Nominations Draw Few Voters in Rivers Ward Five
The Gazette noted little interest in nominations with acclaim for actor trustees and council candidates. In ward five Bradwardine’s G E Butchart led with 52 votes over Walter Sargent at 35, while civic life and wartime events shaped a community marked by marriages and veterans’ memories.
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G. E. Butchart
Walter Sargent
Gazette
Rivers
Overseas Parcels Fund
W. E. Louks
W. Myles
T. A. Warkgent
T. A. Warkgent’s Fitted Case, Won By Miss Olinyk of Elphinstone
Yuletide
Butchart
Sargent
Continental Trains On New Schedule Starting Sept 25
Continental trains will alter arrival times at Rivers for all services starting Sunday Sept 25. Train No 1 from Montreal arrives 25 minutes earlier, No 3 arrives 20 minutes earlier, No 2 from Vancouver arrives 10 minutes later, and No 4 arrives 15 minutes later. The 15 minute pause allows a longer lunch and a look at the business district.
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Rivers
Montreal
Canadian National Railways
Vancouver
No. 1
Usua
Gilchrist's to Open New Sarum Drug Store Branch
Gilchrist's drug store will open a branch in New Sarum next week as a 12 hour operation from 10:00 a.m. to 10:06 p.m. A lunch counter will be available, and the staff will total 12 full time employees overall with Rivers store. The New Sarum branch, 22 by 46 feet, is frame construction finished in stucco and brick veneer with a Striated plywood interior. Contractor is H. McLaughlin of Rivers.
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New Sarum
Gilchrist
J. A. Gilchrist
Rivers
Sarum
H. McLaughlin
Regina ballot inquiry slated by Saskatchewan chief justice
Chief Justice J T Brown of the Saskatchewan King's Bench Court is named a commissioner to inquire into counting of ballots in Regina city constituency for the June 7 general election. The inquiry date will be set by the chief electoral officer. Dr E A McCusker the Liberal candidate was declared elected by a 142 vote plurality after a recount by Judge Hogarth. A St Thomas Times-Journal item notes the US government released Operation Vittles booklet on Berlin Air Lift, praising American views with British and RAF efforts largely uncredited.
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J. T. Brown
Saskatchewan King’s Bench Court
Regina
Ottawa
E. A. McCusker
Lberal
D. Hogarth
St. Thomas
Tallest Army Man Dies Then His Mother Follows
The tallest Canadian Army World War I veteran James Carnahan aged 53 died Monday evening at his Kenimay district home. Eight hours later his 83 year old mother Mrs J A Carnahan died in the same house. The ex serviceman was a brother in law of Wilson St Humphries at Rivers and died of a heart attack.
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James Carnahan
Kenimay
J. A. Carnahan
Parker matriarch dies in Minnesosa hospital
The Humphries families of Rivers, Brandon, and Kemnay mourn a third loss this week as Mrs. Thomas Parker of Rapid City, mother of Mrs. Irwin Humphries of Brandon, died Monday in Minnesosa hospital. The late Mrs. Parker was the widow of Thomas Parker and a long-time resident of the Rapid City district.
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Humphries
Rivers
Brandon
Kemnay
Thomas Parker
Rapid City
Irwin Humphries
Minnesosa Hospital
Parker
Carnahan Family Survives With Four Members in Ontario
Four Carnahan relatives survive including Stanley of Kemnay Rayburn at home Miss Annie of Brandon and Mrs D Henderson of Haltonville Ont Funeral services for mother and son are set for this afternoon from Brandon at 3 30 with interment in Alexander cemetery
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Carnahan
Stanley
Kemnay
Rayburn
Annie
Brandon
D. Henderson
Haltonville
Ont
Alexander Cemetery
Nominations in Rivers and Rural Municipality
Nominations day for Daly rural municipality and Rivers areas set for Tuesday Oct 11. W T Dyer says offices open 10 to 2 with councillors in wards one four six and reeve for the whole municipality. Rivers mayor and three councillors plus town and rural school board nominees listed. vote planned Oct 21 if needed. electors meeting in Rivers community hall. Also notes daylight saving extension to Nov 27 in Toronto. Visas for French visitors to France slated for abolition with no date given. Ontario police probe Harvard plane missing since last year near Greenwater Lake. Montreal court hears pyramid lottery case. John Harris fined or jailed. Britain to import 360000 Standards from Russia, Harold Wilson states.
