Anyway, I went looking for a wedding notice for Samuel Louis Pollard and Edith Jane Boon (having deduced that is "Grand-Ma" on the photos) and found this little article, interesting for so many reasons. There is pride and a gung ho attitude in sending young men off to a colonial war, and in the next paragraph a report on the great chaff sales that result from that war. "Highly satisfactory figures." Have we changed?
I'm pretty sure you'll agree I did right to change "wedding hells" to "wedding bells" in the Trove transcript.
COUNTRY NEWS. [From Our Own Correspondents.]
BANGOR.
The thresher is now going about, and the farmers are obtaining good results from the newly-gathered crops of oats, wheat, and peas. High prices still rule for early potatoes, but as the late crop promises to be more than usually abundant this year, quotations will probablydecrease on the approach of winter.
Trooper Alf. Williams, of Bangor, was accorded a hearty send-off on the occasion of his joining the latest Contingent outward bound for South Africa. This makes the fifth from our local detachment, stepping forward "once more into the breach." Our Bangor Corps is a very small one, but we are very earnest and zealous in the cause of King and country.
March 8.
LILYDALE.
It is pleasant at any time to record the joyous ringing of wedding bells, and this is my duty to do this on behalf of Miss Edith Boone and Mr. Lewis Pollard son of our local Wesleyan Missionary, both of Lilydale. The bride and bridegroom departed for Launceston on the time honoured honeymoon, literally blinded by showers of hymeneal rice and old boots.
Our farmers ore bagging all the chaff they can lay hands on, and despatching it at highly satisfactory figures to the field of conflict in the Transvaal.
The North Lilydale State school has been opened, and a successful concert has been held in aid of further improvements.
March 8
COUNTRY NEWS. (1902, March 17). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved December 7, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9580056