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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1933
Page
9
Public Thanksgiving Service under the Malcolm Mission Band will be held next Monday October 9 at 11 am in the United Church. Ministers give addresses and St James junior W A and Malcolm Mission Band take part. A collection will be taken.
Rivers School will be closed Wednesday Thursday and Friday this week due to the Teachers' Convention in Brandon.
Revered district pioneer Robert Shanks dies at 95 in his son James's home after a long illness. Born 1838 in Scotland he taught in Ontario before moving west in 1888 to Wheatland district. A lifelong Methodist and local preacher he traveled great distances to minister to settlers and left four children, three daughters and a son. Interment was in Upland cemetery beside his wife and a daughter.
Thanksgiving Day visits and social events fill the town calendar. Wm J. Battley visits, Ruth Buggey heads to McGill, and Elocution entries due October 11. The Women’s Institute hosts a October 20 dance, the O’Timers host an October 6 event, and the Rivers Community Club schedules October 12 meeting. An exhibit at Forman’s shows Churchill’s first wheat, while a Man. Univ. entomology note urges deep plowing to curb grasshopper eggs. A Rebekah Lodge party honors Sister Tiltman with a Past Noble Grand’s Jewel.
Good house to rent or sell with seven rooms and a large basement. Furnace recently overhauled, pump inside and out, and a good garage. Will sell cheap. A Till man Rivets.
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