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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 05, 1901
Page
1
Silver Creek News Roundup on Weather and Crews
Silver Creek reports a sunny week with a severe thunderstorm on Monday night causing grain lodgement and harder cutting. Local threshers Kippan and McFarlane bought a blower to aid threshing and harvest. residents note strong crops and ongoing building projects while visitors arrive and recover from illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robi Kippan
Binscarth
Jas
Robertson
Miss Robertson
Neepawa
John Hammond
Kippan
McFarlane
Silver Creek
Local Notices From Londonderry District
A string of brief visits is reported with residents from Winnipeg Shellmayt and Russell stopping by L. L. Roberts and others. A Monday storm damaged grain and blew off a roof at Roberts farm while Thos. Simms stacks grain and hires Topp to scare wolves and protect hens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Kinnaird
Russell
All Roberts
L. L. Roberts
Thos. Simms
Topp
High River Weather Delays Dam Work and Local News
Severe storm up in the mountains has river levels very high delaying dam woodworking. Labor Day passed quietly as residents work. bears are plentiful and observations note their bold behavior. A. B. Gill has recovered and returned to his Grond View store. The Dominion customs duties for August topped three million dollars, a record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Gill
Grond View
Fiorth
Russell News Briefs Include Funerals and Harvest Delays
The issue reports the infant death and Sunday funeral at Russell cemetery, notes threshing to begin soon, and mentions harvest delays due to a heavy storm. It covers local visits, voter lists, a wedding, cattle shipments, a duck shooting season, and a large steer shipment competing for a hat in Winnipeg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Mullins
Mr. Wilson
Russell
Yorkton
Winnipeg
Wilson
Brighthouse Stacking and Rural Happenings
Brightside Stacking is underway. Mr Blane of Harrowby visited Mr John Rea last week. Mr Gusitar resumes threshing after repairs. Mr Jas Rea cut here then went to Minniska, now back to stacking. School closed as teacher leaves for Winnipeg to join Russell football. Easterners fear our prairie wolf after a chase. McNeil and Simms nearly struck by a cyclist coasting down a hill while they stood at the bottom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson
Stewart
Rom
England
M. Scarth
É. Kippan
J. Anderson
Jas. Rea
Minniska
Winnipeg
Russell
Messrs McNeil and
Simms
Road master predicts heavy fall traffic at Millwood
In Millwood G Brewster the road master foresees heavy autumn traffic as ideal weather allows peak haying. Dane McDougall, driving foreman for the M N W R, leaves rail work for hotel life at Strathdarr. A Galician labourer on a steam shovel suffered a serious back injury while lifting a handcar and was cared for by coworkers before being taken to Yorkton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Brewster
Dane McDougall
Strathdarr
Ma. Graham
Torkton
Right
Scripture Applied Sunday Lesson Reveals Unexpected Verse
A Wapella Sunday school teacher uses weekly incidents to prompt scripture quotes from her class of girls. She shared a tale of a boy harming cats, then invited verses. One girl rose and solemnly offered a mistaken yet earnest verse about what God has joined together.
Strathcona to Succeed Herschell on Joint High Commission
Lord Strathcona will succeed the late Lord Herschell on the joint high commission. Seven thousand Canadians registered at the Dominion building Pan-American exposition on Hamilton Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Strathcona
Lord Herschell
Joint High Commission
Dominion Building
Hamilton Day
Also Mentioned on This Page
O Coulter
Dune
J. Turnbull
Londonderry
Ged. Temple
W. Lenard
Aenieien Doe
J. Langford
Shellmayt
L. L. Ro
Arsssippi
Dominion
A. Setter
Russell Cemetery
Jas. Thor,Jr
Miss L. Fraser
Shoal Lake
Yorkth
Miss Haines
Gore Bros. & Co
Birtle
W. Thompson
Carberry
Murray
Kinsearth
R. D. Coulter
Shell River’s
E.R. Bartlett
Barnardo
Asessippi
Shellmouth
Lowther
McLean
Keen
Mbt
Birtlé
Virden
Somsorte
Messrs Crerar
Rankin
Langenburg
Churchbridge
T. Laidlaw
Saltcoats
Jas. Mills
Swan River
Brandon
Swan River Valley
J. W. Fraser
K. Metarmair
Millwood
Geo. Hudson
D. M. Mackay
A. S. Crerar
Messrs Brooks
Skinner
Peddie
J. McNicol
Pittaway
Gilmore
Hembroff
Yorkton Board of Trade
Toronto
Ontario
Thom
Brightside
Mr. Blane
Harrowby
John Rea
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