23 Feb 1918
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Newspaper
Bacchus Marsh Express
Location
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 23, 1918
Page
1
McPhail Anderson Co set sale at 1 oclock sharp with 280 cattle including 45 fat cattle 80 bullocks and 90 steers plus 780 sheep 140 bred ewes 2 to tooth and 130 store ewes. L A Pfairbaim Co hosts at Commercial Yards offering horses pigs and sundries with other stock listed. Peter Heagney district representative on Main Street cites land advertised and goods to be sold.
On Wednesday February 27 at 2 o clock a clearing sale will be held at Rock Bank, W and Keast agents, by instruction from Mrs ES Watters of Shirley Rockbank. Entire farm stock implements and household goods will be sold at absolute auction due to the death of her husband. Luncheon Proviso. Further particulars apply to Keast, 10 Open Street, Melbourne.
State Savings Bank offers loans on farms from £50 to £2,000 at 6 percent with a sinking fund to repay in 27 years. Cottage villa and shop loans from £50 to £1,000 at 6 percent with a sinking fund to repay in 18 years. No charge for mortgage deed. Early payoff charges apply within five years. no penalty after. Forms available at any branch or by writing to The Inspector-General, State Savings Bank, Elizabeth St, Melbourne. Nurse Campbell plans private hospital opening in Bacchus Marsh the first week in March. further particulars through Mrs Spurr, Main Street, Bacchus Marsh.
L A Fairbairn and Co. will hold a ground sale at 1 p.m. from Meadow Vale Farm near Rockbank and Melton. The auction lists horses, cattle, sheep, machinery, and farming tools with items such as a platform waggon, chaff-cutter, reapers, harvesters, engines, and harnesses. Luncheon provided. Bacchus Marsh auctioneers.
On Thursday February 28 at 1 pm the Gippsland and Northern Co operative selling and insurance company limited Melbourne will sell without reserve the stock implements furniture and effects of A Quake Esq at his property Balliang. Horses cows sheep fowls harness wagons farming gear tanks household items and more. Luncheon provided. E A Reither Balliang local agent.
A public welcome home will be tendered to all district members of the ALF recently returned from active service abroad. All returned men previously welcomed, invited. also recent volunteers for active service. Musical programme and collection of door in aid funds Laifies' Patriotic Guild. John Wills, chairman. A. T. Oliver, Hon. Sec.
A lecture on cooperation by Mr A W Wilson will be held at Mechanics Hall Bacchus Marsh on Friday next March 1st at 8 pm with admission for all. Harvest Home Ball planned for the same hall on the following Friday evening March 1st music and dancing announced. Melton Red Cross monthly meeting set for Mechanics Institute on Tuesday February 26 at 2 45 pm. Dog owners must register at the Shire Hall Werribee by March 10 1918 with a 3d fee per dog. Ballan shire invites landholders to discuss land sale or partial resumption as part of repatriation efforts.
Land to let comprising 14 acre Lucerne paddock at Doorbey Bee and 25 acre Parkside grazing paddock with 0 acre stubble paddock adjoining. Two year lease offered by Mr Wils Grants. All rates paid by owner through L A Fairbairn & Co.
Thursday March 7 Bacchus Marsh Market Co operative Selling and Insurance Co Ltd will hold monthly sale for fat store dairy cattle sheep pigs and sundries. Special buyers will attend. Farmers urged to support cooperation and contact Branch Office Bacchus Marsh for business.
Senator J J Barry announces he has taken over the Fruit Confectionery and Green Grocery business once run by the Misses Simon on Grant Street. He pledges strict attention to business and understanding patrons needs to secure fair patronage, offering afternoon tea hot pies and a motto focused on cleanliness civility and attention.
The Gippsland Northern Co operative, with headquarters at 494 Flinders Lane Melbourne, reports nominal capital of £250000 subscribed £57015 paid up £49106. Owing to strong support across the state the commission on fat stock sales at Newmarket is reduced to 24 percent for shareholders.
The storekeepers and traders of Bacchus Marsh announce closing for lunch daily from 12:90 to 1:90 starting March 4 with named local partners. They will discontinue shoeing from March 1, 1918 and shift focus to repairing machinery coachbuilding and painting, citing 20 years of public support.
D Hogan Blacksmith Bacchus Marsh Street is listed. J J Barry junior thanks residents and surrounding districts for past patronage and states his bottle and hare buying business will continue under Mrs Barry. Ladies white work and household needlework offered at Mrs Taylor's Sydenhurst Palmer Bacchus.
Company reports total revenue of £1 054 096 with £56 098 in bonuses and £9 716 in dividends. All classes of farm produce sold on consignment. Monthly sales at Bacchus Marsh on the first Thursday. Ballan sale on the second Thursday. Local agent A W Flack Ballan.
H. R. McWilliam promotes the largest collection of landed properties in New South Wales including North Coast river flats and Riverina farms and stations. The notice urges prompt written inquiries for particulars and an illustrated booklet.
Pupil of Madame Melba resumes tuition in singing water production at Parish Hall Bacehus Marsh Tuesdays afternoons and evenings. Appointments by lottery. Also listing property for lease in Heitelburg with details via John Minna Matton and Robert Ennis. Notice of estate administration for Wichiard Burtpar fowl ends March 28 1918.
The Gould family thank friends for visits letters and kindness after a bereavement. They acknowledge Dr E Meena and Nurse Porter for care and attention. Maddingley Bacohos Marsh.
Soldiers and invited guests gather for a Monday evening welcome home event at the Mechanics Institute Bacchus Marsh. Recent returnees include Tastow Cowper Wand Gladman Moore Croton Ro O'Leary McGregor. A lecture on cooperation by A W Wilson of Gippsland and Northern Co operative Selling Co is planned with lime light views. The Sixth Commonwealth War Loan invites public subscription with tax options. Horticultural Show prize lists available. four weeks remain.
A series of auctions and clearing sales are listed for Bacchus Marsh Balliang Ballan and Rockbank areas. Firms including Anderson Co, Gippsland Co operative, Fairbairn Co and J A Fairbairn advertise preparations, dates in late February and March, and items from stock to machinery with proceeds benefiting various estates and properties. Community notices include church services and harvest festival plans.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a gathering at Toba Mechanics hall on Ist Mareh with mentions of Melon ruil Tal part COATT Try and a cultural show on Wet 13th March. The text lists names, donations, and items such as socks and books, and references private social events and holiday plans with scattered names like Mr Gibney and Mrs Wynne.
Fragmentary notice promotes Chauberiant Colic and Diarthuen Remedy for acute attacks of lidiac and dysentery. Mentions W Grant Morin and A Comban & Co as sellers with scattered location hints and price references.
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