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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 04, 1914
Page
4
Applications will be taken at the RON. WOME. Barracks Tin Pas for enrolment of men of good character and physically fit for one year's service in the RN. W.M.LP. Ages 18 to 40. Remuneration 81 per day and all found.
Mise Ada Cotter returns from Regina and visits the Rupert House. Dr J B de Beaupré registers at Rupert House. Hospital Ladies’ Aid meets September 5 at 3 pm at Mrs H S Johnson’s home. Sid Hanchett departs The Pas after business. Rev A R Morgan’s remains disinterred and sent to Saskatoon by request of First Baptist congregation. Beaver Tailoring House advertises new partnership H Ahlman and W E Whitaker for winter clothing and cleaning. Rev E Trigg, former Pas pastor, visits, marries Miss J Jackson with best wishes from friends.
A large dance at the Dreamland Theatre honored volunteers and the boys going to the front. Rosettes were awarded to ladies and guests of honor, with speeches by Dr. Orok Dr. Ross and Mr. Ernie Rusk. Funds were raised for wives and families, and the event ended after a lively all night session.
Dreamland Theatre was decoratively dressed for the occasion. Mrs. Wright asks thanks to Dreamland proprietors for hall use, The Pas Herald for printing and tickets, and to the ladies who assisted in selling tickets. The event raised 183.
A gasoline car owned by Mr Hazel Wood and driven by Mr Franklin, carrying Constable Hammick and brakesman Burt, broke an axle on the Hudson Bay railway Tuesday morning. Hammick suffered chest injuries and two lost teeth. Burt was seriously injured and hospitalised. Franklin was shaken but unimpaired.
Popular town jeweller C. J. Larkworthy returned from Winnipeg with his bride Miss Vanstone after a secret engagement. Natives expect a week of congratulations and purchases as citizens visit the shop hoping to meet the bride and celebrate the nuptials.
The Bannock King E C Allen and L Moore lease the Lyric Theatre in The Pas for a week of novelty shows. A Country General Store features and free prizes include flour sugar tea pipes. A daily numbered ticket draws a gold watch on Saturday evening on stage. surprise gifts may be given to attendees.
At the Rupert House the week’s guests include R H Montgomery Prince Albert W B Porter Beaver Lake C J Larkworthy and wife city E Murtray Winnipeg G E McEwen Ottawa and L Davies Winnipeg At the Opasquai Hotel the week’s guests are H D Spence F Johnson C Noss ter J Lundquist O Anderson J Anderson C Barnes A Pegge E Scammell D Ogilvie J McQuarrie and L A Miller of Winnipeg S W Hanchett D P Birt S Johnson G Edfast B Mandseth L Molin R Backmann and J Jacobson
Reports from Petrograd indicate St. Petersburg is renamed following an imperial edict, with other German names in Russia seeking Russification. Concurrent dispatches note 2 million Russian troops advance on a 250 mile front in Russian Poland, while Paris reports the German push toward the capital halted and Allied momentum rising. Despatches say Russians may soon join Serbian operations in the south.
Union Church holds Sunday afternoon service at 2 20 oclock and Sunday school at 7 30 with evening service. Rev A Lougheed is pastor. Roman Catholic Church lists low Mass then solemn high Mass at 10 a m catechism 2 p m benediction 7 p m and weekly Wednesday service at 7 15 p m.
Premier Asquith called for more volunteers as Britain prepared to expand operations via the Danube route. The report notes ongoing activities transporting ammunition and guns to Servia in advance of troop movements along the same corridor. The tone reflects the early, tense stages of a wider war effort.
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