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Newspaper
Wilkie Press
Location
Wilkie, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
2
Wilkie School Fair showcased student work and skill with exhibits in arts crafts and spelling contests. Teachers and scholars earned praise for high quality displays and careful preparation as Starview and Wilkie pupils competed in drills and races.
An immigrant seeking a United States border entry must obtain personal photographs and two forms of identification. Applicants resident in The States or The Mural Municipality must provide Heaton papers or equivalent, with duplicates sent to the proper office.
The notice lists unlawful methods and gear for hunting waterfowl and game. Prohibitions include poison, explosives, nets, or warding devices. hunting from boats. keeping game in storage outside season. protected species in season. a $1000 first offense for a bird and $25 for each additional. hunting at night. selling game. It warns penalties up to six months in jail.
A Lucknow Sentinel dispatch by Meo Durnin describes wildly varying crops across Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Wheat and oats show wide gaps from good to poor, with fields near Minnedosa and Saskatoon cited as uneven. The report notes summer fallow yields and questions an assertion about Wilkie district acres not being cut.
Condensed items report Khules sehalars chosen postwar, birth of sixth child to German Crowe Prince, record U S railway revenues, fourth Canadian War Loan in Nowember, and various war related updates. East Africa Anglo Belgian gains, British losses include twenty three ships. Civilian Auxiliary Service may draft Germans in Germany. Canadian Senate temperance bill clauses rejected. Childrens Playgrounds fund boxes tampered in Montreal. Belgian stress from feadetulla supply and rising mortality in industrial centers. British Food Controller interview notes submarine impact on cultivation and future independence of imports.
Church notices tease a W. A. handkerchief sale for Saturday October 6. Choir practice Friday evening. Next Pan Moir service September 1 at 3 pm in the school. Sunday services list: 11 am Sunday School 12 pm Baptism 4 pm service at Scott 7:30 pm service at St. Paul’s Wilkie.
Public auction under Thomas Webl in Battleford offers cattle calves cows heifers steers a pure bred bull horses hogs and poultry from Glenewrneck Manitoba bred sheep including Shropshire Shropshire woollies and Southdown ewes. Sale starts 12 noon with free lunch and items include farm implements and equipment.
Knox Church lists services at 9 00 a m and 7 30 p m with Sunday school at 2 40 p m All welcomed The evening topic is The New God of H G Wells A rally for Wilkie S S is planned at the Methodist Church on Sunday morning September 11 at 11 am The Communion service is postponed to October 7 Morley Stevenson was injured when a threshing machine crank struck his nose breaking a bone He received medical care and resumed work later the same day in what was a fortunate outcome
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