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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 11, 1950
Page
4
A McConnell fiddlers contest near Rivers drew a wide crowd from all ages. Residents praise the town’s tea drinking during dances, homemade breads, and community spirit. The piece notes local farms electrified, top livestock, good roads, and plans to reconnect with Rivers sports circles in 1950, ending with well wishes to Gazette readers.
The Rivers school board announced the provincial government run Child Guidance Clinic will be held in Rivers from May 15 to 19. The clinic will visit the school and attend the municipal doctor's office to provide guidance services.
May 14 includes Mrs H D Jenner W G Thomas Marjorie and Murry Gill Pettapiece Robert Thompson May 15 lists Mrs A Sutherland Winnipeg Miss J Post Bradwar dine Diane Beverley Combe Dis sett A L McFarlane Kent Smyth May 17 includes Mrs C Airey and May 18 lists W Cecil White Mrs James Frame.
Co W Burroughs of Oklahoma City is in the area signing up oil leases for the British American company. He stays at the Alexandra hotel. Bridgetown residents back a $550 summer physical instructor and sporting equipment fund via the board of trade. A proposed all-Canadian natural gas pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific Coast would cost about $79,000.4K10, roughly $17,060,000 more than a U S based route.
Epic flood tale unfolds as tens of thousands of acres flood, Winnipeg hosts evacuation scenes, and Rivers Kiwanis mobilizes with clothing drives led by Paul Schulze. University of Manitoba Fort Garry and East Kildonan evacuations reshape local life as Joint Air Training Centre joins flood relief effort and volunteers rush to aid. Reg Gardiner and wife log 40 hours delivering coffee and sandwiches for Red Cross amid 480 gallons served.
Students at Rivers School logged a frostless May 2 1950 marking the first non freeze night in records. The weather department run by pupils reported the milestone with Leslie Humphries and Emil Hain leading checks.
George Pompana of Taylor & Son Ltd jokes that white folks are full of prune juice and that Indians do not want the country and the weather back. He declares, No, siree, you can keep it.
Members of the Women's Institute raised twenty dollars for flood victims from south eastern Manitoba now living in Rivers. The supper profits totaled three hundred twenty five dollars. A Rivers delegation will attend the district convention at Strathclair this month. A pioneer evening was proposed. Gailyn Jelliff sang two songs with accompanist D Hunsaker.
The traveling clinic that has operated in this community in prior years will be back within a few weeks. The sanatorium board of Manitoba asked the council for citizen cooperation to achieve a complete 100 percent survey.
Mrs Annie Brown aged 82 a Pettapiece resident for over four decades died May 4 in Bran don after illness. Born Wakefield Quebec she and husband John Brown moved west in 1905 then to Pettapiece in 1908. Survived by nine children, one sister and 17 grandchildren. Funeral at Pettapiece United Church.
Harry Messel aged 25 adds another special award to his long run of scholarships from Canada, the United States, Scotland and now Ireland. The Dublin University physics prize carries a value of 750 dollars. Son of Mr and Mrs James Messel of Rivers he graduated from Queen’s University Kingston and went to Ireland two years ago.
Eleven delegates waited on Daly council last Tuesday to request an all weather road between sections four and eight and five and eight in township 12 range 22. The proposed two mile road runs east from Bradwardine corner. Council approved two donations totaling 140 dollars to charity and local events, the Salvation Army receiving 125 dollars and Oakleigh calf and colt show club 15 dollars.
Heavy wet snowfall in Manitoba caused power lines to break in the Kenton area and disrupted telephone communications for over an hour. The Manitoba Power Commission found no damage in Daly municipality, though many social events and entertainments were interrupted and candlelight became common in the district.
Craig Douglas Stinson infant son of Mr and Mrs D L Stinson died in Brandon Sunday afternoon. Funeral conducted by Brockies of Brandon. Interment in Rivers Cemetery.
The Royal Canadian Air Force training site will receive red and white color treatment. Buildings including barracks and hangars are being painted to feature white structures with red roofs, giving the centre a brighter appearance.
Lieut. H. Wood of the RCNVR arrived after a 3278 mile car trip from Halifax N S to Rivers. He detoured due to floods in southern Manitoba and Minnesota while attached to the naval staff CJATC. Rail mileage Rivers to Halifax is 2240. He is a guest at the Alexandra hotel.
The mission band of the United church sponsored a May 6 concert featuring an orchestra with two selections, vocal solos by Sandra Taylor and others, piano solos and duets, violin numbers, and a mission band song taught at the Sunday school rally. Lindsay Forman chaired. James A. McKenzie spoke briefly. Rev H. Dodd DD closed with prayer. Accompanists included Donna Hunsaker, Helen Taylor, and Willa Irvine.
Mrs L Pettapiece and several children, who had attended a musical festival in Virden, were caught in a heavy snowstorm. They lost their way after leaving Virden and took a wrong turn, ending up wandering for hours before returning to Virden with an uneventful remainder of the trip.
William Muir told Brandon Kiwanis members the Manitoba Power Commission project will start in 15 and aim for 5,000 farms to gain electricity by year end. He showed motion pictures of Minnedosa Carnegie and Pent Dennis areas and was introduced by R. Kendall with Fred G. Taylor thanking him.
Walter J. Sargent aged 92, who served as Daly municipality's early reeve, died at his Victoria British Columbia home. He was married locally, and he and his wife moved to the west coast about 30 years ago, according to word received in Rivers on Monday.
A retrospective column lists events from various years in Rivers area. Notable items include a house fire at William Ballys farm, a large addition to J A McKenzies store, an oversized egg laid by a buff Orpington, and visits from RH Sarsfield the Anzac. Other notes cover burglaries at Peter Livingstone's Bradwardine store, the silver jubilee of King George V, local musicians winning at a festival, a mink discovered by John Stevenson, and a granary fire on the W Erwin farm. The piece also marks baptisms at Pettapiece United Church and Germanys surrender on May 8.
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