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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 08, 1910
Page
9
Local events report Rossburn Fair set for October 4. Community notes include visits, farming activity, railway expansion rumors, new businesses and sales, and upcoming professional visits. A death in the Stevens family is noted with funeral details and condolences.
Russell exhibitors Alfred Clee and G A Cope returned Monday praising their district advertising efforts at the Winnipeg show. They won a Diploma for exhibit excellence though not the Agricultural Societies prize. Directors announced plans to split entries into two classes by distance, favoring local transport. The Russell display drew attention from notable visitors and will be sent to England by rail carrier C N R.
Seeburn Rev. Mr. Chatterton has left the district for Hamiota. Robertson travels from Ontario to assist his son with the harvest. George Brown smiles as another daughter arrives. Vandecars from Woodstock Ontario visit local friends. Alan Young enjoys his father and sister's company for a few months. Harvesting is under way and threshers are busy securing men and outfits.
Silverton residents renew acquaintances at Ot tawa visits while Geo Gibbs returns from Atwood refreshed. Harvest festival set for Sept 15 at Silver Creek church with 8 p.m. start. refreshments and collection planned. Miss Addie Cardiff departs Brussell's Ont after a visit with Mrs McFarlane. many friends bid farewell at C N R platform. A local duck hunting outing in No Man's Land ends cheerfully with a campfire dinner and comic mishaps.
Miss Smith improves after illness while Millie Dulre plans to attend Russell High School. Mrs. McKenzie leaves for North Bay Ontario after an appointment with Hudson Bay Co. Mr Leighton resigns from Boulton school to teach at Brightside. Mr Moffatt serves as interim teacher at Rochedale and Boulton for three weeks.
The Boyd farm at Bethany has been purchased by the C. N. R. but neither Bill nor Dan will live there. The farm was bought for a purpose other than residence, notably a splendid gravel bed near the railway between here and Rossburn.
The C N R purchased the entire 160 acres to obtain 20 acres of gravel paying about $1000 more than the gravel bed’s asking price. After securing the gravel, ballast will improve the Hethany to Elphinstone road bed to shorten Neepawa to Russell trips and reduce accident risk. Ballasting starts in spring with a ditching machine prepping the grade immediately.
Export steers and freight assumed run from 500 to 525 per head with other grades noted. Choice butcher steers and heifers delivered 475 to 500. Good butcher cows and heifers 325 to 375. Medium cattle 250 to 300. Choice hogs 850 to 900.
Letter from J. J. Farthing secretary of the Russell Grain Growers’ Association urges action to extend a 15c per cwt rate to Russell and other districts. The Railway Commissioners ordered 15c rate on shipments to Fort William and Port Arthur, effective Sept 1, 1910, after disallowing 16c. The note notes gains from association efforts and asks for broader equalization west of Winnipeg with a schedule culminating in 16c for Theodore and 15c for Foxwarren, etc.
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