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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 28, 1957
Page
5
Notice states By-law No pending approval in MacGregor Manitoba to allow a restaurant beer and wine license. Electors vote set for May 17 1967 from 9 00 am to 5 00 pm at Memorial Hall. Secretary Treasurer and Mayor will address preliminary steps and tally votes at the municipal office.
ROD and GUN DIGEST notes birds and mammals reemerging with spring. Crowds of robins and crows appear after mid March while a bedraggled skunk negotiates thawing snow. Reports include a Sharptail Grouse rush and a timber wolf hunt with magpies taken. New fishing limits permit one sturgeon by rod and line daily, two in possession.
Tales from Kit Kitney's Hunters Corner recount ice fishing scenes as residents note game fish seasons expanding. Ontario style chatter mentions May 18 trout opening and muskies becoming legal, with anecdotes of a missing red line and a big trout claimed at the ice.
Yvonne Russell of Brandon visited her parents over the weekend. District members attended the Amateur Contest in Norfolk School Friday night and the 4H Garden Club met at Edrans School Saturday March 23 handing out seeds. The club plans an Easter Sunday service with Rev Nicholson as guest speaker. Films followed the meeting drawing a fair crowd. Brandon report notes machines have not displaced heavy farm horses, says P A McPhail of the Manitoba Winter Fair.
He said 14 four horse teams and seven six horse teams will compete at the fair opening April 1, with an entry level substantially larger than previous years. This eases fears that the last heavy horse show in Western Canada might disappear. The article notes that moisture content of seasoned wood is measured by its resistance to an electric current.
The piece gives household tips on keeping brushes soft with damp newspapers for bag disposal and using sponge and heat for cleaning. It promotes installing an efficient hot water heater and suggests a Glastee tank with Heetwall construction from Inglis.
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