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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 29, 1950
Page
2
Betsy Kenyon thanks Home and School association for a cash award and pin for general proficiency. She expresses gratitude to those who provided food and clothing, and specifically to the Tavior family the Wii ladies and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beltz. Morris Man.
Wanted man with car for full time business in locality around Rivers. Household medicines, food products, extracts, farmers supplies. Big line. Good profits. Write for particulars Rawleigh's Dept WGF-252-194 Winnipeg. Also for sale Falcon Electric Washer new 585. Phone Sclater 82-15 Rapid City.
While more tourists arrive from the United States this year, government figures show spending data. Names listed include Mrs H HO Morriaen Beresford and several others from Ontario Winnipeg and Victoria, with dates noted in July. The fragment notes multiple individuals and places, reflecting a social notice style.
A Vancouver Province report laments that no federal, provincial, or municipal authority will assume responsibility for a man without unemployment insurance. He and his family are treated as social outcasts, viewed as innocent victims of a constitutional impasse, a stance the paper criticizes as a discredit to Canadian authorities.
Classified notice lists a Remington typewriter with shipping case, a baby carriage, and a Chevrolet from 1928 in running order. Also a two bedroom house two years old with rooms, porch, fruit cellars, kitchen cupboards, linen closet, fenced lot. Contacts are Cpl Hopton New Sarum, Harold E Proven Wheatland Manitoba, and E O Dyer Rivers.
Felith Baly daughter of William Bau of Oak River was among General Hospital graduates in Toronto. The 48th annual convocation drew graduates from 12 municipalities across the Dominion with sixty members of the 1825 O class in attendance. Surse Baily will continue work in the eastern city’s general hospital operating room.
The Hamilton Spectator describes a May golfing festival at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia attended by the Duke of Windsor and other notables. Players display gaudy styles with turkey red and canary yellow slacks, monocles used for driving and putting, and a salt of the earth atmosphere per the report.
A passing note cites a speeding case where a youth is fined 25 dollars for chasing a car while in a drunken mood as a magistrate admonishes him to avoid blondes and protect his license. The Kingston Whig Standard quips about fatal accidents and work, while Ottawa reports March payrolls and Ezio Pinza in Hollywood courting Lana Turner.
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