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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 06, 1941
Page
3
The ladies hosted a club social on Friday night with Mrs. Don McLean as convener. The Happy Gang performed numbers, Mrs. J. Spencer delivered a humorous reading, Miss Patrick played piano, and a short play delighted the guests. A lunch and dance followed, with Ladies Choice. The next event is a dance on March 14.
Millwood residents Mr and Mrs Dave Rice of Binscarth spent days visiting the Fred Rice home. A large crowd attended a Junior Red Cross concert last Friday featuring school patriotic recitations and two short plays acted by Lila Vondra sek Eileen Heap Frank Bily Johnnie Wondrasek Mildred Bily Elenora Betz William Bily and Bert Horning with music by the Ingle Side orchestra. George Greensides moved to the former Archie Galbraith farm on Monday. The Community Group ladies met Feb 20 at Mrs Cartwrights to pack a soldier box for overseas service and plan a quilt raffle with a social lunch. Next meeting is March 6 hosted by Mrs N Rauliuk.
Large local crowd attended Millwood plays and a dance on Friday with a return event planned for Friday March Tth. Net proceeds will go to the Red Cross. Mrs A Galbraith left Saturday to join her husband in Sper Jing Man. Community bids farewell with games and a token gift, Ed Dilts home on furlough, visitors from Kenora and Brightside district.
Mr Ales McPhail chairman of the school board visited the school on Friday and gave each child a war savings card. Mr Geo Sinclair is handing the last stamp on the card to the first in line as the program continues.
Pledged funds reach 114 monthly with stamps and certificates totaling 512.00 sold by the local post office. January 1 receipts amount to 74. Supplies sent to headquarters. The Rossburn Ladies Aid presented plays in Vista last Friday including Uncle Bob's Bride and She's a Man with Weatherley directing. The Vista Red Cross Band plus local performers entertained between acts.
Farmers finished sawing and hauling lumber as the mill shifts to Baldy Hill twelve miles away. A Saturday school board social at Mr. Bill Belbag’s home raised funds for War Savings Certificates to defeat Hitler. Pete Hyska returns from Slon's lumber camp for the winter. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Piasta on their newborn daughter at Shoal Lake hospital. The Pushka couple’s three year old daughter is ill and hopes for recovery.
Sunday activities listed for Christ Church include Sunday School at 12 30 p m and Evensong at 3 00 p m, with no additional details provided.
The column urges voluntary wartime service and public duty by Canadians and lawmakers. It notes factors lifting wheat prices include Mexico buying 500000 extra bushels, wind and frost reducing US acreage, and rising import demand from Greece and Portugal. It also mentions 382 million bushels in US stocks and ongoing storage concerns amid Balkans tensions and Brazil's push for domestic production.
Line Elevators announce a joint plan to build temporary terminal storage and base storage units to relieve congestion in country elevators. Preliminary work will start soon, enabling farmers to market the 1940 crop and provide space for 1941, while adding millions of dollars to farmers' hands. About 90,000,000 bushels of storage have already been erected as temporary annexes.
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