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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
8
Three crates of pheasants arrived Friday and were released Saturday across various regions. Rod and Gun Cish schedules a Crow Shoot with prizes for adults and school children, covering crows hawks owls and skunks. Awards include shells call and cash prizes with entry 25 cents. deadline October 15. contact secretary W Alyles.
A concert and dance will be held at Wheatland School on Tuesday April 28. Admission is 25 cents. Mr. and Mrs. D. McCallum and family moved to their new home in Moline this week and were bid farewell by local friends. Mrs. Curtis visited Mrs. Bell and then returned to Kenton.
A son was born to Mr and Mrs T Nolan on Tuesday April 21. Decker School Board has contracted Waterbury Co of Regina to build a new four room school on the former site. Local workers have spent the past week clearing debris from the basement of the burned building.
Alfred Maxwell former secretary of St James Sunday School received an engraved pair of Coif Links on leaving his Rosthern Sask position. Jim Foreman spent months in St Boniface Hospital Soldiers Ward. Mr Muirhead of Sydney arrives as section foreman. T M Ferguson jeweller sells business and moves to Chatham Ontario. Bert Kann of the 27th Battalion listed as wounded. Fenwick Huston to conduct monthly farm stock and implement sales.
The Gazette extends best wishes for a happy birthday to J. L. Eyes on April 23. Mrs A White on the 24th. Percy Moore of Winnipeg on the 24th. Jos Warren on the 25th. Maurice Guinness on the 25th. C J McFadden on the 25th. Wm E McFadden of Finn Fion on the 26th. Mary Wacuska on the 27th. Donald Thompson of Kenora on the 27th. Mrs Edwin Dickson of Colinton Alto on the 27th. Mrs L Wiegand on the 28th. Mrs Fred Walker of Brandon on the 29th. Irma Florence Nowe on the 29th. E G Miller on the 29th.
Regulations now require paying the difference for a higher fee vehicle transfer plus the standard one dollar transfer fee. The rule applies when a vehicle transfer should incur a higher charge than already paid.
For sale 150 bushels of Bison Flax seed Grade No 2 certificate 55 5773 germination 95 percent price 1 50 per bushel J W Stuith phone 882 Rapid City
A jumble of items listed including a baby carriage a child s tricycle a child s cat a commode chair and a hand washing machine attributed to Mrs N Tivy. The fragment provides no clear event or context.
Local items report visitors and holidays in Rivers and surrounding areas. Highlights include Miss Ivy Miners visiting Winnipes, Rex Collingwood at Isabella for Easter, a livestock shipment from Rivers, and summer half-holidays beginning in May. Community groups announce plays, Bible institute meetings, hospital updates, theatre previews, charity events, and fundraisers for the Curling Rink.
Local girls teaching returned to their schools after holidays with Miss E White to Kenton Miss A McFadden to Morden Miss Florence Harvey to Medina and Miss C Offen to Belmont Lenore postpones its Amateur Contest to May 1 Readers are urged to inform the Editor of visiting guests as a courtesy to hosts.
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