>From: "Carolyn Wallace" <[email protected]> >To: "ns roots" <[email protected]> >Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:39:51 -0400 >Subject: [nsroots] Antigonish and Sherbrooke News Items-1934 > >Eastern Chronicle, New Glasgow, N.S., Thursday 31 May 1934; > > ANTIGONISH > >Rev. J.L. McDonald went to Toronto last week to see His Grace, Archbishop >McNeil, who is seriously ill. > >Miss Eileen Boyd, Halifax, spent the week end in Antigonish. > >Mr. H.B. Leonard, of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, has received word that >he will be placed on the relieving staff of the bank during the summer >months. He will be replaced by S.D. McClellard of St. John, N.B. > >Mrs. S. Phelan, North Sydney, was in town on Tuesday to be present at the >graduation of her son, Maurice. > >Sir D.C. Macdonald, Park Hood, visited Antigonish during the week. His >son, Stewart MacDonald, was graduated from St. Francis Xavier University. >(*Is there a Park Hood? or should it be Port Hood?) > >Mr. W.P. Reynolds, manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, attended the >K.of C. Convention at Yarmouth this week. > >Mrs. W.P. Cunningham arrived in Antigonish on Monday. She spent the winter >in California, and on her way home visited her daughter, Mrs. Clifford >Murphy in Boston. > >Mrs. D.F. Nolan, of Sydney, was in town commencement week. Her daughter, >Austen, was one of the graduates from St. Francis Xavier's. > >Dr. Allen Johnston, Ottawa, was in Antigonish during the week. He was >honored by the University by the conferring on him of Doctor of Law. > >Mrs.(Dr.) H.T. Sullivan, Halifax, was among the week's visitors to town. > >Judge and Mrs. W.F. Carroll, Halifax, were in town on Wednesday. The Judge >delivered the address to the graduates of St. Francis Xavier College. > >Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Walker, of Halifax, were in town attending the closing >exercises on Wednesday. > >Judge A.D. Campbell, J.A. McIntyre and A.A. McIntyre, all of Sydney, >passed through town on Saturday en route to Yarmouth to attend the Knights >of Columbus convention. > >Rev. D.R. Chisholm, of New Glasgow, brought his mystery play,"Black >Griffen" to Antigonish on Monday evening. The caste came down and >returned by car. The show, which was staged at Immaculata Hall, is >reported as having been very good. We understand the receipts were good too. > >On Tuesday evening, May 22, a debate was held at Lochaber Hall, between >the pupils of Dunmore School and those of Cross Roads, Ohio, in which the >pupils of Dunmore were declared the winners. The Dunmore pupils are now >entitled to meet the Clydesdale pupils for the championship of the >county.The judges of the debate were Rev. R.K. McIntyre, Mr. R.H. Pethick >and Mr. G.E. Connelly >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > SHERBROOKE >Sherbrooke, May 21- On Saturday, May 19, the Teachers' Study Group of this >district met at Marie Joseph. The president, Miss Teasdale, occupied the >chair. The two sessions were profitably and enjoyably spent with lessons >taught by Mr. G.F. Cameron and Miss Teasdale, a discussion of the History >Curriculum led by Inspector Caldwell, and bookbinding under the >instruction of Mrs. B.C. Harris, helping teacher. > Those attending were: R.L. Caldwell, Inspector for Guysboro County; > Mrs. B.C. Harris, helping teacher; Miss Teasdale, president, Ecum Secum; > Miss Elinor Ross, secretary, Sherbrooke; Miss Lucile Kinley, Sherbrooke; > G.F. Cameron, Sherbrooke; Miss Mary McLean, Wine Harbor; Miss Fay Hemlow, > Sonora; Miss Rae Cameron, St. Mary's River; Miss Elsie Hattie, > Goldenville; Miss Sangster, Little Liscomb; Miss Hay, New Chester; Mrs. > Carrigan, Liscomb Mills; Aldon Carter, Liscomb; Miss Catherine Logan, > Spanish Ship Bay; Mrs. Mason, Marie Joseph. > >Sherbrooke, May 22- The activities of the Badminton Club were brought to a >close for this season on Monday night, after a most enthusiastic first >season's play. On this occasion , the club members entertained at a dance >in the I.O.O.F. hall. The hall was artistically decorated in blue and >white and this, with a program which included several novelty dances and >the excellent music furnished by the Antigonish Orchestra, combined to >make this a dance thoroughly enjoyed by all of the large number who attended. > >T.R. Harrington, manager of the Royal Bank of Canada, and Mrs. Harrington >, motored to St. John on Thursday, called there by the illness and >subsequent death of Mr. Harrington's father, Mr. F.E. Harrington. > >Mrs. J.H. McLean spent several days this week in Sackville, N.B.where she >attended the graduation exercises at Mount Allison , when her daughter, >Miss Winnifred, received her B.A. degree. > >Mrs. Alfred Morrell, of Barrington,, and Miss Grace Cameron, of Lockeport, >have returned there after a two week visit in Sherbrooke, guests of Mrs. >G.R. Cameron and Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Cameron. > >Mrs. Allen Griffen, of Hingham, Mass., spent last week-end with relatives >in Waternish, coming there from Sackville, where she was in attendance at >the graduation of her daughter, Miss Margaret Giffen. >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Carolyn Wallace >___________________________________________ >nsroots mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.ednet.ns.ca/cgi-bin/listinfo/nsroots