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i him in:»f iu »??!Brief Sketch Of The Activities Of H, A. Head Founder And Publisher Of The Fertile Valley EnterpriseKShY A HEAD lt;of the weekly ww^tyu 'The F-rtiJe Vahey Enerprtae published •t Conquwt. Sak ha* fraprai erf.842 mv ptMM out rl M* Heed began his prtnting r*rn r * a lad when h* was -dmI’ in the ft'*' erf the Hamicta, Manitoba.Echo’ published at that ume bv ifo-t Ed. L Stoat* and 0«m* W Venable* After a few years In that ffice be moved to Harris. Sank . m 1WJ, to accept employment or the taff of the Harris “Herald In 1*12, an election year in Saskatchewan -sw a chaiife in the set-up at Harris, and Mr Head, who at one time had hoped to purchase the riant erf The Herald aaw those plans go *-glimmering, and In September of that yenr he accidentally learned that the new village of Conquest, about H. A. HEAD30 miles across country from Harris This photo was taken during the was looking for a printer. He drove First Great War. when Mr. Head held to Conquest via ho rse-and-buggy and ,,H* rmnit ot Sargwwt in the Canadian y good fortune arrived in Conquest Army*, nlt;ipcththenight the Board of Tradela motion picture projectionist; Ra-was meeting. After a discussion with tion member: argamaed the'he Bo*rd who d^ided to bark” kjcal Red croaa duringthe past war;im in the venture Mr. Head entrainand on committees and boards with ed for Winnipeg, and there a country out number; also Victory Loan com-lad. still in his teens wandered into mjttee chairmana printing equipment wholesale house,!to emerge a few hours later with aThe sale of the plant and a taper-, . . . . . . , , mg off of activities was made ad-UP P wati* for hr. 1th reasons. Dunn*f ;onqThe paper press was damaged in shipment and was held up for repairsbut in the early hours of the morningof November 1st, 1912, the first paper was printed.From that time Mr. Head's round of activities has been a remarkable one. Shortly after opening, he purchased the plant of the Bounty “Advocate which he incorporated with his own, and later published a second paper—the Ardath “Advance. Just as things were rounding out into an era of advancement the First War broke (Hit and Mr. Head rented his plant as a going concern and enlisted with the 12th Battalion in training at Moose Jaw, Sask. Proceeding overseas he was drafted to France to the 46th Battalion and in November pf 1917 was wounded in the right arm at Passchaendale. Invalided back to England he was later transferred to Forestry Corps and again to the Railway Corps, and was station *d at Purfleet, Essex, w'hen the armistice was signed Held as an • indispensible seigeant at records office at Knotty Ash camp near Liverpool he was not able to get back to Canada until late in May, 1919. Without lots of time and fager to i return to tbq printing business he resumed control of the Enterprise in July. Business boomed but setbacks occurred. Serious breakages made it necessary to purchase a new' press, and a typesetting machine. Additional territory was brought into the scope of the paper, so that to make it more embracing the name “Conquest was dropped from the heading and the community name of “Fertile Valley was added. Sections for the villages Bounty and Ardath were contracted for. Later a section was added for Milden.Mr. Head married Miss Dora Sib-bald, of Ardath, in 1921, and their j family consists of three daughters and one son. The eldest daughter, Jean, a qualified stenographer, was a member of the R.C.A.F. iWDi signal section, and is now a member of the Alberta Government Telephone executive staff in Edmonton; the second daughter, Mabel, graduated as registered nurse at Grey Nun’s hospital, Regina; the third daughter, Doris, has passed through Saskatoon Normal and is now' teaching at War-man, Sask. Philip, the only eon, is at home attending school and showing great Interest in sports of all kinds.Mr. Head carried on all the work single handed during the whole period with the exception of about three years in the late ’20s.His community service has been of dynamic and untiring nature; he was a member of the hockey team for some years; a curler; a member of the baseball team up to the time 1 of enlistment; is a Past D.D. Grand Master of the I.O.O.F ; Past E.R. of the B.P.O. Elks; a Past Master ofthe entire management of the Enterprise Mr. Head missed only three issues by reason of ill health A fire in 1945 almost destroyed the plant but although the loss was heavy no major equipment was ruined.Mr. Head is not retiring from public life as he will continue in his position as local postmaster.Ithe Masonic Lodg« ; for two years a member of the Village councilf for25 years superintendent of the United Sunday School; a member of the United Church board for 30 yean; a past President of the local Canadia;. Legion; a former director of th Fertile Valley Agricultural 8ocietj
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Rossburn Review
Rossburn, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Feb 26, 1948
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