02 Aug 1928
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1928
Page
1
The Gazette sends birthday wishes this week to Mrs. L. E. Lyndh on August 2nd Dorothy Richardson and Lena Nowe on the 5th Mrs. Jno Stevenson and Florence Archambault and Olive Steggles on the 8th.
A collection of proverb style lines about speech, courtesy, and restraint. It notes that a kind word warms three winters and that a fleeting word cannot be caught by a fast horse. It also contrasts cutting a weed with uprooting and employs a caution about low flights and light falls.
United Church announces meeting times for Ladies Aid on the first Wednesday of each month at 3 pm at WLMLS. A second meeting occurs on the third Thursday at 3 pm. Choir practice is every Friday evening at an unspecified hour. paging Rev W. 1 and T. Patteson for details.
This listing announces successful scholars from Rivers School in the recent entrance examinations securing places in Grade IX. Named students include Hovors Haze, Radcliffe, Doris Borreff, Alma Cluff, Eileen Lyon, Mary Kelly, Rose Filbrandt, Alice Tafts, Jean Warren, Minnie Sbhylega, James Frame, Leonard Grant, Sam Beever, Joe Luchuck, Jack Tivy, Gordon Ishell.
An American newspaper laments Sunday as a day of excess, with the feeble elderly gambling, middle aged frotering, and youth racing in planes or cars. Hospitals rush intake with extra pens, contradicting the Fourth Commandment’s spirit.
Manitoba Agriculture notes crops in their district are favorable. Rain and moisture abundant, no crop drownings or major damage. Harvest expected mid August. potatoes and fall rye look strong. general hay yield good and pastures in good condition. Second plowing needed on fallows due to heavy growth from rainy season. Prospects remain excellent.
A Board of Trade to be formed in the Daly district. A. Couch completes a fine brick home. Rivers wins a Roseville cricket match by 4 wickets and 43 runs. Luke Blakey dies. Rivers Driving Park Association organized with L. Head president and Dr. Schwalm treasurer. Cinder Bank of Commerce official visits town to consider a local branch.
A health service overview notes fifty years of rising infant life expectancy due to better prevention and treatment of acute diseases. It warns chronic infections like abscessed teeth and tonsils damage organs long after early life and promotes periodic health examinations as the practical method to find and remove such infection foci.
The piece argues mail order shopping is fading as farmers buy locally using roids and autos. It notes rural buyers drive to towns, compare goods, and prefer local merchants. Town retailers should seize the shift as rural shoppers increasingly favor in person bargains.
Readers are invited to Brandon Experimental Farm for Cereal Day on August 4 and Field Day for Registered Seed growers on August 7 and Horticulture Day on August 19. Dominion Cerealist Mr. H. Newman and Dominion Horticulturist Mr. Macoun will attend. Visitors may bring lunch. tea and coffee will be provided.
Hamiota’s Hood faced Rivers’ Harry Evans in a Free Press outing at Rivers. Hood won the playoff to take the low score as Rivers club representatives watched.
At a Friday Board of Trade session the tourist camp project was given go ahead to complete and either purchase or erect a suitable building. The council was asked to build a road into the camp. It is the first auto camp year in Grenfell and has won approval from many motorists who visit the Simpkinson grounds famed for shade trees and hospitality.
Hon R B Bennett told Toronto business men that parliament prorogation has saddled Canada with nearly 450 million in burdens. He warned nine and a half million Canadians cannot endure the levies and taxes, and urged action to reverse population decline and raise the nation’s count toward 12 million.
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