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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 29, 1925
Page
3
The Canadian Co operative Wheat Producers Limited announces another pool payment of 26 cents per bushel for No 1 wheat, plus 20 cents on Nos 1 4 Northern and 10–16 cents on lower grades, with a final instalment expected next month and adjustments to spreads on grades after final payment.
E D Cotterell, CPR transportation officer, announced extensive plans to move this year’s crop. The company will operate 675 freight engines plus 170 switch engines at terminals, with 40 000 box cars readied for grain loading points in the west. Extra workers are being called out as cars and engines are boosted and idle rolling stock is renovated for early grain movements.
A The Mail and Empire dispatch reports the Dominion government will fill nine Senate vacancies before the general election. Seats open include two in Prince Edward Island two in Ontario two in Alberta two in Quebec and two in New Brunswick with potential appointees named Philippe Roy W C Buchanan and Frank Oliver. Also Prince of Wales rejects a 65 carat diamond but accepts a 12 carat gem.
Regina Sask July 22 a fierce blaze gutted the warehouse of Canadian Oil Companies Ltd at McIntyre and Sixth Avenue. Firefighters fought to keep fumes from a line of tanks and cars as the structure burned.
Part of the Chinese crew aboard the Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of Australia went on strike and deserted the vessel near Yokohama. The remaining crew is expected to desert at Kobe, where the ship is headed from Vancouver, as Japanese workers are recruited to replace the strikers.
Topeka, Kansas, U S district attorney A F Wilson objected when a guard barred him from sitting on the state capitol steps at night. He protested and won permission to sit on the steps until 11 oclock each night if he wishes.
King George and Queen Mary hosted a July 31 garden party in Buckingham Palace grounds attended by seven thousand guests, including distinguished foreigners. The King wore a grey morning suit with a white gardenia. Queen Mary wore pale heliotrope with pearl trim and carried a heliotrope parasol as they greeted crowds.
Ralph Adams an English businessman says he and eight other non American tourists in student class with proper passports were held all day at Ellis Island and subjected to medical examinations he calls humiliating. He will leave the United States and complain to the British consul and the United States line.
Loren H Wittener a government employee began a test case in Washington to challenge the teaching of evolution in public schools via a rider to the 1925 District of Columbia Appropriation Bill. The rider bars funding for any superintendent or teacher who tolerates disrespect for the Holy Bible.
Alberta will participate in a proposed conference on succession duties. Attorney General Brownlee replied to Premier Bracken of Manitoba that Alberta is ready to take part at a time and place to be arranged.
Local shipping companies say no more cattle ships will sail the St. Lawrence route to England due to unprofitable returns. Exporters complain about space shortages but carriers expect no rate increase and cannot profitably move Canadian cattle to the British market.
Mr Walter Rodgers of Oxbow Saskatchewan and his wife were killed when their sedan was struck by the Yellowstone Park special Comet eastbound on West St. Germain Street in St. Cloud Minnesota. The wife died instantly. the husband died en route to hospital while traveling to Noves, Minnesota.
Calgary reports hundreds of horses rounded up by the Sarcee Nation for a grand stampede planned at the Sarcee Reservation on August 5. Nine tenths of the horses have never worn a bit or saddle.
A Calgary oil strike by Alberta Oil Strike Calgary produced 68 in a large quantity at the Can adian Western Natural Gas and Power Co Foremost gas well in early June. The discovery at 2002 feet rose 100 feet and led to exploration of thousands of surrounding acres while officials kept details secret.
Agreement on a formula to handle the Chinese problem nears completion. Peking diplomats may submit the plan to the provisional government soon, including the Washington conference customs duties plan and a commission of inquiry into extraterritorial questions. Britain adds a judicial inquiry into the Shanghai rioting deaths. The Shanghai inquiry hinges on Peking participation and acceptance of the findings.
The Union Bank of Canada transfers its business and assets to the Royal Bank of Canada after a special meeting at the Union Bank head office. Shareholders approve the transfer with 67 000 votes in favor out of 86 000 eligible, all but one dissenting.
Professor J Victor Collins of Stevens Point Wisconsin, delegate to the World Federation of Education Associations, disappeared in London after going to a station to buy railway tickets for a late train to Edinburgh. A 24 hour Scotland Yard search could not locate him. His daughter last saw him at the station.
