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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
7
After a long backward spring, a universal rain last week drenched Alberta and Saskatchewan. The rainfall cleared snow and provided moisture to the ground across the region.
Mr Gordon Wordsworth, grandson of the poet, presented the court suit of plum colored cloth to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The garment belonged to Samuel Rogers who lent it to both Wordsworth and Tennyson during their laureateship appointments. Rogers bequeathed the suit to William Wordsworth, father of the donor.
In Ashford Kent a missel thrush nests in a cedar tree at the cemetery using entirely white artificial flowers gathered from wreaths on nearby graves.
A Rangoon message reports four Buddhist monks accused of killing Europeans at Weindanya Pagoda Mandalay have been convicted by the sessions judge. They receive prison terms from 10 years to transportation for life.
Report notes a policy limiting buyers to a single book purchase at a time in Russia due to a chronic paper shortage. Authorities push for rationing amid rising demand, with bookstores enforcing the limit to curb hoarding and ensure wider access.
A boat carrying two men and a woman from Orkney to a neighboring island struck a sunken German warship in Scapa Flow and capsized. All occupants drowned in the incident, which poses navigation hazards in the area.
Australia has allotted 1 707 922 pounds to provide homes for 2 995 men and widows. The government irrigation department has already expended 500 000 pounds in land preparation for ex soldiers.
The 94 year old descendant of Martyr George Wishart and ally of John Knox has died in Southsea, England. Her death marks the passing of a lineage tied to 16th century religious turmoil and Scottish reform history.
Mr Munsey announces the abandonment of one daily edition of the New York Evening Sun due to paper shortages. The cut is said to sacrifice about a million dollars in advertising revenue.
By permission of the British authorities the German national flag was publicly hoisted in Cologne on March 25 for the first time since the Allied occupation, signaling a symbolic return of German sovereignty and civic reopening.
General Seely was elected president of the Air League of the British Empire at its annual London meeting. The league favors fostering commercial aviation for national defense and stresses a favorable attitude toward aviation over direct financial help. Seely, known in Canada for leading a Canadian division at the front and serving as minister of war in the Asquith government, is well regarded there.
Sam Taylor of Regina has purchased the controlling interest in the Inter-Ocean Pressed Brick Company at Pilot Butte and assumed management. The purchase price is believed to be about $60,000. Principal stockholders in the old company were Senator H. W. Laird and Peter McAra.
Good conditions in southern Alberta allowed widespread seeding last week with all areas south of the Blackie High river line expected to enter spring operations by midweek. Germination conditions could not be improved.
A May 5 start for a 20 day “collar and shirt” strike aimed at haberdashers and laundrymen alleges profiteering. A Chicago committee announced the action and expects 19,000 adherents soon. Strikers will wear khaki shirts and wash at home.
Chilean government intends to buy a dreadnought and three first class destroyers from Great Britain as part of naval expansion. The deal marks a significant strengthening of Chile’s maritime forces amid regional tensions.
Dr. C. W. Gordon of Winnipeg has accepted the chairmanship of the new Manitoba Joint Council of Industry and is expected to assume duties immediately.
A strong group of Toronto and Montreal capitalists have purchased the big plant at Trenton Ontario, formerly operated by the Imperial Munitions Board. Installed during the war at a cost over $5,000,000, the facility will produce chemicals such as aspirin and phenacetin that previously came from Germany.
The Dominion government plans a large national park along the motor road through the Columbia valley from Banff to Windermere. Named Kootenay Park, it will cover about 687 square miles and add a major protected area to the region.
Hon A G Mackay former Ontario Liberal leader and Alberta Minister of Health and Municipal Affairs died in Edmonton after a brief illness. A lawyer of ability he joined Alberta politics in 1912 and was elected to the legislature the next year. He served in the administration from 1918 until his death following a sudden heart failure after pneumonia.
Commissioner Perry moves to Ottawa but Regina remains the training center for the North West Mounted Police. Superintendent Worley leads in Regina and all new recruits will receive training there.
The Rev. William Ivens, jailed for seditious conspiracy, was released for several days to attend his seriously ill youngest son in Winnipeg. A constable accompanied him to the deathbed. the child died and Ivens attended the funeral before returning.
The citywide vote shows Saskatoon wards except the business district oppose daylight saving bylaw. Officials say the decision reflects broad public opinion across neighborhoods.
Monteith of the Killarney Guide was elected president of the Manitoba division of the Canadian Press Association at the annual meeting recently held in Winnipeg.
An Alberta bred chestnut named Calgary Earl is expected to excel on the American racing circuit this year. The horse already holds a mark of 2.02, signaling strong form from prairie training grounds.
Canada’s indemnity from Germany is now being computed for presentation to the tribunal created under the Peace Treaty. The process aims to determine final compensation terms and verify claims before the designated body.