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Daly
Rivers and Rivers Consolidated
W.T. Dyer
Rivers
Loo
Police Seek Truck Found Near Officer’s Home
A stolen 149 Chevrolet owned by a Silver Man resident was found parked in the lane behind a law officer’s home near Brandon over the weekend. Constable H Tyreman spotted the vehicle late at night and learned it had been reported missing, now still the subject of a police search.
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Silver Man
Brandon
H. Tyreman
Tyreman
Silver
Winnipeg
Just Great to be a Landlord in Town
A local man moves a fragile house from his farm near Rivers into town. The structure lacks windows or a chimney and sits on a uncertain footing awaiting alterations. A stranger asks if it is for rent and later returns to request furnishings and rent terms. Workers arrive to install windows, a chimney, and a firm footing as the owner arranges power and plumbing.
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Rivers
City character over wealth shapes its fate in Lodz case
Two Roman Catholic priests, found guilty of collaboration with the German Gestapo during the war, were sentenced to death by an appeal court at Lodz, Poland. The Chatham News reflection on civic virtue contrasts mood and wealth in assessing a city.
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Gestapo
Lodz
Poland
Mrs Harry Wareham Laid To Rest In Brandon
Hundreds of relatives and neighbors gathered at the United church in Rivers to bid farewell to Mrs. Harry Wareham. The service was led by Rev H Dodd with soloist Mrs H Wolstenholme and violin accompaniment by Alex W Whyte. Pallbearers were her brothers in law Walter, Albert, Alfred, George, Ernest Wareham and Jack O'Brien. Burial followed in the family plot at Brandon.
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Ontario
Saskatchewan
United Church
Harry Wareham
H. Dodd DD
Bert Ford
Alex W. Whyte
H. Wolstenholme
Winnipeg
Windsor
Ont
Indian Head
Regina
Sask
Wareham
Walter Wareham
Albert Wareham
Alfred Wareham
George Wareham
Ernest Wareham
Jack O’brien
Brockie of
Standon
Fire destroys a threshing machine in Rivers area
Historical notes recount a fire that consumed a threshing separator owned by Herbert White. Other items include a cemetery site decision by a board of trade committee, tax rate set at 254 mills, and various local society updates from Rivers and nearby towns.
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Herbert White
Board of Trade
GTP
Pacific Coast
One Hundred Years Old Enjoys Thrillers in Sheerness
Mrs. Hannah Louise Nichols, age 100, in Sheerness receives congratulations from the king and queen on her birthday. She has lived in the same house 73 years, reads, crochets without glasses, and listens to radio thrillers. Canada’s population rises to about 13.545 million after Newfoundland entry, per the bureau of statistics.
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Sheerness
England
Hannah Louise Nichols
Canada
Newfoundland
Bureau of Statistics
Poundage-Proof Pumpkin Peter's Pride
A 24 pound pumpkin grown by Alf Langley of Rapid City was entered in The Gazette contest and on display with other vegetables. The piece notes Halloween readiness and that one week remains for gardeners to enter for a chance at a prize subscription.
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Alf. Langley
Rapid City
Canada Moves Toward Full Autonomy With Dominion Conference
Ottawa reports the 21st Parliament opened with aims to amend the constitution from within Canada. Prime Minister St Laurent proposed a Dominion provincial conference to discuss amendments without UK Parliament. Ross Macdonald was chosen House speaker and Elie Beauregard named Senate speaker.
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Ottawa
Canada
United Kingdom
Viscount Alexander
St. Laurent
St Laurent
Wartime Training Centre Recalled in Junction Cartoon
The Montreal Family Herald recalls CNS which was the World War II training centre at Rivers Manitoba in a Juniper Junction strip. Pigskin Peter, trying outfits, parades before his boss claiming he wore a jersey reading No. 4 CNS Rivers Man for four years with some of Canada’s best people.
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CNS
Rivers
Montreal Family Herald
Weekly Star
Juniper Junction
Pigskin Peter
AC2
Pigskin
Canada
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