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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 17, 1926
Page
8
Local notices list auction sales at H Shurwell and W J Armstrong farm with cattle implements and horses. Beulah Basins hockey recap notes Isabella Miniota game and a couple of sales of pure bred cattle. Masonic Lodge at Home features music and readings with Miss Craig and Mrs Dart among performers.
Gilbert Rowan asks Minisota trustees to publish details on school capacity crowding ground sizes and transport. He urges open dialogue to break deadlock, proposing questions on classrooms numbers locations and funding to shape a constructive policy.
A reader denounces local gossip about a young woman who leaves home for work or travel. She questions the morality of spreading unproven rumors and the motives of those who pry into others affairs, urging honest answers and restraint from judgment.
Fragmentary OCR note warns about speaking the truth only when certain, claiming a scandal implicates a victim across a contentious, uncertain narrative. The text hints at caution in discussing a sensitive matter and the risk of misstatement.
A sermon-like exhortation urges unwavering loyalty to Miniota and its institutions. It argues faithful fidelity across vocation and home life earns reward, while disloyalty risks public condemnation and loss of civic approval. It emphasizes loyalty as a protective watchword for citizens, employers, and families.
Beulah notes report Glen Bruce returning from Winnipeg March 7 after completing an Engineering Course at Manitoba Agricultural College. The Literary Society met February 28 to hear life histories of poets Tennyson and Shelly by Dorothy Paynter, closing with quotations. March 5 session featured member experiences and a musical program. March 12 members gave talks on great men followed by charades, and a wedding was solemnized.
Miss Margaret Kied of Beulah united in marriage to Cyril John Page of 458 Elgin Avenue Winn immigrated to Winnipeg for their ceremony held at the home of Mr and Mrs Fret Bruce. Rev Robt Gow officiated as Miss Winnie Bruce was maid of honor and Grand gift gifts included a leather bound bible and a gold signet ring. The couple will reside near Lorette about twenty miles east of Winnipeg with a post wedding celebration and departure for Winnipeg.
Hodnett's advertises lemons at 35 percent off per dozen with a deal of 3 dozen for $1.00. A thief stole a jar of marmalade and tobacco from a buggy in town last Saturday. The same individual may have moved on to steal coal and wood.
Obituary notes Arthur R A Cole died at Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota after throat infection and a planned operation could not proceed. He was a long time section foreman for Canadian Pacific Railway at Minsota and had recently returned from a brief England visit. Funeral arrangements set for Anglican church at 11 a.m. in Miniota with body en route.
The Cow Testing Association movement improves milk yield by culling non productive cows and improving care. An Indianapolis exposition highlighted a farmer who cut a six cow herd to four yet increased annual milk from 27 000 to over 28 600 pounds and butterfat. The cooperative group rents a trainee tester to record milk, butterfat, feed and income per cow, with the first U S cow testing effort forming in Newaygo County Michigan in 1905 and growing to 432 by 1925.
Nels Nelsen world amateur ski champion staged an exhibition in Shawbridge with the Montreal Ski Club. He owns the long jump record in both amateur and professional ranks, citing a 240 foot leap at Revelstoke, B C two years ago as unmatched since. The Prince of Wales visited the British Industries Fair in Birmingham and praised the Canadian Pacific Railway exhibit. He called the fair splendid and wished it success. Two cases of apples from Ontario arrived in Sierra Leone for the Governor via Dominion Express, packed with Baldwins and Northern Spies in perfect condition.
For sale whiteblossom sweet clover seed with government certificate 15-153 Grade No 1 scarified. 50 cents per bushel in small lots. 500 m at 9 cents, 1000 at 8 cents, 2000 at 7 cents. New cotton bags free. W R Doyle Beulah phone 29 23.
For sale a nine year old Shorthorn milch cow yielding four quarts daily, with a pure bred heifer calf nine months old and about forty laying hens. Due to moving west the seller must dispose of these items to avoid freight charges. Apply to Gonta section foreman C. N. R. Miniota.
Notice requests the return of a gasoline lamp taken from Miniota Hall on Saturday March 6. Hodnett and Spalding urge the person responsible to return the lamp to avoid further trouble.
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