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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 11, 1934
Page
4
This appeal urges moral and financial backing for churches as stabilizing community institutions. It emphasizes the church’s role in fostering happiness, peace, and progress, and invites all readers to participate through support and cooperation.
The piece contrasts autumn as a somber season with Western Canada where September brings renewed commercial activity and prosperity. It notes farmers storing grain, merchants awaiting winter stock, and a philanthropic subscriber supporting the newspaper, framing autumn as a season of resilience and ongoing enterprise.
Letters to the MacKinnon family and friends report Dr. and Mrs. A. G. MacKinnon reached Pangnirtung on September 3. They were in good health but tired after traveling since.
Dr and Mrs MacKinnon report a good voyage on the SS Nascopie with rough weather at times. They arrived in their home town after sixteen years, found the scenery wild and grand, resembling the Canadian Rockies, yet lacking evergreens. The hospital is well equipped with an expensive X-ray, and their windproof bungalow stands sturdy. They request the Herald continue, plan to visit the Arctic Circle, 33 miles north, and place a cairn with copies of the paper, Winnipeg, and Ottawa.
Thanksgiving Day services drew large congregations at St Pauls Anglican Church and the United Church. Lord Bishop Thomas of Brandon led the morning services at St Pauls, with a pontifical Communion and eleven candidates confirmed. Rev. G Le Armstrong assisted. In the United Church Rev R Smalley preached an apt sermon and sacraments were observed, with Mrs H I Collins and J Woodin performing The King of Love My Shepherd Is. The church was decorated by the ladies with autumn flora and harvest fruits.
The week of October 7 to 13 is Fire Prevention Week in Canada. Fire waste causes large economic losses and endangers lives. In Manitoba last year twenty seven people died in fires and property worth over one million dollars was destroyed. Public schools will host lessons and officials urge citizens to awareness and action. Householders can reduce fire risk by removing rubbish piles from premises.
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