Local Notes From Winnipeg And Rural Manitoba Happenings
Mr and Mrs WF Warren visited Winnipeg last week for the Rural Credits Convention. A gathering at KR Peel's home featured cards music and dancing. CKY will begin programming on January 11 from Partage la rairie with Beandon and other Manitoba towns to follow. Reeve J W Mitchell left for Vancouver and California and will return next spring in improving health. The McConnel cup standings place two rinks from Oak River at Ham his to claim it. Miniota plans to bring it next. A Helping Hand concert at Crandall United Church on January 18 features Elsie McLuhan and others with admission 50c and children 25c. Iota Union Ladies Aid met with a $200 credit balance. officers listed. Rapid City notes report budding lilacs and a wandering caterpillar. mild springlike weather continues. The Stream of Life film shown at Union Church drew limited attendance but praised quality. Moffat plans further screenings. Police court reports include William Cusack charged under Sec 122 for allegedly pointing a firearm at Rand F Clark on December 13. testimony outlines dispute with J Dickie on the same farm.
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Wmn. Cusack
Rand F. Clark
Clark
J. Dickie
W Cusack
Dickie
Magistrate cites gun scare at farm case and orders costs
Magistrate Rowan sums up that the boys should have gone to the farm when told to and that Cuanach had no right to scare them with a gun. Cusack said that was his sole intention. The court orders costs borne by both parties.
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Mile
Rowan
Cuanach
Cusack
Miniota School Awards Honor Weed Essay Contest
Eighteen pupils attended Miniota School daily last term. The Dept of Agriculture held an essay contest on weed problems for under Grade IX. Jean Bovee won first prize four dollars and Nellie Andrew second prize three dollars. The school literary society resumed with O Canada, recitations, The Echo, Glee club numbers, The Question Box, riddles, tongue twisters, one minute speeches, The Torch of Life, and the National Anthem.
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Dept. of Agriculture
Jean Bovee
Nellie Andrew
Miniota School Literary Soviety
Canada
Dorrie Wythe
Dinkie
Mildred Wythe
Echo
Glee Club
Edward Young
Alice Thompson
Constance Andrew
Edwin Spalding
Isabella School Hosts Hockey Night At Local Rink
Isabella notes Mrs Hawkins visits Rev and Mrs Anderson for weeks. Miss Lottie Cotten replaces Flora Davidson in Room LI. Isabella to meet Blaris in hockey at the rink tonight. Funeral services held for the late Mr Ballantyne. Vancouver trip returns by Wa Taylor. Barber business in Over Sound begins. Carnival at the rink draws strong costumes and lively races. managers report a solid financial balance.
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Lottie Cotten
Flora Davidson
Isabella School
Isabella
Blaris
Rev. Anderson
Brookdale
Mr Ballantyne
Sunset Brand Tomatoes Packed In 20 Pettin Case
Hodnett offers Sunset Brand tomatoes packed in twenty count cases. Price four dollars and twenty-five cents per case. W. L. Hodnett advertises produce in plain store copy.
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Sunset Brand
Pettin
W. L. Hodnett
Married in Michigan City and Brandon in January
Mr and Mrs W E Warren learned their son Robert wed in Michigan City on January 5. In Brandon on the same day Mary Edith Maxfi ld of Two Creeks married Norman McLaren of Two Creeks. The McLarens plan to live on a farm south of Two Creeks.
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Brandon
Mary Edith
Wm. Maxfiild
Two Crookes
Norman McLaren
Two Creeks
Memorial Location Vote Set for February Sixth
Ratepayers will decide on Saturday February 6 the location of the Municipal War Memorial. The ballot uses a transferable system listing five villages with voters marking 1 for their first choice and 2 for second, with two to three choices required.
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Manitou
Cravdall
Miniota By-law 14 Public Vote on 1926 School Debentures
Public notice states By-law No. 14 of the Miniota Municipal School District 149 will be voted on by ratepayers. It authorizes borrowing 30000 for building a four room school at Miniota and a one room school at Arrow River. Voting is scheduled Saturday February 6, 1926, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at specified locations.
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Tucseday
Miniota
Rueve
Minieta Municipal
Arrow River
wilMes
A. D
Nbs
Lynch
Craig
Lynch—Peel
Rural Council Meeting At Miniota Addresses Local Issues
The Miniota rural council met last Tuesday and approved hiring R Collingwood as caretaker at 800 per year. They planned a soldier memorial ballot, discussed a three month Reeve leave, re-elected municipal officers, and approved By-law 636. They joined with Hamiota and Birtle to appoint a resident engineer and pledged 250 yearly to Miniota Hospital. Debates covered roads, hotels liquor, bridge repairs, and a Farmers Union hall request.
