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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 1913
Page
9
Market figures show varied grain and stock quotes with mixed price ranges. Prices cited include six dollar to seven dollar levels and multiple fractions, reflecting fluctuating values across different commodities and trading periods.
The Russell electric light plant began service on Wednesday afternoon with a strong start. Ninety percent of the system works, 32 street lights are lit, about 60 buildings wired, and a 20 cent per kilowatt rate with a $1 minimum. The plant faced a brief outage due to sand in the cylinder, now remedied, with all night service resumed.
Monday marked the final day for chicken shooting. Dr. T. A. Wright of Calgary visits Russell this week. Residents from Saskatoon and Ontario visit and travel, with local reports on crops, sugar beet and potato yields, and church activities. The advisory meeting on curling and the new reading room project are noted, along with harvest show remarks and tax sale alerts in the Russell district.
Social visits and travel dominate the page with arrivals in Binscarth and Russell. Frequent Winnipeg trips reflect winter mobility while Thanksgiving gatherings mark the week. A death is announced for Mrs. Anna Lowry, with funeral details at St. Matthew's and Binscarth Cemetery. The Royal Hotel sale nets 4400 dollars and Mrs. Vinette Murdock’s engagement to Dr. Swan is reported.
Millwood residents host visitors including Mrs E Barke at Bavelaw and at the parental home at Marchwell. Mrs Schettler of Bavelaw is seriously ill needing a doctor. Miss E Bates and Miss Porter from Shoal Lake visit with Mr and Mrs Bates. Miss Bates from Yorkton also attends. Mrs Heap departs for Winnipeg Hospital with Dr Lanigan and Miss Clara Heap. Messrs McNaughton of Arctic Ice Co Winnipeg plan dam repairs at the old mill site and prepare for extensive ice cutting and a large stable. Millwood Livestock Association holds a well attended meeting. secretary reports a fine thoroughbred bull from Central Department to be used for service, under president T Kimm.
The electric light system was installed by Mr Mault and funded by the Young Ladies Guild. Harvest Festival services will be held Oct 26 with a special preacher Rev W W H Thomas M A and offerings to the Home Mission Fund. No service at Bolton school. An altar piece by G A Cope will be used first next Sunday.
The annex of the CPR internal elevator at Transom axrk twenty feet caused the cupola to collapse on Saturday.
Local notes record visitors and residents, a pulpit appointment, harvest service, a weather impacted magic lantern show, tent fire loss, curling signups due by Nov 1, and upcoming communion services at Presbyterian and Shellmouth churches. Cattle drive missteps and roving bands highlighted, with call for an adequate herder.
Assipp i Threshing operations progress slowly. John McLennay Jr of Minn is a visitor at Assissippi on Sunday. Miss Lawrence of Austin visits sister Mrs Alvert McKay. Question about freeze up or lingering Indian summer. Mr Front new Church of England missionary arrived and will visit local service sites.
The Angusville Grain Growers Association met at the Angusville boarding house on Monday October 13 starting 8 pm. They adopted the minutes, reviewed a letter to Inter Municipal Hall Insurance, planned a committee to review the Insurance Bill, and set a follow up meeting for November 3 at 7 30 pm. Coal orders for 40 tons of Pittsburg nut coal were placed for October delivery. The meeting adjourned on motion.
The railway commission promises a final hearing into the Western Canada freight issue on November 24. A Western Canada exchange notes that if steak climbs to one dollar a pound it may be wiser to invest in a cow than in a subdivision.
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