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Newspaper
Melfort Moon
Location
Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Oct 02, 1918
Page
2
Local notices announce rates for classifieds and subscriptions while urging readers to save money for the war effort. The call to action emphasizes patriotism, urging immediate saving to support troops in Flanders and “your country’s battles.”
A Manitoba exchange notes Souris farmers can haul 344 tons of coal home easily thanks to excellent roads. The Carrot River Valley, by contrast, suffers bad roads causing yearly losses of thousands and greater travel hardship for farmers.
The article argues high wages and local delays impede road maintenance on rural highways. It warns one rain will render many roads impassable on the eve of a large crop. It urges abandoning statute labor for contracts to private road builders to cut transport costs and extend market reach.
Market notice states weekly Monday and Tuesday hogs and cattle sales by Wes White of Melfort. Help wanted ads seek a young lady for a position, stenographic roles in banks, and a Western Commercial College recruitment. Auctioneers Frank Smith and H A McEwen announce a Palm Stock and implements sale with start times and location details.
A dealer lists two Clydesdale stallions imported and home bred, four roan Short Horn bulls, two cows in calf milking strain, a yearling Berkshire boar, Toulouse geese, Pekin ducks, Barred Rock roosters, and various work horses and ponies with outfits for children. Apply H. H. Burroughs, Somerset Farm, Melfort.
An auction notice lists 50 head Registered Short Horn cattle including heifers young cows and bulls 20 Registered Clydesdales fillys mares two stallions aged one to three years. Also Shropshire sheep and rams with sale to occur at Black Soam Stables Melfort late October with date to be announced.
By power of sale under a mortgage the east half of section 16 in township 44 and range 20 west of the second meridian Saskatchewan is offered at public auction. The sale takes place at the Ozark Hotel in Melfort on November 2, 1918 at 2 PM Mountain Standard Time. An excluded one acre along the southern boundary is described in title No 10260. The land lies about eight miles from Beatty with no improvements and any cultivated land having reverted.
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