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Newspaper
Talbot Leader
Location
Talbot, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 03, 1917
Page
2
George Gorkle dies at Mount Gambier Hospital aged 38 after illness. Beloved husband of Tesbol Frances and father of Hostherbe Dingwall and Camille. The second notice records the death of George Dingwall Gorrie aged 58, son of Mrs and the late George Gorrie.
The Talbot leader notes a donation promised to the ladies fair committee after Mr Anstey spoke at the A N A Hall. Amberet District Hospital board meets to consider painting tenders. Talbot Charity Carnival committee to meet at 8 pm. Auction sale by A D Douglas next Wednesday at 2 pm for the late Hatish M Davis estate. Local Land Board sits Tuesday at 10 am. Mrs Senger, widow of the late L Senger, dies in Melbourne leaving a grown family. Mrs F Schula remains the only family member in the district.
Mr George Gorrie of M’Callum’s Creek died at Mount Gambier Hospital after a short illness and was buried at Anghérst Cemetery. Services were led by Rev J T Anders. mourners include a widow, son and two daughters. Also reported are school and licensing notices, a Talbot charity concert, a Melbourne court verdict, and Grampians election results with Jowett defeating Sulman by a wide margin.
Monday nomination day approaches for state elections with Labor candidate T M Jude set to speak at Maryborough and other meetings planned in Amherst and Talbot. He calls for decentralisation, budget reform, repatriation action, tax changes, and a stronger economy to avert bankruptcy while urging voters to study his platform and recall if not true to promises.
J A Dix of Loadersville WA suffered thirty years of burning itching and oozing eczema. After failed treatments in Adelaide Broken Hill and Victoria a friend gifted Zam-Buk which relieved the sores stopped the itching and inflammation and left the skin clean and healthy with no return. Zam-Buk comes in 6d or 1s 6d pots.
The weekly roll of wounded soldiers includes Private Younger, son of Mrs Fisken of Talbot. This is his second time wounded during the same engagement, noted as severe.
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