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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 09, 1954
Page
8
Local notices recount upcoming events at Memorial hall and Legion Legion Ladies Auxiliary meetings. Reports correct officers for the auxiliary with new omissions, plus a birthday surprise for Doreen Dancut. Various residents attend conferences in Winnipeg The Pas and Churchill with short travel notes and social visits.
Rector Rev F W Maxwell announces schedule for Sunday February 14 1954 at St John’s Church Anglican Holy Communion 7 pm Evening Prayer Choir meetings after service Sunday School 11 am Parish hall Confirmation classes begin 7 30 pm Monday February 15 in the church
Obituary notices report multiple death anniversaries and services. Mildred Tocher 20 Beausejour died accidental. services January 26 at Beausejour United Church. interment Beausejour cemetery. Emil Briese 22 Beausejour died accidental. service January 27 at Beausejour Lutheran. interment Beausejour cemetery. Mary Zadorozny 84 died in St Basil’s Home Romarno. emigrated Austria 52 years ago. Mie Mazureck 72 Whitemouth died January 29. long CPR career. funeral February 1 at Whitemouth RC Church. Herman Halstun 68 Elma died January 25 Whitemouth hospital after short illness. service in Beausejour Public cemetery. Renshaw funeral chapel handled arrangements.
A humorous feud poem about a man named Bill who slanders curlers with verses. Four SKI curlers vow to prove him wrong on the ice, ending with Bill Carroll lamenting his slander and embarrassment as curlers prevail.
In a Greek Catholic service held January 28 at Ladywood, William of Sand Hill Steve of Green Oak and Peter of Buffalo New York along with daughter Mrs A Laplor of Winnipeg were laid to rest in the churchyard cemetery. Rev Fr J Borys officiated with Renshaw Funeral chapel in charge of arrangements.
Albert Edward Le Blance 85 of Tyndall died at home after moving from Lockport a few months earlier. Born in Selkirk he served in World War I and was a veteran of that conflict. Local obituary notes his war service and residence.
An obituary note lists 108 battalion 14 Reserve and C. V. C. in England. It mentions Old St. Andrew's church on the Red River with interment in the churchyard cemetery. Ren shaw funeral chapel was in.
Athanase Sauve 73 of Powerview died January 31 at home. He was born September 3, 1880 in St Laurent de Grandin Saskatchewan and moved to Manitoba as a youth. He married Rosana Klyne in 1904 and lived in Bedford St Genevieve St Vital Sperling before settling in Pine Falls in 1932. He is survived by his wife Rosalia and two sons, Joseph of Power.
William View of Winnipeg leaves one daughter Mrs Henry LaFrance of Powerview one brother Alfred of St Vital one sister Mrs Or Vandal of Woodridge Man and ten grandchildren Interment was in the local cemetery at Pine Falls Pallbearers Dave Klyne Arthur Bruce Wm Sauve Ovila Vandal Henry LaFrance Jos Sauve Russell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
New Year gatherings at the Pecchia home included Mr. and Mrs. Popowich and son Dennis Vera and Lydia Busnardo Eddie Leonard and Nuzzio de Genoa. Curling activity at the Pointe began January 5 with nine rinks and by now two men s and eleven rinks. Ladies rinks traveled to Whitemouth on January 16 for curling with Alma Neimi M Willson H Waisanen A Pecchia C Ketola M Cooper C Carmichael and S McLean among participants. Manitoba Curling Association guests visited Pointe January 9 and 10 for a weekend of curling with Bob O Dowda Wm H Brett John Baker Mike Kaminsky Horace Thomas Kelly Dawn Wm Campbell Neil Sullivan Charlie Nye Bob Watson Vic Siddall and Sam Square noted for retirement as Pointe hydro plant superintendent last July. Two ladies rinks from the Pointe entered Lac du Bonnet North Eastern bonspiel January 23 and 24. the rink led by M Willson with C Ketola E Hawkes and A Niemi won the Memorial trophy. Congratulations to the girls. The rink led by H Waisan-
En with Mr Cooper C Carmichael and S McLean won their first game but lost the second by one rock, missing a shot at the Springman trophy. Also noting congratulations to Mr and Mrs S Dunwoody on the birth of a daughter on Jan 28.
Ignatz Morris gifts a new 1954 Pontiac to his son Mike Morris and family for their February 20 anniversary. Beausejour Women's Institute hosts a beauty culture program by Mr Pollock and Mr Jones with hair demonstrations and a film on damaged hair. Proceeds aid March of Dimes and ACT TB Amateur Night is planned for March 13. Jaycees sponsor Schmockey Night to back Thea Reimer for Carnival Queen. local curlers travel to Kenora for Region 4 bonspiel. Billy Klingbells injured unloading cars at the CPR depot.
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