Church Services and Death Notices from Cobram Area
Sunday January 1 1950 listings include Rev J B Longthorn and Rev G Dipose with services at Koonoomoo Katamatite Cobram and surrounding towns plus Christmas and Holy Communion observances. Obituary notes honor William Abel Garrod and sympathy extended to Mr and Mrs E J Sepelt & Sons Ltd in their bereavement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Dipose
J.B. Longthorn
United Christus Service
J. B. Longthorn
Cobram
J. Martindale
Cheerh of
England
Cobrin
St. Stephen
St. John
Holy Innocents
Cai
Vapant
Bvonsons
Southmerton
Aim
Holy Commuunion
R. H. Ford
Scots Church
Naring
Yarroweyah
R. A. Dunkiey
Mrs. B. Sepelt & Sons Ltd
E J
Christmas Customs And Time Through History
Luscious figs and dates with gold leaf were common Roman New Year gifts. England cherished cloves bedecked fruit as a New Year token. Japan marks January 1 as Birth Day, while Sweden notices the swallow signaling spring. Indians and Africans tie calendars to cuckoo sightings. Fortnights and lunar nights color time in many regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Sweden
Pennsylvania
South Africa
North Africa
India
Christmas Vacation Notes From Cobram Area
Personal and family items describe local residents and visitors spending Christmas holidays in Cobram. Mentioned are Mr and Mrs V W Jones at Wagua. Miss Mine Doyle and Hilda Sims at Gold Cross Shoes Cobram. Geoff Smith and head office reps attending luncheons and factory tours. Don Rembink and Miss Jean Rembink in Melbourne and Swat Hill. Mrs P Howell and Miss Moreen Howell in Cobram. Learmonth family welcoming a baby girl at Cobram Hospital. hospital patients including Miss Pyiueil, Miss Gregory, John Bassett Smith, and Mrs Cassidy. students Jib Cassidy and Margaret Cassidy celebrating exams and holidays with Cobram relatives. Bro Cuthbert visiting Katanga. Mrs Doherty at Cobram Hospital and Miss Eileen Doherty staying with T O’Reilly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. W. Jones
Wagua
Doyle
Hilda Sims
Gold Cross Shoes
Cobram
Geoff, Smith
Gold Cross
Collingwood
Wyeston
Don Rembink
Melbourne
Jean Rembiik
Swat Hill
P Rembink
P. Howell
Moreen Howell
Hawthorn
Learmonth
Katamatite
Ie Cobram Hospital
Pyiueil
Gregory
Cobram Hospital
John Bassett-Smit
Hospi
Cut Weis Ha
Jib Cassidy Hos
Margaret Cassidy
WE. Cassidy
Bro. Cuthbert
Marist Brothers' College
Broken Hill
Katanga
Mr. T. Shinnick
Doherty
Nathalia
Father Doherty
Eileen Doherty
T. O'Reilly
Bush Fire Siren to Be Installed At Katamatite
At the Katamatite Rural Fire Brigade annual meeting, officers were elected including president Dr. W. Mead captain C. Kilpour secretary L. Lukies and lieutenants W. Chessells K. Gillespie C. Hodge and W. Rourke area stewards C. Wood foreman J. Hargreaves apparatus officer. The group decided to install a siren at the post office to alert townspeople in evenings and to use a long continuous ring on a party line to warn members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katamatite Rural Fire Brigade
Dr. W. Mead
Mead
C. Kilpour
L. Lukies
W. Chessells
K. Gillespie
C. Hodge
W. .J. Rourke
C. Wood
J. Hargreaves
Shire Council approves miscellaneous financial payments
The Shire Council on Monday passed accounts for payment including Municipal £1785 17s CRB lectant £412 7s 10d sales yards £? EING 5d The bank of busi pal account 15/7 CRB Cobram fileyards debit £27381
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eof
Cobram
New Year's Day Sports At Tocumwal
The Tocumwal Brass Band is engaged for New Year’s Day events on December 31. Large entries for the Beer Barrel Derby have been received, the running track is watered and in excellent condition. Proceeds will clear debt on the new water system. public and seating bodies' cooperation is hoped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tocumwal
Melba Theatre Screens Daily Holiday Pictures Except Sundays
Movies will be shown every night during the holiday period at Mr. J G Scotts modernly appointed and air conditioned Melba Theatre with Sunday excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Scott
Melba
In The Wrong Place And Other Yuletide Snippets
A collection of light passages and short tales from a festive page, including a London Piccadilly shop window scene about long hair and intelligence, a humorous definition of gruesome, and a lion-tamer anecdote about power and gaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piccadilly
Knuts
First Of The Cocktails On Christmas Eve
A cavalry officer returns a famed fighting cock to a village inn after a squire promises his daughter to the man who retrieves it. The officer serves a mixed whisky vermouth bitters cocktail to toast her, and the term cocktail is said to have been christened then. The story traces the cocktail cult spreading worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Cocks
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Owiletam Powell Trene
Tnne
Riscal
Cary Gray
Captain Blood
Rathbone
Humphrey Bogart
E. L. Walker
Timber and Hardware
Punt Road
R. N. Dutneal
Bank Street
Tom Rete
Mear
Nevill
BSA
Todd & O'Brien
IAS
J. Stanyer
Barooga
District
Methodist
Pastor G. Dipose
Coby
I Koonoom
Memoriam
Garrow
William Abel Garrod
New Year's Day Sports Committee
Whamper of Commerce Wil
I New Lear
Ward
Fire Brigade
Tennis Club
Yuletide
Nelly Kelly
van Amburgh
Sten
Billy
Muriel
Crystal Cle
Ice Works
Shepparton
J. A. Millerick
T.B
Buzza
Bannon
Paperhanger
Warkill Street
Tuttle & Kitile
W. T. Tuttle
RAN Funeral
Numurkah and District
J. T. McFarlane
Cobramang
Mick Mead
Cashman & Wilson
Royal Victoria Hotel
Fordson
Lonergan Ford
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