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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 30, 1951
Page
2
Alberta government announces a new settlement area in the Peace River country offering 356 quarter sections with 50 reserved for school lands. The heavy clay loam soil is suitable for wheat oats barley and grass legumes. Much of the land is burned over and easier to clear than some northern lands.
Government warns roads will be rough and water scarce for settlers in the new western land open for homesteading. Many may seek fortunes there, including young people and new Canadians, continuing a tradition in Canada’s settlement history.
Sherridon Manitoba town near Flin Flon relocates its population as the Sherrit-Gordon copper zinc mine winds down by September 1. Forty houses move to Lynn Lake where a new nickel mining operation emerges, with a 155 mile rail link costing 14.725 million to connect by November 1 1953 and ore ready for Edmonton refinery.
A juvenile court judge warned that girl hitch-hikers may cause parents to be charged with contributing to juvenile delinquency. Judge Mackenzie Matheson urged girls to avoid thumb rides, citing the terrible risk of doing so. Vancouver bylaw bans hitch hiking.
Kenneth Joseph Elliott of the Cowichan Indian band is believed to be the first British Columbia Indian named to the Civil Service School of Drafting in Ottawa.
Vancouver readers know Ab Mortimer as the 62 year old who officiates five to six games weekly. A former star, Mortimer earned fan and player affection, winning the Kings Way baseball league favorite umpire award. Born in New Westminster, he also played for Handry Mills and the Kansas City Monarchs before wartime service.
Residents along 250 miles of the Alberta border declare war on rats from Saskatchewan. The pests have been pouring into rodent-free Alberta between the border towns of Alsask and Empress. The Alberta Agriculture Department announced a campaign to keep the pests out.
A Saskatchewan Poultry Association committee urged formation of a National Poultry Marketing Board. The association executive agreed the marketing plan would leverage current marketing bodies and allow surplus to be handled nationally if a board is created.
A cow in Saskatoon area has adopted four young pigs after one calf was lost. The porkers began nursing as the cow lay down and have since followed her everywhere. A Regina barber shop sign reads humorously about a clip joint. A brief note mentions success is found in cans.
A collection of light, dated quips and cartoonish exchanges. An office boy recalls a message to a busy executive, a quarrel over a train, and humor from spouses ministers and teachers. Bits poke at success, aging, memory, and workplace quirks with sharp, wry wit.
The Prince Albert board of trade notes a steady rise in business from 1950. June bank clearings surpassed by more than 1 million and July by 500 thousand. Post office, building permits, and tax collections rose in 1951. Airline passengers climbed from 170 to 307 in June and 132 to 287 in July. Tourist camps hosted 475 patrons in June and 632 in July, up from the previous year.
An old classified note offers pattern 7200 for embroidering a flower arbor with ready-made ruffles and a trousseau set. Send twenty five cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union Toronto to obtain pattern and pattern 514x138 motif transfer plus a copy of the 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework catalogue.
Ottawa reports Manitoba and Saskatchewan towns and villages gain population in 1951. Wood Mountain to Woodrow totals rise 5 775 in 20 towns. 91 of 121 villages show increases, 30 decline. Brandon Portage la Prairie St Boniface gain. Winnipeg shows large rise, urban centers trend upward. Data preliminary with revisions possible.
A scientific party surveying the Western Chilcotin mountains this summer includes three Royal Canadian Air Force search and rescue unit members and nine civilian mountaineers. They aim to chart many square miles of wilderness.
In Spokane, Mrs. Marie Flechsig found $1,000 in bills inside a plain feather pillow her mother had treasured. The discovery followed her母 mother's advice to keep the pillow and not give it away, revealed while preparing a new cover.
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