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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 11, 1944
Page
4
North Norfolk reports about 140 000 subscribed and Victory Pennant sent to the Unit office. Unit No. 214 has a 140 000 quota though 200 000 was the target, while Dominion wide sales reach 1 073 million of 1 200 million goal. Manitoba subscriptions total 70 million of 80 million. The drive urges voters to buy bonds at local salesmen banks or Unit offices before Saturday closing. an investment not a subscription.
The narrator argues that peace cannot be built with present faults and that the nation must undergo moral rebirth. He recalls suffering and sacrifice in war, warns against fecklessness, and says country perishes without faith, standards, and reform.
The United Church Choir presented the seventeenth annual choral service last Sunday under Mrs Woortin with twenty selections. Mrs A Stinson, Mrs J Taylor, Mrs G C Fotheringham, Muriel Collis and Lillian Fox provided organ and solo work while male soloists F Venn W Cooper and J Wood performed. A large gathering applauded and contributed generously for next year’s choir expenses, and the choir gifted Mr and Mrs J Woodin a floral tribute for their fortieth wedding anniversary. A separate notice seeks a warm comfortable MacGregor home with electricity and board, via Mrs S B Barber at Mrs Booth’s.
A gent's wrist watch lost at Stratton's Barn is offered for reward upon return to the Herald Office.
Edith Eileen Jeffries R N of King George Hospital Winnipeg wed Fit Lieut Larus A Melsted son of Mr and Mrs SW Melsted Winnipeg at the home of Mr and Mrs W J Jeffries MacGregor The ceremony was officiated by Rev Cecil A J King with Lohengrin' Wedding March The couple will reside in Brandon where Melsted is stationed with the RCAF.
Death news from MacGregor recalls Mrs. Watson a longtime resident who moved to Portland in 1923 She and J H Watson operated the Stanley Hotel from 1909 to 1915 She leaves two sons J C Watson and Robert Watson and three daughters Mrs Nelson Cheney Mrs W Goodman and Mrs C Riggs plus a sister and brother in MacGregor The community mourns a kindly Christian woman whose life of service brought sympathy and friendship to many in her circle
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