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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 31, 1921
Page
2
Job ad seeking a competent maid and general help including laundry with good wages. Apply Mes Broadbent Forbes. Also offering a quiet pony sulky and harness, in good condition, and a double bed with sideboard. Owner leaving district must sell. TEACHER Wowingragong.
A note from T. I. Pollock expresses sincere thanks to Dr Tohery and Nurse Stokes for skilled care of his late wife, and gratitude to friends for floral tributes, messages, and expressions of sympathy during bereavement.
The notice lists various drawing outcomes and ranks including first 1413 second 10 and fourth honors. It mentions T. E. Drane of Templar Street and West Rankin Street with references to honors and other coded scores.
The Catholic Church building fund hosts an actual plain and funny dress ball at the town hall Porches on Tuesday night June 14. The juvenile ball follows the next evening with similar festivities and plans.
Potts Point and Belgrove contested a tennis match at Potts Point on Sunday. Desgrove's team secured a victory. Officials plan to publish the stores if available.
Mr Cribb announces a clearance sale of ladies wear at the Vandenberg Hotel with a remaining stock of about 40 blowses priced at 39/6. The sale includes jumpsuits frocks and other lines, beginning Wednesday and lasting all day.
Yesterday morning Forbes recorded 12 points of rain by nine o clock. By this morning another 15 points were registered. Rain seems to have cleared for now but past week or two has been erratic making any forecast unsafe.
Robert William Beath's appeal against convictions at Nowra court was dismissed by Judge Bevan at Cowra Quarter Sessions. Beath faced three charges including insulting Constable Clifford, resisting arrest, and unlawfully assaulting the constable. appeal costs totalled £15.
The Forbes Town Band presented a pleasant Sunday recital at the town hall with Vocal Itema by Miss Ruth Bray and Messrs Geo Morrow and Allan Field. A collection of £1 16s was taken, and the series is praised for brightening quiet evenings.
Townind district residents advised of a clearing sale to be held next Saturday at 2 p.m. at the yard beside Rogerson's stables Rankin Street. Mesure Edward Weaver & Coy acting for Mr Frank Rath sell farming plant machinery horses vehicles and other items moved from Gunning Park Forbes for buyers convenience.
At the Cowra Chamber of Commerce last meeting an informal talk covered a weekly Saturday half holiday. No action was taken, but members agreed it should be discussed at a general meeting. A member recalled Lismore storekeepers resisting a Saturday break years ago, then adopting it and later opposing voices mellowed.
A large Corpus Christi celebration at St Lawrence Church Forbes drew a big congregation. A rosary, sermon by Rev Father Fox, and Benediction followed a procession to the convent grounds and back to the church. The altar and grounds were ornate with seven arches making the ceremony imposing. The event honored Corpus Christi as instituted by Pope Urban.
W Sparkes of South Lend Forbes won the Thumb Up competition with a joke about a funeral in Glasgow. A stranger in a mourning carriage dodges family relations while admitting he has not been well and needs a carriage exercise to take it easy.
Empire Day was joyfully observed at North Porthea public school on Tuesday. The event opened with a Union Jack ceremony at 10:20 a.m. and included songs, a patriotic address by Rev. Oliver on loyalty and flag traditions, a navy themed talk by Mr K J Marshall, and the singing of Australia and the National Anthem. Apples and buns were served. tree planting was postponed due to bad weather.
Promoted bill includes Trumpet Island as the Strand Theatre attraction for tomorrow plus Life's a Funny Proposition with William Desmond. Kate Howard presents Possum Paddock thursday, Captain Swift with Earl Williams, and Saturday's Paramount Royalty feature The Right to Love with Mae Murray and David Powell.
The report lists social events and changes from Forbes and surrounding towns. It notes Miss Eileen Byrnes joining the Sisters of Mercy at Bathurst next month, Gertrude Juncan winning a sewing prize in Sydney, and elections to the New South Wales Grazier Association. It covers council greetings, a funeral procession for Lachlan Tucker, staff transfers, and various weddings and community gatherings in Forbes, Parkes, and Bundaburra. It closes with Empire Day veterans dinner in Sydney attended by dignitaries.
The report notes strikes idling nine northern district mines and a Mount Kembla stoppage amid management miner disputes. It cites miners from Broken Hill pressed for minimum wage amid broader labor unrest across Victoria with many out of work and a Royal Commission on repatriation.
The ANZAC Art Union drawing at Strand Theatre awarded prizes to numerous locals. Winners include Dr. White for silver tea service, Miss Roth for silver cake basket, FL Strickland for tailored trousers, Al Marlin for mounted pipes, Miss Lane for silver jewel box, R Butler for three decker decanter, Miss Lena Peters for gentleman's hat, Mr Fatman for gentleman's boots, and Mrs O’Keefe for biscuit tin among others.
At Cowra sessions Geo Walker Simpson a Grenfell district grazier faced an alleged cruelty to a ram charge for tying wire around the animal. The magistrate ruled the practice obsolete and the jury found him not guilty after hearing evidence.
Sydney report on the first test at Nottingham where Australia won by 10 wickets and 18 runs in a closely fought game. Key England wickets fell to Gregory and MDonald before Holmes and Abbott steady Australia’s chase. The match featured notable performances by Gregory with multiple wickets and Australia’s bowling strengths throughout.
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