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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
4
The Banner announces publication details from the Ruswell Maniteb office on Main Street. Joseph McIntyre is listed as publisher with Advano as part of the masthead.
In a June report King George notes over 5 000 enlisted before conscription. The New Statesman asks if the planned draft will add more than 100 000 to armed forces. Winston Churchill argues many officers’ servants and grooms could be mobilized, questioning the need for further conscription.
Manitoba Agricultural College offers a July 17 to 28 short course for rural ministers and their wives. Not new but expanded, with Dr. C. C. James and Rev. Dr G Bland among speakers, plus college faculty lectures and a single rail fare. The program targets both clergy and spouses with a balanced agenda.
June schedule lists daily sessions for reading regulations history oral reading composition spelling bookkeeping oral music grammar and related exams from June 13 to 16. Subjects include geometry writing elementary agriculture drawing mental arithmetic and arithmetic with specified time ranges and finish if needed.
The Dominion Minister orders a smoking prohibition in all public outings or offices occupied by officials and authorized police to enforce the regulation. The war situation remains unchanged with Austrian forces pushing across the Italian frontier after the recent offensive.
The Westminster Gazette reports middle class German families have moved into Denmark and Switzerland to escape food shortages at home. Many have crossed into the French speaking cantons in Switzerland. French captives from the northern Departments are being released and sent back to France via Switzerland.
In Frankfurt a police sting targeted widows and married women whose husbands are at the front. Women seeking refunds for theater seats were escorted to the station and told their allowances would be cut since they had enough money to attend the cinema.
Margaret Shepherd died May 19 at her daughter Mrs P Brown's home in Alanta Tl. The body was taken to Birtle for interment. Her husband John Shepherd settled east of Birtle in 1879 and the family later homesteaded nearby, forging pioneer ties and lasting friendships across the region.
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