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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
9
Public notice of sale of lands for arrears of taxes in Assesippi Manitoba dated September 26 declaring current action and listing the provincial jurisdiction for redemption and sale procedures.
The community reports progress on W J Doig's brick block and upcoming receipts for Mrs H Smale on October 4. Wallace couple leave for Regina. R Cameron Mulligan joins Central Collegiate Institute night school. Lawrence Bourton travels to Toronto to place Russell townsite lots amid rising values. Church services and harvest festivals are announced across Russell Eadcliffe Silverton Boulton.
The Ladies Aid of the Presbyterian Church hosts the Schubert Symphony Club and Lady Quartette of Chicago for a performance in the new Russell church on October 19. The company, 24 years old, is praised as a premier, modern musical troupe by readers in Stratford Stratford Stratford Ontario and Calgary Alberta.
Reports include a birth in Binscarth to Mr and Mrs Horning, W A Ladies and Girls Guild meeting at the Rectory, Harvest Festival at St Matthew’s with Canon Jefferies preaching, and a death of General Sir Charles Gough VC four times in Ireland. Ontario’s Patricia district added, prairie chicken hunting noted, new concrete sidewalks praised, and local schooling and harvest events at Crosby School and St John’s Church recorded. Threshing thriving. multiple social and church activities listed.
Community announcements list harvest services meetings and social events. Notable items include Harvest Home plans with Rev J D McNair and Rev Howard Smith, millinery opening by Edna McDonald, W M Society gathering at Seeburn, and a Presbyterian Ladies Aid event with a $33 collection. Also noted is CPR railway work from Harrowby to Neepawa.
Shellmouth notes a missing doctor and upcoming resident arrival. Dr Bates travels to Winnipeg while Rev Hall goes to England. Jack McKay leaves for Asesippi. Harvest Thanksgiving services attract large congregations at English Church and farewell for Rev F Hall at Presbyterian church. Mrs Matheson departs for Ontario. Sunday School girls present cut glass salad bowl in farewell.
Asessippi indicates threshing machines are active with four units within four miles aided by favorable weather. Last Sabbath featured Mr Hall's farewell service before he returns to Scotland. Social notes mention visits by Ernest Bryant, Mrs W Dutton, Roy Johnson, Jaanita, and Floss Cameron, plus Miss Adams and Miss Ritchie in special singing.
Government meteorological office lists temperatures for Sept 22 through Oct 2. Debate over extending navigation continues, with challenges of keeping harbors open lights operating and buoys in place through late fall. Last year conditions allowed navigation into the first week of December. Decisions depend on shipping men consulted by the department of marine and fisheries.
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