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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 20, 1930
Page
2
Memorial Hall hosts a smoke supper in the supper room on Saturday night June 28 with J Page serving as honorary secretary and organizer for the event featuring details in the notice.
Reverend A. H. Kenner leads at Georgetown with 11 a.m. Worship and 7 p.m. Gospel Service while Clover Hill hosts a 3 p.m. program.
June 20, 1920 issue highlights community notices and agricultural reports. Local advertisers, market prices, and society notes appear alongside farm economy updates and upcoming events.
Messrs Goldsbrough Mort and Co will hold their monthly Crystal Brook market on Wednesday offering 565 sheep 30 cattle pigs and sundries in a regional livestock sale with traders awaiting the auction.
Advertisement announces a Wednesday monster concert at Georgetown Institute to aid Clover Hill School funds followed by supper and dance. Gladstone Football Club appoints T G Moore acting president due to F E Delsar’s illness. A Lee and K Gale added to selection committee alongside M Read G Kearney and W C Cook.
The library announces 200 new books added, bringing stock to over 3,000 volumes. It provides 90 magazines monthly for readers, and a well supplied reading table with weekly papers and English periodicals. Bring a friend to see for yourself.
The Laura Milling Company at Gladstone advertises supplying any quantity of bran pollard flour self raising flour chaff baled hay lucerne hay green lucerne fowls feed lawn and long wood at lowest rates. Orders may be left at Mr Bert Wrosskope's Fruit Shop phone 138 Gladstone. Prompt service assured.
The Church of England lists Gladstone services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. with Rev. T Geddes White delivering an anthem. An invited Huddleston service is at 3 p.m. led by Rev. T Geddes White.
An advertisement notes that on Thursday June 26 Messrs. A. H. L. Goode & Co. will offer a five room stone house at Laura owned by Mr F L Bundey who is leaving the district. The sale includes all household furniture and effects with full particulars on handbills.
England defeated the visitors by 93 runs in the first Test, a match watched with keen interest by townspeople who waited for wireless scores, some up until four in the morning. The contest proved highly engaging and ended in an England victory.
The long drought stretches farmers and hopeful seeding efforts as rain remains scarce. Gladstone records show 206 points this year, far below the 265 points seen by the end of June in 1914. Cold snaps persist despite occasional promising forecasts, but rainfall has not materialized.
Social afternoon on the croquet lawn saw the President's trophy for the handicap tournament awarded to Mrs. W. Gray. Farewell events honored Mr. and Mrs. G. Bridgman as they move to Murray Bridge. A stroke competition for 18 holes produced varied scores led by J. J. Miller and D. Murdock among others.
Catholic residents gathered on June 12 to bid farewell to Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Morrison prior to their move to Sanderston. The event featured prayers, remarks by Father Henschke, gifts of a wallet of notes, and musical items. A second farewell at the Bowling Club on June 14 presented Mr. Morrison with a case of pipes and warm tributes.
A list of horse names including Euramic Welter-Whipster and Salt Marsh Hurdles and various entries such as Pistol Grip and Macadam's Reward. The fragment suggests a sequence of race or handicap entries with multiple horse names and affiliations.
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