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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 19, 1958
Page
4
June 19 1958 note lists quick facts: about one in four Canadians work in manufacturing and one in eight in farming. It adds Canada’s first shipyard was started by French colonial governor Talon at Quebec around 1665 and mentions two snakes in Newfoundland.
Local residents share visits with relatives in Brandon Winnipeg and Miniota Portage la Prairie and Hamiota Hospitals attend a farewell picnic with a retirement gift for Federal Grain Elevators General Manager James Couzens. A United College Fund program, Field Day receipts and visits by Brandon College students fill the district social calendar.
Riverside defeated Oak Lake 16 to 7 in the final baseball game of a 12 team event at Arrow River Sports on June 7. Hamiota Little Leaguers won the seven team tournament over Decker. Oak Lake won the ladies fastball title by beating Lenore. Teams included Kenton Newdale Oak Lake Beulah Rivers Isabella Arrow River Rapid City Decker Hamio ta Shoal Lake Crandall Miniota and Beulah Decker Shoal Lake Hamiota Crandall Oak River. The Women institute raised 118.27 from meals and the Community Centre 95.09.
Crandall Sports Day was held on Saturday June 14 with an entry of 22 teams. The event featured Mr and Mrs M Forsyth and family of Brandon Miss Hazel Hargreaves of Harte Man and Wallace Henderson of Virden visiting relatives in Crandall.
A collage of local happenings includes visitors William Palmer from Calgary at the Beattie home in Hamiota, Frazer and Pierce hosting, Joan Bickford of Duluth closing a meeting with a creed, and a Canada Day style tea at a hostesses’ home. The Frazer Clan held a Portage reunion, Donnie Gies won a bicycle at Shamrock Hall, and the Minors baseball team played Hamiota 6 Beulah 5. Local visits span Winnipeg to Kelowna with W.I. gathering, and meals planned for June 26 at J Morrison’s.
Isabella and family from Winnipeg visited relatives including Mr and Mrs R Scarth. Mr G Wright of Westhope North Dakota stayed with cousin D Wright. Mrs R Scarth attended her nephew Ken Slapley’s Winnipeg wedding on June 14. Hospital Aid report given by Mrs P Gow. Community canvass for charity planned for June. Dave Bell and family attended weddings and society events in Edmont on June.
Mrs H Attwood spent six months at her home in England and left Saturday via TCA for Canada arriving in Winnipeg to catch the evening train to Oakner where her son Reg met her. The Mission Band and Junior Red Cross under Mrs L Irvine Mrs S Johnson and Miss Pat Davidson held a tea and bazaar in the school auditorium Friday evening with candy booth home baking sewing magazine plant booth and fish pond run by Junior Red Cross. A 25 cent tea was served and proceeds after expenses totaled around sixty dollars.
Wheat fuels a third of Canadian rail freight and federal law requires prairie grain for export to move at the 1899 rate, a lingering policy noted in the Quick Canadian Facts briefing.
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