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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1906
Page
1
Local notes recount a Russell silver creek visit by Thos Flynn, church services by Rev Beattie and Rev King, and a wide range of town happenings. Football and baseball games, a parish picnic, Masons attendance, school staffing, and a grain stock cooperative meeting outline local life, with upcoming sports and social events and notable deaths including Mrs Young.
Binscarth Bittle beat Bi league 5 to 3 on Tuesday. The Binscarth Turf Club plans its annual sports on June 1 with events including mile races, pony races, free for all trotting or pacing, and baseball prizes. Also noted are St Matthew’s church Women’s Auxiliary concert plans for the 21st at Wallers Hall, with Ainsworth Orchestra and G A Cope organ recital at St Matthew’s on the 29th. Events list yard dashes, races, and a horse shoe tournament with dinners at 12:30. all are invited.
The Monday meeting at the schoolhouse organized a June picnic on Friday the 8th on the usual grounds. A committee including McKay G Kippan T Wallace and P Hyde will run the gentleman and ladies sports with good prizes for the children.
A Shellmouth gymkana will be held at Mrs D A Goodbun's on Wednesday July 4. The annual treat for children of Asessippi and Shellmouth is planned at the Manse on July 7. Baptism Sunday at Shell Field drew Rev W P Spooner with 13 infants. Flowers and Maybroom Saskatoon blossoms adorned the churches. About 40 parents and friends shared hospitality at the Manse after services.
Foxwarren defeated Rossburn 5 to 4 in a Tuesday baseball meeting. An upcoming Foxwarren vs Binscorth game is slated for Friday at 6 30, and Shoal Lake visits Foxwarren for football on the 7th at 7. A Foxwarren Athletic Association meeting last Saturday planned Sports Day on June 26 with 200 dollars in football and baseball prizes. Supporters praised the football team for a 2 to 0 exhibition loss to Russell, seeing strong effort despite the defeat.
A dog kicked a man in Binscarth first on the thigh then on the ankle. Soeen arrived an hour later and medical check found a small bone in the ankle broken. Mr. Murrell would likely be laid up for several weeks.
Seeburn hosts visitors and rumors of upcoming wedding bells. C S Shepherd hauls cream to Rossburn. eight new voter names added at Seeburn. Jeff’s names strike applications. Local sports, fishing trips, and travel to Birdtail are mentioned along with Rev Beattie farewell sermon and church staffing plans for Seeburn and Snake Creek.
Silver Cree Council met as a court of revision at Stratford school house on May 26 to revise assessments for sections and lands. Several properties were reduced or struck off the roll, the revised figures adopted for 1906. By laws 191 and 192 were read, and costs listed. Road work was authorized pending practicability, with road expenditures estimated at 3100 and road commissioners to receive per diem pay. The session adjourned until August. Cham berlain's Salve ad appears in the text with local advertisement notes.
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