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Newspaper
Bacchus Marsh Express
Location
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 22, 1912
Page
3
Members of the Bacchus Marsh rifle club must finish musketry courses by month end. Targets available today. J J Barry’s trophy events begin Saturday with three 200 and 300 yard shoots, best two to count. Bacchus Marsh visited Myrniong for a match. Myrniong won by 12 points amid semi-dark conditions.
A Melton team with unregistered players beat Parwan 7g 1b to 1g 1b after a fired-up crowd watched the fires game at Parwan. An adjournment to the Mill followed with thanks offered to the Parwan ladies who provided refreshments. Across town, Toolern Vale Gun Club held a shooting event with eight prizes, led by J M Gregor and P Murnane, as 285 birds were shot and conditions stayed fine.
Last Saturday Mr. Chisholm broke his collar bones while drafting sheep and is recovering well. Crops are coming on with rain, and mornings are chilly. No moving ball has been called yet. Some building for removal may be looked out for.
The Beachus Marsh Society met in the Presbyterian church Tuesday evening with strong attendance. Mr T J Connor was deemed the most reliable Dickens Twain entertainer, presenting topics on superstition and related themes from witchcraft to Rockefeller amulets and a czar delaying a train. Miss Alice Grant Horder and Mr W Horder sang, with accompaniment by Miss Bimpwa.
From our own correspondent Archbishop Clarke will open the Church of England at Balliang on Wednesday July 3. A local football team forms this year with Jim Turnbull as secretary. The district prepares for an Arbor Day picnic in early July. Wooloomanata Estate for sale. Progress Association seeks Closer Settlement Board purchase to aid a proposed railway. Robertson MLA notes most of Wooloomanata aged, rest near sale.
We, C. H. Wall, Exford Vestryman, apologize for an incorrect statement in the Christ Church Melton Parish Supplement. The Exford Hall practice fee was 2/6 not 10/. Harvest Festival decorations charged 12/6, refunded 5/ after a vestry letter, making decorating 7/6. Dated Malton June 19, 1912.
The piece discusses grain supply during shortages, calls for wheat from various sources, and critiques railway governance in Australia. It analyzes influential figures like Fitzpatrick and Watt, debates Corio Quay and Geelong rail routes, and argues for responsible government. It links agricultural policy to broader political reform and future infrastructure routes.
The article recounts a moonlit garden tale where a girl tests her fiancé’s love by counting chrysanthemum petals. A miniature god warns that true love lasts as long as petals remain, guiding her to increase the petal count with a Persian carnation and a hairpin. The myth culminates with many petals signifying a lasting future.
A memorial inscription recalls Sprightly, a favorite horse who served twenty two years and died on January 29 1825. The verse laments labor and pain endured in life and promises the horse rest and enduring memory on the Mendip Hills.
A quirky collection of short, ironic tales satirizing critics, actors, and artists. Each vignette highlights vanity and pretension, from a silent fisherman to a self praising drama critic, a Shaw-like figure, a decently famed but unstable performer, a photo flubbed actress, and a triumphant limerick contestant.
A district church unveils a new organ. A gardener praises the instrument with simple, vivid remark. He notes a section where the organist plays with both hands and feet together, likening it to a steam roller rumbling down the street.
A traveler asks a stonebreaker where a road leads. The elder reply claims the road goes nowhere and is always there each morning. Later the traveler plans a prank by sending his groom to ask the stonebreaker if he wants a fool’s job, prompting a witty quip about keeping two.
A touring amateur photographer sees a light moment in a high Alpine ascent. Farmer Green jokes about taking his daughter, while Sal keeps the son. The party laughs at the vast scale of nature as a fat man laments his reflection and the mother retorts about the father’s looks.
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