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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1957
Page
8
Mr and Mrs Clarence Martin express sincere gratitude to all who offered help after a recent fire. Special thanks to the Neudorf family and the Taylor son family for quick action that prevented greater loss.
We Wisn to case in our heart felt thanks and appreciation for acts of kindness messages of sympathy and floral offerings received from friends and neighbors during our bereavement in the loss of our beloved mother Mrs Hazel Simpson Mrs Estelle Reynolds Kenneth Hurt.
Mrs BW Cook expresses deep gratitude to all who sent cards fruit candy and gifts during hospitalization and after returning home. She also thanks the band friends of MacGregor Austin Pathead and Beaver districts for their generous monetary gift and gives a special thanks to Mrs Hope Kitson.
The MacGregor Beef Calf Club held its last meeting at Macaulay School on Friday November 8 and planned a Brandon Winter Fair display. A fundraiser at film programs to aid the March of Dimes was approved. Upcoming events include a dance and box social on Friday December 6 and a basic film night on Tuesday November 19, with the next meeting set for Friday November 22.
Social notes list visits and guests from Winnipeg Carman Bran don and other towns. Family events include births and anniversaries. Manitoba's pension plan moves to deliver maximum 55 a month to 6,400 aged blind and disabled beneficiaries by late November.
Portage la Prairie mourns Florence Robinson widow of Samuel Robinson who died Friday in Portage in her 100th year. Survived by sons Rodney Moose Jaw John Winnipeg daughter Catherine and numerous grandchildren. Funeral held November 4 at McMaster Funeral Home with Hillside cemetery interment officiated by Rev. H J Bowman.
The 1956 census shows Canada’s farm population fell to 2,748,755 from 2,911,966 while the percentage on farms dropped to 17.1 from 20.8 in 1951 and 27.4 in 1941. Total population rose to 16,280,791 from 14,009,429, with farm numbers shrinking though land in farms held steady. Mechanization increased with more grain combines, tractors, motor trucks and autos in 1956.
The Raven shoe and Firdale Norfolk 4H Swine Clubs sponsored a Bacon Carcass Show in Memorial Hall Austin on October 30. H Club entries from MacGregor Achievement Day were judged by Glen Fulton and Fred Rowland of the Canada Department of Agriculture who praised hog quality and stressed breeding feeding and proper weight marketing.
A pion carcass deal with reserve goes to Lloyd Hughson of the same club, signaling a transaction within the local organization.
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