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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1898
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR notes show prices and terms for wheat per bushel and assorted trade phrases. Names, places, or precise figures are unclear, but indicate a market listing with multiple oblique references to supply and pricing.
Local notes from Portage and McGregor recount residents improving health, starting threshing outfits, and business activity. Visitors include architects and Montreal residents. buses run to meet trains. a caboose hail damage near Portage is noted. birds migrate southward. harvesting pressures and scarce country oats are mentioned. Community meetings, cemetery upkeep, and new buildings progress as town booms with land sales and real estate interest.
Dr Curtis trip to Carberry on Friday. Riesberry of Carberry and others visiting. Rev Kenner preached at Ma last Sunday. editor Galbraith of the Morde Chronicle passing through en route to B C. Mrs Hepp visited Beaver Creek. Portage visitors and social gatherings noted. Progress on property sales, lumber stock, and farm activity. No court in MacGregor. court postponed to September 30. A bustling season with many townsfolk and visitors, and remarks on Mrs Merrick's declining condition.
The column lists goods at Holmes and Merrick Bros, from rice lines and fruit jars to threshing supplies and rifles. It notes political shifts with Liberal endorsements for Jon McCarthy in Simcoe and discusses the Canadian Bisley shoot, militia leadership, and postal rate impacts on revenue.
Our Ottawa Letter reports Stayner hosts a broad gathering that formed a permanent organization to carry on the late riding member D'Alton McCarthy's political life. Col O Brien, dubbed the man from Shanty Bay, led the move while railing against Sir Charles Tupper and his supporters on trade and Manitoba school questions.
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