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Newspaper
Charlottetown Guardian
Location
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date
Jun 01, 1925
Page
1
Approximately two hundred people gathered in a YMCA gym for the final singsong of the winter services. Ladies Miss McDonald Miss Haist Miss Stultz and Miss MacKenzie performed sacred music with a violin solo by Miss MacKenzie. Rev W E Aiken gave a speech on Great men are not necessarily born geniuses and closed with prayer. Miss Lillian MacKenzie accompanied on violin.
General Pershing of the United States Command is mentioned as potentially acting as arbitrator in a Canadian Press report from Geneva dated May 29. The brief item notes his possible involvement without detailing the case or parties.
Yesterday morning at St James Church the Rev W Orr Mulligan preached the final sermon in a five part centennial series with the theme Our Province our City our Church and our Congregation Retrospect and prospect The evening was a fully choral program with many old psalms and paraphrases sung A list of solos and anthems accompanied by M rs Whear Miss Constange and Lt Col J P Meener followed the sermon
Two men were fined three hundred dollars and two hundred dollars or five months respectively for violating the Prohibition Law. Flour prices advanced forty cents per barrel by mills amid ongoing wheat market increases. Ottawa General Hospital class of 1925 nurses graduates include Miss Latta Collins of Vernon River who won the Nurses Kit and several gold medals. Funeral arrangements for an as yet unspecified deceased are announced with services today at My.G. D. Wright's Parlors. Conference changes list Rev. C Graham and others reassigned to several coastal and inland locations with guests at Sackville.
May 31 in Parliament Arthur Meighen challenged Northumberland and New Brunswick public works spending claiming pledges from the election campaign were being redeemed. He noted a total $228,300 for public works in the province with $78,500 earmarked for Northumberland and a further $45,000 available to allocate. Local visitors and residents mentioned include Dr A J Coursier Tignish and Mrs W C Knight among others in the city for a few days.
Deaths list includes Mary B Wentzell age 61 at her brother’s home in Kensington with six brothers mourning. Furward Mooney aged about 70 dies at Watervale after a short illness with mass for his soul. Catherine MacSween 77 dies in Boston, funeral from Brookfield Church. Rev Wm Bryenton dies in Oil City in his 73rd year after fifty years in ministry. remembered as a wonderful preacher.
In New York on his 102nd birthday Sigmund Dringer finally wore a full dress suit, fulfilling a lifelong longing. He spent over a century living a simple life and finally achieved a notable personal milestone.
May 31 Ottawa reports a tilt toward higher wholesale pricing with jobbing prices up in Toronto. Western Canada quotations remain largely unchanged with Winnipeg offers showing extras 30 percent firsts 29 percent seconds 25 percent f.o.b. freight about 2 percent. Toronto jobbing specials 87 extras 35 firsts 33 seconds 29. Montreal jobbing extras 34 to 85 firsts 32 seconds 28. Western markets unchanged.
Quotations supplied by Johnston and Ward show New York Air Brake Co 79 percent American Can Co 25 percent Bell Telephone 138 percent Spanish River Preferred 123 percent Steel Company of Canada 86 percent Abitibi 74 Shawinigan 147 Laurentide Pulp 80 Canadian Steamship 11 percent Canadian Steamship Ptd 45 Dominion Bridge 91 percent Montreal Power 187 percent Winnipeg Electric 45 percent National Breweries 654 Consolidated Smelters 83 Bank Commerce Bank Montreal Wheat May 184 percent July 1 Oct 150 percent N Y Exchange closed.
The conference heard calls to carry temperance vows to the polls and elect prohibition pledges. Dr. J. W. Graham outlined church educational institutions valued at nearly six million with over 5,800 students, while sessions covered union talks, mission work, and home versus foreign missions, tracing Canadian Methodism from 1824 to the present.
The annual gathering of the Congregational Union of Canada on June 8 9 covers merger plans with Methodist and Presbyterian bodies. The June 10 General Council includes 150 Methodists 150 Presbyterians 40 Congregationalists and 10 council reps from Western Canada. Leaders Dr Chown Dr Pidgeon and Dr Gunn will preside as a new church forms, with executive head to be appointed and vast business on missions education publications and church coordination ahead. The piece highlights Missionary needs across Canada and recalls early Methodist expansion.
Premier Charlies A. Dunning of Saskatchewan announced a general election date for the province set on June 2. The statement confirms plans for a provincial vote with June timing and official scheduling.
Mike McTigue forfeits the light heavyweight title to Berlenbach in a boxing match ending with Berlenbach seizing the crown. The bout concluded with a 114 to 6 count noted in the record.
The Anchors meet the Eastern Stars in a tight City League baseball game at Victoria Park at 6 o clock. Anchors pitcher McFarlane and catcher McDonald aim to extend a winning streak, while Stars batteries McQuaid and Doherty push for another upset with Lynds and Phil McQuald delivering power at the plate.
A garbled market note from Murray Harbor references oats potatoes pork and butter, noting per bushel pricing and sums for Summerside produce. The fragment suggests a trading snapshot of commodities including oats and potatoes with unidentified figures.
Polo enthusiasts of Natal loan the Prince of Wales four polo ponies to take to Westminster across the border in the Orange Free State where the Prince will captain the local team against Maseru. The Prince receives a gilded ivory casket from the district's Indians, a Delhi-made piece from a visit in India.
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