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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 23, 1946
Page
2
The Russell Banner is a weekly Russell Manitoba publication edited and published by E Cecil Sanderson. It operates as a second class mail notice authorized by the Post Office Department in Ottawa and carries a subscription rate of $1.50 per year in advance.
Silverton updates include Watt Broadfoot returning from Winnipeg while Endcliffe and Vista Rev. hosted operetta shows. Mr Vincent and family visit Pennant Sask. Keating family in Shoal Lake. Doris McLeod visits Regina. Fay Johnstone recovering in Sacred Heart Hospital. Softball see saw between Minniska and Silverton with a narrow gap. Community sympathy sent to Mrs Staples. Foxwarren group visits Margaret Corley.
A Monday evening shower honored Miss K Pitts at the home of Mrs J Schwalm. Gifts arrived in military fashion as Miss K Kendal and Fred Cyprick in uniform presented them. A sing song followed with Mrs R Shipley providing accompaniment.
Mr and Mrs F Wright of McKim visited their daughter Mrs M Laycock over the weekend. Orland Kendal returned home from overseas Friday. Welcome back Orland. Rev Nixon of Inglis conducted church service Sunday evening.
Correction announces the play A Poor Married Man and dance sponsored by the Dropmore Community now on May 31 instead of May 13. The notice also lists local visits and events including Mrs. Lewis returning from Trail, the Reid family visiting Hammond, Miss Alice Hammond’s Winnipeg medical trip, a birth of John Edward to Mr. and Mrs J. P. Birnie, Nan Wiseman visiting MacFarlanes, and a MacFarlane get together dance. Charles Pound visiting the municipal office, Turta visit to Melville, and Mike Turta departing for Yorkton are noted.
The Canadian National Railways crop report says cold weather and severe frosts across the prairies delayed seeding, with variable frost damage to crops. Wheat reseeding may be needed in places, beet fields frozen, and seedings lagging with 65 percent of wheat and 20 percent of coarse grains sown in Manitoba. warmer weather needed to finish seeding and growth.
The Angusville community organizes events including a plant fare at United church on June 12 and a Ukrainian People’s hall welcome home for WWI veterans on May 23. a sewing class display and Vanity Fair accompany an Achievement Day concert. News notes report the death of Mr C H Staples and illness, travel, and church reopenings.
On Sunday May 19 at Bavelaw the minister Mr Pollard christened the infant son of Mr and Mrs Clifford Clark. Visitors from Winnipeg included Mr and Mrs Walter May and family who stayed with Mrs Wm May. Wheat seeding is finished and warm days should green fields. Leo Polding represented Crosby on amateur night at Binscarth. Miss Gwen Polding returns to Winnipeg duties next week. Miss Jean Smyth of Brandon General Hospital staff stayed several days here.
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