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Publicity for neials or entertainments with admission will be charged at standard advertising rates.
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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 25, 1907
Page
4
Publicity for neials or entertainments with admission will be charged at standard advertising rates.
Advertisers are asked to submit copy for changes to advertisements by noon Monday due to a publication day change. If not received, insertion cannot be guaranteed.
Farmers are urged to select Red Fife wheat or early hybrids for rich soils and slow ripening areas. Test barley germination before sowing and adjust seeding per acre to local conditions to balance maturity and drought tolerance. Districts vary, so individual farm experience guides rates. early frosts and drought remain risks in the west.
A public meeting is set for Monday next at Hawthorne's Hall to discuss forming an agricultural society for the Municipality of Miniota. If established as a municipal affair, a council grant or bonus may follow. Citizens and farmers are urged to attend in large numbers.
A citizen letter urges licensing of traveling salesmen and book agents to fund town maintenance. It argues peddlers pay no taxes while local merchants bear costs, and calls for patronage of home industries. The writer also condemns a traveling quack medicine man and his misleading remedies.
The Lord's Day Act recently enacted is broadly welcomed in the western provinces. Sundays are respected in cities towns and villages with limited breaches such as Sunday sport. Saloon activity is mostly quiet and railways observe rest while clearing freight, though some adjustments may occur. The Act's sixty day prosecution limit and Attorney General oversight are criticized as restrictive and overly narrow.
The passage argues for a robust time limit to enable swift action against abuses, noting even the Attorney General must consider electoral consequences. It urges a sworn information before a Justice of the Peace to start enforcement and criticizes current limits as fostering delay and petty obstruction. It frames the act as benefitting the community and nation, not a colony.
A large Forsyths store gathering Tuesday evening backed plans to form a Mimiota baseball vinb. Rev. S Thomas is president with Rev. R F Hunter as secretary treasurer and W Blacklock named team manager. Members set a $1 fee and discussed a league with Oak River Hamiota Kenton and Crandell.
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