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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1921
Page
8
Local item urges readers to examine a Saturday ballot in advance, explains marking choices with an X, and invites public input on school plans. It warns about spoiled ballots and petty booth conduct, then notes a lawn social for the Presbyterian Church and a benefit cafeteria lunch with Mintota Brass Band. Stray cattle reported near Elkhorn with descriptions and contact.
Miniota Municipal School District No 149 approves borrowing 50000 dollars by debentures to finance a new four room Beulah school and to pay for recently erected buildings at Isabella and Arrow River with equipment. Debentures bear 6 percent annual interest and are repayable in thirty equal annual installments of 3682.44 dollars.
G J Cole and G J Coffey advertise Good Valley Pasture with ample water for cattle. Yearlings priced at 350 dollars per head. Big cattle and horses offered at 4 dollars per head for the season.
For sale a Holstein cow to refit in August and a three year old registered polled Angus bull. Apply to A Jolly, phone 14 2, Miniota.
A meeting of the Directors of the Miniota Rural Credit Society is scheduled in the Municipal Hall Mine sota on Saturday June 11 at 7 p m. W F Warren serves as Secretary.
Census enumerators started on their work on Wednesday. Dr R K Chamers is in Brandon having his leg fixed. Cap Woolgar is in Winnipeg undergoing medical treatment. Presbyterian Bible Class picnic to Murphys Lake on June 9. Mrs F Hillier of Southey visiting her parents. Bill reports most crops in except rolled oats and bran. Mrs Geo Bliss sailed to Liverpool to visit relatives. Mrs W Jarvis and family spent the weekend in Brandon. Rev C E Somerset and Jas Boyce attended the Birtle District meeting at Crandall. Arsenic and lead supplies are issued for grasshopper control. Isabela Agricultural Society prize lists delivered to A C Heise. The Miniota list will be ready in about a week. One traveller praises Laidman’s show as among the finest in town. North road travellers complain of two dangers.
At a district meeting the Board outlined the By-law to be voted on June 4 and the year’s estimates. If approved, salaries, transport, fuel, repairs, and debentures total 70,866.39 dollars with a 39,286.39 levy. If defeated, 54,103.95 levy and 22 1/4 mills. The by-law plans a Beulah school building around 32,000 dollars with brick construction and four rooms. Beulah would lack lighting. water via wet hand pump. sanitary chemical closets in basement. Existing Arrow River and Isabella schools would need additions and equipment. Public Schools Act details note dissolution shifts liability to districts. Debate highlights misgivings about Beulah’s temporary housing and Beurgh’s four rooms.
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