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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 06, 1947
Page
10
The Miniota Herald notes a severe winter across Canada and Minnesota with heavy drifts and travel disruption. It recalls the Hawthorne residence drift scene, train cancellations, and plows clearing rails as communities resume movement and await spring.
Crandall R N Amy Morison Co Dickey and C Lyng are curling in the Winnipeg bonspiel. Entry time for the Big Bonspiel starts Monday February 24. Five events. High school rinks compete in Brandon with players Wallace Carnegie Cassell and McConnell skip. Johnson Coupe Colbeck and Shier also listed.
The Sunday school held a ska ting party after four last Friday inviting all district children. An enjoyable and interesting program of sports followed at the rink before the children departed.
Thos Harwood and Miss Ethel Gardham of Winnipeg visited the Gardham home. Mr and Mrs G Leland visited Brandon with their daughter who had been in hospital. The Friday night Country Fair under W I auspices earned 230 dollars gross. Betty Carnegie won the walnut end table. Mrs O Connor and Muriel Collier won coffee Silex.
A committee convened by Mrs D Leland was formed to explore the feasibility of introducing a school lunch program in the area. Mrs F Wiggins contributed a paper outlining the project details and potential benefits.
Three births announced from the Miniota Nursing Home. Bonnie Henderson Steuart born February 6 to Mr. and Mrs J H Steuart of Miniota a daughter. Maxine Elizabeth Walker born February 15 to Mr. and Mrs J T Walker of Crandall a daughter. A son born February 17 to Mr. and Mrs Henry Shane of Willen.
The W I met on Wednesday at the home of Mrs W Tennant with Mrs L Leland presiding. Roll call featured display of treasured possessions and a donation of coat hangers for hall use. The group planned two scrapbooks and committee arrangements for Festival work. A group debate under Mrs Leland and a Hot Shot Lunches debate led by Mrs R G Mitchell and Mrs J Wiggins were noted.
We thank our many friends for kindnesses during our loss of our Father and for the beautiful floral tributes. The Shier Family.
Isabella Riches of Carberry visits S Lawn home while Mrs J Norrie ill at Crandall. J E Finkbeiner and family spend weekend at Cardale. Winnipeg bonspiel attendees include R L Stevenson and L Wright with L Shoemaker team. Community groups held meetings and discussed the new Citizenship Act with a questionnaire and lunch.
Mrs G Whiteman of Beulah spent the weekend at Neepawa. Kallie Woods also spent the past week at Neepawa. A Spencer shipped cattle to Winnipeg Tuesday. Ted Woods of Binscarth visited.
Rev H J H Oldfield B A L Th announces that services will be held later. The notice appears under the Gspel Gossip column.
The Indian hockey team played Beulah on Saturday at the G. L. Woods home. Indian won the game with a final score of 8 to 4.
The W.1 group met at Mrs J Clark’s home on Wednesday with Mrs D G McDonald presiding and eleven members present. Roll call was answered, Mrs Chisholm gave the favorite book of 1946 Our Friend the Book, and Mrs H E Forster reviewed Ideas have Legs by Peter Howard. Lunch concluded.
The CG.IT held its affiliation meeting at Mrs J Chisholm's home on Thursday with Darlene Darker presiding. Fourteen girls joined a candle light service and gifts were presented by Mrs H E Forster and read letters from Miss Margaret Drummond in India. Donna Chisholm sang Teach me to Pray as the meeting ended with Taps.
John F. Tennant Commissioner for oaths and collector of highway taxes appears in a Manitoba notice. Kathie Fees and Avent for Manitoba Motor League Renfrew Machinery are also named in the listing. The entry refers to real estate and farm lands and notes the Miniota post office entrance as a location point.
During 1945 and 1946 thousands of tests were made on many weed and crop plants in the United States and Canada. At a Des Moines meeting the North Central Weed Control Conference issued tentative recommendations for 24 D use in 1947 including broadleaf weed control in lawns and disturbed areas, rights of way and ditch banks, aiding perennials, seed production prevention, and spot treatment in pastures without clovers.
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