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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
1
A death notice notes the passing of Sostivaver on pareter in Dugan aged yer and bomen. The fragmentary text records an obituary with unclear dates and details.
Local note lists tax deadline for discount and mentions community updates from Russell Manitoba. Several items detail visits, sales, and events including bookshop notices, curling season, skating night, a dentist's schedule, and railway line work. Other items note land purchases, a roundhouse prospect, and church induction events.
Nominations for Reeves and councillors appear in several towns including Rossburn Langenburg Silver Creek and Shellmouth Ward II contenders listed. No Russell election this year due to acclamation except Ward I. Deer hunting notes call for a close season. Marquette Hickey League annual meeting elected officers Patton Beanycastle P P and Geo.
Malcolm M P P serves as president with L Benny of Winnipeg and Dr Rutherford of Strathclair as officers. The executive includes Dr Evans Rossburn J Hough Birtle M McLean Shoal Lake and others. The league divides into two divisions one led by Binsearth White Shoal Lake Strathclair Minnedosa and the other by Russell Roseburn Elphinstone. winners meet for the championship. The Russell club benefits from easier travel this year after earlier two day trips.
Argusville reports C H Staples showing a fine Christmas goods display while several district residents head to the woods for big game. Walter Dunlop plans completion at St Marys school before Christmas. Rev R Bailey leads Presbyterian services in the schoolhouse Sundays at 11 am, and Athletic Club invites are out for the event in the schoolhouse on Thursday the 16th inst.
Bavelaw Sidney buys a new cutter. Bert Sheperd returns from Yorkton Hospital improved in health. H. K. Bligh and Wm. Yount are up in the bush looking for unknowns.
A Merry Christmas tale notes Xmas will pass at Bavelaw without a concert. The event appears disrupted while a pleasant evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Calvert on December tet features games such as Poor Pussy.
The notice highlights a Turkey shoot event at Asessippi for Christmas, inviting participation for a festive bird prize and signaling local interest in holiday fundraising activities. It mentions J T Adams securing a new land deal, a half section, at a favorable price. Royal Templars report a successful meeting with three new members, and a December 16 debate on Does Farming Pay as the next entertainment.
Silverton updates report visits by Jas Lloyd and townsfolk, winter arrivals and travel to Ontario, a lost dog named Jmalyn, and local hunting successes. Community entertainments at North Star Juveniles feature Peck's Bad Boy and Young Lochinvar plays, with plans for future shows. Weather shifts to snow, skating hall duties assigned, and many prepare a December Ontario trip. temperance sermons address alcohol’s harms and social effects.
Mrs D MiCutcher visits Shoal Lake while Miss L Ross travels west to Shoal Lake on Friday. A Casswell is ill with typhoid fever in Brandon hospital. The note mentions Mrs 5 Glover interning with her parents Mr and Mrs.
The community invites all to a Christmas tree in the Shellmouth church on December 2. A prior social at the Patterson home raised about 20 dollars to reduce church debt. Residents urge careful animal control near railway lines and warn of mail delivery delays with C N R K service.
A slate of school trustees is listed for 1910 across multiple districts including Minniska-John Alertlein R A Mc Lennan and JD Duna Woodstock J 1H Thompson W Honey Hl Pieit Enni ctifle E C Pagan Thos Spr'gs and Mr Bond Craigie J H Farthing W McKinnon J Brown Asessippi T McLennan J T Adans and J McKay Shellmouth Geo Matheson N McFadyen and D C Stewart Londonderry Thos Madill John Dil mar and A Meleman Millwood 4eco Cartwright W Bates and John Wondrasek Binswith F McPherson T Clement and Jas Anderson Argueville Frank Angus W Chaytor and W Chittick St Jevys W Keating Alex Simpson and Jas Minsbull Siler Creek A Callin D Stewart and Tod Keating Lockerly Chas McDonald Harold Hembroff and K H Beatty
School District No 84 seeks an acher to commence January 3. Applicants must state salary and experience to secretary treasurer Clifford Booth District Kinssarth. Further details available at the district office.
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