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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
4
War era memories and local life are recalled from Daly area residents. Charles Stemples in London describes wartime sacrifices and air raid fears. Donations from Rivers Winnipeg merchants, nurses, and clubs aid the RCAF recreation centre. Local deaths, weddings, and moves mark community changes as four airmen died in a crash near Oak Lake and longtime residents Mary Archibald and James Goring are noted.
Harry H. Nesbitt a Rivers resident and early up lands settler in the Oak River area Manitoba born September 7 1862 died in Brandon General Hospital after illness. He lived a quiet active life with Anglican church work and was survived by a brother and three sisters. Funeral at St James Anglican Church and interment at Uplands Cemetery. Vancouver note: federal government to hold national civilian rehabilitation conference in September.
News and Views reports the Keen Teeners meeting notes a lively seven inning start to the evening with plans for a Friday weiner roast and park improvements by the river. After exams a short emergency session raised 213 dollars in a canvass for Justine Hicks following her father’s death.
Provincial Assessor C L Thring states Rivers is advancing rapidly. New or moved-in properties boost the tax base, with five months of the year adding several estates and business sites not yet on the roll. Plans include a S104 dry cleaning plant in the Gi block on Second Avenue and a citywide street numbering system now complete for most blocks.
Ideal weather framed an annual Air Force Day featuring a Chipmunk and a Dakota with slider. Members of the Rivers air cadets and other observers joined glider-towing Dakota duties aboard the show led by Group Captain P A Gilchrist DFC at the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre.
Daly council agreed with Rivers to share costs for furnishing a municipal doctor's office. Wojciech Mastaniec bought land at Carnegie to build a house. Wheatland approved 2.66 acres for a farm road with no approach. Grasshoppers get a hostile reception. happer poison was ordered. The council sat as a court revision ordering 100 copies tinted.
PLT. Walker, locomotive foreman at Riverster, was saluted by railway staff last Friday afternoon as he left for Brandon to take on new duties. W J Thomas presented a travelling bag and gentlemans kit. expressions of goodwill came from R G Sinclair, R F Davis, A J Johnson, Frank Clawson, 7 Gardiner, and others. The note ends with a definition of sheriff from old English origins.
The annual memorial service under the Canada Legion was held Sunday with good attendance despite uncertain weather. A parade of armed air force personnel and cadets opened the event, led by Fr Lt. George Kee, RCAF padre, with the Lament by D A Mitchell and the Last Post by Cpl. Vic Scott.
Bert Flicks, 53, World War I veteran and Rivers resident for a brief period, was found dead Saturday afternoon at his home with a .22 rifle nearby. Coroner Dr J Rubin ruled it a suicide. no inquest. Death around 4:30 p.m. He was married with two children and had worked on projects in Rivers. Body released to Brockie’s of Brandon. Funeral held at McCreary on Tuesday.
Four pupils of violin teacher A W Whyte passed their musical examinations. Mr Whyte received his ATCS degree. Examinations led by Dr A Cooper of Trinity College London. Winners were Donald Whyte Barry Madden Sandra Taylor and Linda Ashley.
Crabs measuring twenty inches across and weighing about thirty pounds have been found in Australia. Their claws reach seventeen inches in length, indicating exceptionally large specimens recently documented in local reports.
Officials in charge of mobile chest x ray clinics in the Neepawa health unit area examined 10 961 adults and children recently. The report notes seasonal insect behavior stating winter brings hibernation for female mosquitoes while males die.
The Gazette prints a second list of new telephone numbers for the local exchange. Clip this page and place it near your telephone for quick reference.
An estimate suggests a high density of the surname Smith in England with roughly one person named Smith per two hundred residents. The figure highlights common naming patterns across the country.
A public meeting in Carman urged converting the general hospital building into living quarters due to housing scarcity. Another proposal called for demolishing the 1905 building to provide a parking site. The note lists birthdays and names in Vancouver Winnipeg Portage la Prairie Rapid City.
The passage notes that in Colombia and Ecuador the deceased are sometimes laid to rest in graves fifty to sixty feet deep. This detail highlights burial practices in these South American countries and reflects regional approaches to interment.
Valentine Schmidt's wife Mrs. V Schmidt age 57, a longtime Rivers rail worker's wife, died in St Thomas Ontario after a visit with a son. Born January 31 1892 in Austria she came to Canada as a child via Landsstrew. The family later settled in Melville and Rivers. Funeral services in Melville. Survived by husband five children and three sisters and three mothers in Canada.
The Rivers town took over the skating rink. A Brandon physician was killed and several local girls were fired in an auto accident on Second Avenue West. J T Suthers, longtime Rivers resident, died in St Boniface hospital. Bradwardine district field day saw Spring Valley Tarbolton Lothair Daly schools participate. A horseshoe club was organized at Bradwardine. Married Mary Abbott Tivy and F O J F Clark at Rivers.
The Rev. George R. F. Elsary was ordained as a priest in a Sunday service at St. Matthew’s pro-cathedral Brandon. The ceremony was broadcast and attended by many Anglican adherents from the St. James parish encompassing Rivers, Roseville and Ancrum. He received rapid congratulations by telephone and telegraph and a call from his Newfoundland-based parents.
Capt William Kent Buchanan of Rivers received the Canadian efficiency medal with clasp as one of five officers in the prairie command honored by national defence headquarters Ottawa. The Canadian medal for long service and good conduct went to WOs Lloyd W Hyndman RCA SC Charles F T Mann RCE and Albert E Piper RCAC, all of Winnipeg, while Capt George D Crawford RCA received the Canadian efficiency medal.
In Montreal court Leonce Plante, noted for blunt judgments, sentenced a drunk offender with a suspended term and told him, I will see you tomorrow. The same man appeared again next day on the same charge and faced a $40 fine or a jail term.
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