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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1945
Page
4
Obituary notes Joseph Porter aged 83 of Mayne district died Friday. Deer numbers rise in the district. Mrs. G R D Lyon and children Charlotte Eileen and Bill of Edmonton visit town en route to a new home in Ottawa.
A Know Mississippi Better train planned to stop in Rivers for an hour. The district suffered the worst storm in history causing property and crop damage and many windows broken. Tom Blake traveled to Grenfell to spend holidays. A silk train inspected locally, changed locomotive, and resumed in 92 seconds. Wagar’s Rent room suffered a tobacco theft. A family moved to Jasper Alberta. The Bijou theatre manager built a new dance pavilion beside the picture house. A Methodist Sunday school picnic occurred at Wareham Bros farm Carnegie. Rivers Chautauqua concluded with disappointing finances.
July 8 1915 Jack Green a former fireman from Rivers is made prisoner of war in Germany. Fred Howard suffers a broken collar bone in a ball game at Hamiota. The 100th Winnipeg Grenadiers are seeking recruits.
On July 7 1910 Premier Roblin and his party were met by the citizen's band a mile from Rivers and escorted into town to a cheering crowd at the Cecil hotel. Within hours not fewer than 700 people gathered to shake his hand and greet the government.
A returning veteran visions farm modernization with electric power to reduce daily drudgery and support his wife’s accustomed standard. Other farm youths share similar aims as electrification expands, with Manitoba Power Commission extending power to 20 cities as water power becomes abundant.
Members of the Town of Rivers council and the Daly rural municipality favored a proposal to increase building materials for rural districts and reduce supplies to war production centres as hostilities in Europe end. Centres such as Calgary Edmonton Saskatoon Moose Jaw and Winnipeg were named as overstocked. The plan would be discussed at Rivers Sports.
A freight car derailed just outside the yard limit halted passenger No 12 for about an hour last Thursday. A crane was used to lift the car back onto the rails before service could resume in station limits.
Two boys in their early teens rode a midnight bus from Brandon to Carnegie and Carberry hitchhiked earlier. They left bikes in a school yard, slept on the bus, and found the driver short of change when seeking fares at Rivers.
A lighthearted verse celebrates the cheerful neighbor who lifts moods with kindness and jokes. The speaker desires more days of merry banter that ease woes, brighten streets, and make the world feel less heavy as people go about their routines.
At F T Smith’s Carnegie farm a rare hatch of Siamese turkeys appeared when two bodies shared one chest and a single head. The unusual birds died within an hour after hatching amid other oddities noted by Mrs. Smith during inspection. Previous flocks had similar anomalies including a four legged hatch.
Reeve Thomas Seens Councillor H M Clark and secretary treasurer R M of Daly formed a committee to travel to Winnipeg. They will meet the minister of public works about Forrest Harding and Hall's bridge roads, the Manitoba Power Commission on hydro service, and the minister of agriculture about a tuberculosis free area for Daly municipality cattle.
Warden W A Doyle who guided Manitoba from 1879 to 1882 named the Canadian place Miniota Manitoba. The Sioux word Miniota means much water, reflecting the area’s water abundance.
SPO W B Bill Kamula of the Royal Canadian Navy writes to THE GAZ ETTE new management praising the paper after 24 years across England Ireland Newfoundland. He notes the paper often felt better than a letter from home and says he is tired of the sea and hopes to return soon.
The Take Inventory Councils of Rivers and Daly agreed to an office equipment inventory in the municipal doctor’s office after meetings held last week. The plan aims to catalog items and ensure proper bookkeeping across the two jurisdictions.
James Elgin Post, 16, of the Mayne district died after a gasoline engine exploded while he started it to pump water for livestock. Born March 2, 1929, he was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Ross Post. He died at Brandon hospital about 6 am Saturday after being rushed there Friday evening following the blaze and severe burns to his body.
Hundreds glimpse a near total solar eclipse as the sun rose at 5.27 am and the shadow began at 6.19 am. The event lasted about two hours, with 95 percent of the sun obscured, leaving a bluish light as people observed from Saskatoon to Manitoba.
The article honors youths who served Canada and those who will not return, dedicating the piece to their memory and the future of rural communities. It reflects on postwar rebuilding and youth as the heart of provincial development.
The article argues that to keep young people in the country town, the community must offer appealing work and modern homes with good wages. It proposes a two-person project: a kindergarten and creche to provide child care, enabling parents to work locally while their children are cared for in a safe, affordable setting.
A drycleaning and dying business today forms part of a laundering establishment. The piece notes garments needing washing, drycleaning, or dying can be handled by a single concern or a combination. It mentions specialists and seamstresses employed across plants to manage common issues like loose buttons and tears. The text is garbled but suggests operations, staffing, and routine garment care within a laundering facility.
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