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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 05, 1924
Page
8
Local notes report the council meeting as a court of revision to hear complaints against assessments. Other items mention a hockey defeat 12-4, a Manitoba/Oregon contrast, rising hold ups in Winnipeg, and a district Wheat Pool canvassing roster led by A Jolley and others. A Melvin Van Camp rep will display Ladies wear at Hocketts on March 10.
The infant daughter Audrey Carolyn Sharp of Mr. and Mrs. F Sharp died in Miniota on March 2. Interment was held March 3 at Beulah cemetery.
Enthusiastic meetings for the Manitoba wheat pool to organize farmers were held across the province. A large gathering occurred in Arrow River on Thursday, with another session on Friday in Miniota at the municipal hall led by chief speaker Mr Hindson.
A discussion outlines how farmers bore cost impacts from a wartime machine pact. Canadian machine makers faced payment disputes after Russia’s government change. To secure payments, companies agreed price increases, shifting costs to Western farmers via farm machinery purchases.
For sale about 6 000 good feed oat sheaves. Apply to S Richardson N. 22 14 25. Phone 106 Crandall ex.
Mr. Farmer notes the approaching spring season with items such as seed feed implements poultry and other goods to sell. A small advertisement under this heading costs 80 cents for one insertion or 1.00 for three insertions. Promote early to reach buyers.
For sale in Arrow River Jno Fleming advertises front quarter beef at Ge per pound and dressed potatoes at Ie per pound. Contact Crandall ex at phone 16 15.
For sale Western Rye Grass seed ripe clean free from noxious weeds price six per 100 pounds Also Measury seed Barley price sixty cents per bushel Apply to Jno Foster Miniota
A few pure Rose Comb White Wyandotte cockerels. Extra laying strain. $1.50 each. Gilbert Row, Miniota, Manitoba. Phone 40.
A small farm listing advertises a few heifers TB tested due to calf soon, plus Sweet clover seed Arctic and Common, and Brome grass seed. Contact John F. Strachan at phone 13 I 2 Miniota.
Advertises a gathering on Saturday March 8 at 2 p m to discuss securing a good stallion for the district. Residents interested in breeding stock are urged to attend.
The Canadian Pacific Railway has set a fast pace in relaying tracks with over 100 miles of 100 pound rail laid at a rate of about a mile per hour. The process uses a salvage method moving old steel outside the track and reusing tie plates, reducing future costs and maintaining alignment during renewal. The Megantic Subdivision pioneered this system attracting attention from rail officials nationwide.
The Canadian Pacific Railway has yet to forecast 1924 construction but ordered 50 000 tons of steel from Algoma Steel indicating a broad program. Ontario minister Charles McCrea cites Sudbury nickel dominance, while Alberta butter output rose to 18 500 000 pounds. 1923 building activity showed a 10 percent rise with total expenditures near 315 000 900. Canadian pulpwood output climbed 35 percent to 1 884 220 cords, and CPR officials Ussher and Hebert received French government medals for aiding the 1921 Exhibition train.
Airship experts note Alberta hosts the empire’s only suppolum gas and 10 million feet go to waste annually while Canada’s 1928 fisheries output reaches $40,000,000. Dominion remains a top wheat supplier, second in auto exports, and mineral, forest, agricultural, and fisheries sectors total $2.42 billion, with immigration rising sharply in nine months to December.
In Hamilton a car buyer shot a garage salesman after complaining about a bargain. Britain’s labor government proposes building several large warships to ease unemployment.
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