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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1957
Page
2
A threatened strike by Rossland Civic Employees was averted after an amicable settlement between the City of Peasland and its civic workers. The talks began Monday at 1 p.m with a city compromise offer, followed by a workers meeting at 4 p.m and a counter compromise. The parties reconvened at 5 p.m. to finalize details.
Voice Brookes advertises Everyday animal friends design for a crib cover Pattern 7398. Transfer motifs 6x7 inches with color chart and directions. Send 35 cents to Household Arts Department Toronto W for order and a free needlecraft book offer.
Send 40 cents for Printed Pattern 4620 by Anne Adams Pattern Dept. The two version dress features a low scoop neckline or a modest high neckline with sleeves suitable for summer or cooler weather. Printed directions provided. sizes 14 through 48 include yardage for size 16 about 3 1 2 yards 35 inches. Address and style number requested.
A Manitoba farmer pays five dollars to free a stranded Manitoba Telephone System line truck. The Kamsack Times notes G. H. Pennell has paid for The Times now for fifty years. Rolling Hills Alberta forms a fifteen member emergency group with a five calf bingo and a dance to fund the Emergency Fund. Hartney Manitoba reports a boy gave $2.12 to the hospital after a charity circus. The CPR Langgan staff dress a pig in a windbreaker to keep it warm. Helen Early seeks return of a coat from a Loyalist dance. Bows stolen from a United Church prompt a return plea. Congratulations to several couples on long marriages. A wedding couple, both 73, goes home, bakes ten quarts of jam after. Deadwood Alberta hosts a pie and salad picnic. A Christmas cactus in Saskatoon blooms 870 times since December. Mrs Bertha Bloom marks 100th birthday. Several seniors reach 91 or 95. Twin sisters celebrate 85th birthday. Betty Timar christened in a 200 year old robe. Farmers report a three-wing white rock pullet. A Lake Oak hen lays an unusually small egg. Kinsmen volunteers advance a new rink in Westlock. Clive church curtains once hung in Canterbury Cathedral.
Local officials and residents in Souris Manitoba voiced concern over unusually low Souris River levels through spring and summer. They accuse North Dakota dams of restricting flow, note the river’s poor suitability for bathing, and urge federal and provincial action to release water to restore level and support fishing and water supply. July 31, 1957.
Registration closed on Saturday July 27 for the Red Cross Swimming Classes in Moosomin Saskatchewan with 227 would be swimmers signed up. Approximately seventy beginner boys and seventy beginner girls compose the junior groups along with intermediates and seniors. Instructors Mrs R A McDonald and Misses Donna McDonald Joanne Sarvis and Jackie Stutt urge parental cooperation as classes begin at 1 30 daily and swimmers should refrain from lunch until after lessons. The Beach Committee has prepared the beach and moved the raft for distance swimming.
A fragment recalls Reverend Creighton acquiring unspecified items in 1912, shipping them to Clive for display in a church where the priest was later killed in World War I. The items, described as tapestries and antiques, are deemed valuable and the tale ends with a humorous note from ASH in the Grenfell Sun about a seat swap on a crowded airliner and a reprimand from a commanding officer.
The Rotary Club of Tillsonburg Ontario approves a motion to build a brand-new ultra-modern school for mentally retarded children in the district. The decision was made at the regular meeting on Tuesday July 18 1957 in Tillsonburg.
The fruit Cantaloupe gets its name from Cantaloupe in Italy where melons first grew in Europe.
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