To Protect Game Notice informs all game guardians in Alberta that trapping will be banned in future within provincial forest reserves. Hunting remains allowed in season except at Cooking Lake and Cyprus Hills reserves. Muskrats become non trapping north of the South Saskatchewan except under a special permit.
A social work leader reports many letters from girls asking for women confessors as England considers the idea. A leading clergyman cautions that women may be pitiless to their own sex, doubting the concept will work in practice.
Figures presented in the house compare total Canadian grain exports carried by Canadian ships with those exported in United States vessels. The data were provided in reply to a question from A. B. Copp.
Calgary man files suit against J J Carrick & Co of Buffalo New York for 126000 dollars alleging the amount is due as royalties on shells produced by the Carrick Company during the war.
The Allied Eme Council announces Armenia will be an independent free state. The decision reflects postwar settlement aims and promises recognition from participating powers seeking stability in the region.
Sir George Foster reported that 95.55 percent of wheat export was carried in Canadian bottoms, with 65.94 percent of export oats and 89.65 percent of barley shipped this way. The figures reflect cargo share in the colonial trade.
A memorial honoring Wilbur Wright the aviation pioneer is prepared and will soon be unveiled in Le Mans France, marking a tribute to his contributions to flight.
The Commercial club of Wolf Point Montana is arranging construction of a motor road linking Denver and Moose Jaw. The project aims to improve regional transportation and commerce with a direct route between the two cities.
Saskatchewan provincial government analyzed many gravel samples during winter to tabulate pits in the province and decide their contents for road work concrete or mortar mixing.
John Wilson former policeman hanged at Prince Albert last week for murdering his wife to marry another woman. He had worked with Mounted Police later Saskatchewan Provincial Police and wooed Jessie Patterson at Blaine Lake. After staging the crime by buying a wedding license in Saskatoon he burned his car then shot his wife as she sat in his car. He married Patterson the following day and faced the scaffold with composure.
Calgary liquor export companies challenge the province’s rule that only Dominion bonded warehouses may operate after May 10. Ottawa may back a license if the Alberta attorney-general recommends it.
James Adams, in charge of the Essington to Haysport ferry line, was fatally crushed when caught between the launch and the Claxton wharf. A long-time Skeena River resident, he had lived 26 years in the district and was well known across the north.
Premier Stewart and Hon. C. R. Mitchell depart for the East to study money market conditions and consider placing Alberta bonds later in the year. The trip will also review railway matters with the Dominion government.
Calgary city public utilities wrapped up 1919 with a small but substantial surplus, per the annual statement by City Treasurer J. H. Mercer.
Drumheller Alberta faced severe floods from melting snow isolating the town for days. Officials proposed establishing communication by airplane as roads and railways remained unusable.
The former French premier Caillaux was found guilty of corresponding with the enemy during the war and sentenced to three years in prison and the loss of civil rights for a period. Time already served in jail and hospital will be credited toward the sentence.
Four bodies said to be members of the former Russian royal family were brought to Peking and interred in the Russian cemetery outside the city wall, according to reports.
Francis Moody of Chicago testified before the Senate committee that 50 percent of U S divorces are granted on trumped up charges. He said spouses seeking others may arrange divorces without real grounds, warning of widespread abuses.
A sizable farm of four and three quarter sections at Holdfast Sask was sold recently to John McDaniel of Calgary and J L Peacock of Medicine Hat for 175000 dollars. The sale price includes a considerable number of well bred stock.
Farmer Stoughton notes summerfallow first introduced in the prairie region proved best at first helping wheat survival in drought. It made land idle every season and later soil wear spurred search for substitutes while Marquis wheat showed one year’s yield enough to cover all experimental costs according to a Federal Agriculture official.
The young Earl of Minto may settle permanently in Canada on a 4000 acre ranch in High River country near the Bar U ranch of George Lane and Beddingford of the Prince of Wales. He spent years in Canada as a boy when his father was Governor General and comes from a noted sporting family. His Elliots lineage carries the motto Who dare meddle with me who guards a history of border fights and equestrian prestige. The late Earl of Minto was a famed sportsman and one of England’s best known gentleman riders in his day.
A major fur sale in New York drew about 188000 skunk skins and nearly 6 million dollars in proceeds. Prices ranged from 9 dollars and 20 cents for top skins to about 90 cents for the poorest, signaling strong market demand.
Yes. A large number of unemployed young women in the old country are being assisted by the British government to immigrate to Canada. With wartime shifts, many women will seek work rather than marriage. Some have already arrived and more are expected, promising more domestic help for farms.
A Lethbridge Coaldale district alfalfa boom prompts a Nor West Farmer report of a local company buying a $15,000 alfalfa mill to convert hay into meal. The device promises economical feeding and the district anticipates a developing alfalfa industry with broader yields.
Confucius was born in 551 B C His father a 70 year old distinguished soldier His early life set amid China's long era of turmoil with a fractured feudal system and upheaval across the land
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