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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1939
Page
5
A list of community notices from Austin and vicinity includes Christ Church W.A. Market Day tea on Saturday Oct 21, and Austin United Church Fall Dinner and Concert on Oct 11. Also reported are travel, visits, medical notes, and social gatherings as residents attend hospitals, Deanery meetings, and farewell parties.
CHURCH NOTICE listing Rev Armstron g as rector and parish activities for Sunday October 1 1939 with evening prayer service planned.
Readable fragment notes mention Roy FRAN and W Sans at Austin United Church with Sunday School at 2 and evening service at 2 pm. No clear event date or full names. Summarizes local church activity and time details from the fragment.
Posters announce a furniture sale of Mrs E Collier in Austin Friday Sept 29 at 1 30 pm. An auction of 20 head cattle poultry and furniture for Mrs H Nelson seven miles south of the Austin Hydro sub station on Wednesday Oct 4 at 1 pm. A sale of horses cattle implements and household goods for Mrs JW Corrigal eight miles north of Pine Creek on Tuesday Oct 3 at 1 pm.
The Bank of Montreal 13th crop report dated Sept 21 estimates national wheat at 422 million bushels with Manitoba 39, Saskatchewan 218 and Alberta 145 million. Production up 96 million from last year and crops in most regions noted as high or satisfactory with strong yields in Ontario and the Maritime provinces, though tomatoes and fruit vary.
Under The Trustee Act in the Matter of the Estate of Mary Ann Hotel deceased all claims must be filed at the office in MacGregor Manitoba on or before October 17 1939 Dated at MacGregor Manitoba September 9 1959 Mackinnon and Mackinnon for George Michael Hotel and Herbert Russell Hotel Executors
Young people from Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario will gather at St Stephen's Broadway United Church in Winnipeg on Friday October 6 for the annual convention of the Young People's Union of the Manitoba Conference. The event runs to Monday with registration to Irene Graham. Theme is Christian Youth Who Calls Us Christian.
The 1939 Canada Year Book, official statistical annual, extends over 1200 pages and covers natural resources, history, institutions, production, trade, transport, finance, education and more. Frontispiece honors King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with Royal Visit commemoratives. Available from King’s Printer in Ottawa for $1.50, with 50 cent copies for ministers, students and teachers while supply lasts.
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In loving memory of A C Lye who fell at Courcelette on September 26, 1916. They shall not grow old nor weary them, the years condemn. All the going down of the sun and in the morning we shall remember them. Inserted by the family.
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