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Newspaper
Melton Express
Location
Melton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 20, 1915
Page
3
Percival Albert McFarlane and Grace Henderson Crisp wed at Bacchus Marsh Presbyterian Church. Ceremony featured floral bells, organist Miss Alice Stuart, and a reception in the hall with a long list of gifts to the couple and to families. Afterward the couple left by motor for Point Lonsdale amid warm well wishes.
The marriage of Mr. Alex Kerr second son of Mr and Mrs BR Kerr of Daisyhank Rowsley and Miss Florence Muriel Ross youngest daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Thomas Ross of Lubsck was celebrated in the Presbyterian Church Bacchus Marsh on Wednesday with Rev B Williams officiating. The bride wore creme cashmere le soie with veil and orange blossom and carried a shower bouquet. Bridesmaids Miss Ethel Kerr and Miss Nell Leitch wore white frocks with French sailor hats. The best man was Bert Kerr and groomsman Seel Ford. About 50 guests attended the reception at the Presbyterian Hall before the couple left for Horsham for their honeymoon.
The season pauses with no match today for St Patrick's events. Next Saturday March 27 is the last fixture, Trinity v Bacchus, Presbyterian on bye. A dramatic Bacchus Marsh Presbyterian clash decided the Premiership with Morris scoring 108, McLachlan claiming five wickets, Presbyterians winning by 15 runs in a rollercoaster finish.
On Saturday next the Bacchus Marsh Tennis Club will visit Balliang to play against the Balliang club. Balliang team includes Mosers, H. Gardiner, O. Burgess, Miss Edols and Miss Bird. The annual St Patrick's Day event follows.
Event notes detail open bicycle and foot races, pony and horse events, and dancing contests at the St Patrick's Sports gathering in Bacchus Marsh. Prizes range from 1s to £2 with entry fees, and a grand Irish concert closes the day. Proceeds aid St Bernard's School.
The article recounts Justice Dugro adjourning a widow Mrs Moriarity’s suit over her husband’s death, as attorney Thomas Nolan’s rogue wit swayed the courtroom. Nolan seeks a personal favor to have the judge inform the widow of the adjournment and his request is granted.
A Western settler recounts a cyclone that blew his house and livestock away while he and his wife survived. He describes a chaotic garden chase, the wife trapping him indoors, and the storm’s roar as it carried everything off. He credits his escape to luck and jokes about the old woman’s wrath and his narrow miss.
A determined man enters a barber shop and demands a cut with no speech. The stylist, claiming to be inexperienced, bellows miscommunications as he trims. The result leaves the customer with a rough, brushlike head, amid a language of misadventure and chaos.
Frederic Collier leads a Victoria concert at Patriotic Mechanics Hall Bacchus Marsh with Elsy Treweek Rosa Walton Oswald Rippon Weston Pett and Will Hughes in a varied program of operatic arias songs duets and humorous numbers presented as the best in the state and soliciting public patronage for the enterprise.
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