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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1950
Page
2
A special meeting of the Rivers Daly Hospital Fund will be held in the Community hall on Tuesday June 6 at 8:00 p.m. to consider communications from the departments of health and national defense. Secretary MRS B J D ELLIS attends.
Robina Milroy thanks all who visited sent flowers fruit and cards during her hospital stay. She expresses appreciation to Bradwardine United Church Ladies Aid and Ira. Alex Roberts and Mrs Brown of Rivers Quick Freeze for blood donations and all who remembered her with cards and flowers. Mrs John Stevenson also thanks those who sent cards flowers and visits during her hospital stay.
For sale notices list an Essex coupe in good mechanical condition with Quest tires and a Model A 1929 in good running order. Contact A.W. Wire at 172 Rivers or ST Rivers for more information, with prices unspecified for the Essex and 135 dollars for the Model A.
Tarbolton residents report Mr thesie tented their Wisk end guest Mrs Cigrence Wolfe of Regina. Bereredy We Mrs To Prosvase of Bramdon district visited at the home of her daughter Mrs C Lamb. Mr o and Mrs Harry Baily Ham iota were Sunday visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs ELD Wolfe. Mr and Mrs A S Wedderburn left Sunday for a trip through Ontario and the eastern United States visiting New York and New Hampshire for about six weeks.
Vancouver will name an unnamed street after the Buscomb family, with brothers Frederick, who served as mayor in 1905 06, and George who later served as alderman. The honor preserves the local civic memory.
Coronation Alta-Calgary plans a two day stampede with a parade and band. Committee indicates competition will proceed and entries are already arriving for the June 9 10 show.
Regina residents show less gardening interest as the city reports a 78 plot garden area with plots available but insufficient applicants to fill them this year. The shift marks a drop in local hobby gardening compared with prior seasons.
Montreal saw a building boom in April with 1,381 dwelling permits issued, up from 1,097 in April 1949. The year over year increase highlights a surge in housing construction activity during the month.
Wanted man with car for full time job around Rivers area selling household medicines food products extracts and farmers supplies. Big profits. Write for details Rawleighs Dept WGF-252-194 Winnipeg. 1 8 15 22 29.
The Rural Municipality of Daly will hold a meeting at 2 30 PM on June 6 1950 at the Municipal Hall Rivers Manitoba to pass a bylaw stepping up a highway segment between sections 17 18 and 19 20 township 7 11 range 20 west of the Principal Meridian and to stop up and demolish Pendennis Bridge on that stretch. The council will allow affected landowners to be heard by counsel or agent before the bylaw is passed. The bylaw text may be inspected at the Secretary Treasurer office in Rivers before the meeting. Dated May 6 1950. W OT.
A series of social visits noted across the Sidney and area include Carnegie Mir meetings with Mr and Mrs Leonard Frank, Mr and Mrs D Stephenson, and Mrs David Marnock. Winnipeg and Brandon guests travel for family stays and an illustrated England trip by Dr. Harry Ross, Brandon, shared at the Harrow W.I. event.
A fragmented listing shows dates from June 2 through June 11 with names tied to events or acknowledgments. Entries include John Bridgeman, Mrs. Gordon Smyth, Gordon Searborn, Ted Bowman, Marie Stratford, Islay McMannus, Mrs J Fisiuc, Hamilton Ont, Mrs J Y Fleming, Robert Kedzie, Frank Walker, Mrs J Hain, June McDonald, Mrs R L Post, Hilton, Mrs D L Elliott, Jack Tiltman, Winnipeg.
Alexandria police stopped a Bulgarian communist rebel plot to assassinate former King Simeon. Justice Minister Garson said the arrested Doukhobor terrorists would be imprisoned in an empty naval barracks at Comox B C despite local protests. He noted attorney-general Mismer of B C agreed as the least undesirable option. Rev H Beecher Jackson was sentenced in Newark to life for stabbing his sexton to death with an ice pick. The British government rejected a Conservative call for an immediate Scottish plebiscite on a separate parliament. Soil drifting in Alberta worsened this year, says G R Stirling in Edmonton.
Ottawa Citizen notes Japan gradually re-entering world trade and aiming to export more to allies and the sterling area than in 1948 while still at war with the Allies. A peace treaty could boost Japan's trade capacity. Qsheewa Times-Gazette highlights Ontario buying 15 000 to 20 000 tons coal from Alberta to aid western industry and save American dollars. Desert dunes reach up to 500 feet in some regions.
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