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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 19, 1957
Page
4
A worn wild frontier tale unfolds as a half frozen trapper staggers into a blizzard enveloped trading post begging for food. He recalls lost sled dogs and a hunter observing him with no gun. The oddball line about homework and extremism adds tongue in cheek local color.
The article notes that the rulers of Prussia, who later became emperors, were originally margraves of Brandenburg and traces their lineage to the church pipe organ as a precursor to today’s instrument. It connects medieval titles with the evolution of German statehood and organ craft.
Warm dry days boost harvesting across Saskatchewan with most wheat and coarse grains already threshed. Flax completion varies by region, oats and barley yields solid, flax output dipping slightly. Overall September weather hindered early harvest but late spurt improves crop outlook and No. 2 to No. 4 grades prevail. Threshing of 1957 crops expected to finish this week.
The Regina train from the west will carry the last mail by that method this Saturday. From Monday September 30 mails between Winnipeg and Regina via Reston will move by truck. Westbound mail arrives 4 15 and eastbound at 10 45 with outbound mail due half an hour earlier, says Postmaster Oliver Chester.
On Saturday October 19 at one minute after midnight three telephone exchanges Calmar Devon and Leduc switch from manual operation to dial service. Extended area service links the centres making calls local with no toll. Long distance calls dial 0 to reach Edmonton operators and information and repair use 0. The Representative, Leduc Alta, October 17 1957.
The 3000th Saskatchewan oil well was completed recently in the Carnduff field of southeastern Saskatchewan. Previous milestones included the 100th well on November 12, 1944 at Lloydminster, the 1000th on October 8, 1954 in Lone Rock, and the 2000th in the Steelman field two years later, as reported by The Gazette-Post-News in Carnduff on October 24, 1957.
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