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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1898
Page
5
Fragmentary market item notes list prices for wheat and paste products, mention a crate numbered item, and reference Derrick Wood with a cart. The readable text is sparse and mostly lists goods and minor identifiers without clear context or totals.
Hae rapidly recovering. Thomas Ramsay on sick list. County Court today in Cook's hall. Mr B Turner visited Portage on Friday. Coupe meeting at Austin next Tuesday. Jackson Hanby in town last week. Mr Ort Bohlman visited Winnipeg this week. Two pounds maple sugar for Boe. Dan Smith paid Winnipeg business visit last week. Portage on Tuesday. Warden returned home from Portage on Tuesday. Fall show at Austin on Oct 12. Entries close on the eh Miss ledge days sister visiting. Plebiscite voting yesterday. results expected next week. Machiregor bicycle club parade enjoyed last Monday. Thos Parkinwn’s hand poisoned by straw in threshing. W Horna left for Winnipeg hospital with typhoid fever. Coyotes increasingly venturing into village backyards. Jno Cornyn of Portage Review in town. Mr Bi Stinson’s daughter Florence last week to Winnipeg mute’s institute. Hanley-Wylie concert postponed to Mon Oct 17. W W Semmes, Hartford Fire Insurance, visited Mr Vardon this week. John Mason left with mother for Rainy River for convalescence. R D Morris returned from Winnipeg hospital quite recovered. Mrs Hayward and Kelowna on Friday. Creamery still running and will continue. Mr Coupe CPR conveyor and riggnistants finished work in MacGregor Tuesday and returned to Winnipeg. The evening last Friday kept many from Ae Miscith meeting. Kev’s address attended by those present.
Sunday evening services were led by Rev. MacDut from Sy FomLAsit. A memorial service at RS. Walden’s residence was planned for 7 o clock, with the Ladies' Aid invited. A meteor was seen, a boy named Charley Beasle died aged about twenty two, his funeral in Beaver Creek cemetery. Typhoid and heart disease struck the Beaverville family of Jos. Hiley, with several members ill and a nurse engaged amid grieving.
A fragment from a Manitoba issue lists community snippets, sales and debts, visits by local figures, a Bible Society meeting, and lost and stray items. Names include Detohereh, Harrison, Gifford, Dy Camptest, J. A. Grady, Pauline Johnston, Mayor Tickle, editor Kidingvin, Rev. Varton, BP Hepp, J. M. Dick, Mrs. A. Bo, and references to Knox's and Carberry. Also notes a stray red roan horse colt and a brown macintosh cape lost between MacGregor and the sandhills.
The fragment lists various goods and prices including pickles, fruit jars, shoes, dress goods, and fatigue items, with references to sales at Holmes and Knocks. It mentions a price reduction theme and notes figures like flour, corn meal, and strong makers, with a rough snapshot of weekly price changes and items on offer.
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