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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Apr 19, 1889
Page
8
A historic Qu Appelle directory lists many local businesses and services including hotels, jewelers, insurance agents, butchers, printers, carpenters, builders, saddlers, and stage lines. It notes the Qu Appelle Observatory readings for the week ending April 17 1589 with daily thermometer records and wind directions.
An 1889 Pages feature chronicles a dramatic tale titled The Story of a Mad Kee. The piece appears in The Oa Appelle Progress on Friday April 19 1889 and signals a sensational serialized narrative for readers.
Good Friday and Easter are noted with services planned at St Peter church. A town update highlights Wheat seeding progress and favorable spring weather for farm work. Several residents are mentioned including W T Thompson plastering Caswell street and J H Caswell's creamery frame nearing completion.
Local notes report hot cross buns at Mr. A Mc Kenzie’s bakery a missing ten dollar bill between McKenzies and a store a new Presbyterian pastor from Knox College Toronto arrives and the church vestry meets. A fire destroys Mr Cullen’s residence and bishop receives a pastoral staff from S Peters Church amid readings and donations.
In Moosomin the election on Saturday led to Fosesh Daniel, postmaster, becoming mayor with councillors W. H L. Madson F. F. Forben L. D. Keown 4 White N. G. McCallum J. C. McArthur. A prairie fire in the east end was halted by residents and mounted police. A brass band parade honored the new officials as the town grows.
Mrs Eva Beatley of Virdeo Man recounts using Yapyed’s Yellow Od to calm her four year old during a frightening croup episode. She says it relieved the cough and the child slept through the night and she has since used it for other croops and bites.
A group of twelve Russian Jewish families were homesteaded north of Wapella last week. A petition for police presence was drafted to Commissioner Herchmer. At Thursday InstT.J. Smith a druggist faced charges of violent assault on William Schmide. Smith was remanded for a week with bail refused after his head injury complaint failed to appear.
Qu Ay pelle hounds wall meet on Tuesday at St Johns College at 9 o clock. Friday at Mr Kidds place at 9 o clock.
In a fragmentary notice from Syring a birth is reported dated April 4 on a woman named Dewes wife of Mr at the Diapet of a eon. The readable lines point to a family event with limited, uncertain details and no clear location or full names.
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