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LOCAL NEWS. Mr. John McTavish of Newdale was in town on Saturday. Messrs. Clay and Lefer paid a visit to Neepawa on Wednesday. Rev. Mr. Pimlott preached his fare well sermon at Newdale on Sunday last. Cadet Buckingham is in charge of the S. A. this place, vice Cadet Alkin head. Mr. H. Tremaine’s mother, sister and brother-in-law ,arrived from On tario on Wednesday. Mrs. D. A. Hopper and her two daughters leave on a visit to friends in Winnipeg on Friday. Mrs. Shipton, of the English Reserve, died on Wednesday, in the 60th year of her age. The funeral takes place to lay at Rosedale Cemetry. Since the Queen's Hotel has been deprived of a license the Windsor has very much more business than it can accomodate although it is a large house A meeting of session was held in the vestry of the Presbyterian church on Tuesday evening. Rev Mr. Todd, moderator, and Mr. Steel, elder, from Minnedosa were in attendance. The many friends of Miss Kennedy, saleslady in D. A. Hopper Co's store, will be pleased to hear of her return from Port Arthur. She arrived at Brandon by C. P. R. on Sunday and was met by her brother, Mr. W. M. Kennedy. The bark helmets that are attract ing so much attention are for sale at A. Laurens’, the only place they can be got in town, and the only lot that has been imported into Canada. They are just the thing for summer and suit either ladies or gentlemen. Cadet Alkinhead, of thes. A., fare welled on Sunday. She left for Win nipeg on Monday, to which place she received instructions about a month ago to hold herself in readiness to proceed. While here she made many friends who regret her departure. Coroner Crookshank received a tel egram on Monday morning from H. Whimster, J. P. of Strathclair, request ing him to proceed to that place and hold an inquest; a man named Archie McDonald having been found dead hanging by the neck in his own house. A meeting of the schooi board was called for Wednesday last and as usual, there was no quorum. Messrs. Ross, Oval, Hopper and the See-Treas were the only ones that put in an appear ance. What is the use of putting men in positions that they take no interest in attending to. Mr. B. Naisbett has at last struck a splendid well of water on his farm. The lack of a sufficient supply of water for his livestock has been a great source of annoyance to him and he has spent alot of money in digging wells. Last week, however, he tried it again with a boring machine, and struck a gooi rein at a depth of 40ft. The town authorities should see that the back premises of some places in town are cleaned up. Dr. Harrison’s auction sale of stock and implements was a grand success. There was a large crowd present and things went at big prices. A number of cricketers get out on the grounds regularly every evening for practice. Brandon club wants to play them a game as soon as they are ready. Some fine views of the town and different points of interest in the neighborhood, including the mills and cemetry, are for sale at J. K. Patton's drug store, it was shown at the inquest that the Ian MeDonald who was found hang ing bys the neck, on Monday, at Strath club, had committed suicide while laboring under a fit of insanity. It would be interesting to the rate payers in town to know how many immigrants the town agent has secur ed for this district this spring, and how much the securing of them has cost the town the old nuisance of dumping man ure in the vicinity of dwelling houses, still goes on unchecked. Some people seem to think that drawing a nuisance away from their own premises and dumping it at their neighbor's door is all that is required of them. The woolen mill is again running full blast. Wool, however, is not com ing in very fast, and unless it begins to move pretty soon the supply for the mill will have to be brought from the west. The price of wool at present is 12 cents per pound at the factory. Jacob Kajforse, the Finlander who murdered young Cooper, two years ago, at Shoal Lake, has been pardoned. He having been sentenced to a short term in the penitentiary. A great deal of false sympathy was worked up on behalf of this fellow on account of him being a foreigner. Mr. John Ralston was in town on Wednesday enquiring as to whether or not the gopher bounty by-law had been passed by the municipal council. It turns out that Mr. K. had been vic timized by a few boys who had sold him a number of tails at sidiscount, assuring him that the by-law had been passed. Our lacrosse team got ready to go to Minnedosa on Wednesday to play a match. After they had gone to the expense of hiring men to fill their places at home for the day, hiring horses to drive around and notify the men that were to take part in the game, and hiring teams and wagons to convey them to Minnedosa, they re ceived a telegram stating that the Minnedosa team declined to play till after the match between them and the Winnipeg team, come off. It seems, however, that the Minnedosa am, as a whole, are not to blame in the metic: no one we had taken a GpOP wits 22 to te Tyo gome off. It were Gals claim for the Minne to Rapid Citys a: any ame Money to loan on the security of Real Estate, Fire and Life Insurance, M. Turriff. A vendor of maps struck the town this week. He was a good talker and made a large number of sales. W. A. Macdonald went west of Oak River, on Wednesday, to commence a contract on the N. W.C. Ry. Several transactions in Real Estate have been completed during the past few weeks at M. Turriff's Real Estate agency. A substantial improvement has been made by overseer of puble works McArthur on the corner of 4th St. 3rd. Ave. Mr. Allan Ross and his two sons have returned from Souther Mani toba. They were well pleased with the country, Messrs. A.t. Miller and Peter Barr of Oak River are out on a little recre ation tour through the country. ‘They spent a few hours in town today. Mr. John McLaughlin has now 7% head of cattle, all in prime con dition. Mr. McLaughlin came into this settlement eight years ago with two cows. Mr. J. M. Vaughan came in from the farm and had a little practice at lacrosse with the boys. Jack has not forgotten how to handle the stick, and it takes a good one to get the ball away from his. On account of press of work, Edward William Henry, of Oak River, who run a threshing machine, were unabled to get their own wheat thresh ed. They are now threshing it and will have from 1,500 to 2,000 bushels, which, at present prices will bring a nice little boodie.
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Rapid City Spectator
Rapid City, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jun 14, 1888
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