30 Apr 1942
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1942
Page
1
Mr and Mrs Jack Dyer from Gilbert Plains formerly of Hivers visited Walcame on Saturday. They looked up old friends who welcomed them back and were glad to see the couple again.
Local notes report Arbor Day set aside in Manitoba on Monday May 11. Neepawa residents visit Rivers and Winnipeg trips noted. Various town updates include council meeting reminders, social events, and residents moving to Rivers or Winnipeg. Also mentions a whist drive, rivers sports day, theatre preview, and RCALR personnel visits with community reaffiliations.
A public meeting for all ladies will be held in the United Church annex on Monday May 4 at 8 p.m. to discuss forming a Red Cross nursing class under its auspices.
Route cards printed at The Gazette office announce the Pure Bred Clydesdale Stallion Lake View Mark to travel for service in Oak River Rivers Cardale Moline and Pettapiece districts starting Monday May 4 with Jim Norrie as groom.
Poem by J. H. Barker laments wartime chaos and calls for leaders to guide youth. It asks who will teach, protect, and pass on truth and ideals to mend a troubled world and raise children with hope and integrity.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board order curtails retail deliveries and sales on approval. Merchants urged to follow British wrapping paper conservation, delivering unwrapped items across the counter. No deliveries on parcels under $1 value except for fresh meat and fish or when illness or disability confines the buyer at home.
Frank Bridgeman of Rivers offers pure bred Cocker Spaniel puppies and a stud named Manitoba Cavalier described as one of Western Canada’s best bred cockers. Phone contact listed as 554.
Quantity of Early Ohio and Warba potatoes suitable for seed offered at 75c per bushel. Also millet seed from Pro-So Millet Seed. Contact C. J. McFadden by phone 49-12 in Rivers.
Tenders for the dragging of the Wheatland Bradwardine Road for 1942 will be received up to Monday May 4 1942.
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