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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Oct 21, 1939
Page
4
Registered department of Home Affairs in Twillingate publishes notes of thanks memoriam notices and announcements. A charge of 25 cents applies to each item and later submissions are not guaranteed. Opinions of correspondents are not the paper’s responsibility. Twillingate, Oct 21, 1939.
The piece urges unity and constructive effort to weather economic crisis and war, criticizing constant opposition to government moves. It calls for investment to ease living conditions, better legislation, and a return to responsible self governance, echoing Brd Bono Publico and urging collective action.
In the breeze on Tuesday night schr. Charles Lindbergh was lost at Low Point B D W and schr White Coat also drove ashore at St Brendon’s. Lindbergh carried freight for Twillingate from St John’s. Tuesday night’s north east gale brought the first snow of the season and many fences were blown down.
Frank Smith from Brigne, son of Michael Smith, joined the British air force a year ago and now holds the rank of Sergeant after taking part in recent leaflet dropping flights over Germany.
Parish Hall hosts a Masquerade on Tuesday Oct 314 under St Peter's Sanctuary Guild. Program starts 8 pm with prizes for two best costumes. Judging around 9 pm. Admission 25 cents. Doors open 7:30 pm. Ice cream available.
Prize list from the Tw'date Agricultural Exhibition highlights numerous winners across baking, crafts, and handiwork. Names include Mrs B J Abbott, Miss Marion Moores, Mrs E J Linfield, Mrs Arthur Manuel, and many others competing in bread, cakes, pastries, quilts, crochet, knitting, and model boat categories.
A reader asks whether the Government or any authority can take gravel from land that was measured and granted seventy years ago without the owner's permission. The issue concerns property rights and possible statutory power to remove minerals or aggregates.
Personal notes recount multiple residents and visitors leaving or returning by various vessels. Frank Mann and Isago Churchill depart by Manuel's boat to Lenlaporte en route to New York. George Kearney of Imperial Life Insurance arrives by Wiseman's boat, then falls ill again. Others sail to Summerford Twistingate Buchans Herringeck Roberts Arm and Burlington by Clyde Little Grace Northern Ranger and Do X.
Shipping entries note Schrs. Hamona Josie Phoebe Bridgeporte and Winifred Lee arriving Sunday on route south. Tessie Aubrey came from St John’s with freight Tuesday and proceeded to La Scie on name day. White & Sons arrived from the bay Tuesday with a wood cargo.
In recent court activity Magistrate Abbott convicted one person for breaching the Optometry Act and fined 25 dollars or 40 days. Two others were fined 2 dollars each for breaches of the Highway Traffic Act. Three men were fined 2 dollars each for breaches of the Dog Act of 1938. On Saturday at Morton's Harbour a man from Bridgeport pleaded guilty to a serious offence and received nine months hard labour in the penitentiary, St. John's.
Mrs Tryphenia Beaton of Norris Arm died September 28 after a long illness from a paralytic stroke. A devout Anglican, she served her church and family well, leaving a husband James and ten children, plus siblings and many grandchildren. Interment was at North Side Anglican Cemetery with Rev W Chard officiating.
For the week ending October 18 the hospital admitted several patients from Gillard s Cove Little Bay Islands Mortons Hr and other communities. Discharges included Michael Peckford and George Newman while a son and a daughter were born to two local mothers. Census hit 100 patients on October 13 and October 18, the first times this figure was reached since opening. An electrocardiograph placed August 1 has produced forty two tracings aiding diagnosis and treatment.
At the government commission meeting on October 14, appointments to the New Industries Committee were announced. Gerald Doyle of St John's and James Stowe of St John's, president of the Newfoundland Federation of Labour, were named to the panel.
Mesars Stewart Young and B H Batt are currently engaged in shingling the United Church parsonage, continuing essential maintenance work.
Miss Ada Brown of Gloucester Hospital Bathurst New Brunswick credits Robin Hood Flour for bread that cracks and bubbles with life and lightness. She claims it saves money in large hospital baking and touts the master flour as milled from washed wheat with a satisfaction guarantee.
Oct 14 report from St Johns notes a major British raid with German U boats sunk and Allied gains on the Western Front while Germany suffers losses on land sea and air. Other items include prisoner recapture near Kilbride, W P A branches opening, death of Buchans manager P. W. George, and weather and shipping notes.
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