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on the Ingersoll Sun, Lindsay Watchman-Warder, Huntsville Forester, Port Arthur Chronicle and Trail, B.C., News. Came to Melfort, 1912, purchasing and enlarging the plant of the Weekly Moon. It is one of the leading journals of the Province; linotype and power plant, run by electricity; the paper has a circulation of over fourteen hundred, covers the local district and is a splendid medium of advertising. Mr. Badington is a member of the Saskatchewan and Canadian Press Associations, an ex-chairman of the Trail, B.C., School Board, chairman High School Board, Melfort, member of the Melfort ;Board of Trade, member of the Masonic fraternity. An Anglican. In politics, Independent. Recreations, baseball and curling. Address, Melfort, Sask.

 

AMOS: Frank, J.P. Born in Sussex county, England (Hastings), June 8th, 1866, son of Charles Amos, of Wotton, Norfolk county, England, and his wife, Maria Croft (Leech) Amos. Married Rachel Thompson, Dec., 1891, and has one son and four daughters. Came to Canada in 1885, and to the west with B Battery, R.C.A., in the same year, passing the winter of 1885 and 1886 with the battery in Qu' Appelle. Returned with the battery to Quebec, served with the Citadel till 1887; returned west to Qu'Appelle, where he has resided ever since. Has always taken an active interest in militia matters; was attached to 16th Light Horse for some years and served a short time in the 249th Batt., C.E.F. His son and his son-in-law were overseas with the Canadian forces. Mr. Amos was secretary of the local Patriotic Fund throughout the war. Was active in Red Cross work; secretary of the Army and Navy Veterans. Methodist. Steward of the church for over twenty-six years. Member of the Oddfellows Lodge. Justice of the Peace, and has charge of the Meteorological Station at this point for the Dominion Government. Address, Qu' Appelle.

 

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