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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Dec 22, 1928
Page
4
The Twillingate Sun announces subscription rates to Newfoundland Canada England and the U S A with advance payment. Advertising rates apply for long term contracts and short term ads with a per inch charge. Notes of Thanks incur a fee and late news items may not be inserted.
The 1928 year ends and 1929 begins as Christmas brings lessons of charity to all ages in Harth. Older residents recall many seasons while children and youths feel newly grown in life and innocence. The message rings with goodwill and hopes for blessings in the fullness of time.
The Sun will not be published next week and the office will close until New Years to clear up the year’s business. It thanks patrons and subscribers for 1928 and wishes them a prosperous future season.
In a nurse and donor driven report, Miss Orpah Minty gives 2.00 and Capt. Thomas White donates 5.00 to the N D Memorial Hospital. The hospital treasurer notes 9.05 received from George Gillett on December 17 1928. Dr Parson sent word of a Grand Falls public meeting that raised 500 and planned further canvassing in Paper City. Grand Falls aids the hospital effort.
Obituary notes the passing of Samuel Payne Sr a respected town figure aged about 94. He fished Labrador and seal fisheries and later worked for Tobin at Path End North Side earning a reputation for honesty. A 50 year Sons of Temperance member he died in bed after four years of illness with services led by Rev. Winsor. He leaves a son in Somerville Mass a daughter Phoebe and several grandchildren.
Sir Richard Squires announced that once the raw materials list and reduction level are compiled an order will enact a duty cut retroactive to November 20. The November 19 council minute cut ready made duty from 65 to 45 percent and called for a raw material reduction after Finance and Customs reports.
Mr Stephen Loveridge traveled from Lewisport by motor HC R after a fort night in St John s. The boat brought mail from Lewisport and remains of Frank Guy who died after falling from a motor truck while helping move a church organ in New York. Mrs W J Scott arrives from Sudbury to spend winter in Twillingate. Miss Austey and Miss Gilbert visit for Christmas holidays. Capt William Roberts and crew arrive from St John s. Mrs Cox travels to Norris Arm after cancer surgery. Miss Edith Manuel from Fogo and Miss Kate Purchase from New York also noted.
The historical record notes a black guillemot shot by Ernest Anstey in Twilliggate Bight in November. It was banded at Nanarsok Island, Labrados, Lith., in August 1928 by O Absuß.
S S Silver City called here Tuesday night en route South from Botwood and took cod oil from H C Roberts. Grace from Mortons Harbour will lay up for winter. Renofjell Capt Jacobsen arrived Thursday from St Johns with 1420 casks codfish from Ashbournes Ltd and 1106 from A Colbourne, then 314 casks from D P Osmond before returning to St Johns to finish loading for market.
Ao apparatus connected to the keyboard at the Telegraph Office to ensure message transmission if land lines fail. The setup allows continued communication during outages and preserves dispatch reliability.
The Montreal Family Herald and Weekly Star is endorsed as a prudent option for farmers and families. It highlights value at $1 a year or three years for $2, promising marvellous reading for all members of the household.
Confederation Life reports Santa spoke to youths on Wednesday night with broadcasts from the North Pole and New York. The talks were aired on Radio 1 and WMC St. John's among other stations, delivering a new treat to young listeners.
Readers thank the timely Free Duty arrangement on Christmas parcels up to five hundred dollars sent from relatives abroad. The program helps Santa Claus with distribution of stock and may spur larger shipments next year.
Several youths claimed to see an airship Thursday night week traveling from the direction of Cape John, turning over Western Head. They described a green light but heard no engine noise at the distance.
The Minister of Public Works orders a pre election restructuring of road allocations. Any unspent funds must be returned immediately with accounting sheets. duplicate copies must be posted publicly for two weeks. Expenditures after this date are prohibited and no return sheets will be accepted unless properly posted.
Telegraph reports a 94.2 million dollar payment by the British government to the United States for war debt interest. Other items include elections in Burgeo District and Grand Falls fines, a Vestris crew mismanagement link to loss, Bolivian Paraguayan fighting, timber and sealing steamer news, St. John’s centenarian death, government deficit figures, flu epidemics in Toronto and Montreal, election petitions against Finance Minister Cashin, Sagona voyage, and King George’s health updates amid a London gas explosion fallout with substantial damage but no deaths.
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