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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1946
Page
8
The annual Beaver Cemetery clean up will occur next Monday in the afternoon and evening. All residents are urged to join and help restore the sacred grounds to first class condition. Please return the borrowed lawnmower before Monday.
Beav er district notes welcome visits from Winnipes and MacGregor residents. A baptism at Beaver United Church includes Carrol Anne Dankesreiter and Ronald Dale Telford. Congregation plans meetings May 20 and May 30 with W M S and Ladies Aid, plus a June 6 anniversary featuring Mrs. Ross of the Portage Indian Residential School as guest speaker.
Winnipeg residents Pennett Scott Hampden Pennell family updates. A Travelling Basket committee urges speedy sending. A bazaar and silver tea for the Junior Red Cross is set at Macaulay School on Friday May 17 at 2 PM. All welcome to support the children.
Thos Wantehead and daughter Carol of Winnipeg visited Bagot with Mrs J D Anderson. Bagot Annual Sports Day is set for Friday with a dance in the evening featuring Machan's orchestra. J Wallace is home recovering from a broken rib after his horses bolted. Other Winnipeg visitors included Mrs E Baskier and daughter Elinor and Mrs Wes McGuire at the Baskier home. Miss Karen Carrol was omitted earlier from the Bagot E l smith Variety Concert. Pte E Towerzey of the Veteran’s Guard spends a week at home before discharge after serving as a guard for German prisoners who left Canada. Lieutenant van Lawton of Bagot received a 1946 Mercury from Gladwell Motors in Victoria. He served five years in Lake Superior Regiment, 4th Armored Division, in Holland and Germany and now works for Great West Life in Victoria.
A May 9 event sponsored by MFAC at Bagot Hall drew a large audience. The film Men of Rockdale traced England’s cooperative movement while fourteen pupils delivered varied views. Prizewinners Alvin McMillan Barry Pogue and Florence Smith advance to Stonewall district MFAC convention.
Firdale held a Welcome Home party and whist drive at Firdale school on May 1 with prizes to Phyllis Manns and Harvey Lunn and consolation to Mrs J T Manns and W McLachlan. A May 3 shower honored Mrs Herbert Wood the first British war bride to arrive in Firdale with singing, a short program, and a wedding laden with gifts. A dainty lunch was served by Phyllis Manns and others.
In The Churches St Pauls Church MacGregor on Sunday May 19 there is Sunday School at 2.30 pm and Evening Prayer at 7.00 pm. Services in United Churches on May 19 include Bagot at 1.30 pm Beaver at 1 am and MacGregor at 7 pm.
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