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From: "Sue O'Neill" <>
Subject: [NF-ROOTS] R.A.G. Newspaper tidbits Jan 1930
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:20:28 -0400


The Year of Events for 1929 were transcribed by John Baird and Sue O'Neill.

Reprinted courtesy of Robinson-Blackmore Printing and Publishing
DAILY NEWS 1930



SATURDAY JANUARY 3 1930

In Memoriam

Mrs. James HEARN

Petty Harbor, Dec. 31.-Just before the old year ended, on December 30thth
Mary Elizabeth, beloved wife of James HEARN, passed into the Great Beyond
after a long illness. The regular attendance of Dr. CARTER, P.P., and the
unceasing visits of Dr. BENNETT, helped during these weeks of suffering to
relieve the moments when dark shadows crossed the threshold. It was a sad
event in the history of the lives of the HEARN family, as well as her own
relatives when the deceased crossed the great divide. Formerly Miss Minnie
DOYLE, she not only her husband to mourn, but five children. Thee are
several other, relatives-two sisters, Mrs. J. P. DUFFY and Mrs. Norah
KELLY; two brothers, John and William, the latter of the power plant at
Petty Harbor. The funeral obsequies took place on New Year's afternoon,
and the attendance was a striking tribute to the charitable disposition and
kindly qualities of the deceased. Dr. CARTER, P.P., officiated at the last
rites, and the undertaking arrangements were looked after by N. J.
MURPHY. To her husband, and family, as well as to all her relatives and
numerous friends, we tender our sincere sympathy......
.... And so the time had come ,
When earth called back to earth
Through winter snows.
And thus another enter into rest.
With one Who knows."

J. D.


Deaths

HEARN-At Petty Harbor on December 30th, Mary Elizabeth, beloved of wife of
James HEARN, leaving to mourn Husband, five children, two sisters, Mrs. J
P. DUFFY and Mrs. Norah KELLY, and two brothers, John and William, funeral
took place Thursday afternoon interment at Petty Harbor.


MONDAY JANUARY 6 1930


OBITUARY

JOHN MURPHY

Heart's Content, Jan. 3-The angel of death has visited Heart's Content and
taken from us one of the citizens in the person of John MURPHY in his 61st
year. Mr. MURPHY acted a heavy chill while working as foreman on the
highroads the past summer, which brought on a serious ailment from which he
never recovered. During his illness he was never heard to murmur or
complain and all that loving hands could do was done for him, but despite
all he passed very peacefully away on Sunday, December 22nd., receiving the
rites of his Church but two hours before. The funeral took place on
Christmas day and was very largely attended the U. S. F. attending in a
body, the late Mr. MURPHY being a life-long member . Left to mourn his
passing are Miss Frances and Matt at home. George of New York, who arrived
home just before the end came; and Malcolm of New York; a brother Mr.
Archibald MURPHY, and a sister, Mrs, Sarah SINYARD, to all of whom sincere
sympathy is extended.-Until the day dawn.


JOHN SAUNDERS

Sydney, N.S.-.On December 22nd at Sydney, N.S. there passed peacefully away
a highly respected native of St. John's West, the late John SAUNDERS,
brother of Peter, who died in Montreal about ten years ago. John was a
shipwright here for many years and a very familiar figure daily in this
port of ships. He left here for Sydney about 28 years ago, and was
employed for a number of years with the Steel Co. Subsequently retiring
owing to ill health. He was the last of a large family familiar to many on
and about St. John's and the whole country. He lived to a good old age 83
years. He is survived by three daughter-Mrs. Harris McGRATH, Arlington,
Mass., Miss Bride with the Catholic Record staff of London, Ont., and Miss
Margaret at home. His wife and only son predeceased him many years
ago. He was a prominent member of the Star of the Sea association for over
thirty years. His funeral took place Christmas eve when a requiem Mass was
sung in the Church of the Sacred Heart by the pastor, Rev. J. H.
McDONALD. Interment was at the Holy Cross cemetery, where service was
conducted by Rev. Father LANDRY. May his soul rest in peace.


Mrs. JOHN HANN


Wesleyville-A message was received on Saturday night by Mrs. Flora KEAN
from her brother, Jesse HANN, acquainting her of the fact that her
granddaughter, Mrs. John HANN, had passed away during the day, and I was
requested to write her obituary . Of her very little can be said that has
not already been said, for the news that she had attained her centenary
birthday on the 18th day of August last was well ventilated through our
daily papers. She was the mother of eleven children, seven daughters and
four sons, of whom six are still living, Capt. George HANN, Peter and
Charles, Mrs. William BARBOUR, Mrs. Jacob BLACKMORE (of New York) , and
Mrs. Cornelius WINSOR of Westeyville. Shortly after her last child was
born deceased lost her husband. He was drowned crossing the ice on an arm
of water not far from his home at Cape Freels. She was very closely to her
children and stayed with them all through her widowhood, giving them her
council and advise. They in turn were most obedient children and most
reverently respected their mother. On her centenary birthday which
happened to be on a Sunday, the Rev. Hr. HILLIER preached a sermon in honor
of her old age, and she attended church in person, walking from her house
to the church without apparent inconvenience. Hundreds of people all over
the shore attended the service and to show their respect for her took up a
collection and presented her with a purse of money to commemorate the
occasion. She was a Methodist by persuasion and in her younger days took
a very active part in church work, and many clergymen will recall the
motherly care and attention they received at her home and will never forget
the welcome with which she always greeted them on the arrival. The end has
come, but not untimely, so far as we are able to judge. We Believe her
long life was in large measure due to the fact the she did not worry but
was of a pleasant turn of mind, kind in disposition had a good word for
every body, lived a good life , consequently every part of the body and
mind worked in unison together. That the end should come just on the
beginning of a new year seems to me to be very fitting. she has commenced a
new year in a new world and has begun a new life, and according to the
faith she lived we believe will play her part in the future with the
spirits of just men and women made perfect. What that life will be we can
only conjecture. We have however, faith in the life Mrs. HANN lived among
us here to believe she has gone to meet the "well done" of her master, I am
not offering my sympathy to her surviving children on the contrary I offer
them my congratulation. To live in the memory of such a mother is
something to be thankful for.- A. KEAN
Anchorage, January 6th 1930


