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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 25, 1950
Page
2
The Electors' Roll of the Municipal of Daly is open for inspection until May. Complaints against electors must be lodged with the Clerk before revision day. The Rural Municipality of Daly Council will sit as Court of Revision on June 6 1900 at 2 PM in Council Chamber to review the roll and hear complaints. Dated Rivers May 1 1930.
The Council of the Town of Rivers will sit as a Court of Revision at the Council Chamber on Monday June 5 at 2:00 PM to hear all complaints duly lodged. May 1450.
A damaged OCR fragment from a local page reports on a family dispute and legal matter. Names, places, and precise actions are unreadable, leaving only scattered words about a trial, kin, and a possible property issue.
An Ottawa report notes Canada appoints a new head of its mission to the allied high commission with ties to Bonn and Western Germany, indicating Arctic and Atlantic alliances and diplomatic updates.
The Rural Municipality of Daly council intends to pass a bylaw to stop up and demolish a highway section and Pendennis Bridge located between parts of Sections 17 and 14 in Township 7 6 and Range 20 7 West Manitoba. A meeting will hear objections before adoption, and the bylaw may be inspected at the secretary treasurer’s office prior to passage. Dated May 6 1950.
Mr and Mrs Peter Livingstone of Bradwardine announce the engagement of their daughter Nan to Mr George McKenzie son of Mr and Mrs Roy McKenzie of Bradwardine The wedding is set for Saturday June 10 at 2 00 pm in Bradwardine United Church
A fragmentary Gazette page recalls a Manitoba weekly in delay due to power shortages and features a fire incident near a farm building caused by careless ashes. It also notes a fatal blasting accident near Miller Alto involving Julius Lutz, a 61 year old farmer, with preliminary RCMP and coroner findings about dynamite timing.
Robert Young, 53, with no fixed address, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Magistrate S G Main in Edmon ton police court. A hospital report linked his crime to an illegal operation causing a young girl serious injuries. Veteran court sergeant John Irvine notes no previous life sentence in his 46 years. Leon Baker, MP for Three Rivers, was elected president of the Young Progressive Conservative association, succeeding E D Fulton of Kamloops who had held the post four years.
Forbes L. Bishop, a Canadian soldier, was injured in a Calgary home invasion when attacked with a baseball bat by Yuen Dip who claimed the intruder used a toy pistol. Police say Bishop faces a housebreaking with intent charge.
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