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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
1
A 1897 August trip reports Dauphin battered by hail with shattered windows and empty streets. The writer notes a once busy town now sparse of merchants and trades, predicting future growth if residents stay and work. The piece also covers Shellmounth creamery, seeding delays, river flooding, and local council appeals in nearby Silver Creek.
Harrowby A McMillan leaves the Harrowby section house for Portage la Prairie on Wednesday’s train to stay there. F Petch returns from Neepawa after about two months away. S Blane finishes hauling lumber for a new house. Mr and Mrs R Blane hosted several young people last Monday. Delegates from the Dakotas Iowa Minnesota Ohio Missouri and other states arrive in the province to buy land for emigrants.
Local notes urge Anchor Day tree planting and general seeding this week to build future timber and fuel. Residents urged to clean premises to prevent sickness as Mrs. A. G. P. Smillie and others undergo hospital care. land sales brisk in the Russell district this spring.
Miss Anderson of this place is the subject of a brief note in Silver Creek society columns.
A Mississippi report notes Miss Edina Johnson visiting, A B Gill land prep underway, and J A Gill with Kines returning from Grand View. Roads east of the mountains are in bad shape as Hanbury’s log drive moves through Brandon.
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