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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1918
Page
5
Local column reports contest leaders with Jim McFadden at 31 oz and others with 16 to 224 oz. It notes infantile paralysis cases in Rapid City district, river stocking work completed, and rising theft concerns. Community updates include visits, threshing work, and wartime duties urging registration for 16 year olds.
Local brief notes: Hoys' and Girls' Club Fair set for Saturday October 5th. Thanksgiving Day observed Monday October 14th. Miss Ethel Leary visiting town friends for a few days. Roy Withers departed Friday for a visit to his homestead at Venn Saskatchewan.
Roy Hunter Zone Supt lists enrolled Soldiers of the Soil for the October Boys and Girls Fair. Names include James Patton of Winnipeg with J. A. Dyer and Hugh Ingram of Winnipeg with E. O. Dyer. Also Earl Fenwick R. J. Madden Angus McDonald Maurice Bowmat and Elmer Westwood named.
Jack Baker, ill with typhoid fever, was moved on Friday to St Boniface hospital. Miss Pearl Woodley opens a piano and theory class. Rev. Geo Renwick, formerly of Alva Manitoba, arrives to lead the Presbyterian work in town.
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