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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 18, 1948
Page
5
Community items report summer preparations and seedings underway. Residents arrive home from mines, travels for family visits, and events including Arbor Day, a RCMP wedding, and a whist drive with prizes. The town welcomes RCAP personnel and anticipates Holiday Beach season opening.
A collection of local visits and events from Pinawa to Winnipeg includes A Bradley arriving with Hudson, a Vancouver based visit, multiple families traveling to Gimli for a day, and social calls in Selkirk Winnipeg Transcona and Oakbank. Also noted are weather, a car incident near Lac du Bonnet, fishing tales, and community condolences for H T Smith and Axel Bloomquist.
Sealed tenders marked Tender for Sidewalk will be received up to 12 o'clock noon on Monday May 31 1948 for the construction of 650 feet more or less of concrete sidewalk. For information apply to the secretary treasurer G F Teare Lac du Bonnet Manitoba. Dated May 11 1948.
Notice states the village council will meet on the second Monday of alternate months. For 1948 the dates listed are 14 June, 11 August, 13 October, and 13 December.
A doll shaped cake with icing and a candle highlighted a community event while Mr and Mrs Rowe supplied soft drinks ice cream and cookies. A council delegation including McIntosh Waters Sneath and Rev Father Paridis traveled to Winnipeg to meet the minister Mr McDermid about preventing flood damage and to report findings to the Department of Public Works. The Riverland community announces a cleanup for Saturday May 22 at 2 pm of the local cemetery and church yard.
James Glass of Hudsons Bay Co. visits the Staff House while Mrs. Hardcastle of Windsor stays with her daughter and son in law Garnet Harland. Mrs. Fred Ans hosts relatives for a weekend with Tit tlemeier family. Bud Braund returns from Seven Sisters. A Silver tea and social in Andersons Hall on May 14 raises funds for the blind. Bush fires reappear this spring along the river. Jerusalem sits on a plateau between two hills with east and west valleys.
The couple Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, wear ceremonial robes during the Windsor procession at St. George's Chapel. They join other newly elected Knights of the Garter in a ceremonial installation.
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