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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1918
Page
8
Wheatland Mrs Seth Thomas and children of Moore Park who visited for three weeks have returned home. The Junior Auxiliary holds its regular meeting next Saturday at Miss Hester Bicknell's home. A concert at Wheatland school is set for Friday evening October 11, postponed from September 27. Admission 25 cents and licensing.
Daly Daly Church will hold anniversary services on Sunday October 21 at 11 am and 7 30 pm. Rev Wo Ivens Winnipeg will preach. Monday evening following features the annual supper and entertainment.
A poetical vignette portrays Kaiser Wilhelm II seeking divine assistance to conquer Britain and France. God replies with irony, noting a higher promise of victory to his cousin George, while the Kaiser laments the loss of his crown and the Watch on the Rhine.
Advertises for three loads of oat straw or green feed to be sold to a buyer. Applicants are to apply to the Gazette office.
The document enumerates municipal leaders including Town Council Mayor E Thompson and ward councillors C Smyth J McNeil Ward 2 f1 Wareham L Wiegand Ward 3 W Pitts E Forman Sec Treas G W Oliver Daly Municipal Council Reeve J R Shanks with Wheatland, Pendennis and Alexander ward names and a district judge Hon T D Cumberlain Brandon Medical Health Officer F G Schwalm M D Rivers as listed officials.
The fragment lists multiple 19th century Canadian newspapers and magazines including The Family Herald and Weeks Star and Manitoba Weekly Free Press. It reads like a catalog or index of periodicals rather than a full article with a clear event or story.
In certain districts homesteaders may secure an adjoining quarter section by preemption at $3.00 per acre. Duties reduced six months in each of three years after patent and cultivated 50 acres extra. May obtain preemption patent as soon as patent on conditions. Entries may count Canada farm labourer employment in 1917 as residence duties under certain conditions.
The record lists chairman R N Dunsman secretary T W Offen with ward representatives T W Offen E Mitchell Dunsmore and others. It includes ward 3 T R Grieve and ward 4 F Paddock K W Sargent J Varcoe and T Bowman among the names noted as officials and coaches.
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