02 Apr 1914
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Newspaper
Oxbow Herald
Location
Oxbow, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Apr 02, 1914
Page
1
Readable fragment notes a daily schedule with exceptions for a residence on Moto Street Osthow and restricted hours around mid morning to early afternoon. The garbled text mentions Wednesdays and a general pattern of ten to nine.
Figures show 600 fires in Saskatchewan causing $1 350 000 in losses from April to December 1917 with daily losses around 5 000 and per capita fire damage of 2. Losses include 20 lives lost last year. Main causes cited as careless fire practices and defective chimneys with calls for a province wide Clean-up Day to improve fire safety and public opinion.
Theo Parsons, 8 years 11 days, died at home in Purple Hill about 12 miles north of Oxbow. Funeral held Wednesday at Oxbow cemetery with many mourners. Born in Ohio, he moved to Minnesota, then Hancock and finally the Willowbunch district. A recent illness lingered. community remembers his kind, obliging nature. Also noted, Guy Johnston reports early chick batch in McCay’s store incubator, 43 birds hatched March 7, now thriving in Oxbow brooder.
The Boscurvis district basket social held at the Boscurvis school house last Friday evening drew a large crowd and good prices. Baskets were numerous and pretty, raising about $6000 for the church fund, with A H Noble of Oxbow and H C Wy lie assisting. Fred Watson returned from Ontario praising a pleasant eastern winter. R J Noble announces an annual accommodation sale after the Spring Stallion fair in Ox bow on April 7 offering horses and farm machinery.
Community notes outline a Hope Methodist social evening on April 8 under the Ladies Aid, an Easter sermon at Arthur church with the anthem Through Portals of Glory, and Meth odist Easter service April 12 with a printed program for attendees. St Pauls Presbyterian schedules April 5 services with morning Sunday school at 10 a.m. and sermons by Pastor Russell on Religious Coasters and Christian Science.
Miss Lottie Byers of Regina formerly of this town arrived on Tuesday and will visit with friends in town and district before returning to the capital city.
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