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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 27, 1948
Page
6
A retro-item recalls Rivers as a west hot spot with Vancouverites shivering last week. It notes a $10,000 Dominion grant for a post office in Rivers, local baseball league formation, and a Daly council vacancy filled by G. L. Davies. The Rivers school staff faced reengagement at same pay, with funding under threat if declined.
A large number of farm homes in this Carnegie district have been wired for electricity and may be functioning before year end. Electricians have labored for some time and many homes show fixtures including fluorescents wall lifts chandeliers and outlets for stoves washing machines irons and toasters with residents eager to see lights turn on and brighter days ahead.
In Tarbolton Mr. and Mrs J Harris of Winnipeg visited relatives over the weekend. Guests at John Thompson’s home included Mr and Mrs E M White and Mr and Ara A Maskell of Rivers, Mr and Mrs S Cochrane of Griswold, and Mr and Mrs Robert Thomson of Regina. Emerson Wolfe and J Harris hosted Sunday guests Harry Bally of Hamiota. Jack Hammond left for the Pacific coast. John Laing Jr returned from Langley Prairie BC where he spent the winter. Mr and Mrs F Crane and Mr and Mrs R Robinson and daughter of Brandon were weekend guests of W Cochrane.
Relics from the ancient Iroquoian village of Hochelaga, now central Montreal, were unearthed during a Mansfield Street building dig. Redpath Museum at McGill acquires Indian pottery fragments, charcoal remnants from longhouses, and several human bones. Hochelaga stood near Metcalfe Mansfield Sherbrooke and Burnside. thriving in 1535, vanished before 1642 due to raid by Hurons and Algonquians.
Harry Massel of Rivers, son of Mr and Mrs J Messel, was honored with multiple scholarships including St Andrews and exchange, a $750 Ontario Research Council cash award, a mathematics scholarship at Princeton, a Brown University mathematics fellowship, and a MIT scholarship. He holds a BA and will receive his MS in September, with family reunions noted in Kingston.
W T Dyer, clerk, announced that the town of Rivery council will convene as a court of revision at 8 00 p m on Monday June 7 and the Daly rural municipality court will sit at 2 00 p m on Tuesday the 8th in the same venue.
Highlights of Finance Mio later Abbott's budget speech show an estimated 1947 48 surplus of 3670 000 000, down from 373 000 900 in 1946 47. Revenue totals 2 569 000 000, expenditures 2 199 000 000, with net debt at 12 378 000 000. Gross national production topped 13 000 000 000, up 13 percent due to prices and wages. The note suggests small wage and price rises, higher interest rates unlikely to curb business and consumer spending. United States dollar reserves declined abruptly but the drop has stopped. exchange position remains weak.
A Sault Ste. Marie man faced a tragic night as five physicians failed to respond to his gravely ill child while a sixth finally attended, but the infant died. The piece expresses regret over the circumstances and the loss.
The excerpt recalls Sid France Grey at the British foreign office predicting war in 1914 with the lights going out over Europe. It likens past saviors rekindling freedom to later eras and questions who can see into the darkness at the close of 1948 amid rising hostile forces.
The Boston Post notes that demands by babies last year boosted crib and play-pen toy production by about four percent. Toys worth roughly 15.008 million dollars were made with input from designers, psychologists, and pediatricians. Children’s rough handling prompted parental responses.
Berlin reports the United States authority in the American zone banned imports as a retaliation for interference with distribution of United States controlled publications in the Soviet zone of Germany.
Dr Léon Rubin new municipal officer for Rivers and Daly will begin duties on June 14, the Gazette reports. He recently visited Rivers and cited entering the ranks of the benedicts. Rubin has served at a Winnipes hospital. Dr D A Stewart ends service May 31 after long tenure since 1914 and moves to Toronto.
A blaze discovered near the new rink on Saturday afternoon was controlled before causing damage to nearby buildings using chemical apparatus.
The RCMP band on a recruiting tour will visit Brandon on Thursday June 3. A short parade will precede an park concert in late afternoon or evening, weather permitting. if rain, the concert moves to the arena. The band then travels to Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg June. The RCMP band is regarded as one of Canada’s best.
Twenty three members of Friendship Rebekah lodge Rivers helped install a sister lodge at Oak River last Tuesday. The new Fraternity lodge No. 44 chartered a Brandon bus for the trip. Oak River had previous lodge activity, discontinued years ago. 25 members were initiated with five more as chanter members.
A concise look at how beavers and muskrats belong to the same rodent family, highlighting shared anatomical features and ecological roles. Both species build lodges and lodges-like habitats, yet differ in size, behavior, and dam-building styles.
The Toronto Telegram reports that the National Coal Board has recovered 500 in fines from striking miners for breach of contract. This reflects a shift in labor relations as private enterprise eyes tougher measures and enforcement abroad.
Ottawa announces the maroon beret will continue as the emblem of the Joint Air School at Rivers. Royal Canadian Regiment Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and Royal 22nd Regiment air service company members will be allowed to wear the beret while training, then return to their unit headdress on completion.
J M Wedderburn of Tarbolton RR 1 celebrates a birthday while recalling a 66 year life on the same farm where he was born on May 28, 1882. He notes he has never lived elsewhere, once listing Bradwardine as his post office before rural mail service reached the area.
The annual inspection ceremony will be conducted at the Joint Air School on Thursday June 3 at 8:00 p m with Group Captain G I Doyle as reviewing officer. The proceedings are open to the general public.
Manitobans praise perfect holiday weather marking the onset of summer through September. Rivers enjoys a three day break with visitors and homecomings while summer sports events and the Clear Lake resort attract local attention. Many plan returns and garden work occupies leisure time.
A district service at St Matthew's pro-Cathedral Brandon ordains four young men as ministers of the gospel. G F R Ebsary, active in Anglican services at St James Rivers Roseville and St Matthew’s Bradwardine, preached his first Rivers sermon that evening.
The Rural Municipality of Daly remembers Angus McNevin, 61, who died in January 1923, ending his steady grip on Rivers school as principal. D. McLeod became acting principal with five high school students aiding the transition. February and March brought fierce blizzards, snowdrifts, and disrupted transport, with Wheatland’s store burned and Riv ers resident Frank Warren Buggey, a 49 year old former station agent and trustee, dying in March. Dad Poston died in April, closing a year of hardship and loss.
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