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Newspaper
The Areas Express
Location
Booyoolee, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 06, 1942
Page
2
Entertainment listings include Strawberry Fete and Amateur Hour in Canowie Best and jamestown events with dances concerts and a working bee. Notices invite 100 participants for Institute Pictures and announce weddings and a loving memory for a mother who passed away in 1941.
Successful exhibitors at the annual show of the Belalie Agricultural Society who reside in the Jamestown District may obtain prize money by applying to the Secretary Review Office Jamestown. Prize money for district outsiders will be remitted by post. L M W Judella Secretary.
The notice touts cheap advertising options for reaching hundreds of readers in surrounding towns and districts. It contrasts telegrams costing a penny per word to messages that go to many readers, suitable for buying, selling, or publicizing items like an overcoat.
Sunday notices list services across Gladstone Jamestown and surrounding towns with multiple congregations including Church of England Baptists Methodists and Presbyterians. War time notes note new ownership of The Laura Standard and Crystal Brook Courier and community cooperation under L M W Judell with Tom Scout in charge.
Residents report travels across Australia with Adelaide Wilmington Jamestown and Port Pirie connections. Community updates include medical recoveries, service members overseas, Armistice Day plans, Red Cross activities, and hostel expansion funded for munition era workers.
Sunday school anniversary services to be held at Jamestown Presbyterian Church on November 8 with 3 pm and 7 pm sessions led by Captain Ross and Rev J C Gibson. Gladstone Women's Suit Fair November 17 at Institute Hall with Papua pictures shown by Mr Grant. Jamestown FPC fundraiser effort to aid fighting services over £2000 raised. Public meeting scheduled for November 11 at Council Chamber. Cemetery working bee reports a fowl egg incident involving Jim or Pat.
The town and district seek old aluminium items for wartime use asking residents to hand them to District Clerk J C Thomson. Livery scrap is also urged and old pots and pans are requested to aid the local council.
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