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Newspaper
Rossburn Review
Location
Rossburn, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 24, 1952
Page
1
Farmers report eight percent of barley harvested amid a week of dry weather. Operations resumed after a ten day pause due to heavy rains and continue with favorable forecasts. Moisture remains high in some grain while overall yields range from average to good and barley grades are exceptionally high for makings.
The Cemetery Committee will hold the annual fall Tag Day to help maintain the Rossburn Municipal Cemetery on Saturday September 27. Community support is appreciated.
Effective September 28, 1952 the west bound Monday and east bound Tuesday trains will be discontinued while Wednesday and Thursday service resumes as before. Monday Tuesday mail by truck. remaining days by train. 253 farms energized. extensions planned to Grand Marais and Gull Lake sub station in operation. August kilowatt hours reach 29,088,400, up 18 percent.
Manitoba Power Commission reports August additions bring 416 new Hydro customers including 355 farms in Dufferin Thompson Russell Harrison Silver Creek and Clanwilliam. Current year construction nears completion in St Clements Brokenhead Alexander Ethelbert Birtle Shoal Lake Franklin and Gilbert Plains.
Nellie Sawchuk and Michael Urbanowski were married at St. Theresa Church in Rossburn on September 22 at 11 am. Rev. Fr. J F Cieply officiated. Attendants included Violet Hubner and Leona Melnyk with a town reception and films by photographers Chudzik and Slow. The couple will reside in Shilo after a honeymoon in Minneapolis.
Two year old Anton Dwayne Gene Prus died after falling from a moving car north of Angusville. The door apparently opened as the mother tried to close it, the child slipping off and suffering a fractured skull. No inquest will be held. The driver was Wm Michalchuk, with family present. Sympathy is extended to the Prus family.
Mrs Wm Chegwin and Mrs L N Grundy with son Frank return from a trip to the British Isles arriving in Winnipeg on Sunday Sept 21 after sailing Quebec to Liverpool July 17 and Southampton to Quebec Sept 19 Their voyage lasted eight days each way and they enjoyed visits in England Ireland London Birmingham Dublin Roscrea Edenderry and other southern points.
Winter potato supply rises as O Elvers donates three tubers not appealing for kitchen use. One hill’s entire yield forms a connected mass of over twenty potatoes shaped like Donald Duck. A second resembles a jet bomber made of four mediums. The third, of six, could replace a washing machine dolly.
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