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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1954
Page
5
Auctioneer S. E. Burch offers a Sidney sale with items including Velour Chesterfield seating a 4 piece bedroom suite dining room pieces a baby’s bed bicycles garden tools and misc articles. Sale begins 1 30 pm and lists Devenport New Coleman oil heater and other household goods.
Local residents from Austin and surrounding areas report visits and weekend gatherings. Notable mentions include Winnipeg trips by Mr and Mrs Russell Hay and Mr and Mrs Lloyd Young, and social stops by the Poysers, McEacherns, and Joys. Arch bishop visitors from England attended services, while government assessors checked property measurements amid hopes taxes stay stable.
The United Church Rally Day service featured readings by Donna Carruthers and Greta Lowe, a kindergarten performance, and solos by Louise Stephenson and Janet Harland. Forty-two pupils received promotion certificates as the church named teachers for the coming year across all divisions led by Superintendent Mrs. J. Stephenson.
The Austin Cemetery Committee reports a successful fund appeal after August 18 meeting to buy a power mower. The mower is now purchased and grounds mowed, improving the cemetery. A follow up meeting is set for October 4 to discuss tool house repairs and cemetery approach. some funds remain to complete the work.
Genevieve a breezy human tale about an old jalopy and its cheerful owners plays October 7 and 9 with Technicolor countryside. Powder River brings a Western drama to Oct 14 and 16 starring Rory Calhoun Cameron Mitchell and Corinne Calver. Newsreel includes the Duchess of Kent at the Canadian National Exhibition and a B36 bomber crash in South Dakota.
The Social Committee planned an initiation for newcomers at Austin High School held on a Wednesday. The article notes Lorne Green returning from Carberry Hospital and Grace Russell's reappearance after an absence while Susanna Neufeld moves to Fort Garry for continued schooling. Five year old visitors were entertained by Grades 1 and 11, including Shirley Rand Eric Chambers and Marion Heselwood.
Multiple classified notices from MacGregor listing jobs sales and trades. Items include a hotel job, bank clerk opening, six week old pies for sale, various tools equipment and farm animals, a bungalow for sale, real estate details, tractors, furnaces, gas torch items, and contact names with phone numbers. The noise indicates a dense local classifieds page.
FOR SALE Two houses in MacGregor: a 4 room cottage with bathroom and garage and a 4 room house with full size basement and garage. Apply H S Barton phone 3255 MacGregor. For sale in Austin semimodern five room house with automatic oil furnace hot and cold running water electric range. Apply KK Jedel 3720. Lost dog Rex black and white answers to Rex. Information to Alex Stieben phone 327 13 MacGregor small reward. J P Wiebe phone 311-2 MacGregor 363.
Lorne Green thanks his high school friends and WA for the fruit boxes candies and cards received during hospitalization and after returning home.
Under the Trustes Act in the matter of the Estate of Charles Miller farmer late of the Post Office of MacGregor Manitoba all claims against the estate must be verified and sent to the solicitor for the administrators Malcolm E MacKinnon at MacGregor Manitoba on or before October 30 1954 dated September 21 1954.
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