14 Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Ladysmith Chemainus Chronicle
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Ladysmith teen performed with Rolf Harris January 1913 Mrs. Barnes (McLary Writing in the January E l e c t r i c R a n g e ) C h r o n i c l e , E l b e r t and Mrs. Musgrave, Hubbard related his (Champion Washer). experience as one of Henry Altman, who the first to use the type- has had many arguwriter at work: “An ad ments with his neighplaced in the paper for bours over the weight men and women to run of his two-year-old colt, these machines had a finally agreed to settle post script, ‘Only those the issue by having the who can play the piano pony weighed in town. need apply.’ “At the sub- Although the results sequent training ses- were below Altman’s sion, Hubbard recalled, expectations, he has “We all thought the type- an explanation: “It writer was a very won- was all on account of derful plaything, and a mistake by my sons. the way the operator I told them when they would print your name took the colt to town on a piece of paper and to have him weighed hand it to you made us on the scales used to think we had achieved sell coal. Instead, they fame. We folded up the weighed him on the precious slip and car- scales used to buy hay!” ried it away to show January 1938 the folks at home.” R.R. Hindmarch, T h e L a d y s m i t h owner of the Nanaimo Hardware Christmas Herald, announced he draw winners were was selling his news-
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paper to R.J. Stewart, process was called owner of the Nanaimo SHELLUBRICATION. Free Press. The Herald Dr. W. Plenderleith, will continue to be pub- Inspector of Schools lished as the Nanaimo f o r t h e Va n c o u v e r morning paper, with Island Region, gave a the Free Press arriving talk to the Ladysmithin the evening. [NOTE: Chemainus Teachers Bob Hindmarch was Association on the later the owner/pub- “New B.C. Curriculum.” lisher of the Chronicle Education in the future, from 1942 to 1954.] he said, “would preMayor W.W. Walkem pare students for a was returned to office changing world, focusby acclamation in the ing on the practical and January 1938 municipal moving from a static to elections. a dynamic state.” The The Ladysmith Shell inspector used vocabustation announced a lary as an example: “We new maintenance ser- have determined that vice for your car featur- 3,000 words are all that ing “seven to 11 differ- is necessary to funcent lubricants applied tion in modern society, using modern pressure and students will be guns to reach every grounded in these.” spot.” As an indication January 1963 of the changes to be Mr. and Mrs. Ken made to the English Weeks of Victoria Drive language by the adver- were the winners of tising industry, the the annual Ladysmith Christmas Home Lighting Contest sponsored by the chamber of commerce. The judges for 1962 were Orville Delcourt, Mrs. Bert Foster, Stan Heys and Mrs. Alan Johnson. Mrs. Foster and Mr. Delcourt had disquali-
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fied themselves from entering that year, as they had both won the plaque previously. The Odeon Theatre introduced the first in its series of filmed Operettas to be shown in Ladysmith in 1963. Rose Marie starred Howard Keel and Ann Blyth. The cost was $6 for the series or $1 per show. Daryl Quist, 17-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Quist on BadenPowell Street returned home for the holidays in Ladysmith. Daryl had been accompanying Rolf Harris on guitar at the Down Under Club in London. Daryl subsequently performed in Larry Parnes’s U.K. Lucky Stars Summer Show with Joe Brown, t h e To r n a d o s , a n d Rolf Harris and the Diggeroos. In 1963, he recorded a hit single entitled Thanks to You. Compiled by Ed Nicholson, Ladysmith Historical Society
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