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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 18, 1939
Page
7
Local notes report Miss Joan Skinner, a bride elect, honored by Carnegie Tennis Club at the Nevill home. Guests include Mr and Mrs Thos Nevill, H G Eyres family, with bridge prizes won by Mrs W LePage and Mr L Frank. Gift table features a Roseville church group token.
Opening game drew a large crowd as Bradwardine beat Isabella 2 to 1 to claim the first league win of the season. Alma Sedgwick spent the weekend with her parents in Minnedosa. Mrs J Alteman, a Bradwardine pioneer, died Friday in Brandon. funeral at Tarbolton Church Sunday. interment in Tarbolton cemetery. Mr Wm Vickery, known as Uncle, died suddenly Tuesday evening at Oak River.
A local notice reminds readers that the Rivers Fat Calf and Colt Show is set for June on the second. The brief invites attendance and marks the day as a community event with emphasis on the livestock show.
May 21 services across parishes include Holy Communion at St James Rivers at 9 30 am and morning prayer at Roseville 11 00 am with bishops attending. St Matthews Ancrum offers Evening Prayer at 3 00 pm and the Bishop administers the Apostolic Rite of Confirmation in Rivers.
The Band performs at 830 on Saturday. Angus Titman returns to Rivers to join the railway shops. A large townsfolk gathering greets the former resident and recent arrival. Mothers Day observed at Rivers United Church with a morning service and evening address.
Rev W R Donagh outlines Sunday's service with a May 21 topic The Rich Man and Lazarus and asks why repentance comes too late, noting services at 11 00 am 3 00 pm and 7 30 pm plus a Sunday School at 11 00 am The WMS monthly meeting is Friday May 19 at 3 pm at Mrs R G Sinclair's home.
The piece portrays a sale of odds and ends as a weighted farewell. It laments lost hope and cherished memories while framing endurance in adversity. The speaker vows not to complain, choosing quiet dignity and a final blessing.
Rivers Senior Baseball Team joins the Mid Western League with clubs Oak River Miniota Bradwardine Lenore Isabella Hamiota Kenton and Rivers. The schedule opens at Rivers last Friday with ten home and away games from May to June plus a League Tournament at Lenore on June 10.
The Gazette offers birthday wishes to Cecil White on May 18 and several others including Mrs James Frame and Earle Dyer. Additional names include Mrs C W Sargent, Mrs Robt Madden of Winnipeg, D W Anderson Jr of Winnipeg, Mrs P E Newman of Kenora, and Mrs F Livesey of Finn Flon with dates ranging May 18 to May 23.
Thousands expected in Brandon for Royal Sports Day tied to the King's visit. Harness races lead with $40,000 in prize money across three events, plus two 3500 prize races at the Fair Grounds and a famed pony race for under fifteen. Ball tournaments, baseball, softball, and a horseshoe pitching contest are also on the program.
Advertisements in the local news column cost iNe per line per insertion and outperform poles and store notices. The paper notes everyone reads the local newspaper, making paid notices highly effective for reaching the community.
Bernard Geekoop of Rivers announces Hav at 466 dollars a ton and oat sheaves priced at two cents each in a brief land and trade notice.
Short note states good oak posts sold at ten cents each, opened and delivered in one hundred feet.
Having purchased hay permit rights on the southwest quarter of Section 26 township 12 range 21 adjoining Rivers town, the owner warns all stock must be kept from grazing on the land. W E Stewart.
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