AMBROSE FORWARD

Ambrose, son of Delbert and Bertha Forward, died of paralysis in the
Hospital at St. John's on Tuesday morning at 4.30, after about 4 months
there. He had gone to Labrador with the family in the early summer, hoping
that the change might be a benefit to his health, but after a few weeks was
compelled to return again to linger and die. He had for a considerable
time endured patiently and submissively his long and wearisome sickness,
until he passed away, quietly as a little child, and so resigned to his
fate, that the end might almost be called a happy one.

Almost the largest funeral we have ever seen on the South side followed the
remains of a young man who was greatly respected. The children of the
Sunday School, quite a gathering led by the long faithful superintendent,
Mr. Robert Frazie, and the teachers, helped to swell the number which
filled the church where the writer was requested to address a few words to
the congregation and to the relatives and near friends of the departed.
"Rock of Ages," "Asleep in Jesus" and The Morning Flowers,"were the
appropriate hymns on the occasion. Miss Florrie Taylor, the school
teacher, was organist. The minister for the service was Rev. Mr.
Burge. Besides his parents, he leaves his two brothers, Cecil and Maxwell
and his loving sister Marjoria who certainly miss him for a long time in
the quite home. The coffin was very profusely covered with flowers from
kind friends, and the snow falling on the coffin, a symbol in a way of the
life that had been lived, was beautiful white. We sympathize deeply with
the bereaved friends, and would remind them of the inspiring hope of the
last verse of the hymn:---
"Let sickness blast and death devour,
If heaven must recompense our pain,
Perish the grass and fade the flower,
If firm the word of God remain."
G.F.W

Carbonear, Jan. 3rd 1930


MONDAY JANUARY 13 1930

Obituary

JAMES WALSH

After a short illness death came to James Walsh yesterday at the Grace
Hospital. The deceased who was but 45 years old had been with the Avalon
telephone Co. for the past five years, and before that was at the Dock
during the construction and for some years with the firm of J. D. Ryan. He
married Miss Healy sister of Mr. Joseph Healy of the Avalon Telephone co.,
and leaves to mourn besides his wife, one daughter Margaret and 4 sons
Patrick at the Avalon Telephone Co., Michael with Postal Telegraph,
Vincent and Harold at home and 4 brothers, John, Patrick, George and
Martin. The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 p.m. from
his residence, Burke's Square.

Mrs.E. E. ULPH

Mr. S. R. Dawe of the Western Union Telegraph Co. Bay Roberts was advised
by cable on Saturday morning of the death of his sister Mrs. E.E. Ulph at
St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, where she and her husband resided since
the departure from Bay Roberts some four or five years ago. The late Mrs.
Ulph was never of robust health but it was hoped her visit to Newfoundland
from which she returned less than a year ago had benefitted her
considerably. the news of her death is therefore a great surprise to family
and friends.
Mrs. Ulph was the daughter of Mrs. and the late Capt. Henry Dawe of Bay
Roberts. Besides the brother mentioned, she is survived by another who is
clerk in charge with the C. P. R. at Canso, N.S. There are seven sisters,
one, Mrs. (Rev.) Wright , residing in England, Mrs. Robert Dawe, Mrs. E J
Godden of this city, Mrs. J W Dawe and Mrs. Edward Dawe of Bay Roberts and
Mrs. W. N. Ford and Mrs. Arthur White , of Heart's Content. There will be
much sympathy felt for the mother and family in their bereavement.


UNLIKELY SPECULATION

A correspondent sends the following interesting speculation on whether the
tidal wave of November 18th 1929 was caused by a meteor.
"When I read in the public message a day or two ago that the cable steamer
reported finding the ocean bed covered with lava. I wondered it a comet or
meteor could have cause the earthquake."
There are several people in Freshwater who saw what they said was a comet,
dash across the sky to the southeast, just at the very time of the
quake. We didn't pay much attention to them, as we though it might have
been a shooting star , but next day one of our captains who was at Bay de
Verde at the time, came up to Carbonear and said he was looking out to sea,
and saw a hugh comet "with a tail a mile long" dash to the southeast at the
very time of the tremor. He said he knew at once what it was, as he saw
one in Spain some years ago. We looked up "Meteor" last night and found
that their bodies were composed of rocks, iron and other minerals, and
their tails of dust, so we were wondering if that one could have struck the
ocean bed and caused the earthquake. It would be interesting to hear the
opinion of someone who understands these things."


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