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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
1
Council presided by Mayor Grant approves sale of Lot 17 Block 5 Plan 236 for 300 cash with rents counting toward price. Purchaser to cover transfer legal fees. Heat and light for Recreation Hall at airfield to be provided. Firemen accident policy renewed. Councillors Johnson and Thomas to retire after years of service. Compliance with Municipal Commissioner letter approving 1000 over expenditure in 1940 budget.
The Alexandra Hotel has undergone extensive modernizing with a remodeled ground floor, enlarged rotunda, new heating, Venetian blinds, and refreshed upstairs with new bedding. Manager W A Creaney aims to create one of the west’s best hotels, a goal now clearly advanced. Local residents include Miss Myrtle Grant visiting family, Sgt. Douglas Morrow home from Winiga, and retirees returning from British Columbia. Community events note Four Star Theatre New Year’s shows and a Tennis Club New Year’s Eve Dance.
Lothair School District staged a Christmas tree entertainment full of carols dances drills and plays last Friday. Chairman Mr F Bridgeman oversaw the event. The highlight was H M Harvey presenting an illuminated address to J W Seater in recognition of over twenty five years as Sec Treasurer. Mrs G Seater spoke. credit goes to Miss Sirett and her pupils. Dorothy Harvey returned from Franklin to spend holidays. J Sirett left for Winnipeg for vacation. Nurse Hepburn visiting relatives left Friday for Virden, returning with H M Harvey and family plus QO C Harvey Lorraine and Birnie from Carale study.
Reward offered for the return of a purebred Newfoundland dog owned by Frank Taylor. Owner requests contact for reunification and recovery. Details on dog appearance or contact method not provided in fragment.
Mrs M Barr left for the coast to spend winter after a visit with sister Mrs Hunter. E Steggles and A Lowe returned home from Carberry. Miss A Sedgwick of the school staff spends the holiday at Minnedosa. Wm Dowland Jr and Mr and Mrs A Richardson and daughter Joan spent Sunday at Lenore. The annual school Christmas Tree was held on Friday. Measles epidemic delays usual entertainment after New Year. Lorne Common of the RCAF home from Macleod Alta on first leave. Mr and Mrs J Anderson of Moline spend Christmas with H Johnston. Ralph Post left for Brandon to join the RCAF. Mrs R English, under doctor’s care in Brandon, is home again.
Oakleigh hosted an MFA meeting with business discussions and a programme by circle 2 guest Mr T Wolstenholme on My Fifty Years in Canada. A capacity crowd attended the Christmas Concert and Dance by Oakleigh pupils and district members, with Santa, gifts, lunch, and dancing to the Swing Four Orchestra.
The Gazette extends best wishes for birthdays to multiple readers including Mrs C Forman on December 27, Tommy Nolan on the 29th, Mrs Selby Brown on the 30th, Frepson Thompson at Kenora born in 1941, Mrs Chas Tufts on January 1, Pauline Bazuk and others with dates through January 8. An editor note explains a two week gap with no issue next week.
The Canadian Legion Birthday Cake was won by Mrs. J Bartlett. A church organ from Rivers Methodist Church was sold to Zion Church in North Brandon. A freight and passenger train crashed a mile west of town scattering grain on the right of way. Jos Moxley and Ernie Forman merged their businesses forming Moxley and Forman. The Manitoba Free Press noted two GTP branches may be built from Rivers.
River School announced a Friday closure and said classes resume on Monday January 6 after the weekend break.
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