Local and General

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 18 June 1915, Page 2

Local and General

The Bishop of the Diocese, the Right Reverend Dr. Averill, will visit Huntly on Tuesday, and preach at St. Paul’s in the evening.

There will be a service for men at St. Paul’s Church on Sunday after noon at 3 p.m. The subject will be : “ Why are we Fighting?” All men are eordially invited.

Residents of Huntly will be pleased to hear that Mr C. M. Muir agent for International Correspondence Schools, has a window display for a short period only at Mr Sheerans Shop Huntly where full particulars will be given to those interested and students enrolled. Note inset with this issue.

Among the names of those killed in the recent operations in the Dardanelles, are those of Oliver Drewett and Sergeant Major Rogers, both of whom went from Huntly to the front. The first named was a man of very quiet disposition, well liked by all who knew him. Sergeant Major Rogers was the officer in charge of the instruction of territorials in this part of the Waikato, .but had not been here long previous to his departure.

Mr Kenneth Carlisle, the well known picture lecturer, who scored a great success with Paul J. Rainey’s African Hunt picture throughout the Dominion, visited Huntly this week on behalf of the Universal Film Supply Company of Auckland and Wellington. Mr Carlisle’s visit is the result of negotiations made between the London buyer of the Universal Film Company to supply the 72 different theatres in the Dominion interested in the screening of Universal Films with an additional 70,000 feet of film per week. Further details of the proposition will be available at the conclusion of Mr Carlisle’s tour of the Dom'nion. It may be of interest to the general public and showman that the Universal Film Company is now being floated into a Limited Liability Company with sufficient capital to warrant a serious encroachment upon the business side of opposition.

Observant people, present at the social on Wednesday evening last, noticed two young ladies, one with a most radiant smile and the other with the appearance of one determined never to smile under any circumstances. Needless to say, each was much sought after, one by those who love to bask in the sunshine of beauty’s rays, and the other by those who feel compassion for all who are in trouble and distress. Of course, in both cases, people were anxious to know what was the cause of the abnormal appearance of these young ladies, but each was firm in her resolution not to tell. But at last an ungallant swain gave the show away, and strange to say, the cause of the phenomenon was the same in each case, a set of false teeth, causing joy by their presence and sorrow in the other by their absence. We congratulate the one and condole with the other pointing out to her that her time to expand in attractive smiles is not far away and that a triumph and a boy await her when her false teeth arrive.