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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 01, 1969
Page
7
MacGregor hospital aia will hold its annual hospital day tea on Saturday May 10 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the United Church hall. A bake sale and produce table will be available and donations will be most welcome.
Winnipeg visitors. Austin Chamber of Commerce dance and rink fund drive. May 16 events include a dance with the Melodiers and a Centennia Club tea and bake sale. May 3 cash bingo offers 25 and 100 dollar jackpots. Beekeeping trip to Jessup Georgia. Canvass for skating rink fund nears $5,000. Pine Creek 4 H holds achievement day May 6 at Edrans Community Hall.
Rossendale notes announce a May 11 church gathering and summer Sunday school start. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watson with the Peasgoods in Minnedosa and W. Sylvester at Helston. McKeen marks 86th birthday. Card party set for May 1 with crib and whist. Residents Lynn Crocker, Pat McCulloch, Gerald Frizzley home for the weekend. Various visits to Winnipeg. hospital return for Mrs P MacIntosh. Winnipeg trip for J Tomchuk and Jules.
Mrs W Scora returns from Winnipeg visiting Hodgins family. MacGregor fire brigade fights Lindsay Shaw farm blaze destroying barn contents rack wagon and straw bales. Rennie Douglas family from Winnipeg visit and helped Bob hire the bees. Cindy McGregor visits with Grace Kelly. sympathy to Boehlig and Bueckert families on Toronto death. Lois Mawby Treherne visits Cindy McGregor. weekend visitors include Terry Longstreet and Dale. Sunday visitors Bill and My McGregor. Get well wishes to Mrs Clarence Pennell in Portage hospital. May reporter Mrs Rose Hodgins. Don Satkanas leaves for Ottawa meteorological bureau. Max Nicholls Winnipeg visitors for Sunday supper. Myrna Frank dental assistant class success. caps and pins at Fort Garry Hotel. Joanne Lamb MacGregor visits Anne McDonald.
The Manitoba Legislature gave third reading to a land exchange between the Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg and Canadian National Railways. Metro builds a bus garage on CNR land in south central Winnipeg while CNR gains Metro land behind Fort Garry hotel for a convention centre.
asun Ladies Mission will host a tea bake sale and bazaar on Saturday May 3 at 2 30 pm in the Austin Community Hall with proceeds for mission. North Norfolk Legion meets Tuesday May 6 at 8 pm in the Legion room. MacGregor Ladies Curling Club bake sale Saturday May 17 at 4 pm at Four Way Motors for the new Community Centre. A noon luncheon Tuesday May 13 11 30 am to 1 pm in the United Church hall 1 00 per plate sponsored by the UCW afternoon unit. Watch for further notice.
The Com. Centre report shows village and rural votes on a $95,000 debenture over 20 years. Total assessment $3,000,000 split as village $1,000,000 and rural $2,000,000. One mill equals about $1. Finance notes: annual payments around $9,500, with exact yearly costs based on assessment.
Machinery sale on the Portage District farm five miles south and two miles east of Portage on Tuesday May 6. Items include a 3010 John Deere tractor with cab and pulley, 12 ft Aller root rake, 13 diamond barrows, 1350 bushel steel granary, a 1949 2 ton truck with box and hoist, plus a 1965 cockshutt 1650 tractor, 10 ft IHC tiller, Cockshutt 428 combine, Melroe picker, 16 ft CCIL swather, 12 ft CCIL disker, seeder box, fertilizer attachment, four bottom 14 inch Case plow, 1947 2 ton truck with box hoist.
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