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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1945
Page
3
The Rivers Gazette was founded by Thomas W. Offen in July 1908 and issued every Thursday from The Gazette Office on Main Street in Rivers Manitoba. Subscription is $1.50 per year, payable in advance.
Manitoba revels in a fragrant Rose festival as summer arrives. The piece extols roses as the Queen of blooms, praising the landscape’s beauty and the color riot of spring flowers that adorn highways and fields. The Rose signals the season across the province.
Prophetic warnings about lagging subscriptions prompt a drastic campaign. A mail list purge will target delinquents with numbered markers. Readers are urged to visit the Gazette office promptly to avoid removal from future issues as numbers are assigned and decapitations threaten the mailing list over overdue payments.
A fragment describes a process where names are drawn from a hat and the chosen numbers become the unlucky ones. The method continues until all names are dealt with and each reader fears being drawn.
A reader replies to Stratford, opposing a car ticket boycott and the proposed skating rink memorial. The writer argues the rink would dishonor a departed son and favors a cottage hospital as a broader, more suitable memorial serving Daly, Rivera, and the municipal doctor area.
A resident asks Reeve Seens to convene a ratepayers meeting to discuss a hospital project. He warns that inaction may force taxation to fund a hospital or doctor services, while success could yield a modern memorial architecture in peaceful grounds honoring fallen soldiers. He thanks Mr. Buiter and Mrs. Hyndman for publicizing the issue.
Tur Gazette extends best wishes for a happy birthday to R. G. Sinclair Jack Tivy RCAF Mrs. T. Lawrie Robert McKenzie W. KR. Diamond Mrs. J. H. Maxwell Thomas Suthers Majorie Dunn Anderson Lilian R. B. Riddick Janet Frame Randolph Schmids Mrs. James Russell Port Arthur Ont Edmonton July 20 24
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