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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
2
Rivers School Board considers operating a Grade XI class with minimum enrolment of four pupils. Those wishing to enroll must contact the principal or the undersigned by September 10, 1949. No school fees will be required. R. G. Sinclair, Sec-Treasurer.
The assessment hall of Rivers, Manitoba, is open for inspection for fifteen days from this notice. Complaints must be edge d in the Clerk’s office at least ten days before the Court of Revision sitting. The Council will sit as Court of Revision on Monday October 3 1949 at 7 30 pm in the Council Chamber. Dated at Rivers August 31 1949. W T Dyer Clerk Town of Rivers. Al 15 29
The Daly Rivers area mourns Nelson Vickery killed overseas. Five young airmen from Nat CNS survived a forced downing on Lake Winnipeg and were rescued by a Canadian Pacific Airlines seaplane. A Rivers blood donor drive fills its clinic weekly as donors flood in from Rural Municipality communities. Councils plan a temporary army medical officer at 170 monthly, with 6000 base pay, during the emergency period.
Acknowledges help in a great bereavement and thanks Masonic lodges Canadian Legion ladies auxiliary Hydro Brandon gun club Fishing Pals Parent-Teachers Assn United Church ladies aid Works and Building section Officers Mess CJATC Dr L Rubin Rev Dodd and others who loaned cars flowers and sympathy. Mr and Mrs R W Greasley and family extend sincere thanks to friends for support and understanding. Ukrainian Society also thanks those who helped extend and paint the hall. J Messel President.
FOR SALE-DAVENPORTE suite kitchen cabinet two sing le wardrobes rangette and ice box Apply Sgt Martin T 51 Married Quarters Air School p8 15 FOR SALE-SAFE 24x35 inches good shape Apply W J Muir so2 Fourth avenue p8 15 FOR SALE-1929 PONTIAC SEDan in fair running order good tires H J Wiens phone 304-25 Rivers p8 15 22 FOR SALE-1940 PLYMOUTH coach with or without radio or heater J M Kigwak Bradwardine phone 310-14 Rivers p25 1 8 FOR SALE-LARGE QUANTITY of good used lumber Very rea sonable Saw horses 50c apiece All kinds of scaffolding Apply Jack Hain Phone 93 Rivers
Bradwardine harvesting in the district is being wound up with yields ranging from light to heavy. Mr and Mrs E Whenham of Boissevain visited the former's sister Mrs G Wombhead over the long week end.
Carnegie Mrs Geoffrey Frank vacations on the Pacific coast. Mrs G W H Skinner hosted Mrs G Long of Brandon for the weekend. Miss Marion Watts of Winnipeg spent the holiday week end at her home. Mr and Mrs L Mitchell of Winnipeg visited the formers parents. Margaret Raines of Killarny and Marion Patterson of Brandon visited Mrs J Rorke. AC1 Ross Richardson of Calgary, Ford M Richardson of Dryden, and W H Nevill of Birtle visited Mr and Mrs T Nevill this week.
English born Ernest Edgington describes his 53 year journey from strict Abingdon apprenticeship rules to owning his own ship and becoming a master cabinet maker in Simcoe Ontario. His six year plan forbade matrimony and gambling, with pay rising from two shillings to ten shillings weekly.
The army treats Russians and Germans fleeing into the American zone as potential enemy agents and sometimes returns them to the Soviet command. Several returnees were publicly hanged by the Soviets to deter others. The State Department asserts defectors should be carefully screened but generously treated and, when possible, used for intelligence or other purposes.
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