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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 27, 1925
Page
10
The Trundle Hotel has been renovated and refurnished throughout making it one of the Wests most complete and comfortable hotels. It boasts updated accommodations, refined public rooms, excellent table service, and a full selection of beers wines spirits and all liquors true to label for visitors and residents.
EUGOWRA MOTOR GARAGE CLIFF NASH, Proprietor. Luxurious seven passenger touring car for hire. Petrol and all motor accessories stocked. Local agent for Buick cars. Repairs carried out and ample storage for cars. Phone 16 day or night.
A Saturday downpour of 61 points revives a dry district, while Bedgernbong races draw local horses and cricket wanes with no match against Moonbi. A kitchen tea honors Miss Sarah Constable with gifts presented by T McColm, Ted Smith speaking warmly as locals join in dancing and songs.
The notice lists agencies and firms including North Brid Fire Insurance Co. T Robinson and Sons Machinery Gray Motors and Hart Parr Tractors. Read as a fragmentary trade directory entry pointing to multiple business names and possible clients or correspondents in the period.
Bedgerabong reports a pleasant change as Saturday night rain cools the week, bringing warm coats Sunday. The fall promises more rain and may benefit spring. Local registration figures noted, and a thunderstorm forecast.
Rainy weekend brings a cool shift in weather with hints of winter. Constable George Swanson and family are visiting Cookaburragong, while Mrs. Anderson is recovering in Darlinghurst hospital from gastritis. Mrs. Dowling travels to Sydney for X rays and contracts typhoid but improves. Hadley begins a ten week holiday. McLean acts during absence. A baby girl is born to Mr and Mrs E Smith. Rumors say Mr Dodd may sell the Railway Hotel in Condobolin to move to Orange. Mr. Dick Coleman recovers from influenza. Gus Brown plans a Sydney holiday. Alfred Dansett jailed nine months for a loathsome offense after Crown appeal. Boxing contest teased as a highlight for Condobolin.
Changeable conditions mark Eugowra with wet then warm days and cool nights. A Friday race meeting drew strong nominations, despite a rain shower curtailing fields. Parkes Holiday cricketers lost to Eugowra 118 to 185, with Craig and Briscoe as principal scorers. Land boom follows several farm purchases by Tooheys, Woodgate, Townsend, and Sut ton. The Anglican church saw theft of clothes wine and glasses, later recovered. The Rifle Club Ball on June 17 promises a memorable evening with Owen’s syncopated six-piece orchestra.
Eugowra progresses with railway prospects and a strong farming district outlook. A twenty round boxing match features Harry Smith and Gibbarty Wait at Central Hall Saturday night. A wedding unites Tom Frater and Lottie Winters of Condobolin. Dorothy Munro dies at Glebe Point at 18 months. family mourns pneumonia death.
At Quandialla Hall on Wednesday the 18th, the Progress Association was re formed with officers elected: J. E. Gardner as President, W. T. Jones and Dr. J. Willington Tarleton as vice presidents, Dr. Tarleton as secretary, T. Hanstock as treasurer, and executives T. Myera and D. Terry. A sub committee for hall management was also named. Meetings are set for the third Wednesday each month at 7:30 pm. A farewell to A. E. Barnes was held as he leaves Quandialla for Cowra to join Thos. Roweton and Son. A waller cheque presentation honored his public service, with praise from local figures. The piece ends with less favorable cricket results against Caragabal, noting rain and innings details.
Wamboyne residents visited Forbes for the wedding of Ming Maggie Fowler and Mr W Fraser. Forbes is highlighted for its park flowers gardens and avenues. Archdeacon Neild christened three infant sons and Father Lynch is due to christen another, as the local population rapidly grows. At Manna Station Jackson Hope installed a modern wireless set and reports satisfaction with the device, signaling progress in the area.
Norman King, stock, station and general agent for Louis Dreyfus & Co, tops prices and liberal cash allowances on stored wheat. Agencies listed include International Harvester Co, South British Insurance Co Ltd, Baltic Separators, Berger's Points, Shirley's Manures and Gray Motor Cars. Stock and property listed on application.
Announcement that Frank Charlton and Robert Sutton of Eugowra have joined to run Charlton and Sutton in Quandialla. The firm will stock drapery boots groceries hardware tobacco and smokers requisites with cool drinks and fruit. They are agents for International Harvester Berger's Paints London Assurance Bourke's Patent Riddle and more. Phone 14.
The notice lists Jack Poulos as auctioneer and stock sales agent for IF and G Co with quintiulls and ber andebba, Mitchell Machinery and Citizens Life Assurance sub agents, Rugby Cars and Bonser Cool Bat with phone 6 Quandialla. In sports, a local cricket match against Caragubal ends with Milla retired, then our bowler takes four wickets Dwyer O’Hara Hubbard Lyons Hood and Troy contribute as the team earns praise for a strong cup defense.
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