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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 15, 1932
Page
3
A collage of captions and quotes on daily life and humor. The exchanges range from family chatter to street scene banter, with lines about marriage culture, work, shopping, and social observations. The piece reads as a mosaic of witticisms and puzzled exchanges.
Amateur gardeners will attend a Gladstone event set for Tuesday October 11 with sections for pot plants foliage plants fruit and vegetables cookery dairy produce paintings and more. Organizers H B McLachlan and Rev H Alvey to draft a prize list. committee welcomed new members including H G McLachlan J Stafford 8 A Keen J Stewart J Maddigan and B P Pritchard. Plants encouraged to benefit from recent rains.
The Gladstone Bridge Club held its annual meeting at Memorial Hatch in April selecting President Mr Hull Secretary Mr Mellen and committee members Messrs Lea Masters Kearney Thomson J Bohlmann Botting. Four teams will compete in a six match progressive bridge season beginning May with teams choosing partners and captains. The winning team earns points from highest tables and aggregate balances. Mr C A Coe and Miss M Winkler won the latest Tuesday night progressive event.
About 100 ladies attended the Gladstone Agricultural Bureau gathering in Memorial Hall on April 8. Belalie Women's Branch was entertained with performances by Mrs. Spotswood, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Brooks, and Mrs. Pritchard. Demonstrations on reuse of old stockings drew praise, a crafts display by Mrs. Orchard inspired comments, and tea was served before Auld Lang Syne closed the afternoon under Mrs. J. P. Martin at the piano.
A list highlights students by grade levels from I to VII, noting spelling mental arithmetic and honor rolls. Names include Jeanne Bay ly Stewart Battrall and many others across Grades I to VII with mentions of Penny Bank and attendance.
Report of a large mushroom discovered by Roy Jones in Memorial Park Jamestown. It measured about 12 inches around with two smaller mushrooms, 2 and 1 inches across, growing from its top. Local experts say they have not seen a specimen like this before.
Port Adelaide notes list races and entrants for Saturday trials including Argosy Lad Prince Whittier Trenalius in Trial Stakes. Also hardles Lord Hatan Happy Days Kellidie with Wilgena two year olds Eastern Star Black Wheat Lucracausa and more. Ransom's Gate and Campbell Stakes noted along with Amato Belle of Richmond.
District Council of Belalie meets to review drainage and road conditions. Key issues include a steep drain near Stratford’s railway reservoir, a broken tractor, costly repairs estimated at £100, washed and silted roads from Bray’s crossing to Bailey’s corner and Yareowie road, and proposed drains to divert floodwaters. Decisions on fines, relief work, and contracts for road re-sheeting and tree works are discussed.
The Bulletin argues for farmer cooperation beyond tariff anomalies. It urges reducing government costs, expanding secondary industries, and improving factory work and methods. It notes wage and price levels justify support for Australian wheat producers and calls for balanced assistance across primary and secondary sectors.
In Crystal Brook a meeting decided to reform the football club led by Patron Hon A Catt and President Dr P F W Monsell with D Wilson captain and D G Forgan as secretary. Distances 200 and 500 yards in Boo goolie Trophy tent competition produced scores from Lance Cpl Edtaunis 86 to Pt W Hewett 65 and others.
An 1882 cricket and football age summary describes Easter Monday competitions at Gladstone Vy Callowie with cup holders J. L. Dixon and detailed scores. It notes Good Friday cricket between Port Piter and Georgetown, and a two innings match Jamesown versus Georgetown on Easter Monday with lineups and tallies.
A sluggish liver poisons the blood and disturbs the whole system. Symptoms include jaundiced hue, loss of appetite, dry cough, fever chill, indigestion, flatulence, coated tongue, headaches, sleep loss, mood lows, weakness and dizziness. Bowel constipations shift to diarrhea, kidneys dull, back pains, and liver spots on the skin. Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills are promoted as a remedy to restore liver function and cleanse the system.
The death of Carl Frederick Haetsler at Ru Ru Hospital North Adelaide followed six weeks of illness. Born in 1862 at Gumeracha he helped pioneer land at Caltowie North before farming near Caltowie Jamestown and Prospect. He retired to Jamestown in 1922 then moved to Prospect in 1927 and was a respected Belalie Agricultural Society member and gardener. His brother J. W. Haeusler of Jamestown survives.
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