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Newspaper
Melton Express
Location
Melton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 20, 1915
Page
2
Auction notice lists Macphail Bros and Co. selling fat and store cattle milkers and springers pigs sheep and sundries at Bacchus Marsh on Monday at 12 30 pm A Burbidge agent sets the sale time and items for the event.
Auctioneers L A Fairbairn & Co sell at Commercial Yards on shore 200 cattle 850 sheep 250 ewes 120 ewes 150+ yearling sheep 20 Border Leicester rams 8th and 6th to be sold. Also horses pigs sundries and a publican's booth. Tenders for grazing and property lets at Mt Wallace Loch Treig Little’s Eagle’s houses up to Nov 22. Inspector F and G. 25.10.15.
Exford Hall hosts a grand plain and fancy dress ball on New Year’s Eve 1915 to aid Red Cross funds with music and refreshments. Tenders for road works to Ballan Shire Hall due December 6, 1915, include spall supply contracts and grubbing work with a 5 percent deposit. lowest tender not guaranteed.
Local notice invites patients to consult at the A B C Tes Rooms Ryan s Corner Bacchus Marsh on Mon days Thursdays and Saturdays from 11 am to 4 pm Intending patients should leave notice at the rooms The advertisement promotes Chamberlain s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as a life saving stomach and bowel remedy sold by W Gram Morton Bacchus Marsh and A Comben Co Werribee
The Presbyterians of Bacchus Marsh celebrate a jubilee with Special Services on Sunday December led by Right Rev. W. D. Cooper MA BD, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. An invitation extols attendance at the memory event. A concert in aid of the fund is planned at the State School Hall on Wednesday November 24. Moonlight admission lists A B O'Hara as Hon. Sec.
All accounts owed to GEO, DICKIE & SONS after November 30th will be placed with their solicitors for legal proceedings to recover the amounts due.
Monarch motorcycle in good order priced at £10. Monarch motorcycle £235. Triumph motorcycle hardly used £45. Simon Bros Bacchus Marsh advertise. Also Binder Knives CanaVases and Butter Belts. Phenyle available in quantity. WANTED second hand grain and manure bags must be sound. Apply H M Hodgson Main St Bacchus Marsh. Alkemade Bros Coimadai lime works.
A public meeting under the Committee of Melton Mechanics Institute will be held Monday evening November 22 at 4 30 to arrange a farewell social for Mr and Mrs J D Mackenzie Jas H Cunningham Hon Sec Bacchus Marsh. Also notices of cattle impounding at Bacchus Marsh Shire Pound with details of brands and sale on December 14 1914 and local business notices including threshing machine sale and advertising by R Crook. House to let and expressions of sympathy from Thomas O Neill and family.
The Melton Express reports Wak Park, the late Jus. Mackintosh estate, 285 acres to be offered for sale today. Crops look good despite hot winds. Hay harvest rapid. binders busy. rainfall 17 points with dust storms. Local wool returns recorded at Esbury Glen Elgin and Ford. Dixon Bros enlarge their bulf mills, old buildings brick floored. Christ Church services listed. Melton Recreation Park committee to meet. water tank installed at luncheon booth. Roadworks progress toward Christmas. Mt Wallace leases sought.
General regret spread when Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mackenzie announced their departure after IL years of service. Constable Mackenzie was praised as an ideal officer and citizen. A farewell meeting is planned for Monday evening to honor the couple. Constable A. G. Steinfort, 19 years at Echuca, is reassigned to Melton station. Also notes on Melton Gun Club, treasury change, and upcoming local market and church notices.
Water Commission figures show full supply at 73 feet yielding 14 850 acre feet, present supply at 73 feet 3A10 acre feet, last weekly return at 35 feet 8 600 acre feet. Output 204 cubic feet per second.
Bacchus Marsh and Myrniong announce upcoming church auctions, Jubilee services, and special lectures. Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Salvation Army plan Sunday and weekday gatherings with sermons by Rev A McCallum and Mr Oswald Rippon’s company. A cake and jelly supper precedes the weekend program while a race-card petition is drafted by the Salvation Army.
Local notices announce a Wednesday concert at Coimadai with proceeds to the Red Cross, and Boxing Day sports at Maddingley Park to fund upkeep. Ballin Ballan Hort Society dates, entries close, and exhibits may be donated for Red Cross and wounded soldiers. Also weathered water supply talk and a Jubilee service at Myerong. A warning note reports two children falling ill after garden eating unripe fruit. one toddler died.
Bacchus Marah and District reports a monthly statement listing Dr. T. B. Ryan J.P. with a contribution of £1 and Mrs. D. Davison with 4 shillings for the Belgian Reef Fund.
Deep regret spread through Uhix district as Gunner Thomas Rawlinson, aged about 26, died of meningitis after joining the 4th Artillery Brigade for service overseas. He was the eldest son of Mr. Thomas Rawlinson of Columbas and had served in the Police Force before joining his unit. His body was taken to Bacchus Marsh for burial. Also, Miss Margaret Dickson of Goodman's Creek died at Melbourne Hospital after a long illness. Harvesting is underway with promising yields, and the Red Cross at Bacchus Marsh plans a major program. Cubs will depart Bacchus Marsh for Coimudai on Wednesday evening next.
The Essendon City Bliss Band with 28 performers will visit Dow and render a programme in Muddingley Park to aid the Red Cross. A collection will defray band expenses, with a post event tea for performers. A briefing meeting for arrangements is set for Wednesday 24th at 3 pm in the Shire hall.
Mr and Mrs D Davison of Hillside Rowsley thank the Bacchus Marah public for the medal awarded to their son Trooper Norman Davison who serves in the trenches They say he will be pleased by the recognition and the parents value the support for the boys in uniform
Royal Pictures presents Good programmes with a final hood given of tate at the Royal Pictures. The serial Troy o Hearty will conclude this evening.
An old advertisement extols Chamberlain's Tablets as a cure and preventive for biliousness caused by torpid liver and constipation. It promises to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels and prevent bilious attacks through a course of tablets. Endorsed by W. Ort Moon, Bao.
The Bacchus Marsh Bowling Club opened the season with the President Mr R H Dugdale leading in favorable conditions. Mrs Rose Dugdale and Mr J A Johns started play, a Harry Skurry tournament followed with veteran Me McGillivray among rivals, tea supplied, and plans announced to enlarge the green at Mechanics Institute to allow playing in both directions.
The new Bacchus Marsh Fire Brigade Station will be opened Saturday afternoon the 27th at ABH. Chief Officer Lieut.-Colonel T. Marshall will lay the foundation stone with ceremony. The public is invited to attend. On Tuesday evening the Brigade holds a complimentary social in the new building for the ladies stall holders and assistants at the Fair held last year to raise funds.
A local call to battle flies as a housewife-invented trap gains attention. The simple device uses a cheese hoop with sugar syrup inside, covered by fine screen, and a cloth table setup to lure and drown insects. Instructions describe constructing the trap and disposing of trapped flies in water.
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