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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 29, 1923
Page
5
Local residents visit Winnipeg and Brandon while plans unfold for Easter, holidays, and club meetings. Rivers bonspiel finals name Evans and Stone, with Webster and Britton in consolation, and social events honor Alice Holland and W A Webster as they depart town.
Across the province the current talk centers on the Legislature cutting Mothers' Allowances. Public sentiment runs strongly against deep reductions and many call for restraint or reversal of cuts.
The Postmaster R N Dunsmore warns many mailers send income tax returns with insufficient postage causing returns to be sent back from the dead letter office and extra expense. Miss Bryer the Organizing Field Secretary for the Woman's Auxiliary in Rupert's Land diocese will visit Rivers on Thursday April 5. A W A of St James Church holds a special meeting at the Rectory at 3 pm on that day to meet Miss Bryer. all ladies of the congregation are invited.
Former rector of Bradwardine and Boissevain Rev J H Gibson accepts principalship of the Indian residential school at Chatton Ontario in the Moosonee diocese under the Indian and Eskimo commission of the Church of England in Canada He is a Wycliffe College graduate and has served at Elgin Mans ion Kenora and Keewatin in Rupert's Land and Keewatin dioceses He will assume duties around April 1.
On Wednesday March 21 a daughter was born to Mr and Mrs E L Paree at Rivers.
At Rivers a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. L Carlson on Saturday March 24.
A private sale notice lists a Dodge Touring Car in near new condition with barter options including a team of horses, 300 bushels of seed wheat, a fresh cow, a Magnet Cream Separator, and more. Also offered are a dining room suite, Singer sewing machine, Pathephone, Quebec heater, bed and carpet items. Fred Johnson, Rivers.
Quantity of good potatoes 60c per bushel delivered. E F Radcliffe Rivers Phone 473. About 400 bushels of Victory Seed Oats. Apply Jas Turney Rivers.
Bowman and Sons offer Purebred Aberdeen Angus Bull viewable on Sec 3 13 22 or contact T Nesbitt farm. Also listed are Young Work Horses 3 to 9 years old weighing 1400 to 1800 pounds with prices and terms available. Heavy Black Team and a good general purpose team are also offered by Dad Poston Rivers.
Help wanted notice seeking a female applicant for kitchen work at the Station Restaurant. Apply to Mrs Swain.
Reports from Winnipeg cover Pontiff visit plans by Robert Baden Powell leader of Boy Scouts, and Ottawa speculation on postal rates and wheat policy. Manitoba and Saskatchewan farmer sentiment on a wheat board is mixed based on a Dawson Richardson survey of 176000 farmers. Aged Madame Sarah Borshant dies. Sugar market speculation in Winnipeg cites Stopenden price manipulation claims by a wholesale grocer.
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