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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
9
Marriage notices list unions including Huggins and Praxis at Pirtle on Friday involving Mise K Praxis of Birtle and J Ian Pikenell McLeod at Minniaka on Wednesday June 2 with Ethel Dann and Jas McLeod of Strassburg Sask.
Preparations for cement walks on Main Street and progress on the new electric light building are noted. Local residents and visitors arrive, sports results, theatre listings, church activities, fairs, and civic announcements fill a wide range of town life items.
Community items recount a rain affected picnic and sports in Angusville, including a school sale of work, local baseball and soccer prospects, and attendance at Rossburn events. Mentions Miss Jean Houston, F Angus, H McIntosh, and W Burgess family grief.
The column reports persistent rain for patched fields and prairie lands, notes Rev H P Barrett’s Sunday service in Rochedale, and mentions a prize for new children’s sports programmes. It notes school holidays, a lukewarm local baseball showing, improving road conditions north of Asessippi, and a World S S Day program tied to a Zurich convention with prayers for guidance.
Promotions in Room Two of Rus Sell School include Grade IV to Grade V with Clee, W Clement, L Dawson, R Glassman, A More, W Ross, J Tod. Grade IV Jr to Sr with A Coey, L Leifer, F Matheson, H McDonagh, Edith Wilson. Grade III Sr to IV Jr with N DuPre, J Eardley, B McDougall, G Nelson, Ben Williams, R Clee, S Coey, P Slack. others include E Williams, Ivy Barker, A Huddlestone, M Cope. Grade III Jr to IIT Sr with W Calvert, B Currie, L Clement, V Mann, E DuPre, A Stevens, M Halig, M Setter. C. CLEE, Teacher.
Mrs and Mrs Andrew Setter and family plan a summer stay at Sandy Lake. An auction of furniture will be held at Clement’s livery barn on Saturday July 12 with A R McIntyre as auctioneer. The 16th annual Russell Sunday School Association convention takes place in Russell on July 4 with Rev W E Egan and Rev J W Little and others on the program. All sessions are open to the public and every Sunday school is invited to send delegates.
A light red cow with six blind in left eye disappeared from the south wall area around January 21 1938. Reward offered for return or information leading to its location. Written by A Mer Russell.
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