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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1939
Page
1
See Our Grey Navy and Brown Dress Cloths 54 inches wide for 98 cents per yard Men’s Serge and Tweed suits tweed and flannel pants caps ties socks Full stocks of provisions groceries and hardware Fruit and vegetables oranges plums grapes grape fruit apples tomatoes and new onions Bank Square Arthur Manuel
Officials impose wartime censorship on all postal and telegraph traffic in Newfoundland under the Defence Act of 1939. Rules require plain English, sender name, full addresses, no codes, no language other than English if possible, and no envelopes with lining or marks. Intermediaries are discouraged and letters cannot be inside parcels.
A jumble of names records travel and arrivals by ships Edwina Helen Bay Clyde Kyle and Miss Horwood. Listed are professors, missionaries and teachers visiting or enroute to St John s New York Wesleyville Crow d Crowd Durrell Academy and Botwood with several local residents referenced.
A note of thanks expresses gratitude to Notre Dame Hospital staff for care during illness and death of their father and husband. The family thanks wreaths senders, sympathy note writers, and local friends in Logo and Till ingate. Also mentions Confederation Life and a sound, properly trained horse offered by Dr. Woon.
Admissions listed include Miss Hannah Waterman Boyd's Cove and several others from Campbellton Ragged Ir and Twillingate South. Discharges include Mrs Thos Parsons Mailbauke and Albert Moores. A birth occurred at Twillingate South and Crow Head the following day. The Bountie Nest returned from the north side with 32 ports, 640 patients examined.
Schrs Tidna Louise Edward and Sons and Nellie A Frampton arrive from the fishery well fished. Schr C Lindbergh brought lumber from Gander Bay to firms there last week. This week the Schr Stanley Smith brought wood from the Bay to Ashbourne Ltd.
The notice lists services for the fourth Sunday after Trinity at St. Piter's including 8am Truly Communion and 11am Matins with 7pm Evensong, St. Andrew's at 11am Matins and 7pm Evensong, United Church South Side 11am Layman 2:30 Sunday School and Bible Class 7pm Rev T J Pitt Little Harbour 3pm Rev T J Pitt North Side 11am Rev T J Pitt 2:30 Sunday School 7pm Layman and a closing exhortation to strengthen the things that remain from Revelation 3 2. The Salvation Army involvement is noted.
The Roberts Arm pulpwood cutting and shipping operation ends due to wartime disruption. Boats operated this week, ten workers returned after seeking work, and plans to resume hinge on wood sealing. Bowater Company had planned three million dollars in wood exports this season, but all wood exportation is cancelled for now with hope of revival when conditions ease.
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