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Newspaper
Forbes Advocate
Location
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 30, 1925
Page
4
Various notices wrap a mix of lost items customs including a cream shawl near Forbes Parkes line with a reward for finder of camera and jewellery. Also listed are a bay mare near Daroobalgie, harnesses for sale, farming implements, an aged chestnut mare, a list of advertisements for farm labor and a memorial notice for Mrs Una Besgrove.
Hon E H Farrar MLC will address Forbes electors next Monday night. Melbourne Cup Day looms with a big Orange horse sale by McNeilly Crampton and Martin Ltd. License granted to Henry Loxley for post office savings, easing local needs near Fitzgerald’s Bridge and the cricket ground.
Community notices report a Forbes Coursing Club committee gathering at the Metropolitan Hotel Monday at 8 p.m. Also covered are local news delays from Trundle Goolagong and Wamboyne, dog registrations, school fundraising, a political speech, church services, film at Strand, a police court matter, Country Week selectors, local shop praise, and Studebaker and Chevrolet car notes.
On a Tuesday morning a racing car kicked up dust en route to Forbes. A doctor’s car met it and the doctor swapped to the faster vehicle. They returned to Warroo Station where an aged worker allegedly took trychnine. The man was rushed to Forbes for a stomach pump and medical care. police investigated an hour later.
Mr and Mrs J J Flannery and daughter attend Melbourne Cup events. Hospital matron Stirling resigns and holidays with relatives. Jimmy Burke returns from Murrurundie and heads home. James Stanley Russell, 14, dies under anaesthetic in Newcastle. George Gorman returns with wife. visiting daughter. Constables Chisolm and Veney back from Sydney. they visited Randwick events. Ball at Forbes Jockey Club mourns Mr Lozell. condolences to widow and mother. Rev Cruikshank resumes duties. parish work by Rev Benjamin. Wedding of Hirio Amelia Clarke and Henry Newman Crowe. Forbes to be home. Bishop Barry visits Goolagong. banquet held with Dr Haydon. both bishops attend Forbes events.
A fragmented note describes a victim located in a hotel while attempting to drink beer. The text mentions police involvement and the person returning to a bed and losing effects of substances, with references to a memorial tablet post and a vague event sequence.
Mrs Athol Gaggin and Mr Clarra Greentree travel to Sydney for Country Week matches representing the Far Western District. Annie Marguerita Hutchinson becomes engaged to Henry Allard Bank of Australasia Dubbo. District Court Judge Larry Armstrong quietly marries Jessie Ogilvie at St Marks Darling Point. Judge Armstrong remains a prominent figure on the Western Circuit. Mrs Ralph Weaver arrives in Forbes for a brief holiday with E H B Weaver of Forbes.
A wedding was held last Tuesday evening at the residence of Dr and Mrs H Busby for Enid Isobel Busby daughter of the hosts and Cecil Reymond second son of Mr and Mrs E H B Weaver Forbes. Rev Father Gexton of Forbes officiated. The bride wore ivory satin romaine with a lented veil and orange blossom chaplet. Bridesmaids Betty Busby and Florence Weaver wore Mary blue georgette gowns. Best man J G Peyton and groomsman David Souter, both of Forbes. A reception followed at the Masonic Hall with lavish decorations and a display of wedding presents. Supper and dancing to Hurrells orchestra concluded the evening and the couple departed for their honeymoon. over two hundred guests attended including the Weaver and Reymond families and Forbes residents.
Orange Stock Market McNeilly Crampton and Martin Ltd record about 1000 cattle penned half good quality rest stores market opened lower but firmed as sales progressed closing strong on last week’s best rates Best bullocks to £14 6s steers 21s 2d per cwt helfers 20 0 7 cows 21 1 0 vealers 9 16 0 Best beef 37 6 per cwt heavy weight beef 35 0 cows best 23 0 0 About 2800 sheep penned values partly noted.
Sydney reports a looming wool shortage as drought drains trucks from the market. 9304 bales sold at peak prices with greasy merino reaching 204d while competition remains strong. In Adelaide waterside workers begin loading British vessels, hinting at a broader labor disruption. A 44 hour bill advances in the Legislative Council amid rail union seniority issues. A fatal car crash at Lapstone Hill kills three and injures a fourth.
Captain Roberta of New Zealand conducts successful tests of a non interferable wireless apparatus. The Air Ministry expresses strong approval of the progress and the potential for improved radio communication.
Enemies of Women screens Friday with Lionel Barrymore Alma Fubens Buster Collier Gareth Hughes and stars. Also Jack Dempsey in The Health Farm Wallop and Buddy Messenger in His First Degree. Saturday Meighan in Coming Thru Hoxie in The Sign of the Cactus with Jack Hoxie. Monday Strathmore and The Talker plus Van Bibber as Amateur Detective. Australian Bushwhackers and The Mad Dancer shown midweek. Wool prices for wethers shorn ewes hoggets listed.
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