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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 11, 1949
Page
2
A Canadian town faces a shift as merchants abandon Saturday night hours chasing early shoppers. One store owner defies the trend, keeping late hours across nearby towns where sales rise, while the local center declines. The piece cites Timothy Eaton’s customer-first ethos and argues enduring public service above profit.
Canada enjoyed a record agricultural year with cash income over 2.0 billion dollars, marking the highest in Dominion history. Yields rose across rye mixed grains corn fall wheat and spring wheat despite grasshoppers and market challenges.
Falls Marion Williams spent a few days with her parents. Miss Vickie Marion RN of Minneapolis visited the Frantz family. Danish student Ivir Vind enjoyed a short vacation studying agriculture. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Moores on their December wedding. Measles and chicken pox germs have vanished as the Old Year ends. Residents celebrate New Year with good health and happiness. Dozens of visitors came home for Christmas and New Year. Seven Sisters defeated White Mouth 4 3 with goals by Noel Vadeboncoeur Bill Gilles and W Scott. The New Year dance drew a large crowd at Fellows hall.
In 1946 excluding Quebec Canada had five thousand employed school teachers who lacked minimum professional qualifications, representing about one in ten of the teaching workforce.
Except for the war years the manufacture of pulp and paper, excluding forest operations, has been Canada's leading industry in value of products and in wages and salaries paid to workers.
The Gobi spans a vast Dry Sea known as Han Hai linking Mongolian and Chinese regions. It hosts dunes from 30 to 300 feet, oases, ancient cities buried in sand, and traces of Stone Age tribes unearthed by Roy Chapman Andrews. Explorers like Marco Polo, Sven Hedin, and James Gilmour century travels shaped knowledge while the Trio Mildred Cable and Evangeline French crossed its routes.
Mrs T G Erskine reports J Hlady donated a turkey to be raffled January 15 with proceeds going to the Hockey club. C E Giesbrecht won a large Christmas stocking at the Red and White store. Mrs Harry Nelson hosted a large gathering for a marriage anniversary. Le Earl Sinclair left for Edmonton after a Christmas vacation. We saw Rev C Newcombe during the New Year period and Mr Newcombe was a former student minister here. Mr Nick Letki and others entertained at Christmas and New Year suppers.
Local items list birthdays such as Ben Dubincoff and Henry Brodkorb and hospital wishes for Mrs Darcy Morton. It notes the Whitemouth Consolidated school annual meeting January 15 at 8 in municipal hall and Oldenburg school's annual meeting January 15 at 8 p.m. plus hockey recap of a 4-3 loss to Seven Sisters.
A quotation attributed to Edmund Burke asserts that true liberty is inseparable from order and virtue, existing only when both are present and sustaining one another.
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