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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 01, 1951
Page
2
The MacGregor Herald notes its weekly Thursday issue under publisher A M Shaw. The paper is authorized as second class mail with Port Office Department Ottawa rates at 250 dollars per year in Canada and 3 dollars per year in the United States.
Weekly items include Louise Brown visiting Marjorie Chant, a Macaulay School Bazaar Friday, curlers annual meeting in Southend School Monday, and locals traveling to Manitou Glenboro Rivers and Winnipeg. November WMS meeting set for November 8 at 2 pm at Mrs. Stirling’s home. thanks extended to Milburn and Louise Brown for service and music. Court case in Montreal fines five Canadian match companies for monopoly.
Beaver and district news records guests including Allan Ross of Minnedosa at H G Rodgers home and Peter Rampton visiting from Dauphin. Glen Harkness returns home, Ed Harkness back to Portage after caring for Glen. Rivers visitors viewed the Royal Couple with many locals in attendance. WMS and WA met October 24 at Mrs Dankesreiter’s, planning the November 9 bazaar with donations invited. Mrs I Irwin received a WMS pin and gifts as she prepares to move to MacGregor.
J Arnold spent Sunday in Brandon with the Owen family. Miss M Lamont returned from a holiday across the British Isles Europe and Ontario. Hartford Bazaar scheduled for October 27 has been postponed indefinitely. Several locals report visits and travels including Mrs Shade in Vancouver and Paris. Hart ford S D mourns mumps affecting Rintoul family. Grant closes garage, heads north for winter work. Donna Marie Graham visited Baskier residence before Winnipeg trip. Continued on Page Six.
A weathered page lists numerous ads from MacGregor including a 191 Ford Sedan for 800 cash with four new tires and heater, a six room frame house, registered hereford heifers, an Hecla furnace with pipes, a six room brick cottage in Sidney, a hotel job, motors and electric gear, and other houses, pigs, and wood. Also tender notices for the old Image Creek School with removal deadlines.
A full WMS Thankoffering meeting in the church Monday evening featured Mrs L Dickinson of MacGregor as guest speaker on Thanks, Giving. Mrs J Dankesreiter Mrs H Dankesreiter and Mrs O Forrest led worship with Mrs N Johnson at the piano. Lunch followed in the church basement.
Sealed maintenance tenders for flooding and caretaking of Mac Gregor rink for the 1951 52 season will be received by the undersigned up to 6 pm Saturday November 10. A S Snaith secretary 43 2np
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