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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Jan 06, 1951
Page
4
Illegible historic notice from a small paper notes subscription rates and contact details with editor B. Charke. The text includes a postal authorization and remarks on correspondence deadlines and class mailing. It also contains a lengthy moral reflection about a 1954 pattern formed by 1950 weavers and the Master Weaver.
A 1951 New Year reflection urges readers to shape their lives with purpose under God. It compares human life to a thread in a vast pattern, warns against selfish living and tyranny, and emphasizes brotherly love, sacrifice, and service while cautioning against egotism.
Personal Miss Olive Young leaves Glencoe enroute Clarenville to resume teaching after Christmas. Miss Joyce Clarke also travels from Glencoe to Terra Nova for the same reason. Mr. Owen Moores and Miss Frances Hodge return to Memorial University after holidays with families. Miss Dorothy Hodge returns to Harmonfield office duties. Mr. Arthur Spencer, assistant lightkeeper at Long Point, comes by Glencoe from St John’s after Christmas vacation.
Readable portions report Andrews and son Chesley heading to Glenwood and Badger for winter haul-off with horses. Mentions Gloria Hawkins and Malcolm Hawkins visiting family. Notes Bowfive Brothers seeking twenty five men for Terra Nova sealfishery. Stuckles to Glenwood for sled repairing. Community thanks extended to company and Loveridges for support and border filling by Carnation Company.
Mr and Mrs Reymond Bridger, parents of three month old triplets, were told by Mr Stephen Loveridge that Cardallin Company of Toronto would provide a twelve month supply of milk. Loveridge claimed the idea began at his home and was conveyed via telegram through Newfoundland broker.
Clarence Roberts and Wisco Guy secured the overland mail contract for the season and began their first trip Tuesday this week. The route has been divided into two sections with the couriers now traveling as far as Sammet Ford.
Resident complains of rigid posting hours and Sunday delays in Twillingate. Calls for a weathered box at the door and for Pillar-boxs to ease mail during weekends. Questions whether office or St Johns authorities are to blame for slow mail routing.
Rev H K Gilbert dies in a November street accident in Dorset England. A Newfoundland clergy member, he studied at St Boniface College Warminster, was ordained by Bishop Jones, served 26 years at Lamaline and Bay de Verde, became Incumbent of Twillingate in 1922, and returned to England in 1929. Sympathy expressed by former schoolmates Vera Frank and Rev John amid family losses.
In a Thursday radio address, M Gil ligham, secretary of the Woods Labour Board, said the Angin Newfoundland Development Company and Vpwaters agreed to a five percent logger wage rise. The move aligns with mill workers who received six percent last year. The new scale takes effect January 1, 1950.
The L A Band with the Corps Officer led a Christmas street performance to cheer residents. Businesses welcomed the party with treats and cards, visits included a ship, a hospital grounds stop, and a charity collection funded fruit for patients. Sr. Capt. Earle and Mrs. Earle thank locals for generous support and wish a happy New Year.
Mrs Ernest Stuckless of Tizzird's Harbour welcomed twins at Notre Dame Bay Memorial on New Year's Day. Her sister Rose, also a twin mother last summer, shares in the family event. The babies are daughters of Mr and Mrs Robert Locke of Tezard's Harbour, continuing the twin theme in the hometown.
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