Library openings set Manitoba record for month
Manitoba reports four new libraries opened in May and June 1949, the highest single month total. Hon. W. C. Miller notes two regional and two public libraries opened from May 7 to June 7, with future votes planned in Boissevain Melita and Neepawa districts. Regional libraries receive a 10000 establishment grant and 2000 yearly per municipality. public libraries get 200 establishment and 2000 annual, with regional expansion triggering the regional grant. Readers gain access to thousands of books via bulk orders and exchanges, plus municipal levy powers up to one mill for regional costs.
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Manitoba
W. C. Miller
Flin Fion
Glen- Wood and Souris
Russell and District
Transcona
Boissevain
Melita
Neepawa
Miller
Marjorie Morley
Weekend Visits and Family Notes From the District
Lloyd Hackman and others fished at Blue Lakes over the weekend. Harvey Hackman and Mrs Hackman visited John Ziprick on Sunday. Stan Hughes and family of Shilo and Sam Martin of Pelly visited. Jim Angus spent the weekend in the district. Mrs McLeod’s friends wish her a speedy recovery. Klimacks visited Nanaimo and Brandon. Hyra Mushumanski of Winnipeg visited. Evie Hackman saw Viola Ziprick in Russell.
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Lloyd Hackman
Les Davidson
Orville Davidson
Irving Ziprick
Blue Lakes
Harvey Hackman
Sam Hackman
John Ziprick
Stan Hughes
Shilo
Man
Sam Martin
Pelly, Sask
Jim Angus
Wes McLeod
Rennie Klimack
Charles Klimack
Nanaimo
B.C
Brandon
Frank Hyra
Alfred
Henry Mushumanski
Winnipeg
Evie Hackman
Viola Ziprick
Russell
Local Visitors and Fishing Tales Fill Marchwell Notes
Mr Henry Gehring of Detroit visits with brother Charlie Goehring of Marshwell motors as truckloads of motor cars stop by but unloadings fail for market. Pringle family members are employed. fishing trips yield large pickerel and jack with lines swallowing smaller fish. Albert Miller take a motor trip to MacNutton Sunday. Jack Phipps and Bul Harvey visit from Estevan and Uplands with local hosts.
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Henry Gehring
Detroit
Windsor
Charlie Goehring
Marshwell Motors
Pringle
Mrs. Pringle
Tommy
George
Albert Miller
MacNutton
Jack Phipps
Estevan, Sask
the Phipps and
the Uplands
Bul Harvey
Death notices and funeral rites in Russell district
Obituary notices recall the deaths of Mr. Cunningham at Brandon hospital and Cecil Hamilton Switzer in Angusville with funeral details. The reports list survivors including wives, children in Scotland and Canada, and numerous relatives, alongside pallbearers and attending mourners from Russell and surrounding towns. Also recorded are services for Edwin Willie Storey of Boissevain with burial in Boissevain Cemetery and biographical details of his life and family.
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William Jeckwon
J. H. Robertson
Tom Benn
Fred Phillips
Ted Walker
Tom Andrews
Mr. Cunningham
Brandon Hospital
Paisley
Scotland
Susan Young
Cunningham
Canada
G. Pittet
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Russell
Andrew
James
William
Agnes Pittet
Mr. Pittet
Torfield
Alta
R. Wheatley
Jack Ferra
Cecil Hamilton Switzer
Angusville United Church
Woitte
Russell Cemetery
Mike Gallant
Mervyn Coulter
Rodney Nield
W. W. W. Wilson
Jack Hyde
Norman J. Anderson
H. Caldwell
Gordon Breckenridge
Frank Shepherd
G. Bel
Dick Forrest
Bob Pritchard
Jas. Flett
Adam
Inglis
Leslie
Snow’ Lake
Man
Percy
H. Switzer
Arthur Switzer
Wapella
Sask
W. Fulton
Rocanville
G. Chenoweth
Birtle
Edwin Willie Storey
Paul's United Church
Edwin Storey
Boissevain
8. C. Studd
George Opperman
Eddie Clark
Albert Plunkett
Nelson Plunkett
Lorne Harman
Storey
Harold K
Melvin
Brandon
Gordon
Melita
Wilbert
V. Boxall
Avaline V
Late Classified Auction Sales and Local Notices
Local classifieds list auctions for Mrs E Ward and Mr G Snowdon, a tomato plant sale at Inglis nursery, a rental for a Rowell S-room cottage, and a registered Cyldesdale stallion for service. Municipal notices from Shellmouth detail a school debenture by law vote July 8 1958 and related polling procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Ward
G. Snowdon
Foxwarren
Bob Thom
Harrison's
Inglis
Man
Rowell
Christening Held At Bethel Lutheran Church
Shilo and her mother Ada Hogberg attended a christening for Calvin Robert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Hande, conducted at Bethel Lutheran Church as the Harveys plan a move to Toronto.
Manitoba Announces Comprehensive Bursary Plan
The Manitoba government unveils a new bursary program announced May 1 by Education Minister W. C. Miller. About 2,565 students from grade 9 to post‑graduate work will be helped with 385,325 in bursaries prizes and loans. Through May 30, 561 applications had been received, with more forms to be distributed to high school principals.
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Manitoba
W. C. Miller
Canada
Miller
New bursary plan boosts teachers and students in province
Survey of 340 secondary schools shows 885 students at 306 schools as prospective university bursary applicants. Fall term rollout benefits 50 teacher trainees in the first summer session of the bachelor of pedagogy course, with 59 enrolled. 60 percent awarded 300 bursaries. An additional 5,000 may be needed for the second summer session starting in July to prevent brain drain and aid nurses and technical trainees.
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R.ee Teacers
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Grasshopper Spray
New High
Minniska
Marchwell
Mike Lapka
Julia
Sten Dutret
Shelin
Shellmouth
D. A. Bredley-Hunt
Treas
Shell‘bank
Wayla
Shellbank
Dropmore
Province of
D. A. Bradley-Hunt
Smellie Bros
Russell Bakery
Ontario
Lastex
LEACH
Marilyn Bell
Bach
Havester
BALER
Russell Farm Equipment
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