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Newspaper
Bacchus Marsh Express
Location
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
2
Melton selling and insurance Co of Melbourne lists livestock items for sale at the Municipal Yards. The catalog includes cows, springing cows, store cows, springing heifers, Hereford yearlings, steers, paddies, comebacks, Merino ewes, wethers, and lambs with ages and notes. Sale date noted as Thursday July 26 at Siam.
Nominal capital 250000, subscribed 57015, paid up 49106. Commission on fat stock sales reduced to 24 percent. Turnover 1054026, bonuses 56998, dividends 9716. Monthly sale at Bacchus Marsh first Thursday. sale at Ballan second last Thursday. Representative J M Fagan. local agent A W Flack Ballarat.
Leigh Harris has restarted business in Bacchus Marsh with all work and materials guaranteed. Only English varnish used. Orders left with Chas Edwards will receive attention. Inspection of work invited.
An Australian business promotes White Seaf Linseed Oil and Varnish as the best in the world. It invites customers to send their Buggles and Jinkers for prompt and thorough work by Australians.
The note lists locations where information can be consulted including A B O Tea Rooms Egan s Corner and BACCHUS, indicating a public or informational context without further details.
At the Corporation Base Yards Bacchus Marsh La Fairbairn and Co Melbourne and Barchos Marah have received instructions from the Mortgagee to Bell by Public Auction at 12 o clock. The property Lot 17 Plan S427 Crown Allotments 36 37 48 39 62 63 part of 40 61 Section Parish Parwan Mooradora nook County Grant described in Title Vol 912 Folio Tree two miles from Parwan Station 28 miles by road from Melbourne subdivided into eight paddocks homestead with 12 rooms out holdings including wool shed yards dip barns and sheds land suited for cultivation and lamb production with water tanks bore and soil details. Viewing by arrangement with agents. Deposit terms 20 percent 1 pound 50 percent 7 years 1 percent interest. Solicitors Blake and Riggall Melbourne.
Monday July 22 Bacchus Marsh Market listing McPhail Anderson Co will eat at 1 o'clock. Cattle include 10 springing Shorthorn heifers near calving 12 springers 6 fat bullocks 1 Shorthorn bull 2 Mrs Sheep 1 Fat wethers Pigs and Sundries. Form Dmysod Frame on account of Mrs 8 V Crowe. For removal 4 roomed WB House with detached kitchen all lined and coiled in good order. On account Ivy Lodge of Frea Gardeners 7 Seaia suitable for hall. Peter Heagney District Rewent alive Main Street.
Land to let in Connollys Paddock Stamford Hill Bacchus Marsh comprising 11 acres. Tenders due to L A Fairbairn & Co Bacchus Marsh before Thursday in July 1908 for a three square lease. Immediate possession available.
The Bacchus Marsh Agricultural and Pastoral Society announces its annual general meeting at the Mechanics' Institute on Thursday July 25 at 2 pm. Agenda includes receipt of reports and balance sheet election of 25 committee members and handling general business. Secretary C F Hegarty notes five committee vacancies and immediate post meeting session.
Auction at Commercial Yards offers 150 cattle and sheep including fat store cattle dairy cattle merino ewes and wethers plus colts horses pigs and sundries. Also eggs and poultry from Rhode Island Reds Black Orpingtons Leghorns and Leghorn crosses. H. W. Charlton and W. Cameron advertise poultry and farm stock for sale at Dalby Bacchus Marsh Rosebank Kelvin Grove Melton South.
Kelvin Grove Private Hospital is now open to receive patients with maternity cases taken. Dr in attendance when required. Matron H Campbell leads at Millbank Street Bacchus Marsh with Nurse Jenkins. Private hospital available for patients or ladies attended in their homes.
MEN, HORSES and DRAYS Wanted Immediately. The Shire Council requires laborers to work at the Stone Crusher and drivers, horses and drays to cart metal. Wages: laborers nine per day and driver horse and dray eleven per day. Apply at once to the Foreman or the Shire Engineer Le Cocq Shire Secretary.
Bacchus Marsh Shire invites tenders for supplying blue stone spalls and ironstone spalls on Ballarat Road in Peathond Hills Riding and Pentland Hills Riding. Tenders addressed to the Shire President due by 29 July 1918. Specifications available at Shire Hall. deposits as specified. Lowest tender not guaranteed acceptance.
The Bacchus Marsh Horticultural Society announces its annual meeting on Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Mechanics Institute with election of officers and reports. The Farmers' Union holds its annual meeting this Saturday July 20 at 4:30 p.m. in Mechanics Hall Melton for officers and general business. Australian Comforts Fund hosts a monster poster and plain ball Friday July 26 at 8 p.m. in Merchants Hall with ticket prices and refreshments.
A charity event at Melton Mechanics Institute Melton South features a concert at 7 30 pm and a dance at 9 pm on Saturday August 3 1918. Proceeds aid Mrs. MacDonald promoter E Macdonald.
Rowsley Red Cross Society hosts a social evening at Rowsley Hall on Wednesday July 24 in aid of the French Red Cross appeal. Dance to follow with silver coin admission for ladies and gentlemen, refreshments provided. Also a dance at Mr Holloway's barn Coimadai on the same date to raise funds with geats for ladies and a moonlight event. Moonlight. Moonlight
Notices announce sealed tenders to be received by 6 pm July 28 1918 for multiple contracts in Werribee including park footbridge and road works with deposits required. Additional tenders due July 26 1918 for other works in Melton with 5 percent deposit. An open court will revise voters lists in Melton July 26 1918.
The Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour committee calls for volunteers to dig 170 hoke and plant trees in the avenue on Saturday August 3 starting at 10 am. Lunch will be provided for workers, with ladies invited to assist and bring names for those willing to help. Carpenters may offer to make tree guards and should contact Mr A F Conners or Mr HM Hodgson by Saturday.
Names of soldiers and relatives from the Shire of Baceli Marsh invited to send details for memorial plates. Various local classified items include for sale motor cycle, second hand junker, silver egg setting, poison laid, lost cattle and jewelry, found muff, a missing gold brooch, and employment wanted for an engine oiler and laborers at Austral Grain & Ambler Co Parwan.
The Nerowie homestead at Parwan about sx miles southeast of Bacchus Marsh will be offered at public auction by Mears L A Fairbairn & Co at Bacchus Marsh market on Thursday August 8. The 2502 acre property, with about 1500 acres cultivable, carries good red loam soil and has yielded strong returns. Special stock sales nearby and various shire notices follow, including wage rates and tender calls, with local church and society events listed.
Bronchity is a common ailment among ehikirem with any exposure causing trouble. W Grant Morton and others from Bacchus Marsh, A Comben, C Werribee, J G Orgill and Melton report quick relief from wheezing with Champian’s Cough Beetle at Boytures night.
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