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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1944
Page
4
The Rivers Blood Donor Clinic reports over a thousand donations and urges continued support as wartime needs remain high. Civilians and service members alike have contributed through blood clinics nationwide, with communities surrounding Rivers notably involved. Donors are urged to sign up now to aid the war effort and save lives.
Rivers town council met with Mayor Grant presiding on October 2. Minutes from the prior meetings were approved. The sale of the town scales to H. M. Harvey for $10 was authorized, with conditions to remove, fill pits, and restore the street, and Harvey to buy a lot and install the scales.
Municipal actions include approving victory bond sales totaling 720.29 and investing in the 7th Victory Loan, appointing a nurse pending municipal doctor procurement, approving revised 1945 assessment rolls, paying union dues, selling Lot 17 Block 15 Plan 236 for 50 to Donald A. McRae, instructing filing with Manitoba Power Commission to rebuild a pole line, reimbursing Councillor F Taylor for Winnipeg trip expenses, and posting signs.
Town council prohibits tractors carrying logs from operating on hard surfaced streets. Meeting adjourned after adoption of ordinance.
The Peterborough Examiner argues against lowering to eighteen and proposes raising the voting age to twenty five. It contends youths of eighteen remain children in key ways and should not cast decisive ballots. It asserts experience and knowledge come with twenty five, improving voter maturity overall.
Attendance reached twenty five at the Women’s Institute gathering hosted by Mrs E E Grant. Doris Gunness left for Forrest to take her Grade XL. Twenty years ago Mrs J H Maxwell and her son Alfred returned from Ontario. About three hundred attended the United Church Sunday School Rally. No 1 Ontario Northern Spy apples advertised at 3.75 per barrel with other varieties at 3.50. A prairie fire west of Wheatland station nearly got out of hand.
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