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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1952
Page
3
Rossburn School opened for 1952 53 with a record 192 enrollments across primary and collegiate departments. Grade distributions show 53 in grades 9 10 and 76 in 11 12. space and staffing constraints raise questions about adding classrooms and teachers and potential upgrade to Collegiate Institute status.
Grain reports from local elevators show better than average quality with prospects for No 2 northern wheat if weather remains favorable. Barley grades excellent with malt barley shipments under way. oats and wheat deliveries remain light. Rossburn elevators have capacity to handle small quotas despite slow shipping. Summer fallow yields above 1952 levels. In a separate note, mothers protest Vista School Trustees action on a long serving teacher and request rehire of Mrs Ewashko or an equivalent candidate, opposing an inexperienced replacement.
Based on Gordon Taylor information the hall built in 1898 by his father Wm Taylor with Jas Dewar served as a school until 1907. The structure on section 32 1924 near Ben Cormack’s home used Shoal Lake lumber with foundation and chimney by Wm Collins. It was moved after the new school opened and later sold to Rossburn Orange Lodge before the Legion acquired it on May 2 1946.
Mr and Mrs Ken Holmes and their son Craig welcomed a 9 week old Weimaraner puppy to their home in Rossburn after buying it in Saskatchewan. The dog, one of about thirty in Canada, is expected to weigh about 85 pounds as full grown and should help with ducks on the property.
A car owned by C N Locke of Rossburn overturned four miles east of town on Sunday. The driver and the vehicle escaped injury, the car stopping on its side in about a foot of water.
Sam Bone 64 a treaty Indian of the Cownses Indian Reserve at Elphinstone was found dead beneath an overturned old model car near Crawford Park store Friday night August 15 RCMP hold Wilson Bone believed driver in the mishap a nephew of the deceased who was a passenger in the car A preliminary inquest was convened in Minnedosa August 16 by Coroner Dr G J Creasy of Newdale and adjourned after identification of the body The death was discovered by Milton Spaller returning from a dance at the Clear Creek school house and the deceased spouse and two sons on the reserve survive
Cooler weather Tuesday brought relief after a three day heat wave with temperatures in the nineties and peaks near one hundred. Night temperatures hovered around seventy. Thunderstorms missed the district, harvesting continued, and hail damage was reported in the Erickson and Yorkton districts.
Heavy steady rain Wednesday morning halted harvesting with about one inch measured by noon. Soil remains very dry allowing swathing to resume once weather clears, and drying grain will take several days before combining possible.
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