Warmest month on record yields cautious harvest outlook
The community notes an exceptionally hot month, the warmest since 1936, with temperatures in the high 80s and beyond. Despite the heat and sparse rainfall, harvest progress is half complete, grain yields exceed expectations, and the wheat grade is high with low moisture, promising good storage. In Rossburn territory farmers are busy, with hay and straw bales visible in the harvest scene.
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Rossburn
Fall scene and road work echo rural life notes
The piece sketches a fall landscape along Highway 45 with migrating ducks in grain fields and good garden crops, then shifts to road maintenance plans as the province takes over a 24 mile stretch west from Vista. It reflects on one room schools vs modern calculators and ends with encouragement to students returning to school.
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King George Corner
Rossburn
Editorial snippets reflect political tempers across eras
A 1953 local clipping comments on heated sessions and decorum in government while echoing later Canadian politics. It notes Rene Levesque avoiding endorsements, Mulroney and Orr in print, Trudeau cabinet shuffles, and Elmer Knutson's third party bid. Bank outlook forecasts stronger dollars, queried as bell or goodbye.
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Elmer Knutson
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