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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1947
Page
1
Keiened Man Jan CPi Jobo J. Jetkeen, promoter of the Canadian west, today marked his 1614 birth anniversary. He was born in England, later moved to Canada in 1886, lived at Este farm Mask, and spent years in the Kelwrond district before retirement.
The Hodi son Bay company announced an annual oversengerchange scholarship plan. Four scholarships will be awarded to selected British and Canadian students pursuing business administration studies.
In Havana on January 25, four men were sentenced to three years in prison while 25 others received two-year terms for forming armed groups aimed at overthrowing the Cuban government. The AP report notes the broad crackdown on dissidents and armed plots within the country.
Mrs Viola Patterson widow of George Patterson, a Manitoba law courts referee, died at Niagara-on-the-Lake where she had lived for three years. Australia plans to accelerate immigration from other countries as circumstances permit, said Dr W A Wynes acting high commissioner in Winnipeg during an interview en route to Vancouver.
Alderman J Bulmberg, newly elected to the special housing committee, charged that rents paid by residents of the emergency shelter buildings at Stevenson airport in Winnipeg were excessively high.
An infant christening at Unite church features a 16 year old gown once worn by the child’s great grandmother Dewar in Scotland. Brian Stewart Johnstone, son of Mr. and Mrs. St Johnstone of Winnipeg, wears the robe. Also christened are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Howard White and of Mr. and Mrs. Loucks, with Rev. F. W. Lee conducting.
In Town and Out notes several residents and visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hays and family in Brandon, Russell Setter from Russell visiting with his brother G. M. Setter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Robins of Edmonton visiting relatives, Mr. and Mrs. George Plowman and family moving from Douglas, Henry Isaak and George Kroeger heading to Rosemary for visits, Mrs. George Perrett from Wheatland returning from Brandon after hospital stay, Mrs. M. J. Wilcox a Winnipeg General Hospital patient, Mrs. James Stevenson accompanying her, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hanlon of Portage la Prairie visiting, Mrs. Elliott Johnstone of Bracken visiting sisters-in-law Cora and Jean Johnstone, Rev. F. W. Lee at Manitoba Conference United Church executives meeting in Winnipeg, and Rivers United Church annual meeting with reports, officers elected, and social hour.
Firemen battled through a burning steam wall to rescue Douglas Eastwood a 21 year old boiler tender trapped in the furnace room of the old Hotel Vancouver for an hour after a boiler feed pump exploded.
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