Kingsford Post Office/Store was held up
late on a Monday night by 3 masked robbers
on Oct 17, 1927.
They held up Edward Chamney, Post Master and Storekeeper,
and H. Johnsrude, a Saskatchewan Pool Elevator buyer.
They rifled thru the Post Office safe and took $3220.00.
For some strange reason they only took the Grain company money,
and told Mr. Chamney they heard their money was insured
so would not suffer any personal financial loss.
They didn't touch the Post office or store money.
They made their escape west towards Bienfait,
in a Buick Master Six Touring Sedan car,
with what was believed were Saskatchewan License Plates.
Mr. Chamney was also agent for the Matheson Lindsay Elevator Company,
and the Saskatchewan Pool Elevator, the 2 elevators in the hamlet.
A shotgun and 2 automatic pistols were used by the bandits.
The safe was in the back of the store.
The robbers had cut the telephone line to Kingsford, from Bienfait.
They also damaged the telephone at the store, so it couldn't be used.
They removed a shotgun and a rifle in the store,
and left them outside, to be found in the morning.
Mr. Chamney and Johnrude had to drive to Bienfait to report the robbery.
At this time only 3 families resided in the hamlet.
The get away car was spotted just east of Kingsford,
by a local farmer, Jack Bore, who reported 3 men
were outside the car at 10 PM pretending to change a tire.
So they obviously had a driver as well.
 

My grandfather Percy Gent, grandmother Fanny, and their family
lived on the John Neering farm,
4mi E and 1mi N of Kingsford

Frances Hofley- took out a US patent on a new fly catching device
Patent number: 1387716
Sept 15, 1920
patented Aug 16, 1921
At that time she claimed she was a citizen of Czecho-Slovakia
living in Lampman SK.

Ed Hofley was a member of the Bienfait Legion
before the Lampman branch was formed

Lillian Louise Gibson, nee Chamney, writes her Uncle Ted ran the store in Kingsford.
Her and her husband Orion Halliday Gibson ran the store in the 1920's