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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 30, 1951
Page
1
A mix of memorial notices and community announcements from Rivers lists bereavement messages for Jessie Emelie and others, hospital thanks from John Radcliffe and D Kolotylo, and a Ukrainians society event marking anniversaries with a high mass, procession, prayers, wreath laying, and a banquet at Ukrainian hall with ticket prices.
A record notes J A W White A T C L announces piano and theory classes to commence in September. J A W White also offers violin and cello with classes starting September 10. Burton Straw Buncher is on display at the Dyer and Son garage in Wheatland today.
Employment ad seeks a married woman to wait tables with no experience needed. Good working conditions and uniforms supplied. Apply at Alexandra Hotel, Rivers, to the manager. Offer includes 30 shillings per week.
Classified notice offers a Richards double barrel shotgun at a very reasonable price and a kitchen cabinet. Interested parties directed to apply H. P. Klassen, Box 27, Rivers, for details.
Classified autos notes list a 199 PHE sedan with rubber and new spare tire for 900 dollars at 522 7th Br Brandon contact 3368 W E Stewart. Also 1930 Model A seven good tires 2145 phone Me6 Rapid City exchange. Plus 1850 Morris Miner and a WO Austin Act Like new low mileage at Rivers Service Station phone 19.
Eight foot combining unit and eight foot cultivator offered for sale by J N Airey. Contact J N Airey at 628 Third Avenue via phone 176. Advertisement fragment notes page references p16 p23 p30.
Property listings show multiple residences including two four room and one five room cottage, a trailer house 16 by 12, two seven room houses, and an upstairs suite for rent. Contact J R Stratford Agency for particulars by phone 37ec Aug. For sale a four room frame house in Rivers with large garden space and shed and good water. Apply R E Butcher 730 Pacific Avenue Brandon phone 2982 pl6 23 30.
The Rural Municipality of Daly intends to pass a by law on October 2, 1951 at 3 PM in Rivers Manitoba to close public roads on North Half of Section 18 11 20 and Northeast Quarter of Section 13 11 21 West of the Principal Meridian The council will hear affected landowners prior to passage The by law may be inspected at the Clerk’s Rivers office before then Dated August 7 1951 W T Dyer Secretary Treasurer
The article explains how municipalities offer industrial commissioners to help site decisions. It notes a new plant employing 150 workers supports hundreds of homes and jobs in related sectors, citing an Atlanta bureau survey that links industry to increased retail sales, professional staff, schooling, housing, and transportation needs.
The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association notes in Winnipeg that a wise town supports its paper by sharing production costs. Ron Tuck cites residents paying promptly, institutions using publicity facilities, and businesses buying ads to ensure a true picture of a thriving Canadian community.
The 60th anniversary of Ukrainians arriving in Canada is noted with early settlements in Manitoba at Stuartburn Gonnor Brokenhead and Dauphin in 1806. By 1807 and 1808 further settlements formed in Gimli Riding Mountain Gilbert Plains and Strathclair. Saskatchewan districts Ituna Yorkton Prince Albert and Alberta areas Vegreville Mundare Redwater also saw Ukrainian settlement. The first Ukrainian settler origin is unclear though two Carpathian adventurers Nebilin natives landed in Quebec in September 1891 named Ivan Piilipiw and Wasyl Elenlak.
George Shipley former loco motive foreman at Fort Rouge for Canadian National is named superintendent of motive power and car equipment for the Manitoba district. He succeeds B L Thompson who has been transferred to a general superintendent position.
In 1908 Stuartsmarn elected Ivan Storoschuk as reeve and in 1915 TOD Farley became the first Ukrainian Manitoba MLA from Gimli. Ukrainians, mostly farmers, built early rail jobs yet now many hold high degrees in medicine, science and research. They are strongly anticommunist and opposed communism at home.
A Chilliwack Progress reporter notes W. T. Ruiddleton painting his house. The report mentions Mr. Middle tom, who is blind, as part of an ordinary scene observed by the writer.
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