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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 08, 1949
Page
4
Local residents report weekend visits by Elma Ontario visitors and Winnipeg Manitoba guests. Individuals include Walter Pajmen on the sick list and Mrs. E N Woodard recovering after a heart attack. Several residents travel between Elma Sudbury Red Lake and Winnipeg for family and farm affairs.
Buffalo, with a smaller area and population than Toronto, holds about forty times more underground electrical wiring, highlighting a denser grid and heavier modernization compared to the Canadian city.
Visitors include Miss Phyllis Houston and Miss June Baker from Winnipeg at Rev and Mrs Houston’s home. A fire at 16 Maple Street damaged the house. hospital updates report C A Patterson and Jerry Wilcott progressing well. A birthday party for Beverly Jean Manson drew eighteen youngsters. surprise party for Mr and Mrs S Brewster marked early March birthdays.
The Legion Auxiliary held its regular meeting on March 2 at A A Mac Donald’s home. A motion approved sending thanks to Mrs. McLaren and Mrs. Claude Anderson for assisting in cutting and sewing baby garments for a needy veteran family. They will hold a whist drive and dance on March 17 in the hall with refreshments.
A baby girl Geraldine Laurel Nazarewich was born at Selkirk hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Steve Nazarewich on February 23. The article notes the birth and mentions hockey players Raymond Blair Bobby Gmitrewski and Bob Wawryshyn in the surrounding text.
In Beausejour on Sunday the Tyndall Ladies' club schedules its annual silver tea at the Tyndall hotel on March 17. Miss Jean Michaels, assistant principal at Tyndall high school, escorted Grade XI and XII students to Hamlet on February 22. Mrs. Sim Riley stayed with her daughter and son in law, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Anderson of Winnipeg, for a week. Willie Leiman studies refrigeration in Winnipeg. Miss Mary Gward and Mrs. Nowakowski visited local friends and relatives respectively. James Hyde recovers from multiple operations and Mrs. W. A. Sellers is under observation at Grace hospital.
The text notes Angel Falls in Venezuela at about 3,000 feet, and Kuke naam and Roraima in British Guiana at around 2,000 feet each, claiming these are the three highest waterfalls. It mentions Niagara Falls dropping about 167 feet.
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