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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Mar 05, 1886
Page
4
Hotel registers fill as March fair comes tomorrow. Prooness office to relocate next Monday to larger central premises. Freighters from the north frequent the area while a new stock of sta 3 hp opens next week near Tar Pao areas at J P Beauchamp’s old stand.
The Battery Dramatic Club impressed with a vivid second performance featuring portraits by Capt in ford and strong acting by Corporal Wills as the old father in law. Gr O Leary Greg Ganning and Amos received praise for their roles while Driver Buckley and the four ladies drew laughs in key scenes. The musical interval and St Peter's church benefit added to an overall strong showing.
The Regina Presbytery met at Qu Appelle March 2 3 with Rev H McKay presiding and Rev A Hoye as clerk. It reviewed funding for Manitoba College principalship and Home Mission Board grants totaling 7400 with an 8500 estimate for next year and discussed cooperation with other evangelical churches on labor supply.
The Presbytery approved regulations on missionary bases and discussed Knox College funding at Toronto. It recommended copying the managers of congregations, urged members toward home and foreign missions, and listed conveners for standing committees. The projected year end funds reach about 25,000 with field openings and church growth noted across territories.
The district tames from Moffatville to Moffat to reduce confusion and a peak office with bi weekly delivery is approved. Alexander Kindred of Moffat Farm is named to a key post as meetings discuss forming a joint stock cheese factory and the Mutual Improvement Society gears up for a March 19th meeting.
A brief financial update reports gifts from England and elsewhere totaling near 2000 dollars spent in the past year. A 27 dollar debt remains for bell mounting and 152 dollars on the brick veneer fund, with Next Monday's entertainment to fund the latter.
The first sitting at Wolseley is planned for the 10th of the month and the cattle sale will be held there on Wednesday March 10. A banquet honors Mr. W. D. Perley and a Winnipeg charter ranching scheme seeks to supply milk cows on shares to Manitoba and Northwest farmers. Flour mill expansion to 20 000 bushels surveyed with likely bonus, cheese factories proposed across several districts south of here, council met February 27 with accounts and salaries detailed and bridge and bluff projects to be investigated.
Water ran a foot deep on the Battle River ice two hours after a chinook. Telegram line to Pitt may go up next summer. Sentences of penalized half-breeds in the Tsallhen Sores case commuted. Cabinet splits over amnesty with a clemency majority. Question remains whether amnesty is prudent amid ongoing unrest.
Fragmentary OCR indicates an agency reference tied to Canada North and Qu Appelle with mentions of station, likely telegraph or railway related. The readable bits name Mewes and Lore I xe cece, but the fragment lacks clear action or dates.
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