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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 12, 1927
Page
4
Manitoba towns prepare for Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1927 linking Dominion Day with Empire Day events. Schools will host open air programmes featuring Union Jack, God Save the King, essays on Canada's progress since Confederation, patriotic songs, recitations, and pageants to mark sixty years of Canadian Confederation.
The Tomlinson Construction Co of Winnipeg wins the gravelling work on the Trans Canada route from Portage la Prairie to near Winnipeg, covering about sixty miles from east of Portage la Prairie west through North Norfolk. The contract price is $80,902.50 with work set for this summer.
A Monday night meeting re formed the Baseball Club with J A Gray as Hon President and J M McPhee as President Sec Treas R E Lye as manager and J L Lamb W Ireland H T Trethewe as executive Lye and Jay Lye named to run the league and boost local play. Premier elevator at Portage la Prairie burned destroying 30000 bushels of grain and former Ogilvie Co ownership ends.
The Manitoba Prohibition Alliance issues a statement reaffirming prohibition as the ideal method to control liquor. It condemns government control as failing and urges a NO on Question 1 and YES on Question 3, while opposing beer by the bottle and by the glass and calling for broad public support against liquor sales expansion. The group argues brewers seek to restore public drinking places and appeals to citizens to join the campaign.
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The fragment lists horse items and supplies such as brushes curry combs clippers noses bags blankets wraps halter and seed for bone or state. It also mentions keeping and using items as a home headquarters.
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