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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 01, 1940
Page
1
An August national registration urges all Canadians over 16 to complete cards, outlining the war need for planes tanks ammunition and expanded home defence. The message urges readiness, higher taxes, and early registration to organize human, material, and economic effort for victory.
Congratulations to Harry Messel of Rivers High School for winning first Isbister Scholarship in the district. He receives $50 cash plus tuition for the first year in arts and science at the University of Manitoba. Second place went to Iva Jane Delaumater of Oak River.
Mrs U A Walker a Carnegie resident and former Fraserboro Scotland native will turn 100 on Monday August 5 She was born August 5 1840 in Fraserboro Aberdeen shire Scotland and came to Canada in 1863 She married Udny Anderson Walker in Toronto May 23 1868 They moved to Manitoba in 1884 and settled in Carnegie where they built a home Her husband predeceased her in 1923 She has three living sons Charles William and Alexander at home and two deceased sons John and Herbert and a daughter Isabella She comes from a long lived family and is to receive many congratulations on reaching her centennial.
A Winnipeg group led by soprano Mrs. Agnes Kelsey performed a full concert in Rivers to aid medical needs for British children evacuated during the war. Four groups offered services gratis. proceeds supported the cause, with all expenses borne by the local Board of Trade. The program featured singing, piano, cello, and a Gilbert and Sullivan excerpt with costumes, closing on God Save the King and a note of thanks from Mrs. Kelsey.
Manitoba faces a serious hay shortage as spring slough water is scarce and hay yields fail. Farmers scramble to salvage hay from road sides and grain fields where wild oats spread.
The Rivers branch of the Red Cross sent a shipment to headquarters this week including 6 sweaters, 1 scarf, 5 pairs of socks, 5 abdominal binders, 12 pneumonia jackets, and 12 sheets.
Eleven diamond drillers ar istocrats of the mining world left Sudbury last night on the C N R train for Toronto for active service with the Royal Canadian Engineers. A small crowd of close friends and relatives were at the station platform to say good-bye. The men wore their civilian clothes and will get their uniforms at Toronto. Wm Tyerman, son of Mr and Mrs H Tyerman of Rivers, is named among the men.
Jasper Park spans 4200 square miles in the Canadian Rockies offering abundance of big game including Rocky Mountain sheep caribou mule deer moose elk and black brown and grizzly bears. Deer elk and bears frequent Jasper Park Lodge and its golf course while smaller mammals and rock rabbits also abound.
The Committee of the Board of Trade expresses sincere thanks to those who gave homes for billets and assisted in the Concert for the fund for Evacuated British Children.
Rev. S. B. Guille conducts Morning Prayer at Wheatland 9.00 a.m. and Roseville 11.00 a.m. Ancrum St Matthews Evening Prayer 3.00 p.m. St James Rivers Sunday School 11.00 a.m. Evening Prayer 7.30 p.m. on the Sunday of Trinity.
Rev W R Donagh Daly Petta piece and Rivers withdrew services on Sunday next August 4. All are welcome at the open session of the Sunday School at 11 am.
A fragment notes a registration form appears on the page. The text references filling out details and submitting to an indicated authority, with no further specifics provided in the readable section.
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