Central British Columbia faces vast grasshopper swarms as the department of agriculture seeks to curb the outbreak. An order in council allocates 15000 for farmers to combat the infestation across affected areas.
Britain faces a possible great coal strike as miners refuse conference unless owners withdraw wage cut proposals. The Miners' Federation rejects a conference and warns of strikes when the current agreement expires July 31. In West Virginia a nation wide strike threat looms if government intervention fails to prevent wage contract abrogation.
The Rhodes trustees will omit this year’s Rhodes scholars annual dinner after Lord Milner’s death. The event may resume once the new Rhodes Trust Oxford headquarters building is completed and past dinners featured eminent speakers including English statesmen and the prime minister.
Prof Manley Champlin of the University of Saskatchewan reports traces of rust on wheat leaves in the Saskatoon area. He notes no stems affected yet and says favorable weather should prevent significant damage to early crops.
Regina. Deakin Alexander Hall of Prince Albert and Lac la Ronge was acclaimed as the sole candidate in Cumberland at Prince Albert. His return gives the government 51 supporters to 11 for the combined opposition, with He a la Crosse yet to vote.
The Port Arthur branch of the Provincial Paper Mills Limited shipped a carload of book paper to Christchurch New Zealand with further shipments planned. Orders for four carloads of the high quality product are on hand.
The first fall rye has been harvested in this district and cutting will be general in a week. The crop is likely to be fairly good and is ripening rapidly.
Argentina organizes a grand welcome for the Prince of Wales with a military parade involving 12,000 army and navy personnel and a display of 40 military aircraft. The royal party travels via Curlew from Montevideo after transferring from Repulse, while the Curlew sails from Pernambuco to await the August 14 arrival.
Messages of congratulations pour in to A C Wheeler Banff director of the Alpine Club of Canada on the Mount Logan expedition led by Captain McCarthy and Lieut Col W W Foster. Ottawa relay from L C S Amery secretary of state for dominion affairs praises the dauntless effort and skilled organization. Amery attended the 1908 Lake O Hara camp.
The French Government is carefully considering the German security note and will contact interested countries to decide policy for negotiations with Germany on a security pact for the western front. The process will take days and discussions with German ambassadors in Paris or London cannot begin until allied reviews end.
Government defeats an amendment to the Widows and Orphans and Old Age Pensions Bill aimed at paying pensions to retirees living in other parts of the empire. Officials cited administrative difficulties but noted talks to allow reciprocal pension transfers with dominions that run similar schemes.
Winnipeg reports abrogation of the Crow's Nest Pass freight rates schedule effective July 23. Premier Bracken says Manitoba will renew the push to complete the Hudson Bay Railway from the end of steel to the Nelson River and port. Western Canada seeks a fair outlet now that Crow's Nest rates are gone except for outgoing wheat and flour.
A violent thunderstorm struck the Canadian pavilion at Wembley causing damage of several hundred pounds. Lightning hit the northwest tower, blasting out a side and showering debris through a skylight into offices below. No injuries or fire occurred as repairs begin.
The Ottawa Citizen relays a London dispatch claiming Field Marshal Viscount Allenby may succeed Lord Byng as governor-general of Canada. Allenby, recently retired as British high commissioner in Egypt, led British forces in the Middle East and drew praise for campaigns in Mesopotamia and Palestine during the Great War.
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine predicted U S wheat prices this year will be satisfactory and well above Canada. He noted the tariff will work when the U S is not exporting and did not expect a surplus due to a short winter wheat crop.
At the British Empire Exhibition 16 600 pupils visited the Canadian pavilion in London. A single pavilion distributed nearly two tons of literature about Canada and almost none was discarded by the young guests.
London reports the cabinet crisis over the cruiser question ended with a victory for the Admiralty. Papers say the cabinet agreed to the Admiralty’s modified demand to build four vessels this year and three next year.
More than 4000 Indians in the James Bay district received treaty money unusually quickly this year. Typically a two month process, distribution was completed in three weeks using a seaplane of the Ontario Provincial Air Service.
A British company has released a tennis ball sealed with nitrogen that allegedly will never leak or lose its internal gas. The claim emphasizes long lasting pressure and stability for professional play.
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