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Newspaper
Numurkah Leader
Location
Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 23, 1922
Page
2
A collage of garbled notices and ads from a historic paper lists sewing machines repairs, wheat scrip buyers, fish supplies, drapery and retail goods, church events, dances, ploughs, tomato plants, and auction/tender notices. Names like Glenny’s, Coxon, Numurkah appear alongside events such as Presbyterian anniversaries, ball nights, and field equipment for sale.
REMNANTS have been all Mahinttl. OWA. A sale runs this week with reductions on blankets and fabrics. Heavy and medium weights priced to clear. Usual prices vs this week shown as 714 6/11 7/6 5/44 6/4. Sale emphasizes quality and no unsatisfactory goods stocked.
A fragmented listing promotes Dempsey Carpentier fight pictures and assorted entertainments. It notes dates in Nethalia Strathmerton and nearby towns, with novelty shows, a boys lesson, and Charlie Chaplin features along with scenery and gazettes.
The Namurkzih Hotel offers airy rooms and a well appointed dining area with a modernised liquid refreshment stock. Tender bids due August 24 for lease of Peter Station and grounds at Wanghau township with details at Numurkah Police Station and Works Inspector in Shepparton. G CLOWSEA, Secretary. Also a note on Well Sinker seeking work at Top Mill and Bottom of the Well.
The Numurkah district weekly visitation shows 27 points with patchy readings at Numurkah Woodhouse. Rev A F Falconer completed the essays review for Numurkah State School scholars. Honours list highlights Grace Hawker, Avis Hawker, Elsie Morris, Norma Watson and others across 2nd to 7th grades with multiple equal scores.
The Presbyterian Church at Yarroweyah hosted a gift sale organized by PWB members to raise funds for the Happie Mission work. Rev W Camp led the opening advertisement and outlined the church's Hore Mission branch activities.
The Back es Numurkah committee extends thanks for the grand success of a recent concert held Wednesday night. The entertainment exceeded expectations, proving Mururkah possesses high talent. Participants are asked to accept this as the committee’s appreciation. F G Sleep, chairman.
Mechanics' Institute Numurkah calls a special general meeting of subscribers for Wednesday night to consider a requisition to rent the hall for the Back to Numurkah movement on Saturday the 9th. A. Stringer, President.
Local listings announce Mechanics' Pictures presenting a program titled Phantom Melody by Munro Salisbury and The Lying Tamer in a Saturday night showcase at the News and Gazette venue.
A town entertainment planned by the “young buffers” aims to outshine previous female and older male acts as part of the Back to Numurkah movement. The concert, with the slogan Q.P.5 meaning Other Performances Surpassed, will be held Wednesday with rehearsals under way and tickets priced at 1/9. Also notices for optical visits by Mr P A Morris, a Dempstry-Carpentier fight screening unavailable due to hall, and a Ford car delivery report from Tarrants Motors Ply Ltd plus a mention of George Presthall’s tuition visit in Numurkab.
The amnivel Cefhalie hall hosted a Wednesday evening ball in the Public Hall on 14th inst. with about 120 couples. Music by Brewtyall on violin and Mrs Connaudhty on piano complemented a fine supper. Mr J Callaren directed dancing and earned praise for a well-run event noted as one of Strathmerton’s best balls.
A large farmers meeting in the local hall on Monday evening endorsed Geo Tackett for a seat on the heat board. The motion, moved by Jas McKenzie and F Cox, urged all branches of the Farmers' Association in Goulburn Valley to support the candidate. The Neen Agricultural Benefit executive also announced support for Tackett on the proposition of J S Christissen and W Hooner. Welcome rain last week totaled 26 points, lifting the monthly record to 454 points as crows look well.
The Federal Groffee Palace manager on Collins street Melbourne lists visitors including Mr F G and Miss Moss en route to Western Australia. In Nathalia a funeral was held for George Toombs of the 22nd Battalion, aged 40, twice gashed, with a shattered constitution. He died of hemorrhage of the bowels at Blake Street residence after hospital care. He left a wife and three children. Rev Morrison officiated. Also report that Mr Thos Collins of Vielima travelled to Melbourne for an operation in Ganfeld, following appendicitis surgery in Revpl.
Letters from former Numurkah residents reply to invitations, praising the old town and expressing readiness to attend the jubilee exhibition and parochial festival. Notables including M.L.A. Kilpatrick and MPs send greetings, recalling 1857 beginnings and 1885 to 1594 days.
Residents relay a lengthy note from the weekly committee meeting chaired by Mp F. Gr. Sleep. A special train from Melhoanone was proposed for Thursday September 4, with varied sizes of marquees and a hall booking issue on September 9. The Merchaniese committee faced opposition, but the meeting moved to secure a plan involving the Mechanics' President and subcommittees to organise a marquee and public event, including a forthcoming concert and preparations for a district celebration.
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