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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 20, 1950
Page
4
Tenders for Lots 22 and 2 in Block 3 Plan 238 will be received by the undersigned until Aug 1, 1950. Offer of the highest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. T. Dyer, Sec Treas. Lost and found notice asks the person who moved an oil stove from the rear of H. Stanley's home to return it and avoid prosecution. J. B Havlik.
Tenders will be received for redecorating the interest of Lar thair school with water paint varnish woodwork and desks and leave school in cleans. Tenders will be received until Wednesday July 26. H M Harvey Sec Treas
Tender offer for Lot 6 Bik 66 Plan 236 Rivers features a 20 by 20 one storey building. Located in the town’s main business section and in good repair. Tenders close July 22 1950. Highest or any tender not accepted. Phillip Charkas.
July dates list celebrants and names including Mrs T Lawrie Winn James Messel Robert J McKenzie Marjorie Dann Anderson Libya Mrs J BR Stratford Rob Riddick Consance Carl Winnipeg Rantealth Schmid Mrs James Russell Lynn Harvey Gail Maxted Evelyn Livingstone.
A Tarbolton family reunion hosted by Mr and Mrs James Wedderburn drew numerous relatives including Mrs H B Ruse Vancouver Mrs William McDonald Winnipeg Mrs Gordon Watson Winnipeg and Lawrence of Marathon Ont. The Toronto era notes cover a slot machine gimmick for bait vendors and musings on fishing, politics in Nova Scotia and a spire repair quip about Lichfield Cathedral. Reports from St Johns on Grand Bank trawlers end with Saskatchewan fire fights in hot weather and Saddle Lake Indians cleared of game charges under a 1876 treaty. Winnipeg dysentery toll rises with 60+ cases in two weeks amid mild new family outbreaks.
Classified notices list multiple for sale items including a 16 by 24 building built of timbers in good condition offered by James Messel with contact in Rivers, a Nordheimer piano and Toronto coach via Jack Robertson, a new stucco house with six rooms and modern systems on corner lots with J Hain in Rivers, and two black purebred cocker pups offered through Mrs J W Bachelder near the school.
A roundup of local travel, visits, and social events with multiple families returning from Clear Lake and relatives visiting in Flin Flon. A women's institute meeting on July 6 featured talks on health, soil conservation, and district reports. A humorous local exchange references hats and a Mountaineer discovering a mirror.
A 24 year old English physiotherapist Gwyneth Miller from Dartford travels over 5000 miles to operate a mobile unit for arthritis treatment in rural Saskatchewan. She will assist patients with the disease using her London trained skills while UN observers head to Korea.
Sally Craig of Brandon visits Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Havik. Lieut. Harley and Mrs. Shaw take a week end trip to Kingston Ontario and U S points. Willard LePage of Olds Alberta visits his parents. John MacAllister and family return to Denver after holidays with E E Grant. Robert Riddick and family return to Bartlett Minnesota after holidays with R B Riddick family. They are joined by Tom Riddick and Tom Nolan.
Police Constable Romeo Ernesto Saurez arrived in Buenos Aires after trekking 2,250 miles from Ushuaia in four months and 20 days, wearing out 64 rope-soled slippers and dedicating his seat to Argentina’s liberator San Martin on the centenary year. Rev. Michael B. Coleman of Duncan has accepted election as Anglican bishop of Qu’Appelle diocese. Very Rev. William Cole will preside at Regina’s St. Paul’s procathedral as Coleman’s consecration nears. In Kiel, German refugee art student Horst Stark was found guilty of stealing 1,190 works worth 35,000 from Russian zone museums and private collections, and sentenced to two years.
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