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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
1
The Ladies of St James W A held a Thanksgiving Tea and Sale of Home Cooking at the Rectory on Saturday. Rooms and tables were decorated with autumn sprays and flowers. A bountiful display of pies cakes fruit and pickles was sold and the event cleared profits. The ladies thank the public for patronage and helpers.
The Daly council minutes from September record read and approved correspondence from the Highway Commissioner and various contracts. Payments include gravel and contract accounts, school and municipal levies, and several named grants to local organizations. Council adjourned with A. Dyer as secretary treasurer.
On Wednesday September 28 at Holy Trinity Church Winnipeg Rev Southam joined Isabel Miller of Fifeshire Scotland to Robert J Brown of Rivers Manitoba in a matrimonial ceremony.
Lodge Colonial Sons of England announces a winter series of whist drives starting Friday October 14 and continuing on the second and fourth Fridays each month. Admission is 25 cents per member.
Union Church announces next Sunday October 9 as a red letter day with morning service at 11 and evening at 7 30. Rev C B Lawson of Glenboro preaches. A special tank offering is requested to honor God’s mercies. The choir will perform suitable music.
Morning services feature lifting gates psalm 24 and anthems by Stainer and Roberts with solo by Geo Kite. Monday evening Mrs J E Smith of Saskatoon will recite Jean Valjean with admission 50c and 25c. Public praise from pulpit and press for Mrs Smith’s Les Miserables reading.
Lovely weather welcomed a Tuesday fair by the Rivers Boys and Girls Club at Rivers School. Students from all ages displayed school work, cooking and canning, needlework, vegetables, and livestock while afternoon singing and drill competitions drew many parents to a growing community event.
G B Somerville purchased three parcels on 2nd Avenue west of Thompson Block and plans a large hotel. In Winnipeg on Monday October 3 Emma Roberts wed Samuel Beever of Rivers. Continued rains disrupt threshing and the Little Saskatchewan River rises high threatening the old bridge.
T R Grieve reports a successful closing out sale ahead of moving to Carberry. A full page advertisement appears in this issue detailing the sale and terms.
Dominion command of the Great War Veterans' association outlines Armistice Day plans to wear red poppies. The sale funds relief for the unemployed and aids French war orphans, reflecting an effort to honor the supreme sacrifice and ease wartime distress.
Mr and Mrs Gordon L Richardson of Toffield Alta stayed on Monday returning to their western home to visit cousins Mr and Mrs Jos Moxley.
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