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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 25, 1952
Page
3
Miss Arnott of the Village reports an 18 pound cabbage while Bugs Bunny considers moving into the Arnott home for a few days. Mervyn Yakimishyn shows a potato strangled by a loop of wire, an early strangulation.
The town notes several visitors and trips from Winnipeg to Russell Dauphin and Banff as well as a convoy moving from Wainwright to Camp Borden. Local events include Mrs J D Robertson speaking on school trustees and sympathy extended to the Ballard family after a funeral. The grain shippers strike at Lake Head is temporarily averted amid ongoing tensions. Duck season opens with local hunting figures Dee Law Art Edwards Tom Dillin and Jack Nelson active around John Hall's.
The Winnipeg Tribune editorial argues Ottawa is quietly pulling back from beef price supports as storage space fills and domestic demand drops. It urges ending government involvement to lower prices, reduce taxpayer losses, and allow supply and demand to normalize for steadier Canadian meat access.
Jacob Graf, aged 67, died Sunday at Robin hospital after a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held at Kerr's Funeral Home Winnipeg with burial in Brookside cemetery. He was born in Russia and lived 67 years, married Mary Catherine Rau in 1911, moved to Canada in 1912, settled in Roblin district in 1916, later farmed and worked as tailor and furrier in town. Survived by his widow, daughter Mrs. M. J. Mazur and five sons Victor Fred Toronto August Sam Robert, plus a brother in Argentina.
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