08 Apr 1926
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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 08, 1926
Page
1
A perport engineer estimates Roblin would use about 28825 kwh yearly with 90 subscribers at 200 kwh each and 37 street lamps. The plan includes fixed yearly charges, a franchise setup, and potential savings to residents, with arguments for local ownership and reduced taxation.
Minister Rev Robert Harvey outlines Sunday topics Turnacl and Cremarty The Divine Tree and the children's address Gods Letter Reveals Ancient Portraits travel themes and religious reflection for services this week.
Garden notes advise starting seeds indoors to offset short summers. Advice covers crops like celery tomatoes eggplant peppers and flowering plants. Tips include sandy soil mix, shallow sowing, burlap cover, light exposure, warm germination, and avoiding growth checks. The piece also touches on local farm cooperatives and a wheat pool conference forming a central selling agency in the southwest.
Mr Jan D Fogg visited Kamsack on Thursday. Mrs C Burt visited Roblin for several days. Miss Vera Whenham of Polly spends a few days in town. Mr Wealey Thompson left on Express for Marwayne. Master Nei McKinnon visited friends in the city last week. Mr F W Munro spent the weekend at his Plumas home. Messrs R F Painter and Geo Swain visited Canora. Miss May Painter spent the weekend at Kamsack visiting friends. Messrs Gordon Thompson and J Greenitan left for the West. Mr A Nyrerod of Kamsack spent the weekend with his daughter. Easter services were well attended at both churches and decorations were fine. Mrs Tl J White of the Royal Bank staff arrived home after three weeks in the West. Mr and Mrs Gleason of Willowbrook spent Easter in town with Mr and Mrs Jas Carter.
A brief civic creed urges prosperity through neighborly greetings and confident gestures. It counsels constructive criticism, restraint in disagreement, and practicing the Golden Rule to back churches, protect youth, and keep the town afloat.
The Roblin column notes L B Russell visiting his father in Mayfield and HJ Everall in Winnipeg for a Manitoba Educational convention. It mentions an April 16 farm event and Easter services, a town vote on electric lighting, corrections to a prior seed grain article, arrivals of Arthur and Sheperdson families from England seeking farm work, Salvation Army hiring for farmers, Women’s Institute activities, and an editorial urging active citizenry against the useless good citizen stereotype.
Community items report visitors and moves including Mrs W Dunlop of Dauphin visiting Mrs W Fletcher, Mr Everett Brown and family moving to Beaver place, and Miss Maud Wilson teaching at Shellvaile returning home. A Deepdale church tender and a house fire at Mr C Bramwell’s home are noted. The Makaroff Dramatic Society staged Yimmy Yongons Yob on April 1 with strong attendance and profits.
Merridale Mr L Taylor of Deepdale finished lumber work at Cockerills last week. Mr R Sutherland took out 65 thousand ft of lumber with permits. Mr and Mrs Calver plan to leave the district after twenty years, cited school facilities as the reason, and will move to a new home near Roblin.
Public auction conducted by J A Williamson at Roblin Hotel Roblin Mirabalsas on April 28 1996 at 12 noon for a farm in Manitoba NE quarter of Sec 32 T 27 R 27 W. Property includes log house granary stables and sheds with 55 acres cultivated. Terms require 20 percent cash and balance per sale terms to be announced. reserve bid applies. Solicitors Clark Jackson Arundel 402 Trust and Loan Bldg Portage Ave Winnipeg. Dated Winnipeg March 29 1926.
C H Burnell president of the Manitoba Wheat Pool says US growers opposing the pool method meet stronger resistance than Canadian peers. He spoke after visiting Kansas meetings arranged by the Kansas Wheat Pool and noted substantial opposition.
The poem mocks grim weather, claiming September to November are miserly with sun. It asserts blizzards plague January through May, and all remaining months have thirty one days. Even with two and thirty days, sun remains absent.
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