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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 12, 1950
Page
4
Local residents share family visits travel news and birthdays. Cliff Brown returns home after surgery in Selkirk while Janine Fournier heads to Vancouver for a year of schooling. Crescent Bay beats Newcombe 21 to 16 in softball as readers note hospitality. Birthdays anniversaries and mischief at Lettonia and Riverland mark a busy week in the region.
Joyed the long weekend visiting relatives with Roma Connor and others at home. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Wardrop with their son Leslie and Olive left on an extended trip to Chicago Minneapolis and Toronto. Whitemouth Consolidated school reopened with six teachers on September 5. Patricia Conno celebrated her 16th birthday on September 7. A surprise visit to Mrs P. R. Paulsen for her birthday hosted by twenty ladies. Gerard Dupont returned from a North Dakota motor trip. Birth reported for F Catellier couple: a daughter.
Hearty congratulations to Mr and Mrs Chifide on their 34th wedding anniversary observed Tuesday September 5. In Lac du Bonnet Thursday digging operations began for the Water Co operatives domestic supply. Latvia customs appear as neighbors present bread and salt with a new house so the builder won’t starve and won t be in want. John Sutter of Lettonia welcomed recent home completion with Edward Johnson bearing Old Country gifts recalling youth in Latvia. John Alkine seeks Winnipeg Clinic treatments while June Woods departs Newcombe for Pine Falls to work. Helen Lagsdin signs teaching contract at Mount Clemens Michigan near Detroit. Mr and Mrs Klein of Winnipeg visit Lettonia over the long weekend. Arnold Schwolman healthy and spry, recounts a bull incident where a neighbour s bull chased him into safety and the owner confines the bull to a rocker at Quick Freeze plant. Ed Stairs Pointe du Bois and George Shuman Poplar Bay visit John Jurgenson s home.
Whitemouth residents share travel arrivals and engagements. Abe Brandt family vacationing in the area and Marie Steiner pursuing nursing. A wedding set for October 7 at Ross United church between Leonora Carlson and Bill Toews. another October 7 wedding planned for Esther Steiner and Edward Paterson of Minnedosa at North Lutheran church. Local societies note hospital visits, anniversaries, and a glass shower for Whitemouth Hospital Guild. Walter Karpoff of the RCAF honored at municipal hall. Margaret Tyler attends Winnipeg business college. J Schmidt of Royal Bank injured foot. family mentions ongoing health and relocations.
Hessian fly infestations in winter wheat reach as high as 50 percent in southwestern Ontario. A Canada Department of Agriculture entomology survey at Chatham links early seeding and clover nurse crops with stubble carryover to the pest surge.
The Riverside district reports seven school rooms now accommodate over 200 pupils with four new teachers. On September 6 volunteers helped pour the chapel foundation, working twenty four hours as men did the heavy labor.
A reflection attributed to Richard Steele on equality in conversation. It posits that claiming superiority over others or claiming subservience to the group both misjudge social balance and humility.
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