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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1946
Page
6
Fire destroyed a barn threshing outfit and feed on the G B Kelly farm. Mr and Mrs John Webster celebrated their golden wedding at Forrest in this Looking Backward column from October 1 1936.
Dated September 28 1916 notice reports bread costs dropping to 10 cents per loaf from October 1. It notes three Roberts sons left to join their regiment as district recruiters push enlistment.
Thirty five years ago on September 28 1911 there was discussion of a hotel being built here by a syndicate. Moxley and Foerater's store had just been completed.
Storms batter England with the worst summer weather in memory. Yorkshire faces serious floods as Hebden and Calder overflow turning areas around Hebden Bridge into a lake. Roads blocked four feet deep water. Poultry, grain and timber float downstream. evacuations occur. schools and factories close. Dewsbury market floods. Huddersfield homes lose fires. rainfall up to two inches in 12 hours. south coast suffers sixty mile gales.
The Union of Soviet Writers on Sunday removed its president and expelled two members after the Communist Party issued a decree criticizing all three and censuring the union's leadership, deeming the decree absolutely correct.
The Student Body and Staff of Sees High School extend appreciation to C. Bellamy for furnishing Peeremart stories and assisting classroom projects, recognizing dedication to student learning and school activities.
William Grant Wilkes long time Canadian National railways chief clerk and paymaster, born Winnipeg July 14 1897, died Sunday afternoon after three weeks in Brandon hospital. He studied music in Cleveland under M Sokoloss, moved to Rivers at 21, promoted pianoforte study for youths, aided golf and community clubs, and directed provincial stage plays with histrionics talent.
Ottawa reports that Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation launched a Dominion-wide competition to seek small house designs. Winners receive a total prize pool of 214 with November 24 deadline, aiming to spark new affordable housing ideas across Canada.
Hundreds of volunteers in Price Rupert extended the rugged search for bodies or wreckage from the seaplane Sheeta Queen, as Sunday efforts continued to locate victims and raise clues about the crash.
Three men died digging a cesspool at Nacmine near Drumheller Alberta when gas from an old pool flooded the new hole. James T. Graham, Jean Baptiste Vaast, and John Dickey perished. rescue workers were overcome, samples taken for analysis.
A federal notice states ten statutory holidays are set by the government with actual observance left to provincial authorities. It lists Sundays New Year's Day Good Friday Easter Monday Victoria Day Dominion Day Labor Day Thanksgiving Remembrance Day Christmas and the King's birthday observance day.
Over 200 association members traveled from Montreal to Halifax aboard a CPR special train for the first annual postwar gathering. The event featured group photos of B C representatives and Alvertans, with figures from Saskatchewan and Alberta listed, including Mr. and Mrs. Avery Taber and several named couples.
The Hamiota Echo lists sixteen births at Hamiota hospital with seven babies to Oak River, four to Hamiota, and the remainder to McConnel, Lavinia, Decker, and Oakner. The paper closes with thanks to the mothers for their good work.
Eight pure bred Holstein Freerian heifers departed from Malton airport near Toronto for Colombia marking what is believed to be Canada's first air cattle shipment to South America. The flight is the first leg of a planned route to the South American nation.
Twenty Indian chiefs summoned by radio arrived in Winnipeg for a meeting at the legislative buildings but officials knew nothing. MP William Bryce learned of the message and rushed back alone to attend. Albert Thompson admitted paying for the broadcast and mailing notices. The chiefs met Mines Minister McDiarmid, learning Indian affairs are under Dominion jurisdiction.
The piece notes that forgetting is a human trait and can affect editors, tycoons, musicians, preachers, and professors. It recounts a bandleader forgetting his own instrument and a businessman who, in 30-odd below zero, forgets his store and walks home for breakfast, illustrating universal lapses of memory.
In Daly's rural municipality Bradwardine saw a rapid blaze gut the hardware store general stores implement shed and bank. Residents and arriving volunteers fought flames with water and wet blankets while oil drums rolled inside the building. A Scot named James Taylor praised the plucky response and Daly council appointed M. A. Griffith as municipal health officer in 1906 with pay of two dollars a day plus ten cents per mile.
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