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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 14, 1937
Page
1
A collage of retro items notes long-ago events from 1901 to 1921. Highlights include hockey results, store openings, bank moves, and community notices. Names like J A Fraser and H Garnett appear with business shifts and local civic happenings. weather oddities and social milestones appear alongside school society elections and church gift presentations.
Fragmentary OCR provides a roster of officers for the Women’s Missionary Society. Names include J. A. Newell McCangere and Mrs. Smellie as secretary, with others like Mrs. Ailnce and Mhaaui mentioned in various secretary roles. The text is incomplete and many names are unclear.
Members gathered for the Kesekam Lodge No 49 annual meeting to install officers for 1987. The slate included Worshipful Master Warjit Hib, AG A Langon, Jr Warden Heen Man, KB, and other posts such as Treasurer EB Glemmgt, Secretary Maianer, and Conductor Owen uauury, with additional names including Cosy-ABJOUTY, 1G, 2, Carnwerigut, UG, A Craigs KB, and Coulter vu among the newly installed officers.
A Girl Guide group held a demonstration of its AW work before the memory of the WL on Saturday. At Tuesday’s meeting the council practised their knots and Morse code.
In a fragmentary list of church and lodge officers A. B. Wallace is titled master of Ebellmouth lodge while Mrs W Thom is named worthy mistress of the Russell Eastern Star chapter. L L Lewis, once manager of the Union Bank at Angusville, is reported to have taken a new post at Crowe Chamber yard.
Years ago in 1926 the Skips Curling Club defeated two rinks from Silerton skipped by W. Anderson on a Saturday evening. Town council first meeting of the year appointed W. W. Wilson as solicitor and secretary-treasurer. Health officer A B Callin and Dr Shaw, town electrician Harold Thompson, and John Clark as electrical engineer assistant were named. Officers elected by the rights included Mrs Swindell as president, Mrs J. T. Shipp as secretary, and Mrs A Robin.
Forty-one rinks take part in Manitoba North-Western bonspiel opening Monday. Twenty-six visiting teams and fifteen locals contest three open events. By midweek several undefeated teams emerged while late games produced some lopsided results. Open play continues toward Friday with Blue Ribbon event featuring eight visiting and eight local rinks. Local skips include Leifer, Matheson, Labossiere, Peterson, Smellie, Anderson, and others as play progresses.
Witnesses and officials defend open market and futures trading as essential to grain disposal and price stability. Dowler and Evans argue market channels, not stabilization schemes, best serve Canada’s wheat, stressing consumer affordability and risk management amid global price shifts.
The Russell school board held its inaugural meeting last Wednesday night appointing W W Wilson as chairman for 1997. George Bucknell and Charles Adolph, newly elected trustees, took the oath of office.
The article notes traffic bottlenecks on urban arterials cause holiday crashes and urges shifting funds to a broader secondary highway system with affordable asphalt surfaces. Experts warn concentrating expenditure on a few costly expressways overburdens major routes and elevates crash risk amid tight budgets.
A distorted record lists Dritannia Rebekah Lodge Angusville officers and attendees. Names include Gertrude Staples Annie Rinn Rachel Minshull Ber nice Rutherford Agnes Naf Bertha Minshull Sara Angus Gladys Bell Laura Kennedy Elsie McDonald Evelyn Crerar Beatrice Whelpley Margaret Grainger Helen Ackroyd Dorothy Grainger and others.
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