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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
1
OCR fragment lists transfers or bequests with names like Binerarth and McGilvray and mentions June dates. Details are incomplete and names are partially garbled, but the text appears to record familial transfers or assignments to individuals, likely within a local notices column.
A brief marriage notice reports Mooney Ballantyne tied the knot at Wisnipew with a wartime ceremony. The couple’s families and local friends attended the service and celebrated afterward.
Local notes report visitors from Hamiota and Toronto, church appointments and elections, a Shellmouth Angus football league game, a wedding in Boulton, progress on Russell station improvements, and a push for an eight room brick school with plans presented for adjourned discussion. The piece also mentions road work and picnic transportation concerns.
Trustees meet with ratepayers to discuss expanding school facilities in Russell. Overcrowding was addressed by hiring another classroom and teacher, with broad support for maintaining first class status and advancing high school work.
Crowds from Russell Yorkton Birtle Saltcoats and Churchbridge joined excursions for a two day Jubilee event. A calithumpian parade featured about a dozen floats including Dupont’s blacksmith display. Churchbridge beat Binscarth 42 in baseball while Saltcoats ousted Yorkton. Horse racing produced fast heats with Beattie’s Franklin winning the free for all. The Spence Strachan Company performed in Waller’s Hall as townsfolk enjoyed meals hosted by local church ladies.
Eighteen candidates sit entrance examinations in Russell this week and eleven at Binscarth. Names include Dorothy Keating Earl Clara Allbright William Buie Heather Mackay Hugh King Fenton Annie Young Jessie Calin Myrtle Mallin Cleo Clara McDonagh Smellie Jack Young Morley Sinclair and others. at Binscarth Vandec Hazel Fraser Nellie May Johnson Sophia Brown Merion Anderson Helen Clements Violet Seebach Marie Irwin Isabella Bailey Bradshaw Mann.
Langenburg hosts a Dominion Day programme with open run and 1-2 mile heats for $25 and $15 prizes, free-for-all trot or pace 1 mile heats, pony race 14½ hands and under, $20 and $10, special farm horse race, chariot race 1.2 miles, tennis events, and a stage show by Happy and Winnipeg. Professor Chatten performs Indian conjuring. dancing starts at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall.
A Sunday afternoon service begins at 3 30 with a children’s flower and musical program. The order of praise lists hymns, readings, a quintet of five girls singing We Come to Thee, choir numbers, a garden of the heart address, a solo by Mrs Tuclon, and a benediction.
Silver Creek pupils visit Russell for a week long program with Miss Jessie Hyde visiting Kellee to see her brother Peter L. Bert McDonald smiles daily. The Silver Creek annual school picnic at Silverton on June 16th was a success with baseball and football games and local races won by Minnie Keating and Mrs R J Young. Russell and Angus games favored Russell while Silver Creek and Russell teams faced off in a junior football match.
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