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Outre
Minidta
Farmers’ Union
School Trustees Approve By-law For School Building Debenture
The Municipal Trustee Board at Minieta passes By-law No. 15 to raise 30000 dollars by debenture for erecting school buildings at Minieta and Arrow River. The measure, read three times, goes to the rural council. The meeting also appoints delegates to the Manitoba School Trustee Convention and forms district standard clubs. The next meeting is set for Isabella.
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Minieta
Arrow River
Rural Council
For Sale White Leghorn and Baff Orpington Cockerels
For sale single comb White Leghorn cockerels from Tom barren strain and Baff Orpington cockerels. Price two dollars each. Apply to Mrs. Dennis at phone 912 Beulah.
Transient advertising rates for The Miniota Herald
Advertising rate notice lists pricing per inch for display ads at 406 per inch condensed ads for single insertions at 3 to 4 insertions or 1.00, extra lines 100 per line, legal ads 2c per line, cards of thanks 5c per line, and other display rates on application while noting bald type reading notices require payment for meetings with admission.
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Herald
Morth Railway Ave
Conthaet
Train Stopped to Avoid Collision at Crossing
A report from Smiths Falls Ontario states a train halted to avoid a collision with a car approaching the tracks at a crossing. The train remained stationary as the automobile struck one of its cars. The occupants escaped injury.
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Smiths Falls
Ontario
Tourists Buy Olive Wood Gavels at King Solomon Quarries
Tourists aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Scotland visited the King Solomon quarries beneath Jerusalem on Christmas night. A CPR cable notes many bought gavels carved from quarry stone with olive wood handles as souvenirs.
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Jerusalem
C.P.R
Holiday traffic up at Canadian Pacific from West sources
At CP headquarters holiday passenger traffic from points west was the heaviest since 1920, rising about fifty percent over last year. November earnings reached 19,294,184.37 with a 1,193,239.12 gain over 1924. Eleven month net profits totaled 35, versus 27,983.83 more than 1924.
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The
Canadian Pacific Railway
Points West
Silver fox farming in Norway noted during Canada visit
Johannes Borge of Bergen reports Norway has about 150 silver fox farms in Landmore. He notes last autumn 120 foxes were chipped from Norwey island, worth an estimated 1,000,000 kroner, highlighting fox farming as a key Norwegian industry.
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Johannes Borge
Journaliss
Bergen
Norway
Dominion
Canada
Landmore
Norwey
Great Lakes Traffic Up as Passenger and Freight Improve
M. Mec D Duff of the Great Lakes Steamship Service says grain tonnage dropped from 1924 levels but passenger travel and package freight rose, keeping total traffic near average for the season on the Great Lakes and reflecting stronger Canadian Pacific earnings.
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Great Lakes
Canadian Pacific
M. Mec.d. Duff
Mennonites Bound for Canada Reported Emigration Rush
A Mennonite party bound for western Canada arrived in Montreal with word that members who went to Rosario Mexico are dissatisfied and plan to move north. About 1,000 Mennonites have emigrated to Canada in two months and 2,500 more are expected in spring. Hans Seidler led the group and none considered Mexico.
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Canada
Manitoba
Montreal
Rosario
Mexico
Hans Seidler
Mexco
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TOL Ve
Warren
Winnipeg
City
KR. Péel
CKY
Sta Ramme
Partage la Rairie
Beandon
Reeve
Sire J. W. Mitchell
Vancouver End Pointe
California
Hamiota
Oak River
Humiota
Helping Hand
Iota Union Ladies Aid
G. T. Grant
J.D. Forsyth
Wyart
Treasner
J. Sararas
Rapid City
Union Church
Moffat
Mrs. Hawkins
Mrs. Anderson
Jack Finkbeiner
Lost Steer
Taylor
Vancouver
W. A. Dolan
Over Sound
Axe River
Belmont
Corydon Ignace Manitou
Sea
Mutual
Beulah
Blairs School
Wynona
Acrow
G. Douglas
Municipal Hall
Province of
W. E. Warren
Chevrolet
Watts & Rowan
W. J. Armstrong
A Spencer
Hodnett's
Teesday
Lynde Claak
R. Collingwood
Minisota
Graham
Reeve Mitchell
Peel—Lynch
Birtle
Ladie
Peel
J. Reed
Mitchell
Woods—Douglas
TW. Suddaby
Iverach—Porrance
Treas
Manitoba School Trustee
Chalmers— Woods
Elliott
Miller
Messrs Iverach, Frazer and Chalmers
Chalmers
Messrs Frazer
Woods
Elliott, Lindsay
Torrance
Messrs Iverach, Miller, Woods, Lindsay
J. W. Bonner and
Douglas
Alcance
John J. Arklie
Pool Rvon
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