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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 26, 1925
Page
12
The Trundle Hotel has been renovated and refurnished throughout making it one of the most complete and comfortable hotels in the West. Accommodation is now unexcelled with attention given to visitors and residents. Commercial and public dining rooms offer an excellent table with beers wines spirits and liquors true to label.
BIRD & OLLIVER Frank Bird and Harry Olliver advertise a long list of properties across districts with sale particulars. They offer Fat Stock trucking and district representation for Atlac Assurance Co. Ltd Sydney, plus cash wheat buying at Yarrabandai and nearby sidings. Telegrams to Bird-Oliver. Office phone 34, private 27.
A. B. Mills advertises North British Fire Insurance Company services while T. Robinson and Sons Machinery Gray Motors and Hart Purro Tractors are listed among prominent local firms.
I can meet all your needs at prices suited to the times paying no large rents or clerks I offer cheaper options than bigger stores I am an agent for Sunnishing Machinery Farmers and Grassers Co op Trucks ordered for Flemington
Condobolin records 260 points of rain for the week with parts of the district receiving up to 4 inches. Residents move stock to higher ground as Lachlan River heads flood. Mrs. Pitts and her two children return from Mittagong and Sydney after five weeks away. Updates on local health, accidents, births, and community events fill the day, including a birthday celebration for Master Bob Oppy and a large M U I O F social in Royal Hall disrupted by rain. A mild influenza outbreak affects many residents and a death is noted for Mr J Smith following prior surgery.
Steady soaking rains began Thursday night and lasted through Sunday with 619 points recorded. All watercourses and low-lying lands flooded while wheat crops suffered no damage and may benefit. Postponements followed heavy rain including the Bogan Gate Trotting Club meeting, hospital ball, Po and A. Society gathering, and football fixtures to later dates. Jockey Club officers were elected and the annual show set with a healthy balance of £100.
Rain began Thursday night and continued Sunday with 016 points recorded, signaling a possible record winter for graze. River rising rapidly causes anxiety for landholders moving stock to higher ground. Delays in sowing crops and road work by shire men due to wet conditions.
Fortnight rates for Elmo Maternity Hospital Wombat Street Forbes show private ward at £2/2, outdoor attendance £4/4, waiting fee £7/6 per week, laundry 10 shillings, with a general admission note dated Bixton. Matron Stokes A.T.N.A. manages the ward.
A man over 70 and long resident of Cargelligo and Condobolin dies peacefully after being a mail driver. He leaves a wife and grown children, with daughters residing in Condobolin. Sympathy extended to relatives in their bereavement. Mrs A Apple dies at local district hospital after long illness. a widow who had lived in Condobolin for years.
Rain brings 236 points registered at the post office since Thursday 19th. crops looking well and a good year predicted. Stock market slow though Morrow's sale yielded strong prices for sheep, cattle, horses. paddies and cows fetch up to £9 15s and draughts up to £24. Railway improvements anticipated. last Saturday show meeting postponed due to rain, rescheduled for July 4 with a full committee. Local postmaster wins a draught tournament against Terry and Tom McCawley. Quandialla-Himbi football protest dispute noted. A Kitehben ten planned for Mr. and Mrs. Geo. McCabe on 26th. sympathy extended for Mr. Chas. Keir’s family burial in Cirenfell. travel notes on Mr. and Mrs. Richard Penfold’s trip to Cootamundra.
Rain soaked Grenfell from Thursday night to Sunday night with 447 points at the post office. The club’s four stakes drew entries. Maiden Poppy Stakes won by T J Bergin’s I Love Me from Burrow, Maiden Stake won by Koorawatha’s Me W Bourne’s Blackit, Class Stakes to W E Filby’s My Business over Frailty, Open Stakes to L Baldock’s Playwell beating Grenfell’s Handsome Kitty. Club profit reached £122 6 3, bowling results noted, and deaths in the town reported alongside charity fund drives and upcoming show week events.
Reports describe unseasonable rain from Thursday night through Sunday, flooding rivers and creeks including the Lachlan. Farmers and stockowners move stock to higher ground as the flood intensifies, with locals noting this pattern echoes past years while conditions vary by flood.
Weather disrupts scheduled tennis events as the Laneyriv Cup match set for this Saturday is abandoned. A challenge arrives from Monwonga Tennis Club for a July 4 bout. Friends plan a social for Miss Gertie Brown on Friday, July 2, with her July wedding anticipated.
Paling’s authorised piano and organ tuner and seller advertises services at Grinsled's Newsagency Forbes. Contact Grenfell 136 by phone for repairs and sales.
Madam J D Casey the famous orange healer opens consultations at the Vandenberg Hotel Building. Hours are from noon to 1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm on Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays.
Engineer O'Sullivan of late R Hornsby and Sons Sydney advertises expertise in steam oil gas and suction gas engines pumping plant installations and general machinery repairs addressed by letters to Box 62 P O Forbar and telephone 30.
T W WATSON is a licensed surveyor valuator based in Forbes offering crown land tenure guidance land surveys mining engineering and real property act licensing services. He lists probate and finance valuations and invites contact at 243 Harold Street Forbes.
Stock and general agency listing for Quarniall a with top prices on wheat purchases for Louis Dreyfus Co. Liberal cash advances on stored wheat. Agencies include International Harvester, Booth British Insurance, Aaltle Separators, Berger’s Paints, Shirley’s Manures and Gray Motor Cars. Stock and property lists available on application.
Under Charlton and Sutton proprietorship Quandialla Stores thank patrons for past support and announce fresh stock of ladies and gents winter clothing hosiery boots and shoes plus large groceries and hardware on hand. Tell us what you want and we will get it. Slogan better costs less. Local agents listed include International Harvester Co Harmonic Piano Player Co London Assurance Co Berger's Paints. Photo Quandialla 16.
Jack Poulos offers confectionery cigars and smokers requisites plus a wide range of small goods meals and stationery in a clean orderly shop. Medlyn Bros advertise as auctioneers and general agents with trucking and wheat buying and machinery, inviting applications for stock lists and noting duplicate phonographs.
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