Honor Roll Seeks Frontline Men Photos for Display
Residents request photographs of men who have enlisted from Rivers and siding 4 F of B in the church. The images will be loaned for a short period and returned once the roll is completed.
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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
1
Residents request photographs of men who have enlisted from Rivers and siding 4 F of B in the church. The images will be loaned for a short period and returned once the roll is completed.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid will hold a sale of Home Cooking at L. Wiegand's store on Saturday afternoon March 30 beginning at 3 30 o clock. The verse above laments wartime shortages and expresses anti Kaiser sentiment.
Daly Alf Couch spent a day or two in Brandon this week and left on Tuesday. Robt Thompson Mayne visited Brandon for two or three days. Daly Red Cross held a social evening and sale of work on Wednesday evening.
Under the Epworth League a lecture in the Methodist Church on Friday March 22 features 100 lantern slides about the Allies at War. Admission 35c, children 20c. Slides sourced from the old country. tickets from H. Wareham or League members.
A meeting in Rivers Town Hall this Saturday at 3 pm will organize the Boys and Girls Club for 1918. Officers will be elected and the group's work outlined. Citizens are urged to attend and support youth efforts for a productive year. Everyone is welcome. Remember the date.
The regular monthly meeting of the Home Economics Society will be held at the Rest Room on Wednesday March 27 at 3 p.m. Members answer roll call with Favorite Quotation. There will be no sale of home cooking at the Rest Room on March 30.
The Rivers branch of the Red Cross Society will hold its annual meeting in the town hall Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Ejection of officers will take place, reports will be given, and general business transacted. Everybody interested is invited to attend.
Weekly Red Cross meetings at the town hall invite participation and knitting. Members aim to secure a returned soldier to speak on frontline experiences, with prayer meetings on holidays at 8 p.m. and sewing sessions Fridays for collaborative work.
Readers are invited to supply facts about visits of friends or relatives to outside points, including visits made by their families. The column seeks details, locations, dates, and any notable happenings for publication.
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