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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1889
Page
1
A scanned business directory shows merchants and tradesmen at QU Appelle station including hotel and house listings, merchants, chemists, tailors, boot makers, carpenters, and general agents. Names such as Caswell Beauchamp McKenzie Johnston Doolittle and others appear with varied goods and services in this Manitoba era listing.
Public notice states that the Lieutenant-Governor orders the Sapems Court sittings for the Judicial District of West in various months and places including Moose Jaw Swift Current Qu Appelle Station Fort Qu Appelle with dates on specific Tuesdays and months each year. Secretary GORDON signs.
The Weights and Measures office declares inspections for weighing devices and trade purposes may occur at any time. Traders and manufacturers must obtain verification certificates and keep them for two years in a designated, secure place. Officials urge careful display and compliance to avoid penalties. Ottawa Inland April 1580.
A terse notice from our correspondents in the North-West reports a call for the hoe in local farming circles. Details are sparse but reflect ongoing agricultural activity and community action in the region.
Local notes report W B Boyd welcoming a newborn Saturday. Liberal Conservative delegates to a Broadview convention are to be elected at Ole Commercial Hotel Saturday. Town sports feature a half mile track event with Broncho Tender and Sunny South taking heats amid wagers. Building work at Indian Head Experimental Farm progresses and Geo H Gamble recovers from injuries.
May standings from Summerhill School show pupil rankings by class with names including Deneat McDonald Fleming Fleming Laidlaw Dynes Aldred and McDowell. Notable positions list Rebeena Fleming Hattie Dynes William Fleming and Mary Fleming across classes with multiple Laidlaw and Dynes entries.
Rain showers benefited the crops on the Balgone farm as Mr. Mollison, treasurer of the C. A. C. & company, visited to settle accounts. Contractors for the company fence abandoned the contract leaving workers stranded near Winnipeg with little to return home.
A shocking incident on a bridge over the Saskatchewan last Saturday left a man fatally injured after a collision with a moving Atlantic express rear engine. The victim suffered severe leg amputation and a deep head wound. authorities found no immediate identity, later learning the man was an Icelandic laborer named Johnson from Winnipeg with no known relatives in the country.
Council approves removing the Gleckey bridge and building a new date and roadway. Committees appointed to fund road work north of Ellishora hills and fireguard repairs near township 15 and the Qu'Appelle River. Cemetery repairs and fencing reviewed. Local clergy opinion on prohibition shows strong support with high turnout and votes in favor. The liquor question framed as a moral issue linking poverty and crime.
The license committee for district 1 held a Friday meeting and approved Selkirk Bullock and Montgomery while refusing Reed Emerson and Hudson Bay house West Ly me for lack of neighbor approval. The panel heads to Lower Fort Garry to consider two more applications from Hudson Bay Company and DM Gunn as the provincial license expiry looms.
Fragmentary handwriting shows a damaged memory of an event or testimony. Names like Mary Lepardy and locations such as Lorraa te appear, but the passage is severely burned and largely illegible, yielding no clear actions or outcomes.
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