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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 04, 1946
Page
4
APRIL 2 1986 notes a serious spine operation in Montreal for Mike Messe. Fifteen Years Ago on April 2 1931 Alex Sutherland auctioned farm stock and implements. Mrs I Bell returned from Los Angeles. Farmers report wood cutting issues. Memorial committees back cresting stone. Twenty Five Years Ago March 81 purchases sold for 3 dollars per 28 38 dramati c aid hospital fund. James Claff of Wheatland died visiting Vancouver at age 68.
N A Thompsen was appointed motor yettel op apeeeter by Daly. The salary will be $180 fer meet. He will receive his instructions from the Councillor in whose ward he operates.
Winnipeg card says at the Rivers board of trade annual banquet in the Community hall on Thursday April 11 at 7:80 pm. Mr McCrea will speak on for Canadians and touch on tourist and local airport possibility. Tickets available from any board member.
A letter from home brings news to Mr. and Mire Frank Walker about relatives in Czechoslovakia. The note describes forced evacuations under German rule, postwar return to ruined homes and orchards, and airmail delivery to the Czech-Slovakian consul in Winnipeg.
At the Daly council meeting on March 27 members resolved to support the Wheatland ratepayers petition to maintain a station agent at that point. They approved three old age pensions applications, planned to procure 100 plaques for armed services personnel, and placed an order for a snow plow for the motor patrol.
A fragmented birthday notice lists names and dates from April 5 to April 11. Individuals include James Russell, Mrs Alfred Wareham, Liliau J A Wedderburn, Alexander Emerson Wolfe, Mrs EO Stewart, Biggar Sask, Mrs Syd Newitt, Mrs D M Stuart Transcona, Sam Beever Jr, V Airey, E O Stewart Biggar, Sask, Mrs J W Hanlon, F G Airey, Peter Livingstone, Bradwardine, and Mrs James Chapman Pensea We.
Of three tenders received by the Daly municipality for the erection of a steel super structure of the Alexander I bridge, the Dominion Bridge Company bid was accepted at the council meeting on March 26. The tender amount was 29000 dollars.
A whimsical week transition from March to April brings heavy snows and travel disruption. Residents endure a second April Fool's Day snow event with rain following briefly. A local merchant receives a prank box containing a wrapped note saying April Fool.
Winnipeg CP report notes Hon. J. McDiarmid, Manitoba minister of mines and natural resources, urged a method to reduce fishing or cap catches on key lakes. He requested 87,860 in increases to game and fisheries appropriations, including 3,000 for extra fishing protection. He voiced optimism for mining growth and cited upland game bird gains with added pheasant releases. The fur rehabilitation program since 1945 yielded 819,648 pelts worth over 1.89 million, with 1,383,168 distributed to trappers.
Oak River Manitoba held a novelty bonspiel finishing Saturday with finals in two events. Nineteen rinks entered. event winners were Mackie with 2 L Robbins in the first event and T Thompson with F Bowman in the second. In the Bowman-Glinz semifinal Bowman held eight rocks in the house but Glinz counted two. The Oak River Dramatic Society staged Cyclone Sally on Friday night, directed by Mrs. G W White, under Knit Wit youth recreation sponsorship, followed by a dance.
Dr D A Stewart, awaiting discharge from the armed forces, will be asked to continue service for Daly municipality. The March 27 meeting resolved this, and a joint Rivers and Daly councils meeting was urged to be arranged as soon as possible.
Iva Withers, born in Rivers to Mr and Mrs Roy Withers, rises to fame in New York through a 20 year career discussed in Maclean's. She earned a three year Theatre Guild contract and is now Mrs Bob Strom of the U S Navy. Her brother, also born in Rivers, died in Winnipeg.
A historical excerpt recalls a harsh winter of 1881 in Fort Garry as storms unleashed heavy snow, buried homes, and severed access. Winter’s grip transformed yards into quagmires and basements to flooded spaces while residents tunneled to barns for shelter and survival. The narrative notes the death of Lockhart Samatty and the emigration of Thomas Seens and family westward by ox cart amid snow blindness and peril.
A waitress in a cafe and a seer offer readings while a prankster foretells events. Meanwhile a heavy truck crosses a wooden culvert after stalls and a tractor rescue, as hogs in the cargo snooze through disruption.
In a frontier scene the first harvest dominates life with grain and garden tasks. A sudden smell of smoke signals disaster as dusk brings a dull blaze and a red, fearful sky. Fire strikes terror among pioneers and unites foes against a common threat.
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