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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1924
Page
2
BARRE Christus reflects on the Christmas season as a time of peace joy and renewed pledges of charity. The feature speaks of friendship remembrance and the betterment of others as Old Santa watches over children and a snowy world grows wholesome. May Santa Claus be kind and generous to all.
The St Peter's Day School invites readers to a Christmas program in the Parish Hall the evening after Christmas Day. Highlights include Christmas Secrets and Mother Goose Party plays, a Christmas Star Drill, recitations and choruses, diploma and certificate distributions, and a candy and fancy work sale with homemade treats. Doors open at 7:15 pm. admission 20 cents for adults, 10 cents for under 12. pupils admitted free.
Christmas services announced for Meth Church with multiple locations. South Side and North Side chapels hold 11 am services led by Rev J W Winsor and Mr T G W Ashbourne respectively, with Little Harbor noted for a 21 a.m. service by Mr Peter Anstey.
Personal details show Mr J I Penny of Manufacturers Life Insurance Co in town last week. He departed Monday with Clyde for other points, reporting brighter insurance business in his Northern territory. Also noted are arrivals of Mr T G W Ashbourne and Mr Jas Gillett’s crew. Benjamin Roberts of Wild Cove is home ill, and Joseph Young caught two bedlamer seals this week. Frederick Facey transferred to Carbon Bank.
A Twillingate letter outlines Notre Dame Bay Memorial Hospital work from 1921 to 1924, noting total construction and site costs near $70,000 and equipment around $26,500. By opening, indebtness stood at about $8,300. a community loan fund aims to repay it. The hospital has treated about fifty inpatients and nearly 150 outpatients with around forty operations, serving Twillingate and Fogo Districts from as far as Lascie, Nipper’s Harbor, Horwood, and Fogo.
Telegraph reports Churchill in a fret speech as Chancellor signaling that Britain insists debtors in Europe and the United States pay simultaneously to Britain. The note notes fog in London halting transport and mentions various international events and wage talks.
Rascherean Premier and Quebec Attorney General with Deputy AG Charles Landyt and A McGeoffmian met with Federal representatives Right Hon. Charles Doherty and Charles Plaxton. After lengthy discussion they adjourned to consider points. They were hosted at luncheon by Premier Yascheran and later dined at Mount Royal Club by Doherty, with invitations to Ottawa from Mackenzie King and to Quebec from Taschereau.
Mra Stuckless, aged widow of Joseph Stuckless, longtime Twillingate Arm resident, passed away after a lengthy illness on Thursday December 4. She left a son, Harry Lat G J Carter’s wharfinger, and two daughters Mrs Arthur Holwell and Mrs Lewis Hyde, along with siblings in Twillingate, British Columbia, and Oakley St John. She leaves 18 grandchildren and was remembered in a prayerful farewell in Herring Neck.
The Evening Telegram records the death of James Norris a respected Three Arms merchant in his 74th year. He died at his daughter W H Jackman Mundy Pond Road after paralytic strokes last week. He founded Norris Co firm with branches in Cochrane Gov and Conche Cove. He leaves wife three sons John Norris Conche and Norris Co and a daughter Mrs W vi Three erect he.
The Goodridge captained by Thomas Randell carried 40 tons of coal from the Hospital Board on Tuesday for Fogo to Earle Sons and Co. The Netherday with captain Stuckless hauled produce from the firm here on Monday. Schr Tidal Wave under Captain Bulgio with fish and herring for St John was left there on Thursday from Ashbourne Estate. This is likely the last schooner top to the city for the year. Captain Bingin made a brief spring run with a seals cargo. Shr M P Cashin with Captain Waterman arrived from the Treaty Coast to Ashbourne Estate with fish and other produce. The Clyde 16 continues its regular northbound trip and is expected to depart on the 29th for St John’s. There is concern over early retirement of the service as freight remains heavy, and ice may halt operations.
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