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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
5
On St George's Day Thursday 23 April Sons of England Lodge Gordon No 280 held an At Home for wives and lady friends in Miniota Hall. The room boasted garlands and shields. Supper followed at 9 p.m. and a pleasant evening of games and dancing ended around 2 a.m.
The Manitoba Educational Association elected Rev S D Thomas Vicar of Miniota a vice president of its trustees department at the Winnipeg convention. The town of Miniota applauds the honor as Mr Thomas serves as a school trustee amid delegates from Brandon and other towns. Winnipeg School Board chair J H McKirehar serves as president.
Beulah seeding spreads. snow delays ease. Beulah football pivots officers and a promising squad. A rise in hay prices, odd anecdotes about D. J. and Ike, and three wild men with a razor scare the town. A prairie fire tests Beulah safety, rail prospects loom, and leap year romance jests mix with local notes.
On Wednesday April 22 at Miniota a son was born to Mr and Mrs Kenneth McDonald confirming a new addition to the family in the community records.
A farmer explains how discovery sharing mirrors human nature and urges others to publish letters of thanks. The message notes that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy prompts such letters and invites readers to buy the remedy at Miniots Drug Store.
A speaker urges councils to form a capable volunteer fire brigade with a strong chief and department captains. He calls for support for paid or partly paid crews, praise for firefighters, and prompt funding for better apparatus. The piece then shifts to education, noting municipal school boards in British Columbia and Manitoba reforms, trustee attendance, and the need to raise teacher pay to attract talent.
Rev S D Thomas notes four day convention began April 20 with papers on education. Dr J E Jones Winnipeg reads on medical inspection of schools, now adopted by city schools. Report says 95 percent of backward and mentally deficient children have remediable physical defects and New York exams show 60 percent with defects.
An old classified style notice from Western Development League promises finding a life companion for Western residents. It offers courteous treatment, speedy results, and secrecy to join, asking readers to send 1 cent for circulars to Box 1801 Vancouver BC.
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