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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
5
Local notes report the Agricultural Chautauqua in progress today and tomorrow with related community events. Various residents travel to Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie while church groups plan bazaars and lectures and a Gas Engineering Course is announced for next week.
A Gas Engineering course will run February 9 to 13 at R. Mann's Blacksmith Shop under the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture with Rivers Agricultural Society. Prospective students pay a $1.50 entrance fee to the Secretary Treasurer or any director. Bring magnetos carburetors and any engine. Instructors will explain any trouble.
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A dance will be held in Cousins Hall on Saturday nights from 7.45 to ?. Practice dance Mondays at 9. Admission, including tax, is each.
Fine weather draws crowds to the rink and a community dance is reported as a good time. Miss Bernice Campbell visits Mrs. R Richardson while Mr H Craig of the Bank of Hamilton was in town last week. Mrs McTaggart is on the sick list and expected to recover. Jas Houston broke his arm while saw ing wood at Robert English's. The Thomsons visit Winnipeg. A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Donald Lowe on Thursday January 29.
The Gazette prints this week the Bradwar Dine and Tarbolton Presbyterian Church annual report showing the church in flourishing condition.
Wheatland church holds service Sunday morning at 1 o clock. The W A monthly meeting is set for next Wednesday afternoon at Mrs Lambkins home. Rivers bonspiel features S Mills G Howard J Taylor and J Bicknell. Junior Auxiliary boatny postponed dates to follow. Community Club Wheatland Willing Workers holds monthly meeting and social Monday night with a good turnout.
The Assessment Roll of the Rural Municipality of Daly is on display for inspection until February 17, 1920. Complaints must be filed ten days before the Court of Revision sits to review assessments on March 3, 1920 at 2:30 PM in Wheatland Village Council Chamber. Dated January 1, 1920. John A. Dyer, Secretary-Treasurer.
Directory lists general stores jewellers insurance loans printers lumber and building materials hardware furniture bakery ice cream confectionery bank services flour and feed men’s furnishings and more. Entries include North American Smelter Supply Co James Brown Canadian Bank of Commerce and others.
A collage of business names and civic notices lists General Store Jan A McKensie Moving Picture Theatre Bijou Page 8 Job Printing Gazettes Office Butchers Wareham Broe Real Estate and Insurance Chas W Angel Drugs and Stationery Dovers Drug Co R B Lyon Barrister Notary Public J H Couch Musician Jessie Municch Rebekah Lodge Alie Bowman Lee Canadian Order of Foresters Milla Secretary Mt et Chapter 2 A M O BL Payne O L BR W Oliver Sec for Lodge LOBA Mrs E J Forman Pacific Lodge I C O FF Wm Rea.
The note describes a daily mixed train to Winnipeg with connections in Ontario and Eastern Canada via Canada National Railways on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays. It also lists an 11 18 p m daily service to Melville Regina Saskatoon Edmonton Prince Rupert connecting with Grand Trunk Pacific Steamships for Pacific Coast points, and a 7 30 am schedule on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays to Melville. The service stops at all stations.
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