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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1952
Page
4
Fragmented OCR shows local newspaper notice with subscription and advertising rates and various editorial notes. Mentions Tymlngate and North Side office with charges for 1 inch insertions and international rates. Contains stray phrases about communications and fees.
Twillingate Aug 23 1952 big news of the week celebrates St Peter's School pupils parents and teachers for 100 percent passes in district exams. Allan and Doreen Guy win Electoral Scholarships two consecutive years while Ernie Manuel earns the 100 scholarship for Grade X. Principal Albert Halt praises discipline parental support and staffs steady effort driving young minds to success.
Public notice announces the reopening of the Vocational Training Institute in St Johns on September 15 1952. Applications invited from residents of St Johns and Newfoundland outports for nine month courses in carpentry electrical work woodwork bricklaying auto mechanics plumbing wireless and diesel mechanics with possible automobile body repair course.
Announcement notes admissions for a September start course lasting about ten months. Details available from the Manager, Vocational Training Institute, St. John's. G. A. Frecker, Deputy Minister of Education, No. 1227.
Weekly hospital notes record admissions for August including Eric Miles Arthur Smart Herring Neck Mrs Clifford Bulgin Summerford Frank Luscombe Badger Melvin Kinden Stager Rudy Weller Corser Brook and many others. Discharges include Bonnie Verge Brighton Mrs Malcolm Parsons Joseph Kenney Rudy Welten Corner Brook and Gordon Card among others with several post operative entries.
Mr and Mrs William Gillam and their infant son depart Wednesday for McKays to reside there. Gillam will become principal of the Robineous C of E School. Arthur Colbourne, caregiver to Mrs Gillam, spends summers at his North Side home and plans to join them for winter.
Cetil Simma an inspector with the Department of Wisheries has been in town this week making arrangements to relocate his family to St. John's where rooms have been secured.
We extend sincere congratulations to Principal A G Hall and pupils of St Peters Day School for outstanding results in the C H B Examinations. A message from St Johns noted one hundred percent passes, marking a remarkable achievement by staff and students and hoped for similar news from other schools in the North and South Island.
Harvey Rideout son of the late George and Mrs Rideout of Back Harbour is at present home on a brief holiday his first since leaving over twenty years ago. Two brothers Harlan and Arthur reside at Twillingate.
Spears Roebuck Company and Simpson Company merge to form a new firm half owned by each. The venture will run up to fifty standalone stores nationwide while maintaining separation from Simpsons five big department stores. The combined mail order expertise aims to expand service to Canada's mail buying public.
Mrs. Theodore Jenkins returned Friday from a six week visit to Detroit and Toronto. Her son Willie, who last fall entered Mountain Sanitarium at Hamilton, is reported to be seeking steady program.
Tex Shaw and his Rocky Mountain Rangers toured inland points including Badger Millertown and Buchans last week before moving to the Avalon Peninsula. The quartet welcomed listeners on CBN with familiar voices and a reception at the S UP Hall. Two new faces joined the act Tex and Audrey Doucette are joined by Charlie Bates and James Blynn this season.
On Wednesday August 27 Salvation Army Ladies will host a fat py per in the Salvation chool admission 60 ane.
Mr and Mrs Clayton Sharpe and their baby, accompanied by Mies Jean Barrett, departed last Saturday for Toronto.
Mr John Ruth a well known Botwood business man arrived this week with a varied assortment of dry goods to be sold at Mr B H Bott South Side. Mr and Mrs John Muduell and sons Ernie and Arthure plan holidays in St John’s then Corner Brook before returning home.
Owners may claim their items by applying at this office and paying the usual small advertising fee. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Loveridge and sons returned from a holiday in Deer Lake and Grand Falls where Mrs Stella Boyde is staying.
Miss Leova Watkins leaves Toronto today by plane to Goose Airport to visit relatives. She is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel Watkins of South Side.
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