Category Archives: 100 Years Ago This Week

Three Frankston men killed in action in France

May 29, 2017

WE note that Mr and Mrs Masterton, have donated another £100 to the Red Cross Funds. *** MR Percy Fuller, of the Peninsula Motor Garage Pty. Ltd., Mornington branch, was married at Glen Huntly last w...

Lieutenant Pentland has his leg amputated after bullet wound

May 22, 2017

MR and Mrs W. C. Pentland have been advised by cable that their son, Lieutenant W. C. Pentland, of Port Melbourne, has had to have his left leg amputated below the knee as the result of a bullet woun...

Private Donohue has his teeth removed before he heads to the Front

May 15, 2017

ECHOES from the Front. WHERE ARE THE BOYS WE KNOW ! Private Dick Donohue, in a recent letter, writes :– A few lines to tell you I arrived here safe and sound after nine weeks on the water. It is pret...

Private Dent writes on his way to the war

May 8, 2017

LETTERS from the Front. The following letter has been received by Miss W. Scarborough from Pte Dent:– Just a line to let you know how I am getting on. We had a good trip over, the water being like a ...

Push to reopen the school in the old Tyabb township

May 1, 2017

A DEPUTATION from Tyabb waited on Mr H. S. W. Lawson, Minister for Education on Tuesday for the purpose of requesting that the school in the old township be re-opened which had been closed recently. ...

R. T. Picking and family return to the city after the summer

April 24, 2017

MR R. T. Picking and family, after spending the summer months in Frankston, have removed to their residence at Glen Huntly. *** THERE was a good attendance at the “Australian” Club dance on Saturday ...

Thirteen dinner knives missing after French soldiers visit

April 18, 2017

IT is a regrettable fact that thirteen dinner knives, which had been lent for the occasion, mysteriously disappeared while the entertainment of French soldiers, was in progress, on Sunday, last. Two ...

Frankston soldier to rescue as bullock enters tobacconists

April 10, 2017

SOME excitement was caused in Queen Street, Maidenhead (UK), on Monday afternoon, when a bullock belonging to Mr Webster butcher, and driven by one of his men, made a sudden and unwelcome call at the...

The death of George Griffeth keenly felt in community

April 3, 2017

BY the death of the late Cr. Geo. Griffeth, of “Two Bays Nurseries”, Somerville and district has sustained a loss that will be very keenly felt and deplored. Since coming to the district in 1888, whe...

Mr Archibald secures six Rhode Island roosters

March 27, 2017

MR Archibald has secured from a breeder six fine Rhode Island roosters. They have been much admired and can be purchased for 6d each. If not sold before 5th April they will pass into city fanciers. *...