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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 04, 1945
Page
7
A brief column recaps events from 10 to 15 years ago noting J. C. Gregory plans a building at the bathing beach and election campaigning intensifies in the constituency. Other items mention Radio beacon near Forrest visits by Mrs. E. E. Berkey, and local transportation updates.
Marys Home Laundry announces plans to open soon as a new tenant, with equipment underway. Mrs M French says larger quarters will be erected early next year due to building restrictions, as peak operations of the British Conic ralth Air conclude.
M R Sutherland MLA of Griswold won a close balloting over Frank D Taylor of Rivers to represent Lansdowne in the forthcoming provincial election. The convention drew about 100 voters at Rivers after 3 pm with Davidson and Oak Lake supporting Sutherland. Provincial minister D L Campbell urged coalition governments and called for 1867 agreements to be updated to 1945 standards.
The Fifth Masonic District met in Rivers on Tuesday October 2 gathering lodges from Russell Cardale Birtle Shoal Lake Strathclair Rapid City Minnedosa Brandon Miniota and Alexander. Grand Master P Pilkey and Deputy Grand Master M Donovan attended with others. A banquet at Four Star Theatre featured J Gilchrist F Karlenzig Alex Whyte violin solos Mrs Walsh and a notable address by Pilkey. The evening session closed after God Save the King. The gathering was a great success.
Organization officials and provincial War Finance Committee members met in Winnipeg to map plans for Canada's greatest Victory Loan. H. E. Sellers praised past leaders and predicted the ninth loan would set new records while R. E. Unicome of Brandon organized Unit 26a covering Rivers. Unless democracy is revived daily, it will vanish.
James Henry Barker, earliest resident of Rivers and a longtime decorator, died suddenly Sunday morning in Rapid City at age 63. Born May 28 1882 in Saffron Walden England he worked 40 years as a decorator before moving to Canada. He advocated for labor and served in church and community groups while writing weekly poems for the Gesette. Funeral set for Thursday at St Thomas Anglican in Rapid City with Rev Gracey officiating. widowed with three daughters and a son, plus a brother and two sisters surviving.
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