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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 24, 1925
Page
8
Weekly items from Miniota area include visits by Harry Pringle and Mrs. Grant Sr. in town, trips to Winnipeg Toronto and Spy Hill, a summer school closing, a field day at Isabella, a W I sale, a July 8 G G picnic, Anglican services, hail storm damage and insurance, and plans for a New Year’s Eve ball as braden exhibition week opens with auto race day.
Side shows presented by Robin and Cherry include the Midget Theatre. A group of the smallest performers offered a vaudeville bill with songs painting and boxing. Mitzi stands 27 inches tall and weighs 32 pounds and performs a Spanish Tango.
A son was born Friday June 19 at Miniota hospital to Mr and Mrs St Rolions of Miniota.
The Presbyterian congregations in Winnipeg voted overwhelmingly for organic church union with 4765 in favor and 707 against. Provincial points also backed union. Rev. Dr. J. A. Cormie called the returns gratifying and consistent with Manitoba church history.
A town discussion suggests parking cars on the south side of Main Street with fronts facing northwest to ease departures and gas service. The proposal aims to be helpful, not a law, and notes other towns use similar practices to improve curb use on busy Saturday nights.
Advertising details from The Miniota Herald outline rates for various formats including display, classified, and line ads. It notes per inch pricing for transient ads, multi insertion discounts, and special charges for lagged or broken text, with minimums and run of paper terms.
D Fraser Mich 31 Minota offers Emerson or Plow for sale on favorable terms.
A litter of pure bred sable collie pups offered at ten dollars each. From a reputed line of workers. Apply to W Peneton at Two Creeks P. O or at the Herald Office.
A public meeting will be held in Miniota hall on Thursday July 2 at eight o'clock p m under the auspices of the Bay Association. Prominent speakers will discuss the railway question and present lantern views of progress, urging a large turnout.
All sizes on sale this week with suits priced at 1.35 dollars each. The offer highlights Balbriggan combinations for men.
Avcoramzy reports nearly 250000 bushels of Alberta oats were shipped last winter to New Zealand for seed use. The move highlights agricultural trade from Canada to Oceania amid spring market expectations.
The Quebec Provincial Automobile Bureau estimates well over 100 000 automobiles will be registered in the province this year an increase of about 15000 from 1924 registrations indicating strong growth in motor vehicle ownership.
Official Canadian returns show 1924 live cattle exports to Great Britain exceed 1923 by more than 22 000 head. Exports to the United States also rise. Four small wooden tug feeder vessels are being built at Vancouver for the Hudsons Bay Company to serve Herschel Islands, Corona tion Gulf, powered and iron shelled.
The Crow's Nest Pass district currently has one idle mine while eight to nine thousand tons of coal are produced daily there and six thousand tons from Coleman Blairmore and Bellevue. The British preference plan chiefly benefits Canadian sugar tobacco and automobiles with smaller gains for wines and silk goods. Sugar gains about 25 percent and tobacco 25 to 50 percent. An Order-in-Council raises land clearing premiums from $6 to $8 per acre with a maximum of twenty acres, allowing a settler to obtain up to $160 from the government for land work.
The entire Province of Prince Edward Island and nearby islands have been leased on option to Henry L. Doherty & Company for oil prospecting. Montreal faces a booming 1925 tourist season with expectations of a million visitors. A submarine cable contract runs Vancouver Island to Suva as part of the Allied cable route. Air force patrol radios rise at Pas, Norway House, Victoria Beach, and Fort Osborne Barracks to enable Canada-wide communication.
Grant Hall of Canadian Pacific Railway notes strong business activity and predicts a constructive development era for British Columbia. E. W. Beatty, chair of CP, vows to defend confederation ideals as long as funds remain. The Montreal River log jam, 300000 logs 80 feet high 250 yards wide, was cleared by 100 workers with dynamite after three days.
A three week tour of Canada by teachers and friends under Dean S Laird of Macdonald College will leave Toronto July 20 on the Canadian Pacific Railway. The group travels to Vancouver and Victoria then returns via Southern British Columbia across the northern Prairie Provinces and by boat from Fort William east. Stops will be made at all principal points of interest.
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