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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1933
Page
6
A devotional urging readers to seek relief through faith. The author, Mrs A Hogg Makaroff, calls on people to look to God for freedom from oppression and to drink the living water offered, urging reverence and prayer for deliverance from hardship. The piece links suffering to divine gift and communal solace.
The Scheol trustees met in the evening of August with AS members present. Minutes from the last meeting were adopted. The board approved hiring Mary Simpson as Grade 2 teacher. A boiler repair was authorized and several accounts were passed: Roblin Writding Co. $8.15 and Guarantee Garage $0.50. The meeting adjourned.
A lengthy critique notes a dramatic wheat price rise followed by a sharp collapse wiping out many small bidders and profiting large operators. It argues the advance was engineered and warns readers against get rich quick schemes citing Barnum and Wilton's Review.
Damage to clothing by moths comes from the larvae or caterpillars feeding, not the ed winged moths whose main role is to mate and lay eggs. The larvae cause the damage as they develop into moths and lay more eggs.
Winnipeg Free Press reports Rev. James McNeill of Manitoba, now in Winnipeg, has been called by Peace River congregation to write the history of the church in the Peace River area. He notes rapid settler migration, wheat giving as church tribute, and Alberta BC land prospects aiding homesteaders as key factors shaping the church’s role among northern settlers.
Fall rye offers late fall and early spring pasture for ewes and young stock. Mild cows should be pastured sparingly due to possible milk flavor. At Rosthern Station seeded July 1 to August 16. do not pasture before freeze. If not used in fall, sow around September 15 to avoid winter kill. Seed rate 1 1/2 bushels per acre for wheat on grain drill. Dakold fallure is among the hardiest varieties tested at Rosthern.
At the Lily Show and Conference in London under the Royal Horticultural Society, the hybrid lily bred by F L Skinner of Dropmore and released as L Maxwill won an Award of Merit and first prize as a pot plant shown by Col Napier of Woodlands Surrey. Manitoba lily growth photos drew favorable comments from Gardener's Chronicle in London.
Local residents renew acquaintances in town as Manitoba notes several travels and injuries. A sister Agnes Whyte dies at 34 in Tamiota. Harvesting begins with threshers working. Amdroves returns home after eye injury. Williamson undergoes eye surgery in Winnipeg with uncertain outcome. Culver breaks leg in fall while hanging laundry and is treated at Russell hospital. On August 20 the Roblin branch of the Canadian Legion holds memorial service at the monument with Brigadier-General Ross as principal speaker and a parade to the cemetery, joined by the Roblin Band and the Russell Army and Navy League Pipe Band.
A farewell picnic for Mrs. Hill was hosted at the Barclay residence with Mr. and Mrs. Lynden Barkley and guests from Toronto. The group, including Seateh and Mrs. Hill, enjoyed an outing to Longue Sault Rapids before Mrs. Hill’s departure for Niagara Falls and onward to Toronto en route to Roblin Manitoba.
The article discusses Canadian Hard Wheat used by Japan in mixtures with softer wheats for supply. It notes the worldwide housefly spread and its link to dangerous diseases like typhoid and cholera, its breeding in filth, and the stable fly resembling the common house fly. It mentions the stable fly peaking July to October, living outdoors, entering homes in bad weather, and both sexes biting humans and animals.
TOGO NEWS reports the school reopens on Tuesday the 22nd, campers from Madge Lake have mostly returned home, and Mr Earl Carter returns to Flin Flon after a visit. Miss Peggy Rogers visits Vaughan Allen at Allendale, Dr G P Baker joins the Registered Bee Keepers Association of Saskatchewan, flamemakers plan a memorial service on the 27th, Mr and Mrs Jas Topham entertain for Frank's birthday, and a hotel joke ends with a ribb on comment about high prices.
Pennyworth 11000 ton steamer docked at Churchill on Sunday from Glasgow and Tyne. Captain A W Gofton praised Hudson Bay route, noting safer navigation and hoped for longer insurance season. Pennyworth carried over 2000 tons of freight including 1000 tons coal, with outward cargo planned at 295000 bushels of wheat.
A stenographer, about to marry, mixed two radio broadcasts on home economics and exercise. Her notebook blends recipes and workout steps into comic instructions, detailing flour, milk, eggs, and kneading actions as if cooking and exercising were one routine.
Auction notice for a mortgage sale of the west half of section 25, township 27, range 29 west of the principal meridian, four miles north of Deepdale, Manitoba. Sale at William J. Westwood’s Roblin office on September 2, 1933, at 2 PM. 20 percent cash. balance per sale terms. Contact John E. Ramsden for details. vendor’s solicitor is D. Dannhin.
Lost horse notice from Wm Pound Makaroff seeking information leading to recovery of a ten year old roan gelding with three white feet and a star on the forehead. A reward is offered.
The horse bean was grown in Central Europe thousands of years before the Christian era. Archaeological digs at Tro uncover large seed deposits. Ancient Greeks and Romans used it to make bread cakes and porridge.
All parents and guardians must register their child for the first time with Secretary of School. Child must be six by December 31, 1933. Non-residents must register before September 5, giving name, previous school, and grade. Grade XII students to Collegiate must register and pay 50 at commencement Goose Lake Con. S.D. 1282. Irwin L. Mitchbell, Sec. Treas.
In loving memory of Benjamin Harrison Deel who died August 17 1932. The verse speaks of fading away and parting from a beloved husband father. The family recalls his love and waits for reunion on God’s hills.
A noted sortgage sale advertises two Manitoba parcels in township 26, range 29 near Shell River. Parcel 1 is east half NE 23 with mineral reservations. Parcel 2 NW 24 with roadway exclusion. Land includes about 200 arable acres. 140 cultivated. Sale July 19 1932 at 12 noon in Winnipeg with 30 percent cash, at C D G Barber's office.
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