Lavenham News the Weekend Chronicle of Local Happenings
Mr Hugh Robinson travelled to Winnipeg and The Pas last week while families visited kin in Portage and Treherne. Community notes recount hospital reports and a big plan to fund a new Treherne hospital, with elections, garden tips, a hawk incident, and local tales from Aber deen to MacGregor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treherne
Dave Hird
Hugh Henry
Winnipeg
Brooklands
Tom Henry
Granny Woodward
Derek
Morley Aikens
Bev Bedford
MacGregor
Nelson Price
Ralph Ackerman
Water safety warning and bear hunting tale from Manitoba
A lengthy cautionary piece urges safer boating and warns against oversized motors and overloaded small craft. It describes a bear hunt with George Jasper and John Bear, killing cubs and a large bear later dispatched by Henry Prawdark. The piece also highlights women and children excelling in the 1956 Field and Stream contest and Manitoba championship, noting rising participation and future prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jasper
Riding Mountain
John Bear
Momma Bear
George
Henry Prawdark
Eden
Ruth Lawton
Manitoba
Davey Reid
Rapid City
Pike Derby Sparks Drift Across Manitoba Waters
A report notes a growing pike population at Lake North West of St Alphonse and unconfirmed tall tales of a 51 inch pike near Sandy Lake. Timber Wolves kill calf near Neepawa, AM Lundy pursues. Various fish derbies unfold across the region with prizes, including a Ford at a dinner, while whooping cranes are spotted locally. In Minnedosa a 10-year-old boy nets a 10-pound pike below the dam. Local anglers describe large catches and ongoing championship rules for pike to pickerel ratios.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Alphonse
Sandy Lake
Alf Farbough
Neepawa
AM Lundy
Virden
Ford
Andy Nield
Jimmy Box
Minnedosa
Minnedosa Dam
Portage Game
Marion Yaromy
Brandon
Rock Lake
Pilot Mound
Bill Balson
Langdon
Shoal Lake
Peter Sie
Pike
Gordon Briscoe
Dauphin
Brass Pot Story at Agri Museum Sparks Historic Display
Mrs L Tennis notes a brass pot restored from tarnish by Mrs Anger of Miami, once mistaken for a flower pot but identified as a coal scuttle used in England. The piece joins a growing museum farm display including a walking plow. Visitors from White Horse Mexico PEI Ontario Manitoba explore, with an eight year old curious about a donation bucket.
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L. Tennis
Perkins
MacGregor
Anger
White Horse
Mexico
Pei
Ontario
Canada
Manitoba
Penny in the bucket and a remark at the museum
A passerby explains the meaning of contributing pennies to a bucket and a child asks if anyone truly donates. An English woman reads a sign about the oldest washing machine in Canada and jokes with friends, calling it whim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Mrs Ritchie visits Portage and district news item
Mrs H D Ritchie visited her daughter and family in Portage while Mrs W Calder from British Columbia stayed with Mr and Mrs J L Pogue. District folk attended Laura Crealock’s shower at Elsmith school. Mr and Mrs C McFee and Miss Shirley McFee plus R King from Warren spent May 19 at the Pogue home. Congratulations to Mr and Mrs J Pihulak on the birth of a daughter on May 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Schweitz
Schweitz
Vern Henry
Ofinnipeg
Tom Newton
Ringland
Win
H. D. Ritchie
W. Calder
British Columbia
Portage
J. L. Pogue
Laura Crealock
Elsmith
C. McFee
Shirley McFee
Grosse Isle
R. King
Warren
A Pogue
J. Pihulak
Evelyn Ritchie
International Falls
USA
Ronald
Sunshine Mission Band Holds Monthly Meeting
The Sunshine Mission Band met last Friday afternoon in the school. Miss Beverley Pogue RN left May 16 for Vancouver by train where she will spend the next few months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine Mission
Beverley Pogue
R.N
Vancouver
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Lavenham News
RB. Fiorence
Hugh Robinson
Pas
Walter Strelik
Alf Biagden
Treberne
H. Shore
Geo. Aikens
T. Henry
Quinn
Winnipe
Geo. Painter
Frank English
Transcona
Currie
Dalton Aikns
Austin
Machan
Herman Schweitz
Ste
Tome Ronda Dock Sid
Bar Grey High School
Sake
Phooey
Johnny Watson
Rowendale
Agricultural College
Tribune
Jock Hay
The
Th Battalion
Fred Colley
Ivivor
Mafeking
St. Army and Navy
Billy Graham
Madison Square Garden
France
Image Creek News
Mrs. A. Pogue
C.R. Barber
Bondes
Westbourne
Lye's
Macgregoi
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