Three Week Sale On Coatings Dress Materials and Groceries
A local store advertises a sale offering ten percent off coatings and dress materials for three weeks. The notice also promotes full stocks of groceries provisions hardware and cattle feeds.
24 Feb 1940
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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Feb 24, 1940
Page
1
A local store advertises a sale offering ten percent off coatings and dress materials for three weeks. The notice also promotes full stocks of groceries provisions hardware and cattle feeds.
Sealed tenders for the schooner Thea are invited by the Commissioner for Natural Resources. Vessel details include built 1919 Cardigan Prince Edward Island length 62 feet 9 tenths breadth 32.34 gross tonnage 27.06 registered tonnage and present location Wesleyville Bonavista Bay. Tenders must be addressed to the Secretary for Natural Resources and marked Tenders for schooner Thea. The Commissioner may refuse any tender. Deadline March 15. Claude Fraser Secretary Natural Resources February 7 1940.
The Commissioner for Natural Resources invites sealed tenders to purchase the schooner Mariana a 33.44 ton vessel built in 1905 at Sable River Nova Scotia. The yacht measures 62 feet 4 inches with Trinity Bay as its present location. Tenders must be received by March 5 and addressed to the Secretary for Natural Resources marked Tenders for schooner Mariana.
Commission of Government second reads a bill amending the Prosecution of the Seal Fishery Act to permit sealing vessels to sail for the season after 8 a.m. from March 4 to March 4, with earliest possible sailing date noted as March 20. Emergent measure due to potential Norwegian vessels joining the seal fishery off Newfoundland this season.
A 1940 notice from Glade Fraser, Secretary of Natural Resources, proposes changing March 10 to March 13 for veal killing and suspends Sec 16 banning Sunday slaughter. It notes allowances due to foreign competition and invites comments by February 29.
A notice lists a 23 foot motor boat and mentions applicant David White seeking a link to a specific purchase or transfer. The terse item notes a targeted inquiry.
The Annual Meeting of The Twillingate Telephone and Electric Co. Ltd will be held in the company office on Wednesday March 6 at 8 p.m. G. Moors, Secretary.
A Song Service titled The wife of Pontius Pilate will be held at the N.S. United Church on Wednesday February 28 at 8 p.m under the U C Women’s Association. A silver collection will be taken and a hearty welcome extended to all.
At a regular Loyal Lodge LOA meeting on February 6 officers were elected for the year. Alfred Hiliott and Arthur Stuckless were re elected. S. G. Moors was elected Chaplain. John T. White recording secretary. Fred Earle financial secretary. Charles Moors treasurer. Arthur Colbourne marshal. Elijah Gitolard Jr. first lecturer. Fred H Manneil second lecturer. Stewart Young Tyler. Willis Bridger sentinel. Several committees and officers were named including Auditors, Trustees, Hall Management, Hearse, Sick, Hospital Visiting, Finishing, Pond Benevolent Fund, and installation was performed by P.M. Lewis Clarke.
The local church outlines its Lent timetable with Holy Communion Matins Evensong and Sunday School services at St Peter's on the South and North sides. Stewart Slade is named as a deceased husband and father with funeral arrangements at McDougall and Brown and burial at Prospect Cemetery. The Salvation Army and a note on Archbishop Lang announcing bishop committee discussions on soldier moral temptations and proposed visits by women to camps are included.
Auction note lists a single 10 bh p Hubbard Lugine in good running condition with contact to Wilfred A Knit at Rageed Point T gate.
The 1st Twgate Ranger Co assisted by friends will present The Merry Minstrels of 1940 on Haster Monday night March 25. Half of the proceeds will go to the W P A.
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