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Local News Items From Portage la Prairie and Area
Bud Kily of the R C A F Portage la Prairie is home on months leave James Morton of Victoria B C is visiting at the J J Morton home and other relatives and friends around Mr and Mrs Cory and son Robert of Edmonton visited with her father and sister at the R Penelton home and with other relatives and friends around. Commencing Saturday October 6th and from then on Miniota Post Office will be closed on Saturday afternoon. Instead of closing on Wednesday afternoon the office will remain open until 6. The WI met on Friday in the Centre with Mrs C W Ellerington presiding Roll call was an excite of a jam or tickle recipe. An invitation to attend Crandall W I on Sept 20 was accepted. The presentation of WI cup and gifts in the Home and Garden competition will take place after the picture show on Friday of this week. The feature of the meeting was the talk by Mrs Prescott the former Miss K Laycock H E of St Lazare who spoke on How to get the most out of Your Home Freezer giving the proper methods of wrapping and packaging and the best foods to freeze illustrating with posters. A lot of useful information was gained by users of Home Freezers The display of the Embroider from the Handicraft Unit with commentary on the fabrics and stitching was given by Mrs W J Collier and Mrs R M Oliver. A donation of 35 is to go to the Agricultural Memorial Museum at Sydney in Manitoba Tea was served.