pair mitts.
Mrs J Knox visited Winnipeg last week at her daughter Mrs J Pilgrim's home. Friends of Mrs MacMillan will be glad to hear she is home from the hospital feeling better. The travesty dance in the Hall took place Friday March 27.
Funeral tributes paid to Mrs Eilen Woods of Edwin who died March 12 in her 60s. Welsh lineage daughter of Evan Evane she leaves thirteen children including Mary Smith and Rob tt in Vancouver and Edward Hood Settlement. Funeral from McKillop Chapel to Burnside cemetery with pallbearers named Jas Johnson J S Boak R E Crewnon George Slater H Pallister F C Hillman.
Mrs Edward J Manns, district director of the Manitoba School Trustees Association, attended the Advisory Board meeting of the Department of Education in the Legislative Building. The minister was present. Topics included end of Grade IX examinations, curriculum revision, citizenship course, religious exercises regulations, provincial vocational school scope, uniform textbooks for Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and book procurement challenges. Regional meetings are planned across the province with dates to be announced.
Four upstairs rooms in MacGregor offered for rent. Rooms may be rented separately with electric inclusive. Apply to Mrs J H Thompson by telephone at 109-14 MacGregor.
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