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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jan 03, 1953
Page
4
The Twilingate Sun lists editor E Starke and notes on publication timing for messages. It quotes advertising rates for notes and thanks and offers subscription prices for local Canada and U S readers with a New Year greeting.
A 1953 note from Twillingate Sun editors signals possible cessation of the paper due to aging equipment and staff shortages. They acknowledge loyalty from subscribers and outline the risk of losing trained handset compositors, hinting the end may come without renewed staff.
St John’s Vocational Institute invites applications for day classes starting January 5 1953 in bricklaying plumbing carpentry and woodworking. Limited spaces. six month intensive training. board assistance may be available for outport students. Aged 16 to 35 contact the Institute Manager by phone letter or wire promptly.
The Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps gain two new units, Briton at Twillingate and Beothic at Harbour Grace, with staffing led by Acting Lieutenant Wilson Manne and Lieutenant R J Callahan. Each is a minesweeper class, allowing up to one hundred cadets, with weekly training begun.
Ellen Morgan aged 73 or 74 died after a lengthy illness at Notre Dage Bay Memorial Hospital on Monday December 29. Interment is at Bear Berry Head Cemetery with Rev. G L Morgan from North Side United Church presiding.
Roy Hurley died at his sister's home in Broad Cove Bay de Verde in his sixty fourth year. Born in Herring Neck he fished in Labrador, served in the Royal Navy during World War I, and later worked in the United States building trade. He returned to Newfoundland in the early thirties and continued in his trade until retirement due to ill health.
Mr A M Stoodley business manager of Notre Dame Bay Memorial announces the Christmas death of his brother Samuel Stoodley in Grand Bank. A tinsmith by trade and former mayor of his hometown he was elected chairman at the last Local Government Heads convention. He was forty two.
Mr and Mrs Fred Muttard announce a daughter born in Toronto on December 201h to Frauke Mutt of Crow Head and her husband.
A note of thanks lists wreaths sprays and cards from many relatives friends and neighbors across Corner Brook Alaska Toronto Baie Verte Howley Cottrells Cove and beyond. Names include Parsons Knell White Barnes Ballard Skinner and many others with messages of sympathy and a closing tribute to the deceased.
Gordon Anstey left by the Gay Rambler on Friday to join the m v Clarenville after spending Christmas with his parents Mr and Mrs Malcolm Anstey.
Messers Hayward Dove and Harold Simms from Hanxon Field arrived on Stunday of the past week.
Admissions for the week ending December 7 list many patients across Newfoundland towns such as Twillingate, Moreton’s Harbour, and Summerford including Lieut Alma King and Barr’d Islands residents. Discharges mirror patient names and localities with several births noted.
The laws require every person to register all revolvers and pistols and obtain local police approval before receiving firearm ownership. A new Firearms Registration Certificate is issued. registered owners should send all 1945–51 certificate copies to the Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa.
A wedding took place on Friday December 26 at South Side United Church in Twillingate. Marion Joyce Young married Albert Jobe with Rev. G L Morgan officiating. The bride wore ice blue bengaline and pink rose buds. attendants included her sister Mrs Clarence Rogers. A small reception followed at the groom’s home.
Classified notice offers a No 7 Ident Cook in good condition. Includes brief descriptor en a Spy to. Provided by Lewis.
In memoriam for our dear mother Vis Enly Hake who died December 30 1951. The verse recalls a cheerful loving mother and a memory she left behind. Ever remembered by her daughter Lucy.
The motor vessel Alger arrived at Twilingate on Thursday evening to load package fish for the foreign market. The Alger has been a regular fall visitor in recent years, taking salt bulk or package fish.
Mrs William Bartle and her sister Hazel traveled by Twillingate on Thursday morning from Grand Falls. Hazel returned to Grand Falls by Springdale. Mrs Bartle will stay a few weeks as guest of her brother John C. Loveridge.
Mr Harry Anstey a long time fisher returned to Back Harbour with an unusual catch a billy goat that had died days earlier and was discarded into Twillingate Bight. Dogs had killed the goat and the sea carried it to his seal net an odd fate for a living catch.
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