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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
1
A Wednesday dance night at DANCING-la Community Hall features the Virdew Nite Hawks providing music for a local social. Residents are invited to join the event and enjoy a night of dancing.
The curtain of censorship lifted last week exposing the construction of key air bases at Churchill Manitoba and the Arctic northeast where United States forces were stationed. It also revealed the transit of thousands of United States made fighter planes along the northwest route to Russia via Edmonton. Five thousand planes were sent to Russia Edmonton Alaska and Siberia.
Local and personal items report travel and visits by Miss Ethel Johnson to Alameda Saskatchewan and various residents across Manitoba Ontario Alberta and Nova Scotia. Notes on rainfall records at Rivers and a convention of Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association in Winnipeg.
The Rivers Unit of the CCF will hold its regular meeting on Monday August 14 at 8 p.m. in the Four Star Theatre. Please attend.
The Canadian Seed Growers' Association gathered in Saskatoon for its fortieth anniversary. Since 1904 membership grew from 93 to 2,600, covering 43 to 271 seed varieties. The growers focus on improving registered seed quality rather than profits, viewing their work as a public-spirited contribution.
The effort supports high grade Canadian grains and other products flowing to global markets, contributing to farmer welfare and the sector's stable performance.
A twelve month old bull is missing. Described as thoroughbred Shorthorn pure red with horns. Anyone knowing whereabouts please notify W Erwin at phone 50 12.
Wrist watch engraved H8219 found in Rivers or at the airport. Please return to W. B. Chalkman. Reward offered.
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