Town and Out Visitors From Various Places
In Town and Out Mr. and Mrs. A. L. McFarlane were Melita visitors last week. Mr. and Mrs. George Jelliff spent several days in Winnipe last week. Miss Esme White and M. V. McArthur Portage la Prairie visited in town over the week end. Mrs. Laverne McCorquindale Boissevain was the guest of her friend Mrs. W. Paddock for a few days last week. Mrs. R. Knox and her small son have arrived from Vancouver BC to join her husband FC Knox at the Service Training School. Recent visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. L McFarlane were Mr. and Mrs. S. McGlens of Stephen Minn and Mrs. T. Westerlund of Starbuck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Jelliff
Winnipe
Esme White
M. V. McArthur
Portage la Portage
R. Knox
Vancouver
B.C
FC Knox
Service Training School
A. L McFarlane
S. McGlens
Stephen, Minn
T. Westerlund
Starbuck
Held Annual Party for Little Helpers
The Little Helpers group at St. James WA held its annual party at the parish hall on Oct 29 with about 50 persons including 13 mothers and 28 children aged weeks to six years. Attendees also included visitors. After games and a short service, lunch was served and mite boxes collected, yielding 8.42 dollars. Mrs N Livy, Miss Frances Rea, and Dorothy Borrosman led the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Helpers
St. James
Legion Members to Attend Remembrance Service
Members of the Canadian Legion will attend the regular service at the United Church on Sunday evening in observance of Remembrance Day. No service will be held on November 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Legion
United Church
Juveniles Sentenced To Penitentiary Terms in Winnipeg
Two Winnipeg teenagers were sentenced to penitentiary terms totaling six years after a month long crime spree. One teen received four years after pleading guilty to 24 charges including forgery breaking and entering uttering attempting to utter and escaping lawful custody.
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Winnipeg
Canada asks US to return 5000 box cars to speed grain flow
Transport Minister Chevrier in Ottawa said Canada asked the United States to return 5 000 Canadian box cars by the end of October to speed western grain movement to shipping points before the freeze up. Washington reported the U S Interstate Commerce Commission ordered railroads to move Canadian cars home as soon as possible. Sir Stafford Cripps announced Britain must cut housing factory and new capital machinery expenditure by 200 million pounds annually to ease the economic crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chevrier
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Washington
U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission
Dominion
London
Stafford Cripps
Britain
Mrs G L Johnston Receives Tri light Lamp In Brandon
Carnegie Mrs G L Johnston longtime district resident received a trilight lamp sent by friends as a remembrance when she could not attend a local honor gathering. Weekend visitors included Mr and Mrs D R Morrison and children of Brandon and Miss A Polito of Portage la Prairie. Miss Marion Watts visited Ninette. Miss Phyllis Muirhead stayed at her Douglas Jerusalem home. The Jewish agency reported 18000 Cyprus Jews offered 70 immigration certificates for Exodus 1947 in a British camp in North Germany. Cyprus Jews’ 700 certificates covered a month’s entry tickets to the Holy Land for the Cyprus group. Salonika. Twenty four more Greek communists executed by northern Greece courts-martial today, total 17 since Oct 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. L Johnston
Brandon
Jerusalem
Jewish Agency
Cyprus
Germany
Holy Land
Salonika
Greece
Hanpy Birthday List Recaps November Celebrants
A provided notice lists birthday acknowledgments in Winnipeg for several individuals across November dates. Names include Mrs S Oakie Mrs H R Falk Mrs A Subsky Afiss Ada Wareham Kenneth Butler Elaine K White Melvin Richardson Mrs C S Carkner James Emslie Mrs J A Grummet John Borreff.
Huge apples harvested from Mike Noster's orchard
Mike Noster reports a bumper crop with apples weighing 13-4 to two pounds. Eighteen apples fill a standard packing box. Washington’s commerce department notes August newsprint production held steady from July while consumption rose one percent, with ongoing shortages persisting for industry and consumers. An EAC.ALP. search and rescue Canso aircraft departed Halifax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
Mike Noster
Commerce Department
Washington
North America
Halifax
Fringe hurricane winds threaten missing Elmore near Liverpool
A three crew missing Elmore, a 43 fet vessel, was feared lost after winds from an Atlantic hurricane churned off Nova Scotia near Liverpool NC. Rescue efforts intensified as weather hampered search across the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Elmore
Liverpool NC
Nova Scotia
Lost heifer with white markings and crumpled horns
Lost heifer age about 24 years in Ohio city near Perce Avenue. Herd owner seeks whereabouts and contact to identify animal, offering recovery details and immediate response.
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Phene
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A. L. McFarlane
Melita
N. ‘Livy
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Dorothy Borrosman
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Carnegie
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Ninette
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S. Oakie
H.R. Falk
A. Subsky
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Kenneth Butler
Elaine K. White
Melvin Richardson
C. S. Carkner
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J. A. Grummett
John Borreff
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Gabby) Hayes
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Paramount
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