Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Frt Oay january 15, 1964 pack councillor 29 years has t missed meeting by Glaes Hamilton 1 last week in the Erickson District of Manitoba a District old timer climbed into his car and started off for the Village to at tend his consecutive meet ing of the. Council of the Rural municipality of clan William. At the end of this year Charles August Hill retired Erickson District Farmer will have served on i he clan William Council for 30 years. And he Hopes to retire then in the 29 years he has served a has never missed a Council meet ing. And he Hopes to quite at the end of 1954 with his record still unblemished. He has served under five Reeves and has seen his District a few Miles South of the picturesque rid ing Mountain National Park emerge from a land covered with scrub and Brush with Pine and Poplar to a rolling open land dotted with prosperous farm houses. When he came out from Sweden with his parents Brothers and Sis ers he was Only seven. But he retains vivid memories of the hard ships of those Days. Dugout Home the family s first Home was a dugout in the Side of a Hill with a Sod roof. And the Bush rabbits the boys were Able to snare were the Staple diet of the family. His father Charley recalls used to walk the 16 Miles from Minne Dosa with a sack. There were no Deer in the Bush As there Are today. They came much later. But the dark Bush around the Homestead was Home to Many bears and Timber wolves. There used to be a few Moose and today Many Elk. Forty five years ago or. Hill started fanning on his years later when he had proved his farm he was married to Emma the Shine that keeps leather alive leather it your thin. It be Kiwi s Richer waxes go 4mb Down into Parat Koon a other alive. Kiwi Raco Laun t trial thai. For Iho Brilliant thai can Only hem healthy leather Kiwi Charles a. Hill Elizabeth Aikman who had come out from the same Homeland Only to years before. They had 10 children. And today there Are nine sturdy grandchildren. In 1924 or. Hill was first elected to the Council. Since that time he Las been returned in every elec Tion. One near miss or. Hill recalled once several years ago when he was tempted to spoil his Good attendance record. He had come in from a hard Day in the Field and he Felt pretty sick. Then it hardly Felt Worth the Effort to drag himself to his car. Today i m glad i did. It was Worth it. And when i retire next of year i Hope that those who come after will be Able to say for 30 years. Old Charley Hill i missed a Council my i olym in Tow my to gives More than a surface Shine Kiwi nourishes leather Portage Rebekah offers installed in recent ceremony Portage la Prairie Man. Special miss Janet Thomson and staff installed the new officers of. Ruth Rebekah Lodge in the 1oof Hall recently. Officers in stalled were. Mrs. Mary Simpson mrs. Ruth Henry mrs. Florence Jessie Smith miss Bertha Hicks miss Josephine Maguire mrs. Lois Forsythe mrs Gladys Brown mrs. Theresa Sher Ritt mrs. Marjorie Richardson mrs. Myrtle Hill mrs. Mary Owens mrs. Sally Hicks mrs. Martha Cook Irish Egan mrs. Clara Sharp and miss Catherine Caskey North Cape on Magero Island off Norway in Trie Arctic Ocean is the most northerly Point in Bur 23 petitioners get absolute divorces chief Justice e. K. Granted absolute divorce decrees wednesday to 23 petitioners in court of Queen s Bench. They were Florence Glover from Reynold Edwards Glover married at Winnipeg july 18, 1951 Beatrice mar Garet Roscoe from Frederick Wal Lam Roscoe married at Winnipeg dec. 21, 1940 Pearl Urban from Wamie Tom Urban married at Elb Elbert july 5, 1937 Rose Rzepka from Johann Rzepka married at Winnipeg june 6, 1937 Myrtle Myra Fowler from Wilbert James Fowler married at Winnipeg aug. 9. 1939 Henry Jackson Kay from Thelma Florence Kay married at Franklin Man. Nov. 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Jung 22, 1944 mailman retires after 38 years Arthur Mahoney 9 w h i 11 i e r aparts., who built up a perfect record while switching several million of Cana Dian National railways freight and passenger during his 38 years service with the com Pany in Winni Peg tuesday re tired on pension. Since 1939, he had in charge of Ffitch i n g passenger trains in and out of the car Sta Tion. As he completed his last switch ing operation or. Mahoney was greeted and congratulated at the car station by a Large number of railway associates. Born in Sussex n.b., 65 years ago or. Mahoney came West with his parents As a boy and in 1915, be Gan work with the Canadian nor Thern railway As a switchman at Winnipeg. Two years later he be came a switch Foreman serving in that capacity until his retire Ballet gets warm hand at final show Gweneth Lloyd s visages was Given a highly moving performance thursday evening by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. This was the Only Ballet on thursday evening s pro Gram which had not been presented of the previous nights of he Ballet s three evening engage ment at the playhouse theatre. An enthusiastic audience warmly applauded the company and its guest artist famed Ballerina Alicia Markova who with her partner roman Jasinsky gave her third and final Winnipeg performance with the company in the romantic White Ballet Les for her second appearance miss Markova gave a memorable performance of Fokine s the dying Swan which Anna Pavlova made famous. Miss Markova also danced this Solo tuesday evening. Kay Bird proved to be a Fine dramatic dancer in visages in which she and Arnold Spohr the Reading roles of the girl and boy whose love is challenged by various emotions. Walter Kauf Mann s music Joseph Plaskett abstract setting and Dorothy Phil lips imaginative costumes All con tribute to make visages a Balte which leaves a Strong and lasting impression on the audience the company closed the Fina performance of its engagement with a rollicking fast moving performance of miss Lloyd s Ballet the shooting of Dan Mcgrew danced by the same cast As in wednesday s performance. The or Chestra directed by Eric wild provided the dancers with Abl accompaniment. Business car Steward honoured on retirement Alf Sellwood. 290 Wildwood Park fort was guest of Hono at a party in the car s business car on the eve of his retirement this week. Or. Sellwood joined the car Din ing car department 29 years ago serving two Gen eral managers and four vice presidents since he took Over As Steward of the business car in 1929. Attending the party were g. N. Curley vice president Joe har Ris j. K. May d. Ruttan e. B. Frost and c. E. Lister. General manager of the Prairie Region. 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