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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 21, 1903
Page
8
On the highest and driest part of Mac regor, sale offers single lots suitable for easy cellar drainage. Money advanced to aid construction, lots priced from five to twenty dollars. Farm land loans offered at six percent on amounts over one hundred dollars, seven percent for smaller sums, with very low loan expenses.
Victoria Day observed as townsfolk plan voting while residents like Harry Byers and P P for Norfolk visit on Monday. Hog shipments from MacGregor to Winnipeg mark farm activity amid school foundation preparations. The infant funeral north of MacGregor and a Wellington cricket club meeting for May 25th to reorganize are reported among assorted notices and social items.
The London Chamber of Commerce hosted Hon. Clifford Sifton and Lord Strathcona at a Tuesday banquet. Sifton, speaking, said Canada has faced geography for fifty years and will continue, noting greater pro-American feeling in London than in Canada.
Mrs. Earle visited Portage last week and Miss Cairns returned from Bagot on Monday. Residents discuss mail delivery, votes, and a Liberal meeting tomorrow night. The town shows busy activity with new sidewalks, arbors, and station platform concerns. A severe Southern Alberta storm threatens cattle, while harvest prospects brighten in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. Macgregor’s birthday is noted and plans for summer celebration urged.
Ed Loder and local residents report on events in Bessarabia and Canada. Plans for provincial Orange walk near July 12 are uncertain due to transport issues. Wm McLeod builds a stone foundation, J McMin holds Portage la Prairie contract, Jock Fleming returns from Dauphin with Lake of the Woods Milling Co. elevator duties. Saturday trade is brisk as merchants welcome customers. rains boost seeding and planting. Register to vote in person next week. Australia grants Canadian letters at penny rate. Masonic Grand Lodge set to meet in Winnipeg in June. Doctors Gee, Walker will visit Macgregor after May 25. Town lawns look better where water works reach, compared with firmer grounds lacking irrigation. Justice minister Fitzpatrick moves to amend the Criminal Code to ban cigarette sales to boys under 16.
The notice lists ongoing and alternate Sunday services at Camap, Surrey, Beaver Creek, Rosehill, Wellington, and Pathhead with evening prayers, sermons, and Holy Communion. It names Rev A Chisholm, Rev S I Robson, and Mr J Mclcobie among those leading services, plus details on Sunday school, Bible class, prayer meetings midweek, Epworth league, and incharge arrangements.
The Registration District No 2 in Nesou k Electoral Division outlines boundaries township 10 and range 11 west with the office of the Austin Horn mill in Austin as the registration site. Registration sittings run May 2, 27, 25, 29, and other dates with hours 9 am to 1 pm, 2 pm to 6 pm, and 7 pm to 10 pm. Electors must apply in person unless illness disability or unavoidable absence.
Pure bred Short Horn Bull MacCrary No 3 fer XVIII Dominion Shorthorn Herd Book stands for service at his stables on Mainie Street, Macgregor. Bee 1.30 rate.
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