March 16, 1907, Page 5
Events and Echoes
The rotary snow plow worked all yesterday fighting its way thru the snow and reached Northern Bight. 18 miles distant, at 5:30 p.m. She then left Clarenville, 15 miles further on, and was due to arrive there at 11 o’clock last light. The Bruce express was held up at Whitbournc last night.
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May 1, 1907
Mr. Albert Fowlow, of Trinity, will launch a fine schooner of 60 tons, which was built this past winter at Smith’s Sound, on the 10th inst. She is built on the most modern principles after the best type of American bankers, and will be used at the Labrador fishery. Wm. Styles, of Northern Bight, Random, has also just finished a fine craft for the same voyage, and she will be launched in a few days time.
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May 15, 1907, Page 5
House Burnt Down
The schr. ‘Jennie Armstrong’ which arrived here yesterday from Random Sound reports that the residence of Thos. Stringer, of Little Heart’s Ease, was burned to the ground Monday afternoon. The fire originated in the roof it is thought, from a defective stove pipe, and though there was plentv of water about and the people rallied around they could not save the house, owing to a gale of S.W. wind blowing and it was wiped out with all its contents, the people having only the clothes they wore, all else being destroyed. A considerable sum of money was also lost by Stringer, and who with his wife and family have taken shelter with brother Joseph. There was no insurance on the house, and the man is a heavy loser by the accident.
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May 31, 1907
Elijah Stranger [Stringer], of Caplin Cove, T.B. launched a fine vessel of 45 tons last Tuesday, and Alfred Vey of S.W. Arm, Random, launched the fine new schr. Empire on Friday. Both are splendid crafts and will be used at the fishery.
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July 24, 1907, Page 1
Wanted, Three (or more) Graded Teacher under the Methodist Education Board for Random South. Salary $160 and travelling expenses. Apply, with testimonials, etc., to Rev. H.B. Parnaby, Northern Bight, T.B.
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November 7, 1907
Church of England Episcopal Work, 1907
Churches and Cemeteries Consecrated
Six new churches were consecrated at the following places: Seal Cove, White Bay, Middle Brook, Smith’s Sound, Red Cliffe Island, King’s Cove and at Hodge’s Cove, Long Beach and Northern Bight in Random Mission. Seven cemeteries were also consecrated at Western Cove, White Bay, Pound Cove, Pinchard’s Island, Squid Tickle, Salvage, Muddy Cove, Brooklyn, Port Blandford, Little Hr., Trinity and Burgoyne’s Cove, Smith’s Sound.
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November 25, 1907, Page 5
Outport Man Reported Missing, Believed to be Drowned
Report was made to Superintendent Sullivan this morning that Sibley Green was missing and it was feared that he was drowned. Green arrived here on Friday last on the schooner Veronica, Capt. John Downey, lying at Thistle & Co’s wharf. Last night he was sleeping in the forecastle with nine other men and between midnight and 4 this morning got up to go on deck. The others were not aroused and knew nothing of his absence until some time after. At 4 o’clock Jacob Pitcher got up to boil the kettle, and soon after Peter Read was awakened and he noticed that Green was ot in his berth. A search was made but no signs of the missing man were forthcoming. He was only partly clad, having on nothing but his night clothes and another man’s boots which he put on in the forecastle. When day broke and Green was still absent, his friends began jigging in the dock but up to 1 o’clock their efforts were fruitless. It is believed that he unfortunate went to the side of the vessel, fell over and was drowned. Green was 22 years of age and last week was married to Fanny Hiscock, of Random, T.B. He was fishing at Bacalieu during the summer.
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November 26, 1907, Page 4
Missing Man Not Yet Found
The man Green who mysteriously disappeared from the schr. Veronica yesterday morning has not yet been found. Yesterday afternoon Driver Glynn was down and made a complete search of the bottom, but saw no tidings of him. He also spent this morning searching and made an examination of Baine, Johnston’s dock, but without success. The pair of boots which Green was supposed to have put on before leaving the craft were found yesterday, the man not having taken them.
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Transcribed by Katie Alyward and Wanda Garrett, December 2019, Updated March 2021
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