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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 28, 1968
Page
4
Classified and local reader notices with rates and deadlines. Death notices and memoriam Lew is section notes December 1967 dates. card of thanks and for sale items include farm land, tools, and miscellaneous ads. Phone numbers and names appear in scattered fragments.
Gratitude expressed by St Pauls J.A. and MacGregor groups for candy, fish pond and other donations at the A C W bazaar and Fun Fair. The MacGregor Collegiate Student Body also thanks donors for the graduation tea and sympathies to the bereaved Goodridge family.
I thank our many friends and relatives for expressions of sympathy during our recent bereavement in the loss of my husband. Special thanks to Dr Hew and nurses, pallbearers, flowerbearers, and the ladies who served lunch. Mrs Annie Sparrow and family
Smith Motors Ltd lists a winter catalog of used cars with models from 1961 to 1986 including Ford Galaxie 500 sedans and hardtops, Datsun, Plymouth, Austin, Volkswagen, Mercury, Dodge, Chevrolet, and International trucks. Vehicles feature V-8 and six cylinder engines, automatic or standard transmissions, power options, and radios.
The advertisement seeks personnel for Gladstone Elementary with eight classrooms in the main building and eight temporary units. Employment starts January 2, 1969 at $5400 yearly. Applicants must include age, experience, and status and file by December 5, 1968. board meets December 9, 1968 at 7 p.m. for consideration. Good man over 40.
In the matter of the estate of William Edward Sparrow late of MacGregor Manitoba deceased all claims against the estate must be filed with the undersigned at 21 Royal Road North Portage la Prairie Manitoba on or before January 17 1969 Dated Portage la Prairie November 25 1968 Charles W Sing Q C Solicitor for the Executrix Lost -8 wheelbarrows and staplers were loaned out and not returned Call Lye’s Ltd MacGregor phone 685 2033 to pick them up
You Have a Date announces the Sprucedale annual concert to be held Thursday December 19 at 8 30 p.m. in Austin Collegiate Auditorium. Everyone is welcome and a prize draw on the "baby doll" will be made at the event.
Agriculture Minister H. A. Olson told the Commons that terminal elevators in Calgary and Edmonton are operating around the clock to dry damp grain. He noted excellent railway cooperation in providing equal boxcar distribution to areas with tough, damp grain, in reply to George Muir of Lisgar.
Local column records visits and weekend stays from Winnipeg to MacGregor area. Residents mention Orland Patterson, Lottie Hanna, J. McDou gall, Jim Lunn, Wm Ferris, Fred Lake, and others visiting relatives across towns like Pine Creek Brandon Portage Winnipeg and Tangent. Also notes hospital visits and a 50th wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wright.
Cyril Quewezance, 47, of Kamsack Saskatchewan, found guilty on a reduced charge of attempting to maim or disfigure a Manitoba man in Russell beverage room on July 18. An all male Court of Queen's Bench jury returned the lesser verdict of attempted maiming. He received five years in jail from Justice J. M. Hunt and a concurrent one year for possession of an offensive weapon.
Jacques Laraviere was sentenced to four years in penitentiary for two escapes from Headingley provincial jail. He used a hacksaw blade to saw through window bars and was free a total of seven days. He also received concurrent terms for breaking and entering and theft.
Local ladies are urged to remember the UCW tea and bake sale at Lye's show room in MacGregor on Saturday afternoon November 30. Donations of baked goods are welcome and may be left at Mahan's store in Bagot.
A gay party at 881 Newton Ave Elmwood honors Mr. and Mrs. Ken Larson of MacGregor on their 25th anniversary. About 40 relatives and friends attend a horseshoe cake, corsages, dancing, and remembrances. Guests include Jim Seawright and others from Pa Flon and N. Sead.
Lois Johnson, a mother of three living on $95 monthly welfare, received an eviction notice days after she complained to the city health department about unsanitary conditions. Aldermen urged publicizing landlords who evict tenants for health complaints and sought action to withdraw the eviction with Dr Isadore Welch promising to contact the landlady Janette Monis.
Magistrate Ross Collyer plans to substitute terror and gory movies for fines for unpaired driving offenders in Penticton. He argued heavy penalties punish families and proposes programs including lectures and impaired driving classes next March. He noted two movies are especially graphic and claimed they deter him.
Greater Winnipeg Cablevision Ltd. wins a one year licence to serve areas east of the Red River with cable broadcasting. The Canadian Radio Television Commission says the licence is subject to conditions to be specified. The application was heard in Regina last month. Mr and Mrs Fred Wright of MacGregor mark their 50th wedding anniversary with two home open events on November 30 from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 pm.
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