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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 16, 1952
Page
3
In Budapest confectioners produce slogan bearing candy with hidden phrases like Love the Soviet Union that appear only when sucked and another reads Peace. Separately the Irish Cedar, the first Irish ship into Churchill port, arrived to load wheat, owned by a Dublin shipping company.
Claims against the estate of William Andrew Common late of Bradwardine Manitoba must be verified and sent to Kerr Meighen Haddad Kerr solicitors 119th Street Brandon by November 10 1952. Meeting notices for local school area speak er G W Brisbin details follow. Auction sale of late Mrs William Rea household effects October 18 at 200 p m. Engagement announced Muriel Common to Edwin Bott wedding October 24 at St James Rivers. Rawleigh business opportunity in Rivers area details provided. Electric washer for sale in working condition contact 183 cil6
Tarbolton visitors included Emerson Wolfe family and Joyce Poersch wedding party with Mavis as bridesmaid and Warren Wolfe as page boy. Brandon guests joined with Griswold residents at the Cochrane home. Thanksgiving weekend saw Alex Thomson hosted by EB Fewing and R Fewing of Winnipeg and Vancouver guests Ethel Livingstone and H A Thomson with Peter Livingstone and George McKenzie from Bradwardine.
The Assessment Roll of the Rural Municipality of Daly is deposited for fifteen days of inspection. Complaints must be lodged with the clerk at least ten days before the Court of Revision sitting. The Council will sit as Court of Revision on Tuesday November 4, 1952 at 1:00 p.m. in the Clerk's Office Rivers.
Notice posted by G. L. Davies and J. R. Stratford states the September 1952 monthly statement is on file at the Municipal Office and open for inspection during office hours. Special gospel services announced Sundays at 7 30 p m with Rev F Beswith erick speaking in Ukrainian Hall Rivers Man.
Manitobans are buying more than 500000 dollars of Canada Savings Bonds daily since the seventh series opened. Director Hugh A. Benham notes a 344 percent rate boosts sales, with 59000 buyers in the sixth series purchasing over 17 million dollars. Rural purchases averaged over 300 dollars cash each. since the first series, 93494607 dollars in interest has been paid to holders.
Residents pledge to buy 80000 dollars in waterworks debentures as the council reveals possible 100000 more to outside financiers and plans for another 100000 to a different institution. Water sold five cents a pail in Cavour as municipal supply ran dry. a hardware merchant sold out milk cans and residents used wells. Boys carted water from a well to townspeople for a nickel per throw.
A London pamphlet on pupil discipline omits specific methods but cautions against frequent paddling and corner time. It warns that sarcasm terrifies children and should be avoided as a dangerous tactic. The text contrasts with a note about the shorthorn cattle being the common beef animal in the British Isles.
Herman Linder of Edmonton discusses mean horses used as bucking stock in rodeos since 1924 Cardston Alberta. Cowboys face slim odds with annual earnings often between two and three thousand dollars, while a handful make over ten thousand. Linder, sidelined by a serious riding injury, notes bulls pose greater danger, and a Vancouver incident involved a mama bear rescuing her cub from a shed.
Thomas Osborne of Marissa Illinois at 94 becomes the town’s oldest citizen to fly to Minneapolis for a visit. He carried a cane to look his age and noted the four hour trip. Including quirky items, a Burnaby boy claimed to have become Red Cross secretary and kept meeting minutes on a watch. An 81 year old Sitka inmate on deer hunt missing remains, returning with a deer and a note apology. In Paris champagne chilled as officials hear reports from alcoholism congress delegates.
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