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Newspaper
Wilkie Press
Location
Wilkie, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
3
The Wilkie Town Band may shut down as instruments are in poor condition and $300 is needed to restore them. Town council cannot fund the amount, though past support funded earlier instrument purchases and local efforts to maintain performances.
Mies Newhouse of Birkenhead visits sister Mrs. T M Newhouse and returns to Wilkie. Local officials discuss grants and salaries for 1914 and council actions on assessor, vouchers, and agricultural convention attendance. Sunday School organized. farmers busy with seeding and field prep. Next meeting June 1.
Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Sandaged hosted friends in Wilkie while Miss Harten returned to Saskatoon after a several week visit with Mrs. Fred Carter. Wm. L. Olsen and Elmer Moberg conducted business in the Rockhaven district and Battleford respectively. The gravel pit resumes operations with trains westbound. The early grain shows health despite morning frosts.
Regular meeting of Rural Municipality of Prairie No 408 held May 4 1914 with all councillors present. Proceedings note municipal payment duties and efforts to secure supplies at lower costs through cooperative buying.
The Rural Municipality of Reford No 379 held its fifth regular meeting May 6 1914 in the Council Chamber. Present were Reeve Gerow Councillors Grenkie Rieniger Franke Smith Payne and Jellsett. Motions include fencing Wolfe cemetery appointing Jelsett to arrange fencing, clerk to register land deeds for highway purposes, moving fence on Leipzig road, refunding taxes to East Prospect S D 297 and charging Belleview Plains S D, purchasing a Clemona road grader, sending Payne to Wilkie hospital, exempting Hail Insurance for R C Hopkins and Hudsons Bay Land, quarterly audit accepted, grant of 50 to Sas katchewan Co operative Abbatoir, purchase of stationery, tax refund on section 23-38-19, banking change to Union Bank, objection to Municipal Affairs boundary changes, court of revision June 2 1914, and adjournment.
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