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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 19, 1950
Page
6
Article highlights farm landscaping to improve wind protection, shelterbelts, and home grounds. Encourages planning a 1950 landscape, with trees and shrubs planted in spring 1951, stressing increased farm value and resident well being. Banner Want Ads bring results.
Mrs James Angus and infant daughter of Chater Manitoba visit Russell at the Wesley McLeod home. Miss Eugenia Dannyleko weekend at home in Rossburn. Mr and Mrs Watt Dunn motored to Brandon this week. Miss Edna Reynolds of Binscarth weekend with Mr and Mrs Bruce Shaw. Hay Gillespie Jr visited here. Mrs Maurice Travis and baby and Miss Vera Dannylake of Well and Ont spent days in Russell with Eugenia Dannylake. Bert Robb of Mderton Ont renewing acquaintances here this week. Monday Bonnie Dunn motored to Brandon to begin nurse training at the School of Nursing. Jas Donoghue left for a Pacific Coast holiday visiting his brother in Victoria. Red Cross asks every Canadian to donate one cake of soap. Boxes in stores and at schools for donations. Sponsored by Ladies Auxiliary Canadian Legion Russell branch.
Morning prayer at Christ Church Russell followed by a short after service meeting. A banquet and annual gathering are scheduled in the church crypt on Wednesday January 27 at 6 30 pm.
Thank you to all who helped by serving and baking during the Memorial Rink event at the North Western Bonspiel Ladies Auxiliary to the Canadian Legion.
A note from the writer reports calm at the school as students return. The Dramatic Society has taken initial steps with a large turnout, voice tests completed, and a three act comedy cast chosen. Projector classes run this week under Mr Williams, with optimism for continued progress amid end of term exams and light banter about the weather.
The Manitoba Horticultural Association plans a February convention from the 21st to 23rd with Provincial Horticulturist F. J. Weir announcing the event. Key speakers include W. A. Cummings, H. F. Harp, J. H. Ellis, and W. R. Leslie, plus a Dr. J. F. Brander illustrated peach/peonies talk. The meeting will cover vegetable growing, ornamentals, fruit, and storage issues.
Pallbearers at the funeral included J. A. Hainstock and C. R. Loney. Louis J. Proctor settled in Russell at the turn of the century and left a lasting mark as a first class stone mason. Born in Pickering Ontario, he is survived by two sisters in Medford Ontario and two brothers in northern Ontario.
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