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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1951
Page
6
A Times Star report notes a future‑oriented work party of golfers turned out to plant fourteen hundred seedling tires on the Kenog Amelie golf course by volunteer workers, reflecting a community effort.
In Cranbrook British Columbia a wet tackle struck a high voltage line causing current to travel into a body. The Society Girl base metals mine near Cranbrook is reopening after a 40 year lapse and will soon start production.
Gilbert Plains Consumers Co op Limited announced a 42 percent increase in business at its annual meeting, compared to the previous year, highlighting growth and improved performance.
The newspaper states that ads for the Classified column must be received by 6 p.m. Mondays. Ads arriving after that time will be held for the following week and published then.
Tenders for driving vans Nos 1 2 4 5 and 6 for the 1951 52 school year to be received by noon Aug 1 1951. Requests for route details to be directed to board members. Fuel supplied by tenderers. Lowest bid not guaranteed acceptance. R G Sinclair Sec Treas. Also gravelling contract and town stable tender notices in same item.
FOR SALE SECOND SIZE TRICYCLE one wicker doll carriage in good condition priced at $3. Mrs J Eliott T-52 Rivers Camp. Also FOR SALE ONE ELECTRIC RANGE force model 110 volt two burner with two burner automatic oven control used two months priced at $90. Selling for reasonable offer Apply St Larsen D-31 New Sarum.
Reenie Brown and John Borroff thank friends and groups in the community for visits cards flowers gifts and support during illness. Reenie particularly cites Daly ladies aid Wheatland seed club and Dr Rubin and others who helped during her hospital stay.
Announcements invite attendance at the Legion hall for two dances in July with the Players All-Electric orchestra. July 20 features Old-Time and Modern dances, 9:00 PM to 1:30 AM, admission 54 cents. July 27 hosts a square dance contest with prizes, no entry fee but contestants pay admission at the door, phone entries to Rivers 170, admission 75 cents per person.
Nudist groups from the northwest states and Canada plan the fifth annual convention of the Canadian Sun bathing association in Vancouver, with at least 200 men women and children expected to attend the gathering at the mountainside camp of the Van Tans on Vancouver's north shore August 11 and 12.
A man shaving outdoors is asked if he always shaves outside. He replies yes, and quips that he is not fur-lined, implying he enjoys the open air. The brief exchange highlights a light, humorous street moment.
Freddy Harvey remains a Brandon general hospital patient. Calgar y Stampede attendees include Mr and Mrs Edward Wolfe. North Brandon resident Mrs C Cochrane visits with Mr and Mrs W Cochrane. Winnipeg’s Mrs J Harris visits Emerson and the Wolfe family. Victor Lowe and family from Sherridan visit the Seens. Regina residents Mrs R Morden and daughters visit the Thomson household. Winnipeg’s W McDonald and children visit James Wedderburn. Recent Clear Lake visitors include Mrs Charles Lamb and Mrs Harry Lamb. The Wedd erburns have returned from a holiday to Port Arthur Dryden and other Ontario points.
The excerpt blends jokes on rail safety and family scenes with a Canadian flash of disaster chatter. Beardmore Ontario notes David Gordon suffering shock and burns when a nine foot telescope rod struck a power line beneath a railway bridge near the Sturgeon River.
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