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Show Man Who Won First Prize in New York Is Honored Rosthern, Sack., Nov. 22. In honor of Scagcr Wheeler, the) farmer who took first prize' of $1,000 at the New-York New-York grain slow in opetion with all north America, Rosthern today was en fete. Lieut. Gov. Brcrwn, all the ministers of the crown and dozens o farmers from all parts of Western Canada gathered here at a banquet g;lven in honor of Mr. "Wheeler. Tho Marquis variety of whoat with which Wheeler won was grown on a "SOG acre 'farm'-for which -he -pnld 53 an acre fifteen years ago. Wheeler Is 40 years old. He cam .from tho Isle of Wight to western Canada twenty yoarB ago. For five ears he was "a railroad contractor. |