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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1942
Page
8
Local items report military family news as residents celebrate birthdays and promotions, with several notes on wartime duties and global duty. Sugar rationing details warn buyers to use by October 31 and purchase by September 30, while critics accuse officials of misinformation about bonds and savings.
Canada limits individual mail shipments to 1000 cigarettes per month for soldiers. Units will record consignments and surplus, beyond 1000 monthly, goes to Auxiliary Services for distribution. Shipments to officers, hospitals, and units remain allowed. delivery regulated on arrival overseas.
The funeral of Alan Bunn aged 20 son of J Retin Birdtai Tecien Reectve died at Dynever hospital was held on Thursday at the Reserve cemetery. Rev H I Bowman B A officiated.
A group of school pupils visited Mr. and Mrs. W. Wright and presented an electric lamp to Mr Wright and flowers to Mrs Wright. An address preceded the presentation as Wright, a Seeg caretaker at the school, now serves as a watchman at the C.N.R. bridge at Uno.
OS Ward Collyer of the Royal Canadian Navy was home on leave last week. Mr and Mrs J W Beer and son James returned to Winnipeg. The W M S met in the church parlor with Mrs W Bill presiding. A letter from a missionary in China was read and a special October service to revive interest in the work was planned with Mesdames H B Whitney and D L Johnston in charge.
Arrow River Miserie Carregie Don and Bob from Victoria British Columbia visit with Tyme Tennert from Winnipeg and Rob Reyes from Lethbridge both of the RC ALP. Spence Littlejohn returns from Ireland and visits with wife relatives and friends in the district before reporting to Ottawa after furlough.
In a church parlor gathering Mrs W Tennant presided on Tuesday. Attendees decided to donate to the British Children's War Services Fund and to place two names on the Book of Remembrance. Mrs PD Leland spoke on Wartime Prices and Trade Board information.
Oswald Blaich, a Junior Boys Seed Club member from Miniota, was awarded a $100 scholarship by the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture to study at the Agricultural College. Donated by United Grain Growers Ltd, the award recognizes his three years of active participation. He plans to leave for Winnipeg in October to begin studies.
Wanted listing from W. P. Bradley of Miniota offers a Willys six cylinder sedan with four good tires. Also for sale two beds dresser washstand upholstered settee and rocker extension and kitchen tables and chairs cupboards and other articles too numerous to mention.
Mrs. L. Duxbury and her two Winnipeg sons who had been visiting the F. G. Bowman home departed on Sunday to visit friends in Caredale.
Manitoba agriculture warns farmers of a tough grain year due to congestion in storage and inexperienced harvesters. Guidance covers drying swaths, proper storage, and stacking as a fallback, plus rust diseases affecting cereals and ornamentals with strategies to reduce spore spread including burning or plowing under flax straw and stubble.
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