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Newspaper
Wilkie Press
Location
Wilkie, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1914
Page
3
Canadian flour mills prepare for wartime orders totaling 1 250 000 barrels as Europe’s mobilization reduces wheat acreage. Strong home demand will push flour use higher while mills in Canada expect steady payrolls and about four million dollars in annual wages.
Local hunters seek game across fields and sloughs noting early sunrises and cold weather. Ducks are plentiful this season, but large mallards are scarce while geese, cranes, and heavy bags remain rare. a humorous tale recalls a hunter overprepared for a single duck.
The voters list for Wilkie has been prepared and posted and property owners are asked to check their names. John Hall of Leipzig shot a pelican Tuesday last and gave it to the Wilkie School Board for mounting. Several grain buyers arrive to bid, with four buyers present including Ford, West, Rydberg, Richardson, and Lawley, noting Sept 8 prices at $1.03 for No 1 Hardisty and an uptick in prices and freight rates.
The Lashburn and District Liberal Association executive committee on Thursday supported KR Earle of Battleford for Liberal candidate nomination at the forthcoming convention.
Mr W W Morricon proposed a motion to act and was seconded by HL Vakrios during the Lashburn Comet report of September 10 1914. Mr A Champagne MP visited town making a political circuit ahead of the district Liberal convention observing the grove from a political vantage.
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