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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1946
Page
5
Lac du Bonnet news notes The Grill prep adds a dining room with three booths and a table. opening August 11 alongside lunch counter completes dining service. Winnipeg visitor Minnie Schauman enjoys Bird River holiday with parents. week of exams brings mixed results and prompts reflection on teacher blame.
A postponed welcome home gathering for Arvid from overseas drew 32 guests who enjoyed the merriment to the limit. The event featured perfect weiners and rolls without a single ant, marking a joyful, well remembered occasion.
House of Commons announcements last week set grain prices through 1950 with Fort William at 1.35 dollars and northern wheat around 1.20 in elevators east of Winnipeg. No.1 Feed Oats about 52.4 cents and No.1 Feed Barley about 68.4 cents. Quotas start at 10 bushels per authorized acre for wheat and 10 per seeded acre for barley, oats open until August 15 then 10 per seeded acre. Farmers debate whether Grain Exchange should have set levels or if government control is harming farmers amid high prices.
The passage argues that the benefit of price controls for farmers hinges on future world wheat prices over the next five years. It suggests farmers who advocated for control may not favor its removal if global prices rise, noting time will determine the outcome.
A string of short notices shows Violet Manskey and Bernice Jacobson visiting Winnipeg relatives, with Rev Father Zimmerman leaving for Chicago for the summer and other travellers including Mrs. Kotola and Mrs. Lean joining family in Manitoba. A Nutritions Division warning urges more vegetable production to improve health and ease wheat shortages.
Arvid Dancyt was guest of honor at a dinner roast on the beach behind the Parkin residence last Saturday evening. The outing, organized by Marge and Bebd Par, drew families and adults as well as children to enjoy a summer campfire and the casual fare of a weiner roast.
Cpl A Nelson home after three years overseas arrives aboard the Aquitania. Ladies Church Club of Garson hosts a Silver Tea with fancy work sale and a Fish Pond for children. I E Niely recovering at St Boniface, replaced by J A Smith of Winnipeg. J Hopps starts business in Tyndall as a barber at the Legion rooms. Vic Holmstrom relieving J Queen on holidays. Casselmans relocate to Vancouver. Fahlens visiting before San Diego move. Sergeant-major A Anderson on furlough with parents Alf stationed in Kingston Ontario. Julia Bendera summer guest from Thalberg with Wm Soluk. K Cass vacations in Chicago. G Chercoe wedding linked while in town. Ladies softball team forms, losses to Oakbank in first game, next report promised. Beckstead family holidaying in Toulon. A Murray visiting Tyndall. Fred and Tommy Gullett visiting mother S Gullet. Engler family vacation Whiteshell, Mike Yarush steps in during absence.
A moral note on finding divine blessing through hardship. The excerpt quotes W. Seeker and Young, urging believers to see God’s benevolence in dark times as in daylight, and to keep faith as the guiding vision of the heart.
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