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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
8
A Rivers community weekly column promotes neighborliness and local pride. It notes improvements to Mrs Porteous's house and H R Moxley’s store renovations, and reports on a Winnipeg conference on rural education and textbook quality. The piece ends with a reflective poem about home and belonging.
Pat visits a druggist for an empty bottle. The clerk offers the bottle for five cents empty or free if Pat already has something to put in it. Pat agrees and asks for a cork to be placed inside. The saying follows about finding happiness by making the best of what one has.
Mrs. Bradwardine Robert English lies ill with illness. J A Gordon returns from Winnipeg after several weeks recovering from flu. School remains closed due to fuel shortage. J E Blake returns home after wintering in England. Miss M Hurst spends Easter vacation at home in Carman.
Wheatland Church held a Sunday service at 1 o clock with Mrs. Moore and two sons from Kingston Ontario visiting C V Jackson. Donald Bicknell teaching at Welby Sask spent Easter at home. Mrs John Moore visiting Bradwardine friends. Miss Mildred White Bradwardine bank staff read here. W A monthly meeting set for next Wednesday at Mrs Bicknell’s home. Albert White reported ill. Fred Howard and George Bicknell of Brandon College spent holidays at home.
Due to time and space limits we carry over the detailed High School Easter Examinations report furnished by Principal Simpson to the next issue.
All persons with case-off clothing are asked to leave it at the Rest Room. A crate is being packed to forward to the Children’s Aid Society in Winnipeg. Children of the town and district are invited to leave an eye during the next few days to help fill the crate for the same cause.
Public auction to sell Lot twelve in Block Five of Rivers Townsite Manitoba on April 2 1920 at noon. Property subject to mines minerals caveat and building restrictions with 75 percent deposit and the remainder per sale conditions. site formerly hotel use, located in Brandon Land Titles Office area.
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