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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1921
Page
5
Local appeal asks volunteers to take women and children to open air locations. No charge, only needy cases served. Contributions are welcome to sustain the program. editor invites donations and will acknowledge them.
Melville 1921 Chautauqua praised for educational and entertainment value but deemed a financial disappointment by the local Guarantee Committee. Prospects for a 1922 Chautauqua hinge on new terms proposed to Dominion Co. and awaiting acceptance or rejection before further action.
A published catalog lists required texts for Grades 9 10 and 11 at Rivers High School for 1921 22. It includes grammars readers geography algebra geometry physics botany Latin Greek French German and history titles from Hodson McIntyre Baker Berien and others with works by Stevenson Scott Elliott Shakespeare and Benedicto notes.
Tenders will be received by the undersigned Morongon on Saturday for the period ending December 31 1921. Tenderers must supply their own vehicles for Route 1 2 3 and 5 as specified in the notice.
Local clergy visits and residents’ travels fill Rivers notes. Activities include Rev Matheson visiting St John’s Rectory, and families like the McCartney Nevitt Paddock and Richardson clans in town or Winnipeg. Rivers School reopens August 29. a dressmaking demo led by Miss Price is planned. Shoults inspected Wareham Bros. store and judged Heavy Horse at the Fair.
The Salvation Army launches a fundraising canvass in Rivers starting August 18 to support welfare efforts across the prairie provinces. The report notes 471 girls through four Western Canadian rescue homes, 479 waifs in four children homes, 2920 patients in three maternity hospitals, a girls industrial home steering delinquent youths away from jail, and 487 prisoner meetings plus 1550 jobs secured through free employment bureaus.
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